Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
A playthrough of Sega's 1995 FMV flight combat game for PCs running Windows 3.1/95, Tomcat Alley.
Played on the easy level.
Tomcat Alley is a port of the popular 1994 Sega CD game of the same name (youtu.be/rMIBuqh3OoM). If you'd like to hear my thoughts on the game itself, please check out my write-up for that video.
The PC version, developed by Novotrade, is the same game as the Sega CD original, but it comes with two notable improvements.
First, the video quality is massively improved. The box tells you that a Pentium 60 is required, making Tomcat Alley one of the few PC games (alongside youtu.be/MCDpod3CdKU) released in 1995 to demand such a powerful system. The reason becomes pretty clear the instant you start the game, though. If you run it in its windowed 320x240, 32-bit "true color" mode, you get none of the grainy dithering and posterization seen on the Sega CD. If your machine can't handle that, you can run it half or full-screen in 256 colors, which looks comparatively rough, but the image is still much cleaner than the Sega CD's. The sound quality is also much better.
I recorded this in Windows 95 using the true color mode, and I scaled the game window to fit the video frame.
The other major improvement is that the game supports mouse controls. You can play it with a joystick or the keyboard, but the mouse feels more natural and responsive.
I've always liked Tomcat Alley, and the PC game is a very nice improvement over the already good Sega CD game.
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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A playthrough of Sega's 1995 FMV flight combat game for PCs running Windows 3.1/95, Tomcat Alley.
Played on the easy level.
Tomcat Alley is a port of the popular 1994 Sega CD game of the same name (youtu.be/rMIBuqh3OoM). If you'd like to hear my thoughts on the game itself, please check out my write-up for that video.
The PC version, developed by Novotrade, is the same game as the Sega CD original, but it comes with two notable improvements.
First, the video quality is massively improved. The box tells you that a Pentium 60 is required, making Tomcat Alley one of the few PC games (alongside youtu.be/MCDpod3CdKU) released in 1995 to demand such a powerful system. The reason becomes pretty clear the instant you start the game, though. If you run it in its windowed 320x240, 32-bit "true color" mode, you get none of the grainy dithering and posterization seen on the Sega CD. If your machine can't handle that, you can run it half or full-screen in 256 colors, which looks comparatively rough, but the image is still much cleaner than the Sega CD's. The sound quality is also much better.
I recorded this in Windows 95 using the true color mode, and I scaled the game window to fit the video frame.
The other major improvement is that the game supports mouse controls. You can play it with a joystick or the keyboard, but the mouse feels more natural and responsive.
I've always liked Tomcat Alley, and the PC game is a very nice improvement over the already good Sega CD game.
_____________
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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![The Manhole (PC Engine CD) Playthrough [English]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HX1cVByz7Lk/mqdefault.jpg "The Manhole (PC Engine CD) Playthrough [English]
A playthrough of Sunsofts 1991 adventure game for the PC Engine CD, The Manhole.
The Manhole is an interactive point-and-click storybook adventure in which youll encounter all manner of wild things, like a 70s pimp dragon who wears a medallion nestled in scraggly chest hair welcoming you to his pad with a plate of biscuits, Batman golfing to an NES cover of a theme from his PC Engine game (https://youtu.be/4iRzKDxv1Ag), and a half-buried arcade game named City Panther bathed in the glow of a dubiously placed street light in a field.
Starting out as a 1988 monochrome Mac title made with Hyper Card, the original version of The Manhole was the first game from Cyan, a small American developer that later went on to create Myst. The 1991 CD remake was made by Sunsoft, and it was this collaboration between the companies that laid the groundwork for Sunsofts handling of the console ports of Myst in the mid 90s (https://youtu.be/wm9mUxxy_Go).
Instead of motivating you with an overarching story or a goal, The Manhole is all about exploring a fun little world and seeing whatever is there is to be seen. Nearly everything you find can be clicked on for a sound bite, animation, or minigame. Its more a toy than a traditional game - an early example of what would later come to be known as a multimedia experience - and the remake makes good use of the power of the CD format to bring it all alive.
It also conveniently includes an option to switch 99% of the game to English, so its completely playable without any knowledge of Japanese. (I subtitled a few of the images that only display Japanese text).
So yeah, The Manhole. Its neat.
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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![Final Fight CD (Sega CD) Playthrough [Double Impact OST mod]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Hth80ZwxJCc/mqdefault.jpg "Final Fight CD (Sega CD) Playthrough [Double Impact OST mod]
Final Fight CD (Sega CD) Playthrough [Double Impact OST mod]")
