At one time, Sega was acknowledged as the antithesis to the world's most recognized game and console company, Nintendo. Regardless of what Kaz Hirai says, Nintendo has been rivals with Sony and Microsoft for years now and still survived. But the first to really challenge Nintendo's dominance in the console market was Sega, and its greatest attempt was with the Genesis/Mega Drive.
On the 10th, Sonic's Genesis Collection comes out for PS3 and Xbox 360. It's got more than 40 games from the Genesis spanning its entire lifetime, as well as arcade and Master System titles, for $30. Also, they're supposedly in 720p HD, but you can take off the filter it adds if you get tired of it.
If you've never played any of the Genesis classics (i.e., you were a hardcore SNES kid), you probably wonder why **** like Shining Force, Golden Axe, Phantasy Star and (ugh) Sonic still gets pumped out even today, 15 years after the originals were released. Basically, all of these games are why. It has the complete Genesis-era series of:
-Sonic
-Phantasy Star
-Shining Force
-Streets of Rage
-Golden Axe
-Ecco
-Vectorman
and also some of the best Genesis titles that many people never played, like Dynamite Headdy, Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, and Comix Zone. That right there would be enough for me to buy it, but it includes even more titles in every genre (except racing). It has a number of notable exceptions (Toejam and Earl, Landstalker, Gunstar Heroes, and Road Rash 2) but still right there you have the best of the Genesis.
Sega's an old, bitter man now. The years were most unkind to him, and now he is fat and angry (also left retarded and drooling after a debilitating stroke he suffered in 2006). But that drooling old guy went to the attic (he forgot where it was for a while) and got out that photo album of when he was a college football star. And like, this is it. Yes.
I think everybody's played the SNES's best games. Sometimes I wish I had owned one. But a bunch of these games are the reason why I was never lacking good games on the Genesis.
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