The year is 1995; Braveheart is in cinemas, scientists have successfully cloned a sheep from DNA and the PlayStation has just been released to critical acclaim and phenomenal sales. Meanwhile the Mega Drive, whilst coming to the end of a very distinguished life cycle, is still pumping out extremely complex games considering it’s (by then) outdated hardware.
The SNES’s success in the console war (it sold like 20 million more systems, that’s a win) meant that many games on the Sega Genesis never got as much positive attention as they should have. Whether they were not well-known or received a poor rating in light of the existence of competing SNES games at the time, some really good games slipped through the cracks.
Comix Zone is criminally underrated. It's definitely on my top 10 list of Genesis games. Landstalker was pretty cool as well along with Beyond Oasis. It felt like Sega's take on LOZ. Made me enjoy the game even more. That and the art style.
While you often hear about games like Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets of Rage, and Gunstar Heroes, there are plenty of underrated Sega Genesis games that deserve their time in the spotlight.
Comix Zone, Streets of Rage 2 and Golden Axe were some of my favorites on the Genesis
@P_Bomb Golden Axe was so underrated. I regret not playing Strider back in the day
"Top 10 Sega Genesis games that get no love!!"
Proceeds to name 3 games that are included in almost every Genesis collection/compilation.
It says Top three (now). But it is an underwhelming list regardless of quantitative quibbles.
True. The real underrated classics would not have made it onto those collections and I'm sure there are many. That Taz game I rented once comes to mind.
Sega is bringing its massive catalog of retro games to a mobile platform near you.
WELL DAMN!
Really smart and tech conscious move though. I mean everyone is downloading these for free anyway on mediocre emulars on their phone anyway, so do this and you give a much easier and more refined way to do so that not only allows them to browse/discover games they never played but will certainly earn Sega some good publicity to the masses
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Mobile...urgh
Why not give console players a bigger, better Sega Ultimate Genesis Collection
This whole thing would have been so much better on console....guess they are just pursuing the mobile market as its big in Japan.
hmm... I get a "cannot be installed on your device's country" error when attempting to install....So not available in the US yet?
I read another article that said it starts on Thurs. And today is wed. (In the u.s.) so check back tomorrow.
Started working about an hour ago (Still wednesday here) and Sonic just went free too.. you just have to manually search for it since the link on the Sega Forever site is broken (Sega delisted the $2.99 version and relisted it as free)
