The Full Electronic Arts PAL Mega Drive Collection & Sega Genesis

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The Full Electronic Arts PAL Mega Drive Collection & Sega Genesis

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Retro Gamer Boy

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@francescosmith7859 6 ай бұрын

Awesome Mike! I always knew EA was a big producer but was absolutely stunned to see exactly how many games they put on the Genesis/Mega Drive. A lot of really good titles in there (and also some absolute stinkers 🙂

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Yup plenty of rubbish games from EA😂

@darkmoule226 6 ай бұрын

Would never have imagined that Sega Japan and ozisoft Australia were only 15.7 cm away.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

I know, I measured it with my own ruler on the screen.

@Zobbster 6 ай бұрын

Congratulations on this milestone Mike!

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks dude. I'm still waiting to get the Italian variant, but the Italians want me to pay over £100. I've offered £11 but they won't accept that 🤷‍♂️

@VirajKathwadia 6 ай бұрын

Starflight was the one sadly my copy was missing the map but I sill managed to complete it. This game was a joy.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

It's amazing, I've it.

@ChicagoRetroGamer 6 ай бұрын

Your collection is legendary man!

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

It's growing nicely. There are still quite a few games I want to add though.

@GreatScott. 6 ай бұрын

Very informative video 👍

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks, like I said I've waited 4 years to make it.

@Provastiansideways 6 ай бұрын

'The Faery Tale Adventure' - don't forget the 'adventure' bit, Mike! Was gifted it for Christmas around 1991 by an aunt and uncle and was incredibly disappointed (had never heard of it, so it wasn't exactly on my wish list). Grew to quite like it in the end - a pretty decent RPG for the system.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Ya I like it. I'd say a solid 7/10 RPG.

@jordanrowlands6060 6 ай бұрын

Your best video yet. Well done!

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks. It's one I've wanted to make for a while.

@cannonfodder9877 6 ай бұрын

Epic collection Mike. Cant believe Dark Castle didn't make your top 5 though 😆

@RetroGamerBoy 5 ай бұрын

Maybe next time🤣

@nixx_comix7287 6 ай бұрын

Great video as always Mike, any news on return of live at arcade Wednesdays are not the same

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

I'm working on it.

@waynetttttt 6 ай бұрын

Love the collection. Envy the mega drive collection.. I wish I could get half of the pal collection 😂 Nice video

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

It's taken over 30 years but it's grown nicely.

@lukesablade 6 ай бұрын

Great vid Mike, looking forward to the next collection video.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

That might be next week, depending on what games arrive in the post.

@CasperEgas 6 ай бұрын

Cool video! I do have a lot of these. My top 5: Road Rash 2, Desert Strike, Skitchin, Road Rash 3, Jungle Strike.

@RetroGamerBoy 3 ай бұрын

I love the Strike series.

@elvismorales85 6 ай бұрын

Love the Mega Drive covers over the Genesis ones we got here in the US. Hey, you can make more videos of this video. Like showing footage from each and comparing the variants, in parts.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Sure, I did a video on NA vs Euro cover art a few years ago. Maybe it's time to update this.

@sonidojamon 2 ай бұрын

My first EA Mega Drive game was Marble Madness! Loved the weird cartridge with the yellow plastic part and EA logo

@rodgyretro 6 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed watching your video Mike, great work. Really interesting and informative, most of the info i already knew having been into megadrive for so long but, so well presented and its always nice to see some game i dont already have in my quest for a pal set(cool to see the variants etc-something i dont collect as there is too much i collect already) Keep up the good work fella...loving following your journey-the collection is epic...looking forward to seeing further subsets towards your full world set (there are some really interesting variants across euro territories for games such a McDonalds treasureland and Eternal Champions etc) 😉👍

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Mate I am well and truly down the variant's hole 😂 I need to knuckle down and focus on the core collection.

@section23 6 ай бұрын

Such a slick video, loved it! Surprised Road Rash wasn't in the top 5 though.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Choosing 5 was hard.

@mattneilson1824 6 ай бұрын

Awesome video! I didn’t know that the watch was bundled with anything other than Sega Pro issue 6 (which had a circulation of around 60,000 at the time… so that was a *lot* of watches!!). I also didn’t know about the PGA Tour Golf II re-release. Zool is an interesting one, because it was published by GameTek in the US (EA only published the PAL version). I can’t think of any other PAL EA releases on the Mega Drive that had a different publisher in the US.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

There was some weirdness around Populous 2. Where EA licenced it out rather than publishing it themselves.

@mattneilson1824 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, that was a Virgin release (I remember at the time wondering why it wasn’t released by EA). Oh, by the way, did you notice that General Chaos and Haunting Starring Polterguy have the same barcode? The Haunting barcode was misprinted, which is why many copies had a sticker (containing the correct barcode) over the printed barcode. It’s possible that this led to General Chaos being slightly over-tracked (and Haunting being slightly under-tracked), since EPOS systems (which were used to track sales and compile sales charts) made use of the barcode that was scanned.

@sonidojamon 2 ай бұрын

Nice one!! What a thorough curator you are!!!

@DoYouNerd 6 ай бұрын

How fun on the cards--I'm guessing even if they didn't come with the games that you keep them stored within the boxes with said games? The soft cases are interesting. I still find it interesting the very, very small Aussie exclusive titles. Faery Tale Adventure--wow, fun info tidbits but also the map, very cool! Love a good video game map. Our M&M book is as thick as that; I just read it to fall asleep at night. Ha ha That price for a couple bits of paper; stuff like that is amazing and insane! Ha, oh man, those Carmen Sandiego games with the boxes just for the books. That cracks me up. I adore how you go all out for completion, such as the watch. Will you be hunting down the sticker as well? The FIFA country variants is neat to consider. Yes--another look at that sweet Classics box you put together. Nice.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Tom you know how far down the rabbit hole I'm going. I love learning the history of a game, it makes the colleting so much more interesting.

@jonathanwatkins3389 6 ай бұрын

Congrats Mike excellent video and I’ve learnt a few things and wow a watch who knew and amazing you tracked one down. Only thing I noted was in the genesis section was that all the genesis EA releases as didn’t spot the Bill Walsh college football 95. Absolutely amazing feat though Mike 👏👏👏👏

@RetroGamerBoy 3 ай бұрын

Ohh I'm going to have to go back and rewatch it now.

@markymoo1966 6 ай бұрын

Excellent video as always used to love James pond 2 I spent far to much time playing that game 😅

@RetroGamerBoy 3 ай бұрын

I always found it kind of average, but every time a new one came out I was super hyped for it. 😂

@BURRITO44 6 ай бұрын

Awesome video

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks

@ben1637 6 ай бұрын

Great video Mike! I have a standard box of Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego with the sportswatch included sticker on the front. It includes the EA-sportswatch, still sealed in it's original packing. Isn't this a variant you don't have? 😛

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Wow, I had no idea this existed. You'll have to send me a photo.👍

@ben1637 6 ай бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy Sure, I just mailed you some pictures.

@terence79chan 6 ай бұрын

Congrats Mike for accomplishing this awesome EA collection! What an eye opener, and this would certainly open the doors to unique variants of collection such as beating your record of having 3 FIFA98s. LOL! Thanks for the hard work to put together this video, will definitely share it with my friends.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. It's a massive sub collection for the Mega Drive and there is so much history here.

@scotchnichols 6 ай бұрын

20:50 General Chaos! Yesssss! So sad that their Kickstarter to bring back the series failed to meet its goal. Still looking forward to what they may do with the IP.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Ya, I heard about that. Wasn't supposed to be 3D?

@gnagnaa 6 ай бұрын

For " time sandiego" , i have the sticker on megadrive hard case who indicate also "watch inside"

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Someone else has said the same. It sounds like another variant I was not aware of.

@byronlaw6491 6 ай бұрын

Great video. EA Hockey is interesting as the PAL game has international teams but it’s US counterpart is NHL Hockey and that has the NHL sides. I always found it interesting that apart from EA Sports Double Header every EA PAL game the actual cart is just the Genesis US release. It basically means no PAL optimisation whatsoever but that’s actually good as it means no problems when you run them in 60hz.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

I didn't know that about EA Hockey. Is it the same for FIFA games?

@byronlaw6491 6 ай бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoyno they appear to be the same. On a side note World Cup Italia 90 has different player names across the 3 regions. The Japanese release has names closer to real players.

@shiningphantasy1393 6 ай бұрын

Those early VHS rental cases that you are exhibiting there are lacking but still a step above the no-frills cardboard boxes that they put out in the USA for some of those same games.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Yup NA got screwed with the number of cardboard boxes that came out.

@Metal-Josh 6 ай бұрын

Great video Mike! Maybe it’s the Canadians in me, but I feel NHL 94 should be at the top of most electronic arts lists. For guys like me, NHL 94 is like a right of passage

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

To be honest I have about 16 games to put in the top 5.

@SkeggsyDAR 6 ай бұрын

I always love to see a shout-out for Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday! It's a shame how EA are considered these days; they created so many interesting and unusual games during this time period that don't get talked about enough these days. Great work, really enjoyed the video!

@RetroGamerBoy 3 ай бұрын

I'm amazed that some of their old catalog does not get a reboot. They don't even release their old games on modern platforms.

@SkeggsyDAR 3 ай бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy we'll never see a rerelease of Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday unfortunately. The Buck Rogers licence has been mired in legal issues for years now

@ericg.7435 6 ай бұрын

Very in depth overview of the Electronic Arts games and its variants. Great work! Like it. Thank you for another great video mate :D

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

No problem 👍

@djberryhardkore 6 ай бұрын

Well done Mike - good milestone on your way to (sega) world domination

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

😂

@stephensheehan8107 2 ай бұрын

Excellent video. So For John Madden American Football are the Carts and Manual the same for both Variants as the manual is very thick. Also will you do an Accolade video similar to this??

@KaskelotenZebbe 6 ай бұрын

Great video! Star Flight also had a way better manual in the US release, with full colour artwork, so I'm going to sell my PAL copy to get it.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Yup I've seen it. It looks awesome, I'll need to get a copy some day.

@dcboys4195 6 ай бұрын

Without a doubt, Electronic Arts was the best 3rd party of the 16-bit generation. Sega was very fortunate that they supported the Genesis way more/better than the SNES. Also, the EA boxart on average for the European market is way better than the North American versions. Tons of the NA versions have this terribly outdated border around them with much smaller artwork.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Yup Europe got full box artwork and NA seemed to always get it shrunk down.

@ewstargamer 6 ай бұрын

After watching this it's made me want to collect all the EA games except that 5k one lol, really enjoyed this video Mike

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Cool, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

@Eigengrau608 6 ай бұрын

Kind of wish you could have intertwined some gameplay for each title. But cool collection!

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

It took over 70 hrs to put the video together, I just ran out of time. Originally I wanted the footage behind each game.

@davidgalbraith694 6 ай бұрын

Just completed the ea classic set neeed to get my hands on one of those boxes!

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

It's a neat little package and it looks cool on the shelf.

@davidgalbraith694 6 ай бұрын

@RetroGamerBoy didn't realise there was only a handful of those games till I saw the box on ebay a while back I unknowingly almost completed it by chance

@davidgalbraith694 4 ай бұрын

So I was gonna buy one of those boxes, saw them on ebay an excitedly showed the Mrs as you do 😂 an got told off cos I'm always just buying shit as she calls it, an my birthday was coming up an I had a ban put on me cos she runs outta ideas, anyway to cut it short the listing is gone are they all sold out? She was gutted 😂😂

@RetroGamerBoy 4 ай бұрын

@@davidgalbraith694 I have one copy left, just in case anything happened in shipping to others. Ping me on my email, found on my main channel, and we can see if we can get you one.👍

@sergeiholstinin 6 ай бұрын

Просто супер ролик. Спасибо Майк. Привет из России

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Hi 👋 EA was so big on the console. Did Russia get bootleg versions of EA games?

@somemadcaaant 6 ай бұрын

Awesome Aussie collection 🦘🦘🦘🦘

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

🤘😝🤘

@ThomasRoyBates 6 ай бұрын

Love road rash. Shame we never got a port of shadow of the beast 3

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Ya I think by that time EA were switching to 32bit development.

@MrZodiac81 6 ай бұрын

Hi, Mike. You forgot about College Slam as US ex

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Wasn't that Acclaim?

@vonBraunstein 6 ай бұрын

Thanks again for the great vid! The Lakers game is the reason why I stopped going for the full PAL collection back in the day. I also have the San Diegos with all the accessories. At least some of the EA's hockey games came here with a B&W Finnish instruction leaflet (I have Elitserien 96 and NHL '94). This is actually true for some games published by Sega also. And as you have probably noticed, the hard plastic EA boxes also have minor variants, depending on the date they were published (I'm aware of three). I just hate these EA boxes, the plastic is very brittle and crumbles even by itself as it ages.

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Ya I don't think you can count Lakers as part of the full set. It's more of a curiosity.

@gnagnaa 6 ай бұрын

Hi, why do you consider Larussa Baseball (the one with the larger box) as a game that is part of the Megadrive collection and not Genesis?I don't see any "megadrive" logo on the box

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

It is part of the Genesis collection. What I'm saying is that it is also part of the Mega Drive despite the Genesis branding. EA released it in Australia and to save money all they did was put a sticker on it rather than rebrand it.

@gnagnaa 6 ай бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy ok i understand ! Therefore I thought I had the fullset megadrive pal EUR AND AUS but you called my certainties into question! I'm going to have to buy more stuff because of you! THANKS . Are you looking to collect all the titles released in PAL?

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

I am. And it's a nightmare, just as I think I've got a complete list someone else pops up with something I knew nothing about. It's great fun though living out my childhood dreams.

@gnagnaa 6 ай бұрын

Ok i am french and it existing a french inventory book sum up all titles megadrive pal , genesis , aus and japanese games , do you want title of book and writter to found it ?thank for your great video.

@j4282 6 ай бұрын

I bought a few games together and power monger came with it. It’s a genesis version but it has a print mistake as the back cover is F22 interceptor. It came in a proper EA box and had the megadrive 92 - 93 EA booklet with it. Does any one know anything about this?

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Yes I know it well. Quite a famous or infamous print error.

@j4282 6 ай бұрын

Oh not so rare then. Here I was thinking I’d accidentally found something unique.

@j4282 6 ай бұрын

Would you know what value this has I can’t find anything on it. I’m not a genesis collector and would consider trading it for megadrive games. Cheers

@jacobbaranowski 6 ай бұрын

ShakFu CD nice, I love SEGA I'm a SEGA kid, SEGA Genesis Road Rash 1-3 is my favorite

@RetroGamerBoy 3 ай бұрын

Nice. Sega was awesome back in the day.

@JD4Game 6 ай бұрын

Why no 32x on the tower of power at the end? I haven’t seen a video where you mention the OG infrared wireless controller and transmitter

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

Well this was a Mega Drive EA video rather than a Sega EA video. I covered the 3 button officially licenced WKK infrared controllers in a previous video. Or do you mean the 6 button infrared controllers?

@JD4Game 6 ай бұрын

@@RetroGamerBoy I didn’t even know about the WKK 3 button, I only knew of the Sega 6 button. I’ve been trying to find all the official Sega released addons that would just improve the greatness that is the Tower of Power. Karaoke is the grail obviously. In the US they had this program where you bought 3 official Sega games and mail the receipt in and they send you Genesis themed mini speakers to plug into your model 1 genesis/megadrive stereo port

@jamesburchill7522 6 ай бұрын

I just noticed you have a Neo Geo X. Does that thing make you sad?

@RetroGamerBoy 6 ай бұрын

It's conflicting, I love the idea and it's well made with a great Arcade stick and the thumb stick is also micro switched. But the emulation is shit. Sooooo it's useless 😅