Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection
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1. Get Rich (25 Points)
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Game: Alex Kidd in Enchanted Castle
Goal: Collect $1000 in currency
How: This one is fairly quick. Start by turning the game's difficulty to easy
mode, then begin the game. What you want to do is collect a bunch of the
money bags scattered throughout the first level. Start by working your
way to the right, smashing all the treasure boxes you can. Don't bother
entering the houses to play Jan Ken Pon. As soon as you pass the house at
the begining of the level, look for the second palm tree in the
foreground. Stand to the right of the tree, and jump on the ground. You'll
eventually reveal a secret passage below ground. Enter it and collect all
the treasure you can... Then die. Rinse and repeat until you have $1000.
An easy 25 points.
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2. Don't Die (25 Points)
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Game: Alien Storm
Goal: Reach mission 3 without losing a life
Unlocks: Alien Syndrome
How: This one will take some patience and careful saving. I'd suggest using
either the Robot or the soldier guy with lightning to do this. For the
most part, you just need to work your way to the first boss and defeat
him. Try to attack enemies from a small distance, try not to get
surrounded, and do NOT use your special move. To make things easier,
kill a few enemies and save after every wave you work through. Then if
you get hit too much, you can just reload to a state a few seconds
old. There's no way to replenish health until later, so this is the only
way to keep what life you can. Once you get to the boss, stay in front
of him, a small distance away, and keep wailing away with your ranged
attack. When he gets really close, he'll switch the direction he's
facing. Just work your way in front of him and keep shooting. Eventually
he'll die and the achievement will be yours.
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3. Enter the Beast (10 Points)
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Game: Altered Beast
Goal: Collect 100,000 pts or higher by the end of the first level
Unlocks: Altered Beast Arcade
How: This is another quick one. All you really need to do is defeat as many
enemies as you can before you get to the boss, and then defeat him. The
only major requirement is to make certain you collect all three
transformation orbs the first time you reach the boss. To make things a
little easier, remember that all the orbs come from the dog enemies, and
you should wait until they're as close to the center of the screen as
possible so the orb doesn't fly away before you have a chance to get it.
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4. Holy Water (20 Points)
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Game: Beyond Oasis
Goal: Unlock the Water Spirit
How: You need to complete the first dungeon area to achieve this. Simply make
your way to the water temple and defeat the first boss. You'll need to
follow the story until you're given the quest to get the water spirit.
After talking to your parents for the first time, go one screen east of
the first town. The water temple is at the bottom of this area. Fight
your way through the various rooms, grabbing any equipment or healing
items you can. When you reach the boss, equip the sword you should have
nabbed in a previous room. Smash his claw and then his face as fast as
you can, healing if neccessary. Make sure to run out of the way if he
jumps. Once you've killed him, move to the next room and activate the
cube to get the achievement.
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5. Stealing Points (20 Points)
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Game: Bonanza bros.
Goal: Reach 40,000 points on the first level
How: There's a few ways you can do this. Typically what I do is collect all
four treasures in the stage, then spend my time shooting police, SWAT,
or closing the doors on them. This should get you to 40,000 points if
you're quick enough. If not, the timer will simply run out and the stage
will start over if you had any lives remaining. That's fine, because
your points will roll over. Just repeat the process and you'll get your
points.
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6. Easy as Pie (15 Points)
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Game: Columns
Goal: Get 20,000 points only on Easy Mode
How: Unfortunately there's no fantastic strategy for this. It'll take mostly
skill, patience, and luck (unless you're awesome at planning combos in
these sorts of games). The best advice I can give you is save often. If
you manage to pull off some great combo and whittle your blocks down to
1/3 of the screen, great! Save and reload from there if you run into
trouble. If you really need to, you can also pause the game to plan your
next move. You should also get at least one super column before you hit
20,000 points. Try to save before it appears so you can use it on
whatever color is taking up most of your space, or experiment and see if
it leads to any amazing combos. Aside from that, good luck!
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7. Hardly a Hero (20 points)
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Game: Comix Zone
Goal: Complete first episode
How: This one's a little difficult, so make sure you save the health potion
until your health is extremely low. Start by working your way to the far
right of the first page. When given a choice, take the right hand path.
This path will take you to Roadkill. Grab him, keep him, and continue on
your way to the end of the stage (don't fall in the pit at the end of the
first level!). On the second stage, move right next to the fans, but don't
attack them. Wait for the enemies to arrive, kill them, and use Roadkill
near the fans. He'll stop them for you. In the next part, push the box
into the fan and pass through. You'll fall down and have to fight some
bats. DON'T destroy the box. Once the bats are dead, use the box to
choose the left hand path by climbing on top of it. This way is easier.
Grab the dynamite above the pipes, but save it for the upcoming boss.
After you deal with the easy green enmies, you'll face a sort of sewer
dragon thing. Drop the dynamite nearby to start with so you can damage it
a bit. Now you'll need to wait for him to spit fire at you. Jump over it,
jump kick the boss, run away before he swipes you, wait for him to spit
fire, rinse, lather, repeat. Once he dies, you've got your achievement.
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8. Get Ahead (30 Points)
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Game: Decap Attack
Goal: Collect 5 Bonus Coins
Unlocks: Zaxxon
How: Bonus coins are the gold coins that sometimes pop out of the breakable
statues. All you need to do is hunt down five of these shiny tokens. Or,
you can follow the directions below!
1) 1.1 - Right beneath where you star. Follow the path straight ahead
until you can go down. Fall down and walk left. There will be two
statues, one with a coin.
2) 1.1 - Continue on you way past the giant orange spring in the ground
next to a bridge. You'll soon have to climb up a little
cave/mountain area after that. Keep moving to the right and
eventually you'll reach a bridge with a statue immediately
past it, and another bridge following the statue. That statue
has a coin.
3) 1.2 - You'll start the level in a somewhat narrow pit. You'll be
forced to climb your way up and out of this to continue. Keep
climbing until you eventually reach an area where there are
bouncy arrows pointing left and right to propel you upwards.
You'll have a choice of using them or not. Use them to bounce
your way up. They will eventually lead you to a ledge with
two statues. The left most one has a coin in it.
4) 1.3 - Keep to the bottom path for the majority of the level. You will
have to cross several lava pits until you reach your destination
on the far left hand side of the stage. You'll know you're in
the right place because you'll cross two consecutive lava pits
with a steep dip in the path between them. Immeditately
afterwards, you'll have to climb up a gigantic slope. climb
up until you see a ledge to your right and one of those walking
buffalo skull enemies. Jump onto the ledge, and work your
way directly upwards. At the top, there will be a statue with
a coin.
5) 1.3 - Immediately after collecting the previous coin, you'll have
to continue to the left again. Do so until you reach the end of
the path. You'll now see a bunch of arrow blocks pointing to
the left, as well as a bunch of cloud platforms in the sky.
Jump downwards, following the arrow blocks to the bottom. You'll
see a statue right below them, next to a bridge. Your last coin
is housed inside.
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9. Communication is Key (10 Points)
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Game: Echo The Dolphin
Goal: Talk to another Dolphin
How: Wow. Thank the developers for making this one as simple as it is, because
the actual game is anything but. How do you accomplish this lofty feat?
Start the game, swim a weeeee bit to the right of the first area, use
your sonar on a dolphin, and uh... that's about it.
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10. Taste like Tuna (20 POints)
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Game: Echo: The Tide of Time
Goal: Eat 200 Fish
How: Not difficult, but time consuming. I basically looked for areas with lots
of fish swimming in multiple groups. Just use the dash button and you'll
see the fish vanish as Echo eats them. Just swim left and right
repeatedly, moving far enough away each time that the fish respawn. After
about 10 minutes+ of this, you'll eventually reach the goal.
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11. Suit Up (30 Points)
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Game: E-Swat
Goal: Complete Mission 2
How: You just have to work your way to the third stage. The first level is
extremely linear, so you should have no problems. Just remember to duck
if you're being shot at. The Helicopter boss is easy once you remember
his pattern. If you're having a lot of trouble, turning on autofire really
helps to maximize your damage. For the second level, ride the lift to the
very top right corner of the screen. Jump in behind the mesh wall and
shoot your way down to the second bottom level. A sign saying GO! will
tell you which gap to jump to reach the boss. The two pig robot things
are a pain in the ass, but there's a fairly simple way to beat them...
Turn on rapid fire, crouch in the bottom right corner of the boss arena,
and just fire away until they die. If you have full health, you'll kill
them just in time with luck.
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12. Don't Get Lost (30 Points)
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Game: Fatal Labyrinth
Goal: Progress to the fifth level of the labyrinth
How: This one is going to annoy a loooot of people. To start with, DON'T rush!
You'll never make it if you try to run right through the dungeon. Take
your time, collect weapons and armor, and walk in circles if you need to
replenish health. Early on, avoid fighting worms and mages until you have
a decent weapon (the Axes are fantastic, and the Power Ring helps a lot
too). Once you're more prepared, go on and explore. The game is randomized
every time, so there's no exact way of doing this. If you get stuck, look
for patches of black nothing on your map. Most likely the path you need to
take is right there, behind a secret door. Secret doors moving vertically
are easy to see, as the screen will clear away some darkness if you stand
right infront of them. Horizontal ones, however, don't show up at all.
Unfortunately, your only hope is to walk in circles around the area until
you find the door. As long as you take time to power yourself up
adaquetly, you should run into no problems outside of having to find the
occasional secret door to progress.
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13. Getting Chicks (25 points)
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Game: Flicky
Goal: Get 80,000 points
Unlocks: Fantasy Zone
How: You'll need to use the save state to do this. Save before EVERY level
begins. You get way more points for bringing every chick to the door
at once, so do NOT enter the doorway unless you have all chicks in
your posession. The only other thing you really need to do is reload the
bonus level if you don't collect every chick. You'll miss out on a big
bonus if you drop any. Aside from that, avoid the cats as best you can,
and you'll have no issues.
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14. Garden Gnomes (20 Points)
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Game: Golden Axe
Goal: Collect 20 magic power ups
How: Ugh, this game is too aged for it's own good. There's no real
walkthrough for this one. Just set the game to the easiest settings and
give yourself plenty of lives. Combat will essentially come down to you
running left and right, repeatedly tackling enemies before they tackle
you. Other than that, just keep whacking those gnomes. And don't worry
about using magic. Using it does not take away from the total
collected.
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15. Tower Up (35 Points)
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Game: Golden Axe II
Goal: Complete Tower level
How: No different from the first. There's no real walkthrough here. The Tower
is the third level of the game. Complete that and you'll be set. The
best directions I can give are essentially the same as Golden Axe 1.
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16. Saved by Magic (20 points)
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Game: Golden Axe III
Goal: Use magic 10 times
Unlocks: Golden Axe Warrior
How: Um... this is pretty straight forward. Just use magic 10 times. The
quickest way to do this is use magic right away, every time you collect
a bottle. Once you do it ten times, well... isn't this self explainatory?
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17. TGIF (35 Points)
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Game: Kid Chameleon
Goal: Collect Maniaxe
How: Simply reach the fourth level. Maniaxe will be in a P block right below
your starting position.
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18. Twinkle Twinkle (30 Points)
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Game: Ristar
Goal: Collect 5 yellow stars
How: All you need to do is collect five of the yellow stars found in various
parts of the levels. This does NOT mean you're supposed to get your
maximum health to five stars (it only reaches four). Blue stars do NOT
count towards this. I've outlined how to get the first five stars in the
game below:
1) Round 1 - Continue past the beginning, to the point where you land in
a pit full of flying dandelion seeds. Grab one and fly with
it to the very top most ledge you can reach. Inside the chest
there is a star.
2) Round 1 - Continue on your way until you reach the snake mini-boss.
Once you defeat him, a star is at the very top of the
tic-tac-toe shaped arena.
3) Round 1.5 - Keep to the upper most path and follow it to the right.
Eventually you'll reach an area with a tree you need to
hit. Knock it down and cross it. Beyond that there will be
a drop off, only there are rungs in the roof above it if
you wish to stay on the upper path. Grab the rungs and
cross to the other side. There will be a chest with a star.
4) Round 2 - As soon as the level begins, hit the wall on your right. The
water will rise. Swim to the very top. At the very top of
the water there will be an area above the water to your right
that you can walk on. Follow it to the right, avoiding the
flying fish that try to attck you. Once you reach water again,
look above you. The roof will be made out of rocks, but there
will be a pink sort of pillar coming down from the roof.
Ignore the first pink pillar. Hop in the water and swim to the
second one right beside it. Whack the second pillar with your
head. A yellow star will fall from the pillar.
5) Round 2 - Literally right below the one you just grabbed. Swim down and
there will be a chest. Break it open for your star.
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19. Yatta! (50 Points)
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Game: Dr.Robotnik's Mean Bean machine
Goal: Beat the game
How: First, start up scenario mode and go to "Continue". Enter this code:
Yellow Bean, Happy Bean, Blue Bean, Blue Bean. You'll now be in the final
level on easy mode. From here on, it's entirely up to you. The same
strategy I used for the Columns achievement works here. Save when you
think you're on a roll, and reload from there if you get into trouble.
The only difference is the ability to pause and plan. Pausing in this
game does not let you see your beans to plan ahead... So! Instead, just
use the save menu through the select button. It's transparent, and works
just as well.
Have fun...
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20. True Ninja Skills (30 Points)
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Game: Shinobi III
Goal: Complete the first level without using continues
Unlocks: Shinobi Arcade
How: This is amazingly easy with save states. Just do as you're required to
and you'll unlock 30 points.
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21. Complete Chaos (30 Points)
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Game: Sonic the Hedgehog
Goal: Get a Chaos Emerald
How: Not too hard. Bring 50+ rings to the end of the first act and jump inside
the gigantic gold ring. You'll now be in a bonus stage. Simply work your
way to the first emerald, grab it, ?????, and profit. If you're THAT
impatient, use the Up, Down, Left, Right, Hold A and press Start code
at the title screen. You can quickly select "Bonus Stage" from the
level select menu and do it that way.
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22. A Different Tail (35 points)
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Game: Sonic 3
Goal: Collect 100 rings with Tails on Angel Island
How: Note that you MUST play as Tails by himself to get this. Simply choose
him by pressing up or down during the file/stage select. It's very easy
to collect a hundred rings here. Exploit the ring monitors, swings, and
loop-de-loops. Following the bottom path, you should be able to grab
a water shield for extra protection. Just past that, there's also
a rock you can push before a pair of retracting spikes. Break the ground
under the rock to find 20 rings and an invincibility monitor. Aside from
those tips, just do your best not to get hit by anything while on your
collecting spree.
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23. Flicky to the Rescue (15 Points)
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Game: Sonic 3D Blast
Goal: Rescue 20 Flickies
How: Really all you need to do is reach the second ring lock on the second
stage. Doing so will mean you've rescued 20 Flickies.
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24. Lots of Zeroes (30 Points)
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Game: Sonic Spinball
Goal: Reach 10,000,000 points on the first level
How: Not as hard as it might seem, this just takes some time. The easiest way
to get points is to repeatedly destroy the gigantic worm things in the
first area, enter warp tubes, enter sewer pipes, and hit the score tabs.
The only thing you should be wary of is reaching the boss too soon. If
you do, avoid him and constantly enter the warps at the bottom of the
boss arena. I accidently killed the boss at around 9,000,000 points, but
my extra stuff was added up afterwards and I hit 13,000,000 and got the
achievement. So you CAN kill the boss and receive the points still.
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25. Get to the Chopper (15 Points)
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Game: Super Thunder Blade
Goal: Score over 1,500,000 points in the first level
Unlocks: Space Harrier
How: Not as hard as it might seem. Simply turn on the autofire option for
your controls. Now just hold down the attack button while making big
circles around the stage. You'll pretty much automatically kill
everything in your way. I managed to reach the goal just as I reached
the aircraft carrier. If you get that far and you still don't have it,
no worries. The level doesn't end until you reach the end of the carrier.
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26. Three Times a Charm (20 Points)
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Game: Streets of Rage
Goal: Complete 1st Level using all 3 characters
Unlocks: Congo Bongo
How: Pretty much just as the goal says. Simply beat the first stage with every
chaarcter once. Once you beat the stage, just go to "reset game" in the
select button menu, then pick the next character and repeat. My only tip
is save the bomb attack for the boss at the end of the level. It shaves
off a good chunk of his health. If you're playing with a friend, whatever
character they're using counts as well. You'll only need to make two
trips if you handle it that way.
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27. Good Day Mate (15 Points)
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Game: Streets of Rage 3
Goal: Unlock Roo the Kangaroo
How: Ha! I bet you tried to get this using the code to unlock Roo at the
beginning of the game! Nice try, but that doesn't work. To get this
achievement, you'll need to work your way to the second stage. Once
you're there you'll come across Roo and his clown master as a pair
of mini-bosses. IGNORE ROO!!! Just work on taking out the clown. If Roo
is still alive after you've killed the clown boss, He'll run off stage
and you'll get your 15 points.
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28. Super Charged (45 Points)
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Game: Vectorman
Goal: Collect 500 Photons
How: No wonder this is worth 45 points... it's a pain in the ass. So, let's
try make things easier. Start by entering the options menu and using this
code: A, B, B, A, Down, A, B, B, A (You'll need to have the controls on
ABC Mode). You'll now be in a debug menu. Turn your lives to 99, your
health to 10, and leave the starting stage as level 1. And that's about
all the help you're going to get. You'll now need to actually play the
game until you collect enough. If you die your collected photons remain
the same, so don't worry about any mishaps. I evetunally got the
achievement around the second Ice stage, which was about level 6 or 7.
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29. Can You Dig It? (45 Points)
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Game: Vectorman 2
Goal: Reach Scene 11
How: WAY easier than the other Vectorman acheivement. Start the game and
pause it as you're falling from the sky. Enter this code:
Up, Right, A, B, A, Down, Left, A, Down. You'll now be on the stage
select. Just pick the 10th stage (the one where you're rollerblading).
After you beat it, you'll get the achievement.
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30. Blast Processing (50 Points)
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Goal: Play all Genesisâ„¢ Titles
How: Well, do as it says! :P
If you're having trouble picking out what you've played, anything you
haven't will have a blue tinge to it's text in the game selection menu.
All you really need to do is get the Sega logo in each title and then
quit, and you have an easy 50 points.
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31. Master the System (50 Points)
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Goal: Unlock Everything
How: Mostly you'll unlock things as you grab the achievements, so this won't
be difficult to obtain. As a reference though, you can look at this:
UNLOCKABLES How to unlock
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Alien Syndrome Alien Storm: Reach mission three without
losing a life
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Altered Beast Arcade Altered Beast: Collect 100,000 points or
higher by the end of the
first level
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Congo Bongo Streets of Rage: Complete the first level
as all three characters
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Fantasy Zone Flicky: Collect 80,000 points
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Golden Axe Warrior Golden Axe III: Use magic ten times
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Phantasy Star Sonic 2: Defeat the first boss with
two players
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Shinobi Arcade Shinobi III: Complete the first level
without using continues
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Space Harrier Super Thunder Blade: Score over
1,500,000 points
in the first level
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Zaxxon DeCap Attack: Collect five bonus coins
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Akira Nishino Interview Ristar: Collect five yellow stars
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Kazunari Tsukamoto Interview Phantasy Star III: Play Phantasy Star III
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Kazuo Wakihara Interview Columns: Get 20,000 points only on easy mode
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Makoto Uchida Interview Golden Axe: Collect twenty magic power-ups
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Reiko Kodama Interview Alex Kidd: Collect 1,000 in currency
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Shun Nakamura Interview Sonic the Hedgehog: Obtain a chaos emerald
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Takao Miyoshi Interview Phantasy Star IV: Play Phantasy Star IV
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Tohru Yoshida Interview Phantasy Star II: Play Phantasy Star II
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32. No Life (50 Points)
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Goal: Watch every video
How: Just unlock all the interviews fom the chart above. All you need to do
is turn the movie on. You don't have to fully watch them. There's really
nothing interesting to be heard from them anyways (Wooo, a full hour of
old developers repeating the exact same line: "Games have changed greatly
in the past 20 years"...
No? Really?
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33. Critique (50 points)
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Goal: View all artwork
How: You need to view all the artwork in the compilation. It's actually not
much since Backbone skimped on providing anything other than box and
cartridge art. Just press B on every game in the selection menu to open
that game's museum. Check out the box art and cartirdge art. Repeat for
all 40 titles.
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34. Only in the 80's (50 points)
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Goal: Play all arcade titles
How: Remember all those arcade titles you unlocked through getting the
achievements? You simply need to try them out, once each. You can reach
them in the extras menu.