Sega Genesis - We Bring The Arcade Experience Home

One of Sega's first Genesis commercials
to debut in North America in '89.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Sega
• Genesis
• Arcade
• 16
• bit
• Rambo
• Super
• Thunder
• Blade
• Golden
• Axe
• Hang
• On
• Forgotten
• Worlds
• Ghouls
• Ghosts
• Space
• Harrier

[ScrewAttackEurope]

Good job they didn't compare thunderblade, it looks like shit compared to the arcade game.

[Grooveraider]

@ScrewAttackEurope - You have a point there. But then again maybe it wouldn't have been as bad on the 32X :P

[stringanime]

Now that I look back on it, it seems ridiculous I paid 50 plus bucks for Lesser-versions of arcade games that would have cost me a buck to beat. I think people will look back on all the FPS repeats they wasted money on in the same way. "Gee, I could have just been satisfied with one FPS, but instead I bought a whole because the Wallpapering was different!"

[Grooveraider]

@stringanime - I dunno if you were aware of the Sega System 16 and Capcom CPS-1 hardware used in the coin-op games featured on the commerical. It was pretty costly technology to bring home. Unless Sega went all-the-way like SNK's Neo Geo for the home - the retail price for the console and games would've been suicidal for Sega. in America - it doesn't matter if the games are the same as the coin-op. The price better be reasonable or people won't buy it. Especially in the 1980s.

[gojira12345678910]

Fuck the genesis, i want my parents to buy me a Golden Axe Cabinet!

[MrDjl4]

Dave Whitney is a spoiled prick!

[JUSXTREME96]

On the MD/Genesis version of Golden Axe they changed the elf looking guy;s axe to silver while on the Arcade it is gold. Though on the MD Version there is 2 extra levels which seem really hard.

[RocketeerRaccoon]

Great thing that emulators exist so that you don't need to buy real arcade cabinets which are not only expensive but take up a lot of room space.

[LegoDalejr2488]

that kid's parents must've been rich.

[GeorgeWashingtonX]

'Dave Whitney' & 'Mike Rogers' are now 38 year old bachelors, sharing an apartment in Van Nuys, spending their barren & pointless shared existence tag-teaming Altered Beast during their meth binges. Its a good thing their parents supported & encouraged the importance of heavy, adolescent gaming.

[AbyssAudio]

The Arcades versions had far better details that got cut on the consoles to save memory. But for what they were, they were close enough and the end of the Arcade era.

Though imo, the arcade versions of all console titles were superior, even if much of it was minor details.

[boxerjoey39]

Wow the parent must be rich. Or in debt for the rest of there lives.

[MRcastlevania1]

i wish i was that kid

all the arcades alsome

[iwanttoseemrshow]

I have never, ever beaten ghouls and ghosts. I've gotten close, but then my arthritis kicked in.

[bmoviefanrude]

The Tommy lasorda baseball cover always looked like bill clinton to me.

[bmoviefanrude]

That's pretty funny! Like any kids parents would buy them arcade machines let alone one arcade machine!

[SoftBank47]

@WebVMan and with unlimited continues!

[123doomdoom]

@gojira12345678910 So you rather play Golden axe for months, than get a Genesis and play countless classic games. Your logic is pathetic.

[WebVMan]

@stringanime Actually, Ghoulls 'N Ghosts would cost a bucket of quarters to beat. Might as well own it and work on it for free.

[jons44]

I would want those arcade machines. Or just one machine with an emulator on the hard drive.

[MattTheSaiyan]

@sygo7g And yet, the port of "The New Zealand Story" for the Spectrum was amazing considering the limited tech. Even if it was monochrome. Comparable with "Double Dragon" on the 2600 in the field of "wow they ported that game to that system? Wow, it isn't that bad??"

[somethinsuavetheater]

@sygo7g I'm referring to the CLD-AA100. It has a genesis built into it. It wouldn't let me put a link on here and you have friend lock on your msgs. I tried to add you as a friend. I can send you a link to it.

[TimelordR]

@shorty1k Me too!!

[MattTheSaiyan]

Of course the home ports wouldn't look the same as the originals. That was common knowledge. As long as they played close enough, all was fine. Certainly, the MegaDrive/Genesis ports of many arcade hits looked closer to the arcade original than the ports issued for certain other systems did (ZX Spectrum computer, Commodore 64 computer, SEGA's own Master System console etc)

[somethinsuavetheater]

@Tornado1994 But Pioneer did release a laserdisc that played Sega games. Not sure about the CD games, but it did have a cartridge slot.

[jakeharvey]

Does anyone remember the very first Genesis commercial in the US? I can't find it anywhere. It was sort of like the Apple "1984" ad. A bunch of kids covered in dust looking really catatonic and bored playing bad looking NES games, while some narrator foretells the coming of the savior, Sega Genesis, or something like that.

Anyone?? I'd love to see it again or just have someone tell me I wasn't imagining it.

[KilleRotom]

Daave! We've got your golden axe!

This made me ROFL

BTW I also want to get a Golden Axe cabinet

[stringanime]

@EmperorofCartoons You may not feel as I said, and that is understandable. To be more specific of my own personal tastes, I buy games mostly from one developer, TREASURE. Sure I dabble in FPS, Shooters, Action, Party, RPGs and adventure games, but It wasn't until the Wiimote, that I even cared about FPS games. My memories of the Arcade are fond, and the Pointing with the Wiimote kinda feels arcade in nature....Kinda like the light gun games of the Arcades but modern.

[EmperorofCartoons]

@stringanime IDK I been playing fps since the genre was invented and I have never felt that way. About any video game genre really.

[WebVMan]

Hey, if my parents were willing to buy me arcade machines, I SO would have let them!