Many people overlooked it, and sadly, even fewer appreciated it.īut then, who out there can honestly name another Big Fun Games release? It wasn’t exactly the 800lb gorilla of Sega’s 3rd party camp, and when most people thought Sega CD, they thought FMV. A shooter that does everything right for a cartridge game and dresses it all up nice and fancy with some CD bells and whistles, this spacecraft flew decidedly below the radar. Were they true shmup enthusiasts (god that sounds pompous!), they’d be appreciative - no, downright grateful, for having such simplistic fun like Android Assault gracing their game shelf. Why? Well, they’re probably just not real big fans of the genre, that’s why. When you go back and look at the whole picture, the percentage of titles available is actually very much proportionate to the number of RPGs and action games, yet they still complain they still judge. Seriously folks, the shmup genre was one area where we really didn’t have too much of a good thing. Well, boulder dash I say! Shmups were highly popular at the time, true, but they were also a welcome change from the mass of Sonic clones that goose-stepped their way through the industry (no that was a glut). Somehow, Sega’s little black box is literally buried beneath a mountain of planet-saving craft and power ups. Players: 1 Released: 1994Įvery time the subject of shmups comes up on message boards or in casual conversation (you’d think people would have other things to talk about), someone always has to mention the supposed “glut” of games filling the category on the Genesis. Genre: Shmup Developer: Big Fun Games Publisher: Human Ent.
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