“It can play old cartridges, and it has the following games built-in…
Alien Storm
Altered Beast
Gain Ground
Alex Kidd
Arrow Flash
Columns Crack Down
Sonic & Knuckles
Bonanza Bros
Eswat – City Under Siege
Golden Axe
Fatal Labyrinth
Flicky
Decap Attack
Shadow Dancer”
I spotted the new megadrive on play-asia ages ago, looks like it finally got a local release. I never bothered with it before because I didn’t want to mess around with getting a local power adaptor/converter for it.
I’ve checked some online reviews for this. It runs the built in games well. Carts is hit and miss. Some people are claiming basically no carts work, others that all carts work, with minor sound or graphic issues on a few games. Would be interesting to get, but I’m not sure if I could justify $49 for it. A genuine NES on the other hand. :)
You are not honestly comparing the Sega Mega Drive, one of the greatest gaming systems of all time with some of the best games of all time to the Virtual Boy are you? Because if you are your
nuts.
Uhh… SEGA megadrive collection or sonic’s ultimate genesis collection for PS3 and xbox 360 for 10 – 23$. Included 42 games trophy/achievement support and Upscaling. DERP
Saw this days ago and was kind of surprised.
I already have a Mega Drive 2/Mega CD/32x though. Also, I’ve heard these things have problems reading some (or the majority) of game carts. Most of the Play Asia reviewers of it were not happy.
Sega Mega Drive Collection is $15 less than this for up to 40 games, including most of these.
Havta use you own existing X360/Ps3 controllers tho, sorry…
If you are suggesting that this is shopped… its NOT. I got the catalogue in the mail last night… I actually think this is a erally good idea.
Thank about it and think about the starcraft hype.
Most of us remember gaming fondly and many would like to revisit the simplicity of these old games (we now have less fingers than buttons on our cmtrollers).
Cost of the rights to manufacture and distribute this (next to nothing as it is 20 years old)
cost of hardware (by comparison to todays tech, these machines could prob be made for a buck or so
Cost of games – zero (licensing aside.) no development teams, release cycles, online support etc, fixed costs only adn all of the work is done.
You farm this off to a chineese/taiwaneese factory, pump out the product and then sell at a crazy low price point. older retro gamers pick it up cause it is half the cost of one game.
Parents with young kids (emphasise young) pick it up cause it is crazy cheap and almost disposable at that price before getting a 400 buck wii.
I think if tis works, there is no reason why the would not encourage nintendo to do the same…. I will be watching this closely.
It will not change the gaming industry or anything, but it is an interesting experiment
Page from the latest Kmart catalogue, as seen on Ecogamer.
Ross Moir
July 27, 2010 at 4:03 PM
I’m not sure whether i should be more surprised by the mega drive or StarCraft 2 being only 25 bucks more expensive…
Report PermalinkShane
July 27, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Wow, did anyone know this was coming?
Report PermalinkJimu_Hsien
July 28, 2010 at 10:37 AM
Saw it last year in Taiwan, didnt think we’d get it!
Report PermalinkStevorooni
July 27, 2010 at 4:09 PM
Holy crap that’s a great way to replace my broken megadrive controllers (and have a megadrive that can run on AV cables)
Report PermalinkChuloopa
July 27, 2010 at 4:16 PM
also like to add:
“It can play old cartridges, and it has the following games built-in…
Alien Storm
Report PermalinkAltered Beast
Gain Ground
Alex Kidd
Arrow Flash
Columns Crack Down
Sonic & Knuckles
Bonanza Bros
Eswat – City Under Siege
Golden Axe
Fatal Labyrinth
Flicky
Decap Attack
Shadow Dancer”
thistler
July 27, 2010 at 4:20 PM
Nice! I can finally replace my megadrive that my brother sold for weed (or sex)! Looks like it can play cartridges as well as having built in games.
Report PermalinkBrett C
July 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM
Yeah but what are the 15 games?!
Report PermalinkMichael
July 27, 2010 at 4:24 PM
Sweet! 29 bucks each for the Singstar games! Woohoo!
Report PermalinkMichael
July 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM
26 bucks even…
Damn that kinda ruined that joke, didn’t it?
Report PermalinkDavid Ferris
July 27, 2010 at 4:37 PM
yeah starcraft totally runs on the mega drive guys
Report PermalinkGuest
July 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM
The Wiggles game? :/
Report Permalink706-2
July 27, 2010 at 4:44 PM
Are they seriously re-releasing this, or is it just a mistake? Cause I’d get one just cause I never had one as a kid.
Report Permalinkoggob
July 27, 2010 at 4:48 PM
Is that real? and does it take carts?
Report PermalinkChuloopa
July 27, 2010 at 4:53 PM
yes and yes – or so i’m told
Report PermalinkStevorooni
July 27, 2010 at 4:53 PM
I spotted the new megadrive on play-asia ages ago, looks like it finally got a local release. I never bothered with it before because I didn’t want to mess around with getting a local power adaptor/converter for it.
Report PermalinkMrBS
July 27, 2010 at 4:55 PM
Looks like the unit Blaze released in the UK last year. I wonder if it can run games at full speed 60hz….
Report PermalinkLuke Marshall
July 27, 2010 at 4:55 PM
I’ve checked some online reviews for this. It runs the built in games well. Carts is hit and miss. Some people are claiming basically no carts work, others that all carts work, with minor sound or graphic issues on a few games. Would be interesting to get, but I’m not sure if I could justify $49 for it. A genuine NES on the other hand. :)
Report PermalinkJustin Robson
July 27, 2010 at 4:56 PM
That is really, really cool. I wonder how it’d look on a HDTV?
I hope Nintendo do something like this…
Report PermalinkCav
July 27, 2010 at 7:58 PM
With the Virtual Console already in place? Not likely
Report PermalinkCpt. Pajama Shark
July 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM
???
Why can you even buy this?
What’s next.. Virtual Boy?
For shame…
Report PermalinkBlackwater
July 27, 2010 at 7:35 PM
12 year old spotted.
Report PermalinkFlash
July 27, 2010 at 8:26 PM
You are not honestly comparing the Sega Mega Drive, one of the greatest gaming systems of all time with some of the best games of all time to the Virtual Boy are you? Because if you are your
Report Permalinknuts.
Kye
July 27, 2010 at 9:33 PM
U mad?
Whats so bad about doing this exactly? Just because its old doesn’t mean they shouldn’t do this.
Go back to your Modern warfare 2.
Report PermalinkBrendan Ingle
July 27, 2010 at 6:44 PM
Hopefully they will release heaps of cartridges, I am positively salivating thinking of all the old games I used to play.
Report PermalinkZachary Clarke
July 27, 2010 at 7:04 PM
Wish Nintnedo would do this with the SNES or NES
Report PermalinkJeff Shaw
July 27, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Uhh… SEGA megadrive collection or sonic’s ultimate genesis collection for PS3 and xbox 360 for 10 – 23$. Included 42 games trophy/achievement support and Upscaling. DERP
Report PermalinkJayson Solis
July 27, 2010 at 7:35 PM
does it come with a HDMI cable?!
Report PermalinkMichael Barnes
July 27, 2010 at 8:12 PM
Saw this days ago and was kind of surprised.
Report PermalinkI already have a Mega Drive 2/Mega CD/32x though. Also, I’ve heard these things have problems reading some (or the majority) of game carts. Most of the Play Asia reviewers of it were not happy.
hristinho18
July 27, 2010 at 8:37 PM
Sega Mega Drive Collection is $15 less than this for up to 40 games, including most of these.
Report PermalinkHavta use you own existing X360/Ps3 controllers tho, sorry…
LoopyLuke
July 27, 2010 at 10:55 PM
suspecting a shoop.
Report PermalinkFatShady
July 28, 2010 at 10:20 AM
If you are suggesting that this is shopped… its NOT. I got the catalogue in the mail last night… I actually think this is a erally good idea.
Thank about it and think about the starcraft hype.
Most of us remember gaming fondly and many would like to revisit the simplicity of these old games (we now have less fingers than buttons on our cmtrollers).
Cost of the rights to manufacture and distribute this (next to nothing as it is 20 years old)
cost of hardware (by comparison to todays tech, these machines could prob be made for a buck or so
Cost of games – zero (licensing aside.) no development teams, release cycles, online support etc, fixed costs only adn all of the work is done.
You farm this off to a chineese/taiwaneese factory, pump out the product and then sell at a crazy low price point. older retro gamers pick it up cause it is half the cost of one game.
Parents with young kids (emphasise young) pick it up cause it is crazy cheap and almost disposable at that price before getting a 400 buck wii.
I think if tis works, there is no reason why the would not encourage nintendo to do the same…. I will be watching this closely.
It will not change the gaming industry or anything, but it is an interesting experiment
Report PermalinkDKnight1000
July 28, 2010 at 12:04 AM
I’ve heard the sound chip has errors with things out of pitch, I’d like to see it for myself.
Report PermalinkMalorion
July 28, 2010 at 9:09 AM
But can it run Crysi… oh wait.
Report Permalink