Sega Genesis & Mega Drive Movie Games - Are They Really That Bad??
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- Опубликовано: 2 июл 2024
- A video entirely dedicated to games based on movies for the Sega Genesis. Some good, some not, some just plain terrible, we look at around 50 titles in total.
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Opening 3D Logo By:
Jan Neves
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Episode Notes:
1. I do not cover TV shows or comic books here. The game needed to be based on an actual theatrical release(how ever loosely).
2. Publisher/Developer information is based mainly on US releases. Sometimes this changed region to region.
3. There is a massive divide in these games when you consider the region the game was developed in. Japanese developers almost always made something playable, which cannot be said for the games made in the US and Europe.
4. I kept focus purely on the Genesis versions of these games. If you'd like a similar video for the Sega CD, Saturn or Master System, let me know in the comments.
5. I tend to try and not curse a lot in my videos. When I do, it's to get a strong emotional point across. Some have expressed a dislike for it, and I can only say that I promise to try and not be vulgar in the process.
6. I may have missed a few games here and there, but these are the ones I wanted to do. The episode was over an hour long before editing.
7. I'd love to hear opinions about the longer videos like this. Good? Bad? Let me know!
8. Music:
Opening Monologue - Batman - Genesis - Gotham City Streets 3
Closing Monologue - Moonwalker - Genesis - Smooth Criminal 
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The Aladdin game was amazing, most of the Disney games on Genesis were from memory.
the lion king game was great too, and hello gman :)
Fantasia? 😐
@@MySpottyGirlfriend "most" not "all"
Man, I can't imagine how much time this took to research, script, capture, and record. Great video SLX. Your fans are thankful!!! Best Sega channel on RUclips.
Oh God, I saw Sunsoft Batman and I had an impulse to play it again on my Genesis.
One of the best ost ever made and the first stage raining scene thrill me until this day
I really love the Sunsoft Batman movie game on the Genesis, the game's short but i love it, i love the soundtrack too, especially Gotham City Streets, very retro, it's a nice short game if ur a Batman fanboy!
Batman and Ghostbusters is probably the most solid movie tie ins on the Md/Genesis. My fav is Terminator tho. Short but fun.
I remember spending an insane amount of hours playing Alien 3 on my Genesis. I just loved that game! I don't recall ever being able to beat it though. It was pretty big.
Antonio Rodríguez Negrón that game had a hard soundtrack I loved it as well I don’t think I beat it either bro
I might get it and try again
It takes a lot of memorization and trial & error.
Good sound and music but boring level design
decent game based on a bad movie... the fact that it doesn't follow the movie very well is a GOOD thing! (in alien 3's case; speaking here of the Genesis version, I never really cared for the SNES version). Batman isn't the greatest game but it had a lot of style and was way better than the barely playable Batman Returns on genesis (but the CD game's batmobile expansion was like a game unto itself and pretty cool)
As I have experience with Genesis games only as adult, I feel that Alien 3 is an awful game.
You have to endure, not enjoy it. But that's just an opinion.
Great video, my favorite line; Marry Shelley's Frankenstein makes Bran Stockers Dracula look like Castlevania Bloodlines!!! A+
Anyone from the UK remember the TV shows The Gamesmaster and Bad Influence lol those were the good old days.
Who ever was playing Aladdin for the footage didn't put on the Mickey ears that were hanging on the clothes line.
You get an extra life when you do.
I'm 29 years old,I played the hell out of this game as a kid and only managed to beat it a couple weeks back on my Mega Drive mini.... And I never knew about this until right now. My life has been wasted
@@JoeyJoeJoe87 I've never been able to beat this game without using the "ABBAABBA" cheat code to get past tricky levels
@@fin8glr it is a hard game, I only managed with save states and learning the levels until I was lucky enough to beat them lol
Ghost Busters , Aladdin , Dune , Demolition Man and Most of the games in ur video brings back great memories 👍
Your description of the Wayne’s World game made me want to play it. The way the character turns to smile at you is priceless.
I’ve now learned the phrase “a full on shitting of the bed” and will be using it in real life circumstances.
Elmo Sexwhistle I thought it was because I’m from England that I’d never heard it😂 this guy is funny but honest
One of my best friend has been saying it forever. I thought it was him when I heard it lol
I remember playing the raptor levels of Jurassic Park in Sears when it came out. Good times.
I remember doing that aslo...man your old lol
I 'member playing Jurassic Park on my living room floor as a kid.
@@zarcon42 I remember dinosaurs
Playin as Grant is a pain. The boat level is sooo horrible lol
@@joakimnicklasson3438 fuck that level. 🤣
Maybe I’m the only one who loved Batman Forever. I really enjoyed that game and finished 100%. I think it has to do with the fact that it was the only game I had for a year. My parents were only able to buy me one game per year (birthday), and without reviews, I had to pick based on how cool the cover looked. Still love the game today!
the genesis version was the better version was better and easier to play with a good 6 button controller
Same here
Toy Story was so good you covered it two different times in this video 😂 Amazing stuff SLX
I just played through toy story for genesis. Great great game.
@@jonnyturtleneck7153 I just play through Clockwork Knight 1 and 2 about a month ago. Also really great games.
Yeah Toy Story is one of the best Mega Drive games, I play it though again now and then to this day, another awesome movie based game is RoboCop Versus The Terminator, totally sublime and addictive action platformer.
whaaat? Aladdin has some of the best tunes on the system! especially from an American developer.
Thanks for the show! I very much enjoyed Batman, Jurassic Park, and Aladdin on Genesis. I also played lots of Batman Returns, Jurassic Park., Terminator, and Cliffhanger on Sega CD.
Just finished the video! It was a great and unique one for sure! I agreed with most of your critique too! I have to say that Warlock looks kind of fun haha that's one of the few games mentioned that I don't own. Also, I had no idea about that No Escape game. I'm gonna have to hunt that one down (I'm collecting the entire library). After this awesome episode, I sense a "Sega Genesis TV Show Games" episode in the works! Thanks for all the work you put into this. It must have took a ton of hours!
I disagree with you on the first Home Alone game. I thought it was really fun. Placing traps and being able to randomly customize weapons to see what they do was great. Especially at that time where it was rarely ever seen in games. It was an easy game but nowhere near a bad one.
I'm with you :) It's not a perfect game, but it's one of my favorite games on the Mega Drive to this day.
Please make a video "90s games better played on mega cd" (for cd quality sound or better graphics, etc.).
UP! ↑
Great topic.
Thanks
Like Bram Stoker's Dracula on Sega CD. It was better there wasn't it? I know it looked better at least
Back to the Future III wasn't reprogrammed for US release. US TVs run at 60fps but UK TVs run at 50. So the game runs too fast, making the game crazy hard. Shadow of the Beast had the same problem
Shadow of the beast had a worse problem than that. I believe some things were changed to compensate for the 60hz upgrade, but other things were over looked which is what makes it stupid hard in the none Pal versions.
Back To The Future III had a US release on the Mega Drive/Genesis, I know because I own one of them and it doesn't boot in PAL, just halts to a black screen. You may be confusing it with the Master System version which only got a PAL release and doesn't boot on NTSC systems.
the amount and quality of content you put out is amazing!
Judge Dredd is a bit of an oddity, only the first third of the game is actually based on the movie, the rest is based on the comic "Dredd Vs Death", so did it start out as a comic license before Acclaim got therights to the movie?
I love the Chopper graffiti in the game. Pretty boring game tho..
The PS1 game is a pretty good light gun/gallery shooter. Definitely worth a try if you have a Guncon and a CRT...and, of course, a PS1.
Tell us, you seem to know...
Wow, this review was probably the longest I’ve seen, you clearly put a lot of work into it. Top notch. And your no mercy descriptions are often warranted.
Would love to see you do this same thing for the Sega CD titles. Some have worthy improvements over the Genesis counterparts.
One thing interesting in Belles Quest is the people walking in the background of the village. Usually you just get parallax that far back. Kind of a cool trick.
You and SNES Drunk should do a video together and talked about pros and cons for some popular ports for your own systems such as MK, SF2, Terminator vs Robocop, etc. Keep up the good work.
They're bitter rivals
@@deckofcards87 why's that?
The Super Nintendo version of Toy Story released in 96, the Genesis version actually came out on Black Friday weekend of 95.
Sega Retro had it down as April 96.
From what I have looked up, the reviews that were promoting the Genesis version were published in late 1995. web.archive.org/web/19971120012056/www.gameinformer.com/dec95/toy.html And the reviews I have seen promoting the Super Nintendo version were published in early 1996. web.archive.org/web/19971120011612/www.gameinformer.com/jan96/toy.html The Sega Retro site was showing the Eroupian release date of the Genesis version, the game released nearly 5 1/2 months prior in the US.
The SNES version actually came out in December 1995, not 1996. The PAL version was released in 1996.
@@SegaLordX hey can I ask you a question please that anybody can answer but nobody does on RUclips?
Great video and channel. I’ve just subscribed. I have all of the Sega games to play on emulator and love the Genesis games so this video has really helped as most of these movie games I haven’t had chance to play yet so thanks for the heads up and now know which ones to avoid. That Wayne’s World at the end looked painful. 😂😂
Nice video, sega lord x
I love ur content its well put together and i like how u give a little history of the games release and developers
hey slx i recently commented on ur last video i was the one who had a motorcycle accident i watched one of ur vids u talked about house of the dead and bam i got some games i can play with one hand sega saved me as well through my pain much happier with some games to play been playing alot of overkill and 2 and 3 on wii i didnt no u could turn off the on screen aim sight off thanks dude
Great video I love the BatMan from SunSoft was awesome when I played it for the first time on my Sega Mega Drive 👍👍👍👍👍
😊SO GLAD you mentioned 'MMPR: The Movie'.
It's my favourite 'Power Rangers' game out of all the ones I've played.
I agree about the soundtrack being amazing as they were digitised straight from the TV show.
It's the best Power Rangers game period
@@teddybeer6206 I'm not sure that I don't like the SNES game more. I always thought it was really cool that Nintendo and Sega had completely different Power Rangers games
Yeah I like it a lot too. He was right about the enemies being the same though. That’s the only thing dragged it down a bit for me.
You're right about a 'formula', even at the time on home micros like the Atari ST and the Amiga companies like Ocean would get a lot of flak for making "platform game #285 with the sprites looking a bit like things from the movie". That said I got the Amiga version of Addams Family (pretty similar to the MD version) much later on and remember really liking it once I got into it.
Rambo III is my favourite Genesis movie game AND my favourite Genesis game overall as well.
On PC and Amiga, the first Dune game was the adventure title. The Westwood Studios strategy game is known as Dune 2 on those platforms.
I had several FMV games and they were all fun to play. I had Sewer Shark, Corpse Killer, Dracula Unleashed, and Ground Zero Texas. Kind of miss them.
I acually enjoyed terminator on the sega genesis the game was short but fun.
It's definitely not bad. I just like the Sega CD version a lot more.
@@SegaLordX Agreed
Never played the scd ver but it seem to have alot of ladders. Ladders suck. Stairs n platforms make for better level design.
you crazy Music on Aladdin's Sega MD game is epic!
Im so happy I found this page it is so great thanks for your uploads!!
I always thought Batman Returns could have been a classic on par with Revenge of Shinobi with just a bit of tweaking. So close but so far
Ok I am going to hold back as best I can. Revenge of Shinobi is a masterpiece of gaming.For its time, as games have to be judged. Batman Returns is a game that does show effort, to make a "good" game, but should not be talked about in the same sentence as Revenge.
There is a certain something about Batman Returns that keeps me giving it a chance, despite it's lousy reputation. If you use a game genie/rom hack to give yourself a more reasonable amount of weapons? It becomes a lot more fun & playable. Kind of like the selectable number of shurikens in Shinobi, I suppose.
I always thought the graphics were so atmospheric in that game, really enjoyed it for that. But even as a kid I knew the gameplay was shit. Definitely some wasted potential.
The SNES version is pretty good. Totally different.
@@leegsy to be fair it was made by a 90s Konami. That's kinda cheating
I played The Lawnmower Man on PC back in the day. Basically the Sega CD version with better visuals. I actually enjoyed it though it really was a thing of its time and has aged. More than anything else I liked that it wasn't fmv clips from the movie and instead was original cgi depicting your journey through VR. That and the music had a nice beat to it that kept it enjoyable for me.
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your videos. I have not owned all of Sega's systems, but I had the Genesis, P.B. Converter, and the Dreamcast. I still buy Sega game collections when released. Anyways, your vids provide warm nostalgia for me and your voice goes well with that. Thank you for your work!
I laughed hard when he said lion king was an easy pick up to play game. Not sure if he played the level where you swing from the vines and jumping on other animals
I MUCH prefer your longer vids like these. It's pretty entertaining and informative.
I only got a couple games a year so when I got cliff hanger I learned to love it. Once you memorize the avalanche stages it’s like a platforming double dragon.
Hey guy,like the channel..mid 40's here, and I still love games...
Believe it or not my favorite game on Sega used to be Ecco the dolphin...
I know not of your pod...hahaha..
Anyways I subscribed to your channel and thank you for the good work sir
This is why i like your channel not only do you do other systems but call out the games that sucked. Keep up the great work
Your critique of games you dislike never fail to make me laugh. Love this channel.
Fantastic video, you my friend are a content master!
Love your videos, thanks for the info.
Cheers from Argentina :)
I played and finished Cliffhanger when I was a kid. I picked it up again a few months ago and I didn't even last through the first level. I couldn't believe this was the same game I finished as a kid, but after a handful of playthroughs I started to get the hang of it (again) and started to realize why I liked it so much. It's definitely a game that didn't age so well when compared to newer action/beat'em ups, but it was definitely a great game for its time, and having watched the movie beforehand certainly helped me enjoy it even more.
I did a hit-less one for the game Hook back on my SNES when I was younger because once you got hit, you lost the Pan Sword so I actually beat the game not getting hit once (which was amazing for a kid back in the day). Emulated it recently and discovered you can recover the Pan Sword if you look for it. Fuck my younger life.
loving the content even though I haven't followed it from the beginning. keep it up! I may not always agree but I find a lot to like as a sega fan who grew up with the genesis (only really knew one person who had a master system, so it was all nes with friends before that and one who had an atari vcs compatible computer).
Jurassic Park was so addictive. A great finale too with the T-Rex and all. Just wish it had more memorable music
Watching this video, was like watching a battle between Stallone and Schwarzenegger of who had the better Genesis games!
I love Home Alone! I thought it was a unique sega experience, i loved setting up traps and combining items to make goofy new weapons. I thought it was very appealing then and still do. I wish there was a bit more variety in traps and trap placement but all in all it was a good experience. Also enjoyed the NES Home Alone which is basically one of the first survival games. I would legit always jump when Harry or Marv popped up.
I loved Home Alone as well. Had so much fun putting my sled under their van. The strategy of setting traps and building weapons was very unique and a lot of fun.
You mention the different sound drivers frequently in this video, but I don't know what the differences are. Maybe that's a future video topic you could cover?
24:02 Jaw dropper. Just for the title screen background alone. I mean, look at its animation.
Having watched the entire video...I just gotta say... I owned a saturn for 15 years without knowning the best games until I found your channel. Now I can say that after having every genesis ROM on my Wii for almost ten years...I finally know the games I need to play...and avoid.
I seriously owe you for this one.
If you were to write a guide to Saturn Games and another for Genesis Games...I think people would buy it.
Nicely done man. Thoroughly done.
i really enjoy ur videos keep um up bro :D
Awesome vid as always! Keep it up =)
I love your videos. I've discovered a ton of games I've never heard of before because of you
I have several of these games on my Genesis. I completely agree with your analysis of the games (the ones that I own).
Man, I loved Toy Story on the Genesis!
“Dark, soulless graphics rape your eyes”😂😂😂🙌🙌🙌 Perfect.
That killed me😂
I love this video man, great stuff!
My top 5 would be
1. Aladdin
2. Alien 3
3. Batman
4. Ghostbusters
5. Rambo III
Ghostbusters (Phantasy Star 2 and Altered Beast) was my first Genesis game. I really enjoyed the game and the large headed Ghostbusters. Seeing the video I remember all those scenes, played the he'll put of it. Took me forever to finish.
Moonwalk was another good game surprisingly. It was beyond weird, bit that's why I liked it. It had a lot of small details, the moonwalking, variety of dances, the mech suit, etc... My favorite part was MJ tossing the coin into the Jukebox. Something about it just got me.
Interesting bit of trivia about the Batman Forever Mega Drive/Genesis game. At the end of the level two, the crooks you fight on top of the safe are all named after the 1995 England Rugby World Cup squad.
Sega lord is quickly becoming my favorite youtuber
Thank you for, as usual, a very enjoyable watch. Cheers,
Jurassic Park for the Genesis is still the greatest movie game of all time.
9 minutes in so far...I don't know why "Bram Stoker's Dracula" is such a debatable game. I think it's a great horror game on the Genesis compared to others. Not all of us were blessed with having Castlevania games growing up, so this was a great substitute. Also the music for it was superb...the boss fights are a little easy and some of the enemy placements are annoying/unfair, but it's definitely a good game to have in the collection and not a pass imo.
Very fond of this channel. Thank you.
This was a great video, and I appreciated the high point at the very end with Wayne's World.
Had a great time playing Addam's Family Values growing up. Quite underrated.
Hey Man, I love your videos but Alladdin has an amazing soundtrack. I was actually humming it the other day.
I appreciate the hours of work that went into this, so on behalf of gamers everywhere, I thank you 🙏🏽
Dragon can be fun for younger gamers? Dragon wasn't just terrible, it was nearly impossible unless you used a cheat to get the nunchucks. All in all though a fun video. Nice job.
This would be great to see a Saturn/DC version of this vid for the contrast. One thing I always think of when seeing stuff like this is that so many of these were Western developed at a time when Western console games were generally not good. This is one of the many reasons I typically don't touch Western developed games even to this day, though many indies are at least good if not great these days. I sure hope Japanese game development makes a bigger comeback one of these days.
I never played Ghostbusters on the Genesis eventhough it was primary system when I was a kid and I was a big fan of the 1984 movie. Should remedy this some day. Looks like a decent enough game and I've been on a retro kick lately.
Ghostbusters is solid. Love it.
Ghostbusters was soooooo much fun and even more fun with a friend
I was always really partial to lawnmower man. I played it on snes but broadly the same. Loved it.
That European exclusive Addams Family game remind me of Uncle Festers Quest, which always I thought could of been a great game if just a few things had been tightened up like respawning enemies, the enemies taking too many hits, etc. Id love to see it be a licensed Blaster Master, just with the Zelda style over head stages only.
You were hella kind to lion king. The creator of that game had a youtube video calling it hot garbage. Said disney didnt wana game that could be beaten in a weekend.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day had some interesting ideas with an open world map you'd to travel around trying to complete different objectives. If they'd refined the content a bit and improved the controls it could have been cool.
Great video. Your channel is inspiring
The games that were missed could be incorporated into a follow-up vid (alongside Sega CD games)
One of my first games on Genesis was Rambo 3, it is strange how nowadays i realized how bad it was but at the time i kinda enjoyed.
It isn great but not bad at all. Played it for the first time like 2 years ago and it was solid, a shame is too short.
Mary Shelly's Frankenstein on Sega CD was pretty good, it was like Clocktower meets point & click meets beat em up.
You don't like the Aladdin soundtrack? I love it but it may be purely nostalgia for me for sure
It just never clicked with me. I liked the Mickey games music a lot more.
Yeah I like the soundtrack too, it's a Tommy Tallarico soundtrack after all, his soundtracks are some of the better Genesis soundtracks that use GEMS.
I don't think the Aladdin soundtrack is as good as the Earthworm Jim games or Cool Spot, but I do like the laid back, lounge music vibe it has. It gives the game a lot of it's unique personality.
@@kingboobs20 Listen to the Amiga version of this soundtrack. It is amazing.
Great vids, Sega Lord X -- all praise! :-)
I really like your old intro!
50 titles? 44 minutes? You're a machine.
Editing was the key. Episode was well over an hour originally.
And...I just realized there is a Pinocchio game thanks to you! Dang it! I MUST own this game!
‘I fear to watch, yet I cannot look away.’ - Milhouse.
SO cool to see some love for the often and unfairly maligned lawnmower man.. It's a decent game by all accounts.. I was also a Sega kid like you, but I will admit I do prefer the snes version of that game.. Same game, I just prefer the snes one overall graphically. Cheers!
Pretty sure Bram Stoker's Dracula (Released in September of 1993) reuses some assets from Puggsy (Released in March of 1993), like some barrels, terrain and other assets. As stated in the video, Bram Stoker's Dracula was done by Psygnosis and Traveller's Tales; the same peeps who worked on Puggsy. Also, hidden Mickey at 12:48, lol
Back at the day's I had the demo version from a German Sega magazin. First level playable. But with a cheat you can select all levels. Nice "free" game for me as a kid.
I like Batman Returns, for some reason, and Judge Dredd was awesome to me. I really liked Terminator on Sega CD.
Awesome video, thank you!!