Note - starts October 10 3am. Source.
Dr. Eggman (aka Dr. Robotnik) has returned, turning helpless animals into robots and forcing them to build his ultimate weapon, the Death Egg! But this time, Sonic has a friend that can help him: Tails! Find the 7 Chaos Emeralds and stop Dr. Robotnik’s evil scheme!
one could start playing now by downloading the rom and emulator
Emulators are all well and good but nothing beats the convenience of just being able to one-click install it and play it.
You can get most of retail bargains listed on this site for free too I suppose, simply by putting it in your pocket and leaving the shop
or 15 years ago, plenty of emulators and unlimited games on android os, RetroArch etc.
15years? I start using playing roms on emulators in 2002
Android was around 15 years ago?? News to me!
PC emulators have been Aaron's forever was the point
I doubt half life makes much money due to how old it is and how cheap it goes on sale. Steam sales percentage cut is how they make bank.
And market fees every single time a weapon skin is traded back and forth
Just to think it all started with Half-Life for Valve and a few years later they release Steam.
Interestingly Half-Life development was aided by access to the Quake engine by id Software. Valve have done so well, lots of smart and hard work.
capitalism at its finest. Why make games when you can take a cut of other peoples hard work
Ah yes, my Sonic The Hedgehog 2 play data.
Finally, the NSA have developed a truly effective information collection tool. Awesome penetration of global populations. Facebook and PRISM have nothing on this.
Im not sure what eula you've agreed to; but the only data they're getting out of me is playtime…
To the people who responded to this:
Have you stopped to think that this is a "take" on the comment Steam fans like to make when Epic gives away free games?? ;-)
While obviously Half-Life does not make any money now, compared to Fortnite, the comment about data collection with Valve is valid. There is no reason or evidence to show they are any better than other companies, including Epic. In fact, the US also have laws forcing any company to build in backdoors in their software products and hand data over whenever the government or their many security agencies desire.
The latest is the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act allowing access to encrypted data even. I am sure once you read the 50 pages your opinion of the US and whether it is any different to China might change a bit.
Plus of course, there is also the argument that you can always make up an account with false names for the freebies making any data useless anyway.
If your argument boils down to "America is almost as bad as China, might even be as bad as China" you realise that's pretty damning for China and America. Both. Right?
And you realise for all the things wrong with America, our tiny wuss of an island nation would do well to continue to suck up to our bully big brother America, than China or Russia. And in the 21st century you better be allied with one of those three.
Still doesn't mean there aren't major issues with all the above and that you shouldn't be aware of their collective control over the planet
They have your data already if you’re using these services
These deals are to have active user metrics and to market the platform
Valve takes 30% of all sales unless the publisher has another arrangement. They could really care less about that Half Life money because it ain't shit compared to 30% of Steam sales.
1,9,9,2,1,1,2,4
19,65,09,17
They're locked in my head forever…
Finally a chance to use them again, lol
debug!
Is that your credit card number?
The first set of numbers is the release date for sonic 2 in the west.
Apparently, the second set is the lead programmers dob (Yuji Naka)
what for
You put them into sound test to unlock the cheats
It's a shame it's not the Christian Whitehead port, but a free game is a free game I suppose.
Great deal for those who have been holding out 28 years to play this for free.
1991 to be exact, this is a good find
I think you may be thinking of first game which came out in June 1991 - This deal is for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 which was originally released in November 1992 but, 28 years, 29 years…. still makes for a very patient ozbargainer!
yes you are correct
Finally.
If it had reached 30 years I might have cracked and paid for it.
Great deal for those who have been holding out 28 years to play this for free.
That is the definition of a true Ozbargainer.
You'd think it would be abandonware by now like most other games of this sort of vintage.
I remember the video games magazine hype for "Sonic 2sday" aka Tuesday 24/11/1992
I literally just watched this on "console wars documentary" yesterday
here's the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD-j5NQf26M
Thanks OP
Zool was great for its time (as was the Amiga) but I wouldn't say it beat Sonic… Its like saying The Giana Sisters was better than Super Mario
I played both and preferred zool I think it was just better all over esp graphic wise the sega didn't come close to the amiga but it was very popular and amazes me these platform and parralex scrollers are still popular today. Guess its because most are running on phones as time wasters on bus and trains etc ?
graphic wise the sega didn't come close to the amiga
For gaming the Genisis is more powerful by some margin.
@Diji1: Graphic wise not a chance
from Genesis wiki
The system has 72 kB of RAM, 64 kB of video RAM, and can display up to 61 colors[105] at once from a palette of 512.
From Amiga wiki
Planar graphics are used, with up to 5 bitplanes (4 in hires); this allowed 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 colour screens, from a palette of 4096 colours. Two special graphics modes were also included: Extra HalfBrite, which used a 6th bitplane as a mask that halved the brightness of any colour seen, and Hold And Modify (HAM), which allowed all 4096 colours on screen at once.
Please tell me which system can display more colours on screen? also as a computer the genesis could do?
The Amiga could do very advanced art and paint with a genlock do video based commercials, wordprocess using various wps could be run as a Macintosh and do stuff using mac software could run as a PC and then run as an native amiga all in mutitasking windows at once!
Source: Me as I sold them at Computerspot Burwood nsw for years
Say Gaaaaaahh!
is this no longer free?
edit, oh i just checked that the giveaway hasn't started yet!!
in 3 days… as per the title.
Although the DB is operating on UTC time, the time for us would be based on AEST/QLD/GMT+10. I'm in Sydney and just checked Steam, it's still $5.99.
Just checked Steam and it's still showing as $5.99. Will come back later
It finally worked for me. Click the link, login. Error. Click the link, error, click the link, success! Added to your account. Win!
Shows as $0.00 for me but I get this error message when trying to add to my account:
"An error was encountered while processing your request:
There was a problem adding this product to your Steam account."
Now works for me.
Note that when you add it to your library, it's not a separate title, but it goes under "SEGA Mega Drive & Genesis Classics" as a DLC.
I already bought some items before, like golden axe, space harrier ii, revenge of shinobi, street of rage 2
The current 50 games bundle for $10.50 is actually not so bad https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/13945/SEGA_Mega_Drive_…
I even get cheaper price because I already had some games
Thanks OP!
Thanks mate, got one:)
It's great how a 2mb rom turns into 1.5gb with sega classics.
SUCCESS!
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 is now registered to your account on Steam.
To access your new content, simply launch this product from your Library on Steam.
INSTALL YOUR NEW CONTENT
Ready to play now? Click the button below to go to your My Games tab where you can install your games.
Click to Install Now!
Come on down to bob jane T-marts, we'll get you sorted out with some new tyres. Three for the price of four.
Click to continue.
Three for the price of four.
dammit can i refund
How do you start a game?
Click on the TV and hit play then wait?
Yeah, I got it to start, but now I have to work out the controls. It's probably obvious if you have a Sega controller, but it's less than obvious on a PC keyboard.
I got stuck.
And why 1.5GB??!!!
Yeah what's up with the download size!
It's probably the Mega Drive Classics launcher. It must contain all the Mega Drive classics data. But it only unlocks the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 game from it.
the Simple Launcher seems to work better for me at least
I just realised that i already have this through the full Sega Megadrive Classics which i purchased. And the first Sonic the Hedgehog too. Opening Sonic the Hedgehog 2 through the game page loads the Mega Drive Classics launcher.
Cheers!
Thank you!
Does this crash for anyone else?
![[PC] Free - Sonic The Hedgehog 2 @ Steam](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/79/570679.jpg?h=1aff6a23)
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