90s Video Games, Episode 96
Dark Edge [Arcade, 1993] – Playthrough as Ram X – Play as Ruler – Glitches
In this episode I use cheat codes to play the game as both of the bosses in this game – Ram-X and Ruler. This also triggers some glitches that normally did not happen. Hope you will enjoy the episode!
Background:
With Dark Edge and Virtua Fighter, Sega defined the basics of what would be expected from a 3D fighting game ever since, just like Capcom’s Street Fighter II had become a template for dozens of 2D imitators.
But before landing gold with Yu Suzuki’s smash hit, Sega had been doing a lot of groping into directions that didn’t really work out. Following shortly after the weird hologram machine Holosseum, Dark Edge was Sega’s first attempt at actual 3D gameplay in a fighting game.
As it relied on the company’s well-proven sprite scaler technology instead of the still immature polygonal graphics of the Model 1, Dark Edge could easily be confused for a pure 2D game as long as the fighters stand waiting for the starting signal. In reality, however, it is more of a true 3D fighting game than most polygon-based games that followed it.
Soon I will follow with another episode, where I demonstrate all the special moves in this game. And I try to include the tutorial as well.
