Mega Drive Handheld Available Now
I never saw this coming but that doesn’t make it any less awesome. Doncaster (UK) based company Blaze have created a handheld Mega Drive which comes with 20 classic games built in for your playing pleasure. It even plugs into your TV apparently. Sporting a classic Mega Drive D-Pad and A,B,C button layout it’s hard for a long time Sega fan such as myself not to fall in love with this thing, even if claims by Blaze that this is the first handheld Mega Drive are completely unfounded. Anyone remember the Sega Nomad?
The full list of games included on the device is as follows:
- Sonic & Knuckles
- Shinobi
- Alex Kidd (and the enchanted castle)
- Alien Storm
- Altered Beast
- Arrow Flash
- Columns III
- Crack Down
- Decap Attack
- Dr.Robotnik
- E Swat
- Ecco
- Ecco Jr
- Flicky
- Gain Ground
- Golden Axe
- Jewel Master
- Kidd Chameleon
- Sonic Spinball
- Shadow Dancer
You can buy it from http://www.segaretro.net/ for the price of £29.99 or $59.25 for our American friends. You guys will just have to put up with it being called Megadrive instead of Genesis.
This post was originally written by the author for TSSZ News.
Wow, cool.
After all this time… now two new Megardrives come out in the same month! (The other one being the Player that you already announced: http://www.tssznews.com/2008/06/10/new-officially-licensed-sega-mega-drive-player/ ) In fact, the list of built in games for the two seem identical, though with the Player you can use original Megadrive Cartriges but you have to use a TV.