Mega Drive Longplay [280] Thunder Force IV

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@mjpmattos 5 жыл бұрын

The best shoot'em up of all time. Graphics, music, everything. Perfection.

@TheFred128 2 жыл бұрын

Gaiares é bom também, as vezes fico na dúvida de qual gosto mais.

@daviddefortier5970 Жыл бұрын

You must try zerowing on the genesis

@TheJamie6666 Жыл бұрын

I'd say Axelay for the SNES is the best side scrolling shoot em up but this is a very close second.

@cord113 Жыл бұрын

@@daviddefortier5970 What happen?

@daviddefortier5970 Жыл бұрын

@cord113 if you like this game, then you will also like zerowing. Theyre both top quality shooters on the Genesis

@turn7boom108 4 жыл бұрын

It's available on Nintendo Switch through Sega Ages, for those interested.

@SonicPAJ 6 жыл бұрын

You're here for 23:53.

@bemused3865 6 жыл бұрын

Yes. Yes i am.

@Daedricbob 6 жыл бұрын

As well as 42:10 ofc

@michaelaizen1137 5 жыл бұрын

Why yes... yes i am.

@southendbusker7534 5 жыл бұрын

um no ...

@rkrim2008 5 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah :) and Sand hell too ;)

@claudiosacchi3720 5 жыл бұрын

Best horizontal shoot'em up ever made. 10 levels of gorgeous graphics, adrenalinic boss fights and kicking ass music. And what about the short intro? MASTERPIECE.

@wowalamoiz9489 11 ай бұрын

I prefer the intro in the European version.

@robintst 10 жыл бұрын

"Genesis does!" This game is such a visual treat, I love it. Tecnosoft really had a feel for the hardware they were working with. that was few and far between with some developers back then.

@coldskyclouds7188 9 жыл бұрын

i agree, they really had a feel for the hardware

@tauandenisbruno 3 жыл бұрын

39:19 that ending soundtrack!! 🔥🔥

@emanueleelisei6516 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my God... ❤️

@Bley85 Жыл бұрын

Ufff espectacular.

@markcollins2704 Жыл бұрын

It's like retro wave metal with a genesis sound chip. It's music so good it's a reward for clearing it.

@krisorgan Жыл бұрын

Love the tune on 17:10 albeit very short.

@Decodedz 10 ай бұрын

Last boss tune rocks!!

@mrmusicverse 9 жыл бұрын

With all due respect, this version (Mega Drive) is the best of the series for the console at the time.

@TheBlackFrog79 5 жыл бұрын

Robert McCartney Megadrive is unbeatable

@deadlyraver4454 4 жыл бұрын

With all due respect..................I agree.

@infinitecanadian 7 жыл бұрын

This game actually slows down the Mega Drive. Even the blast processing can't keep up with the blast processing in this game.

@Ziko577 6 жыл бұрын

Blast processing never existed. It was just a marketing gimmick pretty much to take your money.

@avideogamemaster 6 жыл бұрын

Blast processing: Motorola 68000 @ 7.6 MHz

@DTM-Books 6 жыл бұрын

You need the Saturn version to play without slowdown.

@jc_dogen 5 жыл бұрын

blast processing is real actually. it refers to the genesis DMA unit being able to write data into VDP memory whenever it wants.

@hikmori7 5 жыл бұрын

Its often crashes after beating the first boss. I can't passed it.

@oneupdawg 10 жыл бұрын

Loooove the soundtrack! Especially that stage select track! Nostalgia overload!

@darrenclements6028 4 жыл бұрын

Thunder Force 4 is a Magnificent Masterpiece from sega With ABSOLUTELY AWESOME stages and AMAZING Boss battles Breathtaking Soundtrack and STUNNINGLY brilliant power ups The mega drive game is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 May the Thunder force be with you Always

@direktexe8436 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah i played it 200 times on maniac and I'm still not tired. I'm actually working on a spiritual successor to the Thunder Force series right now. But I'll make sure there is more action on screen, bigger levels, and badder bosses

@iwanttocomplain Жыл бұрын

@@direktexe8436 did you finish your game?

@direktexe8436 Жыл бұрын

@@iwanttocomplain not yet

@iwanttocomplain Жыл бұрын

@DiRektEXE it’s a bold move to try and one-up Technosoft’s best game, I must say.

@ryzmaker11 10 жыл бұрын

One of, if not THE best horizontal scrolling shooter of its time!!! (but there are many other amazing ones e.g. Thunder Force III, Gaiares, Winds of Thunder, Gley Lancer, R-Type III, Eliminate Down and the list goes on... such an epic era for the genre!)

@jballs5434 4 жыл бұрын

Gaiares and Sol Feace are probably my absolute favorites, but this and R-Type are ones that I REALLY want to try. :)

@johngavalas74 Жыл бұрын

Winds Of Thunder is Lords Of Thunder

@auralunaprettycure Жыл бұрын

@@jballs5434 since this is a older comment idk if you played them yet but I can’t recommend the Rtype series enough, they’re some of my favorite games of all time. I was unsure if they’d be for me since they are older titles, but I think their gameplay is really timeless. The compilation on the switch is quite a nice deal for the first 2 titles which really focus on delivering a quality experience from beginning to end and have some of the best level design I’ve seen, and of course Rtype 3 on SNES is also outstanding, it’s one I hope to see them rerelease also

@daviddefortier5970 Жыл бұрын

Have a look at zerowing on the genesis too.

@sdfghgtrew Жыл бұрын

And Samurai aces on mame

@vasteel1 8 жыл бұрын

One of the best Shmups PERIOD!!!

@paddle_my_mad_laddle 9 ай бұрын

41:59 is the best moment in this video

@Juampi536 5 жыл бұрын

0:46 was my ringtone Greetings from Argentina

@MathieuBouffet86 10 жыл бұрын

One of the best game i ever played! Love the bgm, especially the last boss theme! So epic, a marvelous old school shmup! Vive Technosoft! Vive Sega!

@drewb3665 9 жыл бұрын

This is some of the best graphics I've seen for a Genesis game.

@Rob5ft19in 8 жыл бұрын

I loved this game as a kid. Even though it's 20 years since I played it, I can still remember a cheat for lives. Up Right A Down Right A C Left Up B Right Up... no matter what, I can't forget that sequence!!

@JP-qb8qx 5 жыл бұрын

Hope this works on emulators. Trying Tonight

@sunchylde 4 жыл бұрын

Put 0 in initial settings for infinite repeat?!

@Frogdoddofficial 2 жыл бұрын

The graphics for this game blew me away as a child

@montanheiro1999 7 жыл бұрын

Stage 8 soundtrack is amazing! Easily the best in the series.

@alexmorpheus6762 Жыл бұрын

That stage reminds me of Contra final boss - Alien's Lair.

@reiul9787 7 жыл бұрын

The best shmup of 16 bits era!!

@gtvrossa 25 күн бұрын

That build up to the 1st boss with the underwater section and the ship appearing is creepy and awesome! And THEN that music kicks in!!!! Simply brilliant!!!!

@sonofskyrim1331 10 ай бұрын

Blade!, Railgun!, Snake!, Freeway!, Hunter! Yeah I played this too much as a teen lol, was my first ever Sega Genisis/Megadrive game & loved it to bits!

@poodudeelite 5 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe this came out in 1992 and ran on the mega drive with all those sprites and layers. I don't think you could push the hardware any harder without it crashing.

@Bloodreign1 4 жыл бұрын

The version on the Saturn Thunder Force Gold pack runs even better, with absolutely ZERO slowdown on it.

@Vinicius-hs2rf 2 жыл бұрын

These layers are tricks even Nes does.

@XTRABIG 9 ай бұрын

@@Bloodreign1Time out!!! there's a Saturn version!!? what!!?

@jaggededge11 10 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite games for the Genesis. A very well done long-play, easily does this fantastic game justice.

@SwitchZetto 7 жыл бұрын

Game so intense it even lags the music

@BenHall289 5 жыл бұрын

Just been given an old megadrive two with a few games. One of which is tgis classic. Happy days.

@Sega_Dreams 5 жыл бұрын

Wow! You got lucky there!

@CyberIce2000 6 жыл бұрын

First time hearing about this game was just a couple of days ago when it was announced for Sega Ages now I cannot wait for this to come out ! The music and those graphics... mmm.

@ayedavyy 10 жыл бұрын

Good Thing I Still Have My MegaDrive & This Game 👍

@RetroDanuart 6 жыл бұрын

Maybe the best shoot'em up I've played in any system. Love the all the sountrack, but the normal ending theme is awesome.

@AminNazari666 2 жыл бұрын

How about Metal Slug franchises?

@ChrisVandenheuvel Жыл бұрын

Thunderforce 4 blew me away seeing at my local Virgin Megastore (back in the 90), probably my most played game after Sonic(s).

@flavioalopeS 4 жыл бұрын

40:20 this are in my memories .and this soundtrack

@pain56769 10 жыл бұрын

Que buenos recuerdos de esa época con este gran juego

@pomegran100 10 жыл бұрын

That first 40 odd seconds starting soundtrack - stunning

@Sinn0100 10 ай бұрын

This game was a true tour de force for the Sega Genesis. Thunder Force IV would not look out of place running on a Neo Geo AES/MVS. The games graphics and sound were unmatched in 1992 by any genre, any console, or attachment period. I can't think of a single shmup fron the 4th generation that even matches this games quality (minus Neo Geo titles).

@ezrawolf4143 8 ай бұрын

Loved plating this game as a kid wanna play it again

@jamesbarker5535 3 жыл бұрын

Oh the nostalgia! Absolutely loved this game and the music was epic. Still hum the intro music back to myself to this very day! As great as the Mega Drive / Genesis Mini is, I so wish they had opted for Thunder Force 4 over Thunder Force 3. Both great games but 4 was the pinnacle of shooters on the Mega Drive / Genesis.

@MarioRossi-xo6im 9 ай бұрын

Hi! The best horizontal 2D shooter of the 16Bit, and probably also of the 32Bit era!!.. It's a shame they didn't make a special series for Mega CD too, or a porting ( conversion ) of the IV, with additions dictated by the additional technical characteristics of the Mega CD, like;" F.M.V. intro, and cut scenes, 3D levels, ( with Custom A.S.I.C. Chip ) and of course the audio with the 8 P.C.M. Stereo channels. It was truly a SIN!!!... Of course it must be said that on Mega CD, there's "Silpheed," and "A/X101," the Best polygonal shooters to date!! Bye!

@ShiryuCain 6 жыл бұрын

BEST SOUNDTRACK EVER

@rootykazooty351 5 жыл бұрын

Even better on real hardware without an emulator butchering the sound.

@benjaminzuniga5750 4 жыл бұрын

@@rootykazooty351 Yep. But the slowdown is so hard :/

@johneygd 9 жыл бұрын

Not only are the graphics good,but also the music,technosoft really should,ve the feel and time to make out such incredible sound effects out of an fm sound chip,like drums,basses, and rock & roll guitars etc,,, this way digital sound can be simulated out of a fm chip, all that matters is,,,know how.

@NeedlecrashDCB 10 жыл бұрын

My favorite shmup ever. Thanks for posting this.

@reiul9787 6 жыл бұрын

Needlecrash me too.

@Daedricbob 6 жыл бұрын

I still play this. Shoot em up perfection.

@ManbowArximus 10 жыл бұрын

epic and awesome music!

@no_soy_rubio 3 ай бұрын

My favourite Sega Shoot em Up. This one defined the genre for me

@kingthunderstar3302 7 жыл бұрын

I miss playing this game so much and my favorite weapons are the blade, rail gun, and the hunter

@ContraX222 10 жыл бұрын

Суперское прохождение!!!

@souhiroraven4196 2 жыл бұрын

Respect for you, defeating the last of the spheres with the invincible Thunder Sword!

@MsSteveman 6 жыл бұрын

Amazing.............. i love shooters and this one has to be one of my favs, WOW and the music omg the music :)) esp the music during the end credits........ hell its all great!

@glimmerandglow 10 жыл бұрын

They don't make them like this anymore!

@reverendbluejeans1748 4 жыл бұрын

I bought my Mega Drive from a kid when I tested this game on it, he wanted to keep it.

@KajuTheRudeMonke 3 жыл бұрын

ok boomer

@normdurkin6425 2 жыл бұрын

..I never heard of this game I am here to listen to the FM synthesis sounds..

@greensun1334 2 жыл бұрын

This looks more like Neo Geo than Megadrive, it's an awesome limit-pushing game! Altrough it looks like it has a ton of parallax scrolling, there are never more than 2 overlapping background layers + sprite layer per scanline displayed (just what the Genesis is capable of). Some great programming skills here. Sadly, TF4 has many slowdown moments, but it's not gamebreaking.

@vio2112 6 жыл бұрын

Get ready guys, this is going to be part of the upcoming Sega AGES collection.

@Bloodreign1 6 жыл бұрын

I don't need a 3DS, nor the Ages collection for this one, I still have a Genesis and a copy of this game.

@leon4000 4 жыл бұрын

@@Bloodreign1 Good because the cheat codes were completely left out on the Sega Age ver. of the game.

@cosimopietro3275 4 жыл бұрын

Je le ponçe toujours en 2019 et je le jouerai jusqu'à la mort,...merci sega ♡♡♡♡sega♡♡♡♡♡

@Mduenisch 11 ай бұрын

I've been trying to find this game for years from when I was a kid, holy cow!

@Damon6666 10 жыл бұрын

love the stage select music!

@swinetastic 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome Soundtrack !

@felipealexandrenascimentof1897 6 жыл бұрын

Melhor jogo de nave da era 16 bit, nota 10.

@TheFred128 2 жыл бұрын

É muito bom mesmo,mas o Gaiares é top também, aquele sistema de jogar aquela esfera no inimigo e roubar habilidades deles é muito legal

@chloejones1548 4 жыл бұрын

Not familiar with this series but going by viewing alone, this seems a vast improvement on its predecessors

@thehumbleone1983 5 жыл бұрын

Just awesome love it 1 of the best game 4 the MD/GEN

@mattias969 6 ай бұрын

This came out when i was twelve and i seriously was blown away with how well it played and how good it looked and the sound it could just aswell have been a neogeo game. Man me and my best buddy played this game until our eyes bled. I really had never thought that the megadrive could ever run a game like this! Btw if you like this type of game check out Empire of steel

@jinwonlee8556 2 жыл бұрын

어릴 때 하던 게임들이 크게 와닿고, 재밌었음..

@dawnofwar2560 4 жыл бұрын

golden age of video game

@krisorgan Жыл бұрын

Loved this game when I was a kid. The soundtrack is absolutely amazing. Shame it wasn’t included in the sea mega drive collection for ps3 & 4. I’d love to play it today with trophies.

@ciuffoarancione8929 11 ай бұрын

Too much masterpieces were not included in that collection. Very disappointed.

@Sinn0100 10 ай бұрын

It's included on the Sega Genesis Mini 2! You can also get it with a bunch of really sweet extras on the Switch. I would love to see it released for the Series X and PS5 with the option to overclock the 68K. Then we would see it without any slowdown.

@felixfranzen7318 2 жыл бұрын

The graphics are so good for the Genesis/MD. Some stuff wouldn’t look out of place in a Neo-Geo och Saturn/PS1 game. I'm pretty shure there were some worse looking 32 bit games. It's hard though, I've haven't even been able to 1CC TF3 (but I'm geting there)

@daviddefortier5970 Жыл бұрын

The music even rivals most neo geo games. I dont know how they got such good quality out of it, especially the rolling credits tune at the end

@philjohnson6524 5 ай бұрын

In retrospect I’m sure this game is what got me into metal music!

@gregorygreg3120 3 жыл бұрын

My favorit play game of your mega drive ! I love this game ! 😍❤ it's an exceptional game! !

@louiskeiflin5858 5 жыл бұрын

THE best shooter of the 16bit Era!

@SeeD1985 Жыл бұрын

Brought to you straight from the 16 bit gods!

@chanimpresario4968 2 ай бұрын

Love this battle 22:46 the way it tries to slap you with its whole body and you dodge it. 👌🏿

@slyde3575 4 жыл бұрын

I need this game in my collection now

@killerkendro 11 ай бұрын

Such an underrated gem and the soundtrack blew me away as a kid

@ciuffoarancione8929 11 ай бұрын

At time was not underrated... Was the best shoot em up on consoles...every review give it a score of 95 or above..

@massacrestarts1673 Ай бұрын

Been searching for this game for some time now. The only thing I could remember was that it was side scrolling shooter, and a voice would tell you your new weapon. 😃👍

@jakebello7988 4 ай бұрын

This game was released in the US as “Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar”

@loveministry9130 4 жыл бұрын

All Hail Thunder Force 4 Games

@theblacksheep1000 6 жыл бұрын

The most wonderfu sounding rail gun in the history of RAIL-SHOOTERS LOLOLOLOLOLL

@christophecuvelier5424 2 жыл бұрын

Quand je me suis acheté la PSII, j'ai tout vendu pour me l'acheter. Sauf FFVI sur SNES, Streets of Rage II et ThunderForce IV sur Megadrive/Genesis. Ce jeu est un chef-d'œuvre absolu.

@cedricvidal8105 Жыл бұрын

Pourquoi vous dites toujours ff6, c est ennuyant les charlatans.

@massimilianogarigliano2925 3 жыл бұрын

the megadrive is a beast

@elkarateka7549 Жыл бұрын

Metal Squad, nothing more to add. Best forever!

@hola-uc7ez 3 жыл бұрын

El mejor juego shoot em up de la historia

@FlecheDeFer 2 жыл бұрын

Such a classic

@chanimpresario4968 2 ай бұрын

8:00 one of the best levels in shoot um up history!

@racer4200 10 жыл бұрын

Dayam! This game is bad asss.......

@joaquimneto7607 3 жыл бұрын

This game is very insane!!!!

@andregustavo3554 7 жыл бұрын

good game man!!

@gryzord9231 Жыл бұрын

Best shootem up ever

@s_paknaloid1351 2 жыл бұрын

I used to like using the infinite lives on hardest difficulty cheat. Brilliant game

@videogameobsession 10 жыл бұрын

3:30 Can someone please tell me what other game this part sounds like?? I know it, but I'm stumped at the moment.

@jaggededge11 10 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the beginning of the first stage of Doom 1?

@emcasaempreendimentosimobi3229 8 жыл бұрын

+videogameobsession Stumped . Perfect sound .

@videogameobsession 8 жыл бұрын

+jaggededge11 Ahh yes, that's it! Sorry for such a late reply. My KZfaq account wasn't sending me any alerts for a long while So thanks for clearing up this mystery. :)

@sackoftruth8184 10 ай бұрын

I'm 31 now. The last time I played this was when I was about 7 or 8. I had no idea there were more levels than the first 4, I could never beat them all!

@faulito5 5 жыл бұрын

Bravo!!

@kondaresto 3 жыл бұрын

the highscore name tho, lmao nice

@kuzya_petrov 6 ай бұрын

Игра просто космос, как и сам саунд!

@osete7185 Жыл бұрын

Top Game Megadrive

@daviddefortier5970 Жыл бұрын

Anyone here know why theres so much slowdown during the first boss? I tried setting my emulator settings to the fastest possible, but it still slows down as it did in this video