Sega Genesis Appreciation Thread

[TheJerseyDevil]

The SNES kicks ass, that is a fact. But some of us grew up with Sega's great 16-bit console as well.

Phantasy Star IV & II
NHL 94'
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Contra Hard Corps
Castlevania Bloodlines
X-Men
Shining Force I & II
Streets of Rage II
Gunstar Heroes
Aladdin
Rocket Knight
Castle of Illusion
Mutant League Football
Mutant League Hockey
Landstalker

[Fr. Dougal]

I played NHL '94 every damn day. I used to love flying down the wing, then cutting across the goal at the last minute. I'd always score with that. Never got boring. :)

[Chester'sLiver]

Mutant league ruled. The X-Men game was good but hardly anyone knew how to beat it becuase you had to push the reset button.

[seeinred]

I played NHL '94 every damn day. I used to love flying down the wing, then cutting across the goal at the last minute. I'd always score with that. Never got boring. :)

Seriously, I fucking loved that game, and both Mutant League Games too. Contra was fucking amazing, and I was a big fan of 2 Crude Dudes as well.

[commish13]

Don't forget Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. I play that game on my Genesis emulator every day. I love it.

[JMCC]

Lets not forget Vector Man and Vector Man 2. I played the shit out of those games.

[TreeFortRichard]

NHL'94 you could also go around behind the net, come along the boards and out to the top of the circle and shoot a slapshot on your forehand and score every time...


I loved sonic, and my favorite ever was

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/1010/superhangonkb8.jpg


Super Hang-On
Best game ever for Genesis. I loved making my own bike, winning races, getting cash. We used to break the bike, start and lose races for hours to earn cash....I used to do it while watching tv with it in the background...

[Ping]

I was a Sega kid, no doubt. Genesis was my first system ever in fact, the old school Genesis Ghost Busters game, the Road Rash games, Gouls and Ghosts I wore those games the fuck out when I was a kid. I regret every day I sold my original Genesis for cash one day at Gamestop. I even owned the Dreamcast, still rank Dreamcast and Genesis as the number one and two best consols I ever owned, ever. Followed pretty close by my Wii.

A part of my childhood died the day Sega got out of the console market.

[ShooterMcGavin]

I had a genesis. It was my first console. Sonic is still to this day my favorite side scrolling game. Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast was amazing as well.

[Ping]

I had a genesis. It was my first console. Sonic is still to this day my favorite side scrolling game. Sonic Adventure for the Dreamcast was amazing as well.

Almost everything from the Dreamcast was awesome.. Virtua Tennis, Sonic Adventure, Phantasy Star Online, The Typing of the Dead, Samba de Amigo, Soul Calibur.. just some awesome awesome games.

[ruckstande]

I beat the shit out of my Genesis. The best games I owned were:
Sonic the Hedgehog
Stryder
General Chaos
Populous
Madden 95
Road Rash

I'd have to look in my attic for the rest.

[Ping]

Who didn't love Road Rash? My dad fucking played that game, heh.

[Chester'sLiver]

One of the first games I got and beat the hell out of was
STREETS OF RAGE!
http://www.angry-gamer.net/ag/images/stories/sega-megadrive-streets-of-rage-pal.jpg
I bought it on Wii when it became available and it still holds up.

[TreeFortRichard]

i was so moved that i d/l an emulator and Super hang-on and just played a few laps...I love the net

[thegreenninja]

Road rash/ skitchin,
shadowrun,
Mortal kombat with blood,
and
Altered Beast.

The genesis ruled.

[Joe Avezzano]

Comparing Genesis games to SNES it seems that the Genesis has some pretty badass games, edgier stuff. I never had the Genesis, but the games almost look better than SNES...?

[bryanswafford]

Road Rash
Immortal
King's Bounty
Populas
Shadowrun
Phantasy Star 2
Mutant League Football
Joe Montana Sports Talk Football
Bill Walsh College Football
Super Monaco GP
Evander Hollyfield Real Deal Boxing
Tommy Lasorda Baseball
Lakers Vs. Celtics
Jordan Vs. Bird
Madden Football

[Mother Shucker]

Spent way too much time on the NHL series. I was fucking unbeatable.

[Southtown]

PGA Tour Golf 2

My friends and would play it all night.

Also agree with all the NHL 94 love

[ruckstande]

Streets of Rage I forgot. I also remember playing Golden Axe endlessly.

[Ping]

Streets of Rage and Golden Axe, good lord, how could I forget those. Golden Axe.. gotta' love kickin' those little midget dudes with the bags, lol.

Altered Beast, the first console game I ever laid my fat little nerd hands on, amazing game.

"Rise from your grave.. "

[krap]

Hard Drivin' The only true driving simulator! :D

I spent hours on that one.

[Angelfuck]

The SNES kicks ass, that is a fact. But some of us grew up with Sega's great 16-bit console as well.

Landstalker


holy shit, finally someone who played this game, it still kicks ass to this day.

road rash II is sitting right next to me in my sega which has not been touched in years.

skitchin was definitely awesome. I cant believe no one mentioned the desert/jungle/urban strike series

california games was fun but I think they put that out for all the consoles. Interestingly enough its supposed to come out for the Wii and PS3!

[ginaf20697]

No Toejam and Earl love? That was some fucked up shit.

[seeinred]

No Toejam and Earl love? That was some fucked up shit.
How could I have forgotten that? Fucking incredible game.

[Angelfuck]

they put that out for GBA, great game

two really good games that came out a little later: aladdin and polterguy

[ChimneyFish]

they put that out for GBA, great game

two really good games that came out a little later: aladdin and polterguy

Are you saying they put Toe Jam & Earl out for the GBA????

If so, I MUST GET THIS IMMEDIATELY!!!!

[Angelfuck]

whats weird is I know I have this game, I remember playing it on a plane before the GB SP even came out, but I cant find any record of it on IGN. However, there looks to be a brand spankin new one coming out for the Wii!

[ChimneyFish]

whats weird is I know I have this game, I remember playing it on a plane before the GB SP even came out, but I cant find any record of it on IGN. However, there looks to be a brand spankin new one coming out for the Wii!

I looked for it on Gamestop and Gamefaqs, and nary a sign.

[Angelfuck]

ahhh, ok Im an ass. I let my friend borrow half my games when he went back to iraq. but I figured out it was earthworm jim I was thinking off, toejam and earl was for the vc

[Joe Avezzano]

Does anyone know what hockey game Brodie was playing in Mallrats? Seems like it could have been the NHL94 everyone's talking about. He was playing a Genesis....

[ChimneyFish]

ahhh, ok Im an ass. I let my friend borrow half my games when he went back to iraq. but I figured out it was earthworm jim I was thinking off, toejam and earl was for the vc

I found that it's on the Wii vc.
That cements it.
I have to get a Wii now.

TJ&E was one of my favorite games back in the day, and one of a few I never got around to finishing.






Another fav was Bill Walsh College Football.

[mendozathejew]

EA sports made genesis great for me. when they switched from the bulls vs blazer type basketball to nba live, then with madden and nhl both ea and genesis became huge.

I loved evander real deal hloyfield boxing and the sequal greatest heavyweights alot as well

[Angelfuck]

I found that it's on the Wii vc.
That cements it.
I have to get a Wii now.

I actually meant the emulator (sorry, Im little stoned :p) but yeah they do have it for the wii, now I have to go buy more wii points

[seeinred]

Does anyone know what hockey game Brodie was playing in Mallrats? Seems like it could have been the NHL94 everyone's talking about. He was playing a Genesis....
I'm 99% sure it was NHL '94, yeah.

[Fuck Crosby]

The amount of my life i spent playing nhl 93-97(i think) on sega is astounding

[BaLZaC~308]

I cant believe no one mentioned the desert/jungle/urban strike series



this is why I love this girl.... that and she gives great head :)

all three strike games were great
golden axe
streets of rage 1 and 2
all road rash/skitchin
Dungeons and Dragons - (something) and the enternal sun - what a great RPG
Madden and NHL's
Real deal boxing was sick!
X-men
Aladdin


so many more that I cant think of

[GonzoRadio]

why isnt road rash being made for modern consoles?

[TheJerseyDevil]

Does anyone know what hockey game Brodie was playing in Mallrats? Seems like it could have been the NHL94 everyone's talking about. He was playing a Genesis....

wiki
In the scene where Brodie is playing as the Hartford Whalers in a video hockey game for the Genesis, the sound effects and gameplay do not match: he is playing the bespoke NHL All-Star Hockey, while the organ music is from EA Sports' seminal NHL series. Smith wanted to use the more popular EA game in the film, as he is a fan of it, but could not due to rights issues.

[seeinred]

why isnt road rash being made for modern consoles?
I would buy it so quick for PS3. I loved smackin' fools with the mace and spoke jamming people. I'll bet they could do some cool stuff with it for PS3.

[Mommadeez4u]

http://www.exotica.org.uk/gallery/games/images/d/DesertStrike.jpg

[Ping]

I cant believe no one mentioned the desert/jungle/urban strike series


I feel dirty not remembering to mention those games.. Gotta love a game where they freely allow you to attack the White House with a missile filled whirlybird.

[bryanswafford]

why isnt road rash being made for modern consoles?

I still have it on the old 3DO, best version of the game! I wish they would make a new one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr2hwYSxytk

[Chester'sLiver]

Another game I remember playing alot....
Over 100 levels!

http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1041509599-00.jpg

[GLENN_THE_TOOL]

i killed the shit outta the Sonic games. Sonic, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles. got all the emeralds, got Super Sonic, Hyper Sonic, Super Knuckles, Super Tails, perfect scores on all the emerald levels, all of it.

does anyone remember when Sonic 3 came out and McDonald's had that promotion to win Sonic 3? well i won it and i didn't even have a Sega Genesis at the time. i got the game in the mail in like June and had to wait six months to get the Genesis for Christmas. of course, i got the Genesis that came with Sonic 2.

[Chester'sLiver]

Another game I remember playing alot....
Over 100 levels!

http://www.mobygames.com/images/covers/large/1041509599-00.jpg

ok so that pic expired but here is a new one.....
http://josiah.illiop.com/pics/wpaper/kid_chameleon_800.jpg

[ChimneyFish]

I actually just looked upstairs, and all I have left is Madden 95 & 97, Bill Walsh 95, NBA Jam and College Football's Natinal Championship II(it only had 32 teams, but it was the only game that also had a handful of highschool teams)

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c217/luxa1/college_football_national_champions.gif

[o&a addict84]

[QUOTE=GLENN_THE_TOOL;1937040]i killed the shit outta the Sonic games. Sonic, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles. got all the emeralds, got Super Sonic, Hyper Sonic, Super Knuckles, Super Tails, perfect scores on all the emerald levels, all of it.

QUOTE]

I had all those games too, but at level 11 or something I would hit the proverbial brick wall and lose all my lives.:arrrh: Those fucking games tormented me.:mad4::icon_redf:(

Anyway, does anybody remember the Sega Channel, I think it was a cable add-on channel. Good times...:icon_bigg

Also, at the time one of the funniest I ever played: Booggerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure.:):icon_mrgr:D:icon_bigg:haha7:

[LiddyRules]

Spiderman v. Kingpin (where you take pictures for money) is the best Spiderman game ever.

How many people fucked up with the entire "Reset" part of the X game?

[Jerry1]

http://www.exotica.org.uk/gallery/games/images/d/DesertStrike.jpg


The "Strike" series ruled!:clap::clap::clap::clap:

Played them all!

[TheJerseyDevil]

My area was one of the few to have the Sega Channel, it was the only way to play the Mega Man remakes for Genesis, 1 through 3.
http://i13.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/a6/dc/2068_2.JPG
Sega was ahead of their time with this, it was a great idea that just didnt really have enough exposure.

[CM Mark]

Better in the arcade, but it only came to consoles via the Genesis, my all time favourite fighting game, Time Killers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Killers)

[GLENN_THE_TOOL]

I had all those games too, but at level 11 or something I would hit the proverbial brick wall and lose all my lives.:arrrh: Those fucking games tormented me.:mad4::icon_redf:(

which level was that? i remember this one level of Sonic 3 that drove me nuts. i believe it was the Casino Nights stage, where there was this spinning cylinder thing that blocked your path. you had to jump up and down on it over and over and over and over to try to make it go low enough so you could get by it. no matter how much i jumped on it, it still wouldn't go low enough to pass and i'd fucking go insane.

but i discovered by own way past it. before i arrived that this part of the game, i got all the emeralds and made sure i had 50 rings when i got to the cylinder. i'd jump on it a few times to make the cylinder go as low as i could make it, and just as the cylinder came back up, i'd turn into Super Sonic. thanks to a glitch, the cylinder would go up, but Sonic would stay stationary as he transformed into Super Sonic and you'd squeeze between the cylinder and the wall next to it and get by it. of course, it didn't work every time, sometimes the glitch would cause me to get stuck in the wall next to the cylinder.

[Chino Kapone]

Shining Force I & II

i bought shining force 2 a couple ago to try and finally beat that game and still couldnt. that game is right behing FF7 on my favorite games of all time. i heard shining force 3 on sega cd was the shit.

[o&a addict84]

which level was that? i remember this one level of Sonic 3 that drove me nuts. i believe it was the Casino Nights stage, where there was this spinning cylinder thing that blocked your path. you had to jump up and down on it over and over and over and over to try to make it go low enough so you could get by it. no matter how much i jumped on it, it still wouldn't go low enough to pass and i'd fucking go insane.

but i discovered by own way past it. before i arrived that this part of the game, i got all the emeralds and made sure i had 50 rings when i got to the cylinder. i'd jump on it a few times to make the cylinder go as low as i could make it, and just as the cylinder came back up, i'd turn into Super Sonic. thanks to a glitch, the cylinder would go up, but Sonic would stay stationary as he transformed into Super Sonic and you'd squeeze between the cylinder and the wall next to it and get by it. of course, it didn't work every time, sometimes the glitch would cause me to get stuck in the wall next to the cylinder.

Exactly. That level drove me bonkers. The thing is(Oh no, I'm turning into Vos!;):haha7:), I was good at getting through the lower levels without losing lives or rings but I sucked at collecting the emeralds. I guess it does not anymore. My brother awhile ago shit-canned my the used Genesis I bought a few years ago out of nostalgia. Goddamit!:icon_evil:hamm:

[IBrokeMyLegDude]

What about Spider Man? damn, I loved that game

[LiddyRules]

What about Spider Man? damn, I loved that game

From page 2...
Spiderman v. Kingpin (where you take pictures for money) is the best Spiderman game ever.

[TheJerseyDevil]

Shinobi III kicks ass, its on the Genesis Collection for PS2.

[ruckstande]

Maybe someday they'll release these for the 360. I heard somewhere that Xbox Live was going to get a Sega Channel or something.