What are your favorite REAL exclusive games?

[SanAndreasX]

Chris Hu said:

SanAndreasX said:

I had the MS-DOS version. It was pretty clunky even with a 286 or 386 CPU, had the gameplay pared down somewhat including having part of level 3 removed, and had very sparse sound even with the best sound cards available - and I had the PC Speaker, which typically sounded like a cat orgy. I still played it quite a bit, because it was kind of hard to scrounge up quarters, or rides to the arcade.

Well, it wasn't really until the PS1 showed up until you had perfect arcade ports and some ports that were actually better than the arcade game.

That's true to a degree, but PCs of the time were also kind of iffy when it came to action games, and the SNES and Genesis came pretty close to arcade-perfect in quite a few cases. The MS-DOS port of The Simpsons definitely didn't come off very well compared to the SNES and Genesis ports of Turtles in Time (Hyperstone Heist for the latter), and I'd also argue that even the NES port of the first game was much more competent than this port.  The NES port was helped by having added content to make up for the loss of graphical fidelity compared to the arcade, but its gameplay was rock-solid. I'd have much rather had Konami make a SNES port of this game, but the licensing conflict with Acclaim prevented that.