Never fear though, Sega is still including the Mega Drive version of Virtua Fighter 2 as part of whatever deal they made with the Devil back in the 90s. Another strange exclusion from the Switch collection is the Wonder Boy games, though they are present on the other consoles Mega Drive Collections. While I don’t enjoy them much myself, they’re well known Mega Drive games. Not only that, there is a lack of the Ecco the Dolphin series. It’s a shame these two games seem to be MIA due to licensing issues still. Now I’m sure you’ve noticed the obvious exclusions, and no, there is no Sonic 3 or Sonic & Knuckles in this collection. There are of course a bunch of Sonic games on there Sonic 1 and 2, spinball and 3D blast (and Doctor Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine at a stretch). I could go on and on, if you’ve got one of these collections over the years you’ll be very familiar with a lot of these titles. 51 classics including Comix Zone, Streets of Rage (1-3), Shinobi, Phantasy Star (2-4), Vectorman, ToeJam & Earl (1&2), and of course Golden Axe (1-3). Like the Mega Drive collections before it, Sega has dusted off a lot of the usual suspects. The other current gen consoles got this a few months ago, and now finally the Mega Drive collection has made its way to the Switch.

But Sega has been bringing their old games out in compilations before Nintendo or Sony got it together. Nintendo really got it right, Sony has just released theirs, and Sega has had third parties trying and not managing to make the same impact. Classic mini consoles have made a name for themselves over the last few years.

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