SEGA Deals: Black Friday Edition
It may not be the best time to be a SEGA Nerd, but it sure isn’t a bad time to be a video game fan. Case in point: Black Friday. Can you imagine what life would have been like in 1993 if Black Friday was as big a thing as it is now? I’m pretty sure I would have saved up all my summer lawn-mowing cash for this glorious day, snagging games like Phantasy Star III or Truxton at $10 a pop. Sure, it was a different time and discs cost way less to produce, so my alternate history is certainly a fantasy, but damn it would have been a good way to live.
Well, back to the future of 2014, and the Black Friday sales flyers are all present and accounted for. While there isn’t a ton of SEGA goodness to be had, I’ve whittled away the fat (the chubby, Italian plumber fat, that is) to offer you what you really want for Christmas: the SEGA Deals. Both Best Buy and GameStop will have Alien: Isolation for $30, but you want to know the coolest deal is in my opinion? Getting a brand spankin’ new SEGA Genesis for $30 at Toys R Us. It comes loaded with several games including the Sonic the Hedgehog and Streets of Rage series… and Arrow Flash?!? Friggin’ sweet! Plus, it still has a cartridge slot to play any ol’ cart you have lying around. You can also grab a Colecovision Throwback console and 60 built-in games (no cartridge slot) for the same price, which includes two SEGA titles, Space Fury and Zaxxon!
Keep in mind, even though only specific platforms are listed for some games, often these deals are available across multiple consoles. Also, Target is promising big discounts on “hundreds of games” despite showing only a handful in the ad, so the chances of some SEGA titles squeaking in there are pretty good. And just think, this we don’t even know the full extent of Amazon’s deals yet.
It is indeed a good time to game, SEGA Nerds. Happy shopping!
Best Buy (valid 11/27 thru 11/29, doors open at 5 pm Thursday)
Alien: Isolation (PS4) – $29.99
Amazon
Games as low as $9* (includes Sonic Generations, Sonic Free Riders & The Cursed Crusade)
Toys R Us (valid 11/27 thru 11/29, doors open at 5 pm Thursday)
SEGA Genesis Flashback Console – $29.99
Colecovision Flashback Console (includes SEGA’s Space Fury & Zaxxon) – $29.99
Buy 1 get 1 40% off all games between $20 and $60
Buy 1 get 1 for $2 on select games (includes Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection & Sonic Racing Transformed)
GameStop (valid 11/28 thru 11/30)
Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (WiiU) – $39.99
Alien: Isolation (PS4) – $39.99
Bayonetta 2 Strategy Guide – 10% off w/game purchase (eh, why not mention it, right?)
Buy any 2 used games under $20, get 1 free (The options are endless… Madworld, Binary Domain, Sonic Colors, Yakuza: Dead Souls, Condemned, Resonance of Fate…)
BonTon.com (I’ve never heard of this site, either…)
SEGA Genesis Flashback Console – $29.99
*Final discounted price has not been announced.
Hot damn, I may have to get that Genesis Flashback system. Does anyone have any experience with the build quality and the range of the controllers?
It’s horrible. Just look up the atgames/blaze megadrive. It’s the same thing.
But with better controller quality, I take it?
It comes with wireless pads that don’t work with a real genesis.
Hm. I was hoping that they were connected to like, an actual controller port. That’s more of what I was looking into, thank you! :p
Unfortuntately Yoshifan333 is correct there.
I bought the Mega Drive one just the other day – was SUPER excited and oh sweet Moses, it’s possibly one of the worst things I’ve ever bought!
The controllers are rubbish – proper 6-button Mega Drive controllers are just so much better.
And the games are atrocious.
It’s like they aren’t emulated properly – the visuals seem to be missing colours, even pixels at points(!) and the audio is tragic.
I’ve not played the (supposedly) terrible Sonic 1 on the GBA, but I can’t imagine it being worse than Sonic 1 on this smegging AtGames device.
The audio is just wrong, button presses aren’t registered correctly and gameplay is slow. If Sonic had been released like this originally, it would not have been the success it was!
Urgh!