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It's only saving grace was the Archie Sonic covers from the art gallery and its music.

Mega Collection and Plus version were ok but there weren't accurate. I would've prefer more concept art from other Sonic games or another Game Gear games outside of Sonic (like Virtua Fighter Animation/Mini for kicks, not going to happen because that would've also brought the rating up, but I'm just using it as an example). Those final boss demos of the games that were on Mega Collection weren't even necessary.

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Then we had Knuckles Chaotix stuff but the game wasn't included because the developers didn't know how to emulate the game, despite the fact that there were people managed to emulate the game good (Kega Fusion). I felt the Vectorman games were ok, but I didn't care about them. I didn't even own the series at the time, so it would've been nice to play that series, including the popular Streets of Rage 2 on console but then I would've had to deal with the huge differences and difficulty spike from 3. Then we lost out on the Street of Rage series because of the rating system. Disappointed that the US only got the GameCube version and not the PS2 version, big mistake on Sega's part. I also love the gallery music, especially the remixes. Third, I played Sonic CD on a console, which I had on the PC, unlike R, that one work well but it was awkward playing on a keyboard.

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I had the PC version and boy, back in the day, that game WILL NOT work on my Windows 98 PC. Second was I finally get to play Sonic R. Unfortunately, it was the time when Honey was discovered and they had to remove her data. The first one was, of course, Sonic the Fighters finally had a home release. I have both collections but I liked Gems more because a couple of reasons. So yeah, overall, even with CD missing from it, Mega Collection just felt so cohesive and pristine, so it gets my vote, while Gems felt like they were just constantly desparately trying to find random stuff to throw into it to increase the value of the disc, because they knew CD, Fighters and R were a tough sell by themselves compared to the value for money Mega Collection provided. AND missing Game Gear games from Gems Collection? It's all just so strange. Then you have the strange final boss demos of games from Mega Collection. Vectorman feels less of a piece alongside Sonic games (while Ristar sits alongside Sonic swimmingly even though I was equally unfamiliar with both games going into these collections), and the main Sonic offerings in Gems consist of The Oddball mainstream Sonic platformer and two spin-off games - then a bunch of Game Gear games we already played in SADX - and not even all of them, just a seemingly random selection of 6.

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Like, Mega was just full of real mainstream Sonic content stuff, while Gems slightly felt like they were scraping up the leftovers of what Mega didn't cover and it was more of a struggle to make it feel like a cohesive product in itself as a result, all just a bit more padded out. The games were better, and I also preferred the UI soundtrack of Mega overall and the bonus features felt more. Gems definitely had a weird novelty value to it, and finally getting to own and play Sonic CD properly was very special, but I think Mega Collection ultimately got more mileage out of me.

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