Genesis Talk about any Mega Drive game that isn’t one of these 25

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Sonic Eraser is a puzzle game with a god awful music
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Only released for SEGA Game Toshokan service. The game is a decent puzzle but better play it without sound

I got to play it thanks to a convention and a flash cart. It’s really rough and is very unrepresentative of the actual Game Toshokan service experience.

Columns was part of that service, if you really wanted a better puzzle game, but so was both Flicky and Fatal Labyrinth. All titles I consider to be solid B tiers in the game library of the Mega Drive that you could easily play over this hot mess. Let’s be honest: if it wasn’t called “Sonic” and had its horrific music… would anybody care?

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I didn't grow up with the system, but Fatal Labyrinth is my favorite Mega Drive game. It was probably the first (or definitely among the first) "dungeon crawler" type game I played, and made me fall in love with that particular kind of gameplay.
I thought it was super immersive and exciting and tense despire being fairly simple.

LMAO I literally just mentioned it in my post above!
Literally a downloadable game from the early 90’s, and it’s this super cool dungeon crawler with infinite replayability. Has a few roguelike elements too, since the dungeons are randomized. Makes for a fun game! It reminds me of Double Dungeons on the PC Engine, being a simple RPG adjacent game that’s just really neat and simple.

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Sorry, I guess you were looking for more intimate, personal stories, so I'll give proper input. Shining Force 2 was my first SRPG, and even though I didn't have the slightest notion of how to play I loved the beautiful graphics, memorable soundtrack and everything else. I didn't understand the dialogues back in the day, but even so I managed to limp my way up to Zalbard, but I could go no further as a kid.

I have a soft spot for the Shining series up to this day, and I'm always on the look out for hacks that switch things up or fix bugs. The Shining Force 2 disassembly allows for incredible things, and I wouldn't be surprised if whole new games spawned from it.

It’s okay to just post whatever, as long as it’s a contribution, but I love seeing stories like this most of all. I’ve not been smitten by the “Force” games, but I want to give “Shining in the Darkness” and “Shining the Holy Ark” a whirl! The latter seems like it has the potential to be a Saturn highlight to me.

I love the artstyle of all the Shining games though. Just so bright and poppy, in contrast to the usually muted colors of the Mega Drive library. You see so many sludgy colors on the console that you forget that it CAN do bright and cartoony visuals if it really wants to!

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Sorry, I guess you were looking for more intimate, personal stories, so I'll give proper input. Shining Force 2 was my first SRPG, and even though I didn't have the slightest notion of how to play I loved the beautiful graphics, memorable soundtrack and everything else. I didn't understand the dialogues back in the day, but even so I managed to limp my way up to Zalbard, but I could go no further as a kid.

I have a soft spot for the Shining series up to this day, and I'm always on the look out for hacks that switch things up or fix bugs. The Shining Force 2 disassembly allows for incredible things, and I wouldn't be surprised if whole new games spawned from it.

It’s okay to just post whatever, as long as it’s a contribution, but I love seeing stories like this most of all. I’ve not been smitten by the “Force” games, but I want to give “Shining in the Darkness” and “Shining the Holy Ark” a whirl! The latter seems like it has the potential to be a Saturn highlight to me.

I love the artstyle of all the Shining games though. Just so bright and poppy, in contrast to the usually muted colors of the Mega Drive library. You see so many sludgy colors on the console that you forget that it CAN do bright and cartoony visuals if it really wants to!

 

[Another Iori]

We need a N64 one

 

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[Evaccaneer Doom]

All your base are belong to us

 

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All your base are belong to us

Me when I have Zero Wings but all the base:

 

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This modern homebrew port should be in everybody's rotation with the Genesis. It holds up extremely well.

This game is simple, but gets straight to the point and is easy to pick up and play.

This one is a gem left in Japan, that stands up to stuff on SNES like Illusion of Gaia, Soul Blazer, Brain Lord

 

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Ranger X is so good dude.

Imagine a game where you are a giant mech with a battle platform or spaceship that you can control and merge with at any time. You are torrenting fire on an onslaught of various robotic antagonists in epic battlefields. The game itself has beautiful use of FM Synth for the music, fantastically layered worlds, and stages with true depth to their environments. On top of it all… it’s actually affordable in today’s market! And was SURPRISINGLY released in all regions! A great game, no doubt.