''Sega Genesis Collection '' (''Sega Mega Drive Collection'' in
PAL region
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s) is a
compilation
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of video games developed by
Digital Eclipse
Digital Eclipse is an American video game developer based in Emeryville, California. Founded by Andrew Ayre in 1992, the company found success developing commercial emulations of arcade games for Game Boy Color. In 2003, the company merged ...
and published by
Sega
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for
PlayStation 2
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and
PlayStation Portable
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. The collection includes twenty-eight
Sega Genesis
The Sega Genesis, known as the outside North America, is a 16-bit Fourth generation of video game consoles, fourth generation home video game console developed and sold by Sega. It was Sega's third console and the successor to the Master Syst ...
games from a variety of genres, as well as unlockable classic Sega
arcade game
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s, with different sets of arcade games for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable versions. A sequel was released in 2009 called ''
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection
''Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection'' (''Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection'' in PAL regions) is a compilation of video games developed by Backbone Entertainment and published by Sega for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The compilation features 48 ...
'' for
PlayStation 3
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and
Xbox 360
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.
List of games
Sega Genesis
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Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
is a Side-scrolling video game, side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis, Genesis. The game was released in Japan on February 10, 1989, in the U.S. on August 14, 1989, in Europe on November 30, 1990, in So ...
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Altered Beast
''Altered Beast'' is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade video game developed and manufactured by Sega. The game is set in Ancient Greece and follows a player character chosen by Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena from the demonic ruler of the underworld ...
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Bonanza Bros.''
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Columns
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Comix Zone
''Comix Zone'' is a 1995 beat 'em up video game developed and published by Sega for the Genesis. It is set within the panels of a comic book with dialogue rendered within talk bubbles and sprites, and backgrounds possessing the bright colors an ...
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Decap Attack
''Decap Attack'' is a 1991 platform game developed by Vic Tokai and published by Sega for the Genesis. The game is a westernized version of the 1990 Japanese Mega Drive game '' Magical Hat no Buttobi Tābo! Daibōken'', with the art, plot, music, ...
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Ecco the Dolphin
''Ecco the Dolphin'' is a series of action-adventure video games developed by Appaloosa Interactive (previously known as Novotrade International) and published by Sega. They were originally developed for the Mega Drive/Genesis and Dreamcast video ...
''
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Ecco: The Tides of Time''
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Ecco Jr.''
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Flicky
is a platform game developed by Sega and released in arcades in May 1984. It was licensed to Bally Midway for distribution in the United States. In ''Flicky'', the player controls the eponymous blue bird and must gather all the small birds ca ...
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Gain Ground
is a 1988 action- strategy arcade game later ported to home systems.
Gameplay
In ''Gain Ground'', players control one of a set of characters at a time, each with different weapons. To beat a level, players must reach the exit point with at le ...
''
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Golden Axe
is a series of side-scrolling beat 'em up arcade video games developed by Sega. The series takes place in a medieval fantasy world where several heroes have the task of recovering the legendary Golden Axe, the mainstay element of the series.
...
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Golden Axe II''
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Golden Axe III
is a side-scrolling beat 'em up video game developed and published by Sega, released for the Sega Mega Drive in Japan on June 25, 1993. A North American version was released only for the Sega Channel. The game was later re-released a number of t ...
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Kid Chameleon
''Kid Chameleon'' is a 1992 platform game developed and published by Sega released for the Sega Genesis. In the game, a Boss (video games), boss character with artificial intelligence in a Virtual reality, virtual reality video game begins abduct ...
''
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Phantasy Star II
''Phantasy Star II'' (Japanese: ファンタシースターII 還らざる時の終わりに, "Phantasy Star II: At the End of the Restoration") is a science fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It ...
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Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom''
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Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium''
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Ristar
''Ristar'' is a 1995 platform game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. The game stars an anthropomorphic cartoon star who uses his hands and long, stretchable arms to both move and fight enemies. Reception for the game was gen ...
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Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi''
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Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master''
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Sonic the Hedgehog
is a Japanese video game series and media franchise created by Sega. The franchise follows Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battles the evil Doctor Eggman, a mad scientist. The main ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' games are platformers mo ...
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Sonic the Hedgehog 2
is a 1992 platform game developed by Sega Technical Institute (STI) for the Sega Genesis. It follows Sonic as he attempts to stop Doctor Eggman from stealing the Chaos Emeralds to power his space stationnamed The Death Egg. Like the first ''S ...
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Super Thunder Blade
is a combat flight simulation shooter game developed and published by Sega for the Mega Drive/Genesis console. It was one of the two launch titles for the console in Japan (the other one being '' Space Harrier II''), as well as being one of the ...
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Sword of Vermilion
''Sword of Vermilion'' is an action role-playing game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis, Mega Drive console in 1989.[Vectorman
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Vectorman 2
''Vectorman 2'' is a 2D action platformer developed by BlueSky Software and published by Sega. Released just a year after the original ''Vectorman'', the game retains the game's core gameplay while expanding its mechanics. While multiple sequels ...
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Virtua Fighter 2
is a 1994 fighting game, fighting video game developed by Sega. It is the sequel to 1993's ''Virtua Fighter (video game), Virtua Fighter'' and the second game in the ''Virtua Fighter'' series. It was created by Sega's Yu Suzuki-headed Sega AM2, ...
''
†
† Not available in ''Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection
''Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection'' (''Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection'' in PAL regions) is a compilation of video games developed by Backbone Entertainment and published by Sega for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The compilation features 48 ...
''.
†† Not available in the PAL release.
Unlockable extra games
This collection also features more than thirty-five minutes of unlockable interviews from Sega of Japan, a "museum" with facts about the games, strategy tips and box art for each game, as well as a "Sega Cheat Sheet" that consists of cheat codes for most games, and a set of unlockable
arcade games
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, (some of which are from the early Sega/
Gremlin
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era). The collection also contains unlockable trailers for ''
Phantasy Star Universe
(''PSU'') is an action role-playing video game developed by Sega's Sonic Team for the Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 platforms. It was released in Japan for the PC and PlayStation 2 on August 31, 2006; the Xbox 360 version was re ...
'' and ''
Virtua Fighter 5
is the fifth installment in Sega's ''Virtua Fighter'' series of arcade fighting games. The original version was released on the Sega Lindbergh arcade system board. The first location tests took place on November 26, 2005 leading to the official ...
''.
PlayStation 2
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Altered Beast
''Altered Beast'' is a 1988 beat 'em up arcade video game developed and manufactured by Sega. The game is set in Ancient Greece and follows a player character chosen by Zeus to rescue his daughter Athena from the demonic ruler of the underworld ...
'' (arcade)
*''Future Spy'' (arcade)
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Tac/Scan'' (arcade)
†
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Zaxxon
is an isometric shooter arcade game, developed and released by Sega in 1982, in which the player pilots a ship through heavily defended space fortresses. Japanese electronics company Ikegami Tsushinki is also credited for having worked on the d ...
'' (arcade)
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Zektor
''Zektor'' is a multidirectional shooter
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) are a sub-genre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up; some restrict the definition to games feat ...
'' (arcade)
†
PlayStation Portable
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Astro Blaster
''Astro Blaster'' is a space-themed fixed shooter released in arcades by Sega in 1981. It was designed and programmed by Gary Shannon and Barbara Michalec. The game uses speech synthesis and during attract mode a voice says "Fighter pilots n ...
'' (arcade)
†
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Congo Bongo
, also known as , is an isometric platform game released by Sega for arcade video game, arcades in 1983. The game includes a Read-only memory, ROM that contains a message indicating it was likely coded at least in part by the company Ikegami Tsus ...
'' (arcade) ''(under original title "Tip Top" in some regions)''
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Eliminator'' (arcade)
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Space Fury
''Space Fury'' is a 1981 in video games, 1981 multidirectional shooter arcade game developed by Gremlin Industries, Gremlin. Gremlin Industries, Sega/Gremlin released the game in North America in June 1981, and then Sega released it in Japan in Ju ...
'' (arcade)
†
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Super Zaxxon
is an isometric shooter arcade game, developed and released by Sega in 1982, in which the player pilots a ship through heavily defended space fortresses. Japanese electronics company Ikegami Tsushinki is also credited for having worked on th ...
'' (arcade)
†
† Not available in ''Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection
''Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection'' (''Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection'' in PAL regions) is a compilation of video games developed by Backbone Entertainment and published by Sega for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The compilation features 48 ...
''.
Reception
''Sega Genesis Collection'' received "generally favorable" reviews, according to
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.
References
{{Sega Retro Compilations
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Digital Eclipse games