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Sega Genesis gaming heaven !

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

As someone who has most of these games in it's original cartridge format,
let me just say this compilation is amazing.

The Golden Axe series, The Shinobis and Vectorman series alone make this
a must have !! And who can say no to Altered Beast?!
The sound is crisp and the graphics nice and clean.

PS2 over component cables and optical beat Genesis over composite
any day! and the fact that you can choose to run it in Progressive Scan and resize the pic is awesome too!

order this now !

Sweet....Kind of

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

When I was fortunate enough to stumble upon this little piece of deliciousness on this very website I just had to have it. The concept of placing some of Genesis' true gems on one disc was phenomenal. However I do have some reservations. First of all I forgot how hard some of these games are. After a few rounds of Altered Beast I wanted to hoist my television into the blood sea istar, however fear of a hernia prevented me from taking these drastic measures. Also i have come to realize that putting all of these games in one package kind of kills the nostalgia, There is alot to be said for the search, the epic quest to find some of these games in there original format. Good luck find decent copies of the Phantasy star games without having to take out a loan. After all of my moaning and griping the bottom line is these are great games, and obviously the price can't be beat.

If more people knew about this collection, Wii's Virtual Console and Xbox Live Arcade would go extinct

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's important to keep in mind that many of these games are now selling for $8 a piece on the Wii's Virtual Console. Also, Sega recently released the first Sonic the Hedgehog game for $20 on the GBA. So you're getting huge value for your money by buying this collection instead.

I never played any of these games before (I was a Nintendo kid), so nostalgia isn't clouding my view. I just like a good game, and I can appreciate gaming history when I see it.

Ths slow platformers I could do without - Alexx Kid, Decap Attack, Ristar - they're just not my thing.

But everything else is just top-notch, whether you're in the mood for a fun, co-op multiplayer game, a hardcore action game, an epic RPG, or just a mesmerizing puzzle game.

On top of all the fantastic games, you're also getting interviews with the developers, pictures of the box art, and little "Did You Know?" facts about each game. The whole thing also runs in Progressive Scan, which is nice (although hardly noticeable, for obvious reasons).

Overall - this is not just a collection for Sega fans, nor just a cheaper way to get all these old classics in one package. It's just a great buy for anybody who loves games, and understands the fact that what makes a game "good" isn't bump-mapping or high-def output.

Classic Genesis 2D Entertainment

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Some of our favorite Sega Genesis games finally rose from the dead onto the Playstation 2. Rather than brining out your old Genesis system and cartridges from storage and hooking wires to the television set, it's refreshing good quality Genesis games are available on one PS2 disc. It's impossible to dislike this lot as the games designers choose not to meddle with the graphics and game play.

Every game offers its original authentic splash as it did on the Genesis console which includes option to use cheats that galvanized the Genesis era. All the Sonic codes are accessible, including level select and Gold Sonic. The fun will be immediate too because it's hard to envision anyone who could get enough Golden Axe, Sonic, Virtua Fighter, and Vectorman. Columns may be the only unapproachable game unless Tetris is your type of puzzle fun.

Moreover, there's plenty of satisfaction as the variation contain action, side-stroller, RPG, shooter, and fighter. That's proof of a jam-pack collection.

In addition to twenty-eight Sega games, another generous three can be easily unlocked by meeting goals in specific levels and to discover how, requirements to unlock them can be found on the Internet, do a quick Google search. However you'll be dissatisfied with the three-bonus games, they appeal more as a novelty than legitimate game play. Sega should have included them without invoking us to meet objectives. Other than that small scuffle, hours will be surrendered playing through this vast collection.

Also there are unlockable video clips and some unravel just by selecting a game off the menu list while others demand skill. There are a bundle of interviews obtainable within the CD package. Even more, arcade mode opens when meeting certain tasks. Such added features boost the desire to play even longer.

Anyone unaware of these oldies who are experimenting something new, it will seem hard to look beyond the ordinary surface, from a graphical standpoint. These days everyone expect realism and none of that exist here. If unsure whether you may be interested, rent before you winch forth $20. For retro players it's an obvious no-brainer, shell out the Thomas Jefferson bill. The price for one game amounts to merely seventy-one cents each. These games are perfect translation to the console and arcade counterpart. The entertainment simply piles up the more you play. True Sega supporters benefit the most from this recent collection. The likelihood of today's gamers enjoying this classic archive is slim, and they'll most likely be amused on what retro players considered pure fun. Back then we were blown away by such gaming technology. It's cool reliving past memories when we did not know better.

Sega does it again.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was always a Nintendo fan, ever since the NES days.But after buying Sega Genesis Collection for the PS2, I'm totally amazed by the numberof fun games on thisdvd. My faves are the 2 Shinobi games,a side scroller Ninja game, Sonic, Phantasy Star 2,3, and 4, and the Golden Axe series. The other games are fun as well, more than worth the $[...] price for this dvd. Go back in time when the NES and Sega Genesis were battling for home video game supremacy. Well worth the money.

Worth the price for the Phatasy Star titles alone

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Ok, so why rate this perfect? Well i see it like this. Phantasy Star 2,3, and 4 is on this compilation, which i would pay $20 for easy. All these other games are just a bonus, and many of them are actually good! It's a steal and if you feel uncomfortable about playing Phantasy Star 2 without playing the original, then pick up the Phantasy Star collection for the GBA if you have one. What buy a collection for GBA then buy this one? Well the GBA collection does not have PS4 but it does have the original and the original is worth the price of the collection. So you might be saying, "Phantasy Star this, Phantasy Star that. What if I don't like Phantasy Star!" Well then this compilation won't be worth that much to you, unless you really like golden axe,shinobi and the ecco series(suck in my opinion). You won't find any streets of rage here, which is unfortunate, since those who don't like PStar would find more worth to this compilation if it had it. If you like and want Phantasy Star, then buy this compilation!

Some old games does not fit

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just a part of this collection is as good as my expectation. Since this dvd-rom should contain more than that number of games inside it, I see some drawback of it. I guess SEGA can definitely put more generic games in it.

RETRO GAMES DEFINITIVETLY RULES!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: November 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

NO NEED TO DESCRIBE THIS GAMES!! THESE GAMES ARE THE LOST TREASURES!!!!

I LOVE Altered Beast, Alex Kidd, Sonic, The Golden Axe serie and Shinobi 2 and 3!!

P.S: Who need new games???!!! These games are even better and funnier than the new ones!!

Adios.

Sega, the greatest game producer of all time!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 27, 2006
Author: Amazon User

If you think this game is just some retro game that only has 2 or 3 good games in it , you're wrong. This has to be one of the greatest collection of retro games of all time!! With favorites like Sonic 1 & 2 ( the sound is better than the orignal version I have for the Genesis), Golden Axe and more! And with the game that came with the orignal 1989 Sega Genesis, Altered Beast! So buy this game and take a trip back to Memory Lane.

My memories are better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 10
Date: February 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have been a videogame nut since I got my first NES back when they were new. games like duck hunt, super mario bros., and spy hunter, to name just a few, wasted a good portion of my childhood that i could have been out fishing or developing social skills or any number of, what some people might think of as, more productive activities. Do I regret it or feel like I wasted my childhood? For the most part no as I remember thouroughly enjoying games and, to me, the enjoyment is what was important. I only regret not better developing my social skills as i would now consider myself an antisocial butterfly. To this day i still enjoy video games and i think that is why i am a little jaded about these games. By todays gaming standards the Genesis games are excruciatingly hard, or at least the ones i've played so far. Not only excruciatingly hard but frustratingly cheaply hard. I realize that this comes from how dated the technology behind these games are, but still this is rediculous. For example the first bad guy I fought in Golden Axe, one of my favorite arcade games from the past, killed me over and over again simply because my sword could not reach him while his slighlty shorter club seemed to deal me serious damage simply from the gust of air that it would send in my direction when the club was swung. To make matters worse once his mysterious wind attack (and i am being cynical, it is really just piss poor hit detection) hit my character he would drop to his knees so my adversary could wail on him some more. I had a similar problem with Alex Kidd (which I had never played but remembered a childhood pal raving about it). Every time i would try to jump on a platform Ol' Alex would slide off as if it were made of ice or if the idiot were jumping around on greased roller skates. I have found problems like these in nearly every game I've tried. I know i alreay compared the difficulty of these games to todays games but i think i must clarify that up against modern games most of these games wouldn't be considered hard or challenging, really they would be considered broken. Yet for all my bitching and moaning the collection is not a total waste. The familiar nostalgia was worth the price of admission (20 bucks for 27 games is a steal even if the games do seem broken). And, while i haven't played them all, one or two gems can be found that don't seem broken such as the Shinobies and one great game i had never even heard of called Decap Attack. Decap attack is like Mega Man only if mega man was a mummy with no head, attack eyes in his stomach and a penchant for wearing skulls and tossing them at wacky cartoon like characters. Even though some games are still fun and this collection opens a pipeline of memories remain forewarned that after a few hours with this collection i have been asking myself how videogames ever made it with such random control and hit detection problems.

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