Sega Vintage Collections dumping lots of old games on PSN and XBLA next wek [Joystiq]

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For XBLA, the Monster World Collection brings together Wonder Boy in Monster Land (arcade) and Wonder Boy in Monster World and MWIV for Genesis on May 23. On May 30, Golden Axe's arcade original joins Golden Axe 2 & 3 on Genesis, concurrent with a three-volume Streets of Rage Collection. The collections sell for 800 MSP each.

Meanwhile, PSN will see all of those Wonder Boys, Super Hang-On (arcade), Revenge of Shinobi, and Alex Kidd in Miracle World on May 22, for $5 each.http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif (http://www.joystiq.com)Sega Vintage Collections dumping lots of old games on PSN and XBLA next wek (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/18/sega-vintage-collections-dumping-lots-of-old-games-on-psn-and-xb/) originally appeared on Joystiq (http://www.joystiq.com) on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).

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[The 1 2 P]

Since they are doing groups of games for the 360 versions and single games for the PS3 I'm going to wait a bit to see if they do another retail compilation for the 360. I'm interested in getting the Streets of Rage collection.

[Robocop2]

But doesn't the genesis compilation already have streets of rage 1-3 ?

[kupomogli]

But doesn't the genesis compilation already have streets of rage 1-3 ?

The PSN and XBLA versions can be played online with other people.

[The 1 2 P]

But he's still correct. I didn't realize all three of those games are already on the Genesis compilation disc and I own it. For some reason I thought SOR 1 was the only game in the series on there.

[Leo_A]

Worth mentioning that Super Hang-On, Monster Land, and Golden Axe are the arcade versions.

Thanks to Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, I already can play the Streets of Rage trilogy on the 360 (Also bought the standalone XBLA release of SOR2). Ditto for this Golden Axe collection which just rehashes content already available (The arcade original saw a standalone XBLA release and the two Genesis sequels are on the collection).

So I'll be buying these first two releases, but I don't see bothering with the following two. Just duplicates of content I already can play on the 360 (Not to mention earlier compilations and on the original hardware).

Maybe if they ever go on sale, I'll grab them and go for the achievements and fool around with the online modes a bit. But $10 is too much for rehashes of content already available on the platform that many interested fans will already own. Should've given us some new content like Revenge of Death Adder, a way to switch to the international versions of the Streets of Rage titles (Bare Knuckle 3 especially is supposed to be far better in the Jap/Euro releases than what we got), etc.

[Leo_A]

I'll occasionally play 360 games on my 4:3 Trinitron. Today was one of those days.

Purchased Alex Kidd & Co. Very happy with how well Super Hang-On turned out. Alex Kidd in Miracle World seems to run well. But there is a bit of graphical imperfection with Revenge of Shinobi near the bottom right of the screen. Not sure if it's emulation issues or I'm seeing something that traditionally was obscured by overscan in the past.

Anyways, when did Sega decide to stop properly supporting 4:3 televisions? All the games are letterboxed no matter what options you select. And you can get rid of the pillarboxing only by stretching the game to fill the letterboxed 16:9 area of the screen and distorting the proportions in the process.

Seems strange and lazy to not allow 4:3 television owners to output 4:3 games full screen on a console that fully supports 4:3 SD output, leaving people playing in a window instead.