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Today took delivery of a Sega Magadrive 1 with 6 games.

FIFA International Soccer
Brian Lara Cricket
Arnold Palmer International Golf
Altered Beast
PGA Tour III

And finally, Sonic the Hedgehog.

All purchased for 7 english pounds on Ebay  8)

Just about to get stuck into Sonic

Awesome.

errr.. up, down, left, right, hold A, press start. Or something.

*sob*

Brace yourself.

I still have a Mega Drive and a ton of games...well, I say still have, I took them round a mates one night, left them there and haven't seen them since. That was four years ago, it feels slightly trivial to bring it up now. Plus I hardly ever see him. And he probably wouldn't remember what I was talking about.

:(

Altered Beast is immense. You also need to buy california games.

I used to love Sensible Soccer on my old Megadrive, I rocked the mic dry on it as well from what I remembered.

I picked up one of these 'plug-straight-into-the-tv' games things with Sensi, Cannon Fodder and Mega-lo-mania recently.  Happy days!! 

Sensi rocks. Score from pretty much anywhere and very large score lines.  Take note FIFA and PES!

Hmmm, I think todays ultra-realistic football games could learn a thing or two from games of old. Take Match Day on the ZX Spectrum for example, you could always score from the same position just past the centre circle, a couple of touches from kick off and you could unfurl a fabulous 40 yard piledriver. That is how I took the fantastic Ritman Rovers (thats right isnt it?) to all-conquering footballing glory.

Also if you took the ball to the goal line and waited for the clock counter to tick halfway between 89 and 90, then poke the ball home, the game used to restart at 90 mins and carry on playing until the clock got to 99 and then it would disintigrate. Fabulous.

Ahhh those halcyon days of old......try it home, simply go to any spectrum emulator site and knock yer self out... not literally of course, there would be no fun in that.

Streets of Rage was clearly the best game, that or the Mickey Mouse ones.

That's a magic bargain for 7 sheets.

Cannon fodder was ace.   those massive gravestones you would get when the likes of jools and jops eventually kicked the bucket.  sob

Terminator vs. Robocop was ace.

i second that. what was the one called where you fought troll type things, something axe? golden axe? that was ace.

i remember paying about £70 for virtua racing, the first all 3-d console game.

oh yeah I remember that game (and price), didnt it have a really oversized cartridge compared to standard megadrive games, or am I getting confooozed with something else?

I think I may have had a similar game on the Amstrad where you could score from 1 particular position. Occasionally the ball would get stuck on the crossbar as well and you'd have to wait the requisite 10 minutes for the time to run down!

I loved that game as a panlid.

nope you're right. it was pretty much double the size of a normal megadrive catridge. i remember saving up for it and going to the shop to buy it i couldn't believe i had £70+ in my hands. the game itself was pretty average i think. weird blocky graphics which would sometimes go quite wrong.

i never got a 32x, remember that add-on? doubled the bits.

Ha, yeah :) Used to record how many kills each guy had.

Mega lo mania is ace as well. Possibly one of the more underrated/forgotten games out there. I wasted loads of hours into that as a kid. Sampled speech was ace.

I'm going to play it now. Hmmm.. Emulation or shall I fish my atari st out.