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unusual facts about Mega Drive



Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes

Within the next few years, it would also be ported to the NEC PC-9801, MSX 2, Sharp X68000, Mega Drive, Super Famicom, and TurboGrafx-16; a Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes Barcode Battler card set was also released by Epoch Co. in 1992.

Final Blow

The name would remain the same for all ported platforms, except for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis versions, which Sega released outside of Japan as James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing featuring Buster Douglas himself in 1990 immediately after his victory over Mike Tyson.

Gamestation

They also sell, and accept as part exchange, games and consoles from older generations, such as the Sega Master System, Mega Drive, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation, although this practice looks set to cease due to Game disposing of old "retro" stock.

Ghouls'n Ghosts

The player controls the knight Arthur, who must advance through a series of eerie levels and defeat a number of undead and demonic creatures in his quest to restore the souls stolen by Lucifer (Loki in the English-language Mega Drive and Sega Master System versions), including the soul of his lover, Princess Prin Prin.

International Cricket Captain

Although there had been attempts cricket games in the recent past, ranging from International Cricket on the NES and Brian Lara Cricket on the PC, Mega Drive and later the PlayStation, ICC was groundbreaking in that it was the first cricket based game to move away from the traditional arcade format.

International Rugby Challenge

International Rugby Challenge (also known simply as International Rugby) is a rugby game on Mega Drive (Genesis) and the Commodore Amiga.

Parallax scrolling

Some platforms (e.g., Super NES, Mega Drive/Genesis, Game Boy Advance, Game Boy, Nintendo DS) provide a horizontal blank interrupt for automatically setting the registers independently of the rest of the program.

Sega Classics Collection

This game is not to be confused with the similarly titled Sega Genesis Collection, which contains 28 emulated classic games for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console in their original form includes three of the games in this collection (Bonanza Bros., Columns, Golden Axe).

Sega Power

Sega Power, initially known as S: The Sega Magazine, was a Future publication aimed at the Sega range of consoles, including the Master System, Mega Drive, Game Gear and later on the Mega-CD, 32X and Saturn.

Shadow of the Beast

Namely, the Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, SNES – unreleased, Mega Drive/Genesis, Sega Master System, Atari Lynx, FM-Towns and PC-Engine TurboCD.


see also

Congo Bongo

An emulated version of the original arcade release is featured as an unlockable in the PlayStation Portable version of the Sega Genesis Collection (Sega Mega Drive Collection in PAL regions).

This version was also featured in Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection in PAL regions) for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Donald in Maui Mallard

Despite being the original, the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis version was only released in Brazil and Europe and never saw a North American version due to Nintendo securing an exclusive publishing contract for the game; however the Sega Genesis version did eventually see an American release, but only as a Sega Channel exclusive.

ESWAT

ESWAT: City under Siege, a 1990 side scrolling platform video game for the Sega Mega Drive/Sega Genesis video game console

NHLPA

NHLPA Hockey '93 is a video game released by Electronic Arts in 1992 for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Wayne Gretzky and the NHLPA All-Stars is a video game released by Time Warner Interactive for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1995.

Sega Meganet

Sega's 16-bit console, the Sega Genesis (known as Mega Drive in most areas outside of North America) was released in Japan on October 29, 1988, though the launch was overshadowed by Nintendo's release of Super Mario Bros. 3 a week earlier.

Ultimate Soccer

While similar in name, it has no relations with the Ultimate Soccer Manager series, but was followed by Striker still for the Mega Drive/Genesis, Striker '96, released for DOS, Sega Saturn and the PlayStation, and Striker Pro 2000, released for PlayStation and the Dreamcast.

X-Men 2

X-Men 2: Clone Wars, a video game released in 1995 by Sega of America for the Mega Drive/Genesis