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Mad Crasher. What do you think of it?

How the hell did you even find out about this?!	50%	[1 Vote]
Never played it, never heard or seen before...	50%	[1 Vote]
Meh, it's too simplistic to be any good. Boring.	0%	[0 Votes]
I've seen worse, but I still prefer Zaxxon and similar classics.	0%	[0 Votes]
This thingie is actually pretty good - a hidden gem by SNK!	0%	[0 Votes]
The best pre-Neo Geo game by SNK, no doubt!	0%	[0 Votes]
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Mad Crasher - Game of the Month
Murikov	#1 Posted on 11. November 2017 20:48
Giga Power Posts: 1047 Joined: 05/20/2010 21:17	Welcome to the Game of the Month! Now we're digging really deep into SNK's library of early pre-Neo Geo arcade games - let's go back to 1984, the same year when SNK released Vanguard II. Popular arcade games like Zaxxon, Qbert* and later even Marble Madness stood out by their use of isometric graphics, thus creating a three-dimensional illusion even though the pixel art still is in fact 2D. SNK jumped the bandwagon and brought out their own isometric but very simplistic racing shooter Mad Crasher, also known as Mad Crasher in Japan. Interestingly, the soundtrack was written by none other than Harumi Fujita, who later changed teams to Capcom and composed the music for top-tier titles such as Ghosts â€˜n Goblins, Mega Man, Bionic Commando, Final Fight, and later even Pulstar and Blazing Star. You can read her funny remarks about her work on Mad Crasher and the other games in this interview. This line from the interview particularly stands out: Â«I actually remember almost nothing regarding Mad Crasher. What I can say is there was no composing setup in the company, so I ended up using a toy keyboard in order to make the music. Â» Mad Crasher Genre: Racing / Shoot 'em Up Players: 1 player or 2 players alternating Size: n/a Released on: Arcade Brief Description: Taking elements from both driving and Shoot 'Em Up games, Mad Crasher tasks its players with maneuvering a futuristic motorcycle along a suspended track while opposing vehicles do their best to get in the way. To help, the player's motorcycle is equipped with two additional abilities beyond directional controlâ€”jumping and firing laser beams. Though it can be used to avoid other vehicles as a last ditch effort to avoid a collision, the jump is mainly reserved for the track's many gaps and ramps, while the lasers allow the player to shoot down enemy cars for additional points. Scattered throughout the track are reddish power-up strips that give the player a speed boost of questionable usefulness, given that there is no real benefit of going faster. Like many games of its time, Mad Crasher is a pure high score chase without any explicit endgame. The player will receive a Game Over once all of their lives are depleted, which can occur from crashing into other vehicles or driving off of the oft-treacherous track. Screenshots: Reviews: Mad Crasher video review by Single Credit Reviews Videos: YouTube Video High Score Challenge: This game is fast, uncomplicated and easy to learn. Why not dropping in for a High Score Challenge? Please, if you have any interest please send a PM to Merlin or Priest and we'll put one up! 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merlin	#2 Posted on 18. November 2017 17:47
NeoGeoForLife! Posts: 3716 Joined: 01/22/2007 09:41	Thanks a lot for keeping the GOTM feature going Murikov Haven't heard of this one before. Watched the video and it reminds me a bit of Galaxy 5000, a game I really enjoyed on the NES. Will give this a try on Mame. I've been impressed with the quality of SNK's pre-Neo-Geo games especially Beast Busters, Chopper I and Prehistoric Isle in 1930.


Murikov	#3 Posted on 19. November 2017 11:37
Giga Power Posts: 1047 Joined: 05/20/2010 21:17	Meanwhile I gave this game a try on Mame as well. It's really not that bad and very easy to get into. And to be fair, many arcade titles from the era were that way, so I can't blame SNK for anything. In this regard and context it's a decent game. But I still think that Prehistoric Isle in 1930, SAR - Search and Rescue or even Gang Wars are my favorite pre-Neo Geo games by SNK. These are really good titles, regardless of the time they came out. By the way, I found another good interview, this time with Toshiyuki Nakai, a former designer and planner of SNK who also did some sound engineering in the early days. This is what he recalls from his work on Mad Crasher: Actually, talking about the speech synthesis reminds me of another SNK game from 1983, â€œMad Crasherâ€. It was a motorcycle game in a near-future setting. You know the engine sound for the bikes? I love motorcycles, and I actually recorded that myself from my own bike. I took my stereo cassette player out to my bike and took some recordings, then handed it to our music guy and had him convert it to sound in the game. I thought it came out really well! But then, during the final bug checking, the President of SNK heard it and said, â€œthis doesnâ€™t sound futuristic at all.â€ And in one word, my dreams were dashedâ€¦ oh well, I satisfied myself as a motorcycle maniac. (laughs) I love to read how unorganized and improvised the old days in the video game development industry seemed to be. I can't imagine a modern company in the size of SNK doing that nowadays, haha. And still the games turned out good and memorable. This is also something I read out from many interviews with former staff, that within the eras with less management and controlling the staff's creativity seemed to have flourished.

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