Sonic 2, Golden Axe II will live for eternity on VC
If you don’t already have Sonic the Hedgehog 2 or Golden Axe II on a multitude of platforms, compilations or in their original form, you may be interested to know you can now get them on an entirely new platform as both classics have been made available on the Virtual Console.
In our Sega Genesis Collection/Virtual Console count, we’re now up to 14 games that have made the crossover with a massively inflated price, and there are more to come.
I know I may be preaching to the choir, but if you haven’t played either of these games yet, but own a PS2 or PSP, please pick up Sega Genesis Collection instead of drastically overpaying. You can get both games for less than $1 on SGS or pay $16 for both. For that price, you can nearly get the entire game!
Anyway, enough of my ranting. You need to play these games in some form or fashion, because they really are classics.
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POSTED IN: Chris, Sonic, Virtual Console
18 opinions for Sonic 2, Golden Axe II will live for eternity on VC
Reset
Jun 11, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Too bad Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder never made it to a console. That’s probably my favorite one.
locit
Jun 11, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I am morbidly curious how well Sonic 2 is going to sell.
Silverslug
Jun 11, 2007 at 7:30 pm
lol nintendo cheats there fans, just a matter of time Sega did it as well.
G
Jun 12, 2007 at 12:12 am
I’m going to piss Chris off by buying both Golden Axe and Sonic 2 for my VC.
I’m also going to annoy him further by adding, that I (honestly) dislike the Sega Genesis Collection.
Sorry buddy, it’s just not as much fun as when playing on a console, in it’s original form.
Also the VC isn’t a rip-off. More that the Genesis Collection is just a very good deal (and not as fun).
Chris
Jun 12, 2007 at 2:02 am
You do realize it’s available on the PS2 for even cheaper than the PSP version, right?
G
Jun 12, 2007 at 2:16 am
And you do realise that it would actually cost me about £120 to get it? As I don’t own a PS2 (Which you do know).
I also don’t enjoy the fact that the games emulated - the state save ruins the games and makes them far too easy….. but this is something I wanted to talk about in the Nerdcast….
Chris
Jun 12, 2007 at 2:26 am
And you do realize that if you go out and buy every Genesis title that’s also available on the Virtual Console that it will cost you $112. And once Sega has all SGS games on the VC (you better believe they will), it will cost a total of $224.
Think about that for a minute.
Soreda
Jun 12, 2007 at 5:14 am
So?. Will Sega have to remove all support to VC given they CANT do deals on VC like the genesis collections for PS2 or PSP?. Nintendo is selling their games at the same price. Sega needs to do the same; if not, people visiting VC is going to believe those games are so cheap beacause the Megadrive games where not as good as SNES games.
Sega selling this games at that price is because of the nature of the market of Virtual Console that Nintendo created. Blame Virtual Console. Dont expect that king of deals like “sega genesis collection” from Nintendo. So, you are forced to do the same on VC.
Chris
Jun 12, 2007 at 6:12 am
You’re right, Nintendo is the one who initially set the price point for 8-bit and 16-bit titles.
However, I just can’t get over how, from a consumer standpoint, it’s reasonable to charge $8 for a non-physical game compared to less than $1 for a physical game Sega released a few months before.
I understand that it’s a great business move on Sega’s and Nintendo’s part to do this, because I’m willing to bet they’re making a lot of money. But I just don’t think it’s fair to the consumers.
I have no problem with paying $8 for a Genesis title on the Virtual Console, and I’ve already bought several that aren’t readily available elsewhere. But there’s no reason for anyone to do that when they can have the same game for so much cheaper.
Soreda
Jun 12, 2007 at 7:05 am
I actually agree about not being any reason for anyone to buy a game on VC when they can have the same game for so much cheaper ( thanks Sega having launch compilation in other consoles -if not…-). (Althoug I prefer playing Ristar with WII dpad than with the PSP dpad)
My point is: Thats the point of Virtual Console. It is expensive. And people should realize it. But it is expensive with ALL games. I mean, genesis games are as expensive as SNES games.
If any, we actually have to be happy about the existence of compilations of Genesis games. And we should not be so happy with Nintendo about the no existence of the same compilations for SNES games. Thats the Nintendo expensiveness point, where Sega is tied on VC.
Chris
Jun 12, 2007 at 7:11 am
I agree with you. The Sega Genesis Collection is my all-time favorite compilation. It has tons of great games. It would be nice of Nintendo to show some gratitude to its fans by releasing a great compilation to rival SGS.
Instead, Nintendo gave us the weak NES line of games ported to the GBA for insane prices.
Soreda
Jun 12, 2007 at 7:30 am
Yeah, and unfortunately Nintendo will never do that. They have to maintain their “quality feeling” (Im spanish so I dont write English very well, but I hope you know what I mean). It is the “quality sensation” of their products. If they pack them together they undervalue them and people dont feel about them in the same way. The quality feeling -that tries to eclipse the actual quality of their products, with independence of what actual quality they had- is their marketing weapons.
Only compilations from Nintendo I know are Puzzle Collection, Mario All Start or some puzzle games on gba. Sega actually risk a lot by putting a lot of their games together (and Capcom, and Tecmo, etc). Still, Sega Ages Monster World Collection and the Treasure one are cheap and wonderfull and a trully gift.
Kogen
Jun 12, 2007 at 10:08 am
Has anyone actually bothered playing the Sonic games on Sega Genesis Collection? The sound emulation is terrible, whenever a sound effect occurs, it plays it like 5 times very quickly. I know this can be minor, but I’d rather not play Sonic games with this annoyance happening every few seconds or more. Golden Axe 2 the enemies don’t even have death screams… so the VC ones are better, assuming they’ve been emulated properly. Though still, at these prices, it’s cheaper to eBay a Genesis and get the carts. Or just get the cheap carts and use your PC’s “virtual console”.
Soreda
Jun 12, 2007 at 10:37 am
I do have Sega Megadrive Collecion for psp and I havent notice any problem in that sense. I do see that slight ghosting on scrolls I have seen on more psp games, but nothing about the sound.
Still no emulator yet has been capable of fully emulate the real megadrive music. Is not Gens sound the one we heard on Megadrive. Althoug Kega was trying to be the most accurate.
Chris
Jun 12, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Hah hah, using my PC’s Virtual Console is always the cheapest way to go about playing classic games, but something can be said about laying on your couch and playing a good game of Shining Force on your big-screen tv.
G
Jun 13, 2007 at 12:16 am
Chris interesting point about buying all the VC games that are on the SGC as well.
But you must realise that I have no intention of buying all the games that are on the Collection… because I don’t like all the games on it.
Soreda - I understand where you are coming from with your points. BUT where you say that all games on the VC are expensive I disagree.
-I actually think that the VC isn’t too badly priced. I am happy to pay £8 for a Megadrive title or £10 for an N64 title.
Those prices are actually quite reasonable, if you were to go into a store and buy 2nd hand games there they would cost about the same. Sure you can find places that do the games a little cheaper, but not by much, and also these games are becoming harder to find in stores.
It’s that the SGC is very cheap. And it can afford to be. Remember, Nintendo have to pay to support their servers and store these games on them - so each game has to be a set price, due to (average) file sizes for the platforms, to help maintenance costs and such - and yes also make some profit.
But there is no maintanence costs for wacking 20-odd games onto a UMD. Once they are on there, they are there to stay.
Also Kogen - I too have noticed slight glitches in both sound and graphics on the Megadrive Collection. Nothing too big, but definite differences between the Collection and the original games.
Nathan
Jun 13, 2007 at 12:32 am
Virtual Console prices are exploitive, especially for what you get.
Niyooh
Jun 20, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Well i have the actual game on sega megadrive so i don’t care about those plug and play things. I would like to have one if it was a present but i’m not buying one!
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