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Power Strike II for Sega Game Gear Review by Classic Game Room | 2023

Power Strike II for Sega Game Gear Review by Classic Game Room | 2023

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October 6, 2023: Power Strike II for Sega Game Gear Review by Classic Game Room. Classic Game Room Pro 4K Hyper Elite plays POWER STRIKE 2 for Sega Game Gear from Sega and Compile. This incredible vertical scrolling spaceship shooter in the Aleste series belongs in your collection if you enjoy classics such as MUSHA, Spriggan, Robo Aleste and more! Power Strike II review gameplay features CRT game gear footage from a modded Game Gear ouputting video and audio to a classic CRT TV.

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Video Transcription

Gen X is the best. That’s right. Sure, we’re all gonna die from decades of beer drinking and cigarette smoke inhalation, but that still beats going out like a chump after rotting your brain on social media.

You have one job. One job! Just make this video look better than the original Power Strike 2 review. It shouldn’t be hard. Back in the day, this was the only way to film these things.

The Game Gear here—terrible screen. Great system with a lousy screen, so if you can get it onto a TV, that makes all the difference. And Power Strike 2 is so good. It’s so good. It’s also not very affordable. That’s not my fault.

In the future, this is how we play Game Gear.

Oh yeah… select your weapons! Neo Napalm Gun… Rising Masher… Delta Form… Hammer Hawk… they all sound so good, I want them all. I want every one of these—combined into one like Voltron. But I guess I have to choose.

This game’s tough. The enemies really fill the screen, and getting rid of them as quickly as possible is kind of important.

Missed the P! So many things to crash into.

You think you’re gonna wake up today and watch a Game Gear video, huh?

Game Gear games—go. It’s a nice-looking game. It was capable of displaying some beautiful graphics, as you can see. But for whatever reason—probably because it was 1990—they put a terrible screen on it.

If I could go back in time and put something like an iPhone screen on the Game Gear, Nintendo would probably not exist. Go back and watch my original review where I talk about it more. Though you can’t see anything, so I get to combine it with this re-review, whatever.

I’m just having fun. This is just an excuse to play Power Strike 2 again. It’s been too long. Dear old friend, I’ve missed you.

And the Shinobi games on Game Gear—they’re so good. The fact is, the Game Gear actually makes a pretty good controller too. It’s great, except for the screen.

So if there’s any way you can play Game Gear without dealing with that screen, it’s awesome. It’s got some really good games. If you like MUSHA, Aleste, Spriggan, Robo Aleste—you’ve got a lot of that kind of experience here.

Good luck finding it.

Unless you have a modded Game Gear, good luck seeing anything.

Although I think there are other Game Gear options these days… I don’t know.

Die in fire, napalm death. Whoa—what’s this thing? You don’t look good. Have a superbomb. You suck—go away. I gave you a present and you didn’t even say thank you. That’s what you deserve.

Give me the peas—here’s another one.

This guy looks like he’s got some sort of medical issue. Look at him.

It doesn’t matter. Any way that you can play Power Strike 2 is good.

Lighten up this screen with napalm—suddenly it turns into After Burner II, which is of course not a bad thing.

Panic, sir.

Should I change my weapons? I’m perfectly happy just the way they are.

I don’t think those results are very good, but it’s been a while since I’ve played this.

Have you beaten that high score in Power Strike 2 today? No, you have not. So I win.

Ionix City. One wonders if they have a commando in this city with a gadget arm.

Does anybody even get those references anymore? Probably not.

Hey—you shot me in the ass! It’s okay to get up off your seat and dance. So I’m doing it.

What I need to do here to fill up some screen time is bring up a Hudafeatz.

You ready for this? Alright. Now I’m going to lower the volume a little bit so we can really hear this Hudafeatz.

This is a very important Hudafeatz. Spelled properly with a Z.

Hudafeatz: The A-Team versus Knight Rider.

That’s a tough one, I know. Because immediately you think—it’s the A-Team, right? There’s four of them. You’ve got Mr. T, Howling Mad Murdock, Face, and Hannibal.

But Knight Rider has KITT—and KITT makes up for a lot. KITT can turbo jump. KITT’s awesome. KITT’s a car.

Michael Knight was basically disposable. He didn’t even have to drive—KITT could just drive itself.

So why am I fighting puppet hands? What’s going on here? How high were these developers?

I don’t know—I’m kind of torn between Knight Rider versus the A-Team. They both have great theme songs.

The A-Team’s probably a little better—it’s more memorable—but the Knight Rider theme is pretty damn good.

Cyber road. It sounds like a band. Probably is a band.

Okay, I’m trying to think here. Woohoo!

This is where being Gen X comes out way ahead—the greatest generation. Because we can have an honest discussion about Knight Rider vs. the A-Team all day.

We all watched the same shows on the same three channels. When TV Guide said they were on, we watched them.

And they were great shows. So much better than what people have to deal with today.

The A-Team had great characters—B.A. Baracus, Murdock, Face, and Hannibal. George Peppard was Hannibal. I love it when a plan comes together.

The A-Team had vehicles too—the A-Team van, one of the greatest vehicles ever, and the A-Team Corvette.

Knight Rider had KITT, of course. And kind of like the Spy Hunter truck.

I can’t remember too many other Knight Rider characters besides Michael Knight. There was Devon, and the girl in the lab coat—who wasn’t Erin Gray, because I would definitely remember Erin Gray.

But it was somebody.

Michael Knight had a perm and probably corduroy pants. That’s all good stuff.

So when you look at the characters combined with the A-Team van, you’ve gotta give it to the A-Team. They couldn’t hit anything they were shooting at—like stormtroopers—but it was fun to watch them blow everything up.

And the theme song with the machine gun rhythm in the intro—perfect.

I want to go watch some A-Team now. What am I doing? Quick—defeat the enemies in Power Strike 2 so I can go watch the A-Team.

I’m gonna have to do this in another video—more Whodefeatz.

I was thinking Magnum P.I. versus something—maybe The A-Team—but that’s not fair. The only show that even comes close to Magnum P.I. is Miami Vice.

Power up. Yes.

You can almost imagine what Whodefeatz will be like in the future. No discussion of theme songs, no discussion of acting or storylines.

It’ll be like: influencer who lied about traveling the world versus influencer who ranked things until they were eaten by sharks—and then run over by the A-Team van.

Let’s go with that one.

Whodefeatz: Power Strike 2 or Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball?

Power Strike 2 always wins.

It always wins. But Hitomi’s going shopping. What fun. Die!

Influencers versus the A-Team… someone needs to make this happen.

It’s not fair. I pity the fool—and then B.A. throws him on an airplane.

Which doesn’t even make sense, because they always drugged B.A. before flights.

Never mind. I’ll cut that one out in editing.