Top 25 Graphically Superior Sega Genesis

Top 25 Graphically Superior Sega Genesis - Explored

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Welcome to the ultimate retro gaming odyssey, where we rewind time and dig deeper into the pixelated universe of the Sega Genesis. In this special episode, we will be exploring the Top 25 Graphically Superior Sega Genesis Games…but we are not just revisiting games; we're reliving legends! From the enchanting realms of 'Disney's Aladdin' to the intense battles of 'Contra: Hard Corps,' each game is a unique gem, a piece of history if we must add. We will soar with Sonic, brawl in 'Streets of Rage,' and go on interstellar adventures with 'Ristar.' Whether you're a die-hard fan or a curious newcomer, prepare to be fascinated by tales of heroism, adventure, and the pure joy of gaming. So, grab your controllers, and join us on this pixel-powered journey through the best that the Sega Genesis has to offer!
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@RiVer-Parish 5 ай бұрын

I miss the good days of play Shinobi 3 on sega on a Saturday morning 😢.

@CarecaRetrogamer 5 ай бұрын

Download an emulator on ur cell phone Download some roms Play whenever u have some extra time (going to work, when in the bathroom... or on a Saturday morning!)

@Zardoc7 5 ай бұрын

Also there's a new remake in the making. Hope the music is still as good as shinobi 3

@CarecaRetrogamer 5 ай бұрын

@@Zardoc7 Yeah, but the Emulated one would be like 99% of the original experience... still, good to know that Shinobi 3 is gonna be remade!

@sloppynyuszi 5 ай бұрын

@@CarecaRetrogamerexactly, most these roms people pine for exist in rerelease packages, if visiting sites is scary for you. People just miss being 12 and not needing a job. All the movies, games and music of the 90s are more easily available than ever. Shame our responsibilities have changed.

@alexbork4250 4 ай бұрын

@@CarecaRetrogamer you can't download youth

@evgenymoskalev3860 4 ай бұрын

Good video, thanks for the upload. I would personally add some other titles to your list: Pirates of Dark Water, Shinobi series, Golden Axe series especially third installment, Robocop vs Terminator, MK series, Doomtroopers and much more. Have a good one!

@redsoxfox 5 ай бұрын

X-Men 2 most underrated sega game every time

@malcolmar 5 ай бұрын

Very well done! Looking at this video just reminds me how special the Sega Genesis was. These games were and are beautiful, well crafted masterpieces that offered pure fun way before the practice of shipping incomplete games and microtransactions tried to kill the hobby. I definitely have to add Rocket Knight Adventure and Earthwork Jim 1, 2 & Specials Edition to the list as well as modern classics like Pier Solar, Xeno Crisis and the tour de force that is Paprium.

@Longlostpuss 4 ай бұрын

Castle of Illusion was my Genesis bundle pack in 1990 and it was absolutely mind blowing, there was no other platformer visually on its level at the time, nor sound wise. Only Sonic went on to beat its visuals a year later and even that game borrowed elements from Castle of Illusion. A true masterpiece I will forever hold dear.

@mayamanign 4 ай бұрын

Sega Genesis is such a powerhouse! I love my library of this great system.

@TampaTec Ай бұрын

Flash back was amazing. To this day that game still sells on other platforms.

@mateusroschemant796 5 ай бұрын

Pixel art is really a form of art. Those games look nice even today. Flink surprised me with the most beautiful pixel art of the list, reminding me to Adventures of Lomax for PS1.

@vincenzomottola7778 5 ай бұрын

Well it's the same artist. Dunno how they were they able to cram so much detail in a Genesis game with little to no compromises in quality. The production value is almost unmatched

@mateusroschemant796 5 ай бұрын

I thought the cd version of Flink would be much better, but for me it's basically the same. Maybe it contains some animated cutscenes.@@vincenzomottola7778

@teddyaldridge7871 5 ай бұрын

Zero tolerance pushed that megadrive. It like had hundreds of levels.

@marchatesyou1 5 ай бұрын

My favorite video game of all time! still remember picking it up in a kb toys clearance bin as a kid..deciding between it and Charles barkley shut up and jam...def made the right choice!

@videogameobsession 5 ай бұрын

Maybe I missed these, but if not, I really think they belong in the Top 25. Lost World: Jurassic Park (Honestly does some of the most impressive graphical effects on the Genesis/MD), Strider.. (This blew me away, and I owned a Neo•Geo AES before Strider hit my Genssis!. :) ), Mickey Mania (Very nice graphics. It didn't play as tightly as Castle of Illusion, but the graphics were more impressive IMO. The rotating tower effect, excellent, as was the bonus stages, where Mickey is running towards the screen with a cool rolling 3D effect, and finally, Batman & Robin.. Probably the best looking Genesis game. Using all of tricks that the Genesis could muster!

@nathleflutiste 2 ай бұрын

The Adventures of Batman & Robin, a delight to the eyes ! (and a very addictive game by the way, one of my favourites !) I would also like to add X-Men 2 and Soleil (Crusader of Centy in the USA), and of course Shinobi 3. Oh, and I don't understand how Rocketknight adventure isn't in the list. I mean, this game is fire !

@jeremija_crta 22 күн бұрын

Also Light Crusader

@BURRITO44 5 ай бұрын

Excellent video. You are also a terrific narrator.

@dwyz4728 5 ай бұрын

lol its ai

@salarfattahi92104 5 ай бұрын

I would add shinobi 3 and tiny toon adventure busters treasure hiden, All Sega genesis games is so amazing 🥰i miss this beautiful day's with sega and Nintendo NES 🥺❤️

@dc110770 4 ай бұрын

First time I saw Sonic. I was out shopping and there it was on a TV in Tandy or something similar. Blown away! Ps - mention for Earthworm Jim.

@danielp9618 3 ай бұрын

Vectorman 2 and Gunstar Heroes were my all-time favorites. I still play them on my Sega Genesis.

@-Darko- Ай бұрын

They had the sega genesis mega drive on sale for 5 bucks. Had to scoop this up. It's great going back and playing these great games

@EnigmaHood 5 ай бұрын

I would put Streets of Rage 3 on here, it was a huge improvement in graphics over the previous two games, but the Japanese version Bare Knuckle 3 is the better version, so maybe that should be on here instead. I would also add Sparkster, Shinobi 3, Mickey Mania, and Musha.

@gunsharck 4 ай бұрын

Streets never had decent visuals, for me its true strength was its music. 2 has the best boss music of all time

@EnigmaHood 4 ай бұрын

@@gunsharck It absolutely did. SOR2 was fantastic visually, SOR3 even more so.

@krono5el 5 ай бұрын

never forget the first time i booted up Ranger X on genesis, such mind blowing experience especially if you were already into everything it was referencing :D

@gc3k 5 ай бұрын

Sheena from Contra HC has one heck of a surname

@sylvainwillaume636 5 ай бұрын

Excellent top, Even if I think that Rocket Knight Adventures is missing.

@user-lk6vp2uj8e 3 ай бұрын

Gods, Chaos Engine, Xenon 2, Jim Power...

@butterbwoi1344 5 ай бұрын

Sonic Spinball is graphically underrated imo.

@damin9913 2 ай бұрын

There are so many games that has incredible graphics it's hard too pick

@DinhoCPF01 4 ай бұрын

Strider is number 1 for me. Make a parte 2

@akokkinakes 4 ай бұрын

Great list! I would personally choose Maui Mallard or Gargoyles to Castle of Illusion but all are top games nonetheless

@elvismorales85 5 ай бұрын

You missing Atomic Runner and Crusaders of Centy is disturbing! 😂 Those 2 games are not only top 20 but top 5 in graphics! Guess you haven't play them yet. For me, I honestly believe, Atomic Runner is the most impresive looking game. The colorign doesn't seem to have any limitations. In rounded columns you can see how the colors shades down seameslly. Also Crusaders of Centy is a very beautiful game to look at. TMNT and Rocket Knight are also marvels.

@nicksanfilippo9513 5 ай бұрын

you have toejam & earl 1 and 2 listed, but only talk and show off TJ&E1, TJ&E2 was a side-scroller that while still had the same theme , was very different looking at thte same time

@sheldoncooper8199 4 ай бұрын

Beyond Oasis was an AMAZING Game pretty much Zelda but with very Fun Combat

@sheldoncooper8199 4 ай бұрын

Gunstar Heroes has a Huge chunk of my Childhood and ToeJam and Earl 2. and Sunset Riders

@TheSaturatio 5 ай бұрын

I would take a look at Streets of Rage 2, it is really impresive, and the improvement in graphics department from the first instalment is huge. Also second part of ToeJam is really impresive. Other impresive games are Earthworm Jim series. Really nice. Kawasaki superbikes, has some amazing poligonal graphics without extra chips, all with a smooth framerate. Another fantastic looking game from Disney is World of Illusion, incredible and also playable with a friend. Then in recent times, some amazing games have been released for Megadrive/Genesis, and are really impresive: Paprium, a beat em up that is difficult to beleave it is running on a megadrive, or Xenocrisis a Smashtv style game with amazing graphics, sound and playability. Also Demons of Asterborg, an amazing game (120 Mbits, for reference, biggest game during the comercial live was Super Street Fighter 2 with 40Mbit).

@chrisw8069 4 ай бұрын

Best console of all time.

@pastichiorocker 3 ай бұрын

Hmm, some questionable selections. I mean: Toejam & Earl 2, Mickey Mania, Streets of Rage 2, Cool Spot, Earthworm Jim, Ecco the Dolphin, The Story of Thor, Landstalker and Vectorman definitely deserved a mention, especially if we are talking about graphics.

@nathleflutiste 2 ай бұрын

I think for series like Sonic, Streets of Rage, Toejam & Earl, Thunderforce it would have been better to pack them like he did for Vectorman (that is present in the video). Even more since the graphism kept getting better with new release… Legend of Thor is an alternate name of Beyond Oasis btw.

@starline474 5 ай бұрын

Rocket knight adventures

@czhusky 4 ай бұрын

All Shinobi Games were graphically impressive, gayares, after burner and a F-22 simulator on genesis was impressive as well.

@lucaandreax 5 ай бұрын

Adventures of Batman & Robin also deserve

@maddumass 4 ай бұрын

By the time most of these games came out the Genesis had established with me it's limitations and I had moved on only giving a few unimpressed glances at some of these games.

@nicklong27 4 ай бұрын

I always found it hilarous how the characters from Streets of Rage are former cops... yet they are like 21-23 years old. I guess they must have spent a whole year in the force lol Not hating tho, loved the game since I was 12 years old in 1992.

@claudiosacchi3720 5 ай бұрын

The list should be longer including also new releases like xenocrisis. And you missed probably the best looking games of all, adventures of batman and robin

@thinkhector 5 ай бұрын

Well Xenocrisis is not an official release. However the Sega Genesis Mini DOES have some official releases. He could have included "Space Harrier II" remastered or the new "Darius" arcade port. All official releases now.

@NANA-kd7yg 5 ай бұрын

Good job. Would have been nice if you would have named each game, because I have no idea about loads of these.

@therealpalo001 4 ай бұрын

If you pause the video it says the name of the game on bottom.:)

@pattrell5257 3 ай бұрын

Sega's issue was not graphics or processing power, but audio! SG beat SNES on processing power. Don't know who had the better graphics(probably depends on the game), but the SNES beat SG in audio by far in most games. It showed up in the character audio(beat em ups and fighting games, most notably). Beat em ups are one of my favorite types of game and--in these 2 game types--the problem happens with every attack and action! Like an older system did the audio! Even if I thought SOR was a better series than FF, I'd still rather play FF if I felt that way(because I notice the differences in the audio in the 2 games)...The 2 consoles were close in a head-to-head, but audio is a major deal; if you don't believe me, then you have never audibly compared a fighting game/beat em up on the 2 systems and you're to young to know the differences in a mono recording and a stereo/hi-fi stereo recording...

@ciuffoarancione8929 4 ай бұрын

Mega turrican, sub terrania, zero tolerance, biohazard, eternal champions, sor2 or 3,Aladdin, mickey mania, soleil, Shinobi 3, batman&robin, mazin saga..

@kabiebebe2332 5 ай бұрын

Dick Tracy, spider man, and Gynoug was ahead of its time...

@thebossguide4859 3 ай бұрын

Where Tazmania, Mickey mania and Batman & Robin at?

@zparklebugz424 5 ай бұрын

Not gonna mention Alien Storm, eh?🤔🤦🏼‍♀️

@opaljk4835 5 ай бұрын

Did alien storm look particularly good? To me it’s a pretty bland looking 1st wave mega drive cart

@zparklebugz424 5 ай бұрын

@@opaljk4835 for a 16bit game that came out in 1990, it actually looked VERY good!🤷🏼‍♀️

@franikator2 5 ай бұрын

Where are Rocket knight Adventures??? 😀😀😀

@Felix-mp2vj 4 ай бұрын

You forgot Eswat and Shinobi III

@Vishnu_Karthik 5 ай бұрын

The only game that comes close to emulating the comic book aesthetics is Ultimate Spider-Man. IDK why but for some Godforsaken reason modern comic book games are obsessing with being "REALISTIC" instead of focusing on look more like a Comic Book!

@Cloud971 4 ай бұрын

There's something i would like to know, why didn't count Sonic 3 & Knuckles as one game? I mean the stages of Sonic 3 are as good as Sonic & Knuckles themselves.... I would also mention World Of Illusion, Shinobi 3, Earthworm Jim, Streets Of Rage 2 & 3 and The Lion King.

@videogameobsession 5 ай бұрын

The Adventures of Batman & Robin, by Clockwork Tortoise, should absolutely be #1 in any Top xx list. Just saying'. ;)

@satyagalih26 4 ай бұрын

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@stevesteve0521 5 ай бұрын

Shinobi 3 was the game the did it for me the most.

@DarkwyndPT 5 ай бұрын

The Aladdin game was fantastically ported to DOS with an even better soundtrack.

@ButcherGrindslam 5 ай бұрын

Are you drunk? DOS port is a buggy mess with broken controls, severely reduced field of view. Soundtrack is tasteless overproduced garbage.

@DarkwyndPT 5 ай бұрын

@@ButcherGrindslam not as I recall it but OK

@d18p 5 ай бұрын

My Aunt has this Sega game console and its rpg and she loves it more than her boyfriend.

@lordadk31 5 ай бұрын

Phantasy star 4 and world of illusion or quackshot are missing.

@user-oi1iq6tt4j 4 ай бұрын

Aladdin, lion king and xmen game, mortal kombat I w blood

@more7642 5 ай бұрын

No Zero Tolerance and The Lost World?

@KnowToChill 5 ай бұрын

I just disagree with Streets of Rage..the Standards for Beat em Ups Grafiks set Capcom and SNK ..and Turtles in Time 😅

@dustanglx50 5 ай бұрын

Quick Poll: Which is the better name? A- Mega Drive B- Genesis

@Ji99i3 5 ай бұрын

Genesis

@tabsntoot 5 ай бұрын

Megadrive. Genesis is a band and a bible book

@larrym5120 5 ай бұрын

It took me a long time to realize they were the same system.

@james__page 4 ай бұрын

ChatGPT scripted this?

@luke_y_444 Ай бұрын

Tojam and Dur 🤔

@Steph_7d7 5 ай бұрын

I would add the jurassic park games to this list especially rampage edition and the lost world

@basrover6544 3 ай бұрын

It would be a nicer video if we could hear the sound also instead of you constantly talking

@josephzamer5802 5 ай бұрын

without Light Crusader and Crusader of Centy this list looks..........

@wolf4640 5 ай бұрын

Look what the developers did at those times. Today is pure laziness 😢

@Nightmare-xx4gv 5 ай бұрын

I don't know what he did to get the footages for all these games but the footages in his video look terrible. He didn't do a good job at all getting good high quality footage for this games to put in his video. Although you don't see it completely here because the images in this video are not of such good quality, You have to appreciate the beauty of all these games and how beautiful they were, even in a less capable genesis which had less colors on screen than the SNES did.

@charlieg6913 4 ай бұрын

Looks fine to me.

@johnsonlong8491 5 ай бұрын

Is sega genesis from usa or japan?

@kiv8103 4 ай бұрын

МК 3

@gunsharck 4 ай бұрын

You cannot say streets has decent graphics cause they’re just not. Streets power is its playability and fantastic soundtrack. Final fight is visually superior

@colinfoster7149 5 ай бұрын

*Megadrive in your region

@vitalytravin631 4 ай бұрын

Umk3 has the best graphics

@alhazin21 5 ай бұрын

🥺🥺

@DenverStarkey 4 ай бұрын

sega's graphics back then could look damn impressive .. but god was the sound aweful on that system compared to the SNES.

@ciuffoarancione8929 4 ай бұрын

On almost games you re right but listen mega turrican ost for Genesis, was great...or streets of rage 2, castlevania bloodlines ...

@segat-800 4 ай бұрын

On US games yes due to GEMS sound drive but Japanese games had much better music.

@DenverStarkey 4 ай бұрын

@@segat-800 well im in the US .. in the early 90's it was near impossible to get a japanese version of a console in the US. they didn't have a world wide internet with ebay back then. so yeah to me the sega gen had inferior sound next to the SNES which had a bad ass sony made sound chip.

@segat-800 4 ай бұрын

@DenverStarkey I'm talking about the games. Japanese Mega Drive games had much better music than their US Genesis counterparts. For example Streets of Rage and Sonic the Hedgehog are Japanese games with great soundtracks and sound effects. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mreWarWVldzFlaM.htmlsi=twnebvxMVPpbXIyF

@nathleflutiste 2 ай бұрын

I don't agree. When the soundtrack is properly made it just sound amazing ! Best example of that are Sonic, Street of Rage, Shinobi, Adventure of Batman and Robin, Soleil (Crusader of Centy). Snes was designed for instrumental music, and for this specific kind of music, yes it was better but for electronic sounds, the Megadrive was clearly better and able to do things the Snes could definitely not.

@franco7363 5 ай бұрын

Why ppl say Contra “Hard CoRE” when it actually reads “Hard CorPS” with a P and an S at the end NOT R and E... 🤦🏻‍♂️ Great list of classic games tho! Cheers!

@GodzillasaurusJr 5 ай бұрын

That’s you pronounce corps, in this case as in others. Marine corps, for example.

@dc110770 4 ай бұрын

Didn’t know it existed until a few years ago. Played Contra 3 on the snes, epic game. Hard Corps is almost the same and again, a great game.

@SuperMQuigley 5 ай бұрын

I have sega classics for my ps4 but the graphics for the games are nothing like how the looked on Sega mega drive why is this ??? I also have an arcade box and also the graphics are rubbish compared to how they originally where is this because of hdmi cables ???

@zajicapp 5 ай бұрын

Yes, old games look like ass on modern TV's. you can play them on CRT tv's or buy expensive upscallers for your current tv

@videogameobsession 5 ай бұрын

Depends on your idea of expensive, but for $229, you can get some amazing results, and console hardware accuracy, with the Analogue Pocket, which plays many game systems, and with the 2.0 firmware update you get some really great Wega CRT aperture Grille, and pretty believable scanline effects. Going through a $79 Analogue Dock with those effects can yield the next best thing to a $750 RetroTINK4K. At least IMO.