I found a commercial for it

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the price is £29.99 which converts to $59.62.

se7a7n7

@Chimera: I owned a Sega GameGear. Thing was hge but sonic was so much fun.

Genesis shat all over the snes

spimoles

SWEET!!! Did anyone notice that it has a TV out connection?

How much is it????

se7a7n7

sega controllers were always sucky

urbanturban666

@Chimera: I had to get the rechargable pack for mine, but it barely lasted any longer (but hey, at least it didn't eat through batteries!)

I actually found the system itself the other day. Still worked, but some of the screen had messed up, and the X button was permanently pressed down.

I forgot how heavy the Nomad was...

masterage

I had the original Sega Megadrive/Genesis hand held...the Nomad! Ate batteries like nothing I've ever seen, but had 6 real buttons and was the best way to play SF2 on the go.

Chimera

I was one of the few here lucky enough to own a Genesis instead of an SNes ;)

SDreamer

"If you weren't lucky enough to have an SNES back in the 90's, and were instead stuck with a Sega Megadrive (Genesis)"

Is this statement meant to be facetious ? As I recall the Genesis was pretty competitive throughout the 16-bit generation, even though the SNES debuted much later, and thus had some technical superiority.

"Sega began 1992 with a number of advantages: a 55% to 45% market share over the Super NES, a lower price, and a tenfold advantage in number of games...A Sony focus group found that teenage boys would not admit to owning a Super NES rather than a Genesis...Neither console could maintain a definitive lead in market share for several years."

- [en.wikipedia.org]

Just sayin...

OddManOut

Um, you could actually play Street Fighter with the original Genesis controller, I just wouldn't recommend it.

chinesedentist

The Mean Bean Machine? Man, I have some memories with that one. Spinball is bound to keep me for a few minutes (after seeing that thing speedrunned, though...)

But no Sonic 3 and Knuckles? awwwww...
*goes and watches S3&K beat 100% in 44ish minutes*

masterage

This is amazing, espicially if the battery life is not like Sega's official hanhelds.

the case looks good too.

Neverkilled: Robot Jones, mechanical tyranical

The Genesis was always better than the SNES anyway.

Puck

eh, I'll just press the power button on my Genesis as it is still hooked up...

Seanross

Emulators - FTW

BostonPimpDaddy

Altered Beast! Man, I loved that game to death. If they included Bad Dudes and Sonic and Knuckles, I'd be all over this.

geedots

@geedots: Says in the article that it comes loaded with Sonic and Knuckles.

I, too, had a Nomad, the battery-eating beast, but the envy of every school field trip!

Griffehpoo

@se7a7n7: Too bad it's PAL. Doesn't do the USAicans any good. :-/

ceilingFANBOY

"If you weren't lucky enough to have an SNES back in the 90's, and were instead stuck with a Sega Megadrive (Genesis)"

What about those of us who were lucky enough to have both? :)

xAppleFan

so this thing is the size of those of those little nintendo machines that you could get for 50 bucks?

funny how it looks just like it too...sega could've been a little more original and not just come out and said "hey great idea, we'll do that too" like they did here.

you know what would be great? if they made one of these things which took into account the controllers of the snes, the nes, and the sega genises and kept the size to the size of the machine above.

one conquering that issue, they get it so that you could buy all the old games over the net from them (or third party vendors) and download them wirelessly into a built in flash drive into the machine

then allow for whichever games that had multiplayer to be played with others who also had the system wirlessly

keep that machine to 50 bucks and well...i think these things would be mmuch more successful.

jrghoull

Whoever said Genesis was better than SNES is n00bsauce! Ancient console fanboy bickering FTW!

Seriously though, this is kinda neat - it will be way neater once the soldering iron army gets ahold of it and opens up its possibilities.

squish123

I'm going to buy it if I see it in a store somewhere. I loved all those games.

And, by the way, the Sega Genesis was *hardcore* and way better that the SNES.

Wallmaker

Don't the Chinese make MP4 players that take Genesis ROMs? And also, if it's just Sonic and Knuckles without Sonic 3 added on, it's only half a game. :P

markarian

sonic spinball was the game that introduced me to the world of getting so frustrated with games that i would throw the controller at the tv and storm off, only to try all over again the next day. god i love the genesis

elislider

Both systems were good on their own merits. However, with things like how the SNES version of Mortal Kombat had no blood and the Genesis version had lots of it, it started Nintendo down the whole "kiddy" road that it's been in ever since... They have Mario and Zelda (and all the RPGs back then), but if you want blood and gore and an "adult" system, you should go with another system...

That said, I had an SNES and I loved it, but the Genesis definitely had several good games and was a decent system. But yeah, I can't imagine playing SF2 with the 3-button controller. The 6-button was great, but the 3?

@BostonPimpDaddy: Yes. Emulators rock.

Platypus Man

Nobody makes a genesis product for gensis fanboys. It sucks.

And btw SNES never matched the Genesis in quality of games, and lost that generation of the console wars. If you bought an SNES, you got owned. Deal with it.

CommanderSheppard

@CommanderSheppard: LOL, you're funny. Genesis and quality in the same sentence, you're killing me.

As far as this product goes; Meh, this is what the PSP is for.

wiggatron

If only it had a cart slot.

Or a rewritable flash drive? Hmmmm...

WildWon

@squish123: Agreed!! that's pure fanboysm. I had both and SNES was infinitelly better!!! man, just look at the graphics!!Super contra, Castlevania, Street fighter! IT was the perfect arcade conversion!!

Ariel_Wollinger

@Wallmaker: Are you all delusional?? the SNES was far superior!! the audio was much better and the video was even better!!

Ariel_Wollinger

@Puck: WTF? nooo way!!

Ariel_Wollinger

@spimoles: WTF? Snes was waay better!

Ariel_Wollinger

wans't this the same that was released in Brazil and also featured here in gizmodo?

Ariel_Wollinger

Hey man, Genesis DOES...You can't do that on Nintendon't!!!

madmaxmedia

Dude, if this thing can get Shinning Force, I'm so buying it.

KLanD

what no Star Control? never mind...

ryusen