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Brand New Sega Megadrive Coming To A Toy Shop Near You

Author: Rees | Date: July 25, 2008

Well, OK… So this handheld version with built-in games doesn’t quite hail the return of the legendary Megadrive (or Genesis, if you’re all foreign and stuff), but it does have some fairly decent games crammed into its tiny plastic shell:

  • Alex Kidd
  • Alien Storm
  • Altered Beast
  • Arrow Flash
  • Columns III
  • Crack Down
  • Decap Attack
  • Mean Bean Machine
  • Ecco
  • Ecco Jr
  • Eswat
  • Flicky
  • Gain Ground
  • Golden Axe
  • Jewel Master
  • Kid Chameleon
  • Sonic Spinball
  • Shadow Dancer
  • Revenge of Shinobi
  • Sonic and Knuckles

If this thing had the original Sonic and Gunstar Heroes, I’d buy three. Unfortunately it doesn’t, so I’ll just stick to my Megadrive emulator for the DS. That’s just how I roll.

The device, which is being marketed as an actual Megadrive (so I’m guessing it’s officially-licensed and everything) runs on 3 AAA batteries (which is much, much better than the Game Gear’s 8 AA’s.. Which only lasted for about 2 hours) and has an A/V connector for playing on an actual TV.

It’s available from SegaRetro.Net, as well as all good toy shops (I imagine), and is coming in August for £29.99. Bargain eh?

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Comment by OwningXylophone
2008-07-25 14:43:41

Decap Attack is one of the most underrated games for the Megadrive… I think I feel a ‘Game that Time Forgot’ coming on…

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Comment by OwningXylophone
2008-07-25 17:45:14

As pointed out by ‘johnnycheeks’ over on Reddit, this is totally blown out of the water by this little beauty… Only £20 including 2 pads, has the same games built in AND has a fully chipped cartridge slot. And it’s officially licensed too!

I guess Sega must have sold AtGames the rights to manufacture a new Megadrive and re-release a whole load of the games under the name RedKid Cartridges

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Comment by SmellyGeekBoy
2008-07-25 17:53:12

It’s not portable, but it is very cool nonetheless. I don’t know though, I’d still rather get an original on eBay and wire up PAL/NTSC and region switches to it.

What we need is something with a screen, D-Pad, buttons, and batteries that slots onto the original carts – that would be awesome. I bet it wouldn’t be too hard to hack one of these things to do that.

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Comment by Jacquey
2008-07-25 22:25:14

£30 seems awfully cheap – I wonder what the quality of the screen is?

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Comment by efremigio
2008-07-26 16:07:24

Game Gear was 6 AA, not 8

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Comment by SmellyGeekBoy
2008-07-26 17:55:13

I stand corrected. Although you don’t dispute that the batteries only lasted for 2 hours… :P

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Comment by Stuarty-Boy
2008-09-19 21:57:43

I Loved The Sega As A Kid The Gaphics Were Not Much 2 Be Desired But The Games Were Highly Addictive So Yeah Its About Time Sega Made A Come Back

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