MEGA POWER! The Smallest & Largest Sega Genesis Games

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This was originally a 2 part series where I went over the largest and smallest Genesis carts in megabits. I start with the smaller games and then move to the monster sizes at the end of the platform's life.
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured on the Mega SG and real hardware.
2. 8 megabits = 1 megabyte
3. 128 kilobytes = 1 megabit
4. There are some oddball cart sizes out there. Star Control was 12 megabits and Panorama Cotton was 20 megabits.
5. The introduction of CDROM technology was huge mainly because of the storage possibilities. Where as a cartridge was huge at 32 megabits at the time, a CD could hold a whopping 5400+ megabits.
6. The reason developers didn't just start off with massive cartridge sizes in the 16-bit generation was cost. ROM was expensive and developers wanted to make money. Every increase in size increased cost, which was often passed on to the consumer. When a game had a larger cart size and things like battery backups, they tended to cost $10-$20 more than your average release. At the time of its launch in early 1990, Phantasy Star II cost $69.99 due to its 6-megabit ROM and battery backup.
7. So much was made about Strider's 8 meg showing. The magazines, the ads, the reviews, it was a real draw to see how it turned out. It was incredible that even with 8 megs, there is still heavy compression going on to make that game work. Do you notice those pauses during gameplay you feel? That's music being loaded for the next section.

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@MyRetroLife Год назад

I’ll never forget how big a deal it was seeing “8-Mega Memory” printed on the front cover of Strider. SUCH a big deal! We thought it was magic.

@MrSez1979 Год назад

Yup... I just posted the same thing before reading this... Those were some good times... Ahhh nostalgia...

@Gatorade69 Год назад

8 MEGA POWER !!!

@mjdf122 Год назад

Good times in the 80s and 90s these kids don’t know

@dennismcdonald2607 Год назад

And it was!

@jeremybowers3181 Год назад

Lol right!! Many a times at Blockbuster looking for the biggest mb number as a kid🤣

@jamesgoss1860 Год назад

I remember feeling really cheated when I came home with UMK3. The Mercy and Animality sound effects were all playable in the sound menu, so that led me to believe the moves were in the game, but I was failing to pull them off for some reason. Shortly after I learned they were all pulled. I think even Sheeva's name and voice effects were left in.

@willman85 Год назад

Lol I feel for you dude. What the hell were they thinking?

@joaobabler1584 Год назад

I simply love Shove It, is so addictive, I have it even on my PSP, and I play it at least 2 times per year, along with Golden Axe 2 on Genesis and Resident Evil 2 on PS1.

@jonniefast Год назад

most obscure version? eggegg on direct tv systems in the mid-2000s never ported, never rereleased 🥹

@jonniefast Год назад

its also called boxxle or soukuban if u wanna see different versions of a similar game on other systems

@joaobabler1584 Год назад

@@jonniefast If I'm not wrong, there's a version called Boxy Boy, Arcade version. I can't remember.

@kylem1112 Год назад

It's looks so simple yet fun, It's reminds of of the puzzles you'd see in 2d Legend Of Zelda games.

@deusvult4920 Год назад

Love the content, but in future videos perhaps consider using the chapter system to separate the video into segments game by game. Such a great feature, and makes it easier for users to scrub through longer content if they're looking for something specific, or when re-watching. Thanks so much for all your efforts on your videos, and keep up the good work!

@TheVanillatech Год назад

"Hey thanks for the FREE video that entertained me! Now let me tell you your job!".

@shyguy85 Год назад

@@TheVanillatechor maybe he's just offering a suggestion to better his content?

@TheVanillatech Год назад

@@shyguy85 Maybe he needs to say thankyou and then keep his mouth shut?

@leeg12000 Год назад

Love your videos SLXl. It's always good to see a gaming channel that has played games from the old days. We were the outsider's back in the day. Look how big gaming these days. Turns out we weren't nerds, just ahead of the game. Pun intended.

@udance4ever Год назад

NeoGeo was king of climbing the "mega" mountain! Metal Slug 5 clocking in at like 708 MEGS was a big deal considering it was 88 megabytes of chips & you paid an arm & a leg for a cart the size of a book!

@jonathanfenton5496 Год назад

One Genesis game that might be worth looking at is F1 or Formula One. Likely the best racing game, which I realize may be a brazen statement, but for sure it never got the attention it deserved. Similar to Super Monaca but the graphics are much better.

@Blas4ublasphemy Год назад

Rambo 3 was awesome and at the time to me felt like an arcade version of the NES Metal Gear, still love to play through this and Mercs on the Genesis.

@Canadian_Gamer Год назад

I normally do not care for repackaged content but I will always make an exception when it comes to your channel as your content is highly entertaining and worth rewatching.

@TheMultiGunMan Год назад

This is an awesome video. I really liked it. Thank you for making it.

@iorch82 Год назад

That wrestling game looks totally like an NeoGeo game. Amazing

@DesertRainReads Год назад

The funny thing is, there's a project going on regarding Mortal Kombat 1 that aims to bring it as close to the arcade experience within the confines of the Genny as possible. It keeps the awesome Matt Furniss soundtrack, and it looks and sounds amazing. You are correct in that had they had larger ROM space, the game could've been even better. Sadly, Super Street Fighter 2's audio quality was so bad that I had to pass on it entirely. I had a friend who had a copy of the game, it was 40 megabits of wasted potential. They could've done so much better with it. One of those instances where the SNES version of the game absolutely trounced the Genny version based off this alone.

@yeahyeahwowman8099 Год назад

Thing is despite the Genesis having the arcade style of the buttons being in a row, it failed to replicate the arcade experience because of it. Despite Genesis owners saying it was perfect for fighting games, the snes's button layout made fighting games much easier to play and pull off moves.

@DesertRainReads Год назад

@@yeahyeahwowman8099 also a valid point, I feel that was due to muscle memory, we would look for the L & R buttons instinctively, hence why we were able to pull off crazy combos on SNES so easily. You are correct that the SNES's 6 button controller lent itself extremely well to fighting games. The Genny version of many of these games though, often looked more faithful to the arcade experience or actually had better audio. See Mortal Kombats 1 & 3, Street Fighter 2 CE, plus Fatal Fury 1 & 2 as examples of such. Super Street Fighter 2 is an outlier in this case. Sure, the Genny version had additional sound clips and the music continued playing between rounds, but dear lord the sound quality was so bad it wasn't even funny. Because of this, the SNES version remains the best way to experience SSF2 to date. Those arrangements actually sounded better than the arcade, especially Fei Long's theme, which even now, the SNES arrangement is unmatched by any other version.

@Adamtendo_player_1 Год назад

@@yeahyeahwowman8099the Sega controller was better than the SNES one because of the 6 button layout which was the standard in the arcade’s although it’s Nintendo’s design that has lived on through the PlayStation but i still prefer the Sega 6 button controller because it’s better for fighting games.

@Adamtendo_player_1 Год назад

@@DesertRainReadsbad Audio doesn’t make the Nega Drive port of SSF2 bad, it plays smoother than the SNES version and that’s what matters to me because I’m too busy enjoying the gameplay too much.

@yeahyeahwowman8099 Год назад

@@Adamtendo_player_1 fighting game enthusiasts even agree the Genesis controllers buttons are to close to eachother and not spaced out enough. Out of all the designs over the years, theres a reason the snes button layout become the gold standard in where to place shit. Place it next to an arcade fight stick, with an actual joystick and buttons spaced far enough apart, the Genesis is gonna get smoked.

@respectfulremastersbymetal8336 Год назад

They used to put a fun and complete game in a couple of megabits and now you need 50 gigabytes just for patch to make something playable.

@greensun1334 Год назад

19:00 - I like the grenade's explosion - one single frame 😅👍🏼 - but the game is not so bad!

@biostemm Год назад

There's a mini-documentary for the newer nes game micro mages, which goes into detail about how they maximized what they could do with the limited space

@wormwoodroadshow Год назад

"Fatal Labyrinth" was the first Genesis games I ever played after growing up as a Nintendo kid. It wasn't enough to make me switch sides, but it did give me respect for the Genesis as a system.

@ReinMixTape Год назад

The one time I remember bothering to complete Fatal Labyrinth I did so a little by fluke. I got to the final floor, but the monsters were kind of wrecking me then one of the mobs which cause you to be teleported about hit me with that spell. I got teleported to the end game item, took it and ran up the final set of stairs. The Dragon thing was easier than I expected it to be.

@BigBadJohnDiesel Год назад

Makes you wonder how great Hard Drivin' would have been on an 8 meg cart!

@PoutingTrevor Год назад

World Championship Soccer was known as World Cup Italia '90 in Europe. After it's initial release, it appeared on Mega Games 1, a complication cart often packed in with the console, alongside Super Hang-On and Columns. It's genuinely one of my favourite games. I'm not a football fan (odd for a Brit, I know), but I spent many hours playing this as a kid.

@maurojose6786 Год назад

Tec toy had a very good job on Duke Nukem for Genesis.I had never heard of that version.Thanks for sharing great info with us bro.

@Vednier Год назад

FatalLabyrinth reminds me of Spiderweb's games like Avernum - everything around you moves\acts only when you move.

@mickael486 Год назад

After Burner on the Master System, said it was a 4Mb cartridge. After playing it, I'm thinking they lied to us. For the first 12 or so stages, get a rubber band and wrap it around the controller to hold it left or right. doesn't matter. Go make a sandwich. Eat the sandwich. Congratulations. You've made it to Level 13 without dying once.

@Freshbrood Год назад

Wow Fatal Labyrinth looks great. Reminds me of Pixel Dungeon and other roguelikes

@Fools_Requiem 10 месяцев назад

Shove It reminds me of Chips Challenge levels where you're supposed to move boxes around in order to reach the goal. I hated those levels because they ended up being super tedious and time-consuming.

@atomcraft4067 Год назад

Hey SLX. Love the channel. I don't know whether you have covered it or whether I may have missed the boat but I would love to hear your thoughts on The Megadrive game selections for The Nintendo Switch. I've recently downloaded it and I think they did a pretty good job with the selection. Anyway, great content as always.

@lap456 Год назад

I sill remember the srock I got about finding out that Donkey Kong Country for the SNES was the same sized as the PC version of Doom 32MB and the smallest SNES game was on GameBoy Cart. So big and small on these systems are no sopizre to me anymore. Also what thing's like the MSU1 chip didn't sopizre me.

@0.Kenshin Год назад

@2:26 Mario Paint would only store one canvas at a time and Nintendo actually suggested using a VCR to store things long-term.

@SegaLordX Год назад

Nintendo's suggestion was at least a sincere alternative to its save system. Sega ONLY gave its bullshit suggestion.

@jhoughjr1 Год назад

"What? You guys don't have VCRs?"

@cheater00 Год назад

Broooooooooo I got that Sonic poster with my Genesis 2 and on the back there was a bunch of games advertised, and Alex Kidd was one of them. They showed the nice hand drawn cover. I thought it must be a great game. I've literally spent years as a kid thinking about how good this game must be if the graphics were anything like what's on the cover. There was no Internet back then really and even if, there was nothing on the internet about console games honestly ... and... holy CRAP this game is SO bad!!! My imagination sure is better than Sega's art department.

@segajcharrua Год назад

The smallest is game - Shove It

@EdwinTheGreat337 Год назад

Before watching this. SLX ,very insightful and very entertaining. Just want to say. I'm going through those 80s movies that I saw on tv commercials. Finished watching Child's Play series,Robocop,Gremlins. Trying to watch Back to The Future but having trouble. Who else can I tell this to if not Sega Lord X.

@LincolnMcKean 4 месяца назад

Over the years I've tried to play and enjoy that 16 bit Akex Kidd back in the day I got a master system 2 mostly because I loved Alex the Kidd in miracle world the gfx seemed amazing to me and you could play other games too lol so to me the 16 bit version is like the 8 bit game but with actual better gfx maybe it's the gameplay that's off idk

@beastschalk Год назад

Gracias por las opciones de traducción. Saludos desde Chile.

@britneyspearsvillarosa Год назад

I love Super Street Fighter II on SNES and NBA JAM (SNES)

@periplanwmenos12 Год назад

Why the size of the data is measured in megabits and not in megabytes? 1 Megabyte equals 8 Megabits. Was it a marketing trick?

@chrisviglietta9870 Год назад

I have nostalgia for every Alex Kidd game including Enchanted Castle and the even more hated High-Tech World.

@knightimusprime25 Год назад

i like fatal labrynth pretty good and played it a hell of alot but you forget that phantasy star 4 was also a 40 meg game

@mercster Год назад

Thanks Lordy! I think with UMK3, they ran into a limit of 4M ROM chips. If it's anything like RAM it comes in multiples of 4... they could have put 8M in but that would have massively driven up the price... I don't know but just a guess?

@mercster Год назад

Or well... maybe didn't have to go as high as 8M, but it still might have required additional ROM chips to hold the extra above 4M.

@mercster Год назад

Funny, as I watched I was looking at my ROM collection... Super Street fighter II compresses a lot better than some of the other big titles, its zip file doesn't reflect its size compared to a lot of the other bigger roms. Must be the nature of some of the data.

@Dagoth_Ur_1 Год назад

Columns game with the Sega Game Gear I think (here in the UK at least)

@STAXONDECK1 Год назад

I felt the same way about Alex Kid as you do. It it kinda grew on me over the years once I learned to use all the items the ring that let you shoot projectiles really changes the game up an the vehicles are pretty cool so there some fun to be had but its still mediocre but not as bad as it initially seems if you give it a chance

@STAXONDECK1 Год назад

It took me a while to realize you have to go to menu and equip the items in your inventory in order to use them

@mutate34 Год назад

I've always wanted to force at least a grain of enjoyment out of that game, maybe I'll try that

@socialistsuccubus822 Год назад

also the tengen version of ms pac man is one of my favorites too. The speed boost is handy because it helps you get past early levels more quickly and completely changes the perfect path

@desiv1170 Год назад

Since it is no longer the 90s, is there still time for.... Klax? ;-)

@sidearmsalpha Год назад

Even Nintendo realized that a CD add on was a bad idea and focused on making the carts better instead. Sega did prove that a CD add on did improve games but they killed it with the wrong kind of games, mainly those crappy FMV games. If they had just focused on making new games of their IPs and arcade ports that took advantage of the CD technology, the Sega CD would have fared better.

@systemchris Год назад

Pacmania is great

@jeffbroadbent5072 Год назад

Genesis version has a great sound.

@socialistsuccubus822 Год назад

I'm a flicky lover. Flicky is a good arcade game. Flicky is a good Genesis game. It always annoys me when people hate on flicky, I'd take flicky over Mappy or a lot of other similar arcade platformers of its time. At least flicky has doable jump physics >.>

@josefrancocampos9718 Год назад

22:14 holy shit, they used the Fascist flag for Spain A flag that had been replaced in 1978 😵‍💫😳

@twerkfromhome Год назад

If i never hear Columns mentioned again it'll be too soon.

@embracerodusk2537 Год назад

That whole era of gaming from 16-bit through the 32/64-bit generations was such an amazing time.

@analy4689 Год назад

It was magical !

@falconator3419 Год назад

The golden age of video gaming.

@worsethanhitlerpt.2539 10 месяцев назад

This video shows memory size doesnt matter all these games SUCK

@freddysandoval4252 Год назад

56:50 The thing that you don't mention here is that a megabit is 1/8th the size of a megabyte. So, yes you are technically correct, and that means 80 megabit cartridge would be 10 megabytes of storage space. I'm sure this was addressed in the comments of the original video you posted, but I wanted to point this out to anyone who was confused as to why the screen you show for the size of Streets of Rage 3 in storage is only 3 megabytes. That is because it is 24 megabits (Or 3 megabytes) in the way that we no longer refer to in the modern age regarding the amount of space a game requires on a storage medium. Megabits is frequently used to describe something like an internet connection speed or texture detail level, while megabytes are typically used when talking about file size or storage space.

@MrSez1979 Год назад

I still remember when Strider came out on the Sega Genesis... 8 Megs seemed ENORMOUS! Oh how times have changed! Lol

@jasonlee7816 Год назад

For me 8 Mbits (megabits) = 1 MB (megabyte) didn't seem enormous or wasn't impressive when bigger (larger) 12 Mbit = 1.5 MB, 16 Mbit = 2 MB, 20 Mbit = 2.5 MB, 24 Mbit = 3 MB Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive or SNES cartridge games started to appear

@ph_stuff Год назад

Hey SLX, why don't you cover the NON OFFICIAL largest Genesis / MD carts? There are pretty impressive stuffs out there.

@Gorminister Год назад

Paprium was pretty cool. I think that was 80Mbit

@ronaldclayton4232 Год назад

I remember Phantasy Star 4 costing around $100 when it was released because of how large it was,so did the Genesis version of virtua racing but that was because of some special chip it had in it.

@sharonbraselton3135 Год назад

Yes. It dis

@greensun1334 Год назад

Indeed, the SVP chip was the reason for its high price, but I paid it because it was a interesting game with new technology. Altrough it had less variety with only three courses, I had a pretty good time with playing Virtua Racing.

@shenanitims4006 Год назад

“Fatal Labyrinth” would be better described as a “Rogue” like game. In that it resets every time you play.

@wilkiedriver Год назад

Sega Lord X and Game Sack on a Sunday morning. Nice.

@bobsanderz3005 Год назад

My childhood dreams of being an Art Alive master artist never panned out. I blame the 1mb cart, of course!

@TheVanillatech Год назад

My parents bought me that trash with the console. I "played" it a few times, just so they didn't feel bad or that they'd made a silly decision, but whenever I was alone it was Road Rash 2 all the way! XD

@240Sil Год назад

Flicky is a great game, just takes a while to grow on you.

@thestripedmenace Год назад

Peak arcade single-screen fun!

@udance4ever Год назад

@@thestripedmenace man.. I had to fall back on the Genesis port I found the original arcade so much harder - I'll have to give it another spin :)

@cheater00 Год назад

bro Pac Mania was the most played game i owned. it got more play time than UMK3, than Sonic 1 and 2, than Syndicate, Vectorman, Pitfall The Mayan Adventure, and even (!) NBA Jam TE. The game was so good even my mom who was completely incapable of doing anything technology related one day decided to figure out how to hook up the genesis to her tv, and learn to play it, and she enjoyed it a lot.

@MaxOakland 2 месяца назад

Pac Mania is fun and addictive

@HelciusCabral Год назад

Hey buddy, have you ever checked out the Dyna Brothers series on the Mega Drive? They're pretty great strategy games (a rarity on the console), do check them out! Love your work

@TheFLOMAN76 Год назад

I love emulation. So many great games to choose from that we never got to play when we were young. And because I'm old? I love the rewind feature. Cheating? You're damn right.

@davidt3563 Год назад

The game wouldn't hesitate to cheat against you! Nothing wrong with evening the odds!

@TheFLOMAN76 Год назад

@@davidt3563 Right? Lol. I don't have time nor patience these days to play a certain section over and over and over, just to never see the end of it anyway. Rewind when you need to and eventually you'll see the end of the game. LOL

@baryonyx122 Год назад

Like you said, I'm old I can beat the game using the rewind feature or not have the time to get back to that section ever again. Easy choice. Game's still fun.

@Prizrak-hv6qk Год назад

Yeah. Retro hardware mulation is rather awesome. I've been following the scene since the late 90s (anyone else remember Bloodlust Software?) and it's amazing how talented many of the developers are and how much effort they put into these apps. I never had enough money for all the games and systems I wanted back in my teen days and emulation allows me to experience them, as well as replay old favorites. PCE/TG16 emulator was my favorite for a long time, because I never got to see or play that system in the wild and the Japanese library is pretty awesome, especially with the shmups. I never use rewinds but do use save states. They also allow you to beat tough games without putting dozens of hours of your busy grown-up time into mastering them but IMO, they help you learn and appreciate the game a bit better than rewinds do. However, if a game is simply awesome and generally fair in its difficulty curve, I actually try to master it without save states. I recently beat Shinobi 3 that way. Now working on Contra: Hard Corps, with the hack to restore the Japanese version's life bar, mind you. The US version, with the one hit deaths, is way too unfair, especially considering the chaotic nature of the action. Abilities to use hacks is another great aspect of emulation.

@TheVanillatech Год назад

To be fair the only way I ever finished Jet Set Willy 2 on the CPC was through savestate with WinAPE. YEARS wasted as a child, trying to do the impossible. I even made a map of the game with postit notes on my bedroom wall. Still couldn't finish the game. But yes, definitely cheating.

@maxstoner5527 Год назад

SEGA!!✌️

@leecroft7311 Год назад

AGES!!

@dad7275 Год назад

Super Street Fighter 2 did have bad voice effects but it did offer more in animation and options than its snes competitor. Ive spent many of an hour on that great port.

@sergeipohkerova7211 Год назад

My dad said one of the first games he got after the fall of Soviet russia was Stryder, and how fun it was because his parents were still living and life was so simple. I mean other than the chaos of the government collapse and maybe it wasn't stryder but a bootleg but still.

@TheVanillatech Год назад

Very nicely put together video! I had some of these games, mainly the 1-2MB carts as I'd already switched to PC by 1994 and gave my Megadrive to the young lad up the street who had nothing. Gave him my skateboard too! But I gave him that because I broke my ankle on it, and never wanted to see another skateboard for the rest of my life.

@yousefslimani99 Год назад

Thanks for doing amazing contents! Keep up the good work!👍

@fluttershystayshigh4202 Год назад

If you think Hard Driving on Genesis was bad you should see Race Driving on the snes, the fps on that game was absolutely insulting.

@dennismcdonald2607 Год назад

I could never get into Hard Drivin' whether the arcade version or the home one. I suck soooo badly at it is why! 😆🤣

@chexmixkitty Год назад

Now we just need Joe from GameSack to yell MEGA POWER for every game.

@GabrielMedina1 Год назад

I know it’s double-mild weaksauce but I have so many fond memories of Art Alive! My cousins and I would draw things just to make each other laugh. Hearing that music again brought me back. Thank you! 🥲

@Neerano Год назад

Segaaaaa

@ProjectDetonado Год назад

y'ello!

@leecroft7311 Год назад

Art-Alive, oh god 😂

@1sodom1 Год назад

Ура!!! Дедуля пришёл!!! =))

@gpturismo Год назад

Could we say Fatal Labyrinth was one of the original Rogue-lites? I played the mess out of that game. Also, Columns default music is best music.

@thestripedmenace Год назад

Fatal Labyrinth isn't a roguelite - it's a straight-up classic roguelike :)

@gpturismo Год назад

@@thestripedmenace I always get them backwards. :-) I played the hell out of that game when i was a kid.

@BrianJones-wk8cx Год назад

Fun fact: megabits are not megabytes. It takes 8 megabits to make a megabyte. So that 8 megabit power is just actually just a mere megabyte of data. And a single megabit?-125 kilobytes.Imagine that in a world where modern console games span gigabytes upon gigabytes of data. It’s unclear to me why consoles ever chose to market their games by an unconventional metric, but I’d assume it’s because 8 megabits seems sexier than a single megabyte, perhaps?

@METR0lD Год назад

Great idea for a Genesis video! Very much enjoyed watching.

@chadkirk150 Год назад

Back then I knew when I finally had to upgrade my consoles when UMK3 didn't look good on either Genesis or SNES. Though I did enjoy breaking the game as Rain.

@billybollockhead5628 Год назад

Also : Genuine LOL at you saying Hard Drivin' had a low frame rate.. I played it on a speccy with a frame rate of about half a frame per second... See that house you drove past? On the Spectrum, that took nearly a minute to get to!

@Boogie_the_cat Год назад

The crazy thing is one megabit is equal to 125 kilobytes, which is the size of a single small jpeg on modern websites. 8 megabits = 1 megabyte. Insane what devs could do with so little space. Some larger than usual titles came with a price premium (in some stores at least) I still remember hating myself (to some extent) for shelling out the $70 when I found the one store at my mall that sold Streets of Rage 2 3:09 is giving me Tetris 3d on Virtual Boy flashbacks.

@mcbaby Год назад

Slam Masters on Genesis also has a 2P Deathmatch option that isn't on the SNES.

@Tremadog102 Год назад

I never noticed the space marines on the front of the Strider box art. That's some cheeky artwork there to pinch artwork from another IP holder (not that Games Workshop haven't done the same themselves)

@liamconverse8950 9 месяцев назад

The graphics in quarterback club always looked smoother and higher resolution than Madden to me so makes sense the ROM is bigger

@tsvtsvtsv Год назад

those tiles in trampoline terror always remind me of the color dungeon in link's awakening

@SDSOverfiend Год назад

10:16 whoa.. this game was on mega drive? This was a game boy game originally called “Boxxle”. I had that game around ‘90 and it was quite Fun.

@thestripedmenace Год назад

Also known as Sōkoban!

@n0isyturtle Год назад

I think Paprium is the biggest Genesis cart I own It's insane the effects they pushed out of the console, but man it is still overhyped.

@lvx_rose Год назад

Fatal Labyrinth, hell yeah🗡️💪🍖

@user-hr5di5fg8b Год назад

Hmm maybe you should do a top 5 genesis games per size so like best 2,4,8,16,24,32.

@johnbillings5260 Год назад

Flicky is only 10KB (80Kbit) big so you could fit 12 copies of it on the cart. 😃

@STAXONDECK1 Год назад

Fatal Labyrinth is pretty cool on Game Gear also, I wonder how big that cart was 🤔

@seanyoung9014 Год назад

I was just thinking how much I enjoyed playing that game and games like it when I remembered I actually bought it during the pandemic lockdown and forgot! Welp, I know what I'll be doing for the next few hours lol. Btw, did you know that the original version of the game released on Sega Meganet in 1990 is considered superior because it has individual level based music? That one isn't available anymore unfortunately.

@STAXONDECK1 Год назад

@@seanyoung9014 cool didn’t know that about the music

@happyspaceinvader508 Год назад

There’s not really any reason for the term “Megabit” to exist. Once you have 8 bits, you have a byte… and then everything is usually multiples of bytes thereafter (1 megabit is 125 kilobytes). I suspect it was mostly Sega wanting to find a way to prefix “Mega” onto everything. Using terms like “Megabit” is a little like quoting someone’s net worth in cents/pennies… technically correct, but also disingenuous.

@SegaLordX Год назад

Megabits was perfectly acceptable and there was no attempt of being disingenuous. If the game was smaller than a megabyte(as most games were at the time), then you wanted to use megabit. You certainly didn't want to use kilobyte because even then it was considered old/small by 16-bit standards. Some companies like SNK used megabits even when their games were much larger because that was just the term the market had accepted. You have to remember that games larger than a single megabyte didn't show up in console gaming until after 1990, and even then they were rare. Most SNES games in 1991 were no larger than 1 megabyte. The megabyte didn't gain traction in console gaming until CD based media became a normal part of the rotation. It most certainly was not just a Sega thing.

@Peffse Год назад

For some reason I read this as smallest & largest Sega Genesis Consoles. I know the hardware went through a ton of revisions, especially in Brazil, so I didn't even think twice about reading it wrong.

@anactualmotherbear Год назад

Reminds me of how Mr. Do was the smallest SNES game ever made. While it came on a one megabit cartridge someone discovered the actual file size of the game was about 40k.

@seanyoung9014 Год назад

Back in the day, we used to judge games before they even came out based on how many "megs" they were. I'm using the nomenclature we did circa 1992. "Yo, I gotta get this new game. It's 16 megs!!" 😅🤣🤣🤣

@udance4ever Год назад

when disk backup machines came out - u started noticing big-time!

@dennismcdonald2607 Год назад

I'm one of the few who absolutely ❤️'s Columns!!

@mattb6522 Год назад

As a kid, I always ate up the marketing of displaying game size on the box during the 16 bit days. It was a bit ridiculous, but it was always a prominent "feature". Now you can pretty much fill an entire SD Card with the full Genesis library and still have a ton of space left over! Though, Genesis games went through quite an evolution. By 94 and 95, you could tell many developers were pulling out all the stops with what the Genesis was capable of!

@lmcgregoruk Год назад

You can get a 512GB MicroSD(about the size of your thumbs fingernail) card for about £40. Could probably fit ALL cartridge based systems libraries on it and still have space left over. Difference between space on a cartridge to CD was HUGE, I remember our first family PC had a 420MB Hard Drive and a 2X CD-ROM Drive. CD's could hold MORE on them, than the entire Hard Drive, that would be like if a new optical media came out today that could hold 25TB+ of data.

@JoshuaOwens Год назад

Throw it all on a modded 3ds.

@AltimaNEO Год назад

@@lmcgregoruk I mean there were computers in the 80s that ran off the floppy alone, no hard drive at all!

@lmcgregoruk Год назад

@@AltimaNEO Well I mean I know there were floppies that had self-booting programs on them, but most of the early 80's computers I used, generally had a bios/minimal interface, and loaded programs from cassette tape. Later on the bios/minimal interface became more of what we would call today an operating system.

@RandallHayter Год назад

I played that Alex Kidd game for hours when it came out.

@mickael486 Год назад

Genesis Tetris looks like it came out on a 2kb cartridge.

@ridiculous_gaming Год назад

During the 16 bit era, size does matter. However, via the 8 bit era titles such as Star Raiders on the Atari 8 bit computer was and looked fantastic being only 8 kb size. Also, excite bike on the Nes was like 14kb. So, a one megabit, 128 kb cartridge sounds massive in comparison.

@davidsarton976 Год назад

38:42 Seeing swole Roy Orbison shooting down dinos is absolutely worth it.

@GRANKOR Год назад

😂

@kklum6998 13 дней назад

Demon of Asteborg. I haven't even heard of that title until now. After so many years. Thanks to you and the emulator developer, not forgetting those who translating and shared through websites. You are all the heroes. Kudos. You are the one and only SEGA LORD!!!! X

@santiagosabroso9784 Год назад

Well., I´ve to say that some of the "small cartridges" are fairly funny and you can have a very goooooood time, even today. For instance RC Pro Am. I fully understand that paying the requested amount back in the days was "abusive" but thanks to the emulation, it doesn´t "hurt" :)

@udance4ever Год назад

RC Pro Am is awesome! it put RARE on the map!

@udance4ever Год назад

ah I just see he featured the Genesis version @13:45 which I think is a joke compared to the original NES version!

@britneyspearsvillarosa Год назад

I did enjoy Virtua Fighter 2 on Genesis.