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After Valentine’s Day has left you broke, you probably don’t have money for modern games, so it’s convenient that retro games are mostly cheaper! And if you don’t have a special someone to spend your hard-earned cash on, that leaves more money for Genesis games! This month, we’ve given the love to our favorite little black box – the one without chocolates inside.
Sega took the Joe Montana series in a new direction with part 2, but what Sports Talk Football did with commentary wasn’t reflected in the gameplay. The game may be a true evolution in presentation, but people play games, not watch them and that’s where ol’ Joe came up short on fourth down.
Normally, we don’t update on the weekends. However, this was just too good to leave until Thursday for a feature update! Internet band 2080 has crafted an incredible song about the Sega Genesis called “My Mega Drive,” and it even released an official video to go with it, all in glorious 16-bit style!
The march of new technology has managed to breathe new life into our old consoles, enriching our established gaming experiences and adding new ones to what most people consider to be dead machines. Matthias Hullin has undertaken one such project. His Retrode is a device that allows gamers to use their original Genesis and SNES cartridges with a PC emulator.
What better way to begin 2012 than with another installment of Reader Roundtable? For over five years, we’ve been gathering the monthly play accounts of our staff and readers and letting them share with everyone. It’s a great way to see what we like and what games we may have missed, and this year is no different.