Get bored playing after a bit, choose another. Pop the disc in, turn on the system, and choose your game. Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection was released in February and features 40 titles from Sega Genesis, the gaming system from the 1990s, along with eight extra games that can be unlocked when certain conditions are met (obtaining a high score, reaching a certain area, etc.). I would have never played classics like Joust or Centipede without them.

With the current generation of systems, the Xbox Live Marketplace, PlayStation Network, or Wii Shop Channel can be accessed to download the most popular titles individually for a cost of $4 to $15, which eliminates the costs of disc production and shipping, resulting in bigger gains for publishers for less work.ĭon't get me wrong: It's nice being able to download the games I can't find and have them saved somewhere I won't lose them, but it was the selection that I loved about compilation discs.

Game companies re-release old titles on new platforms so fans can play their favorites without having to find and dust off their original systems, and developers love doing it because it takes almost no time to reproduce these games compared to the months of development for new games on the current generation of consoles.īefore game consoles had access to the Internet, the only way these titles could be released was on a compilation disc, most times costing around $30 for a collection of 10 to 15 games. With so many gamers from the '80s and '90s growing older, retro gaming has been a growing market.

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