Kim Justice's Top 50 WORST Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Games

[@Kim_Justice]

Just how many of these dreadful games have you played? Have a shout about it in the comments, and thanks for watching! :)

[@peter.jibbetson5601]

I know you probs don't read messages but, I just wanted to say that last year i lost my Dad to lung cancer and your videos helped me through this time... So thanks!.

[@Kim_Justice]

@@peter.jibbetson5601 I'm sorry for your loss and glad I could help through such an awful time. Much appreciated. :)

[@ButteredToits-]

I have memories of a lot of these games thanks to the sega channel in the 90s lol

[@mikepatterson1]

Fortunately, I got away with playing only one of these terrible games and it was Fantasia.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

I have played many, although not all (usually the ones I've missed are licensed affairs like that fucking Young Indiana Jones game). I have to say that above all else, Slaughter Sport, Awesome Posseum, Heavy Nova, etc, my least favourite Mega Drive game might very well be Ultraman. Maybe I'm just biased and doubley offended by its utter shitness because I quite like the franchise it's dragging through the mud. Getting kicked in the balls sucks, but it sucks even more when you're told you're going to get a lovely warm hug just before they instead punt you.

[@Giantwaspface]

I had a friend in school whose cheapskate parents would only buy him games from the local Cash Converters. While the rest of us played Sonic, he was playing Bubsy, Fantasia and Captain Planet... Poor bastard.

[@tilasole3252]

You mean a pawn shop? You bloody Brits 😅 seriously though, no good games were traded at those places? Here in the States, even Mario and Zelda games are pawned.

[@TheUndersigned]

Head down to Cashies, mate, if you wanna buy the same thing twice

[@turbomario]

Bubsy is a good game though. The other two are bloody awful

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

@@turbomario Wot.

[@SuperMookles]

I absolutely love Kim's "worst videos". Top-notch tongue lashings.

[@Rodney17302]

Fantasia gaslit me as child into thinking I was just bad at it. It looks so nice... and Disney would never make an inferior product, right?

[@Nov-5062]

14:19 Fun fact, according to an interview from the TV show "Cybernet" Xenon 2 is Peter Molyneux's 4th favorite game. He placed it higher than Half Life. He was probably referring to the Amiga version though.

[@KasumiRINA]

Actually not surprised Molyneux had something bad and pretentious as his top. He's insufferable, and a liar.

[@Freevo_Lowse]

I played xenon 2 in our school computers and loved it so much, when I got my megadrive and saw xenon 2 for it I got it and god I was so disappointed by it

[@LaurentCourtin]

The Infogrames games based on French-Belgian comics are (in)famous among the French-speaking KZbin/gaming community for their brutal difficulty. The consensus is always the same : very nice looking, with graphics faithful to the comics, but so hard you will want to smash your controller. As for the Tintin game, believe it or not, but Spirou (or even the Smurfs) have the reputation to be even more difficult.

[@Goddot]

it is even more vexing to be utterly destroyed by the difficulty of a game when it's the bloody smurfs.

[@manmonkee]

50:40 Yaah I did this :), only the sprites though. Yes there are a lot of moves, Marvel pressured us really quite strongly to put a shite load of usless moves in. We didn't want to but Marvel paid the bills, The bad gameplay was the Game Directors fault.

[@medes5597]

I know it's probably dreadful, but I loved Captain Planet as a child. I was so enamored with the cartoon that a game I could play and control myself was always going to be ranked highly by me. As a kid, it was my absolute favourite show. I got the magazine every week form the newsagents and watched the new episodes every weekend lunchtime on BBC2. Looking at the footage I'm sure the game sucks. But my nostalgia for it will likely win out if play it again.

[@roskapostikohde4594]

I got Art Alive preowned -- like most of the console games I had at the time, and created a "title screen" for at least one "short film" (if we're extremely very generous) by recording it on VHS tape first. Sword of Sodan is on Evercade, and maybe I should try playing it some more. So far, I prefer it over Coffee Crisis. With Last Action Hero, I feel I made a critical save by getting Wiz'n'Liz instead. A friend had Fantasia and Technocop. Politely put, we didn't like those titles even at the time.

[@doricdream498]

God i love Earnest Evans. Unironically one of my favorite genesis games, its SO silly.

[@jayesun3420]

Yeah I like that one too

[@ChrisSmout]

Good list, and better for me that I never had to experience any of these myself. Games I love to hate include Asterix The Gaul and Tazmania; both of which are brutally unfair and quickly become frustrating in the extreme.

[@Sweetestsadist]

Taz-Mania is incredibly easy. Sure there are some cheap hits and deaths, but the game is forgiving enough in lives, health, and pace to make up for it.

[@sacredbanana]

Really enjoying this video! Btw you should continue your Amiga A-Z streams where you left off. Really enjoyed that journey of discovery

[@jaethemanchild]

This was like watching a Match Of The Day style highlights program of the worst moments of the last 6 months of your life! Love it!

[@zusk8556]

I'd agree on all of them except Osomatsu-kun, Rastan II & Double Dragon II. Maybe 16t as well, but that's meant to be like a 2 minute play and put down. I know even the creator hates the Osomatsu game, but I've always loved the graphics and I usually have some fun with it for about 20 min or so at a time. Rastan II is mostly the same, it's bad but it's so bad it's good for me, like a cheesy 80s sword and sorcery movie. Double Dragon II plays horribly until you get into the groove, at which point it's actually one of the better ports since it's arcade accurate, whereas most of the others aren't. You just have to move with the lag and cut it some slack, lol.

[@zenksren8206]

Also even the original arcade versions of Double Dragon 1/2 are atrociously choppy which is why I hate them

[@tilasole3252]

I prefer the arcade versions of DD 1 and 2. But a lot of people prefer the NES versions, most likely because they are so much easier. There is no real danger, till mid to last levels.

[@camerongreenwoodcrampakacgc.]

Great video Kim Justice. One of your best. I’m a big fan of your videos too mate. Keep it up. A big shout to you from Cameron Greenwood Cramp AKA CGC from Melbourne Australia.

[@esmerylan]

It feels like "your character is useless" is the recurring theme here, the common thread binding these very different games together (well, except for the sports games).

[@LeoDoesAllThis]

Time Killers was already a bad fighting game by itself, but I can agree that its Genesis version is possibly 10x worse. I’d probably want to try playing that game just because of how bad it was.

[@WerewolfOvWallachia]

I'm not saying Spider-Man 1995 is good or anything... but having that at #2 is quite an exaggeration.

[@bjornh1527]

Now THIS is one well researched list! Regarding Double Dragon II... the arcade game also suffered from major slowdowns, so the unfaithful ports were all the better for it!

[@craigcharlesworth1538]

Yeah I bought the Switch version of the first DD and couldn't believe the amount of slowdown in what was presumably an arcade perfect port. During the final boss battle it was often running at 2-3 frames per second due to the amount of sprites onscreen.

[@nettack]

Let's just retcon that there was never a series, but it ended with part 1. No part 2&3, no fighter, no movie, no cartoon. It could be seen as a diamond in the rough nowadays... but somebody just had to throw too many quarters into that Mofo.

[@bjornh1527]

Still, the original is an iconic game, slowdown and all. And the sequel is amazing on NES, heard the PC Engine version of DDII is really good too.

[@neat3468]

To be fair the Megadrive Version is better than most ports of Double Dragon II, there are not really too many great ports though (I don't consider the NES DD2 to be even the same game since it's so different, more like a re imagining. A great game in its own rights though)

[@McMullet94]

These are nowhere near the worst 50 lol with games like Caesar's palace, wheel of fortune, jeopardy, and about 200 god awful sports titles , compared these are good games !

[@AfterBurnerTeirusu]

You know Arcade classics is terrible when it doesn't even have the Atari logo on the box. They are not even mentioned on the front cover of the PAL release.

[@mikepatterson1]

I was glad to see that Fantasia made it into this list. It was the first truly terrible game I played as a kid. Thankfully my parents only rented it for me 😂

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Aahhh... nicely done ma'am! I really needed this; a typical (worst of...) vid... its comfort watching. I needed this because my oldman randomly dropped and died a week or so back... he already had cancer and an emergency operation. Worst part was he stated he was having chemo. Was going great, no side effects it seems...well yeah - because he wasn't even turning up to the treatment! It was aggressive and he knew it was terminal which makes sense to his anger, because yes he was old but he was extremely health conscious aka never smoked, drank very good diet, was still playing badminton for Wiltshire aged 78!! He died immediately there and then walking to the pub due to a blood clot travelling to his heart.... But what really makes the memories hurt the most is, he bought me in my childhood most of my collection. Every sega released etc. Sadly a decade ago life dictated i had to sell them (and I certainly didn't know some of the rare ones I had worth serious money such as Keio flying squadron for mega cd. Demo and game etc) at a dirt cheap rate because I had adult boring things to pay such as about to lose my house due to rent unpaid. My only comfort was that these machines were not mint condition. They were very much loved and used 24/7; and thus serious mileage and extremely temperamental etc .... Regardless im greatful for emulation big time, but thank you Kim. Been watching you since 2014/5 area. Well before you discovered the journey you took - I thought you were the coolest dude around back then and would of absolutely enjoyed nerding out with you for an afternoon at one time or another... Stay you, and may life keep you in relative comfort. The only good thing to come my way is.... im his only son, he was pretty damn successful wheras I failed everything and even had to overcome addiction! - now I will never have to worry about rent etc... well assuming vultures like the government don't somehow hurt me. I know how things go so I won't relax until I get what I'm due etc. Sorry to over-share thanx fir being a sound board and the comfort viewing; couldn't come at a better time from one of my favourite long time channels! Best wishes

[@Kim_Justice]

Oh mate, I'm so sorry for your loss. Always happy to see your comments, they're much appreciated. Will keep on keeping on. All the best to you!

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Always...​@@Kim_Justice

[@DeadnWoon]

I was born in the former USSR and the reality in post-Soviet countries in the 1990s was, well, grim. It was the 2000s when the things started getting much better. I remember very well the end of the 1990s when I was 16 and we basically lived for 20 dollars per month - those 20 dollars were given to us by the parents of my mother, because my parents earned nothing. They worked, simply the salaries were delayed for like a year or two, or so. In those times I certainly dreamt of Sega Mega Drive (that cost 60 dollars, it was the pirate clone), and watching the covers of cartridge boxes, watching the demo versions of the games played on TVs at the stores was one of the leading forces that supported me in those years. Once my granma gifted me 7.5 dollars and I bought me the book about games on SMD. That became my favourite book for years! I almost learned all its hundreds of pages of text by heart! I have even written the SMD anthem with the chorus like that: "We're loving you, oh Sega Mega Drive"... Now I have 3 computers, 2 smartphones, tons of discs - and I want to be thankful. I am thankful to the band Queen and to Sega Mega Drive, among others. I hope everything will be OK in your life. Music, books, movies, games indeed support us, heal our wounds. Good luck, good everything to you, sir!

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

@@DeadnWoon thank you for sharing sir. May peace love and empathy prevail for you forever onwards.

[@DeadnWoon]

@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP Thank you. Let us hope for the best possible life for all of us on Earth.

[@megamarsonic]

Have to disagree with you on Spider-Man: The Animated Series being ranked so high up on the list. There are so many games that are worse than that one including some in this very video (like Wolverine: Adamantium Rage). Hell, I don’t even think it’s the worst Spider-Man game on the system. That goes to Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge. On the other hand, the only thing I’ll disagree with you about Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones is that is didn’t take the number one spot (then again, I’ve never played Awesome Possum myself). Got Instruments of Chaos the same day I got Spider-Man: TAS (and three far better games) back in 2015 and, to this day, it’s still in a three way tug-o-war for the worst game in my collection… oh not my Sega Genesis collection. I mean my video game collection as a WHOLE! All 1,000+ of it.

[@TimChuma]

Nightmare Circus wasn't actually finished when they released it I thought?

[@JustB3NJI]

It's shameful how much time I spent on Art Alive back in the day...I have no idea how I even came to own it

[@RetroRulzMyTown]

You know from what I remember, that Spider-Man game was actually the BETTER version. The SNES game was SUCH a bad port job that sad doesn't begin to cover it.

[@TheArrow1987]

I still like Technocop nowadays. Amiga version is worse than the sega one, I finished the sega one multiple times. It has its obvious flaws but it's still playable. Especially as I can finish it easily..

[@GregDaniel78]

When I borrowed my mates Megadrive one summer, I was given a false sense of quality. I ended up playing Earthworm Jim, Sonic 2, Splatterhouse 2, Decap-attack and Strider. My Amiga 600 can sleep a little better knowing this load of old shit was out there.

[@loonytunescrazy]

Earthworm Jim and Sonic 2 are great games

[@ShanetheFreestyler]

Ernest Evans is certainly an oddity. They attempted to use a 2D skeletal animation system to make more fluid animations, but the way they used it makes Ernest look more like a marionette than a person. As for American Gladiators, the NES version is a completely different game with a more arcade approach that works far better in its favor. For instance, The Wall event, instead of being a mindless button masher where you occasionally climb sideways, is instead a massive, multi-story behemoth with twisting paths, dead ends, areas with sparse handholds that require precision movement, and multiple gladiators chasing you instead of only one! You're still button mashing though, but it way more responsive than the 16-bit version. The only thing it's missing is a version of the Atlasphere, which was always my favorite event in the show. Oh, and Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales for the Atari Jaguar was the game that followed Bubsy II, not Bubsy 3D. Most people probably forget it because it not just a bad game, but one on a platform that nobody bought. That, and probably the old "3 is 3D" trope. My only comment on Foreman For Real is, if we're getting "Foreman For Real", why is his body CG? If they wanted to do the Mortal Kombat treatment and actually film every boxer full body?

[@zenksren8206]

To save on ROM space most likely, given how big the boxer's sprites are

[@ShanetheFreestyler]

@@zenksren8206 You could be right. It's much easier to do head swaps on a model than can be generalized to fit every boxer. And I suppose it would be less noticeable on a CRT.

[@GoldsteinsBook]

What's that music during the Patron credits from?

[@jayesun3420]

Fricking,"Infogrames, of all people. And I spit take my Tetley tea , laughing. Brilliant and too true

[@ShapeyFiend]

Thank you for your service. Just out of curiousity how far into the Japanese exclusive stuff did you go considering a lot of it is unavailable in english?

[@AnthonyFlack]

So! It's not only me who has always thought that Xenon 2 suuuuucks. So many people rated it back in the day but I always thought it was like a shmup made by people who had never set foot in an arcade.

[@miketate3445]

Right out of the gate, I just can't hate Earnest Evans because of the pure "Wolfteam" it exudes.

[@PaulVanced-jl5gk]

"A sight for sore eyes" means you like it lol

[@fonya4380]

Hey Kim fun checking this out - i luckily never had any of these for my Genesis. But i did have Xenon 2 Megablast on Amiga - i recall liking it back then but it was so long ago.

[@jasonrockley3724]

I remember my mate having an Amiga and I was blown away by the music on Xenon 2. I was poor so 8 bit Micros were my only frame of reference at the time.

[@fonya4380]

@@jasonrockley3724cool to hear that! yeah the Amiga had such great game sounds with those 4 channels of samples it could do back then

[@yaktaur]

Bubsy 1 didn't even make the top 50, take THAT h8rs!! (Bubsy II easily deserves its spot)

[@HamiltonAppiah]

because bubsy 1 wasn't a bad game! but it was only underrated because people didn't see the love and beauty in that game! bubsy 2 was also cute but had overly schizophrenic controls exactly like zool!

[@PerpetualTiredness]

As a 10 year old in the mid 1990s, I enjoyed the Terminator 2 platform game. I'd just seen the movie upon television and the programmers made it so you could destroy the background and were given a score based upon minimising damage. Me being 10 I thought it was fun to destroy as many things as I could.

[@blackcurtains4710]

TERMINATOR 2 isn't a bad platformer at all. I'd say THE TERMINATOR by Virgin Games was worse with only 4 clanky levels. If the T2 game had a pull out map for the road sections and a password save I'd be more forgiving. Never got why we only had 2 tracks yet the SNES had 4 one extra for the final and one for credits. Also the lack of a strafe and inferior graphics on the sega didn't help.

[@teddym2808]

This was amazing, ta Kim! Oh and a very belated Happy 2024!

[@mariocosti4698]

Sadly, Foreman For Real was the last game we bought for our beloved Snes. What a way to ruin all those good memories.

[@happy2bhardcore420]

dang, i thought that the Captain planet that came with our Amiga was a stinker, but at least that had a banger of a music track for the intro screen and the wind level

[@neat3468]

Yes I too also loved the music on that game. As platformers go I did not hate it, I never managed to clear the first stage though

[@loganford3921]

I remember as a kid going to John Menzies with my parents and buying Sword of Sodan thinking it's was going to be just as good as Golden Axe. After a couple of weeks I told my parents to get rid of it along with Turrican (One in the Star Control Box). Tazmania gave me a headache because of that mine cart as it was too fast and I feel you need luck to be able to get passed it.

[@neat3468]

The only game I ever owned that I hated was Tazmania, I am surprised that didn't make it borderline into this list

[@DreFromMaine8472]

Hey KJ, I liked your original Worst Of video and it’s cool that you’ve done an updated version. I only own good SGEN games and none of the bad ones, LOL!

[@billcook4768]

Obligatory “these games don’t suck, you just need to git gud” comment. Kinda rude of me I know, but this is the internet and these are the rules.

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

Someone, somewhere, out there, by way of statistical probability, is seething over Kim's continued lashing of games like Awesome Possum and Slaughter Sport, and hissing through their teeth "they just don't get the unique and innovative gameplay, they don't know REAL games". Fuck, we had a bloke like that when Kim said Pit Fighter was shit.

[@Nov-5062]

"Hey, I actually like *insert name of game here,* it was my childhood! Dislike and unsubscribe."

[@wiinis-official]

We all know Rise of the Robots is a true test of one’s skill, and should feature first in EVO.

[@Andrew_TS]

Playing old games reminds me of how much more I generally like modern 2D games more. Going through 30 shit platformers for one Sonic ain't a great margin of quality.

[@big_ry82]

This is the internet and yo need to shut it. ;)

[@deadcentre-retro-meaningma6209]

Sword of Sodan was the only MD game I ever bought that I thought was rubbish. Never really trusted Amiga ports after that. Also taught me to be suspicious of games with overly large sprites…

[@Christian-ve1wi]

An enjoyable video of misery and bad memories, thank you Kim thank you very much 😂 Will we see a top trumps series on adventure point and clickers through time?

[@goatbone]

I only own one game from this list. Art Alive. And I have never booted it up.

[@vilangel78]

Mis juegos favoritos de Sega Mega Drive: - PHANTASY STAR 2 - PHANTASY STAR 3 - PHANTASY STAR 4 - BOB - SPLATTERHOUSE 2 - SPLATTERHOUSE 3 - EX-MUTANTS - ROLLING THUNDER 2 - ROLLING THUNDER 3 - THE FLINTSTONES - ZERO WING - THE LOST VIKINGS - AERO THE ACRO-BAT - AERO THE ACRO-BAT 2 - RAIDEN TRAD - STREET FIGHTER 2 - SUPER STREET FIGHTER 2 - ZOMBIES ATE MY NEIGHBORNS - VALIS - SYD VALIS - VALIS 3 - AERO BUSTERS - THE JUNGLE BOOK - GAIARES - ROBOCOP VS TERMINATOR - PRINCE OF PERSIA - ARROW FLASH - KID CHAMELEON - CHUCK ROCK - CHUCK ROCK 2: SONS OF CHUCK - STEEL EMPIRE - STREET OF RAGE - STREET OF RAGE 2 - STREET OF RAGE 3 - ELIMINATED DOWN - DYNAMITE HEADDY - SHINING FORCE - SHINING FORCE 2 - SHINING IN THE DARKNESS - JOE & MAC: CAVEMAN NINJA - MEGA MAN: THE WILY WARS - MUSHA ALESTE - NEW HORIZONS - SOLEIL - COMIX ZONE - THUNDER FORCE 2 - THUNDER FORCE 3 - THUNDER FORCE 4 - SHADOW DANCER - THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI - SHINOBI 3: RETURN OF THE NINJA MASTER - WONDER BOY IN MONSTER WORLD - WONDER BOY 4 IN MONSTER WORLD - CASTLEVANIA: THE NEW GENERATIONS - RISTAR - GLOBAL GLADIATORS - SONIC THE HEDGEHOG - SONIC 2 - SONIC 3 - SONIC & KNUCLES - SONIC 3D BLAST - SAGAIA 2 - GHOULS 'N GHOSTS - KRUSTY'S SUPER FUN HOUSE - STORY OF THOR - GUNSTAR HEROES - SOLEIL - CONTRA: HARD CORPS - EARTHWORM JIM - EARTHWORM JIM 2 - LANDSTALKERS - ALISIA DRAGOON Saludos desde España 🇪🇦🇪🇺👍🏻

[@devonwilliams5738]

Perhaps a new Best 50 as a pallete cleanse. Perhaps there some new favorites or JP exclusives you've found that are great. I hardly hear anything about JP only Genesis games, probably because the North American library is already so great.

[@nettack]

Thanks. Being in school in the 90's and only knowing these from magazines, I was not aware that there seem to have been a massive difference between Awesome Possum, Bubsy & Aero the Acrobat. And I recall Xenon2 on PC being one of the better shareware titles. Interesting seeing it being shat on

[@robintst]

Technocop I have a soft spot for, used to play it on my Amiga back in the day. Sword of Sodan was clunky as hell but nice to look at. Time Killers I wasted tons of money on at the arcade and then drove my friend nuts with the Genesis port when it came to SEGA Channel. X-Perts had a cool concept going but they bungled the execution. Xenon 2, yeah I agree, Amiga title theme then turn it off. Nightmare Circus, funnily enough, showed up in beta form in the Test Drives section on SEGA Channel and I remember at the time thinking it was pretty crap.

[@Kim_Justice]

Yeah, Test Drives is where I first played it!

[@burntyper]

Lol he doesn't even know how to do the shield/projectile on mamono hunter yoko

[@RetroCave-wr9tl]

I just bought an old beat up Genesis, and ordered a multi-cart from AliExpress to play with. I now have this dreaded feeling that this cart will include most if not all this 50.

[@PedroSilvahf]

After all those years i think i would have all double dragon games in the worst list for the mega drive, 3 close to the top. Also Terminator 2 (action game), that Indiana Jones and back to the future 3 deserves the top spot. Fantasia should not exist, for good. But the worst of the worst must be beast wrestler, no game before or after made me shout that amount of cursing and profanation that exists in more than one language. This one gets double points for having awesome cover art that probably fooled a lot of people everywhere. If there is some calculation to relate a bad game from good art, beast wrestler is one of the extremes.

[@Kim_Justice]

I have a completely unreasonable fondness for Beast Wrestler, even though I know in my heart of hearts that it's absolutely terrible. "Even a bovice like you can handle thisbeast" is one of the great gaming mistranslations.

[@jonbourgoin182]

Im surprised Green Dog wasn't on here. Great list btw.

[@chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol9264]

Rastan looks like he sawing his thing off when he jumps.

[@skijumpnose]

I remember renting Awesome Possum and thinking it would be a fun Sonic style platformer, I was wrong.

[@jessragan6714]

Always happy to see Curse get kicked around for a while. Between that game and Osomatsu, you can understand why the Sega Genesis was a total non-starter in Japan.

[@Lynxan]

Ahh, I played…. fought through Awesome Possum back when it was new and to completion out of shear ‘this will not break me… I am better than this.’ Can not argue how bad it is though.

[@HamiltonAppiah]

it may be ugly (as a game) but the character had a charm for the eyes!

[@leandronc]

Woah! World Cup Italia 90 was one of the first games I rented for the Mega Drive, and I had a good time with it back then. Glad it didn't make your list :) On the other hand, placing Wolverine above Dark Castle and Back to the Future 3 is criminal!

[@AngryCalvin]

The best thing is I always like a good number of what gets rated worst Sega Genesis games. Shows how great a library they had.

[@milesjcarter]

Know this list is legit because it has Where's Waldo game in it, every other list like this Ive seen didnt include it. It wasnt released in the UK but one of the UK magazines like Sega Power did do a review of it (with extremely low score given, maybe it was meant for release but the bad critical reception changed that

[@Armacadia]

Hey, what happened to your Sega in 1995 video? Seems like it's gone right when I got the time to watch it

[@Itsdirtnaptime]

I don't know why, but when I was a a smaller shithead, I loved the Gladiators game. 🤷‍♂️

[@therealchriscunningham]

I watched all of this waiting for the point where I'd find the single one that I disagreed with and boom, there it is, Xenon 2. Still a game I genuinely like, even if it is hilarious that it's literally subtitled after a song and then doesn't have music during the levels. In its place I offer Centurion: Defender of Rome, which hits so many of the perfect "bad MD game" notes - from a deceptively good intro, to being a collection of terrible minigames, to having abysmal graphics and a frame rate rivalling that of a set of traffic lights. One of those games where you spend years convinced that there are hidden depths only to eventually conclude that there are only depths.

[@andychaloner9889]

Xenon 2 absolutely does have music when you're playing it. It's just that for some reason you have to enable it on the title screen. 🤷

[@deadcentre-retro-meaningma6209]

I enjoyed Centurion! Do graphics really matter in a strategy game? Not the deepest, but probably about right for 13 year old me…

[@Boogie_the_cat]

The music in Ernest Evans rocked. The gameplay, I can't make any excuses for. Zero i-frames, you can burn through 3 lives in 5 seconds, weird awkward movement\controls, duck and roll animations that resembled suicidal tendencies.... Güd tunes though, for the Genny

[@Metalixno1]

i honestly love the Fantasia game, i know it's bad and frustrating at times, but it was the 3rd mega drive game i got as a kid so i hold a very nostalgic place for it that i cant help but love it when i play it. Was pleased when i finally beat it

[@BleachCowboy2016]

Sword of Sodan was awesome. I don't care what the list says.

[@RappingNinja]

I played through the Spider-Man Acclaim game on the SNES multiple times. It was slow-moving but fine, albeit surprisingly easy. I guess I have to try the MD version to see if it’s really that bad? But it looks like it’s mostly the same game… which I wouldn’t put anywhere near its position on this.

[@Sh0tgunJust1ce]

Love the list Kim, seems very definitive, although I'm surprised Pitfighter didn't get a mention. Is it because the original game itself was pretty dreadful to begin with?

[@dilbertfish]

How dare you.

[@AngryCalvin]

Pit Fighter for Genesis is actually better than the arcade version. It moves and plays much smoother. It's a lot of fun with 2 players. The SNES version is worse than the arcade version.

[@keironhiggspoet]

congrats on playing every megadrive game lol, that used to be my playground boast back in the day, unaware of the import market. on a note of one of the games listed here my late father bought me fantasia, and i was completely unaware how horrendous it was to play compared to the classic castle of illusion. I've never completed it as i just left it gathering dust. like someone else stated for their absolute horrific difficulty i cast the first Asterix game and Taz mania (with its weird interactive soundtrack) to the fiery pits of retro hell!

[@SimianScience]

ah, feeling awful and in pain. nothing like a kim justice video to help

[@gc3k]

respectfully disagree with Devil Hunter Yohko, it's a solid platformer with very high quality audio. Definitely worth playing if Valis-Alisia Dragoon-El Viento is your cup of tea. Might want to swap it with Heavy Nova-- now that's a truly awful platformer

[@sdgdhpmbp]

Heavy Nova made top 10. Pretty impressive all things considered for a game that's more or less unplayable.

[@TheBeird]

I’m lucky that the only game I played from this list was Bubsy. Well, less unlucky perhaps😮

[@cubeflinger]

I feel lucky that in this entire list I've owned 0 and played only 1 😅

[@aldoreyvalderrama]

Great list, but Ifeel Batman Forever should be on this list, high high up. Hopefully it will show up when you revisit this list in the future.

[@Feenix102]

Watching the putting on Pro Challenge actually made me say "oh, bastard". Out loud, lol. Good placement, cool video as always Kim. :o)

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

After the Wheel was completed, this was inevitable.

[@shaolinpunkFTW]

I remember the first time I saw Sword Of Sodan, the first game I saw running on my friends Amiga. It totally blew me away with its graphics compared to my C64. I was dead jealous :p

[@FrankBeingFrank]

Man I loved the American gladiators games on nes and snes… they were entertaining not great but definitely had some fun events … sad to hear that theirs a genesis version that’s no good I’ll have to hunt it down to try it out. And there is a chance that maybe, just maybe i may have a soft spot for things from my childhood. I’ve never once taken off these super effective nostalgia glasses. You know the brand ,they’re the Keith David Roddy Piper “They Live” sunglasses but mainly used for gamers and gaming purposes. They magically allow you to continuously view obviously horrible games in a very unique light that gives them an overwhelmingly and undeservingly positive shine

[@AgdaFingers]

Awesome Possum and Bubsy should get a room...LOL

[@TransCanadaPhil]

One of the big problems with the Mega Drive/Genesis that I didn’t realize at the time, but only realized later stems from the fact that it wasn’t that successful in its home country Japan. As a result the “good” Japanese 3rd party games only came out early in its life (1989-1991), stuff like MUSHA, etc. By 1992/93ish the Mega Drive was a distant 3rd place console in Japan, so Sega of America and Europe became much more dependant on 2nd rate 3rd party western developers than Nintendo or even NEC. It really shows with all the terrible licenced games and Euroshmups that appeared on the MegaDrive/Genesis in the later years (1994-96). You really don’t see any of the excellent 3rd party Japanese games after around 1993 on the console; whom by that time focused much more on the Super Famicom or even the PC Engine in their domestic market. In those days, western made games were simply crap, there’s no other way to sugarcoat it.

[@SonofSethoitae]

I dunno dude, there are a ton of really good western-developed Genesis games.

[@mattyboy2024]

Was Bubsy that bad though? I still got Close Encounters of Furred Kind, not played since a kid but remember was ok. Aside from getting touched by an enemy meaning instant death ha

[@Kim_Justice]

It's bad, but not top 50 bad at all

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

Bubsy gets especially notorious during it's later sequels. I have the first Bubsy game on Genesis. I don't like it, but it's billions of times better than the Atari Jaguar exclusive "Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales", which is EXTREMELY TERRIBLE. I sadly own that game and I can go into a multiple paragraph essay about all the things wrong with that game. However, Bubsy 3D on Playstation 1 is arguably the worse Bubsy game. It's really terrible. REALLY, REALLY terrible.

[@mattyboy2024]

@@johnpenguinthe3rd13 yeah going 3D doesn't always mean improvement, also see earthworm jim 3D ha

[@HamiltonAppiah]

Bubsy's instant shot is very reminiscent of Alex Kidd's games

[@Imgema]

Awesome Possum still isn't as annoying as modern Sonic though.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

@@Imgema it's not more annoying than you bozo

[@ramrodbldm9876]

@@Imgema btw, quit liking your own comments 🤡. Every comment you have has exactly 1 like. I wonder why? Hmm bozo

[@Mpsieber]

Just found your channel and been binge watching. Great stuff!

[@GardevoirBoy]

I have enjoyed the results. Can't say the same about the games though. These games were a bloody mess to begin with.

[@ThunderHorsePyro]

I'm surprised Greendog didn't make the list.

[@HamiltonAppiah]

Because Is not bad game!

[@TheMadAfrican1]

The saddest thing about Rise of the Robots is that it basically predicted the modern games industry.

[@tomsoya]

I rented both Bubsy games a few times each. I think I'm the only one who enjoyed them.

[@HamiltonAppiah]

you, the only one?! oh no no no no no... I loved them from the first look at these games and they are wonderful!!! you know? I say that bubsy's 2D games weren't bad but just underrated, all except the 3D! that was hell to see before your eyes!!!

[@AnthonyFlack]

"Making the enemy bullets visible should be a rather basic thing in a game like this" - you might think so, but it's all too easy to screw up! Even Gradius V has this problem. Here it looks like they've made the classic mistake of using too much contrast and saturation in the background. So many pixel artists of the day seemed to have no understanding of how to use colour effectively... you could probably make the game look half-decent just by hacking the colour palettes about.

[@NovaBombardment]

Glad to see Fantasia so high on the list. I would have swapped Earnest Evans for Greendog The Beached Surfer Dude though. Earnest Evans is silly, but not a terrible game. Also I'm glad you specifically called out Bubsy II, since it's infinitely worse than the original.

[@Debagio]

Another great video, Kim. I didn't own one of these consoles so it's always fun and interesting to look through what I missed, both good and bad.

[@wiinis-official]

I never owned a Sega console before, but I’ve recently been doing research on all of their consoles, and now I want stuff like a Sega Saturn when I’ve always been a Nintendo guy before. I’d recommend getting an emulator and trying some Mega Drive exclusives sometime (also, watch GamesMaster; it’ll get you even more excited for Sega games).

[@atomicskull6405]

The Tick shouldn't have a life bar he's invulnerable he doesn't take damage. The only way to do a proper Tick game would be like Wario Land or Pizza Tower where he can be knocked back and slowed down but never die and you get rated on how well you did getting through the stage. A platformer that references the comic's humor and visual design would be far more appropriate than a beat em up.

[@deceiver444]

Technocop was originally released on the Amiga in 1989 by Gremlin Graphics. Same for Sword Of Sodan, also released in 1989 by Discovery Software

[@JohnDrivesAnything]

I play Foreman for Real so I can look at the back of George Foremans head. Left Over Culture is the most under the radar gaming channel on youtube. I been watching him for 10 years. Always rooted for the guy.

[@Phoenix2312]

44:17 Oh dear! Xenon 2: Megablast - Never played it on the Megadrive, but I did own it for the Atari ST... I TRIED, I REALLY TRIED, I wanted to like it, God I played the hell out of it... But everything you say is right - Terribly Designed, Slow, Unfair, I only ever managed to get to the end of Level Boss on Stage One ONCE!!!!

[@jaredjacoby6168]

I am thankful that I have not played too many stinkers in my time with gaming, but I always feel fascinated watching gameplay of panned old-school games.

[@hellspawn32x66]

That old video is so nostalgic! Love this!!!

[@LyndonHyde]

Great list as always. I'm playing through several arcade games, and came across some truly awful ones myself.