What are you waitin’ for, Nintendo to make one?
We all liked those mini consoles that, oddly enough, Nintendo popularized and then stopped doing. But out of all of them, the only one to really reach similar heights was the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive mini. As a matter of fact, After the Game Gear Micro, it’s been a while since there was any major movement on anything like these mini consoles, unless you count the sort of cheap crap you find on the shelf at various stores.
Well, in Japan at least, Sega’s going for one more, a Sega Mega Drive Mini 2… this time with Sega CD games. You can even buy (separately, of course; 4,500 yen ~ $35) a cosmetic attachment to include the peripheral, though it is non-functional, which includes a plastic disc that resembles the Japanese release of Sonic the Hedgehog CD.
The new Mega Drive Mini is, however, including Sega CD games this time, despite being sold in the shell resembling a Mega Drive Model 2. They’re selling it for 9,980 yen, or roughly $80 US. It’s going to have an entirely new game lineup this time, too, though it won’t be made up purely of Sega CD games. there are supposed to be 50 games, though only a small number are currently revealed. They include:
Sega Mega Drive:
- Bonanza Bros.
- Fantasy Zone
- Magical Taruruto
- Shining and the Darkness
- Thunder Force IV
- Virtua Racing
Sega CD:
- Popful Mail
- Silpheed
- Shining Force CD
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD
- Yumemi Mystery Mansion (this one has a lot different of names, but that’s what’s in the html)
Included in the box is a recreation of the six-button Mega Drive controller. The Japanese release of the previous version actually came with two of them, while the global release only came with the classic 3-button controller. The emulation of these titles is once again being handled by M2. There’s no word on whether this will release outside of Japan, though it isn’t hard to imagine that the game list would be different.
As for what they’d go for after this, though? It probably wouldn’t be the 32X mini; there were only 40 games released for it, period, and a not-inconsiderable chunk of those were licensed. And while a Saturn mini would probably make quite a few people happy, that might not be in the cards due to hardware constraints. On the other hand, it’d be nice to see one last hurrah for Segata Sanshiro.
~Fun is Infinite with Sega Enterprises~
Source: Ars Technica
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