We all know that there are those Christmas mornings when opening presents under the tree brings neither ecstasy nor comfort. A feeling similar to this new selection for the 16-bit from SEGA which scratches the bottom of the drawer to satisfy subscribers to the Nintendo service, with four games not necessarily the most memorable. the beat ’em up is well represented with Golden Ax 2a resolutely conservative sequel that arrived 2 years after the release of the first episode in 1989. Same genre, but different universe with the console port ofAlien Storman arcade classic reworked by the AM7 studio, with drastically revised levels for the chipsets of the Mega Drive.
the puzzle game Columns has been reissued so many times in previous SEGA compilations that its presence here seems almost surprising, more than a year after the launch of the Additional Pack. At last, Virtua Fighter 2 infiltrates, exceptionally, on a Nintendo console with its Mega Drive port. Better late than never, this infamous 2D version previously exclusive to the West is being exported to the archipelago for the first time – a great lesson in humility for Japanese subscribers, after all.