Seeing all these aftermarket games in their boxes, all piled next to each other, really drives home the fact that the Mega Drive is still very much alive in the 2020's. There's some absolutely amazing games too... And this makes me a very happy man! Quality video Mike, cheers!

@thehumbleone1983

Ай бұрын

Definitely agree I love and grew up with the mega drive seeing this makes me feel a little kid again so many new games I can’t keep up buying

@Wil_Dsense

Ай бұрын

Apparently it’s very popular console in Brasil, and they are still being manufactured in that region to this day! Great news. I love both the SEGA Mega Drive and Dreamcast! (I just bought both consoles this year)

@Segas.Revenge

Ай бұрын

And the snes is outdated and obsolete 😆

@guyverjay1289

Ай бұрын

And where do you buy them?

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

It's so cool to get these modern designed games that push the hardware. And like you said, some of the are absolutely amazing.

The Retrobit re-releases are absolutely divine. So worth it. And yes, Xeno Crisis is a god-tier Genesis/MD game. I'm right there with you: can't recommend it enough.

@paxhumana2015

26 күн бұрын

Better still, it's also a multi-platform game that is just as good in its other versions if you can't play it on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive as well.

That's a pretty nice collection. Strictly Limited really helps with their rereleases of older titles or games that never came out. Without them I wouldn't have physical copies of Panorama Cotton, Mega Turrican Directos Cut or Darius. I think Papriums record for the biggest Mega Drive game was broken with Demons of Asteborg. Due to the size of the game NeoFid had to create their own chipset called the Neodrive which currently maxes out at 120megs if I'm not mistaken. The actual filesize of Demons of Asteborg is 117megs I think Astebros uses the full 120megs though. With it's 3 characters and stunning animation I'm suprised it came so close to the first game in terms of size. But than again you do have minecarts and that superscaler shooting stage. Will you be again at gamescom this year?

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Paprium is a dirty word in my games room. I so frustrated that I paid so much for it and it never came😡 and the same with Pier Solar. I might be at Gamescom this year, we don't have a stand this year but I may turn up for business meetings.

@jamesburchill7522

Ай бұрын

​​@@RetroGamerBoyWe are in the same boat there, Mike. They sent me a damn ROM. If you see the Fonz or Watermelon, slap them for me. (ROM was broken, FYI)

@TexasHollowEarth

Ай бұрын

@RetroGamerBoy - ..... that's trash, bro. I still wanna play Paprium, myself. Wish it would get a proper rip/dump.

Oh dang this has to be the best video to introduce new homebrew games all in one video instead of doing it individually! Nice content bro 👍🏻

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Thanks, there are so many great new games for the console.

@bvenski3199

Ай бұрын

​@@RetroGamerBoyThe Facebook page Sega Megadrive Extreme Collectors says: "This page is not available. The link may be broken or the page may have been removed." ???

Life on earth looks stunning!

I have several of these and Tanglewood is my favourite of the bunch. Had it on Evercade then got it on original hardware. Beautiful game!

@RetroGamerBoy

27 күн бұрын

It's amazing. I wish the partner mechanic came in earlier in the game.

Perfect video for a Sunday, thank you! And seriously, why does the Megadrive have such an amazing indie community? Other consoles have their indie developers too, but it looks like the Megadrive has the biggest indie scene right now.

@demonology2629

Ай бұрын

I would say programming for any games system, isn't that easy, but people are picking up on the MEGA DRIVE and GENESIS programming a lot more and then other systems The retro aspect gets these developers into the mood.

@richardslotboom9250

Ай бұрын

Well the Commodore 64 has an BIG indie scene too and i love it and the Megadrive too!

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

It's insane, I love it.

I was missing your face! Glad to see you! Mike is the kind of guy who spends a lot of my money with showcases like this. Gotta get that Life on Earth game, it looks so fun. Still need to grab a physical of Cleopatra's Curse; been waiting YEARS to do so. Nekkid in Cheril's Perils you say?

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Cheryl Perils is right up your alley Tom. 🤫

If you enjoy custom romhacks, you should definitely get / make yourself TMNT: Shredder's Re-Revenge (Streets of Rage 2 romhack)

@barryhennessy6351

Ай бұрын

Totally agree😊 I bought a repro cartridge it's such a good game one of my favourites

@paxhumana2015

24 күн бұрын

I'd love to see a custom port of Turtles in Time, the first Arcade Game, or Shredder's Revenge on the platform, instead.

I love the modding and creative community. This is AMAZING :D

There’s something so special about the Sega Genesis cases. The proportions and that matte film to house the game art.

WOW! 40 new games for the Mega Drive/Genesis Mike? I had know idea and really lost count. But glad to see them being offered to the public for us to enjoy. 8^) Anthony..

Awesome revisit to all these “modern” Sega MD games, thanks for this episode. Also, your R-type custom creation looks amazing!

Dope show .!! Now we need you to sell all of these so we don’t have to search all over or make physical versions so we can purchase directly from you. Not only are you a sega genesis media on KZread but a source to purchase .

Great vid and found a few games to pick up in future! Cheers Mike! Oh FYI Fix it Felix was originally a arcade game that the film was influenced by. Cool to see it ported though.

I’ve been waiting for you to make this video. It didn’t disappoint! Wow 200 plus release’s since the console officially ended. That’s amazing! No other console can compare! Thanks Mike 😊

warning to anyone interested in collecting older (out of print) indie/homebrew physical releases: there are a LOT of fakes of the more expensive original homebrews floating around and you need to know what you are looking at before spending money on a "fake homebrew". Prime example is @24:45 Mega Cheryls Perils. Developed by Mojon Twins and published by 1985 Alternativo, this is very rare with an alledged print run of less than 100 (some say under 50) legit copies produced. The official release comes with a manual but there are some fakes out there that have copied that too. the case and cart shell are the same as other 1985A releases (not what was shown in this video). Be careful lest you throw good money after bad items!

Some of these games are available on the Evercade. It's great the Megadrive is still going strong.

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Yup, the Evercade is an awesome alternative.

Some fantastic stuff there. I'm gutted I wasn't in a position to get the early retrobit releases due to finances. The toaplan, Gairies, Gleylancer ones I missed out on. Fun thing with Sol Deace. Sol Feace released worldwide on the MegaCD but the US version used some SFX generated by the Megadrive internal sound chip instead of the CD like Japan and PAL but then the US got Sol Deace for the Genesis which none of the rest of us got originally. Such an odd duck. 😂 Love Kai Mag Softwares games and other random ones like Cursed Knight, Xenocrisis and Tanglewood were awesome! I still love that Golden Axe 3 custom. May need to get something like that myself.

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

I've got a very exclusive first look at a new game coming up soon. 👍

@TheRetroMartin

Ай бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy ooh, I'll look forward to that. Just waiting for my copy of Eliminate Down to turn up (so jealous you already have it)

Great video, very informative. Such a good collection of games you had there, thanks for sharing them.

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

There are so many I would still like to add, and I regularly annoyed that I paid so much for Paprium and still have not received it.

Good to see you back Mike!!! It’s been a while, your Megadrive collection looks amazing!!!!

One thing these homebrew games show is the lack of uniform branding. The inlays do nothing to make me want to buy them. Kai Magazine are the only ones who seem close to getting it on brand but the lack of branding is certainly also a Sega issue. It really lets down the overall package of these games. By the way I do own a repro of Golden Axe III and it's really cool to have. 👍

Good to see a new video from you. I love all the new games for the MD as well. Have quite a few of them.

Please consider making this a series. You can show us new games you've added, updates to demos, and upgraded versions that you've scored. This is a really good overview, video 👍👍

@LVPB

Ай бұрын

That is literally what his channel is.

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

I have quite a few videos like this. Check out the channel for more 😁👍

Great video! Long live the Genni!!!

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

🤘😝🤘

I'm so glad you included R-Type. I'm very excited for that port.

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

It's amazing, I'm always playing the demo.

@paxhumana2015

26 күн бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy , I wish that the guy that made the single person port of Darius for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Mini, and that later made an actual physical cart of the game for actual Sega Genesis/Mega Drive systems, also made expanded versions of the game that had two players, as well as the complete length of the stages of the game, and a new mode that can either be played by one or two players that is essentially a Marathon Mode, and that he would also do likewise for Darius II/Sagaia as well. I would also love to see Super, Extra, and other versions of Darius, and Darius II/Sagaia, included on the games as well. The games could be called Darius: Penultimate Edition and Darius II: Penultimate Edition. Maybe Darius Gaiden can have it, and its Extra Version be on a new version of that game as well?

Amazing video (and very informative too)! Thanks!

Your collection is looking amazing Mike, enjoy seeing all the new releases, from a guy with 20 years experience with photoshop your custom box art is second to none. Keep up the good work, C.

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Thanks dude.

Chips Challenge was on the Atari Lynx.

I’m really glad you showcase this list of games. I was actually curious about newer genesis games that may or may not have been on your show. I noticed that you do not have coffee crisis. I tried it it’s pretty fun. But again, thanks for the video. It was good and hey, I understand I got a job to.

Tanzer is a very impressive indy games too on md. Not for the graphics, but the musics are outstanding and the gameplay is one of the more precise and nervous i ever played😮 One of the developpers is a developper of Zpf as well

Awesome round-up, its surprsingly hard to find good info on all these modern releases, we need a centralised location of some kind, your channel is one of the best

Viva mi Génesis ..viva!..viva my mega drive !

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

🤘😝🤘

I can't get enough of Demons of Asteborg 1 of my favourite games ever!

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

It's such an amazing game.

Some other goodies are, Petscii Robots, Tanzer and mad stalker. What game are you working on? Great video.

Great content, thank you

Your game collection looks awesome keep it 👍

No way! That's too many!

I wish more companies would do what Retrobit is doing. Buying old games can be fun, but sometimes they just seem so fragile to me. I always worry they are going to break lol. Especially SNES games, which seem little sturdy than Genesis carts.

The Russian dolls are called Matroskas. Very cool one you showed.

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

It was an awesome extra to the Collectors Edition

Glad to see you posting videos again not sure why this took a week for youtube to show me it when im subscribed, any chance you will be at NERG in newcastle in July?

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

unfortunately not, my team and I are working on a PS5 release. So I have to work all the hours.

@antonyjcarter

Ай бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy been there, good luck with the deadline

Great video Mike and I'm with you. There are lots of good "new" Genesis/Mega Drive games but if you HAD to choose only one, there is only one answer, XENOCRISIS!!! I'm almost a little disappointed you're not wearing the Xenocrisis t shirt. :-) though I'm a little surprised you don't have a copy of Tanzer from Megacat. If I had to pick a second that would be at the top of the list.

I bet he's not even wearing any pants...so cheeky

Thanks man. You are doing Gods work..

The shooting mechanics is awesome.........are

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Thanks

Great video, thanks. Fantastic quality on the custom releases you've made. What do you do in gamedev? I'm also an ex-developer.

Great collection of games there, although i have a lot of these via my evercade collection. Also, officially licenced and cheaper to collect.

Great video! Could you please share your arts for custom made games somewhere? (or maybe you already did it)

There is a store here in The Netherlands that has the Retro Bit Wily Wars voor 78€. Some others too, but no Toaplan. Interested Mike?

Wow))

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Wow indeed

Love Knights of the Round on SNES.

very interesting, greetings from your friend from Russia)❤

How do I find out more about the Genesis six button mod for two sticks ❓ 🔥💲💵💚💵💲🔥

All these new games are really for collectors. The MD is a good starting point for a level of technological complexity but owning a cart is pretty pointless unless someone decides they need to wage war on roms.

@iwanttocomplain

Ай бұрын

But no-one could be so short sighted as to attempt to remove the source of interest in games which are already made and 30 years old. But a new market is not well served by a sub standard product. Especially at full price, to anyone who isn't interested in owning small vacuum formed bit of black plastic.

Is there any update on the ports of Paprium to modern systems? I know they did a Kickstarter, it got funded, and then nothing.

While it is cool to get so many aftermarket games, I think most aren't that great to play. They hardly ever get critically reviewed. So mostly, they are more of a wanna have than a must play. There are exceptions though, like Demons of Asteborg or Xenocrisis. Chip's Challenge is a Lynx game by the way.

Super-puper!

When you say you will make a manual for the game , do you have somewhere you know that has all the art work to print out or something? I have a bunch of games I'd like to ge the manuals for

@RetroGamerBoy

29 күн бұрын

I will recreate it all myself.

Can I ask a question that might be a bit stupid. In your retro-bit section you have a number of MD carts I ordered from limited run. I’m yet to receive them, surprise surprise. Are they distributing retro-bit stuff or are both companies making the same re-releases? Also, thanks for introducing me to a few companies I wasn’t aware of 👍

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

So Retro-bit make them and then Limited Run distribute. The team send through sample copies to me so that I can show you guys what you'll be getting. I think the samples tend to be the ones not good enough to sell.😂

@yeahOkayrecords

Ай бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy Awesome! Thanks

What become of Super Fighter Team? They still around?

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

I think they are still around.

I also share a lot of love for Tanglewood. Tanglewood, Xenocrisis, Demons of Asteborg and Astebros really stand out as true AAA titles. I'm sorry to hear you still don't have your copy of Paprium because it's another AAA game that is an easy 10/10. Hopefully it will still happen for you once the most recent Paprium Kickstarter started delivering. I'm eager for Paprium on Playstation and for my megawire. Cleopatra's Curse really surprised me. I'm 95% done and it's been a great ride. I only wish the whip mechanic was a bit easier to use. Eagerly awaiting Phantom Gear and ZPF!

You have link for the 3D Boxes images?

@RetroGamerBoy

27 күн бұрын

3D boxes?

You remind me so much of bald and bankrupt lol you could easily pass for brothers

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Interesting 🤔

The russian doll is called Matreshca (матрёшка)

@Robert_Shmigelsky

Ай бұрын

It would be so cool if they made some Black Jewel Reborn themed ones.

🎉

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

😱

I'm just sad I missed so many of these games. Could you provide links to the games we can still get? I know alot of them are kickstarters only. I only just found out about Eliminate down today....... damn.

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

I think it's mainly the Retro-bit games that are limited.

Hey dude where can we download the files to get the golden axe 3 and MK arcade edition art work?

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

If you go to my channel you can search for the MK video or the Golden Axe video. In the description of those videos are links to the artwork.

...no watermelon games?

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Well I paid for them, but they never sent them 🤬

I thought Sol Deace and Feace where the same game and available on Mega CD here in the UK 🤷🏻‍♂️

FYI Cursed Legacy now has a demo out which is pretty fun! Finally someone else with Zero Tolerence Origins....want to do system link? Also did you not pre-order Legends of Wukong? 😛Also for others reading this comment, a load of these games are also available to be purchased either as ROMs on itch or from Steam.

Wasn’t Chips Challenge an Atari lynx game?

Bonjour de la France J'ai pu jouer a TCL la suite de tck dans une convention en France J'ai fini le jeu en 6heures environ Le kick starter sera en septembre octobre C'est un très bon jeu J'espère qu'il te plaira Bisous de la France

Babushka dolls

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Awesome video dude thanks again 👍

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Anytime

Does anyone have ANY information on Paprium at all? How does the most anticipated Genesis game just DISAPPEAR?

@TROLLING_BOT

Ай бұрын

That game was a mess.

@fgajtani

Ай бұрын

@@TROLLING_BOT how so? It's done. It can be played; but I can't buy it. What the hell

@TROLLING_BOT

Ай бұрын

@@fgajtani The devs behind the game were shady.

@fgajtani

Ай бұрын

@@TROLLING_BOT are you saying the game ISN'T actually finished?

@hexapusink

Ай бұрын

@@fgajtani There are multiple videos on the subject of Paprium and the guy behind it. The short answer is, a lot of people never got the cart that they paid for and he never released the steam version. Some people that got the game(Gamesack got one) the cart fell apart. There's been multiple Kickstarters and now there's a class action lawsuit in the works in France(where the dev is from).

Chips challenge is an Atari ST port. Just like Magic Pockets, Switchblade,International Karate, Rick Dangerous and one other ugly game they ported on Megadrive. Its easy to port them on Megadrive because of the 68000 same cpu and because of Atari St lacking hardware accelator chips (unlike Amiga), so the translation is a piece of cake.

Trust me, Magic Pockets is the opposite of fun. Once you get past the novelty of Betty Boo playing on the title screen, you'll be met with by far Bitmap Brothers worst game. Not sure why anyone would think it deserved a megadrive port 30yrs after the fact...

@EoR_2B4GOT10

Ай бұрын

I'm not an expert on this. But I heard that due to the color limitions back in the day ports from system to system were usually complicated. The Atari ST, Amiga and Mega Drive were special because they could be build on top of each other. A port from the ST to the Amiga was in terms of visuals a piece of cake. The same goes for when you port a game from the Amiga to the Mega Drive since the mega drive can portrait the same colors as the Amiga. Just more of it. I believe the ST was 16 colors on screen at once and the Amiga was 32 and the Mega Drive 64. I'm asuming this was ported because the source code was still around and sometimes programmers have to much freetime. So they look for a project.

@businesscat380

Ай бұрын

@@EoR_2B4GOT10 Megadrive, Amiga and Atari ST all shared 68000 as the CPU at similar speeds, so the game logic (assembly code) could all be straight copied pretty much. The graphics and sound were different on all the machines though, resolution and colour-depth etc. that's where all the actual porting happened. I'd imagine most software houses abstracted out the graphics/sound calls to libraries to make porting easier. I was more commenting on why port a shit game from 30yrs ago rather than a good one 😂

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

I quit enjoyed it. Reminded me of those middle of the road Amiga games.

And you had those games for free?? ...

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

Of the 40 I got 3 free. All the others I bought. I've been offered free copies but I like to buy them and support the scene. And where I have bought one and been given one for free I donate the free copy to my daughter's school and they make it part of their school raffle.

@stonecoldpes6

Ай бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy 40 games is a lot of money dude

@Segas.Revenge

Ай бұрын

Stop crying about it.

@stonecoldpes6

Ай бұрын

@@Segas.Revenge crying about what?? Lies?? U r a joke dude

Hi Mike, we all here can see the pain when you talk about PAPRIUM.....!!!! Right now on eBay the price is just unbelievable. Watermelon have a reputation that all of us hate, but when you play their games we forgive everyone involved. Hope one day you receive your copy and we want a long vide about it.All this new games for Megadrive is what make this incredible console still alive. There's a possibility of Mega Final Fight be published by Capcom. If this happens will be a game change. And other big developers star realise game for our lovely console will be just amazing. Image SEGA get involved....new Sonic Mania for Megadrive...we are here waiting... great video... thanks for all...

The MegaGen rules the after market game's scene, while the super gaytendo is in the gutter 😄

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

😂

Eday is terrible experience for buying megadrive games naver buy from there

@Segas.Revenge

Ай бұрын

It's a resellers site basically.

@leecroft7311

Ай бұрын

True but where else can you buy them from ?

Todaj i got my sega mega drive II Lion king edition , im so happy

Hey, neptune was just relaised in Brazil. The sega md with 32x

@RetroGamerBoy

27 күн бұрын

I know I want one whatever the cost.

@moranetigger

27 күн бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy hope they made new 32Xgames !!! It would be so nice... see in 3 years, the 32x games be tripliqued : )

@moranetigger

27 күн бұрын

​@@RetroGamerBoy it will be in your channell soon ! Congrats from Brazil my friend.. really like your channel : )

@moranetigger

27 күн бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy Ah..take a look to this brazilian console moder ... kzread.info?search_query=nando+games+consoles+customizados

@moranetigger

27 күн бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/mWeosKh6m8mTidY.html better link to NANDO GAMES CONSOLE ARTS. I think u know his work.

I wasted 1800USD on paprium Kickstarter😢 . Damn the Fonz

@hexapusink

Ай бұрын

There's a class action lawsuit in the works. Time Extension made a post about it a while back. Dude doesn't deserve to keep your money and people really need to stop defending this guy.

@LVPB

Ай бұрын

​@@hexapusinkI don't have social media. Do you have any info on how I can become involved in this ? . I'm done with it

@RetroGamerBoy

Ай бұрын

I'm £500 deep. The guy is a disgrace to the industry.

Simply wonderful Genesis for all the legacy that we have kept intact today with the current consoles. It's wonderful to see a 16-bit console still very present today. I'm sure Sega will be very pround of it.. I'm sure Sega would never have imagined it, but the fact is done. 🫶🏼🕹️👊🏼