I played 24 Sega Genesis games I've never heard of

[@flophouseplays]

Want EVEN MORE? I recently played 25 weird PlayStation games I've never heard of! - kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpOroGCundaorqc

[@Robeebert]

Holy crackers. Arcus Odyssey. I played this game on the SEGA Channel back in the early 90s, before I could fucking read, and I've been losing my mind every couple years trying to remember this game. You have unsealed a memory for me. Thank you.

[@sleazyfox8937]

That 'Death Duel' game over screen is the most brutal game over screen I've seen in my life. It straight up just insults you and down to your family 😂

[@aether6293]

Your family? Your entire bloodline xD

[@williamzeo2493]

This is a very early Mega Drive game, I saw it in rare occasions.

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

I love how you die and theres a huge Prolouge about how fucked up everything is because you died, and it shames you for dying and being a coward If only all games had this level of detail

[@deftones8717]

That was fu€king great 😆

[@esmerylan]

I love that Matt immediately recognized Last Battle as a reskinned Hokuto no Ken game. 😆

[@kathleendelcourt8136]

Last Battle is indeed the western localized version of a Japanese Hokuto no Ken game. They basically removed the blood, changed a few names and swapped a few colors.

[@emrules2001]

You can cut the tension with a spork

[@thegamesninja3119]

Aka Fist of the North Star?

[@kathleendelcourt8136]

@@thegamesninja3119 Yes.

[@uptown710]

Lol yup. This is based on Ken’s travels through the land of Shura.

[@thegamesninja3119]

@usmantariq3316 if they had licensing issues, it is not as odd as one would expect.

[@EagleLeader1]

22 minutes in is my childhood displaying my parents' poor purchasing power. Cyber-Cop, I remember being so fascinated by the story but the game itself was too difficult for me. It collected dust for a couple years before I forced myself to conquer it one day.

[@gingerincgaming9721]

57:10 I used to own this game when I was a kid. It was crowned as one of the most difficult games to play at the time. It was essentially a mashup between the Mazinger and Devilman series which was popular in Japan at the time. I was able to beat this game twice. I wish people talk more about it because it faded into obscurity over the years.

[@TsunogaiDanshaku]

Not-so-fun fact about Atomic Runner: It was originally released in arcades as "Atomic Runner Chelnov" with a very different plot and set-up where the titular main character was a Soviet coal miner who was caught in a nuclear blast that gave him super powers. This, combined with the character's name being very close to "Chernobyl" got Data East a lot of criticism from their perceived insensitivity and attempt to profit off the Chernobyl disaster. The company officially denied any intentional connection (though later accounts from Data East employees would partially contradict this), but the character's origins were changed, along with some graphical elements, for the Mega Drive/Genesis port, and the name "Chelnov" was dropped from the title for the North American and European release.

[@Liquidcadmus]

Red Zone isn't a helicopter game, it's actually a multi genre game that changes with missions. you have overhead shoot em up type levels, fps levels, etc. it's a crazy display of what the Genesis could do . you should give it another go, at the very least it's an interesting game overall to check out.

[@happyspaceinvader508]

Yeah… I was disappointed he didn’t at least get to the part where you use one of those 3 soldiers, although the whole game is punishingly difficult and the controls sometimes feel like you’re playing in slow motion.

[@reinokid]

32:15 God, that "FUCK OFF!" is so genuine. Great video and thanks for taking us on this crazy Genesis ride!

[@Des_Zee]

Arcus Odyssey is a true hidden gem for the Genesis. Plus the replayability trying to beat the game with the different characters.

[@clintonef9]

@UltimateGamerCCdidn’t they all have different attacks and magic?

[@phoenixlich]

Yeah it looks like a game i'd WANT to play

[@shakes5847]

You were a little young but Ex-Mutants was a classic, who could forget such heros like Disgruntled Goat, Uncle Ant, KIu Klux Clam...

[@lucidloon]

Disgruntled Goat had his moments.

[@Aszaxa]

1:20:28 "Bet on the enemy and lose" I'm not joking when I say that's the strategy for reaching the maximum amount of money.

[@redwolflancer3051]

That Outlander was supposed to be MadMax but something happened with the license and the no escape was that Ray Liotta movie

[@ace94d]

IDK if this comes up later but fun fact: Wolf Team is the guys who will become Namco Tales Studio and made the Tales series of RPGs!

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

I’m sure an Uncle that returned from another world would like this.

[@residentfan1521]

Is this a Gravity Falls reference?

[@cococolonel]

Ha! Just started reading it.

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

@@residentfan1521 it’s an anime.

[@ColtComanche]

@@residentfan1521cle from Another World. It’s a manga & anime. About a teenager who gets isekai’d in 2000 and returns to Earth in the present day after years there and moves in with his now adult nephew

[@residentfan1521]

@@ColtComancheoh ok. Gravity Falls also has an uncle from another world

[@WillKeaton]

_No Escape_ is based on a 1994 movie of the same name. Normy: "Aliens have kidnapped some women from the beach! Obviously the logical thing to do is drink suntan lotion in order to go back to cavemen times!"

[@JakatoXtra]

Oh Snap Mazin Saga! For those curious that's actually made by Go Nagai (Devilman) and is a Spin-Off of his Series 'Mazinger Z' which many consider as "The First Super Robot" and invented many Japanese Mecha Staples such as 'The Rocket Punch'! 👊💥 Definitely would be cool to see Matt play more of that Game in the future for sure! 👍

[@bearerofbadnews1375]

I know of Mazinger from the super robot wars games. Wished we get more those in the west.

[@Exlayer-pk8hy]

@@bearerofbadnews1375 I'm pretty sure the most recent game sold well enough on steam for them to release future titles on there.

[@mechadeka]

@@bearerofbadnews1375 ?? SRW30 was the top selling game in the series due to the global release. And the previous three games all got English releases in SEA that you could import.

[@LegitHarpyHunter]

I immediately thought of Mazinger when I saw the name.

[@nextgencowboy]

So Wolf Team is super interesting. They started as wolf team and eventually split into two studios in 1994. Tri-Ace, makers of Valkyrie Profile and the Star Ocean series, and Tales Studios, under Namco, when they released Tales of Phantasia, and are still releasing major RPGS to this day. Basically, 3 people left wolf team (hence Tri-Ace) and formed their own studio. It's also why the series had so many elements shared between them. Clearly moving off the Genesis/Mega Drive was a successful move as Pahntasia and Star Ocean are fonsidered all-time classics, whereas Ernest Evans was not.

[@Hardworlder]

Didn't they make hentai games at some point?

[@nextgencowboy]

@@Hardworlder I've never seen them but I wouldn't rule it out. They worked on things like the FM Towns in the 1980s and early 90s. Things like Time Gal and a few of their other games brushed against that style for sure. I am certainly not an expert on obscure 1980s Japanese PC games, I mostly know them due to tri-Ace and Tales team. Looking up stuff to answer you I did find out that apparently Ernst Evans is a trilogy which is mind-blowing

[@7cNickel]

@@Hardworlder No, it's far sadder. They made a couple of storyline heavy magical girl themed action platformers called the Valis series. When Telenet Japan ran into financial trouble and began selling off assets, Valis ended up in the hands of a really gross hentai company who made Valis X. It turns out that fans of the original games didn't want a visual novel retelling of the original story only with scenes of their favorite characters being raped every 5 minutes.

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@7cNickel That's a different studio

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@nextgencowboy Nope, Wolfteam never made any hentai games.

[@Maken-X]

It's me, one of the half-dozen or so people who actually read Ex-Mutants as a kid! Spoilers: The totally not-sinister-at-all looking Doctor absolutely heel-turns on the gang like, midway through the series IIRC. Also, throwing my hat in for more Alisia Dragoon. Love that game.

[@cybercop0083]

Matt not having heard of Chelnov is surprising to tell the very, very least

[@flophouseplays]

As I state here and there throughout the video, I didn't own a Genesis growing up. So there's certainly a few spots of it's library I'm not familiar with.

[@vaguerant]

@flophouseplays It's originally a 1988 arcade game, the whole weird scientists and ancient aliens plot is completely new to the MD port. In the OG, he's a coal miner caught in a nuclear meltdown and a shadowy organization wants to use his atomic super powers for evil so he ... runs a lot. It's weird on arcade, too.

[@oldking8276]

​@@flophouseplaysIf it's any consolation, I had a Genesis in my youth and had never heard or seen Chelnov until a year ago. Might not had been popular here in Canada...

[@cybercop0083]

@@flophouseplays I get that. But back in the naughties, Chelnov was one of the cult trashes, like his Data East brother Karnov or Abobo. Or maybe even Pepsiman. Kinda like good old Zubaz. So I was always under the assumption, he was right in your wheelhouse 😁😁😁

[@Overlord81]

@@cybercop0083 Chelnov is actually Karnov's cousin, Chelnov is a secret character in one of the Fighter History game(for SNES if I remember) and it said that on his bio.

[@mscottjohnson3424]

Oh man, Atomic Runner right off the bat? That game is excellent, but you have to treat it like a shooter. It's rock hard and you need to get good. If you're not into shmups, it's not going to be for you, but for those into that genre, it's an incredibly well made game with tight controls and excellent level design.

[@Pai3000]

Spanish guy here. I was a SNES owner but I played most of this games as a child. Some of them were pretty well known such as X-Mutants, Last Battle or Alisia Dragoon. You always knew someone who had them and you played them at their homes. It's funny to see someone connected to the world of videogames who has never seen them. Nice video. The Earnest Evans reaction, I can tell you, was exactly the same back in the day🤣

[@NegativeEnergyX2000]

Atomic Runner was one of the few Genesis games I owned as a kid. The enemies and bosses get weirder the further you progress.

[@simplesimonhadapie]

Yeah the original Japanese game is based upon the Chernobyl disaster and it's why it makes absolutely no sense coming over west since they obviously couldn't use the originals story

[@theblobconsumes4859]

Red Zone is most notable for having been one of the first games Jesper Kyd composed for, and it is where the beat for Hitman Blood Money's Apocalypse was born.

[@EmperorSeth]

Fun fact about that Normy game. In a sense, the character HAD already made it, because this was a spin-off game of a comic strip called Making It by Keith Robinson. They had it in my paper as a kid. From what I can tell, though, the artist still was making cartoons as recently as 2016. There's probably a story in there to be told. Imagine if that was just a thing back in the day, and you pop a For Better or For Worse game into your Super Nintendo or something.

[@tonybarnes2920]

Fun fact, there is indeed quite some tales to be told about that Normy's game. Maybe one day I'll spill the beans. LOL

[@Ro_Morgen]

@@tonybarnes2920 oh please tell us!!!!

[@AxelHunterTwitch]

This is my favorite kind of content. As someone who gets most of my gaming pleasure out of excavating the depths of what is playable on the Mister, this kind of video is catnip to me.

[@emilysong2000]

I've played Alisia Dragoon on the Switch via the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack, and it is a legitimate banger...one of the hidden gems of the Genesis. I'm happy to see that you got some enjoyment out of it!

[@cubansupreme]

Nice to hear that you enjoyed Alisia Dragoon Ms. song. It's a really awesome game. This was one of my most wanted Sega Genesis games to come to the NSO Expansion Pack service for a while and I'm so happy that it's available there now : ).

[@chaosspork]

Same! It was honestly pretty fun

[@Relugus]

Alicia Dragoon and Ranger X are hidden gems that look and sound gorgeous.

[@ericlueck5359]

More ALisia, please. Really hard, but the graphics and music get even better the further it goes. The companions also get stronger the more you level up. One of the best playing Genesis games.

[@bluestarninja]

Dude, In Mazin Wars, you totally missed the best bit, which is the 1-on-1 boss battle! There is a cheat where you go into options, and change the music and FX numbers to the highest they will go, then you only fight the bosses! It really cool and worth retrying 🙂

[@damienscanlon5585]

I’m intrigued by Arcus Odyssey. I definitely want to see more of that!

[@ThatGuy-tc6uv]

MazinSaga is based on Mazinger Z (which was indeed made by Go Nagai), but it's a weird reboot of it that focuses solely on the mecha itself (which isn't a bad idea for a video game, admittedly, just weird compared to 75% of the other Mazinger stuff).

[@greasysmith3150]

In mazin saga Mazinger Z is magic power armor Koji wears

[@NeoZ45]

And it's cool af

[@greasysmith3150]

@@NeoZ45 yeah i wish it finished

[@bobbylasers]

But doss it have anything to do with mazin wars

[@greasysmith3150]

@@bobbylasers same game its just called Mazin Wars in europe.

[@deftones8717]

I appreciate that Metal Warriors shoutout! That game doesn’t get the love and recognition it deserves. To be honest, I never really devoted time to the 1 player story mode, but my brother and I played the sh!t out of 2 player battle mode. Bro, we had sooo many good times playing that game! It’s really a shame that it didn’t receive the praise that it deserved.

[@MercuryCDX]

Ah, you mentioned you aren't as familiar with the Genesis library. Out of that batch, Atomic Runner and Alisia Dragoon are arguably the best of that batch. Even though you got waxed on Atomic Runner pretty quick, it is actually a solid run-and-gun among the more hardcore old Mega Drive arcade game heads. My only issue with Mazin Saga is that it isn't Mazinger Z proper, but that's just me. Still neat though. Wolf Team (who made Arcus Odyssey) eventually became the developers of Namco's Tales series of RPGs. If you'd like a recommendation for another Wolf Team game to try on the Genesis, I'd highly recommend Granada, a top-down free-form shoot-em-up. It was originally a Sharp X86000 game and the Mega Drive port is a good conversion. Sword of Sodan is legendary among Beep! Mega Drive magazine readers as the ultimate Mega Drive kusoge. It was originally an Amiga game that was famous for looking really cool on the Amiga and that's about it. But yeah, I'm a big fan of the Genesis/Mega Drive, and out of that batch you pulled for this video, most of those were mostly forgotten for one reason or another. The two big ones just coincidentally ended up being the first two, with Atomic Runner being For True Doom Head Mega Drivers and Alisia Dragoon being just a great game all around. Wouldn't mind seeing more random Genesis games. I feel like, even though the platform was popular back in the 16-bit era, retrospectives on the platform just aren't as common as they are for the SNES, which is a real shame. As for music, not everyone can be a Yuzo Koshiro, but there's some games out there that would surprise you with what they could pull off with that FM synth (maybe not most western games using the GEMS sound driver though...)

[@AkasunSasori666]

I can not express the amount of joy you have brought to me. I have been searching for an old genesis game i had. I never knew the name cause the sticker was removed. All i could remember was a blue hero and a dino mecha. After all these years when i saw Mazin Saga it clicked. This game was one of the best games i had beack then even though i never got very far in it.

[@cdawg9031]

Atomic Runner is far more playable if you change button layout in options to A=shoot left, B=Shoot Right, and C= Jump the default settings where you have a jump button, a shoot button and a Change Direction Button is way too difficult, this game is actually enjoyable f given a chance.

[@cubansupreme]

5:26 Alisia Freaking Dragoon, let's gooooo. I only knew of this game back than through one of my cousins who use to live in New Jersey who also had a Sega Genesis like I do. That's also how I got introduced to things like the Street Fighter series with SF 2 Championship Edition and NBA Jam. As for Alisia Dragoon, it's supposedly made by the same developers that would eventually make the Grandia and Lunar series of RPG games. Pretty hard Genesis game but definitely a good one with really awesome music at the time. For anyone who has the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack membership, Alisia Dragoon (and SF 2 Championship Edition) is available for the Sega Genesis part of the service.

[@eveyweveydevey]

Average Game Sack viewer: "I've heard of all of these games actually"

[@n0isyturtle]

Some of my all-time Genesis favs in here! Alisia Dragoon and Death Duel particularly strike some deep nostalgic childhood memories.

[@matildarose]

Alisia Dragoon was one of those games I wanted to play, but none of the rental places had it. I did get to play Valis 1, Valis Syd, and Landstalker, though. Good memories!

[@BellevueGhostbuster]

Alisia Dragoon is one of the first games we owned on our Genesis back in the day and I love that game. You should definitely play more.

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

MazinSaga is a lowkey banger. Edit: That 24 Hour To Live reference was based af

[@garrickgreathouse]

To me, X Mutants existed as a comic that only existed in the pages of Wizard Magazine. I never saw a single issue for sale in the wild.

[@JohnnyV83]

Earnest Evans is...an acquired taste. Wild weird levels and enemies, and I've always enjoyed Wolfteam / Telenet soundtracks from this era. 'El Viento' (also on Genesis) is considered part of the same franchise and is much better (easier to play, no puppet physics).

[@CaptScrotes]

Mazin Saga is insane. Spent so much of my childhood with that game but as an adult I could never remember what it was called. Thanks for solving a decades long mystery for me 😁

[@DanJackson1977]

The arcade Street Smart is SNK's original King of Fighters / Fatal Fury. and Mr. Karate from Fatal Fury is a reference to Street Smart. It was their 1st stab at a fighting game, and one of the last non NeoGeo SNK games. Also, theres a sign in the background (of the arcade version) that says King of Fighters, and the theme music is also the VS music in Fatal Fury 1. This port was obviously not done by SNK. Seems like FF's multi plane fighting system came from Street Smart as well.

[@jasonmenefield7974]

I have played the genesis port of street smart. You can do a special move by pressing 2 buttons at the same time. Player 1 does a rapid fist attack. Player 2 is a wrestler and he does a spinning kick. Depending on how much $$$$ of have there's 3 endings. Rich ending, poor ending and average ending. I've beaten this version many times. It has the SNK name at the end. The Prototype genesis rom is harder but you start your own harem in the game.

[@laughingseal2282]

Blades of vengeance is underrated. Later in the game your character changes costume and plays entirely differently. It does get brutally difficult towards the end though. Alisia dragoon is awesome albeit short, no cap. Cybercop is probably one of the best wolfenstein style shooters ever. You definitely should aim to beat some of these.

[@knkn5049]

i m disagree with "it does get brutally difficult", it has "just enough" power-ups to keep up with new enemies, if you skip most of exploration, you would be nude and dead - and that's a problem, because it isn't difficult but tideous

[@laughingseal2282]

@@Gatorade69 I typed it all wrong, sorry. I meant to say wolfenstein.

[@cMARVEL360]

That first Outfit is all you need (. ) Y ( .)

[@n0isyturtle]

I remember there being code books that claimed there was a 'nude code' for the game, but I could never get it to work. What is weird is I owned multiple Genesis code books that mentioned it.

[@trappestarrgaming3422]

So far I'd say atomic runner looked the funniest 2 me but I'm only halfway done the vid. I love games like that reminds me of castlevania

[@Wolfie1262]

X-O Manowar is a Valiant Comics property, not Malibu. Also, I think the world was saved when Marvel bought Malibu and gutted them. Though, we did get MiB from them

[@Gravadel]

I was gonna head to bed, but Matt playing Genesis games sounds like the perfect brain stimulant to give me some wild dreams. Collab with Sega Lord X? One can hope.

[@happyspaceinvader508]

CyberCop was a port of an Amiga game, and was called “Corporation” outside the USA

[@kingtonsiljockey528]

Interesting 😊 I found out I had the European version of Rayman 2 (had voice acting) for the PS1. When I saw gameplay without voice acting, I thought I was insane lol

[@andyf3269]

I swear “easy like Sunday morning” plays in my head when your videos pop up on Sunday after I get home from church. Especially the long videos cuz I just chill and watch then nap an hour after haha

[@ProfessorSF]

Seeing Alisia Dragoon on a blind play is fun, but it's the result of a collaborative effort between Gainax (hence their name being attached to it) and Game Arts ( The Lunar and Grandia people ) and Alisia Dragoon was the only action-oriented game of that collab. Why Dinos for Hire was weird was you managed to die on the intro stage, you were invincible to everything but instant-death there and was just a blast processing joke. And Mazin Saga is a weird version of Mazinger Z, one of the Big Go Nagai series, hence his name and DynaPro on the title screen, it's a weirder AU where Mazinger Z is instead a power suit that Koji wears. Absolutely wild we got that game released in the US. Red Zone's also just the developer just flexing everything they could do on the Genesis, since it's a glorified tech demo made into a full game. My absolute fucking condolences for some of these titles being the worst the Genesis has to offer like Sword of Sodan ( a bad port of a bad amiga game ), Outlander, and X-Perts.

[@fakeigniz13]

I think in Mazin Saga, the bosses turn into a 1 v 1 fighting game

[@profike32]

No Escape is based off of the 1994 movie of the same name. It stars Kevin Dillon and some other lesser known actors like Ray Liota, Lance Henriksen, and Ernie Hudson.

[@uptown710]

Lol you are definitely joking with this one

[@isaackirkwood3575]

@@uptown710 Mos Def joking. Maybe.

[@Brekfastmachine]

It's not a good movie, but I actually kind of like it.

[@magitek09]

Wow, a lot of games I knew of and many more that I didn't XD Always love to see someone discover Alisia Dragoon. As far as I know, it's only been ported ones, for the genesis mini... yes, I bought it just for it

[@teknomax7883]

Hell no, some of those are really good games!! And done additional info: - Alisia Dragoon was designed by GAINAX, that maybe you know them for a little unknown anime called NEON GENESIS EVANGELION. - as other people said, No Escape is a movie licenced game. If you keep playing you will see a digitized version of Lance Henrikksen among others. - Red Zone is a fantastic, yet hard as balls game. If you would have landed the chopper in any of the bases you have to attack (or let the demo play) you would have seen that indeed, you pick any of the three characters on also a top view, to play.

[@mateobonavento3939]

You just know the devs of Death Duel wanted to throw in an F-bomb or two in that Game Over screen for good measure, but they weren't allowed to. 35:50 This caught my attention, for some reason. Something tells me I shouldn't google that. Ragdoll Belmont is cool. I'd love to see more of that.

[@MashieMutt]

Not only did they remove Fist of the North star from the game, they also removed all the epic finishers and gore

[@GCJACK83]

Mazin Saga... is based on a long series of anime. Definitely worth watching the whole thing. I won't spoil the whole series, but it concerns Koji Kabuto and Dr. Hell.

[@windbornideas1457]

Normy seems like he would be the dollar store Leisure Suit Larry.

[@Exlayer-pk8hy]

I'm not gonna lie i clicked this video entirely because i saw Mazikaiser's mug on the thumbnail.

[@Kevinsyel]

Oh man... Alisia Dragoon was such a good game. I loved playing this as a kid. The art was done by Gainax which was the studio behind Evangeleon. I also got Ex-Mutants as a kid hoping for more X-men like characters since it was Malibu comics, Ex-Mutants is so not that good! For Alisia Dragoon, there are power ups that extend your health meter, as well as powerups that extend the health meter of one of your dragons (you have 4 Dragons to switch from) There's also attack powerups that boost your attack (like you saw with red lightning). Your dragons will bank an attack once their attack meter is full, and they each have a different attack: Dragon Frye: the base dragon can fire from 1 - 3 fireballs based on it's level Thunder Raven: it uses a screen clearing flash that charges faster with levels Ball O' Fire: It charges enemies, and does more damage the higher it's gauge is, but if it's gauge is at 0 when it collides, it takes damage Boomerang Lizard: Fires 1 - 3 boomerangs in an arc, fastest attack of all the Dragons

[@White_Tiger93]

I've just realized Fallout 4 has no challenges like the ones from New Vegas

[@michaellaverty7349]

I love this, please make more similar videos for other systems and more blast processed goodness. Sampling a bunch of different stuff keeps it interesting.

[@sowhodecidedthat3924]

All of those games are 'unheard of' except Alisia Dragoon. That game is quite well known.

[@Wooooobrucey]

Anyone else gutted he didn't reach the 1st boss in Mazin Wars? The Power Rangers-esk morphin in to a giant player to fight each boss. The huge sprites, how cool the bosses look, finally getting to see them in full after seeing glimpses of a giant hand or foot through out the level. I think he would have been impressed

[@otakon17]

1:02:11 This is a LICENSED GAME of the same name called NO ESCAPE. It's about a guy sent to a future prison on an island where, that's it the prisoners run the island.

[@BlackJackZeroXtreme]

I'd be down for some more Arcus Odyssey, Matt! Also, a few fun facts: Earnest Evans, its predecesor El Viento, and its sequel Anett Futabi are heavily influenced by Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, with all of the games featuring creatures that appear in many of the stories. Additionally, Wolf Team would go on to become Namco Tales Studios, the primary developer of the "Tales of" series.

[@CB-pf5lb]

Chelnov and Karnov are 2 Data East classics that show up as characters in Fighter's History Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! (along the Ox from Karate Champ, tho it's not playable in this particular game).

[@vaguerant]

Worth mentioning that the MD port of Chelnov is really weird, as Matt discovered. I mean, it's a weird game anyway, but the original plot has Chelnov caught in a nuclear meltdown which gives him super powers, so completely normal by radioactive super power logic.

[@shenglongisback4688]

I still own Chelnov its a good game once you get use too the controls. Sega had too change the game from the original as it was based on the Cold War.

[@papa_sloth_gaming547]

Death Duel and Cyber Cop made me laugh. Your commentary was hilarious 😂

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

Techno Cop was hilarious too he pulls over in the middle of nowhere and suddenly hes in an alleyway in a city

[@bryandavidasuncion9515]

I believe wolf team, the developers of Arcus Odyssey, is now known as Tales of Studios, developers of the Tales of series. Also Arcus Odyssey is a personal favorite of mine, and the 2 player coop elevates it even more.

[@alex_-yz9to]

Fun fact, for some reason certain copies of atomic runner have the cheat codes active by default... said cheat codes give you the maximum ammount of lives per credit which i believe is 7 and ... 30 credits!

[@BatDanNight]

Last Battle is indeed a reskinned Hokuto no Ken game. It's based on the post-timeskip part of the series (the parts after Raoh that nobody talks about).

[@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3]

Like kujaku or any ip that isn't big in the West, sega would make changes in the Sprites like the hokuto no ken for master system and mega drive!

[@aweirdredtoad3637]

People talk about the timeskip, only the ones who are new to HnK don't talk about the other parts since most of it is kinda a repeat.

[@seanw1783]

That mad 2D ragdolling in Earnest Evans is just masterful

[@DarkScorpion64]

Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure Outlander is a renamed Mad Max due to licensing. I remember this game when I was young and I'm almost sure it was called Mad Max. This is based on the first movie. mind you. The scene where he one-handed shot a guy off his bike through the window was iconic back then.

[@RiflemanIII]

Alisia Dragoon was made by Game Arts, who would go on to develop the Lunar and Grandia games.

[@frostmourne1986]

So Mazin Saga is suppose to be a Mazinger(Mazinkaiser?) game... But human sized? Almost like they combined Mazinger and Jeeg.

[@Phantomsangel]

I like how the sprites move in Mazin Saga. These all seem to have a theme of being too ambitious or complex that they just fell under the radar for people I guess. That last one had an interesting sprite with the 3D and all.

[@spoileralertksua]

I really wish Jewel Master was here. That game rules and I don’t think many people played or remember it.

[@EmperorSeth]

That was one of two games a friend of mine had for the Genesis initially. The other was some old-school strategy game about conquering barbarians and whatnot. I remember that elephants were one of the units you could have.

[@deejhopskotch5241]

​@@EmperorSethWas it 'Warrior of Rome'?

[@EmperorSeth]

@@deejhopskotch5241 I got in touch with the friend who had the Genesis. It was Centurion: Defender of Rome. That was bugging me for decades.

[@SecretIdentityStudio]

I definitely drew all over my Duo-Tangs, you're right about that..

[@MyGamingBacklog]

This is why Flophouse Plays is one of the best video game channels out there. Love it!

[@samfivedot]

I had Street Smart as a kid. If you beat the game without any money you get a bad ending where your dude is just wearing a box and crying in an alley with a caption that says "CONGRATULATIONS"

[@nickross7922]

no escape - theres a sci fi movie called no escape 1994 that this game must be based off. the bad guy on the intro screen is an exact copy

[@Seer_Xaeo]

I would highly recommend 'Ranger X' for the sega/megadrive. One of my favourite games on the console

[@DragmaKerp]

I discovered Alisia Dragoon thanks to the Megadrive mini

[@Biggi87]

Atomic Runner is actually a really cool game, but it has one hell of a threshold to get over. Just check the options screen and you can see 9 different ways to map your controls. I personally tend to map it so A shoots left, B jumps and C shoots right.

[@MGPW]

I wouldn't call Storm Lord a "classic", but on some other consoles it was a gem - namely, things like the Amstrad CPC and Spectrum, which were not 16 bit systems. It had a number of ports, and while the older consoles didn't do so well in the graphics department, they were fairly playable and compared well against other things on those older systems. IIRC, the Mega Drive / Genesis version was actually produced on their own cartridges, without Sega's permission, due to a disagreement over licensing.

[@Martin_Dimirag]

You've said MazinSaga is a mix of a beat'em up and an action game, wait until you beat the first boss (Garada K7)

[@aaronsypniewski5831]

No Escape is based off the Ray Liotta movie that absolutely no one remembers either.

[@TheHumanPurpleTape]

When you said that XO Manowar was a Malibu comic, my soul screamed. I absolutely love this video.

[@Krokodilius]

i had dinos for hire in the 90s...got it from a pal named rickie.

[@LionelRGuy]

It is such a breath of fresh air to hear somebody mention "Battle Clash" and "Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge" (I'm assuming you meant that, and not "Metal Warrior"). 2 underratedly amazing treasures.

[@babakito]

I love Alisia Dragoon, good to see you playing it.

[@Arrowdodger]

The Genesis' game library is a lot deeper than people expect sometimes.

[@DerivitivFilms]

In regards to Alisia Dragoon, many earlier Black Box Genesis games had a much broader sound palette, later red box games sega pushed that aweful GEMs driver, which was basically a mario paint level audio maker for developers to easily make "audio" for games. Anything by Renovations, Wolfteam, Sega, Capcom, and Konami had great music.

[@paraptorkeetcreations434]

Eventually you leave the helicopter in red zone and go into an enemy compound as one of those three cool comandos. It's pretty good if you give it a chance.

[@FezTheSpaceBiker]

I'm kinda shocked Matt doesn't know anything about Gainax. I assumed he'd be somewhat familar with anime.

[@flophouseplays]

I am, I've watched several of their animes. Just befuddled their name was on a early 90s Genesis title, is all.

[@FezTheSpaceBiker]

@flophouseplays ah, okay. Tbh I was surprised by that, too. I had to double check it was THAT Gainax.

[@phoenixomega3641]

that earnest evans game makes me think of Castlevania meets QWOP

[@milesprower442]

Mazin Saga Mutant Fighter is one of my favorite genesis games of all time! You seriously need to play it more, it's awesome and the music is bangin!

[@Zillion3170]

The fist of the northstar game from arc systems is pretty good. And I did have fun with beat em-up on ps1.