

Any Sega Genesis games previously purchased on Steam, including collections, are automatically added to players' game libraries in the Hub. The Hub includes Steam Workshop integration, supporting ROM hacks for these games within a day of its release, several previously developed ROM hacks were added by users to the Hub 's Workshop. The application presents a virtual hub, themed after what a bedroom of a Sega fanatic might be like, to play all of the released Sega Genesis games through it. Sega released a free application on Steam on April 28, 2016, called the Sega Genesis Classics Hub ( Sega Mega Drive Classics Hub in PAL regions). The collection also has save and load functionality that is included in all of the games that allows the player to pick up and play saved games at the exact point they left off.

The collection has configuring keyboard support which provides a personalised gaming experience, a well as a multiplayer mode for a select number of titles. It is a four-disc set of the forty-six Sega Genesis games from the first four volumes. Sega re-released the first four physically released volumes as the Sega Genesis Classic Collection: Gold Edition ( Sega Mega Drive Classics: Gold Edition in PAL regions), for Microsoft Windows.
