Generation 16

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Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

Publisher: Activision Developer: Activision/Redline Games Released: 1994 You know Pitfall, right? David Crane’s 1982 platformer basically defined a genre. Its success not only solidified Activision as a powerhouse publisher, but proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that great Atari 2600 games could come from somewhere other than

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Panic!

Publisher: Data East Developer: Sega Released: 1993 A virus has infected the world’s computers (and cars, and coffee makers, and elevators, and televisions, etc, etc), and it’s up to Slap and his dog, Stick, to enter the central computer and administer an antidote. To do this they have

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Night Trap

Publisher: Sega Developer: Digital Pictures Released: 1992 On May 8, 1981, John Krizanc’s new play, Tamara, debuted in Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Toronto. The play is based on an historic meeting between Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka and Italian writer Gabriele D’Annunzio. But Tamara wasn’t your run-of-the-mill production, where

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - NHL Hockey '94

Publisher: EA Sports Developer: Electronic Arts / Mark Lesser Released: 1993 After the runaway success of Electronic Arts’ John Madden Football on the Genesis, development of a sequel was planned almost immediately. But EA was looking to expand - it had football covered, and had tackled basketball with Jordan vs Bird,

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - NFL's Greatest: San Francisco vs Dallas 1978-1993

Publisher: Sega Developer: Park Place Productions Released: 1993 The previous game in this series was one of the more interesting titles on the system. NFL Football Trivia Challenge was a case study in mid-90s, multimedia “experience” design. NFL’s Greatest, on the other hand, is just kind of bizarre. The

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - NFL Football Trivia Challenge

Publisher: Capitol Multimedia, Inc & Philips Interactive Media Developer: CapDisc Released: 1993 Here’s another one of those discs that falls squarely into that early multimedia category along with stuff like Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia or My Paint (?). I’ve spoken about it a few times in this series already.

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - NBA Jam

Publisher: Acclaim Developer: Iguana Entertainment Released: 1994 Considering the reputation Acclaim (rightfully) had during most of its life span, it's easy to forget the glory days. The mid-nineties were quite kind to this notorious brand. Through a series of acquisitions of the likes of Probe Software, Iguana Entertainment,

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - My Paint

Publisher: Saddleback Graphics Developer: WayForward Released: 1993 I wonder how many people even know the Genesis had a mouse peripheral. The internet prattles on endlessly about Mario Paint for the SNES, but Sega was all over that stuff as well! OK, not really. The first paint program on the Genesis

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Mortal Kombat

Publisher: Arena Entertainment Developer: Midway (original), Probe Software (port) Release: 1994 Mortal Kombat is arguably one of the most important games of the '90s, perhaps even the history of the industry. It took arcades by storm at a time when Capcom's Street Fighter II seemed unassailable. And

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Generation 16 - Episode #016

Episode #016 is finally here! Learn about the final five games of November, 1990. Also, something pretty big happened in the world of video games around that time...

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers

Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Released: 1995 This series has covered enough FMV games at this point that there’s no reason to go on about all the things wrong with the medium. And, of course, Sega invested heavily in the medium and tried to weather the storm for quite a

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Midnight Raiders

Publisher: Sega Developer: Stargate Films Released: 1994 By 1994 full-motion video games had fallen into a few different formulas. There were the multithreaded stories fashioned after Night Trap, running stories riddled with timed button presses a la Dragon's Lair, and basic shooting galleries like the offerings from American

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Microcosm

Publisher: Psygnosis Developer: Psygnosis Advanced Technology Group Released: 1993 Microcosm is yet another entry in what seems like a neverending list of full-motion video shooters that seemed to infect the market back in the early 90s. Much like Sewer Shark, this is simply a sprite-based, into the screen shoot em

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Mickey Mania: The Timeless Adventures of Mickey Mouse

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Traveller's Tales Released: 1994 During the late 80s, Capcom built a reputation for fantastic games based on Disney licenses, the mighty DuckTales for NES being the crown jewel. In the early 90s, Sega began building a similar reputation with titles like Castle of Illusion

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Generation 16 - Episode 013

It is the '90s, and there is time for 8-mega power! The latest episode of Generation 16 explores the biggest game cartridge ever made, the birth of the Sega Technical Institute, the arrival of Tengen and the UK release of the Mega Drive. Hope you enjoy! Games covered include:

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - MegaRace

Publisher: The Software Toolworks Developer: Cryo Interactive Entertainment Release: 1994 I've spoken a lot about why I'm crazy about the video game industry in the early 90s, and a big part of it has to do with the exploratory nature of early CD-ROM games. It felt

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - The Masked Rider: Kamen Rider ZO

Publisher: Sega Developer: Toei Animation Release: 1994 When the CD medium was in its infancy, we all heard endlessly about the inherent advantages the shiny discs had over traditional cartridges. Way more memory, no more connectors to clean, the ability for full-motion video, and so on. And, one of the

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Psygnosis Released: 1994 Like Bram Stoker's Dracula before it, this game represents the brief, awful resurgence of the monster movie in the mid-90s. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) was a Kenneth Branagh joint, and it was abysmal. He and producer Francis Ford Coppola

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch: Make My Video

Publisher: Sega Developer: Digital Pictures Release: 1992 Here we go again. This time it's Marky Mark's turn on the mic in the third, but not final, Make My Video game for the Sega CD. The (flimsy) story this time around is that a brother and sister

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Mansion of Hidden Souls

Publisher: Vic Tokai Developer: System Sacom Year: 1993 Mansion of Hidden Souls is not a great game. It's a slow, plodding puzzle game in the same vein as Myst or Lunacy. And I absolutely love it. The story goes like this: a brother and sister are out one

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Mad Dog II: The Lost Gold

Publisher: American Laser Games Developer: American Laser Games Release: 1994 This will be a short one, because honestly there's not much to say about Mad Dog II that I didn't already say about its predecessor. Once again you play a nameless stranger. Once again you'

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Mad Dog McCree

Developer: American Laser Games Publisher: American Laser Games Year: 1993 Here we are with another American Laser Games joint. This time it's Mad Dog McCree, which was actually the very first arcade game released by ALG, and set the standard for their subsequent releases – shooting galleries using full-motion

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Lunar: Eternal Blue

Publisher: Game Arts/Working Designs Developer: Game Arts/Studio Alex Release: 1995 Lunar was the best-selling Sega CD game in Japan, and the second-best in the world behind Sonic CD. And here we have the third-best-selling game in the world with Lunar: Eternal Blue. Unlike the more popular RPG series

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Lunar: The Silver Star

Lunar: The Silver Star Publisher: Game Arts Developer: Team Alex Release: 1993 Ask anyone to name a Sega CD game and you'll most likely hear three titles in particular over and over again – Night Trap, Sonic CD, and Lunar: The Silver Star. Night Trap because it was infamous

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Generation 16 - Episode 010

The long wait is finally over! Generation 16 Episode 010 is now available. In this episode we see history in the making, as Electronic Arts makes its console debut on the Sega Genesis. We also see Namco join the fray, and learn just how important Sunsoft's Batman game