Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection announced for early 2009

by Jem Alexander on Nov 6th 2008 2:00PM

Sega has announced the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection, which is heading to the PS3 in early 2009. The collection will contain over 40 classic Sega titles from the Mega Drive and Master System. Highlights include many Sonic titles, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Shining Force and many others. We've placed the full list of games after the break for your perusal.

While many of you will have already played these games (many times), be it on the Gamecube, PSP, PS2 or on the original consoles, the Ultimate Collection will apparently output all titles at 720p. We're not sure exactly how these old games will look in high definition, but this will be the largest collection of Sega titles ever released together. For those of you that missed many of these titles throughout the years, this is the perfect opportunity to try some Sega classics for the first time.

The full list of games included in the Sega Mega Collection is as follows:

Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
Alien Storm
Altered Beast
Beyond Oasis
Bonanza Bros.
Columns
Comix Zone
Decap Attack starring Chuck D. Head
Dr. Robotnik's MBM
Dynamite Headdy
Ecco the Dolphin
Ecco II: The Tides of Time
E-SWAT
Fatal Labyrinth
Flicky
Gain Ground
Golden Axe I
Golden Axe II
Golden Axe III
Kid Chameleon
Phantasy Star II
Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
Ristar
Shining in the Darkness
Shining Force
Shining Force 2
Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
Sonic 3D Blast
Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic Spinball
Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Sonic The Hedgehog 3
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 3
Super Thunder Blade
Vectorman
Vectorman 2

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Reader Comments (68)

Wow, that's an epic collection; I will definitely pick that up!

Better not be more then $30.

Man they will more than likely sell each one for 10 bones a pop and ask for like 50 bucks for all of then together or something stupid.

No, this is Sega, not Capcom.

As far as I'm concerned, Master System was defined by Alex Kidd in Miracle World, Wonder Boy 1, 2, and 3, Outrun, Hang-On, Shinobi (1 only, after that, junk), and Phantasy Star. A lot of junk on that list above, which is a shame, as the Master System was a good game system.

The reason there aren't any Master System games is because it's a Mega Drive collection.
I grew up with SMS, but never owned a Mega Drive, so some of these games are new to me, which is good.
and I wouldn't say Shinobi games were shit after the first, Shadow Dancer was one of my favorites, I think the series improved after the first.
Either way, this is very exciting news!

Don't worry Sega.com has it listed for 29.99

.... Are you serious? I thought to myself, "The games included will probably be crap." Then I looked at the list and my jaw dropped.

Sure I could get all these on an emulator ... but I'd like to reward Sega for offering such a friggin' sweet (!!!) collection.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! Even though I've played most of em

this is soooo gay!!!, yes i have a Wii and i bought 3 games that r listed here on the wii, and now its coming out for the ps3, this sux, i think im goin to buy it for my ps3 anyway F'ed in the end anyway

holy crap... totally getting this!!! this is awesome!!!

why no Outrun?

Altered beast!! Sweet!

It would be nice to get these a-la-carte on the PSN store though.

psn or blu ray

Sold!

Why does Sega never make a compilation that contains Sonic CD :(

Plus, a few of the games on this list have Sega CD versions with CD-quality soundtracks (namely the Ecco games, and then there's also Shining Force CD). I'd also love to see Flashback make a collection, since that's my all-time favorite Genesis game (and it has a CD version as well).

I would very much like to have the Phantasy Star CD based games. I mean the CD is like 100 megs, I'm sure they could fit it.

Not to mention, if they were putting Mega-CD versions on this compilation (unless if it was Sega first-party titles only, I suppose) - I'd want Snatcher!!!!

OMFG! ALTERED BEAST!!!!! FTW!

Streets of Rage 2 is on my top 5 favorite games of all time. Will be picking this up.

Hell yeah, I'll be getting that for sure, Notice how old old games still look awesome, I downloaded some ps1 games and was shocked at how bad the graphics were, I used to think they were awesome too.
Games are still good but the graphics are so bad it makes most of them unplayable. 8-32bit is awesome i cant stand blocky 3d graphics these days though.

Never had a Sega system growing up. For $30 I would definitely pick this up.

I can run all of these on my emulators in YellowDog 6.0 on my PS3....hellz yeah

In 720p?

YDL 6.0 runs at 720p natively (shows up as 720p on my projector) and I can make most games (depends on emulator) fullscreen and they look IMO phenominal due to the upscaling...and it's all free too so....

Sonic, Golden axe, Streets of Rage and Comix zone

best megadrive games ever!

probs wont buy it lol

capcom should bring out a resident evil collection, i would buy it on the first day

If they're updating it with 720p upscaling then couldn't they support the "T" word?

Completing each individual game should get you a trophy. That would be great fun, while for most of them anyway. Take a long time getting the Platinum.

How come no one is calling it the Genesis, thought thats it US name.

it's called the megadrive in europe and genesis in america.

Yep, and this site is run and mostly has US visitors.

i have a xbox and a emulator that plays megadrive and snes games upscaled to 720p so i have no use for this, PLUS i have sonic mega collection plus on the ps2 and mega collection on the gamecube, i'm spoilt for choice, and i think this is sega's way to make more money off nogalstic old skool gamers imo, sega are always re releasing their old megadrive games on various consoles.

Is this an exclusive? I get confused when a new game is posted up on this site because they only mention that it is on PS3.

Add Trophy support and I'm all over it!

The game will have PS3 Trophy support, and unlockables.

Read:> http://www.sega.com/games/?g=577
for more info.

With all of the space on a Blue Ray disc, why don;t they offer Sega CD collection?

Where is Sonic CD i use to love that game but its hard to find!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kid chameleon? hell yes!!!

^^ Count me in on this ^^

No "Night Trap 32XCD" = no sale!

while those games rock i also wished they did this for saturn and dreamcast games, saturn had some awsome 2d games like guardian heroes and dreamcast had some awsome shmups.

they weren't made by sega but so weren't most of that list, at the very least they should give us stuff from mega cd and 32x sonic cd was awsome like some mentioned and very few people played it, it's considered by fans the best sonic game released,

Where's mah UMK3 ?

No Gunstar-Heroes!?
Guttad :(

Man, I wish they had Shadowrun!

Am I missing something? I have Sega Genesis Collection for the PSP, which already has most of those games. Maybe not all of them, but still.. Why would I want to buy this when there's already a Genesis Collection for PSP and PS2? Does Sega really think that we all love the Genesis that much?

They should also release Flashback as i remember that's the game i always played on the Sega Mega Drive but still a lot of games in one package

Great set and will be picking it up, just wish they had the earthworm jims and radical rex in there

Kind of underwhelming for me. I don't understand why Sega is hung up on the Genesis. You would think with the extra space on a blu-ray disc, Sega could put some good Sega CD games on there ( Ex: Eternal Champions CD, Sonic CD, Shining Force CD, etc.) For that matter, I would kill for a Saturn collection. Imagine all three parts of Shining Force III finally released in the U.S. plus Shinobi Legions and many others.

I would hope they had sonic cd and knuckles chaotix

Whaaaa? No Revenge of Shinobi, but Shinobi III ?!

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