The Video Game History Foundation have released a huge amount of material related to the SEGA Channel – SEGA’s short-lived cable service for the Mega Drive. Thanks to the combined efforts of the SEGA Channel vice president of programming Michael Shorrock and independent preservationist The SEGA Channel Guy, you can now browse a huge archive of material that includes advertisements, fan art and ROM dumps of software like the legendary Garfield: Caught in the Act – The Lost Levels.
You can watch a full 58 minute video feature on everything The Video Game History Foundation have discovered via the embed below:
Click here to visit Gaming Alexandria and download all the new ROM files preserved by The Video Game History Foundation. Alongside Garfield: Caught in the Act – The Lost Levels, there is also a complete Mega Drive port of The Flintstones movie game by Ocean, Waterworld, Breakthru, Iron Hammer, and a Mega Drive port of the Berenstain Bears SEGA Pico game. There are also numerous prototypes like a port of the Amiga game Wrath of the Demon, and a near complete dump of an unreleased Popeye game.
An early prototype of an unreleased Mega Drive RTS game developed by SEGA Technical Institute has now been preserved thanks to the efforts of STI artist Craig Stitt and the Hidden Palace team. This early prototype build of the game is from December 1991 and was reportedly shelved due to Mark Cerny wanting developers to focus on character-driven titles.
The development team known as Two Black Cats have launched a free development suite called MD Engine which allows users to build their own Mega Drive games.
MD Engine allows developers to create their own games using visual scripting. It is not limited to specific game genres, and it also includes its own debugging tools. You can also export your game in a wide variety of formats.
Two Black Cats have also confirmed that 3 games have already been created with MD Engine: Square Brothers, Inkventure and Prisonela MD. Inkventure and Prisonela MD are available to purchase now, but they also have demos that you can play online by clicking the links below:
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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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!
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.
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:
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:
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.
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