My mum was a SEGA kid too. Well, a SEGA teenager, as she got her Mega Drive when she was 18, but played SEGA games in the arcades. Mum never had a Master System, but now she’s given me her old Mega Drive, which I’ve added to my gaming collection and now look after for her. My dad never got into gaming, at all, but my Mum did get into it during the 1990’s. Ironically, despite her loving SEGA, her friends who she shared a house with had a SNES, and Mum effectively ended up stealing it when they moved out and left behind their SNES, so now I have that too!
This was an amazing retrospective. I'm glad you took what we talked about with Phantasy Star Generations all those years ago into consideration. I very much look foward to the rest of this series & hope you see it to the end.
Best Sega remakes releases IMO: Saturn- Sega Ages: Outrun PS2- Sega Ages 16(Virtua Fighter 2), 19 (Fighting Vipers), 24 (Last Bronx) (25) Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box, 30 (Galaxy Force 2 Special Extended) and Sega Ages 2500 Vol. 11 - Hakuto no Ken
It's awesome that the modern AGES series is being released in other regions besides just Japan, even if they're just souped up ports like the original AGES and not remakes and collections like 2500. But if it's deluxe ports or low budget remakes, I'm glad we got the former.
Love this ep. Always been curious about the Sega Ages 2500 series, and this is making me want to collect the entire set... even if some of them are stinkers, haha.
Sobou Most of the "criticisms" here are just personal nitpicks coming from nostalgia. And Golden Axe 1 isn't a very good Genesis game to begin with. I own all of the Sega Ages games and they are very fun and interesting. Some are average, though. I also think they would be great for people who have never played many early Sega titles, whereas some of these games contain their original versions as well as the remake on a single disc. My favorite (because I'm a nerd) is Hokuto no Ken Vol. 11.
This was exciting; I've been looking to learn more about these for some time, and this is the perfect format. Thanks for the great video; eagerly anticipating the next!
So I was watching a RUclips today at 3 o' clock on 10/08, and 15 minutes later I see that Sega Lord X's channel has vanished. I then go to check his Twitter and Patreon pages. They are gone too. His Facebook is still up as of 30 minutes later: facebook.com/segalordx/videos/1535873326466378/ . Does anybody know what happened? I am really concerned.
Fantastic episode. I followed these when they came out and picked up a bunch of them, and man, talk about one hell of a rocky ride. Really looking forward to the next episode and your continued thoughts on these releases.
While I do love the Cel-shaded 2.5d style of the vol.3 remake… Sincerely hope Sega and M2 can port to Switch … …. the system 16 (with double memory) remake of Fantasy Zone 2 they did for PS2 Sega Ages Vol. 33, “Fantasy Zone 2DX”, that also eventually became the Nintendo 3DS’s “3d Fantasy Zone 2W / Link Loop Land”
Wow, thanks for plugging v2.20 of the Phantasy Star Generation:1 fan translation! It made my day! I'm one of the guys behind it. If you experienced any bugs, I'm sorry for them--we actually didn't have a way to test it on a real PS2. I'm hoping we can get it fixed, eventually, but my hacker's gone AWOL. Just a quick note, if you plan on doing Phantasy Star Generation:2 sometime down the line, it has a bug where it crashes on a real system when you win an item after battle. I wasn't part of the PSG:2 team, but I do know that there are plans to fix it eventually. Thanks for the vids! Keep kicking ass!
The Space Harrier remake looks excellent. I spent at least $100 on that game in the arcade in the 80s. Just a flat out fun game. Maybe they will remake it again for HD era consoles, maybe even VR. Now that would really be cool.
Oh yeah, I remember being utterly dissappointed by that Golden Axe remake as well. They should have just included Revenge Of Death Adder to give it at least *some* merit.
Fantasy zone is still my favorite shoot em up of all time, me and Coury must be around the same age I got my master system for Christmas in 1987 when I was 11 years old
Great idea for a series! I've been going for a full set of these for a while, but without trying very hard. Still need quite a few. Golden Axe looks so bad. But Monaco? I didn't think it seemed bad at all. Which is good, because I think I have 2 of them. Looking forward to future episodes!
It is such a treat when MLIG comes out with a new full video. Sucks it takes so much time but that's where you get the amazing quality and appreciation for it! Man I love these videos.
Wow, thank you very much guys! This is a video I always wanted to watch. I think you should do more videos like this, talking about graphic options in modern remakes of old classics. For instance, I got very disappointed due to the bad port of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog CD’ in Steam. Forced 16:9 (with the consequent image stretching), upscaling, filters (i.e., input lag)...
I love the Gain Ground disc! I can't wait to hear what you have to say. I picked and chose through the various releases as they came out via Hardcore Gaming 101 as they chronicled the releases. My second fave is they Dynamite Deka disc.
Love both FZ releases. Volume 3 brings a nice new flavour to the series and Volume 33 is just pure fan service. I really wish SEGA would put these out on Steam...
the people working on sega ages (M2) is still up and running today, making arcade perfect ports of 2D shoot em ups on PS4 under the label Shot Triggers please support them
Great idea for a series of videos!! I've never owned a Sega console so the PS2 was my first introduction to a lot of their games. I got into Sega Ages pretty late with the Gunstar Heroes Box. TBH I really think that's around the time when the games got good, since they just ported the originals rather than doing cheap-looking 3D remakes. Near the end they got really, really good, capping off with the excellent Fantasy Zone Complete (with the new Fantasy Zone sequel built on original hardware!!) and it is SO sad that they stopped there (even though it was already late '08 by then...). I would've loved to have seen a Sakura Taisen, Afterburner and/or Panzer Dragoon Zwei/Saga re-release... sigh. Looking forward to the next video!!
Great work guys, always touching what deserve to be touched. Grear guide to buy those games i always saw but i never bought because not clear if game is a good remake or just improved little. Thanks!!
Was always curious to play these. Should have gotten the Classics Collection years back. Might have to have a look around for them. Always heard they were a real mixed back. Would love to see a video on the Saturn Sega Ages range. Pretty sure that was the only place to play an arcade perfect version of Power Drift.
Piratong these games is super hard. Most were released in CD-R, so you can't just burn the ISO on a DVD-R. Converting the BIN and CUE to ISO doesn't work either. These Sega Ages 2500 were programed to boot from a CD-R.
Found your chanel this week and been watching your videos.. i loved what you said about Space Harrier some of these games are not great but they are aimed at people that love the originals i dont think people that have never played the original would be interested. i wonder what the original price point was? great videos.. really enjoying them thank you.
How are Megadrive(PAL) prices these days? When I bought most of my games 10-12 years ago they were dirt cheap(we're talking like 3-4 euros tops here), fully boxed and in great shape, even for stuff like Castle Of Illusion, Rocket Knight, Dynamite Headdy and a bunch of SHMUPs.
Cool video. Have been wondering about this releases lately. Are you going to cover the Sega Ages for the Saturn as well? I think they have the original arcade versions instead of the 3D-remakes.
The Golden Axe arcade looked a bit chopped off on the sides there. Were you using a Framemeister for that footage? A while back Joe from Game Sack was having the same problem, but we were able to get it perfectly aligned after a few screenshots of settings changes.
i was wondering the same thing, can't find the follow-up. Maybe this one didnt get enough views to warrant a sequel? (exactly like many of the remakes in the sega ages series)
@@MordecaiWalfish Perhaps... I have the entire Sega Ages collection from vol 1-33 for the PS2. Japanese version. Its a same he didn't follow up like he said he would. Maybe its because he didn't have the entire collection to continue. ( scrap this, i actually watch the ending of this review again and at the last shot of the PS2 Sega ages boxes he shows, has vol 21 view-able. So i think he has all 33 volumes. Do you have any of these volumes? or perhaps an select few of them? if so, which ones and what is your take on them?
@@videogameboutique2196 i'm not the biggest sega fan, really was only into their arcade stuff, with not much interest in a majority of the series, but the ones that I own are arcade favorites, and Treasure, of course: Saturn- Sega Ages: Outrun PS2- Sega Ages 16 (Virtua Fighter 2), 19 (Fighting Vipers), 24 (Last Bronx), 25 (Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box), 30 (Galaxy Force 2 Special Extended)
Am i the only one who prefers the name Lassic rather than La Shiec? La Shiec sounds like something someone on the cat walk would say. Lassic sounds like a villeins name.
This seems to be Coury's equivalent to Try's Rare after Nintendo series... I'm all for it, but I do hope we aren't waiting as long as 9 to 10 months between installments, you know? Maybe a 6 or 7 month gap?
Good stuff Coury. These releases had a lot of disappointments, but there are also some actually great ones in there, and the last one (FZCC) somehow managed to be better than most of Sega's full priced releases from that time.
[Try4ce] Of that PS2 remake specifically? I don't think so. But there have been other re-releases of Phantasy Star 1, most recently on the Switch with auto-mapping.
Coury, you forgot to mention that Tamsoft is also well known for the Toshinden series, a guilty pleasure of mine. Tamsoft is also really good at making fighting and hack and slash action games. Please don’t let them do party games. Dimps, another good company (known for Sonic Advance, Digimon Battle Spirit, the Rumble Fish Dragon Ball Xenoverse just to name a few) is guilty of the same thing. I hope both companies buried their attempts with party games. No company has a flawless track record.
My mum was a SEGA kid too. Well, a SEGA teenager, as she got her Mega Drive when she was 18, but played SEGA games in the arcades. Mum never had a Master System, but now she’s given me her old Mega Drive, which I’ve added to my gaming collection and now look after for her.
My dad never got into gaming, at all, but my Mum did get into it during the 1990’s. Ironically, despite her loving SEGA, her friends who she shared a house with had a SNES, and Mum effectively ended up stealing it when they moved out and left behind their SNES, so now I have that too!
Fun facts: The 2500 part in Sega AGES 2500 means ¥2,500, (the actual price they sold the games)
And 3D AGES is SEGA D3 in reverse.
Isn't that around 30 bucks, that's too much for some of these
Mirzak 007
Closer to $25
This was an amazing retrospective. I'm glad you took what we talked about with Phantasy Star Generations all those years ago into consideration. I very much look foward to the rest of this series & hope you see it to the end.
This is the first time I've heard the whine of Coury's CRT in the background.
I didn't know SIMS did any of these! They're a really underrated studio. Master of Darkness is one of my favorite Master System games.
Best Sega remakes releases IMO:
Saturn- Sega Ages: Outrun
PS2- Sega Ages 16(Virtua Fighter 2), 19 (Fighting Vipers), 24 (Last Bronx) (25) Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box, 30 (Galaxy Force 2 Special Extended) and Sega Ages 2500 Vol. 11 - Hakuto no Ken
Holy Moly this video is amazing! Nicely done!
Extremely interesting subject Coury, thanks a lot for covering these!
I don't know i think phantasy star remake looks amazing!
Can't find "the next part". Hoping you make it soon. These are fascinating.
Out as of today
I miss sega so much...I was also a Sega kid growing up...my dad tought me to read with phantasy star 4
The three lights over Coury's head make me think a thought bubble is about to appear.
It's awesome that the modern AGES series is being released in other regions besides just Japan, even if they're just souped up ports like the original AGES and not remakes and collections like 2500. But if it's deluxe ports or low budget remakes, I'm glad we got the former.
Love love love the videos. You guys do stunning work.
Best Fantasy Zone version in my opinion! Great vid!
Anybody with a Godzilla returns poster in their room is a man of honor and one who can be trusted.
that's a shit movie and you are a worthless piece of shit for liking it
2:48 Hmm, I have to look for a English patch....*literally 10 seconds later YEESSS. :D
please do a second part
Love the "Get Ready" Space Harrier nod ❤
Love this ep. Always been curious about the Sega Ages 2500 series, and this is making me want to collect the entire set... even if some of them are stinkers, haha.
Does anyone know how many games are in the Sega Ages 2500 set?
Coury says that there's 33 of them at 1:04
Oh, okay, I must have missed that somehow. Thanks.
Sobou Most of the "criticisms" here are just personal nitpicks coming from nostalgia. And Golden Axe 1 isn't a very good Genesis game to begin with. I own all of the Sega Ages games and they are very fun and interesting. Some are average, though. I also think they would be great for people who have never played many early Sega titles, whereas some of these games contain their original versions as well as the remake on a single disc. My favorite (because I'm a nerd) is Hokuto no Ken Vol. 11.
This is a freaking great channel. Great to see an honest review of the Sega Ages Generations games on the PS2.
Wonderful work, man!
This was exciting; I've been looking to learn more about these for some time, and this is the perfect format. Thanks for the great video; eagerly anticipating the next!
9:14 Actually you are technically correct. Opa-Opa was the official Sega Mascot for a brief period before Alex Kidd!
I love how you guys are showing the game and method of capture now.
Interesting seeing your take on it after watching Sega Lord X's series on these games.
Just as his series ends, My Life in Gaming begins. Both channels have really awesome content!
Ooh, now I need to watch that! I'm subscribed but hadn't noticed that series for some reason. Thanks for the heads up!
So I was watching a RUclips today at 3 o' clock on 10/08, and 15 minutes later I see that Sega Lord X's channel has vanished. I then go to check his Twitter and Patreon pages. They are gone too. His Facebook is still up as of 30 minutes later: facebook.com/segalordx/videos/1535873326466378/ .
Does anybody know what happened? I am really concerned.
Fantastic episode. I followed these when they came out and picked up a bunch of them, and man, talk about one hell of a rocky ride. Really looking forward to the next episode and your continued thoughts on these releases.
cant wait for part 2!!!
While I do love the Cel-shaded 2.5d style of the vol.3 remake…
Sincerely hope Sega and M2 can port to Switch …
…. the system 16 (with double memory) remake of Fantasy Zone 2 they did for PS2 Sega Ages Vol. 33, “Fantasy Zone 2DX”, that also eventually became the Nintendo 3DS’s “3d Fantasy Zone 2W / Link Loop Land”
Wow, thanks for plugging v2.20 of the Phantasy Star Generation:1 fan translation! It made my day! I'm one of the guys behind it. If you experienced any bugs, I'm sorry for them--we actually didn't have a way to test it on a real PS2. I'm hoping we can get it fixed, eventually, but my hacker's gone AWOL.
Just a quick note, if you plan on doing Phantasy Star Generation:2 sometime down the line, it has a bug where it crashes on a real system when you win an item after battle. I wasn't part of the PSG:2 team, but I do know that there are plans to fix it eventually.
Thanks for the vids! Keep kicking ass!
I noticed the Godzilla 2 poster in the back. I loved that game. It's what got me into strategy games.
The Space Harrier remake looks excellent. I spent at least $100 on that game in the arcade in the 80s. Just a flat out fun game. Maybe they will remake it again for HD era consoles, maybe even VR. Now that would really be cool.
Am i the only one who enjoyed sega ages golden axe, its a simple decent and very playable beatemup, no high expectations needed
Oh yeah, I remember being utterly dissappointed by that Golden Axe remake as well. They should have just included Revenge Of Death Adder to give it at least *some* merit.
Fantasy zone is still my favorite shoot em up of all time, me and Coury must be around the same age I got my master system for Christmas in 1987 when I was 11 years old
Awesome series! Always wondered how these games turned out. Great job Courey!
Great idea for a series! I've been going for a full set of these for a while, but without trying very hard. Still need quite a few. Golden Axe looks so bad. But Monaco? I didn't think it seemed bad at all. Which is good, because I think I have 2 of them. Looking forward to future episodes!
love the work they put on every video i learn so many things from you guys keep up the grate work
It is such a treat when MLIG comes out with a new full video. Sucks it takes so much time but that's where you get the amazing quality and appreciation for it! Man I love these videos.
Wow, thank you very much guys! This is a video I always wanted to watch. I think you should do more videos like this, talking about graphic options in modern remakes of old classics. For instance, I got very disappointed due to the bad port of ‘Sonic the Hedgehog CD’ in Steam. Forced 16:9 (with the consequent image stretching), upscaling, filters (i.e., input lag)...
Sonic cd steam (2012 remake) is true 16:9 not stretched. I don’t remember any filters on it either.
I really liked this video, very informative. I'd like to see you tackle more titles from the Sega Ages series!
I love the Gain Ground disc! I can't wait to hear what you have to say. I picked and chose through the various releases as they came out via Hardcore Gaming 101 as they chronicled the releases. My second fave is they Dynamite Deka disc.
Wow amazing job on this episode. I feel bad for poor old golden axe :-( it never gets the port it deserves.
This is my favorite gaming channel such good content
This was a great video, really looking forward to the subsequent ones.
0:08 best game of all times and best music. love japan for shinobi. i still play arcade version.
Love both FZ releases. Volume 3 brings a nice new flavour to the series and Volume 33 is just pure fan service. I really wish SEGA would put these out on Steam...
never clicked on a video notification faster hahahaha
the people working on sega ages (M2) is still up and running today, making arcade perfect ports of 2D shoot em ups on PS4 under the label Shot Triggers
please support them
That dragon fire bit it golden axe looked pretty good to me. Better than the rest of the game at least
The Phantasy Star remake looks like an RPGMaker game.
This video is great! I'm stoked to see some more volumes
I loved the golden axe remake.
I've been falling down a Phantasy Star wormhole recently. I gotta get this one day.
Great idea for a series of videos!! I've never owned a Sega console so the PS2 was my first introduction to a lot of their games. I got into Sega Ages pretty late with the Gunstar Heroes Box. TBH I really think that's around the time when the games got good, since they just ported the originals rather than doing cheap-looking 3D remakes. Near the end they got really, really good, capping off with the excellent Fantasy Zone Complete (with the new Fantasy Zone sequel built on original hardware!!) and it is SO sad that they stopped there (even though it was already late '08 by then...). I would've loved to have seen a Sakura Taisen, Afterburner and/or Panzer Dragoon Zwei/Saga re-release... sigh. Looking forward to the next video!!
Also I've thought of adding this channel to my Patreon before... this video sealed the deal ^_~
Great work guys, always touching what deserve to be touched. Grear guide to buy those games i always saw but i never bought because not clear if game is a good remake or just improved little. Thanks!!
Still can't believe they didn't try to localize the Phantasy Star one
Can we talk about how great his lighting is?
Was always curious to play these. Should have gotten the Classics Collection years back. Might have to have a look around for them. Always heard they were a real mixed back. Would love to see a video on the Saturn Sega Ages range. Pretty sure that was the only place to play an arcade perfect version of Power Drift.
You forgot a big part about Monaco GP original mode, it can be played up to 4 player. And it's stupid fun at 4 players.
Must resist urge to collect 'em all...
Great video! Love that lanyard in the video too ;)
Awesome vid, as always! Thanks for this!
awesome overview, thanks!
i have 9 of them on my ps2 HDD at the moment, they are not bad for tiny games
Piratong these games is super hard. Most were released in CD-R, so you can't just burn the ISO on a DVD-R. Converting the BIN and CUE to ISO doesn't work either. These Sega Ages 2500 were programed to boot from a CD-R.
Found your chanel this week and been watching your videos.. i loved what you said about Space Harrier some of these games are not great but they are aimed at people that love the originals i dont think people that have never played the original would be interested. i wonder what the original price point was? great videos.. really enjoying them thank you.
am i the only one that can hear the high pitch tone from his crt in the background?
Damnit, now I hear it as well...
i heard it
Dalton Di Martino That high pitch takes me back to my childhood.
Dalton Di Martino Nope, I can hear it too.
i hear ya. i still have a crt hooked up. mainly for nes zapper games.
Patiently waiting for part two!
Thanks for the amazing videos guys
How are Megadrive(PAL) prices these days? When I bought most of my games 10-12 years ago they were dirt cheap(we're talking like 3-4 euros tops here), fully boxed and in great shape, even for stuff like Castle Of Illusion, Rocket Knight, Dynamite Headdy and a bunch of SHMUPs.
Thats because PAL are gimped copies, running at less framerate
I never knew these existed. I thought Space Harrier looked really good.
I love this channel!
Cool video. Have been wondering about this releases lately. Are you going to cover the Sega Ages for the Saturn as well? I think they have the original arcade versions instead of the 3D-remakes.
The Golden Axe arcade looked a bit chopped off on the sides there. Were you using a Framemeister for that footage? A while back Joe from Game Sack was having the same problem, but we were able to get it perfectly aligned after a few screenshots of settings changes.
Joe sent me some selects from the arcade game he captured before the you guys made the profile.
Ah I gotcha. Yeah I thought that clip looked familiar. Joe sends it to me and says "here, fix this". :-P
what happened to the next sega ages volumes you claimed you'd review? Why did you scrap it?
This expose of the Sega Ages collection was exquisite.
i was wondering the same thing, can't find the follow-up. Maybe this one didnt get enough views to warrant a sequel? (exactly like many of the remakes in the sega ages series)
I've been ignored @ : o O ) >
@@MordecaiWalfish Perhaps... I have the entire Sega Ages collection from vol 1-33 for the PS2. Japanese version. Its a same he didn't follow up like he said he would.
Maybe its because he didn't have the entire collection to continue. ( scrap this, i actually watch the ending of this review again and at the last shot of the PS2 Sega ages boxes he shows, has vol 21 view-able. So i think he has all 33 volumes.
Do you have any of these volumes? or perhaps an select few of them? if so, which ones and what is your take on them?
@@videogameboutique2196 i'm not the biggest sega fan, really was only into their arcade stuff, with not much interest in a majority of the series, but the ones that I own are arcade favorites, and Treasure, of course:
Saturn- Sega Ages: Outrun
PS2- Sega Ages 16 (Virtua Fighter 2), 19 (Fighting Vipers), 24 (Last Bronx), 25 (Gunstar Heroes Treasure Box), 30 (Galaxy Force 2 Special Extended)
@@MordecaiWalfish Fair enough...I grew up with various consoles and the sega master system was one of them. then Genesis and all the rest.
I wish I could play these games
Wow this looks great. I always wanted to play the first game but the style turns me off but this is right up my alley
I Love Sega games😍
Fantasy Zone... My first endeavour into crypto and I didn't even know it... :)
i like space harrier because that song
Might give the PS2 remake of Phantasy Star a try, I've never felt like getting into the original.
Are these 2 in the video lovers? I always wondered this? If so, that's totally cool.
golden axe have quite good looking polygon
the dragon in golden axe use to scare me when i was a kid
Great video.
you guys really need to turn off your CRTs, the frequency bleeds into the recording
The best one is of course the Dynamite Deka (Die Hard Arcade) remake.
Am i the only one who prefers the name Lassic rather than La Shiec?
La Shiec sounds like something someone on the cat walk would say.
Lassic sounds like a villeins name.
Yeah, the Master System version's localisation names may not be accurate, but they are cooler
Nice video!
Wow I loved all of them minus Golden axe. I can't believe we'll never see these here in the US
I love your theme song S2
Great vid!!!! :-)
GET READY
This seems to be Coury's equivalent to Try's Rare after Nintendo series... I'm all for it, but I do hope we aren't waiting as long as 9 to 10 months between installments, you know? Maybe a 6 or 7 month gap?
Good stuff Coury. These releases had a lot of disappointments, but there are also some actually great ones in there, and the last one (FZCC) somehow managed to be better than most of Sega's full priced releases from that time.
Something is extremely wrong with the phantasy star remakes... not sure. They're just flickery, whether it's on ps2 in 480i or ps3 forced to 480p
It looks like Graceful Explosion Machine on the Nintendo Switch e-shop is a clone or spiritual successor to the shooting game.
Interesting re-make of Phantasy Star 1.... Was there ever a newer version or did this come out for any other system than the PS2 ?
[Try4ce] Of that PS2 remake specifically? I don't think so. But there have been other re-releases of Phantasy Star 1, most recently on the Switch with auto-mapping.
Just curious, how do you guys get away with using so much video game music in the background of your videos without being flagged?
Coury, you forgot to mention that Tamsoft is also well known for the Toshinden series, a guilty pleasure of mine.
Tamsoft is also really good at making fighting and hack and slash action games. Please don’t let them do party games. Dimps, another good company (known for Sonic Advance, Digimon Battle Spirit, the Rumble Fish Dragon Ball Xenoverse just to name a few) is guilty of the same thing. I hope both companies buried their attempts with party games. No company has a flawless track record.