Category: Sega

Published by Hasbro Interactive, Inc. Developed by Amusement Vision, Ltd. Released Mar 13, 2001 Platform Dreamcast Released in late 2000 for the Sega Dreamcast Daytona USA 2001 is essentially a top quality compilation featuring the best bits of the original Daytona USA and Daytona USA Championship Circuit Edition. This game has all the tracks from both the earlier Daytona games including Three Seven Speedway, Desert City and Dinosaur Canyon plus some completely new tracks such as Mermaid Lake and Rin Rin Rink. The graphics are fantastic, massively improved over the original games with huge…

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Published by SEGA Europe Ltd. Developed by Sega AM9 R&D Division Released 1997 Also For Arcade, Windows Released for the Sega Saturn in 1997 Sega Touring Car Championship is a very good conversion of the arcade game of the same name and whilst this is not in the same league as Sega Rally or Daytona USA it still has much to offer. For starters the graphics are excellent with big chunky cars and very attractive tracks with textbook Sega blue skies, the soundtrack is also typically high class. There are 3 courses to complete which are…

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Published by Midway Games, Inc. Released Aug 02, 1992 Platforms Amiga, Arcade, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Genesis, SEGA CD,SEGA Master System, SNES Trivia:  Name a game that sold TWICE as many copies on the Sega Genesis than its Super Nintendo counterpart? MORTAL KOMBAT! EXCELLENT! Ok I am NOT going into a techno fit here (although tempting). But one of the first if not THE first game to develop the ESRB rating for future ratings (at least for the NTSC region…GEG is American, folks 🙂 )  Looking back this game is/was a…

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  Published by SEGA of America, Inc. Developed by Hitmaker Released 2000 Also For Arcade, N-Gage, Windows Released in late 2000 on Sega’s Dreamcast Virtua Tennis is a fantastic pick up and play sports game converted from the arcade game of the same name. This game has much to enjoy, the graphics are superb with massive and chunky sprites and fantastically well detailed tennis courts with excellent crowd animations (look out for the guy in the awesome tweed jacket). The sound effects are also excellent particularly the sound of the ball bouncing, the…

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Published by Time Warner Interactive, Inc. Developed by Atari Games Corporation Released 1995 Also For 3DO, Amiga, Arcade, DOS, Game Boy, Game Gear, Jaguar,PlayStation, SEGA 32X, SEGA Saturn, SNES Released in the Arcades in 1994 Primal Rage is an above average one on one beat em up in the style of Mortal Kombat with the added bonus of using Dinosaurs! The game has 7 Dinosaurs/Beasts to use including 2 Ape like creatures, 2 Tyrannosaurus Rex like creatures and a Velociraptor. All of them play similar and mainly use the same moveset’s but it was a…

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Published by SEGA of America, Inc. Developed by Team Shinobi Released 1991 Also For Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, SEGA Master System, Wii, Windows, ZX Spectrum Released in 1991 for the Sega Megadrive Alien Storm is a superb side scrolling beat em up converted from the Arcade game of the same name. The gameplay here is very similar to Sega’s other classic scrolling Arcade beat em up Golden Axe except it swaps the Western Fantasy setting for a 1950’s American B Movie setting. You can chose from 2 different characters and…

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Published by Psygnosis Limited Developed by Psygnosis Limited Released Mar 05, 1996 Also For Android, DOS, PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PSP, PS Vita You know the old catchphase “Anything you can do I can do better!”, well with regard to the Sega Saturn version of the Playstation classic Wipeout it should read more like “Anything you can do I can do almost as well!” When I first heard that Wipeout ( a futuristic racing game) was being converted to the Saturn I was not really interested, this was due to the dogs breakfast…

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Published by SEGA of America, Inc. Developed by SEGA-AM2 Co., LTD. Released 1998 Also For Arcade Released along side the Sega Dreamcast console in 1999 Virtua Fighter 3 Team Battle was an Arcade perfect conversion from AM2, trouble is the Arcade game was not all that good to begin with. First the good points, the tried and tested Virtua Fighter gameplay is still there with it’s slow and more realistic gameplay (no fireballs here), there is also the addition of a ‘Dodge’ button to further increase the strategy involved in each fight. All of the…

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Published by SEGA of America, Developed by Taito Corporation Released – 1990 Also For Amiga, Arcade, Atari ST, Commodore 64, FM Towns James ‘Buster’ Douglas Knockout Boxing was released for the Sega Megadrive in 1990, known as Final Blow on other formats the name was changed to capitalise on the popularity of Douglas who had just defeated ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson to become the Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of The World. Sadly this moved backfired as Douglas lost his Title to Evander Holyfield just prior to the game’s official release! The gameplay…

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Published by Capcom Entertainment Developed by Capcom Released – Sept 09 1999 Also available for Arcade Released in late 1999 for the Sega Dreamcast Powerstone is a superb 3d arena based one on one beat em up, an extremely original game for the time. The gameplay is really fun and very different to other one on one beat em ups of the time (such as Virtua Fighter 3 and Soul Calibur) in that here you can pick up items in the 3d arena and use them against your opponent. These…

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