Mega Drive

Local Goddess

I stumbled across my Sega Mega Drive the other day and decided to take it down and give it a run. But I cant find any of my games. I was just wondering do any of you know where I can get M.Drive games? I really want to play Golden Axe again, haha!

Creamy Goodness

ebay is your best bet.

jesus_thats_gre

Well I have falled in love Please tell me you like football and drink pints too

ebay is best as said already though...

Bob Lawblaw

SNES all the way!

Although that Sonic fella was fast compared that fat Italian plumber. What was his name? Dave or something?

Kinetic^

Bob Lawblaw wrote:

SNES all the way!

Although that Sonic fella was fast compared that fat Italian plumber. What was his name? Dave or something?

I heard his name was "SNESISSH!T"

I had a megadrive and they rocked, I wanted a SNES though for street fighter and then we got it and I was like FU snes

monkeyfudge

There's a place on Talbot street that still had megadrive games last time I was in there.

Rhyme

monkeyfudge wrote:

There's a place on Talbot street that still had megadrive games last time I was in there.

Too true, although you might have to ask behind the counter or look to the left as you walk in the door beside those oh-so luscious Mega-CD games.

BLITZ_Molloy

Sega do what Nintendon't.

koneko

I'd say Ebay is your best bet, you should be able to pick up a bunch real cheap there. Some might be just the game and manual (no box) though.

As for which one was best, pfff silly fanboys, I had both and I loved them dearly (though we got the megadrive first)
Remember getting a Street Fighter on import (US version), things weren't as neat back then and you had to put a cartridge in the top of the SNES and the game on top of that, like a tower of cartridges. Ah nostalgia.

Holy crap (ebay).

Pugsley

If you want to add to your Mega Drive collection, no collection is complete without Cyborg Justice and Streets of Rage 2, excellent games.

Cake Fiend

I have a big huge bag of MD games, including Flashback, Mega-lo-mania, Landstalker, Virtua Racer...








...and you're not getting any of them!

Muahahaha etc

/me goes off to hug collection of 16-bit games

Retr0gamer

Pffft! Bloody retro n00bs. By far the best MD game is Gunstar Heroes and Rocket Knight Adventures. You must get your hands on those, although gunstar heroes will set you back about 80 stingers it's worth it.

Remember getting a Street Fighter on import (US version), things weren't as neat back then and you had to put a cartridge in the top of the SNES and the game on top of that, like a tower of cartridges. Ah nostalgia.

Remember that as well but my friend used a much neater one were you but the PAL game into the side of the pass through cartridge. MD was great for imports. No region coding so all you had to do was hack away the plastic around the cartridge slot. Later games had protection though

koneko

Retr0gamer wrote:

Remember that as well but my friend used a much neater one were you but the PAL game into the side of the pass through cartridge.

That would have been handy. My adapter yoke broke eventually (overuse, lol). It had to be pushed in in a very particular way but even then it would stop working sometimes. It was a bit wobbly to start with though.

BLITZ_Molloy

Remember my dad pioneering that technique with a pliers and saw. He put a bit ****ing scratch right down the front of it.

I bought Wonderboy 3: Monster Lair (ace game, don't know why it doesn't get more love) in a TV shop in Limerick. Gas, they were selling Japanese imports before there were any adaptors on the market. I wonder where they got them.

jesus_thats_gre

Retr0gamer wrote:

Pffft! Bloody retro n00bs. By far the best MD game is Gunstar Heroes and Rocket Knight Adventures. You must get your hands on those, although gunstar heroes will set you back about 80 stingers it's worth it.

Oh 2 player Gunstar Heroes... ****ing sweet!

Rhyme

Retr0gamer wrote:

Rocket Knight Adventures.

Sparkster?

Awesome game, still as rewarding as most things consoles today has to offer, that and Metal Slug.

Retr0gamer

Rocket Knight Adventures was the first game that starred sparkster. It was amazing. Sparkster, the sequel, on the mega drive was a huge disappointment and was a bit dull. Sparkster on the SNES was excellent but couldn't match RKA.

Probotector/Contra Hard Corps is another MD classic. I prefer it to Contra 3.

Ruu_Old

Ah all my megadrive games are at home and I think I had golden axe as well. Bought a snes from ebay for $50 about a month ago with 3 games, off ya go to ebay

CiDeRmAn

I got my collection from a combination of Ebay and Bookmart and Game exchange on Talbot street, halfway between Gardiner Street and Connolly station.
And as for the best on the system, Thunderforce 3/4, EarthWorm Jim 1/2, Sensible Soccer and Road Rash 1/2/3 float my boat, not to mention Streets of rage 2, if you have the means grab a copy of Virtua Racing, aside from the 32X version its the best one thus far.
Try to get the original MD, not the MD2, the later one looks like crap.
If you can find a MegaCD get that too, Sonic CD and Earthworm Jim CD rock.

Retr0gamer

Add Snatcher, Lunar 1+2, Streets of Rage 3 (extremely rare unfortunately), Phantasy Star 4, Shining Force 1+2, Castlevania, Redzone, Dynamite Headdy, Robo Aleste, Mega Turrican, Ristar, Ranger X and Shining Force CD to that list.

BLITZ_Molloy

Retrogamer hasn't a clue what he's on about. The best games on the Mega Drive are Shaq Fu, Fantasia, Final Blow, Rastan Saga II, Risky Woods, Super Hydlide and finally the three best non-sports games EA ever produced; Budokan, Sword of Sodan and Dark Castle.

Retr0gamer

Sarcasm surpassed my intellect their for a minute. Those games are pure awful. I only realised when I saw Dark Castle there, the worst game ever made . I did like Budokan, when it was on the 286. It's awful now.

Last Battle which is based on Fist of the North Star is another MD game that is particularly awful.

If anyone wants to try and hunt down a little bit of videogame history they should track down Herzog Zwei. It is the first ever RTS game ever made. Dune 2 by C&C developers Westwood is usually mistaken as being the first but westwood even listed it as being a huge influence. It plays and looks very similar to Dune 2. Funnily enough the game was developed by japanese studio Technosoft who's other games are all hardcore shmups such as the Thunderforce series and Hyperduel.

Local Goddess

Ah cheers, just really want to play all those games again. They just dont make them nowadays like they used to!:D I want to play mortal kombat, shinobi(I dont think i spelled that right!), sonic and knuckles,etc. again!

Retr0gamer

You are better off playing Mortal Kombat on mame. The megadrive version of MK1, 2 and 3 are awful.

Rhyme

For the most part any Mortal Kombat games apart from the first on the SNES are just played for the fatalities... MK4 had some spectacular ones.

But Mortal Kombat 1 for the SNES was a little masterpiece.

Retr0gamer

MK2 is a fantastic fighting game. After that they were dumbed down. The SNES MK2 was probably the best version. MK1 on the SNES was arcade perfect except for the removal of the fatalities.

Local Goddess

Yeah its a quality game, I like the backdrops they play against, they're interesting

Retr0gamer

Street fighter 2 was always a far better game. That game hasn't aged one bit. It's still probably the best fighting game ever made.

BLITZ_Molloy

The MK games were alot of fun, and looked very interesting. But much like Killer Instinct it was pretty easy to break the balance. Fun in singleplayer but it was completely unsuitable for tournament play.

corblimey

Local Goddess wrote:

I stumbled across my Sega Mega Drive the other day and decided to take it down and give it a run. But I cant find any of my games. I was just wondering do any of you know where I can get M.Drive games? I really want to play Golden Axe again, haha!

Your timing couldn't be better, there's a new game coming out for the Mega Drive:

http://www.beggarprince.com/

Local Goddess

That looks deadly!Ill have to give it a look see. I love Street Fighter as well, I probably like them both the same. S.F. is a classic, its the ultimate of beat em ups. Do you remember Games Master, that was brilliant!

CiDeRmAn

I was just in the old games room this morning, sadly neglected these days, have a 3 year old to thank there, and I powered up the megadrive/32x and Mega CD, lovely jubbly, had a lash on Virtua Racing, Thunderforce IV and Sonic CD, great stuff, if only my NES was as reliable, just about let me play a spot of Wild Gunman and Kirby this morning, I am not a happy camper, and thats with the main connector inside replaced a couple of months ago, I still get the flashing grey screen of depression, makes me mad I tell you.

Local Goddess

Ah thats a pity, bring it to the place you got it fixed and tell them you want it done again.

Lemming

Must go check what MD/CD/32X games I have still ... shall post later

Only reason I ever wanted a SNES was for Shadowrun, which was sweet.

Off the top of my head I have:

MegaDrive:

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Sonic the hedgehog I, II, 3D
Desert Strike
Jungle Strike
Corporation
Dune 2: Battle for Arrakis
Alien 3
Street Fighter 2: Championship Edition
Speedball 2
Flashback
Micro Machines 2: Turbo Edition
Megalomania
Power Monger
Syndicate
Terminator 2 (arcade game)
Toe Jam & Earl
Cannon Fodder
Eswat

32X:

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Doom
Star Wars
Virtua Fighter
FIFA 9something (can't remember which one - 95 ot 96 maybe?)

Mega-CD:

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Lethal Enforcers (plus the light-gun)

Ruu_Old

CiDeRmAn wrote:

I was just in the old games room this morning, sadly neglected these days, have a 3 year old to thank there, and I powered up the megadrive/32x and Mega CD, lovely jubbly, had a lash on Virtua Racing, Thunderforce IV and Sonic CD, great stuff, if only my NES was as reliable, just about let me play a spot of Wild Gunman and Kirby this morning, I am not a happy camper, and thats with the main connector inside replaced a couple of months ago, I still get the flashing grey screen of depression, makes me mad I tell you.

I loved Thunderforce IV, it took me forever to clear it Lots o' levels and the bg music in it was super.

GrumPy

Lemming wrote:

Only reason I ever wanted a SNES was for Shadowrun, which was sweet.

Thats coming out on pc, and xbox360 later this year afaik? Live anywhere multiformat, the whole shabang Sounds great.

Lemming

Irish GrumPy wrote:

Thats coming out on pc, and xbox360 later this year afaik? Live anywhere multiformat, the whole shabang Sounds great.

I have the game for my SNES emu, so I'm happy. There was a megadrive version as well apparently that never made it out of the US "Genesis" market. I have that as well on emu, but it just doesn't compare with the SNES version sadly.

iregk

Have to say my all time personal favourite game on the MD was Mega-lo-mania. Pure magic so it was. I never throught SF2 was as good on the MD as it was on the SNES particularly when it came to sound.

That said, now this may just be me, but MK didn't have a patch on street fighter. I only ever played it for the fatalities outside of that the game was extremely limited. I finished the whole game after a couple of days of trying. SF2 took me ages it was/is the complete all round skill based fighting game.

Also loved Tekken and Tekken 2 on the DC (or was it the saturn!)...

Dont be at yourself

Tekken and Tekken 2 were PSOne exclusives, no?

Also, SF2 wasn't difficult, and indeed could be finished using only a single move again and again and again. Still better than MK though!

Retr0gamer

MK definitely wasn't a patch on SF2 and the SNES versions were far better than the MD versions of both SF2 and the MK games from 2 onwards.

Tekken was on the Playstation!

CiDeRmAn

Mortal Kombat sucked and has always sucked, never a big fan of SF2 either, in fact the only fighting game I ever enjoyed was Tekken 3, go figure.
As for the Megadrive, and the Snes for that matter, we can only hope that the trend for re-releasing classics either updates or sequels will continue on the GBA and DS, awaiting ChronoTrigger, I have it on the Xbox but its not the same.
As for the repair on the Nes, my brother ordered it and fitted it, and the machine worked a treat initially but was soon back to its flashing days, I may request a pocket fami for fathers day!

jesus_thats_gre

Had a MD and 32X and a load of sweet games but no one has an idea what happened to em

So.. I bought me a mint condition boxed mark 1 megadrive yesterday with boxed versions Sonic 1 and 2, Street of Rage 1, Micro Machines and Gunstar Heroes : ) Gotta get me SOR2 (possibly 3 if I can find a reasonably priced one), SF2, Earthworm Jim, Cool Spot, Desert Strike Series. Also got myself an official 6 button pad too Am delighted.


Will go nicely with me Snes, N64 and Saturn.. All that is left now is a Dreamcast, 32X, MegaCD, Master System and NES

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Mortal Kombat sucked and has always sucked, never a big fan of SF2 either, in fact the only fighting game I ever enjoyed was Tekken 3, go figure.

For god sake! SF2 is a martial art compared to the slow dullness of Tekken.

So.. I bought me a mint condition boxed mark 1 megadrive yesterday with boxed versions Sonic 1 and 2, Street of Rage 1, Micro Machines and Gunstar Heroes : )

Jammy bastard! Someone robbed my copy and can't afford to replace it. Gunstar Heroes alone is probably worth what you paid for the full package.

jesus_thats_gre

Bought the Megadrive on one auction for 25 euro and had 6 unboxed games bundled with it..

Bought the rest of the games seperately with Gunstart Heroes in particular costing me 21 euro.. The other games were bought in seperate auctions and came to about 4 euro each. Everything has got to be boxed!!

All in all, I have bought the following in the past 2 weeks:

Boxed Snes Console and Starfox bundle
Boxed Super Mario Kart
Boxed Street Fighter 2 Turbo

Boxed N64 Console
Boxed Mario 64
Boxed Goldeneye
Boxed Bamjo Kazooie

Boxed Megadrive Console with a bundle of 6 poxy game
Boxed Sonic 1
Boxed Sonic 2
Boxed Gunstar Heroes
Boxed Streets of Rage
Boxed Micro Machines
Official 6 button controller

Boxed Fighters Megamix
Boxed Fighting Vipers


Still loads more games to buy along with 2 or 3 consoles

The most annoying thing about ebay is the auctions that you miss by accident. Missed a handful of guality games because i forgot. By the time I remember its always too late.

Retr0gamer

Somebodies got themselves a job for the summer

jesus_thats_gre

Retr0gamer wrote:

Somebodies got themselves a job for the summer

Haha am 26 mate and out of college 3 years The timing is just coincidence..

BLITZ_Molloy

There was a Tekken Vs Virtua Fighter on the Mega Drive. And Virtua Fighter was on the Master System. They were both absolute ****e but they were on there nevertheless!

Anybody who's a Street Fighter fan will find this video a must watch. I was crying laughing at it.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3599345813932688090&q=street+fighter&pl=true