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Be it the newest Sega Megaton or just some random tidbit of news, MEGA Bites is there! This month, we report on using wireless Genesis controllers on your Wii, a great Amazon bargain for Genesis fans, the latest in Genesis emulation, and yet another new Sonic game. You know you want to read this! Well, you’re at least considering it, so check out the full article and see what’s up in the land of 16-bit!
Summer’s officially here, so why not spend all your free time in front of your Genesis? Who needs the beach and sunshine? Not the faithful! When there are so many great games to play, you can always take comfort in the knowledge that the Sun does indeed rise tomorrow when you weigh your options! To that end, our readers have chimed in with all the latest info on what they’ve been playing this month. You know you’re curious, so grab a chair and some lemonade, and read the eighteenth installment of our ever-popular Reader Roundtable feature!
Sega has had many in-house composers over the years, but it was definitely at its prime during the Genesis era with the Sega Multimedia Studio. A crack team of sound designers and musicians, the studio was privy to the most modern equipment available, and it was responsible for scoring many Sega CD titles, like Ecco the Dolphin. Sega-16 recently sat for a bit with Brian Coburn, one of the many talented people who worked at the Multimedia Studio. A veteran of the music industry, Corburn went to great lengths to capture the sounds he needed, even almost getting bitten by an alligator while working on Jurassic Park CD!
With a dedicated team of a dozen animators, artists, and designers, developer BlueSky Software set out to create a game that could match the hugely popular license it bore. For more than a year it toiled and sweated, until they were done, and what it produced went on to become a massive hit. So successful was the Genesis version of Jurassic Park that it spawned a franchise.
From the original game to The Lost World, the penultimate release for the console, the four titles Sega gave us have sparked discussion and controversy around the Internet for years. Sega-16 takes a look at the games in the latest installment of our comprehensive History of… series. Have a read and watch out for the raptors!