Arcade vs. Sega Genesis! *24 GAMES* Covered!

The Sega Genesis was originally created as a stripped down version of Sega's Arcade 16 board. Does it have the chops to recreate satisfying arcade ports? Let's find out!
Games Covered: Afterburner, Afterburner II, Alien Storm, Altered Beast, Captain America and the Avengers, Double Dragon, Fantasy Zone, Final Fight, Frogger, Golden Axe, Joe & Mac, King of the Monsters, Lethal Enforcers, Mortal Kombat, NBA Jam Tournament Edition, Pit Fighter, Samurai Shodown, Saturday Night Slam Masters, Smash TV, Street Fighter II: Champion Edition, Strider, Sunset Riders, T2: The Arcade Game, Truxton, Virtua Racing
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[@Jolt7800]

How I missed out on Alien Storm in both versions back in the day is a crime against video games. Thanks for the the comparisons Greg!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Same. I only learned about it after the Genesis was long done

[@Sinn0100]

You enjoyed Alien Storm? I never cared for it. It's like the game can't decide if it is a beat em' up or a side scrolling shooter. I did however love the first person bits.

[@stevemilliken2724]

Always loved playing Golden Axe! Feel like it’s the best example of a Sega Genesis game.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Definitely a system seller!

[@CokerCulture]

Really enjoyed seeing all of these throwbacks. Mortal Kombat truly held up, but bummed how rough Double Dragon was

[@GregsGameRoom]

DD should have been arcade perfect on the Genesis

[@LORDJPXX3]

This is really comfy content; casual takes on some old school games. Feels like early KZbin. Great stuff. 👾

[@GregsGameRoom]

Early KZbin is the best KZbin

[@tonyp9313]

I think Sega Genesis did an excellent job making arcade ports to the home console. Some of them I don't like but games I do like such as Golden Axe, Turtles Hyper Stone Heist & Street Fighter 2 Championship edition, I rather just play these games on the Sega Genesis where you aren't wasting a lot of money putting in quarters playing these versions of the games.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Golden Axe is definitely one of the best

[@lazarushernandez5827]

You could probably do a part 2, Ghouls N Ghosts, Midnight Resistance, Mercs, Fatal Fury, Super Hang On, Outrun, and a few others might be worth a look.

[@GregsGameRoom]

There will definitely be a Part 2

[@gaylordfocker7990]

DJ Boy, Kageki, Burning Force, Double Dragon 2+3, Phelios, Rolling Thunder 2, Street Smart, Bonanza Bros, Marvel Land, Growl, Thunderfox, Rastan Saga 2

[@P5ychoFox]

Flicky too. I think that was an arcade game.

[@pixelsncreatures]

Genesis Frogger is the only one with the full original arcade soundtrack. Even the Arcade 1up frogger doesn't have it

[@GregsGameRoom]

It’s because the song is a copyrighted nursery rhyme from Japan. Later versions removed it.

[@pixelsncreatures]

@@GregsGameRoom yes, but i think Sega has the rights to use it since they released the arcade in the us

[@RobertLewis85]

Great video. I played a lot of these Genesis games as a kid and didn't know some of them were arcade games.

[@Fluoride_Jones]

I just found out today that "Blades of Steel" started as an arcade game! 😆

[@zusk8556]

I know it's on the Genesis Mini 2, but the recent official port of Fantasy Zone is virtually arcade perfect from what I understand. There's a standalone rom floating around, it's definitely worth a play. Super Fantasy Zone was more of a reimagining of the game. Also, that Frogger port doesn't get enough love. There's a rom hack for it that restores the arcade colors, making it probably the most accurate version along with the original soundtrack.

[@Soynereh]

Used to play a lot of Snow Bros and Monster Lair on the Genesis.

[@malcolmmoore7191]

Love those old games 🎮 😍 👌

[@Pai3000]

Ok. I gotta say I really enjoyed the video. Thre are a lot of things we don't agree on but I understand we can have different points of view. That being said, please allow me to do the following: "Street Fighter 2. The original arcade game was kinda lame" SAID NO ONE EVER. XD Love your channel man. Keep it up!!

[@IamLegend32]

I felt the exact same way when watching this video. Lol

[@8bitDNA]

I think he was referring to Part 1

[@GregsGameRoom]

Yeah I was talking about the original Street Fighter 1 game.

[@The_Badseed]

Greg: Seriously, you ever hear of Frogger before? Me: Come on dude, everyone knows Frogger..... Or do they? This was the moment I realize I am old.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Ha, I did mean it as a joke, but you are right. Some kids today may not even know Frogger!

[@skywalkerranch]

Fantastic video.

[@BURRITO44]

Awesome video

[@officialpowergame]

Plastic Game Room's neverending quest to review Truxton :D

[@zparklebugz424]

I actually didn't even know that Alien Storm was an arcade game, but i played it alot on Genesis back in the day!💖

[@bildo1977]

The Genesis port of AfterBurner is actually based upon AfterBurner II in the arcade. The arcade AfterBurner footage you showed was from the first AfterBurner game. I can tell because the score was not continuously counting up during gameplay. Plus AfterBurner II has the throttle controls and the first game does not.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Yeah I kinda messed up there. Forgot to mention the Genesis game was Afterburner II. But it’s not a significant difference between games.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

By the time Sega had the 32X and Saturn to make perfect ports of those games it was way too late

[@MisterDozer]

The lack of hardware sprite scaling really hurt the Genesis’ ability to do better ports of games like Afterburner.

[@GregsGameRoom]

It certainly would have helped

[@bicentenialkid]

I hope you’re doing well and I wanted to let you know that I’m a yearly pass holder at WDW now and hope I can meet you when I come to Florida the week of April 13th. Is there a way to contact you privately? Thanks. 🙏

[@Bloodreign1]

You sure that's arcade footage of Caveman Ninja that you are showing off (It isn't)? The music, nor HUD at the top of the screen doesn't seem quite right, like it's an Amiga version or something. As for the Samurai Shodown port, it's missing a lot more than sound effects and animations, and Earthquake and his stage, quite a bit more.

[@VEGANVANIA]

But remember that Sega-made spiderman arcade game (vaguely similar to Double Dragon) that NEVER had a home console version of any kind... ?

[@ianfisch7289]

Hey if you're gonna do these comparisons, please upload at 60fps next time. Thanks!

[@GadgetMartian]

great times 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@PistNRods]

The arcade games were the reason I preferred the Genesis over SNES. Captain America was a pleasant surprise how fun it is as a game. I played the Genesis version first, before noticing it at the arcade.

[@GregsGameRoom]

The Sega arcade conversions were the best

[@cliffchampion5501]

Then you certainly missed out most ports where closer to the arcade on the snes

[@Bloodreign1]

@@cliffchampion5501 Indeed, if they actually played arcade ports to the SNES, they'd see that. Sounds like they didn't and just go by what they think arcade ports were like, like Captain America (which was ported over by Realtime Associates, hardly a worthy company). You usually see this from Genesis fanboys hating on the company that beat their asses regularly in console sales.

[@shaylanmackay3930]

for the genesis I bought the genesis joystick for after burner it was better than the standard genesis controller. Good times 8-)

[@hectorleon4152]

You should make a new comparison with the hack games for the Sega Genesis, they are incredible friend

[@alexmoreno2606]

They are also arcade games ported to the nes.

[@scratchedvinyl8462]

Were there any conversions of Pit Fighter that were good?! Every conversion on every platform was dreadful!

[@Sinn0100]

Great video! Have you played the fan Mortal Kombat fix yet? It looks almost arcade perfect and features all the voices. It looks better than the Sega CD port, no joke.

[@paultheretrogamer]

I thought that our pal versions of games were slower

[@ROMBomb001]

Great video, but we need time stamps :(

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

The Sega CD port of MK also has restored art, animation, and optional turbo speed. It's not just a lazy Genesis copy and paste with better music. Save for the load times, this used to be the best home port, by far. You should have actually played it, instead of cutting corners.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

That said, you give credit to Pitfghter. Simple and dated doesn't mean bad design. And you call out the reasons why Double Dragon ceded their crown to Streets of Rage without a fight. It's a good video... It's just that between the mistake with MK1 and skipping SamSho CD, why include CD coverage at all?

[@8bitDNA]

I’d love to see your video take on this. Let me know as soon as you make it!!

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@@8bitDNA Buy me the computer that can emulate Sega CD and MAME, and sure.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I only mentioned the Sega CD version briefly because I knew someone would complain if I didn’t. Can’t win for losing apparently.

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@@GregsGameRoom A minute to do a quick Google isn't backbreaking labor. Misinformation is worse than no information. You made a mistake. It happens. Admit it and do better.

[@alexshadowfax1119]

Did I hear him say the word "easy" when talking about smash TV? I'm guessing this was meant as a joke?

[@loganford3921]

Definitely the worst arcade Neo Geo port for me is World Heroes for the Mega Drive.

[@brandonnoel432]

It was so damn bad.

[@guillepankeke2844]

Man, I miss light gun games, f*ck virtual reality, I want more light gun games.

[@GregsGameRoom]

For sure

[@brichan1851]

Why is Burning Force never remembered?

[@GregsGameRoom]

Good question

[@boonboy8333]

I don't see zerowing, what's happening ⚠️ It's only the most iconic arcade killer

[@GregsGameRoom]

Keep watching, it will be in a future video

[@Hereospawn-ut7fv]

You missed Arcade games Truxton- nice conversion, King of the Monsters 2- terrible conversion, The Punisher - terrible conversion, Growl- OK conversion, and others such as The Thunderforce Arcades, and Thunderblade arcade game- terrible conversion, and Primal Rage- terrible conversion.

[@justinhurd8270]

Sunsetriders for snes was better 4 players

[@Makeshift_Mulder]

That's _BIMMY_ and Jimmy...

[@GregsGameRoom]

Haha, I ALMOST said that as a joke! But that’s the NES version.

[@station5943]

3:50 that is false.

[@Adamtendo_player_1]

A decent comparison but I don’t agree with you on a lot of things especially when it comes to the sound of the games Saturday night slam. Masters has great sound in terms of music for the MD version but I grew you on the sound effects being very scratchy. are you really suck at Strider, in fact it’s a common occurrence with a lot of your reviews that I don’t agree with when it comes to the audio.

[@thedrunkmonkshow]

I grew up playing the Genesis port of Sunset Riders so I have nostalgia for it but in hindsight there's no nice way of putting it...Konami dropped the ball with the Genesis port. They allowed an inexperienced 5 person team to port it but even had they used a veteran team the executives made the boneheaded move of greenlighting a 4 Megabit cartridge in 1992 when most were double or triple that size at the time giving them no room to work. A few years ago some programmers in Brazil announced they were making a proper port to the game and it looks even better than the SNES port just like the Arcade but there's been no news in the last 2 years since which concerns me that the project is dead. Anyway, can't wait for Part 2 as there's many others out there to cover like Mercs and Cadash! 😎

[@RobertLewis85]

Pit Fighter was notoriously garbage on Genesis.

[@SoulforSale]

Neo Geo games aren't legitimate arcade games. They are not as powerful or capable as Capcom, Sega or Konami games were.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I count them as arcade games because you drop in quarters to play

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

Then you might as well pretend Tekken 3 was never an arcade game. Bit delusional to pretend Neo Geo isn't arcade quality when the Sega Saturn needed RAM expansion to match it.

[@SoulforSale]

@@juststatedtheobvious9633 The MVS was extremely underpowered when compared to it's contemporary counterparts

[@juststatedtheobvious9633]

@@SoulforSale Mindlessly repeating yourself doesn't make you sound any smarter.

[@Godzillafan1980]

TV is the devil video games are the devil the intranet is the devil cellphones are the devil