No, You're Not Dreaming - Farming Simulator Is Getting An Official Sega Mega Drive / Genesis Port

Available to pre-order now from Strictly Limited Games

by Jack Yarwood Yesterday, 4pm

Farming Simulator 16-Bit — *Image: Giants Software*

Last month, Giants Software, the developer behind the hugely successful Farming Simulator series, announced via a trailer on its YouTube channel that it would be releasing Farming Simulator 16-Bit — a new retro demake of the classic sim for Sega Mega Drive / Genesis. And it's now available to pre-order from Strictly Limited Games as a physical cart.

This 16-bit version of the game is said to feature new handmade pixel-art graphics, digitized sounds, and music from the Turrican composer Christopher Hülsbeck, and may have seemed like an out-of-season April fool's joke at first. But it's very much real, previously appearing as a digital bonus for the Collector's Edition of Farming Simulator 2025 for PC and now as a physical cart you can play on your original hardware.

It should be noted, this isn't the first time, the company has released a retro version of its popular simulation game, having previously released a version for Commodore 64 back in 2018 (which is still available to buy on the Farming Simulator website).

This time, however, the community seems to be a bit more split on the unusual release, being divided between those who are happy at seeing a 16-bit take on one of their favourite games and others who have complaints about the state of Farming Simulator 25 and see projects like this one as an unnecessary distraction.

If you happen to fall into the former camp, there are two versions of the game available on the Strictly Limited Games website — a limited edition copy (priced at £44.61) and a deluxe limited edition (£62.46). Both are limited to 500 copies each (1000 in total) and feature a distinctive Green cartridge.

The limited edition is expected to ship in May, with deluxe buyers also being able to arrange for the game to be shipped earlier via the company's contact form.

Select retailers, including Amazon and VideoGamePlus, are also expected to sell a less limited physical version of the game, with the main difference being that these will come on a basic black cartridge instead.

You can watch the trailer for the game below:

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Hailing from Manchester, Jack has a particular fondness for point-and-click adventure games. In the past, he’s written about lost games from studios like Sony Manchester, Genepool Software, and DMA Design, and has made a habit of debunking video game rumours.

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Migoshuro
Yesterday, 6:45pm

What, no comments? I haven't played Landwirtschaftssimulator, yet. But I do think, this is super awesome. More publishers/developers should do that. Hopefully, this will get a digital/physical release for Switch and Co. That, I would probably buy.

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LightyKD
Yesterday, 7:11pm

Another game to add to my Sega Genesis Mini! Sweet!

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N64-ROX
Yesterday, 7:23pm

Those screenshots look like an early 2000s PC game, my mind is blown that people are able to do something like this on a console from the 80s with 64KB RAM. I'd have thought that just being able to keep track of all the individual harvested crops would be impossible!

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Daggot
Yesterday, 11:56pm

@N64-ROX I was thinking the exact same thing. Almost looks like an early Sid Meier game.

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Daniel36
10:22am

Seeing as early Sid Meier games and those like it are my jam, this looks better to me than the "real" game.

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Protion9
1:28pm

After a hard day harvesting Tiberium, spend the rest of the day just harvesting crops.

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slider1983
2:05pm

@N64-ROX Nah, MD can do these graphics pretty easily. Check out the Strike series. Same graphics.

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slider1983
2:06pm

This is a very unusual port that no one really asked for. EA should have published this. Seems like the type of thing they'd publish back in the day.

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Zenszulu
2:49pm

@slider1983 That's the exact thing I thought looking at it. Has a very EA style to it. As for it being an unusual port, well that seems to be common for the system now after a random port of a MS-DOS fighter is also getting a port.

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slider1983
2:56pm

@Zenszulu For this game we need some EA yellow cases with those yellow tabs on the cartridges. 😂

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KingMike
20m ago

@Zenszulu It's not AS surprising once you know the guy who owns the copyright to that MS-DOS fighter was also one of the earliest to create a retro aftermarket publishing scene by localizing unlicensed Chinese Mega Drive RPGs (or at least those he could find that he felt confident didn't use assets copied from other and especially Japanese games, a common thing you'd see in mainland Asian unlicensed games).

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