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Great Genesis games you might've missed 21 Dec 2011 14:04 #6380

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I've been a die-hard gamer for just about as long as I can remember (since the 70s!) and I've played virtually every game system at one time or another. That doesn't make me some kind of expert on games or anything, but it does mean that I have a lot of favorites. :D

One of the systems I played the heck out of in its day was the Sega Genesis. While many gamers played on the Genesis for its many great sports games, I played other kinds of games on it for the most part. Here's a partial list of my Genesis favorites, in no particular order. I still play most of these fairly often, and many of them are just screaming for a next-gen sequel (Xbox Live Arcade would be ideal!).

ToeJam & Earl (1991 - Action/Adventure)
This game actually spawned a sequel on the Genesis (Panic on Funkotron) and another on the Xbox (Mission to Earth), but the original is far and away the best. Playing as aliens ToeJam or Earl (or both with a friend, split-screen), you explore an extremely nutty Earth filled with mortar-wielding chickens, phantom ice cream trucks, herds of nerds, mailbox monsters, and much more wackiness while searching for pieces to reassemble your spaceship and return home. The game is never the same twice, and is just endlessly entertaining (and hilarious). I read earlier this year that its developer was working on a new TJ&E, but I haven't heard a thing about it since then. Fingers crossed!

Mutant League Football (1993 - Football Parody)
I'm really not a fan of Madden, but Mutant League Football takes the sport down to its core fun and introduces some completely awesome elements to take the fun factor to a whole new level... trolls, skeletons, aliens, land mines, firepits, low gravity, fatalities... you name it. It's insane, and fantastic because of it. Some friends and I used to have weekly MLF tournaments... I lost the championship game when my last-string QB was sacked into a land mine, killing both players and forcing me to forfeit (no more QBs = no more game for you!). I had it coming, though... on the first play of the game, he had thrown a long TD bomb to his star alien wide receiver, who I immediately shoved into a land mine and killed during his touchdown dance. Hehehehehehe. Now that Electronic Arts owns the Blitz license, I see no reason why they couldn't revive MLF with a killer sequel.

General Chaos (1993 - Action/Wargame)
I'm normally not a big fan of wargames, but General Chaos was packed with the 4-Way Play adapter, and multiplayer on a console was a pretty novel concept in 1993. Much to my surprise, the game was actually ridiculously fun! It's essentially Risk, but you fight it out for each territory instead of rolling dice and moving pieces around. Before each battle, you get to choose what types of soldiers are in your squad, and then you just have at it on the game's wide variety of battlefields. Instantly reducing an enemy to a skeleton with a bazooka shot just never, ever gets old.

Pirates! Gold (1993 - Action/Adventure)
You might've played Sid Meier's Pirates! on the Xbox or PC... that game is actually an update to Pirates! Gold (which itself is an update to Pirates! on the Commodore 64, but hey). The Genesis game is a 16th and 17th Century tactical Caribbean Sea romp and what it lacks in visual splendor it makes up for in gameplay. You can be a pirate, a pirate hunter, or even a merchant if you want to (though being a pirate is by far the most fun). It had a huge open world to plunder... err, explore in a time when that size of a game world was unheard of. Yarrgghh.

Bio-Hazard Battle (1992 - Side-Scrolling Shooter)
Arguably the best shoot-em-up on the Genesis, nearly everyone missed this gem of a game. It reminds me a bit of the arcade classic Life Force, with very creatively designed enemies, 4 ships to choose from, and multiple weapons and upgrades. The environments are very impressive for a 16-bit game, and the soundtrack is among the best on the Genesis.
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Great Genesis games you might've missed 24 Jan 2012 22:21 #6464

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great website to purchase old games - but the ones on your list, pretty expensive.

<a class="postlink" target="_top" href="www.jjgames.com/system/gen/18" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">www.jjgames.com/system/gen/18
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Great Genesis games you might've missed 27 Feb 2012 14:20 #6643

Toejam & Earl are amazing games and I just happen to own both :D
I also own General Chaos as the game is really fun playing with another person where you can be on the same team or against eachother.

I would like to add that the game Herzog Zwei is one of my favorite games on the genesis....the multiplayer alone makes the game one of the best I don't recall where but I somehow came across this game and bought it fast I can't really remember where so it might of been on ebay.

Sadly I was still really young when my parents bought the genesis so I don't have a lot of games from back then but the only ones i've personally bought are the three mentioned above.

*Updated picture as I found the other games
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