Wow, this is quite the trip down memory lane for me. During my tenure at EA, I worked on; Crue Ball, General Chaos, BOB, Bill Walsh College Football, Madden 94, NHL 94, Desert Strike, Jungle Strike, Urban Strike, Super Strike Trilogy, Mutant League Football, and ... ahem ... Normys. LOL. Good times.

Some of those 90's EA sports titles on the Genesis (NHL. Madden, NBA) have to be considered as some of the best games in overall gaming history.

Great stuff. I purchased a Genesis console for one game - Lakers vs. Celtics and the NBA Playoffs. It was the FIRST console game with actual NBA player names and likenesses (except that Kevin Duckworth is too skinny, lol. RIP). Yes, Lakers vs. Celtics showed its age quite quickly but try finding an NBA cart with real players in 1991! It was a ground breaking cart. Cheers.

Definitely going to need some popcorn for this. Thanks John!

James Pond 2 Codename Robocod has a beat that has lived rent free in my mind for 30 years.

We all appreciate the time and effort that went into this man. Thank you. Saving for later. Love these rankings. 🤜

Road Rash 1, 2, Urban Strike, Jungle Strikeare excellent games on the Genesis. Great video John.

Ea and Sega were soooo good together in the 90s ❤

I really like the longer format, Mr. Hancock! Goes great with a strong coffee

For EA on Genesis. General Chaos(2 player vs and coop) has the most hours played. If you select commandos you only get 2 soldiers but have full control instead of 5 men controlled with a cursor. Its one of the few games I still own a physical copy of for the system.

your ranking videos are the best. We need a sega cd and a 32x ranking

I’ve Been Down With Sega And Electronic Arts Since Lakers VS Celtics Thank You For All This Nostalgia

I really enjoyed this series of ranking videos. Putting them all together into one video is brilliant. Sega Genesis is my favorite console and the EA games are some of the best for the system. John Madden football has a special place in my gaming history. My older brother use to invite friends over for Madden tournaments and me being 10 years younger, i was fascinated by the genesis. The madden games are not my favorite but they are up there in my rankings. Getting that ambulance to come out and run over the players is something i will never forget from the Madden games. Thanks John this video is so much fun to watch.

Great Review as always , I miss these videos , keep it up

i had Tony La Russa baseball growing up. definitely hard to hit in that game i remember cause of that animation. Had stat cards for each team which was kinda kool especially since i collected baseball cards at the time and the main era i remember names from.

As a kid in the 80s-90s who was a huge sports fan, i still remember seeing the game boxes of ea sports back then and dreaming of all the possibilities. I only owned a small amount of games back then, but some of my greatest memories exist because of them. Of course now, 30 years later, i own them all, and have dedicated a section of my game room to retro sports games. Great series.

My old man wasn't much of a gamer - genuinely he'd just let my brothers and once I knew what I was doing me alone to game, but one of my earliest memories is sat on his lap watching him decimate Desert Strike

I really enjoyed this video. It reminded me of a better EA. They had a good variety of games back then. I think their best games were the blend of arcade and simulation. I would love to see a compilation of some these early games. They would be fun to revisit. This video was a real treat. Thanks for sharing.

Always like your ranking videos, hope you do Sega & Sega Sports games soon!

for a 2nd comment, the basketball games blew us away as well (Lakers vs Celtics and Bulls vs Lakers). We could not get over how much the players resembled their real life counterparts. We were absolutely hooked

The good old mega drive still got one Mr Hancock so much memories best wishes to u and your family Mark in the UK

The Immortal will grind you into dust and laugh while it's doing so. Starflight can be tough.. unless you happen to generate a map where the nearest planet is mineral rich. I have both of those, in their boxes with their manuals and Starflight has quite the book in with it.

ROFL - loved your commentary on Sword of Sodan

Great Video. Made my day. Thanks for this great work.

When I think of third party publishers for the Genesis, EA is really one of the first to come to mind. In the earliest years of the Genesis and mega Drive between 1988 and 1991, the system didn;t have many third party publishers. EA was one of the earliest ones to jump onboard. back then; Nintendo had some pretty air tight contracts that prevented third parties from releasing games on competitors consoles. It's the reason why the SMS didn't have a lot of third party games. EA never published for the NES and went for the Genesis instead. So they were exclusive to the Genesis/ MD in 1990 and 1991. But I think Nintendo had to loosen their contracts with the SNES to allow for multi-platform games. EA really became one of the dominant publishers on the Genesis/ MD. They did a lot of their own things, manufactured thri own cartridges, up to the final years. they used mostly their own dev kits and audio drivers. So their early games do have a distinct look and sound to them. They had a good batting average of releasing solid software with few stinkers. I can't deny that NHL 94 is one of the best 16bit Hockey games around. I also have to mention the SNES version. But for me NHLPA 93 is my personal favorite in the series. But I am also partial to NHL 96. Though 97 and 98 really aren't that different from 96 as far as 16bit hockey games go.

This was a great list of all the classic EA games for Genesis! Especially with the time and effort you put into it. Now your greates list challenge yet is a list to rank every Nuvision game for Sega Genesis :P

Back when EA was a publisher to be respected, ah the good'ol days. 🙂 Good vid, keep up the good work 👍

John as a kid i really enjoyed JordanvsBird. Loved the real life rivalry, and getting to be Larry hitting 3's was fun. Your take is F and thats fair, but was wondering if this is your grade when you were younger. Well done !

This is a great series, love these videos! I wonder if there’s even enough to make a video but, how about doing a video of all the games you can use with the Sega Genesis mouse?

Kings Bounty got a well deserved S. Incredible game

I finally found the person that loves all those sports games in the bargin bin! 😅

Great series of videos covering a lot of EA games. It's funny how each year they had less and less non-sports titles. I can understand it, because sports games were their bread & butter. It's still kinda sad for all the non-sports gamers out there.

I would KILL for a Budokan and Lakers vs Celtics box it that great of condition! Extremely impressive collection. Subbed!

I don't know if it was just a Midwest thing or a Wisconsin thing, but I liked Skitchin because it was an actual thing that we did. Not in the way it was portrayed in the game so much, but we'd grab bumpers and duck down so they couldn't see you, often on skateboards or in boots or shoes on snow covered residential streets. Didn't ever go the rollerblades route.

Mr Hancock I said it once I’ll say it again you helped me though the pandemic man. I love all these videos when I was home with nothing to do I spent hours watching these videos

Something i always noticed about EA Genesis games is the the sound effects from game to game were very similar in tone. I always knew an EA games was being played just by the sound effects.

I had Block Out on the Apple IIgs… very fun and a challenge

I still play PGA European Tour Golf on my Sega Nomad. Just great fun all around!

Loved the nhl games 😊

NBA live 97 is my favourite sport game until today. You can create a player and it has a lock on feature to control only him. NBA live 98 is more or less the same, but i prefer 97 because is simpler and more accessible, but with all stats of a good sim basketball game and the animation rocks.

What a Great Video. Much Appreciated Content.

Just getting into retro games, did play as a kid. Enjoying the videos,cheers bro. Got me some popcorn. Stevo. 🤘 3:09 collecting, I mean. 😂👌

Very interesting ranking John, Sega Genesis is one of my favorite console, my favorite sega gensis game is NHL 94 from EA !

Playing Road Rash and the Immortal with friends. I took my Gensis to a friends house and we played those two the most... We were blown away by the graphics of them both...Finishing Lvl 5 races were next to impossible without destroying your bike before the end LOL. Beating the Immortal was quite the feat!

Couple months late here but Starflight was one of the first games i became obsessed with back in High School.

93’ was definitely ea best year for Sega by far

Finally Kings Bounty getting its dues for being one of the best genesis games ever made. Subbed for your godlike take on a slept on gem.

For me - Strike series is the my all-time favorites Genesis (or Sega as we call it here in Russia back then) games. Best of them for me is Jungle strike. And it's the only games on a Sega that I did complete back then. Second to them I'd put Road Rash, but 'd prefer 3DO version. Also I did try F-22 Raptor but it was too complicated, we manage to lift off after about a month of randomly pressing buttons 😂

So I guess back then they used to publish more than just sports games huh 😂

F-117 Night Storm was so awesome. I got it for Christmas when it first came out. Loved doing quick night run missions just before bed. The title music is amazing as well. You definitely get used to the controls and the slow speed over time. One of the best flight sims of the era imo.

I'd put spaceflight,buck Rogers and populous at the top

A lot of work over the course of this series! Road Rash, Haunting, and Sword of Sodan are our favorites! Yes, just kidding about Sword of Sodan!

Remember when I got my Megadrive, it had a Madden/EA Hockey combo cart. The hockey was great but it was International teams only while the other NHLs are club based.

Hey there, John. I love your Sega videos. You sent me a few messages to contact you. I couldn't due to doctor appointments. I've been a gamer since the Atari 2600 days and actually before that at bowling alleys, pinball included. I had the 2600 then coleco vision, c64 and so forth. I was always envious of my buddy that had the intelevision. Arcades were amazing when there was a pause in the console industry. I used all of my paper route money up to go play. I think every gaming console holds a special place in my heart. I can't put one over another good or bad. I see you wear eagles gear are you from that area? , I live in south jersey just over the bridge.

I love the music in Road Rash 2. I’m the weird kid as usual. 😢

Dang it! I need to watch the whole video before commenting HAHAA. DESERT STRIKE!!! unbelievable game (and Jungle strike). Are there anything games like that now? I've always been surprised there isn't a remake of those.

I just hope some of these classic EA games come to evercade exp as well it would be awesome playing them on handheld ❤❤❤

my gosh, EA made a ton of Genesis games

FIFA is the biggest most profitable franchise in the world today, correct me if I'm wrong and the very very first installment of FIFA International Soccer on the Sega Mega Drive was something very special indeed. It did everything right, from the interface, the special moves, the sound, the gameplay. In hindsight, I wish it was faster and not so brutal with the real players of 1994. Nobody wants a brawler in midfield. But you can use tactics to pass this drawback. I've tried the Mega-CD version. The colours and sounds are better but the bonuses turn out to be awful. As far as I'm concerned, FIFA Soccer number 1 is an absolute classic, hands down the best football game on the console. Really, look no further. This is it. You just won't find any football game better than FIFA. Other than that, Crüe Ball is something special. Excellent, excellent hardrock themed pinball game. Again, best on the system. I've never been a fan of the Strike series at all. If Choplifter belongs to the Colicovision, Dersert Strike belongs to the dustbin. (Only my opinion.) Also EA published Peter Molyneux's Theme Park. Super addictive game. All in all EA and the Mega Drive went together like a horse and carriage or like Al and Peg Bundy.

John Hancock, can I have your autograph? Just kidding, but Road Rash's, NHL 94' and Jungle Strike are some nostalgic classics for us. Never understood all of the EA hate, they made some great games

Desert Strike was one of my favorites.

That menu music from NHL 94 🥹🤤👌

Starflight is easily my favorite Genesis game. When I started the video, I was like, if he doesn't give it, an S rating, I'm Unsubscribing. 😜

So strange how EA supported Sega so much with the genesis and into the Saturn, then completely snubbed the Dreamcast. At that time, EA was the biggest baddest company around, so it was devastating to Sega's Dreamcast (which I absolutely loved the Dreamcast!). Great video.

Risky Woods, I think first impressions can put a lot of people off... If your willing to persevere you will be rewarded as your soon discover it's a very good Ghost'n Goblins type clone. 😉

Stoked you liked Buck Rogers. Rough as guts, the graphics and sound are awful but it has gameplay in spades. I always say its like a primitive mass effect :)

Great Video @John Hancock But, for Pete's sake, take off that Eagle crap man! Lol😂 Chiefs down here bud! Hahaa😂 Just a bit of off-season rivalry 😅

Haunting starring polterguy is amazing

I love Starflight! Fairytales would have been cool if it had a saved ability, but it didn’t. It was a long password system with really bad fonts! Couldn’t tell one letter from another.

That version of Syndicate is almost unrecognisable from the Amiga version I owned which was far grittier and darker

some says its latest offical game for md fifa 98 but its lost world game.

The EA sports games gave the Sega genesis a slight edge over the snes in terms of sales. My main memories of EA games on the megadrive was the absence of “produced or under licence by Sega enterprises" when putting on the Sega 16 bit hardware. The last laugh was in 1994 when both Sega and EA both put out these 4 player peripherals which were incompatible with each games despite it being segas systems (could u imagine EA daring this kinda nonsense with Nintendo?) an atari connection TENGEN found a way of making their 4 player games compatible with both devices....

Great series. EA was Boss back in the 90s.

When EA was really good

i remember playing countless hours of nhlpa hockey 93 on megadrive (yes, in sweden) at a friends house back in the day and it was great! i even liked its flaws :D charming. then one day i saw the snes version of nhl 94 in a store and had to testplay it. it was garbage! super choppy and basically unplayable! and i owned a snes back then, and was really a nintendo fanboy, but nhl was alot smoother and had better weight feeling on the megadrive for sure. im not sure if PAL video on the snes messed up the gameplay or not in nhl 94, but something was off for sure. i stuck with the nhlph 93 on megadrive for years to come lol ;D never needed another hockey game at the time. also fun fact: we never got nhl hockey in sweden. they had to rename it to ea hockey cause they didnt have the licens for nhl over here back then im guessing?

I’m number 1!!

6:32 Is that Steve Harvey ??????

Rolo to the Rescue.!!

E A G L E S Eagles!!!

I heard EA reverse engineered the sega genesis thats why there games were so good

Rolo to the Rescue! 🐘🐰🦫🐿😭😭😭😭😭

You "missed" Fifa 98, I think it was released only in Europe

sword of sodan rip

EA sports blew up so fast! Those early 90s basketball games had to be awful for NBA LIVE to come out s a gem on the first try!

Madden 92…. EA put a lot of effort into this game. Spent so many hours with friends… Good times

If by supporter you mean "made their own cart design so they didn't have to pay licensing fees to Sega."

When the best thing you can say about a game is turd, it's no good

Back when EA meant something haha!

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i loved mutant league football. i was really disappointed in bloodbowl for the xbox because i thought it was gonna be like MLF. maybe thats my fault