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Kill your babies - Megadrive Edition

Retr0gamer

Games are taken from a list of best selling games on the system. I took out American sports games and a few total duds (*cough* Rise of the Robots) unless it was iconic to the system. I grouped together games in a series as well so as not to offend people by cherry picking my personal favourite (Sonic 2 in other words).

Aladdin
Altered Beast
Castlevania Bloodlines/New Generation
Chuck Rock 2
Comix Zone
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim
Ecco the Dolphin (series)
Fifa (series)
Flashback
Golden Axe
Gunstar Heroes
James Pond 2: Robocod
Mega Turrican
Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
Mortal Kombat 2
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Ristar
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Sensible Soccer
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Sonic the Hedgehog (1, 2, 3 + Knuckles)
Street Fighter 2 Special Championship edition
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
ToeJam and Earl
Virtua Racing
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

Let the slaughter commence.

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Retr0gamer

As some one that thinks soccer as a video game doesn't make sense at all, sensi is one of the few soccer games I can stomach. It's a video game first and not a soccer simulation. As a result I find sensible soccer a blast to play while every iteration of Fifa has bored me to big fat salty tears.

fixXxer

Skerries wrote: »

and was ultimately much better on it's native Amiga

Quoted for xXxtreme thruth.

tailgunner

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The underwater stage of earthworm Jim was complete bull****

They hide the oxygen recharge that is essential for beating the stage behind a fake wall. **** you level designer.

I forgot about that. I'd kill the damn game again if I could.

The Specialist

Aladdin
Altered Beast
Castlevania Bloodlines/New Generation
Chuck Rock 2
Comix Zone
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim
Ecco the Dolphin (series)
Flashback
Golden Axe
James Pond 2: Robocod
Mega Turrican
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
Mortal Kombat 2
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Ristar
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Sensible Soccer
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Sonic the Hedgehog (1, 2, 3 + Knuckles)
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
ToeJam and Earl
Virtua Racing
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

Killing off Castlevania because **** that game and **** its series. One of the most frustrating experiences I've ever had playing games

Generic Dreadhead

super_furry

Aladdin
Altered Beast
Castlevania Bloodlines/New Generation
Chuck Rock 2
Comix Zone
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim
Ecco the Dolphin (series)
Flashback
Golden Axe
James Pond 2: Robocod
Mega Turrican
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
Mortal Kombat 2
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Ristar
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Sensible Soccer
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Sonic the Hedgehog (1, 2, 3 + Knuckles)
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
ToeJam and Earl
Virtua Racing
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

Earthworm Jim goes. Looked great but it was too hard, too obtuse and the jumping felt awful.

pasta-solo

Hmm, looks like this has got a little mixed up, Earthwork Jim was already killed a while back.

super_furry

Aladdin
Altered Beast
Castlevania Bloodlines/New Generation
Chuck Rock 2
Comix Zone
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim
Ecco the Dolphin (series)
Flashback
Golden Axe
James Pond 2: Robocod
Mega Turrican
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
Mortal Kombat 2
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Ristar
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Sensible Soccer
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Sonic the Hedgehog (1, 2, 3 + Knuckles)
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
ToeJam and Earl
Virtua Racing
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

Right you are. Here's how things stand.

James Pond II goes. It's a poor game that got more attention than it deserved because it was an Amiga game and there were no decent platform games for that. The port was good but the game is still poor.

Generic Dreadhead

I'm just in this thread to see what Kills trigger Retrogamer the most :pac:

Retr0gamer

Johnny beat you to it with gunstar heroes but Castlevania cut deep.

The second best (scientifically proven) game on the mega drive is still there ðŸ˜‰

penev10

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Crackdown, gain ground and hellfire werent big sellers.

Hellfire was IR£10 dearer than a regular MD game when it was released (IR£60 V IR£50 iirc), no idea why but it may have contributed to its poor sales.

Mean Machines review

Retr0gamer

Yeah it's a great game. I think maybe renovations brought it out? They brought a lot of imports over and charged a little more.

I'd still take gynoug and thunder force 4 over it.

SeantheMan

Aladdin
Altered Beast
Castlevania Bloodlines/New Generation
Chuck Rock 2
Comix Zone
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim
Ecco the Dolphin (series)
Flashback
Golden Axe
James Pond 2: Robocod
Mega Turrican
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
Mortal Kombat 2
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Ristar
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Sensible Soccer
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Sonic the Hedgehog (1, 2, 3 + Knuckles)
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
ToeJam and Earl
Virtua Racing
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

You know what, feck it.
I don't care if it's a cult classic or not.
Aside from the 2 characters looking cool...and a funky theme tune that I can still do off the top of my head to this day....the gameplay was complete meh and I didn't care for it at all.
And I went back to it not too long ago, and it's still crap.

And they annoyed me even more with the crap game they released on the Menacer (yes, I had one of them overpriced forgotten pieces of junk...got used as normal gun in cops/robbers after about 3 months) :rolleyes:.

So see ye later Toejam and Earl.:eek:

Kimbot

Chuck Rock 2
Comix Zone
Dynamite Headdy
Flashback
Golden Axe
Mega Turrican
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
Mortal Kombat 2
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

Only because I never played it and doesnt look all that good to me :P

Generic Dreadhead

Aladdin
Altered Beast
Castlevania Bloodlines/New Generation
Chuck Rock 2
Comix Zone
Dynamite Headdy
Earthworm Jim
Ecco the Dolphin (series)
Flashback
Golden Axe
James Pond 2: Robocod
Mega Turrican
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
Mortal Kombat 2
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Ristar
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Sensible Soccer
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Sonic the Hedgehog (1, 2, 3 + Knuckles)
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
ToeJam and Earl
Virtua Racing
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

So long Mortal Kombat, you were too limiting to play on the standard controller and you were not the best game on the Megadrive

Kimbot

Comix Zone
Flashback
Golden Axe
Mega Turrican
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

Cleaned up the list for ease of reading

Retr0gamer

Feck sake. Dynamite Heady is amazing! One of Treasures best games.

Retr0gamer

Comix Zone
Flashback
Golden Axe
Mega Turrican
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

Robocop vs Terminator is gone. It's a mediocre shooter with a license squandered on it. The over the top gore doesn't disguise the janky combat and level design. Then the gore disappears and is replaced by boring robots.

Kimbot

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Feck sake. Dynamite Heady is amazing! One of Treasures best games.

Well since you said so I'll do my best to get my hands on a copy and give it a bash

Retr0gamer

jonnycivic wrote: »

Well since you said so I'll do my best to get my hands on a copy and give it a bash

Pretty sure it's in a few Megadrive collections as Sega owns the rights. It's balls hard but really inventive and a bit of a boss rush.

The Last boss however is so cheap. It takes over an hour to reach him and I could never beat him, except when using the level select code. There's a way to predict his attacks but I never figured it out when I played the game. Pretty sure they ramped the difficulty way up for the Western release.

Kimbot

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Pretty sure it's in a few Megadrive collections as Sega owns the rights. It's balls hard but really inventive and a bit of a boss rush.

The Last boss however is so cheap. It takes over an hour to reach him and I could never beat him, except when using the level select code. There's a way to predict his attacks but I never figured it out when I played the game. Pretty sure they ramped the difficulty way up for the Western release.

I'll have a look through the collections I have at home later on so

elekid

Dynamite Headdy was also on the Wii (not Wii U) virtual console if you have one. I love that game.

Generic Dreadhead

Retr0gamer

I love Monster World but it's not Dragon's Trap. That game is amazing and the recent remake is pure class.

Generic Dreadhead

I just felt like reviving the thread.... we've come so far....

Potential-Monke

I think it may show how much more popular the SNES was over the Megadrive... *cough*sonicsucks*cough*

Retr0gamer

Not on Europe. Megadrive was way more popular. Ireland was a big Sega stronghold. Of course the americanisation of video game history will tell you differently. I think the snes only had a majority in Germany were their HQ was.

The Specialist

Potential-Monke wrote: »

I think it may show how much more popular the SNES was over the Megadrive... *cough*sonicsucks*cough*

It's likely just the quality of games on Mega Drive is much higher and hard to decide on compared to SNES **coughcoughsnesisforpoorpeoplecough**:D

SeantheMan

Comix Zone
Flashback
Golden Axe
Mega Turrican
Micro Machines 2
Midnight Resistance
NBA Jam
Phantasy Star (2, 3 and 4)
Probotector/Contra Hard Corp
Road Rash (1, 2 and 3)
Robocop vs terminator
Rocket Knight Adventures
Shining Force (1 + 2)
Shining in the Darkness
Streets of Rage (1, 2 and 3)
Strider
Strike series (Desert, Jungle and Urban)
The Revenge of Shinobi
The Story of Thor
Thunderforce 4
Wonderboy in Monster World
World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck

Killing 'The Story of Thor' because I was a fan on the Megadrive and no idea what that is.

Retr0gamer

It's a gorgeous looking Zelda clone by Ancient with music by Yuzo Koshiro. It was a pretty big release.

Kind of looks better than it plays though.