The Genesis survives, somehow, and other "gimmicks"
Posted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 5:02 amIt´s almost funny, but Tec Toy, who represents and manufactures Sega consoles in Brazil since, like, forever, is releasing a new version of Mega Drive. Yay, technological advance!
Except this new Mega Drive (labeled as Mega Drive III) has no room for cartridges... Yes, it´s a big, expensive, George Foreman Grill-like console that is sold with 86 games in its memory that you are condemned to play forever. Some of them are ports of mobile games, thrown in there just because they are ports of blockbusters, like The Sims and Need for Speed (by what I have seen of this NFS.
Not only they are not letting the Genesis/MD die in peace, but they have announced this week that they are making, in partneship to other companies and independently from Sega, an entirely new consolem called Zeebo. The project revolves around the concept of gaming without media: no cartridges or disks. Apparently, you will be able to connect it to the internet via wireless connection and download the roms of the games you are going (supposedly) to buy online. So far, these games are also ports of famous titles, like Quake and another Need for Speed. It promises to upgrade the Zeebo's internal operational system automatically and for free whenever avaiable.
I don´t know what I am going to think when I stop laughing.
Except this new Mega Drive (labeled as Mega Drive III) has no room for cartridges... Yes, it´s a big, expensive, George Foreman Grill-like console that is sold with 86 games in its memory that you are condemned to play forever. Some of them are ports of mobile games, thrown in there just because they are ports of blockbusters, like The Sims and Need for Speed (by what I have seen of this NFS.
Not only they are not letting the Genesis/MD die in peace, but they have announced this week that they are making, in partneship to other companies and independently from Sega, an entirely new consolem called Zeebo. The project revolves around the concept of gaming without media: no cartridges or disks. Apparently, you will be able to connect it to the internet via wireless connection and download the roms of the games you are going (supposedly) to buy online. So far, these games are also ports of famous titles, like Quake and another Need for Speed. It promises to upgrade the Zeebo's internal operational system automatically and for free whenever avaiable.
I don´t know what I am going to think when I stop laughing.
