I have no idea how I got so far into this game as Kid! That little chap in the red suit is Alex Kidd. Following on from the success of his previous game, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, the Enchanted Castle gives fans eleven fantastic new levels to work through. Collect coins, gamble with Gorillas great band name , and kick enemies with your cool yellow boots. Alex even has a pogo stick like our favourite mallard millionaire, Scrooge McDuck. Contact with that annoying car or any enemy results in instant death and a level restart.
What would the man in the mirror tell you to play? What the heck is that all about! In Moonwalker, MJ must groove his way through various levels, puling off magic dance moves to hypnotise enemies. There are levels where asteroids turn Micheal into a robot too. No matter what their name is, this 24th entry in our list of the best Sega Mega Drive games sees gamers fighting through Liberty Island in order to save the city from shrinking.
Play as Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and Leonardo in this classic half-shell-hero adventure. Gunstar Heroes takes the 23rd spot in this list of the best Sega Mega Drive game ever made. Fans of the Metal Slug series will be all over this run and gun classic. Can you name any other titles that feature gymnastic soldiers firing weapons into mecha-warriors?
Treasure really hit gold when they developed this game see what I did there? This was their debut title made everyone sit up and pay attention.
Gunstar Heroes is a funny game too, and the vibrant backgrounds look incredible for a Sega Mega Drive game. Play as a Barbarian aka me , an Amazon, or a Dwarf while beating back enemy after enemy after enemy. There are no sub-plots, no intense storylines, no puzzles; just good old fashioned button-mashing madness and hordes of monsters to deal with. Use gnarly weapons and magical powers to crush your opponents, clearing battlefields of enemies faster than people leave a table once I tuck into an all-you-can eat buffet!
Landstalker might look like an epic hero that could give Keith Courage a run for his money, but the dude on the over is actually and year-old who gets into a bath with a young woman…. Players take an intrepid treasure hunter around a series of levels, fighting fearsome opponents, slaying demons, and saving innocent lives. This is another game that has an early LOZ feel to it. It uses an isometric view like The Story of Thor and is choc-a-bloc with puzzles, dungeon doors that need unlocking, mazes, mysteries, and treasure.
So yeah, the bath thing. Well, the Japanese cartridge features brothels and all sorts of raunchy stuff. The PAL version is all above board, however, and the explorative gameplay is fantastic. Asha is one kick-ass protagonist. With a genie under her control and a pet Pepelogoo to assist her in sticky situations, Asha must battle back monsters in a series of immersive side-scrolling worlds.
This is one addictive game. Why do PAL games always have boring names? Dracula might be dead in this game, but his niece is keeping the family business alive. Welcome to Fantastic Dizzy. The best thing about Outrun , apart from the Ferrari, winding open roads, epic skids and huge vistas, was the music.
Its co-op gameplay let two players pick up gamepads and trawl through gloriously vivid, rich levels as both Mickey and Donald, and unique combat mechanics like magic cloths and flying carpets made for some memorable gameplay, fuelling our passion for all things fantasy from a young, impressionable age.
It was almost as fast-paced, just as colourful, and unless you were a gaming god, impossible to get through in a weekend rental from Blockbuster we never managed it, anyway. This bonkers single-player platformer was hard as nails, had some properly wacky power-ups, and saw you fight off demented bear puppets with your disembodied head.
Hey, we said it was bonkers. Remember when film tie-ins were good? In Alien 3, Ripley crash lands on a penal colony full of men without any guns and a single canine alien in waiting, then tries to save them all.
In the Mega Drive version Ripley appears running full tilt with an arsenal of pulse rifles, flame throwers and grenades and what appears to be an entire prison full of acid blood filled aliens.
Oh, and all the prisoners are stuck to the walls, their chests waiting to burst if you fail to free them within the pretty strict time limit. A pretty lose retelling of the film, but all the better for it. To this day, some people maintain that this is the best video game adaptation of the Dark Knight ever made. Yet another classic turn-based tactics RPG, Shining Force is held in high regard and has seen more re-releases than the Star Wars movies.
You play Max, a young swordsman who has to gather allies to aid his quest to stop the evil Kane. Like all evildoers, Kane is up to no good, and by that we mean he intends to opening the Shining Path and resurrect the Dark Dragon. The graphics began to approach cartoon-like quality, allowing developers to design large casts of recognizable characters. Released in with the awful slogan 'Genesis does what Nintendont', it was consistently neck and neck with its biggest competitor, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Before FIFA debuted on in late , Sensi as its known by acolytes was the ruling king of console football. Even after EA's tour de force, there were many who preferred this more cosmetically-modest offering. Presenting a top-down view reminiscent of computer soccer titles like Imagineers Kick Off line, developer Sensible Software was open about forgoing flashy graphics in favor of 60fps movement and a persistent wide-angle perspective allowing for full-team tactical play.
Some versions included licensed teams, but all allow the player to input their own team and player names. It's something pretty much every sports game does these days, but there's still something special about seeing you and your mates running around the screen, representing Crapston Utd.
There are games you play for their evergreen appeal, and there are the ones you dig back up as time capsules of the era in which they were unleashed upon the world. It's the latter case with Skitchin, a radical blitz of x-treme 's with a color palette so downright tubular you'll need wraparound shades just to get past the title screen.
Srsly tho as we say back here in the 21st century , this one-of-a-kind rollerblade racer can't be faulted for originality, nor for the challenge of racing down American freeways by slingshotting between the bumpers of hostile motorists, flannel shirts all a-billow. With a graded trick system, hidden warp boards, and the bit console's best attempt at a grunge soundtrack, Skitchin is worth your attention, even now. Future Medal of Honor stablemasters Electronic Arts were making forays into the fog of war long before Saving Private Ryan rendered senseless battlefield violence all respectable-like.
Best fact: The game's developers, Shiny Entertainment, literally set out to make the title a parody of the video game industry. Having worked on several licenced games under strict briefs, Earthworm Jim was an opportunity to do something a bit "different". It worked. Ways to play: Steam Mega Drive Mini. Okay, so that makes Gunstar Heroes sound juvenile in the extreme, but it had one of the most complicated weapon systems our young thumbs had encountered.
You battled your way past evil robots with four guns, which could be combined in a variety of ways to create 10 additional boom sticks. Combine this with lightning-fast gameplay and super-slick animations, and you have a game begging for a modern day remake. Come on Sega, make it happen.
Best fact: The Western and Japanese releases have slightly different storylines - the Japanese version of which is really, really complicated. You can read it in full here.
If we told you we'd played an awesome game about a dolphin that was given a quest to travel back in time using a machine built by the Atlanteans in order to restore order to the ocean, you'd probably ask us to move to another seat on the bus. Yet it's this ridiculous story, but the inventive game scenarios that spring from it made Ecco one of the most enjoyable games of the Mega Drive.
And that final boss fight against something out of Alien still haunts us. Best fact: The game's designer Ed Annunziata was so worried about kids being able to rent the game and beat it in a weekend that he purposefully made it harder than it needed to be.
The bastard. Set around the story arc of the hit TV series, Clone Wars saw you battle an alien race called the Phalanx who wanted to control the Earth with clones.
Only Beast, Psylocke, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Wolverine and Cyclops have avoided capture, uniting with their old foe Magneto in a bid to take down the likes of Apocalypse, the Sentinels, Exodus and Deathbird. It was brilliant.
Best fact: The game started with what's known as a "cold open" sequence, where you were assigned a random character and no instructions as to what was going on. It stuck in our minds as a bonkers way to drop you into a game, and we loved it. Gamers were initially confused by the crash-landing of this unlikely alien duo, with poor sales threatening to bury this slice of creative genius.
Part comic satire, part adventure game, the jazz-funk soundtrack and comedy helped the game gain a cult-cool status via word of mouth. There was a brilliant co-op mode that saw ToeJam and Earl hunt for parts of their downed ship amidst gangs of angry nerds, man-eating letter boxes and hot tubs of hot babes. It was really weird, and we loved it. Best fact: Sega didn't think the Mega Drive would be able to support the game's randomly-generated level design, threatening to axe the game altogether.
The tiny development team at Johnson Voorsanger Productions managed to prove them wrong, and created the sleeper-hit title of the console. The bounce of the ball. The roar of the crowd. The spittle of the whistle. When Sensi lined up on Mega Drive consoles in March , it was a footballing triumph: none could match its 60 frames per second animations, the pitch-wide view and customisable teams.
We're going to stick out our necks and say Hard Corps is the pinnacle of the Contra series, such was the frequency of its lavish boss battles, animated in stunning style. The multi-path choice system also blew our nineties minds. Best fact: See that wolf guy in the screen shot? He's called Brad Fang - a cyborg with a gatling gun for an arm. He is the best video game character ever.
Ways to play: Mega Drive Mini. Long before Dead Island or Dead Rising had us running amok with a spade amidst a sea of brain nibblers, this gem of a game had us fleeing for our lives.
As either Zeke and Julie, players were tasked with saving their neighbours from the undead, using weapons that ranged from tomatoes to bazookas. There were 55 levels, with an impressive array of strategies for taking out the zombies. If a Mega Drive game deserved a remake, this would get our vote.
Best fact: In , word swept the darker corners of the web that a film adaptation was in the works, with screenwriter John Darko Insidious linked to the project. It's still yet to reach production.
A platforming hero who never got the same level of fame as Mario or Sonic, Sparkster was a rocketeering opossum it's a marsupial, look it up , who must destroy a powerful ship known as the Pig Star, and its evil emperor intent on destroying the kingdom.
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