Skyler Ashley
When Edward Emmerich isn’t suspended from Greater Lansing’s tallest buildings doing high-rise window washing jobs, he’s playing blistering guitar solos with his rock bands Dead Hour Noise and Anvil Crawler. But when it’s time to chill out, Emmerich likes to play some old school Sega Genesis games. Emmerich shared with City Pulse how he repaired his original unit and why it’s his favorite thing.
A recent project of mine has been getting my old Sega Genesis working again. There’s a lot of digital emulators that have come out in the past 10 years or so. But they don’t quite reproduce the sound the same way as the original Genesis hardware.
One of the reasons I wanted to fix it was the nostalgia of playing for hours with my brother. It was also a gateway to many things I am passionate about — music, art and sports. When I was young it really opened the door for me, so it was cool to get it working again.
A lot of classic Genesis games have been re-released and touched up. But the games that weren’t wildly successful often don’t get remastered. The only real way to play them is with cartridges on an actual old school console. My particular Genesis system is kind of weird, it’s still connected to a Sega CD, which I highly doubt even works. The CDs I used to have did not survive the past 20 years, so I haven’t really messed with it.
There’s been so many advances in technology since the Genesis first came out, I had to purchase an adapter that converts the original analog signal into HDMI. The games look and sound great on a modern TV. My favorite games are the Sonic series; those games’ soundtracks are so sweet. That was a big introduction to music for me, beyond when you’re 10 years old and you just listen to what your parents listen to. I wasn’t going to record stores; I didn’t know what cool people were listening to.
I also love the Jurassic Park: Lost World Sega Genesis game. It was one of the last games that came out on the console, so it was ahead of its time in a lot of ways. It’s a really cool co-op, top-down shooter. It has more complex missions than your typical side scrolling video game. The other big ones for me were RBI Baseball ’94 and Bill Walsh College Football.
I never owned a Nintendo system until the Gamecube. I had friends who owned the Super Nintendo and the N64, but I never bought into the fan wars between the consoles. I thought both systems were awesome and had their own sweet games. Genesis is just what I had. I guess I prefer it just because I know it better.
Interview edited and condensed by Skyler Ashley. If you have a suggestion for Favorite Things, please email Skyler@Lansingcitypulse.com
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