Im very excited. I actually won a bid on 6 games first, then went looking for a console. Snagged a 1601 “graphics text” model.
I’ve always wanted a genesis, its one of the few systems I’ve never owned. What are some of your favorite games?
Also, mine is coming with a phaser gun, which ill probably sell. Or should I keep it?
Can’t wait to hook this bad boy up to my Sharp CRT ;)
Comix Zone is cool but is also ball-bustingly difficult. Vectorman is another console exclusive that I thought was a pretty good entry on the system beyond the usual Sonic and sports games everyone is going to mention.
Gunstar Heroes is also another banger but due to its popularity it commands asinine prices on the used market so maybe just emulate that one.
On that note, I certainly won’t fault anybody who wants to get some flavor of piracy cartridge, e.g. the Everdrive or some derivative thereof, to feed their retro console given the current insane collector’s prices for many titles these days.
The best alternative to Gunstar Heroes is Contra: Hard Corps, though I guess that cart is also expensive as fuck, at least from a cursory ebay search - plenty of “enhanced edition” being sold at a much cheaper price, but those are reproduction carts with the romhack