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I had the Sega Genesis as a kid I had all the sake of consoles and now there is a new Sega Genesis retro console at games has a new HDMI compatible Sega Genesis flashback let's get right to the box and take a look at it the packaging is nicer this looks like the NES classic they clearly took a note from them there are 85 games ok but they're not all Genesis games the list showed a lot of games that seemed like they were from the Sega Master System and also a handful we don't even know about they could be totally random games which is pretty common for these systems the Genesis games the big ones are featured here you've got Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle that's not the best Alex Kidd game I like this the one for Master System kid chameleon great underrated game you've got the sonic games that's great fantasy star games sure Shining Force 2 really good role-playing game there's no ecco the dolphin though there's no Streets of Rage games at all that's weird they've just got dropped no third-party game so you're not gonna find any Aladdin or you know that 7up game that I used to play jewel master that's okay he swats pretty good should calm the forever man very good you don't want to play Virtua Fighter 2 that is a really bad port of a Sega Saturn game vector man cool game so there's a good handful in here at least let's take a look at what it looks like certainly it looks like a Genesis it doesn't look exactly like the original Genesis though when you open it up now you got a poster here oh no it's like nothing greatest it's not a great poster it's a very retro not really a true retro poster it's kind of lame has fantasy star for mortal kombat on it ok whatever and it's a basic instruction manual we'll get back to that here is the flashback it's like a much smaller Sega Genesis it's bigger though than the NES classic we don't know how this compares to the Super NES classic because we don't have one of those yet but it's got a power switch it's got the you reset button it also has a cartridge slot this thing can play old Genesis cartridges it's also a complete retro game system it sounds too good to be true HDMI on the back power adapter so this is 720p HDMI and there are two traditional controller ports if you happen to have Sega Genesis controller is lying around do you actually want to plug into this the two that come with it these are wireless now they don't look exactly like the original Sega Genesis controllers and they don't feel like them these this d-pad is super wobbly and these buttons feel pretty hollow and flimsy there's also a third button here there's Start menu and rewind this says game rewind so not just saved games but to backup while you're playing the games like game DVR that sounds great is that gonna work really well we'll have to see and there's also player 1 player 2 toggle up here so off to try that out and we'll see how the wireless works whether you have to be in direct range or not with these so there are two controllers open them up here and they're able to pop the batteries in do you kit no you can't just open them up to have to unscrew so bring a screwdriver philips head screwdriver and you can exchange the batteries there's the Sega Genesis flash back here is an HDMI cable that comes with it and there is the power adapter plug so that's all that's in the box plus this commemorative egg crate so that's Sega Genesis flashback now you could actually plug in old Genesis games which we do have lying around here's a Latin and you should be able to pop this in and play your games in HDMI so that's why Sega Genesis flashback looks but how does it actually play well we're gonna get to that soon we're gonna play as many of these games as we can with as many people as we can sonic fantasy star golden axe and no Streets of Rage so stay tuned on CNET calm