Sega Mega CD? Sega Mega Crap!

Advantages: Grandfather of CD consoles
Disadvantages: The Sega Saturn should have been the grandfather

...Do you know why Sega stopped making games consoles after the Dreamcast and concentrated on making software for other consoles? It is because Sega?s executives have always made stupid, ill-informed decisions. I mean, how many mistakes can a company make before they start to wise up and start doing things properly to make a profit and appeal properly to their fans? The Dreamcast was a step in the right direction, but it was already too late and Sega knew it as well. So now I present you with genesis, the beginning of Sega?s bad decision making with this horrid contraption called the Sega Mega CD. It was made to prolong the life of its aging console, the Sega Mega Drive, since the old ?16bit? and ?BLAST PROCESSING? marketing ploys stopped working. I remember in my childhood that only the rich kids could afford a Mega CD because it was way...

0wnz0rz 07.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sega Mega CD

Not so much mega any more.

Advantages: Took me back to my childhood. Made me appreciate the Xbox 360 more.
Disadvantages: Poor graphics and sound, far too dated.

...One of my most vivid childhood memories involves Christmas day 1990. It was one of the happiest days of my life. It was the day I got my first ever games console. The Sega Mega Drive. After years of Acorn Electrons and Spectrum 128k?s, having to load cassette tapes with games on and listening to the horrible screeching noises the television made whilst loading them I finally had the future of gaming. I remember the hours spent shouting and balling that day because no matter what my dad and I tried we couldn?t get a damn picture on the TV. When we finally did it was all worth it. I got 3 games as well that Christmas, Last Battle, Altered Beast and Super Thunder Blade. Playing these games that Christmas day I thought to myself, a 16 BIT games console, life cannot get any better than this. As all gamers know, the life of the gamer is...

manimal 07.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (Xbox 360)

Sega Mega-Drive II

Advantages: Pretty console, good games
Disadvantages: Highly priced games, couldn't handle 3D, very few games with save feature

...The Mega-Drive marked the beginning of the end of my social life. I got this, my first ever games console for Christmas in 1994 (is it really that long ago?) and whilst by today's standards its technologically ancient, it delivered a huge amount of simple fun. It must be said, the Mega-Drive II (same as the Mega-Drive, but smaller) is still one of the best looking consoles ever divised. A slick black colour, it was a nice size and everything you needed was right infront of you - power and reset buttons and a slot for the game cartridges. Simple and very accessible from the off. It was a 16-bit console, and because of the comparitive lack of power compared with today's 128-bit behemoth's, couldn't handle any 3D games. Still, the extra power over the Master System (Sega's previous console) meant that developers could use a lot more...

tom1clare 01.07.2003 (26.10.2003) · Read review
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Mortal Kombat (Mega Drive)

Advantages: Plenty of gore
Disadvantages: Similar fighting styles and end boss too easy to defeat

...memory the cheat was to enter ABACABB during the title sequence (a reference to a genesis album as the mega drive was also known as the sega genesis) and there you were, ready to fight one on one like in street fighter but with on a whole new level. As in street fighter, the aim of this game was to choose a fighter, defeat all comers in a tournament and then go on to fight the end boss, like SF each character had their own distinctive look, style of fighting, levels of damage, reach and special moves. Each one also had their own fatality which was a new edition to fighting games whereby after the beating of an opponent, the player had a few extra seconds while unconcious to inflict a disturbing finishing move which varied from ripping someones head off to electrifying them to death. When you start a game you can choose to play as either...

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Theme Park - Mega Drive

Advantages: Create your own theme park man!!
Disadvantages: Can be a little hard at times and a little repititive

...boring. Also as with most sims, this was a one player only so your pals couldnt get involved, graphic however were good for its time. Bright and colourful But its a really good game and although i dont have my mega drive anymore, its available on most formats and a newer, updated version too where you can actually go on the rides to test them out! Theme Hospital is also worth a look if you like this which was the sequel and another fun management construction sim. Enjoy and live the dream!...

Capodon 04.03.2009 · Read review
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Review of Theme Park (Mega Drive)

The Mega-Drive's finest hour

Advantages: Amazing graphics, original, enjoyable, fabulous level design, groundbreaking
Disadvantages: Erm...A little too tricky for kids?

...The fact that Flashback has been almost completely forgotten in recent years simply astonishes me. For a game so groundbreaking and to have set so many new standards, it is comparable to the likes of Doom, Final Fantasy VII and Grand Theft Auto 3, and will they be forgotten less than a decade after original release? No chance. 16-bit console owners had things pretty easy for years. We all seemed pretty content to sample in the simple delights of Sonic and Mario, but in 1993 along came an adventure from U.S Gold that would give 2D-gaming a much needed kick up the backside, and earn it's place among the very best of all-time. The Sega Mega-Drive version of Flashback (also released on the SNES, Amiga and P.C) sees Conrad Hart conducting a scientific experiment examing the levels of molecular-density in humans - his results show that...

tom1clare 31.07.2003 (27.10.2003) · Read review
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Review of Flashback (Mega Drive)

Sega answer to Tetris?

Advantages: Can entertain fans of the genre
Disadvantages: Boring, slow and lacks that spark of magic

...For those of a certain age long before playstations and xboxs there was only 2 consoles that would dominate the market. Back in the early 1990s it was the turn of the Sega Mega Drive and the Snes, Sonic v Mario. For there that can remember them times where school playgrounds were split into the two camps with fans of the plumber trying to explain how a fat italian was better than a blue hedgehog...idiots i tell you, back in the day it was all sonic. On that subject, its only since the n64 that this changed and mario took over as the premiere platform character. Well it wasnt just the mascots that were fighting for their console but also the puzzle games. Nintendos Gameboy held the proud title of the #1 puzzler with the addictive tetris, but that wasnt going to stop Sega from trying their own version. They came out...

iamasadlittleboy 04.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of Columns (Mega Drive)

The Test of Time

Advantages: Wide variety of game, The favourites, Price
Disadvantages: None

...Remember the good old days of the old SEGA when we all used to play those old 2D games for hours. Well now you can do the same on your PSP with the SEGA Mega Drive Collection which include the main and most popular games of that era. Below is a list of the wide variety of SEGA games that come on the PSP diskette:- Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle Altered Beast Bonanza Bros Columns Comic Zone - A cartoon based game in which the main character is sucked into one of his comics that he has created. He has to beat the enemies that he has created in the comics. Very comic like in how you can jump between margins of the comic book pages. Decap Attach starring Chuck D. Head Ecco the Dolphin -Ecco the Dolphin is where you play as a dolphin in the see and have to travel around jumping obstacles to get where you need to go...

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Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii)

Advantages: Great fun, realistic actions
Disadvantages: Will tire you out easily

...During the 1990s, if you had a games console you would have probably been in one of two camps: Sega or Nintendo. I certainly was rooted firmly in the Sega camp having had a Mega Drive for many, many years with games like Street of Rage, Ecco the Dolphin and of course, Sonic the Hedgehog. I was a huge Sonic fan, playing the first and second game until completion and then starting up again a few days later as I loved everything about it, the colours, the gameplay.... everything. So if you tried to convince me that some 10-15 years later that Sonic and Mario would team up in a game, I probably would have just laughed. Back then it would have been an absurd thought but one that any magazine reviewer or computer game fanboy would have only dreamed about. Well January 2008 saw this realisation with the release of Sonic & Mario...

macmonkey 10.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (Wii)

Games for when games were fun

Advantages: Gameplay, Challenging, Fun even 18 years on
Disadvantages: Graphics and music aren't upto todays standards

...I have just recently bought the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection thingy on Xbox 360 (it was known as something else in the states) and started playing the games that made my early years (well most of them, some like Road Rash and James Pond are abcent from the disk, but most of the games I loved as a little kid are in the collection). Of course I was a huge Streets of Rage fan as a child, which Mega Drive/Genesis player wasn't? I'd always regretted the fact I'd never played SoR3 though, it was the one Mega Drive game I always wish I'd played (much like Silicon Valley on the N64), and here was a disk promising me the chance to make up for the years I missed out on the final game of the trilogy. However I made myself a promise, I was to complete the previous game before I could move on. So I'm starting with the games which were...

iamasadlittleboy 10.06.2009 · Read review
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