This is my original Genesis I bought in like '92(?) with one of my first paychecks from my first job at Chuck E. Cheese’s (yes I’m fucking old).
I thought I sold it years ago but found out it was sitting in one of my mom’s closets, so I bought a few cheap carts and hooked it up to a crt I keep around for just such occasions. It still works!
I am so goddamn happy, I just had to share and I figured you all might appreciate that.
Streets of Rage. I can hear the synthwave blasting from back in 1993.
all the genesis games had killing music. You can look at any sonic game soundtrack and every single song is a bop
It is on a 6 games in one cart (6 Pak) I got for ten bucks that includes five absolute bangers and also Columns.
SoR 1 is one of my absolute favorites of all time and I was glad to find it for less than like thirty bucks.
Streets of Rage 2 is my favourite game soundtrack ever, but the first one is excellent too.
That right there, is a jam.
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I still have my OG Genesis in the garage. A couple of years ago I opened it up because the LED wasn’t turning on - the system itself worked perfectly fine, just the light. Don’t remember everything that happened but since then it hasn’t powered on. I’m tempted to toss it, but then again, it’s like 30 years old, so I think it deserves better.
I even remember the day I got it.
My parents would have killed me if they knew I spent money on a gaming console. I got dropped off over to my friend’s house as a sleep-over because it was summertime. He lived within walking distance of Toys R Us. Went there with a bunch of cash and bought it and brought it back to his house. I knew I couldn’t just bring the whole box back home without my parents knowing what was up, so I unboxed it and put each piece into a different plastic bag and mixed them all up in with my sleeping bag. To most people, it just looked like a mess of random electronic toys. When my mother came to pick me up, she started gossiping away with my friends mom for like 20 minutes. I asked her to pop the trunk and I snuck all the things into the car. When we finally got home, I pretended that I forgot the stuff in the trunk, so I went down to the garage and grabbed them a little at a time to bring back to my room. Thankfully the console itself wasnot that big so I kept it in one of the drawers in my desk, but I ran all the wires out the back. Over the next few weeks, I took out more and more of the parts and put them on my desk. At this point, it looked like any other piece of random electronics, so no one ever knew I did this. This is literally the first time I’ve ever told this story. Not sure if anyone else could relate, but toys and having fun were rather low priorities so ya had to sneak in whatever gaming you could do.
These older consoles are simple repairs. Start with replacing the capacitors on the board. If that doesn’t do it, you can find the problematic component with a multimeter
Jesus Christ, don’t toss it!
I repair older consoles insofar I come across them. They’re not made anymore so I like to preserve them.
I also had a Sega CD but I did sell that a long time ago.
I was going to buy a Super Nintendo because I was jealous of all the RPGs on that system, but my best friend convinced me the Sega CD was a way cooler investment, especially since I already had the Genesis.
So I went and bought the Sega CD, excitedly brought it home and popped in the included game, Sewer Shark.
It was at that moment I knew… I fucked up.
Well, you could have bought the 3DO like me. Three times more expensive, infinitely worse games. Although Gex was a pretty great platformer.
Same my friend, same…
I got a 3DO for Christmas when all my friends got PlayStations :(
I found my dad’s old genesis in the attic and I need to clean it up and hook it up to one of our two CRTs we have in our basement.
I have very fond memories of playing Sonic 2 at the ripe age of 2, as well as the old monopoly game. Looking forward to getting it cleaned up when I have some sparetime and running some of my earliest gaming memories
The first time I visited a family friend and watching him boot up Castlevania Bloodlines I was absolutely flabbergasted how amazing that game looked. I still have that reaction to this day when I boot it up on my emulator when feeling nostalgic.
Nice. I’ll never forget getting the Sega Genesis with Sonic 2 for Christmas one year. That was one of the first stops on a lifelong journey of gaming. I still play the old Sonic games once in a while on newer platforms and the nostalgia hits hard. Enjoy yourself.
Someone just posted that background and both your posts ended up close to each other in my feed. https://toad.work/post/1039482
I have edited one of these backgrounds to span over 3 monitors and not repeat on any of them. If I can remember it later tonight I will upload it.
