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taken great pains to ensure that there’s a game in the series for every console out there, and the Genesis, being dominant during its heyday, got just about every 2D version released. The last one to come to Sega’s wonder box was Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, which included everything but the kitchen sink (though I think there was a coupon in the manual to send away for one), and the debate still rages today as to how it holds up versus the SNES version.
Sega has a long reputation of making quality sports games. Anyone who’s played the NFL 2K series (specifically the 2005 edition) or World Series Baseball can attest to the company’s prowess in the genre. Sometimes though, even the mighty can stumble, as was the case of NHL All-Star Hockey ’95. In an attempt to take on EA’s stellar NHL series, Sega came up short in several areas.
For more than half a century, Warner Bros.’ Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner have been delighting audiences with their ACME-funded slapstick antics. It took long enough, but someone finally realized that this dynamic had the makings of a great video game. Blue Sky Software coded such a game for the Genesis, and the result was pretty interesting.
The NHL playoffs are in full swing, so what better way to keep the mood alive than by taking a look at one of the best hockey games ever made? EA’s NHL ’96 refined everything that made previous installments so popular, and in turn it became perhaps the best in the series, something hard to do after the stellar ’94 edition.
Asterix has been a staple of the French comics scene for half a century, and thefamous Gaul has appeared everywhere from movies to cartoons and even a theme park. Of course, a mid-’90s leap to the Genesis was a must, which lead to 1993’s Asterix & the Great Rescue. A sequel followed in 1995, but it was confined to Europe, as Sega of America left 16-bit behind and geared up for the transition to the Saturn. But even with its home grown popularity, Asterix & the Power of the Gods got lost in the next generation shuffle.