Sega Megadrive

Released back in the early 90s to compete with the Super Nintendo, the Sega Megadrive is a hardy, sixteen-bit gaming console with a plethora of original and innovative games available for it. The console allows for colourful cartoonish graphics and smooth animation, excellent midi music and great sound effects, and is robust and well-designed, with simple, ergonomicaly designed boomerang-shaped joypads with just 3 buttons and a direction pad. Some of the best games include Desert Strike and Jungle Strike- in which you fly about isometrically-presented cityscapes in a attack helicopter blowing up all and sundry; Sonic 1 and 2- high speed scrolling platform ...  Read the complete review

The Sega Megadrive is an excellent retro console, robust, reliable, dependable, and boasting hundreds upon hundreds of classic games, it is without a doubt the best platform of the 20th century. Alien Storm, Streets of Rage, Sonic, James Pond, Populous, Rambo, Mortal Kombat, Terminator and Dune are just some of the incredible titles that this console runs. Mine has been working for almost 20 years now, and despite being dusty and knackered as hell, still runs with incredible grace and reliability. The sheer nostalgia that the games hold, and the vastly intuitive joypads that come with the Mega Drive are nothing short of genius. As heavy and clunky ...  Read the complete review

The Sega Mega Drive II console was a highlight of my childhood. When my parents sold it to upgrade to a PlayStation, I was devastated. Years later, filled with nostalgic memories and a longing for the games and soundtracks of my past, I bought a console again and became a collector of Mega Drive and Master System games. I've not been disappointed. The console is a true great - a legend amongst those who grew up with it, and an excellent talking point when guests are visiting. The range of games is more than extensive, and there's something to suit everyone - games for girls, for boys, for young and old. Favourites of mine include Land of Illusion, Talmit's ...  Read the complete review

I am the proud owner of the Mega Drive version 1, not to mention the other Segas, also have the Mega CD still. Cool? I thought I was the coolest kid in class owning these. Mega Drive was Sega's third console. It was a the first ever 16 bit console released in Japan in 1988 and in America in 1989. It was released in the rest of the world in 1990. It had the name Genesis in North America (apparently because Sega was unable to secure the rights to the Mega Drive name. So now you know!). It has sold over 29 million units worldwide thus making it Segas best selling console, quite rightly too. The story= My first experience of the Mega ...  Read the complete review

This console released in 1990 has made a popular recognition to people worldwide, and truly has made a landmark in video game history with it's wonderful games library and quality of gaming graphics, playability and stereo sound. In my opinion this is the must have retro console if you were to own only one of them, the games released for it were incredibly good, well i certainly never get bored of them, and i still go back to this console and play all the games i have for it! There were two versions released, the first one (Megadrive 1) had features like a headphone socket and was reasonably big, then years later a new model was released (Megadrive ...  Read the complete review