New Mega Drive collection for 360 and PS3

360 News | Sonic, Ecco, Streets of Rage, etc.

Sega has announced that it will be reviving a host of old Mega Drive games as part of a compilation to be released on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Developer Backbone Entertainment - whose latest work includes Death Jr II, Commando 3 and 1942: Joint Strike - are in charge of the project, as they attempt to mash over 40 games from the 16 bit generation into one disc.

A full list of games hasn't been revealed yet, but Sonic 1, 2 and 3 will be accounted for, as will the three Streets of Rage games. Also making an appearance will be Columns, Ecco the Dolphin, Alien Storm and Space Harrior.

Making things a bit more interesting is the promise of 720p support for all the games, for those of you with HD compatible tellies.

The package will be dubbed the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection, and is due for a release in the first quarter of next year.

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10 Comments

djrussell

3 years ago

Ey thats pretty cool... I sorta cringed when i first read the title, but 40 games seems like a good deal. I was expecting like 20 or something stupid. 40 is reasonable, but let's hope they add more - there are tones of great Mega Drive games.

Jellyfish

3 years ago

Finally a real Sonic game in HD?

TheAnswer

3 years ago

A list of the 40 games in this collection has been posted here.

Zhou

3 years ago

imo there is nothing like playing sega games on a real sega on a standard def tv.

The Genius

3 years ago

This is great from Sega.

Since the PS3 is no longer backward compatible, it would be really great if we saw re-releases of classic PS2 games too on Blu-Ray. Similar to what Hollywood is doing with old classic films.

It would be really great to have your old PS2 games on Blu-Ray and not have to keep a PS2.

heatseeker

3 years ago

Aren't most of these avaliable on xbla?

bluejay

3 years ago

it'll hit the bargain bins fast, and when that happens it'll be way cheaper than any other option.

Slipvayne21

3 years ago

yay streeets of rage 1 2 and 3

Sold!

pdaddy

3 years ago

I'll give this a miss.. I have the megadrive collection already on Ps2 and my PS3 can play it.. It seems that a lot of these games will be on that collection anyway..

720p might destroy the memories for some.. I for one went back to play Streets 2 and Sonic 2 and found they aren't as enjoyable as they were when I was younger...

barrett

3 years ago

Hopefully one day we will also have Saturn and Dreamcast Ultimate Retro Collections.

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