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“I’m watching those spikes go right up her PUGGSY is a great game” I spit my drink out lol that caught me off guard

That transition to Puggsy was world class

4:14 nice transition

I'm looking forward to your 5 star game video for the CD-i.

We played Fantasia as kids and we loved playing it all the time. I didn’t realize we were supposed to hate it.

In Stormlord, you're supposed to find the key to go through that door IIRC. Maybe a bunch of dunces are giving it 1-star because they can't figure out the basic gameplay mechanics and can't be bothered to read the manual. Ex-Mutants wasn't bad, especially considering it was based on a black+white indie comic. Give Batman Forever a try on SNES. It's a marked improvement. Yes, there's loading screens but they don't take long. It's actually pretty good once you figure out how to use the grappling hook, and I unironically enjoy the game.

4:15-4:22…one of the greatest segues (if not the greatest) in video game ranking history. 😂

The pugsy joke made me lol for real.

I used to play ex mutants as a kid! And I’ve been trying so hard to figure out what it was called. I couldn’t for the life of me remember. I just remember the guy with the axe. So happy you mentioned it here.

I like Ex-Mutants all right. It's not the best but it's playable. I like off brand 90s comics so it works for me.

I remember renting the SNES version of that T2 game back in high school. I didn't really play it but my friend did, and the most fun thing in it was jumping around while going "la la la la!" like Pee Wee Herman.

Dark Castle was a PC game. It came out in 1986. I remember having it. It was just black and white.

Nice to see pugsy getting some love!

1:00am in Australia and a Riggs video drops. No sleep for now

That segue into Puggsy made me LOL

I remember being very determined to beat "Fantasia" after I found about it couple of years ago, mostly because I wanted to see how will the final fight with the Devil look like. So, after 4 hours of abusing myself and savestates, I finally made it to the end only to find out there is no final boss and the game just ends with Mickey and conductor handshaking. To say that I was extremely disappointed would be an understatement. Subscribed, BTW.

Alright, I'll point out the possum in the room..."Awesome Possum Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt" was the poor kids Sonic. They had a message, it was just...yeah.

I liked Ex-Mutants well enough as a kid! I literally just popped it on last night and FINALLY beat it! And I used to play Dark Castle on my old Epson Apex 100 dos machine back in the 80's...

Batman Forever was just about the predecessor to Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero, when you think about it. As for 5-Star Genesis games, I've got a bunch: Arcus Odyssey, Beyond Oasis, Contra: Hard Corps, Crusader of Centy, Exile, Gunstar Heroes, Ristar, Road Rash 2, (do I even need to mention Sonic?), Streets of Rage 3 (IT HAS A BOXING KANGAROO!), Valis, Valis 3, and X-Men 2: The Clone Wars.

Right up her…..Puggsy is a great game. Excellent editing, Mr. Riggs🤣

I recall X-Perts being very hyped in the game magazines of the day, mainly because its pre-rendered graphics were supposed to be Sega's answer to Rare/Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country *laughs yeah, right. And to a lesser extent, I still believe X-Perts' main character, Shadow Yamamoto from the Eternal Champions series, was supposed to be Sega's answer to B.Orchid from Killer Instinct (another popular Rare/Nintendo release of the time) and Kitana & Mileena from Mortal Kombat 2, even though Shadow was created first.

I own two versions of "Fighting Masters", the american one (with some collector's cards) and the japanese one. That's a game I like for what it is: a pre-Street Fighter one-on-one fighting game, so the inspiration came from wrestling games, rather than Street Fighter. I like also the game logo and the characters, heavily inspired by Masters of the Universe. The real problem of Fighting Masters is the cheap difficulty and the bad AI, and that's enough for a lot of people to throw the controller on the floor until you smash it into pieces! I perfectly agree with that. But it's not as bad as many people use to talk. Another bad one for a lot of people is Hard Drivin'...and it's not as bad as you may think: yeah it's slow, but it's fun when you realize how to drive the car...at least for me. Stormlord...yeah, I'm currently playing the Commodore version featured on the C64 Collection for Evercade: maaaan, it's bad. It's stupidly difficult, at the point that it becomes unmanageable very quickly. I saw the Genesis version in the past, but I've never played it...if it's bad as the C64 version, I bet it sucks even without need to playing it!

A five start Genesis game, for me at least, was Landstalker. I freaken loved that game. I never beat it until I revisited it years later but I always had fun with it.

One thing regarding Art Alive!, it actually predated Mario Paint. Art Alive! came out in 1991, while Mario Paint came out in 1992. If anything, Mario Paint was inspired by Art Alive!, rather than the other way around. Sega had another game with a similar concept to Mario Paint in 1994, Wacky Worlds Creativity Studio, which was part of their "Sega Club" line of games aimed at children under twelve, and it came with the Genesis Mouse.

Remember, for every one of these releases, there was a QA department that signed off on the final product here 👌

My favorite videos of yours so far have been the one-star lineups. Like yeah, of course I've played all of the hits, so it's cool to see the other console games that didn't make it.

I remember playing some of these on Sega Channel I think. I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure I remember a good few of these on there like Art Alive, Stormlord, Ballz and Ex Mutants. I unfortunately owned Dark Castle at one point, never could beat it.

best cut to pugsy ever lol im deceased, great video man.

In the start of Stormlord you need to go left over the fairy in the cauldron and in a bit you will see a key. Pick that up and use it to open the door to the right

I have Batman Forever on SNES, and I love it.😊 The art style, the co-op, the gadget choosing at the start of a game, the exploration.. The gameplay was solid for me. Good memories. Nice Puggsy transition 🤣👍🏻

Art Alive wasn't an answer to Mario Paint, it was released a year earlier than the Super Nintendo game.

Slaughter Sport started out on DOS as Tongue of the Fatman, and was also released as Mondu's Fight Palace (Mondu's the name of the fat guy who welcomed you in the intro).

Dark Castle was the first game I played on our mac. It really looks like you need a mouse to aim. I remember really enjoying it, now I have to try it on Genesis.

You hate my childhood lol. I loved that batman game as well as pitfall. I really never knew they were bad games.. so now I'm binge watching all your videos to see how many bad games I've played. Also I learn about many games I didn't know exist from you! Love your list!!

loving these 1/5 star vids mate!

glad you enjoyed the fight night games, loved that series

Anyone else notice that Arnold in T2 looks a lot like Hank Hill in a leather jacket? "Got dangit, ya hooligans, I'm gonna kick your ass!"

I'd argue that Wacky Worlds is moreso Sega's answer to Mario Paint than Art Alive. Considering that Art Alive actually predates Mario Paint.

@ 5:27 AH! I see you mentioned this game. lol To paraphrase what I said on another YT channel that covered this game: Holy cow! I didn't know Jean-Claude Van Damme from Street Fighter the Movie was in this game! 😯 "Quick change the channel!" lol thanks for the video JohnRiggs.

I loved the hell out of Ballz. There's actually a lot of neat things in there a lot of people don't know about - there's "fatalities" (keep tapping up at the enemy having three balls or less near them), you can beg for mercy which will restore your health when YOU are at three balls or less (keep tapping down), you can mess with their shattered remains (keep tapping A once you've won the match), every character can morph into every other character with the right button combination, if you beat the game you can play as boss characters... It's definitely not deserving of a one-star rating in my book. Is it gonna knock off Street Fighter II, or hell, even the Genesis ports of stuff like Art of Fighting? Probably not. But would I play it over, say, Double Dragon V? You bet your ass I would, any day of the week. How THAT game didn't make the list, I have no idea.

I really like Ex-Mutants and still own a copy. I've completed it multiple times. It's not breaking any new ground but I like that it plays very much under control and doesn't just constantly throw a bunch of enemies at you. The difficulty is nicely balanced. It's a 4 star game for me, but I am partial to action platformers. Nice video anyway and keep them coming.

The shark in Slaughter Sport was amusing.

My personal 5 star Genesis games: Revenge of Shinobi, Sonic 2, Burning Force, MUSHA, Ghouls N Ghosts, Wings of Wor, Shinobi III, Strider, Castle of Illusion, Lakers vs Celtics, Ecco 2, Mortal Kombat.

What happened to the, "How you feelin' you got John Riggs here!" That made it for me. Very personable and made me feel like watching more.

Looking forward to seeing you at the O.L.L. the in Norwich. I'll have a stall there. All the best

Batman Forever has a hidden vs. mode that is pretty fun. You get to pick all the enemies.

Toe jam and Earl better be in that 5 star.

John ur hilarious! I love the segway from Sword of Sodan to Puggsy Lol "Watching the spikes go right up her...PUGGSY!"😆😆😆

Damn this man goes right in the video, subscribed.

I love Batman Forever on the SNES no lie

At one point I owned a port of "Onslaught" (which I think was originally an Amiga game) on Xbox 360, and I did eventually know how to play it; once I figured it out I found it actually VERY strategic and rewarding, but getting to that point wasn't easy, and as I haven't played it in over a decade I couldn't tell you how it works anymore.

Art Alive was created years BEFORE Mario Paint

“Hey it’s me!” You’re a funny guy John!

Lol I own batman forever for Sega in box with the manual from my childhood. My brother and I played it all the time, we loved it.

I can see where these games suck now, but man in 5th grade, at 10 in 90/91, a new friend had a PC and Genesis and his brother who was friends with Trent Reznor brought us back sodan, slaughter, darkseed, stormlord, technocop and some other stuff we probably shouldn't have had... But man, those games were nothing but nostalgia now for me. It was like nothing we saw before on NES. And when you were that young back in those times, they weren't bad, they were a challenge, a Friday night. And they will always be awesome to some of us out there. Yes, to play them now is rough for people, but back in the day when there wasn't a lot else yet for Genesis, they were the reasons why you wanted one!

Broooo Watching those spikes go where lol

Out of that list T2 happens to be one of my favorites and I would say it can get very challenging after the mall scene. I would plays this for hours end.

4:21 That transition, tho

Nice transition from Sodan to Puggsy 🤣

I remembered Fantasia being ok, I only played it once though as a rental at my Friends house. Definitely not a good game but not 1 star. But it was a long time ago lol.

A fun Where's Waldo type game done right is "Hidden Folks".

Surprised to see Budokhan on there. I loved that one

WOW, Onslaught looks completely different than the Amiga version I had! Different title screen to, with a band of black knights agaist an orange sunset, it was even printed on a t-shirt that came with the box. One of the few boxes I ever owned

“I watching the spikes go Right up her….Pusgy is a game..” hahaha I see what you did there lol

"I'm watching those spikes go right up her Puggsy is a great game." 😂

very cool. Is there a book etc. Where you were able to see 1 star ratings? or just went off of your own opinion?

thanks for the video!

The US box art for Stormlord was awesome enough that I bought a used copy when the Genesis was still active. Was so disappointed when I got it home and played it. IIRC it was one of those games that jumped from UK micros to console, so I'm sure someone remembers it more fondly than I do.

I remember Batman Forever getting some pretty decent reviews in magazines here in the UK at the time both this version and the SNES. Obviously a lot of magazines at the time would give high scores for certain games if they received a certain amount for ad revenue and going back it really did happen more and more with licensed games. The official Nintendo magazine here in the UK was pretty bad for it as was the official Sega one around the time of the Saturn's launch but it was so easy to get away with it then because you couldn't question the integrity of the reviews online.

5 star Genesis games, hmmm... I'm a big Genesis fan so this list won't be short and here it goes. Gun Star Heroes, Beyond Oasis, Streets of Rage 2, Castlevania Bloodlines, Ghouls and Ghosts, Thunder Force 3 and 4, Earthworm Jim, Aladdin, Alien Storm, Adventures of Batman and Robin, Sonic 2 and 3, TMNT Hyperstone Heist, Contra Hard Corps, Phantasy Star IV, Panorama Cotton, Elemental Master, Jungle Strike, Shinobi 3, Vectorman, Monster World IV, Crusader of Centy, Battlemania 2, Bare Knuckle 3, Twinkle Tale and Mega Turrican (and I'll include Xeno Crisis and Demons of Asteborg if we're allowed to include modern games), phew that was quite a list

Genesis was so fascinating. 16 bit gaming as a whole was, but mostly Genesis. The multi-plat games were always different in the most bizarre ways. Pardon me for the hate- but the difference between a 5 star and a 1 star game was also a way finer line than it is now.

Stormlord isnt that bad. Thing is its a puzzle game really. Have to find keys and switches and stuff.

Lol the puggsy caught me off guard 😂

I used to play Art Alive all the time as a kid!!

I remember Fighting Masters being cheesy fun with a good variety of different species to fight as (even if they mostly play quite similar) and, for an early Mega Drive/Genesis one-on-one fighting game from before they started making larger cartridges for arcade ports like Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat, it's not terrible. It's not great but not terrible. I enjoyed the first three worlds (with multiple subl-evels, some of which were optional) of Fantasia despite the jankiness and GEMS--ified versions of orchestral music, but I never got past the first sub-stage of the final level, "Night on Bald Mountain", which threw whatever minimal balance there was in the game out of the window completely.

I don't know if I'd give Ex-Mutants one star. It wasn't even second tier for Genesis, but it was on par with the platformers we had on DOS and Windows PCs at the time.

Tongue of the fatman was great on PC. Plus the box art was awesome

I... actually like Stormlord. But, like you, never quite played beyond the first level. However, there's something about it that brings me back to it every now and then. But then there's something about it that makes me quit again about 10 mins later. Weird game. But I like it.

Why Batman Forever got 1 star is beyond me. I used to enjoy it quite a bit! Still play it from time to time.

Day late but hope the Riggs crew is doing well! Great video

I remember playing dark Castle on my cousin's macintosh. It's a cool game but the controls are very precise and deliberate.

Batman forever was so hard but as a kid when I beat it was so rewarding. It was more tedious than bad imo

These videos are great, and I’m going to keep watching them. However, I think they’d greatly benefit from a written script beforehand. I think that would really help elevate the content to the next level. Keep up the good work!

You go back to Dark Castle on Genesis from time to time? Did you really just admit that online? lmao

I love the presentation of the Batman Forever game.

As a Genesis kid, my 5 star Genesis games are: Streets of Rage 2 Shining Force 2 Sonic 3 and Knuckles Sonic 2 Gunstar Heroes Toejam and Earl Aladdin Road Rash 2 Castlevania Bloodlines Shinobi 3 Contra Hard Corps TMNT: Hyperstone Heist Earthworm Jim 1 and 2 Mortal Kombat 2 MUSHA

I loved Ballz and X-perts back in the day.

I had fighting masters. I'd always play with the cyclops dude, he seemed to have more reach than the others, since you stun and throw all the time, heh

I was disappointed to not see Forgotten Worlds on this list. I remember looking for a 2 player game so my buddy and I could play together. I bought it new, took it home, and he and I played it for... not very long. We beat it on the first try, and had no difficulty doing it. We were quick to upgrade our weapons so that no enemy was an issue, and when it was over we were both shocked. There was an end sequence with the two heroes talking about what they'd just gone through and I remember one said something like "I can't believe it's over. I'm still shaking." We couldn't believe it was over, either. Absolutely terrible. He was still shaking from what? We went through it basically untouched. I wouldn't give it one star.

5 star Genesis games would include Gunstar heroes, Dynamite Headdy, Alien Soldier, Revenge of Shinobi, Herzog Zwei, Star Cruiser, Rocket Knight, Shining Force 2, and Ristar imo.

Great video. As mentioned Ka-Ge-Ki would be a good 1 star candidate and theres definately some others. Some of my favorite Genesis games arent top tier in the gameplay department so it can be deceptive to rate things like that. Some of my favorites would be: Sonic 2 Gunstar Heroes Splatterhouse 2 Shinobi 3 Rocket Knight Adventures Ghouls N Ghosts

The only fun in Slaughter Sport is putting in the cheat code to play as Mondu and just spamming the instant death squish move.

0:31 Correct me if I'm wrong, Riggs, but I think Slaughter Sport is the only fighting game where you can put spikes above your opponent's head. It might make you look overpowered but it's still really cool.

5 star Megadrive games? Off the top of my head Sonic 3 & Knuckles, Streets Of Rage 2, Aladdin, Castle Of Illusion, and Ghouls & Ghosts. Maybe Virtua Racing?

X mutants is fine. I like it. But its clearly trying to confuse the consumer its an x men game with the title. So that's probably why its disliked. I like that the sprites aren't gigantic and you do some platforming puzzles, in a a post apocalyptic setting. There is a bit of interesting history with fantasia, as I recall there aren't too many copies of it because Roy E. Disney demanded Sega to recall all copies of the game on sale and destroy them, to keep the value of the Disney brand intact.

You forgot about that Hide and Seek game. I’m not going to say who the character is you play as (as thinking about it makes me shudder) but y’all probably know who that purple nightmare is.

If you memorize the moves in Batman Forever and play with a 6 button controller it's not that bad. Its makes killing the enemies a little easier👌🏼

hey.... I loved that T2 game

You should play Greatest Heavyweights for the Genesis. It's like the madden of 16 bit boxing.