--- In turbografxnetwork@yahoogroups.com, "k3ranu" <k3ranu@y...> wrote:
> Thank you. Didn't this Turbo Grafx Network used to have a different
> Yahoo! Group and then switched to like a PHP message board for awhile?
> Maybe that was some other group.
>
> Yes I have Lords of Thunder as well and love it as much as I do for
> Gates, although I think Gates is a little better. Most people think
> Lords is much harder but I find Lords to be a pretty easy game if you
> just use the Earth armor. I can beat it without dying just by using
> the Earth armor. Really fun game.
>
> I can't think of any videos for games for the moment, except maybe 3X3
> Eyes. Videos for some obscured CD games would be nice to see :) .


Back in it's heyday, the TG Net was pretty much the busiest TG message
board around and was a Yahoo Club.

But when Yahoo forced all Clubs to become Groups, it pretty much
destroyed it. Everyone hated the new setup and this is when my life
started betting busier so I couldn't keep topics going as much.

So I eventually started an EZ board(or something), which is the format
every message board uses now. But it was already too late and not
enough people made the transition and I wasn't able to keep up either
so that one eventually died out and the originator here has been
sporadic since, with activity increasing more and more frequently as
I've tried to take an active role again at the same time I've rekindled
my Turbo/PCE gaming/collecting.

Lords is more balanced and more fare in that you actually have hit
points. But once you begin to master it, the shop feature just makes it
easier since you can then always afford to be fully powered up. But at
least you can crank up the difficulty.

Gate is more unforgiving the farther you get. But is still one of the
fairest one-hit shooters around. I personally hate pattern shooters
like R-Type(except I love R-Type) where there isn't much real gameplay,
just memorizing the only safe path through each area. Gates balances
the best features of all shooters with just enough pattern attacks,
bullet & obstacle dodging and a simple but fufilling power up system.

Of course, what really makes both Gate & Lords stand out from other
great shooters is the constantly changing levels. Each single level in
either game is as diverse(bg's and offense) as half of to a whole
regular shooter. Its like playing 3 cool levels each round.

I've been thinking lately about which games might be obscure enough but
still worthwhile to post clips of. I was thinking of recording the menu
of one of the sampler disc(forget the name at the moment) volumes and
maybe Sol Moonarge, Louga, Sylphia and the unreleased Angels II & Space
Fantasy Zone(I made covers for this which I'll repost after finding
them).