The Sega Mega Drive & Genesis Encyclopedia: Every Game Released for Sega's 16-bit Console: Every Game Released for Sega's 16-bit Console

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The essays at the beginning and the interviews with key developers from Japan and US were especially interesting to me, whether it was composers or planners etc, each revealed a lot about both the time and the games they developed. I'd have personally loved a little more in the way of extra insights behind Sonic or a few lesser known games but this collection was never meant to focus on any single game or aspect. It's much more wide ranging and quite a fond tribute to the console itself in the end. (It's a beautifully produced book too.) After watching the intro, which wasn’t present in either of the SNES ports (take that!) I jumped straight into the “Champion” mode, since the Champion Edition version was the iteration I hadn’t played in any home port. I started off on four-star difficulty, much like Stephen and I had played on the original game. An engaging blend of interviews, research and observations by [this] incisive author. ” —The Globe and Mail

There's a time and a place for accurate sports simulations. For the other time in the other place, there was NBA Jam: Tournament Edition - a wild, ridiculous take on the original title that was made vastly superior thanks to its simplification and numerous cheats. As the weeks went by, I was getting better and better at the game. With the remnants of my birthday money (being fortunate to have over a dozen aunts and uncles) I bought another six-button pad, this time a Competition Pro one that resembled the official pad a great deal more. Yet the real appeal of the game was having two players select one of the eight World Warriors and duke it out for bragging rights. The game offered an unprecedented level of depth that no other fighter had delivered before. Resulting frame. Frame broadcast to the TV (NTSC format), the VDP automatically covers the frame with overscan area that most CRT TVs will hide. Tada!

The audio capabilities of this console are a bit unorthodox, to say the least. On one side, the Mega Drive provides existing audio technology from the previous generation, on the other side, it adds a new (but complicated) synthesis technique on top of the existing one. So, in some ways, you get both generations. Pink’s a gifted writer who turns even the heaviest scientific study into something digestible — and often amusing — without losing his intellectual punch. ” —New York Post

Because one CPU will have to step in the other’s CPU bus and both can’t use it at the same time, there’s an extra component called Bus arbiter that must be activated to stall either processor, so memory can be written without hazards. Notice the unusual daughterboard on top of the VDP used to fix post-manufacturing glitches (properly corrected in later revisions). Motherboard with important parts labelled Diagram Main architecture diagram Allocated Foreground plane. Allocated Foreground plane with selected area marked. Example of Foreground plane, the Window Plane is not used. This ver­sion of The Jungle Book was de­sig­ned for Se­ga Ge­ne­sis (known as Se­ga Me­ga Dri­ve in Eu­ro­pe), which was the first ever 16-bit There are plenty of big 90s “where were you?” moments. Where were you when the Berlin Wall came down and Germany reunified? Where were you when Stuart Pearce missed that penalty? Where were you when you heard the tragic news of Princess Diana’s death?features of each emulator available for this game The Jungle Book are summarized in the following table: