Ridiculous sale on Sega Genesis classics
If you get goosebumps thinking about the boot-up music of the Sega Genesis, Amazon has a major deal for you today.
The game publisher's 48-Game Arcade Pack is available for download at $4.88 today, about 7 percent of the usual $70 price tag for the set. The games are downloaded straight from Amazon and can be played on PCs running the Windows XP operating system and later.
There are some classic titles here, including the original Sonic the Hedgehog trilogy, Golden Axes I and II, Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, the Streets of Rage games and, my personal favorites, ToeJam & Earl and its sequel, ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron.
Here's a full list of the games, from the Amazon product page:
- Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
- Alien Soldier
- Alien Storm
- Altered Beast
- Bio-Hazard Battle
- Bonanza Bros.
- Columns
- Columns III
- Comix Zone
- Crack Down
- Decap Attack
- Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
- Ecco Jr.
- Ecco the Dolphin
- Ecco: The Tides of Time
- ESWAT: City Under Siege
- Eternal Champions
- Fatal Labyrinth
- Flicky
- Gain Ground
- Galaxy Force II
- Golden Axe
- Golden Axe II.
- Gunstar Heroes
- Kid Chameleon
- Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole
- Light Crusader
- Ristar
- Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
- Shining Force
- Shining Force II
- Shining in the Darkness
- Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
- Sonic 3 & Knuckles
- Sonic 3D Blast
- Sonic Spinball
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Space Harrier II
- Streets of Rage
- Streets of Rage 2
- Super Thunder Blade
- Sword of Vermilion
- ToeJam & Earl
- ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron
- VectorMan
- Virtua Fighter 2
- Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair
With the exception of the Ecco games (I never could get behind a game about dolphins), I highly recommend every title on the list. Especially if your parents were cool enough to get you a Genesis. As a Nintendo kid, I missed out on a lot of the early '90s console classics. Here's your chance to give them another try. Peripheral support, including controllers, seems to be pretty good from the product reviews.
What are your favorite games on the list above, and if Nintendo ever decided to do something similar (highly doubtful), what SNES games would you want to see? Let us know in the comments below.
