Sega Births Genesis Collection, World Gapes
August 10, 2006 11:40 PM | Simon Carless
You may have seen this on a few other sites, but 1UP has written it up in super-cute style with nice screenshots and everything, and first-ish - the full info on Sega's Genesis Collection for PS2 and PSP, due out later this year, and sporting 30 pretty darn cool classic titles.
1UP's Sam Kennedy notes of the titles: "There are the games that birthed franchises that live on today -- Sonic the Hedgehog, Shinobi, Phantasy Star, and Golden Axe (which will see a sequel on PS3 and 360) -- but also the greats that have for one reason or another long been forgotten -- Vectorman, Sword of Vermillion, Comix Zone, or Alex Kidd. There's also a lot of great history to many games found in the collection."
Like what? "One of the titles, Ristar, was once planned to be the next Sonic the Hedgehog-style success story for Sega (in fact, the idea for the character Ristar actually predated Sonic -- he evolved from the character designs of what Sonic was originally to be: a rabbit). Unfortunately, the game never achieved such success, but it's interesting to now play the game that was once supposed to be the next Sonic." Also, it's nice when that character doesn't own an Uzi and rotating rims!
Categories: Retro
3 Comments
Yikes! How many re-configured "collections" can Sega possibly regurgitate into the market?
The answer: Quite a few.
RedWolf | August 11, 2006 12:43 AM
The real answer is more than 2 but less than 14 per platform...
Oh, and they could have added some Virtua Racing.
gnome | August 11, 2006 12:26 PM
No Gunstar Heroes or Ranger X, unfortunately. How much Golden Axe does the world need anyway?
Anonymous | August 11, 2006 4:03 PM