Top Genesis Games
Sega Genesis (Mega Drive), including Sega CD titles. After my time with the NES, I purchased a Sega Genesis. While the NES was great, the Genesis, along with the excellent SNES, were truly the best years in gaming for me.
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1. Streets of Rage
Fantastic music, varied level design, and gameplay superior to that of Final Fight. I didn't like the whole calling for backup thing, but you can easily choose to not use that. I know I'm odd, but I actually like this more than Streets of Rage 2; primarily due to the music in this one.
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2. Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium
One of my favorite RPGs. Love the "cutscenes", and the combat is actually quite nice with spell combos, and so forth. Something I really liked about the Phantasy Star series was how it continued in the same world, and you got to see various changes in their world(s), as time went on, even hearing about the heroes you played as in the older titles.
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3. Lunar: The Silver Star
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4. Lunar: Eternal Blue
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5. The Revenge of Shinobi
Superb music, great action and some amazing level design for the time. Probably my favorite ninja game on any system. This was the first game that I purchased for the Sega Genesis and it remains a top pick.
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6. Gunstar Heroes
One of those games that made SNES players envy their Genesis friends. (Fortunately, I had both.) I remember coming home from the store, opening the box and finding a Fruit Rollup inside. What a great surprise! An excellent game, with great variety in level design, fantastic graphics, sound, and play control. It even has a board game level.
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7. Strider
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8. Streets of Rage 2
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9. Shinobi III : Return of the Ninja Master
The combat is far improved over that of "Revenge of Shinobi", the gameplay/levels are more varied, and the music is pretty good. (Though not Yuzo Koshiro standards). For some reason, I still like "Revenge of Shinobi" more.
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10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The HyperStone Heist
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11. Popful Mail
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12. Final Fight CD
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13. Beyond Oasis
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14. Zombies Ate My Neighbors
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15. Ranger X
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16. Castlevania: Bloodlines
A tad too difficult for my tastes, but not a bad game at all.
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17. The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Kingpin
Sega CD
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18. QuackShot starring Donald Duck
Too easy, but good.
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19. Mercs
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20. Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf
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21. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
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22. RoboCop Versus the Terminator
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23. Rocket Knight Adventures
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24. Alisia Dragoon
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25. X-Men 2: Clone Wars
An excellent X-Men title. The way the game began was fairly unique, but I would rather they placed that level after the title screen.
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26. Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
Possibly not canon story-wise, but it wasn't nearly as bad as people made it out to be. The multi-generational idea was quite neat and the music was excellent.
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27. Phantasy Star II
I found the combat too frequent and repetitive for my liking, but it's a fine game other than that. The grinding is really annoying, so even though it's a better game, I'm putting it below Phantasy Star III! CRAZY TALK!!
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28. Rolling Thunder 2
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29. Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons
I want to rate this higher, but I've not yet played enough to fully gauge where I should place it.
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30. Golden Axe III
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