Holy crap I didn't even know you could take enemies out with your surfboard in Shinobi 3! Not sure how I missed that. Agree about Mega Turrican. It's some of Chris Huelsbeck's favorite work ever, definitely his favorite Turrican.

Ninjas and surfing. Now that’s what I call 90s awesomeness right there.

The first stage of "World of Illusion" always amazed me as a kid. It felt like playing a cartoon, I couldn't believe video game graphics could be that good. I still enjoy it.

The Stampede from Lion King Perfect example of how the 'grungy' sound of Genesis highlighted the peril Snes was too clean

Love that stage on World of Illusion lol.

Diamond Dust Zone from "Sonic 3D Blast" has always been one of my favorite levels in the game due to how much I enjoy winter-themed levels in some games, and I also loved the level themes for both Acts, which fill me up with nostagia every time I hear them.

Can't rate this channel highly enough, quality content with added personal stories (I too also love the Marble Zone!)

Aquatic Ruin Zone = Most mesmerizing level anywhere

Seeing what some of these devs pulled off back then with just the Genesis always makes me wonder what they could have done with some quality time on the Sega CD.

Total agreement with Streets of Rage 2. I thought you might mention it here. I love these videos, man! I always look forward to your content! In Contra Hardcorps, my absolute favorite stage is the one where the ending is Colonel Bahamut escaping in a helicopter where it turns out the alien DNA is a fast mutating virus that infects everything around it. I love all the setpieces in that stage with the foreboding music and the infected soldiers transforming into monsters and eating each other, and the references to the other final stages in previous Contra games but with a different spin because the bigger enemies are implied to be mutated from infected humans the deeper into the stage you go, culminating in a battle with a big alien queen with a weird human face. I really feel like it nailed that alien horror element more than any other in the series and I love it!

Definite ones for me would have to be: The Minecart stage from Gunstar Heroes. The action is awesome, the music is great and its probably one of the best boss battles on the system. Heck from Earthworm Jim. The soundtrack and the enemies make this one for me, fighting lawyers and a snowman that breathes fire is just the height of silly and I love it! The Machine planet in Ristar also springs to mind. It's got some of the catchiest music on the system and the stages are really challenging. The maze can be very difficult but also make you look like a pro when done right. Those are just off the top of my head, sure I could come up with more!

OMG aquatic ruin finally got it's due,people always put hydrocity as the best 2D water level,and I'm like really 0_0,but the temple in the forest submerged underwater with that theme always took me in ^_^

Nice video again, these stages are awesome at least, for my pick, I always love the beach on SoR1, the music, the rough effects, everything. Thanks for the videos man, I'm always be waiting for the next one.

For me, in Sonic 2, Mystic cave is my favorite of the game, the graphics per say aren't the most impressive, but it's the music, the atmosphere and the maze like level design that is just top notch! But ultimately, the music makes this level the best!

I know it's hard to think of it in terms of "levels", but I've got a lot of love for the first two pages of Comix Zone. The music, the visuals, the gameplay, it's got it all.

Whirlwind on Shinobi 3 always reminded me of Push it to the limits from Scarface.

That was great. Please do a part three to this series. Some of my other favorites include:- Stage 2 Green - Gunstar Heroes, Lava Reef Zone Act 2 - Sonic & Knuckles, Stage 2 Downtown Dance Club - Streets of Rage 3 and The Haunted Level - Animaniacs.

Great call on Aquatic Ruin Zone as your favorite Sonic 2 stage! I’ve always felt similarly, with Mystic Cave Zone being tied with it.

I remember that stage on Gunstar Heroes where you can see the sun while battling lots of enemies. That was breathtaking and one of my favorite.

Dahna: Griffon stage; Alisia Draggon: second stage; Rolling Thunder 3: Airplane stage; Valis 3: first stage; Pulseman: New Tokyo stage; Phelios: griffon stage; Eternal chamoions: Larce Stage; Kid chamaleon: first snow stage; Rambo 3: third stage

The Library in World of Illusion was not only one of the best levels in that game, but one of the most memorable of my childhood. The music was wonderfully composed and has stayed rent free in my head ever since. Another epic level for Donald in that game was in level 2 where he rides the leaf down the waterfalls.

Love the format and look forward to more episodes! And thank you for including Mega Turrican - it was great working on it back then and I still feel a little proud when it gets mentioned among so many amazing classics. 😅

Besides the five that I mentioned in part 1: Stage 3 of Gaiares was kind of iconic for its' time with a great hyperspace scene and then a shmups' Castlevania concept for the second part of the stage before a cool looking and full-screen boss; great tune going on that stage too. One of my favorite Sonic 2 zones would be stage 5 (Hilltop Zone); don't really have a preference for the segment just the aesthetic and music are appealing throughout.

Great series man, very relaxing!

These episodes are a great idea. It's great to watch this knowing there are a lot of people out there who lived it and still remember the time fondly. Great job :)

Treasure always had some fun and creative levels in some of their Genesis games like Gunstar Heroes, Dynamite Headdy and, heck, even McDonalds Treasure Land Adventure!

Happy to see the SSF2 color hacks get a mention. Lord Hiryu and Pyron do amazing work :)

Gunstar heroes first stage (and most stages) is pretty epic! Music, parallax, chaos!

Ya know you can actually just stay at the top of those pillars at the end of Aquatic Ruin. If you're standing near the edges you can go up with the pillars and you can also just bounce off of Robotnik to bounce right back on to the top of the pillar. If you're good you should never touch the ground.

Favorite stages on the Super NES: Stage 3 (where you are climbing a skyscraper) of Contra III The Alien Wars, the Ballroom stage (Stage 6, cool boss battle with the revolving background) of Super Castlevania IV, Spark Mandrill stage (I liked the high energy rock music) of Mega Man X, the haunted house scene of Tiny Toon Adventures Buster Busts Loose, Penguin's stage in the Adventures of Batman and Robin.

What a great idea for a video! I always look forward to SL-X’s Genesis/Megadrive videos. Also this and part-1’s selections were excellent choices. Some of my favorites, in no particular order, are: Central Park on Spider-Man vs The Kingpin, Stage 2 on Atomic Runner, Turtle Village on Golden Axe and Transylvania on Quackshot. Really hope SL-X does a part-3 to this!

Glad World of Illusion made it on the list. Often overlooked Genesis game and one of my favorites. The last level with the silhouettes was really cool. Pretty awesome if you played co-op as level designs changes from singleplayer. Rocket Knight also had some great levels. Aladdin's genie level and Sultan's palace were incredible. I've also enjoyed Cool Spot's first level on the beach and Tiny Toons: Buster's Hidden Treasure had a bunch of great levels. There's too many.

These videos made me realize how long it's been since I pulled some of these games off the shelf. I am gonna have to buy Ranger X, because I've never played it. Time to go jam on my SEGA. Radical.

Watching your channel for years. Same generation here and still gaming. One note for you is that Cammy s stage is a not a English country side but a Scottish one....as also the northern lights are not visible from England but Scotland (Inverness in particular). Keep going you re doing an amazing job

New Washington in Flashback is an awesome level. The way they made it feel like a real city was so cool.

Bro because of your videos ive been balls deep in sega games , tryin to get through castlevania bloodlines now , i can literally hear your video intro music as the sega logo hits the screen , love your channel love your content ! Niners for life 💪

Sonic & Knbuckles - Lavareef Zone A massive zone with a lot of atmosphere. The loomin Death Egg in the background, a boss battle so different from all other bosses in this game, great music and a strong shift in tone for the 2nd act. Megaman: The Wily Wars - Mega Water S. Stage. awesome backgrounds and the music in megaman is always great. Mega Bomberman - Area 2 Vexin' Volcano. Driving a minecart and bombing enemies the can fast detonate your bombs, while lava is raining down. All that an a theme, that sicks in your head for weeks. Ristar - Planet Sonata. In the first level of this planet, you build up the music by giving metronomes to birds. This song is the theme of the bossbattle. But it's level 2, that I really like. The theme is the same, as before, but faster and more energetic. Guitars are dancing and everything is upbeat.

Comix Zone, first level: start out the game, music kicks in and you just go when you get good at the game.

Streets of Rage 3 club stage, Micro Machines 2 table with food truck stage, Quackshot sunset Mexico stage. Earthworm Jim first stage, Super Fantasy zone volcano backgrounds, Ultimate Mortal Kombat lava stage, Musha Aleste Canyon stage, battlemania daiginjou 2nd stage, Rocket Knight many stages, Pulseman many stages and Panorama Cotton many stages. And there are many more! Great content my lord

That Shinobi 3 stages music is criminally underrated!

some beautiful pixel art from the golden age !!

Great Video! Enjoyed it very much! When SoR2 was mentioned I immediately thought of the Amusement Park Stage. The Gigeresque always stays in the back of my mind as an Alien fan :) A new video with the 10 best backgrounds from the fighter library of the Neo Geo would be great! There are so many great ones that a top 10 at the end is guaranteed to be a super awesome video - very controversial of course and would probably need more than one part as well :)

I've been checking out like a ridiculous amount of your videos recently, and I will say, I love your content. I've been getting into video game collecting over the past few years and you have me on a constant sega craving haha.

The carpet ride through the clouds in World of Illusion man. I have vivid memories of playing it over a friend’s house and being in awe of the music and visuals. Where did all those days go?

Mega Turrican is so under rated, imo its one of best Genesis games. Graphics, gameplay and an amazing soundtrack.

ahh, that ice cap music still moves me all these years later... the best music in sonic 3 hands down

Man that color hack of SSF2 is great. Thanks Lordster!

My favorite Sonic the Hedgehog-related level is the Doomsday level from Sonic 3 & Knuckles/Sonic 3 Complete. I loved watching Super Sonic and Hyper Sonic fly through space!

You are a legend man. The only guy I wish I could retro game with. This is my top 10 in no order. Jurassic Park Rampage Edition: Cargo Ship, Amazing graphics, game play and I love the music in that stage as well as how it progresses from outside to inside the ship. Streets Of Rage 2: Baseball Stadium, I mean, my favourite track in that game and I love how every level progresses in that game. Far smoother than the first game. Rocket Knight's Adventure: Stage 6, I mean wicked music and that level gives you one impressive challenge compared to all stages in the game prior. This level set the tone for the rest of the game as how much more aggressive your playstyle will have to become. Bio Hazard Battle: Stage 3 Jungle, The enemies, the bosses, the audio, I mean, this level to me was perfect. I find this game to be highly underrated. Sonic & Knuckles: Stage 2, the best music in my opinion from any Sonic game, it just kept you wanting more and more. This level is the music that sells it so damn well, and you can tell this is a Michael Jackson song. Alien 3: Stage 2, An amazing rocking tune in the background that keeps you pushing to find the prisoners before they meet their fate. The level of detail in the environments and the horrific styling of the deceased made this level creepier then the rest outside of Stage 4. Urban Strike: Vegas, I love the night fighting, and how intense this level is. I love how explosions light the night sky, and love the way this mission plays out. It blew my 6 year old mind when I watched someone for the first time show me past Stage 2, and that level left a permenant memory. Revenge Of Shinobi: Chinatown, The music in that stage is some of Yuzo Koshiros best, and it really sets the tone and atmosphere to that kick stage. The layout, the enemies, the atmosphere and more just sell that stage. Streets Of Rage: Final Stage, The music again sets the atmosphere, the windows showing how its turning from night to day, facing all former foes again, on top of the final showdown with Mr. X, that level has always impressed me. I will never forget beating it with my brother for the first time. Toy Story: Second level at Sids House, I love the music especially, the atmosphere is dark, I also find this to be one of the most underrated and amazing Sega Genesis games of all time. The story following the movie literally, the level designs constantly reminding you of the movie, the audio, the 3D elements, and more make this entire game worth owning and a must have. Apologies for being so late to the party.

The real and only excellent ice cap zone. Miss ya...

This channel brings back so many memories. I was always a Sega kid and there's just something about the graphics and sound that I love to this day.

I’m disconsolate many great games that I missed watching your videos. Great work!

I don't know how you did it, but you managed to make a list better than part 1. Bravo sir!

Part 1 had more games that I grew up with, but I'm happy to see the stuff I missed out on in this video. I always felt that most of my Genesis games were great, but as good as I had it growing up, I still never came close to seeing everything the system had to offer.

My lord the one in the Shinobi 3 is just amazing!

My favorite is from Target Earth/Assault Suits Leynos, stage 8: after you and your allies fight through endless waves of enemy forces, your commander sacrifices himself by blowing an opening on the gigantic enemy mothership. In a rare moment in the game, you are completely alone with no friendlies or comms. Despite being surrounded by traps and defense turrets in the mothership, your commander died because he believed that you could stop the enemy general and end the brutal war. I can list other favorite stages (and plenty were mentioned already), but that game and stage left a huge impression on me in my younger days. The PS4/PC remake is great too as a budget title

This is a solid list of stages for the the Sega Genesis! As for my favorite stage on the platform, that honor go to: Sonic 3 - Marble Garden Zone Act 1 & 2! Love that the music and level design for it as it keeps you on your toes at all time! :)

It's a mix of stages Chemical Plant and Oil Ocean stages for me on Sonic 2. As for Ranger X, there is something unique about playing that stage where you're just going up the side of a building. The reflections and the breaking of the glass was something I loved looking at back then.

Sky Cutter Beach in Kid Chameleon is on of my favorites.

Golden Axe: Eagle's Path; Bonanza Bros.: cruise liner: Sonic 2: Hightop zone; Rolling Thunder 2: first stage; Quackshot: Duckburg; Shadow Dancer: Statue of liberty; Gagoyles: Vikings stage; Alien Storm: third stage; Sunsetriders: last stage (genesis exclusive; Tiny Toons: first stage (genesis); Rocket Knight: first stage; Aladdin: cave of wonders; ; Shining Force 2: Kraken; Monster World IV: Magic Carpet;

This brought me back to my childhood. I was in awe of the Genesis graphics and sounds compared to my SMS games. Those Mickey games were on another level and still hold up well today. Kudos to the OG developers.

Mishaela's stage in Shining Force is my favourite of that game and, like Midnight Resistance, it's the music that makes it so. I'd often just not move during a turn in order to let the music playout. Really, it's the music in general that makes SF1 my favourite of the series.

Another one of my faves is the Ellis stage in Thunder Force III with it's phenomenal music, multidirectional scrolling and cool enemies.

PART 2 - As always, thanks for reminding me why I need to motivate and dust off the old college years Sega Genesis and stir up these awesome titles from earlier and simpler 16-bit nostalgic times - keep all the great original content coming, your love for this period in gaming history always shines through with your exceptionally creative presentation and constants personal stories and connections to this time in home gaming consoles, so thank you for all your hard work and efforts! Keep them coming.

The river run stage on Jurassic Park Rampage edition has the most beautiful water effect I’ve ever seen on the system and the Moose Hunters stage on Mickey Mania has amazing vibrant colors, great parallax scrolling and superb Mickey and Pluto animation.

14:09 YESSSSSSS 1 Billion percent!!!! Back in the day my friends hated playing this game because it was a "poor contra clone," but I loved playing it for the music itself. After putting some time in, you can show them that you can get good at a poor-contra-clone and give it some replay value.

Pyron, the creator of the Street Fighter 2 Gensis color hack, has done dozens of color hacks for the Genesis. He really has a knack for improving the colors of classic Genesis games and making the graphics really shine! He's improved the likes of TMNT Hyperstone Heist, Mortal Kombat II, Joe & Mac, Lion King, Castlevania Bloodlines, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage 2 and many others! I hope he makes more Genesis color hacks!

Ice Cap in Origins is not the same without this music

Before I watch, I have a prediction: More than half of the stages will involve some kickass parallax scrolling in the background. Because Sega Lord X has a Type.

so happy you did more of these!

Another great video! For me Hilltop Zone on Sonic 2 was great!

Sonic parallax is state of art. That iced stage looks like 3D!

These two videos were great! Data East and their run and guns were similar in structure. Awesome gameplay, not fantastic but passable visuals, and amazing music that made the game. Everything said about Midnight Resistance you can apply verbatim to Bloody Wolf on Turbografx. If you're going to do a fan version of these my vote goes to stage 1 of X-Men 2: Clone Wars. You turn your Genesis on and bam you're playing the game. Your X-Person randomly chosen. No fuss, no waiting, just get to it. Once you beat it then you get the intro screen. Also the snow effect is great. The stage overall does a great job making you hyped for the rest of the game.

Amazing video. Some of my favorite stages: Ys III- Ilvern Ruins and Valestein Castle. World of illusion- underwater adventure stage. Splatterhouse 2- crystal prison. Castlevania Bloodlines: Versailles Palace. Fatal Fury- Geese Howard stage (the tune on Mega Drive is not that great,but the setting is excellent). And if you count Sega CD games too: Sonic CD- stardust speedway 3 (Sonic vs Metal Sonic) Final Fight CD (subway and bay area).

The Forest Level in Shinobi is one of my all time favourite Stages on the Sega Genesis.

And pre-emptively for the inevitable future video-- Jet Set Radio's Benten-cho map. When I first played JSR on Dreamcast, I thought "hey this is a pretty cool game," then came Benten and I was completely blown away by the sights and sounds

Gotta love an SLX drop. Definitely, one of the distinguishing marks of a favorite stage is the music. It goes a long way into making the stage memorable. The mere mention of "Actraiser," "Kilik" or even "Elwynn Forest" (if I'm allowed to extend the word "stage") immediately starts those tracks in my head.

Recently playing through Shinobi 3 I put it up there with Streets of Rage 1 music being the best on the system and like I said before I'm a Nintendo guys all the way back to the NES ages but when the Megadrive came out I skipped the Super Nintendo for the Sega Megadrive and I will do it again in a heartbeat 🙏🏽👍🏾🤘🏾

Pity you still haven't mentioned Rocket Knight Adventures and Earthworm Jim yet. Maybe you will in a future video. My favourite stage in RKA is the third, where you have reflecting lava like the reflecting water in Castlevania. The one in EJ is the underwater level, where Jim has to steer a submarine and fight a "truly epic" boss fight. Keep it going SLX!

Brother I've been watching you for a long time I appreciate all your content it is from my favorite time of gaming please keep it up much respect.... Watching you on my steam deck.

Haha! Impeccable...you chose Aquatic Ruin too!

It always confounds me how Ranger X never got a sequel or nobody ever replicated its gameplay.

I was a scifi junkie even as a kid and any of the urban stages in Flashback made me think...WOW I AM LIVING THE BLADERUNNER MOVIE! Snatcher and Shadowgate had similar feel but the entire game.

Great video, SLX! I'm sure this was a fun video to make like the last one! Aquatic Ruin Zone and Ice Cap Zone are my favorite Sonic 2 and 3 Zones, too! Contra Hard Corps, World of Illusion, and Mega Turrican all have a number of excellent stages! I would not be able to pick just one! 😅 I suggest making a series of your favorite levels on any platform: NES, SNES, Game Gear, Playstation, N64, Saturn, Dreamcast...whatever floats your boat! Maybe even do a special arcade edition? A lot of arcade games have some really wild level designs, so it would be interesting to see which ones you enjoyed most!

Love this new series. It's like a little love letter to each game and makes me want to play each one. Looking forward to more!

I know there are some folks who would disagree with me on this choice, but one of my favorite stages from the Genesis library has to be Black's Dice Palace from Gunstar Heroes. I totally dug the board game concept (which made clever usage of the characters' throw ability to roll an actual dice) and it allowed Treasure to play to their strengths of incorporating a bunch of unique boss encounters to the overall game. I always enjoyed fighting through all the various challenges, and the final boss battle with Black kept in theme with the dice roll idea, leading to what I found to be a fun finish for the level.

Vectorman 2's factory stage and daytoyna in toy story are by far my favourites stages on the Genesis

This will be a cool series. Looking forward to seeing more

Aquatic Ruin is lovely. Amazing music too

So little likes. That was the best game related video I have seen in ages and I was SNES and PC-Engine fanboy myself back in time. Those Toaplan shooters ported for the Genesis. Just greatness!

You definitely delivered more great content in this second part too. Those devs back then, really did some amazing wonders, on those old school consoles. In SF2, Cammy's stage always comes up as a favourite.👍😄 Also, good to see that you talked about the scammers, at the end of the vid. Great vid.👍

I really like the bridge on Level 2 in Super Castlevania IV. The whole second stage is awesome. The end boss in Ghouls N Ghosts on Megadrive is amazing too. China Town in The Super Shinobi.

I'd love a chat with you one day your one of the very few youtubers I can relate with ur voice and way of explaining old times keeps me coming back to watch more of your content. Ps I'm also a sega fan boy

The mad hatter stage from Adventures of Batman and Robin is amazing. They somehow turned a genesis unto a Saturn for that game.

Just a state that popped in my head is the first stage of robocop vs terminator (MA code entered of course) hearing that music and just blasting enemies some from the original robocop film into a bloody pulp was just a sight to see as a young teenager

great episode and much more in line with my own taste! Keep up the good work!

Dude, amazing sequence of games and stages. Think you have plenty space to bring more like Earthworm Jin, Vectorman, Ristar, Verytex and Comix Zone for example. Well done, great videos and content, my best regards from Brazil

My boy came through again. As a former patreon patriot, back when you first started it. I now feel obligated to donate again because keep giving us steady entertainment content.

i just noticed how dope the cover art for mega turrican was!

Favourite levels on genesis: Dynamite heady spinderalla Gunstar Heroes: final level Thunder force 4: the one with all the ships in the background X-men 2: first level Streets of rage 3: that train track one