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Genesis/MegaDrive Thread

Hi ladies and gents, thought i would start a thread for one of my favorite systems, the Sega Genesis, or MegaDrive for our foreign buddies. Post your favorite games, Megadrive collections or ask any questions related to the MegaDrive or its add ons the 32X or the SegaCD. I actually have a decent collection of Megadrive/Genesis games which i will share with yououououou! I also have a decent Sega Cd and 32X collection but i will post that later. Let's get this party started ladies.


and now without further adieu... MY GENESIS GAMES. LET ME SHOW YOU THEM!

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2 crude dudes
6 pack
BOB
adventures of batman and robin
ahh! Real Monsters
airbusters
air diver
alex kid in enchanted castle
alien 3
alien Storm
alisia dragoon
alladin
altered beast
atomic robokid
ballz
batman forever
batman revenge of joker
battle toads
beast wrestler
beavis and butthead (x 2)
beyond oasis
biohazard battle
boogerman
budokan (x 3)
captain america and the avengers
castelvania bloodlines
castle of illusions
chakan
championship pro-am
chase hq 2
columns
combat cars
comixzone
contra hardcorps
crossfire
dashing desperados
david cranes amazing tennis
decap attack
dick tracey
dinosaurs for hire
dynamite duke
dynamite heady
earnest evans
earthworm jim
ecco the dolphin
elemental master (x2)
el viento
eswat (x 2)
eternal champions
exile
exosquad
fatal rewind (x 2)
fireshark
flashback
forgotten worlds
gaires
gargoyles
general chaos
general chaos (x 2)
george foreman
ghostbusters
ghouls n ghost
global gladiators
golden axe
golden axe 2
greatest heavyweights
growl
gunstar heroes
haunting
heavy nova
hellfire
herzog zwei
incredible hulk ( x2)
insector x (x 2)
jewel master
junction
judge dred
ka-gi-ki
king of the monsters 2
landstalker (x 2)
last battle
lethal enforcers
light crusader
lightening force
lion King
lost vikings
mean bean machine
mega bomberman
mega turrican
mercs
micro machines
midnight resistance (x2)
mortal kombat 3
ms pacman
musha
mutant league football (x 2)
mutant league hockey
mystic defender
nba jam tournament ediiton
nfl football 94
nhl 96
out of this world
outrun
outrunners
phantom 2040
philios
pitfall: the mayan adventure
pit fighter
powerball
predator 2
primal rage
quack shot
rambo 3
ranger x (x 2)
rastan saga 2
red zone
ren and stimpy
revenge of shinobi
road rash 3
robocop vs terminator
rocket knight adventures
rolling thunder 2
rolling thunder 3
sagaia (x 2)
Saturday night slam masters
scoobydoo adventures
shadow dancer
shadowrun
shining force 2
shining in the darkness
shinobi 3
skeleton crew
skitchin
slaughtersport
soldiers of fortune
sonic 2
sonic 3
sonic and knuckles
sonic 3d blast
sonic spinball (x2)
sonic the hedgehog
space harrier 2
speedball 2
splatterhouse 2
splatterhouse 3
star control
starflight
steel empire (x 2)
storm lord
street fighter special champ
streets of rage
streets of rage 2 (x2)
streets of rage 3
strider
strider 2
sub terrania
sunset riders
super baseball 2020
super hylide
superman
super street fighter 2
super thunder blade
super volley ball
sword of vermillion
target earth
task force harrier ex
tecmo superball 3
terminator
the faery tale adventure
the tick
thunder force 2
thunder force 3
thunderfox
timekillers
tmnt hyperstone heist
tmnt tournament fighters
toejam and earl 2
tough man contest
traysia
troubleshooter
truxton (x2)
twin cobra
tytants
ultimate mortal kombat 3 (x 2)
valis 3
vector man
viewpoint
virtua racing
weaponlord
whip rush (x 2)
world of illusion
world series baseball 98
wolverine adamantium rage
wwf raw
xmen 2 clone wars (x 2)
zero tolerance
zombies ate my neighbors
zoop (x 2) 

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that is them, I have a couple i have at my moms house and stuff that i have not gotten listed but that is what i have cataloged so far.
Discuss, share and have fun.

No Herzog Zwei?

I have a Genesis but no games.  Maybe a Sonic cart, not sure.  I can't explain it.

Best game on there is comixzone and he knows it.

No.

For shame at the lack of Shining Force 1 or Phantasy Star 4. Well, Shining Force 2 was better than 1, but still.

Also, no SegaCD.

My collection of SegaCD games is underwhelming outside of PANIC and Snatcher. I wish I had Lunar 1/2 and Popful Mail.

Switch Panic is hot.

Also, I don't do green.

The Thunder Force series is really cool too ignoring how stupidly hard they are.

And Gunstar Heroes, which out Contras Contra in every way shape and form.

The music in Thunder Force is awesome. The series is, as you said, awesomely hard.

Really, my heart is with Strider on that list. Strider is simply one of my favorite characters and games ever.

Awesome, i am glad people looked into this.
as i stated earlier there are some games that are not on the list but i do have some fluff to take care of.



I am trying to not define the system with 2 titles, and if i did, it certainly wouldn't be with those. I think that both shining force and PS4 are good, but like you stated, shining force 2o IS better and PS4 is easy to find. I  am taking care of a majority of stuff that i played and enjoyed, and random stuff i run in to, then getting all the fluff last. the genesis was not really a rpg haven., as such there was not a great deal of great rpgs on the system, although the ones that were there are pretty damn good. and my sega cd collection is pretty decent, like i said. from what i remember i have like 2 copies of snatcher, popful mail and all kinds of silly fun stuff, but i kinda want to focus on the megadrive stuff at this point.
 
also on the gunstar heroes thing, i agree, gunstar is crazy good. although contra hardcorps alone outcontras contra at any time as well. When it came to straight up arcade action the genesis freaking had it in spades. i honestly don't think the SNES had crap on the platformer/beat'em'up/shooter/arcade port barage that is the genesis collection. I mean if you look at a solid snes collection and subract the square stuff and enix stuff, you are left with a bunch of random fluff, and i really think that the SNES collection was made by the rpgs released on the system. on the other hand the genesis had a BUNCH of crap to play. it really is silly.

yeah thunderforce games are freaking crazy. they are really damn good. it is funny to see TF3 and thunder spirits side by side. the MD version just eats the snes version right the fuck up. then there is lightening force, undeadline, musha, taskforce harrier ex, insector x, steel empire, gaires, segaia, man the genesis ate the SNES up with the shooters. they were all over the place on the MD.

SCHILD: man you hit some sweet fucking spots there baby. i have me some hots ofr the strider AND comixzone. strider was just TOO damn good of a port. seriously. that is a good port man. that game was too hot. and comixzone was way ahead of its time. so damn stylish and good looking and it played so well too.

i just got some extra games i will put on the list here in the next couple of days, like 30 or so games. it sucks cause some of them are just freaking good. like i think i could strip down this collection to just the solid good stuff and still have to have at least 80 or 90 games. i want to keep all these suckas though.

anyway, just in case anyone thinks i have some snes hate, it is not that, i just think that the snes was really overplayed in the states. and it got too much credit, there really was a lot of fun stuff on the MD that just didn't get the attention it deserved. i stand by this, way more people should have played landstalker damnit. too much good stuff like this was missed.

LandStalker was good, my friend still sometimes does the funny walk animation in real life just for kicks.

Shooters on the MD were good overall, SNES slowdown issues really hurt it there, and the best shooter series (Parodius) never made it to the US. The TG-16 also had some great shooters, in particular Lords/Gates of Thunder. The SegaCD also had a really good shooter, I forget what it was called, it was sort of a steampunk Japanese theme. (Vertical scroller) It didn't do anything amazing but it was just a really fun game.

I do however have to say that Contra III for the SNES is the best Contra-style game, hands down.

I think the MD kind of got pegged as the sports system, with better versions of Madden and also games like Joe Montana football.

Please Hammer, Don't hurt the SNES.

Pilotwings, Super Metroid, Super Castlevania, Starfox, Actraiser, Blackthorne, the superior Aladdin, Harvest Moon, Legend of the Mystical Ninja, the MegaMan X games, Populous and Zombies Ate my Neighbors are willing to meet your boys on the playground any day of the week. 3PM, by the jungle jim.

I better see a glove full of justice.

Truth be told, I always thought Super Castlevania IV was a step back for the series.

That list wins for including Haunting.

Needs more

Kid Chameleon
Alien Soldier
Crusader of Centy
Chiki Chiki Boys
Fantastic Dizzy
Wonderboy in Monsterworld
Monster World 4
Puggsy
Pulseman
Ristar
Vixen 357

Everyone knows that the Amiga was the One, True 16-bit Machine anyway.  :inluv:

The Motorola 68K was a 32-bit processor.

I only have a few Genesis games, but I'll blather about one I really liked.  Greatest Heavyweights was easily the best boxing game of the 16-bit era.  In terms of mechanics it was very similar to a lot of side-view boxing games of that era (like the Bowe, Holyfield, and Chavez licensed games) but it was the most evolved of the bunch.

There were three possible bodies of different height and build a fighter could have, which made a huge impact, and a variety of noticably different AI scripts for the opponents.  An AI Muhammad Ali fought in a completely different way than an AI Rocky Marciano, and if you got really good with Larry Holmes, you'd need a new strategy if you started playing as Joe Frazier.  It's the kind of thing you'd take for granted just a few years later when the PS1 came along and EA put out Knockout Kings, but it was way ahead of it's contemporaries, most of which had fighters that were all just clones with different faces.

It was just a really competent piece of work.  Given the era in which it was made, I don't think it could have been done much better.

16-bit bus, 32-bit guts iirc.
*goes and checks*
Yup...the '020 was the first 'true' 32-bit 68xxx CPU. I think the Amiga's custom chips were all 16-bit as well.

I used to have this crazy dragon pinball game back in the day.  Damn fun.

Mrhat: are you talking about devils crush? that game was a technosoft port, it was really good on the MD, much better than the TB16 version.

SCHILD: be careful there man, the genesis can stand tit for tat with most of those chump sauce.
and you are the first person to say that the alladin on the snes was better than the MD version, that is just silly. pilot wings and starfox i will give ya, don't mess with the genesis on sidescrollers though man. as good as metroid is you put that against pulseman, ristar, shinobi 3, vector man 1 and 2, alien soldier, STRIDER, rolling thunder 2,3, splatter house 2, 3. there are too many good side scrolling ation games on the MD. Like i mentioned before, the SNES really rests on it's big titles and it's rpgs. oh and don't pull the populus card cause i will have to play my vastly superior tyrants, general chaos,immortal, star flight, star control herzog zwei cards. sega punched face with the strat and sim stuff. strat rts STARTED on the genesis. BUT i have to say, sim city  WAS on the snes so i will give them that one. that game was crack.  blackthorne was poopy compared to flashback which was better on the genesis anyway. and as far as the castlevania goes. yeah, i didnt think that the snes castlevania was all that great. bloodlines on the other hand was shit hot. and all those megaman games aint got nothing on the sonic games, say what you want but the sonic games are still good to this day. sonic 2,3, and sonic and knuckles were too damn good.  i think that your school yard brawl would get ugly.....

but no really i like the snes, but i got a man. (what's yo man gotta do wit me?!?!) i just think that i enjoy the selection on the genesis more than that on the snes. but there was a fair share of great snes games. i just hate how much poop was on the system too.

alas, zombies ate my neighbors WAS better on the snes.

TRIPPY: turns out i DO have herzog, list updated. that game is too fucking hot. even now.

man i am missing my championship pro-am game!!! grrrrrr that game was freaking great!

Battlemaster was the best game on that system. I can forgive not having Joe Montana's Sports Talk Football, but not Battlemaster.

And if you're going to start posting regularly, how's about some proper capitalization?  :cthulu:

MUTANT LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

I am still mad at my parents for selling my Genesis and Mutant League Football.

Yeah I agree with the Mutant League Football. That game was too fun. I actually though that Mutant League Hockey was pretty decent too. I had no idea that both those games are apparently tough to find now. Luckily the Genesis collection is a lot nicer on the wallet than most other old games. I don't often see most Genesis games go for too much on the Ebay.

Sky: Sure thing there boss man.

I was gonna tell you that when you came over this weekend.  :vv:

Strat rts didn't start on the Genesis in terms of consoles, it started on the TG-16 I think with Military Madness.

Also, I wanna add another omission to that list: The Killing Game Show.

Well if you want to get technical it started with Herzog by Technosoft on the MSX. (This was in 1988) Nectaris (Military Madness) was in '89, which was the same year Herzog Zwei was released. Herzog Zwei is more important because it was RTS successfully executed. The Original Herzog was pretty poopy.   Herzog Zwei was a better game than Military Madness in my opinion because it was bringing something new to the table in its execution and gameplay. It  was very balanced and almost all RTS developers credit Zwei as the grandpappy of RTS. This is really not an issue because as I am sure you are aware, Nectaris is a turn based strategy game.  :-P
 
Are you saying that the Killing Game Show is not on the list, or that it sucks? Cause I like that game, and I have like 2 or 3 copies for the MD In the states it is called Fatal Rewind.

I still have a Genesis and a few other old consoles, but since we're moving into a new house, my wife is trying to get me to get rid of them...WTF?

A few of my faves:

Golden Axe
Original Sonic Teh Hedgehog
Mutant League Football
and THE greatest sports game of all-time: NHL 95 -- if you knew the angle to take on the goalie, you could score at will. God that game was fun.

And my sister liked to play Tetris a lot... :-D

Phantasy Star 2 and 4
Thunderforce 3
Shining Force 1 and 2
Ghouls 'N Ghosts
Strider
Shinobi

God damn the Genesis rocked my ass.  That list contains some of my favorite games ever. 

I should play some Shining Force.  That actually sounds like fun again.

Trotski: Yeah, Golden Axe is some great fun. I was always lucky enough to have a second person to play that game with so it never got boring. I do have to say that the sports games on the Genesis were pretty darn fun at the time. The Genesis was really packed full of sports options. I was really into the World Series Baseball stuff. Those games played so freaking well and they looked really nice too. All that Mutant League stuff makes me wish they had made more games for that franchise. I would have been all about a Mutant League Soccer, Mutant League Baseball...Hell I would have killed for Mutant League All Pro Wrestling.. The options are endless. Everyone here knows that if it were available, they would have played Mutant League Bowling in a second.   :inluv:


That there is a solid list of favorite games. Man I freaking loved Ghouls 'N Ghosts. While we were playing arcade perfect G'nG, SNES foolios were stuck with that slopfest Super Ghosts N' Goblins. Man that game is freaking unplayable with all that slowdown. RanDumb.
Did you play Revenge of Shinobi or Shinobi 3? Both were really freaking good, but Shinobi 3 was a powerhouse. That game is goddamn amazing. I don't know if you played any ShadowDancer, which is considered part of the Shinobi series. That game was really fun too. Seriously, the Genesis had way too many good games.

I have Vectorman 2. I loved the music from Vectorman. :D One of the themes was blatantly stolen by Roxor games in In the Groove. (Mythology)

Yeah the Vectorman games were really solid games. Really fun. I never played In the Groove, wait I think I played it at the arcade but I didn't like it. If I remember correctly there was bombs on certain arrows that I had to avoid....lame.

God. I loved Vectorman. So much.

I can still remember bringing home G'nG the same day I brought home my Genesis.  It was glorious.  I played it regularly for years, literally.  Before I put my Genesis away I could beat it with one continue playing through twice for the 'real' ending.

I played Revenge of Shinobi, Shinobi 3, and Shadowdancer :)  I agree on Shinobi 3, to this day it remains one of my favorite side scrollers right behind the original arcade version of Shinobi.  Shadowdancer was also a favorite of mine as it was most like the arcade version which I loved so much.  BTW, the Sega Genesis collection which was released for ps2 actually contains Shadowdancer and Shinobi 3.  They look fucking great in 480p!

Ooh also... my first import was a MegaDrive game.  I imported Strider almost a year before it was released stateside.  Modding a Genesis to play imports consisted of shaving the square cart slot into an oval cart slot so MegaDrive games would fit. 

Favs in no particular order

Populous (played it for 10 hours straight when I first got it)
El Viento
Syd of Valis (SD version of Valis 1 if I recall)
Alisha Dragoon (spiritual successor to Thexder)
All the Phantasy Stars
Target Earth
Space Harrier 2
Ghostbusters
Rings of Power
Sonic 1

Yeah, those model 1 Genesis systems were awesome cause they really had no lockout internally and the tab mod was really easy. Otherwise people need to take the GameGenie pass-through method.

I'm upset at the lack of Warsong/Langrisser from all you people who liked Shining Force.  Warsong was probably my 2nd favorite game on the system after the Shining games.

I love ITG. Been playing DDR/ITG for around two years now. Not the greatest, but I've passed all the songs on the ITG cabinet except Vertex^2

I'm not really up on my MSX titles since the only ones I've really played are Metal Gear, Snatcher SD, and Snatcher (both with awful english-as-second-language translation patches).

Also, I keep forgetting that The Killing Game Show was called Fatal Rewind here in the states.

edit: Now that I'm thinking of it, here's all the stuff I liked on the Genesis I don't see on your list:
Crusader of Centy
Cool Spot
Toughman Contest (not the best boxing game in the world but filled with amusing stuff and eastereggs)
The Immortal
The Humans
Mega Man - The Wily Wars
Warrior of Rome (I can't actually remember too much about this, so it may not be as good as I remember).

Yeah Coo Spot was actually a really solid little game. Crusader was a hot little game as well. I am glad someone else likes The Killing Game Show around here. I really played the hell out of that game.

I really liked it but man was it hard at times. You had to pretty much hit the ground running on some of the levels.

Yeah, that game was really fast paced. It was only really crazy if you didn't know the level, otherwise you could cruise through it pretty quick and not see the acid/goop level rise. The Genesis port was a pretty decent port. I really enjoyed it.

Man on that Crusader of Centy stuff, it is weird how much that game is like Zelda. It is really good though, I am really going to have to pick that up pretty soon here. It is weird that Crusader got so little play. It was pretty damn solid. I actually like Beyond Oasis much more, but crusader was damn good. But with Crusader, Landstalker, and Beyond Oasis, there was some pretty decent adventuring goin on on the MD. You can through in Light Crusader too, that game was pretty damn fun too.

Where is my Dune: Battle for Arrakis love at?

Some highlights of mine through my Genesis year:

All the main Sonic games before 3D. God, Sonic 3D was ass.
General Chaos. Multiplayer. Much love.
Early Triple Play games. With multitap. Fight over who gets to be batter.  :evil:
NHL 93-96. Pure Pwnage. Also, go across the goalie in close on your forehand = easy goals. Also, the rare dump from the opposite end, bank off the backboards, off the goalie's ass, and in. Lolz
Gunstar Heroes. No list is complete without it.
Rocketknight Adventures. Seriously.
Early Fifa series.
Joe Montana Football. Bootlegs FTW.
Jurassic Park was kinda neat.
Sword of Vermillion. I don't care what the douches on YouTube say, the game is fun if you don't suck at it.
Phantasy Star, especially IV. EPIC.

Many others. I had both a SNES and Genesis, and got tons of play out of both; each system had their strengths.

Man I a, happy someone pointed out that they like General Chaos. That game was freaking crazy fun. All the unit types were cool, and going in commando style was a blast. That is a game I would like to see played a t a high level... And on that Rocket Knight Adventures. Holy crap I love that game like crazy. That game was seriously a great game. Travelers Tales needs to revisit that shit quick. I would buy a DS port of that game in a heart beat... Holy crap, dude, imagine DS General Chaos with online multiplayer....Oh man that would be sweet.

That was probably exploitable, because that was my golden play, too.

No love for Battlemaster by anyone? I used to love that game, but I was pretty messed up on drugs at that point. The guy who turned me onto the Genesis was a coke dealer and we'd sit and play Joe Montanta Football for hours. Days.

I think I had Sword of Vermillion, Golden Axe, Phantasy Star something, Starflight, a few others (Sonics, of course).

Got into playing ROMs a little, couple years back.

Yeah Star Flight is a pretty good game. I don't care what anyone says, the Montana games were really good.

You could also return every kickoff for a TD by running down the sideline, if I remember correctly.

All these Montana strats only worked on the comp, did any of you play with friends? That game held up pretty well in multiplayer.

Damn, forgot about that one. That was another one that kept me up all night on a number of occasions. I remember getting Starflight II for the PC really cheap and it was even better.

Wow. Dune really brings back memories. I really sucked at it though. The moment things started flying over my base, I started having major issues. :) It was my first RTS though and really kicked off a whole genre for me.

Oh and the NHL games? Those were greatness. I can remember checking people and then falling to the ice and kicking their legs while blood poured from their heads. Or the early Madden games when someone would get hurt and the ambulance would come rolling onto the field to pick them up. That in of itself would be cool, but no, it ran over the other players to get to the injured one. No kidding.

Phantasy Star IV is absolutely incredible and for the life of me, when I discovered it, I could not find a copy. So, I rented the same game over and over and over. Shining Force 2 was another favorite.

Edit - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_138p6uzhUk - A video montage of the Madden 92 ambulance

Ahahah, oh shit, the Madden 92' ambulance. I actually own that specific title, and it was one of my favorite games because of that.

Ah shit, I remember that neon green field. Awesome.

Also, I forgot about some Clutch titles. The Streets of Rage series of games were always great. I really wish we still saw games like this.
Golden Axe, mostly just #1. Awesome.

Yeah, I have to agree with the you on the Streets Of Rage and Golden Axe stuff. I think that Genesis had some damn awesome brawlers on it. Golden Axe was just great but man SOR 2 and 3 were freaking masterpieces. They really are some of if not the best examples of the brawler/beat em' up genre in my opinion. And it really isn't because of the way they played, which was just freaking awesome, but how the games were paced. There was seriously always the right amount of enemies on the screen and the amount of moves and how they could be used was just awesome, then  add to that how dynamic the multiplayer was, with the tandem moves and cooperative brawling, it was just too damn good.

I don't know if you had a chance to play Golden Axe 3. It was not released here, but now it IS available on the Genesis collection on the PS2. Don't let anyone bullshit you, it was a fun game. Lots of fun fighting in that.

Shinobi 3. I know it was on your list, but it needs some discussion board love.

Also, as far as baseball games go, RBI '94 was excellent. My brother and I still play it from time to time. If you don't own it, you should pick it up.

Truth.

Original Toejam and Earl kicked the shit out of all of it's sequels.
Sonic and Knuckes was awesome.  Lock-on technology, IT WILL BE THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE SOMEDAY IF SOMEONE REMEMBERS IT!
Had a lot of fun with Earthworm Jim.  I loved Beyond Oasis, too.
But Rocket Knight Adventures was simply ten flavors of awesome.

Rastan Saga 2 was vomitous bile, as was James Pond which you didn't mention and should never ever fucking play.

TMNT Tournament Fighters was wierd for me... me and my brother were huge TMNT fans back in the day, and the game was fun, but it was hideously unbalanced.  You could knockdown an enemy and throw them as they were getting up without them being able to do anything to guard against it; it was a forgone conclusion once someone got knocked down that they would lose.  So we made up these elaborate rules about when you could and couldn't re-throw... and Leonardo's standing fierce hit both high and low, so my brother decided that I shouldn't be able to use that one too much... and then later he had some move that I hated... and we ended up with this incredibly elaborate code of behavior that dictated how we'd play.
We also played a lot of Samurai Shodown, but we never got to that level of absurdity with it.  I rocked at that game.  Played a lot of Street Fighter 2 Champion, and he pulverized me usually.

Fuck Yeah Toejam and Earl. Fuck you, damn proctologists (re: dentists?) and "Furnt-Furnts" (re: invisible ice cream trucks.) And fucking Level 0 with the hot tub? Come On.

I played GA 3, but I didn't much like it. The graphics just seemed....wrong.

I remember the SEGA TMNT fighter....I thought it was terrible. The SNES TMNT fighting game was much superior.


I'm trying real hard to think of some more great Sega games, and just fail. My buddy had the Star Trek: TNG game. We never really "played" it; instead, we would go find Romulans, fuck with them, and then just into combat mode and sneak-attack them while they thought we were still negotiating. Then we would see how long we could last against endless waves of Romulan warbirds. One great tip was to fly backwards when your forward shields were damaged, and vice versa. Also fun: me acting like data and scanning systems for starbases. Those damn torpedoes are not going to replenish themselves.

What else....Pt Fighter was kind of neat. Gotta love the original MK, with the blood code on of course. So many games...

Yeah, I can see that GA3 was a little weird in the looks dept. but the game played well. It had multiple moves per character and fought pretty well.  Man i have to admit I played Pit Fighter like freaking CRAZY. I had friends who all played it in the arcade so we played it on the Genesis. As silly as the game is, it was freaking fun. A MUCH better port than the SNES one. Man I ddn't like the TMNT fighting game much on the Genesis either, it was just sloppy. The SNES one was a legitimately good fighting game. People actually played that pretty seriously and it still has a small following. I have seen some good matches in it, they are all on You Tube.

Was that Star Trek TNG game pretty good? like worth owning? I might have to look into that. Oh and I really liked all the MK stuff too, especially Ultimate MK3. That game was a pretty damn good game on the Genesis. Pretty good port.

I updated the list today, added the following:

Alien 3
Columns
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Sonic and knuckles
Sonic 3D Blast
Star Control

Eh, worth owning? I don't know, how much would you be paying for it? My buddy had his parents buy it when we were all kids anyway.


He also had Tommy LaSorda's baseball game, which I liked. It was sort of ahead of its time, where you had to actually select your pitch and batting technique like you do now, instead of just using the d-pad to throw heat or silly curves/sinkers, such as in RBI baseball.

Hah. I remember Columns 2 for the Game Gear. I can still remember the last guy laughing at you while you were losing.

Yeah I really enjoyed Columns when I was young. Now, it just seems a little to random for me. Like a lot of combos just happen by chance...I have yet to see high level Columns, I may have to look into that.

I enjoyed Master of Monsters a lot.  It was a fairly easy game, but there weren't a lot of strategy games back then.  I also loved the basic concept of Outlander, even if the gameplay wasn't all that great.


Edit:  Also, Gain Ground bitches.

Yeah that game was amazing.  It's career mode was spot on too, working your way up from fighting the small gyms against complete nobody's to being the number one contender in huge arena's with big purses.  It had the training mini games, the create your own boxer, and just the right amount of challenge.  It also had surprising depth as a two player game. 

Another great game was General Chaos.  Real time squad based combat with cartoony graphics, a great sense of humor, and you could play cooperative, against the computer, or against a friend.  It had this cool system where you couldn't quite pick exactly what team you wanted, so it forced you to become proficient with all combinations of troops (gunners, dynamite, bazooka).  This way you couldn't just cheese a five man squad of machine gunners every time.  Also, there was a campaign map, and the winner of the last battle got to select the turf of the next battle.  Pretty cool. 

I saw the PSP Genesis collection at EBStop yesterday for $19.99 new. Some pretty decent games, many of which I liked.

Yeah, I really enjoy General Chaos. I never really had anyone to play that with unfortunately. I thought that game was just a damn fun game to play. But I agree with the 5 machinegunners thing, that was wack.

I haven't seen Desert Strike or Jungle Strike on here.


It had a destructible White House. That's just sweet.

Fuck yeah, Desert Jungle and Urban Strike.

I also think I missed Road Rash 3. This was my all-time favorite genesis game.


Fuck, you could cattleprod the pigs. That's fucking awesome.

Career mode was great.  The fictional boxers weren't static, either.  Guys would work their way up from newb status, winning matches and increasing their stats, then eventually peak and begin to age, falling back down the rankings as their stats decreased and they began losing fights.  It was fun taking a guy who had given you a hard time on the way up and fighting him again much later, whipping his ass with you in your prime and him over the hill.

The Genesis started and ended for me with Shadowrun.

In hindsight I'd opt to have spent more time on the platform. Shining Force in its prime, more Gunstar Heroes, Warsong (Langrisser), any interest in Sonic at all. But the way it turned out, it's the only title I've ever got around to putting serious time into. And even then, likely less than the more linear Snes version. Again, more as fate would have it than as a conscious decision.

Man seeing all you guys talk about the genesis and bring up all these random ass games...It just goes to show how badass that system really was. Anyway, I am going to need to pick up this boxing game you guys are talking about, it just sounds too good.  I actually enjoyed Toughman Contest. It was no Punchout Killer but it was a fun game.

ROADRASH! Man I played that game like freaking crazy. I own Road Rash 2 and 3 and I thought that they were both awesome as hell. They just felt fast and mean. I Liked using the code for that fast ass red bike, that thing was a freaking monster.

This reminds me that I went from that straight to Skitchin and that game was actually fun as hell. I just like the idea of having to use the other cars to move around and the trick system  and all the silly crap you could do. It was just a fun ass game.

I have been playing a lot more Herzog Zwei recently. Damn that game was just too good. All the units are useful and the gameplay is just freaking crazy. I love the amount of control you have in that.

I also started playing Gargoyles as well, that is a pretty solid platformer. Pretty hot little number.

I loved several Genesis games, especially Dune and Mutant League Football but my favorite game was for the Sega CD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Wizard (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Wizard)

I played that over and over.

Another sweet game was Gemfire.  Pretty sexy little strategy game for back in the day.

So umm..is emulation a bad thing for out of print games for discontinued systems? I'm really jonesing for Dark Wizard now that I talked about it in this thread.

I just went back and played that yesterday.  I was cruising along, demolishing people.  I mean, really savaging people.  I went from 30th place (last) to 13th with all first round knockouts.  But at about 20th place, I staretd getting cocky, and skipping 3 ranks ahead (the highest rank challenger you can face at any one time is 3 ranks above you) until I just got SERVED when I tried to crack the top ten.  All the boxing scripts were easy to handle/I remembered them/figured them out/etc. until then.  Man, I really got worked over.  Quit the game in frustration and busted one of my controllers.  Pretty intense.

You might want to be careful about Dark Wizard.  It was the first game I bought for Sega CD and I played the hell out of it, but I tried it again about two years ago and it didn't hold up well at all.  That said, it still holds up better than almost anything else from that system, so go ahead!

In the meantime, I'll say it again.  Langrisser, anybody?

Yeah that game was a nightmare at the harder levels. Those guys were just mean. I enjoyed that game. I may go back and play it a little more. I really liked all the silly power moves and whatnot. Wasn't there 2 player support on that???

How could I forget Road Rash 2? When I was 9 or so I figured out a way to get free bikes; something about choosing whichever bike you wanted in multiplayer, and going back to singleplayer mode.

Also - The Chain. For The Win.

The AI in Greatest Heavyweights was just murder.  It wasn't simple Punch-Out "block high when he wiggles his eyebrows" stuff, and it wasn't terribly predictable.  I made a really tall fighter, and learned how to time a jab just right.

So, I find my Genesis, my Sega CD and probably about 20-30 games for both. But I have no cable to connect the Genesis to the TV. I have everything else including controllers and power supplies but no TV cable. And of course, like most consoles, it doesn't use a standard cable, I need one with their "end" on it. I looked at Amazon and I can buy cables, but to be honest, I don't remember exactly which model Genesis I have.

If you have a 32x and a Sega CD connected to it then it is either this one,
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en-commons/thumb/2/2e/250px-Sega_Genesis_original_model.jpg
or this one
http://i21.ebayimg.com/04/s/07/25/68/47_2.JPG

The first one is a model 1, that one can use the old NES style RF or AV (this model does not output stereo through AV, you need to route via the headphone jack).

The second one is a model 2. That one uses a different RF/AV, this one does output to stereo sound.

They look like this.
http://www.ztnetstore.com/images/genesis2av.jpg

They go on Ebay for about 7-10 buckaroos.

It's the model two. It has some kind of propietary plug in the back for video and seperate red and white for audio.

You end up getting that AV cord? What Sega Cd games do you still have?

Yeah, Amazon is sending it to me. Then I'll find out if my Sega CD has survived the last decade packed away.

I have:

Jurassic Park
Shining Force
Dark Wizard
The Terminator
That sewer shark one
Wing Commander
Vay
Popful mail
some cheesy mech game
Star Wars: Rebel Assault
Power Monger
Mortal Combat

Yay Popful Mail.

Haha Vay!  I loved that game when I was little.  It's no Lunar, though

Holly crap, I got The Lion King in the mail today. That game was just a goddamn solid piece of work. Seriously, damn well done for its time, and still fun and even pretty now.  :cry: I wish I would have played it when I was a kid.

I played it when I was a kid. Also, Power Rangers is a half-decent fighting game. Aladdin is fun too.

I hooked mine to the TV with the cable from an old NES.  I just went and looked to make sure I wasn't misremembering.

Did you get me denned Nelson?

What?

Am I the only person here with an actual copy of Snatcher? ...nevermind I seem to have misplaced it, which upsets me.

Whew.  That would have meant war.

I think I may have 2 copies of Snatcher, one complete the other loose. That game is fantastic. Hope that they port that to the DS, that would be awesome.

I got a few new games this weekend, I was in Tucson, AZ and found some nice stuff at the Bookmans.

-Alien Storm
    A pretty damn decent sci-fi beat'em'up.  the arcade version was better but this is a solid port, 2 player co-op and duel modes, the game plays pretty well for how old it is. It oozes Sega style action. It seems to have a lot of Golden Axe syle running mechanics and animations and it fights pretty well. I like this game a lot.

-Wolverine Adamantium Rage
    I picked this up cause it was complete and I played it when I was a kid. Pretty good side scroller/action game. lots of moves and crap, pretty well done.

- Junction
    Random puzzle game. I have been looking for more puzzle games for the genesis and have seen that the selection is very small.
this game is kinda a pipe dream style game with some weird special pieces and enemies. It is pretty decent. If I was good at it I am sure I would like it more.

-Championship Pro-Am
    Self explanatory. I thought I already owned this game, but I could not find it so I bought another one. This is a good racing game. Damn well done.

-Mega Bomberman
    Yeah I was surprised I found it too. $10 no less...Anyway this game owns my goddamn face right the fuck off. It, in my opinion, is the best Bomberman game second only to Saturn Bomberman. It is really, really good.

-Greatest Heavyweights
     Got this puppy with a box and book for $3. I liked it a lot. I already made a character and am getting into the career mode. This is a pretty damn good boxing game. Thanks for the recomendation.

The main list on page 1 was updated.

Oh god Adamantium Rage isn't even worth the nostalgaia.

You depress me. Cut the fat out of that collection, son.

well it rounds out the marvel collection on the system. It was not as good as a lot of stuff out there, but it is by no means god awful.

All I need at this point is Punisher. Lucky for me that game owns my face.

I got my new AV cord and hooked it up and after a decade or so in storage my Genesis and Sega CD still work. Dark Wizard here I come! My daughter loves Popful Mail but finds it too hard for her so ends up handing me the controller. (to be fair she is 8.)

Man I can't believe the beat down that the cpu can hand out in Greatest Heavyweights. It is just brutal sometimes. I think this is my favorite boxing game on the system.

Yeah, back in the day my friend and I would try to see who could have the greatest boxer.  Basically, who could get to number 1, and then defeat all the legends in the quickest amount of time, (fewest career fights) fewest losses, and have the most purse money.  Good times.  Once you start trying to zip through the standings without losing, it takes the challenge to another level.

Last time I played through, my guy finished at 47-0 after beating all the legends.  I'd have gone for 50-0 just to have one up on Marciano's record, but you have to win the title by your 40th fight or the game auto-retires you.  So with that in mind, here are a few pointers.

A)  Choose the tallest of the three builds at character creation.  It has the longest reach, and that's critical.

B)  Against the two-thirds of fighters who are shorter than you, put up a wall of jabs and don't ever let them through.  High and low, left and right, just keep jabbing.  Most of them will be blocked, but they'll keep your opponent on the outside where he can't hit back.  From there you can watch what lands and search for a pattern at your leisure.  Work in harder punches where you can, but be prepared to win on your jab alone if you have to.

C)  Against guys your own size... well... this is where you have to learn to really fight.  In general, engage from as far away as possible, and keep throwing shitloads of jabs.  If you go charging forward looking to land hooks and uppercuts, a tall opponent on the high end of the difficulty scale will usually whip you so badly on the way in that it's just not worth it.

D)  You can get all the way to the championship without fighting a tall guy if you're willing to shamelessly duck them, but I don't recommend it.  Sooner or later you'll have to fight Larry Holmes, and he'll fuck you up if you don't know how to fight without a reach advantage.  In fact, fighting Holmes in exhibition mode until you get the hang of it is probably a good idea.

E)  Never let the opponent get away with a taunt.  Hit them with a hook to the body while they're talking.  This adds up, especially against jaw-flappers like Ali and some of the fictional guys.

I used to make tall guys, but now I get real and make short or medium guys.  They look less like dufuses and it's more of a challenge.

It would be different if the other two builds had anything to compensate.  As it is, it's tall, gimpy, and more gimpy.

I see no mention of Cyberball in this thread and, as such, I consider it a heresy.

Also no Third World War for Sega CD. Bitch to find but oh so sweet.

I got a copy of Ristar with a box and book. That game is pretty damn solid. I really like it.