God of War and Shadow of the Colossus, new and boxed, for £20? You’d snap someone’s hand off for it, even with the misery of Detroit there too. PlayStation could put together a first-party triple from 2016 with the Ratchet & Clank before the latest Ratchet & Clank, The Last Guardian and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End or jump forward to 2018 and stick God of War, the Shadow of the Colossus remake and Detroit: Become Human into a single box. You could go year to year, through the outgoing (yet still active) console generation’s lifespan. So a physical Xbox One ‘Mega Games’ with those three titles in it (or comparable ones), with three discs in one case, would be a terrific box-in bonus for new buyers - and probably pretty darn appealing for everyone if priced at £20 or so in stores. Yes, you can play Forza Horizon 3, Halo 5: Guardians and, errr (quick, think of another Xbox One-era exclusive that’s been out a while), Gears of War 4 via Game Pass - but believe it or not, the internet isn’t all that great everywhere, nor is it totally affordable for everyone. I say “sold”, but inevitably it didn’t exactly fly off shelves at that price. What didn’t was 1993’s Action 52, an unlicensed America-only release from Active Enterprises that put 52 terrible games on one cart and sold for $199.99.
All offered great value, retailing for the price of a single game (or, in many cases, less than a brand-new release).
Other one-cart collections on the Mega Drive included EA Sports Double Header ( EA Hockey, John Madden Football) Sega Sports 1 ( Wimbledon, Ultimate Soccer and Super Monaco GP - there was never a second volume) The Disney Collection (the Donald Duck-starring Quackshot and Mickey Mouse’s Castle of Illusion) and Codemasters’ pairing of Fantastic Dizzy with Cosmic Spacehead and Micro Machines with Psycho Pinball. Sonic got his own compilation in 1995, Sonic Classics (or Sonic Compilation in Europe, a title that’s maybe a little too literal) squeezing the first two 16-bit Sonics onto one cart alongside the reskinned Puyo Puyo puzzle action of Dr Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine.
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