Hello and a big welcome to Retro Gamez UK.
Here you find a pretty much everything to do with retro gaming, for some reason today it seems a great ideal to have a Sega day, after talking about PlayStation, then Sega Saturn, Now Mega Drive, then maybe just for you a special treat again.
Here goes Part II of Sega Mega Drive. So we have mentioned about Sega Saturn and the Virtua Racing, well Virtua Racing was like it's answer to 3D for the Mega Drive, it featured a special chip that allowed extra graphics to be displayed, a bit like what Nintendo did with Starwing (Starfox) if you remember with the SuperFX chip, well Sega did that with Virtua Racing, and looked at what it produced a great game, with great sound, and not only that it was the first port of Virtua Racing to be released and was released for the Mega Drive. Now that was a treat, however the price tag for the game was steep.
Replaying Virtua Racing on the Mega Drive is a true classic from the blast. However we have more to talk about then just Virtua Racing. For some reason I am more than happy with my Sega Mega Drive II console, it features nice stereo sound, yes I know you can have stereo sound from the headphone jack that is featured on the Mega Drive I, but with my AV cable I can have that with just one wire, one power supply and one controller and one game, all sorted. I have noticed that the sound quality is better on the Mega Drive 1 (select models that is) however I am happy to relive the past with what I have.
The Mega Drive II was smaller indeed, and looked very sleek, however it did loose some features such as headphone socket, no volume control, unless you have your remote for your telly, then you have it all sorted out I guess. The picture quality can be better on Mega Drive I, but again I am happy with Mega Drive II, it is what I remember best so went for the Mega Drive II again, and am glad that I did too.
The games selection were great for the Mega Drive, and with the machine competiting against the Super Nintendo it was a hard battle, in fact I remember talking about it, Super Nintendo vs Mega Drive, what is better. Well the Mega Drive has blast processing, it is faster than the Super Nintendo, well the blast processing is an easier way to say that the console has a faster processor, still it lacked a lot of colours, lacked having the use of more buttons as standard on the controller, compared against the dog bone controller from Nintendo. However the game play was superb, and to me I enjoyed Street Fighter II more on the Mega Drive compared to Nintendo's version, this is because Street Fighter II on the Mega Drive was indeed faster, and displayed more, however it did display less colours due to the limited specification of the graphics it had. However this did not affect many gamers, as it was still a desirable console to own. In fact you had a lot of EA games that were featured on the console, you had a better version of NBA Jam TE, with in game music, which Super Nintendo's version did not have. Maybe that is why the advert would state "Sega does what Nintendon't" hmmm, makes me giggle even to today. It is a great machine, and even the conversation is still continued today which is better SNES or Mega Drive, maybe I need you to comment on this blog in regards to that, to see what the answers are, in my opinion I loved the Mega Drive more, but then again I did like Mario and Zelda, so I don't it's like saying which is better Mario or Sonic? I love both, so don't ask me that one hehe.
Both Snes and Mega Drive has a great library of games, like the PS1 does and Sega Saturn. The Mega Drive to me has a better library of games, I do like Space Harrier, Paperboy, and Snes does not have Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter, but then again Snes does have Killer Instinct that was mean't to be released for Ultra 64 (Nintendo 64).
So there you go a quick blast to the past again with Part II, look out for Part III soon...
Thank you for visiting RGUK, hope you enjoyed the read. Remember keep warm...
Best Wishes,
RGUK
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