Before Genesis gamers had the chance to be disappointed by the plodding and frustrating gameplay of Heavy Nova, Micronet unleashed the game to Japanese Mega CD owners. As one would imagine, it was the same bad game embellished with a CD soundtrack, giving importers very little reason to trade up from their cartridge version. Heavy Nova is bad, no matter on what format it appears.
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Reader Roundtable Vol. 94
Put down that turkey leg! You can’t eat your Thanksgiving dinner until you’ve given thanks for some of the truly good things in life: Genesis games! This year, forget football and gather the family around the Genesis instead. Or, why not have the best of both worlds and play some Genesis football games! Seriously, there’s no better time to introduce your family to some great retro gaming.
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