Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted March 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted March 15, 2018 (edited) 13 hours ago, TildeGuy~! said: They are releasing Sega Mega Drive Classics on the PS4 on May 29th, around 50 games included and involves online play! And Xbox apparently. Steam will also be getting an update to their current line up. It will be later released on disk with a double sided Golden Axe/Streets of Rage poster. Anyway, 53 games, much better line up than I thought. Not too much filler. It will be really interesting to see what the ‘online’ features are... just think we might get a Phantasy Star online, maybe some kind of multiplayer Streets of Rage. I have to say though, I’m most giddy about Kid Chameleon (maybe my favourite ever game) and also Alien Storm. Both are in my top 5 mega drive games. I don’t know why it’s missing a Road Rash title, that’s a real shame. I can only assume it’s licensing issues. Also, a Jungle/Urban/Dessert Strike would have been a good shout. I would also have loved a couple of other maybe not so obvious games, such as Skitchin and California Games. We don’t need 2 versions of Columns. Anyway, here’s the list:  Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle Alien Soldier Alien Storm Altered Beast Beyond Oasis Bio-Hazard Battle Bonanza Bros. Columns Columns III: Revenge of Columns Comix Zone Crack Down Decap Attack Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine Dynamite Headdy ESWAT: City Under Siege Fatal Labyrinth Flicky Gain Ground Galaxy Force II Golden Axe Golden Axe II Golden Axe III Gunstar Heroes Kid Chameleon Landstalker Light Crusader Phantasy Star II Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millenium Ristar Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi Shining Force Shining Force II Shining in the Darkness Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master Sonic 3D Blast Sonic Spinball Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Space Harrier II Streets of Rage Streets of Rage 2 Streets of Rage 3 Super Thunder Blade Sword of Vermilion The Revenge of Shinobi ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron ToeJam& Earl Vectorman VectorMan 2 Virtua Fighter 2 Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair Wonder Boy in Monster World Edited March 15, 2018 by Kaz Hayashi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted March 15, 2018 No Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles seems a bit strange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted March 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted March 15, 2018 21 minutes ago, PunkStep said: No Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles seems a bit strange. Are they currently available on PS4 network/store, or the Xbox equivalent? That’s all I can assume, otherwise yeah it’s odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAREBEAR LUVVA Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 10 hours ago, FelatioLips said: Nintendo themselves officially announced they were doing it on Switch during E3. Not sure how much more confirmation you'd need. Aye, that's the "we're working on it" that I was on about. We know it's happening, but as far as "here's the trailer, folks! It's coming!" sort of things are concerned, there's been nothing along those lines. Just a difference in the definition of "announcement", innit. They've said they're making it, but they haven't announced its official "reveal". Perhaps I should have said "there haven't been any details about the release of Pokemon Switch" instead. I don't even like Pokemon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TildeGuy~! Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 9 minutes ago, Kaz Hayashi said: Are they currently available on PS4 network/store, or the Xbox equivalent? That’s all I can assume, otherwise yeah it’s odd. Not that I know of, yea it’s weird, I didn’t even notice when I scanned the list yesterday, I was just hoping to see the streets of rage games on there and didn’t really care to check for others. Dynamite Headdy though! Massive favourite of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 2 hours ago, Kaz Hayashi said: I don’t know why it’s missing a Road Rash title, that’s a real shame. I can only assume it’s licensing issues. Also, a Jungle/Urban/Dessert Strike would have been a good shout. I would also have loved a couple of other maybe not so obvious games, such as Skitchin and California Games. We don’t need 2 versions of Columns. It looks to me like all the games included were published by Sega, whereas Road Rash for example was published by EA. So like everything else with Sega these days, it's the path of least resistance where cost and effort are concerned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted March 15, 2018 It's a pretty standard list - more or less the same games that popped up on PS2 and PS3 versions of the Mega Drive collection, though I think Toejam and Earl is a new one! I'll still buy it, though, despite still actually owning a Mega Drive. Regardless of how high-tech the console I own, I'll always end up just using it to play Alex Kidd and Streets Of Rage 2 in the end. Nothing there's really jumping out at me as, "fucking hell, I didn't think we'd get that!" or a hidden gem to push it to the next level - would have been nice if they could pull something out of the bag a la the Mini SNES having an unreleased Starfox game on it, though no idea what that would have been anyway.  Really curious what the online features are - hopefully it's some genuinely new content, rather than "you can play Streets Of Rage 2 multiplayer, though rather than it being with your brother in the same room as you, it's with some random 12 year old in America". Some of the Mega Drive games that are on PS Now - I think they were PS3 re-releases initially - have stuff like speed runs, time attack and so on, it may just be that in terms of online content.  Apparently the physical copy comes with a double-sided Golden Axe/Streets of Rage poster. Worth the full price alone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The King Of Swing Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Wonder if it'll have unlockable games, like the previous collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Where's the Master System Collection? SEGA barely acknowledge the console, probably as it only sold well in Europe and Brazil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted March 15, 2018 Occasionally they'll reissue a Master System game as part of a broader collection - Alex Kidd In Miracle World has popped up on most virtual console type things, and the Sonic Gems and Sonic Mega Collection had some of the Sonic Master System and Game Gear games ported. A lot of the best games on the Master System, though, were ports of arcade games, or had a superior Mega Drive version, so I can't think of much that would be worth celebrating purely on the strength of the Master System version.  I'd say a Master System collection, of games that were unique to or had their best version on that console would have, say... Alex Kidd In Miracle World Alex Kidd In Shinobi World Phantasy Star Sonic The Hedgehog Sonic 2 Sonic Chaos Baku Baku Animals Kung-Fu Kid Golden Axe Warrior Wonderboy: The Dragon's Trap  And that's kind of clutching at straws on a couple of those anyway.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted March 15, 2018 Share Posted March 15, 2018 Throw in Kenseiden, Psycho Fox, Asterix, Castle and Land of Illusion and one of the best versions of Ninja Gaiden and I'd buy it. But you're right about most games being inferior ports, I'd just rather see something different than the same old Mega Drive collections again. I'd love new ports of games like Panzer Dragoon or Last Bronx, both were on last rereleased on PS2 but in Japan only. Fighters Megamix was outstanding too, it sold a bucket load but has vanished from history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members BomberPat Posted March 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted March 15, 2018 A lot of the great Sega games - on any console - were third-party, so I imagine licensing would be a bit of a nightmare. Which is a shame, because as great as the games on this Mega Drive collection are, they're not really treading any new ground as far as re-releases go, and we're not getting the likes of Road Rash, Castle Of Illusion, Desert Strike, Aladdin, and so on. It would be fun to see the Saturn and the Dreamcast given a little love too, but early 3D games age so much worse than 2D games, so short of full HD remasters it's unlikely. Saying that, I was still playing the Dreamcast up until about two years ago, and it's surprising how well some stuff has held up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members FLips Posted March 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted March 15, 2018 The Master System is one of those consoles I just don't "get". I never had one as a kid so have no nostalgia for it, so to me it's just a console with 8-bit weaker versions of Mega Drive games. I tried going through a load of them and no games stood out as worth playing now unless you had nostalgia for them. We did play some Vampire game on it which was apparently a Castlevania game and honestly played a lot better than the NES Castlevanias, but it didn't have that classic feel to it. Felt like a knockoff and we had to look it up because it was so much like Castlevania we thought it must have been one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted March 15, 2018 Moderators Share Posted March 15, 2018 A master system collection without the tennis game would be pointless! I still wouldn't buy it anyway though. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted March 15, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted March 15, 2018 2 hours ago, scratchdj said: Don't forget Enduro Racer. It was one of the few Master System cartridges that cost a tenner, and whilst it was short, it was great fun and one of my most-played games. My first ever cartridge game! I really enjoyed it, still have the music in my head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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