{"id":127393,"date":"2022-08-19T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-136290"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:20:00","slug":"sega-mega-drive-mini-2-is-officially-coming-to-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/19\/sega-mega-drive-mini-2-is-officially-coming-to-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"SEGA Mega Drive Mini 2 Is Officially Coming To Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/55fe519131ec4\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/55fe519131ec4\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"SEGA Genesis Mini 2 Promotional Video 0 7 Screenshot\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/55fe519131ec4\/sega-genesis-mini-2-promotional-video-0-7-screenshot.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/55fe519131ec4\/sega-genesis-mini-2-promotional-video-0-7-screenshot.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"537\" alt=\"SEGA Genesis Mini 2 Promotional Video 0 7 Screenshot\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: SEGA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sega has officially confirmed today that the <strong>Sega Mega Drive Mini 2<\/strong> will indeed be coming to Europe as well as North America (under the Genesis name, of course).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that surprising, but up until now, Sega was yet to confirm if this would be the case. Now we know it&#8217;ll be hitting shelves on the same day in Europe as it will in North America and Japan, on 27th October.<\/p>\n<p>The miniature console will have 60 (+1) games, which include brand new ports, games never released in English before, and even a handful of Sega CD titles!<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome To The Next Level!<\/p>\n<p>MEGA happy to confirm Mega Drive Mini 2 (Europe) arrives on October 27th, same day as Genesis Mini 2 (NA)! <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full list of 60 (+1) games, including all-new ports, previously unreleased, and SEGA CD titles!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SEGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SEGA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GenesisMini2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GenesisMini2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MegaDriveMini2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MegaDriveMini2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bBuFCWO8Nm\">pic.twitter.com\/bBuFCWO8Nm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 SEGA (@SEGA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEGA\/status\/1560612545840328705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There will be a few differences between the European\/North American console and the Japanese one \u2014 such as no <strong>Popful Mail<\/strong> or <strong>Lunar: The Silver Star<\/strong> or <strong>Eternal Blue<\/strong> \u2014 and many were also hoping for <strong>Rocket Knight Adventure<\/strong> but there&#8217;s a pretty wide variety of titles on the system. Pre-orders for the console open in September in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Stellar titles such as <strong>Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar<\/strong> (which is <strong>Thunder Force IV<\/strong>), <strong>Truxton<\/strong> (with the music all fixed), <strong>Streets of Rage 3<\/strong>, and <strong>The Ninja Warriors<\/strong> are just a handful of the games that have made it onto the system.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the full list of titles coming to the English system:<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see what&#8217;s coming to the Japanese system check out our guide below:<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you interested in Sega Mega Drive Mini 2? What games are you looking forward to playing? Let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: SEGA Sega has officially confirmed today that the Sega Mega Drive Mini 2 will indeed be coming to Europe as well as North America (under the Genesis name, of course). It&#8217;s not that surprising, but up until now, Sega was yet to confirm if this would be the case. Now we know it&#8217;ll be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}