Sega Mega Drive Classic Collection

Sega Mega Drive Classic Collection, released in North America as Sega Genesis Classics Pack and listed on Steam as Sega Genesis & Mega Drive Classics, is a series of compilations featuring Sega Genesis and Mega Drive video games released for Microsoft Windows. The collections are split into "Volumes", with the first four receiving both physical and digital releases and the fifth volume only being digitally released.

Steam versions of these collections exclude Sonic The Hedgehog and ToeJam & Earl games. The former can be purchased as a part of Sonic-related compilations and all games can be purchased separately but at higher prices.

Volume 1

Note that the digital download edition replaces Sonic the Hedgehog with Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi. The boxed version has a screenshot of Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi on the box art but it doesn't actually include it.

Volume 2

Note that the digital download edition replaces Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with Eternal Champions. The games ESWAT: City Under Siege and Golden Axe II are not included (they are moved to Volume 3).

Volume 3

This collection includes Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles when they're both locked on together, but it does not include either of the separate games. Note that the digital download edition replaces Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles and Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball with ESWAT: City Under Siege and Golden Axe II.

Volume 4

Note that the digital download edition does not include Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Sonic 3D, ToeJam & Earl and ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron.

Volume 5

This is the only volume to have no physical release on a disc.

Sega Mega Drive Classic Collection: Gold Edition

Sega re-released all four physically released volumes as the Sega Mega Drive Classic Collection: Gold Edition (Sega Genesis Classic Collection: Gold Edition in North America), for Windows in Europe and North America on March 15, 2011. It is a four-disc set of the forty-six Mega Drive/Genesis games from the first four volumes. The collection has configuring keyboard support which provides a personalized gaming experience, as well as a multiplayer mode for a select number of titles. The collection also has save and load functionality that is included in all of the games that allows the player to pick up and play saved games at the exact point they left off.

Sega Mega Drive Classics Hub

Sega released a free application on Steam on April 28, 2016, called the Sega Mega Drive Classics Hub (Sega Genesis Classics Hub in North America). The application presents a virtual hub, themed after what a bedroom of a Sega fanatic might be like, to play all of the released Sega Mega Drive games through it. This will enable these games to have Steam Workshop support, supporting ROM hacks for these games; within a day of its release, previously developed ROM hacks were added by users to the Hub's Workshop.[1] Sega states that players that have already purchased Sega Mega Drive games receive them for free for use in the Hub.[2] A few weeks following the release of the Hub, Sega reported more than 350,000 new purchases of the various games supported by the new software.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Yin-Poole, Wesley (April 29, 2016). "Modders are already having fun with Sega Mega Drive classics on Steam". Eurogamer. Retrieved May 3, 2016.
  2. ↑ McWhertor, Michael (April 20, 2016). "Sega's adding official mod support for Sega Genesis games on Steam". Polygon. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
  3. ↑ Kerr, Chris (May 17, 2016). "Sega mod hub launch sparks 350,000 in classic game sales". Gamasutra. Retrieved May 17, 2016.

See also

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