The MD Mini is looking like it’ll be a great little device thanks to Sega stepping up the game by bringing on M2. A few factors made me think it’d be fun to try and predict the remaining games:
We’ve already seen some games unique to the MD Mini. Will they try and diversify it from Sega Ages on Switch?
Are they limiting it to 1 game per series as the Sonic/Puyo/Shining Force tweet from a few weeks ago implied? Do they choose the best game in a series or it’s most iconic?
Different lineups for Japan and the rest of the world. Are they catering to differing tastes, getting around that series limit, or merely trying to get us to double dip?!
The appearance of rare, 3rd party, or games previously not re-released
Like the PS1 Classic, some of the obvious picks might be in licensing limbo. EA Sports and Disney titles spring to mind but are they really that far of reach, with Sega seeming to care so much this time?
Maybe they’ll pull an unreleased or region exclusive game out of the hat?
There’s bound to be some games that really needed the 6 button pad! And they have to justify including 2 pads …
With all that, I don’t think choosing all the games is as easy as it sounds!
Here’s the currently announced titles - 5 shared, 5 unique.
Japan
Vampire Killer/Castlevania The New Generation/Bloodlines
Space Harrier II
Shining Force
Comix Zone
Gunstar Heroes
Puyo Puyo Tsu
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Madou Monogatari I
Wrestleball
Rent A Hero
Rest of World
Castlevania The New Generation/Bloodlines/Vampire Killer
Space Harrier II
Shining Force
Comix Zone
Gunstar Heroes
Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
Sonic The Hedgehog
Altered Beast
Ecco the Dolphin
ToeJam & Earl
Apparently the next announcement will be on April 18th, so that’s our mini-comp deadline.
You can choose to guess the 30 remaining titles for Japan and/or Rest of World and then once all are known we’ll see who guessed the most correctly. There is no prize
I’ll start with my guesses for Japan!
Dynamite Headdy
Alien Soldier
Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition
Forgotten Worlds
Contra Hard Corps
Rocket Knight Adventures
Splatterhouse 2
Rolling Thunder 2
The Super Shinobi II/Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
Virtua Racing
Outrun
Bare Knuckle 3/Streets of Rage 3
Wonder Boy V: Monster World III/Wonder Boy in Monster World
Phantasy Star: The End of the Millennium/Phantasy Star IV
I’d like to see some of the super expensive ones, like Crusader of Centy and MUSHA, along with ones that didn’t get full worldwide releases, like Alien Soldier and Pulseman, just to give them more exposure. System has so many staples, with multiple game series where all of them are great and have had a ton of re releases of, that it’s hard to imagine them hitting everything though.
I think WaterMelon needs to say something to let all the people who already gave them cash for Paprium know that they didn’t just take the money and run before anyone else decides to give them any more.
Oh God, I hope not. Or at least not as a main game. If it was in there as a hidden game such as the snail game on the Master System that would be cool.
That was my justification for including it. It’s a landmark title and one of a kind on the machine. And also, a nice middle finger to crappy clones that can’t run it!
I know there was an article the other day where they half-joked about a Saturn Mini in 10 years time. Kinda off topic, but I just thought how good would it be to get the Saturn version of Shenmue if that ever happened. Or better yet, the mysterious port of Virtua Fighter 3! It was close to if not finished iirc.
I think that was part of their justification for including Wrestleball. Being non-licensed is a big help, so maybe they could get Mutant League Football or something similar.
Still a bit miffed they put Super Soccer on the SNES Classic in place of Super Tennis!
Only got 2/10 new games revealed tonight (Contra and Musha). Looks like I was a bit too safe in my predictions! Though i almost had a few more, just predicted the wrong game in the series (TF3, World of Illusion and SoR 2)
Still, better than everyone else who didnt make lists!
New Games Announced: - - Super Fantasy Zone - Landstalker - Thunder Force III - Shinobi III - Contra: Hard Corps - World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck - Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - Earthworm Jim - Streets of Rage 2 - Sonic the Hedgehog 2
That’s the list, from the CAG Twitter post. WOW!
I just bought Contra: Hard Corps too, for $50. Ah well…
This device is FANTASTIC and we have 20 games to go!
Since this is the predictions thread, I will predict now that M.U.S.H.A will be among the final 20 as well as at least one other grail for the Genesis that’s a top playing game. Mega Turrican seems like a good candidate for this. No sports yet, either! How crazy is that?
