Super Hang-On (Beginner Course) MAME
668 views · Published 19 August 2018 · 4:49 · Indexed 1 November 2026
Channel: MrThunderwing · 2018 · Gaming
Super Hang-On is the greatest old school Sega Sega racer that I never actually got to play back in the arcade. I did, however, play the first game, Hang-On, a few times on one of the big sit on cabinet types when I would've been around 9 or 10 years old and can remember being very impressed with it. Hang-On was also the game that came built in to my Sega Master System when I first got one, so I played it very extensively back in the late 1980'sand after the monochrome graphics of the ZX Spectrum I'd owned before that SMS Hang-On seemed incredible. Super Hang-On was the first racing game I ever bought for my Sega Megadrive and as impressed as I was with Hang-On on the SMS, Megadrive Super Hang-On just totally blew me away, from it's (at the time) incredible graphics and equally awesome music. It genuinely felt like the closest thing to a real arcade racing game I'd ever played at home. Because of that, to this day Super Hang-On's always had an extra special little nostalgic place in my heart (I've been trying to think of another way to phrase it that sounds less soppy, but I can't, so fuck it). Also, fuck all those people who preferred Road Rage on the Megadrive and used to compare Super Hang-On unfavourably to it. The sense of speed in Road Rash was nothing like as fast as Super Hang-On and the scrolling on the road was nowhere near as smooth. To this day, I still maintain that the 4 tunes you listen to whilst riding are right up there with some of the best Sega arcade music of all time, easily on a par with the more famous tunes from Outrun and After Burner. In the proper arcade version I'm playing here, the sense of speed in the game is phenomenal, and, I've said it before in another upload, when you combine this with the noise the supercharger makes when you engage it, it makes you feel like a fucking boss! The way the pitch of the noise slowly goes up and intensifies, it's like the game's daring you to keep it pressed down for as long as you can. The original game's aspect ratio is 4:3 , so just for shits 'n' giggles I've superimposed a marquee that looks like the game's being play in an actual Super Hang-On cabinet.
