Giant Bomb's Jeff reviews the Sega classic game collection, Sega's Ultimate Genesis Collection.
Excerpt: "For me, Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection had me at Fatal Labyrinth. This sort-of-crappy dungeon crawler was one of my favorites back when it was new, and for whatever reason, I still enjoy it today. Chances are, if you played a lot of Genesis games, there's at least one game in this collection that you feel this way about, and at least one missing game that will seem like a horrible, glaring omission. Either way, it's hard to argue with its relatively cheap price, and 49 games for $30 is a pretty good deal... even if the Space Harrier audio is totally jacked."
GamesAsylum: "Amongst various timeless Zelda and Mario titles, incredibly obscure PlayStation 2 and GameCube releases and some soon to be classic Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games sits a few others on our bulging dusty shelves that we wouldn’t even dream of trading-in or putting on eBay.
As the name of this article has more than likely already given away, they’re retro collections. Regular readers will know that we’ve always had a soft spot for these, and so today we’re looking at eight of the best.
Inexpensive and often containing one or two games that would cost a small fortune if purchased for their original hardware, all of these offer decent value for money as well as serving as invaluable portals back to misspent youth"
Vince looks at entertainment segregation and assumptions about videogames and other media.
I love this article. I am one of the gamers who often take a break from the ps3 and 360 to play Genesis, snes, dreamcast, etc.
I have to say, YES. They are afraid of fun. All they want these days is Graphics. Its sad really, people that claim to be real gamers and yet they dont care about what makes a game a game: GAMEPLAY.
'Surely judging a piece of entertainment as childish, a piece of interactive entertainment you’ve only watched be played, never been challenged by yourself and don’t even know the name of is more childish than the actual piece of entertainment.'
This is a comment i agree with. I love games like Mario Kart and Mario, well Nintendo in general... and you get these other people that say its childish and other such things, but im having fun playing my games and i cant say that they are.
playing these type of games is great.. genesis, SNES ..if not gamecube & Wii I would still playing FPS'es and other boring things :) Nintendo knows how to entertain people.. :) ..and I don't give a s**t what people are thinking about games that I play.. Mario, Metroid, zelda, warioware, rhythm heaven, fatal frame FTW!!!
I think Sony keeps a nice balance between the two, but yeah. Nintendo also have a great bunch of the games this article talks about.
Its really unfortunate that they are so many closed minded people in the world. Good stuff!
Lazygamer breaks down their favourite retro games of all time.
Totally agree on Super Mario Bros 3. That game is one of the best games of all time. OF ALL TIME!
Agreed! On that note, it is going to be interesting (with the latest news on Mario 3DS) how much of Mario 3 they will incorporate. Given the tail on the logo and all.
Golden Axe was a fine game. I must have wasted all of my allowance at the arcades.
Crap, I saw that logo and thought it was something related to the next Retro Game Challange game. They really need to make/locallize another one.
Likewise .. I thought the sequel was going to finally see a release.
The original is flat out genius - and the biggest love letter to gaming I can remember.
Brilliant fun to play and very, very funny.
Streets of Rage took me back to a simpler time :D These old games still have life in them.
