Classic Game Room - DESERT STRIKE review for Sega Genesis

[@EDFCentral]

I have a locked in memory of this game. The day I beat the game was such an awesome day. I remember this huge feeling of satisfaction. I turned the game off and with a smile on my face went into the living room to sit with my parents while they finished watching the Shirley McClane, Nicholas Cage movie "Guarding Tess." Desert Strike and Nicholas Cage. Pure Awesome!

[@robbyfernando5658]

100

[@fluttershystayshigh4202]

oh hell yes! i used to LOVE these Strike games back in the day, most underrated shooters ever, surprised there hasn't been an HD remake of at least one of these great games..

[@Barla90]

The 'Strike' series are amazing! One of the best series of the Genesis, for sure!

[@thesensei]

Jungle Strike and Urban Strike are amazing as well.

[@pauljohnson3340]

I still have my old Sega back home. I never upgraded. `This was also one of my favorites. He is correct-the missions get tougher as time goes on. I preferred Sega over SNS. Controllers were much easier to work with.

[@leocorrea5935]

Desert Strike, Jungle Strike and Urban Strike. :)

[@AnotherComputer]

2013. Everyone is going ape-shit over the new consoles coming and new games, Mark reviews games that came out 20-30 years ago. Oh how I love CGR.

[@jordandupuis1249]

Same

[@gtabro1337]

this game + sonic 3 + mortal kombat 3 = MY SWEET CHILDHOOD :') that game was so damn hard but I kept trying over and over again, never got past the first level, but the memories are priceless... :)

[@moosehunter1969]

First video game I ever finished. God I loved this back in the day.

[@nazeres1]

OMG I MISS THIS GAME!!! I haven't played it since i was 3 years old! Thank's for reviewing it mark!!!

[@bigedwerd]

Don't forget the far future sequel Battletech

[@drunkinjedi]

dam i just remembered this when i was taking a walk, i cant believe i forgot about this series. freakin unbelievably great for its time =P. maybe we need a remake?

[@TurbidTG1]

This is exactly what I need. Coming home to Mark with another awesome game review after a long first day of college!

[@Wampaa]

CGR and Gamesack are the only major retro gaming channels that give the Genesis the love it deserves.

[@Htcuban4]

I loved playing all the Desert Strike game back when i was a kid. This video brings back good memories.

[@beer2041]

The entire series no matter what system you played it on was a total gem, cemented classics forever lol. So awesome, made me think as a kid also which was nice..conserve...wheres the fuel drums!!?? Haha. 10/10

[@DemonDHarris]

I used to have this game on the Commodore Amiga, I loved it, it's one that stood out enough for me to remember it despite playing it very young and giving away my Amiga very young.

[@rushnerd]

The extra tall Electronic Arts Carts for Genesis were the coolest things on earth.

[@TheWheelsMcCoy]

Loved this game back in the day and i actually bought it on the PSP in a pack that includes Road Rash.

[@بسام-ط7ع]

This game was and still one of the legends .. thank you .

[@REPORODGE]

IF YOU HOLD THE A BUTTON YOU CAN STRAFF THE AH TRY IT!

[@omgitzrj86]

I remember as a kid we would rent this game every weekend, and return it just to rent it again. Along with all the other games (Urban Strike, Jungle Strike) awesome games. Takes me back to the day!

[@RoadRunner1980]

I played the sequel Jungle Strike. Amazing game for the time. Good memories!

[@thedjkire]

One of my first video games that I remember getting as a kid. The Genesis was my first system and I spent many hours playing this, NBA Jam, and my 6 pack cartridge!

[@MrStephen182]

I agree this series does need to make a comeback. This, jungle strike, Soviet and Nuclear strike were fantastic games. Never played Urban strike.

[@RickyFrench72]

These are still bad ass games!!! These helicopter games still kick todays helicopter games easily!!

[@WeHaveExplosive]

Loved this game when I was at school. It was like Cyclone on the ZX Spectrum ... but with guns! ... and no dangerous weather.

[@joshuasmith720]

This is actually my favorite game on the Super Nintendo. I played this when it came out when I was a teenager.

[@shiningforce83]

Loved this game as a kid and I just picked up a copy to add to my collection, EA had some cool games on the Genesis. Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike on the Playstation are cool too. lots of good gaming memories with these games.

[@XaoFakeNick]

Oh man, this game was immersive... I played it for hours and hours in the Super NES. One of my all time favorites.

[@Redline748]

I used to play this on the Amiga and loved it, The sounds were way better :)

[@heddythecrab]

I grew up on this series. I still play them every now and then to this day. Nice review Mark, maybe you could do Jungle/Urban Strike some time.

[@reaper2345]

Damn I miss this game

[@loudmusickillsthepain648]

i have it on my phone along with fifty other sega games.

[@reaper2345]

+Raymond Rowlands how?

[@loudmusickillsthepain648]

GENPLUSDROID Emulator for andriod devices.

[@reaper2345]

+Raymond Rowlands nothing for iPhone?

[@loudmusickillsthepain648]

+reaper2345 there should be something for your phone. i got the emulator from google playstore. also needed to download a file manager app to transfer downloaded games onto the emulator. all free and simple.

[@Retrobution]

One of my all time fave games this! EA could redeem themselves a bit if they remake these but with first person on foot (like battlefield) moments where you can enter a building with a gun and rescue hostages or whatever. co-op with a friend who can fly the chopper and you can be the gunner and winch man. the levels could be big and open like in the original games where they could release each level episodically. like ioi did with hitman they made large detailed levels with plenty of replay value and i think this would translate well to the desert strike levels where there are plenty of ways to approach each mission. get acheivments for example for beating a mission ahead of another such as destroying the airfield on high alert. i think though if they were to re release them they would just make it an arcade style shooter and ditch the need to get fuel. or worst yet they will make it a mobile base building game and you need to pay £5.99 for 100 fuel drums or 10000000 xp for 1 fuel drum or something..... EA games were amazing back in the day they need to sell this game licence out to other studios or something.

[@RickyFrench72]

EA has gone to garbage. $$$ to there head . Madden ultimate team ruined everything .

[@ZiggyIsGrape]

I grew up with this game on Super Nintendo :)

[@EGarrett01]

I had completely forgotten this until I saw this video pop-up in my subscriptions. Wow. Amazing how some stuff is still stored somewhere in your brain even when you can't consciously access it.

[@TheAradar]

Great review, I remember playing this game a lot on Amiga 500 :)

[@Jtwizzle]

Remember playing this when prolly 8 years old, awesome stuff.

[@DamianSix66]

Can't believe this is 21 years old, seems like just yesterday. This along with Road Rash and Streets of Rage where probably my all time favourite Megadrive games.

[@TheCompletionist]

I am absolutely fond of this game. I think this game is one of the true under-rated classics on both the sega genesis and super nintendo. I never see this game appear on anybody's top 10 or top 20 list. I simply love this game because of its difficulty. This game can get hard but it has that right amount of difficulty I absolutely love.

[@_Schwartz]

I remember playing this with my dad. He liked it so much he went out and bought it. Good times :)

[@ImperialPimp]

Getting around to some real nice 16 Bit Gems recently ! Awesome !

[@Ittan11]

I absolutely love that this copy of Desert Strike was given to you from Qatar.

[@jonn_mace_80_95_]

I remember when I got a Genesis for my 6th birthday in the summer of 1991 and Desert Strike was one of the titles that came along with the console. *SIGH* Good times.....good times!

[@tonyAJ420]

Jungle Strike was awesome so fun to drive the motorcycle, hovercraft and stealth bomber.

[@eiadtarabulsi]

I knew this game was donated by Mohammed from Qatar even before Mark mentioned it and without looking at the comments section. I also know that I feel a lot better after watching this review because I was still trying to get rid of the nauseous feeling I had after watching so many Zhu Zhu reviews. Thanks Mark!

[@raminudl]

Hey, for anyone who doesn't know, there's another game in this series called Future Cop: LAPD on the PS1. It was originally going to be Future Strike but for whatever reason they changed it to be a game about a police mech that can transform into a hovercar.

[@AndreyS306]

Great "Strike" series, love all of them!

[@jarekvoice08legend]

I think I owned Desert Strike, Jungle Strike and Urban Strike (that is the whole series) on my SEGA Mega Drive 16-bit, but my memories of the games are very few (strange!) but happy! : ( : ( ; (

[@derothop]

Great pick man I played the shyt out of this game back in the day! You got to do Road Rash next!

[@Acemodbuster]

This game is probably among my favorite game for the Sega Genesis, if not my favorite. I had picked it up at a gaming shop and thought I'd try it out. Well worth the money. I think I payed about $7 for it.

[@BonfireAhead]

Played this gem on my Amiga. Aah memories.

[@Joorum]

This was really fun back then, should really revisit it. Also, fun fact: This game was featured in the very first Retsupurae video.

[@DarthJevil]

ah I loved this game back in the day xD got nuclear strike when it came out on ps1 too o/

[@aklovl1980]

I had so mutch fun with this game on the amiga 500(with i still have and use) :))

[@Danvers87]

Still have my copy that I bought new in '92. I also play it on my PSP. Such a great game.

[@rattyocaster]

He's playing it without momentum? That's part of the fun!

[@kaleidoscopeon]

Man. Loved playing this game. There should be a new version of this on the new gaming consoles.

[@TheBlackSpastic]

I know this is a super old video but no joke I just got back from the thrift store and bought desert strike and the lion King for Genesis lol

[@ArmoredCoreRaven]

As much as I love the Strike games, Red Zone is my all-time favorite game in the genre.

[@UncleFeedle]

I still enjoy the occasional blast on this game today. What makes it work is the fact that you have limited ammo, fuel and cargo capacity, and you can't afford to waste much. You have to really think about how you're going to do the missions. Without those restrictions (unlimited ammo etc) it would be just another 16-bit shooter. While it wasn't perfect, I think Desert Strike is a perfect example of how putting limitations on the player gives a game depth.

[@potty127]

Awesome game! There's a really good version released for the Commodore Amiga too, which was the one I had back in the day :)

[@theweauction]

Always looked forward to playing this game along with mortal kombat, and sonic at my uncle's house. Then for christmas I got a model 2 core system and go to play all the great genesis games.

[@cosmic25sheep]

I rented this game out for the weekend when it first came out...fantastic game. I went on to purchase Jungle Strike which was bigger and better.

[@tonyAJ420]

Urban Strike was great, for some reason its not listed in the description. It was cool to get out of your vehicle and do missions on foot.

[@SWFCnV]

Loved this game and jungle strike back in the day

[@SBXIII]

Mohammad from Qatar is quite possibly the best CGR viewer ever.

[@MUV4TRUK4]

I was so crap at this game, but I just kept coming back bcoz I just loved it

[@thefifthdoctor6780]

I'd play this with my dad for hours

[@MikeRoePhonicsMusic]

I bought this a few months ago. I beat it back in the day. Time to give it another go!

[@macker33]

They did, it was the first EA game i heard of, but desert strike was an amiga game that got ported over to the megadrive.

[@jonnymodel1]

i got this on my samsung s2 , jungle and urban as well , awsome stuff , good review mark.

[@volo870]

Am I the only one to find importing Desert Strike from Qatar kinda disturbingly odd?

[@BelatedGamer]

+Volo Jesus

[@Ulfhedhner]

Ohhh man, I loved this game so much when i was a kid.

[@SAPopeOnARope]

Damn, this looks so much better than the SNES version, and the cinematics are AWESOME.

[@80sretrogamergamingarchive90]

The coloured bits of plastic on the carts are to tell you if it’s a action game or adventure game etc ect

[@CrossoverGameReviews]

It's been too long since I played this game. I don't remember the game having cutscenes. Or perhaps I always skipped them. I recall that when I completed the final mission, I was actually surprised to see a cutscene before the ending. Aside from that, yes, very good game. I once got up in the morning and before I went to school, I played a little bit of it but went over the time I had to wake my dad up and he took it away. It wasn't worth it but dang it, I wanted to play it some more.

[@TeddXplosion]

Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, and Urban Strike are all awesome.

[@coreysmith4111]

Hey man I rarely comment but I had to tell you I absolutley love classic game room!! Keep up the awesome work! Game On!

[@juiaob]

Is that an Elcamino in the back?? omg, i'll never have a game room as cool as yours.

[@850RC]

Ahhhh yeah, been waiting for this review!

[@Dukefazon]

Pretty forgiving? I wouldn't say that. Half of my childhood was spent on the first level :) I loved this game when I was a kid, we played it on Amiga500, that version was the best! Today I have it on gameboy advance.

[@SylveonTrapito]

You remember that? I never saw it but I heard it was a cartridge that let you download games or something amazing at that time.

[@MarkTheMorose]

I had this on the Amiga. The sound is better; for example, when nearing an area where downed pilots are, they shout 'Over here!'. When I got a PC, I got Desert Strike for that, and the sound was very weedy. On the flip side, Amiga controllers only had one fire button, so to change from cannon to missiles, you had to press the space bar.

[@LiMNPiX2012]

He actually does all 3 Road Rash games, I really want to pick them all up after seeing his videos haha

[@djklink20009]

i remember this and desert storm and possibly desert strike III , one of them was 2d and had you saving or rescuing people rather than kill them

[@johnelliott14]

Man I miss playing this game, I wold play it all night long.

[@BlindLetsPlayer]

God I still remember this game so well...

[@F-Man]

I remember playing this and Jungle Strike as like a 3 year old kid!

[@IHeart16Bit]

That intro is kickass to this day.

[@mosesarea51]

I don't know why, but this game always reminded me of Micro Machines used to have a few of them when I was a kid I also had this game for the SNES good times.

[@stumpusMaximus]

Does anyone remember saddam hussein in it on the ground? I still have this along with Jungle Strike and Urban Strike and all the other great Megadrive games

[@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

I played this game for months, then Urban Strike and on and on for years. I recently reordered all the games along with a used genesis and realized that I no longer was entertained by this, lol. Times change after 20 years. One Genesis game (or even any video game for that matter) that I still enjoy is Star Control (for the Genesis) That game has awesome replay ability mostly because it's probably the only game I don't suck at.

[@WhiskeyPieSometimes]

Apaches, much like A-10 Warthogs, will never not be awesome.

[@Vovan145]

One of my favorite game in 90's

[@gragre9508]

This game is actually my favorite sega genesis game of all time.

[@joshuasmith720]

Ahhhh, Witty and Funny!!! New to your channel, and I like it already!! 5/5

[@Methylenedream]

This game was awesome, played so much of it

[@JackDaScarecrow]

THis game was HARD!!! I got it when I was like 6 or 7 I probably didnt beat the first level until I was 9 or 10. I didnt complete the whole game until I was like 13. This was back when game were actually a challenge and you actually feel like you accomplished something when completed a game.....

[@mattsgeekbrain]

Jungle Strike perfected the awesomeness of this franchise

[@lylack1]

Matt BrainZ in what ways did Jungle strike perfect the franchise?

[@surfthestreets86]

Magnet Matt Didnt it have the B2 bomber ?