Generation 16

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Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Dracula Unleashed

Publisher: Viacom New Media/Sega Developer: ICOM Simulations Release: 1993 It would be easy to dismiss Dracula Unleashed without even learning what it's about – horror-themed full-motion video games on the Sega CD were pretty much guaranteed shit back in the day (Night Trap, Corpse Killer, Bram Stoker'

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Double Switch

Publisher: Digital Pictures Developer: Digital Pictures Released: 1993 Double Switch basically feels like Digital Pictures returning to the well. Night Trap was pretty much the game that put Digital Pictures on the map – for better or worse – and Double Switch seems like an attempt to emulatethat sort of campy, trap-em-all

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Demolition Man

Publisher: Acclaim Developer: Alexandria, Inc. Released: 1994 Our series goes from the dizzying heights of a quality stratRPG like Dark Wizard to the depressing lows of a bog-standard 16-bit licensed action game in Demolition Man. The film Demolition Man is memorable for a few reasons. Firstly, it was definitely one

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Dark Wizard

Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Released: 1993 Finally we get to one of the Sega CD's rare yet awesome RPGs. The land of Cheshire used to be a beautiful place where the powers of light and dark were in perfect balance, and the people prospered under the rule of

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Crime Patrol

Publisher: American Laser Games Developer: American Laser Games Year: 1994 Here we have the first appearance of a handful of titles that will appear in this series from American Laser Games. ALG was a group based out of New Mexico that briefly revived the laserdisc genre in arcades during the

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Corpse Killer

Publisher: Digital Pictures Developer: Digital Pictures Released: 1994 Another of the infamous series of U-Direct films from Digital Pictures that greatly contributed to the horrible reputation suffered by the Sega CD. These games tended to fall into a limited number of genres – Corpse Killer is basically a video shooting gallery.

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia

Publisher: Compton's NewMedia Developer: Compton's NewMedia Released: 1994 This is another of the handful of reference media that was released for the Sega CD (I already covered Animals in a previous installment of the series). Anyone who was in school back in the 90s likely remembers

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Cobra Command

Publisher: Sega Developer: Wolf Team Released: 1992 And we finally get to our first Wolf Team game. Wolf Team was a very prolific developer on the Sega CD platform, perhaps more so than any other team. But Cobra Command is not a Wolf Team original. This game started life as

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - The Colors of Modern Rock

Publisher: Sega Developer: Digital Pictures Released: 1993 This is a bit of an odd one. Those who remember the launch of the Sega CD in the US might also remember that the pack-in software bundle included two music CDs – a regular music sampler and a CD+G disc. Right from

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Cliffhanger

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Malibu Interactive Released: 1993 We've already established that Batman Returns on the Sega CD is one of the greatest games in the history of everything. And that mostly had to do with the kick-ass engine used in the driving sequences. So hey, if you&

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Citizen X

Publisher: Good Deal Games Developer: Digital Pictures Released: 2004 This is a milestone for the WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL series. This is the first game we've featured that was developed by the infamous Digital Pictures. Even if you've never heard of the Sega CD, you'

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck

Publisher: Virgin Interactive Developer: Core Design Release: 1993 When last we saw Chuck, he was busy saving his wife Ophelia from local weirdo Garry Gritter. And according to the intro of Chuck Rock II, once our prehistoric hero had rescued his sweetie, he went on to invent the first automobile,

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Game Club #23 - Beyond Good & Evil

It's that time again! Time for another entry in our increasingly infrequent Game Club! As we discussed on a recent episode, we've decided to tackle Michel Ancel's beloved Beyond Good & Evil. The game is currently available on PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and PC. Ubisoft

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Chuck Rock

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Core Design Released: 1992 I've probably said this a dozen times already during the WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL series, but I can't believe how prolific Core Design was on a system that really wasn't around all that long. Plus they

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Championship Soccer '94

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Sensible Software Released: 1994 Anyone who really follows soccer (sorry, football) will likely look at the screenshots attached to this article and quickly realize it's simply the Sega CD version of Sensible Soccer, which was a long-running – and quite popular – footie series across the

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm

Publisher: Sega Developer: Rocket Science Games Released: 1994 The next game in this series should really be Burning Fists. But seeing as I don't own a copy of that one (currently in the process of trying to order it from Good Deal Games), I'm going to

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Bug Blasters: The Exterminators

Publisher: Good Deal Games Developer: StarGate Entertainment Released: 2000 Imagine my surprise when Shane Bettenhausen informed me that there were two new Sega CD games coming to market back in 2000. A little company I'd never heard of – Good Deal Games – had picked up the rights to release

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Brutal: Paws of Fury

Publisher: GameTek Developer: Eurocom Released: 1994 In the early nineties everyone was making fighting games. The ridiculous success of Street Fighter II spawned a tidal wave of me-too fighters, most of them absolutely atrocious. And how could Brutal: Paws of Fury be anything but? A fighting game starring anthropomorphic animals

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Bram Stoker's Dracula

Publisher: Sony Imagesoft Developer: Psygnosis Released: 1993 In the early nineties the smart money was on Hollywood and the video game industry ultimately joining forces. I mean, how could that not be the future? Games were an exciting new way to tell interesting stories, viewers were able to interact with

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Bouncers

Publisher: Sega Developer: Dynamix Released: 1994 My unholy love for the Sega CD means that, even back in the day, I was pretty good at keeping up on the games released for the system. But I honestly had never even heard of Bouncers until years after the hardware was dead.

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Black Hole Assault

Publisher: Bignet U.S.A. Developer: Micronet Co., Ltd. Released: 1992 Black Hole Assault was one of the early releases on the Sega CD (cardboard box and all). I doubt many people know that it was actually a sequel to a Genesis game Heavy Nova. Not that anyone would find

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Bill Walsh College Football

Bill Walsh College Football Publisher: EA Sports Developer: High Score Productions Released: 1993 Sports games on the Sega CD fell squarely into the “slightly upgraded cartridge game” format. EA Sports' stuff in particular followed a pretty standard formula – you got the cartridge game with a bit of real music

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - BC Racers

Publisher: Core Design Developer: Core Design Released: 1994 Was there a more prolific Sega CD developer than Core Design? Probably not. Hot on the heels of my Battlecorps bit comes BC Racers. I could rattle on and on about all the names attached to this game that would eventually go

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Game Club #22 - Super Metroid

The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace... Holy cow! We're finally doing another Game Club! In celebration of our 200th episode of the Player One Podcast and the upcoming release of Metroid: Other M for Wii, we are taking a look back at one

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WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Battlecorps

Publisher: Core Design Developer: Core Design Released: 1994 Nowadays, I don't know that anyone really knows who Core Design was. Though if you're old enough to remember the original Tomb Raider, chances are you've at least heard the name. Hard as it is to