When I bought my first job in video games journalism 30 years in the past, I arrived simply too late to assessment video games for my favorite ever console: the Sega Mega Drive. Though a couple of titles have been nonetheless being launched for the machine in 1995, the video games journal world had moved on and all anybody wished to examine have been the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn. It was a bitter blow.
Quick-forward to 2025 and a resurgent curiosity in producing new video games for classic residence computer systems and consoles has led to Farming Simulator: 16bit Version – a Mega Drive instalment within the massively profitable agricultural sim sequence. The eagerness venture of Renzo Thönen, lead degree designer and co-owner of Farming Simulation studio Giants Software program, the sport has been written utilizing an open-source Mega Drive growth package, and manufactured in a restricted run of real Mega Drive cartridges. Slotting this model new launch into the cart of my dad’s historic Mega Drive II console felt ridiculously transferring and I believed the sport might solely be a letdown after that. However I used to be incorrect.
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