*** Welcome to piglix ***

Sonic Mega Collection Plus

Sonic Mega Collection
Sonic Mega Collection Coverart.png
North American GameCube cover art
Developer(s) Sonic Team
Publisher(s) Sega
Distributor(s)
Director(s) Yojiro Ogawa
Producer(s) Yuji Naka
Designer(s) Hideaki Moriya
Artist(s) Yuji Uekawa
Composer(s) Hideaki Kobayashi
Series Sonic the Hedgehog
Platform(s) GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)
Genre(s) Compilation
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Sonic Mega Collection (ソニック メガコレクション Sonikku Mega Korekushon?) is a video game compilation developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega in 2002 for the Nintendo GameCube. The compilation contains twelve to fourteen games (depending on region) originally released on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Ten of the included games are installments of the Sonic the Hedgehog series, while the remaining two to four games are only related to the series through its publisher, Sega.

According to the director, Yojiro Ogawa, the purpose of the compilation was to introduce younger players to the original games in the Sonic series. The games are played through a Genesis/Mega Drive emulator developed by Sonic Team themselves. Outside of the games, the compilation includes Sonic-themed videos and illustrations, as well as high-resolution scans of the instruction manuals and Sonic the Hedgehog comic covers.

Sonic Mega Collection received positive critical reception, being recommended for its large library of titles, great emulation, and its cheap market price. The compilation was re-released with eight bonus games as Sonic Mega Collection Plus for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows. This was followed by a new compilation for the GameCube, Sonic Gems Collection, which included more obscure and rare Sonic games such as Sonic CD.


...
Wikipedia

...