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Some great news has been brewing on the Genesis front over the last few weeks, and why bother scouring the Internet for it when you can read it all right here? Our latest installment has the scoop on the new Thunder Force game, Tec Toy’s newest Mega Drive, a new release of Vay, and the latest info on Golden Axe: Beast Rider. You know you want to read it all, so check out the full article and enjoy!
Virgin Games is a company most Genesis owners associate with mega hit Aladdin, David Perry’s masterpiece of animation and visual excellence. The company did indeed have a knack for recreating the Disney magic, and one of the more overlooked titles in its repertoire is Pinocchio. Decidedly easier and lower key than Aladdin and the Lion King, it nonetheless featured most of the elements that made those titles so great.
There are great football games… and then there’s Pro Quarterback. Tradewest’s train wreck of a release tried to emulate the SNES’ Mode 7 scaling, despite the fact that the stock hardware didn’t support such a feature. The result was a choppy mess of a game that, along with the lack of real teams and players, ranks at the bottom of the list of play-worthy titles in the genre.
Sega-16 has spoken to both presidents of Sega of America from the Genesis era, and we’re not quite done yet! We recently had the chance to chat with the former head of the European branch, Nick Alexander, and he told us about the company’s game plan against Nintendo and how it handled everything from the Sega CD to Japanese executives!
Damn, is the Simpsons still on the air? The fact that we’ve reviewed games in the series that originated on the NES means that this series has some serious legs or that it’s time to give up the ghost. There were quite a few games released in the series, including Krusty’s Super Funhouse, an odd little puzzler that had the famous clown ridding his fun house of a rat infestation. The entire Simpsons gang is along for the ride, and the gameplay is actually quite fun.
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