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5 Random Shoot-Em-Ups for the Mega Drive | YouTube Channel

Monday, September 8th, 2025

It’s a grab-bag of random Mega Drive shoot-em-ups in this SEGADriven video! We take a look at 5 random Mega Drive shmups and see what they offer!

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Ninja Gaiden Games Developed for SEGA Consoles | YouTube Channel

Monday, September 1st, 2025

While the Ninja Gaiden series has become synonymous with Nintendo thanks to the very successful NES trilogy of Ninja Gaiden games, this series nearly saw 3 entries come to various SEGA platforms. In this video we take a look at all of them and see if they’re worth your time:

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5 Taito Games Ported to the Mega Drive | YouTube Channel

Monday, August 25th, 2025

Taito are a legendary arcade video game developer responsible for the hugely influential Space Invaders. The developer/publisher would also bring some of their titles to the Mega Drive and in this video we take a look a 5 of them!

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Go! Go! PogoGirl Now Available for Mega Drive

Tuesday, August 12th, 2025

Ohsat Games’s Go! Go! PogoGirl originally released for PC back in 2022, but the game has now been officially ported to the Mega Drive by SpacePantsGames.

Go! Go! PogoGirl is a cute, retro-styled platformer that sees you bounce around over 25 stages, looking for gems and defeating enemies. There’s also boss battles to contend with.

The Mega Drive port of Go! Go! PogoGirl is available digitally via SpacePantsGames’s Itch.io page, or physically via The Retro Room. The physical version can be bought complete in box or cartridge only if you prefer.

A Look at 5 More Amiga Games Ported to the Mega Drive | YouTube Channel

Monday, August 11th, 2025

We’re diving back into the world of Amiga to Mega Drive ports for another look at 5 more games that have origins on the Amiga! Watch our latest YouTube video via the embed below:

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All Spider-Man Games for the SEGA Mega Drive | YouTube Channel

Friday, August 8th, 2025

Stan Lee and Steve Ditko’s Spider-Man is an iconic comic book superhero that has endured for many decades. In this video we take a look at every Mega Drive game that the web crawler has appeared in:

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Console Heroes, Toy Mega Drive Cartridge Dioramas Revealed | Merchandise

Friday, August 1st, 2025

SEGA have partnered with toy manufacturer Console Heroes to launch a line of toy Mega Drive cartridges that open up to reveal a diorama and figures based on a selection of Mega Drive games. There are currently 5 sets available to pre-order from Entertainment Earth and the entire toyline appears to be North American exclusive at the time of writing.

The 5 sets are themed around Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Super Street Fighter II, Altered Beast and a Supervillain Boss Bundle Playset that comes housed in a opening Mega Drive console playset; complete with cartridge storage tray for the cartridge playsets. The cartridge playsets are priced at $17.99 each, while the boss bundle is priced at $39.99. You can see some photos of each playset opened to show its diorama in the image gallery below:

If you’re based in North America and want to pre-order these Console Heroes playsets then you can place your orders at Entertainment Earth right now. The playsets are due to launch later in August 2025.

[Source: Toy Ark]

Japan Rarity ‘Undeadline’ Getting Western Localisation By Retro-Bit

Thursday, July 10th, 2025

Infamous Japan exclusive Mega Drive shooter Undeadline is getting its first release in Western territories thanks to Retro-Bit and D4 Enterprise.

This new version of the game is fully translated into English and comes with the game itself, a slipcase, full colour manual, reversible cover and a set of art cards. It can be pre-ordered now through various online retailers like Limited Run and Strictly Limited Games.

A full list of retailers stocking the new Retro-Bit English release of Undeadline can be found on Retro-Bit’s official website. The game is expected to ship in quarter 4 2025.

Thomas & Friends for SEGA Genesis Video Review | YouTube Channel

Monday, July 7th, 2025

Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends is a 1993 Mega Drive game based on the British institution that is The Railway Series by Wilbert and Christopher Awdry. In our latest video we take a look at the game and try and figure out why it only released in North America:

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Multiple SEGA Ports of Classic Mortal Kombat Games Heading to New MK Legacy Kollection

Thursday, June 5th, 2025

A new Mortal Kombat collection has been revealed and with it comes a host of different Mortal Kombat ports that come from different SEGA systems.

Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection is being developed by Digital Eclipse in the same style as their Gold Master series and collections like Atari 50. This means it includes a virtual timeline that presents the history of the franchise like an interactive documentary – complete with interviews, behind-the-scenes material, artwork and more.

The collection largely focuses on earlier Mortal Kombat entries. Every game and variant from the original Mortal Kombat to Mortal Kombat 4 is represented, plus a selection of console ports. Interesting to SEGA fans is the inclusion of the Mega Drive and Game Gear ports of the original Mortal Kombat, the Mega Drive and 32X ports of Mortal Kombat 2, and the Mega Drive port of Mortal Kombat 3.

The complete list of playable games in the collection is:

– Mortal Kombat – 1992: Arcade, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, Game Gear
– Mortal Kombat II -1993: Arcade, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, 32X
– Mortal Kombat 3 – 1995: Arcade, SNES, Genesis
– Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 – 1995: Arcade, SNES
– Mortal Kombat 4 – 1997: Arcade
– Mortal Kombat Advance – 2001: Game Boy Advance
– Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance – 2002: Game Boy Advance
– Mortal Kombat: Tournament Edition – 2003: Game Boy Advance

Digital Eclipse are also teasing further additions to the collection that will be revealed at a later date. The collection will also feature rollback netcode to make the online multiplayer nice and responsive. It is currently unclear which titles will support rollback netcode.

Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection launches later in 2025 on PC, Switch, Switch 2, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PS4 and PS5. The game is being published by Warner Bros Entertainment in conjuction with Atari. It is being developed by Digital Eclipse in conjuction with NetherRealm Studios.

[Source: PlayStation Blog]

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