Article: Huge Sale on SEGA PC Game Packs - Including Phantasy Star II, III, & IV

[Tomeeboy]

Starting today (Sunday), there's a huge sale going on for SEGA download bundles over at Amazon, with savings of AT LEAST 80% off in most cases! These download packs include a large number of games from SEGA's catalog, going back all the way to the Genesis days (the Genesis pack is only $4.99 and is made up of 50 classics, including Phantasy Star II, III, and IV). Here's a rundown of what is currently available (almost all of these can be activated on Steam, by the way):

Sega Genesis Classic Game Pack - $4.99 (50 Games, Classics Series 1-5)

[*]Golden Axe, Altered Beast, Comix Zone, Ecco the Dolphin, Gain Ground, Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master, VectorMan, Crack Down, Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi and Space Harrier II[*]Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle, Bonanza Bros., Columns, Ecco Jr., Eternal Champions, Fatal Labyrinth, Galaxy Force II, Kid Chameleon, Ristar and Super Thunder Blade[*]Alien Storm, Bio-Hazard Battle, Columns III, Sword of Vermilion, Virtua Fighter 2, Ecco: The Tides of Time, Decap Attack, Flicky, ESWAT: City Under Siege and Golden Axe II[*]Alien Soldier, Gunstar Heroes, Landstalker: The Treasures of King Nole, Light Crusader, Shining Force, Shining Force II, Shining in the Darkness, Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 2, and Wonder Boy III: Monster Lair[*]Phantasy Star 2, Golden Axe 3, Streets of Rage 3, The Revenge of Shinobi, Wonder Boy in Monster World, Vectorman 2, Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium, Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom, Dynamite Headdy, and Beyond Oasis / The Story of Thor


Dreamcast Pack - $4.99[*]Crazy Taxi[*]Jet Set Radio[*]SEGA Bass Fishing[*]Sonic Adventure DX[*]Space Channel 5 Part 2


Sonic Action Pack - $24.99[*]Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing[*]Sonic 3 & Knuckles[*]Sonic 3D Blast[*]Sonic Adventure DX[*]Sonic CD[*]Sonic Generations Casino Night DLC[*]Sonic Generations[*]Sonic Spinball[*]Sonic the Hedgehog[*]Sonic the Hedgehog 2[*]Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1[*]Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode 2


Sega Arcade Collection - $14.99[*]Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg[*]Jet Set Radio[*]Renegade Ops Coldstrike Campaign[*]Renegade Ops[*]Virtua Tennis 4


Sega Action Only Pack - $19.99[*]Aliens vs. Predator[*]Binary Domain[*]Condemned: Criminal Origins[*]Hell Yeah[*]Viking Battle for Asgard


Total War Bundle + Viking + TW Battles - $23.75[*]Empire: Total War[*]Medieval II: Total War - Gold Edition[*]Napoleon: Total War Imperial Edition[*]Rome: Total War - Alexander (Expansion)[*]Rome: Total War - Gold Edition[*]Total War Battles: Shogun[*]Total War: SHOGUN 2 DLC - Rise of The Samurai Campaign[*]Total War: Shogun 2 - Fall of the Samurai[*]Total War: Shogun 2[*]Viking Battle for Asgard

The SEGA Genesis Collection for 5 bucks seems like a major no-brainer and includes some great classics, including three Phantasy Star games. In addition, Amazon is also offering a $5 promotional credit with the purchase of any of these bundles, good toward any "Editor's Choice" game download during January 2013, so it might just end up being free in the long run.

The sale will run through this week and will be ending on Saturday, December 8th, 2012. Drop by the comments and let us know what you pick up!</a>

[Norco]

I have not bothered looking it up on this one but some of the Genesis packs have Phantasy Star (the first game) as an unlockable extra.
That was at least the case for the 360 Sega Megadrive/Genesis Ultimate Collection, might not apply for this one.

[Hakoten]

It's only available to US residents.
(Whoops. Meant to reply to the thread, sorry.)

[Cranberry]

Thanks for the heads up. I snagged the Genesis deal.

[-Crokar-]

i picked this up too 5 bucks for 50 games is well worth it. now i dont have to dig through my old stuff to play these games again.

[Tomeeboy]

It appears that most of these can be activated and downloaded through Steam, so I've added that to the story. Picked up the Genesis pack (can confirm that the entire 5-series pack is Steam compatible), as that was definitely a no-brainer for 5 bucks.

All the SEGA classics actually load through a single application that lets you scroll through the whole collection, save, load, etc. Works with an Xbox 360 PC controller and supports up to 2 players. Also seems to scale to widescreen on all the games I've tried. Pretty nice!

[EvilMag]

Just a word of warning. Sonic Adventure DX is broken if you use any gamepad that's not the 360 controller. The camera will spin around automatically.

[Aki_Yoruno]

This is cool and all, but I'd love to get all this on PSP or iOS. That's all I get around to using these days. I would especially love for them to port the Phantasy Star Generations 1 & 2 (remakes of I & II) to either. Have them both for PS2, but never any time to play at home. Usually play stuff on the go.
And yes, I'm aware of all titles already available on iOS. Just wish there were more variety. NiGHTS and SA2 (and one could only dream of Sonic Heroes... Yes, I love that game. So what?) would be nice, too.

[BIG OLAF]

Actually, the Genesis Ultimate Collection has four Phantasy Star games. The first one is an unlockable game. I know this because I have the UGC.

[Tomeeboy]

I'm not sure if it's the same with this pack, as this is not quite the same collection as Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection for the PS3 and 360. I believe that collection had around 40 games with 8 or 9 unlockables and the original Phantasy Star was unlocked by beating the first boss in Sonic 2 with two players. This collection doesn't even have Sonic 2 in it.