
After using it to play games like Capcom’s The Punisher, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist, Sonic the Hedgehog and X-Men 2: Clone Wars, about the only noticeable difference that you’ll possibly find is that you might not know what a new Genesis controller is supposed to feel like if you didn’t grow up with the Genesis or are only coming to it late in life. The same can be said of the feel of the controller too. …an original first-party 6 button controller With regards to looks, Retro-Bit’s offering could easily be confused with the original controller line if it didn’t come in modern packaging with the companies logo: The name of this controller pretty much explains what it is: a flawless recreation of the 6 button controller that was introduced fairly late into the Sega Genesis’ life cycle for the purposes of having parity with the Super Nintendo’s controller for games like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat II. There are four different types of the controller: two with the classic Genesis plug in black and clear blue and two for use with PC’s via USB in the same color scheme. The days of scrolling through pages of listings for controllers and scouring the stock of flea markets, conventions and retro video game stores are now over thanks to the 6 Button Arcade Pad from Retro-Bit, a new run of controllers produced in collaboration with Sega that are identical to the ones you would’ve bought at a place FuncoLand once upon a time.


Sega’s 16-bit console gave Nintendo a run for their money in the early ’90’-s, so there’s no shortage of controllers on the secondary market, but finding ones that are in good condition can be challenging, especially if you’re not close to a retro video game store and have to trust the words of third-party sellers online. If you’re only getting into classic superhero games for the Sega Genesis, one of the toughest things other than finding said games is finding a suitable controller to play them with.
