Gamespotting 013 - Re-Genesis for the Mega Drive

The 80s and 90s are back with a vengence upon the general public with items from the past finding their way back into mainstream society and not being confined to the retro department.

Now Retro games have always been popular with gamers and the release of the Wii has brought these titles to more younger gamers to experience and older gamers to relive their youth. But there is one exception of this that has never rearly gone away and became retro which is the Mega drive.

Sega's 16 bit console was much loved all over the world, in what ever territory and under whatever naming. OK it was not as popular as the Super Nintendo sales wise, but in my opinion the games catalogue was vastly superior to the SNES's b ut that might have been something to do with Nintendo's Seal of Approval Process (which is something I think they should look at bringing back for the wii if you know what I mean)

Even games development for the platform is still happening today with a team of developers creating a whole new title called Begger's Prince, but games prefiferal company BLAZE has gone one step further and bought the licence for the Mega Drive which means they can release new versions of the consoles for retro fans to drool over

I have bought the portable Mega Drive that they released last year and enjoyed playing these games on the move without having to have an emulator on my TTDS card, but this year they have announced a full size console for £30 which will have 15 games built in and the ability to play any Mega Drive game created around the world and be able to play it on the console, which for a collector like me is a dream console without breaking the budget.

But most people would trade in this magic console for most modern day crap on the 360 and PS3, but the gameplay on these games almost outclass the gameplay on modern games because older games were properly tested and worked properly because they couldn't be updated by patching or internet so they had to be done.

So I hope more people pick up this console and experience and start to look back on older games and not throw them away like in the picture I found on kotaku over the weekend.