Panorama Cotton is genuinely amazing. I couldn't believe it was running on a megadrive.

Great point about the sound. You practically could guess if a Megadrive/Genesis game was made by japanese or western programmers just by listening to the quality of the sound and music. Daze Before Christmas also allowed Santa to transform into a nasty version of himself who attacked with the sack and had shoot'em up stages where he rode his sled.

People often underestimated the sega genesis's ability to do great sound, or music. I loved both the batman, and superman games on the genesis. Also Technosoft showed just what the genesis was capable of with the thunder force series, as lightning force is one of the best games on the genesis period.

The soundtrack in Batman, Streets of Rage 1 & 2 & Dragon's Fury are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

It's not about drivers, it's about composer, in this case great Naoki Kodaka. You can play his melodies with fart sounds and they will still sound great.

Seems like when Sunsoft develops a game, it tends to be the best, when they're publishing other companies games, it tends to range from good to crap easily.

I almost forgot Sunsoft. Thanks for the memories.

Dude....youre like always on point with your timing! Was just needing something to watch

1:20 WOAH now that is an immediate improvement from the last video. I can find no fault in your videos anymore boss. Good on you for following through. I really appreciate the change even if it is just the font type.

It's weird how Batman: Revenge of the Joker was such a cool game on the NES (where it was known as 'Return' of the Joker) with some excellent graphics and sounds, yet comes off as so average on the 16-bit Genesis.

I never had a Master System, only had the Genesis, but never had any Sunsoft games on it. However I had a NES with Journey to Silius - probably Sunsoft's best game, from soundtrack to how simple yet easy to understand the gameplay is.

Congrats on 50k subs! You deserve it. I'm addicted to your Saturn videos, they are getting me so hype and I'm picking up many games I didn't know about. Thank you SLX!

Ah there's nothing like Sega at 2 in the morning

Its incredible to see how far you have come. I love your vids. Thank you.

Great vid SLX. You always show a game or two that I never played back in the day... But am going to try now!!! Thanks 🎮👍

Pirates of Dark Water is bittersweet because it gives the series a level of closure the cartoon never did. The cutscenes appear to be taken directly from the show's storyboards, so I have every reason to believe the closing cutscene is how the series' closing scenes would have gone down.

You consistently put out great videos multiple times a week. Great work.

I LOVED Batman on the Genesis. My game store had the early Japanese version a year before we got the game and I bought it and made the adjustment on my Genesis to cut the opening bigger for the Japanese carts to fit.

I actually remember the game "Bubble & Squeak" being out when I was a kid, since I was able to see a colorful advertisement for it in one of my comic books that I had growing up in the 1990s, and the characters also kinda remind me of Calvin and Hobbes because of how they looked in the game. ;)

You deserve more subs your videos are no nonsense straight to the point and very well made I always love finding hidden gem Chanel’s on the site and ones that touch on the Saturn as a Recent SEGA fan I’m very glad There’s a good bunch off people who like this stuff keep up the good work

Keep on rocking mate, loving all the constant content👌🏻

what do you mean "ear torture"?! The Pirated Of Dark Water has GREAT soundtrack, it has a very consistent tone and feels like a concept album if you listen to it outside of the game! Besides, the standard GEMS presets are very much in place here, with percussive elements enhancing the tropical theme.. it never ceases to amaze me how the same music can have such an opposite effect on different listeners.....

Ahhh, Fantasy Zone. My teen years remember that game well.

Thanks for this video, Sunsoft was such a big part of my childhood. I will never forget the music in the original Sunsoft Batman game. Even as a adult now some 30yrs later, I still find myself humming it.

Sunsoft's fall from grace in the early 90s was downright tragic. They were arguably the best third party devs on the NES not named Capcom or Konami (HAL Laboratories had essentially become a first party dev in all but name by this point), but once they started outsourcing major franchises like Blaster Master and Batman to western developers they basically became another Ocean. To me it always felt like Revenge/Return of the Joker was sort of a watershed point that really demonstrates the difference between what people expected from Sunsoft in the 8-bit era, versus what they were becoming in the 16-bit era. Developed internally by Sunsoft for the NES and one of the standout late-era titles on that platform, with incredible graphics, a pumping soundtrack, and tight, if very difficult gameplay. The Genesis game (as well as the unreleased but finished SNES port), developed by Ringler Studios, is a great case study of how a port of a great game can get screwed if handled by incompetent programmers who don't seem to understand how to make use of a system's potential. It should have been an even better version of an already great game, but instead it's worse than the NES game in every respect. Even the graphics look more attractive on the NES, Batman looks straight up derpy in the 16-bit versions. In the late 80s the Sunsoft brand served as a recommendation; by the mid-90s it had become a warning.

I would really love to see you implement a visual timeline in this style of video, to show just when each game came out. You could probably just draw a simple line across the screen, with art covers placed along the timeline based on the date they were released in relation to each other. That would be a very cool feature indeed and would give us a visual representation of a publishers work for the system. Make it happen man! Your video's will be all the better for it! :) Fantastic work thus far though man, I absolutely love your content!

great video, love me some Genesis! congratulations on over 50,500 subs!

Wait you Americans never got Super Fantasy Zone? Damn, that was one of my favourite games as a kid in the UK. I'm constantly finding out about games that I had no idea were European only or never got released in the US. A lot of them make sense like certain European made games that were remakes or further entries in series that began on the microcomputers like the C64 and Speccy, but you'd think one of the biggest Sega franchises would get a world wide release.

Really glad you chose Sunsoft. Some of these games are so colorful, I can't believe they're on the Geni' ! Games I really want to play now: Kamakozi Squirrel, Panarama Cotton, and Batman. Good stuff!!! BTW, not sure why there was never a Marvel vs. DC fighting game...

That Death of Superman game looks like it was for another character entirely and Superman added at the last minute. Great video.👍

Sega Lord X is one of the most consistent youtubers out. Much respect

Please do a video of Ranking "Every Sega Master System Video Game Boxarts" Worst to Best. I wanted to see if there are some best Boxart designs in the Sega Master System looked like since I did heard allot of people didn't like the Sega Master System Video Game Boxarts.

The boss music in Super Fantasy Zone is utterly amazing. Interesting to learn that they created their own sound tech for this and Batman. I wonder if the homebrew people have access to this?

I have been researching Sunsoft's history for 4,5 years. It's interesting that they released more games for Mega Drive/Genesis than on SNES. They were so prolific on the Famicom/NES. The reason is that most of the Mega Drive games that was made by other studios for Sunsoft was hired by Sunsoft of America. And since the Genesis was more popular than the SNES in the US I'm guessing they wanted games for it first. A game called Superman was announced for the SNES too but wasn't even developed. And the unreleased verison of Revenge of the Joker for SNES was even worse than the Genesis version.

The first Batman I played it through back then. It was one of my favorite games on the Megadrive (Brazil). The first Superman I played it a lot too but could never end It unfortunately. I got a Megadrive III and a rereleased Megadrive 2017. I am a fan of that console. Great video!!!

I like it that you put the game on the screen, easy like this !

Always wanted to try out that Cotton game

19:52 the popcorn's almost ready

Love your videos, Man.

You're absolutely right, SLX. Only towards the end of Genesis' life cycle did the US and Euro software houses caught up to the Japanese as far Genesis/MD development and started putting out great-looking and sounding Genesis games like Earthworm Jim, Vectorman, Comix Zone, Batman & Robin, Mega Turrican and Flink. Shiny/Virgin were definitely an early trend-setter with Alladin... Until then, you literally had to watch out for Western-developed games in order to stay far away if you valued your fun, eyes and ears. Luckily, usually even the box art and screenshots were enough to tell after a bit of practice. What got me the most is Sega of America themselves choosing to publish junk like Fantasia, Greendog, Cyborg Justice and Chakan instead of localizing Monster World IV, Panorama Cotton, Alien Soldier, Super Fantasy Zone, Pulseman, Magical Troll, Gley Lancer and so many others. Gunstar Heroes only made it after a single SoA producer took in up a personal project! Those early to mid-period Western-developed game are still living up to the erroneous stereotypes and doing their damage to Genesis' reputation, literally turning a younger generation of retrogamers away from the platform.

Great feature Sega Lord X! I like your content.

It's crazy how the company that was outsourced to port Return of the Joker from the 8-Bit NES managed to downgrade both the audio and visuals when it became Revenge of the Joker on the 16-Bit Genesis.

Ive been meaning to say this for a while but that intro is dope man

Superman on Sega is actually one of my favorite games of all-time. I got it in 2018 and it took me close to a year to beat it. I'm 37 and can't believe I missed that one as a kid, but am glad I caught up with all these years later. You gotta have a turbo controller to beat it, though. I can't imagine beating Brainiac without it. I think it's the perfect game of length and difficulty. I love the graphics and music. To me, the music is up there with Beavis & Butt-Head on Sega and Maniac Mansion on NES (which is and probably always will remain my all-time favorite game.) Speaking of Maniac Mansion, I really wanna play that Scooby Doo game now. It looks so much like MM. That's definitely the next game I'm gonna get.

once again, an excellent video. thanks for sharing. I didnt know for batman. let me check it out on my mega sg...

I remember the Batman Genesis game not being able to come out in the US at the time in EGM and the like. I think my expectations were a little unrealistic by the time it came out here because it had been built up so much.

In the case of superhero games of that era that weren't just about beating things up and had a decent single player campaign it was essentially Batman on the Megadrive and Spider-Man on the Megadrive neck and neck.

I bought a copy of Batman Revenge of the Joker from Japan. Its complete with artwork and Japanese manual. I did some research and it was made exclusively in Japan for Sega MD fans. It was a limited Print run. Its very cool to have a Japanese community company game

I've always liked the native sound on the Genesis than I did on the SNES. It sounded crisper, bass sounded deeper, and the stereo fuller. I did hate how all the digitized voices and sound effects sounded really tinny on the Genesis. The SNES did it much better.

Scooby-Doo Mystery is the shit. Just wish there had been four or five chapters instead of only two.

Awesomeness video please do more thanks ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Another great video!!! Still have plans to do a "First 10 Dreamcast games" video?

I remember playing aero and giving up lol games were tough back then

19:03 Oh my god. I played that game on my childhood (the SNES version tho) and never noticed that

Once again man, your videos are great, thoughtful and super informative. Anyway, Panorama Cotton is my winner from this video. I always imagined my Mega Drive actually smoking or shorting out because so many things were happening on screen that the system just shouldn't be able to do. I'm truly impressed with that game.

I was just playing many of these games today! I've been sorting out my Mega Drive games on the Retro Arch emulator, and half of these ended up being deleted because they're just not good enough lol. Panorama Cotton looks amazing btw, like it's graphically between a MD and Saturn game.

The Superman game soundtrack is SO GOOD right there on the top of the console best ost

Not even 2 minutes in and I assume the video is already over and you're scrolling your usual end credits.

LOL you can tell Blaster Master 2 was developed by a Euro dev by the water droplets that hurt you. someone needs to tell those hippies that showers dont hurt.

Sunsoft really knew what they were doing when it came to sound. Most of their games have absolutely stellar music, specially for the NES! I have the Journey to Silius title screen music stuck in my head as we speak!

I grew up with Nintendo, so I haven't really gotten into Genesis/Mega Drive until fairly recently. I love it! There are so many quality games! I'm gonna have to hunt down Batman. The music sounds incredible!

Great video, I have a cuestion, How Shit pass this part? ( 10:27 )

That "Zero the Kamikaze" game gets re-skinned and sold as "Crashbandicoot" on Aliexpress 😂 I've played the rom and as far as I can tell - they literally only change the title! Worst. Hack. Ever. 😉

Sunsoft has programmed also some very good SNES games, like the decent port of World Heroes (part 1) and the beat 'em up version of Pirates of Dark Water.

Revenge of the Joker was actually a great game on the NES!

Panorama Cotton is one of the most technically impressive games on the Mega Drive. I really don't know why some developers were kind of lazy and used the awful GEMS sound driver when creating music for the Sega Genesis games, and mislead gamers to think all Genesis games had terrible music and sound effects, but games like Batman, Streets of Rage 1& 2, Sonic 1~3, Sword of Vermillion, Phantasy Star II,III and Ps IV all disproved that... Btw The Sega Genesis *did* have a computer mouse accessory : segaretro.org/images/c/c1/Mega_Mouse_US_Box.jpg

Yeah, Travellers Tales seem to be the only Western developer to truly squeeze everything out of the Mega Drive.

For those that don't know, Panorama Cotton now has an english patch for it and you can play it on the real console if you're using the everdrive carts. 👍

Daze Before Christmas is super fun! Just played it for the first time this week. It's kind of offbeat with weird levels and cool level designs. Definitely worth a look. It's also mad expensive so definitely get that emulator

4:18 The music is the exact same as Sonic 3D Blast Special Stage

Scooby Doo Mystery is a really slept on title.

Never knew there were any games released only in Australia! Also, I'm really proud of myself for having played a Genesis game that Sega Lord X hasn't played before...Bubble and Squeak! Never could get past level 5 or so...

Not only do i love sunsoft from the arcades but also from the genesis. God i love them along with data east and core designs.

Point n click adventure games usually transitioned awkwardly on consoles, with the exceptions of ones with supported control methods for that system, or used traditional movement controls like what Telltale started doing with their adventure games by 2009. Also, Super Fantasy Zone was awesome and I wish Sega would give it as much love for their re-releases like with the original arcade game, cause I think it's just as, if not better than the first game!

I played superman the first one in this video for the genesis it is a great game but you need a game genie cheat to pass the last level to beat it.

Superman is great! One of my fav Sega game soundtracks as a kid, too. The controls may take some time to learn, but overall it's a really well designed game with a solid difficulty balance. I've always wondered why it's talked about so little. Even when the AVGN made his Superman video, it kinda bugged me that he said there just aren't any good Superman games, without ever mentioning the Sunsoft one on the Genesis.

Great review

Sega LordX supports the mega drive and master system big time and that surprises me, I would think he would focus way more in the Saturn and Dreamcast.

Sega Lord X have you ever noticed on the back of the Batman box, the screenshots are of the NES version?

The Yamaha sound chip was very unique. Couldn't hold up to the SNES's on most games I mean there are exceptions streets of rage and Shafow run to name a few. My old ears though still feel the C64 sound chip was the sound chip in the 80 early 90s that set the standard for excellence. Nothing really compared to that beast, It's the one thing that made the limited graphix of the c64 stand out amongst the competition. But oh boy the q6 bot graphix for Genesis Mega drive ruled the roost for a long time in my youth.. Great video Mr Lord X. Lemmings forvthe genisis was probably my favorite nome PC port of that game.

On Blaster Master 2 where you had the "WTF," you may have been able to shoot upwards. In the NES version of Blaster Master I thought you could shoot upwards when you were on a ladder when walking around as Jason.

Sunsoft's Superman game is extra interesting considering Virgin Interactive ported it down to the Master System for Europe. Much of the level design itself is the same, but they changed a heeeaap of stuff (the first level is set at night instead of day etc.)

With Justice League I never understood how the title screen and after match result screen music could be so awesome, while the ingame stage music was so weak. o_O

Superman on the Genesis is still probably the best Superman gave ever made :)

Man, I didn't know about most of these games. I have a Megadrive. I loved Blaster Master on my NES. The Return of the Joker, it's a good game on the NES (looks great too) so it's weird to hear that it fails on the Megadrive.

Great Sunsoft also known back then as Sun Electronics also made an arcade favorite called Kangaroo, too bad that fun loving video game never got a port for the NES and the Sega Master system, well if Sunsoft where to port Kangaroo on the Master then it will be moving ahead before porting Batman on the Sega Genesis 3 years later and it is the only Sunsoft game on the Atari consoles and the only Sunsoft game on the Atari 2600 as other early Sunsoft games. Please check out Kangaroo it is a game about a mother Kangaroo saving her son from monkies similar to Donkey King Jr from Nintendo that DK Jr saves his dad from Mario, but instead Sunsoft's Kangaroo game is the mother saving her child kidnapped by monkies.

Wow that is the definition of a mixed bag!

Sunsoft had always been great for music since the NES years. Just listen to the music for Journey to Silius for the NES and you won’t believe it was coming from that system.

u know I would like to see suikoden coming back, as the game was during their 2 first releases. Also I would like capcom to release willow on the switch..and quackshot as well :D Thanks for the video. PS have u ever played onslaught on the sega genesis?

Great video. Batman Return of Joker on NES is in house developed and much much better than on Genesis. I would love a copy of Panorama Cotton - need to work out what to sell to raise the funds for it!

I don't know what the situation was back in the early 90s, but i believe Sega should go with more serious Seal of Quality politics: if your game is not THAT good, then you, as a dev/publisher have 2 options - continue development until done and then sale your game at 60$ price tag with "Seal of quality" mark or sale without it for 35$ with some other mark "green light" or something, or if your game is horrible, you get no sales at all. This way, horrible games get cut altogether, and not so good ones are cheap. In the end this all could give publishers more freedom than Nintendo had, but Sega's reputation will be much better, and bad games will not tarnish the whole "quality feel" factor.

Good work bro ✌

Hope you make a list of sega jpn only games that we can play or a list of translated games.

What’s the name of the game at 1:04 before the super man clip the tank?

Aero the Acrobat 2 is a fantastic game. The first one is fine but rough in comparison.

Sunsoft will always have a place in my heart.

I love how all these creators love that these games a hard. That’s why I have never really gotten into video games. Life is tuff enough , I want something easy , to erase my stress . And there’s no such thing as easy with these old sega , and Nintendo games.

I loved that Scooby Doo game, beat it twice. It's such a shame that they didn't do more of them, Scooby Doo is perfectly suited to the point and click adventure style

Noted. All of them!

I love their Scooby Doo adventure game... Very similar to LucasArts point and clicks like Day of the Tentacle. It's great!