Surprise! Sega Genesis Collection coming

Herzog Zwei. RTS precursor and all-around awesome game.

I spent so much time playing Vectorman I + II and both sonics that I am about to cry since I sold my PSP :(

Sonic 3 would have been nice. I've been dying for a Sonic collection on the PSP.

Damn..................
Zaxxon; now that's going wayyyyyyy back!
LOL

What? No Earthworm Jim?! Bah. Clearly one of the Genesis's best.

There are a lot of great games on there. I'm a little sad that ToeJam and Earl and Shining Force isn't represented, though. Also, even though it wasn't incredibly popular, General Chaos was one of my favorite Genesis games and is still one of my favorite strategy games; I would have loved to see that included.

"Phantasy Star II, Phantasy Star III, Phantasy Star IV"

Whoa. Have these games ever appeared together before on a compilation?

What's up with the PS1 omission?

Toe Jam and Earl, Streets of Rage, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles. They're needed!

NHL '94

If memory serves, we should be able to expect these to be released on the Wii as well.

What we need is a collection of all the old Working Designs games for the Sega CD & Saturn ... of course, now that Working Designs is gone ...

PS1 was a master system game.

@ dragon23ninja, Earthworm Jim was fantastic, but it was also a 3rd party title, developed by Shiny, and published by I can't remember who; but regardless, it wasn't a Sega developed or published title...

@ Ramone, same story with NHL '94, it was EA developed/published.

Also, I second pppp, what genesis collection is complete without Streets of Rage?!

The first four Phantasy Star games appeared together in a Saturn compilation, but that was released in Japan only. The first three were released together as a Gameboy Advance collection which was available in all most regions. The Saturn version had some minor enhancements, like increasing the walking speed of your character or different sound options.

I played all these games before. So, who cares? Unless they are on Xbox Live Arcade and offer Achievements, I don't see much replay value of this collection.

Definitely lacking in the Road Rash.

How'bout Gunstar Heroes?

Or maybe some Sega CD titles -- I'm thinking Working Designs.

It is a shame neither of the shining forces showed up. But phantasy star 2-4 plus vectorman... that game was a riot.

I'll second Jay's notion of putting out a sega cd/saturn working designs collection. I'm still considering going through ebay to get them :p

TJ&E! I loved that game. It was the reason I got a Genesis before an SNES. Hopefully it'll be a Wii download?

sell my soul? i'd sell my whole family if Streets of Rage was included!!

Shinobi III!!!!

I'm sold already. lol. Why can't they release a true current-gen version of Shinobi that doesn't require inhuman timing of combos over bottomless pits?

I still have blisters from Shinobi and Nightshade...

Sign me up for a copy! During that time I was a SNES player so I missed all the Genesis titles. Very cool!

Damn, now I really want to play Shining Force... time to break out the Dreamcast

to #1 LOL I would have bought it (Herzog zwie) sight unseen! And of course the PSP with it!

I really want to like the PSP. If it had a hard drive instead of a UMD drive and used CF/MMC/SD or something standard instead of memory stick I would have bought a PSP a long time ago.

These Sega games are definitely a step in the right direction though.

Kid Chameleon.

KID CHAMELEON!!!!

Did I mention Kid Chameleon?

i know this is a genesis collection, but i would KILL, i mean KILL, for jet set radio to be ported to the psp. the psp and dreamcast have the same button layout, they'd just have to dumb the graphics down a bit.

No Space Harrier? Damn !

I think i'm gonna pass on this one. Most of those are on gametap.

Doesn't this conflict with Nintendo's virtual console, which also promisses to include Sega games?

You should be able to download these to the PSP instead of having to buy all of them.

Or, play them using an emulator. You can do that on your PSP, on your DS or on your Treo.

Streets of Rage, Road Rash, Earthworm Jim, Maximum Carnage....c'mon man! Sonic and Knuckles, heck yeah!

Why in god's name is eternal champions on that list?! No streets of rage?!

@Evan, not really. As far as I've heard Nintendo's virtual console is a feature of the Wii; at this time they have no plans to extend the service to either the PS2 or the PSP.

@Xizer "why would anyone want to PAY for this crap?"
Because a PSP fits into one's pocket a hell of a lot better than a modded xbox + SFAC controller + monitor of some sort + generator capable of powering the xbox and monitor and thusly making the whole affair "portable". Yes, we all understand that there's a variety of ways to play roms. Congrats, I've got a full set of goodsets too; whoopdie-doo. Sometimes it's nice to get an official port/emu like this though you know? And for the record, NO ONE thinks you're special or l33t for waving a modded xbox around... if anything it would probably make you l33t to NOT have one they're so common (I seriously don't know a single xbox owner whose xbox isn't modded.)

If they wanted to actually make some money (IE. Sell more than a million copies) they would have decided to sell this on the DS.

Its simple, if you want to play great genesis games like sonic 3, toe jam and earl, etc, just make sure your psp is at 1.5 firmware (if it isn't be sure to downgrade) and download a great emulator called pspgensis. From there all you have to do is put the roms on the psp and play them at 100% speed. God I love homebrew ;)

or get XBMC for your xbox and the rest is history

still buying this!!

definitely sweet they're including phantasy stars after delaying -- ultimately cancelling -- the Phantasy Star "AGES" collection for YEARS here in America...

but yeah SF2 is definitely missing from this list. You people should realize that TJ&E is an Sega of America production and odds are this collection was meant for both Jap and American markets...

Phantasy Star, yay. I played that game way too much as a kid. Its also pretty hard to tell written sarcasm at five years old, so it was pretty confusing. Yes, I could read at five years old.

But no Gunstar Heroes? Guess it must be first-party only or something... didnt look at the list too closely.

This is an excellent value, espeically when it comes down to $30 and can be touted as a buck a game. And this is coming from someone who owned nearly all of those games in their original cartridge form.

These will be entirely new to those gamers at the lower age range of the PSP demographic. For those consumers the value will be especially good since the novelty element is so much greater.

It's especially well suited to a portable platform thanks to the easy pick up and play nature of those games and value of having so many choices on a single piece of media. Having these collected for a portable is far more enticing than a similar collection for a current console.

And as for the Wii, unless Nintendo is planning to sell Genesis games for about $1.25 each, which is extremely doubtful, this remains a far better value. For those who are only interested in a small subset of these titles the Wii approach could be a better value but for those of us who enjoy a wide variety the large collection cannot be beat except by a larger collection.

And as for emulating these games, there is the small matter of honesty and respect for the owner of the IP. Some people can demonstrate they own the originals but the majority just take without asking, as if the world owes them entertainment. If I've sold off my Sega Genesis cartridges I've also sold my continued access to those games. Thus a new purchase at a miniscule price is not asking too much of me.

Alright collection that's sadly lacking streets of rage (though I always thought SOR 2 was better).

Super Thunder Blade? Has anyone actually completed that? Because of its rubbish 'super scaler' technology, an archway (that you HAD to fly under) would be in the distance then suddenly KAPOW! it's in the foreground and your 'copter is eating ground faster than a fat kid at a cake fest where all the signs and banners are made of cake.

Cake.

Why are people talking about emulators and roms as an alterantive to buying the legitmate copies of these games. I hate to get on a soapbox here but this really upsets me. If it is impossible to find a game because it's rare then I can understand getting a bootlegged version. Perhaps there is a translation patch for a rom of a game that wasn't released in your native language. I can see rationalizing that, but to suggest using emulators for something that is now widely available is just pathetic and greedy. It's a major problem that this is becoming so social acceptable.

well looks like sony is trying to undercut nintendo on the virtual console bandwagon...so sad:(

As for those complaining about the lack of Streets Of Rage, really both that Series and Sonic 3 & knuckles have been addressed by Sega already with Sonic Mega Collection & Sonic Gems Collection.
Also Gunstar Heroes has been released so far in Japan on the treasure box collection along with Alien Soldier and Dynamite Headdy.

I'm surprised at the lack of Revenge of Shinobi, and after burner would have been nice on there. Otherwise though great to hear it, and I can't wait to get it!

@42. Are you a fanboy, hater of Sony? Because it is Sega you should hate in this case. I hardly imagine Sony begged and pleaded with Sega for a Genesis/MegaDrive Collection.

Get real, stop hating, grow up.

Despite the fact these Genesis games, as well as SNES games can easily be setup and emulated on a modded PS2 at the price of $free$. Use to do that

but nowdays I rather play those old 16-bit titles on the actual vintage hardware itself, its the nostalgia factor that matters now for me now, not some cheap emulator.

On another note has anyone notice that Sega has been swinging out a lot of its old game titles as of late. I notice that PC video game service Gametap has large portion of its library of Sega titles.

I just wonder what newb is actually buying all this crap.

Finally a decent 3d fighter on PSP... Virtua Fighter 2!

@ 42 - Yeah, but on an incompatible front, so minus the sadness. You can't download these from your PSP, and not from your PS2 of course. You gotta go buy them.

@43 (uumai): Streets of Rage 1-3 were only on the Japanese version of Sonic Gems.

I like the Genesis, but like others who have posted here, have already played most of these to death on the real hardware. And for those I haven't, I can play every one of these games, and many others, under emualation on the GP2x. Yeah, just as illegal as the modded XBOX, only portable. Like a Sega Nomad without the bulk or battery problems.

"KID CHAMELEON!!!!"

You mean, I'm not the only one who played that?