Generation 16

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Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Silpheed

Developer: Game Arts Publisher: Sega Released: 1993 While Sega and Nintendo had been battling tooth and nail for control of the video game market in 1993, the big N was about to up the ante. Nintendo had some heavy hitters on the way, not least of which was Star Fox

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Shining Force CD

Developer: Sonic! Software Planning Publisher: Sega Released: 1995 I’m a huge fan of Sega’s Shining series of RPGs. At least up until the point they were bastardized into whatever they are today. And while the series included dungeon crawlers and zelda-style action games, the Shining Force games definitely

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective Volumes I & II

Publisher: Sega Developer: ICOM Simulations Released: 1992, 1993 When the Sega CD was launched in North America, it was a bit expensive. $300 was nothing to sneeze at. So it made sense for Sega to sweeten the deal a bit with a generous software bundle. Along with four classic Genesis

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Shadow of the Beast II

Original Developer: Reflections Interactive Port: Digital Developments Publisher: Psygnosis Released: 1994 As a kid who never saw an Amiga computer in person, it always seemed like some mythical machine capable of playing games that looked so amazing they could never be replicated on the home consoles I actually had access

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Sewer Shark

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Digital Pictures Released: 1992 “Welcome to the sewers, punk! The guy you’re replacin’? He had that same tough-guy smirk on his face that you do! ‘Til he hit the wall…they’re out there blottin’ him up with handiwipes! But the Ghost here, I always

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Sega Classics Arcade Collection

Developer: Sega Publisher: Sega Released: 1992 As Sega was readying to launch the Sega CD in North America, it was decided that the system would come with a pretty impressive amount of software. Players were being asked to fork over 300 bucks for an add-on to their much cheaper Genesis,

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - The Secret of Monkey Island

Developer - Lucasfilm Games Publisher - JVC Released - December 1992 I’ve been picking away at this series of articles for so long now (almost 12 years!) that I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever shared this before, but I’m going to say it again anyway:

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Samurai Shodown

Publisher: JVC Developer: SNK (original) / Funcom (port) Released: 1995 I covered Fatal Fury Special previously in this series, another of the extensive list of fighting game franchises SNK released on their Neo Geo hardware. Back when they were shiny and new most of us who weren’t rich pined for

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Robo Aleste

Developer: Compile Publisher: Compile (JP), Tengen (US), Sega (EU) Released: 1992/1993 When the Aleste series began life on the Sega Master System in 1988, it resembled so many other shooters at the time. Sometime in the distant future a supercomputer has gone berserk, and it’s up to a

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Road Rash

Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: Monkey Do Productions, New Level Software Released: 1995 In spite of sequels and remakes across at least half a dozen systems, Road Rash has always been a Genesis series to me. It’s such a wonderfully unique take on motorcycle racing. It’s a shining example

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Road Avenger

Publisher: Renovation Developer: Data East Port: Wolf Team Released: 1993 One thing the Sega CD was fantastic for was reviving old-school laserdisc arcade games, especially a collection of animated Japanese games that I was completely unfamiliar with back in the early nineties. The most memorable of these has to be

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Rise of the Dragon

Publisher: Dynamix Original Developer: Dynamix Sega CD Port: Game Arts Release: 1992 Although adventure games were booming on the PC in the early nineties, the genre was massively underrepresented on home consoles. The Sega CD held the promise of bringing the genre to the platform. Leading up to the release

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Revengers of Vengeance

Developer: Micronet Publisher: Extreme Entertainment Group Released: 1994 Revengers of Vengeance. Where to even start with this one? The stupid name is really the tip of the iceberg here. In fact, the entire box looks like the result of an xtreme 90s board meeting where they decided that a medieval-themed

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Revenge of the Ninja

Developer: Wolf Team Publisher: Renovation Release: 1993 I’m not sure if this is just a personal blind spot or if it has to do with the side of the globe I grew up on, but whenever I think about laserdisc games in the arcade my thoughts immediately go to

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - RDF: Global Conflict

Developer: Absolute Entertainment Publisher: Absolute Entertainment Release: 1994 There aren’t a lot of American Sega CD games I haven’t played much of, but I somehow completely overlooked RDF. The copy I have in my collection is actually a pre-release burn from the EGM vault, and not a retail

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Radical Rex

Developer: Beam Software Publisher: Activision Released: 1994 It’s so interesting to look back at the nineties and realize just how important a friendly mascot character was to absolutely every video game publisher. Everyone needed their version of Mario or Sonic. Bubsy. Sparkster. Aero the AcroBat. Now, in 2018, only

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Generation 16 Episode #114 is live!

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Racing Aces

Developer: Hammond & Leyland Publisher: Sega Released: 1993 Back in 1993 this felt like a really weird release by Sega. Especially for the Sega CD. The system was no stranger to what felt like experimental games, but Sega of America wasn’t usually the company doing it. American Sega CD

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Puggsy

Developer: Traveller’s Tales Publisher: Psygnosis Release: 1993 Have you ever heard of something called the “demo scene?” Folks who are old enough to remember trading and copying “cracked” versions of games have likely run across it. Back in the day, when games on systems like the PC and Commodore

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Prize Fighter

Developer: Digital Pictures Publisher: Sega Sports Released: 1993 Say what you want about the limitations of full motion video games, you have to give Tom Zito and the group that would become Digital Pictures a lot of credit for pushing those limitations further than I’m sure anyone thought possible

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Generation 16, Episode 108 - Arrow Flash

It's finally here! The latest episode of Generation 16 is live. This is the first episode to use the new, single-game format I'll be employing moving forward. The hope is that episodes come out FAR more frequently than they have been using this new format. Please

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Prince of Persia

Developer: Bits Laboratory Publisher: Sega Year: 1992 In May of 1985 Jordan Mechner was staring down the barrel of the rest of his life. About to graduate from Yale at the edge of 21 years old, his first game, Karateka, had just hit the top of Billboard’s software charts.

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Power Monger

Developer: Bullfrog Productions Sega CD Port: Sprytes Publisher: Electronic Arts Released: 1994 When Electronic Arts first came on the console scene, it was to release two PC ports on Sega’s Genesis - the fighting game Budokan and the early God game by Bullfrog Productions and Peter Molyneaux, Populous. Populous

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Power Factory Featuring C+C Music Factory

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Digital Pictures Released: 1993 Don’t let that title mislead you! This is the fourth and final Make My Video game released for the Sega CD. For some reason, in spite of being advertised as “coming soon” in late 1992, it took another six months or

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Popful Mail

Developer: Sega Falcom Publisher: Sega (Japan), Working Designs (US) Released: 1994, 1995 Working Designs published four games total for the Sega CD - Lunar, Lunar 2, Vay and Popful Mail. Of those four, I’d still rank Lunar as my favourite, but Popful Mail is definitely the most unique of