/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10969951
Play Popful Mail. Uses Genesis soundchip and there's no time travel gimmick

>>10925129
>>10924385

>>10802191
Ayyy

>>10614234
>Also are the 32X or CD worth looking into?
Do not buy a SEGA CD or 32X, but yes, absolutely. Emulate instead, or if you absolutely have to run them on original hardware then buy a Mega SD or Mega Everdrive Pro for SEGA CD.

My top ten for SEGA CD
>Sonic CD
>The Terminator
>Starblade
>Road Rash
>Keio Flying Squadron
>Lords of Thunder
>Android Assault: Revenge of Bari-Arm
>Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
>Silpheed
>After Burner III

Honestly SEGA CD deserves to be treated as its own console like Saturn, despite being an add-on it really is basically the successor to the Genesis.

32X is literally only forty games, but there are still some very good ones imo like Knuckles Chaotix, Virtua Racing Deluxe, After Burner, Shadow Squadron, and Darxide.

>>10572182
Probably pic related

>>10530563
Adding to this

Popful Mail
Snatcher
Lunar: The Silver Star
Lunar: Eternal Blue
Ecco CD
Shining Force CD

Also has a nice port of Samurai Shodown

>>10469123
Popful Mail
Snatcher
Lunar 1 and 2
Keio Flying Squadron
Lords of Thunder

>>10469361
Very good taste in this post. I played Gley Lancer for the first time earlier this year and it's surprisingly good
>Ristar and Rocket Knight Adventures are mascot platformers, sure, but they're good. The latter especially.
I played these two before touching Dynamite Headdy and I still prefer them both over that game (not that it's bad though).

>>10468108
>Popful Mail
>Magical Pop'n
>Pop'n Magic
>Pop'n Music
To make things more confusing two of these games are kind of similar (Popful Mail even has a completely different game on Super Famicom) and most of them are Japan-exclusive aside from pic related.

>>10457771
Popful Mail
Monster World IV
Symphony of the Night

>>10320009
Alright, there are multiple reasons for this. For one, Phantasy Star and Shining/Force predate Sonic by several years and have always been SEGA's primary RPG series. The other answer is both of our Sonic RPG's got cancelled. Sonic-16 would have basically been a SatAM RPG but was turned down by Naka, and Popful Mail would've been localized as "Sister Sonic" but they decided not to change it after fans basically protested it.

If you like Trials of Mana, probably check out Beyond Oasis, Crusader of Centy, LandStalker, Light Crusader, or Sword of Vermilion. All great Genesis-exclusive action adventure games, and some of them like Oasis and LandStalker have sequels on Saturn (and Dreamcast for LandStalker).

>>10286480
Popful Mail on SEGA CD almost got the same treatment as Mean Bean Machine, on one hand I'm glad it didn't, on the other hand it would make for a really cool rom hack idea. They could just use Sonia or something

>>10180869
I still need to actually play this game past the first stage

>>10155318
Play more SEGA CD games (aka the best ones on the platform)

>>10158149
Also this. Genesis really started hitting its stride in '92 and '93 at least. Thunder Force IV wasn't until '92, same year as Streets of Rage 2. Gunstar Heroes and Dynamite Headdy didn't come until '93 and '94.

OP if you enjoy Sonic CD, I highly recommend playing some other SEGA CD titles like Popful Mail, Earthworm Jim, and Mickey Mania. It's honestly a fantastic system that shouldn't be skipped (especially considering what came after)

>>10120771
RPG that plays more like a platformer. Symphony of the Night is also in this category, sort of. Also check out Magic Knight Rayearth on Saturn.