Zero Tolerance

[Mendez]

Please Please Please tell me that someone else on here (apart from my brother) has played and loved this game, or even knows what it is!

It's possibly the most under-rated game for the MegaDrive, I just hope we see a VC release sometime.



I know it may not look overwhelming from the video, but it's much better than it looks.
Number on the left represents enemy's left in the level, number on the right shows how much health you have left, red dots on the radar show the enemy's.

It also lasts for ages, I'm not sure how many levels are on it, but there's a lot. Only problem I used to find was the lengthy passwords, and the fact they'd drop you off on the level you'd just completed, but that's fixed with the VC's save feature.
I can't be bothered going into detail, so just watch the video

Please let it happen, Ninty/ Sega!

[link64]

sorry but this looks very dated when compared with more modern FPS.

[SKTTR]

This is dated but has a biiiig nostalgia factor.
For me it's the same just with DOOM on SNES.
These games were brilliant for console gamers back in time
when the only thing that could do real 3D was a high end PC or the SNES Super FX Chip.



You must be old and wise to understand such things, heheh.
They weren't cheap FPS-lies like Silent Debuggers. These were real FPS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETvp_V5c16M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6-beSWGoMY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw6UhVfO4Ak

This was true 3D-gaming in a 2D-era.
Such games were rare, original and they shocked everyone.
Much time has passed since then, and we could even get GoldenEye on VC,
but you can't take nostalgia away.

I appreciate Zero Tolerance on MD just as Doom on SNES.


Some facts:


*in the US Doom (SNES) came on a bloody red cartridge. Must be some cash worth now.
There were not many cartridges other than the usual grey colored ones.
Killer Instinct came on a black cartridge.


*Doom 64 was an excellent and exclusive game for N64 with all new levels
and it was the best Doom for 10 years until Doom 3 came out.

[link64]

well I have only played the windows version of doom so I dont know about about the snes version but I found the nostalgia quickly goes away when playing it today.

[SKTTR]

If you play an old game, that's not nostalgia.

Nostalgia is a scratch in the brain: Something you like to remember.
Nostalgia is born after ten years and grows with every additional year.

Have you played Doom when it originally came out and not played since?
That's nostalgia!

Or basically: Think of a game you played ages ago.
A game long lost. A game you loved.
That's nostalgia.

If you play it today there's only 2 options:

Option 1: Flashback! You get a kick! The game is just as awesome as it was long ago. The music you loved rings now live in your ears. The levels you played, all comes back at once! You feel young!

Option 2: WHHAA? EH? Whasup? That's not.. the game I used to love! That's not what it supposed to be!!! THIS IS A FAKE!! Man, did it grow old! Man, did I grow old!

[link64]

I played it in 1995 and it was the first FPS I played and liked it then but now it feels very basic and fomulated.

[yoshi175]

THis game was damn hard ,you had a character selesct then if you dye that caracter is dead for the whole game.

[neuzd]

Originally Posted by SKTTRBRUISE

....when the only thing that could do real 3D was a high end PC or the SNES Super FX Chip.

I'm sorry...


The Sentinel, 1986 (ZX-Spectrum screenshot)


Elite, 1984-85 (C=64 schreenshot)


Mercenary, 1985 (probably a ZX-Spectrum screenshot)


REVS 1984 (C=64 shot)

[Mendez]

Originally Posted by link64

sorry but this looks very dated when compared with more modern FPS.

Originally Posted by Me

I know it may not look overwhelming from the video, but it's much better than it looks.

¬_¬
Sometimes things aren't what they look like.

It even looks very dated, and slightly boring for me when I watch the vid, but when it's played it's a completely different thing. It's addictive and really fun, definitely beats Doom in my opinion.

[SKTTR]

doom is intense and cool. even today. it's perfectly playable.
and it's a classic. i'm talking about the snes version. this was also
fast and has the best music of all the ports.

@neuzd:

I was aware of these games.
In fact I have Mercenary on C64 and Elite on C64 and NES.
But these old games were just made of grids (polygons without textures)
and boy, did they move slow and pop up everywhere.
The ones you mentioned were the ones that actually were playable..
And Elite is not just a classic, it's an evergreen! It's top!
It's all 3D, you're right, of course. 3D graphics have come a long way.
BUT... polygons with textures.. and smooth framerates is another chapter.