Retro Game of the Day! Fire Mustang
Fire Mustang by Taito, released to the Sega Genesis in 1991. Originally released as "US-AAF Mustang" in the Arcade a year earlier.
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Here we have a hated game. A
hated, hated game. Why does it get so much hate? Alright I am exaggerating. When I was a kid, my friend visited the UK and brought back a local game magazine which absolutely tore this game to shreds. They went on and on about how much Fire Mustang sucked.
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Even in doing some research for this writeup, a couple quick looks around the Internet do a good job of tearing Fire Mustang a new one. What gives? Is this game really that bad?
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I'd have to disagree. The game is by no means.. wonderful, but it is playable, and dare I say it, kinda fun. You have to remember that the Sega Genesis (and it's rival, the TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine) was absolutely riddled with side-scrolling shooters back in the day. Thing is, most of them were in outer space, in some fantastic futuristic battle. Therefore, it is refreshing anytime we saw something otherwise!
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This game does a good job of placing you in a hectic lone firefight in the middle of the Theater of WWII. It's by no means a simulation, or accurate, or even any kind of realistic - it's just an excuse to have WWII graphics overlayed over the usual side-scroller engine, really; but it does a good job of that, and it is certainly fun to blast through.
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Pick this up if you are a fan of Capcom's
1942 series, as it is kind of a nice complement to those earlier games; simple and straightforward (and hey, it's got a sharp title screen as well!) You won't be blown away by the primitive presentation, but this forgotten game is still solid and will keep you coming back for a few more tries.
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