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Time to put on the shoes and BOOM SHAKA-LAKA your way to victory on the court! Wait, this isn’t NBA Jam? Ah, well NBA Hangtime is so close to the Midway classic that you’d be hard pressed to know the difference. The developers (not the same as Jam’s) tried to make their game stand out a bit from such a long shadow, but the effort was mostly hit-and-miss.
Yesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the Sega Genesis, and you didn’t think we’d forget, did you? Why celebrate one day when you can party from launch date to nationwide release? For that reason we’ll be reminiscing for the next month about the console that we love so dear through a series of features that highlight the little black box’s rise to fame. We kick things off with just a little something from the editor-in-chief about what the console means to him. Check out Sega Genesis: 20 Years Young and let the festivities commence!
Baseball season’s over for the major leagues, but it’s year-round for Genesis fans! Sega’s incredible World Series Baseball series belts another one out of the park with the 1995 installment. BlueSky was at the top of its game with this edition, and even after so many years it’s still a joy to play.
Aicom and Sammy scored a big hit with Viewpoint, an isometric shooter that was big on visuals and hard as nails. Sammy decided that there weren’t enough versions of the game around, so it decided to release the game for several consoles, including our very own Genesis. Sega fans should take note that this is perhaps as close as they’ll ever get to a real Zaxxon sequel. And no, Motherbase 2000 on 32X doesn’t count.
Mattel’s Barbie had games released for every electronic device made by man since her 1984 Commodore 64 debut. The Genesis was to receive two games, but the second, Barbie Vacation Adventure, was never released. The first title, Barbie Super Model, was unleashed upon the masses in 1993, and feverish little girls everywhere foamed at the mouth as they hungrily shoved the carts into their Genesis consoles. Ok, maybe it wasn’t quite that graphic, but the thought of gamers across the world having to give up some Genesis time so their little sisters could play dress up is just as horrifying.
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