15 Underrated Sega Genesis Games for SNES Fanboys

[@Nobunaga1983]

The haunting starring polterguy is such a unique fun game. There’s nothing like it on snes. Only on genesis

[@dripdaddy2192]

Was always hoping they do some kind of reboot. I am a massive fan of this game 😂

[@Kai0nTheMoon]

They released it on the PSP many years later as part of an EA compilation disc, which you can pick up today for a lot less than the original Genesis cart.

[@joncoyne6049]

My brother and I loved Haunting Starring Polterguy back in the day. We still talk about it every now and then to this day. Fantastic game.

[@TheEagleGameing]

Huge nostalgic game fir me I played it on psp

[@fuckgoogle8661]

That was one of my favorites

[@jessragan6714]

I'm scratching my head so much from the Awesome Possum recommendation that I'm getting friction burns.

[@jaymzx2587]

Yeah me too 😅 I really like this/his content but.. this recommendation is ridiculous. The framerate alone makes the game unplayable; it looks awful and plays even worse.

[@Jatycre]

Yeah. I love Riggs’ content, but that recommendation was confusing. That game is not good. It’s not even “so bad it’s good”, it’s just plain bad, and boring.

[@mattgillespie490]

Guess we know who has the opossum lobby funding them. So not awesome.

[@fireheartgames]

I'm more scratching my head at the Belle's Quest game. I have played played both games and Awesome Possum is way better than Belle's Quest lol.

[@mattm7798]

I was a total genesis fanboy and never heard of most of these. Man the genesis had so many great games!!! Great video!

[@deionbeeldenstormer7498]

Biohazard Battle was an amaaaaazing Genesis shooter. Powerup system and choice of weaponry was pure perfection. Def in my Top 5 Genesis shooters, along with Gaiares, Sagaia, Insector X, and MUSHA.

[@JohnRiggs]

Ahead of its time, for sure. LOVED Insector X, too. That'll probably make the next list.

[@pugshorty9852]

Back in the day, Pirate's Gold was my go to game on the Sega.

[@WalkerRileyMC]

"How old am I I'm going to tell you about rollerblading" "It was a thing in the 90s" I hate to be the one to break it to you, but inline skating is still very much a thing. Not as huge as it was, but still very popular. If you wanna sound old....talk about POGs.

[@jaredhammonds8255]

We need to bring back POGs!

[@Projectwolfie21]

I always try to say that everything still exists somewhere in a different form. But the exception to that is probably POGs.

[@nick6var]

"Remember ALF? He's back--in POG form."

[@CrazyRiverOtter]

Meanwhile POGS have returned to the current ethos so hard that we're calling things "Poggers" now.

[@MotherKojiro]

Great selection here; you're very knowledgeable about system libraries! Some of my favorites not mentioned here are... + Arcus Odyssey - One of the few games with an isometric perspective that plays really well, and that's because you can't jump; you mostly shoot. Great soundtrack, great selection of characters, cool bosses, and a lot of interesting scenarios that you wouldn't expect from a game like this. + Beyond Oasis - Maybe a bit more well known, but worth mentioning; you might compare this to Zelda, but the combat makes it play a little more like a Brawler. You can find a wide variety of weapons, too, and you use your wits and your 4 elemental buddies to solve puzzles. + Contra: Hard Corps - Very likely that people have heard of this one, but I felt it deserved a mention, because I've never been a huge fan of Contra, but I love this one. + Gunstar Heroes - My favorite Run-and-Gun of all time; not only do you have 4 different guns that you can combine to make even more guns, but each stage is pretty different to keep things fresh. It also has the honor of having one of the few mine cart levels that won't make you scream. + Ristar - Cute, colorful Platformer about a star with extend-o arms, who uses them to slam his face into things. Great level design, beautiful worlds, and you'll be amazed at how many different ways you can utilize the ability to slam your face into things. + Road Rash - 2 is my favorite, but they're all pretty good; it's a motorcycle Racer that lets you punch other racers off their bikes... or smack them with a club, chain, cattle prod; whatever. Even beyond that, it's fun to save up for new bikes and see what lovely colors they have. I miss the days when EA used to make fun things like this.

[@dy120481]

Rollerblading is making a comeback. Seen quite a few people do it recently, literally almost daily.

[@truehare]

My favorite"obscure" Mega Drive game is probably Shadow Blasters. Four characters you can change between at any point in the game, each with their own upgradeable weapon, stage selection... And then there's something about the (admittedly simple) visuals and sounds that really grabs me.

[@BitTripBeat]

I absolutely love Crusader of Centy, replayed it again about a month ago. Skitchin' and Haunting were in my top games as well, you really need to add General Chaos! Moonwalker was a great game too, and I'd put Zero Tolerance for top fps game.

[@danielflynn8530]

Oh yeah general chaos was a classic. I loved playing that game and dark stalkers. So many great games I might have forgotten super baseball 2020 was actually entertaining.

[@matthewnikitas8905]

Crusader of Centy is the most expensive game on the console

[@tmanley1985]

I've been looking for Mystic Defender for years! I remembered there was a game that I played that had these sigils you could get that would give you power and it wasn't until today that I found the game. The funny thing is about 2 seconds before I saw it come on the list I said to myself, "Wouldn't it be funny if that game I've been looking for shows up in this list".

[@juiceman4109]

Flashback, I played it on Sega Channel, ended up being my favorite game all time

[@truehare]

Flashback is great! Pity about its sequel though... Totally forgettable.

[@95ZR580]

Genesis was awesome. So many great games and memories were made on that console

[@JonThysell]

Flicky is so fun when you get good at it - the trick is to get those high score bonuses by beating the levels super fast, learning the right paths to get all the birds in one pass without hitting the cats.

[@retrodino1787]

Thank you for this list! I completely forgot about Flicky, I agree 100%! It's an amazing game and I think the thing that makes it so addicting is how simple it is!

[@billcook4768]

Great list. I’ve played a ton of Genesis games over the years, but many of these I’ve never seen before. Can’t wait to check a few out.

[@xboxed7202]

Comix Zone ftw

[@matthewlane518]

That game was great! Hard one thou!

[@GemmyIsGood]

Don't forget billy hatcher too! He was an underrated Sega game!

[@deckofcards87]

Genesis had the best controllers ever made. Something about those smooth chunky buttons can't be beat and retains an arcade-like feel which Nintendo never did.

[@Alttabbins]

You should check out General Chaos. Its one of my favorite games for the Genesis and I'm surprised at how many people have never heard of it.

[@accvdre]

Mate, so with you on that, my cousin had it back in the day and we used to play 4 player with the EA 4 way play. I bought it on ebay in the early 2000s, also have my own 4 way play. If they released this on the newer consoles with online play I think it would get quite a following. I remake would be amazing.

[@Nobunaga1983]

That’s an awesome real time strategy game no one talks about. Creative and 4 players

[@freespace2dotcom]

@@Nobunaga1983 it was on the sega channel back in the day. Tis how I found out about it. Had a hell of a time remembering the title some 15 years later, haha.

[@MizfitZer0]

People forget that sega megadrive was created to compete with the NES... it came out 2 years before the SNES and its games still stood toe to toe with a system that had 2 years of new graphic technology and a sony sound chip. I will always love sega megadrive over the snes. The games just felt better to play and i absolutely love the megadives music

[@IMDLEGEND]

Thanks for the video. I love these kinds of videos much more than the Open Cart Surgery videos. I have resubscribed as a result. Keep them coming! I only have a handful of these games, and some I've never heard of. Thanks for giving the Genesis some love!

[@TheMultiGunMan]

Thank you JohnRiggs. The Sega Genesis ROCKS.

[@tardiscommand1812]

The Cyber Cop game looks like the Time Lord orbs when you fire

[@patrickdiggins85]

As a Nintendo kid I never liked Genesis due to my misguided and limiting brand loyalty. This list gives me so many "unknown to me" games to play. Thanks Riggs, eager to start with Haunting! Love the concept.

[@JohnRiggs]

It's cool to expand as needed.

[@blastproces]

everdrive enhances this console I think

[@JesusHernandez-nv5mv]

Same! I will try Haunting 💚, it looks like an actual indie game.

[@l30S3UX]

This is a true gamer list, it doesnt have only games that are re-released and those short list of titles that appears on modern retrô magazines. This is what we played back in the day. Oh God I did not even remember Art Alive and how many hours I have put into it. Thanks for sharing

[@ZBR_ProXP]

Biohazard battle is the BOMB, the music!!!

[@TrainmasterCurt]

They didn’t use the lousy Gems sound engine for it

[@masterchief247]

One of the most under rated unknown games on the sega genesis was Tyrants. You have to play it. Its like Dune 2 from the PC. Total RTS game. You build up an army, and the objective is to destroy the other 3 tyrant's armies. You can build alliances, than betray them, or they betray you. Its so cool, so much variety, and a different match every game. Plus, you start out in the stone age, and as the game progresses you learn how to advance your manufacturing. Late in the game, you eventually learn to manufacture space ships. Its a must play. Still great today.

[@Yipper64]

I recently got a clone console, chose to get one that has a Genesis port last minute and... Now I have more Genesis games than nes and SNES games.

[@iangates8815]

how many you talking . ccomparasin

[@donaldsmith5667]

Cool. I’ve got about 100 Genesis games at this point.

[@Yipper64]

@A dudes thoughts oh yeah. Atgames SUCKS. They always have some kind of audio issue. Ive got a dinky plug and play from them and the controller is horrible. But it *did* give me a good demo for what games i might want to get as actual carts so at least it has that.

[@Yipper64]

@@iangates8815 okay so ive got 3 snes games (if you count the super Gameboy) 4 nes games, and 6 genesis games (if you count &nuckles as its own game) its not much, but it's my little collection.

[@iangates8815]

its all good

[@JJKoester]

El Viento is really fun. I played that endlessly as a kid. You just can't go wrong with it.

[@VEGANVANIA]

And the video opens with a glimpse of _Beast Wrestler:_ we're off to a good start.

[@McStarkiller666]

MUSHA Zero Tolerance Phantasy Star IV are three of my personal favorites

[@squarepainter]

I LOVE Haunting!

[@charlesjourdan2291]

I loved that game. I beat that game at least a dozen times

[@JNAMOTORSPORTS]

It’s a shame sega and Nintendo don’t have a vintage line of brand new games and even release new games for old consoles as a heritage line

[@bratsmovies17]

My dad got me The Sega Channel. So many games per month was awesome

[@TrainmasterCurt]

Then you must have played Pulseman

[@Berzerkir]

I never feel like Jurassic Park on Genesis gets the love it deserves, such a solid title!

[@deathofkings5633]

I absolutely love Generations Lost Gameplay, atmosphere, surprising and deep (for the time) story that seems goofy in its dialogue until you discover the awesome twist. Great game!

[@Halbared]

Like you I was lucky enough to have both. Thought the Megadrive controller was a step up! Then I thought the SNES controller was a step up from that! Loved both systems.

[@ganggreen1983]

YAAAAS! Skitchin’!! I remember it being so awesome that Vancouver bc was actually a stage in that game. My home town! Great game selections. 🙂

[@matttherrien9608]

On the news, downtown looks beautiful. Sorrt

[@jonathanmccarley926]

'Cool Spot' and 'Quackshot' are both brilliant and should be here!!!!

[@ChristiantrospectiveGamer]

James Pond, Ecco the Dolphin, the Phantasy Star series...so many great games.

[@Jburneyjr]

My dad used to randomly buy games for cheap and he got bio hazard battle and skitchin. Still enjoy them to this day

[@MizfitZer0]

Sonic 1,2,3 & Knuckles, Sonic 3D, Sonic Spinball, Streets of Rage 1,2 & 3, Rocket Knight Adventures, Sparkster, Busters Hidden Treasure, Dynamite Headdy, Acme All Stars, Flink, Castle of illusion, Quack Shot, Aladdin, Global Gladiators. Just to name a few. The sega megadrive is an amazing system with an insane amount of fun games

[@robertward5047]

The best thing about cybercop was you could send the game away with a photo of yourself and they would put your image onto the ID card at the bottom of the screen.

[@TheTrueBro]

Biohazard Battle makes me wonder who has the upper hand in shmups: Genesis or TG16. Hard to decide.

[@christopherrobinmarriott7218]

'The haunting' is up there with 'General chaos' as best Sega games and is one of my favorite of all time. Recently just grabbed a complete version for around $45. So not TOO hard to track down

[@718MUSCLE]

Mr RIGGZ... IM FROM BROOKLYN NEW YORK! MY BOYZ AND I SMOKE WEED AND WATCH UR VIDEOS. WE LOVE UR VIDEOS CUZ ITS FLASHBACKS ABOUT OUR YOUTH. U R THE MYTH, THE MAN, THE LEGEND. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK... U KEEP GOOD MEMORIES ALIVE... AND THATS GANGSTA!

[@Halbared]

Lovely list, wish I'd known about Soleil back then.

[@assemblyassembly]

Sigflup here!! Cyber Cop is WAAYAYAAAAYYYYY impressive!

[@jeremylovesretro]

Love me some CrackDown and Gain Ground for an arcade experience. Mystical Fighter and Growl are fun beatemups, but probably not very hidden anymore, based on their prices. If Mystic Defender gets too tough, check out Shadow Blasters for a similar feel but with unlimited continues. Oh! And am I the only person who actually enjoys Zero Tolerance? It’s a FPS.

[@CrazyRiverOtter]

I've never heard of Mystical Fighter or Growl. Sounds like I gotta try it.

[@Ephunker89]

As a kid of the 90s, I roller bladed and skateboarded just about everyday. Skitched only once holding onto the car of an older girl I was crazy about at the time. She seemed to love it. Funny what a young fella may do to impress a gal.

[@danbauer3669]

Never owned a Genesis as a kid but I picked one up when I was 20 and have collected about 65 games since that time. I've got a multi cart 196 in 1 that has almost all these games on it and many more. I'm having fun with it! Good retro console for sure!

[@MrDiMaggio5]

Love these vids. Having so many games available, its nice to get some sleeper picks I never would try.

[@julianobitsgen]

Another good ones: Arrow Flash, Gaiares, Gley Lancer, Thunder Force 2, 3 and 4, Gynoug, Vapor Trail, Trouble Shooter, Air Buster, Hellfire, Phelios, Zero Wing, Fire Shark, Final Zone Senki, Shadow Dancer, Mamono Hunter Yohko, Mazin Saga, Lotus Challenge, Outrun 2019, Dahna Megami Tanjou, Warsong, Master of Monsters, Rolling Thunder 2 and 3, Target Earth, Alisia Dragoon, Valis 3 and SD, X-Men Clone Wars, Mega Turrican, Ranger-X...

[@kaylacollins7408]

skitchin has the most badass music of any sega game. good video

[@billypiper7390]

the sega genesis controller had to easily be one of the most comfortable/durable controllers i have ever used, only 3 buttons but that was really all you would ever need.

[@danestegman155]

Good video! There are some Sega Genesis games, that you showed, that I haven't seen before! I will have to look them up now!

[@SportsPlug-cp1eq]

Skitchin actually inspired me to try it in real life. I loved roller blading so i would do it grabbing the back of a bus after it made a stop in my neighborhood lol. I was like 12

[@user-ch4hu3ze8k]

Phantom 2040 is very underrated shooter 2D RPG with backtracking multiple weapons and diffrent endings

[@SvennyMcG]

Awesome video, Riggs! I'm only familiar with a few of these titles so this was excellent to see. Thanks!

[@tms10000]

Sir Galahad was a personal favourite that I don’t see mentioned much.

[@nolancampbell4451]

Me and my friends use to skitch on passing cars in the neighborhood on our skateboards growing up lol

[@russsnyder2026]

True Lies and Donald Duck’s Quackshot are two gems

[@bobdole930]

Just tried out Haunting Starring Polterguy... definitely a hidden gem, loving it so far. The mini game where you collect slime to stay alive could have been a little more fun considering its something u do repetitively.

[@jackwhite3564]

Don't forget!!! Vector Man 2, Earth Worm Jim, and Cool Spot (little red spot from 7UP logo has his own game)

[@Odelayderado]

Haunting is really fun and interesting just wish it was only the parts where you on the house not the underworld

[@conorl1894]

Gynoug is an absolute beast of a shooter which rarely seems to get its props. Killer difficulty level too

[@tangleshootburrfoot36]

Shining Force is highly addictive, challenging, and has a CRAZY replay value!

[@Bojanglez667]

Great video! I almost always go to Shinobi III or Ranger X! Oh lord, and because I almost need to include a game I have a very strong love/hate relatoinship with, Dune:Battle for Arakis

[@TechWithSean]

4:40 El Viento was made by WolfTeam. They made several interesting genesis games, and the team members went on to develop games like Shin Megami Tensei, Tales..., Star Ocean, and more ✌️

[@anthonyferretti28]

I have the same exact story. I also saved up paper route money when I was about 12 yo and bought a used Genesis from a video game place called "Save the Princess". I eventually traded the Sega in years later for a used PS1.....i miss that store!

[@CaptainAlgebra]

I also had both consoles as a kid and loved both of them, but I still missed so.many good games. I recently stream Haunting and I really like it! Flicky is definitely addicting! Great list!

[@rubenalcalde7289]

Thank you for the video, some of this games were completely unknown for me !

[@saudal-mutawa3197]

What an impressive list. Almost all of the titles are new to me, too. I remember being drawn to the Beauty and the Beast game when I used to see screenshots in magazines, too (lol!) but I never got the chance to play it. I did play the one where you control the Beast on SNES, though.

[@JohnRiggs]

I cant' explain it. I rented it knowing it was a child's game but I still enjoyed it.

[@Ephunker89]

I never played the Genesis game, but I played the DOS game loads. I was pretty young when we had that, also had beranstain bears and a Flintstones game.

[@Halbared]

Never seen that ghost game, 'if you've seen a spook, spectre or ghost!' :D

[@Arminius420]

Haunting was so underrated. I loved that game.

[@haranchumacero7646]

Atomic Robo Kid was one I remember buying on sale for 19.99 at 12yo and became one of my favs

[@milosmilivojevic3539]

Great video! I would like to see more Sega Genesis/mega drive content on your channel!

[@AnthonyRiddle]

They worked some absolute magic with the color pallet in Crusader of Centy. It looks like it would be perfectly at home one the SNES. It's also a damn good adventure game

[@andsoooo]

I would suggest Road Rash, X-Men 2: The Clone Wars, Aladdin, World of Illusion: Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, Gunstar Heroes, Rocket Knight Adventures, Castlevania: Bloodlines, Ranger X, Jurassic Park (I think it was the 2nd game where you could play as a raptor and eat people), and Ghostbusters. Not sure which of these titles would be considered mainstream. I had both systems but I was a SNES kid.

[@blacksunshine7485]

Really cool list. Just when I thought I knew pretty much all the obscure titles. Alot to check out. More like this please 👍

[@sleepydwarf1400]

I mean I know dingleberries taste bad but I wouldn't fart in my own mouth bro, right?

[@UPHENOS]

Vectorman and its sequel, most SNES games I can think of! I believe they were specifically made as an answer to SNES's DKC trilogy. And what games they were, even though relatively unknown!

[@Vampiranhador]

Haunting Starring Polterguy is a real 16Bit Gem

[@edrosa3485]

Dynamite Duke looks like it plays like the old arcade game Cabal, with the fighting segments resembling LJN's Punisher game.

[@moonswan7587]

We got a real LDRT on our hands here - Loose Dude with a Rude Tude

[@Christdeliverme]

Yes Haunting, is absolutely one of the biggest hidden gems of all time, I think it's in my top 5 for the Genesis. I certainly got a ton of hours in the game.

[@wjones4444]

The most underrated game on Sega Genisis was Star Control

[@punkydudester3]

I was a huge Nintendo fan boy, & I was mildly blind but that was because all of my friends has Nintendo. I only knew 1 kid who had a sega. So since we would trade games a lot it wouldn't have worked out for us very well if we had chosen a genesis. These are the perfect videos for me. I don't know anything about these games. Although I was on the Nintendo side of the console wars, I have a big appreciation for Sega & I have been buying all of their games they have released on the Nintendo switch. I am going to try out every game on this list this week.

[@JoshuaNoone]

How about that skitchin' soundtrack. I use to listen to spicy placenta for hours on end.

[@joesshows6793]

Dynamite Duke was insane for its time!

[@thefifthdoctor6780]

Got the haunting for my 13th birthday when it came out. Still own today 😎

[@riffbw]

King's Bounty is an underrated PC Port. I don't know anyone that really talks about it for Genesis, but it spawned the Heroes of Might and Magic series and it's a series of it's own to this day. The original was a lot of fun to explore and learn.

[@whosaidthat84]

The battle music still plays in my head to this day.

[@MarcoAyr]

Grabbing onto the back of cars on your roller blades was called ''skitchin'', hence the name of the game. I tried it a couple of times, great fun, but dangerous.

[@jessehayes8052]

Glad to see Exile on a list it was one of my absolute favorite games for my SEGA as a kid and got me interested in Action RPGS and Medieval history, and after replaying it and learning about the complete story its pretty obvious that its the basis for the original Assassins Creed

[@rocksolid1640]

Rocket Knight Adventures

[@dexxpheonixgameonpointtv]

Haunting is the game Beetlejuice should have been. Great video. I didn't know about some of these games.

[@royston0157]

Awesome vid. Iv just recently started playing my mega drive again so many good memories. Great selection of games on here some I didn't even know existed

[@tobiasz6613]

Absolute gem that never seems to get love on these retro channels: Red Zone, a desert strike-ish helicopter game with top down on foot levels and a good soundtrack. came out right at the end of the megadrive's life so i think gets overlooked. I loved that game so much.

[@louisdellalucca8969]

Haunting Starring Polterguy and Crusader of Centy are my favs. I added them to my Genesis Mini