SEGA Genesis Games That Aged BEAUTIFULLY

[@jmcclain8237]

I got my Genesis in 89 and I still have it. Love that thing.

[@AnimeBrosAMV]

Sega genesis was peak childhood!

[@cinnamondan4984]

Bare Knuckles III is so gorgeous. Probably me favourite game to return to with a trusty Sega controller. The mechanics are an improvement on 2 with rolling and running which I find addictive. Dodging bullets with rolls is way cool.

[@Knight71288]

I would say Ranger-X. I loved that game and its 3D and scrolling effects as a kid, when I played it on the Mega Drive

[@buzzclikverifyme]

Exactly what I was going to say. Possibly my favourite game on the system. So friggin' cool. 💙

[@yukaslash355]

Shinobi III and Castlevania: Bloodlines are two games that are still amazing to play.

[@xRocketzFighterx]

The 90s era of shining games on sega systems have aged super well I got into these in 2018 and fell in love with them all and have become a tactical rpg fan.

[@ShaelRiley]

The final game developed by Sonic Team, before it was restructured and merged with other teams within SEGA, was "Sonic Forces," released in 2017. Thanks for the video!❤

[@mjdf122]

Crusader of Centy has aged gracefully blessed to see and have all from 1980-Now

[@TheLadsBandLive]

The holy Disney trilogy: Castle of Illusion, QuackShot, World of Illusion.

[@StarSapphireComics]

Sonic 3 X-Men 2 Sonic and Knuckles, Vector man, Earthworm Jim, Alisa Dragoon, etc 😊 so many Genesis games still hold up today.

[@dumbstruckempire]

Beyond Oasis might have been my favorite "discovery" on the Genesis Mini

[@clanpsi]

Wait, so Sonic 2, Dynamite Heady and Gunstar Heroes are too well-known to put on your list, but Streets of Rage 2 isn't?!?!?

[@CulturedVultures]

we've talked about all three a lot on this channel, and there's genuinely nothing to say about Sonic 2 anymore

[@daniellion5291]

I love waking up in the morning to these videos its so amazing

[@jordans4827]

"Call it the Genesis as a Brit again, and I will chuck all of the tea in the Thames."

[@Bowen_Landry]

Ristar is one tittle that comes to mind.

[@imkrut]

@@Bowen_Landry Ristar is great, ost is top notch

[@Bowen_Landry]

@@imkrut agreed.

[@AthrinZala08]

Comix Zone

[@SerranoSalazar]

I was just looking for this comment

[@STRONGG_ONE]

Yessirr. 🔥 Love Comix Zone

[@lucrativesoundsent.1274]

Phantasy Star Zero was the last Phantasy Star game developed by Sonic Team 😀👍

[@dumbstruckempire]

Oh wow, I didn't even think about that

[@CulturedVultures]

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[@lucrativesoundsent.1274]

@@CulturedVultures Hey thanks! My email address is available on my KZbin channel. I have sent the email. Thanks again!

[@NarcolepticProphet]

Beyond Oasis. PS4. Shining Force. Not a bad list those titles blew my mind back then.

[@rustynail1194]

I remember the first time I saw the Mega drive. My mate's big brother imported one from Japan. He had Japanese, PAL and American games. One of them was Ghostbusters, I remember it like it was yesterday, I couldn't believe how good it looked, don't think it played particularly well but those graphics 😍

[@Sensei_BigJoe]

I thought Alien Soldier was Gunstar Heros for a sec just from the sound effects. GSH is one of my favorite Sega games, I'll have to check it out

[@claudiotapiaf.7194]

Lost World Jurassic Park and Street Racer Hold up beautifully

[@WreakinHavocOnU]

Daytona USA did have some banging music. 😆

[@robertpeacock894]

I think it’s most agreed upon the 16 bit generation aged far better than all other retro generations.

[@mekman4]

Great Stuff, as always!

[@Sliider36]

ive got a cart of Alien Soldier. game is deceivingly, brutally difficult.

[@BrothaKyo]

I want to say Phantasy Star Portable was the last Sonic Team PS game, though PSO2NGS apparently runs on the Hedgehog Engine 2, fancy enough.

[@alefunzouzzle4049]

Eternal Champions was one the best vs fighting games ever. It was really underrated.

[@flyingoctopusgaming718]

I just got into romhacking your videos have been a huge help, i have doscovered so many interesting games.

[@RandomBattlePresents...]

Phantasy Star Portable was the last game developed by Sonic Team for the PlayStation portable in 2008, BUT co-developed with Alfa System. The last official release purely developed by Sonic Team was Phantasy Star Universe in 2006, for console. 2012 saw the release of Phantasy Staar Online 2, for PC. Hope I'm correct with this information. If I missed something, let me know.

[@jacobmartin7434]

Warner had some cool licenced games that aged pretty well, tiny toons all stars and coyote and roadrunner are amazing games I still play nowadays!

[@CMONCMON007]

Castlevania Bloodlines/Next Generation is also really goooood 😊 and oh man Contra Hard Corps is badassssss

[@darinherrick9224]

Alisa Dragoon Lightening Force Toejam and Earl Sonic 2 Castle of Illusion World of Illusion Thunder Force III Cool Spot The Lion King Aladdin Jungle Book

[@fuzzynugget5181]

i did play a remaster back in day of nba jam on xbox360, i remember it being pretty fun

[@Dunxco]

AWFUl dial-up noise? How dare you! That's screeching nostalgia, so it is! 😄

[@HeroicJei]

Rocket Knight Adventures and Earthworm Jim

[@SBaby]

3:12 - I'd actually compare Phantasy Star more to Dragon Quest than Final Fantasy. The combat system in each game is front view like in DQ, the party members walk single file everywhere, and there are points where grinding is mandatory.

[@ronch550]

1. Quackshot 2. Spiderman vs Kingpin 3. Golden Axe 1&2 (& 3?) 4. Jim Power 5. Mickey Great Circus Mystery 6. Contra Hard Corps 7. Growl (aka Runark)

[@viktor_v-ughnda_vaudville_476]

Revenge of shinobi, mortal kombat 3 (ultimate)

[@Guilherme36594]

And i played and have all the games listed here. Great choice.

[@tadlautner]

Powerball was my favorite. Many hours battling roommate before the turn of the century!

[@garvensman]

Shinobi 3, Target Earth, Comix Zone..

[@muertovag4145]

1:06 love old Simpsons references.

[@RetroPiero]

Ristar is probably the most colorful game on the system. I can't find another Genesis title that shows as much color as thet game does. With that said, Dynamite Headdy & Alien Soldier (all of Treasure's games really) have aged incredibly.

[@elone3997]

Top marks for the Dawn of the dead mention 😀

[@Pythoner]

yeah and the old Dawn of the Dead at that!

[@elone3997]

@@Pythoner Exactly! 😀

[@chaunceystewart9960]

Aladdin should have been at the top of the list. That game still looks great!

[@CulturedVultures]

not ranked!

[@chaunceystewart9960]

@@CulturedVultures ranked or not, I was surprised that Aladdin did not make the list. That game still looks good with very fluid animation and smooth game play. Perhaps because the Sega Genesis version of Aladdin used hand drawn animations in the game.

[@Levi-hu1dm]

I would put nba hang time instead of nba jam. Its much more improved. 👍

[@ChaoticHoly]

The first 4 Phantasy Star games (and the first three Sonic games & Knuckles) are just gagging for an HD2D / Pixel Remaster release. But SEGA hates money. Which is why Skies of Arcadia has been dead since the GameCube.

[@shanenice5380]

yes it was my favorite in sega phantasy 4.i am playing going try beat phantasy star 2 this winter

[@opaljk4835]

@@shanenice5380 they basically are contented to rerelease the same genesis collection over and over while letting stuff like Panzer Dragoon Saga and Shining Force 3 languish in obscurity. It’s a good thing we have other ways of playing this stuff these days if we are willing to go through the trouble.

[@eliezercardoso8009]

​@@opaljk4835Panzer Dragoon Saga is a hard one to rerelease cause they have apparently lost the source code, and with how messy Saturn emulation still is, they would need to basically remake the entire game.

[@leecroft1983]

Jurassic Park: The Lost World

[@TVsBen]

How do all these retro KZbin videos just gloss over the fact that NBA Jam Tournament Edition shipped its save games in a completely non-functional state? Inside the box was a little card telling players to do some voodoo and play a game to get it initialized before playing with your save game, but it almost always lost the save the next time around. There IS a corrected ROM floating around the internet (in the GoodGen set, it's listed as rev 1) but the vast majority of players couldn't use the saves at all.

[@cmira1991]

Hulk has always looked great IMO

[@andrebark]

Comix Zone and Toejam And Earl

[@PS1Fan1991]

The original Streets of Rage was an awesome game. Nothing too simplistic about it.

[@billcook4768]

Thanks for the Daytona music.

[@CulturedVultures]

oh no trust me it's my pleasure

[@zombieowen]

So what was the easter egg?

[@skyway73]

The outro music I guess

[@savagemaelstrom9645]

Not sure it counts, but Phantasy Star Portable I believe was the last one? Though it was in a collaborative effort with Alfa System who finished out the Portable series for PSP without them. If that doesn't count then its probably the stand-alone "Phantasy Star Universe: Ambition of the Illuminous" which was a separate disk with its own campaign on PS2 and PC, but just a DLC with no offline mode on Xbox 360. Still kinda irritated they went that route with Xbox 360, but eh, at the time the campaign was available online. Just sucks in hindsight from a preservation standpoint.

[@Skip2TheEnd]

Never show that US box art for Ico again! 🤣

[@shanenice5380]

phantasy star 4 was the best rpg in sega.and shining force

[@pacsonic9000]

Was Phantasy Star 0 on the DS the last Phantasy Star game made by Sonic Team?

[@janbarta1272]

Where is SHADOW OF THE BEAST??

[@lady1kaka]

Kick out X-Men. Put in World Of Illusion. Vectorman?! Yikes.

[@CulturedVultures]

counterpoint: just replace all of them for your own list 🤠👍👍

[@jasonklar7745]

The snapback screen every time you turn was a terrible decision and the main reason I avoid X-Men 2 and Vectorman.

[@verticalseafoodtacos]

Phantasy Star Universe !

[@AshBates93]

More music from Jet Set Radio, please.

[@saberwulfhadoway1667]

Monster World 4

[@stickboybob]

I want to say the last phantasy star sonic team did was the one for psp. Uhh, blanking the name

[@stickboybob]

Universe. it was universe

[@jeremyhall2727]

Phantasy star online 2 on PS2 the Japanese only special version 🤔 I think. It's titled two but it just takes place doing the same time as part 2. You make your own person & do quest. Or the psp phantasy star 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@TimBitten]

I will forever maintain that Shining Force 1 was far superior to 2!

[@Konsker]

big fan of x men 2 clone wars

[@felipetomaz1087]

Phantasy Star Portable, PSP, 2008

[@mrdeatheli]

If these opinions were any more British, there would have been a tea break halfway through.

[@one7decimal2eight]

Just got done playing Phantasy Star 4 for the 1st time. What an over rated game. It is a 5/10 at best.

[@pharmcat8484]

What’s your favorite kind of virus?

[@CulturedVultures]

the one that gave my computer crabs when I downloaded In-the-End-real-real-2.mp3

[@AlmostAeroGauge]

Every game did. Every single retro game looks like an actual game compared to the ''hyper-realistic'' slop of today.

[@opaljk4835]

Lol definitely not true. There are so many horrendous looking and playing pieces of shit from the 80s and 90s. Let’s not pretend like that there aren’t great looking and playing games now and there aren’t unplayable messes of pixels from back then.

[@eliezercardoso8009]

There's still a ton of great looking games today, a ton of them with stylized artstyles, and there's an insane amount of awful looking and just atrocious retro games like Action 52 and Dark Castle.

[@Archivosdelosvideojuegos]

I have to disagree with you, can’t be serious with flops like budokai or street smart 🤣 but yeah there’s something special about those days, but today we have new 2D and even 3D hidden gems and couple triple A games like Resident Evil Remakes or Mario odyssey - Wonder.

[@hellboundTX333]

The dead look in the eyes of the modern characters creeps me the hell out 😂

[@jacobmartin7434]

There are Lot of good Games now, AND an increíble quantity of sh*tty AND incomplete Games back then, the thing Is that now we remember AND review mostly good games...

[@bdp2868]

main problem i have with alien solider was the STUPID idea of making the main character a chicken. Why? in god sake? its shooting in your foot. Put a helmet! problem solved, i was a 13 years old kid and i pick sega because was RADICAL! Treasure just f...up hard there.

[@theodanielwollff]

Phantasy Online Portable in 2008.

[@viktor_v-ughnda_vaudville_476]

Phantasy star online

[@cubivores]

phantasy star card revolution?

[@craigwise6374]

Phantasm star online 2

[@dad7275]

Street Fighter

[@michaelhuss0]

Technically the Genesis couldn't run Virtua Racing... Sega cheated and put a GPU in the cartridge, just like Nintendo did with Starfox before it (which I also recommend). I've been playing Virtua Racing a lot lately. Since it was designed for the arcade, it's a good casual game to play for a few minutes here and there on my Funkey S. If we shift gears to a more modern Nintendo system, Top Gear Rally on the GBA was pretty cool too. It used simpler track modeling and incrementally rendered cars to accomplish impressive textured graphics. It's a harsh simulator with slick tracks that's more about finesse than speed, but the pacing works and it's a blast.

[@fuzzynugget5181]

them basic stock sega controllers were horrible tho

[@RichardBosch-wd4np]

NHL games

[@goatbone]

8:37 Why do you keep using fake box art? Really annoying.

[@dan_perry]

Really, NBA Jam?

[@imkrut]

Vectorman is a pretty shitty game under a good looking first impression. I played the first one a lot, but never finished, recently I took the time to actually do so and it was mediocre at best. Graphically and musically it was great tho, agree with the rest of the games tho, even tho there are tons of missing gems, like most of the Treasure or Konami games, Ranger X, Crusader of Centy, Comix Zone, Pulseman, etc

[@CulturedVultures]

I am not digging all this Vectorman slander in the comments, who's only second to Pepsiman

[@imkrut]

@@CulturedVultures lol

[@opaljk4835]

Comix Zone feels very similar to Vectorman in that respect. Great sounding and looking…not exactly the best playing. Just weird ass mechanics

[@imkrut]

@@opaljk4835 I couldn't disagree more. Comix Zone mechanics are fantastic, it's a very fleshed out beat em up (almost 1v1 fighting game level ) spiced up with mini-self contained puzzle rooms that if not resolved properly drag you down. Narrative, art direction and music are -argueably- the absolute best in the system, with a decent enough replayability. Not a perfect game by any stretch, I agree, the game is hard and short, and once you know what you are doing, just short. Some of the mechanics can be a bit dumb, like the chip damage that artificially make the game harder and feel unfair. Vectorman on the other hand has a pretty generic gameplay, sub par run and gun game that isn't even top 5 in the system (Gunstar Héroes, Alien Soldier, Contra, Batman & Robin or Ranger X easily outclass Vectorman). To be honest Vectorman is to me literally an example of a poorly aged game, a game with fantastic graphics (at the time) that are not that impressive anymore due to the time passed and natural Genesis limitations, and since the gameplay wasn't remarkable (unlike Say, DKC) it just feel meh

[@josephblankenship591]

Comix zone

[@piratesephiroth]

Videogames don't age. This thing you're doing has a name: "anachronism".

[@kevindie]

*_My God, dude… chill. 🤦‍♂️_*

[@KISEwun]

Phantasy Star 1 is still the best

[@STRONGG_ONE]

Based take. I feel the same way about Streets Of Rage 1.