To be honest, I didn't expect such enthusiasm from the community for the “
Talk about any Super Famicom game that isn't one of these 25” thread, but evidently the
seeds planted by
Spike's generosity are starting to bloom.
Anyway, I had already planned to open a similar thread for
Sega's 16-bit console as well, but your excitement beat me to it and by a wide margin (the SF thread isn't even 12 hours old at the time of writing!).
In any case, the title and style I had in mind were almost identical to the SF version, in fact it was going to be called "
Talk about any Sega Mega Drive game that isn't one of these 25", however, on this occasion I was undecided whether to include an exclusion list, because the Sega generation following the SMD/SG was a continuous chain of coitus interruptus and indeed it is fragmented compared to the more united "
Nintendo family" and perhaps today it wouldn't have hurt to discuss which original titles drove more than one generation to obsess over the blue hedgehog, so much so that it even drove Michael Jackson to pick up the phone for Sega, but not for his brother Jermaine, who then angrily retorted with his "
word to the badd!".
The image I had selected to kick things off was the following one, since the Christmas season has just passed (is the one you chose a photo of your own personal Mega Drive instead?).
After that as with the original thread, I would have specified that “
I used the name 'Sega Mega Drive' as a personal preference, but in reality all titles from any continent are fine”.
And subsequently, I would have moved immediately to the short list of rules to follow “
The rules to follow are just these 3.
01) Do not use text only, but always share images. Take your pick among covers, screenshots, ads or all 3. If you want to go further by attaching video or sound clips as well, even better for everyone.
02) Choose to talk about what really engaged you and in the way you prefer, rather than what the ears of the majority of the surviving audience today would like to hear.
03) Never talk about these 25 titles unless it is to make a comparison/citation".
And then since there’s no guarantee that those reading now would have already read the SF one as well, I would have closed with a conclusion very similar to the original “
The Sega Mega Drive will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2 years and this platform saw the publication of nearly 900 games, but for how much longer do we have to hear about the continuous idealization of only these 25?
