Generation 16

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Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit

Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Release: 1994 Formula One World Championship: Beyond the Limit is the best racing game you've never played. This is the game that made me realize I'd been wanting so much more in my console racers. It was the closest thing we got

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Flink

Publisher: Vic Tokai Developer: Psygnosis Release: 1994 The British games were flowing on the Mega Drive and Mega CD in the mid-90s, and a surprising number of them made it to our shores. The (Mis)Adventures of Flink will seem immediately familiar to anyone who's played stuff like

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Generation 16 - Episode 003 is live!

It was a long time coming, but now it's here. Generation 16 Episode 003 is finally live. Covered in this episode is the North American launch of the Genesis, as well as the five new games released on the system between July and October of 1989 - World

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Flashback: The Quest for Identity

Publisher: U.S. Gold Developer: Delphine Software Release: 1994 Flashback is one of those games you just never saw coming. An instant classic that seemed to appear out of nowhere across just about every platform you could think of. Sure, the game got a fair amount of hype from the

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Final Fight CD

Publisher: Sega Developer: Capcom (original), Sega (port) Release: 1993 Final Fight was one of those games that was at the center of the battle between the SNES and Genesis in the early nineties. I mean to say that, when the SNES launched in North America, one of the main, third-party

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - FIFA International Soccer

Publisher: EA Sports Developer: Extended Play Productions Release: 1994 If you follow this website you probably know about my other series, Generation 16. The episode I'm currently working on there features the first soccer game on the Genesis: World Cup Soccer. By coincidence, FIFA International Soccer is the

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Game Club #25 - Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

Listen up, pardners, it's our 25th Game Club, and to celebrate, we're tackling the most recent (although still seven years old) entry in Lorne Lanning's Oddworld series, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath. It's an (*ahem*) odd hybrid of first- and third-person shooters

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Generation 16 - Episode 2

Here it is! The second episode of Generation 16, the series where I explore the games of Sega's Mega Drive. This episode features the games released in the first part of 1989, leading up to the American release of the Genesis. Games featured in this episode are: -

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Fatal Fury Special

Publisher: JVC Developer: SNK (original)/Funcom (port) Release: 1994 You know how publishers fall all over themselves to release first-person shooters nowadays? Well back in the early '90s, the hot genre was one-on-one fighting games. Street Fighter II ruled the world, while everyone else scrambled for Capcom's

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Fahrenheit

Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Studios Release: 1995 Full-motion video games were, for the most part, pretty bad. Although I enjoy a few of them, they pretty much sucked. And Fahrenheit is a perfect example of why they sucked. Playing this game now, one of the first things that strikes me

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Generation 16 - Episode 1

My WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL series not enough to satisfy your classic Sega cravings, you say? I feel your pain. And so I'm here to introduce a new Sega-based series on the Player One Podcast: Generation 16. Generation 16 is a video series chronicling the rise and fall

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Eye of the Beholder

Publisher: FCI/Pony Canyon Developer: Westwood Associates Release: 1994 Before they became known as the fathers of the real-time strategy genre, Westwood Studios (aka Westwood Associates, back in the day) was probably most well-known for this game. Eye of the Beholder, a dungeon-crawler set in the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Eternal Champions: Challenge From the Dark Side

Publisher: Sega Deep Water Developer: Sega Interactive Development Division Release: 1995 Mankind is doomed. These are the end times. The downfall of mankind can be directly traced to the untimely deaths of a few key individuals. In an effort to rectify this situation, the Eternal Champion – a god-like, time traveling

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - ESPN Sunday Night NFL

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Ringler Studios Release: 1994 Finally! We've reached the last of the ESPN sports games for the Sega CD from Sony Imagesoft. This is arguably the most important one of the group. After all, the NFL is pretty much like a religion in the US.

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - ESPN NBA HangTime '95

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Sony Imagesoft Release: 1994 The parade of ESPN-branded sports games continues its slow, agonizing march. I don't have any history with NBA HangTime '95, so I went into this thinking I was about to experience the only authentic NBA simulator on the system

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - ESPN National Hockey Night

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Park Place Productions Release: 1994 Here we have the second of four ESPN-licensed sports games from Sony for the Sega CD. In the last instalment of this series I covered the baseball game, which was downright atrocious. National Hockey Night isn't quite as bad

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - ESPN Baseball Tonight

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Park Place Productions Release: 1994 ESPN Baseball Tonight is the first in a series of ESPN-branded sports games for the 16-bit machines. This is one of four that made it to the Sega CD (National Hockey Night, NBA Hang Time and Sunday Night NFL being the

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Ecco: The Tides of Time

Publisher: Sega Developer: Novotrade Release: 1994 If folks considered the groundbreaking Ecco the Dolphin a bit too difficult for its own good, this follow-up thumbs its (bottle)nose at anyone who complained by ratcheting up the challenge even further. The Tides of Time is a direct sequel to the previous

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Ecco the Dolphin

Publisher: Sega Developer: Novotrade Release: 1993 Ecco the Dolphin is one of the games that defined Sega and the Genesis back in the '90s. As crazy as an adventure game starring a dolphin sounds nowadays, it was doubly so back when Ecco was first announced. But when people actually

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Earthworm Jim: Special Edition

Publisher: Interplay Developer: Shiny Release: 1995 And now we arrive at one of my all-time favourite games. Dave Perry made a name for himself during the 16-bit era mostly through licensed games – he had a hand in most of the great Disney games on the Genesis, the most memorable of

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Game Club #24 - Gargoyle's Quest

It's Game Club time again, folks! This session, we're checking out a 21-year-old portable game--Capcom's Gargoyle's Quest. It's an action/adventure title with a few light RPG elements starring Firebrand (aka Red Arremer; aka the irritating red demon from Ghouls

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Dungeon Master II: Skullkeep

Publisher: JVC Developer: FTL Release: 1994 Considering the relatively recent shift in popularity of console RPGs, it's kind of easy to forget that a western RPG on home console was a bit of an oddity during the 16-bit days. And when they did happen they were almost always

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Dungeon Explorer

Publisher: Sega Developer: Westone Release: 1995 Dungeon Explorer is likely a game even the most Sega CD faithful have never heard of, let alone played. It was one of the last half-dozen or so titles released on the platform. What makes it a bit more of an oddity is that

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Dune

Publisher: Virgin Interactive Developer: Cryo Interactive Release: 1993 Yet again I find myself trying to figure out how I have to frame this game. I'm not sure most of our readers are old enough to remember this book, the disappointing movie from 1984, or the father of the

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Dragon's Lair

Publisher: ReadySoft Developer: Epicenter Release: 1993 I guess this is pretty much the grandaddy of the FMV video game movement. I'm going to explain this game a bit because I'm guessing a lot of the younger folk don't know it quite as well as