Well, who knew you could overdose on nostalgia? I’m going to need a week to recover from this… but will watch it just one more time…. I can give it up anytime, you know… just one more time…
I love those old UK Mega Drive ads. The "Genesis Does" campaign is iconic, obviously, but the UK ads did a better job of making the console seem cool and fun to play. I say this without any nostalgia for either (too young I'm afraid).
Stumbled upon this channel today and your collection is unreal! However, I'm in awe of the production value of your channel and videos. Great job producing these videos they look great!
Thanks for the feedback, it's alway good to hear that what I'm making resonates with some people. I'm really happy with the collection, it's taken 30yrs😅
Excellent collection and a great video Mike. My Life in Gaming just put out a video about the SNES Superscope. The described it being hot and miss with some games....the turned up brightness or contrast which seemed to help (without rewatching can't remember which one, sorry). It might help with your Menacer issues. Being such a light gun fan I can't believe we don't have one yet 🤷
i remember picking up an extension cable for like $2 from a bargain bin LOL. dont even know why i bought it cause i never ended up using it and it was a lot of money for me as a kid! now i feel a bit better about the purchase 25 odd years later haha
I think I picked mine up in a bargin bin as well. I went to buy one a few years and saw that people were selling for up to $100!! I didn not pay that for these.
I remember as a kid looking through catalogs pictures or gaming magazines for any thing Sega mega drive and wanting them all. Just like you said Mike if I were standing in front of your entire collection as a kid that would have blown my mind for sure
I absolutely love your YT channel. It brings back in time when I enjoyed playing the Sega Mega Drive A LOT. Thanks for sharing with us your journey and to give us the possibility to learn from you.
I really like some of the compilation collections they released on the Mega Drive. As someone new to collecting and just wanting to get as many good games as I can, they’re a godsend. Mega Games 2 cost me £15 and you get Golden Axe, Streets of Rage 1 and Revenge of Shinobi. I’m sure to buy the individual releases of those you’re looking at well over £50, possibly more. And the Classic Collection gets you Gunstar Heroes plus Altered Beast, Alex Kidd and Flicky. I only got it for Gunstar Heroes but that game on its own seems to be over £100 these days, whereas the Classic Collection cost me £20!
I know you are going for a pal collection, but you really need the bare knuckle trilogy. Not only is the box artwork awesome, it was a real shame how they butchered the western release of streets of rage 3, so you have to absolutely own bare knuckle 3.
I will at some point be picking up a load of Japanese games, and that is on the list. I'm waiting until I go over to Japan again. I'm hoping to buy a few there.
Always fascinated by the differences in the US/PAL. Changing Zombies Ate My Neighbors to just Zombies and giving it an almost chibi cutesy cover just seems like it will end up with younger kids buying it and then being scarred by how scary the game is.
@@RetroGamerBoy The Genesis cover is nostalgic and I love the B horror movie vibe but I have to give the edge to the Mega Drive version because I love any cover that has the black and grey grid and it actually shows the player characters.
Great video Mike. I really enjoy the indy game Part but seeing a collection vid like this really spurs me on to continue with my Master System collection. 👍👍👍
Looking very nice. Just a bit of friendly advice when buying some of the games you need...... have save searches for these. Sea quest, foreman for real boxing( The blue spine game not the k.o one. All the cardboard ballistic games and Normys beach babe o rama off the top of my head. Took me ages to find these CIB in box in good condition. This was a few years ago now, so things are may be different. All the best.
@@RetroGamerBoy So am I. I got to say sega is favorite console maker. If I had to one sega console to be honest I love playing on my Saturn but the Genesis and a Sega CD in the 32 x put together there’s so many games that you have at your finger tips. Wow what a great console to have. Like the videos keep it up man.
What a collection mate. ! Great fucking video aswell, love the idea of the collection break down and fantastic commentary plus the presentation of it all! Can't wait for the complete collection video ! Keep it up retro gamer boy!
That's some collection! I myself didn't own a Genesis until 1997 towards the end of it's run, but I owned plenty of games before that. I had a SNES and my best friend at the time had a Genesis, so if a game came out for Genesis I wanted to play, I'd just buy it and play it at his house. Nintendo boys (and girls) missed out on a lot of unique titles, like "Haunting (Starring Polterguy)", Phantasy Star series and of course the Streets of Rage series. I love beat'em ups too, even though they're far less popular today. I actually just started playing one on PS4 called 9 Monkeys of Shaolin. It's pretty cool so far.
Your collezione is absolutly fantastic, mike. I'm so envy, love all the ea sets or your rarest cartridge. My collection is so small if compared but invece one that u may want too, i think... paprium, one big crazy, gorgeous beat'em'up that i really love. Anyway, good luck for the rest of your search, u're the best
I'm still waiting for my Paprium to arrive. I bought the Limited edition in the second run. I've also just backed the PS4 Kickstarter and bought the 10yr Aniversary of Pier Solar.
I have just found your channel as wanting to rebuild my sega collection. Instantly subscribed after watching this episode, very knowledgable and an absolutely awesome collection! I look forward to now taking a deep dive and trawling through all of your content 👍🏻
That first shot--I think I'm having anxiety just thinking of how long it must've taken to stack them up and then return them to the shelves. lol You're insane going for a full CIB set--but I love seeing your progress and what you're able to find. I'm waiting for the day that you actually play online MegaDrive with someone. I really enjoyed how you split up your collection with trinity plus, nostalgia, most expensive and so on; that's clever and made the video even MORE interesting. Nicely done. I get the feeling eventually you'll go after the Australian Classics variants. ;-) Happy to hear love for Maui Malard--what a fun game that nobody talks about! I also enjoyed anytime you showed something that was your original--it's so cool that you've held on to some of these. So glad to see you toss the indie titles in here too. Tanglewood is one I've wanted to try. Ha ha--I got XenoCrises per your recommendation. We need to get Sega Head to play that Sonic title.
Very nice collection! So many games for the Sega Mega Drive /Genesis 😊 There where alot of great games, and yea not so much Lol it's sad the Live at the Arcade isn't going to show more, hopefully we'll have some other new show coming up! : )
note to self: force mike to use the 8bitdo M30 I got myself the Fighter Stick MD-6 from Asciiware recently and the stick and buttons feel exactly like the NES advantage but for the Mega Drive. Some people don't like Arcade Sticks unless they have micro switches but those arenot necesary to play a good old SMUP. for real though use the 8bitdo M30 it's pure Mega Drive perfection
I'll get one, I wanted the branded ones first though, they feel very similar and you can actually just buy the wireless adapter from retrobit and mod you original pad.
An awesome video of a stunning collection so far Mike, well done 👏 Love the way you broke the collection down in to sub sets for the video, spot on presentation, great job fella.... Need to redo my collection vids really now I'm almost on a land mark number of pal UK titles only but, I can't compete with this camera work 😉 👏
Your into the very low numbers for the full UK collection aren't you. That's so awesome. I'm looking at some titles and I have no idea how I'm going to get them.
I have 50 left to get for the UK set so I'm not far off 500 titles, once I get there tbh I will be content for a while... knowing the rest needed will cost so much. Once again Mike really enjoyed this as usual 👏
Fantastic video Mike. I grew up with the Mega Drive too, and still have my collection and console. I see you had the full Sonic Collection, but didn't show too much love towards the series. Is it not in your top games on the MD? I love the Strike Series (Jungle is my favourite - It's better than Desert), Sonic, Streets of Rage series and a few racing games, Micro Machines, Rock n Roll Racing and Street Racer!
@@RetroGamerBoy When I was about 10 or so a friend and I swapped my SNES with his MegaDrive... I think we last a couple of days before we had to swap back it was so alien for us...back when consoles were significantly different and the brands meant something. Great times.
This is awesome, I give you my compliments! I'm a big Sega fan, I’m creating my own megadrive cartridge collection. Most European, then I have the Japanese Bare Knuckle trilogy plus other Japanese titles. I have something for Genesis but in lower numbers than the other titles. At the moment I am at the modest number of eighty games. Plus I have a little part dedicated to the Dreamcast and Saturn.
WOW! You can build your on fortress with your outstanding Sega collection Mike. Now that's what I call dedication to the franchise and the company bro. Just look at all those fantastic goodies. 8^) Anthony..
Amazing collection and great video! While I prefer the SNES, the plastic boxes (especially PAL) look great with beautiful cover art, really collectable.
Really enjoyed this one Mike, some absolute belters in there that took me way back! The OG Mega Drive is just the greatest console. 🤘 thanks for the amazing effort in your content always, this collection series is something I genuinely look forward to. Cheers buddy! 🍺 x
Great video! I always love to see Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (even though it was just a fleeting appearance)! It's a game that holds a lot of nostalgia for me, and doesn't get anywhere near enough love in my opinion.
Another brilliant video Mike! It's awesome seeing these games in such great condition! I also have quite a few games for this system but a lot have damaged boxes or no manual!
Huge and beatiful MD collection...keep it up :P On the Konami side i d almost add Junction....yes that one was published and developed by Micronet..but under Konami license
Ya I included that in my video about the Konami collection. Currently though I'm not going for the Japanese collection. I love it but it is super expensive.
Hi Mike, I’ve recently discovered your channel. I think it’s great and love the content you have here you have also helped me to discover Sega Head. I am now wanting to rebuild my own Sega collection having sold lots of my childhood games years ago. I didn’t realise how many Marvel properties had games would you be able to do a video of all the Marvel games you have? Also any outstanding you are yet to collect please? Thanks again great work!
Of course, as I'm getting close to a full collection I'm going to be covering a number of different sub collections. The Marvel collection will be one of the videos.
I’m just curious as to what is your favourite part about collecting? I’m a new collector and I have to confess that my favorite part seems to be finding the games, battering a deal and opening them when they turn up (if not bought in store some place). Playing them is definitely secondary (although I make sure I play each game I buy to completion). This means I spend too much time spending money 🙈 😂
I enjoy learning about the games, the teams that made them and the impact they have. So more of a focus on the historical. But form pure collecting, I love meeting and learning from people and of course the physical aspects like the boxes and manuals. I also love playing the games. I play about 20hrs a week on the Mega Drive.
Blasphemy! The PGA series is the best. 96 kind of sucks because they tried this weird Polygon engine that loads super slow. But PGA 1-3 and the European Tour one are some of the best examples of 16bit golf games. I played those a ton with my Dad when I was a kid.
@@RetroGamerBoy I think most of these are based on memories. But I remember these golf games was the easiest way to get families to play. And it totally worked with the pass along controller method of playing. For me Neo Turf masters is my fave retro golf games, but the PGA games come close.
Great video, awesome collection. I recently completed collecting all the consoles I had as a kid and I've started on the games, I picked up a boxed Shadow of the beast 2, which I didn't see on your EA shelf. I'd gladly donate it to your collection in exchange for any doubles you may have for 8/16 bit Sega/ Nintendo consoles? * to get my collection started, I only have a handful for each.
That's very kind, but I've just picked that up. And at the moment I don't have many doubles. If you drop by the Facebook group Galaxy Sega you may find some good value bundles to help you kick start things.
Great job... It is hard to find game with Box and manual... But I found some place online selling after market box with the insert, not sure about manual
Firstly love your videos Mike 👍 and totally agree the Megadrive is the best system. Seeing as you have such a great collection which game do you still want that you don’t have 👍
I'm just wondering if they all work cuz I mean who's gonna actually try out all those fifa games, Mike? I tried jungle strike didn't like it, but I always hear people singing its praises. There's just not enough music during the stages for my liking. I've got to have me some great retro mega drive music while I play. Don't forget Rocket Knight adventure it's better than Sparkster to me. Great collection Mike wish you lived by me so I could play a £700+ mega drive game 😂
I play every single game I buy, I give the sports game 2 or 3 exhibition matches, unless they are really something I enjoy. Sensible Soccer, NBA Jam etc. I love Rocket Knight, it's one of my all time favourite games.
Okay I'll say it, that S&K box is in great condition! Also have you seen that Paprium is on Kickstarter along with Pier Solar as you mentioned wanting to pick one up in a previous video?
Absolutely beautiful What a video all that stunning MegaDrive 🤩🤤 The menacer is an absolute pain to get working reliable I found everything else turned off a darkened room and brightness up helps but not ideal lol That Mega Cd looks a beauty mate You should sell that Lakers to fund getting the rest of your collection Bro 🤣 The few that own it will say it’s part of the set but is it really as it never got that retail Release I will say it ain’t because unless I win the lottery it’s never gonna be in my Sega wall 🤣🤣🤣 I’m biased but your collection is awesome Bruv
Ya Lakers is the biggest waste of money. I'm glad I have it, but I would not pay for it. The game is worth like £5 so its £4k for a sleeve and manual. It's not part of a full set, it's just a historical piece in the collection. The same goes for rare variations.
Awesome mega drive collection Mike! Sounds like you are doing great picking up games still even with the crazy market. Keep it up brotha 🤟 ps that's a lot of Sega! Don't let Tom get his hands on it😂😂😂
@@RetroGamerBoy The Arcade Power Stick 6b, or the Arcade Power Stick 2. But only the Japan Versions have the "Microswitch"(the clicker Sound in the Stick)
Shane Warren Fatal Fury 2 Daze Before Christmas ECCO Jr And a boxing game I can remember off hand. Fatal Fury 2 is the one that does not come up often.
@@RetroGamerBoy never seen Ecco jr I will have to keep a eye out for that one. I do wonder if the the Shane warren game will go up in price now? Just looked on e-bay WOW from $60 AU with no booklet to $170 ouch free shipping with the $170 so that is something I guess.
@@RetroGamerBoy Haha. I had the urge to come over and do it myself. I still can't figure if the right order of a collection should be alphabetical, release order, or by genre!
@@ErikLosLobos i generally group them together by year of release, also sometimes genre and series/seqals next to each other! the spine designs look stupid if mixed
14:13 with the fifas you make no mention of the blue sticker variant from the original fifa international, i only just found this out as i have the gold version in my collection and a fifa bundle i got for a fair price (only wanted some EA case upgrades for minor damaged ones) had the blue variant, also confirmed on segaretro, and again the blue variant has 2 variants of its own due to the instruction manual being either 4 languages or 5 languages
@@RetroGamerBoy nobodys faking fifas, especially when a different sticker doesnt add any value to the item, all the fifas are shit and sports titles, no value in them, except maybe fifa 98 being the very last official game on the megadrive during its supported life run
love this channel, just started collecting a few months ago, already have a gen 2 tower of power and about 60 games so far but i cant decide where to draw the line with the collection. 32x and mega cd are a bit pricy so am just bulk filling with basic boxed games at the moment but figured id start with the mini collections but cant seem to find lists of them anywhere, im in Australia so not worried about Genesis or UK/EU games at this stage. any idea where i can go to find lists of mini collections?
You would have thought it would be easy to find, but every list I've found has something missing. I use the retro games collector app. This will have 99% of what you need. You can the add titles that are missing to improve the accuracy of the app.
I have about 80 titles and I'm almost done.. Mind you I have 40 percent pal, 50 percent genesis and 10 percent Japanese. I bet I have some of those exclusives you need.
My menacer works, well it did last time i used it on my 20" curved CRT TV (been a while since i felt like playing it), wish mine had internal packaging tho, just outer box thats losing its shape
@@RetroGamerBoy obvious two things would be 1. gun is faulty, or 2. sensor is faulty, or even rarer both have issues, i should really make sure mine still works shortly
Mate. Aussie here. 🇦🇺🇦🇺 I'm wondering if you might know of a game I've been trying to remember.. it's possible it's a mega drive game, but it was an Arcade game I remember that was one I'd play back in the day. Basically Golden Axe is my favourite series and I grew up on playing GA1 alot.. but I always thought that this game I'm trying to remember was actually Golden Axe II.. but then I got hold of Golden Axe II and it's great but not what I was trying to remember from back when. Whenever I look into it I'm led towards its probably Castlevania? But I recall the character walking along and using like a chain or whip type weapon. Definitely not Castlevania. It's more like Altered Beast style. Can't pin down what it was. Or whether I'm just remembering a whole mashup of old-school games but however many TH-cam videos I look up I haven't seen the game again. Definitely a golden axe / altered beast style game
My MIND would be blown to find some of these items under the tree as a 43 year old adult today! This is awesome!
Getting anything mega drive is Christmas day for me.😅
Well, who knew you could overdose on nostalgia? I’m going to need a week to recover from this… but will watch it just one more time…. I can give it up anytime, you know… just one more time…
😂 brilliant. That's what I tell my self every time I just sit in the room looking at the games.
Sega Genesis is my favorite gaming console. I still have my original Genesis hooked up right next to my Atari 2600. Ill never get tired of them.
It's such a great console, and new indie games have made it relevant again.
I love those old UK Mega Drive ads. The "Genesis Does" campaign is iconic, obviously, but the UK ads did a better job of making the console seem cool and fun to play. I say this without any nostalgia for either (too young I'm afraid).
Ya the UK Ads were great at making the MD feel cool.
Finally someone whos not from the uk saying something good about the uk
Stumbled upon this channel today and your collection is unreal! However, I'm in awe of the production value of your channel and videos. Great job producing these videos they look great!
It’s awesome, isn’t it? I’m still loving his “Feed Me”-inspired intro music.
Thanks for the feedback, it's alway good to hear that what I'm making resonates with some people. I'm really happy with the collection, it's taken 30yrs😅
Thanks dude
Yeah Mike’s channel is awesome. Great content, great production and a great collection. Just a shame about the host. 😜
About time the Mega drive got some TH-cam time. Always seems to be overlooked by the SNES.
Well we almost live and breath it on this channel.
Excellent collection and a great video Mike.
My Life in Gaming just put out a video about the SNES Superscope. The described it being hot and miss with some games....the turned up brightness or contrast which seemed to help (without rewatching can't remember which one, sorry).
It might help with your Menacer issues.
Being such a light gun fan I can't believe we don't have one yet 🤷
Ya I need to look into it some more.
i remember picking up an extension cable for like $2 from a bargain bin LOL. dont even know why i bought it cause i never ended up using it and it was a lot of money for me as a kid! now i feel a bit better about the purchase 25 odd years later haha
I think I picked mine up in a bargin bin as well. I went to buy one a few years and saw that people were selling for up to $100!! I didn not pay that for these.
I remember as a kid looking through catalogs pictures or gaming magazines for any thing Sega mega drive and wanting them all. Just like you said Mike if I were standing in front of your entire collection as a kid that would have blown my mind for sure
This is for me a childhood dream 🤩
I absolutely love your YT channel. It brings back in time when I enjoyed playing the Sega Mega Drive A LOT.
Thanks for sharing with us your journey and to give us the possibility to learn from you.
No problem at all. Part of the fun of this collection is getting to meet and chat with people that have the same passion.
I really like some of the compilation collections they released on the Mega Drive. As someone new to collecting and just wanting to get as many good games as I can, they’re a godsend.
Mega Games 2 cost me £15 and you get Golden Axe, Streets of Rage 1 and Revenge of Shinobi. I’m sure to buy the individual releases of those you’re looking at well over £50, possibly more.
And the Classic Collection gets you Gunstar Heroes plus Altered Beast, Alex Kidd and Flicky. I only got it for Gunstar Heroes but that game on its own seems to be over £100 these days, whereas the Classic Collection cost me £20!
The compilations are perfect to start of a Mega Drive collection. Like you said, some stunning games for a fraction of the price.
I know you are going for a pal collection, but you really need the bare knuckle trilogy. Not only is the box artwork awesome, it was a real shame how they butchered the western release of streets of rage 3, so you have to absolutely own bare knuckle 3.
I will at some point be picking up a load of Japanese games, and that is on the list. I'm waiting until I go over to Japan again. I'm hoping to buy a few there.
Always fascinated by the differences in the US/PAL. Changing Zombies Ate My Neighbors to just Zombies and giving it an almost chibi cutesy cover just seems like it will end up with younger kids buying it and then being scarred by how scary the game is.
Which cover art do you prefer?
@@RetroGamerBoy The Genesis cover is nostalgic and I love the B horror movie vibe but I have to give the edge to the Mega Drive version because I love any cover that has the black and grey grid and it actually shows the player characters.
Great video Mike. I really enjoy the indy game Part but seeing a collection vid like this really spurs me on to continue with my Master System collection. 👍👍👍
Dude you have an awesome MS collection. I've been tempted my self to go back to my first love.
@@RetroGamerBoy LOL. One collection at a time buddy!!
Looking very nice. Just a bit of friendly advice when buying some of the games you need...... have save searches for these.
Sea quest, foreman for real boxing( The blue spine game not the k.o one.
All the cardboard ballistic games and
Normys beach babe o rama off the top of my head.
Took me ages to find these CIB in box in good condition.
This was a few years ago now, so things are may be different. All the best.
They are still hard to come by. The cardboard box games come up often but the condition is the problem with these.
Wow man love your mega drive collection. I wish I had some of them.
I'm just living out a childhood fantasy 😂
@@RetroGamerBoy So am I. I got to say sega is favorite console maker. If I had to one sega console to be honest I love playing on my Saturn but the Genesis and a Sega CD in the 32 x put together there’s so many games that you have at your finger tips. Wow what a great console to have. Like the videos keep it up man.
My favorite console🥰
Thanks for this video, man!
No problem.
What a collection mate. ! Great fucking video aswell, love the idea of the collection break down and fantastic commentary plus the presentation of it all! Can't wait for the complete collection video ! Keep it up retro gamer boy!
You may have to wait a while for that video.
£13,000 for the remaining games? You’re headshot!
It's ridiculous, at this rate I will have to sell the other child...
@@RetroGamerBoy :-D
What a fantastic collection 👍👍👍👍
Why thank you sir.
I’m pleased you love decap attack. I played a lot of it in my youth. Probably between that and the hyper stone heist for my most played game. 👍
Ya it's such a great game. It was a real surprise when I bought it.
That's some collection! I myself didn't own a Genesis until 1997 towards the end of it's run, but I owned plenty of games before that. I had a SNES and my best friend at the time had a Genesis, so if a game came out for Genesis I wanted to play, I'd just buy it and play it at his house. Nintendo boys (and girls) missed out on a lot of unique titles, like "Haunting (Starring Polterguy)", Phantasy Star series and of course the Streets of Rage series. I love beat'em ups too, even though they're far less popular today. I actually just started playing one on PS4 called 9 Monkeys of Shaolin. It's pretty cool so far.
That's cool. I had a SNES as well but the Genesis just appealled more to me. I'll check that beat'em up out, thanks.
Your collezione is absolutly fantastic, mike. I'm so envy, love all the ea sets or your rarest cartridge. My collection is so small if compared but invece one that u may want too, i think... paprium, one big crazy, gorgeous beat'em'up that i really love. Anyway, good luck for the rest of your search, u're the best
I'm still waiting for my Paprium to arrive. I bought the Limited edition in the second run. I've also just backed the PS4 Kickstarter and bought the 10yr Aniversary of Pier Solar.
Amazing collection! It’s my fav console of all time and has an incredible catalogue of games!
Same here. I love it and the Mega CD and 32X combo.
@@RetroGamerBoy beautiful! Just as tasty as a Nando’s combo meal! 😂👍
Very well put together video dude very impressed and very impressive collection
Thanks, its fun to collect for the console.
my favored mega drive games of all times are LightCrusader and Landstalker...
Two brilliant games there.
I have just found your channel as wanting to rebuild my sega collection. Instantly subscribed after watching this episode, very knowledgable and an absolutely awesome collection! I look forward to now taking a deep dive and trawling through all of your content 👍🏻
Thanks, hopefully you find something you like.
Beautiful collection! I'm jealous of that game room.
Thanks, the room has taken a long time and a lot of sulking to my wife.😅
Look at all the mega drive games and the tech, it's a Sega paradise. I wanna spend a day in that room haha, I love this console so much.
Same here it's amazing, I get lost in it far too often.
That first shot--I think I'm having anxiety just thinking of how long it must've taken to stack them up and then return them to the shelves. lol
You're insane going for a full CIB set--but I love seeing your progress and what you're able to find. I'm waiting for the day that you actually play online MegaDrive with someone.
I really enjoyed how you split up your collection with trinity plus, nostalgia, most expensive and so on; that's clever and made the video even MORE interesting. Nicely done. I get the feeling eventually you'll go after the Australian Classics variants. ;-)
Happy to hear love for Maui Malard--what a fun game that nobody talks about!
I also enjoyed anytime you showed something that was your original--it's so cool that you've held on to some of these. So glad to see you toss the indie titles in here too. Tanglewood is one I've wanted to try. Ha ha--I got XenoCrises per your recommendation. We need to get Sega Head to play that Sonic title.
I'd love to do a show with Sega Head where we get the Genesis online in 2022
@@RetroGamerBoy This--this needs to be happening!
Very nice collection! So many games for the Sega Mega Drive /Genesis 😊 There where alot of great games, and yea not so much Lol it's sad the Live at the Arcade isn't going to show more, hopefully we'll have some other new show coming up! : )
We will do, and Live at the Arcade may pop it's head up now and then.
I loved ur video as much as Desert Strike which is one of my fav games ever too!!
😅 brilliant, and such a great game.
What a fantastic collection, thank you for sharing with us.
No problem, I love watching collection videos so I thought I'd make my own.
note to self: force mike to use the 8bitdo M30
I got myself the Fighter Stick MD-6 from Asciiware recently and the stick and buttons feel exactly like the NES advantage but for the Mega Drive. Some people don't like Arcade Sticks unless they have micro switches but those arenot necesary to play a good old SMUP.
for real though use the 8bitdo M30 it's pure Mega Drive perfection
I'll get one, I wanted the branded ones first though, they feel very similar and you can actually just buy the wireless adapter from retrobit and mod you original pad.
There’s something about mega cd boxes when i see a minty one. Wouldn’t mind a whole shelf full of mega cd unit boxes
I agree, I love the Mega CD games. I can't wait to pick some more up.
We are always WELCOMETOTHENEXTLEVEL because we will never forget 16 bits golden age!!!!
Yes indeed 😅👍
Amazing collection so far 😍 great work and some lovely pieces. 👌🏻🎮🕹
Thank you kind sir 🧑🎤
An awesome video of a stunning collection so far Mike, well done 👏
Love the way you broke the collection down in to sub sets for the video, spot on presentation, great job fella....
Need to redo my collection vids really now I'm almost on a land mark number of pal UK titles only but, I can't compete with this camera work 😉 👏
Your into the very low numbers for the full UK collection aren't you. That's so awesome. I'm looking at some titles and I have no idea how I'm going to get them.
I have 50 left to get for the UK set so I'm not far off 500 titles, once I get there tbh I will be content for a while... knowing the rest needed will cost so much.
Once again Mike really enjoyed this as usual 👏
I don't want to even think how long it took you to set up that stack 😅
Over 2hrs 😂😭
Such an epic collection that. It's great how everything comes with it's own backstory. Love how the room's slowly getting filled up with prize items!
It's awesome Zobbster, so many cool games that I had no idea existed.
@@RetroGamerBoy You're a very lucky man, sir
That is really something. Personally, I'd be fine with repros, but to each his own.
There are some amazing repros out there. I just picked up a Snatcher repro.
hai there mike... not to sound weird 😅 but you're my motivation..i love the sega era😍👏👏
Awesome! I'm glad the show has a positive effect for some people.
Fantastic video Mike. I grew up with the Mega Drive too, and still have my collection and console.
I see you had the full Sonic Collection, but didn't show too much love towards the series. Is it not in your top games on the MD?
I love the Strike Series (Jungle is my favourite - It's better than Desert), Sonic, Streets of Rage series and a few racing games, Micro Machines, Rock n Roll Racing and Street Racer!
I think my top 5 could easly be my top 100 games. I love sonic, Sonic CD is my favourite.
Really awesome video, a great nostagia bomb even for me a SNES fanboy :D .... very jealous of a really cool collection.
Thanks. I'd love to build out my SNES collection some more, there were so many truly amazing games for it.
@@RetroGamerBoy When I was about 10 or so a friend and I swapped my SNES with his MegaDrive... I think we last a couple of days before we had to swap back it was so alien for us...back when consoles were significantly different and the brands meant something. Great times.
This is awesome, I give you my compliments! I'm a big Sega fan, I’m creating my own megadrive cartridge collection. Most European, then I have the Japanese Bare Knuckle trilogy plus other Japanese titles. I have something for Genesis but in lower numbers than the other titles. At the moment I am at the modest number of eighty games. Plus I have a little part dedicated to the Dreamcast and Saturn.
That sounds like a great collection of games.
@@RetroGamerBoy Thank You so much 🔝🕹️
Now I will lay down a challenge for you :)
Try to collect the import Sega Genesis games. The games that were exclusive to Japan only.
Good luck ;)
OH god no!!! I will have to sell my kids...🤔
@@RetroGamerBoy Oh.
I smell a Guinness World Record that's going to happen soon!
😅 if only I had that many games.
WOW! You can build your on fortress with your outstanding Sega collection Mike. Now that's what I call dedication to the franchise and the company bro. Just look at all those fantastic goodies. 8^)
Anthony..
That is exactly what my 6yr old boy said Anthony when I was stacking them. He wanted to know if I was building him a base 😂
Amazing collection and great video! While I prefer the SNES, the plastic boxes (especially PAL) look great with beautiful cover art, really collectable.
That's one thing Sega did get right.
Nice collection! I’m catching up to you. 👍
😂 That's awesome. It would be great to see your collection when it's finished.
Really enjoyed this one Mike, some absolute belters in there that took me way back! The OG Mega Drive is just the greatest console. 🤘 thanks for the amazing effort in your content always, this collection series is something I genuinely look forward to. Cheers buddy! 🍺 x
I'm glad you enjoyed it. These videos are hard to make because I just want to show off everything.
Great video! I always love to see Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (even though it was just a fleeting appearance)! It's a game that holds a lot of nostalgia for me, and doesn't get anywhere near enough love in my opinion.
It is a stunning game. I wanted to add it to my top five but to be honest that top five could easly be a top 100.
Another brilliant video Mike! It's awesome seeing these games in such great condition! I also have quite a few games for this system but a lot have damaged boxes or no manual!
That's not a problem, some of these games are over 30 years old.
Amazing mate good selections 💪
Thanks
Huge and beatiful MD collection...keep it up :P On the Konami side i d almost add Junction....yes that one was published and developed by Micronet..but under Konami license
Ya I included that in my video about the Konami collection. Currently though I'm not going for the Japanese collection. I love it but it is super expensive.
Hi Mike, I’ve recently discovered your channel. I think it’s great and love the content you have here you have also helped me to discover Sega Head. I am now wanting to rebuild my own Sega collection having sold lots of my childhood games years ago. I didn’t realise how many Marvel properties had games would you be able to do a video of all the Marvel games you have? Also any outstanding you are yet to collect please? Thanks again great work!
Of course, as I'm getting close to a full collection I'm going to be covering a number of different sub collections. The Marvel collection will be one of the videos.
@@RetroGamerBoy Great, look forward to it 🙂
I really wish I hadn’t found your channel. All I’ve done this past week is buy Megadrive games!
😂 enjoy them
Fantastic collection, fantastic video!
Really enjoyed that!
Cool, I'm glad you liked it.
Loved eternal champions, and mercs ❤
Eternal champions is amazing. It's hard to get good at.
I’m just curious as to what is your favourite part about collecting?
I’m a new collector and I have to confess that my favorite part seems to be finding the games, battering a deal and opening them when they turn up (if not bought in store some place).
Playing them is definitely secondary (although I make sure I play each game I buy to completion).
This means I spend too much time spending money 🙈 😂
I enjoy learning about the games, the teams that made them and the impact they have. So more of a focus on the historical. But form pure collecting, I love meeting and learning from people and of course the physical aspects like the boxes and manuals. I also love playing the games. I play about 20hrs a week on the Mega Drive.
I too love the history and spend a lot of time watching and reading about it.
I think I’m probably still in the novelty phase of collecting 😎
Awesome stuff Mike 👍👍👍
Thanks Lee, It's going to great to look back on this video when I complete the collection.
@@RetroGamerBoy 100% Mike fair play 🔥🥳
Wanna see a vid of you taking it off and putting it all back on the shelf’s 🥳
Mate it took me 2hrs to make the tumb nail. I hauled the entire collection downstairs and then back up to film it.
@@RetroGamerBoy definitely wanna see a vid of that 🤣👍
Would be good to see your top racing games on the Mega Drive
No that is a good idea.
Blasphemy! The PGA series is the best. 96 kind of sucks because they tried this weird Polygon engine that loads super slow. But PGA 1-3 and the European Tour one are some of the best examples of 16bit golf games. I played those a ton with my Dad when I was a kid.
I loved the PGA Tours too!!
I'm not a big fan. I think it's because I only started playing golf games on later systems. So I don't have the nostalgia or the context.
@@RetroGamerBoy I think most of these are based on memories. But I remember these golf games was the easiest way to get families to play. And it totally worked with the pass along controller method of playing. For me Neo Turf masters is my fave retro golf games, but the PGA games come close.
Great collection
Thank you
Boxes upside down at the start 😂
I know. It hurts me too. I got so far in before I noticed. My OCD is off the charts looking at them.
Great video, awesome collection.
I recently completed collecting all the consoles I had as a kid and I've started on the games, I picked up a boxed Shadow of the beast 2, which I didn't see on your EA shelf. I'd gladly donate it to your collection in exchange for any doubles you may have for 8/16 bit Sega/ Nintendo consoles?
* to get my collection started, I only have a handful for each.
That's very kind, but I've just picked that up. And at the moment I don't have many doubles. If you drop by the Facebook group Galaxy Sega you may find some good value bundles to help you kick start things.
No worries, I'll go check that out right now.
I never had problems with the Manacer when I was a kid. Haven't played it recently though. The Master System and Saturn guns are much better.
Ya I have no problem with the enforcer, it just the mencesor, apparently lots of RF can through off light gun games.
Great job... It is hard to find game with Box and manual... But I found some place online selling after market box with the insert, not sure about manual
Ya I've seen those. I've also seen a few that have manuals as well.
Firstly love your videos Mike 👍 and totally agree the Megadrive is the best system. Seeing as you have such a great collection which game do you still want that you don’t have 👍
Thanks for the kind words. I would like to pick up Soleil soon. I keep passing on it and the price keeps going up.
@@RetroGamerBoy I’d love a copy myself, missed out a few times in the past, hope you pick up a copy soon 👍
I'm just wondering if they all work cuz I mean who's gonna actually try out all those fifa games, Mike? I tried jungle strike didn't like it, but I always hear people singing its praises. There's just not enough music during the stages for my liking. I've got to have me some great retro mega drive music while I play. Don't forget Rocket Knight adventure it's better than Sparkster to me. Great collection Mike wish you lived by me so I could play a £700+ mega drive game 😂
I play every single game I buy, I give the sports game 2 or 3 exhibition matches, unless they are really something I enjoy. Sensible Soccer, NBA Jam etc. I love Rocket Knight, it's one of my all time favourite games.
I would definitely like to see how well that modem works for online play
Same here, I might have to try get it running.
That's amazing!!!
Thanks😁👍
Very nice👍👍
Thank you very much.
Okay I'll say it, that S&K box is in great condition! Also have you seen that Paprium is on Kickstarter along with Pier Solar as you mentioned wanting to pick one up in a previous video?
I have and I have my order in. Can't wait to play them in 2026😂
Same here 😂
@@RetroGamerBoy you might want to mention the KS in a video in case other people are interested. If they don’t mind waiting like us 😂
I was thinking about that, but I'm sure it will just get trolled heavily 😱
Absolutely beautiful
What a video all that stunning MegaDrive 🤩🤤
The menacer is an absolute pain to get working reliable I found everything else turned off a darkened room and brightness up helps but not ideal lol
That Mega Cd looks a beauty mate
You should sell that Lakers to fund getting the rest of your collection Bro 🤣
The few that own it will say it’s part of the set but is it really as it never got that retail Release I will say it ain’t because unless I win the lottery it’s never gonna be in my Sega wall 🤣🤣🤣
I’m biased but your collection is awesome Bruv
Ya Lakers is the biggest waste of money. I'm glad I have it, but I would not pay for it. The game is worth like £5 so its £4k for a sleeve and manual. It's not part of a full set, it's just a historical piece in the collection. The same goes for rare variations.
The best collections.
You have to love Sega's 16bit console.
Awesome mega drive collection Mike! Sounds like you are doing great picking up games still even with the crazy market. Keep it up brotha 🤟 ps that's a lot of Sega! Don't let Tom get his hands on it😂😂😂
Don't worry, I have a bear trap outside. Especially for him.
You need a Sega Arcade Stick from Japan.
Which one?
@@RetroGamerBoy The Arcade Power Stick 6b, or the Arcade Power Stick 2.
But only the Japan Versions have the "Microswitch"(the clicker Sound in the Stick)
Need to get the awesome japanese exclusive MD shooters
I will get to the Japanese collection. I want to complete the PAL collection first.
Great channel
Thank you very much.
Excellent Mega drive Collection I would love to know the five Australian titles you need
Shane Warren
Fatal Fury 2
Daze Before Christmas
ECCO Jr
And a boxing game I can remember off hand.
Fatal Fury 2 is the one that does not come up often.
@@RetroGamerBoy never seen Ecco jr I will have to keep a eye out for that one. I do wonder if the the Shane warren game will go up in price now? Just looked on e-bay WOW from $60 AU with no booklet to $170 ouch free shipping with the $170 so that is something I guess.
@@Retrospectreviews ya the prices are ridiculous online. I'm trying to find shops and markets to buy these games now.
@@RetroGamerBoy I try to do the same but I find here in Australia a lot of the shop who have retro games now go by the Ebay prices.😞
@@Retrospectreviews I'm starting to find the same. I used to go to charity shops and find games there but now the charity shops just sell on eBay.
Game museum!
😂 yes it almost is.
Arg my OCD hurts. Upside down labels! Haha
Ya I realized half way through stacking them. But there was no turning back, although I considered it.
@@RetroGamerBoy Haha. I had the urge to come over and do it myself. I still can't figure if the right order of a collection should be alphabetical, release order, or by genre!
@@ErikLosLobos i generally group them together by year of release, also sometimes genre and series/seqals next to each other! the spine designs look stupid if mixed
You should make another video and go game by game showing every detail., that would be cool
That is going to be a long video. Maybe a live stream.
cool video but your transition music is a lot louder then the volume of speech, i had to adjust 30 times lol, no hate, still enjoyed
It's weird when I auto tune it on the PC it sounds fine. I might have to try it on another machine. Thanks for the feedback.
oh EU MEGA DRIVE .. nice collection though. Im a high end Japan mega drive collector..
That's cool. I want to get into the Japanese collection once I've completed PAL.
14:13 with the fifas you make no mention of the blue sticker variant from the original fifa international, i only just found this out as i have the gold version in my collection and a fifa bundle i got for a fair price (only wanted some EA case upgrades for minor damaged ones) had the blue variant, also confirmed on segaretro, and again the blue variant has 2 variants of its own due to the instruction manual being either 4 languages or 5 languages
I'm not really into the sticker variants. I was put off them when I learned how people were able to fake these easily and charge more for their game.
@@RetroGamerBoy nobodys faking fifas, especially when a different sticker doesnt add any value to the item, all the fifas are shit and sports titles, no value in them, except maybe fifa 98 being the very last official game on the megadrive during its supported life run
love this channel, just started collecting a few months ago, already have a gen 2 tower of power and about 60 games so far but i cant decide where to draw the line with the collection. 32x and mega cd are a bit pricy so am just bulk filling with basic boxed games at the moment but figured id start with the mini collections but cant seem to find lists of them anywhere, im in Australia so not worried about Genesis or UK/EU games at this stage. any idea where i can go to find lists of mini collections?
You would have thought it would be easy to find, but every list I've found has something missing. I use the retro games collector app. This will have 99% of what you need. You can the add titles that are missing to improve the accuracy of the app.
Nice!
Thanks!
I have about 80 titles and I'm almost done.. Mind you I have 40 percent pal, 50 percent genesis and 10 percent Japanese. I bet I have some of those exclusives you need.
I bet you do. That is a really interesting collection you have there. How did you to collect the games?
My menacer works, well it did last time i used it on my 20" curved CRT TV (been a while since i felt like playing it), wish mine had internal packaging tho, just outer box thats losing its shape
Ya I'm not sure what the issue is. The enforcers works perfectly.
@@RetroGamerBoy obvious two things would be 1. gun is faulty, or 2. sensor is faulty, or even rarer both have issues, i should really make sure mine still works shortly
Amazing stuff...
Thanks, it's great building up the collection.
@@RetroGamerBoy it is....but prices are out of control these days....let's see if this changes soon.
I’m frickin jealous man 😭
It's taken 30+ years 😅
Mate. Aussie here. 🇦🇺🇦🇺 I'm wondering if you might know of a game I've been trying to remember.. it's possible it's a mega drive game, but it was an Arcade game I remember that was one I'd play back in the day. Basically Golden Axe is my favourite series and I grew up on playing GA1 alot.. but I always thought that this game I'm trying to remember was actually Golden Axe II.. but then I got hold of Golden Axe II and it's great but not what I was trying to remember from back when. Whenever I look into it I'm led towards its probably Castlevania? But I recall the character walking along and using like a chain or whip type weapon. Definitely not Castlevania. It's more like Altered Beast style. Can't pin down what it was. Or whether I'm just remembering a whole mashup of old-school games but however many TH-cam videos I look up I haven't seen the game again. Definitely a golden axe / altered beast style game
Interesting, maybe Alisia Dragoon?
This is crazy 🤓🔥🔥🔥🔥
It's even bigger now.
Holy monkey that is a collection, nice work!
Thanks, it's taken 30 odd years 😂
Cyber razor cut hahahah
Great set of ads, I always wanted the game chair.
Sweet
It's looking good.
I need to get Tanglewood
It's a great game but the best feature in the game does not happen until half way through.
@@RetroGamerBoy ah ok.
Out of interest, are there systems you don't collect for?