Review: SEGA Vintage Collection

Help the Ages. Following a drip-drip accumulation of classic SEGA titles on Xbox Live Arcade, the venerable publisher finally splurged itself big-style last Wednesday, with a whopping six titles in one beefy update. Priced at just 400 Microsoft Points (GBP 3.40 / EUR 4.80 in actual pennies) they’re already roughly half the price of the same games on Nintendo’s Virtual Console, and come with online doohickies to boot. It’s a great price point for this sort of game – it makes the true classics an absolute steal, yet also makes the pretty good titles much more appealing. All but one of these games are, of course, already available on the SEGA Megadrive Ultimate Collection, in almost the exact same emulated form. This generous package of over 40 old games can be picked up for silly cheap prices, but for those who just want to cherry-pick the cream of the crop, this is an excellent update, with a solid line-up of good-to-great SEGA titles spread across various genres. And Altered Beast. Read more…

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