So you take one crazy Brazilian company and one console with a slightly dodgy sound chip (sorry MD fans) and decide to make a music game... Tectoy presents the Megadrive Guitar Idol! Homepage: http://www.tectoy.com.br/produto_interna.php?id=39 It comes with 70+ games and a new Guitar based rythm game which contains 50 licensed songs: Brazil: Envelheço Na Cidade - Ira! I Saw You Saying - Raimundos IrreversÃvel - CPM22 Outro Lugar - Detonautas Razões E Emoções - Nx Zero Regina Let’s Go - CPM22 Uma Música - Fresno Internacional: Ace Of Spades - Motörhead All Day And All Of The Night - The Kinks All Right Now - Free All Star - Smash Mouth All The Small Things - Blink182 American Woman - The Guess Who California Sun - The Ramones Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas Cochise - Audioslave Come On,Let's Go - Los Lobos Dammit - Blink182 Dream On - Aerosmith Dreamin' - Blondie Everlong - Foo Fighters Fall To Pieces - Velvet Revolver Freak On A Leash - Korn Gimme All Your Lovin'-Zz Top Head On - Jesus And Mary Heaven - Los Lonely Boys Higher Ground - Red Hot Chili Peppers I Hate Everything About You - Three days Grace I Love Rock 'N Roll - Joan Jett And The Blackhearts I Wanna Be Sedated - The Ramones I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At The Disco Infected - Bad Religion La Bamba - Los Lobos Lonely Is The Night- Billy Squier Middle Of The Road-The Pretenders Misirlou - Dick Dale Mr. Jones - Counting Crows No Rain - Blind Melon Overkill - Motörhead Police Truck - Dead Kennedys School's Out - Alice Cooper She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers The Anthem - Good Charlotte The One I Love - R.E.M. The Warrior - Scandal Walk This Way - Aerosmith What I Like About You - The Romantics You've Got Another Thing Comin'- Judas Priest So who else can't wait to hear 16bit revisions of these
I am actually getting tired of Tectoy, and I have been that way. Ever since they decided to say bugger all to the cartridges. And only go for "built in" games. Sorry for not sounding enthusiastic, but I would think it would have been awesome. If they took and made a cartridge slot again in the machines. But we can not all be pleased.
That's an impressive amount of songs for a cheapo console thingy actually. And you could do good things with the MD sound chip, just listen to Streets of Rage or Sonic 3..
so what has that thing really in common with a "standard" Mega Drive? i mean i technical term of view?
The N64 isnt exactly like? current gen? TecToy "keeping the MegaDrive going with silly add ons where Sega failed" I think it looks alright to be fair. Tectoy have been doing good stuff but i do agree the cart slot would be a welcome addition.
Well imagine for us Brazilian gamers... I'm tired and disgusted. Most gamers here hate Tectoy and their stupid products. Plus ever since they got rid of the cartridge input, the consoles are running emulators to play the games. Most games are terrible emulated, with sound issues, lag.... It's quite sad to remember that this is the same company that was fantastic during the Real Master System, Mega Drive and Saturn eras... From Dreamcast and on, it was just a shitty company making a terrible job to the gaming market. They only "survive" because of the shit politics of gaming taxes (same as gambling machines). But now that Sony is gonna release the PlayStation products officialy down here (including producing here), plus Microsoft being on the market for some time, i bet their lobbyists will do everything to change that.
Johnny: it seems to me, you are agreeing with my statement ? cool, thanks man. Cause I still remember back when there was a cartridge slot in the systems, such as SMS and the MD from tectoy, and the slots worked ! Those were the times.
Yes, i agreed with you. When they still made those with cartridge slot, the games used to run on real Master System and MegaDrive boards. Now it's just an (shitty) emulator on a chip. And the price still is expensive.
How do you know? It would have been nice if it did. It would probably sound kinda like Rock 'n Roll racing.
Look at the list of games, I doubt Fifa08, NFS Prostreet, Sim city 4 and The Sims are running on the megadrive...
