Mega Drive Longplay [197] Steel Empire
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Played by PolterGhost
Steel Empire is a horizontal sh'mup produced by the Flying Edge division of Activision and developed by Hot*B, the same folks that brought Insector X over to the Famicom. Taking place sometime in the Steampunk 19th century, The Steel Empire pits you as a renegade pilot for the Republic of Silverhead's airship fleets, pitting you against General Styron (or Sauron if you're Japanese) who apparently has taken his love for Motorhead a bit too seriously.
As a player, you've got two options for ships: The nimble Striker fighter craft; or the hulking, slow, but heavily armored combat Zeppelin. You've also got the ability to fire both left and right with a tap of the B or C buttons, allowing you to maneuver as best pleases you. Each ship has its own subweapon, and the main guns and subweapons (as well as starting health for each level) are upgradeable by collecting powerups. These powerups are permanent, unlike most sh'mups out there, so you'll always have enough firepower to handle a situation. You also have to master the screen-wiping Lightning Bomb, capable of wiping out aircraft and bullets alike, in order to survive this game's challenges.
Alright, so this was played on Normal mode. I already played the game twice before, and, honestly, it's easy enough to be beaten on one's first try. That said, I get a little careless near the end out of the sheer fact that I had more than enough lives to handle the rest of the game with my eyes closed. I only use the Zeppelin on the massive battleship bosses, due to its only advantages (higher health and aerial mines) being completely offset by the Striker's mobility and ground shots in most cases (the Striker's health gets into damage-tanking levels about mid-game, as well.) Bombs aren't used as much as they probably should have, purely based on the fact that they don't refresh their stock after death, and they happen to be the only means of dodging the final boss's attack.
Anyways, what else can be said about this game? The soundtrack is one of the best I've heard on the Genesis, the sepia-film-projector-style cutscenes are a nice touch, and the multiple ships add a nice value of choice to the game. My only real gripes are how much slowdown clogs the game, as well as the overall level of difficulty and the lack of any real gameplay choices as far as powerups are concerned. Overall, one of the best Genesis experiences I've had past Gunstar Heroes and Castlevania. -
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This game was very underrated. The imaginative fantastic steampunk designs, like the flying metal laced propeller driven zeppelin ship carriers, steam powered catapult tanks. Love the military fanfare intro complete with the score in the bottom And the amount of details put in the game is outstanding, like the metal pieces flying off the flying metal juggernauts.
IndoWill It’s a true masterpiece indeed.
And the fact the game was developed and created by the same folks that created Inscetor X--Hot B
Geils Sila, Insector X was created by Taito for arcades, Hot*B just got the license to port and release the game to Famicom.
@Benjamin Owuye Jagun I never much cared for how the Genesis one was handled. It could've been left as is, and would've been even better on the Genesis. They literally turned a light hearted shooter into something serious, it's like turning Twinbee into a serious shooter instead of a cute em up because you feel like doing so.
@@Bloodreign1 , I honestly like the more realistic looking Sega Genesis/Mega Drive port of the game, as having an insect version of the Darius games is awesome.
can we all just take a moment to appreciate how the game's title theme is transcribed in sheet music notation on the title screen? now THAT is attention to detail.
Looks like I know what game I am getting next for genesis lol
Highly collectible; and still underrated...
What a one-of-a-kind gem!
I prefer the blimp; it's slower but stronger, and there are tons of speed power-ups to be found anyway Once your get past the dull-colored intro, you'll be surprised to see how bright and colorful Steel Empire is
I preferred the plane yes less health but smaller hotbox so you could get underneath the bosses in such a way they could not touch you.
AMAZING
Very Underrated Game!!!
+P. H. G. F.
Is it? I thought it scored well back in the day?
P. H. G. F. A partir
19:20 I remember the first time I made it this far on this particular level I thought the castle was the boss. Then the boss theme played and I was like WTF lol
this game was great fun but I damn near melted my brain playing it for hours at a time because there was No saving on the megadrive!
No matter how pretty the remake is, the Genesis version of this glorious game wins out in the sound department. Also, they removed the cannon from the train boss. This is one of the best shooters EVER
Both the GBA and 3DS remakes do indeed look better but they sound. Sooo bad. I was very disappointed. However it seems the Steam version is different than those later ports and some new pretty fantastic.
It deserves a rerelease with a remake and a 3D version (like skygunner on the PS2, but still dark and serious as it is)
@@alwaysxnever
I can't say they look better as such: technically so, perhaps, but they've switched to some shoddy fakey steampunk look rather than the _Castle in the Sky_ based stuff the original had. And of course automatic 0 points for the Colossus Cannon Train having no cannon.
Hard disagree, the sound of hitting enemies is super satisfying in the remake, but a bit grating in the mega drive/genesis version
This is my most favorite game on the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive and the only game I know in the steampunk genres. Does anyone know of any other games in the steampink genre?
Final Fantasy 3/6, Wild Guns (both SNES)
Rocket Knight Adventures and Sparkster.
Arcanum
Great genesis Shmup , Great Steampunk charm, for that time. i was to now Steampunk after that. Great feeling. Good memories. A must play Gem.
Concordo.
I loved this game, I remember my dad randomly bringing this home for me not knowing anything about it and was blown away when I played it.
It's super easy in era of really hard shmups but it oozes so much personality the steampunk themes were so ahead of it's time. For most of us it was our first intro to steampunk....
hearing that stage 1 music again, just awesome. Game was a little to easy for my taste but damn it looked and played great.
Flying Edge was a division of Acclaim, not Activision.
Reportedly, it was supposed to be based on Laputa, but then Hot*B switched over to an original concept later on.
My Sega Genesis Top 5:
1.Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Knuckles
2.Sonic the Hedgehog 2
3.Streets of Rage 2
4.Steel Empire
5.Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
JackDaScarecrow streets of rage 2 ,general chaos ninja turtles the arcade game road rash nba jam
love it and music awesome
For the final boss you can dodge the fire attacks by hiding behind th asteroids.
I only ever beat this game once as a kid, at a relative's house i played using a controller that didn't recognize the diagonal directions. I was so proud to have won...on easy.
At least you beat it
This and Thunderforce 4 were my 2 fave shmups on Mega drive. I remember thouroughly enjoying the music also. I think Sine Mora kinda resembles this.
PolterGhost, where is the Steel Empire's emblem (it's the emblem of a blue-grey, steel, mustachioed colossal head, sometimes emitting steam, of course!) in this game?
I remember playing this game on the emulator back when I child. This shmup game kinda reminds of Capcom's license title u.n. squardron [a.k.a area 88 in japanese] but instead in a steampunk setting rather then an modern setting in area 88. This game steel empire was a very unique but great game on the sega genesis the first ship I played was a blimp before playing with the biplane and love both the graphics and soundtrack in this game very cool. The final boss was pain but I was able to beat it to complete the entire game but MAN Hot.B who's now Starfish was good at created this game. I also know there's a game boy advance and the upcoming 3ds still the same like the original but a little changes like upgrade graphics and arranged soundtrack but on the other hand I enjoy this game so thank you for uploading this video the game is very memorable to me YEAH.
Agree. But the end of the game is so abrupt. No story, no short episode about it. Like "and that is it?? That's all? I've beaten all 'em". Cool game with avdisappointing ending. Ugh
This game was ahead of its time !!!! Actually its everlasting!!
Best game HOT-B ever created! :D
20:51
Wait, so... you blow a hole in the outer hull, and it turns out they put turret emplacements INSIDE the hull?
.....why?
Bigger question, why not??
i also remember i felt sad when seeing my home base airship tanked all those hits so my aircraft can make it to the city to track down that evil dude
I like to think of this as the sort of sequel to Over Horizon by the same company.
I did the exact same thing on stage 5 to get more bombs from the UFOs, and saved them for the final boss. The thing was during the final phase of the last boss, I didn’t realized until later that you can use the asteroids for cover. So, I ended up using all my bombs to beat him.
Just ordered this game! I cant wait it looks amazing!
The intro with flicker is annoying af
My childhood game, thank you for the nostalgia Cubex55!
Wikipedia makes mention of the guy and his story, but i couldn't find anything about it during the making of this video. Honestly, it could exist, it might not...
christmas '94. I wake up, go downstairs, and open the biggest and littlest box. What were they? Street's of rage 2 sega genesis and THIS.
you got 2 gems that day
Nice christmas!
Damn. 18 years later and the OST still sounds amazing. Correction, 28 years. Lol
Wow, I am surprised the OP didn't know you could hide behind the asteroids for the fire attacks.
What does mean OP?
A good observation. Stones protect.
To be fair the game was pretty bad at hinting at this. The asteroid doesn't stop any other projectiles from either the player or the boss. You can see the asteroid blocking the fire wave graphic but it's not perfectly clear.
Some people like it, but sincerely, Genesis sound effects are terrible. It brings down almost all Genesis games.
Good music could be achieved on the Genesis, sound effects on the other hand, the console could never truly overcome that.
Some of the middle of the game bosses are so BIG, and the final boss so tiny.
i still have this game for my genesis. it is still a very good game to occasionally play
I've beaten this game a couple times. Didn't think it took me an hour, but time flies when you're scared out of your mind in bullet hell.
great gaming by PolterGhost! kinda hard to believe that Hot-B, a company infamous in Japan for making softcore-porn-like arcade pokers & pachinko machines would come up with this gaming masterpiece...and harder still, that Flying Edge, the Genesis/MD's division of LJN/Acclaim, would be the one publishing it, given their record!
Coming to switch!
Nick arcade
Tyreese Joyner exactly how i first knew of this underrated classic. The full gameplay of this just screams awesomeness once you get past the first stage, which was the 30 second video challenge. In fact, I take a look at the full playing of some of the video challenge games.
djtechrat, Sagaia/Darius II said hello.
21:41 I love how he flew all around like "LOL! U MAD?" XD
I've seen references on various websites stating the developers did issue a statement where they mentioned another source of inspiration for this game other than Laputa.It was supposedly some obscure nineteenth century 'future war' short story whose Portuguese title translated as Steel Empire.Sadly I couldn't find anything about the story or the author who supposedly wrote it,which is kinda weird.
i'll make my apologies now for the cutscene flicker. The game is supposed to have a sort of film-projector effect with the take off/landing sequences and the pre-level text, but apparently TH-cam decides to record all of the in-between frames of pure black.
There is indeed a constant title screen and pictures between levels!
Actually, it's not Purtugese, but Galician. Either way, I strongly assume it is supposed to be a joke.
I finished this back in the nineties when I was a teen.
I may have rented it in my Sega Gen-playing years and finished it too!
Holy shit, I don't remember the flickering at the start of the game? Poor choice, even for people that don't have photosensitive epilepsy!
The problem was that steam punk wasn't popular or even a thing back then. This game was ahead of it's time. Great concept, music, style and graphics. Unfortunately wasted and underappreciated.
This is one of my favourite old school games. I still am amazed by the flying submarine design!
When I was in the primary 6, I scored 100 marks ten times for the second time. The first time I scored 100 marks ten times, my mother bought me Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. This time I bought Iron Empire, but I was defeated by the super difficult level and killed by the super long narrow tunnel in the second level. 11:19
soo good this was amazing music too
"Bombs aren't used as much as they probably should have, purely based on the fact that they don't refresh their stock after death, and they happen to be the only means of dodging the final boss's attack."
incorrect. draft the asteroids, they create a safe spot. pretty straightforward.
Wow the memories. My older brother picked this one up on a whim a looooong time ago. One of the better random games we got outside of crash n the boys and river city ransom (as in they were random games we never heard of when we picked them up a long time ago. Of course they're well known now).
Thinking about repuchasing my old megadrive collection, i know i completed this as a child, not so convinced i have it in me still
As seen on Nick Arcade's Video Challenge. I think I have seen it played at least once on the show, only rarely.
I had to watch this to make sure that flickering effect wasn't my Everdrive dying lol
loved this game, one of the best shooters I've ever played.
Sadly, Lenny Kilmeister is not the head of The Motorhead Empire, nor, to my knowledge, is any of their military rank referred to as "The Ace of Spades", but this is still a good video game that I remember playing at a family friend's house (a rare time where I not only lived with a girl who was around my age, but who was also a video game player), and I just got some pizza, some potato chips, a root beer, and played this game around 1995-1996...good times.
Always loved the boss designs and the gradual damage
This game is freaking bad ass dude! I play it every day!
Hell yeah man! A very underrated gem on the good ol Sega Genesis
In front of the final boss, you have to protect yourself hiding behind the asteroids.
I havent played this since i was a kid
thx cubex
I play this game before a long time ago... With the final boss... When the flames were coming out in waves not the fireballs, but the flame waves... You could have hidden behind the rocks to avoid the flames, you would have avoided them, again not the fireballs but the flame waves, you really didn't need to use the bombs, but overall good gaming, so many memories
I get what they were going for at the beginning, but with all of that flashing I'm surprised this game didn't become as controversial as that Pokemon episode.
37:23 I don't remember reading about this fight in my history studies
Loved the game wish it more of an ending
Thanks for the game. I don't remember if I finished it in the 90s when i rented it... ☻
Challenging final boss but lame ending!
Very good game...
Sod off, MrNintendork666!
Two nice games for Sega mega drive- This (empire of steel) and Sonic the Hedgehog 1
A lot more, as for me. I'd say, around 200 great games.
Comix Zone, Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic & Knuckles, Dynamite Headdy, Tiny Toon Buster's Hidden Treasure, Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps...
Phantasy Star series (fourth game what an epic way to end the series), Shining Force, Rocket Knight, Rambo III, Road Rash, Skitchin, Golden Axe, Warsong (langrisser), Streets of Rage (Bare Knuckle), Last Battle (Hokuto no Ken), Aerobiz Supersonic, Uncharted Waters New Horizons, Zombies ate my Neighbours, Aleste - Full Metal Fighter Ellinor, Arcus Odyssey, Assault Suits Leynos, Strike series, Dragon Ball Z, Demolition Man, Ghostbusters, Gunstar Heroes, Splatterhouse (specially part 3), Vixen 357, TMNT the Hyperstone Heist, and im probably still missing several great games.
Very cool the epileptic start with the flashing screen :D
im pretty sure its supposed to resemble an old fashioned projector
This game is completely different than other shooters i mean a flying castle how do you come up with that? Outstanding!!!
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I just love that fact that you can fly out into space in an open cockpit WW1-style propeller plane in this game.
I've loved this game soooo much!
The steam punk atmosphere was captivating and the music, damn!
Was That A Japanese Movie Rating on
The Bottom?
Wonder if this was the basis/inspiration for the Crimson Skies games.
I wonder if this game inspired Jets and Guns, a lot of similarities in enemy designs and art style...
I loved this game back then. The whole themed world of olden aircrafts, yet it's like a horizontal, what they now call, "space shooter". Good times.
Also, looking back on this, the only other game I can think of that reminds me of Steel Empire's likeness is the indie arcade-themed "space shooter" Jamestown. The whole idea of being in very old times yet fighting epic bosses and waves of enemies like any other space shooter. Loves these kinds of ideas in gaming. :)
Can't remember if I beat this.
what character is your avatar?
I would love to see a remaster of this with current tech. I rented this game so many times when I was younger.
Well if i didnt have epilepsy before...
This game looks a lot like Boogie Wings for the arcade.
Empire of Steel?
Love how that awesome Stage 1 music suddenly thunders out of nowhere.
this should have been a movie or anime series
Hearing that siren at the beginning of stage 5 you knew shit was about to hit the fan
Kind of reminds me of Boogie Wings.
Hipster Gamer: I play a game called Steel Empire. You've probably never heard of it. It was steampunk before steampunk became mainstream.
I played this on the GBA forgot about this thanks
Final boss was so crazy designed lol
Space: The Final Stage.
Damn this game was sooo hard when I was a kid..
Steam punk is not mainstream.
Justin Bieber is mainstream. Though I could hear some "hipster" whatever that is saying that.
Lets just drop labels. It's really stupid,
This totally should of been released on the TurboGrafx
Real gamers need no save points
I really wish the Motorhead empire did take over the world
In the original Japanese the Motorhead Empire was led by General Sauron.
Bio Shock Infinite Zero
The steam version is out today :)
Some people may not own a Genesis console anymore, you have to take that into account dude.
Steam version of This?! Yes, please. Wait no. It's an updated version. Looks better than the 3ds port and sounds on par with this version based on the trailer I watched.
@@Bloodreign1 agree . I don't understand the point of being a purist like that for some things.
@@Bloodreign1
Then use an emulator, the modern version ruins the art style and has an annoyingly loud gun that drowns out the music.