Generation 16

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Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Lords of Thunder

Lords of Thunder Publisher: Hudson Soft Developer: Red Entertainment Port: Eleven Release: 1995 Have you ever heard of this game? Likely not. Lords of Thunder is actually a sequel to Gate of Thunder, both of which were shooters originally developed for the PC Engine CD format. Not only was it

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine

Publisher: Rocket Science Games Developer: Rocket Science Games Release: 1994 To anyone who wasn't paying attention to the gaming industry during the early 90s, Loadstar: The Legend of Tully Bodine is easy to dismiss as just another crappy FMV game for the Sega CD, barely registering next to

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Links: The Challenge of Golf

Publisher: Virgin Interactive Developer: Papyrus Design Group Release: 1994 Golf games are something I never really paid attention to back in the 90s, though as I've started to take a look back at classic game libraries I've started to realize that they were one of the

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters

Publisher: Konami Developer: Konami Release: 1994 Two years after the first Lethal Enforcers lit up the arcades Konami revisited the formula. This time, though, rather than a contemporary setting, Lethal Enforcers II took place in the old west. After all, shooting bad guys in Nikes and ski masks is fun

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Lethal Enforcers

Publisher: Konami Developer: Konami Release: 1992 Light gun shooters make me sad. They seem to be a truly dead genre, and thanks to our new-fangled, non-CRT television sets, it's pretty difficult to enjoy them the way God intended – with a colourful plastic instrument of death pointed at your

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Generation 16 - Episode 009

Seems like it took forever, but Episode 009 of Generation16 is here! Sunsoft's debut brings us the first online-enabled Mega Drive game. Technosoft returns with its third game on the system. And Sega publishes the first Mega Drive game that originated in the U S of A. Games

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - The Lawnmower Man

Publisher: Sales Curve Interactive (SCi) Developer: Sales Curve Interactive (SCi) Release: 1994 Considering how ubiquitous The Lawnmower Man was when it came out in 1992, it's kind of amazing how it's more or less been completely forgotten. This was one of the first films to seriously

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Kris Kross: Make My Video

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Digital Pictures Release: 1992 We're in a bit of a bad stretch in the WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL series. Here we have the second of three Make My Video titles from Sony Imagesoft and Digital Pictures. This also happens to be one of the

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Kids on Site

Publisher: Sega Developer: Digital Pictures Release: 1994 Sega spent many marketing dollars convincing all of us that Nintendo was for babies, that the Genesis was for the cool kids. And they did it with great success, obviously. But that doesn't mean that the baby gamer market was completely

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Generation 16 Episode 008

In Episode 008 we welcome the two latest publishers to the Mega Drive fold: Kaneko and Renovation. We also explore the genesis of Project Million Seller. Games Included: - Darwin 4081 - Phantasy Star III: Generation of Doom - Psy-O-Blade - DJ Boy - Whip Rush Enjoy!

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Keio Flying Squadron

Publisher: JVC Developer: Victor Entertainment Release: 1993 Despite the fact that the Sega CD didn't necessarily set the world on fire sales-wise in any particular region, there were a handful of surprising games localized and released in North America – stuff you didn't normally see on this

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Jurassic Park

Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Multimedia Studio Release: 1993 Nowadays when you get similarly licensed games across multiple platforms, they're usually the exact same experience, give or take a few technical issues like frame rate or loading times. One of the great things about the 16-bit generation, though, is

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Joe Montana's NFL Football

Publisher: Sega Developer: Malibu Interactive Year: 1993 To say that the game of football had something to do with Sega's success with the Genesis would be a massive understatement. The rise of console sports games in the west can pretty much be traced to EA's John

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Jeopardy!

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Absolute Entertainment Year: 1994 What do I say about this one? This...is...Jeopardy! Actually, you won't hear that famous phrase uttered in the Sega CD incarnation of this long-running television game show. I assume that means Sony wasn't able to secure

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Jaguar XJ220

Publisher: JVC Developer: Core Design Release: 1992 About a month after I bought my shiny new Sega CD, I was at a bit of a loss. I'd worked through all the cases in Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective. I'd managed to complete Sol-Deace. I'd gotten

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Iron Helix

Publisher: Spectrum Holobyte Developer: Drew Pictures Port: Brian A. Rice, Inc. Release: 1995 I've brought up the idea of the multimedia frontier more than a few times in this series of posts. Back in the early- to mid-90s, the advent of affordable CD-ROM drives resulted in some very

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Generation 16 Episode 006

The newest episode of Generation 16 is now live on YouTube and Archive.org. In Episode 006 we take a look at the final game of 1989, the first few titles of 1990, and the story of the most valuable Mega Drive cartridge ever produced. Please watch!

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - INXS: Make My Video

Publisher: Sega Developer: Digital Pictures Release: 1992 I have made being a Sega CD apologist a full-time job, and even I can't justify the existence of the Make My Video series. Here's the 411. In each of these games you're presented with three songs

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Hot Hits & Rock Paintings

Release: 1992 OK, so this one isn't really a game, but I still think it's worth covering both because it's an excuse to illustrate the incredible software bundle that came with the Sega CD hardware as well as a little snapshot of the multimedia

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Hook

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Ukiyotei/Core Design Release: 1992 To say Sony Imagesoft had a spotty record on the Sega CD is an understatement. For every Mickey Mania in their catalogue there were one or two Cliffhangers or Frankensteins. Based on the license and the early images back in the

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Generation 16 - Episode 005

Months of waiting are finally over! The fifth episode of Generation 16 is now live on YouTube and over on Archive.org. This episode features a game that many consider the birth of the modern real-time strategy genre, the first Mega Drive shooter from Toaplan, and the first game created

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Heimdall

Publisher: JVC/Core Design Developer: The 8th Day Release: 1994 As I've stated previously in this series, the Sega CD suffered no shortage of games from the UK, especially from Core Design. While all of that support was nice to have on a system that didn't

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Heart of the Alien: Out of This World Parts I & II

Publisher: Virgin Interactive Developer: Delphine Software (Part I)/Interplay (Part II) Release: 1994 I've already covered Flashback on WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL, and described how awesome it was. Out of This World was the direct inspiration for that game. This instant classic by developer Eric Chahi broke the

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Ground Zero Texas

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Digital Pictures Release: 1993 Here we have another in the line of Digital Pictures' multi-stream video series, where the player is tasked with jumping from one location to another in order to catch key plot points and essentially search for the game play. The first

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Generation 16 Episode 004 is live!

Welcome to Episode 004 of Generation 16 presented by the Player One Podcast. The Mega Drive celebrates its first birthday with its first movie-licensed game. That plus ladies with no shame, two heroes named Joe, and unauthorized appearances by comic book superheroes. Games this episode include: - Rambo III -