Last Megadrive Game In The Shops

[aberdeenlad1983]

This has probs been posted before and sorry if it was. Herad a couple of years back that an offical megadrive game was made and i was wondering:

1. The last offical megadrive game to be made
2. How much was it
3. Where could you buy it? e.g Game, virgin, gamesttaion etc
4. How many copies were made?

Thanks
p.s would be good to hear both of american and uk

[mick_aka]

Far too long ago to remember, although I do remember seeing import majesco titles on the shelves of 'Fantasty World' (aka Another World aka Forbidden Planet) in the UK in the very late 90's, possibly 2000.

[aberdeenlad1983]

christ, I never knew Forbidden planet used 2 sell games!

[Zebbe]

I think this was the last one worldwide:

http://www.guardiana.net/MDG-Database/Mega%20Drive/Show%20do%20Milh%C3%A3o%20volume%202/#v2734

[Kollision]

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[Mr Smith]

The last "new" Mega Drive games I saw in shops were FIFA '98 and a 4-in-1 cart featuring Gunstar Heroes, Flicky, Altered Beast and one more which I forget. This was in Dixons and probably as late as 2000.

[Zebbe]

The last one is Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, the compilation is called Classic Collection.

The last games I saw at Stor & Liten were Williams' Classic Arcade Hits (or some similar title), and some other games, maybe FIFA 98 among them. This was in 1997/8 I think.

[playgen]

Frogger was the last game released in the US I believe. and Fifa 98 was the last game in Europe I think, with Jurrassic Park lost World before that.

[aberdeenlad1983]

The last "new" Mega Drive games I saw in shops were FIFA '98 and a 4-in-1 cart featuring Gunstar Heroes, Flicky, Altered Beast and one more which I forget. This was in Dixons and probably as late as 2000.


i actually remember super mario kart on the snes (sorry for mentioning the snes) also being sold in dizons as late a smaybe even 2001 or just 2000 and was still £39.99. Maybe dixons still sold these games up untill that point

[mick_aka]

christ, I never knew Forbidden planet used 2 sell games!

They used to have really common import MegaDrive and Saturn games at outrageous prices, I remember them having JAP Thunderforce IV priced up at £250!

[Zebbe]

What a steal! And you can't play it on your EU Mega Drive, as it was one of the first games to use regional lockout.

[j_factor]

Frogger was the last game in North America, and it was sold everywhere.

[108 Stars]

Frogger was the last game in North America, and it was sold everywhere.

Depends on how you define the term "it was sold".
Majesco sure wanted to sell it, but I can´´t believe anybody bought that shit.

[j_factor]

Sorry to break it to you, but some people actually bought that shit.

[Dirt Ball Gamer]

I need to pick up that shit, Frogger word life

[The Sports Guy]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that the Frogger Sega game was a near perfect arcade translation of the original, with nothing added. I really didnt like it. Felt like they just slapped that game on a cart and threw it out. I never knew it existed until I joined this site.

[j_factor]

Yeah, it was very bare-bones (the graphics were redrawn so as to be slightly better). They only threw it together to ride the coattails of the new 3D Frogger game ("he's back!") that came out around the same time and was relatively successful. They should have at least made it a compilation and included Frogger II: Threeedeep! and Ribbit!. Actually I remain slightly annoyed that Ribbit! never got a home port.

Actually, Majesco was supposed to do a Game Gear port as well. That would have been fairly appropriate.

[playgen]

The Frogger GameGear game wasn't based on the arcade original though, its an entirely new game. You have to rescue your family of frogs, by going up the screen as you would normally, but then returning back down to your house, its a nice idea and pretty fun to play.

[Aarzak]

"Threedeep"...........heh heh.

[The Sports Guy]

The PS1 frogger was actually pretty fun and perhaps the best of those "rehashed" 70s and 80s arcade games like Pong, Asteroids and Missle Command (?, not sure if there was a late 90s-early 2000s game based on that).

Pong is a really good one too. I thought that Frogger got way difficult the further you went on, and those lava levels were really irritating.

[j_factor]

The Frogger GameGear game wasn't based on the arcade original though, its an entirely new game. You have to rescue your family of frogs, by going up the screen as you would normally, but then returning back down to your house, its a nice idea and pretty fun to play.

Oh, I didn't know that. My bad. That sounds interesting. I assume it's been dumped then?


The PS1 frogger was actually pretty fun and perhaps the best of those "rehashed" 70s and 80s arcade games like Pong, Asteroids and Missle Command (?, not sure if there was a late 90s-early 2000s game based on that).

Eh, I didn't care for Frogger, however, I surprisingly enjoyed Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge. With that game, they pretty much fixed all the problems of the first 3D Frogger. The later sequels (Frogger Beyond and etc.) went off in boring directions, though.

I do remember the fad of those remakes on PSX. They were pretty much a continuation of the 3D remakes that had come out on Jaguar (Tempest 2000 was ported, and I think Missile Command was the same as Missile Command 3D for Jaguar). Most of them were done by Hasbro Interactive, who'd bought the rights to Atari Corp. (and pretty much released nothing but 3D remakes of old Atari games). Others like Frogger and Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness were just other companies jumping on the bandwagon. Most of them were very "meh". I've heard that the Q*Bert remake was good, but I've never played it.

[playgen]

Oh, I didn't know that. My bad. That sounds interesting. I assume it's been dumped then?

Yep its been dumped for a while, since 2002 infact:
http://www.smspower.org/db/frogger.shtml

[Dirt Ball Gamer]

Hey since we are on the subject what classic arcade games are on the genny? I have Williams arcade classics (with missile command, pong, something else I can't remember, sadly no robotron tho), space invaders 88, and I have frogger coming in the mail. Are there any other classic games for the system (or on the pc engine even would be very helpful)?

[acdc]

the last one i saw lying in the gamestore was phantasy star 4 fatal fury 2 megaman world the rest where old games like thunderforce 3 ghostbusters

[wasp]

Hey since we are on the subject what classic arcade games are on the genny? I have Williams arcade classics (with missile command, pong, something else I can't remember, sadly no robotron tho),

There's another Williams (http://www.sega-16.com/review_page.php?id=974&title=Williams%20Arcade's%20Greatest%20Hits) comp with sinistar, defender, joust, and robotron. Ms. Pac-Man is another one and Pac-Man in Pac-Man 2.

[Tom M.]

Frogger: At least it is nearly pixel-perfect arcade port. And remember the original coin-op uses vertical screen so no chance to have a pixel perfect version without some changes to display (moving the scores) unless you are willing to turn your TV 90 degrees... Much better than that crappy Atari compilation when everything was "reprogrammed" in a way that not only it looks but most importantly plays like shit.

And as for that stupid polygon-driven sub 30fps Playstation Frogger? Come on man, I would not never ever bother to buy that polygonal crap of mid 90s... The original Centipede was running at stunning 60 frames per second... that's the real action!:sonic:

But back to the topic: can somebody confirm that the last game in Europe was FIFA 98? Because there were several other games released in 1997 I guess...

[andlabs]

EDIT wait I just noticed this thread was a revived thread, thanks :/ I'll leave this here anyway

For last official releases:
Australia — not sure; I could try asking doc eggfan
Japan — Compile's Madou Monogatari I, 22 March 1996 (http://sega.jp/archive/segahard/md/soft_licensee.html) (last first party, Pepenga Pengo, was late 1995 (http://sega.jp/archive/segahard/md/soft.html))
South Korea — not sure; I think Insector X and Sonic Classics, which were officially published by former unlicensed developer HiCom (http://segaretro.org/HiCom) for some ... likely bizarre reason likely in 1996
Europe — not sure; I think you guys are right with FIFA 98: Road to World Cup, but we could be wrong
US — Frogger (1998)
Brazil — either Show do Milhao Volume 2 (either 2001 or 2002) or 10 Super Jogos (likely 2002)
Mainland Asia — not sure; if Mega Games 10 was 2001/2002 then that

This kind of thing is why we need official master lists :|

[villahed94]

I remember some Genesis games here until 2000.

[TrekkiesUnite118]

After looking at videos of Frogger I kind of want to get it now. Here I thought it was one of those remakes where they changed the graphics and music or one of those odd sequels where they tried to add some kind of story like that weird Side-scrolling Pac-Man game. But instead it looks to be an Arcade Perfect port, which interests me none the less.

[M4R14NO94]

After looking at videos of Frogger I kind of want to get it now. Here I thought it was one of those remakes where they changed the graphics and music or one of those odd sequels where they tried to add some kind of story like that weird Side-scrolling Pac-Man game. But instead it looks to be an Arcade Perfect port, which interests me none the less.

Regarding changed graphics, that's how the SNES version of Frogger actually is.

[Guntz]

Why is that one game called Frogger: Threeedeep? I don't get the joke.

[j_factor]

It's not really a joke. It's called that because you have to traverse three consecutive screens (therefore the game is three deep). The extra 'e' just adds to the three-ness, I guess.

[Thunderblaze16]

yo, that game, (Show do Milhão) has like PERFECT voice effects, and the intro music, its something that I would have never guessed that came from the sega genesis alone, lol.

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sega genesis surprising me with its hardware once more :)

[QuickSciFi]

Frogger was a great game. And afaik, it was the last game for, both, the Genny and the SNES to be officially released. It was extremely cheap though ($5). So why wouldn't I buy it. I also bought in that Majesco batch: Castlevania Bloodlines, Vectorman, Vectorman 2 and a couple of sports titles. All of them at Toys R Us.