

We were pretty impressed with all that when SEGA released it on the GameCube back in 2003 without the "Plus" element.
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Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine) we can think of, and the liner notes (in this case stored on the disc) are a finely detailed compendium of manuals and artwork. In fact, since we're determined to get some mileage out of this one, SMC Plus is more like the Greatest Hits package re-released a year later with all the original studio recordings intact and a bonus CD of B-sides.įor the electronic equivalent of the disc we already own, SEGA has rammed in pretty much every Mega Drive Sonic the Hedgehog game (1, 2, 3, & Knuckles, 3D Flickies' Island) and spin-off (most aptly, Spinball, and the Puyo Pop re-badge Dr. It's not quite the definitive "Singles 90-to-95" package that guarantees a solid procession of number one hits, but it does at least feature all the prominent names in amongst the odd questionable and rather self-indulgent album track. Sonic Mega Collection Plus, however, is your premium assembled-by-the-artist Greatest Hits package. Heck, even Daddy will have trouble placing most of the round-the-edges filler fodder from obscure artists who were number seven for one week in 1984 before plunging back into obscurity and becoming chartered accountants. (Need For Speed Underground 2 and GoldenEye: Rogue Agent, since you ask. Stuff it at the heart of little Johnny's pass-the-parcel and it'll wind up at the bottom of a pile of gaming's equivalent of Ashanti and Busted CDs when it gets home. It's like one of those horrendously packaged not-available-in-stores-and-for-good-reason 80s compilations that gets advertised in-between feature-length "Infomercials" on cable TV at three in the morning. Just look at the fun we've had.Ītari Anthology, for example. Comparing game compilations to music compilations is quite entertaining.
