Genesis/MegaDrive Thread

[HAMMER FRENZY]

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.

[Trippy]

No Herzog Zwei?

[Yegolev]

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

[schild]

Best game on there is comixzone and he knows it.

[Fabricated]

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.

[schild]

Best game on there is comixzone and he knows it.

No.

Also, 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.

[Fabricated]

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.

[schild]

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.

[HAMMER FRENZY]

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.

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.

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.

[Margalis]

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.

[schild]

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.

[Velorath]

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.

[cosapi]

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

[Simond]

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

[Trippy]

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

The Motorola 68K was a 32-bit processor.

[WindupAtheist]

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.

[Simond]

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

The Motorola 68K was a 32-bit processor.

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.

[MrHat]

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

[HAMMER FRENZY]

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!

[Sky]

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? 

[murdoc]

MUTANT LEAGUE FOOTBALL.

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

[HAMMER FRENZY]

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.

[schild]

Sky: Sure thing there boss man.

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

[Fabricated]

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.

[HAMMER FRENZY]

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. 
 
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.

[trotski]

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

[Moaner]

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.

[HAMMER FRENZY]

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.   

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.

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.

[cmlancas]

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)

[HAMMER FRENZY]

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.

[schild]

God. I loved Vectorman. So much.

[Moaner]

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 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. 

[raydeen]

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

[HAMMER FRENZY]

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 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. 

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.

[Phildo]

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.