Top 60 SEGA Games You Couldn't Play! - Great Japanese Sega Genesis/ Sega Megadrive Exclusives

[@SuperKokuJin916]

Yuu Yuu Hakusho definitely paved the way for Guardian Heroes on the Sega Saturn! Treasure was was all about pushing the envelope on hardware with interesting gameplay gimmicks!

[@iraplikeyoubreathe]

I totally agree

[@enriquepinero707]

I always said that if they want to make a "New" Smash Bros game that changes the dynamic up; they need to implent the plane switching mechanic found in this version of YuYu Hakusho as well as Gaurdian Heroes. I think it would make 4 and even 6 player brawls; alot more managable and solid.

[@timogul]

I imported Yu Yu Hakusho, it was an incredible game for its time.

[@fazares]

i own it too..my favourite fighter on the md along with sf2: sce, umk3 and ff2 ^^

[@thehumbleone1983]

Yu Yu hakusho is My favourite manga anima series and mega drive game

[@BushinRyuCat]

I was lucky: once, sitting in an open used bin at gamestop for $2 , was a YuYu fighting game for PS2. I snatched that up so fast.

[@Platypotosaurus]

I recently played it with a friend and we had a blast with the battle Royale mode. It felt like a proto smash bros with a heavy street fighter/ fatal fury influence.

[@wbushnaq]

16:44 ... Rainbow Islands Extra I remember this game and it was awesome!

[@RowinDincht]

Thank you good sir, you've turned my eyes to good games that I've never heard before. Keep up the good work!

[@SomeOrangeCat]

Definitely agree that Golden Axe 3, while nothing fantastic, is still a competent game that you will have a good time with. Like many of the Doom clones I played in the 1990s, I didn't need every game that came along to reinvent the wheel.

[@Dorian_Scott]

Funnily enough, when I was kid studying Japanese, I imported a lot of these games for my Genesis and Japanese Mega Drive systems. I have lots of memories with *_"Panorama Cotton"_* , *_"Sailor Moon"_* , *_"Rent A Hero"_* & *_"Madou Monogatari"_* in particular. They were my favorite Genesis games to play from Japan as a kid. This definitely takes me back.

[@Dorian_Scott]

@SNES Nes Yes, but only when those situations occur do I speak so. I learned it and French as a kid importing lots of games from Japan & Europe for my gaming collection. The former of which was pretty hard (like most proclaim), yet (strangely enough) it was also pretty fun to learn, as well because of it. And it comes with some benefits (😁 *_"I CAN PLAY 90s NINTENDO GAMES WITHOUT THE CENSORSHIP POLICY, OR WATCH RAW ANIME!!"_* ) I do eventually plan on learning German soon... mostly to just scream at people for fun.

[@gnosis6073]

Brilliant video thanks!!!!

[@wbushnaq]

27:03 Bare Knuckuru 3 AKA STREET OF RAGE 3 was awesome and applied both versions!

[@matthewnikitas2904]

I really appreciate the videos man. Just found you channel and I am loving it so far. Keeping me sane in quarantine

[@ScarletDeath]

i had gley lancer on Wii virtual console. fun game. the cutscenes were amazing and the game was actually kinda fun too

[@Metal-Gear-Moogle]

Killer soundtrack too

[@Tybis]

It's sad that neither of the Dyna Brothers games got localized back in the day. You'd think that "dinosaurs vs aliens" would be a sure seller.

[@wbushnaq]

5:43 ... played Tetris myself on the Mega drive and it was GREAT

[@paxhumana2015]

@Waleed Bushnaq, actually, anyone can legitimately play the Sega port of Tetris now if they have a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive Mini. Moreover, there is also a nice, as well as near arcade perfect, port of Darius on there as well. However, there are only a small handful of legitimate prototype Sega Genesis cartridges of Tetris that are roaming around, but they are also super expensive, like around Bandai's Stadium Events level expensive, as well as even harder to find than that game. Thankfully, there are also some gray market reproduction cartridges of the game if you look hard enough online.

[@wbushnaq]

@@paxhumana2015 Thanks and great to know.

[@BAKU2K2]

4:07 It looks more like Lode Runner than Ice Climbers.

[@SNARC15]

I'm thinking more like Mr. Do's Castle myself.

[@fraggle200]

Great video as usual. Did spot a few wee mistakes though. Vertical & horizontal getting mixed up as well as no title for #28 on the list. After 60 segments, I'd be the same.

[@khamankhoma8232]

Japan certainly loves the concept of fighting existential threats from space and such. Even their anime reflects this; everything from Strike Witches to that weird one with the school girls that are also battleships somehow.

[@natsume-hime2473]

Kantai Collection, or as it's often know Kanne Collle... Nothing really strange for Japan, the concept of mechanical things having humanoid forms dates back to Japanese folklore and the musume concept is probably almost as old as manga.

[@vinisasso]

Because the Japanese know what's cool. Gotta deal with it.

[@lordjubilus]

yu yu hakusho was released here in brazil, cause the anime was a big hit here

[@picolete]

I remember seeing copies of the game in Argentina

[@paxhumana2015]

@@picolete , fun fact, the creators of Sailor Moon and Yu Yu Hakusho are married to one another.

[@thewindthatblows]

Was it translated into portuguese? Greetings from Argentina too

[@lordjubilus]

Yes it was translated in portuguese by tec toy

[@chicoti3]

@@paxhumana2015 And he later when to create hunter x hunter, an even more amazing manga/anime.

[@Soynereh]

Snow Bros was japanese exclusive? Loved that one. I wish Tumble Pop had a Genesis port too.

[@fazares]

Very cool and informative video, as always ^^ It wasnt puyo puyo tsu but the first one that got reskinned as dr. robotnik's mean bean machine though :P

[@paxhumana2015]

@fazares, the second one was actually reskinned as Kirby's Avalanche on the SNES. Curiously, Puyo Puyo 1 was actually released in the USA in its original form, more or less, but only in arcade format, but Puyo Puyo 2 was on the arcade, SNES/NSFC, and Sega Genesis/Mega Drive formats simultaneously.

[@fazares]

@@paxhumana2015 no...kirby avalanche was a localization of super puyo puyo...a semi porting of the 1st puyo puyo not the 2nd one...youre correct about the rest though

[@marcelscalades]

Wow! All of these games look amazing. Excellent video! Thank you!

[@quite1enough]

I remember when I found a cartridge without plastic shell, just bare chips, in a school desk, and having Sega at home I immediately realized that it was a Sega one. It turned to be Dahna Megami Tanjo out all of things, and titled as a Hercules, with some minor sprite differences in main character. It was either a poor port for developing countries or I dunno. Upd. I found that it was a hack released in 1997 by unknown company, and there wasn't any sprite changes, but the game difficulty was tweaked to be easier (not that this game was hard from the get go, dunno what they did that).

[@thehumbleone1983]

Great video 👍

[@ogsegasteve9430]

@14:41 ME: turning my monitor 90 degrees anti-clockwise so as not to disagree with Sir Topham Hat.

[@dexocube]

You knocked it out of the park with this one Mr Top Hat, I hadn't even heard of some of these

[@JS-po9yt]

That was a lot of games we missed out on some i would have liked to play

[@UltimateGamerCC]

you can with the aid of emulation, it's not like these games are being manufactured anymore, and many many games never get a chance to be in a compilation disc, so again it's not like you're robbing anyone.

[@nekopunchi9793]

Thank you for this! I still go back and play Genesis/Megadrive games and this gave a few more I want to try.

[@AvSias]

Twinkle Tale is brilliant

[@Maggerama]

26:11 holy shit, Undeadline looks amazing!

[@AcornElectron]

Thank God for emulation Keep up the good work fella and stay safe.

[@DuskLord]

Thank you for this informative tight package. I didn't know most of these, even if I've been playing with full rompacks etc for years.

[@pda1799]

Nice list, don’t stop!

[@matthewpordes3224]

Such a great job man. Congratulations.

[@Dave-oc9zg]

playing Divine Sealing right now for.... academic purpose

[@UltimateGamerCC]

what, did you see every porn pic the internet had to offer and now you need new material to get your jollies off? trust me, it's a waste...

[@BanditTheCat2017]

Columns was created by a guy named Jay Geertsen and published on various computer platforms in 1989 before sega bought the rights

[@ExtremeWreck]

Poor guy.

[@gordonbagley8137]

Good video Rich, I just didn't understand the title 'games you couldn't play' 'coz I remember having a load of imported shooters

[@stevenbowen9216]

This 60 sega genesis /megadriver Japanese styles games is my cup of tea

[@99darklantern]

I remember playing Pulseman on the Sega channel.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

SEGA Channel turns out was only out for a short while, couple years at best and once the service went down so did availability for these games. still good on you for having SEGA Channel while it was a thing, i so loved SC.

[@Tybis]

18:33 Actually, you can change your special weapon in the pre-level cutscene by pressing up or down.

[@SEGAGoldenJuly]

I highly recommend Monster World IV. One of the top 10 games on the Megadrive. It's incredible and so sad that most people in the West never heard of it.

[@mccloaker]

I'm legit angry we didn't get some of these *raids Sega building*

[@thecunninlynguist]

love me some Genesis/MD hidden gems.

[@obthree2830]

@9:26-9:32. That was pretty damn impressive. Just wanted to give some props if no one else noticed 😆

[@skins4thewin]

Monster World 4 should be MUCH higher up on this list imo. It's one of the very best 16 Bit Japanese exclusives I have ever played, and is THE best game in the entire Wonderboy series, even better than part 3! A fan translation exists as well as an official Virtual Console translated release as well. Can't recommend it enough!

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

It is not a ranked list!

[@skins4thewin]

@@TopHatGamingManChannel Ah, fair nuff. I noticed that once I watched further, my badd.

[@lorddeimos3129]

Man i'have yu-yu Hakusho in my mini Megadrive japanese it's a magnificent fighting game i'loved the animé AND His games in another plataforms 😀👍

[@neobeetle]

I'm a PROUD owner of #58 26 years ago ! 💖

[@JiltedValkyrie]

I had the privilege of playing Pulseman on Sega Channel way back in 1995. It was amazing! I'm highly tempted to import a bunch of RPGs and a Mega Drive. I'm mostly sad a Japanese version of Shining Force II doesn't exist on modern hardware outside of the obscure and expensive Asia release of MD Mini (not even the Japanese one has it).

[@OldNick999-real1]

Funny you mentioned Warsong. My former stepfather rented it, loved it, and tried unsuccessfully to find his own copy. So he stole it from the video store and played it for hours on end, and he used to yell at me for playing video games.

[@florida10100]

I actually played a lot of these Japanese games on my Imported Megadrive. The Japanese games where much better and the artwork on the game cases was amazing!

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

Glay Lancer, Langrisser 2, The Hybrid Front, Pulseman, Vixen 357 and Surging Aura look like something I would have loved as a kid. So sad these games never left Japan.

[@arsenalxa4421]

I have an old external hard drive that had several of these titles on it. A shipmate gave them to me back in C School.

[@yannisbskt]

Mushroom hill zone !i love sonic!!!

[@bmhedgehog2]

Mushroom Hill music in Angel Island zone.

[@personavisceration371]

If you get frustrated with Devil Hunter Yohko, it is most likely because the game requires heavy usage of the charge ring/shield for it's mechanics. If you try to just slash your way through, you will get stomped.

[@bigemugamer]

Even though I barely play any of the +50 complete console NTSC game collections I have for every console up to and including the 6th gen of gaming consoles (except X-box, never care to get those games) I really do enjoy finding translated games for all the consoles and adding them to my collection.

[@turbinegraphics16]

I've heard of a few of these but Surging Aura looks fantastic.

[@danmakuman]

I love the Mega Drive and love shoot 'em ups, so it's a win win to me :D

[@Jorge.Farias]

7:56 - bro... I have been searching this game for 5 fucking years. Thks, you save my mind.

[@Dragonborn-dc4uj]

0:56 Saria that name sounds familiar.

[@EdmacZ]

The problem with the Sailor Moon games was that they came out before the English dub was released in 1995. By 1995 the 16-bit era was fading out and Sailor Moon didn't get a real foothold until the 90's-Early 00's.

[@mariusamber3237]

Nicely enough, most of these more text-heavy games are fantranslated. Plenty are playable without knowing Japanese, too, likely because MD didn't have nearly as many Japanese exclusives as Super Famicom (it sold poorly there by comparison). I particularly like Twinkle Tale, Undead Line, Monster World IV, Panorama Cotton, Vixen 357 and Madou Monogatari... King Colossus is fine too!

[@UltimateGamerCC]

thankfully SEGA fans have been hard at work translating so many games over the years.

[@juiceala]

I’m still not used to seeing Tetris on the Mega Drive among the ultra rare games as over here the game was included in literally every bootleg Mega Drive compilation, we didn’t want it, seriously, I could build a wall of the amount of copies I had, if only I knew they would be expensive, lol.

[@Ric_Roar]

A company should get the license to most of these games, translate them and put them in one or two collections. They can call it "Genesis Lost Classics".

[@UltimateGamerCC]

you would think that people would see the value in that, unfortunately nobody in the business sees that.

[@huntermosely7420]

My dad got me games from abroad when he worked in Japan.

[@SteveBrandon]

It wasn't on the Genesis/MegaDrive but the west eventually did get a home version of Sega Puzzle and Action Tant-R in Sega Classics Collection on Playstation 2.

[@mikethetowns]

Zelda 2 done right, mech fire emblem Really like this kinda...quick-fire format, tis some good stuff. And there's now a lot more on my 'must play' list haha. Especially when I hear things like "mech fire emblem" and, as a biiig fan of Zelda II, "Zelda II done right" haha.

[@BlackWolfessUSCM]

i acctually own 24 of these, widened cartridge slot and a switchless region mod

[@litjellyfish]

The last F1 games seem more similar to combat cars gameplay wise than micro machines :)

[@lunarstain7545]

SAILOR MOON IS MY HERO THANK YOU!!!!

[@Dorian_Scott]

Sailor Mars is the best one.

[@paxhumana2015]

@@Dorian_Scott , my first cat was an all black cat that was named Twinkle Luna as her first and middle names and this was back in 1987. Sadly, I had to leave her behind in another state, as the place where I had moved to did not allow cats. My most recent cat was a black cat, albeit a boy that was named Star, but he died due to liver, abdominal, and intestinal issues, namely, liver disease, liver failure, and two types of inoperable, malignant, and terminal Stage 4 cancer on November 12, 2020. Still, I had him for 16 years, which is a fairly long life for a cat. Meanwhile, my neighbor adopted my cat that I had mentioned earlier in my post, as well as her biological brother (who was also a black cat, albeit a bit of a fluffy/fat cat), and they lived another 10 or 11 years, finally dying around the ages of 13 or 14 years old each.

[@paluxyl.8682]

@@Dorian_Scott Sailor Jupiter .... is my queen !!! ^^

[@raym4694]

Battle Mania Daiginjo has an English language mod, good story good great gameplay, definitely a must play.

[@BabySonicGT]

8:03 amogus

[@supremesystemlordra]

could not find the mentioned english translation for fengshen yingjie chuan :( any idea where it is hosted?

[@itsyeeoledskoolfurry3208]

#14. Curse: There was (that I used to have) a clone of this game on the Sega Game Gear.

[@kadosho02]

So many titles. Mega Drive had quite a library overseas

[@UltimateGamerCC]

over 700 unique titles between the US, EU and Japan. close to 800 even, but i cant be exact since my collection has a bunch of rom hacks. lol

[@feivong7712]

Madou Monogatari, very beautiful game with great music and interesting story. But for complete it need know japanese, because quests is soo different that you cant complete with random clicks.

[@Dorian_Scott]

There's a fan translation for the Genesis version. Also, the PC Engine CD version is translated.

[@fernandesh.m.5504]

The snes version also has fan translation

[@Dorian_Scott]

@@fernandesh.m.5504 I know. That version is fine, too.

[@RedemptionWarrior]

Er, about Langrisser 2 for the Genesis/Mega Drive... It didn't have the splitting story paths that the Super Famicom Der Langrisser had.

[@omegasupreme1970]

another video can you do one on the Turbografx or Duo it could PC engine game CDs but not hue cards

[@Mamiya645]

There are a handful of all-female wrestling games in existence, naturally they never left Japan, and my what an interesting video special that would make to cover. Female wrestling is big in Japan and they show some seriously respectable high-level mat quite often, even in the goofier leagues like DDT. Hope that one day a respectable high level Japanese development of one happens.

[@itsyeeoledskoolfurry3208]

#16. Magical Flying Hat: The USA got a CLONE of this game released on the Sega Master System. ( I played the clone & I could never figure out the mechanics of it at the time so the clone seemed sort of boring to me back then. Then being the 90's)

[@kennethpetersonjr.8165]

king colossus plays more like star tropics when it comes to the cave look

[@Ahmadu100]

"Yuu Yuu Hakusho" looks like "SNK vs Capcom" for the Neo Geo.

[@NealCamerlengo]

The Vixen one to me is more akin to the Super Robot Taisen franchise.

[@craigleitschuh2252]

You said Hybrid Front has an English translation. I'm looking everywhere for it and I can't find it. What I'm finding is forum messages from 2018 and notices that its in progress but unreleased. Can you tell me where I can find the English translation?

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

Sadly you are misremembering, I never said that and there is no English translation :(

[@craigleitschuh2252]

@@TopHatGamingManChannel dammit! I really thought you did. Ah well thanks anyway. Good video!

[@UltimateGamerCC]

there isnt one yet, but do be patient, games even today are receiving translations, it just takes a lot of time and effort as to not look like crap.

[@Fattydeposit]

Hybrid Front is currently being translated by Nebulous Translations, the same team who recently released a patch for the amazing Lord Monarch (probably the best game not covered in this video).

[@Bukark]

Slight correction in that Puyo Puyo Tsu was never ported to the west in any form. It was the original Puyo Puyo which became Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine. Tsu is by far the superior game and introduced a lot of elements which have remained in subsequent games in the series.

[@leandrojose3887]

Yuyu Hakusho released in Brazil too.

[@neonniteridr294]

Yo You need to upgrade that mic

[@Rayzorbladez]

Rainbow Island was on NES too

[@bmhedgehog2]

Tetris and Monster World 4 is on Genesis Mini. Puyo Puyo 2 is on Switch.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

for now at least, these can go down at ANY time and for the longest time said games werent available.

[@theflyingninja1]

I have Snow Bros so it was at least released in the UK.

[@itsyeeoledskoolfurry3208]

18:05 Microsoft Windows '95 OS STOLE/Copied that aesthetic for their screen saver on said operating system.

[@The7ifra]

All of these badboys are getting into my Genesis classic mini now LOL

[@bmhedgehog2]

you do know there is 2 games on this list that is already on the mini.

[@ExtremeWreck]

I had to read the title twice to know that these were JAPANESE exclusive games.

[@nicklong27]

'Or you just happen to be a pervert' .... Shit, he knows I'm here

[@Dan-z2c3n]

11:21 😂

[@chrisfern4699]

Is there a website where I could buy these games as repros that are in English?

[@UltimateGamerCC]

probably, you would have to provide the cart to put them on though, as well as rom file with the translation, but yeah it can be done, just like you could get a custom label to stick on a genesis box.

[@LowCountryMatt]

Okay, but did Slapfight MD come with a teacup? Yeah it's clearly inferior to Panorama Cotton

[@TheNawaf258]

Glay lancer recently just release eng translation

[@BushinRyuCat]

Guys, watch this video first..... then go check out AVGN's Action 52 review. What a difference 😏

[@UltimateGamerCC]

Action 52 catches a lot of flak, but Active Enterprises was really trying to create something extraordinary, the reason it failed was more the limitations of the cart than those programming for it.

[@Dakitty]

As a heads up, you described Der langrisser instead of langrisser 2. Langrisser 2 doesn't have branching paths, but has a more in depth class change system and story, and different art style than Der langrisser for snes

[@zabustifu]

Nice list, but you seem to be overselling some games to make your list look better than it really is. This is the first time I've heard someone say Double Dragon 2 on the MD is "pretty decent", which is especially surprising coming from a beat 'em up enthusiast.

[@HellTantrumbull]

I also played DD2 and it's not a good port to the megadrive.

[@Fattydeposit]

Yeah. DD2 is appalling. Also, Curse and XDR are amongst the worst shooters on the system - they should come with a warning

[@bwillythekid8249]

Where are those other two blokes, Globe and Mr Wheaton?

[@TopHatGamingManChannel]

Still doing weekly streams on Top Hat Chat on Twitch lol

[@4713Caine]

11:22 LMFAO

[@richiecuna5781]

this is just showing ppl how asisa is so much bigger than any other place