Great Visual Effects on the Sega Genesis
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Parallax, line scrolling, animation, scaling, rotation, and many other visual effects often made 16-bit games stand out, particularly when a game system supposedly couldn't do them in hardware. Here, we look at some games that I personally find very impressive for the Sega Genesis.
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Opening 3D Logo By:
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Episode Notes:
1. All games caught via a Mega SG.
2. If you're in the market for physical games, some of these are still quite affordable.
3. You could always tell when a developer really had some skill. Not only do most of these look great, they also play and sound great too.
4. I had a list of about 30 games when I started. We could definitely do a part 2 and 3 to this if you guys enjoyed it.
5. I played my Genesis well into the life of the Sega Saturn. It's one of my favorite machines of all time, and its library is second to none in overall quality.
6. Like most of the best games, the majority here were system exclusive and appeared on no other hardware of the time.
Rocket knight adventures was a mecca of gorgeous sprites and effects.
my favorite Megadrive game. Just perfect
I use to love this damn game
Extremely catchy music too. That eerie boss theme is one of the best 16 bit tracks ever
Ranger X is severely underrated.
One of the really impressive things about that game was the strange trickery they used to make the color palette seem much deeper than the Sega should have been capable of. That and it was just a cool game in general, with a great soundtrack. It really was ahead of it's time.
@@knightshousegames It looks like there are more colors on screen just in some areas that use the Shadow and Highlight mode on the Genesis (Like in the cave or the Forest stage) but the whole game just use the regular 61 colors, the difference is that the color palettes are well implemented. Here's a video that does a color count on each screen in the game and you can tell it's always on the limits. ruclips.net/video/7_9S7tgeeIo/видео.html
That game is unreal!
Look at the line up of games the developer ended up making, and it’s no surprise they were able to pull this off.
Agreed. I champion its virtues any chance I get! Not only is it a good looker, but it's great to play as well; I've finished that game so many times, and I still love going back to it.
Sega Genesis will always be my favorite console of all time!
Mine too!! 👌🏽👍🏽💯💯💯
Neo geo and saturn come close
NEO GEO AES IS MINE 😆SO HAAA BWHAHAAA I GOT THAT TOOO
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Agreed
Mega Drive was really capable of awesome graphics like in this video, and really capable of good voice effects too. Sometimes I think that developers were lazy sometimes with mega drive voices. Per example some music where better than snes, but not the voices. But games line strider, dynamite headdy, bart's nightmate, Mortal kombat... Had really good sound voices....
I love how almost all the games in this video not only had amazing visual effects but incredible soundtracks to accompany them
Oh yes, the Sega Genesis was a very capable machine. The first year that the Genesis was available it was doing things that we once thought were impossible for a home console. Ghouls N' Ghosts absolutely blew our collective minds when it dropped. Golden Axe was another stand out launch title that floored us. Strider was yet another launch window title that showed the Sega Genesis's chops. I became a proud Genesis owner in 1989 and it never failed to amaze me. Even when I got my Snes in 1991...I always preferred my Genesis.
In my opinion, Thunder Force IV was the true pinnacle of 16-bit perfection. It showed what the Genesis was capable of. The massive amounts of sprites flying at you, the scaling effects of the incoming shots from the foreground, sound to die for, insane amounts of parallax scrolling, the extended playing field were just some of the things that made it a true stand out. Thunder Force IV would not look out of place on the Neo Geo MVS/AES and stands as a true tour de force for the generation.
Some of the games on the Sega Genesis were pretty impressive at the time and still impressive to this day. Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps, Gunstar Heroes, Thunder Force 4 to name a few with amazing 2D effects and audio. Thanks for the video Sega Lord X
Vectorman games? Sonic 3D Blast?
@@ErronBlack_Outlaw Sorry didn't wanna seem like I was forcing them down your throat. Besides it's all subjective anyway.
@@AmbientMess aye, Vector Piece Animation
hey guys! what's the game at 0:43? I've never heard of it!
The Genesis version of Aladdin had great looking animation as well.
You're definitely gonna need a part 2, 3, 4 etc. Of this series. Genesis had some great looking games.
No it didn't.
64 color is a quarter of 256. Hehe 2.5d
Hello decent snes.
Member when true color images didn't matter?
Me neither.😂
Like gradient? Vote Sintendo.
Mega Drive was impressive! And really, kudos for Traveller's Tales in their Toy Story game, that thing was impressive
It was. Though I think it's pushing it when he says "it makes you think the hardware could run Doom", er no it doesn't! It looks like Wolf3D. World of difference between Wolf3D and Doom.
I was blown away by the first Sonic the Hedgehog! It was so colorful and fast and animated with great Tunes! Every game I would rent back then would blow me away all over again. Love the Sega Genesis. Thanks for another great show!
*The Japanese copy of SONIC had 3D effects!* 💡
Thinking you left off the "2" at the end. Every time I bought Sonic 2 I got great deal and looks fantastic, noticably better than the first game.
SLX: Thunder Force IV is one of the most impressive looking and sounding games in the entire library
Sega Genesis Mini: Here, have Thunder Force III
LMAO, if anything its because TFIII is arguably the most popular entry of the series and one of the most accessible Genesis shmups. If it meant that Sega would be bringing over its inane "Lightening Force" translation of the game then I think it was for the best. Boneheaded decision even back in 1992. I never knew it was TFIV when I picked it up from Software Etc way back when for cheap until I turned on the game.
Sega had just released 4 on the Switch, so I was glad they went for a different game on the Mini. 3 is no slouch in the graphics department either.
3 is really good too. Probably more well known. Sold a ton of copies. I didn't even know there was a 4.
@@GLPitt1 Then you'll be really surprised that there's a Thunder Force 6.
@@japanimationman4442 Lots of Thunder Force I guess.
One more lesson about Sega. I'm really into that since I got my Mega Drive mini.
What are ure favourite games on the mini.
@@martymartin2894 Gun Star Heroes. But I haven't played all games yet.
Gunstar Heroes and Dynamite Headdy deserved to be on that video too. They both look like SNES games right down to the colors and sprite effects.
Fantastic list. The only one I see missing is Shinobi 3, but bonus points for including its credits theme in your closing statements.
I would also add gunstar heroes
He'll probably show more in a part 2 video.
@@Rohaldos Indeed. But as he said, he could do a whole video on just Treasure games. As far as technical powerhouses go, Alien Storm looks amazing, and if he had to pick one from Treasure's catalog, that's the one I'd go with.
@@LorenHelgeson Alien Soldier you mean friend, and imo, it's the greatest run n gun shooter ever made. At least the most creative
@@retrosoul8770 Yes, I meant Alien Soldier. And to be honest, I actually do not like Alien Storm at all, so that's a bad goof on my part.
Finally someone who gives some credit to that awesome game Mega Turrican was/is. I know this was about graphics but what Chris Huelsbeck did in terms of sound and music is also unbelievable. Those drums and baselines were miles ahead of anything I had listened on a home console at the time.
Indeed. Incredible work.
The music in Mega Turrican was awesome. I wish they had used the same title track that was used in the Amiga version, though - it had such a catchy hook!
To this day Panorama Cotton still amazes me.
A second and third part about this topic should be great fun to cover, so yes please, looking forward to them :). Have a good one, Sega Lord X!
Man... I wish Panorama Cotton had an arcade version. Even the Genesis version looks like Space Harrier on steroids
They did an amazing and better job scaling/rotating sprites than sega ever did with genesis including some of the sega cd games like sonic cd special stage.
Success made Cotton in '89, Cotton 2 in '97 & Cotton Boomerang in '98
I wish it was affordable
@@BBfanfun I had no idea about Cotton Boomerang, thanks for the heads up!
Alien Soldier is one of my favorite games of all time. Vectorman and Toy Story were also awesome.
Genesis was a boss system. Great video as always.
The Road Rash games had very impressive scaling for the time, also Ecco tides of time had a few nifty graphical effects with scaling etc
Road Rash may be the only Genesis game that truly scales.
The rest are just clever in throwing a bunch of individually drawn sprite sizes to give the effect.
As where Road Rash actually scales, giving it the most depth.
If you drive slow anyone can see there's way too many sizes of each sprite to have been re-drawn each frame.
Thing is ppl would never know because of its choppy framerate.
The other games "that don't actually scale" all have smooth framerates, but their animation is choppy.
As where Road Rash the animation is smooth but the framerate is choppy.
Trade off was worth it because once you get over the framerate, Road Rash has a fluid feel.
@@Lightblue2222 Sonic 3 has some rather impressive scaling. Even if we ignore the blue spheres bonus level, the boss fight in Marble Garden Act 2 where Robotnik zooms off into the background is pretty neat. Even if none of this is real, it still uses a lot of frames to achieve a realistic effect, though the cartridge size is pretty large for the time.
@Daishin no Dōro It's never jerky though, which is impressive - there's a stable frame rate.
Road rash is awesome. It's most certainly a 2D-programmed game that they incredibly managed to present to the player in a 3D perspective that worked surprisingly well. I'm not too sure that it is actually scaling though. I could be wrong.
The Genesis is like a Bob Ross painting. A relatively limited pallet but still able to produce some amazing things.
And there is a Bob Ross game on the Genesis!
THANK YOU for including Mega Turrican!! The music was so great too, wasn't it?? ;)
*and surround sound if you had a unit in da living room!*
08:43 I love how the gun blast goes with the song and sounds almost like double bass, lol
Honestly, not only Super Fantasy Zone had fantastic colors ... that Wonder Boy 4 Monster World 3 was like that too. Crazy Colorful.
Huh, I have never heard of "Panorama Cotton" until this very moment. Thanks for these videos. I've always been more of a Nintendo fanboy so a lot of these SEGA titles tend to be stuff I missed, especially during the Saturn and Dreamcast era.
I've owned or played every console of the 8, 16 and early 32-bit eras, and the Sega Genesis is still my favorite.
SLX these are the games that should be on all future Sega Genesis compilations for minis or disc/cart releases. I know licensing is a bunch of drama and everyone wants their cut, but dammit everyone should negotiate and have these games together showing future generations what the Megadrive or Genesis did better than all the competition. These are all solid titles that impressed the hell out of me then and do not disappoint today. Great job and great choice of Cotton Panorama. I wish Outrun on Genesis had been done by that studio.
Imagine more genesis compilation made it to the sega cd with all of the games listed on the video and the comments.
I never really began my gaming adventure until the 32bit machines (cue a long story about finding a Virtua Racing Twin Sit Down at a service station in the middle of the night after a Rave and me becoming a hero by throwing it into freeplay simply by following the power lead and switching it off then on again. About eight of us played that thing until the sun came up, an absolute storming night and an epiphany of what video games could be). Anyway, I tried a few games after that night, Indy 500 on my sister's Amiga for one, it didn't cut it. When I saw Starfox pushing flat shaded polys on the SNES I decided to get myself one. It was fun but still not the mind trip I wanted, that wouldn't be until I imported my JPN PS1 and a copy of Ridge Racer. Having owned the SNES for a short time and being new to gaming I took it as read that it kicked the MD's arse. Jump forward almost 30 years and watching channels such as SLX's and I'm getting schooled on just how incredible the MD was. Some of these games look beyond what even the SNES could do, to me anyway. I actually think it has the more attractive software over all. Something I'd have thought ridiculous back in the day. Still think the SNES is shit hot mind. I've gathered up several of these little retro mini consoles and I'm loading them up with some of the superb looking classics I'm being shown here etc and enjoying games I missed the first time round. Cheers SLX.
I have always felt that Thunder Force 4 (I own it as Lightening Force) was one of the best looking, best sounding, and best playing games the Genesis ever had. I'm an RPG guy, but outside of that genre I would probably call Thunder Force 4 the best game on the system. Cool to see it showcased here.
I still can't explain it, but pseudo 3d/raster effects are just so darm charming! Nowadays, hardware is so powerful that near realtime photo realism has become common place. But, for me, I'll always love the effects ultra creative devs were able to pull off with hardware that was never designed to perform. Salute!
I hate photorealism too, I want games with other worlds, i don't want a carbon copy of our world, this is the reason for play, isn't? this is the reason why I love the Indie Games or games likes Gravity Rush 1 & 2 on PS4.
I'm glad you made this video. Videogame magazines of the day made such a huge deal of the SNES hardware mode 7 and scaling. I loved how great programmers did those effects the Genesis better than anything ever seen on the SNES. Gunstar Heroes is STILL a marvel to this day and Sonic 1's scaling effects in the special zone was done to perfection.
The person talking has no idea about the Snes library. I see these comments all the time. Really time to take off the rose tinted nostalgia glasses.
This is one of your best videos. I feel like every time you do one of these I need to update my wanted list!
Another reason why this channel is the best retro channel on YT. Just a quality video. Great job
I just wanna say how much I absolutely love this channel, there’s few things I enjoy more than showcases of Sega’s history, and all the cool and experimental things they’ve done with hardware and software in the past! I’ve even been introduced to some really good or interesting games through this channel, many I would never have heard of otherwise
This channel is the perfect hub for all things retro Sega, and it’s so entertaining I can’t stop binging it~
Ranger -X its probably the most technically impressive shump on the megadrive and one of my favorite game, also the devs managed also push the system to show more colours ( 1-2 colours of the average 60 colours). Thank you again for the video!
Ranger X not only looks great, it plays so incredibly tight and unlike any other game for the platform
Great topic and great selections. I did the same thing as you with Ranger X. When I first played it about six years ago, I also would just go back and forth in that hangar stage just to admire the effect and try to figure out what they did. It's a great game too. Super Fantasy Zone is another great looking game. As you say, it's very colorful, and I always liked the parallax in that one. Wonder Boy in Monster World is another very colorful game for the system, as well as the Sonic titles. Good to see Mega Turrican here. I love that one as well. They managed true sprite scaling and rotation in spots. Usually, that involves simpler sprites and mirroring to help, since there's no hardware to handle that. And Alien Soldier is a great example, as it has so much going on with such large characters and all moving at such a pace not seen in a lot of other games.
I recently testet my Sega Mega Drive on a Big HD TV and i must say that the picture quality is way better than SNES.
Thank you for that great show
Interesting to hear that. How so?
@@eskanda3434 probably to so with its internal resolution which scales better on modern TVs. The snes ran at a lower resolution. Dont get me wrong, I didnt own a genesis, I was snes and master system back then. In the uk we had scart cables. My ps1 with rgb scart cables gives pristine picture on my modern tv.
@@scatalabad Could be because of square pixels, a few games even look good streched to 16:9 such as earthworm jim.
@@eskanda3434 He was saying the picture quality was better, not which could have more colours on screen.
The MegaDrive could do 4096 on screen at the same time so you was saying...
In Soleil (or Crusader of Centy) there is a bossfight with a dragon in heaven. The clouds on the background are still impressive to this day. The game is quite good in the graphical departement overal and one of my most favorite Megadrive games of all time!
What always blew my mind was the fact that some of the later 16 bit titles visually blew me away more than most 32/64 bit games did both artistically and technically.
Takes Vectorman 2 , Donkey Kong country 2 , Super Mario world 2 , and Sonic the hedgehog 3 and then go try and find some early 32/64 bit titles that are as impressive visually and it is honestly tough to do.
I would even go so far as to say that looking back now , there are some impressive 16 bit titles from both the genesis and SNES libraries that are not only better games in general but also still hold up better today than many of the 32/64bit titles do. Don't get me wrong I love Final Fantasy 7 , Mario 64 is classic and still awesome. What I am saying is I feel I can find more 16 bit titles that I would rather play now verses some of the 32/64 bit titles.
For instance Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross.I think Chrono Trigger blows chrono cross out of the water. I would rather play final fantasy 6 than part 8 or 9.I would rather play Sonic the hedgehog 3 and knuckles than Sonic racing.
There are some games from the 32/64 bit era that hold up well also but I think the 16 bit era was better and more innovative and they seemed to do more with less and that is also why the mini consoles continue to be popular.
Great video X, Genesis will go down as my second favorite console of all time.
Now I wanna know which is the first...
Amega CD 32
@@DOYLETWAT either ur joking or ur serious. Saturn is my fav console of all time
The Dreamcast is my personal favorite console of all time
@@mrlaidback83 DC is also one of my favs, Saturn 1, DC 2
Need a part 2. Very entertaining.
This machine still surprises me to this day. Xeno Crisis is a great example of what can be done as a recent example, and many other fantastic games.
LOVE these kinds of videos man, can’t wait for part 2 🙂
Another fantastic episode highlighting some really impressive stuff. Towards the end of the Genesis' lifespan developers had a pretty good idea of what gameplay elements worked and what did not so they were able to work on some visual polish that still blows me away today. Thank you! Games like these highlighted in your video are why I am a retro gamer today.
Amazing review here, some games look even like early 32 bits games. Thank you so much my Lord!
I bought a wireless Saturn controller because I heard you praising the Saturn controller so much. THANK YOU! It really is such a comfy controller and has the perfect button layout. I definitely would like to own a Saturn one day.
I'm weird.
I still think that "The Revenge of Shinobi" looks too good to be an early release game for the system. (1989?)
@Ricardo Stefan all my friends have no qualms about divulging their social media passwords to one another. we trust each other like a family
"It even happens to have some great music with it as well" * Korean ad with jazz music plays* Haha, love it!
I really love these kinds of videos! I always felt like I was rooting for an underdog whenever I sang Sega's praises. But you always do an excellent job of shining the spotlight on why Sega was (and is!) so great.
I was hardcore snes I feel I missed out a lot. I’m looking forward to playing these games
Thunderforce 4 impresses me far more than 5 or 6. Love them all but 4 is jaw dropping imo. Something about seeing a system pushed to its absolute limits. Something I don't think we've seen in a long time.
Idk that any Genesis effects episode can't include Zero Tolerance. Mazin Saga character animations too.
World of Ilusion with Mickey and Donald is an absolute masterpirce.
I wish more people covered Vectorman, it's my favorite Genesis game, but I can't critique it myself because I've played it a million times and know where most things are, I would like to hear someone else's opinion on it
@Ilja Permiakov yeah I felt the pacing was way worse in the sequel, and it didn't have the same graphical flare, you're just fighting generic bugs
Thank you for another fantastic video. Your content has been helping to keep me sane during this lockdown. Hearing your intro literally warms my heart. :)
Vectorman was my shit as a kid. I loved playing the hell out of it. The graphics were amazing for a console released in the late '80s.
RangerX was one of the first games I bought for the Genesis and I enjoyed it a lot. Bought it randomly too...the boxart was enough to win me over.
Great video! I always wonder how some of the earlier Genesis titles might have turned out if they were remastered at a later point in the consoles life, when developers were extracting a lot more out of it.
I always wanted a Streets of Rage 1 with part 2’s engine.
Awesome video. Many of these games also happen to have excellent gameplay - just shows how much care was put into every aspect. I think Sparkster impresses with its excellent use of the limited color palette, and it has a handful of cool background effects too. And the amount of animation frames achieved through clever compression in games like Earthworm Jim and Aladdin also stand out when compared to SNES/PCE games.
Ive grown alot of respect for the genesis after recently buying one and collecting games for it. I really admire its power and how it held up against the super nintendo. Very impressive console
This shows you how good our childhood gaming was when developers went above and beyond what the system was capable of. I have many good memories of these games and more.
Konami's efforts on the Megadrive towards the end of the generation really made me rethink what I considered then the superiority of the SNES. The graphical effects on Contra and Castlevania absolutely blew me away. To this day I prefer Castlevania Bloodlines to SCV4.
Super Castlevania 4 has better graphics and music. But Bloodlines is more interesting and harder gameplay. Some cool 3 D effects too.
This is my favourite video I've seen you do.
One I used to play on pc was a puzzle game called zoop, the genesis versions colours look very good and the music is not distorted or twangy at all. In 1995 I did not consider genesis graphics to be bad at all.
Thank you! So many forget that the Sega system is 2 years older than the SNES! Great video!
My eyes really started glowing when I saw the parallax clouds on strite and the tubular space colony on ruin in thunder force 4. heck, the entire game is beautiful
fun fact: half of these games would look even BETTER over a COMPOSITE video cable. The video output encoder chip on the Genesis/MD had a strange processing quirk where it would blend adjacent columns of pixels, and many developers/programmers in the latter half of the console's life-cycle deliberately took advantage of this for higher on-screen colors, pseudo-transparencies, and anti-aliasing effects. Earthworm Jim, Vectorman, Socket, and Comix Zone are quick examples, but plenty of other games, and even earlier titles which often employed a checkerboard mesh style of shading/transparency, benefit from this phenomenon.
There are still caveats to the composite video output (most common are the "jailbars" and rainbow-banding effects, both of which are completely fixed when utilizing the composite output from a 32x), and simply blurring the RGB/SCART output will NOT reproduce the same effect... but if you have both a CRT and a Genesis that doesn't suffer from extreme rainbow-banding (or you also have a 32x connected), then you should grab your pack-in composite cable, adjust your TV's picture settings, and play some of the later Genesis' library the way it was intended to be seen.
its not a quirk at all, nothing crazy, its called dithering.
Surprised Ristar did not make your list! Panorama Cotton is very impressive and really showed what the Genesis could do, to bad it costs a fortune along with many of the Cotton games!
You always have these games I e never heard of. Thanks for passing along these great games!
What an excellent list! I got my Genesis in 1990 and some of these games I didn't find out about until years later when I started looking at RUclips around 2005 or 2006!
Excellent List Sir. You should have shown the mission briefings in Ranger X. They were some of the best in the system.
You know, I actually intended to. I forgot to add it before the final cut.
I know you said many other great-looking games didn't make this list, but I just have to throw one in here: Beyond Oasis. This game's visuals really impressed me.
You forgot the 3d wireframes at the beginning of each stage in Ranger-X
I genuinely did forget. I meant to add a piece in there about it.
@@SegaLordX Waiting for a second part! I love your videos! Cheers from a sega fan from Brazil!
@@dijabreu TecToy ruls forevermore
@@leonidaschryssinas1723 Hey thanks mate! Tec Toy was a great Sega partner. But to tell you the truth, my mega drive is a japanese model 1, still in pristine condition, converted to pal and play north america games. I still have some of my games: Ecco, the immortal, chakan, Sword of Vermillion...
I always loved the colorful graphics of World of Illusion on the Genesis. Most Disney titles were stunning to look at, but to me World of Illusion had an impecable presentation above all the rest. And since you (kinda) brought up Zyrinx because of Red Zone, it reminded me of the only other game from them I know, Subterrania. The graphics were good, but the digital cutscenes were amazing! I never thought the Genesis could pull stuff like that ^^
The best games has the best visuals .!
I mean there are exceptions.!
But the visually Stunning games are remembered the most
another fantastic video - love your work!
Travellers tales excelled on a systems from leander on the amiga. Toy story 3 on the megadrive and multi games on the Saturn. They pushed the systems hard and figured new ways to push what the hardware could do
I've watched a handful of videos from a Traveler's Tale dev that worked on the genesis and saturn, and the way he explains how they did all of the effects with those systems is mind blowing know the limitations of the hardware they worked with.
Bro I love this episode people underestimated the genesis back in the day I wish we would’ve gotten more games like this in the beginning the argument about snes and genesis graphics would’ve been a closer battle! But even still Genesis held it’s own pretty well
Adventures of Batman and Robin was a all time fave of mine back then. I knew the gliding scene was gonna make it ha ha ha.
Much better than the sega cd version. Had sega cd version had the scrolling gameplay and levels as the genesis. It would've been great game.
@@maroon9273 Wasnt aware there was a CD version. Curious now so I guess I know what Im looking up
had so much fun playing this console when i was a kid. its so good to have emulator to play these again.
As an Amiga fan going back to the 90s, I think you're wrong about Euro developers. Maybe they didn't make as many good games for consoles, but they put out some impressive stuff on Amiga.
Love your „Great Visual Effects on the Sega Genesis“ series! Suggestions for Part 4: Skitchin‘ (amazing sprite scaling), Chuck Rock 2 (burning tree & dinosaur climb), Dynamite Headdy, F-22 Interceptor, Star Cruiser (dogfights, Intro, mazes & towns), Greatest Heavyweights (ring & audience „rotation“), The Lawnmower Man („polygonal“ stages & Space Harrier-style stages), Out Run 2019 (overhead highways & racing through forest sections), Battle Mania 2 (stage 6), Shinobi III, Sub-Terrania (dive into water, last boss), Earthworm Jim 1 (stage 3) & EJ 2, Ecco The Tides of Time (Tube of Medusa), Virtua Figter 2 (3d-ish floors), Pier Solar (over-world map on dragon), ResQ 3d bonus stage, G-zero, Starfox 3d tech demos, TiTAN Overdrive 1&2!
Holy cow! Red Zone is hella impressive. A lot of the sodu 3D games u showed off are still impressive today 👏
This video alone is one of the many reasons I loved the Sega Genesis way more than the Super Nintendo
@Dean Satan
I had only played a handful of Genesis games back in the day, including Revenge of Shinobi, Ranger X, Batman and Robin (never made it past the first level), and the Sonic games, but I prefer the SNES by a mile even now that I've had a chance to try out more Genesis games. I'm so glad I had a SNES and not a Genesis back then. Most of the Genesis library is straight up arcade style action, while the SNES is the opposite, with more adventure elements. The SNES has more compelling games that you would want to marathon by yourself for days on end to see to completion while the genesis has more games that are only fun in 15 minute bursts if you have a friend watching.
This episode was like a list of the games I had as a kid that I liked playing the most. Ranger X, Batman and Robin, Vectorman, and Toy Story were all my jam. Such great visuals, and it must be said, music as well in all of those games.
It's wild to me that the teams who did Ranger X and Batman and Robin seem to have only done those games and never really did anything else after Genesis, even after having made such technological marvels.
There's a couple of interviews with former staff of Clockwork Tortoise (Batman & Robin). The consensus was that they were an ultra-talented bunch of programmers/artists that lacked organization as a company. Batman & Robin came out over a half-year later then it was supposed to (much to the chagrin of Sega of America) because Clockwork took its time with it. They were tasked with the canceled "X-Women" afterwards, but the lead talent of the studio left during its production, which led to a domino effect that shut down the company (and production of "X-Women").
Timestamps:
2:45 thunder force IV
4:02 panorama cotton
5:21 Alien soldier
6:33 Batman & Robin
7:51 Contra hard corps
9:02 super Fantasy zone
10:12 vector man
11:24 Red Zone
12:30 Toy Story
13:33 Bimini Run
14:54 Mega Turrican
“I liked how this video showcased these games, I just need to rewatch it sometimes.”
Another great episode. Some games I never heard of which is always nice. Got some searching to do :)
Misadventures of Flink had some impressive software rotation and scaling. It was only released on cartridge in Europe. Ecco the Delphine 2 used a process called HAM (Hold and Modify) to display 128 onscreen colors. I believe it's the only game to display more then 64 colors on Genesis.
Do it! Do it! Another list please! This was a lot of fun to watch!
Another two fantastic looking Traveller's Tales games are Puggsy and Mickey Mania. They really knew their way around that hardware.
terra?
@@Video-Games-Are-Fun 😄 no, but this is a sprite I drew myself of myself in 16 bit Final Fantasy style. I definitely used her ponytail as reference material but I didn't copy it.
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated seems like it was just about 5-7 years ago when that game came out but wow, 30 years now. amazing really how much time has gone and the game has aged...it was an amazing game in its time period
Christmas Day '90 after I opened up the console and the games I got for it, and running/jumping cartwheeling down the hill on Strider (level 2) seeing the way it scrolled is one of the few video game memories I have that I will never lose. My first real indication that this thing was more powerful than the Nintendo I had been playing on.
One of the things I love about the Mega Drive is its purity (for want of a better term). Rarely do the games rely on custom chips and most sound is generated in hard ware rather than samples. For that, I'm happy to forgo an expanded colour palette. :)
U mention sum great games here..but u also lef out a few.."Ristar" should be added to this list aswell!!
Ristar is incredible.
Treasure games were awesome. I never got a chance to play any Cotton games. Thunder Force 4 was so good.
Love this topic and great timing, thanks!
Great video. It's so impressive what developers could do. Would love to see a similar video for Sega Master System games
Vectorman is my alltime favorite Sega Genesis game. It was my first cinsole and one of my fist games! So damn fun and visually amazing for the time
SLX the hardest dude in the game. Prove me wrong. Blows me away how fast you pump out quality content, while being a dad. Still watch every vid man.
Killing it with all the AAA content 💪
Dude, you have to stop, wayaaaa too much quality content ! /s
I can't stop watching this as soon as it hits youtube.
I love the control unit HDR boss in Gunstar Heroes cuz of that cool looking rotating room.