The Full List of Sega Genesis Mini Games Is Here

Retro gaming aficionados now have a few extra reasons to get excited about the Sega Genesis Mini

The company revealed the full list of titles that will come pre-loaded onto the throwback console, and the count is now up to 42 from the originally promised 40. 

As Uproxx notes, that’s considerably more pre-installed games than were included on the NES Classic Mini, the SNES Mini, or the PlayStation Classic

From venerable classics like Sonic the Hedgehog and Tetris to more obscure gems you may have forgotten about like Road Rash 2 and Kid Chameleon, here’s the full, finalized lineup: 

  1. Sonic the Hedgehog
  2. Ecco the Dolphin
  3. Castlevania: The New Generation
  4. Space Harrier 2
  5. Shining Force
  6. Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
  7. ToeJam & Earl
  8. Comix Zone
  9. Altered Beast
  10. Gunstar Heroes
  11. Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
  12. World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
  13. Thunder Force III
  14. Super Fantasy Zone
  15. Shinobi III
  16. Streets of Rage 2
  17. Earthworm Jim
  18. Sonic The Hedgehog 2
  19. Probotector
  20. Landstalker
  21. Mega Man®: The Wily Wars
  22. Street Fighter II®: Special Champion Edition
  23. Ghouls ‘n Ghosts®
  24. Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle
  25. Story of Thor
  26. Golden Axe
  27. Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
  28. Sonic The Hedgehog Spinball
  29. Vectorman
  30. Wonder Boy in Monster World
  31. Tetris®
  32. Darius
  33. Road Rash II
  34. Strider
  35. Virtua Fighter 2
  36. Alisia Dragoon
  37. Kid Chameleon
  38. Monster World IV
  39. Eternal Champions
  40. Columns
  41. Dynamite Headdy
  42. Light Crusader

In addition to those games, each plug-and-play unit will also include two controllers, a USB adapter, power cable and HDMI cable.  

The Sega Genesis Mini is available to pre-order now for $80 before shipping begins on September 19. 

Peloton, the connected fitness company, has filed to go public

Peloton Interactive, the on-demand fitness company best known for its connected indoor cycling bike, has officially announced plans to go public after months of CEO John Foley teasing that an IPO in 2019 would “make a lot of sense.” The company had reportedly been interviewing banks in preparation for its IPO. Today, Peloton said in a press release that it has elected to submit a confidential filing, which is the same method other tech startups have used recently, including Lyft, Uber, and Slack.

Peloton did not clarify how many shares it intends to sell or what the price range would be. Its latest round of funding in August 2018 valued the fitness company at $4.15 billion. Foley remarked last year that Peloton has a “beautiful business…

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Watch Brad Pitt Face a Deadly Extraterrestrial Mystery in First Trailer for ‘Ad Astra’

The new trailer for Brad Pitt‘s Ad Astra has an Interstellar kind of vibe, with him playing a soulful astronaut type and all sorts of dad issues bound up in the story. 

It’s stylish and intriguing, too, so it’s easy to understand if those who have been looking forward to this movie are a little frustrated, as it was originally slated for release on January 11, 2019, then on May 24th. Now it’s been pushed to the fall—but hey, the trailer is a good sign.

Ad Astra also stars Liv Tyler as Pitt’s wife and Tommy Lee Jones as his father. Its brief synopsis is damn intriguing:

Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos. 

The “outer edges” being Neptune, which was his father’s destination. And a project dealing with extraterrestrial technology is somehow involved, and it’s dangerous. 

So dangerous that Pitt’s character has a pretty straightforward mission, as is evident when he says “If necessary, I will destroy the project in its entirety.” 

Apparently there’s a Moon Buggy race along the way too, so that’s fun.

Ruth Negga and Donald Sutherland also co-star. 

Ad Astra floats into theaters—hopefully—on September 20, 2019.

In Dark Phoenix, the X-Men are still Marvel’s weird, mutant cinematic stepchild

Viewers may understandably feel a sense of déjà vu when watching Dark Phoenix, the 12th film in the X-Men franchise once spinoffs like Logan and the Deadpool are factored in. Written and directed by longtime series producer Simon Kinberg, the film adapts one of the most famous stories in the history of X-Men comics: the Dark Phoenix saga. Playing out over four years between 1976 and 1980 in issues written by Chris Claremont and drawn by Dave Cockrum and John Byrne, the storyline depicts the possession of longtime team member Jean Grey by the ultra-power cosmic force known as Phoenix. But even if you don’t know the comics, you might know the story since it provided fodder for the third X-Men movie, 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand. So why…

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‘On Earth’ Is Gorgeous All The Way Through

On Earth We

Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a painful but extraordinary coming-of-age story, about a young Vietnamese American writer whose fractured family was torn by their experiences during the Vietnam War.

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