Tectoy in Brazil has this beast of a game system put together for your last last gen gaming needs. Mega Drive Guitar Idol is what they call it, though the name sounds closer to a sequel to a guitar game than a console. It comes with two six-button fighting pad controllers and this sweet-assed white five-button guitar controller. Wicked.
Inside, you'll find 87 in-memory games, including Sonic 3, Golden Axe, and even Altered Beast, all with Sega's blessing, I'm sure. Flicky, even. The main attraction is the included Guitar Idol, which contains 50 songs to play. Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, and Red Hot Chili Peppers were listed among the included bands, all with each band's blessing, I'm sure.
You can find a full list of included games and Guitar Idol songs here.
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9:30 PM on 08.31.2009
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i chuckled in my mind a little.
More importantly, Flicky is the main attraction. It's a common mistake, so no biggie.
The thing about this system is that it doesn't have a cartridge slot, only the built-in games work and the console is actually (an attempt to) a genesis-on-a-chip or something that actually tries to emulate the genesis, very badly, simple games like Golden Axe and Altered Beast have massive slowdowns, plus a lot of the so-called 87 games are some crappy educational minigames developed by Tectoy thrown in the mix.
It's that much FAIL, it makes me sad.
i knew about it for some time now, and apparently it has been licensing hell, but since this is a brazil exclusive console, they could license with the brazilian branches of the big recording companies, making it considerably cheaper
If im not mistaken, the console with everything in it costs about 200 Reais, the dollar is worth about 2 Reais now, so its about 100 Us dollars
The lack of a cartridge slot is a move that they have been making for a while now, it is an attempt at reducing piracy, if you guys want to google zeebo and see how it handles downloadable games, you'll see that its one of those really really smart moves, that probably will never become a standard, unfortunately
oh, and i know these things because y'know... I'm Brazilian
Oh games journalism, what happened to you?
I'm still waiting for this... Considering Genesis was discontinued in 1995 and the Dreamcast in 2002, maybe in 2016 we'll have something like that
So sorry,but there is no piracy involved here.