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SEGA Mega Drive Collection (PSP)

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I recently bought this game for my PSP, as I already have a working Mega Drive for my TV this seems the obvious choice! There is a huge selection of 27 (gasp) games included in this packeage, making it by far the best retro compendium around. These games can be divided into 3 catagories:

CLASSICS: you'll play these again and again

Columns - A worthy and difficult alternative to tetris

Comix Zone - Great side scrolling beat em' up, even looks like a comic!

Ecco the Dolphin I and II - Still as devilishly hard as ever, but still looking great

Phantasy Star III and IV - IV is an especially good RPG

Ristar - Lovely forgotten gem of a platformer

Sonic the Hedgehog I and II - Still as brillant as ever

Vectorman I and II - Great graphics, nice platforming

GAMES THAT AREN'T AS GOOD AS YOU REMEMBER (but are still pretty fun for 1/2 an hour)

Altered Beast - Great at the time, but very short nowadays

Decap Attack - Still good, just a bit awkward to play

Golden Axe I, II, III - Not quite as good as you remember, but still fun

Gain Ground - pretty hard and unrewarding

Kid Chameleon - Good platformer, but looks like it came with your phone

Phantasy Star II - Battles hurt your head! too much strobe flashing

Shinobi III - Still good, just feels a little flat (no pun intended)

Virtua Fighter 2 - By beat em' up standards this is pretty average. If you own dark ressurection you won't touch it.

Super Thunder Blade - Fairly fun helecopter game

GAMES THAT HAVE AGED BADLY

Alex Kidd - I thought this was pretty bad on my actual Mega Drive

Bonanza Bros - Permanent split screen in single player? Why thanks!

Ecco Jr - So boring you'll fall asleep

Flicky - It is what is always was, fun until you ask yourself why you're still playing, and it looks awful

Sword of Vermillion - Very slow walking speed and having to select "Speak" form a menu date this RPG terribly

As you can see, there's a good ratio of fun games in this package, compared with a pretty low tally of poor ones. The classics of this package are timeless, and are well worth the relatively budget price of the compilation, and most of the games in the second category are still sound, if a little "arcadey" and short. I hope this helps you decide on wether to get this game, but i'm certainly glad I did.

As I can remember these titles from their original releases (well most of them anyway) I have really enjoyed this game. The original Sonic game is awesome. You also get the sequels, I just enjoy the original too much. There is a lot of variety of games and genres represented and I throughly recommend it!

The Sega Megadrive is a console that I didn't own back in the day as I owned an Atari VCS and then moved on to the ZX Spectrum and then an Atari ST, but I certainly played a few on the games in this compilation, which has a total approaching 30, either on a friend's console or in the arcade back in the day.

When it comes to the Sega Megadrive Collection, you won't play all of them to completion, but there's more than enough to make it worth a purchase. It's amazing how little space each game takes when you realise they used to take up a whole motherboard in an arcade cabinet, for those that started life that way, but when it comes down to it, the don't take up much memory individually at all.

One thing you'll spot is that the 16:9 screen of the PSP is wider than that of the games when they came out originally, so you'll be pleased to know that there are options to adjust the picture to "original" (small, and slightly windowboxed), "fit" (4:3) or "stretch" (16:9). I used the latter as it's fine for a video game.

So now what needs to be done is to run through all the games in this collection, starting with the Daddy of them all.

Sonic The Hedgehog: This is the classic game of collecting the rings, clearing three zones and then fighting Dr Robotnik. Rinse and repeat. Brilliant stuff and the sequel is here too.

Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle: A mediocre side-scrolling run-and-jump affair that's fun for a while, but it not a Mario-beater.

Bonanza Bros: This one's about as close to a `Larry the Looter' style game you'd find Bart playing in the Simpsons, as you run around various buildings in a side-scrolling manner, to steal the treasures before exiting via the roof, and that link to the animated show made this one to stick with for longer than normal.

Ecco the Dolphin, and its two sequels Ecco: The Tides of Time and Ecco Jr, made a big splash on the Sega Dreamcast back in the day in 3D when it was really an exercise in pretty graphics in need of a game, since here - in the 2D Megadrive version - you just swim around, jumping about and beeping your sonar at other mammals, avoiding the jellyfish and listening to some bizarre background music the like of which sounds more like incidental music from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's not very captivating so, Sega, so long and thanks for all the Ecco the Dolphin games.

Golden Axe 1-3 are the classic hack-n-slash trilogy of games as you walk through sideways-scrolling levels cutting, slashing or kneeing the baddies in the groin. At times it has a similar style to the brilliant Double Dragon series. It has a 3D isometric point-of-view, rather like the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom arcade game, so you can move around to kill baddies and free tied-up prisoners. The levels on wheels are also great fun as you can kick a baddie off the truck and under the wheels. Say bye-byeeee! :)

Vector Man is a great side-scrolling walk-n-shoot game, and very addictive with it. As you collect stars, you'll see it's similar, but not a patch on Sonic. It's also very annoying that you can't skip past the menu animations.

Virtua Fighter 2 is a 2D affair that plays incredibly slowly. Maybe the Megadrive version was always like this, but the arcade 3D version was far better and the version on this compilation here should be avoided.

Some PSP games have Wi-Fi access to go online and play against other people, provided you can find someone who also has that game and is online at the same time. You can also unlock extras such as interviews and trailers for other games as you progress through the levels in each respective entry on this compilation.

Overall, it's all good fun, and there's probably nothing here that you can't get with a PC and an downloaded emulator, but it's worth it at this price even just to have the Sonic games on a handheld console so you can play it while you're out and about, not to mention some of the hidden treasures that you'll enjoy as you discover titles you really enjoyed in the past like Comix Zone and Bonanza Bros, making this an essential purchase.

More on the titles in this release at:
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If you've every played the original games on the megadrive then this collection of games is for you!!

The games port really well across to the PSP, they load quickly and are very stable. The collection of games may not keep you hooked for a long period of time but you'll keep going back to them over and over. Well worth the money!

If you don't know what a megadrive is and have never played on a games system earlier than a PS2 then this might not be for you!

Now that this is available in the UK, it turns out that the European version is lacking Shadow Dancer (a Shinobi game). This is featured on the US equivalent - Sega Genesis Collection - so if you're a Shinobi fan then get that version on import.

There are some quirkier titles that haven't stood the test of time so well, like Alex Kidd. Golden Axe isn't as much fun as it seemed at the time.

What's a real shame is that it looks, from the inclusion of just two Sonic games and one Shinobi game, like they might be splitting these over multiple releases. I'd rather have a complete series of games on one disc and less filler. Still, here's hoping the rest of Sonic and Revenge of Shinobi get a PSP release soon.

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I mean come on...

amazing for under a tenner theirs loads of games here that work really well with the psp controls a ton of unlockable content i was very surprised at the amount of stuff on this disc it was well worth my eight quid!!!!!! its even got alex kid, would have paid eight quid for that alone to play on the metro to uni!!!

I was so pleased to hear about this coming out, especially after owning SEGA Classics on PS2 and writing a rather harsh but true review for it on Amazon! This is an absolute blinder of a SEGA comp and they have truely redeemed themselves by putting 27 titles, which include a large percentage of great well known games (Sonic 1 & 2, Ecco The Dolphin, Golden Axe 1,2,3) and not so well known classics (Vectorman 1 & 2 and Ristar) on one UMD with spot on emulation that pretty much mirrors the original quality of the games and audio soundtracks, unlike the EA Replay comp, in which they emitted the original Road Rash music (WHAT!?). Yes its a shame Streets Of Rage isn't on here but they're probably gonna release another one with that on, Can't wait for that! Also it has improved since my initial assesment as the new psp has a much better d pad for retro similarity, for those who prefer not to use the joystick. But overall I cant fault it, and you can pick it up for less than a tenner in some places. Bargain, and one of the best retro compilations around! BUY IT!!

All the best oldies from the mega drive collection are here, well some of them anyway. This is an awesome collection I cannot explain the feeling of playing Sonic again after ten years...just cool. You would be a fool to not buy this even if you are anti 2D games these are still great fun.

finally some classic games, don't get me wrong i enjoy the modern 3d games as much as everyone else... but you'll never find games like this again!

for thoose of you like myself who owned a sega Genesis / Mega Drive... this is definatley the PSP game for you. I agree with the other reviews, the game is missing Streets Of Rage and Road Rash.

most of the games on it are the good ole classics, Sonic, Alex The Kidd Golden Axe... for jsut theese games alone you'd be getting ya moneys worth all the others are just a bonus.

I still haven't managed to put this game down it brings back alot of memorys from my childhood...

for thoose who have already bought it or thinking about purchasing this game, HAVE FUN & ENJOY