I remember visiting my moms old town where she used to live when she was a child, idk, around 30k people in the south of Bolivia (my home country), there was one arcade there and Alienstorm was my favorite game, still is one of my favorite Arcade games ever. Such nice memories of spending lots of cents of pesos and not being able to finish it haha. Good ol days back in the mid 90s, when I was kid.
The games make sense once you realise this thing is for the Japanese market only. If it was to cater for the west, I would say the games would be different.
Unbelievably awesome! Any 80’s arcade kid will be happy as a pig in mud with those classics(Shinobi, eswat, shadow dancer, space harrier, wonder boy, golden axe, fantasy zone etc…) and to get some previously unobtainable games to play at home till your hearts content is just the proverbial icing on the cake, hope unofficial pads work otherwise price is nearly doubled for controllers.
I really think any sega arcade compilation should have Hang-On or Super Hang-On, Outrun, or Afterburner. I know we have seen them released a millions times before but they are essentials much like Space Harrier.
If Sega released a Super Scaler Mini with all their scaler games I'd buy it in heartbeat. It could have a wheel and gearshift, ahhh man that would be so sweet.
I do think this is definitely worth the price, especially since this whole unit is cheaper than any single Cotton game by itself. It does make me sad that there's so much filler here. I'm also baffled why these aren't all on some kind of compilation for modern consoles and PC.
@@OriginalMasters I definitely understand that, and I wouldn't mind if it was exclusive for a limited amount of time, I just feel like it's a missed opportunity to bring hard to find games to a wider audience. Besides, enthusiasts would still be getting a wonderful little unique machine, even if the games where available elsewhere
Want a NAOMI/Dreamcast mini with Gundam:Federation VS Zeon.....Yes, it would be great in the Sega Astro City Mini style....which is to say “portable”....and based on NAOMI and not Dreamcast. Maybe a bit smaller and with an internal power-source? Maybe running on some AA batteries?
Can’t be mvc2 cause of Disney licensing, but actually it might work cause castle and world of illusions was on the genesis mini. But outside of that, would like ikaruga, giga wing 2,
1st let me say I'm a SEGA fanboy but my god. Come on SEGA. I was honestly initially so hyped for this when one of the 1st games announced was Virtua Fighter. I thought finally! We're going to see alot more of those late 90s 3D games come home! I was especially hoping we would see Virtua Striker 1 included as it was never released on a home console and was extremely popular in Japan. I would of purchased this for that game alone. Instead we got a bunch of 80s games we've literally seen on 100 other consoles, compilations and plug and plays. To say I'm so disappointed is a massive understatement.
Totally agree but i don’t think they can release star wars because of license issues. If they could they should also release moonwalker and spiderman, also great games. Why not Sonic though, the arcade version that uses a trackball. I understand they would have to translate the trackball controls to the arcade stick. Buy they did it with the racing game included, why not sonic? Especially when sonic’s anniversary is coming up.
@@michaelsierra9 Sega has a great relationship with Disney and probably could get the license for Star Wars like they did with the Mickey Mouse games on the Genesis Mini. Licensing fees certainly are something to consider, and I don't know how big Star Wars is in Japan, but if the Astro Mini is a success in Japan and they want to localize it for the United States, then it's definitely worth the cost of doing business with Disney.
Just got mine today. Virtua Fighter and Space Harrier are awesome on it. This is my first time ever playing Virtua Fighter, I like it....The joystick is fine after you break it in....give it a few hours of play....The scan line feature is okay...Overall a good product....
Golden axe revenge. I'm getting this. Had no idea that alien syndrome was arcade. Great job SLX 🤯 I also think we should congratulate Sega for at least releasing other IPS.
@@johnrowland8354 Too bad Cotton 2 and Cotton Boomerang aren't on it. those would have made it even better so hopefully if they make a second mini those games will be on it.
@@clutchkman the official version, Outrun Online Arcade was removed from the store, you can only play it with a Jailbroken 360. You can play the OG Xbox version with backwards compatibility, I guess.
I gotta admit I barely get any news under my rock. Thanks for the update! I wanna get my hands on this one when it releases but $120 is kind of expensive for a mini console. That Golden Axe sound track was kickass!
First announcement had me hopeful but then it quickly devolved into nothing but puzzle games with subsequent announcements. 3 Columns, seriously Sega? Where the hell is Outrun, Turbo Outrun, Thunder Blade, Afterburner, Power Drift, and Galaxy Force?
*Honestly, I find the list of games too short and really underwhelming, filled with too many unnecessary entries, especially for such a small screen.* You can have 3 different Columns games on your system... but only if you propose over 200 games in total, not if you only stick to a few dozen. And no Afterburner, G-Loc, Galaxy Force II ?
I've recently ran acros your channel and videos on the Sega systems. I'm really enjoying your work and this was a great video on a system that I'm going to look into.
Me: Why bother? Aren't all this on Genesis anyway? Sega Lord X: Don't be fooled into thinking you've played this if you have a Genesis. The arcade game is infinitely superior. Me: Well, ok then....
@@OriginalMasters Luke Cage(aka Power Man from Marvel Comics) was known to utter this phrase in lieu of expletives very early in his crime fighter for hire career. I borrowed it from him. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!
@@VaughnJogVlog This is a product geared toward a very specific category/market, retro gamers and specifically, Japanese retro gamers. It's not meant to compete with modern systems. A lot of us either don't care about modern games at all or have already been doing "next gen gaming" on our PCs. Those of us that do want a Play Box X5 or whatever, are probably financially secure enough to not have to save up for it or have to decide between it and other things. Personally, I'll be getting the Astro City Mini here for my retro collection and a GeForce RTX 3080 GPU for my modern gaming needs.
@@Prizrak-hv6qk Yes, I agree. I don't care much at all for new games and I've got a good, 4K PC. PC gaming is overrated. Gran Turismo 7 has me interested in PS5 but who knows when that will be ready. I think these products from Sega look high-quality and it makes sense to support them when they do something right.
i have a Arcade machine at home with over 1000 games and i love to play some of this games,Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder is one of the best Arcade games ever.
A. Yeah, I don't get including so many games from the same series B. Alien Syndrome and Cotton are the two highlights for me C. wHeRe'S AfTeR bUrNeR II?!?!?! D. I would probably buy that Astro City themed Stick alone, just for use with FBNeo or MiSTER E. Sega... please... JUST GIVE US DAYTONA 2 ON HOME SYSTEMS ALREADY!!!!
I'd be down with multiple entries in the same series... just not for damned puzzle games. I don't hate them, but having their sequels and spinoffs is a lot more redundant than, say, going with multiple Shinobi games.
Some great games in this list; Shinobi, Wonder Boy, Fantasy Zone and Ninja Princess are games that have kept me coming back for over 30 years and never get old. But who wants to play them on a tiny toy cabinet? And vertical games on an already-tiny horizontal screen?
Have you ever considered looking at the home computer ports of Sega Games? Especially stuff ported to the Amiga/Atari ST Etc, The Amiga even got a port of Last Battle, no idea who was screaming out for that :S
@@michael-zg5fq I will say try the Amiga version of Sword of Sodan sometime, EA completely arsed up the Sega port in comparision. It's still not a brilliant game, but far superior to the port.
Id love to see an Atari Arcade like this. Give me something with Xybots, Gauntlet, Klax, APB, Paperboy, 720, Toobin, Roadblasters, STUN Runner, all the Atari/Midway arcade games. I have the midway collections for PS2, but would love to see them in something like the Astro City Mini. Give me the weird stuff like the kinda sequel to Pit Fighter - Guardians of the 'Hood, Eye-Robot, Escape From The Planet of The Robot Monsters, Space Lords. Too bad Atari's properties have been scavenged for over 35 years and have been passed around like a joint at a Grateful Dead show...
@Lassi Kinnunen Between Atari and Midway, its crazy how much has been chopped up, but I think a good hunk of them did goto WB. Im gonna look at the Midway colletion on the PS3/360 and see if WB made that, as Midway was bought out around 2008/9. But I do think that WB did end up with most of Atari Games' stuff
@@psistis80 I have it on there but misspelled as Eye-Robot - which I thought it was spelled that way to get around copyright of Issac Asmov's book/collection of short stories of the same name, but I was wrong. You are correct, its I, Robot. Amazing looking game especially for the time of its release.
Glad I preordered mine. A bit disappointed that Hang-On, After Burner, Outrun, and more 3D games arent included but crossing fingers some genius will find a way to hack it. 2D fighting games will be a beast on this thing.
Yeah they will hack itfor sure. But What about emulation..? :/ Have you seen VF1 emulation..? It's terrible! Every emulator runs it Glitchy/buggy with all characters hair on the floor.. lol.
Galvatron 86 - yes, but I don’t think it’s going to work very well. Honestly, Outrun without a steering wheel just sounds wrong to me. I wouldn’t have bought my Star Wars Arcade1up without the yoke.
I'm with you about OutRunners. At this point, it almost seems like we'd need to create a crowdfund campaign just to beg SEGA to finally bring the arcade version home!
So much Shovelware on this Astro City product, they could've EASILY ditched a load of it an added some STV games (Cotton Boomerang) & Sega Model 3 games (Scud Race) to make it that much more enticing of a product, great video as always dude!
Just to let you know, you can use other controller/fighting stick by connect Mayflash MAGIC-NS adapter(updated to V.1.28 or higher firmware and set to "white light"). I use HORI Fighting stick mini 4 now. Mayflash Magic NS with firmware 1.28 or above (latest 1.32), it supports Sega Genesis/MD mini & Sega Astro City mini. After updated firmware to v1.28 or higher, user must switch the mode to "white light" while connecting to a PC, MAC, or LINUX computer. Then, you can connect your "white light" Magic NS to Sega Astro City. Now you can use XBOX One controller(wireless), PS4 controller(wireless), and Nintendo Switch Pro controller(wireless) on your Sega Astro City mini. You can also use HORI fighting stick mini on it
for PS4 wireless pairing. user press "PS + Share" at the same time. for XBOX wireless pairing, press "X" and it will flash slowly. Then press the "pairing button" for few sec and wait. for NS Pro controller, simply press "pairing button" for few sec and wait.
I'm skeptical you could. Jojo and third strike are CPS3 and the alpha games are CPS2. Neither of those arcade boards are used in any games on this device.
I've already got one of these pre-ordered, but I might consider getting another. Someone mentioned to me that the minis could be linked (just like the arcade cabs) for head-to-head action which would be much cooler than just playing it on the big screen.
Revenge of Death Adder, Eswat, Ninja Princess, Thunder Force, Cotton!? Arabian Fight!? SHADOW DANCER?! All right, I'm sold. Thank you, Sega. And thank you for keeping me up to date, SLX! I was planning to just wait and see if there would be a western release, but it looks like most of these have minimal language barrier, and there's a lot of stuff on here I've wanted to play for years. I might just pick this one up. But yeah, so many falling block puzzle games. And I would have been happier with After Burner or Thunder Blade rather than Space Harrier. Not gonna hate on Altered Beast, but I do think the Genesis version plays better. I felt like I could actually learn and get better at it. Arcade felt like it was there to mug you out of your cash. Or maybe I just suck at it...
All of them look like the arcade games to me, not sure what you mean. That is what arcade games from the mid 1980s look like. If you'd rather play boring later games like Arabian Magic rather than classics like Flicky and Wonder Boy I don't know what to tell you.
Anthony Flack I know that’s what arcade games looked like in the mid 80’s - I was around at the time. All comes down to what you have more nostalgia for; personally I have more nostalgia for games from the mid to late 90’s (of which Sega has many, many great titles) which I find to have more depth gameplay-wise and also look better visually too.....That’s what I mean. You shouldn’t judge everyone else by your own standards as everybody’s tastes are subjective.
@@G-MoneyCMB - the way you said "half of these look like Master System games!" made it sound like that's a bad thing, somehow. It's got nothing to do with nostalgia, I play the games that play well, which is why Wonder Boy still gets played a lot, and After Burner gets played never.
They had to made it an overpriced mini console with no gamepad included...as awesome as some of those games are, i'm disapointed with the direction retrogaming takes...i agree with you, those games do not deserve to be forgotten...but we also deserve reasonable prices...i gave enough to Sega, time for them to see us as loyal fans, not cows you can milk at will. Nice vid as always man, keep tje good work.
I really like that it's arcade game focused, seems pretty solid and excited for many of the choices but as always, could have been better but that's par for the course with these things. Still I don't agree with the overly negative tone in the comment section. I think it's solid.
Couldn't agree more, dude. These arcade versions have not come home intact many times, if at all. This is not Sega's usual compilation. Even despite the imperfect selection, it's still way more positive than negative.
Looks nice and I'm sure there will be people purchasing two (one full set for collecting and one for using). It is a real pity 4 usb ports weren't utilized (though usb hubs work on laptops and such). One can hope and pray that the 4-player arcades will support 4 players and they will have some sort of device for that. Maybe a model 2 in the works; and yeah, genre specific would be AWESOME!
The Chaos Engine, now that's a gem from the past no one talks about. Awesome game, i actually have it got the Mega Drive. That needs to be ported to modern systems.
Crackdown for Arcade and Mega Drive/Genesis came out in 1989, Chaos Engine came out in 1993 so Chaos Engine may have been inspired from it along with other games like it.
I’m guessing that a lot of folks don’t have the same nostalgia for a cabinet that never came out in the west. The Astro City is just as iconic as the red MVS cab over in Japan. I’m totally sold on it, I think it’s great. I used to have a full sized Astro City but had to give it up for lack of space. This however is perfect, I love that Sega are going more all out with this than they did with the Genesis Mini (at least in Japan)
I agree with Virtua Fighter, its the one I am the most excited about. One of my fav games and hopefully much better than to my dissapointed sega saturn version
Why on earth should we have to shell out $150+ for a dedicated piece of hardware for these games, rather than releasing them on the Sega Ages line? What a middle finger from Sega to the fans.
I look at this, and can't help but be reminded of the Neo Geo Mini (which I have), and it has many of the same aesthetics (plug in controllers for 2 player action, HDMI port, etc). Of course, this will have an edge over it being it's using arcade roms, whereas the Neo Geo Mini used the console ports. But I do want to wait and see if there will be a "international" version as well, as it may get rid of some of the less wanted games.
Looking forward to the release. I'm importing for the 4th episode note you give. Hopefully, they'll be encouraged to mine their arcade past in all regions
im also excited for sega coming back to the console market with their new Ressurection system. bout damn time, this time sega, dont screw up. hopefully it will be better than dreamcast!!
If they were willing to put games with Analog control on there like Space Harrier and Rad Mobile, then yeah After Burner and OutRun should have been there too. MoonWalker I think would be nigh impossible though, as re-licensing the likeness and music of MJ would probably be super expensive.
flicky and golden axe revenge of death adder are the only reasons I'm considdering buying it. my brother always used to play the genesis version and would be interested in that one, but I personally think golden axe revenge of death adder is the real draw.
I remember visiting my moms old town where she used to live when she was a child, idk, around 30k people in the south of Bolivia (my home country), there was one arcade there and Alienstorm was my favorite game, still is one of my favorite Arcade games ever. Such nice memories of spending lots of cents of pesos and not being able to finish it haha. Good ol days back in the mid 90s, when I was kid.
The games make sense once you realise this thing is for the Japanese market only. If it was to cater for the west, I would say the games would be different.
Is it WORTH $150?
No
Did I buy it anyway?
Yes
True sega fans
Cringe
What do you mean no? Build quality is amazing And each game comes out to less than $3 if you think about the tech and build quality behind this
Unbelievably awesome! Any 80’s arcade kid will be happy as a pig in mud with those classics(Shinobi, eswat, shadow dancer, space harrier, wonder boy, golden axe, fantasy zone etc…) and to get some previously unobtainable games to play at home till your hearts content is just the proverbial icing on the cake, hope unofficial pads work otherwise price is nearly doubled for controllers.
If I buy one.....Shinobi is what I WANT! Lol I sure wish this unit was portable. A rechargeable battery would have sold me.
I had honestly hoped for more 3D games.
I would have loved some of these games on the Sega Ages, shame it ended.
I'm just hoping it's hackable. Love the arcade stick on this. Imagine putting Cadilacs and Dinosaurs or Ninja Baseball Bat Man on dat joint yo
Ninja baseball batman
yo
USB port = t's 10000% hackable
That'd be great
I really think any sega arcade compilation should have Hang-On or Super Hang-On, Outrun, or Afterburner. I know we have seen them released a millions times before but they are essentials much like Space Harrier.
If Sega released a Super Scaler Mini with all their scaler games I'd buy it in heartbeat. It could have a wheel and gearshift, ahhh man that would be so sweet.
It would be nice, but I doubt it would happen since it would appeal to a limited amount of buyers
And trackball for segasonic the hedgehog
I do think this is definitely worth the price, especially since this whole unit is cheaper than any single Cotton game by itself. It does make me sad that there's so much filler here.
I'm also baffled why these aren't all on some kind of compilation for modern consoles and PC.
@@OriginalMasters I definitely understand that, and I wouldn't mind if it was exclusive for a limited amount of time, I just feel like it's a missed opportunity to bring hard to find games to a wider audience.
Besides, enthusiasts would still be getting a wonderful little unique machine, even if the games where available elsewhere
I hope a Naomi Mini will come next. This way we'll finally have a Dreamcast Mini, sort of.
Want a NAOMI/Dreamcast mini with Gundam:Federation VS Zeon.....Yes, it would be great in the Sega Astro City Mini style....which is to say “portable”....and based on NAOMI and not Dreamcast. Maybe a bit smaller and with an internal power-source? Maybe running on some AA batteries?
I’d buy that day one with no hesitation.
Agree
Can’t be mvc2 cause of Disney licensing, but actually it might work cause castle and world of illusions was on the genesis mini. But outside of that, would like ikaruga, giga wing 2,
1st let me say I'm a SEGA fanboy but my god. Come on SEGA. I was honestly initially so hyped for this when one of the 1st games announced was Virtua Fighter. I thought finally! We're going to see alot more of those late 90s 3D games come home! I was especially hoping we would see Virtua Striker 1 included as it was never released on a home console and was extremely popular in Japan. I would of purchased this for that game alone. Instead we got a bunch of 80s games we've literally seen on 100 other consoles, compilations and plug and plays. To say I'm so disappointed is a massive understatement.
I actually didn't know you could plug into a TV. That's great. I pre ordered and can't wait
Great video thanks!!
Love the inclusion of Golden Axe: TRODA, Dark Edge, and Arabian Fight. I wish it had more model 1 games, like Virtua Racing, Star Wars, and Wing War.
Totally agree but i don’t think they can release star wars because of license issues. If they could they should also release moonwalker and spiderman, also great games. Why not Sonic though, the arcade version that uses a trackball. I understand they would have to translate the trackball controls to the arcade stick. Buy they did it with the racing game included, why not sonic? Especially when sonic’s anniversary is coming up.
@@michaelsierra9 Sega has a great relationship with Disney and probably could get the license for Star Wars like they did with the Mickey Mouse games on the Genesis Mini. Licensing fees certainly are something to consider, and I don't know how big Star Wars is in Japan, but if the Astro Mini is a success in Japan and they want to localize it for the United States, then it's definitely worth the cost of doing business with Disney.
Mad Hatter I hope so. If they include star wars hope they also include spiderman and moonwalker since those were also great games.
Just got mine today. Virtua Fighter and Space Harrier are awesome on it. This is my first time ever playing Virtua Fighter, I like it....The joystick is fine after you break it in....give it a few hours of play....The scan line feature is okay...Overall a good product....
Golden axe revenge.
I'm getting this.
Had no idea that alien syndrome was arcade.
Great job SLX 🤯
I also think we should congratulate Sega for at least releasing other IPS.
Cotton is a good one for them to include
Glad they included COTTON.
@@johnrowland8354 Too bad Cotton 2 and Cotton Boomerang aren't on it. those would have made it even better so hopefully if they make a second mini those games will be on it.
There’s some great games included but, also a lot of TRASH as well.
Colums should be a $1 iPhone game instead.
Par for the course with these type of things, unfortunately. But wait until it's hacked.
I would only play 10 games ...
Man, 3 Collums
You got it in one Mike.
Sign me up for Outrun 2 with a steering wheel and pedals.
Omg can you imagine
Or try getting an Xbox 360 and Logitech steering wheel and pedals? It should be cheap on eBay nowadays.
Sungket Patel is Outrun2 on the360?
@@clutchkman the official version, Outrun Online Arcade was removed from the store, you can only play it with a Jailbroken 360. You can play the OG Xbox version with backwards compatibility, I guess.
noo noo I play it on my og Xbox, I just wish it worked on Xbox One as well, Two Xbox’s have already died on me.
I didn't even know that Sega owned the Cotton series. Welp, I hope they bring that series back.
cotton reboot is coming out soon
Hey I like Colunms! It's actually one of my favorite puzzle games and Stack Colunms has never gotten a proper home release.
I gotta admit I barely get any news under my rock. Thanks for the update! I wanna get my hands on this one when it releases but $120 is kind of expensive for a mini console.
That Golden Axe sound track was kickass!
Finally an arcade perfect Shinobi and Golden Axe RODA on Sega hardware?? I'm in!!
Disagree with Tant R comment. These puzzle games are hugely fun and addictive and not kids play at all.
First announcement had me hopeful but then it quickly devolved into nothing but puzzle games with subsequent announcements. 3 Columns, seriously Sega? Where the hell is Outrun, Turbo Outrun, Thunder Blade, Afterburner, Power Drift, and Galaxy Force?
Sega can't put Outrun in the Astro City Mini due to Ferrari...
@@RedRanger2001 They couldn't have just stripped all the Ferrari marks?
Love the line up , just wish we got more AM2 games like Sonic the Fighters or Fighting vipers , Fighters Megamix would have been great
VF2 too.
*Honestly, I find the list of games too short and really underwhelming, filled with too many unnecessary entries, especially for such a small screen.*
You can have 3 different Columns games on your system... but only if you propose over 200 games in total, not if you only stick to a few dozen. And no Afterburner, G-Loc, Galaxy Force II ?
I've recently ran acros your channel and videos on the Sega systems. I'm really enjoying your work and this was a great video on a system that I'm going to look into.
That is a surprisingly good collection. A lot of classics there.
Me: Why bother? Aren't all this on Genesis anyway?
Sega Lord X: Don't be fooled into thinking you've played this if you have a Genesis. The arcade game is infinitely superior.
Me: Well, ok then....
I'm getting it. Good little system to add roms to.
This thing is getting Golden Ax: Revenge of Death Adder?! Sweet Christmas, that alone makes it worth the price!
@@OriginalMasters Luke Cage(aka Power Man from Marvel Comics) was known to utter this phrase in lieu of expletives very early in his crime fighter for hire career. I borrowed it from him. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!
Played a lot of thunder force on the sega classic, and it kicks my ass everytime lol
i can certanly predict, a saturn mini will be well on its way in a few years if all goes well :) . keep up the great work @Sega Lord X
"unless you're living under a rock" first ive heard of it lol.
@@VaughnJogVlog This is a product geared toward a very specific category/market, retro gamers and specifically, Japanese retro gamers. It's not meant to compete with modern systems. A lot of us either don't care about modern games at all or have already been doing "next gen gaming" on our PCs. Those of us that do want a Play Box X5 or whatever, are probably financially secure enough to not have to save up for it or have to decide between it and other things. Personally, I'll be getting the Astro City Mini here for my retro collection and a GeForce RTX 3080 GPU for my modern gaming needs.
Tru that. I stopped buying new consoles when DLC became a thing.
@@Prizrak-hv6qk
Yes, I agree. I don't care much at all for new games and I've got a good, 4K PC. PC gaming is overrated. Gran Turismo 7 has me interested in PS5 but who knows when that will be ready. I think these products from Sega look high-quality and it makes sense to support them when they do something right.
Revenge of Death Adder? Sold!
Great video sega lord love the channel keep it up
i have a Arcade machine at home with over 1000 games and i love to play some of this games,Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder is one of the best Arcade games ever.
I must have been living under a rock... I've not heard of this.
A. Yeah, I don't get including so many games from the same series
B. Alien Syndrome and Cotton are the two highlights for me
C. wHeRe'S AfTeR bUrNeR II?!?!?!
D. I would probably buy that Astro City themed Stick alone, just for use with FBNeo or MiSTER
E. Sega... please... JUST GIVE US DAYTONA 2 ON HOME SYSTEMS ALREADY!!!!
I'd be down with multiple entries in the same series... just not for damned puzzle games. I don't hate them, but having their sequels and spinoffs is a lot more redundant than, say, going with multiple Shinobi games.
OMG GOLDEN AXE 2 IS ON THIS SYSTEM!? I LOVE It! THE CENTAUR GIRL IS MY FAVORITE CHARACTER OF THE ENTIRE SERIES! She was NEVER on the home system!
Some great games in this list; Shinobi, Wonder Boy, Fantasy Zone and Ninja Princess are games that have kept me coming back for over 30 years and never get old. But who wants to play them on a tiny toy cabinet? And vertical games on an already-tiny horizontal screen?
The more I see this the more I want it lol...SegaMiniArcade🕹♡
Great overview! Definitely going to preorder now with all the fixins
Have you ever considered looking at the home computer ports of Sega Games? Especially stuff ported to the Amiga/Atari ST Etc, The Amiga even got a port of Last Battle, no idea who was screaming out for that :S
Larry is blessing you with ideas for content? Your channel had grown from when I first followed you.
Last battle along with Sword of Sodan are the worse games I've ever played
@@michael-zg5fq Indeed...At least we can chop the enemies in a half on Sword of Sodan
@@michael-zg5fq I will say try the Amiga version of Sword of Sodan sometime, EA completely arsed up the Sega port in comparision.
It's still not a brilliant game, but far superior to the port.
In others words, Sega's bane
I knew you would give "My Hero" the same treatment as "J.J. & Jeff".
Id love to see an Atari Arcade like this. Give me something with Xybots, Gauntlet, Klax, APB, Paperboy, 720, Toobin, Roadblasters, STUN Runner, all the Atari/Midway arcade games. I have the midway collections for PS2, but would love to see them in something like the Astro City Mini. Give me the weird stuff like the kinda sequel to Pit Fighter - Guardians of the 'Hood, Eye-Robot, Escape From The Planet of The Robot Monsters, Space Lords. Too bad Atari's properties have been scavenged for over 35 years and have been passed around like a joint at a Grateful Dead show...
@Lassi Kinnunen Between Atari and Midway, its crazy how much has been chopped up, but I think a good hunk of them did goto WB. Im gonna look at the Midway colletion on the PS3/360 and see if WB made that, as Midway was bought out around 2008/9. But I do think that WB did end up with most of Atari Games' stuff
Great list, but I would also add
I-Robot.
@Lassi Kinnunen Midway Arcade Origins was published in 2012 by WB so they must of ended up with most of the IP.
@@psistis80 I have it on there but misspelled as Eye-Robot - which I thought it was spelled that way to get around copyright of Issac Asmov's book/collection of short stories of the same name, but I was wrong. You are correct, its I, Robot. Amazing looking game especially for the time of its release.
I just hope for an AM2 version soon, I’d buy that immediately.
Glad I preordered mine. A bit disappointed that Hang-On, After Burner, Outrun, and more 3D games arent included but crossing fingers some genius will find a way to hack it. 2D fighting games will be a beast on this thing.
Yeah they will hack itfor sure. But What about emulation..? :/ Have you seen VF1 emulation..? It's terrible! Every emulator runs it Glitchy/buggy with all characters hair on the floor.. lol.
Can’t see those games you listed working well with a joystick anyway though?
No reason why those games should not have been included on this,
@@10tonhamster they put Rad Moblie on it and thats a super scaler
Galvatron 86 - yes, but I don’t think it’s going to work very well. Honestly, Outrun without a steering wheel just sounds wrong to me. I wouldn’t have bought my Star Wars Arcade1up without the yoke.
I'm with you about OutRunners. At this point, it almost seems like we'd need to create a crowdfund campaign just to beg SEGA to finally bring the arcade version home!
Great video! But I swear we are going to get Puyo Puyo and Columns on every single compilation until the end of time
They’re to be expected. As long as the good outweighs the filler, I can deal with em.
I just love your channel. It made me realize how much fan of Sega I was... even without having owned a single of their consoles 😅
I expected Golden Axe: The Duel, one of the few Sega Arcade games that used six buttons.
So much Shovelware on this Astro City product, they could've EASILY ditched a load of it an added some STV games (Cotton Boomerang) & Sega Model 3 games (Scud Race) to make it that much more enticing of a product, great video as always dude!
Just to let you know, you can use other controller/fighting stick by connect Mayflash MAGIC-NS adapter(updated to V.1.28 or higher firmware and set to "white light"). I use HORI Fighting stick mini 4 now. Mayflash Magic NS with firmware 1.28 or above (latest 1.32), it supports Sega Genesis/MD mini & Sega Astro City mini. After updated firmware to v1.28 or higher, user must switch the mode to "white light" while connecting to a PC, MAC, or LINUX computer. Then, you can connect your "white light" Magic NS to Sega Astro City. Now you can use XBOX One controller(wireless), PS4 controller(wireless), and Nintendo Switch Pro controller(wireless) on your Sega Astro City mini. You can also use HORI fighting stick mini on it
for PS4 wireless pairing. user press "PS + Share" at the same time.
for XBOX wireless pairing, press "X" and it will flash slowly.
Then press the "pairing button" for few sec and wait.
for NS Pro controller, simply press "pairing button" for few sec and wait.
my wishlist was Cotton and we got Cotton. I'm a happy camper
If I can homebrew it, I'd definitely add jojo heritage for the future and street fighter 3rd strike and the alpha series
Maybe. Seems like they stopped at model 2 or 3. Not sure which.
I'm skeptical you could. Jojo and third strike are CPS3 and the alpha games are CPS2. Neither of those arcade boards are used in any games on this device.
@@haydenhyde9395 we need a Dreamcast Mini
@@zylowolf7919 You're preaching the holy gospel my brother!
That's because those are capcom boards. If you hack it, it should be possible
That unholy thing at 8:43 is nightmare-inducing!!
I've already got one of these pre-ordered, but I might consider getting another. Someone mentioned to me that the minis could be linked (just like the arcade cabs) for head-to-head action which would be much cooler than just playing it on the big screen.
virtua fighter, shadow dancer & thunder force, I am sold :D
Give me a driving version and a light gun version and I'll be an extremely happy Sega fan
Great idea^^
Would have loved a lightgun mode with Virtua cop, ghost squad, house of dead and other shooters.
That would fly off the shelf
Would like to have seen dynamite dux on here as well
No Sega Sonic the Hedgehog Arcade?
other then that, pretty cool stuff!
Needs a trackball tho
Dear SEGA, PLEASE release this in the US.
Revenge of Death Adder, Eswat, Ninja Princess, Thunder Force, Cotton!? Arabian Fight!? SHADOW DANCER?! All right, I'm sold. Thank you, Sega.
And thank you for keeping me up to date, SLX! I was planning to just wait and see if there would be a western release, but it looks like most of these have minimal language barrier, and there's a lot of stuff on here I've wanted to play for years. I might just pick this one up.
But yeah, so many falling block puzzle games. And I would have been happier with After Burner or Thunder Blade rather than Space Harrier. Not gonna hate on Altered Beast, but I do think the Genesis version plays better. I felt like I could actually learn and get better at it. Arcade felt like it was there to mug you out of your cash. Or maybe I just suck at it...
I ordered it just for the sweet controller. I got the cab too, but man that controller gets me excited.
It's actually not a bad list. Probably the closest thing we'll ever get to an arcade disc
I’m glad I didn’t bother with the pre-order now....this could have been so much better. Half of these look like Master System games!
All of them look like the arcade games to me, not sure what you mean. That is what arcade games from the mid 1980s look like. If you'd rather play boring later games like Arabian Magic rather than classics like Flicky and Wonder Boy I don't know what to tell you.
Anthony Flack I know that’s what arcade games looked like in the mid 80’s - I was around at the time. All comes down to what you have more nostalgia for; personally I have more nostalgia for games from the mid to late 90’s (of which Sega has many, many great titles) which I find to have more depth gameplay-wise and also look better visually too.....That’s what I mean.
You shouldn’t judge everyone else by your own standards as everybody’s tastes are subjective.
@@G-MoneyCMB - the way you said "half of these look like Master System games!" made it sound like that's a bad thing, somehow. It's got nothing to do with nostalgia, I play the games that play well, which is why Wonder Boy still gets played a lot, and After Burner gets played never.
They had to made it an overpriced mini console with no gamepad included...as awesome as some of those games are, i'm disapointed with the direction retrogaming takes...i agree with you, those games do not deserve to be forgotten...but we also deserve reasonable prices...i gave enough to Sega, time for them to see us as loyal fans, not cows you can milk at will. Nice vid as always man, keep tje good work.
I've been living under a rock.
Luckily I was able to get a astro mini from Limited Run! Love Sega!!!
I must have missed the announcement on this one. Sign me up!
Great work as usual
I really like that it's arcade game focused, seems pretty solid and excited for many of the choices but as always, could have been better but that's par for the course with these things. Still I don't agree with the overly negative tone in the comment section. I think it's solid.
Couldn't agree more, dude. These arcade versions have not come home intact many times, if at all. This is not Sega's usual compilation. Even despite the imperfect selection, it's still way more positive than negative.
Big fan of original Wonder Boy. Glad Sega has returned to it despite that style of game now being more associated with Adventure Island
... Adventure what? Never heard of it. :)
Probably one of my top 20 arcade games of all time. Still trying to 1cc it to this day.
Who the hell says Altered Beast is not a good game?! Even now my wife and I had allot of fun beating it and we love the art style and music.
I love Altered Beast
Looks nice and I'm sure there will be people purchasing two (one full set for collecting and one for using). It is a real pity 4 usb ports weren't utilized (though usb hubs work on laptops and such). One can hope and pray that the 4-player arcades will support 4 players and they will have some sort of device for that. Maybe a model 2 in the works; and yeah, genre specific would be AWESOME!
The Sega Astro City Mini could be an interesting system.
I will keep it on my radar.
Totally getting this due to a few unreleased games listed here. I hope it does well enough to warrant a second version.
Crackdown seems like a less playable clone of "The Chaos Engine"
The Chaos Engine, now that's a gem from the past no one talks about. Awesome game, i actually have it got the Mega Drive. That needs to be ported to modern systems.
I belive Crackdown came out a few years before the Chaos Engine.
Crackdown for Arcade and Mega Drive/Genesis came out in 1989, Chaos Engine came out in 1993 so Chaos Engine may have been inspired from it along with other games like it.
Crackdown is decent, especially working together with a friend. I like to think of it as a Gain Ground sequel - kind of.
I’m guessing that a lot of folks don’t have the same nostalgia for a cabinet that never came out in the west. The Astro City is just as iconic as the red MVS cab over in Japan.
I’m totally sold on it, I think it’s great. I used to have a full sized Astro City but had to give it up for lack of space. This however is perfect, I love that Sega are going more all out with this than they did with the Genesis Mini (at least in Japan)
How many commercial breaks do we need? First one at 1 minute in.
Could've sworn Puyo Puyo Sun would be on this thing, but then again there are no STV games on it, so at least you get the original and Tsuu to play.
shinobi ,shadow dancer & golden axe 3 arcade is awesome
Apparently I've been living under a rock 😶
I want this table thanks for this
Baku Baku Animal would have been nice to see but I'm all over this due to the Wonder Boy games and Revenge Of Death Adder.
I agree with Virtua Fighter, its the one I am the most excited about. One of my fav games and hopefully much better than to my dissapointed sega saturn version
Why on earth should we have to shell out $150+ for a dedicated piece of hardware for these games, rather than releasing them on the Sega Ages line? What a middle finger from Sega to the fans.
The Sega Ages line sold poorly. Sega doesn't likely see digital formats as a viable alternative atm.
@@SegaLordX That really sucks to hear but making it Switch exclusive along with some questionable game choices, surely didn't help with the sales.
Puzzle and Action!!!! as featured on one of the episodes of Gamecenter CX!
they should just make one where you hook it up to the internet and you keep buying games online for it.
Thanks for the review! Love this.
I probably put 50 bucks of coins into Gain Ground in Japan, and the arcade is so much slicker than Genesis.
I look at this, and can't help but be reminded of the Neo Geo Mini (which I have), and it has many of the same aesthetics (plug in controllers for 2 player action, HDMI port, etc). Of course, this will have an edge over it being it's using arcade roms, whereas the Neo Geo Mini used the console ports. But I do want to wait and see if there will be a "international" version as well, as it may get rid of some of the less wanted games.
Looking forward to the release. I'm importing for the 4th episode note you give. Hopefully, they'll be encouraged to mine their arcade past in all regions
im also excited for sega coming back to the console market with their new Ressurection system. bout damn time, this time sega, dont screw up. hopefully it will be better than dreamcast!!
Alien Storm and Arabian Fight are highly underrated but no After Burner, Moonwalker, or Outrun is a deal breaker. Come on Sega, step it up.
If they were willing to put games with Analog control on there like Space Harrier and Rad Mobile, then yeah After Burner and OutRun should have been there too. MoonWalker I think would be nigh impossible though, as re-licensing the likeness and music of MJ would probably be super expensive.
You forget that outrun and afterburner also have license issues. They should modify or use the switch version of Outrun.
flicky and golden axe revenge of death adder are the only reasons I'm considdering buying it. my brother always used to play the genesis version and would be interested in that one, but I personally think golden axe revenge of death adder is the real draw.
I completed revenge of death adder for the first time during lockdown. It was bloody awesome 👍🏼
She's a winner for sure. I don't think many people in this comment section have played it.
Great announcement. Money is kind of tight so I will have to sit this one out unless you invite me over for some GA2 RODA. Go Sega