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Contributing to its success were its library of arcade game ports, the popularity of Sega's Sonic the Hedgehog series, several popular sports franchises, and aggressive youth marketing that positioned the system as the cool console for adolescents. In Japan, the Mega Drive fared poorly against its two main competitors, Nintendo's Super Famicom and NEC's PC Engine (aka TurboGrafx-⁠16), but it achieved considerable success in North America, Brazil, and Europe. Sega created two network services to support the Genesis: Sega Meganet and Sega Channel. It was released in several different versions, some created by third parties.

Several add-ons were released, including a Power Base Converter to play Master System games. It plays a library of more than 900 games created by Sega and a wide array of third-party publishers delivered on ROM-based cartridges. $70 seems a bit steep for some of the most re-packaged games out there.The Sega Genesis, known as the Mega Driveĭesigned by an R&D team supervised by Hideki Sato and Masami Ishikawa, the Genesis was adapted from Sega's System 16 arcade board, centered on a Motorola 68000 processor as the CPU, a Zilog Z80 as a sound controller, and a video system supporting hardware sprites, tiles, and scrolling. If you just want to get a large collection of genesis games at least wait till you find it on sale. So if you see only a few games you want there, go with the individual collections. Also they've released a new collection (volume 5) which isn't in the gold collection (according to their site). So yeah $70 is a bit much for such a bundle considering they've been pushing out bundles with the same content for over 10 years now. No clue how SC-Wholesale is, but that's a 3rd party seller on amazon uk selling the gold collection for £4 ( around $7). When I got around to getting an XBox for large screen gaming, it wasn't really available anywhere around and considering I'd already got the mega drive collection 1-4 on Steam (which seems to be the exact content of the gold collection) I didn't really bother with tracking it down. Also I'm rather certain it's just a collection of the Sega Classic collections 1-5 with maybe a few extras? And the content of that has been released so often it's likely not that big a deal to get unless you haven't got any of them.īack before I got an Xbox 360 this was released qid=1359798116&sr=8-1