Favorite old Sega Genesis game?
 

Alright everyone. What's your favorite Sega Genesis game?? I remember it was a cut above the graphics of the SNES and came with that game called (I do believe) Legendary Beasts.

My favorite game was called "Phantasy Star". LOVED IT!!! There was another game that I can't remember the name of that was cool and it was cool as hell!! You walked around (Side scroller) and fought people with a sword. There was a lot of blood as you fought and it was kewl for the time. :)

BUT...Phantasy Star was definitely my favorite game of that console.

Comix Zone

By the way Gjeff, could you tell us when you're going to be making "Favorite game for (Insert name of console here)" so I have a week to think about it? ;)

Duh, Sonic!
The best was when you could have the second player be Tails.

Was it "Altered Beast?" Or was that another? Hm...

I think my favorite was Toejam and Earl, but that might also be because I always played it with my older brother... at this point, I honestly don't even remember if it was any good :p

Smart ass. heheheheheh. Sure! I'll let you know as I come up with them. :P

Actually I just came up with this thread because of my thinking about "Phantasy Star". It would be good to know if others feel the same way.

THAT'S WHAT IT WAS!!!!! Altered Beast!!!!!!! I enjoyed that a lot!!!

Skitchin'...you were on roller blades and raced by grabbing on to passing cars bumpers....wasn't on the market too long before the do-gooders threw a fit and got it removed, but i do have this system emulated on my pc and play it every once in a while

NBA Jam Tournament Edition

Oooooooooooooh my! He's on fire!

Shaq-fu :D :p

Beyond Oasis.

Landstalker. Never beat it, and its haunted me ever since.

This game called gunstar heroes. You could mix weapon types to get the most badass weapons possible. I remember the laser one with normal bullets got you a homing device and you just walked with the shoot button down and owned everyone. Good times.

Wow, those are my top three right there.

After that would have to be the X-men game. Oh man, I miss my genesis now.

Oh man. Such good memories with that game.

Just off the top of my head...

Sonic
Sonic 2
Sonic 3
Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic 3 and Knuckles
The Punisher
Streets of Rage
Streets of Rage 2
Streets of Rage 3
Shadow of the Beast 2
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Super Street Fighter 2
Samurai Showdown
Robocop vs. Terminator
X-Men
Mortal Kombat
Mortal Kombat 2
Mortal Kombat 3
Jurassic Park
Aladddin
The Lion King
Altered Beast
Golden Axe

...Best. Console. Ever.

EDIT: To put Golden Axe in there, how could I forget?! Thanks skyscan!

*coughs* Zombies Ate My Neighbors....(yes, it's official: I'm a dork :D )

I burnt out my Speedball 2 cartradge I played it so much

Guys.... I can't believe you've all forgotten....


ROAD RASH !!!!

Hit those popo with your club!

Shining Force - easily the favorite game of my childhood. My best friend and I would stay up all night playing it, as it was our first experience with an RPG kind of game, and we were fascinated.

Phantasy Star II was one of my fav games on the Genesis also - that's why I picked up Phantasy Star Collection for the GBA - you should check it out. It has Phantasy Star I, II, and III on the cart - and they're absolutely perfect. They look just like the genesis versions. I guess it was a waste for me since I have a Nomad and the genesis carts anyway, but at least I get those 3 on one and I can play PSIV on my Nomad.

NO WAY!!! :( though...I don't have a GBA. I have a PS2 and that's it. ARG! If they put it out for the PC...I would be all over it!!!

Send me the link anyway though!!! I'd love to take a look at it! :)

Im in the Gunstar Heroes crowd also. That game rules. Brilliant design, awesome bosses and geniune frantic gameplay.

I think all I ever played were Madden football, and NHPLA Hockey. I also played NBA Jam, but I could kick anyone's ass in the first two mentions. When they first came out with the adapter so 4 could play, I think we played hockey for over a day straight!

Oh man, how could I forget RR. I think that my memories were just overwhelmed by my Gameshark-using bliss when RR 3D came out for PS1.

Also a great game! I never got very far in it, but it had a very, very cool feel to it. God that was an awesome game.

Shadowrun
Shining Force 2
Pirates! Gold
Streets of Rage 2, 3
Sonic 2
Sonic 3
Sonic and Knuckles
Sonic 2 and 3 plugged into Sonic and Knuckles :)
SKITCHIN'
Mortal Kombat 1 (because of the DULLARD code... made it way better than the SNES MK1)
General Chaos
Crusader of Centy

Great game!


The NHL series.

Desert, Jungle, Urban Strikes.

And Populous :)

So...many...great...memories.

I'm a lil' shocked that nobody's mentioned this excellent puzzle-game: Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. I'm almost stunned that Contra: Hard Corpse hasn't been named. Last, I'm flat-out disappointed that Boogerman hasn't been nominated a minimum of 25 times yet.

...Okay, I lied about that last one, but Boogerman's a fun game nonetheless. Check it out sometime if ya get the chance.

Altered Beast and Golden Axe, hands down. (Don't forget the 32x edition of Doom)

YES!!!! Golden Axe!!! A friend of mine still has his Genesis and I found Golden Axe in a discount bin at my local Gamestop. So now, everytime I visit we play. We can never finish though as you know...the end game is a bitch!

Shadowrun all the way motherfuckeres! And Flashback the quest for Identity and Mutant League Football

Holy crap, I can't believe I forgot to say Golden Axe...2, that is. Never played the other ones, but #2 was the bomb-diggity.

Shining Force is better than a lot of the newer RPGs. I'm playing through it again right now on the GBA.

World Series Baseball '95...the best baseball game of the 16-bit era.

There......there was a Golden Axe 2!?!?!??!! I didn't even know that!!!! For the Sega Genesis???

NHL 97
Echo the Dolphin
Streets of Rage 2
All the Sonic games

I apologize for nothing. Not even Echo.

SHADOWRUN!! remember hacking, and the weird colored blobs were nodes?

Ballz, Boogerman, and Desert Strike :D

Never played Echo the Dolphin weirdly enough. Even though they touted that as being the next gen in graphics.

Road Rash, Ghouls & Ghosts.

OMG, I forgot about World Series Baseball! That game rocked.

Oh, do any of you still have and play your sega? I still do a little, but my kids play some of the games now.

I actually played through it a month or two ago on my Sega out of boredom. Still fun after all these years (although much easier).

There was a Golden Axe 3 too!

Shadowrun and Gunstar Hero's all the way.

Streets of Rage 2 for some reason.

Sonic 2! I still play it today, because It's that damn awesome.

And that wasn't the last in the series either...

Toejam and Earl .... the frist one, not the stupid second one

Super Baseball 2020
Mutant League Hockey, was so good I even watched a few episodes of the cartoon
NHL series, especially 97
Triple Play series
MK3

I must ask. What platform were the other Golden Axes on as I've never seen them. Where they all on the original Sega Genesis or another console?

Only list I could find, didn't look hard though..
http://www.gamefaqs.com/search/index.html

ecco the dolphin, i believe it's called chamelion kid, and there was this football game where you could be like zombies, or robots, or monsters or somethin....it was awesome.

Wasn't echo the dolphin supposed to be a breakthrough in graphics?

shadowrun was my favorite by far, i still have my genesis and shadowrun because i love it sooooo much

DArn......I really miss my Genesis. I know I can buy it on Ebay or something....but I don't have time to play with my PS2 now so....would be a waste.

As far as I remember, Ecco did not have breakthrough graphics...just really colorful graphics considering it was on the 64 color genesis.

I loved Earthworm Jim (both of them) and Vectorman. Eternal Champions got us through the Blizzrd of '93. However, the game I could still go back and keep playing was Target:Earth.

Oh lord, I used to get so confused playing that game. I ended up finally gettin' the hang of it and started liking it though. Good game.

Shit, I forgot Earthworm Jim and Eternal Champions, too! I'm becoming ashamed of myself more and more as this thread grows. Those two were AWESOME.

How did I forget Earthworm Jim? :lol: Definitely a fun game.

Argh! I forgot too! Hell, someone should just list the netire Genesis/Mega Drive catalogue!

What was the whole point of Ecco by the way? Was it an adventure game? Were their enemies that you had to fight?

Desert Strike

Desert Strike....DAMN good game!

phantasy star 4

the best genesis game, and still by far one of the best rpgs out there.

Hmm...i'm trying to remember Phantasy Star 4. Don't think I played it. I think the last one I played was the 3rd one where you got to play through different Generations of the characters. It was cool as hell!!!

What was 4 about?

I always loved the game faery tale.

SKITCHIN!!!!

best sega genesis game by far

plus you could plug it into the top of Sonic & Knuckles and play the bonus level

What's "Skitchin"? Also...don't remember "Faery Tale". Was that an RPG?

You're shitting me?! Trying it right bloody now!!!!!!

EDIT: LIAR! I get the "No Way!" message :(

Hey hey hey!!!! What's Skitchin!?!?!? :)

Skitchin is kind of like road rash, except you race on rollerblades and you can grab onto the back of cars (skate+hitch=skitch) to gain extra speed. And you can pick up weapons like whips, chains, boards, cattle prods, etc. to knock out your opponents.

The soundtrack was awesome for a genesis game and it was pretty much like road rash, except I liked it a lot more than road rash.

Shining force hands down for me.
maximum carnage is a close second

Gjefflin...Yes, Faery tale was a RPG. You were one of three brothers and you wandered around a land and battled skeletons wraiths and such

OH! hehehe...okay thanks!

PATIENCE GRASSHOPPER!

if you wait long enough you need to do some key combination... maybe select + some other buttons... or select

just wait, maybe it will tell you

but trust me, you can... any game that has that little yellow thumb grip you can use to play a secret level in S&K

trust me

Hmmm, the yellow tab Carts were all EA Releases... I don't get why EA and SEGA would do such a thing... I'll look into it though, tis very interesting :)

"What was 4 about?"

heh, it's been a while... but...

it's called "the end of the millenium"

it's sort of the final chapter in the ps series (at least in this time/galaxy)

Dark Force is back, and you face a new, greater evil. Takes place on algo, with the main character Chaz being a "hunter" in training. You travel to many different planets in search of answers. Some old favs are back and there are lots of hints at the previous games, including a big statue of Alis in one of the towns. Esper Lutz makes a surprising comeback ;)

GREAT soundtrack, phenomenal.

GREAT graphics, with comic book style cut scenes.

Very entertaining plot, and characters you really cared about. It's also pretty long, id say longer than FF6 or CT. Lots of good extra missions and sidequests.

Beats the pants of the previous 3, especially PS3 which was made by a different company. GET IT GET IT GET IT!

Ah.....oh Dark Force. Amazing. VERY good game.

Flashback the quest for Identity was the coolest game of all time when it came out.

Phantasy Star II was great except I never got to see the end of the game. I was 1 room away from winning and the stupid game save had a glitch and wouldn't let me finish.

Lunar: The Silver Star was the best Sega CD game out. I've been trying to buy it on Ebay for years without luck. They want too much for it.

Last but not least: EA Sports games. EA became a powerhouse due to Sega and the Madden Football series was the best.l

Phantasy star II had a glitch? That's weird. I finished it and really loved it. Perhaps it was just a cartridge problem.

I paid $100 for my Phantasy Star IV cart - it's a real piece of art. I never finished it though - but I load it up occasionally on my Noman - just wish I remembered what I was doing in the game :(

roms... roms...

Nothing beats the feeling of holding a Genesis/Mega Drive card and slotting into your machine... just like the good ol' days, none of this DVD crap (;))

Mr.Deflok would like to point out that he loves the DVD format but is beset with nostalgic love for cartridges

did you get the secret level working? or do you still not have the 1337 5|<i11z ?

Okay people, I must admit to something that I don't like to do, but here goes...I'm not perfect. This is ANOTHER game I've forgotten about, which is a game I used to play alot.

I will soon have the anger of an insulted drunken Irishman if I find any more games in this thread I've forgotten to mention.

Hmmm......I didn't know about Maximum carnage either!!! DAMNIT! So many games I missed back then! But i'm trying to catch up now. hehehehee.

NHL 97!!!
NBA Jam

and

paperboy

Noooo, Paperboy's claim to fame is solely Nintendo-based. Any Sega version must hang its head in shame.

Mortal combat (with red blood SNES version had green blood)
Golden Axe 1 & 2
Pat Riley Basketball
X-men

About to try it again, will let you know if it works!

EDIT1: No dice... about to try another EA title...
EDIT2: Again, no dice... ah well, S+K alone rocks my world anyway.
EDIT3:
Works!

i KNEW there was a trick!

woo

I'm glad I opened your eyes to this... so much extra fun

Mutant League Football! What a great game.... there were landmines and such on the field that you would run onto and explode.

Unfortunately it's just the plain old Bonus Level you play when you try and earn a Chaos Emerald, neat trick nonetheless and it can be done with any game, not just an EA title :) Thanks though!!

oh man this takes me back

alted(sp?) beast
golden axe
gunstar hero's
sonic 2, 3 and 4
ghostbusters :D
streets of rage (all of 'em)

so many spring to mind, i feel like digging through my closet and trying to find them all now :D

Major League Baseball I loved!

General Chaos

Never heard of General Chaos.

Ahem, I just wanna make sure...by Sonic 4, do ya mean Sonic & Knuckles?

There was a Sonic 4 but it was never released, nor finished. The ROM is easily downloadable though. Has some cool features like being able to grab your partner, make them spin in your hands and send them flying wherever you please.

I gotta look for more roms.