Top 10 BEST Sega Genesis Games of All Time

how are you feeling you got john reeks here talking about the 10 best games for the sega genesis now in the past i've done hidden gems i've done must play games underrated games but just one of the best ones we're talking about just the best of the best if you had to have 10 games on your console one are the 10 best ones to have and starting with the game you might be surprised would come in at number 10. [Music] yeah that's right sonic the hedgehog now this is the first one this is the introduction this is the first time we ever saw sonic or anything about sonic was in sonic the hedgehog for the sega genesis now again i have a lot of love for the sega genesis it was the first console i ever bought with my own money i delivered papers at 12 years old saved up enough money so i could buy my own sega genesis and during that time it was right when altered beast was removed from the pack-in and sonic the hedgehog they had so much plan so much hype behind this game sonic the hedgehog came free with your sega genesis so when i went out and i bought the console it came with the game already and that was good news for me it's great to see how far sonic the hedgehog has come in the last 30 years but it all started with this game and so many of today's sonic hedgehog games and even ones in the future all stem from what you find in this original game the colors the music the sound the layers of scrolling in the background and all that it was insane for its time and unlike super mario brothers which is kind of lenient it's just moving from left to right right i mean it might go up a little bit maybe like up another screen but not too far beyond that song to hedgehog each level is like its own world i mean you can move up and down there's multiple ways to get to the end it's insane all the exploration you can do in this game it's crazy and love the fact that you can even get that bonus ending if you picked up all the chaos emeralds it's completely optional but it's another way to give you an extra challenge in a game that maybe you've already played through and gives you a reason to keep playing as well and love the fact with the rings so long as you have one ring you're in for another round make sure you just have one ring on you at all times if you drop your rings grab another ring so you can keep playing i love it downfall being you're way too fast i mean it's one of those games you just go you keep going fast you pick up all these rings and then also you run into spikes or you run into an enemy that you didn't predict was going to be there that happens more often than not but still when it comes to the sega genesis it all starts with sonic the hedgehog and again this is a list of 10 so it may not be the last time we see song the hedgehog in this list in honor of sonic's 30th anniversary xavi.com has cool things like the awesome shirt i'm wearing got the stainless steel thermos here use rigs20 to save 20 off shirts and clothing use rigs10 to save 10 off accessories at xavi.com links in description below now how about an awesome platformer from konami that never made it to the nes or even the super nintendo [Music] that's right we're talking about rocket night adventures this is the perfect game if you grew up with deals let's say the super nintendo you're not really too sure on what games you should play for the sega genesis this is gonna be right up your alley i promise this of course is during a time when anthropomorphic animals were the hot selling ticket item here so we got rocket night adventures here and what a fun game this is you can jump you can use your sword to attack people but then because it's called rocket knight adventures right rocket you can use your rocket to you know zoom towards forwards and crash into enemies that way you can zoom straight up to maybe reach hard to reach platforms in a diagonal angle to do super leaps over over cliffs and other larger enemies all that this game is so great man this is one of those they should have released this on the super nintendo they could have released this maybe even on the nes but if you want to play this game it's only available on your sega genesis which is why it needs to be on this list of the top 10 games for the sega genesis it seems like they really push the system's limits as well with how many moving things can be on screen how many colors they can use on this on a single screen or anything like that too great action platformer with the cartoony look from konami konami one of the kings especially for their time for video games of their time especially platformers if you have a sega genesis it is worth your while to have a copy of rocket knight adventures at your side for sure well we can go old school arcade style with alien storm for the sega genesis this was an earlier release title but still super fun today there are so many beat-em-ups out there and there's nothing wrong with beat em ups but this plays kind of like that but you're not really beating them up you're using your weapons on these aliens and these aliens just look so weird and grotesque and kind of cool really now instead of doing like punch punch kick style combos you'll do like gun gun flamethrower grenade or things like that uh for your for your combos for defeating these enemies this game is a two-player simultaneous game that was one of the great things about the sega genesis was so many of their games were two players simultaneous so you can definitely have two players on this one it's gonna be easier for you if you do not just side scrolling beat em up but they'll also go to these first person modes where you're shooting things kind of like an operation wolf style kind of thing you know gives you that shooting technique and style just a little variety a little change up the gameplay a little bit to keep it interesting three playable characters on this one each of them with their own uh personalities each of them i mean their own characters really their own weapons and all that you got a man a woman and a robot yeah you gotta you can play as a robot in this game and the robot's actually kind of cool and the man in this game i mean you can't go wrong really i mean they're all great no matter who you play as no matter who you choose to uh operate in this game it's gonna be a fun experience all the same even fun that they all have their own kind of you know weapon crash i guess you would call it like that that save me i'm in a i'm in a rut there's too many enemies on screen cool to see that the woman has basically a bomb just like a giant nuclear bomb that destroys everything except for her nothing wrong with that the man has like an airstrike where like you know a ship will come down or in there it might just be like some phantom bolts that will come out of nowhere that's kind of cool too interesting to see that the robot blows himself up and that's his special attack as he blows himself up and then his reserve body comes back screws his head back on and right back into the gameplay oh man fun game interesting title it was new for its time because we didn't really see games like this at the time so it's so fun to see and still super fun game today you want to check out alien storm for sure right so if you weren't from the day you don't know exactly how popular michael jackson was now this is when michael jackson was doing the moonwalker it had like the there was like an actual film that featured a bunch of his songs the smooth criminal videos all of his music videos on mtv were basically short films and i want to say that he actually referred to them as mini movies every single one of them um all the music videos were amazing and michael jackson during this moonwalker time still at kind of the peak of what he was doing but even earlier michael jackson again you can't deny how popular he was i mean he was like world renowned everybody knew him i remember in the early 80s i mean you'd see big truck drivers motorcycle you know just like these really burly buff looking guys mean you know scowl on their face listening to michael jackson everybody did i mean naturally he was in the tabloids and all that too and that could be another video for another time but the game itself i think is super super fun now there was an arcade version of the game i wish we got that one at home uh but this one for the sake of genesis i still think is is pretty fun and definitely worth having so yeah you have your kind of michael jackson dance moves as your weapon as you kind of kick off this magic or you kind of like a punch or throw this magic sparkle stuff but it's you know that aside i mean come on you're looking for the kidnapped children this is kind of tying in with the moonwalker film that they had where the bad guy kidnaps the kids you got to try to save them and everything like that interesting enough you find all the kids you get your pet monkey bubbles bubbles was as much of a personality as michael jackson was it seemed like it was like a right-hand man kind of thing right-hand monkey i guess and it brings you to a certain part of the stage where you have to defeat all the enemies that just kind of like come towards you all at once but the main special attack is if you just hold the button down everybody joins in on screen and all dances with you and this ties in with the michael jackson moonwalker music video because he does that in the in the music video and why not throw it into this game sure why not the different rounds the different areas have a different theme uh with the background that kind of relates to the music video and then has the song that kind of accompanies it as well but all of them are still find the kidnapped kids go to the screen wherever bubbles tells you to go defeat all those enemies you move on and there's just something addicting i don't know if it's the music i just don't know if it's the moves that you do in this game super super fun game you know check out michael jackson's move locker all right up next an absolute classic golden axe deserves to be on this list because it needs to be on this list it was such a cool game especially for its time where you have three characters you can choose from again two players simultaneous and all of them have their own attributes you know one of them might be stronger one of them might be able to use more magic or build up more magic to have a more powerful spell it's up to you you can play as the you know the man warrior the woman that gets valkyrie and then the dwarf as well with the axe and no matter who you play as you're gonna have a fun time this game can get super cheap where the ai wants to surround you at all times if there's two people on screen they'll figure it out so one's on one side one's on the other and they'll start spamming it that way avoid that if you can much easier to do if you have two players playing at the same time love the idea that you can also ride some of these animals and use them for your attacks as well but even as you're just walking around your attacks i mean let's be honest they're kind of limited you can you know you can attack and you can jump and you do have a kind of like back attack in a way which may or may not help you because sometimes it takes too long to initiate the actual hit part of the attack you're too busy too busy moving for anything that happened and you have a running attack which is always helpful and always nice because they will run attack you all the time so just gotta beat them gotta beat them through the punch if you can and each of the characters have their own elemental magic which is kind of nice and depending on how much of the the magic potions you get along the way that's how powerful your attack's going to be so as the woman if you have it all filled up it's your you know your element is fire so basically a dragon comes down and breathes fire on everyone gotta love that if you only have a couple magic spells built up or whatever uh you'll still do a little flame attack it'll still help you out the dwarf has lightning that's pretty cool too and the man has kind of a rock power but you know no matter no matter which way you play this game no matter how you play it golden axe an absolute classic definitely deserves to be on this list five down with five to go did your game make the list yet well we got five more coming up so hopefully your game made it if you haven't done so yet make sure you're subscribed i have so many more of these videos coming out soon for all game systems i can't tell you how excited i was when they announced x-men for the sega genesis to wash the taste out of my mouth for the x-men game that we had on the nes this one more than made up for it now when this game came out it was during the height of the x-men comic books the x-men cartoon on fox was super super popular and this one features a lot of those elements too from the get-go you can play as cyclops wolverine nightcrawler and gambit and for the time it seemed like gambit was like the popular one i know he was one of my favorites and all of them play pretty similarly really when it comes to their jumping and attacking abilities but they all have their mutant ability and depending on where you are and you know what you think you might need for that level might come in handy for you not just the four playable characters but also all of the villains and enemies in this game are also famous x-men villains which is kind of nice because you always want to see who's coming up next simple enough with the mutant abilities gambit will kind of throw his charged card makes it really handy cyclops well i mean he has that cyclops i-beam that's always gonna be awesome wolverine shouldn't happen wolver because wolverine is like you know you you extract your claws and then that counts which it shouldn't uh however it does in this game but whatever and then nightcrawler is the cheatinest because he can just teleport through walls as needed and the levels in this x-men game think back to sonic 1 where you have this whole level and area that you can go through and then you'll go up and down and there's basically this giant room uh it's a lot like that so if you're if you're in a rough spot a tight spot or whatever you can play as a nightcrawler go through the wall and all that and you have your other helpers too we're gonna help you out so if you have someone like you if you fall down a hole then g grey will come out and pull you back out of the hole very cool if the jumping is too hard for you call on iceman he'll just create a platform for you basically super fun game about the perfect length of a platformer like this too i'm a big fan of this game you got to get x-men for the sega genesis it's so fun now this is a huge spoiler alert so if you haven't done so yet make sure you just keep double tapping until you get to the next game but we gotta talk about how it broke the fourth wall on that level where it tells you to reset the system and you actually have to literally reset your sega genesis and that's how you get past that level that blew my mind when i first did that in the first couple of times i played it i was like i don't know what to do i'm hitting all these buttons for reset you know it's like nothing happened i was like well maybe i just hit reset on the console sure enough that was it oh my god couldn't be a top 10 sega genesis list without gun star heroes now treasure made so many amazing amazing amazing games and gun star heroes is way up that list a lot who are a little bit more familiar with like nintendo than sega might call this game the contra of the sega genesis and i can see where they're coming from it's a side scrolling run and gun game it can be two player if you'd like and it has the weapon upgrade system which is super cool too now you choose your first weapon that you want and you even get to choose like one of four levels to start as and along the way you can pick up more weapons i love the weapon combo system in this game as well so like if you have a rapid fire that's cool you got a fire which is your flamethrower that's pretty cool too but you can combine them together and you can kind of throw fire bombs in a way or other things like that when you get certain items or certain weapons combine them together makes it super cool and i don't know what treasure is doing to their games that other companies didn't figure out but so many moving elements on screen can be happening at the same time with no flicker no slowdown i don't think i've ever experienced any of that with this game ever and each level i mean just like a lot of other platformers like this or a lot of other run and gun games each level has its own characteristics stone personalities its own boss and everything uh just it's all you know players choice depending on where you want to go first and what you want to tackle first that's all you and at the beginning along with choosing your own weapon and choosing your area and all that you can also decide if you want a um you know if you want a running gun or if you want the fixed shot and the fix shot makes a little bit harder but there's some benefit to that um it makes it so soon as you start shooting you plant your feet in place and you can shoot like all around you so you know if and you can jump while shooting too so i guess you can keep doing that but that's easier for you so instead of you know just holding the button down for rapid fire and running if you shoot manually just by clicking your button great then you can just hold the button down you plant your feet down makes it really handy to like hit bosses at an angle and stuff like that too so again players choice on that one gunstar heroes amazing that was one of the coolest cinematics i ever saw in any video game the first time i fired this game up revenge of shinobi now there are three shinobi games for the sega genesis all of them absolutely amazing but if i had to choose one of them i would give it up to the first one revenge of shinobi well it plays similarly enough to the classic arcade game but so much better and so much more involved uh with this one as well i mean yuzuku sure did the music for it amazing right this game you can't i mean you can also change your options and everything to give you like unlimited truikins but if you have a finite amount of shurikens and then when you get closer to the enemy you just use your sword to attack them so whatever's easiest for you i do like how when you kind of double jump you can do like a spray of shruikens that's why it's kind of cool the graphics were great for its time the mood was perfect it's one of those games you can you know go through and just just have a fun time every time still today you do have your magical abilities too like you can you know defeat all linings on screen you can give yourself a little bit of extra strength strength in your jump if you will fun things happening with revenge's shinobi that's why it's gotta be on this list of the top best games for the sega genesis i mean come on we gotta talk about streets of rage too i know a lot of people give it up to double dragon or final fight but for my money streets rage 2 may be one of the most influential beat-em-ups of all time this game really set the standard for how awesome a beat-em-up could be for its music for its gameplay for how easy it is to pick up and play using any of the characters really and the different playable characters are always cool too again two-player simultaneous such a fun game and it's a game that you just want to keep playing you just want to see what's going to happen next the music iconic still today it's another one from music shiro what can i say i just love the variety that all the playable characters have when it comes to attacking enemies now they all have the same jump and attack and maybe like their you know desperation move uh but you know some of them have you know we'll like do like punches and kicks and stuff like that and someone else might do leo backflips or something especially when it comes to the grappling move some of them might just throw them some of them might just you know give them a body slam basically give them a german suplex or something like with a lot of fighting games desperation moves are always great to have but they will also make you lose a little bit of your health but a little losing a little bit of health versus losing a lot of your health by not doing it well you got to figure that out yourself lots of fun levels in this game that keep you playing longer and it's just i mean come on it's streets of rage 2 it has to be on this list it has to streets of rage 1 is pretty good and streets of rage three was fine but it seemed like they were trying too hard with sweet to rage three i was as good of a game as it was streets of h2 i wouldn't change a thing i think it's flawless i had a feeling it wasn't the last time we'd see sonic the hedgehog to me sonic the hedgehog 2 for the sega genesis is the staple it is the miffering stick you take everything that was great about song hedgehog one fine tune it fine tweak it make it better add new characters that still stand the test of time today and you got soggy the hedgehog too it's amazing i mean at the end of the day to be honest with you it's more of the same as sonic the hedgehog it really is different levels different music sure but it's cool because they added tails and tails is actually you know going to help out it'll actually find some rings we'll actually you know pick you up from falling down a hole or something like that if you have a second controller another player can play as tails who is invulnerable to really help you out unlike the weird twisted kind of rotating thing that song to hedgehog one had for getting its chaos emerald i like how they did this one because this makes it kind of like a cool you know toboggan vr style you know behind the shoulder getting all the rings to get where you're going and then that way it's easier for you to get the cast emerald at least it was easier for me and again with the cool eggman or robotnik uh bosses in this game they're always fun they're always you know can be challenging but you can find the pattern and all that man it just makes this game so fun and they even added a two-player mode as well you know player ones on top player two is on the bottom so you're still there but it's still on split screen like oh that's that's interesting i wonder where else we can go with this all too much fun to be had with starting the hedgehog 2. when they come out with new songs hedgehog games all the time but this one i mean come on this one's where it's at i know i left out a lot of great games on this list so you let me know in the comments which ones i left off underrated sega genesis games we covered the top ten but what are the underrated stiga genesis games you watch this video right here thank you so much again make sure you're subscribed because we're talking about best games for nintendo super nintendo arcade and more all coming up in the very near future thank you so much for watching we'll see you super soon

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Published: Tue Jun 01 2021