Sega Genesis Collection for PSP and PS2

An anonymous reader writes "Sega has announced what may be the coolest retro collection yet in a compilation of 30 Sega Genesis games for the PSP and PS2. 1up has a great breakdown of the games in the collection, which features everything from the Phantasy Star games to the Golden Axe games, to the Shinobis, to the Vectormans. Pretty cool stuff." From the article: "Sega's doing its part to give these games context with numerous unlockable interviews with the original developers and a museum with trivia on the disc. According to Sega, the games will be reproduced with 'the utmost accuracy to the originals as possible' by developer Backbone Entertainment. And as a special cool bonus, the PSP version will allow -- for the first time ever -- wireless multiplayer for several of the games. "

Comments

This is cool and all..

[rsilvergun]

now for God's sake, release ports of Radient Silvergun and Panzer Dragoon Saga so I don't have to blow $400+ dollars on ebay to play them.

no wonderboy ?

[eyegee88]

Too bad they didnt put wonderboy, a real nice classic.

I wonder ...

[Tink2000]

Just how much of this is reaction to the perception of the fan-base that these titles are "abandonware"? I mean, aside from ROMs and old-skool computer geeks, how badly missed are these games, and since they are now coming back in updated format is this simply a way to crack down on emulators and ROM sites?

I wish they'd release PSI (Master System) and Herzog Zwei (Genesis), myself... good times, good times...

Re:What about the Revolution?

[Babbster]

What does one thing have to do with the other? I doubt that Sega negotiated any kind of exclusivity with Nintendo for their Wii/Genesis emulation support, and they would be stupid do so unless the money offered by Nintendo was huge.

Besides, exclusives are bad for gamers.

Doesn't sound that good to me

[Stormwatch]

Altered Beast, Bonanza Bros, Flicky, Gain Ground, Golden Axe, Super Thunder Blade - why the Genesis versions? Port from the better-looking arcade versions.

Sonic The Hedgehog - again? Sonic Mega Collection was released two years ago!

Virtua Fighter 2 - gotta be kidding me... release the Sega Ages port instead.

Phantasy Star series - now here's the most flawed part. It's incomplete, put the first one there too - anything less won't do. And in PS2 and PS3, I sure don't want accuracy: despite the good plots, these games desperately need a massive overhaul! They look crappy, sound horrible, have exceedingly complex labyrinths, characters move and level-up too slowly.

This compilation is overall very weak. It certainly could use games like Beyond Oasis, Alien Soldier, Gunstar Heroes, Pulseman, Dynamite Headdy, Kid Chameleon, Ranger X, Revenge of Shinobi, Mystic Defender, and the Shining Force series.

Re:What about the Revolution?

[Daetrin]

The only people who would buy the Wii specifically for that purpose are those few "hardcore" (wow, overused) retro gamers who won't, for whatever reason, download emulators and ROMs.

And gee, there might be a few of us who look forward to being able to legitemately purchase some of the games that we missed out on back on the first run of the NES and SNES. The fact that they'll be on a real console should make getting together groups of people for multiplayer a lot easier. I've never had much luck convincing other people to play multiplayer games on an emulator. I'm particularly looking forward to MULE which i used to have a lot of fun playing with my friends back in the day.

I never owned a Sega Saturn and never got very many games for the Sega Genesis so i'm especially looking forward for the chance to play those games. And i'm really hoping that they release whichever version of Bomberman it was that let you have more than four players playing at a time. (How many controllers can the Revolution handle? The fact that it can do four wireless controllers _and_ has four ports for GameCube controllers makes me hope that it will be able to handle at least eight at a time, though admitedly i don't have anything to base that on other than wishfull thinking.)