Sega Genesis games

The Genesis (Mega Drive): fast platformers, beat-’em-ups and sports games.

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• Alien 3 (Sega Genesis, 1993, Arena Entertainment): Ripley hunts xenomorphs through Fury 161's prison with a pulse rifle, flamethrower and grenades, rescuing cocooned prisoners before the timer runs out.
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega Genesis, 1991, Sega): Sonic races through Green Hill Zone and beyond at top speed, grabbing rings and freeing animals from Dr. Robotnik's badniks.
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): Sonic teams up with Tails for faster zones, the new spin dash and Super Sonic, plus a split-screen race for two players.
• Sonic 3 & Knuckles (Sega Genesis, 1994, Sega): Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles locked together into one big adventure on Angel Island, played as Sonic, Tails or Knuckles.
• Disney's Aladdin (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Aladdin swings his sword through Agrabah, the Cave of Wonders and Jafar's palace, animated by artists from Disney's film.
• Earthworm Jim (Sega Genesis, 1994, Playmates Interactive): An ordinary earthworm in a super suit whips, blasts and bungee-jumps through bizarre levels to save Princess What's-Her-Name.
• Beavis and Butt-Head (Sega Genesis, 1994, Viacom New Media): Beavis and Butt-Head roam Highland hunting down the torn pieces of their GWAR concert tickets.
• Bubble and Squeak (Sega Genesis, 1994, Sunsoft): Bubble guides his alien friend Squeak through platform puzzles, helping him past gaps and danger on the way home.
• Streets of Rage 2 (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): Axel, Blaze, Max and Skate fight through the city to rescue Adam from Mr. X, two at a time, set to Yuzo Koshiro's club soundtrack.
• Gunstar Heroes (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Gunstar Red and Blue mix four weapons into fourteen kinds of shot and throw enemies around, in Treasure's explosive first game, two players at once.
• Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Joe Musashi runs, wall-jumps, surfs and rides horseback against the Neo Zeed crime syndicate, in the series' fastest outing.
• Phantasy Star IV (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Hunter Chaz Ashley and his mentor Alys are drawn into an ancient evil threatening the Algo star system, told in comic-panel scenes.
• Comix Zone (Sega Genesis, 1995, Sega): Comic artist Sketch Turner is pulled into his own comic book, punching his way from panel to panel while its villain draws new enemies in.
• Contra: Hard Corps (Sega Genesis, 1994, Konami): Choose one of four soldiers, including a werewolf and a small robot, for a fast, branching Contra with a long parade of bosses and several endings.
• Castlevania: Bloodlines (Sega Genesis, 1994, Konami): John Morris and his whip, or Eric Lecarde and his spear, chase Dracula's niece Elizabeth Bartley across Europe on the eve of World War I.
• Ristar (Sega Genesis, 1995, Sega): A shooting star with stretchy arms grabs, swings and head-butts his way across the planets of the Valdi system to free them from the tyrant Greedy.
• Ecco the Dolphin (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): A young dolphin searches the oceans for his pod, swept away by a strange storm, using sonar to solve puzzles on a quest that leads through time.
• ToeJam & Earl (Sega Genesis, 1991, Sega): Two funky aliens crash on Earth and search its random islands for the ten pieces of their rocket, opening presents and dodging earthlings, together or alone.
• Rocket Knight Adventures (Sega Genesis, 1993, Konami): Sparkster, an opossum knight with a rocket pack, blasts through an army of pigs and robots to rescue the princess.
• Golden Axe (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1989, Sega): Ax Battler, Tyris Flare and Gilius Thunderhead ride beasts and cast magic to defeat Death Adder, in the home version of the arcade game with a duel mode.
• NHL '94 (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1993, EA Sports): Real NHL teams and players, one-timers, shootouts and organ music, in the Genesis version many players still call the best hockey game ever made.
• Road Rash II (Sega Genesis, 1992, Electronic Arts): Race motorcycles on open roads from Hawaii to Vermont, punching rivals and swinging chains while dodging traffic and the police.
• Shining Force II (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): A thief steals two jewels and frees the devil Zeon, and young Bowie leads an army of knights, mages and centaurs in turn-based battles to stop him.
• Landstalker (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): Treasure hunter Nigel and his wood-sprite guide Friday search for King Nole's lost treasure, jumping across isometric towns and puzzle-filled dungeons.
• Beyond Oasis (Sega Genesis, 1994, Sega): Prince Ali finds a gold armlet that summons four elemental spirits, and fights to stop the wielder of its silver twin in this action RPG.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (Sega Genesis, 1992, Konami): Shredder steals the Hyperstone and shrinks Manhattan, and the turtles fight through the city, a ship and the Technodrome to take it back.
• Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): The fourth Thunder Force: a fast side-scrolling shooter with switchable weapons, levels taller than the screen and a heavy metal soundtrack.
• MUSHA: Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor (Sega Genesis, 1990, Seismic Software): A samurai-styled mecha blasts through a vertical shooter full of feudal war machines, with options you can set to guard or attack, to a rock soundtrack.
• Arcus Odyssey (Sega Genesis, 1991, Renovation Products): Four heroes, one or two at a time, cross isometric dungeons full of spells and swordplay to stop the sorceress Castomira's return.
• Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (Sega Genesis, 1990, Sega): Mickey bounces through Mizrabel's castle of enchanted forests, toylands and libraries to rescue Minnie, in one of the Genesis's first great platformers.
• Crusader of Centy (Sega Genesis, 1995, Atlus): On his fourteenth birthday Corona takes up his father's sword and learns, with the animals that join him, that the monsters have a side too, in a Zelda-style quest.
• Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf (Sega Genesis, 1992, Electronic Arts): Fly an Apache over an isometric Gulf, picking targets off a mission map, rescuing hostages and managing fuel and armor, to bring down the dictator Kilbaba.
• Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Puyo Puyo with Robotnik's robots: match four colored beans to drop refugees on your opponent, through a ladder of thirteen machines or head to head.
• Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): A castle and its people are torn into a strange red-sunned world; your party explores it by the D&D rules, from the overworld to first-person dungeons.
• Dynamite Headdy (Sega Genesis, 1994, Sega): Headdy throws his head at everything, swapping it for hammers, vacuums and spikes, through a puppet theater of Treasure's wildest bosses.
• Earthworm Jim 2 (Sega Genesis, 1995, Playmates Interactive): Jim is back with a gun, a snot swing and Psy-Crow on his tail, through stages that include a puppy-catching game and a salamander-driven lift ride.
• Flashback: The Quest for Identity (Sega Genesis, 1993, U.S. Gold): Conrad wakes in a jungle on Titan with no memory and uncovers an alien plot, in Delphine's rotoscoped cinematic platformer.
• Ghouls'n Ghosts (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1989, Sega): Arthur's second quest, with the magic armor and the upward and downward shots, in the port of Capcom's arcade game that showed off the new Genesis in 1989.
• Golden Axe II (Sega Genesis, 1991, Sega): Ax Battler, Tyris Flare and Gilius Thunderhead ride bizarrians against Dark Guld, two at once, with magic bars that can be spent a little at a time.
• Herzog Zwei (Sega Genesis, 1990, Sega): Fly a transforming jet that drops bought units onto the battlefield and orders them around, against the computer or a friend in split screen, in the game that invented real-time strategy.
• Home Alone (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): Kevin has twenty minutes to rig the neighborhood's five houses with traps before Harry and Marv arrive, then lead them through the gauntlet.
• Jungle Strike (Sega Genesis, 1993, Electronic Arts): The Desert Strike sequel adds a hovercraft, a motorcycle and a stealth bomber to the Comanche's missions, from Washington to a jungle drug lord's fortress.
• Jurassic Park (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Play Dr. Grant escaping the island, or the Velociraptor hunting him, through the film's park with tranquilizer darts and dinosaurs drawn from models.
• Master of Monsters (Sega Genesis, 1991, Renovation Products): Summoners raise monsters on hex maps, level them up and fight for towers, against the computer or a friend, in SystemSoft's fantasy wargame.
• Mega Bomberman (Sega Genesis, 1994, Sega): Bomberman '94 in the West: ride the Louie creatures through five worlds, with a battle mode on the Genesis.
• Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Sega Genesis, 1990, Sega): Michael dances, spins and kicks Mr. Big's gangsters while rescuing children from clubs, graveyards and caves, with Smooth Criminal and Beat It on the soundtrack.
• Mortal Kombat II (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1994, Acclaim): The twelve kombatants, every fatality, babality and friendship, and Kintaro and Shao Kahn, on the Genesis with the blood left in.
• Phantasy Star II (Sega Genesis, 1990, Sega): A thousand years after the first game, agent Rolf and his party uncover why Mota's Mother Brain is failing, in a science-fantasy RPG with dungeons to map.
• QuackShot Starring Donald Duck (Sega Genesis, 1991, Sega): Donald hunts King Garuzia's treasure from Duckburg to Transylvania and the Maharajah's palace with a plunger gun, hopping continents by plane.
• Ranger X (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): A mech and its Indra bike fight across a war-torn planet with weapons powered by sunlight, in a technical showpiece of rotation and parallax.
• The Revenge of Shinobi (Sega Genesis, 1989, Sega): Joe Musashi takes on Neo Zeed across Tokyo, a casino and a battleship with shuriken and ninjutsu, to Yuzo Koshiro's soundtrack, in the Genesis's first Shinobi.
• Rings of Power (Sega Genesis, 1991, Electronic Arts): Buc the sorcerer gathers the eleven rings of power across an isometric world of towns, ships and dungeons, in Naughty Dog's early RPG.
• Road Rash (Sega Genesis, 1991, Electronic Arts): Race motorcycles through California traffic while punching and clubbing the other riders off their bikes, earning cash for faster rides.
• Road Rash 3 (Sega Genesis, 1995, Electronic Arts): The Rash goes worldwide, from Brazil to Japan, with bikes to upgrade, weapons to steal mid-race and cops who chase harder than ever.
• Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi (Sega Genesis, 1990, Sega): Joe Musashi and his dog Yamato defuse bombs across a ruined New York, the dog pinning enemies while Joe throws shuriken, in the Genesis's own Shadow Dancer.
• Shadow of the Beast II (Sega Genesis, 1992, Electronic Arts): Aarbron, half-beast again, searches a gorgeous and merciless land for his kidnapped sister, in Psygnosis's puzzle-filled sequel.
• Shadowrun (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1994, Sega): Joshua comes to Seattle to find his brother's killer, taking runs for cash, hiring a team and decking into the Matrix, in an open-ended Shadowrun of its own.
• Shining Force (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Max leads a growing force of knights, mages and centaurs in turn-based battles across Rune, with town scenes between, in the first Shining Force.
• Shining in the Darkness (Sega Genesis, 1991, Sega): A first-person dungeon crawl beneath Thornwood's castle to rescue the princess, mapping the labyrinth floor by floor, in the first Shining game.
• Sonic Spinball (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Sonic is the ball: four pinball tables inside Robotnik's Veg-O-Fortress, with Chaos Emeralds to collect and bosses to tilt against.
• Splatterhouse 2 (Sega Genesis, 1992, Namco): Rick dons the Terror Mask again to pull Jennifer back from the other side, through eight stages of gore with a bone saw, a bat and his fists.
• Streets of Rage (Sega Genesis, 1991, Sega): Axel, Blaze and Adam clean up a city run by Mr. X, two at once, with a police car's rocket strike as the special, to Yuzo Koshiro's club beats.
• Strider (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1990, Sega): Strider Hiryu's cipher-slashing run through Kazakh, Siberia and the flying battleship, in the 8-megabit port of Capcom's arcade game that was the Genesis's showpiece in 1990.
• Super Street Fighter II (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1994, Capcom): All sixteen World Warriors and New Challengers on a 40-megabit cartridge, the biggest Genesis game of its day, with tournament and group battles.
• Thunder Force III (Sega Genesis, 1990, Sega): The Styx fighter picks its stages across five planets, swapping weapons on the fly, in Technosoft's standout shooter with a famously fast soundtrack.
• ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Earthlings have followed the aliens home; ToeJam and Earl trap them in jars across a side-scrolling Funkotron, with funk scans and jam-out bonus rounds.
• Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1996, Williams Entertainment): The arcade's 23 fighters, run button and combo system on the Genesis, with the Shao Kahn tournament and the hidden characters' codes.
• Vectorman (Sega Genesis, 1995, Sega): An orbot made of spheres morphs into drills, bombs and a buggy to clean up a polluted Earth, in BlueSky's pre-rendered showpiece.
• Virtua Racing (Sega Genesis, 1994, Sega): Sega's polygon racer at home thanks to the SVP chip in the cartridge: three tracks, four camera views and split-screen two-player.
• Warsong (Sega Genesis, 1991, Treco): Prince Garett and his commanders lead squads of soldiers in turn-based battles to retake his kingdom, in the first Langrisser, released here as Warsong.
• Wonder Boy in Monster World (Sega Genesis, 1991, Sega): Shion sets out to free Monster World from the Biomeka, buying armor and spells in towns and exploring castles and underwater caves, in Westone's action RPG.
• World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (Sega Genesis, 1992, Sega): Mickey and Donald, together or alone, wave magic capes through a magician's worlds of cards, candy and the sea, with routes only two players can take.
• X-Men (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1993, Sega): Wolverine, Cyclops, Nightcrawler and Gambit fight through Magneto's corrupted Danger Room scenarios, calling in allies for help, with a famous reset-button puzzle.
• X-Men 2: Clone Wars (Sega Genesis, 1995, Sega): Six X-Men, Magneto included, take on the Phalanx with two players at once, with a cold open that starts you mid-fight before the title screen.
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors (Genesis) (Sega Genesis, 1993, Konami): The same 55 levels of neighbors to rescue and monsters to squirt, two players at once, on the Genesis.

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