Code Veronica seemed to be considered to be the real RE3 back in the day, not only by gamers but by Capcom itself. These days, though, I see RE3 getting a lot more respect.
They were on Sega CD, and it was unfortunate that the Genesis Mini didn't include Sega CD games in addition to cartridge Genesis games as the TG16 Mini did. There were quite a few gems on the Sega CD like the Lunar games, Sonic CD, and Popful Mail, which was made by Nihon Falcom. Lunar's licensing is a mess, from a post I read not long ago by the guy at Working Designs who did the localizations, which is why the PS1 versions were never re-released as PSOne Classics.
The Sakura Wars were, for a long time, my most wanted localizations alongside Mother 3 and Seiken Densetsu 3/Trials of Mana. I bought Sakura Wars: So Long My Love (which was Sakura Wars V in Japan) as my last brand new PS2 purchase in 2010. I had a few tapes of the anime series, and I also bought the new PS4 Sakura Wars.
2000 was the year I started college, and I played a lot of games in my downtime. My favorites of the year were FFIX, Majora's Mask, Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete, and Valkyrie Profile. I got the copy of FFIX I got for Christmas that year autographed by Nobuo Uematsu at Distant Worlds in Omaha in 2013.
Yeah, I knew abour LotW being part of the series. It's funny how Xanadu and Legend of Heroes spawned their own series... and the Trails subseries of Legend of Heroes is now its own meta-series... and the individual Trails arcs (Sky, Cold Steel) are their own series.
With Far East of Eden, I'm mostly a sucker for anything that's anime-styled and a RPG. I'd have been all over the Genesis Mini if they'd put Lunar and Lunar 2 on that thing.
They aren't. Aside from the fact that they're text heavy, they were also on CD-ROM. I guess the amount of storage they needed isn't a big deal; the PS Classic had Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil.
It's not on the TG16 Mini either, but the original Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes was on the TGCD as well, and it did get an English version. It was the last LoH game to be localized until the Gagharv Trilogy was localized in the mid 00s for PSP.
When I was a kid I remember seeing a TG-16 display at the mall. It had Bonk set up on it and I played it a bit. I didn't know anybody who owned one. One of my favorite publishers back then, Working Designs, got its start localizing TG CD games. I've played a few TG16 games on Virtual Console, including Ys 1 & 2. The PC Engine games that grabbed my attention the most were the Tengai Makyo (Far East of Eden) games that were never localized.
My cousin had a Genesis connected to his stereo back in the day. He mostly played Mortal Kombat on it, which had a unique soundtrack on the Genesis. That thing would really make the speakers thump.
I was a SNES boy myself, and I loved the soundtracks for Zelda, Metroid, and Final Fantasy. I had my SNES hooked up to a stereo as well. Even third party games like Zombies Ate My Neighbors did really good on the Sony sound chip for the SNES. It sounded better than the PC Soundblaster cards did.
John Jay Smith sure was all in on the Genesis. There are apparently licensing issues with his estate over Sonic 3 because of his involvement in composing its soundtrack. I guess he either liked Sonic the Hedgehog or the Genny's sound chip.
Star Fox 64 was the first of those games I played. It was one of my favorite N64 games. The SNES games just seem too slow by comparison, but it was cool that they were pushing the SNES. Sega did it better with Virtua Racing on the Genesis with its own built in SVP chip.
Astral Chain is great. I just wish they'd say something about Bayonetta 3.
I remember Hexen. My dad and.I played it to completion on PC.
