Brutal Unleashed: Above the Claw (1995).And I bet that SNES Classic is going to be a lot better. It made me feel sad when I played with friends. I can't help wonder what this could have been like with even more loving treatment. But not at 80 dollars.ĪtGames seems to have slapped HDMI wireless controllers into another version of its old retro box. But it feels more like a flea market novelty than a quality holiday product. That's real Sonic.įor $80, the Flashback offers a couple of thrills, and some nostalgia fun. Want to know the difference? Play the Sega Genesis Flashback's Sonic the Hedgehog, then play it via the perfect Nintendo 3DS Sega 3D Classics port. To rob them of that speed is robbing them of what made them great in the first place. Sega games were always about performance.

(If you look at user reviews of earlier iterations of these units on Amazon, you'll see a lot of similar complaints, too.) But these games aren't running as well as they should. We're getting all the old Sega games, with HDMI, no less, in one big compilation. There's a cruelty to the Sega Genesis Flashback. Sarah Tew/CNET Sega can do better than this Will people be bothered? Most of my coworkers, a pretty nitpicky bunch, weren't tremendously annoyed. On the Flashback, graphics look crisp but frame rate feels consistently choppy. Games like Sonic were all about speed, smooth speed. The Genesis is fast! It's meant to scroll smoothly. And I played some of the amazing Sega Genesis ports available on the Nintendo 3DS under the '3D Classic' label - Sonic and Sonic 2 in particular. I played over and over again: not just with the Genesis Flashback, but side by side with an actual original Sega Genesis that a colleague brought into the office.

All of the games felt plagued with slower frame rate and had audio that sometimes sounded crackly or choppy.

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