Ghouls n Ghosts running on a machine in your HOUSE when it was new was just mindblowing. The game was difficult but once you got that muscle memory it was a breeze and a pleasure to go through. Those early Genesis days were just something else, man..

@@texturem0nkey you’re not wrong man, was a great time to be a gamer!

I got genesis on its first day in the US, my brother and I sold off old NES games for weeks to save up to get it! Good times!

Tldr

Sonic 1 is a bad game

Streets of Rage was arcade like too and started off on Genesis unlike Golden Axe and Altered Beast.

@@greenkoopa Bad game ? Not really. But it isn't great either. It was a decent game, it was good enough to build upon, which they did. It was good enough to spawn copycats so that's saying something. Edit : Now see the guy above me mentioned Golden Axe. Now that is a game I don't think was very good, at least compared to similar beat em ups like Streets of Rage. But then again we are all entitled to our opinions.

Sonic 1 is only a bad game if you compare it to other games. Inside the Sonic franchise its basically Citizen Kane

@@greenkoopa - maybe to you but thanks to Sonic 1, it put Genesis on the map in North America.

There was a magic to being a child, walking around the front corner of a K-Mart store, coming toward the electronics department and hearing the Sonic & Super Mario World sounds in the distance, that todays generations simply can't understand

Thank Tom Kalinske for packing Sonic 1 with the Genesis. Sega of Japan was pissed at first, but it paid off. Probably why it sold better in the US. lol

Yes Tom Kalinskes decision making as much as Sonic saved it

@@SgtSega I had no idea. Hope Tom got a raise or promotion for that bit of foresight! 😅 I'm wondering what Sega of Japan's original idea was to shift more units?

I didn't get a Megadrive until after Sonic 2 was released, so I missed out on a lot of great early Megadrive games. I remember at the time having the choice of getting either a Megadrive or a SNES. I also remember that my decision was based mostly on the box art for the consoles and the pack-in game. I looked at Sonic, a cool looking blue hedgehog, and I looked at Mario, an old plumber with a moustache and big nose. The choice was an easy one, Sega was the ticket :)

Weeell, it seems that Valis 1-3 collection is coming to Nintendo Switch. Not remastered I think

Valis is a franchise that just couldnt catch a break. After the 4th title, it finally got new titles after a long time... All porn focused visual novels! And finally, once a proper plataformer was made after this, it was for mobile systems, and worst of all it only plays on some weird japanese-only cellphones, so we cant even emulate it or play it on android or whatever. They really did our girl Yuko dirty. I would love to see a new game in the series or a remastering of the old one.

I’m in the camp of getting a Mega Drive after Sonic came out so some of these I missed out on but I’ve collected some of these early releases now although I’m interested in at least trying every one of these early releases.

Great games😎👍🏽

I really enjoyed the vibe of Last Battle. Very basic fighting engine and an unintelligible Japanese translation but I always enjoyed it never the less 😅🤷‍♂️

Amazing replay value‼️

@@northprime_unlimited I agree. I still play it to this day.

Rambo 3 is just pure fun,love it to this day!

That is actually really interesting. I don't think I ever learned that in school although that was years ago.

@@hetiswathetis yeah thank youll notice it all the time now. People always say Amount instead of Number. But like with things, there are simple rules and that will make the correct word obvious. Similar to how people always say "and I" when "and me" is correct As in "do you want to watch a movie with Jeff and I?" When "do you want to watcha movie with Jeff and ME?" Is correct. The simple rule is just switch the sentence to Singular. So it becomes "do you want to watch a movie with I?" And "do you want to watch a movie with ME?" See? Now it is obvious that Me is the correct word. My theory on why people always say "I" is that in school they had it drilled into them that "me and Jeff" is wrong and makes you sound dumb. So they just assumed that "me" is always wrong and they don't want to sound dumb

Yup. I also had the snes and genesis. What hooked me on Genesis was their partnership with Game Genie where they encouraged ppl to use cheat codes, allowed gore, had more horror styled and violent games and sega just wanted u to have fun with it.

@Dean Satan HELL, YEAH.👍

It's my favorite game on the Genesis. It's a great game.

Shadow Blasters was one of the first titles I purchased on my own when I was about 11 years old. It was one of those budget titles for $20 so I wasn't expecting it to be that great but I played it often and grew to love it! Hearing the sound effects today takes me right back to that special time.

@@munkymaniaman was my 2nd! 1st was Phelios then Shadow Blasters followed by.......Junction lol.

@@KISSFan1977 You can't be serious...I actually got chills reading your reply. Phelios and Junction were two others I picked up around the same time! I loved Phelios but Junction was SO bad. Fighting Masters was another one...so bad it was good.

@@munkymaniaman Street Smart was a dud but Junction grew on me but back then we had to play what we could get our hands on lol!

@@KISSFan1977 For sure, brother. Back then, we rented the expensive titles and bought what we could out of the bargain bins. I remember having shit like Cyberball in my collection lol

Same dude about to turn 34 I played nes until sonic came to demo kiosks then I was a sega kid

Same. I remember I still had an NES when Sonic came out. I was young enough that I didn't care for graphics, it was all gameplay that mattered to me and the NES still had some good titles being released. I remember in school the teacher telling us that Hedgehogs are not fast or blue cause I guess there was reports of people abusing hedgehogs at the time because of Sonic. I went over to a friend's house and his brother had a Genesis and that's when I was blown away and wanted a Sega.

I am also 34

I had the good fortune of having lots of different age kids around my house back in the early 90s, my mom ran an at home day care, and then my next door neighbors ranged from Ages 1-7 years older than me, but would still let me hang around, plus my cousins were all older than me, so I used to get quite a bit of playing time on systems I didn't have yet. I had to wait all the way until 1993 to get a Genesis in my house because my Dad had gotten wind that the sports games were superior to SNES, so he decided we should have a Genesis as well. My house really got popular once we had both systems. Video games were so communal back then. The first time I ever played Sonic 2 at a Kay Bee Toys, a kid several years older than me showed me how to spin dash for the very first time. That's the type of stuff you just never forget. Kids these days do not get to experience those types of moments in gaming anymore, where you come into contact with a total stranger for a few seconds and have a defining moment like that. Sad.

I didn’t get an NES until my 6th birthday in 1990. I wasn’t even aware of the Sega Genesis at the time and wouldn’t play one until 1992.

I owned Rambo III pre Sonic and pre drivers liscence ( which opened blockbuster rentals for me). I never knew the invincibility code :-).

Master System often had watered down ports from the arcade. Don't get me wrong. The games are still fun. But the Genesis was the closest thing to having arcade games at home at the time.

One of my all time favourites, adore GG.

Nazi's can't hate a momma's boy, solved

It's super cheap... In every sense of the word lol 🤣

Target earth on genesis and cybernator on SNES are part of the battle suit series! Touchè! 🤣

@Orzuum Thank you!

It has a gritty and grotesque vibe in the enemy designs too. It is so 90s manga/anime.

The other game was Centurian; Defender of Rome. I had it when i was a kid. It was a bit easy tbh

Cyborg justice was and still is awesome!

SLX seems like a decent dude. At least a lot better than a lot of crappy KZfaqrs. I would rather listen to him instead of channels like Cinemassacre (The Angry Video Game Nerd) who treats his viewers like shit. Gamesack is also cool.

@@Gatorade69 johnriggs is good, also avgn is still decent, hes terrible at games tho so he thinks alot of decent games are bad

@@Gatorade69 gamesack looks weird xd

@@chimp9465 AVGN is not decent. He was losing me and I wanted to support James but after they plagiarized a review (numerous, even the Polybius episode was plagiarized) I was out. I was already on the fence when he called fans with actual criticisms "Fans of the Assholish variety." He does nothing. Seriously, he doesn't play the games, write or edit anymore. He set up his camera in one static position and reads a teleprompter. That's it. Hell he never even credited Mike (or others) for the episodes they wrote. He didn't pay his friends. The ones acting in his videos, making music, editing and building the sets (and Kyle who wrote his theme song) and they want nothing to do with the guy anymore. He now just wants to read a teleprompter and cash the checks. All he cares about is his god awful band who suck. Seriously he thinks he's a rockstar now but all he can do is play a couple chords. It's laughably bad. If you say anything negative about him his rabid fans then insult you. If you want good KZfaqrs look into Matt McMuscles, SNESdrunk, NES friend, pandamonium reviews, Jenovi, Austin Eruption, Same Name different game. They all put so much more work than James in their videos.

@@Gatorade69 The two guys that do the port battle between SNES and Genesis are pretty good, Console Wars. For Sonic Mega Drive related stuff redhotsonic is great and yeah I can't think of anyone else besides SLX right here who I think is no.1

Funny that, I wanted a megadrive