Revolution To Offer Sega Genesis Games For Download

Drem · Post by **Drem** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:19 am

At this week's Game Developer's Conference, Nintendo announced that the Revolution will not only make it possible for gamers to download and play classic Nintendo titles, but Sega Genesis games as well. While this is exciting news, VGA's sources have reported rumblings from within Nintendo about major setbacks in getting the Genesis titles to function. Apparently, Sega's games from that era were specifically designed to do what Nintendon't, making the emulation process on Nintendo hardware inherently next to impossible.

Additionally, there are grave concerns over the Revolution's lack of a dedicated blast processing chip and the subsequent side effects this would have on titles such as Sonic The Hedgehog, leading a red-eyed and twitching Ken Kutaragi to announce that the PS3 has seven blast processing cores and that each is powerful enough to render a Pixar-quality cgi film in realtime with enough power left over to write an Academy Award winning screenplay for each. Kutaragi then cackled and disappeared in a flash of smoke, only to reappear in the center of the crowd disguised as a lowly fisherman.

-from SA

Ouchyfish · Post by **Ouchyfish** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:45 am

Drem wrote:Kutaragi then cackled and disappeared in a flash of smoke, only to reappear in the center of the crowd disguised as a lowly fisherman.

Hatak · Post by **Hatak** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:07 am

Although I never played one back in the day, they are also supposed to have TurboGrafx 16 games available for download on the Revolution.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:48 am

hrm

being able to play sega's Shadowrun game again would be slick

Post by **Tossica** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:52 am

Tikker wrote:hrm

being able to play sega's Shadowrun game again would be slick

I still have my Sega Nomad and copy of that game. Great game.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:31 am

I used to want a nomad soooo bad~

I picked up a used gameboy SP from ebay cheap a while back, and have been having a blast going thru the redone final fantasy games(until I got railroaded by Oblivion that is)

Post by **Tossica** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:22 pm

I bought mine at Toys R Us about 10 years ago. They clearanced them and all the accesories. I paid $49 for it.

Thon · Post by **Thon** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:46 pm

shadowrun was one of the few games i played to death, and it just kept getting deeper.

null sweat chummers

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:26 pm

Shadowrun begs to be turned into an MMO.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:22 pm

Durothil Skyreaver wrote:Shadowrun begs to be turned into an MMO.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:50 pm

Tossica wrote:I bought mine at Toys R Us about 10 years ago. They clearanced them and all the accesories. I paid $49 for it.

awesome

I'm actually a tinge jealous atm

I used to play the shit out of my genesis

between NHL 95, Shadowrun, Eternal champion, and Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, I'm not sure I've ever had a better gaming system

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:57 pm

Warriors of the Eternal Sun kicked ass too

Reynaldo · Post by **Reynaldo** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:04 pm

NBA Live '95 on Genesis was the only basketball game I've ever seen worth playing (even though the 45 degree court angle took some getting used to).

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:22 pm

shit, I forgot about PRIMETIME football too

Eldred · Post by **Eldred** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:12 pm

Joe Montana Sports Talk Football!

Thon · Post by **Thon** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:55 pm

mutant league hockey/football ftw

and was eternal champion the street fighter-like game with a vampire that could turn into a cloud of mist?

Post by **Tossica** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:06 pm

Herzog Zwei and Dune: Battle for Arakis are two of the greatest games from that era.

Avient · Post by **Avient** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:22 pm

First thing popped into my mind when I saw this thread, Toejam and Earl. No clue why.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:47 pm

General Chaos

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:48 pm

BTW, anyone ever play King's Bounty for Genesis? My mom bought it for me cuz it was cheap and it ended up being one of my all time favorite games.

Post by **Martrae** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:53 pm

Shining in the Darkness and Shining Force were definite favs of mine.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:07 pm

Thon wrote:mutant league hockey/football ftw

and was eternal champion the street fighter-like game with a vampire that could turn into a cloud of mist?

yup

best fighting game ever, imo

really varied chars and pretty well balanced

I always played the mage dude who was really defensively oriented

Shining Force games were great too

trying to think what else I owned that I really liked

Shit, duro

what was that space exploration game where you had to roam the galaxy looking for a source of fuel, and nuke aliens along the way
that was great

Post by **Tossica** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:15 pm

Phantasy Star series kicked ass.

Durothil Skyreaver · Post by **Durothil Skyreaver** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:35 pm

You're thinking of Star Flight, and I still have a working copy of it laying around.

I really like Shadowrun, Phantasy Star 2 & 4, Shining Force games.

I always thought PS4 was a really underrated game.

Ginzburgh · Post by **Ginzburgh** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:35 pm

Is there an ETA on revolution?

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