Mega Drive Most Wanted

Curse is a treasure. That music right there sums up everything you need to know about Curse.

Curse is the little girl who doesn’t know the words and is a bit tone-deaf but still gets up on stage and sings her heart out.

Curse is the sculptor whose work always comes out a bit rougher than his peers, but always captures something their work never does.

Curse is the honeybee that never manages to find a flower with enough pollen, yet brightens the day of anyone who sees it trying its best.

Curse is to Crying as Guitar Wolf is to Led Zeppelin.

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Hidden animation from JP Battle Mania 1

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SAY HELLO TO YOUR NEW CONSOLE

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I’m guessing that’s not the entire line-up. Also Shining Force 1 instead of 2 is a terrible mistake

the first 10 of 40 games revealed, at least for the JPN console

I literally don’t care what else they put in, I’m dropping 70 bucks on a thing that plays Bloodlines

And it is M2 and includes every version of every game.

And Yuzo Koshiro is composing the menu music

So the full Mega Drive mini list for Japan is now

  • Castlevania Bloodlines
  • Comix Zone
  • Contra: Hard Corps
  • Dyna Brothers 2: Sega Channel Special
  • Game no Kanzume Otokuyou
  • Ghouls & Ghosts
  • Golden Axe
  • Gunstar Heroes
  • Landstalker
  • Madō Monogatari
  • Musha Aleste: Fullmetal Fighter Ellinor
  • Party Quiz Mega Q
  • Phantasy Star IV
  • Puyo Puyo Tsu
  • Puzzle & Action: Tant-R
  • Rent a Hero
  • Rockman Megaworld
  • Shining Force
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 2
  • Space Harrier 2
  • Street Fighter II’ Champion Edition
  • Streets of Rage 2
  • Super Fantasy Zone
  • The Hybrid Front
  • The Story of Thor (Beyond Oasis)
  • The Super Shinobi (Revenge of Shinobi)
  • Thunder Force 3
  • World of Illusion
  • Wrestleball
  • Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyou Toitsusen

Just announced:

  • Columns
  • Monster World 4
  • Dynamite Headdy
  • Assault Suit Leynos (aka Target Earth)
  • Langrisser 2
  • Alisia Dragoon
  • Road Rash 2
  • Slap Fight MD
  • Snow Bros.
  • Lord Monarch

BONUS

  • A fanmade port of Darius
  • An M2 developed original Tetris game

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Gonna guess that we wont get Langrisser II on the western version, but if we got Warsong instead, that would be a pretty decent replacement

  • Tetris
  • Darius
  • Road Rash II
  • Strider
  • Virtua Fighter 2 (??? why???)
  • Alisia Dragoon
  • Columns
  • Dynamite Headdy
  • Kid Chameleon
  • Monster World IV
  • Light Crusader
  • Eternal Champions
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Gahh, I was joking when I said they’d replace Langrisser II with Virtua Fighter 2 :doomdie:

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road rash 2 is on the japanese version? that’s pretty wild.

I can’t believe they put dynamite headdy on the western one. I wrote that off as a zero chance game. fantastic. I was worried about strider, but we’re good there. was holding out for rocket knight adventures, I thought that one had a pretty decent chance. surprised no strike game. this overall list is a solid B. there are some clear duds, but fewer than I thought there’d be, and they went out of their way for a lot of stuff I’d never suspect. thumbs up from me.

fuck kid chameleon, though.

lynos/target earth and warsong would’ve been great if they’re sticking them on the japanese version, instead of shit like eternal champions and an unplayable port of VF2

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Yeah, and Light Crusader is pretty trash too. Could have replaced that with Soleil

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h*ck yes Kid Chameleon

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even disregarding the rpgs, the jp version is the best

Those mini add-ons aren’t real, are they?

They’re purely cosmetic. Not sure how they will be sold.

man. i love that menu.

i really really wanted to see shining force 2 come in at the wire but oh well. dynamite headdy is great, monster world 4 is a big surprise, and then apparently this darius is a brand new port?