This is probably one of the more stranger ports that we’ve come across in a long time. Yeah, that’s right … Plants vs. Zombies running on the SEGA Genesis!
Apparently, this was spotted at the classic console area at PAX Australia and was created by a Russian coder. Is there anything those crazy Russians can’t or won’t do?
“It wasn’t very elegant, and the graphics certainly didn’t have the detail or polish of the game on mobile devices or other modern hardware, but after watching it be played for a while I was struck by how much of the core game play actually survived the conversion,” Dave Cudrev told Penny Arcade. “Considering the lack of hardware in comparison to today’s smart phones, it still plays all right.”
I absolutely love demakes getting ported to SEGA consoles. What other popular titles of today would you like to see have a 16-bit version?
[Via Penny Arcade]
Love the music choices in this pirate demake.
Hard to say what I’d like to see get down ported least not mobile phone game wise.
I’d love to see a Genesis version of Dust maybe.
Meatboy, binding of Isaac and Castle Crashers would fit well on the genesis as far as popular flash based developed games go. Don’t care for their graphic themes too much but fitting on the Genesis.
Yeah, Castle Crashers sounds like a good fit. I’m playing through Project X Zone on 3DS, and there’s nothing there that couldn’t be done on a Genesis, I don’t think. There could be some slowdown issues with all of the crazy stuff going on during fights, I guess.
Actually Golden Axe 3 could handle a lot of crazy stuff. The game would easily just be a faster paced chibi style version pretty much. Er Castle Crashers wise anyway. I wish there was a market for Genesis demakes that indies could take advantage of. Would be fun to see a real Genesis cart of Volgarr for instance. (not counting the one they did for the kickstarter, that was just a USB flash drive)