It's 2024, and I'm Still Playing These SEGA GENESIS Games!

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  • Опубликовано: 10 окт 2024
  • Friends, squares, gamers - I love the Sega Genesis. It is my favorite console to collect for, and spearheaded a love of the company of Sega ever since it first released. Today, I want to take a look at ten games on the Genesis I'm still playing in 2024.
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Комментарии • 59

  • @rubenmejia4881
    @rubenmejia4881 2 месяца назад +3

    My man! I'm glad to see love for the genesis! I bought some broken ones off eBay to bring them back to life, and I am rediscovering my childhood love. As a kid all I knew was sonic and now I'm blown away by so many interesting titles the console got.

  • @outdoorsjoe
    @outdoorsjoe 2 месяца назад +2

    The intro skit was hilarious. 😆 The Genesis has a lot of great games. I had one when I was younger and have great memories of Sonic and Road Rash.

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад +1

      I enjoyed it. Was nice to pamper myself. :D

  • @khreativa
    @khreativa 2 месяца назад +1

    Renegade Ops (Sega) is kind of a spiritual successor to the Strike series. Streets of Rage 2 is the system seller for me.

  • @1008md
    @1008md 14 дней назад

    Flicky, not going to lie I have never played it on OG hardware or even heard of it until I got my switch. But that game is legitimately so fun and so hard, so simple.

  • @willywampa84
    @willywampa84 2 месяца назад

    What a great video, I loved the intro! I enjoy the Tazmania games on the Genesis. Thanks for sharing

  • @jeremygreen2883
    @jeremygreen2883 2 месяца назад

    I officially made it the summer of the GameCube and Wii for me. I've been going back and playing games that I never beat during my days in college. Windwaker and Twilight Princess, Mario Sunshine and Mario Galaxy 2, a little Pikmin... Also, honorable mention Okami. It's from the PS2, but it came out around the same time.

  • @brianzfandom2151
    @brianzfandom2151 2 месяца назад +1

    Great video! I think couch Jay should visit the store in a few months. 😂

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад +1

      @@brianzfandom2151 I'll speak to him and see if he can pencil you in.😜

  • @RubyJones-zj4fu
    @RubyJones-zj4fu 2 месяца назад +1

    No one ever talks about DUNE . It's a RTS on Genesis. And a Really good one. And the Strike series. Great games for the more serious side of Sega.😊😊

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад

      I legitimately didn't even KNOW there was a Dune game. Tracking it down!

  • @Jenisonc
    @Jenisonc 2 месяца назад

    That intro got me 😂. Well played.

  • @CappsOffGamingwithTeCniSH
    @CappsOffGamingwithTeCniSH 2 месяца назад +1

    Too funny! I love the beginning of the video! Great selection, too, I love me some Road Rash 2! Clone Wars was the better of the two game on the Genesis, but that's just me, awesome video friend!

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад +1

      Thank you, my friend! Hope you're enjoying a well earned summer break. :)

  • @thgonz316
    @thgonz316 2 месяца назад

    Nice intro lol.
    My first game/love on Genesis was Boogerman. Ahh the good times

  • @coopleofnerds
    @coopleofnerds 2 месяца назад

    Fantastic list! VGM just sent me Desert Strike. I am excited to try it out. I had x-men 2 growing up so i cut my teeth of it properly.

  • @retrowildlands
    @retrowildlands 2 месяца назад

    Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf was one of the few Genesis games I got to play as a kid and it was so addicting. I agree, how this series didn't continue is beyond me.

  • @GenerationPixel
    @GenerationPixel 2 месяца назад +1

    First, stop calling the Mega Drive Genesis 😂
    Sonic forced my hand into jumping into the console space on '91, Desert Strike kept me on it ❤
    Ah, Streets of Rage, arguably one of the most talked about games in the history of video games 😉
    Great vid as always 👌

  • @Canadian_Gamer
    @Canadian_Gamer 2 месяца назад

    Those skits were hilarious, great job!
    The Adventures of Batman & Robin… I have it too, it’s a technical showpiece.
    Jay, can I recommend one for you?McDonald’s Treasureland Adventure by Treaaure. its like the sweetest piece of candy you’ve ever tasted - laced in acid. 😂

  • @RetroRivals
    @RetroRivals Месяц назад

    Loved the intro and maybe next year will be the summer of Super Nintendo 🤷🏼‍♀️
    Sega Genesis is a fantastic console though, and while I didn't have one growing up, my brother did and so did Scott. Can definitely appreciate the love for Sonic Streets of Rage, Yes, the console just is a plethora of beat em ups. I say you're totally fine to include the retrobit release.
    I need to look up some easy Sega Genesis games to slowly break myself back into the system and being better at retro games LOL. Bloodlines is high up on my list to complete but my gosh the frustration.

  • @stevecraigretrogames
    @stevecraigretrogames 2 месяца назад

    Another great video brother! Love the comedy bit my friend! Some fantastic titles for sure. I really need to pick up Streets of Rage 1 and 2 myself.

  • @ZoeHowardUNLV
    @ZoeHowardUNLV 2 месяца назад

    The Pirates of Dark Waters deserved more. It was such an original idea.

  • @davidforrest4798
    @davidforrest4798 2 месяца назад

    I forgot all about the Strike games! I loved those as a kid

  • @jessragan6714
    @jessragan6714 2 месяца назад +1

    As always, your enthusiasm is refreshing. I can't say I was as fond of the Genesis Mega Man game as you are (have you tried Mega Man: The Sequel Wars? So, soooo much better), but Streets of Rage 2 is always a delight. Also, some of these games appeared on the Genesis Mini, a console I strongly recommend to everyone.

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад

      @@jessragan6714 I love Wily Wars, but I'm also firmly it's target audience, so I bare no ill will towards anyone that isn't as jazzed about it as me. 😜 I've not played the Sequel Wars - I didn't even know it existed - but it sounds like my weekend plans are now sorted.
      Cannot agree more on the Genesis Mini as a must own. It, as much as anything, is responsible for this channel even existing in it's current state - my coverage of the original Mini was my first video to ever hit, and I realized that maybe there was something to talking about retro games. 😁

  • @retrobeliever
    @retrobeliever 2 месяца назад +1

    Love seeing your new set up!!! So glad you have the new space! Love the beginning lol, definitely some great picks in here….those x-men games are fantastic! Have you played the newer Toejam and Earl on the Xbox? It’s pretty great! Streets of Rage was the first console game my daughter beat with me. Love this vid my friend! ❤️🎮

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад +1

      I love the new ToeJam and Earl!! I was a day one Kickstarter backer. 😁

    • @retrobeliever
      @retrobeliever 2 месяца назад +1

      @@SquarePegs oh rad! Of course you were lol!

  • @LewWagerly-ik2qt
    @LewWagerly-ik2qt 2 месяца назад

    Sega is what started it all for me. Probably why I buy so many Genesis games for 2nd chance

  • @tgunn80526
    @tgunn80526 2 месяца назад

    I loved Desert Strike! My go to game on the Genesis is Maximum Carnage...this game was awesome as a Spidey fan but never gets any love

  • @TheRadBash
    @TheRadBash 2 месяца назад

    As someone who is trying to beef up his Genesis collection this helped me find a few I don't have!

  • @moandaindesigns
    @moandaindesigns 2 месяца назад +1

    Loving the summer of Sega. So when do we get to the Sega CD games?

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад

      Honestly, as soon as I find any. 😔 I've stuck out completely on 32x and CD this year. Genesis, Master System, Dreamcast, Saturn - heck, even the Mark III is going to be represented!

  • @LameDadRetroGamer
    @LameDadRetroGamer Месяц назад

    I've always agreed that they should port all the strike games onto one game. It would sell like hot cakes

  • @NerdLife84
    @NerdLife84 2 месяца назад

    I never had a genesis as a kid but I had friends and family that did and I remember playing sonic the hedgehog 2 the most along with streets of rage. Man those were some good times and great games

  • @popculturehero
    @popculturehero 2 месяца назад

    EA did continue the strike games a bit for the Playstation with Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike. Few people talk about Urban strike on genesis though. Fantastic series that holds up.
    Really this list is good shows the must play games for genesis that have held up over time.
    For me Herzog Zwei is my favorite genesis game. I return to it regularly, there is a learning curve which is probably why its not more highly sought after. But its absolutely the game I needed to cool off from all these intense arcade games. If you liked desert strike you might like it. I like to joke I have a special delivery when I air drop a tank on the enemy base.

  • @RubyJones-zj4fu
    @RubyJones-zj4fu 2 месяца назад +1

    A haunting staring polter guy it's fantastic 😍

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад

      LOVE Polter Guy. Fantastic suggestion!!

  • @thinkingwisedawg2508
    @thinkingwisedawg2508 27 дней назад

    My go to genesis games are
    RBI Baseball 94 those graphics and music to me, best baseball video game right under Baseball Stars 1 and 2 Neo Geo games.
    Gunstar Heroes this game one the most action packed games ever.
    Minnesota Fats pool relaxing with cool jazzy music.
    Mercs Capcom classic with 2 modes of gameplay.
    Super Tecmo Bowl one of a kind, no explanations needed.
    Revenge of Shinobi you get to fight Spider-Man, Batman, Godzilla, and Terminator if you got import version before modded US version.
    Acme All Stars another Konami classic with multiple sports games
    Phantasy Star 4
    Shining Force
    Street of Rage 2

  • @3blindwhales
    @3blindwhales 2 месяца назад +1

    10:26 one of the soundtracks I agree but nothing beats musha for me

  • @mjdf122
    @mjdf122 2 месяца назад

    Sega time with Square Pegs

  • @erickavery1
    @erickavery1 2 месяца назад

    I love the strike series though I have them on the super nintendo. Does urban strike suffer terrible slowdown on the genesis because the super version does

  • @BixbySnyder209
    @BixbySnyder209 Месяц назад

    Great games aren’t purely defined solely on graphics?!.

  • @DavidJohnson-td5ic
    @DavidJohnson-td5ic 2 месяца назад +1

    Y'know, I never did get the love for the Road Rash games. Ok, I mean, I get that motorcycle racing is rad, and beating up your opponent is cool ON PAPER, but I never felt the execution lived up to the concept. The scrolling hurt my eyes. The fighting was janky. The music was... an acquired taste (i.e. I hated it). I may be remembering wrong, but were there even sound effects for the actual motorcycles? How could you miss that very critical detail in a motorcycle game?! Anyway, I say all this to say, Desert Strike is the best in the Strike series, and yes, I would definitely love to see a reboot/remake.

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад +1

      I hear everything you're saying about Road Rash. It's definitely not for everyone, and that's totally ok. :) And you're 100% spot on about the motorcycle sound effects!

    • @DavidJohnson-td5ic
      @DavidJohnson-td5ic 2 месяца назад

      @@SquarePegs Haha thanks for your reply! I wasn't ragging on your pick, per se; just the game in general. I just saw a video recently of Road Rash's spiritual successor, Road Revolution, and it seems like every gripe I had about the original 2 have been addressed and corrected in fantastic fashion!

  • @NSquaredPodcast
    @NSquaredPodcast 2 месяца назад

    The skit 👌🏼

  • @petesmart1983
    @petesmart1983 2 месяца назад

    Love most the games apart from toejam and earl I can't get into the game to be honest, also pirates is extremely expensive so never got to play it

  • @reddogg3118
    @reddogg3118 2 месяца назад

    Love your videos but saying Xmen 2 is better then the first one is one of the crazy things ive heard.

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад +1

      🤷‍♂️ It's all good, my man. It's just opinions. We're allowed to enjoy different things. :)

  • @tonyp9313
    @tonyp9313 2 месяца назад +1

    Yeah so? Why do a lot of people have to mention the year we are in like we aren't supposed to play older consoles & just play the current ones?
    Anyways I always play my Sega Genesis or whatever retro console. I love all the games you listed except for Toe Jam & Earl & Desert Strike.
    The X-Men games are really hard. So is the Batman & Robin. I owned the 1st X-Men game back in the day. This was wat before youtube & Magazines were not as accessible for knowledge. I had no idea that you had to press reset on your console to progress to the last level of the game.

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  2 месяца назад +2

      @@tonyp9313 For me, I mention the year for no other reason that to illustrate that even 30+ years after it's release, it (retro gaming) is still the preferred way to play for me.
      It's also a handy metric when I do these videos to just reference the title to determine when the last time I'd covered the console was, rather than having to dive deeper into analytics. ;)
      Thanks for watching!

    • @tonyp9313
      @tonyp9313 2 месяца назад

      @@SquarePegs Yeah very cool. That's also my prefered way to play after 30 years +....2D platfoming, controls that are precise, Turbo controllers too, codes in games, game genie codes to make them a lot easier, save states. Also games are just 1 hour on avg some lesser & some a bit more like 2 hours.
      New modern consoles like PS5, don't need them...Games are like 30-100 hours, 3D a lot of exploring etc, no codes what so ever or cheats to make the games easier, no turbo controllers nothing.. online is cool, but if I don't like the games then online is not as good.

  • @misterdoctorprofessorpatrick
    @misterdoctorprofessorpatrick Месяц назад

    kill me for this if you want i dont care but go play last crusade

    • @SquarePegs
      @SquarePegs  Месяц назад +1

      Why would I want to kill you? :) Last Crusade as in Indiana Jones?

    • @misterdoctorprofessorpatrick
      @misterdoctorprofessorpatrick Месяц назад

      @@SquarePegs yes.
      i say that because the mega drive version specifically is infamous for being basically one of the hardest games on the system (even on easy mode).