Classic Game Room HD reviews the cartridge design and packaging for Sega Genesis video games! The Genesis is known as the Mega Drive (or MEGADRIVE) outside of the United States, and these games from the 16 bit era are hard to forget. Sega always made their products solid and build them to last. Genesis games are numerous, plentiful and easy to collect. They come in a hard plastic shell which easily fits into the slot on top of the MD and play when you turn the power on. In this review we look at the styling of a few of CGRHD’s collected games like Mega Turrican, MUSHA, Herzog Zwei, Strider, Revenge of Shinobi, Cyborg Justice, Thunder Force II and Fire Shark. This particular Sega Genesis is a modded Genesis with s-video output and you can watch another video all about that one (search for it under s-video modified sega genesis). The Genesis cartridges are compared in size, scope and functionality to classic arcade style retro video game carts from the Nintendo Entertainment System NES and the Atari 2600.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
lol, Heavy Nova is the WORST. Me and a friend played it and I recorded it and put it on my channel.
i love the ending “how about a walk”
One thing you forgot to say is that the cartridge on the Japanese version of the Mega Drive is differrent design than the Western versions.
also the design for cosmic spacehead was weird as hell too
@Amaranthus616 as he does say what he doesnt like about a game, as well as what he does like about it. if there is any nostalgia involved, its pretty small as the games he played in their release days….he obviously hasnt stopped playing when you watch the reviews you come to notice this
and you dont need to despise him, thats way too extreme…if you dont like, fair enough…but to despise? guy just likes to have fun
@highwaysonyfan87 it isnt just nostalgia, nostalgia actually plays very, very little in his reviews and opinions as he evidently has NEVEr stopped playing these old games….and neither have i…how can one be nostalgic about something they havent been away from?
the fact that he still plays them, means he truely likes the games and what he says about them, is his honest opinion as the nostalgia isnt there to cloud over the bad qualities of the game and make him forget about them
@MarkTheMorose mega drive also sounds good…at it means the console is being called mega….and it drives you to play it…or something….i actually dont know i just had to think of that >_>
i have an american megadrive cartridge somehow….of jeopardy. it has that genesis logo at the top of the design. but all my other megadrive ones tend to have it at the bottom and like a few of the genesis ones, the logo varies in design from game to game
@crazyzach5 that is so true. cartridges ftw
@NA3LKER I understand that it’s due to a clash of names – a US company had already trademarked the name in the US, so Mega Drive couldn’t be used. Besides, Genesis means beginning, and given how it started the era of true 16-bit generation consoles, it seems quite apt.
@highwaysonyfan87 Some people want to know detail for something simple, and as far as their “real opinions” go, I’m sure its the real deal. Just because nostalgia plays a factor it doesen’t mean the game actully sucks. Besides he’s pretty honost with his reviews he gives credit where credit is due, and also discusses the negitive qualities.
@matttaylordigital
i know. i used to like cgr, but over time have come to despise them. nostalgia gets in the way of their real opinions on old games and this guy reviews everything. first party controllers, cartridge design, game package art, different models of the same console…..etc…. for fuck’s sake, learn when to stop. it’s like
“oh hey, i found a coffee thermos, not let me review and compare it to a ps2″
he’s ridiculous
@crazyzach5 yeah, but that’s also less space and in this day and age, cartridges are unacceptable for new systems.
also, blu-ray is currently the format with the most space and is almost as durable as cartridges
@allanbrito123 Cartridge games that have a save option (RPGs, sports season simulations, Sonic 3, etc) save your progress to batteries that supposedly die over time. Genesis cartridges’ save batteries must last forever since I don’t think I’ve ever had a game’s save function go out on me.
why is it called the megadrive in england and the genesis in america?
@Hernia901 what do you mean “save batteries”?
omg back then they had a plastic hanger on the case to hang it on one of those metal racks
I found a box of 12 games or so in my dad’s backyard, where they must’ve been for at least two years. They live in San Antonio, where it hits 100 degrees on a regular basis. Plus, some of my cases were the cheap paper kind, while other games had no boxes at all. Every single game worked perfectly, save batteries included.
Yay no seek times, they probably will switch from cartridges and make new games come on flash media… would be very niice.
I have that game cart at 6:20 I cleaned It a few time’s got a lot of dirt out of It, what’s name of that game?.
Is this for real???? Don’t get me wrong I’m a huge game fan, but reviewing a cartridge design for ‘the way it fits into the console’, jesus, you really need to get out, go to a park, walk down the street, anything. Just be outside. Christ. I’m appalled that in an age where video games are beginning to be apprecaietd for their artistic merit, and their contribution to modern culture, some chump is doing a ‘journalistic’ review of the bit of plastic they used to be housed in. Shame on you.
Is this for real???? Don’t get me wrong I’m a huge game fan, but reviewing a cartridge design for ‘the way it fits into the console’, jesus, you really need to get out, go to a park, walk down the street, anything. Just be outside. Christ. I’m appalled that in an age where video games are beginning to be apprecaietd for their artistic merit, and their contribution to modern culture, some chump is doing a ‘journalistic’ review of the bit of plastic they used to be housed in. Shame on you.
3:37 Flamethrower with super-powered legs for awesome attack spins, you don’t get that to often any more.
that look interesting!
@crazyzach5 I know, they should have kept the cartridge concept today, but CDs hold alot of space on them. But on a cd, scratch it, and its dead.