Recommend me some MegaDrive/Genesis games

[probablyoliver]

So yeah, I bust out NHL '94 yesterday and almost creamed myself, and now I'm on a retro kick and I want you guys to recommend my games.

I've already got the obvious set with the likes of Sonic, Streets of Rage, some Disney games (Aladdin and Lion King). So recommend some hidden gems or ones I might have missed.

[stokeriño]

Rocket Knight Adventures

Lemmings 2: The Tribes

Cool Spot

Quackshot

There are many more - those are just the ones I can remember because I've played them recently. >_>

[MDK]

Desert Strike! I loved that game to pieces when I was a youth.

Italia '90. The most sophisticated football game EVER.

[stokeriño]

Oh God, the Strike series, yes. But Jungle Strike > others, obviously.

[MDK]

Probably, but I just have an emotional attachment to Desert. I had a free little DS novel that came with one of the old games magazines.

My memory is foggy of mega drive, so some of these games night not exist outside of my mind.

Shinobi?

Two Crude Dudes

Altered Beast

Was cannon fodder on the megadrive? Its probably better on PC anyway.

Some top down 4x4 racing game, you got power ups and shit. It was four player

MICRO MACHINES! The one with the cartridge with the extra control pad ports.

God, I'm racking my brain cell to remember these old games. I'm better at remembering SNES games.

[ADG]

The games I have, you'll probably have some of these:

Desert Strike

Altered Beast (Awesome game!)

Super Kick Off

Mortal Kombat 3

Street Fighter II

Mega Games 1

Streets of Rage

NHL '94

Sonic

Sonic 3D

PGA Tour Golf II

Lemmings

Hardball '94

Fifa '96

Fifa '97

Virtua Fighter 2

McDonalds Global Gladiators

Mega Games 3 (Including the excellent Alienstorm!)

Puggsy

Corporation

WWF Royal Rumble

Davis Cup World Tour

European Club Soccer

Rugby World Cup '95

Edited May 7, 2009 by ADGray

[MDK]

James Pond!

Toejam and Earl!

Edited May 7, 2009 by MDK

[Whisper]

Flashback

Zero Tolerance

MK3

Golden Axe

Soccer Kid

Annnnd whoever said Cannon Fodder was better on PC is lying... in fact, Cannon Fodder I will always remember solely as an Amiga game for the epic opening music.

Edit - Megalomania! Spent hours on that in my youth. Atlanta '96 was awesome too.

Edited May 7, 2009 by Whisper in the Wind

[MDK]

Shit, megalomania was awesome, I've got that on my SNES somewhere.

[K]

Toejam and Earl!

Was playing this last night. Still amazing fifteen years on.

Also yes to Quackshot. My first megadrive game, it's still fantastic.

Another good Donald Duck one is "World of Illusion" which I wasted many hours on.

Oh, and ROLO TO THE RESCUE, don't question it... it's AWESOME

Here's at least one for as many letters as I can thing of

Animaniacs

Boogerman

Chuck Rock

Chuck Rock 2

Comix Zone

Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine

Dynamite Headdy

Earthworm Jim

Earthworm Jim 2

Fever Pitch Soccer (or Head On Soccer)

Golden Axe

Golden Axe 2

Golden Axe 3

Hard Drivin'

Incredible Crash Dummies

Jungle Strike

Lemmings

Lion King

Mega Bomberman

Mickey Mouse - Castle of Illusion

Micro Machines

Micro Machines 96

Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament

Micron Machines Military

Mortal Kombat

Mortal Kombat 2

Mortal Kombat 3

Outrun

Paperboy

Paperboy 2

Quackshot

Ren and Stimpy

Revenge of Shinobi

Road Rash

Road Rash 2

Road Rash 3

Rolo to the Rescue

Sensible Soccer

Shinobi 3

Skitchin

Sonic 1

Sonic 2

Sonic 3

Sonic and Knuckles

Sonic Spinball

Sonic 3D Blast

Streets of Rage

Streets of Rage 2

Streets of Rage 3 (Good luck, it costs like £80)

Tale Spin

Theme Park

Toejam and Earl

Toejam and Earl 2

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

Urban Strike

Vectorman

Vectorman 2

World Cup Italia '90

X-Men

X-Men 2 Clone Wars

Zool

Oh, and people who WANT a Mega Drive, but are worried about buying second hand... I direct you to this new product...

http://www.firebox.com/product/2331/Sega-M...-Player-Console

Yes, it's a brand new Mega Drive console. About a quarter the size of the original, multiregion, fifteen games built in, two controllers with it.

[MDK]

Fever Pitch was my very favourite football game. None of my friends would play it with me because it was such a chavvy game when you used the diving player.

And damn Keith, that firebox thing looks awesome, I might need to invest in one. *checks ebay for old games*

I have no idea what happened to my megadrive.

[stokeriño]

Oh, and people who WANT a Mega Drive, but are worried about buying second hand... I direct you to this new product...

http://www.firebox.com/product/2331/Sega-M...-Player-Console

Yes, it's a brand new Mega Drive console. About a quarter the size of the original, multiregion, fifteen games built in, two controllers with it.

I have a Megadrive II packed away in a box, but its controllers are iffy (one requires hard mashing of the A/B/C buttons for it to register, the other works perfectly...except for the 'right' direction. ).

That appears to be a virtually the same as this thing from Amazon...but some people are slating it in the reviews, saying the preloaded games don't run properly and the controllers are shit.

Hmm. In theory I'd want to buy it, but I'm not sure.

[probablyoliver]

Sonic 3D was my favourite game when I was ickle, but now all I can think is HOLY SWEET MOTHER OF CHRIST MY EYES ARE BEING SET ON FIRE. I'm serious, that thing hurts like motherfuck.

[Liam]

This far without the obligatory Speedball 2 mention? For shame.

But yeah, one of the best games I've played, hands down.

[LL!]

Ahahaha Aladdin for Genesis was THE SHIT.

[Captain Kirk]

This far without the obligatory Speedball 2 mention? For shame.

But yeah, one of the best games I've played, hands down.

Was just coming in to suggest this game. Speedball 2 was immense.

[probablyoliver]

Altered Beast is fucking awesome. Holy motherfucking shit I want to marry this game. So I'm a guy in pants, who's entire body mass increases with every power up (except my head, of course) and as far as I'm aware the goal of the game is to punch the heads off as many zombies as possible as well as occassionally punching two headed pigs and flying rats.

Seriously, this is the manliest thing ever.

[Liam]

Altered Beast indeed rules. As does the voice acting in it.

'WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!'

[probablyoliver]

"POWARGH UPP!!"

[Cactus Drags]

So yeah, I bust out NHL '94 yesterday and almost creamed myself, and now I'm on a retro kick and I want you guys to recommend my games.

I've already got the obvious set with the likes of Sonic, Streets of Rage, some Disney games (Aladdin and Lion King). So recommend some hidden gems or ones I might have missed.

NHLPA '93 was better.

Speedball 2 is one of the greatest games ever made.

The Toejam and Earl series is also fantastic. I also recommend Earthworm Jim, Splatterhouse 2 and the Road Rash series (why is there no 360/PS3 remake yet?!?!?).

Oh and the control pads on the Megadrive update arre fucking horrendous, either buy seperate pads or don't bother with it.

Edited May 8, 2009 by Vladimir Dragslov