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(22/05/13) | | Who Mourns the Fallen? |
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The English competitions are unique, as they possess a league structure in which players move between the divisions depending on their skill. This article that examines, in detail, the consequences of relegation in the English Mega Drive Championship - as well as looking at those who have fallen through the trapdoor and faced demotion and how their lives have altered once they are branded failures.
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(14/04/13) | | The Big Blue |
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Aside from a utterly average outing on the Dreamcast, Ecco the Dolphin has not had a decent outing since the Mega Drive. Now the creators of the original game have started a kickstart campaign to creat a spiritual sequel - the Big Blue. We also include the most frustrating moments in Ecco the Dolphin for no reason whatsoever.
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(28/02/13) | | The State of the Championships: 2013 |
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On the 12th February President Barack Obama gave the 2013 State of the Union Address. His task could have been worse; he could be discussing the state of Mega Drive Championshippery, in which 2013 appears a pivotal year for the competitions. Declining attendances and general apathy seem to be rife in all domestic leagues and the cancellation of the 2012 European Mega Drive Champion casts a shadow over the contests.
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(06/12/12) | | The Twenty-Fourth English Championship Review |
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Legends of England assembled in much smaller numbers than previously hoped. Talk of three divisions was transformed into doubt over enough participants to have two leagues, however, passion and purity remained rife and those in attendance were part of something magical, as Doc Shakib looked to defend his tournament title from Commander Graham, Professor King and The Plumb.
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(24/10/12) | | The Race For Europe 2012 |
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The motions are slowly being made towards this year’s European Mega Drive Championship. Hosts, Portugal, are well prepared for the challengers that will descend upon Lisbon in December. Portugal have the best European record of any nation - having won all three of the competitions they have entered, but who will represent the home nation in their quest for a fourth successive European title?
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(11/08/12) | | The First Mega Drive Championship of Braga |
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Following in the footsteps of Lisbon and Porto before it, Braga now becomes the third Portuguese city to host a Mega Drive tournament. On 16th June 2012, sixteen people from various cities across the country assembled to re-live the brilliance of the past in the First Mega Drive Tournament. Four hours of gruelling 16-bit awesome across five pre-selected Mega Drive titles. |
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(06/07/12) | | The Twenty-Fourth English Challenge |
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Speculation has been rife for the past few weeks, however, now we are pleased to announce that the Challenge game for the Twenty-Fourth English Mega Drive Championship will be the port of the Classic Arcade game Space Harrier 2. Across the grasslands of Fors Yard, the ruins of Carahdda to the metropolis of Hope City, what hazards await our fearless Mega Drive warriors?
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(01/07/12) | | The Twenty-Fourth English Championship Preview |
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July has arrived and with it the faithful warriors of England shall soon assemble to pit their 16-bit skills and strategy against each other. Eagery awaited is the anticipated rivalry between Professor King and Lieutenant Gareth, which will add fire to a passionate Division One campaign. Two weeks from today the tables are wiped clean and the battle to be Mega Drive Champion shall begin - who will emerge victorious?
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(31/05/12) | | The Sixth German Championship Review |
| Assembled at the HomeCon retrogaming convention in Hanau-Großauheim, Richard Neumann is the defending Champion as twenty-one of Germany's finest meet to battle for the Sixth Mega Drive Championship. In a series of six-knockouts across six genres of Mega Drive game, which of the twenty-one competitiors will have the honour of calling themselves Champion?
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(19/05/12) | | Mega Drive Championshippery comes to Braga |
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Things have been quiet on the Portuguese front for some time, but now that period of silence is over and on 16th June 2012, an array of Mega Drive fans will assemble to contest a new competition in the northern city of Braga. Under the eyes of a new architect (Nuno Cunha) Braga's name will be forged into the history of competitive Mega Drive gaming.
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(20/03/12) | | Mavericks of English Mega Drive |
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To be honest, there is something a little weird about everybody who still deems the Mega Drive fun and over the past eleven years we have seen a wide selection of people picking up their controllers. Of these dozens, there are just a handful of truly special people whose stories are so bizzare we deemed them worthy of an article. They are: The Mavericks of English Mega Drive!
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(22/12/11) | | Pearls from the The Plumb (Edition 4) |
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Mega Drive Championship member, The Plumb, shares his views, opinions and rants about the topics dearest to him. In this fourth edition, The Plumb reflects upon the battle that was the 23rd Mega Drive Championship and gives some candid views about his league abilities and performances that saw him emerge as the Knockout Winner for the second time in three-years!
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(25/08/11) | | Twenty-Third English Mega Drive Championship Review |
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Englands finest once again assemble to begin the battle on the 16-bit Mega Drive. The usual prizes are at stake for the brave and the fortunate, read the story of the epic quest, starting with blank league tabled and culminating with the victorious hold aloft the Champion's Trophy. Commander Graham, freshly returning to Division One will be looking to challenge Doc Shakib and Don Derek for the title. |
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(23/07/11) | | The Race to Europe 2011 |
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The European Mega Drive Championship is starting to emerge from the back of the mind and to its forefront. Here we take a look at the host nation, England, and which of their members are shaping up as being the picks to represent their country. The past European Tournament have not been kind to the English, who have finished in last past since 2007 - which potential members might revive their fortunes?
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(19/07/11) | | Pearls from the The Plumb (Edition 3) |
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Mega Drive Championship member, The Plumb, has been battling in tournaments since the 19th and now takes time to share his views, opinions and rants about the topics dearest to him. In this third edition The Plumb looks forward to the Twenty-Third Mega Drive Championship and the tournament games, those dearest to his heart and those not so close.
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(14/07/11) | | The Day Mega Drive Championshippery Died |
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Portugal has long been a world leader of Mega Drive, however, since 2011 the competitions have struggled until finally Mega Drive in Portugal died. Having been hosts of domestic Mega Drive tournaments since 2005, the end is felt with extreme sorrow. We discuss possible factors that led to the demise of Mega Drive Championshippery in Portugal, as well as looking at the 'Jornadas' a phoenix competition. |
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(27/06/11) | | World Cup Italia '90 Challenge |
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In the beginning there was World Cup Italia '90... the first ever competitive Mega Drive game used in January 2001 when Lord Dilks beat Doc Shakib 16-1 in the First English Championship. Now, to celebrate ten-years of tournaments, World Cup Italia '90 has been selected as the Challenge game for the Twenty-Third Tournament, albeit with a few tweaks to the winning conditions. |
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(19/06/11) | | Twenty-Third English Mega Drive Championship Preview |
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In just over one month, the English league tables shall be wiped and the competition to grab points is expected to be as intense as ever. The challenge to become Mega Drive Champion shall rage in what is viewed as the strongest Division One line-up since the Eighteenth Tournament - we take a look at the people who will be duelling to claim the most supreme honour on the planet: The Mega Drive Champion. |
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(31/05/11) | | The Fourth German Mega Drive Championship |
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Germany encompasses an array of members from across the country and, following hosting the 2010 European Mega Drive Championship, matters turn to domestic affairs. The holding champion, Richard Neumann, was unable to attend. German legend Tobias Berg was also absent. There would be a new Champion in Germany, but which player had the skills and talent to secure the title?
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(21/04/11) | | Pearls from the The Plumb (Edition 2) |
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Mega Drive Championship member, The Plumb, has been battling in tournaments since the 19th and now takes time to share his views, opinions and rants about the topics dearest to him. In this second edition The Plumb discusses his video game history and a terrible, terrible affliction: Computeritis, it's symptoms, prevention and how to tackled the disease if caught.
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(22/03/11) | | The Thirteenth Portuguese Tournament Review |
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In one of the boldest moves since their creation in 2005, the Portuguese Mega Drive Championships spread their wings and fly from their Lisbon origins to Porto. Here, in an epic double elimination, a batch new blood faces the challenge of some of the experienced southern counterparts for the honour of being dubbed Porto's First Mega Drive Champion.
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(01/02/11) | | Pearls from the The Plumb (Edition 1) |
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Mega Drive Championship member, The Plumb, has been battling in tournaments since the 19th and now takes time to share his views, opinions and rants about the topics dearest to him. In this first edition The Plumb discusses why modern games are inferior to retro gaming and bemoans the lack of attractive female characters in video games today.
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(16/01/11) | | Seventeenth Tournament Knockout Final (Video) |
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Ok, this epic battle occurred nearly four years ago, but here for prosperity's sake, using special video techniques, is the conclusion of the Seventeenth Mega Drive Tournament when Doc Shakib battled Earl Holbrook on the awful WWF Super Wrestlemania. I.R.S. Vs Hulk Hogan to decide the fate of the Knockout Shield. The audience were not impressed with this one!
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(08/01/11) | | Ten Years of Mega Drive Championshippery |
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On 8th January 2001, in a small suberb of Nottingham, three men met to contest nine fixture in the First Mega Drive Championship. Ten years on the competitions have grown beyond all recognition to span three continents and boast an annual international competition comprising of European nations. We look back on our amazing first ten years!
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(22/12/10) | | The Portuguese Top Ten |
 | Portugal are easily the best Mega Drive nation on the planet, winning the European title three times. Although four men have represented their country at International level, dozens have battled in the domestic competition. Here we take a look at the top ten ranked domestic players that the twelve Portuguese tournaments have produced.
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(15/12/10) | | Sega-16 Reviews the 2010 European Championship |
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The most respectable Mega Drive resource on the Internet, Sega-16, reviews the epic 2010 European Mega Drive Championship that took place in Nuremberg, Germany. Staff writer Sebastian Sponsel gives the account of the Portuguese victory over the Germans, England and Hungarians and looks towards the looming ten-year anniversary in 2011.
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(09/12/10) | | The Unofficial Mega Drive Championship |
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We all know that Don Derek is the official English Mega Drive Championship and that Portugal are European Mega Drive Champions, but what of the Unofficial Mega Drive Champion? Here our learnings of Mega Drive Championship nonsense expand as we ask the very important question what is the Unofficial Mega Drive Championship?
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(31/10/10) | | And Portugal Make it Three! |
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Such has been their dominance of the European Mega Drive Championships over the past three-years, do the brilliant Portuguese risk become victims of their own success? Will predictability kill off the fledgling competition before it truly gets a chance to soar? We take a look at the 2010 Mega Drive Championship, at the awesomeness, the passion and the problems.
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(16/10/10) | | MDPT! |
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Portugal have been contesting Mega Drive Tournaments since 2005. Now for the first second time, we have an array of pages in pure Portuguese. MDPT may only contain the basics for now, but there are plans to expand it to include individual information on games, players and tournaments and become a complete encylopedia of Portuguese Mega Drive.
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(29/09/10) | | Standing on the Shoulders of Mediocraty |
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England have not exactly climbed to the dizzying summit of the European Mega Drive Championship mountain. In 2007 they finished last, 2008 they finished last and 2009... well, there's no prizes for guessing where England finished. 2010 will see a new-look Team England go in search of European glory. Will the Fourth attempt be different for Captain Maltby, Doc Shakib and Don Derek?
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(13/09/10) | | Third German Mega Drive Championship Review |
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The sweet scent of European competition can be caught on the wind. In Germany, the host nation for 2010, the team that will duel on home soil shall be decided here. Reverting back to a league format following the leader board style of the Second, the Third Mega Drive Championships has it all to play for as the finest warriors from across the country meet to determine which one is worthy of the title Mega Drive Champion.
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(04/08/10) | | Twenty-Second English Mega Drive Championship Review |
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Once again the Premier Mega Drive competition in the United Kingdom pulls in members from across the country to participate in the battle to become Mega Drive Champion. The usual competitions of leagues and knockouts await those brave enough to enter the 16-bit caffeine fuelled gauntlett with the prize of qualifying for Team England to battle in Nuremberg, Germany, also on offer.
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(22/07/10) | | Race for Europe 2010 |
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The European Mega Drive Championships are calling and this time Germany will battle on their home soil. But which of the domestic contestants looks likely to qualify for the supreme honour of representing their nation at the looming event? The Third Mega Drive Championship will be the arena where fate and skill combine and the qualification for Team Germany concluded.
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(15/07/10) | | The Long Serving Warriors of English Mega Drive
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England boast the oldest Mega Drive tournaments in the world. Over the years we have seen many people come and go, some enjoy success, some not so much. With just days to go until the 22nd Mega Drive Championship, we take a brief look at the longer serving tournament members who have graced the competitions over the years. Those whose contribution spans to three tournaments or greater.
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(09/07/10) | | 2010 European Championship; Nuremberg, Germany
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We've been to England and Portugal, now it is the turn of Germany to host the European Mega Drive Championships. Portugal have won the past two European Tournaments, will this be their third successive title, or will Germany, who challenged them in 2008, take home advantage? England and Hungary will be battling in the competition, but will either of them have the ability to challenge the Portuguese for the title?
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(20/06/10) | | Dário Pelixo - The Best Mega Drive Athlete in the World?
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Five nations, three continents, but which individual member is the best? Many would come forward, but only one can be chosen. Dário Pelixo is the current Portuguese Mega Drive Champion, but is he worthy of the title "Best Mega Drive Athlete in the World" and who would his challengers for such a title be? We attempt to evaluate why Dário Pelixo is the forerunner for this title and why he has the edge over other worthy contenders.
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(14/05/10) | | Second Brazilian Mega Drive Championship Review |
 | It was eighteen months since nine men battled for the honour of becoming the First Mega Drive Champion. Some thought Brazil was lost, however, Mega Drive Championshipary is back in Brazil! With the defending champion absent, the challenge is thrust open as five people assembled to battle to claim Aldo's title.
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(25/04/10) | | Twelfth Portuguese Mega Drive Championship Review |
 | It had been nearly six-months since Portugal had lifted their second European Championship. Now The Portuguese Mega Drive Championships returned domestically, with a vengence, as nineteen contestants lined up in the Amadora gym to battle for the pride and the honour of becoming the Twelfth Mega Drive Champion.
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(18/04/10) | | The Most Memorable Mega Drive Championship Games (Part One) |
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Nine years and over seven-hundred competitive games played. We take a look at the best and worst the Mega Drive Championships have produced; these are the games that shaped the tournaments and remained long in the memory after the consoles were turned off. This is the first of a two part article where we study games twenty-five to eleven, those that were awesome, but didn't quite make the top ten. |
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(03/04/10) | | Second German Mega Drive Championship Review |
 | Six months after the battle... eighteen people assembled to contest the title of Mega Drive Champion of Germany. The organisers had enacted some major changes to the structure of the competition, but with defending Champion Tobis Berg absent, who would advantage most from these alterations and steal the title to become the Second Mega Drive Champion?
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(15/02/10) | | Twelfth Portuguese Mega Drive Championship Preview |
 | It has been nearly six-months since Pedro Bragança was christened the Portuguese domestic Mega Drive Championship. Following victory in the 2009 European Mega Drive Championship, domestic allies now become foes as the battle to be Mega Drive Champion begins once again. We look at the best ranking members, those who might cause a shock and the potential games of the tournaments.
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(08/02/10) | | Twenty-First English Mega Drive Championship Review |
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English tournament member, The Plumb, finished third in Division Two last time around, but was promoted to the top flight on a technicality. We follow his progress through the Twenty-First Tournament as he comes to terms with the increased challenge of Division One, as well as info on the Knockout and Challenge, in the latest caffeine fuelled 16-bit adventure in England. |
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(21/01/10) | | Second German Mega Drive Championship Announced |
 | Nearly six-months after Germany finished second at the 2009 European Mega Drive Championship, the domestic faithful are set to gather again. The competition structure has been altered, as those who pick up their controllers look to userp defending Champion Tobias Berg, six games from six genres and no World Cup Italia '90 this time around!
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