Anyone here have Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection?

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I recently purchased the Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for the PS3 and it's a really awesome collection of old retro games from the Sega Genesis. It has many of the games I used to play as a kid such as Sonic the Hedgehog, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage as well as many other games. I've had a lot of fun playing these again, but the thing is they're a lot harder to play than I remember. I think modern games are too easy.

You're probably right about newer games being easier. I think a lot of it has to do with the restricted controls of the old games. You have more freedom of movement in these new games.

But yeah I had to get this for my ps3. The old sonic games, even Spinball. Phantasy Star. Kid Chameleon.

I have the PS3 version. I had a SNES back in those days, so most most of the games in this collection were new to me when I got it.

Back when I had a Sega Genesis the only game we owned for it was the Six Pack which had Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, The Revenge of Shinobi, and some kind of racing game and a puzzle game involving gems. So a lot of these games on the Ultimate Genesis Collection are games I've never even seen before. I was a little disappointed that the collection didn't have The Revenge of Shinobi, I think that was my favorite game on the Six Pack.

For our genesis we just had Sonic 2, Sonic 3 and the Aladdin video game. For my 9th birthday we got the CD addon and had Sewer Shark and Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side. I wanted Phantasy Star IV but it was expensive as f**k, over 100$, when it was new !

I have the Sonic collection for the Nintendo DS which consists of Sonics 1 through 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. The ports are pretty accurate and they incorporated a level save for each game. I never tried the PS3 compilation but on my Android tablet I have pretty much every Sonic game from the Genesis and Game Gear!

I have the Sonic collection for the Nintendo DS which consists of Sonics 1 through 3 and Sonic & Knuckles. The ports are pretty accurate and they incorporated a level save for each game. I never tried the PS3 compilation but on my Android tablet I have pretty much every Sonic game from the Genesis and Game Gear!

I had a Genesis back in the day, but the only games from the collection that I had were Sonic 2, Sonic and Knuckles and Sonic Spinball (yeah, all Sonic). Of course I had other games for my Genesis. Favorites included the Aladdin tie-in, Road Rash 3, and Biohazard Battle, the last of which I re-bought on VC, only to find it's just as frustrating as ever, and I suck at it now. The only thing is, none of those were in the collection, which is actually a good thing. Everything else was new to me. Favorites so far include the Phantasy Stars (I played through 1 and 2), Ristar, and Ecco the Dolphin (I still haven't played Tides of Time yet, but I will). The Ultimate Genesis Collection is amazing, with 49 games for 1 low price. It cost less than $1 per game at launch, and now it's less than $1 for every 3 games. Not bad when you consider that it costs $8 to get them off VC, which is more than 20X what you'd pay for each game in the collection if you got it now. A friend and I actually recommend Sega games to each other that we own, because we both have a copy. Maybe I should dust off my copy again and play a game or two on it.

I have it for the PS3. My favorite games for it are Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe and Ecco the Dolphin.

My favorites so far are Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, and Golden Axe because those are the ones I used to own on a Sega Genesis years ago, and since I never beat them as a kid I'm working on beating all three first and then I will move onto some of the other games. I recently beat Streets of Rage so I may try Golden Axe next.

The thing I love most about Streets of Rage and Golden Axe is how they both have cheesy 80's movie plots.

No, but I have a good portion of those games for Sega Genesis.

Is the Ecco(s) in the compilation the Sega CD version? Those games were a lot better on CD: extra levels and awesome music.

I didn't know there was a Sega cd version, but I'm going to say no on that one. I'm pretty sure they are the Genesis versions, since most games in the collection are. Of course there are exceptions, like the arcade version of Space Harrier (instead of the Genesis version), but for the most part, the collection is true to its name.

Ahh shining in the darkness... You have me looking for that old graphing paper.

I miss games you had to make you're own maps.

Don't forget the Master System and Game Gear games. I would list them but I can't remember them.