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Genesis Reviews

Bill Walsh College Football ’95

Electronic Arts and High Score Productions made a great college football game with Bill Walsh College Football. They followed it up with perhaps the best college game of the 16-bit era with the ’95 edition. Improvements in several areas and the inclusion of actual teams rounded out the already solid gameplay and presentation.

Genesis Reviews

Chavez II

Boxing is a brutal sport, and few men in the past forty years have been more successful at it than Julio César Chavez. the six-time world champion is a national hero in his native Mexico, and his fame was so widespread that he even got his own video game… twice! How’s that for badass? Given that Chavez was such a master of the sweet science in the ring, it stands to reason that a game based on him would be great, right? Well, not really, and his second outing, the imaginatively named Chavez II, is a lesson in mediocrity. A reskinned version of Boxing Legends of the Ring, it does little more than add Chavez to the game.

Features, Side By Side

Side by Side: TMNT Beat-‘Em-Ups (Genesis vs. SNES)

Kowabunga! The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles have punched and kicked their way across more consoles than you can shake a bo staff at, and the Genesis was no exception. Sega’s 16-bit wonder received versions of two highly playable and controversial titles: Tournament Fighters and The Hyperstone Heist, and the latter has been compared to the SNES port of Turtles in Time since it made its debut in 1992. Staff writer Christian Matozzo has put the two through their paces for a full comparions, and he’s ready to share his findings in the latest installment of Side by Side.