/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.5808730]

Say it aint so. The Genesis is 30 years old. How in the fuck???

Post your favorite Genesis games

[Anonymous No.5808739]

>>5808730
Cant believe Sonic is 30

[Anonymous No.5808740]

>>5808739
Sonic didn't come out till 91

[Anonymous No.5808742]

The Mega Drive came out in 88.

[Anonymous No.5808743]

>>5808730

[Anonymous No.5808746]

>>5808742
August 14, 1989. We aint Japanese

[Anonymous No.5808750]

>>5808730
16-bit era happened 30 years ago?? Wow

[Anonymous No.5808760]

>>5808743
my favorite 2D platformer period. fun fact, the composer of this game did ristar's voice and also composed world of illusion and nights into dreams. she even did the chao voices in the 3D sonic games.

[Anonymous No.5808763]

>>5808742
Featured article on wikipedia today.

[Anonymous No.5808789]

>>5808742
BUT MURRICAH IT'S THE ONLY PLACE THAT COUNTS OK???

[Anonymous No.5808802]

[Anonymous No.5808808]

>>5808730
There will never be such a soulful console like this ever again.

[Anonymous No.5808978]

I want to play some Road Rash today

[Anonymous No.5808985]

[Anonymous No.5808993]

>>5808808
Yeah. Then the faceless gigantic megacorp Sony entered on the market and it was the end of the game designers era. Arcade died, then the japanese industry died.

[Anonymous No.5809001]

>>5808993
Sounds like you’re getting old and miss the past.

[Anonymous No.5809021]

>Sounds like you’re getting old and miss the past.
This is probably everyone who ever lives? oye.

[Anonymous No.5809029]

>>5808730
Had on the amiga and bought it again for the Megadrive, gamlppey it pretty basic by todays standards but I enjoyed it

[Anonymous No.5809032]

>>5809029
*gameplay is pretty basic

[Anonymous No.5809304]

Didn't want to make a new thread, but the Genesis Mini just got a ton of reviews online today.

What do you guys think?

[Anonymous No.5809310]

The NES turned 30 in 2013, six years ago. Your point?

[Anonymous No.5809328]

>>5809304
>It does indeed seem like the genesis has a brick and mortar emulator now.
>Indeed
>>5809310
ye

[Anonymous No.5809336]

>>5809304
Word online is video and audio lag. Game Sack received a broken controller. If it sucks that's a damn shame M2.

[Anonymous No.5809673]

>>5808730
lol the Genesis is a 30 year old boomer

[Anonymous No.5809721]

>>5808789
This but unironically.

[Anonymous No.5809797]

>>5809336
>video and audio lag
That is basically on par with every mini console released so far, though.

[Anonymous No.5809889]

>tfw my mega drive 2 is 26 years old
>it still works perfectly

just had to resolder the power jack, but nothing big.

[Anonymous No.5809893]

From a Nintendo fan, here's to the Sega Genesis. The best rival Nintendo ever had.

[Anonymous No.5809930]

>>5808743
Best 4th gen platformer imo

>>5808730
>favorite Genesis games
Pic related. First game I ever bought with my own money and it was by cover. Got lucky.

[Anonymous No.5809948]

We old, nigga

[Anonymous No.5809949]

>>5808730
Say it aint so, the USA is over 200 years old.

Say it aint so, things age.

[Anonymous No.5809953]

Besides having a furry there's literally nothing bad about this game

[Anonymous No.5810687]

>>5808993
Yeah sure. It only died since this gen

[Anonymous No.5810706]

>>5808993
Why do people blame Sony like this when it was Nintendo being dicks to both Philips and Sony that birthed the Playstation?
>>5808743
Better than Sonic by a mile. Sonic Team's true gem.

[Anonymous No.5810719]

>>5808789

Don't go on the English speaking part of the internet and then whine when English speakers matter.

If it had launched in Britain or some other English majority nation first, then we'd use that date instead.

[Anonymous No.5810724]

>>5810706
Besides, any megacorp would have done the same once the videogames market grew big enough for them to rape it. Blaming Sony for this is blaming a dog for barking.

[Anonymous No.5810726]

>>5810719
>Don't go on the culturally ignorant part of the internet speaking our stupidly inconsistent language and criticize us for being jingoistic fucks, it's not our fault your country is shit

I agree. My country is shit, but jesus you're retarded.

[Anonymous No.5811987]

>>5810726

There isn't any jingoism going on. You're a visitor claiming special privilege. The English speaker make up the English speaking internet.

If it's so bad why did you come here?

[Anonymous No.5811997]

>>5810719
>then we'd use that date instead.
I doubt it, but that anon was overly agressive for no reason, and the nip release dates don't count, anyone knows this

[Anonymous No.5812057]

>>5810706
>it was Nintendo being dicks to both Philips and Sony that birthed the Playstation?
Nintendo wasn't purely being dicks, to be fair. Part of the problem was that Sony wanted rights and royalties to any IP for any game printed on a CD for the Nintendo PlayStation. If Sony had their way, they'd have ended up owning part of all of Nintendo's biggest franchises, which Nintendo obviously took exception to. Nintendo were dicks for not wanting to pay any licensing fees to Philips and Sony, Sony were dicks for demanding rights and royalties just for having games printed on certain media, and Philips was just kind of a bystander as far as I can tell with a pretty reasonable request for licensing fees on the CD production. But the point is that Nintendo and Sony were both dicks in their own unique ways and the partnership was more or less doomed from the start.

[Anonymous No.5812059]

>>5810726
>Americans celebrating the American release date of the American version of a console out of nostalgia for American memories of Americans playing American releases of games in America

HOW FUCKING DARE THEY

[Anonymous No.5812180]

>>5812059
But the writer points out his Britishness before you even get to the article.

[Anonymous No.5812227]

>the Atari 2600 turned 30 in fall 2007, twelve years ago

[Anonymous No.5812228]

Alien Soldier

[Anonymous No.5812232]

>>5808730
favorite Genesis game:
Tie: Dungeons & Dragons Warriors of the Eternal Sun and Phantasy Star 3 and 4
Sega CD
Lunar Silver Star Story

Runner up for both Eternal Champions CD and Shining Force CD

[Anonymous No.5812252]

>>5811987
I'm a "visitor" where? 4chan? fucking idiot, are you so delusional that you think I visit 4chan for the "American Experience"? Do you think 4chan is murikan? by what metric, language usage? The English language is not something north americans own, asshole. Too bad! Hey, platform ownership? the guy is Japanese, for crying out loud.

The Sega Mega Drive AND the Genesis are consoles invented by the JAPANESE, no matter how you EOP imbeciles wanna tacitly believe otherwise or nuke that fact out of existence.

I'm pretty sure you're the one who's "special" here. Newsflash, retard: over 10% of your dear country now speaks Spanish as their native tongue. Good luck with your hyper-nationalistic mindset when multiculturalism destroys muh freedumbsland without ever firing a single bullet. Hey congrats, it's already happening, so you'll live to see it.

God we're dirt poor in our shithole country, but at least we ain't no delusional imbeciles with zero perspective about the rest of the planet. Don't worry about little me, just sitting here laughing at you. We have no oil reserves for you to steal, and that's all that matters!. You've entertained me to no end. Thanks for the retardation!

[Anonymous No.5812465]

>>5809673
baby boomers were born in the 60's you moron. people born in the 80's are millenials.

[Anonymous No.5812509]

>>5812180
He might be British, but he's still writing an article on an American site intended for an American audience.

[Anonymous No.5812952]

>>5812509
>american site
>for american audiance
Pick 1

[Anonymous No.5812986]

>>5808730
>30th anniversary
>pic of a MegaDrive (1988)
>article is from 2019
this triggered my autism hard

moronic article aside, my favorite Genesis titles are:
Ranger X
Super Hang On
Revenge of Shinobi
Sonic 2
Streets of Rage
Castlevania Bloodlines
Virtua Racing
Arcus Odyssey
Strider Hiryu
Crusader of Centy

As for Japanese MegaDrive exclusives:
Battle Mania Daiginjou
Gleylancer
Twinkle Tale

[Anonymous No.5812990]

>>5812986
Forgot to add pic.

The one of few times where the American box art was better than the Japanese box art. Very rare indeed.

[Anonymous No.5813231]

This. 6 games for the price of one? Childhood made.

[Anonymous No.5813241]

>>5813231
...and this.

[Anonymous No.5813243]

[Anonymous No.5813246]

[Anonymous No.5813253]

Played both this and the sequel. Also, does anyone know who won this play to win sweepstakes pictured here?

>>5813243
Never played the sequel for this game either.

[Anonymous No.5813260]

Does anyone remember the Sega Channel? How many of you actually had this? And if you did, was it worth something?

[Anonymous No.5813482]

>>5813260
I had Sega Channel, it was pretty great. It's how I first played Wily Wars & Pulseman.
It works kinda similar to how Xbox Game Pass does now, but the games were in a rotation each month (So one month would have Sonic 2 and the next Streets of Rage 3). You'd have about 30-40 games to choose from if I remember right, and then about 10 or so timed demos that'd only last for a few minutes (Ballz in particular I remember). The Downloading screen had news and some sarcastic comments by whoever was in charge.

Honestly miss those days and wish Sega would bring back that design for a compilation release of some sort.

[Anonymous No.5813516]

>>5812952
I don't get what you're trying to say. That American websites don't target Americans?

[Anonymous No.5813532]

>>5808730
I feel old.

[Anonymous No.5815574]

>>5808730

[Anonymous No.5815802]

>>5813260
It was great. They would redesign the interface for holidays. They would put in some news. Sometimes you get a game that wasn't released widely. A lot of times my cable modem wouldn't get a particular game fast enough and it would error. But mostly it was awesome. I didn't have to go to Blockbuster. I could just play Sega Channel all summer and wait till next month to get a fresh set of games.

[Anonymous No.5816084]

>>5808730
you know honestly I'd have thought it would be 40. My sense of time is absolutely fried.
we're further from the launch of the PS2 than the PS2 was from the launch of the SG-1000

[Anonymous No.5816097]

>>5808730
Earliest memory of playing this was sitting with my best friend in elementary school passing the controller back and forth trying to get through Super Thunder Blade, then later on getting through Mercs. Good times.