It’s essentially a big thumb drive preloaded with 42 retro games, wrapped in a plastic shell that looks like the original console – just a bit over half the size.Īnd the Genesis Mini does pretty much exactly what it promises. The Sega Genesis Mini nails all the necessary features we’ve come to expect from retro mini-consoles. In the box The Sega Genesis Mini is just over half the size of the original (controllers are still full size though)Michael Irving/New Atlas The internet is already bursting with glowing rose-tinted reviews – instead, this is for those who might be wondering what it’s like to tour the trenches of the other side of the console war for the first time. But Sega makes a point of saying that the Genesis Mini is a perfect entry point for newcomers, so that’s the angle I’m looking at it from. That means the Sega Genesis Mini isn’t exactly for me, in a sense. I’d play some Sonic or Alex Kidd at their houses after school, but I never really sunk any serious time into them. To me, Sega consoles have always just been those weird “other” machines that my friends had. I should confess this upfront: I was a Nintendo kid growing up. New Atlas went hands-on with the device ahead of its launch. Two years after Nintendo released a shrunken, plug-and-play version of its SNES, Sega has finally followed suit with the Genesis Mini (or Mega Drive Mini, depending on where you hail from). Now the console wars are playing out again, in miniature. If you were a console gamer in the early 90s, you probably picked your side – you were either Sega or Nintendo. Sega Genesis Mini review (for non-nostalgic newcomers) This is what future entries continued to build on, but it was already very well done in its first iteration here.New Atlas reviews the Sega Genesis Mini (or Mega Drive Mini) from the point of view of a lifelong Nintendo player. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 is the game-changer of the bunch though, as it was the one that introduced an open career mode that was more like Free Skate mode. Even so, the third entry continued to improve on the first two and offered a barrage of fun challenges for players to complete. They introduced a lot of new ideas to the series, such as the 'revert' in THPS 3, which was actually added into the remasters of the first two games to make them feel more fully-fledged. THPS 3 and 4 were both great games that would be glorious to see realised on modern hardware.
What better way to show that than by bringing back a much-requested game like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4? While we do not know to what degree Microsoft and Xbox will be taking part in day-to-day decisions once they own Activision Blizzard, there is no question that they will want the companies under them to fulfil their own vision of games for everyone.
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