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Revolution To Offer Sega Genesis Games For Download

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:19 am
by Drem
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

Re: Revolution To Offer Sega Genesis Games For Download

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:45 am
by Ouchyfish
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.


:rofl: :rofl:

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:07 am
by Hatak
Although I never played one back in the day, they are also supposed to have TurboGrafx 16 games available for download on the Revolution.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:48 am
by Tikker
hrm


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

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:52 am
by Tossica
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.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 11:31 am
by Tikker
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)

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:22 pm
by Tossica
I bought mine at Toys R Us about 10 years ago. They clearanced them and all the accesories. I paid $49 for it.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:46 pm
by Thon
shadowrun was one of the few games i played to death, and it just kept getting deeper.

null sweat chummers

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:26 pm
by Durothil Skyreaver
Shadowrun begs to be turned into an MMO.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:22 pm
by Harrison
Durothil Skyreaver wrote:Shadowrun begs to be turned into an MMO.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:50 pm
by Tikker
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

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 3:57 pm
by Harrison
Warriors of the Eternal Sun kicked ass too

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:04 pm
by Reynaldo
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).

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 4:22 pm
by Tikker
shit, I forgot about PRIMETIME football too

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:12 pm
by Eldred
Joe Montana Sports Talk Football!

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:55 pm
by Thon
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?

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:06 pm
by Tossica
Herzog Zwei and Dune: Battle for Arakis are two of the greatest games from that era.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:22 pm
by Avient
First thing popped into my mind when I saw this thread, Toejam and Earl. No clue why.

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:47 pm
by Jay
General Chaos

Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:48 pm
by Jay
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.

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 12:53 pm
by Martrae
Shining in the Darkness and Shining Force were definite favs of mine.

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:07 pm
by Tikker
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

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:15 pm
by Tossica
Phantasy Star series kicked ass.

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:35 pm
by Durothil Skyreaver
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.

Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:35 pm
by Ginzburgh
Is there an ETA on revolution?