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The quality of Spencer Nilsen’s Ecco the Dolphini scores is undeniable. Haunting yet inviting, they soothe and offer the perfect picture of what life under the sea must sound like. Many of the tracks from both games were released on a single CD entitled Ecco: Songs of Time, and Sega-16 staff editor Ben Galway has all the details on why it’s such a great piece to own.
Yuzo Koshiro’s masterful tunes for Streets of Rage 2 have long been held as the best in the series, and so great was the demand for them that they were released separately. We put the collection through its paces in our full review.
On this day two years ago, Sega-16 was unleashed on an unsuspecting populace. It’s been quite a ride these last twelve months, and we’ve come a long way. But an event of this magnitude deserves a closer analysis, and our Year Two Retrospective talks at length about all we’ve accomplished. It’s been our pleasure to serve the Genesis community for these last two years, and we hope to be around for many, many more. Thanks for all your support!
Our latest interview is with a former Sega VR helmet engineer (who has chosen to remain anonymous). In it, he details some interesting aspects of just why the fabled technology never made it to market, and he shows just how close they actually were to a viable product. It’s a ray of light on this otherwise dark patch in the history of the Genesis, so check it out!
The Genesis is a digital graveyard of mascots that were unable to survive the jump to next generation consoles. As time has proven, not even the mightiest and most popular are immune. Take Alex Kidd, for example. Once the unofficial face of Sega and the star of a half dozen adventures, he was laid low by a Sonic boom in 1991. But did he really have to disappear? Was he just the victim of circumstance, or did Sega consciously kill him off?