Ultimate Sega Genesis Collection coming to 360/PS3 for $30 -has Shining & St of Rage

RainbowDespair

Remember that Sega Genesis Collection game for the PS2 & PSP that was dirt cheap? I just found out that Sega is releasing a new collection, but this time it's for the 360/PS3. More games, $30 price tag, 720p visuals, achievements/trophies (oh yes!), Spring of 2009 release, unlockable interviews, bonus 8-bit/arcade games, BRING IT! Oh and it'll be released in Europe as well (where they'll call it the Ultimate Mega Drive Collection).

Games from the Sega Genesis Collection game that will be included in the Ultimate Genesis Collection:

Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Altered Beast
Bonanza Bros.
Columns
Comix Zone
Decap Attack
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco: The Tides of Time
Flicky
Gain Ground
Golden Axe
Golden Axe 2
Golden Axe 3
Kid Chameleon
Phantasy Star 2
Phantasy Star 3: Generations of Doom
Phantasy Star 4: The End of the Millenium
Ristar
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Super Thunder Blade
Vectorman
Vectorman 2

These 3 games were in the PS2/PSP collection and appear to be missing from the 360/PS3 version:

Sword of Vermilion
Ecco Jr.
Virtua Fighter 2 (Genesis vers)

Now for the new Genesis games included in this new version:

Alien Storm
Beyond Oasis
Dr. Robotnik's MBM
Dynamite Headdy
E-SWAT
Fatal Labyrinth
Phantasy Star 1
Shining in the Darkness
Shining Force
Shining Force 2
Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic Spinball
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic & Knuckles
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 3
Super Thunder Blade

Yes, the 3 Genesis Shining games, Streets of Rage series, and rest of the Sonic games are all here. Uh-booyah!

Here are the unlockable games:

Golden Axe Warrior (SEGA Master System)
Phantasy Star (SEGA Master System)
Alien Syndrome (Arcade)
Altered Beast (Arcade)
Congo Bongo (Arcade)
Fantasy Zone (Arcade)
Shinobi (Arcade)
Space Harrier (Arcade)
Zaxxon (Arcade)

And the achievement/trophy list:

Sonic's Ultimate Game Collection - Achievement List
There are 34 achievements with a total of 1000 points.

Get Rich (25 points)
Alex Kidd: Collect 1,000 in currency

Don't Die (25 points)
Alien Storm: Reach Mission 3 without losing a life

Enter the Beast (10 points)
Altered Beast: Collect 100,000 pts or higher by the end of the first level

Holy Water (20 points)
Beyond Oasis: Unlock the Water Spirit

Stealing Points (20 points)
Bonanza Brothers: Reach 40,000 points on the first level

Easy as Pie (15 points)
Columns: Get 20,000 points only on Easy Mode

Hardly a Hero (20 points)
Comix Zone: Complete first episode

Get Ahead (30 points)
Decap Attack: Collect 5 Bonus Coins

Communication is Key (10 points)
Ecco: Talk to another dolphin

Taste Like Tuna (20 points)
Ecco: The Tides of Time: Eat 200 fish

Suit up (30 points)
E-SWAT: Obtain the Combat Suit (Complete Mission 2)

Don't Get Lost (30 points)
Fatal Labyrinth: Progress to the fifth level of the labyrinth

Getting Chicks (25 points)
Flicky: Collect 80,000 points

Garden Gnomes (20 points)
Golden Axe: Collect 20 magic power-ups

Tower Up (35 points)
Golden Axe II: Complete Tower Level

Saved by Magic (20 points)
Golden Axe III: Use magic 10 times

TGIF (35 points)
Kid Chameleon: Collect Maniaxe

Twinkle Twinkle (30 points)
Ristar: Collect 5 Yellow Stars

Yatta! (50 points)
Dr. Robotnik's M.B.M.: Complete the game

True Ninja Skills (30 points)
Shinobi III: Complete first level without using continues

Complete Chaos (30 points)
Sonic The Hedgehog: Obtain a Chaos Emerald

A Different Tail (35 points)
Sonic 3: Collect 100 rings with Tails anywhere on Angel Island Zone

Flicky to the Rescue (15 points)
Sonic 3D Blast: Rescue 20 Flickies.

Lots of Zeros (30 points)
Sonic Spinball: Get 10,000,000 points in the first level

Get to the Chopper (15 points)
Super Thunder Blade: Score over 1,500,000 points in the first level

Three Times a Charm (20 points)
Streets of Rage: Complete 1st Level using all 3 characters

Good Day Mate (15 points)
Streets of Rage 3: Unlock Roo the Kangaroo as a playable character

Super Charged (45 points)
VectorMan: Collect 500 photons

Can You Dig It? (45 points)
VectorMan 2: Reach Scene 11

Blast Processing (50 points)
Play all Genesis™ Titles

Master the System (50 points)
Unlock Everything

No Life (50 points)
Watch Every Video

Critique (50 points)
View all Artwork

Only in the '80s (50 points)
Play all Arcade Titles

And a couple bullet points from the website:

"ALL TITLES UPGRADED TO HI-DEF. The classic 2D style never looked so good! Each of the titles has been converted to hi-def (720p) and will be a blast to play using the intuitive controls of the Xbox 360® and PLAYSTATION®3 systems."

"• UNLOCKABLE CONTENT. Unlock arcade games and interviews with the original game developers as you earn Achievements on the Xbox 360® and Trophies on the PLAYSTATION®3."

Sadly, it looks like there's no online multiplayer. Oh well, you can't get everything.

Anyway, I'm really psyched. Now time to see if I can unload my PS2 Genesis Collection before its value drops to nil.

EDIT: Here's the announcement: http://www.sega.com/news/?n=2507

Waka Laka

This is great. The only thing that could have made it more perfect is Sonic CD.

donhonk

i has erection

guar

Sonic Spinball? I hated that game, and still do.

Wembley

The collection is magnificent, but the lack of online multiplayer combined with the knowledge that my childhood streets of rage buddies living in another state make me sad.

RainbowDespair

guar wrote: »

Sonic Spinball? I hated that game, and still do.

Further news from Sega has revealed that all of the Sega Genesis Collection's possible achievements are obtained by playing Sonic Spinball.

Don't kill me.

darren66

The Wii would like to talk to Sega....

Waka Laka

Ah yeah, Wii owners are getting charged through the teeth for most of these games individually on VC, maybe double or triple the price of the compliation altogether.

cj iwakura

They get Streets when PS2's version didn't? Blasphemy.


AND Shining games?!


You lucky, lucky next-geners.


The more I realize what's in this version, the worse it gets.

darren66

Waka Laka wrote: »

Ah yeah, Wii owners are getting charged through the teeth for most of these games individually on VC, maybe double or triple the price of the compliation altogether.

Double or triple? I'm afraid to do the math, but it's waaay higher than that.

DualEdge

I told myself I wasn't going to buy 360 games new, but now I have to go against that and buy this. D:

I hope Quartet is unlockable.

Shadowfire

Guess I'm the only one saddened by the loss of Sword of Vermilion.

FyreWulff

so glad i decided not to buy Sonic 1 or 2 on XBLA now

Sliver

Would it have killed them to put shadowrun on the list?

cj iwakura

Sliver wrote: »

Would it have killed them to put shadowrun on the list?

I imagine there's copyright conflicts with that one.

APZonerunner

Unfortunately, they've applied a shitty filter.



Also these'll lack the online co-op, vs or leaderboards and whatnot of the XBLA re-releases, as the press release indicates it's straight smoothed-sprite emulation. So all in all not as good as the XBLA rereleases they started doing, even if the cost works out better.

FyreWulff

it's a cheap easy way to say it's 720p

they should just let you stretch the damn picture though as-is

agoaj

Why is this HD exclusive?
What does "converted for 720p" mean, because it certainly doesn't mean this:

maximumzero

I wish Sega would make a portable version of this PSP or DS, pick one. These games would be so nice in portable form. I already have Genesis collection for my PSP, but Streets and the rest of the Sonic games is nice to have.

Rex Dart

I own Sonic 2 for

-the Genesis
-the PC (Sega Smash Pack)
-the Gamecube (Sonic Mega Collection)
-the Xbox (Sonic Mega Collection+)
-the PS2 (Genesis Collection)
-the 360 (XBLA release)

And I'm eventually going to own it for the 360 proper.

If there was ever a competition for consumer whore of the century, I don't think anyone would be able to compete with me.

Chance

Thirty bucks!?

That is so fucking sexy I think I'm gonna' cry.

DualEdge

You're missing Sonic Jam

maximumzero

Rex Dart wrote: »

I own Sonic 2 for

-the Genesis
-the PC (Sega Smash Pack)
-the Gamecube (Sonic Mega Collection)
-the Xbox (Sonic Mega Collection+)
-the PS2 (Genesis Collection)
-the 360 (XBLA release)

And I'm eventually going to own it for the 360 proper.

If there was ever a competition for consumer whore of the century, I don't think anyone would be able to compete with me.

I dunno man, I own Rayman 2 for

-PC
-N64
-Dreamcast
-DS
-PSX
-PS2

And I don't even OWN a fucking PS2.

Ragnar Dragonfyre

All those games, on one disc? I'll agree with a previous poster; this feels like a trick.

So bought. (I wish Landstalker was on there though )

The Dude With Herpes

This is glorious.

It will be mine.

EDIT: Holy shit, my little gamer sig just told me I was offline for 14691 days.

Uh...lolwut?

Handkor

It's funny, all the games I want to play I own in cartridge format but I still want to buy this collection. I'm glad this is happening though, same with VC. All the games I have loved are transcending the original format and they are being carried through time. I had always feared that some games would just disappear and that our old collections would become precious like old vinyls (play them and risk damaging the physical medium or just hold on to them).

APZonerunner

Hotlinking failure. Downloading screens from Sega's FTP, give me a sec.

The Dude With Herpes

hotlinking fail!

Waka Laka

Saturn and Dreamcast compilation next plz k thanks SEGA.

APZonerunner

Okay, here we go. This image is fucking ridiculously huge, but this is at the resolution this collection runs at, and this is the size Sega provides files in on their FTP and I can't be bothered to resize it. I want to drive home how stunningly ugly it is. I hope they let us turn this filter off

Spoiler:

AJR

I already have the Genesis collection for my PSP, but I'm so going to buy this.

LewieP

Rex Dart wrote: »

If there was ever a competition for consumer whore of the century, I don't think anyone would be able to compete with me.

Pretty sure TSR has Sonic 1 on like 20 formats.

Norfair

I already have the Sega Genesis Collection (albeit for the PSP... hi5 AJR!). So is it bad that I'm sorely tempted to get this just for the Streets of Rage and Shining Force games?

AJR

I’m justifying my purchase with two things:

1. I’ll now be playing them on a nice big T.V, rather than a handheld.
2. There’s more games on it that I want.

Really, I don’t think anything else needs to be said.

donhonk

maximumzero wrote: »

Rex Dart wrote: »

I own Sonic 2 for

-the Genesis
-the PC (Sega Smash Pack)
-the Gamecube (Sonic Mega Collection)
-the Xbox (Sonic Mega Collection+)
-the PS2 (Genesis Collection)
-the 360 (XBLA release)

And I'm eventually going to own it for the 360 proper.

If there was ever a competition for consumer whore of the century, I don't think anyone would be able to compete with me.

I dunno man, I own Rayman 2 for

-PC
-N64
-Dreamcast
-DS
-PSX
-PS2

And I don't even OWN a fucking PS2.

That reminds me of my Half Life collection.

Original HL
HL Game of the Year Edition
HL Platinum Collection
HL Dreamcast (Leaked ftw! It supports the keyboard and mouse, awesome.)
HL Steam
HL Source
HL PS2

Also, Rayman 2 is a beautiful game, I almost always play it before I go to bed, then I have sweet sweet dreams.

LoveIsUnity

I have the PS2 Sega Genesis Collection, most of these games on the Genesis, and I'm still going to grab this day one.

What the hell is wrong with all of us?

DualEdge

We want the convince of having all of our cartridge collections without having to fiddle around with RF connectors?

Spoiler:

Or we're all pathetic consumer whores.

gtrmp

The inclusion of Sonic 3, Sonic & Knuckles, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Sonic 3D Blast and Sonic Spinball means that this isn't just a rerelease of the Sega Genesis Collection, it's a compilation of the Sega Genesis Collection with the Sonic Mega Collection. The only games from the Sonic Mega Collection that aren't already listed are The Ooze and the multi-cart Sonic games (Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Knuckles in Sonic 2, and Blue Sphere), all of which were unlockables in the Sonic Mega Collection and which will almost certainly be unlockable in this as well. I doubt that they'll bother to include the Game Gear games that were included in the Sonic Mega Collection Plus or the Sonic Gems Collection, especially since they cut three games from the original Genesis Collection (unless those games are unlockables now). Hopefully the unlockables will include the arcade games from both the PS2 and PSP versions of the Genesis Collection - not that anyone really cares about those.

elkatas

APZonerunner wrote: »

Okay, here we go. This image is fucking ridiculously huge, but this is at the resolution this collection runs at, and this is the size Sega provides files in on their FTP and I can't be bothered to resize it. I want to drive home how stunningly ugly it is. I hope they let us turn this filter off

Considering that Backbone's all earlier Genesis emulation efforts allowed turning filter off, I guess it is safe bet for this too.

The Dude With Herpes

Personally I don't find it that ugly, I actually kind of like it; but I suppose it would just depend on the game.

But either way, I hope there's the option to turn it off.

UnbreakableVow

I'll never get why people bitch about that filter. It looks better. Oh no, your game doesn't look old-school jaggies-filled! Give me a break.

Anyways, I never had a Genesis, so this is a total mixed bag for me, but at $30 it's a no-brainer.

Ones I love:
Comix Zone
Dr. Robotnik's MBM

Ones I hate:
Altered Beast
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic Spinball
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
Sonic & Knuckles
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 3

Ones I want to try:
Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Columns
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco: The Tides of Time
Golden Axe
Golden Axe 2
Golden Axe 3
Phantasy Star 2
Phantasy Star 3: Generations of Doom
Phantasy Star 4: The End of the Millenium
Ristar
Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master
Vectorman
Vectorman 2
Dynamite Headdy
Phantasy Star 1
Shining in the Darkness
Shining Force
Shining Force 2

What the fuck are these?
Bonanza Bros.
Decap Attack
Flicky
Gain Ground
Kid Chameleon
Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
Super Thunder Blade
Alien Storm
Beyond Oasis
E-SWAT
Fatal Labyrinth
Super Thunder Blade