Nostalgia always wins. PlayStation Classic, NES, Super NES, Commodore 64 or even the Amiga 500 mini: small consoles have been popular for several years. After following in the footsteps of Nintendo and associating itself with its first Mega Drive mini of the same name, SEGA returns to the fray with the Mega Drive Mini 2. The extenor of the 90s video games announced the arrival of the reduced version (12.08 x 3.23 x 11.65 cm) by October 27 and pre-orders are now open.
More than 60 games available
Mega Drive appeared in France in 1990, two years after its release in Japan. It was later adapted from a system to an arcade terminal and quickly had almost a thousand games in its catalog, of which the most famous are preserved. Castlevania, Sonic The Hedgehog, Aladdin either mortal Kombat Y Ecco the Dolphin. In 1993, SEGA decided to overhaul their console to rival the competition with the Super NES. Change the design and the Mega Drive II then abandons its jack port to connect headphones. A total of nearly 40 million Mega Drive consoles will be sold, all models combined.
The Mega Drive Mini 2 (2022 release) will come with a six-button controller that will bring back memories for those who knew the original, but also a less-old high-speed HDMI cable and a USB power cable to connect it to the TV. Get out of the scart of yesteryear. The console features red buttons to approximate the initial 16-bit model. Other optional drivers are supported. But don’t expect to put old game cartridges in it. Obviously they are no longer the right size and we will have to make do with the list of games on board.
Because the Japanese company has mainly taken advantage of the announcement of advance orders -which are already planned in limited quantities- to reveal the catalog of games that will accompany the Mega Drive Mini 2. And Sonic’s dad has not done it halfway: He announce more than 60 titles from SEGA’s historical catalog, including games from the Mega CD era, a plug-in accessory to compete with the nascent PC-Engine console CD-ROM player. Some announced games will be ports for the portable console, but there will be some new titles, the publisher announces.
Amazon spilled the beans on the price. According to the official retailer, a price of around 110 euros is expected, which would make it the most expensive mini-console on the market.
The list of available games:
MegaDrive:
- After Burner II
- alien soldier
- atomic runner
- bonanza brothers
- clay fighter
- Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
- earthworm jim 2
- elementary teacher
- fatal fury 2
- gain ground
- Golden Ax II
- Grenade
- infernal fire
- Herzog Zwei
- midnight resistance
- Outrun
- OutRunners
- Star Fantasy II
- popular
- RAINBOW ISLANDS -EXTRA-
- ranger-x
- Ristar
- ROLLING THUNDER 2
- Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi
- Brilliant Force II
- Shining in the darkness
- Sun
- sonic 3d blast
- SPLASH 2
- streets of rage 3
- super wait
- SUPER STREET FIGHTER II THE NEW CHALLENGES
- the mucus
- Shinobi’s Revenge
- ToeJam and Earl panicking at Funkotron
- truxton
- vector man 2
- Point of view
- Virtua Racing
- War cry
- Ecco the dolphin
Mega CD:
- Ecco: The Tides of Time
- Final Fight CD
- NIGHT STRIKE
- night trap
- roberto aleste
- sewer shark
- Bright Force CD
- SILFED
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD
- THE NINJA WARRIORS
- Yumemi’s Mysterious Mansion
Bonus games:
- Devi and Pii (unreleased)
- Fantasy Zone (New port)
- Space Harrier II (+Space Harrier) (New Port)
- Splash (New port)
- Star Mobile (unreleased)
- Super Locomotive (New Portage)
- VS Puyo Puyo Sol (New Portage)
Source: BFM TV
