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I've been sittig thinking of this game recently. I used to play it religiously but it was an american import and sega megadrive's adaptor has long since died, it was the first ever RPG i played. Anyone know if it's available through one of the new generation of retrogame downloads on Xbox or forthcoming Nintendo?

It might be on Wiis Virtual Console. Frankly, I play it all the time and my old Megadrive has long gone the way of the dodo.

I always used to go to that guy with the fucked up face, and he'd send me to the haunted house to kill ghosts, and you got like fifty bucks a pop. And that hacking others peoples' accoutnts was sweet. If it was like that in real life I'd never stop.

If Sega hands the rights over to Nintendo for the Wii, or however that would work, I would not hesitate to get it.

I seem to recall a Shadowrun game on the SNES..

SylasGaunt wrote:I seem to recall a Shadowrun game on the SNES..

There were three games released in the early 90's: a SNES isometric RPG, the Mega Drive/Genesis version which was more openended and a Mega CD IF game.

The SNES one was cool but totally linear - I remember getting stuck on the bloody jesters bloody freighter cause my minigun armed ninja mage dude couldn't open a door without a crowbar.

Stark wrote:The SNES one was cool but totally linear - I remember getting stuck on the bloody jesters bloody freighter cause my minigun armed ninja mage dude couldn't open a door without a crowbar.

Hey at least that's not as bad as a certain game called Legend of Dragoon, where a band of heavily armed knights couldn't get past a sleeping cat that would block the way.

Anyway, I recall playing Shadowrun on an emulator.. both the SNES and Megadrive versions.. didn't get very far. Older RPGs kick my butt.

you could always download an emulator and the appropiate rom.

outcast wrote:you could always download an emulator and the appropiate rom.

Or get a used Genesis and the original cart, which would actually be, you know, legal. You could get a working console real cheap, cartridge-based consoles usually last quite a long time.

For What it's worth Microsoft Studios look to be releasing a new Shadorun for Xbox 306 and Vista:

“Shadowrun” (FASA Studio). Bringing the Microsoft vision of “Live Anywhere” to life, “Shadowrun™” is the first cross-platform game for Xbox 360 and Windows Vista. “Shadowrun” is a multiplayer, first-person shooter that propels team-based combat into a new dimension with a revolutionary blend of modern weaponry and ancient magic. “Shadowrun” will be available at the launch of Windows Vista.

Bah. It's a soulless team-based FPS, hardly befitting a game that started as a tabletop RPG.

The Genesis Shadowrun was fantastic. I had a ridiculous amount of fun with that game. It got pretty difficult toward the end, but I did manage to beat it once. My fondest memory of the game was when I was accessorizing a weapon, and then I imagined Winston the troll with earrings, a sun dress with bonnet, and lipstick clumsily smeared all around his mouth, looking very angry, and proclaimed "Winston's been accessorized!" Then I imagined him ripping the main character's arms and legs off.

For it's time it was a very dynamic RPG, it took me an entire summer with minimal sleep to complete, and even after I'd completed it I started again just to do as many Mr Johnson missions as i could.

I still swear blind that with a little updating of the graphics it could make a killer MMORPG

Lord Pounder wrote:For it's time it was a very dynamic RPG, it took me an entire summer with minimal sleep to complete, and even after I'd completed it I started again just to do as many Mr Johnson missions as i could.

I still swear blind that with a little updating of the graphics it could make a killer MMORPG

I agree with that, there is so much to Shadowrun that it just screams MMORPG. Seems like the City of Heros engine could be adapted pretty easily, but I'm not a programmer, so I could be blowing smoke

Bounty wrote:

outcast wrote:you could always download an emulator and the appropiate rom.

Or get a used Genesis and the original cart, which would actually be, you know, legal. You could get a working console real cheap, cartridge-based consoles usually last quite a long time.

Some console games from that era are really quite rare. And often their battery-backups to keep saved games have expired (their duration is around 5 to 8 years based on personal experience).
Getting an emulator and playing a ROM from a game so old that nobody is making money off it anymore is hardly the crime of the century.

Cao Cao wrote:

Bounty wrote:

outcast wrote:you could always download an emulator and the appropiate rom.

Or get a used Genesis and the original cart, which would actually be, you know, legal. You could get a working console real cheap, cartridge-based consoles usually last quite a long time.

Some console games from that era are really quite rare. And often their battery-backups to keep saved games have expired (their duration is around 5 to 8 years based on personal experience).
Getting an emulator and playing a ROM from a game so old that nobody is making money off it anymore is hardly the crime of the century.

I was going to scream OMG BARGAIN BIN !!! but eBay agrees with you. $43

It's still a moral grey area and a legal pitch-black one.

I was so much that game's bitch until I gave it to my best friend's dad as a christmas gift (along with all my Sega games, CD, and Megadrive....)

Bounty wrote:

Cao Cao wrote:

Bounty wrote: Or get a used Genesis and the original cart, which would actually be, you know, legal. You could get a working console real cheap, cartridge-based consoles usually last quite a long time.

Some console games from that era are really quite rare. And often their battery-backups to keep saved games have expired (their duration is around 5 to 8 years based on personal experience).
Getting an emulator and playing a ROM from a game so old that nobody is making money off it anymore is hardly the crime of the century.

I was going to scream OMG BARGAIN BIN !!! but eBay agrees with you. $43

It's still a moral grey area and a legal pitch-black one.

That's nothing. My copy of Valkyrie Profile set me back $100, used. And expired batteries are no excuse -- they're usually fairly standard designs, so anyone with a soldering iron, tri-tip screwdriver, and a few dollars can replace them. I've done such with my NES and SNES-era games.

Datana wrote:That's nothing. My copy of Valkyrie Profile set me back $100, used.

Mine cost £60 on import.
Was brand new though.

And expired batteries are no excuse -- they're usually fairly standard designs, so anyone with a soldering iron, tri-tip screwdriver, and a few dollars can replace them. I've done such with my NES and SNES-era games.

I for one am inept in such things. Put a soldering iron in my hands and I guarantee someone will have a bodily orifice accidentally soldered shut.

I never played the SEGA version, but i really loved the SNES one. In fact, i have the SNES Shadowrun soundtrack in my winamp playlist.