[Multiplatform] Sonic's Ultimate Mega Genesis Collection Drive

I've already ordered this as it happens, mainly so the missus can play Shining Force.

IF ONLY I LIVED IN AUSTRALIA THOUGH I'D GET THAT NEAT RECORD. NOT SURE IF IT WOULD FIT IN MY CD PLAYER MIND YOU.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

According to Amazon, the UK version appears not to have embraced the "Sonic" moniker. Plus, it's only £25 so it's looking like quite a bargain compared to the price of XBLA or WiiWare titles.

I'm quite surprised by the achievement list. I was half expecting there to be 200 different 5 point achievements, several difficult ones for each game.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Oh hey so I bought this on Friday, primarily so the missus could play Shining Force and I could play Phastasy Star.

The menu system between games is ok although annoyingly, you can't hold down a direction to scroll through the games, you have to press up or down once for each step. You can rate all the games from one to five though and sort them in order of preference so all the shit like Alex Kidd can get dumped to the bottom of the list.

There's a bit of info for each game and some "interesting" facts on each (Did you know that Tails' real name is Miles Prower, which is a pun on the phrase Miles per hour?) along with a picture of the North American box art and cartridge.

The games themselve initially load up in a square screen with a sort of themed border thing filling up the rest of the display on a widescreen tv but you can opt to stretch the whole display to 16:9 if you wish. The smoothing option is off by default but I can't say I could tell any difference between it being off and on anyway. You can use both the left stick and d-pad to control the games and choose which buttons are mapped to which Megadrive ones.

Achievements wise, some are hilariously easy (A monster 50 points for viewing all the artwork, all of which is unlocked from the start so you just spend five minutes scrolling through it all) and some, significantly harder (20,000 points on Columns easy mode is currently beyond me, as are some of the other score challenges) and there's an achievement for most of the games, some of which you'll probably only play once just for the achievement (Alex Kidd for example, collect $1,000 which you can do on the first screen which is lucky because unlike the amazing Master System Miracle World game, the one on here is utter toilet).

Getting the achievements generally unlocks various video interviews or arcade games so the OCD amongst you will have something to keep them busy. I think if you don't already own a lot of these games on console, this is worth the £20 odd it'll cost you. Certainly playing things like Sonic on a console is more fun that on an emulator (Although I do already have the PS2 Sonic collection) and playing through Shining Force is fun so far (Despite the retarded inventory system).

So whilst the lack of online multi-player is a fairly criminal oversight, this is a decent collection of games and worth it if you can find it cheap-ish, which should be pretty easy. If nothing else you could rent it for a couple of hundred really easy achievement points if that's your bag.

Additional Spam:
Alexx Kidd in Miracle World is a great game. Alex Kidd in fugly sidescrolling punching game with endless pointless rock-paper-scissors games and nasty controls in the Enchanted Castle isn't.

Additional Spam:
What the fuck happened to Skills' post?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Ha ha, Flicky's annoying as fuck but is strangely addictive.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?