Microsoft adds Mega Drive games to Live

360 News | Vintage Collection available now.

Microsoft has thrown up six new (well, new to Xbox) Mega Drive games onto the Xbox Live Arcade.

Some of them are pretty good, too. Gunstar Heroes, Sonic 3, Altered Beast, Shinobi, Comix Zone and Phantasy Star II are all available to download right now, should you feel like experiencing some classic early-90s 16 bit gaming.

All of the games are available for the rather reasonable sum of 400 MS points.

Of course, if you've bought the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection, or any other of the billions of Mega Drive compilations, this probably isn't very interesting news. Oh well.

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7 Comments

ANDYBALLINA

2 years ago

What about PS3? I thought Gunstar Heroes was coming to the PSN.....sigh.

Anyway, anyone who hasn't played Comix Zone. I highly recommend picking it up as its a great game with great use of Comic style art/graphics.

Jahanzeb

2 years ago

DAMMIT SEGA WE GET IT! Megadrive games are fantastic!

Geez how many times are they going to release these greatest hits for Megadrive games! each time its the same old classics with maybe one or two obscure games...and we only just got Ultimate Collection.

Time for Sega to re-release some Sega Saturn, MegaCD and 32X games. I mean really those were the games many missed out on and I would pay full price for a Sega Saturn collection.

Quote from the Ultimate Collection review

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These days, Sega seems intent on making endless collections of these games for today's gaming audience, but with this, the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection, have Sega finally created a cornucopia to end all others?

sigh...I think it will never end

jemist

2 years ago

Get up on that Gunstaar Heroes tip people, it's a fantastic side scrolling experience!

I'd love to see Radiant Silvergun...

Emuaust

2 years ago

Shinobi and Altered Beast are infact the arcade versions not the mega drive games.

Sin Ogaris

2 years ago

I've got the compilation, but I might snap up Gunstar Heroes, it looks interesting (and I don't think it's on the disc).

@Emuaust: Which are on the Ultimate Mega Drive collection (as bonuses when you meet certain criteria in their respective Mega Drive titles).

barrett

2 years ago

"What about PS3? I thought Gunstar Heroes was coming to the PSN.....sigh."......it's on PSN now

Phreakuency

2 years ago

Anyone know if the PS3 one is just running filters on a Megadrive emulator or is it a remake in HD? I was suprised to see it supports online co-op so thought maybe it was a remake?

If it's not, I'll pass. Anyone with emu knowledge (and their pc connected to their PC) would know why.

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