Nintendo Revolution gets Sega Genesis NEC-Hudson TurboGrafx-16 support !!!!

[NidoTower]

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/697/697882p1.html

Iwata also announced partnerships with Sega and Hudson to offer downloadable access to their classic games via Revolution's Virtual Console. Revolution owners will be able to relive their past gaming glories from the Sega Genesis console by playing a "best of" selection from more than 1,000 Genesis titles, as well as games sold for the TurboGrafx console (a system jointly developed by NEC and Hudson). These games join Revolution's access to 20 years of fan-favorite Nintendo games from the NES(R), Super NES(R) and Nintendo(R) 64 eras.

http://revolution.ign.com/articles/697/697922p1.html

GDC 06: Revolution Goes Retro
TG-16 and Genesis games due out for Nintendo's new console.
by Nix

March 23, 2006 - In a press release simultaneously with an announcement made during Nintendo's keynote speech at GDC 2006 this morning, Nintendo announced that Sega and Hudson have signed on as partners for the Revolution's Virtual Console service. With this, the emulators will be best games from the two companies for the TurboGrafx-16 (or PC-Engine, as it was called in Japan) and Sega Genesis will be downloadable and playable for the Revolution.

Curiously, only Sega Genesis games were mentioned as planned for the Virtual Console system in the deal with Sega (um, hello? Master System? Saturn? Game Gear? 32X?!?), but the partnership promises that many of the best out of the Genesis' 1,000+ gaming library will be available for the Revolution. Individual deals will have to be worked out with publishers for titles to be released on the Revolution, but with a growing interest in classic gaming, publishers and license owners will hopefully be fast to get on-board with Genesis support. And considering that most of the TurboGrafx-16's games released were published and/or developed by Hudson and NEC, it seems that the vast majority of games for the system will automatically fall into that partnership without much more licensing work from the company.

With NES, SNES, N64, and now Genesis and TG-16 on-board, the Revolution has got years of gaming already ready to play as soon as it launches later this year. Look for more news on supported systems and licensed games for the Nintendo Virtual Console as things develop.

[Josh]

In related news: all of these games will cost too much.

[mollipen]

Nowhere does it say that 1,000 Genesis games are coming to the Revolution, before anybody decides to think that. It says some of the "best" of the Genesis' 1000+ library will be coming to the Revolution.

[kedawa]

In related news: all of these games will cost too much.

If they cost more than $2 apiece.

[Josh]

1000 Genesis games on the Revolution? Awesome!

[kedawa]

Nowhere does it say that 1,000 Genesis games are coming to the Revolution, before anybody decides to think that. It says some of the "best" of the Genesis' 1000+ library will be coming to the Revolution.

I don't believe the Genesis ever had that many games to begin with. Maybe if you include every MD, hack, bootleg, and homebrew game.

[recon_zero]

Any console game should jump into this Nintendo Legal emulation policy. And paying like $2 would not be too bad, and if the system is bigger, bigger price. IE: N64 games: $10

Now, back to my XBOX and play Sin & Punishment...

[Cowdisease]

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/board/s...&postcount=143

[burgundy]

It's a pretty phenomenal feature if you can pretend to be a normal human who would just like the option to play an old game when the mood strikes, rather then someone who posts on TNL and has twelve consoles hooked up to three RGB monitors.

[Diff-chan]

When I first read about " best of Genesis games from 1,000 titles" I was like, "no way anyone is so retarded as to think that means 1000 titles". The internet has quickly proven me wrong.