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Just for Qix: Thunderforce - From the Home to the Arcade - By Michael Thomasson - Old School Gamer Magazine
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It is a rare occurrence when a home console game makes its way to the video arcade, but that is what happened with the horizontal- scrolling shooter Thunder Force. Like a reverse chain of events, in the literary world it would be equivalent to a book being based on a film!

When the original Sega Genesis version of Thunder Force III was released in 1990, it garnered much praise and became an immediate hit. Even almost three decades later, it is still recognized as one of the best shoot ‘em ups (SHMUPS) ever designed, boasting beautiful graphics with extensive use of parallax scrolling, as well as fast and furious gameplay.

The developer of the original Genesis version, Technosoft, co-produced Sega’s System C2 arcade hardware, and built it “on top” of the Sega console, keeping the same CPU, sound and graphic processors. The color palette was improved, increasing the palette from 512 to 4096 possible colors, but other than that there are few technical differences between the two.

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