Sega Genesis

[Anonymous No.2637105]

What are /vr/'s favorite Sega Genesis games?

[Anonymous No.2637136]

Earthworm Jim 2
Taz Escape from Mars
Wiz and Liz

[Anonymous No.2637146]

>>2637105
Objectively the best games on the Genesis

Revenge of Shinobi (initial release without any cut content)

streets of rage 2

alien soldier

gunstar heroes

thunder force 4

rocket knight adventures

contra hard corps

[Anonymous No.2637151]

gemfire

[Anonymous No.2637163]

LIGHT CRUSADER

[Anonymous No.2637170]

Master of Monsters. It brought my family together and then tore us apart.

[Anonymous No.2637186]

>>2637105
Really like me Ka-ge-ki

[Anonymous No.2637196]

>>2637105
sonic 3 & knuckles
streets of rage 2
road rash 1-3
tmnt: hyperstone heist
mortal kombat
outrunners
joe & mac

[Anonymous No.2637213]

Castlevania Bloodlines
Strider
Shadow Dancer
Monster world
Monster world IV
Ghouls n ghosts

And also Sonic CD if that counts

[Anonymous No.2637230]

Castlevania Bloodlines and ShadowRun are kinda overlooked.

[Anonymous No.2637241]

Toe Jam & Earl
Sonic 2
Contra Hard Corps
General Chaos
Gunstar Heroes
Aladdin
Mega Bomberman
X-Men
Streets of Rage 2 & 3
Sonic Spinball
Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine
Comix Zone
Taz-Mania

So, I guess pretty much the games I grew up with. Sega Channel let me play a lot of games I never would have otherwise (Like Cyborg Justice!).

[Anonymous No.2637254]

Hey /vr/, are there any good RPGs for Genesis or Master System? I know about SHining Force and Phantasy Star, but that's it.

[Anonymous No.2637260]

Out of this World

Lemmings

Fucking FLASHBACK!

[Anonymous No.2637273]

>>2637254
turn-based japanese RPG? not many, there is Lunar and some sRPG in the Sega CD though.

[Anonymous No.2637278]

>>2637254
Langrisser 1 and 2.

[Anonymous No.2637283]

>>2637254
ShadowRun and D&D:Warrriors of the Eternal Sun come to mind

[Anonymous No.2637292]

>>2637254
landstalker

[Anonymous No.2637331]

>>2637254 here

Thanks bros, I'll check those out.

[Anonymous No.2637339]

>>2637254
Crusader of Centy is really impressive, and Beyond Oasis is easily the best. Beyond that: Light Crusader, Landstalker, Fatal Labyrnth (if you like randomly generated dungeons), Valis 1 and 3 (there is no normal 2 on Genesis)

[Anonymous No.2637342]

>>2637339
There's also Pier Solar, which is a new-old game

[Anonymous No.2637347]

>>2637339
Valis is a side-scrolling action game.

If you like RPGs and want them on your Genesis, you'll need a Sega Cd.

[Anonymous No.2637376]

Do Sega CD games count?

If so, Snatcher.

[Anonymous No.2637439]

>>2637241
>Mega Bomberman

Is it a port of one of the SNES ones or is it a whole new game?

[Anonymous No.2637442]

Alien Solider is the best 16 bit action game

[Anonymous No.2637445]

>>2637439
port of a pce game actually. it's very similar to super bomberman 3

[Anonymous No.2637449]

yesterday I downloaded a bunch of games for my 10 year old cousin, I selected those, whaddaya think?

[Anonymous No.2637465]

>>2637105
/vr/'s overall favorite Genesis games are easily Ecco the Dolphin and EtD Tides of Time.

[Anonymous No.2637471]

>>2637465

Not Gunstar Heroes and the other Treasure games?

[Anonymous No.2637506]

>>2637449
alphabetical order, nig

[Anonymous No.2637782]

>no Devilish/Bad Omen

[Anonymous No.2639468]

El Viento and Tommy Lasorda Baseball, I dunno why tbh

[Anonymous No.2639570]

You got the name wrong, OP

[Anonymous No.2639615]

>>2637105
Shadow Dancer and Ranger-X are my favorite Genesis games.
Shadow Dancer's just a really solid methodical game that's like the original Shinobi instead of Revenge or 3. Better than the arcade game of the same name by far.
It's not too hard on default (major choke points are the bosses and stage 4). Final boss is kind of annoying.

Ranger-X is a graphical marvel, full of transparency effects and with cool wireframe 3D intermission scenes (that you can control with a cheat) and delivers satisfying mech action. Seems to have heavily inspired the similarly brilliant Bulk Slash on the Saturn (which is almost the same game but in 3D).
only thing is that it runs at 30fps

I also like the shit out of Kawasaki Superbike Challenge, if more for its graphics than anything else. Extremely smooth polygonal racer. Enable Turbo mode in the game's settings for best results (adjusts the FOV so that things are smaller so it has to draw less -- doesn't really hurt gameplay and probably should have been the default setting), although even with defaults, it's still the fastest officially released polygon game on the machine. Cheats like hell (road drawing is done OutRun style, so no 3D rotations need to be calculated), but all the scenery is polygonal and the other racers are 2D vectors. Really, really impressive.
Ton of tracks too.
There's an F-1 game using an earlier version of the same engine, which pushes more scaled sprites around than polygons. Didn't seem as fun of a game though.

Granada is a good runner up that I like. Cool soundtrack (if not amazing), okay visuals. The real meat is the actual game, you're controlling a strafing tank with a cannon that sends it flying back with the recoil (and you can use that to boost yourself). Also runs at 30fps, but puts a shit ton of stuff on screen sometimes.

Outrun 2019 gets a bad rap for some reason. It's no OutRun game, but it's fun. Gameplay-wise, it pretty much IS OutRun, but with a heavy futuristic styling.

length limit

[Anonymous No.2639661]

>>2639615
>continuing from earlier

Outrun 2019's got some relatively decent track design and does some extremely cool engine tricks (roads that can go above the ground/each other).
Decent music, nothing amazing.

Biggest things are that collisions and time are a LOT more lenient.
here's a webm

Graphics aren't the best -- they're a bit drab and depressing, although some parts are extremely impressive, where you're driving over this long-ass bridge with neon-blue lights going toward this huge-fuck cyber city in the distance.
too lazy to make a webm of that part though

[Anonymous No.2639830]

You should know the answer to that, OP.

[Anonymous No.2639889]

[Anonymous No.2639905]

Anyone mention quackshot?
Also Lion King is a dope platformer
Genesis is light on rpgs or any deep gameplay style. Its respectfully an atari2600 with way better graphics.

[Anonymous No.2639917]

Shinobi III :most refined game in the series
Comix Zone:I love the gimmick and i don't find it difficult as it is said to be.
Castlevania Bloodlines : one of the better games in the castlevania franchise

[Anonymous No.2639924]

Golden ax
Altered beast
Sonic
Bonanza bros

[Anonymous No.2639948]

>>2639889
basically better command and conquer 5 years before command and conquer. Although red alert was pretty awesome. And jet/robot things are cheesy to me.

[Anonymous No.2639958]

>>2639661
I like 2019 better than the port of 1. I'm aware of what 1 is supposed to look like on the arcade, so it feels like an imitator. 2019 is a console exclusive title.

[Anonymous No.2640074]

warning: potato quality video

>>2639958
I like the OutRun port on Genesis. Totally competent.
it really could have been better, but it's a semi-early title on the machine (I can't think of anything terribly impressive graphically on the machine from before 1992) and it gets the job done
also, which romset is the Genesis version even based on?
the stage order is different, there's supposed to be the one with the arches as the left second stage

man, I still think about a world where the Genesis was released in '90/'91 instead of '88/89, where it might have had some non-zero chance of getting some scaling hardware in there
like, most of Sega's big mid/late-80s arcade hits NEEDED scaling of some kind

2019 is definitely a solid game though. Other than it being really drab looking, I dunno why people seem to dislike it so much.
wasn't originally going to be an OutRun game apparently, it was supposed to be some Sega CD game called Cyber Road or something

[Anonymous No.2640250]

>>2637146
this post

[Anonymous No.2640257]

>>2640074
Ironically, the Sega CD does have scaling hardware. The only super scaler port I've played is awful (super low res), but non Sega games like the 2 Batman Games, Soul Star, and others basically do what you'd want in an Outrun game.

[Anonymous No.2640301]

>ctrl+f turrican
>phrase not found

What the fuck, /v/?

[Anonymous No.2640323]

>>2640301
Turrican or Mega Turrican? Or Both?

[Anonymous No.2640531]

ToeJam & Earl

[Anonymous No.2640574]

>>2640301
>>2640323
Universal soldier was best version of Turrican.

[Anonymous No.2640695]

Flicky.

[Anonymous No.2641626]

>>2637105
What the fuck is a Genesis?

You mean American unnecessarily renamed Mega Drive? Yes I can in fact recommend you some MEGA DRIVE games.

[Anonymous No.2641627]

>>2641626
>Picture for ants

[Anonymous No.2641628]

>>2639570
Why the hell did the Americans rename it anyway? It was Mega Drive for the rest of the planet and somehow they are special enough to get their own name?

[Anonymous No.2641635]

>>2641628
Mega Drive is not "fucking Murican!" enough for them so they have to make things more Bible friendly by adding in religious terms.

[Anonymous No.2641642]

>>2641626
>mad about american hegemony
>doesn't realize the American release Genesis made the system what it is, and you wouldn't have all these great games without it.
topkek

[Anonymous No.2641650]

>>2641642
>Doesn't realize his country is only a single market in a sea of oh... the rest of the planet that was also buying the system.
>Thinks his single nation was actually outbuying everyone else at the same time
>Probably doesn't know that there even are other countries in the world besides Japan.

[Anonymous No.2641653]

>>2641635
also probably wanted to clear up confusion considering they had a cd... DRIVE... planned for later release

Mega Drive sounds like PC hardware, not a video game console. In Japan, these are not as distinct as two different categories. In Europe everyone is poor and can't afford the plethora of different electronics anyways, so it doesn't matter.

[Anonymous No.2641658]

>>2641642
In one hand I see a single country

In the other I see 21 countries

>Murifag thinks exceptionalism is still a thing.

[Anonymous No.2641660]

>>2641650
>Doesn't realize his country is only a single market in a sea of oh... the rest of the planet that was also buying the system.
America is just another market. Holy shit. Maximumkek
>Thinks his single nation was actually outbuying everyone else at the same time
>Probably doesn't know that there even are other countries in the world besides Japan

These are just awful assumptions based on nothing.

[Anonymous No.2641663]

>>2637146
Forgot Yu Yu Hakusho: Sunset Fighters

[Anonymous No.2641675]

>>2641635
Wait, was Genesis really added to the name because of same old American bible belt shenanigans?

[Anonymous No.2641681]

>>2637449
>splatterhouse 2&3
Noice

[Anonymous No.2641685]

>>2641675
Good God. No. Genesis was marketed as edgier, more adult than Nintendo. ie less family friendly and Christian.

I think It was just the "new beginning" after NES wiped the floor with SMS

[Anonymous No.2641751]

>>2641675
>>2641628
They renamed it to Genesis in America because they didn't have the legal rights to call it the Mega Drive in that part of the world. There was a golf club which was called the Mega Drive and the name was already copyrighted in the US.

This is the only reason they changed the name.

[Anonymous No.2641754]

>>2641653
Everything you just said is total bullshit. Stop talking out of your ass.

[Anonymous No.2641785]

Road Rash games were an obsession for me. Otherwise I spent a lot of time on random shit with sega channel

[Anonymous No.2641814]

My top 3 would probably be Sonic 3D Blast, Shadow Dancer and Shadow Run. Yes, I liked 3D Blast despite its flaws.


Some overlooked titles I'd recommend are:

Nobunaga's Ambition - I cannot emphasize the replay value of this game. Grand strategy games are very engrossing. This particular version gets the aesthetics just right, and IMO is the highlight of the series.

Viewpoint - An isometric shoot-'em-up similar to Zaxxon. I preferred the PS1 version myself, but the Genesis version shouldn't be overlooked.

Fatal Labyrinth - An early console roguelike similar to Dragon Crystal, which was on SMS and GG. Very brutal, but the game does give you infinite continues.

James Pond: Codename RoboCod - A fairly generic shovelware platformer that doesn't do anything too special, but if you're tired of Sonic or Alex Kidd and still need a fix for platformers, James Pond may be another series to look into.

Mega Bomberman - It's a port of one of the TG Bomberman titles. Definitely one of the best multiplayer titles for the Genesis. I could do versus matches all day.

[Anonymous No.2641845]

>>2641751
Surprised me that not more people around here know this. Seems painfully evident that we have a lot of new friends that need to lurk more

[Anonymous No.2641874]

>>2637105
Ristar
Eliminate down
Streets of rage 2
Castlevania Bloodlines
Skitchin
Thunderforce iv
Aladdin
Jungle book
Mickey mania
Mercs
Robocop vs terminator
Demolition man

If sega cd counts

sonic cd
terminator cd

[Anonymous No.2641879]

Let's get this shit started.

>Genesissies will NEVER EVER get Super Metroid, game of the year all years

[Anonymous No.2641890]

>>2641879
>unless they also own a super nintendo

[Anonymous No.2641907]

>>2641890
or a psp
or a 3ds
or a pc
or a wii
or everything with a fucking emulator

[Anonymous No.2641927]

>>2641879
>implying I didn't buy Super Metroid for 6.99 when it was on clearance.

[Anonymous No.2641979]

>>2641626
>call it a mega drive instead of genesis
>store owner is like yeah whatever
>call them hucards for pcengine and not tg16
>owner says tg16 games

this nigga

[Anonymous No.2644119]

>>2637449
I'm not a beat em up guy but Splatterhouse 2 is the shit
Didn't like 3 at all tho. Moving vertically ruined it for me.
I wouldn't really have added Virtua Racing. Early 3D probably gets him dissapointed when thinking about other 3D titles he saw or the framerate. Super Monaco GP is a solid pick but might be too hard for him.


Maybe add at least one shmup. He might really like them. Can't go wrong with Fantasy Zone, or if he doesnt like the cutesy style, Truxton or MUSHA might be better.

Maybe add a fighting game too. Or even better, give him FBA with the full romset and let him win in Fatal Fury or something.

[Anonymous No.2644132]

>>2641814
License to Bubble > Robocod.

[Anonymous No.2644686]

>>2639905
Street Fighter II' and Puyo Pop 2 have deep gameplay.

[Anonymous No.2644698]

>>2644686
Congratulations, you named two whole games. He said that they were "light" on deep games, not that there weren't any at all. Learn how to communicate, you stupid fucking autist.

[Anonymous No.2644702]

>>2639905
The Genesis is not really light on RPGs.

[Anonymous No.2644712]

>>2641879
Good, that way we don't have to read casuals writing "m-muh exploration!" every fucking time.

[Anonymous No.2644719]

>>2639905
Are you implying RPGs have "deep gamplay"? kek

[Anonymous No.2644742]

>>2644712
>>2644719

you are replying to /v/-tier bait

[Anonymous No.2644746]

>>2644698
>two whole games
Still more than what he was comparing it to, the Atari 2600.

[Anonymous No.2644786]

>>2641635
i laughed.

[Anonymous No.2644794]

>>2637146
I can't disagree with this. All of those games are awesome.

[Anonymous No.2644797]

>>2637146
yes
yes
maybe
yes
yes
yes
no

[Anonymous No.2644820]

Genesis
Castlevania Bloodlines
Contra Hard Corps
Ghouls'n Ghost
Lightningforce (Thunderforce IV)
Gunstar Heroes
Sonic
Revenge of Shinobi
Shinobi 3
Streets of Rage 2

Sega CD
Lunar
Silpheed

32X
After Burner
Space Harrier

[Anonymous No.2644848]

>>2644742
looks like spergs sperging over a sincere if silly comment, which I suppose is about as /v/ as it gets

[Anonymous No.2644863]

>>2644848
>sincere
Nice try samefag
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.2644871]

>>2641663
great multiplayer, will be whipping it out again soon.

[Anonymous No.2644890]

>>2644848
I responded as if it were sincere, by stating the fact that it is true, and there are plenty of RPGs on the Genesis (even if many people don't actually like them) but surely you've been here long enough to tell that it probably is just low quality bait.

[Anonymous No.2644906]

Gunstar Heroes
Alisia Dragoon
El Viento
Phantasy Star 2 and 4
Battle Mania 2
Twinkle Tale
Contra Hard Corps
Monster World 4

[Anonymous No.2644917]

>>2641907
>2015
>still emulating games

poorfag detected