20 BEST Sega Genesis Games of All Time

[@CulturedVultures]

THE BEST SONIC GAMES: kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5DaeqOJrMx0hq8

[@semicharmedlife311]

The lack of Shining Force games on this list is quite disturbing. Surely, they deserve a spot.

[@ForFl1nt]

1) Comix zone, 2) Earthworm jim, 3) Spider-Man Maximum carnage.

[@Dreeza68955]

X-Men 2 Clone Wars, Zombies Ate My Neighbor, Stimpys Invention, Beavis and Butthead, Primal Rage, Street Fighter Championship edition. God i love my Genesis

[@NatSci9]

Alien Soldier & TMNT

[@takptalyn586]

I love maximum carnage, but there's no way it's number 3 on the system. Xmen 2 should've been on this list though, I'd argue it's better than castlevania bloodlines.

[@totallyfrozen]

Earthworm Jim is hilarious. Love that game! 🤣

[@mattgbarkley]

Rocket Knight Adventures and Thunder Force 4 have to be included in any best Mega Drive list!

[@m.f.m.8290]

No shmup in a "best of" Mega Drive list is a true travesty.

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

@@m.f.m.8290remember it’s his list so we can’t hold that against him.

[@jayflores3947]

Streets of rage 2,Golden axe 3 or 2, sonic 2, spiderman seperation anxiety, ninja turtles, mortal kombat 2, ultimate mk3, shinobi 3, batman returns

[@acmiguens]

I actually put Sonic 2 even above 3&K, but I know there's a big divide in opinions there

[@SeveredLegs]

It's debatable but Sonic 2 is a game really drags on without the save battery. It's a huge upside with Sonic 3 &K that you could just kind of pick up where you left off.

[@ToThePointCT]

Unpopular opinion. I never liked 3

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

Streets of Rage 2 is the best Mega Drive game hands down followed by Sonic 3 and Knuckles.

[@stephenhughes5156]

Followed by Sonic 2 and Streets of Rage 1.

[@BigBossCQCLegend]

Shining Force 1 and Especially 2 are Missing on this Great List Sadly

[@semicharmedlife311]

💯

[@vasherized]

Absolutely

[@54Ripster]

2 of my favorites also, I still play them on my emulator sometimes on the computer.

[@iamabulldozer]

I can not count the amount of hours I have sunk into Shining Force 1 and 2. Not just as a kid, but even now I'm still playing both.

[@jamesredline1352]

Sonic 3 is so good it’s almost unbelievable. Also I am now excited to pick up this Beyond Oasis game. Never heard of it til now. Sounds like something i need to add to my collection!

[@Godzillafan1980]

Beyond Oasis is fantastic

[@ToThePointCT]

I never liked it😂

[@Twigg4075]

No NHL 94 is beyond disappointing. EA Sports games were at their peak on Genesis.

[@larrym5120]

There wasn't one sports game on the list. He can't possibly like any sports games.

[@Twigg4075]

@@larrym5120 NBA Jam was on there.

[@larrym5120]

@@Twigg4075 I damn missed it. I was trying to do 2 things at once while watching the video.

[@VanMichael21]

I've only played NHL 94 on the SNES so I wouldn't know how good it was on the Genesis, although I'd imagine it wouldn't be much different and NHL 94 was a damn good game. I loved it and still play it now from time to time, I rmbr it was the first to have one timers lol cuz NHL 93 didn't have it. Great game for sure.

[@larrym5120]

@@VanMichael21 it was pretty much identical to the Genesis version. We used to have tournaments in the barracks. Some guys had SNES and some had Genesis. I remember it playing the same but that was 30 years ago. Still a great game to play.

[@thegamingchef3304]

I remember watching an old episode of the Xfiles, and they were in an arcade and I remember hearing that Sonic music. The amount of Nostalgia I felt lol.

[@tonybarnes2920]

Glad to see one of my games in your Top-20 Sega MD/Gen vid, although I think Jungle is better, but I'm biased. Oh and Beyond Oasis is one of my all-time favs, too (but I didn't make that one).

[@stashmerkin9576]

Shadowrun on the Genesis was great! Another goofy sports game to check out: Mutant League Hockey.

[@keithstone001]

Shadowrun on the genesis is my absolute favorite game of all time. I play through it every other year. I just wish it had a better modding scene.

[@MoneyHoneyBunny]

MLH was amazing! It kind of plays rough but it's so fun! I'm literally a hockey historian (not kidding!) So when I see the parody names in the game, I actually know what players they're spose to be lol! And of course the teams! Cause they of course used the rosters from 93-94 or so I believe, it's been a minute. But for someone like me that's 1 of the most charming things of the game. But the weapons are just as good :)

[@stashmerkin9576]

@@MoneyHoneyBunny I forgot the parodies of the then current player names!

[@MoneyHoneyBunny]

Those were Epic! The teams were parodies too for the most part. Who needs Jaromir Jagr when you got Jamina Dagr!@@stashmerkin9576

[@DancesRainyStreets]

Lot's of great games for this console. Some other great titles, that could also be in my top 20, are Thunder Force IV, Road Rash II, Dragon's Fury, Castle of Illusion, Atomic Runner, Alien Soldier, Golden Axe III, Musha, Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyo Toitsusen, Dune: The Battle for Arrakis, Zero Tolerance, NHL 94, the first Streets of Rage as well, and maybe a few modern home brews like Tänzer, Xeno Crisis and Astebros. There's loads of other, longer games i haven't played enough to list, but seem pretty good, like Starflight, Pirates! Gold, Star Control, King Colossus, Shining Force II and Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun. Lot's of great shooters also, and beat 'em ups. Great console overall, especially for the time. Rocket Knight Adventures seems to have a strong fan base, almost like Donkey Kong Country has. Still, i don't care much for the both of them, except for the great soundtrack by David Wise.

[@bObAfEttOx]

Every Top games is very personal, depends on players' tastes and on the fact we played to the games in 90's or not. Nostalgia makes things very subjective. For me the best Genesis games are : - Quackshot - Revenge of shinobi - Ghouls'n Ghost - Strider - Streets of rage - Out run - Batman - Eswat - Sonic - Castle of Illusion - Ea Hockey... Because they blowed my mind when I came to NES to those games. And I especially play the early Genesis titles. Latest games I can recommend with more objectivity is for example Contra the hard corps. I discovered this game in 2020 only, due to covid and lock down and this game is a hidden gem I like without any kind of nostalgia.

[@Tarquin23]

The Mega Drive is the console I find where people’s top list of games tend to be so varied. On every other console people tend to have a lot of same games up there, but the Mega Drive has so many varied games and unique genres that everyone’s lists are usually wildly different.

[@SeveredLegs]

You could say that all you want but he picked some very mediocre games in lieu of some absolute, undeniable classics.

[@Tarquin23]

@@SeveredLegs hence it being a subject list of people’s favourites…

[@SeveredLegs]

The list had a lot of classics on it. But if I came up to you and said, "The best 10 movies of all time are Lawrence of Arabia, Caddyshack 2, Braveheart, Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd, The Dark Knight, Police Academy: Mission to Moscow, The Godfather, 3 Ninjas, Gone With the Wind, and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves." you would rightfully think I was being unserious, or that my opinion was dumb/pointless. @@Tarquin23

[@Tarquin23]

@@SeveredLegs I would respect your film list, but the very nature of these videos is people posting their top games of all time on a largely subjective basis, because if they didn’t every list would have one of 30 games on it consistently

[@jw6588]

The Phil Collins association is what makes the console cool though...

[@dilbertfish]

Anyone got a sledgehammer?

[@darthknight1]

@@dilbertfish Sledgehammer was by Peter Gabriel during his solo career about a decade after leaving Genesis.

[@joshhunt9551]

I'm a native of Seattle, WA, and it was always the Genesis. My block was a Nintendo block, and only 2 kids on my block had the Sega console.

[@officialretroshell]

Love this video, we will feature it in our next Retro Gaming Newsletter - congratulations (link in bio).

[@EnigmaHood]

Good list. I'd add Sparkster, Alien Soldier, Ristar, Shining Force, Comix Zone, Thunder Force 4 to this list.

[@TyomaTorbin]

Bro, are you freaking serious? No Earth Worm Jim 2 and Comix Zone, and Rock-n-Roll racing? I can not take you seriously, you get dis.

[@TheSilvertrigger]

I always liked earth worm Jim

[@legendcrump23]

That Sonic music though!! Brings back Great Memories!!

[@theshinkuakuma]

Hmmm, can include some shooters in the list? I love the Thunder Force series. :)

[@kalebphillips9281]

Fantastic list, but not having Shining Force 2 on this list is downright criminal.

[@laserbeak3551]

As a 42 year old I still own the Megadrive and was a great fan. My list would be totally different than this one and a bit like this: 1. Streets of rage 2 2. Aladdin 3. Castle of illusion 4. NHL 94 5. Mortal Kombat 3 6. Sonic 2 7. NBA Jam 8. Micromachines 3 9. Streetfighter 2 10. Street racer 11. Contra hard corps 12. World of illusion 13. Streets of rage 3. 14. The Lion king 15. Fifa 94 16. Quackshot 17. TMNT heiperstone heist 18. Gunstar heroes 19. Rock n roll racing 20. Golden Axe 2 21. Earth Worm Jim 22. Comic Zone 23. Shinobi 3 24. Road Rash 2 25. Sonic pinball

[@overkast6841]

I mostly only played X-Men, sonic 1 and 2, spiderman, Jurassic park and kid chameleon. I know about a lot of these now, but I never did back then because I just played on my nephews machine, as I only had Nintendo systems back then. LOVE the 16 bit era

[@isaacpaz9287]

In no particular order some of my all time Favorite saga games include sonic two sonic three Outlander Animaniacs Jurassic park Road rash two Jungle book Lion king moonwalker

[@bossedup957]

Man outlander is a gem bro..

[@timshaver996]

Your content is fantastic. You should have 100X more subs. Keep up the good work

[@willwidrick8039]

I’m shocked that Castlevania blood lines & Gunstar heroes didn’t make the top 10. Side not I would add landstalker , MMPR the movie game & Megaman the wily wars here

[@marksigler2986]

Ecco: the tides of time I appreciate the nod to the original Ecco the Dolphin, but the sequel took everything great and made it better, while eliminating a few flaws. Ecco 2 was great, one of my favorite Sega games ever, and i never understand why it never makes these lists.

[@JosephCox-yx4ds]

The soundtrack was awesome, too! The theme still makes it into my head, every now and then! Edit: also the wootwoot-whoopwhoop of the echolocate is a weird favorite sound effect of mine.

[@witness2.512]

Agree on Tides. Especially great on Sega CD. one of my favorite games ever.

[@kevinmiller5381]

This is exactly why I bought both mini genesis systems. Just to have access to most of these games with a few more gems. If you ask me the Genesis and Neo geo mini nailed it as far as selection of games

[@martinenaswarren4650]

I thought I was the only kid that knew about Beyond Oasis lol… one of my fav sega games growing up

[@l.writer6180]

My favorite Sega mwgadrive game (among the ones I had) was Phelios. We played it even more than sonic.

[@Jimer93]

Can’t wait to play some of these games on my miyo mini plus such a great portable emulator

[@Guilherme36594]

My list 20 - Toejam & Earl 19 - Splatterhouse 3 18 - Taz Mania 17 - Castlevania Bloodlines 16 - Gunstar heroes 15 - Golden Axe 14 - Contra Hard corps 13 - Vectorman 12 - NBA Jam 11 - Revenge of Shinobi 10 - Road Rash II 9 - Comix Zone 8 - Castle of Illusion 7 - World of Illusion 6 - Shinobi III: Return of the ninja master 5 - Mortal Kombat 3 4 - Ayrton Senna Super Monaco GP II 3 - Street Fighter II Special Championship Edition 2 - Streets of Rage II 1 - Sonic the hedgehog 3

[@Bakersvill]

no empire of steel?

[@cygnusactual1618]

It’s a good list but where in the world is comix zone, carnage, and earthworm Jim? They should absolutely be on here.

[@ToThePointCT]

Castle of Illusion, columns and one of the best Sonic 2. Can't believe sonic 2 isn't here😢

[@patrickperinger1383]

Anyone remember mutant league football? That was one of my favorites!

[@grinishkin]

Just finished another playthrough of Beyond Oasis. Indeed the most underrated gem of Genesis. Any more similar games, plz? Already know about Zelda, Alundra and Landstalker

[@Metal-Josh]

THANK YOU!!! Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) is the best Sonic game, not 2. 2 is great, quite awesome, but 3 exceeds that

[@businesscat380]

Making a top 20 is ridiculously hard for the Megadrive. I'd definitely have: - Thunderforce 4 - Rocket Knight Adventures - Landstalker - Shining Force 2 - Road Rash - Earthworm Jim - NHL 94 ...and ditch: - NBA Jam TE - Shadow Run - Mean Bean Machine - Herzog Zwei - Toejam and Earl - Vectorman - Golden Axe Sonic 2 over Sonic 3 for me too Possibly Jungle Strike over Desert Strike too Comix Zone, Alien Soldier, Dynamite Headdy, MUSHA, Aladdin, Robocop vs. Terminator, Pirates Gold, Castle/World of Illusion...so many games that can't crack a top 20!

[@ImanIself]

Bg3 Husband simulator! Bwahahah!!! Nice one mate!

[@justinspire6058]

No 1 and no 2 were appropriate - Mutant League Hockey was at least a top 10 GOAT for Genesis

[@BobbyHo2022]

Im playing nhl 94 and Tiny Toon Adventures today. Having a blast.

[@itbetru2229]

Love the doorbell at the end lol

[@CulturedVultures]

an easter egg!

[@stephenhughes5156]

The only game I'm disappointed didnt make it to the list is Road Rash 2. That game was just pure fun. Maybe Aladdin too. I would also for sure put Sonic 2 (and 1) and Streets of Rage 1 in there, but I'm assuming we are sticking to one entry per series.

[@topdamagewizard]

Pirates GOLD! is still the best way to play Pirates!

[@Tolbat]

Genesis Model 1 or nothing - but Mega Drive did sound cooler tbh. Hence my Mega Drive Magic Series - the best Chiptunes only :D

[@irasimpson1465]

Great list.i 1000% agree with the top 3.

[@jamesredline1352]

Second comment time. I think a lot of people still don’t understand how big of a deal Sonic was. Nintendo was a GIANT. untouchable really. And Sega released Sonic the Hedgehog and completely leveled the playing field. With one game. And a damn good game. I love Sega. I wish their old games weren’t so expensive 😢

[@TheGemini5]

Shining Force series will always be on my top 5!

[@LandonIW]

Love all these lists. Its always funny reading the comments, everyone always seems to disagree. Makes sense though, how can you be please everyone in the gaming world?

[@lovethemack]

came here looking for vectorman lol, good stuff. M K 2 and sonic 3 also tops.

[@joemel2]

Also micro machines 2 with the jcart when you had 4 oeople playing was up there!

[@1rmfrk]

Countdown ends and immediately clips two of my all time faves Elemental Master and Ghouls and Ghosts! Great list, The SoR OST throughout was perfect

[@agirotto1]

I think NHL '94 has to be in any 16 bit best-of list. Still heavily played today. Also, Road Rash, Comix Zone, Landstalker and TMNT HH could very well be in there. I won't day you're wrong, though, as I haven't play every game on the list.

[@igorlevchuk]

Earthworm Jim? Comix Zone? Wrestlemania? Shining Force 2? TMNT Hyperstone Heist?

[@ivcorners5054]

Id add Jurassic Park, (rampage edition too) comixzone, maximum carnage, earthworm jim and primal rage even though its on other consoles,but good list overall 👍

[@neosildrake]

Shining Force 1 and 2, Landstalker, Langrisser II, Strider Also imo: Phantasy Star 2, Shining in the Darkness, Starflight

[@kdj29]

my top 3 favorites werent mentioned #3- Crue Ball (motley crue pinball), #2- Smash TV, #1- Rock'N'Roll Racing

[@kdj29]

P.S., these never make anyones lists.. Road Rash II is probably tied with Sonic & Sonic 2 for #4th place.

[@48hourrecordsteam45]

My top 20 I can’t..!! it’s too many games.!! A top 20 Will leave out way too many games and cause world war Super Nintendo can have a top 10 or 20 because the top games on snes is definitive to the system . But the genesis lybrary was just too vast with games that had such an impact on the run for top games ..! It’s not fair 😢 1. Sonic 3 & knuckles 2. Streets of rage 2 3. Shinobi 3 4. Shinning force 2 5. Phantasy star 4 6.road rash 2 7.super street fighter 2 8.ultimate mortal Kombat 3 9.thunder force 4 10.castlevania bloodlines 11. Herzog zwei 12.scoobie doo mysteries 13. Ristar 14.contra hard corpse 15.x-men 2 clone wars 16.rocket knight adventure 17.beyind oasis 18.comix zone 19.vectorman 20.alien soldier 🔽 21.gunstar heroes 22.nhl94 23.crusaders of centy 24.pulseman 25.dymate heady 26.monster hunter 4 27.eath worm jim 2 28.world greatest heavyweights 29.colums 3 30.mega turrican 31.virtua racing 32.batman and robin 33.fireshark 34.jungle strike 35.poltergiest 36.pirates gold 37. Golden axe 2 38.mech warrior 39.true lies 40. Bomber man 41.Jurassic park 42.lion king 43.jungle book 44.Aladdin 45. Too numerous to mention 😭

[@christiancorriveau5069]

Yeah glad you pointed out Shadowrun but the omission of Starflight is disapointing.

[@pete_mustang]

Streets of Rage 1, Sonic 2, Moonwalker, Micro Machines. Just a few that should be on this list.

[@BigBossCQCLegend]

My Top 10 Sega Genesis Games are: 10. Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion 9/10 9. CastleVania:Bloodlines 9/10 8. Beyond Oasis 9/10 7. Alisia Dragoon 9/10 My Sleeper Gem 💎 6. Phantasy Star IV 9/10 5. Shinobi 3: Return of the Ninja Master 10/10 4. Sonic The Hedgehog 2 10/10 3. Shining Force 1 and 2 10/10 2. Gun Star Heroes 10/10 1. Streets of Rage 2 10/10

[@yeti4954]

...Gain Ground. So glad to see Vectorman though. Best game on the system (with Ristar)

[@Razl07]

Sonic 2, Cool Spot and Aladdin were the bomb.

[@nikkiwileman7033]

No mega turrican, thunder force 4 or chuck rock,what up with that dude?

[@notch7751]

1) Skitchen 2) Streets of rage 3)California games 4) Crusader of Centy

[@krisfrederick5001]

Pretty great expanse of the GENESIS ( 😉) But you forgot Road Rash

[@BillAdams-fb3jm]

How did Earthworm Jim not appear on this list? Who hurt you?

[@Combat_Chinchilla]

what about Comix Zone or Alien Soldier?

[@almeidachannel7121]

Nice Video ! Sub & Big Like ! And Love Retro Genesis Game !

[@brianmulvaney9375]

No Sensible Soccer?

[@nguyengamer7906]

Next: Sega Dreamcast

[@Shady00018]

Most of this games don't deserve to on this list.

[@matthewlujan844]

The worst part of the console wars was definitely when Pac got killed.

[@josephbradshaw6985]

Maybe Pirates and Rocket Knight?

[@ShockerTopper]

SNES was superior but it also was built a few years after Genesis. I never noticed what a huge difference there was between the two until now (30 years later haha). The colors and sound are the biggest differences between the two consoles for sure. The graphics are clearly better on SNES as well, but something about Genesis was very awesome. I still love it, and I even had the "Mega Console" of Sega CD/32X added on. However, in hindsight, the SNES really blew it away for the most part. However, the exclusives of Genesis were what made that system..oh ya, and Mortal Kombat (original) had the blood code lol. I also ended up buying a Saturn (to complete that generation's trio) and a Dreamcast, so I never abandoned Sega, even when I owned the other consoles by Nintendo and Sony.

[@joemel2]

Thunder force 4 missing is insane!

[@No-Kung-Fu]

Missing NHL 94, FIFA, EARTHWORM JIM, LION KING

[@RunGunBeatEmUp]

Road Rash

[@DavidLewis-v4m]

I would have put Sub-Terrania somewhere on the list, but good list all the same.

[@SteveO5O4]

Sega Kid 💙

[@TheFireDragon-f2d]

Landstalker was the Genesis version of Zelda, and far better than many games you listed here.

[@MrAweeze]

Mammi shoutout

[@slanderman3296]

Toe jam n earl was awesome for us. Kin to zombies ate my neighbors

[@MoneyHoneyBunny]

Im curious to see this list. Because some people neglect certain games just because they didnt like the genre, specifically sports games. NHL 94 is absolutely top 20, that game alone for Genesis determines the quality of any best of list for me! I mean, people STILL play NHL 94 today, even online. I can't think of any other genesis games like that besides the Sonic games. You could replace games that honestly, sucked ass on this list like Flashback? FLASHBACK? Shadowrun is boring at times, but a decent lengthy game, not top 20 though. Herzog I've never played but I wouldnt put it over some of the great platformers left out of this list!! NBA Jam TE is great but, Saturn has the arcade port, genesis version was mid by comparison. Dude,,, with games like NHL 94 and possibly the best non Sonic game on Genesis, Comix Zone, not even on here, this list is ok at best And how is only 1 of the core Sonic games here? Sonic 2 is the best game on the console. If you add Sonic 3 AND Knuckles, yes, that's the best game on the console. Yes we all know it was meant to be released as one game, but it wasn't. Single cartridge? Sonic 2 is the best game. Sonic 1 2 3 and Knuckles all should be on this list, with the latter 3 being the literal top 3 games on genesis. But I give this list a C- for trying to at least give variety!

[@WrestlingFace]

Mami is always on top

[@skipsch]

Contra hard corps Streets of Rage 3 Street fighter 2 hyper champion edition Vectorman 1&2 Shining force 2 M.U.S.H.A. NHL 94 Sonic spinball Comix zone Road rash 3 Kid Chameleon Desert strike Sonic & knuckles

[@damin9913]

Sega genesis is the best retro console that is ever made

[@damin9913]

Ghouls n ghosts is great too play too

[@charlesnatt1832]

Freaking limey! How do you miss Madden? It started a multi decade franchise

[@dilbertfish]

Nice to see Herzog Zwei. Any list like this is always going to be divisive.

[@johndavitt2460]

I don't think you've played enough Megadrive games.

[@Originalacousticmusic]

BOOGERMAN !!! is the greatest saga game !

[@lecxxcel8637]

Street Fighter 2 is the best mega drive game followed by Streets of Rage 2, I never even bought Sonic 3 platform games were played out by then

[@MrAdriaxe]

Dr Robotnik's and Golden Axe don't belong anywhere near the top 20. Jungle Strike is better than Desert Strike. Notable omissions are John Madden Football 93/93, Road Rash II, Thunderforce IV, Rocket Knight Adventures, Earthworm Jim, Gauntlet IV, Sensible Soccer, Comix Zone, Mega Turrican, Strider, Aladdin, NHL '94, Starflight...

[@casuallyfilthy]

Been waiting for this!

[@Carlb328]

Shinobi is free??

[@christiancorriveau5069]

wasn't "Out of this World" the sequel to "Flashback" ?

[@IsNow-iy9bs]

MUSHA