Mega Drive 25 Years Old

Xenji

The Mega Drive was released 25 years ago yesterday, so what are peoples favorite memories, games or funny stories about the console.

I still have mine and it works without a hitch, think the games that kept me entertained the most as a kid were the 3 in 1 games and the likes of Toejam and Earl, Micro Machines and Rock N Roll Racing.

as above!
rock n roll racing is the biz
I remember my cousin got it because his dad couldnt get micro machines as it was sold out.
what a game.The sound track too!
born to be wild and radar love!

Neon_Lights

Superhangon is the GOAT .... no questions asked

Quandary

Golden Axe
Jungle Strike
Eternal Champions
Cool Spot

Serious nostalgia there

Xenji

I remember having to hide the 3 in 1 with Columns on it from my mother, she was addicted to the game, would finder sometimes still playing it in the morning when I woke up for school, she went nearly 48 hours straight on it one weekend.

Oh that Rock N Roll racing soundtrack was awesome, only recently got the game again after the original cartridge got smashed, Streets of Rage was another one with a great soundtrack.

KeRbDoG

Memorable ones for me;

• Toe Jam & Earl - first game I ever played on a MD
• Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf - still yet to sit down and play the follow on games
• Wiz 'n' Liz - fast jumping platformer!
• Zero Tolerance - kinda'3D back when my world was 2D
• Mutant League Hockey - bribe the ref!

An Everdrive cart brings all of those games to life great times

CiDeRmAn

KeRbDoG wrote: »

An Everdrive cart brings all of those games to life great times

Plastic Fan!!!!
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out!

Neon_Lights wrote: »

Superhangon is the GOAT .... no questions asked

Is the what now?
Not sure, best bike game on the MD is Road Rash 2, imho

Quandary wrote: »

Golden Axe
Jungle Strike
Eternal Champions
Cool Spot

Serious nostalgia there

Jungle Strike, Yes, awesome game!

Eternal Champions, Never played it, but wasn't there a superior 32X version?

Cool Spot, Lovely, one of those games that looked and moved like a cartoon, pen and ink animation, rather designed as pixels and sprites from the outset, a different more pleasing path that included Aladdin and Earthworm Jim, whatever about the gameplay and dodgy hitboxes, while in other areas they went down the prerendered route, with Donkey Kong Country, Vectorman and, later, even Mario Kart 64, not as nice at all in my opinion.


Golden Axe, I'm afraid I have to ask you to leave, I hope you enjoyed your brief stay with us here in A&R Towers, please remember us fondly and any of your belongings will be in a skip outside the backdoor, for collection later..... honestly, some people....

Myrddin

I'm half thinking of getting some everdrives next year maybe, though only for fan translations etc. If you can limit yourself to what you use them for they're pretty cool...dumping pages of roms on them though just takes from the enjoyment

penev10

No idea where most of my MD games ended up, had some real classics back in t'day:

Golden Axe
Strider
John Madden's
EA Hockey
Desert Strike (3 good EA games in a row!)
Crackdown
Arcus Odyssey (really surprised there isn't more of fuss made of this game)
ESWAT
Castle of Illusion
Megalomania
Fighting Masters (OK wasn't great but when fighting games were all the rage and there were literally none on consoles prior to SF2)

Starscream25

Streets of rage
Golden axe
Sonic 1 and 2
Desert strike
Thunder force 4
Micro machines
Gun star heroes
Good times indeed

CiDeRmAn

I have no more SoR/Golden Axe rage left, just reread previous posts....

I knew there'd be consequences to closing the Sega forum!

Starscream25

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have no more SoR/Golden Axe rage left, just reread previous posts....

I knew there'd be consequences to closing the Sega forum!

Do you hate them or something? fantastic games

blue note

Ah the mega drive - so many happy memories.

Dungeons and Dragons
Megalomania
Dizzy
Street Fighter
Micromachines
Shinobi
Streets of Rage
Golden Axe
Echo
Sonic
Desert Strike
Alex Kidd
Premier Manager

And all of the rest!

Vision of Disorder

Shining Force is still my favourite game ever.

dorkacle

Sonic (obviously)
Shinobi
Streets of Rage
Golden Axe
Another World

Ahhhh memories!

Also, I remember some Aladin game being pretty cool too!

Retr0gamer

It had the best version of Shaq Fu

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CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It had the best version of Shaq Fu

Which is like saying Belgium had the best version of Typhoid Fever....

ROTFLMFAO

blue note

And Barclay, Shut up and Jam!

Jack burton

So my Mega Drive is older than me and younger than my girlfriend....well now I dont know what to think!

Really does make you think what the games will be like in another 25 years time

SimonLynch

You lot might like this :-)

*snip*

CiDeRmAn

Pity the fool who bought the MD when the pack in was Altered Beast *shudder*

I kinda remember when my uncles got a mega drive.
they had a jap one so it must have been early enough.well a jap sonic anyway.
My uncle would cycle to the video shop and rent a game.play it for 10mins and cycle down and change it for another!
he had altered beast too!

CiDeRmAn

I remember wasting money in the arcade version too, mother of glob!
Sonic was a remarkable game, still is, apart from the fecking underwater Labyrinth Zone.... b@stards!

Xenji

Have the mega drive collection on the PS3, damm 6-8 year old me could kick my ass, games I used to beat easily have became hard like Golden Axe, and do not get me started on the Chemical Plant Zone on Sonic 2.

evolving_doors

Gods... classic bitmap brothers with crunchy techno soundtrack
Mega Bomberman...big hit even when I went to college..
Shinobi's
Mortal combat

Now those were Proper games despite the development of cgi

CiDeRmAn

Bitmaps with Speedball 2 and Chaos Engine, brilliant ports from a fantastic career in Amiga development.

But the Micromachines series was ridiculously good fun, I have most of them in the collection, with the special carts with the extra controller ports, not to mention 2 people to a controller!

But Sensi Soccer and Cannon Fodder were incredible, not to mention the MD version of Syndicate, much better than the Snes edition.

evolving_doors

Ya speedball classic game alright...what was the chaos engine game about again? I think I had that game but can't remember

CiDeRmAn

Armelodie wrote: »

Ya speedball classic game alright...what was the chaos engine game about again? I think I had that game but can't remember

Top down shooter, you picked character classes at the start, very nice indeed.
I have it somewhere for both Amiga and MD

Kazujo

Sonic 2
Streets of Rage 2
Rocket Knight Adventures
Gun Star Heroes
Shinobi 3

Brings back memories going into Xtra Vision of a Friday afternoon on the way home from school and renting a game for the weekend :D

Any body got a mega drive for sale?
not for adverts prices too!

evolving_doors

urbanledge wrote: »

Any body got a mega drive for sale?
not for adverts prices too!

No way dude, those things are only getting rarer...all these new GTA/Battlefield/COD are like generic designer hollywood films.. Retro is the way to go..(does this mean im a goddam hipster now!)

Just watched Chaos Engine on youtube..all coming back to me..stealing my brothers coins in two player mode..

Any other bitmap brothers gomes worthwhile... Gods is the best I reckon

evolving_doors

Armelodie wrote: »

No way dude, those things are only getting rarer...all these new GTA/Battlefield/COD are like generic designer hollywood films.. Retro is the way to go..(does this mean im a goddam hipster now!)

Just watched Chaos Engine on youtube..all coming back to me..stealing my brothers coins in two player mode..

Any other bitmap brothers gomes worthwhile... Gods is the best I reckon

Although in saying that the charity shops are often a good bet

Myrddin

There's nothing rare about a Megadrive, there's tons of them around

Retr0gamer

40 million sold worldwide apparently, probably more than that as well. Megadrives are as common as CoD no scope videos on youtube soundtracked by 'Let the Bodies hit the floor'.

dorkacle

I remember as a kid getting the PSX , my mam tried to give my MD away, I wasn't happy!

Dunno if I had any sense of monetary worth for in the future, I just had so many good times playing and good memories of it (probably would have still played it tbh!) It was in pristine condition too, I've always kept my games and consoles in perfect condition since I was a kid.

She gave it away behind my back anyway, to my little demon of a cousin! "Sure why would ya need it with the new Playstation she said!" :mad:

The little fcker destroyed the thing, broke the joypads (one of which had auto button switches on it lol), he broke the cable at the back (which I think was prone to breaking anyway?) and lost all of the games....

Horrible death for a console that gave me soo much joy!

RIP Megadrive

IM gonna jammafy one for sure

Xenji

Anyone know the cheapest place to get a EverDrive, not sure how the things are go expensive, would be a nice Christmas present to myself.

Shapey Fiend

I was a child of the arcades so it was never in question what console I wanted for Xmas (my C64 had died and been replaced by a 2600, which was kind of **** for the most part). The excitement in 1991 when I got a machine, two joypads, Altered Beast and Golden Axe was overwhelming. Sure they weren't arcade perfect but they might as well have been after the 2600.

Followed that up with Revenge of Shinobi, which I was initially disappointed to see wasn't a port of the arcade game, but quickly learnt to love. I played it for 5 years until I sold my machine to finance a PSOne purchase. The night before I sold it was the first time I finished it properly (not knowing about the hidden POW right before Zeed so I had to try and get through the previous few rooms with all those flying ninjas without getting hit). Now that's replay value.

Think I got Wonderboy III: Monster Lair after Shinobi. People tend to rate the RPGs higher but I had some serious love for forced scrolling platformers. The music was incredible and the hard mode was beautifully rebalanced with different enemies which made it very enjoyable to master. The copy I picked up in Limerick was Japanese and my dad did some primitive console modding with a chisel (scratching the face of my machine in the process) to make it fit.

My folks went up to Dublin and bought me Sonic 2 on release day, completely without my knowledge. Almost as hyped as the day I bought the machine. The graphics were just incredible. Never liked the quasi 3d look the Sonic games took on after that and the levels got too long and meandering. The series peaked there as far as I'm concerned.

The other great thing about the machine was I got to know kids all over town. At the start it was mostly teenagers and I'd be cycling over to their houses and swapping what I had with almost total strangers for games that weren't very good. Who'd play Pat Riley College Basketball or Dark Castle for hours today? Well I played Pat Riley for weeks but Dark Castle was so bad I couldn't stomach it for long. Got loads of other good stuff like E-Swat, Outrun (again Japanese copy, how did these get to the West of Ireland?), Spiderman Vs Kingpin from the early era as well.

By 92 or 93 the video shops were doing rentals and I worked my way through pretty much every other game in the library. In those days you could even finish RPGs (if you were sick from school) in a week so I got a chance to play hundreds of games through. My local indie rental place were incredibly lax about late fees as well so you could keep games a week over and get fined 50p if you were polite and apologised. Nowadays you'd never have a chance to play every type of game because they're so full of bloat you'd never have the time.

beakerjoe

Loving the love for most of these games here.

MKII
MK3
Desert Strike
Jungle Strike
Urban Strike (except the levels where you played as a person)
WWE RAW
WWE Royal Rumble
General Chaos
NBA JAM
FIFA 95
Alien Storm
SOR2/3
Theme Park
Premier Manager 95
Sensible Soccer (spent ages re writing the players real names)
Golden Axe
Micro Machines
Rock n Roll Racing (an unexpected gem)
Road Rash

There was a game that i cant think of, it involved skating and hitching on the back of cars through various cities a bit like road rash.

Myrddin

beakerjoe wrote: »

There was a game that i cant think of, it involved skating and hitching on the back of cars through various cities a bit like road rash.

Skitchin'

CiDeRmAn

More ****ing Goldenaxe.... where's me rifle....

beakerjoe

Myrddin wrote: »

Skitchin'

Thank you

Shapey Fiend

Why the hate? Golden Axe was about beautiful backgrounds, music and atmosphere. The gameplay in most scrolling fighters was always secondary to the spectacle. Plus you had the whole riding dragons which was OMG dual welding or achievement unlocked to a child of the 80s. The very idea of projectiles in scrolling fighters was incredibly addictive. Something the likes of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs would go to build on but I can't think of another scrolling fighter had such dramatic backdrops.. how do you top fighting skeletons on a giant eagle?

CiDeRmAn

Myrddin wrote: »

Skitchin'

More like ****in' tbh, it's terrible

evolving_doors

Xenji wrote: »

Anyone know the cheapest place to get a EverDrive, not sure how the things are go expensive, would be a nice Christmas present to myself.

Whats an everdrive? Are they any good?

penev10

beakerjoe wrote: »

General Chaos

Completely forgot about that one. Great game.

The MD had a disproportionate amount of strategy games now that I think of it.

Hank Scorpio

Armelodie wrote: »

Whats an everdrive? Are they any good?

Flash cart, you can put roms onto it and play the games without ever needing the carts themselves

My best friend had a megadrive during the early 90's. I had a snes so we used to swap consoles sometimes and play them in each others houses. Remember playing streets of rage, sonic, zombies ate my neighbours and some other stuff

the groutch

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Why the hate? Golden Axe was about beautiful backgrounds, music and atmosphere. The gameplay in most scrolling fighters was always secondary to the spectacle. Plus you had the whole riding dragons which was OMG dual welding or achievement unlocked to a child of the 80s. The very idea of projectiles in scrolling fighters was incredibly addictive. Something the likes of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs would go to build on but I can't think of another scrolling fighter had such dramatic backdrops.. how do you top fighting skeletons on a giant eagle?

you obviously never played Golden Axe 3 then

*shudders*

youngblood

up, down, left, right, a+start together

is there anyone who didnt know what that did?

CiDeRmAn

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Why the hate? Golden Axe was about beautiful backgrounds, music and atmosphere. The gameplay in most scrolling fighters was always secondary to the spectacle. Plus you had the whole riding dragons which was OMG dual welding or achievement unlocked to a child of the 80s. The very idea of projectiles in scrolling fighters was incredibly addictive. Something the likes of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs would go to build on but I can't think of another scrolling fighter had such dramatic backdrops.. how do you top fighting skeletons on a giant eagle?

I think you'll find the only hate is that which comes from me.
And Cadillacs and Dinosaurs can go stick it's head in a pig as well!
Fecking side scrolling beat'em ups... (asides from any by Konami... I want your babies Konami!)

eddhorse

youngblood wrote: »

up, down, left, right, a+start together

is there anyone who didnt know what that did?

Good old sonic cheat