Sega Megadrive

Released in Japan in 1988, and then later released in the UK in 1990, the Sega Mega Drive was one of the pioneering 16 bit consoles. The first game I happened to come across running on the Mega Drive was Strider. With its arcade like graphics, faced paced visuals and multiple enemies on screen this game immediately caught my attention. One could clearly see the difference between the 8 bit and 16 bit consoles. I became a great fan of the Sega Mega Drive, a system I thoroughly enjoyed at the time especially with games such Sonic the Hedgehog. While the Mega Drive and Super Nintendo were both 16 bit consoles, the games suited to each system varied due ...

OK, to be perfectly honest, I didn't like this 16-bit system here all that much at first mainly because it killed off my beloved TurboGrafx-16. I bought one off my cousin for only 10 bucks and I still didn't like it (maybe it was the games I had like Ballz and X-men). I thought it was only a matter of time before it would make a trip to Mr. Dumpster but then I managed to find that Phantasy Star 4 was for sale in a local movie store and it was then that I started playing this system non-stop for weeks. Because the system had some real solid titles and games like the Phantasy Star series rocked! Other games like Revenge of Shinobi and Sonic the Hedgehog for example ...

I do have realy fond memories of the Sega Mega Drive, the 16 bit console was the star of the Sega Empire in the early nineties and I much preferred it to the competition from Nintendo. Compared with what is on offer today is was a basic model suitable only for playing games and there was no need to worry about onine playing. It had two sockets for controlers allowing for two player games. The controls were not that different to those currently available only with a few less buttons. It took games in a cartridge format and these were inserted into the top of the console. What was great about the console was the fact that it was fairly small and light ...