Top 15 Best Mega Drive / Genesis Games!

I really like how you just dove right into the video. No stupid loud intro graphic or a 5 minute intro on what the Sega Genesis is. Thanks for treating the audience like YouTube viewers and not some stupid cable TV channel. You earned a subscriber!

Straight in to the list. No crappy intro with crap comedy. Excellent

I love that people have been talking about Rocket Knight Adventures a lot more recently. It's honestly one of the best games not only for the Genesis, but for the 16-bit era as a whole. I got it in a discount bin as a kid just because I loved the cover art!

My top 3 Gunstar Heroes, Streets of rage 2 and zombies ate my neighbours 👌🏻

Thunder Force III was released in Europe, but 100% in the look of the US Genesis game. There was also a manual in the respective language in which the game was sold. It's a unique curiosity, and the game is very good. That's why the European Thunder Force III is very rare and expensive.

I saw the cover of "Herzog Zwei" on your shelf. That is for me one of the best games on the system. Real time strategy but you are a transformer and can engage combat. Still getting goosebumps when the music starts. Plus it had split screen vs. which is rare on those games, even today. But great list!

One game is missing from your list: Landstalker, a top notch RPG!

It can be pretty hard to pick just 15 games. Genesis has a pretty sweet library. A few of my favorites from my small collection: streets of rage 2, gaires, TF3/4, shadowrun, ps4, tmnt, beyond oasis, gunstar heroes, hellfire, gley lancer, musha, sf2 sce. There's a few that are on the mini 2 that I'd love to own physically but man they're pricey 😅. I hope we see battlemania 1 & 2 reissues at some point 😃

Happy new year. Great selection of megadrive games. My top 3 is alien storm, sonic 1 and skitchin.

Great video. You have chosen some really interesting games. Surprised you didn't pick Alien Soldier seeing as you liked Gunstar Heroes so much. Also, I highly recommend Lemmings as the Mega Drive has the best version with 180 different levels! 😊

Yeah, most of these are my favorites, too. There's also Grey Lancer, Zero Wing, Keiou Yuugekitai, Battle Mania 1 & 2, Splatterhouse 2 & 3, Beyond Oasis, Alisia Dragoon, Dune 2, and Surging Aura.

I actually got myself a Genesis for Christmas recently and I'm now collecting games for it like Aladdin, Rocket Knight Adventures, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles

My first console ever, but the only ones I've played here are Sonic 2 & Gunstar, I didn't have many games for it growing up. Couple of them that you showed that I wanna give a go now, thank you :)

Great list! This makes me want to go back and revisit many of these games! These are some of my favorites, too. Though, I haven't played played Crusader of Centy, Monster World IV or the Phantasy Star games yet. In addition to the ones you mentioned, I also played the heck out of Castle of Illusion, Sonic 1, Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Earthworm Jim 1 & 2, Vectorman, The Lost Vikings, Mickey Mania, Contra Hard Corps, Toki, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, Cool Spot, Mega Bomberman, and Quackshot.

Tiny Toons doesn’t get the love it deserves. I’m a huge Genesis fan, so I won’t list everything I love here that you didn’t mention. But TMNT Hyperstone Heist, Shining Force 1&2, the Castle of Illusion series, Road Rash, and Alisia Dragoon! Ok, I’ll stop. 😂

Enjoyed the video! Thank you for sharing your favorites! Toejam and Earl was one of my favorite Genesis games! Castlevania Bloodlines (what is written on my copy) is up there too!

Rocket Knight Adventures is my favorite too. I love that game to death. The whole series really. I first saw it in an ad from some old comic books I had as a kid in the late 90's-early 2000's and it fascinated me. Wasn't until I was in high school that I bought a copy, but I didn't have a genesis or mega drive so I had to emulate it, which I also didn't end up doing until I was in college. I loved the game then but never finished it (though I did buy, play and finish the 2010 release when I was in high school). It actually wasn't until a couple years ago that I finally sat down and played through the whole game. Brilliant game, I prefer it to Sonic and really wish there were more in the series, or at least for SEGA or Konami to re-release any of the first three! To my knowledge they're all locked to their original systems. It's a shame.

I picked up a Mega Drive Mini a few years back and have enjoyed playing a lot of the classics on it. I think you might like Alisia Dragoon!

Great list! I was blown away by Soleil when I rented it as s kid but didn't really understand it. Some of my favorite Genesis games are Earthworm Jim 1, Mickey Mania, Alladdin and Sonic and Knuckles 😊

You definitely sell me on these games! Among my personal favourites are the for mentioned Probotector and also the original Shining Force!