[cedel2k1]

Haven't seen so many uninformed comments in a while on HN :-/ This is a MegaDrive game running in an emulator for the modern ports. Made by Makoto Wada and Yuzo Koshiro. Doesn't get mich more authentic than that imho. Original hardware, original artists. I understand it's not everyone's tea (anymore) tho.

[tomhow]

> Haven't seen so many uninformed comments in a while on HN

Can you link to the ones you mean? As another commenter has pointed out, there don't seem to be "many", but without links it's impossible for anyone to know what you mean.

It's not cool to slur the community like this. HN users are of a highly diverse age range and awareness level of older technologies. It would be much better if you can point to the ones you mean and respond to them constructively.

(It's also against the guidelines to comment like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

[vunderba]

Just to put it out there, since some people might not know, Koshiro who is probably best known for Streets of Rage, is widely regarded as a master video game composer, right up there with Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) and Koji Kondo (Mario/Zelda).

Give the Stage 1 music from ActRaiser a listen to see (or hear) what I mean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB9Pym-sdbs

[flobosg]

The Red Bull Music Academy web series Diggin’ In The Carts has an episode featuring Koshiro: https://www.redbull.tv/en/page/page:rrn:content:episode-vide...

[pezezin]

I know some people who know him, and by all accounts he is also a very friendly guy, he loves attending all sort of gaming events, both within Japan and abroad.

[gryson]

Don't you know - everyone's an expert because they saw a YouTube video about how modern pixel art isn't authentic...

Seriously, this game is a miracle, and the amount of love Ancient put into it is unlike anything we've ever seen for a modern commercial release on hardware that came out in 1988!

It certainly beats out a good portion of the games originally released on the Mega Drive.

[smaudet]

While this is an informative comment, did HN start deleting comments? These comments you mention do not seem to exist...

[tomhow]

We (moderators) don't ever delete comments (except in rare cases where a user later asks us to do so for privacy reasons).

The most obvious candidate for what the parent commenter is referring to is this one, which has been flagged/killed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275838

[pohl]

People do delete their own comments after they've had a moment to consider what they've written. It's an honorable thing to do, IMO.

[joemi]

The title of the thread itself says "Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up" (which implies it's not a Mega Drive game bit just one made in that style), so it's likely that's what's tripping people up.