It’s been 30 years since the genesis launched. Share your memories with the Genesis, it’s add ons and it’s games...

Yeah forgot to mention Saturn as well of course, if anybody knows a few of those too.

it's a good game, but god damn is it unforgiving. i prefer the snes one honestly. stayed true to the actual source material.

i own a saturn, but literally have nothing on it. don't really care for that system since most of the worthwhile game (which is practically all of them) are JP.

Shinobi 3 is still the best game of all time.

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it's ez if you have an even half decent player to co-op with. took me and my brother two tries after not having touched the game in over 15 years
half the appeal is how balls to the wall the difficulty and presentation of the game is anyway, some of the bosses are insane
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I’d also like to add with my personal favorites and necessities
>Sonic 3
>Vectorman
>comix zone
>Golden Axe
>Altered Beast
>Toejam and Earl
>Ristar

i just can't stand the batwing level. jesus christ does it drag on for an eternity. love the look and design otherwise.

Great console with a ton of hidden gems because people only know it as the Sonic and EA sports machine.

It's the worst part of the game for sure. Personally I find the Batwing level just fine after I tried the Sega CD version of the game that has mandatory driving sections between missions

never played the scd verison, but that sounds dreadful. i can only imagine how it controls. maybe i'll play it again this weekend with the fiance.

anyone else play the micro machines games? I had this one and MM Military, they're probably the best home console racing games of the era

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>Technosoft games

I want to go back.

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i'm pretty sure they changed the name to avoid a lawsuit from an existing company called megadrive.

you did get the good ending, right?

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Here's some of my favorites:
Kid Chameleon
Streets of Rage 2
Alien Soldier
Gunstar Heroes
Dynamite Headdy

Rocket Knight Adventures is still one of the best platformers of the 16 bit generation. I have levels pretty much memorized by heart.

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Better than SNES. Best sound chip of any 2D based console that was ever made. Should have released in the beginning with a six button controller but its such a great console. Too bad Sega didn't keep that momentum going.

>Best sound chip of any 2D based console that was ever made.
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>the 32x = the genesis

Oh wow look at this brainlet.

So you want to cherrypick? I obviously meant when developers know how to utilize the chip well.

Never owned one growing up but I knew neighbors that did. First game I ever played was Sonic Spinball. The robot serpent was forever burned into my retinas.

this. mega drive has one of the most misunderstood and underappreciated libraries out there.

I got flashback for my slumber birthday party no was so clueless and almost disappointed that my friend got it for me. A few weeks later I figured out the buttons and was so ecstatic. Thanks lupe’

that wasn't too often though.

is the steam collection worth getting for the online multiplayer?

I only got a small taste of it when I was a kid. It wasn't until I got the Genesis collection on PS2 as a teenager that I began to appreciate its library. Phantasy Star IV was my most played game.

Only if your playing with friends. With randos enjoy one player using rewind while the other lags out

if you have friends to play with sure. you could also do netplay with kega fusion.

I don't remember how old I was, but across the street from our apartment complex there was this little grocery store with a TV and a Genesis set up in the corner. Any loose change I had would be spend on playing the thing.

One cold autumn evening my mom and I had to go to the capital for whatever reason, and just before we were about to take the bus home my mom takes me to a nearby market and surprises me with a SEGA Genesis II, and two games, which were Rock'n'Roll Racing and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist. We were not rich at all so this was a VERY nice surprise.

She called over my kindergarten friend and his dad that helped us set it up, and then we spent the evening playing Rock'n'Roll racing. I struggled with the controls a lot. As the years went on I got really good at it tho. Friends would come over after school and I'd almost feel bad cause I had mastered the corner turns and projectiles.

Unfortunately as I left the country for work in 2010 my collection of cartridges disappeared, it's possible my grandma gave it away, or it's stashed away in her attic or something. I'm not sure.

The games I remember that I had were:

TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist
Rock'n'Roll Racing
Sunset Riders
Home Alone 2
Tiny Tune adventures
Sonic games (including the pinball one)
Shinobi (I think it was the 3rd one)
Urban Strike (this one was about helicopters and was cool as fuck)
Ghostbusters
Batman Returns
Earthworm Jim
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

I'm sure there were more games that I don't remember, it's been a while. Also I ended up breaking the thing and replacing it with Genesis 3 at least twice over the years. I know I can just emulate them, but it just doesn't feel the same, though I feel like I won't ever find those cartridges again.

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the megadrive version of the lost vikings is arguably the definitive version because it has extra levels.

I was a snes kid but some friends had it. The genesis felt more like a 'rebel' choice. Sonic had that radical attitude, mortal kombat blood code, desert strike intro had an animated bitch slap, aladdin cutting people with a sword instead of throwing gay apples and so on. Also, I personally liked the sound chip even if the snes one was more advanced. Snes has some really defining games but Sega definitely stood their own ground that gen. Genesis has legendary status for sure.

I believe another company was called Mega Drive,and they wanted the console to be a new beginning in America for them.

Here's a picture of the other names they brainstormed before they got to Genesis.

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what was the rarest game you had? for me Splatterhouse 2 but my mom made us trade it in since it was giving us nightmares

>"genesis"

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I refused to play Splatterhouse 3 just because the game looked scary as fuck based on the box art.

It has the greatest music in console history

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just look at this shit

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Are Retrobit controllers good? I know their cables are great, they even wire S-video correctly.

I got burned on an 8shitdo-ntbuythis SN30 so I'm hesitant.

a controller that normally goes $20 or less is never going to be of high quality or last long.

Just get a Mega drive mini

>Ready to discard this list if it doesn't work doesn't have Zero Wing
>Literally the first link

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A shame pure horror games never took off on consoles until gen 5. NES and Genesis can do horror well if people tried enough

Jurassic Park had a bit of a survival horror vibe in it. You'd have to conserve ammo in some parts or you'd be fucked, eg. I think T-Rex didn't even budge if you didn't have grenades handy. Most of the stages in it are also extremely dark and some parts have invincible enemies
and speaking of good tunes
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I can't stop playing Streets of Rage. The remake is the best thing that happened in this life. If SoR4 will suck i am gonna be depressed.

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Damn son, there's a serious lack of Gauntlet IV in your post. I don't know how they managed to get music this atmospheric out of a 16-bit machine but they sure managed.

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Also Time Trax for having an incredible soundtrack despite never being released.

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David is a fucking chad.

Ironically because the SNES version didn't make much use of the console's color palette the Mega Drive version didn't really downgraded there at all. It's just all-round better.

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I don't think 4 is going to have nearly as much effort put into the gameplay and content that remake had. Wouldn't mind being proven wrong though.

most of the exclusive levels were mindfucks. i guess you could argue that the placement of those levels might hurt the pacing of difficulty but it was especially satisfying to figure those out. the majority of the game isn't that complicated though. nothing on the level of baba is you.

>Should have released in the beginning with a six button controller
Wasn't ever possible because arcades had only 3 buttons at best in 1988 and the console was designed as an arcade port machine.

My first console
Also where my favorite game is, Ecco 2. Before I talked to other people about games my dad genuinely just called bosses "big guys" when we played Sonic 2 together

best game intros? this one was pretty rad
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Sonic 3 was really cool same with Sonic CD although that was through emulator youtube.com/watch?v=jQtg9S-OqKc