What Did I Miss on the Genesis?

[zerocool84]

Do yourself a favor and get a Sega CD and the complete Working Designs library.

They are:

Lunar The Silver Star
Lunar 2 Eternal Blue
Vay
Popful Mail

And a RGB input equipped CRT of course.

I wish Working Designs was still around.

 

[digiram]

I wish Working Designs was still around.

loved the artwork on thier game cases

 

[exdeath]

I wish Working Designs was still around.

Don't we all.

Closest thing today is NIS and Atlus.

Adding Namco and Xseed too.

 

[ImpulsE69]

If you go the SegaCD route - Pier Solar is good too (RPG - homebrew but done on a very professional level).

http://www.magicalgamefactory.com/en/factory/pier-solar_1/

Although it looks like they are planning on porting it to other consoles as well.

EDIT: I just read they did a HQ version of it on Xbox/DC and PC - it's on Steam Greenlight at the moment.

 

[Chapbass]

Bringing me back to my childhood here, guys.

Games I loved:

General Chaos
Ecco the Dolphin
Beyond Oasis (dont think I saw this mentioned yet? great game!)
Comix Zone
Eternal Champions
Contra Hard Corps
Streets of Rage (especially 2 and 3, I burned so much time on these coop)
X-Men
Phantasy Star IV
Earthworm Jim
Shadowrun (also a ton of fun! But a little bit grindy)

 

[KentState]

Didn't see it listed in the thread, but Landstalker was a fun game.

Also Beyond Oasis and Sword of Vermilion.

 

[exdeath]

If you go the SegaCD route - Pier Solar is good too (RPG - homebrew but done on a very professional level).

http://www.magicalgamefactory.com/en/factory/pier-solar_1/

Although it looks like they are planning on porting it to other consoles as well.

EDIT: I just read they did a HQ version of it on Xbox/DC and PC - it's on Steam Greenlight at the moment.

CD is only for enhanced audio companion. Game itself is a Genesis cart that has FM audio also if Sega CD isn't used.

 

[Exophase]

Didn't see it listed in the thread, but Landstalker was a fun game.

Seconded.

Also, Ranger-X.

 

[Sonikku]

A good game for the Sega CD if you have one is Final Fight. It runs better than the bogged down super nintendo version. And has Poison in it.

 

[DougK62]

Shining Force II is one of the best strategy/turn-based RPG's ever made.

Landstalker is a fantastic action RPG, and I replay it every couple of years.

 

[zerocool84]

Didn't see it listed in the thread, but Landstalker was a fun game.

Also Beyond Oasis and Sword of Vermilion.

Ahh Beyond Oasis, forgot that gem. Played that one a couple times.

 

[exdeath]

Some of my favorites:

 

[poofyhairguy]

Awesome Sega CD collection.

 

[mrblotto]

Dang....I can remember shelling out like $200 (I think?) when SegaCD first came out. It came with some sort of 'bonus CD'....all I can remember is it played some Hendrix tune and had some wacky LSD-like graphics....wish I could find that somewhere.

Anyhow, I thoroughly enjoyed the Genesis way back then:
-Populous
-Toe Jam and Earl
-Bubsy
-Arnold Palmer Golf
-Alex Kidd
-Space Harrier II - awesome!
-Spider Man Vs. The KingPin - I never did get to defuse the bomb at the end *shrug*
-Target Earth - Tried it a while ago on an emulator & KB+Mouse......lol it didn't go well
-Desert Strike
-Sonic
-Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - loved the graphics
-Chakan
-ESWAT
-Herzog Zwei - lots of fun!
-Ghouls n Ghosts - Quite challenging...never did 'beat' it
-Fantasia - great graphics, but the controls sucked
-James 'Buster' Douglas Knockout Boxing - lol
-Night Trap - omg it was pretty bad, but had Dana Plato in a nighty. It seemed it was highly controversial back then too

There's more of course..........unfortunately I had to sell everything way back when I needed the money....got rid of an Intellivision about the same time too

Edit: found it!

 

[Instan00dles]

Only game I can think of that I havent seen yet is Dashin' Desperadoes, had so much fun playing ths game as a kid with friends.

 

[bearxor]

I don't think anyone's mentioned Ristar yet. I had a lot of fun with that on Genesis.

I might be in the minority, but I loved my SegaCD. Sewer Shark was good fun once you figured it out. Double Switch was probably my favorite FMV game. I liked the SegaCD version of Cliffhanger, mainly for the snowboarding level. Eternal Champions was great fun. The Sega CD version of Jurassic Park was extremely excellent, I thought. And I first got in to Wing Commander off the Sega CD version.

I also really liked my 32X that I (ugh) paid $180 for when it was released. Virtua Racing, T-MEK and Star Wars Arcade were great.