Sega Classics Arcade Collection

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Sega Classics Arcade Collection

System(s): Sega Mega CD
Publisher: Sega
Developer: Sega
Game total: 5
Genre: Compilation
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Sega Classics Arcade Collection is a compilation of five Sega Mega Drive games (Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Columns, Super Monaco GP and The Revenge of Shinobi) for the Sega Mega CD. It was not released in stores, but was bundled with European Mega CD units and later North American Sega CD units. In America there was also an earlier variation that lacked Super Monaco GP.

Each game is mostly identical to their Mega Drive counterparts, though have minor changes thanks to the Mega CD's enhancements. All digitised speech samples have been replaced with higher quality audio, the first level in Golden Axe uses different instruments and Super Monaco GP has extra drums. The Revenge of Shinobi is based on a later version than its cartridge counterparts, altering some of the bosses which infringe copyrights. For unknown reasons, Golden Axe is only a one-player game in this compilation.

Despite being the Mega CD's selling point, none of the games have an updated CD audio soundtrack (bar Columns, which now has a title screen theme). It means only a small fraction of the disc is used.