Sega Mega CD Reviews - A look back

[Rogue Trooper]

LOL, only just noticed:Cosmic Carnage review here, tut tut Laird, that's a 32X title, not MCD :-)

[TL]

LOL, only just noticed:Cosmic Carnage review here, tut tut Laird, that's a 32X title, not MCD :-)

I thought I would chuck it in and see if anyone noticed!

[Shadowrunner]

LOL, only just noticed:Cosmic Carnage review here, tut tut Laird, that's a 32X title, not MCD :-)

I thought I would chuck it in and see if anyone noticed!

The only thing I noticed was they gave it a very generous score 0f 65!

[TL]

Here are a couple more from C&VG:

[TL]

A couple from Sega Magazine:

[Rogue Trooper]

A couple from Sega Magazine:

Whilst i was'nt a fan of the film, it was great to see SEGA do something different with the MCD version of J.Park rather than just tart-up, the god awful MD platform game, with J.Park.was'nt my cup of tea, but this approach the MCD could have done with a lot more of....


As for MCD Powermonger (huge fan of game on ST+MD), just how the hell they made the CD version run slower than the Cart.version, when MCD had faster CPU and custom chips not found on MD, i'll never know, not a great advert for the hardware, sadly.

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Another review for Jurassic Park and one for Mortal Kombat CD

[Rogue Trooper]

Another review for Jurassic Park and one for Mortal Kombat CD

Although i bought M.K on cart (at full price) i soon tired of it.MCD version just added an a few extras, plus had loading times, so kinda a pointless release, so i can kind of see where score is coming from, they could i suppose have given a seperate score for those who did'nt have cart version/had MCD?.

[TL]

I don't own the cart version of MK for the MD so I have always wanted to pick up the CD version as somebody on another forum told me it was far superior, from reading that review it seems he was telling fibs. It seems to go for fairly high prices on eBay, especially in comparison to the cart.

Looks as if I should pick up Jurassic Park at some point.

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More from Sega Magazine:

[Rogue Trooper]

Pity they have wrong screenshots for MCD Dune.

Also, talking of MCD, finally catching up with back issues of Retro gamer, saw MCD in Minority Report and some bizzare nominations for games in places.No mention of:Dune,  Terminator S.E, Thunderhawk, Blast Corps, Soul Star, you know games that actually used the hardware sprite chips etc to great effect?.

Heavenly Symphony is awful.

And this was someone playing through '...some of the finest games' it had to offer.....not impressed.

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Darran wrote that, I was disappointed at the lack of Core Design games present in the list. Soul Star, Battle Corps and Thunderhawk should have been a shoe-in.

[Shadowrunner]

I don't own the cart version of MK for the MD so I have always wanted to pick up the CD version as somebody on another forum told me it was far superior, from reading that review it seems he was telling fibs. It seems to go for fairly high prices on eBay, especially in comparison to the cart.

Looks as if I should pick up Jurassic Park at some point.

The Mega CD version of MK is the only home version I've ever played so I can't really say how it compares to other ports but I always liked it. As for Jurassic Park, I rented it once and thought it was a great game. I'll have to pick it up some day too.

[Rogue Trooper]

Darran wrote that, I was disappointed at the lack of Core Design games present in the list. Soul Star, Battle Corps and Thunderhawk should have been a shoe-in.

Looks like he knows as much about the games as he does the hardware then, lol.

Core were keen to push the MCD that little bit further with each release after the stunning Thunderhawk and not to have that or Blast Corps in a line up of it's finest games, whilst MD ports with CD sound etc on did make the grade was just shocking.

Chalk up another RG piece where i knew a damn sight more about the subject material than person who wrote it.Never used to be this way with RG.

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Last lot that I have for now: