/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9560878
Here in Sweden (and apparently the rest of Scandinavia), Nintendo was the big thing and Sega was much rarer. They got around, I've seen clearance bins with old Mega Drive sports game once or twice, so people were buying them, but I personally saw only one Mega Drive console ever as a kid, otherwise it was NES, SNES, Game Boy, N64, and then of course PC and PSX.

I was actually kind of bummed about that, because I did occasionally hear about Sega games from kids at school and that they were different in a cool way, and I had seen the Sonic cartoons on TV, but the games were just not anywhere and I never got to try them. At the time, this felt like this mythical counterpart which had simply eluded me, and I wondered about it sometimes.
Until the very late 90s and early 2000s that is, when emulation really began taking off, not only did I now have free access to the fabled SNES which I had only ever gotten to try out a few times, but now the Mega Drive actually was within my grasp. The first game I tried was Shining Force, and I was SO hooked, I would play nothing but that game for a month.

Emulation got pretty popular around my circles, because it was endless free games, people would check out the consoles they never had when they were younger, or titles they missed for the ones they did have. It also worked as Early Access, I got to play Pokémon before it launched here, and then Gen 2 before it even left Japan (with a shitty and half done fan translation, of course).

>>9108330
I like Shining Force the most.

As confirmed by his son, Mick McGinty, who illustrated covers and promotional art for series like Street Fighter, Streets Of Rage, Shining Force, among many others, has passed away.