Multi-Mega part 2: Games

Another weekend over, another post begun. This weekend, I got some gaming done on the SEGA Multi-Mega (CDX in America).

From Multi-Mega

It's a gorgeous console. A true beauty. If only SEGA shipped this in 199s instead of the MD II, things could look very different.

The system runs the same BIOS as the Mega-CD from SEGA, so it has the lovely start up music and Sonic'd SEGA intro. So, let's have a look at a couple of the games I managed to play this weekend:

Sonic CD

Sonic CD is a strange one. I'm not going to rip off the Wikipedia article, but it does mention some key points. It was a game that was conceived from the original creator of Sonic (Naoto Ohshima) after a bunch of Sonic Team in Japan got pissed off with SEGA and moved to STI (Sega Technical Institute) in America. This led to Sonic 2 and, in my opinion the best game ever made; Sonic 3 & Knuckles. 

Sonic CD is often heralded as the "best Sonic game" my many people - but I am unsure if they are just saying that because it's pretty damn rare. Either way, it's a great game involving travelling through time and has some pretty amazing music. It does however, feel like Sonic 1 with debug mode gone crazy (due to the time shifts placing rings randomly). 

It also brought us a couple more characters. First up, we have metal Sonic. Oh how I feared him when I was 9 years old! We also have a love interest; going by the name of Amy Rose. Here she is in the game, following a bored Sonic:

and here she is being kidnapped by Metal Sonic:

and here she is modelling the Multi-Mega:

what a poser!

Keio's Flying Squadron

This is a rather cute side scrolling shooter which bares a similar resemblance to Cotton. A very Japanese feeling game - even the score is in Japanese numbers in places!

The music is fantastic and the voice acting is great. It's been done in English/American so it's easy to understand the whole (whacky) story straight away.

This one is also pretty rare - and has a bit of a cult following. Enjoyed this - though I completely sucked at it. I guess practice would make perfect. Or even just "OK".

I played a lot more too, and will return to those games for more reviews in the future. Notable mentions include "Batman Returns" [I remember when this film came out. It was still when Batman was dark and gloomy - long before George Clooney (R.I.P) played Batman. What he's not dead? How old is he?? Anyway...] "SEGA Classics" [Amazed they had classics back in 1993, but they did!] and Sol Feace.

I finished the session off by testing the Mega Drive section of the console. Worked a treat. Popped in my favourite game, and got those Chaos Emeralds.