I was a total genesis fanboy and never heard of most of these. Man the genesis had so many great games!!! Great video!

The haunting starring polterguy is such a unique fun game. There’s nothing like it on snes. Only on genesis

Rollerblading is making a comeback. Seen quite a few people do it recently, literally almost daily.

Back in the day, Pirate's Gold was my go to game on the Sega.

I'm scratching my head so much from the Awesome Possum recommendation that I'm getting friction burns.

Biohazard Battle was an amaaaaazing Genesis shooter. Powerup system and choice of weaponry was pure perfection. Def in my Top 5 Genesis shooters, along with Gaiares, Sagaia, Insector X, and MUSHA.

"How old am I I'm going to tell you about rollerblading" "It was a thing in the 90s" I hate to be the one to break it to you, but inline skating is still very much a thing. Not as huge as it was, but still very popular. If you wanna sound old....talk about POGs.

My favorite"obscure" Mega Drive game is probably Shadow Blasters. Four characters you can change between at any point in the game, each with their own upgradeable weapon, stage selection... And then there's something about the (admittedly simple) visuals and sounds that really grabs me.

I've been looking for Mystic Defender for years! I remembered there was a game that I played that had these sigils you could get that would give you power and it wasn't until today that I found the game. The funny thing is about 2 seconds before I saw it come on the list I said to myself, "Wouldn't it be funny if that game I've been looking for shows up in this list".

Great selection here; you're very knowledgeable about system libraries! Some of my favorites not mentioned here are... + Arcus Odyssey - One of the few games with an isometric perspective that plays really well, and that's because you can't jump; you mostly shoot. Great soundtrack, great selection of characters, cool bosses, and a lot of interesting scenarios that you wouldn't expect from a game like this. + Beyond Oasis - Maybe a bit more well known, but worth mentioning; you might compare this to Zelda, but the combat makes it play a little more like a Brawler. You can find a wide variety of weapons, too, and you use your wits and your 4 elemental buddies to solve puzzles. + Contra: Hard Corps - Very likely that people have heard of this one, but I felt it deserved a mention, because I've never been a huge fan of Contra, but I love this one. + Gunstar Heroes - My favorite Run-and-Gun of all time; not only do you have 4 different guns that you can combine to make even more guns, but each stage is pretty different to keep things fresh. It also has the honor of having one of the few mine cart levels that won't make you scream. + Ristar - Cute, colorful Platformer about a star with extend-o arms, who uses them to slam his face into things. Great level design, beautiful worlds, and you'll be amazed at how many different ways you can utilize the ability to slam your face into things. + Road Rash - 2 is my favorite, but they're all pretty good; it's a motorcycle Racer that lets you punch other racers off their bikes... or smack them with a club, chain, cattle prod; whatever. Even beyond that, it's fun to save up for new bikes and see what lovely colors they have. I miss the days when EA used to make fun things like this.

Great list. I’ve played a ton of Genesis games over the years, but many of these I’ve never seen before. Can’t wait to check a few out.

Thank you for this list! I completely forgot about Flicky, I agree 100%! It's an amazing game and I think the thing that makes it so addicting is how simple it is!

I absolutely love Crusader of Centy, replayed it again about a month ago. Skitchin' and Haunting were in my top games as well, you really need to add General Chaos! Moonwalker was a great game too, and I'd put Zero Tolerance for top fps game.

Flashback, I played it on Sega Channel, ended up being my favorite game all time

Genesis was awesome. So many great games and memories were made on that console

Flicky is so fun when you get good at it - the trick is to get those high score bonuses by beating the levels super fast, learning the right paths to get all the birds in one pass without hitting the cats.

Good video! There are some Sega Genesis games, that you showed, that I haven't seen before! I will have to look them up now!

Thanks for the video. I love these kinds of videos much more than the Open Cart Surgery videos. I have resubscribed as a result. Keep them coming! I only have a handful of these games, and some I've never heard of. Thanks for giving the Genesis some love!

Really cool list. Just when I thought I knew pretty much all the obscure titles. Alot to check out. More like this please 👍

Awesome video, Riggs! I'm only familiar with a few of these titles so this was excellent to see. Thanks!

This is a true gamer list, it doesnt have only games that are re-released and those short list of titles that appears on modern retrô magazines. This is what we played back in the day. Oh God I did not even remember Art Alive and how many hours I have put into it. Thanks for sharing

YAAAAS! Skitchin’!! I remember it being so awesome that Vancouver bc was actually a stage in that game. My home town! Great game selections. 🙂

You should check out General Chaos. Its one of my favorite games for the Genesis and I'm surprised at how many people have never heard of it.

I absolutely love Generations Lost Gameplay, atmosphere, surprising and deep (for the time) story that seems goofy in its dialogue until you discover the awesome twist. Great game!

I also had both consoles as a kid and loved both of them, but I still missed so.many good games. I recently stream Haunting and I really like it! Flicky is definitely addicting! Great list!

Awesome vid. Iv just recently started playing my mega drive again so many good memories. Great selection of games on here some I didn't even know existed

Thank you for the video, some of this games were completely unknown for me !

Thanks for sharing John. Some of these I never heard of so might have to check them out.

I love seeing awesome games others don't talk about; always looking for these types of videos. Gway to to go dude.

Love these vids. Having so many games available, its nice to get some sleeper picks I never would try.

I love this new series of vídeos. Thanks for helping my quarentine.

El Viento is really fun. I played that endlessly as a kid. You just can't go wrong with it.

Great video! I would like to see more Sega Genesis/mega drive content on your channel!

What an impressive list. Almost all of the titles are new to me, too. I remember being drawn to the Beauty and the Beast game when I used to see screenshots in magazines, too (lol!) but I never got the chance to play it. I did play the one where you control the Beast on SNES, though.

You rock for bringing up Haunting: Polterguy. I LOVED this game. I feel like this game should be remade. Very unique premise, for the time, and even by today's standards.

Great video! I almost always go to Shinobi III or Ranger X! Oh lord, and because I almost need to include a game I have a very strong love/hate relatoinship with, Dune:Battle for Arakis

One of the most under rated unknown games on the sega genesis was Tyrants. You have to play it. Its like Dune 2 from the PC. Total RTS game. You build up an army, and the objective is to destroy the other 3 tyrant's armies. You can build alliances, than betray them, or they betray you. Its so cool, so much variety, and a different match every game. Plus, you start out in the stone age, and as the game progresses you learn how to advance your manufacturing. Late in the game, you eventually learn to manufacture space ships. Its a must play. Still great today.

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People forget that sega megadrive was created to compete with the NES... it came out 2 years before the SNES and its games still stood toe to toe with a system that had 2 years of new graphic technology and a sony sound chip. I will always love sega megadrive over the snes. The games just felt better to play and i absolutely love the megadives music

Lovely list, wish I'd known about Soleil back then.

Biohazard battle is the BOMB, the music!!!

Glad to see Exile on a list it was one of my absolute favorite games for my SEGA as a kid and got me interested in Action RPGS and Medieval history, and after replaying it and learning about the complete story its pretty obvious that its the basis for the original Assassins Creed

The Cyber Cop game looks like the Time Lord orbs when you fire

Wow.. I never thought I'd find a video talking about Awesome Possum. I hear about this game so rarely, there are times when I think I might have imagined it XD

As a Nintendo kid I never liked Genesis due to my misguided and limiting brand loyalty. This list gives me so many "unknown to me" games to play. Thanks Riggs, eager to start with Haunting! Love the concept.

Crusader of Centy is one of my all-time favorite games. Pretty cool to see it on the list. I remember playing Haunting at my cousin's house one time. Such a cool game.

Man I haven’t heard of any of these, great video!

Idk if you’ve ever heard this, but you have the absolutely perfect radio DJ voice. Love the videos.

Absolute gem that never seems to get love on these retro channels: Red Zone, a desert strike-ish helicopter game with top down on foot levels and a good soundtrack. came out right at the end of the megadrive's life so i think gets overlooked. I loved that game so much.

Really good picks. Skitchin is awesome!

Atomic Robo Kid was one I remember buying on sale for 19.99 at 12yo and became one of my favs

MUSHA Zero Tolerance Phantasy Star IV are three of my personal favorites

'The haunting' is up there with 'General chaos' as best Sega games and is one of my favorite of all time. Recently just grabbed a complete version for around $45. So not TOO hard to track down

Great video with lots of good suggestions! I want to get my hands on Exile asap. I'd like Crusader of Centy even more but... lol

You have great taste in games. Exile was one of my favorites. I played both the Genesis and Turbo CD versions. Crusader of Centy is most definitely a gem, as is Exile. I played the hell out of Mystic Defender and Elemental Master, too. Rock on!

I LOVE Haunting!

Just tried out Haunting Starring Polterguy... definitely a hidden gem, loving it so far. The mini game where you collect slime to stay alive could have been a little more fun considering its something u do repetitively.

I never feel like Jurassic Park on Genesis gets the love it deserves, such a solid title!

Me and my friends use to skitch on passing cars in the neighborhood on our skateboards growing up lol

Like you I was lucky enough to have both. Thought the Megadrive controller was a step up! Then I thought the SNES controller was a step up from that! Loved both systems.

I never heard of the most games on the list, but i will definitly going to check out a few of them.

A total worthy mention was Kenseidon. What a great action game, and hard as hell too. I honestly would love to see a remake of this game.

skitchin has the most badass music of any sega game. good video

The best thing about cybercop was you could send the game away with a photo of yourself and they would put your image onto the ID card at the bottom of the screen.

Don't forget billy hatcher too! He was an underrated Sega game!

Biohazard Battle makes me wonder who has the upper hand in shmups: Genesis or TG16. Hard to decide.

They worked some absolute magic with the color pallet in Crusader of Centy. It looks like it would be perfectly at home one the SNES. It's also a damn good adventure game

Haunting is the game Beetlejuice should have been. Great video. I didn't know about some of these games.

'Cool Spot' and 'Quackshot' are both brilliant and should be here!!!!

Comix Zone ftw

Awesome idea for a video! Would like the same in the reverse style, only franchises I like on SNES would be Metroid and Castlevania, would like to know if I missed more since a lot seems quite "cutesy".

Sonic 1,2,3 & Knuckles, Sonic 3D, Sonic Spinball, Streets of Rage 1,2 & 3, Rocket Knight Adventures, Sparkster, Busters Hidden Treasure, Dynamite Headdy, Acme All Stars, Flink, Castle of illusion, Quack Shot, Aladdin, Global Gladiators. Just to name a few. The sega megadrive is an amazing system with an insane amount of fun games

Gunstar Heroes is a great lesser-known Genesis game. One of the reasons I got the Sega Mini, was STOKED to see it included on there

Never owned a Genesis as a kid but I picked one up when I was 20 and have collected about 65 games since that time. I've got a multi cart 196 in 1 that has almost all these games on it and many more. I'm having fun with it! Good retro console for sure!

My dad got me The Sega Channel. So many games per month was awesome

My dad used to randomly buy games for cheap and he got bio hazard battle and skitchin. Still enjoy them to this day

I recently got a clone console, chose to get one that has a Genesis port last minute and... Now I have more Genesis games than nes and SNES games.

Didn't know about haunting and I had a genesis growing up! Looks super interesting.

Genesis had the best controllers ever made. Something about those smooth chunky buttons can't be beat and retains an arcade-like feel which Nintendo never did.

El viento was perfectly said my guy 👍👍👍👍 love these interesting episodes

wow, i never heard of that haunting starring polterguy game before. i need that game!

It’s a shame sega and Nintendo don’t have a vintage line of brand new games and even release new games for old consoles as a heritage line

Just had to go over to ebay and pickup Skitchin' and Flicky. Thanks for the video!

Daaaamn John that Exile game looks cool as hell! Thanks

I imagine you have already played it but zero tolerance was a really fun shooter for the sega. Awesome video btw.

And the video opens with a glimpse of _Beast Wrestler:_ we're off to a good start.

Another good ones: Arrow Flash, Gaiares, Gley Lancer, Thunder Force 2, 3 and 4, Gynoug, Vapor Trail, Trouble Shooter, Air Buster, Hellfire, Phelios, Zero Wing, Fire Shark, Final Zone Senki, Shadow Dancer, Mamono Hunter Yohko, Mazin Saga, Lotus Challenge, Outrun 2019, Dahna Megami Tanjou, Warsong, Master of Monsters, Rolling Thunder 2 and 3, Target Earth, Alisia Dragoon, Valis 3 and SD, X-Men Clone Wars, Mega Turrican, Ranger-X...

Great list...lots of gems from the Genesis to play.

A couple old favorites. For the sci-fi fan, Target Earth really fun game with spaceships and mech vehicles. For the Disney fan, Quackshot Starring Donald Duck. Really clean graphics and animation. It's Indiana Jones style and Donald shoots plungers from his gun, which you can jump on after they stick to a wall.

Great list!

yes you mentioned Ys in some capacity. So glad you mentioned Mystic Defender its one of my favorites.

Haunting Starring Polterguy and Crusader of Centy are my favs. I added them to my Genesis Mini

James Pond, Ecco the Dolphin, the Phantasy Star series...so many great games.

Gynoug is an absolute beast of a shooter which rarely seems to get its props. Killer difficulty level too

Great list ❤️

Skitchin'!! Hell Yes!! Love this game John.

Never seen that ghost game, 'if you've seen a spook, spectre or ghost!' :D

Skitchin actually inspired me to try it in real life. I loved roller blading so i would do it grabbing the back of a bus after it made a stop in my neighborhood lol. I was like 12

Dynamite Duke looks like it plays like the old arcade game Cabal, with the fighting segments resembling LJN's Punisher game.

Love me some CrackDown and Gain Ground for an arcade experience. Mystical Fighter and Growl are fun beatemups, but probably not very hidden anymore, based on their prices. If Mystic Defender gets too tough, check out Shadow Blasters for a similar feel but with unlimited continues. Oh! And am I the only person who actually enjoys Zero Tolerance? It’s a FPS.