Sega GENESIS Games - Hidden Gems from John Hancock!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- The Immortal John Hancock owns every U.S. game released for the Sega Genesis and in this video he digs DEEP into his collection to find you some Hidden Gems! These games cover every genre and play style and I'm sure you'll find something to add to your Sega Genesis / Mega Drive collection!
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Games Shown:
Buck Rogers
Light Crusader
Toki
Battletech
Skeleton Krew
The Immortal
TechnoClash
Growl
Steel Empire
Red Zone
Doom Troopers
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John Hancock Id probably add Dinosaurs for Hire. Great stupid game. Gem of my childhood!
Have you ever played phelios? No one ever talks about it and it's a great game
Great to see I'm not the only one who though Buck Rodgers was awesome.
Target Earth
Doom Troopers was a Mutant Chronicles card game and that Sega game was the embarrassingly awful video game adaptation. It is absolutely horrid and ugly. But not as bad as the movie!!!
Dammit, John Hancock! Just when I thought I've played every Genesis game you bust out a few games I've never heard of. Gotta find Light Crusader.
Love you Riggs. Light Crusader is amazing.
Omg!! The dude owns every sg games that were released in the US. Holy shit
Sick games indeed, isometric games with good animations and graphics ? I'm on it.
It's a game from Treasure, and If you know your sega genesis you gotta love that Gunstar Heroes and of course the best looking/hardware-intensive game on the system: Alien Soldier. They rock!
Because John Hancock is THE man
Light Crusader must be mine. Holy shit those animations are gorgeous for a Genny game. Great work as always MJR and Immortal One.
The big fly in that game is the difficulty. There is no punishment for dying. You can lose your life infinitely without consequence, and you always stay where you are. I guess it's more of a puzzle game, but why even have HP and healing items and spells if there is no downside to being killed?
Wow, I'm amazed that I've actually only heard of 2 of these. Some pretty cool looking games.
I first played Light Crusader when I had SEGA channel for my Genesis. It was a lot of fun. Another great game by Treasure.
I just discovered Light Crusader myself independently of this video. Well made, fun, rewards diligent exploring, challenging but not broken puzzles (well except one), and you can beat it over a weekend. Had no idea it existed. A true hidden gem!
I had no Idea Al from "Home Improvement" was such a fan of Sega
I want to thank both Metal Jesus and The Immortal John Hancock for getting me back into retro gaming and collecting. You guys along with Reggie, Kinsey, and the rest of the bunch really brought back that amazing feeling of nostalgia for me. You all are awesome and I really appreciate your content even though my wallet might disagree!
Battletech! One of my all time favorites, and actually the first game I got for the genesis back in the day. So cool to see this on the list
I'll throw in a few recommendations.
-Haunting Starring Polterguy
-Wiz 'n' Liz
-Mutant League Football
-Bonanza Brothers
-Sub-Terrania
-General Chaos
- Sub-Terrania was actually covered in part 1 and looks really good.
- Bonanza Bros is an phenomenal game: awesome fun for 2-players, easy to play through in an hour and just hilarious. Pretty sure it was well known at the time though.
- General Chaos is covered in part 3: A game I wanted to love as the idea and style is excellent; shame I always found after about 30 minutes it became pretty tedious and lost its novelty.
- Mutant League Football is a good laugh where you often just try to kill enough players on the other team that they have to forfeit the match! I would recommend Mutant League Hockey for those who want faster action or don't know/care how American Football works.
Rambo 3.....ABSOLUTE BEST SEGA GENESIS GAME EVER. PERIOD!
@@TheMultiGunMan Thank you, will try that one tonight. The Genesis was my console of choice growing up so I knew about a lot of these (General Chaos, Mutant League Football, Haunting, etc) but there's a few that people list next to those classics that I haven't tried. Respecting "old timers", I'll play them all!
@@DaddySizeIt Have fun. I loved my Sega Genesis growing up. I'm collecting for it again now. I like finding the hidden gems that I never knew about before.
could u please make a genesis buying guide!!!!
I'm thinking about doom troopers. We'll see. Oh and 2nd comment
Reggie you should show us more hidden gems, like the ones you showed in your crib!
Reggie, I recommend you the SNES version to play
SNES, it runs smoother and is just as gory, rare for a SNES game to be so gory and somehow it got a teen rating, it is a M rated game with a T rating disguise, also check out WEAPONLORD
+ashfury I promise I will
+Ronny I'll give it a go
I remember seeing "Toki: Going Ape Spit" and "Steel Empire" being featured as playable games in episodes of the Nickelodeon game show "Nick Arcade". :D
I remember first playing Red Zone on the old Sega Channel and being very impressed with that intro. The gameplay a little less so, but was still a solid title. How about Virtual Pinball as a Hidden Gem? From EA and Bill Budge (creator of the Pinball Construction Kit for Apple II and C64) you had 29 tables you could customize to your liking, and 10 slots where you could create your own tables and save them to battery backup.
Great fun.
Yeah Toki Going Ape Spit was pretty good, rather tough though since you died in one hit and the controls took a bit of getting used to
The Sega Genesis is my favorite console of all my life.
Ernest Evans, Moonwalker, El Viento, Valis, Contra Hard Corps, Altered Beast, Atomic Runner, 2020 Super Baseball, RBI 2 and 3, Gunstar Heroes, Thunder Force 3, Altered Beast, Golden Axe 1 and 2, Kabuli Mistycal Fighter, Quakshot, Street of Rage 1 and 2, Shinobi 3 (one of the favorite game of all mi life, awesome music), Revenge of Shinobi, Eswat, Last Battle, Buster Douglas Boxing, Pat Riley Basketball, NBA Jam, Mortal Kombat 1 and 2, Sonic 1, 2 and Sonic and Knucles, TMNT Hyperstone Heist, Growl, Fighting Master, Fatal Fury 1 and 2, Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition, Toki, Earthworm Jim, Dinamite Duke and many, many games.
One day, she come back to me. Sniff.
You can only like Ernest Evans with nostalgia glasses.
Rambo 3.....ABSOLUTE BEST SEGA GENESIS GAME EVER. PERIOD!
I love these episodes even if some of the games i dont like its cool to see games i never heard of
Techno Clash reminds me of Hotline Miami. Great stuff.
I just bought a Sega Genesis today!
The mini is a good buy
Guys u should show Robocop VS Terminator and Maximum Carnage! These are so freakin' awesome!
Mr.Dododi The MegaDrive version of Robocop vs Terminator is 100000000 better then it’s SNES counterpart with it’s awesome 16bit gore.
"Chakan The Forever Man" and "King Of The Monsters 2."
One of my all time favourite systems. The Mega Drive was the system that got me into gaming.
Playing through 'Light Crusader' right now. Cool game; great atmosphere.
You two make me to go out and search for the sega genesis hidden gems!! Great video +MetalJesusRocks . Here in Argentina we have copies of some of these games in cartridges...i think from China or Russia, i don't know....but originals are really too difficult to find them. So, i'll be fine if i find The Immortal on a chinese copy at least. Greetings!
John Hancock is back!
Good stuff, I'll have to look into some of these :)
Great segment! Really enjoyed this one.
I have all my sega & i have skeleton krew 😂 this game is very easy to play & lvl 6 password is R D F K 🤣🤣🤣🤣 growl i have as runark.
stupid youtube didn't have me subbed to you. it was good hanging out in arizona!
It was great seeing you in Arizona dude!
TH-cam caught you slippin'?
he tends to slip when he's one Billy's tip.
This is what i grew up on and gunstar heroes is one of my favorite games of all time!
From someone called "hancock" there's a lack of sexual euphemisms.
... some people grow up
OUCH
Thankfully not everyone.
Hand-CACK
Nobody grows up. Some people just become bitter about the way their life turns out and they attempt to hide it by pretending that they've "grown up".
Battletech looks really cool!
The Immortal One the great John Hancock!! Another great video from MJ and the man himself.
amazing how that beard transforms his face
Hey, I've got that Alice in Chains LP. Original release copy, too. It was a nice find.
omg ive been trying to figure out what skeleton krew was for years. my friend rented it from food town once.
Awe man! I used to have Light Crusader when I was a kid, but I never beat it because I was too dumb to play RPGs when I was little.
One of my favorite hidden gems on the Genesis is Gain Ground. You always fight up and pick ip diferent heroes that can sttacl in different directions. some have guns, bows, Spears, rocket launchers, its so much fun!
Strider, Contra Hard Corps, and A Haunting Starring PoulterGuy were my favorites!
This is great! The Immortal was one of the first games I picked up when I got my Genesis. So good. Sadly, the battery is dead, and it won't boot anymore, but I remember being blown away by this one so many years ago. Seeing the screen shots, it really holds up to this day. I miss the old EA...
Funny - I was just today looking for footage of obscure Sega Genesis games, and found the old video - And lo and behold, you posted a follow-up TODAY! Never watched your channel before, but adding it to my subs. Good stuff!
In hindsight it feels like a precursor to stuff like Dark Souls.. It has the same sorta vibe..
Yeah Light Crusader! One of the best megadrive/genesis games for me. Has also a real cool intro and well made music.
Thank you so much for covering Skeleton Krew! I've been been trying to remember what this game was called for so long now, and I couldn't find mention of it anywhere. I used to play it as a kid on Sega Channel. Even back then I had never heard of the game before, so I thought it was gonna be bad (a lot of the games on Sega Channel were not so good). But it was great! I loved that game. One of my favorite games on the Genesis at the time. But then my Sega Channel subscription ended, and I never saw the game again until now, 25 years later. Thank you so much for taking me back! The nostalgia is very real.
Good stuff, my collection so far has mainly been limited to handheld consoles and I was surprised to find out how cheap Mega Drive/Genesis systems are. Got the Mega Drive 1 from eBay for around 20 bucks although I had to look for the cables and controllers separately which cost me about the same amount as the console, but it seemed like the better option as I really wanted the original model as it has a much nicer retro look to it
I am planning on getting a multicart to start out with though, I really don't feel like throwing a lot of money on cartridges right now and rather look for them over time and it's a good way to start
I sold my SEGA collection back in the day for a PS2 and two games, Vertical Fighter 4, and Tecken 4. I have been trying to rebuy my collection back from my childhood.almost complete again. But I also aqiyered some new games in the process. I am a SEGA kid and always will be.
This will be so helpful! I'm getting a genesis from a friend
Light Crusader was the game my bros and I played on Sega Channel. Took turns passing the controller, figuring out the puzzles with those wonky controls. Eventually found a used copy at a video rental store. Good time...
Skeleton Krew was another one we played a lot on Sega Channel
I hope for the sake of your soul that General Chaos is in the next stack :)
Some favs were: ninja turtles, xmen, sonic, street fighter. All great cooperative games on this console
I had Red Zone. It was one of those games that was far too difficult for a 5-7 year old so I didnt get very far. It was also quite a creepy game and even now gives me the chills seeing it. Im not sure why, maybe because it was quite realistic and when your characters died they were dead forever, no funeral, no mention just you didnt get to play them anymore. The mission goes on in its dark somber way.
The soundtrack when you're in the buildings is a true masterpiece suspense builder
Sweet! I recently brought a copy of The Immortal too 😊 Great video as always
Excellent list, most of which I hadn’t heard of before but now must check out! Thank you! ❤️🙏🏻
great videos guys. every in Philadelphia Pennsylvania come check out my collection. about 60 games away from my entire us genesis set. again guys love the videos
lol, Doom Troopers is absolutely terrible. It's a 4 outta 10 at best. Mind-numbing that anyone would pretend it's anywhere near good.
Light Crusader, which has been in almost every major collection, on the Wii virtual console, on steam, and is on the Sega Genesis Mini, is a hidden gem?
Skeleton krew is a nice one to collect for the Amiga cd32.
I love just how happy John Hancock is in this. All smiles, all the time.
Where is the Sega Genesis buying guide!? Can’t believe you have never made one!!
Red Zone is more impressive than many Saturn titles. Crazy Tech!
If you want to get any far in battletech, play it two in player mode. First player controls top of the robot and weaponry, while second player does the walking. Benefits are that in two player mode, you do not have to walk in direction you shoot, so you can run away while shooting at danger.
Rambo 3.....ABSOLUTE BEST SEGA GENESIS GAME EVER. PERIOD!
Woot i love the Sega growing up :P
I'm thinking of grabbing a copy of skeleton crew but it's loose and has rental stickers on it, but it's at a fair price...just not sure it's worth it after seeing other videos on it. Has a great look but the controls seem a bit sketchy and the gameplay seems a bit off and a bit shallow (even for a shooter).
love the games but seriously that shirt is offensive. you call your self metal Jesus yet you have a pentagram on your shirt. not happy
Back when MJR had to ask: "first of all, what is a _hidden gem_?!"
the silly use of the word gem all the freaking time the hand gestures . THANKS GAMESACK cannot unsee now
hi metaljesus..ive seen your videos the ps1 hidden gems, ps3 hidden, ps collections etc.. theyre fucking awesome..
one thing, May i request.. Can you do Shin Megami Tensei videos? I do recommend make videos of em inluding persona games:)
Ranger-x or x-renza (depending on your region). definitely should've been mentioned
How is this guy immortal? Did he survive a bunch of surgeries where he flat lined and came back to life?
+KWKBOX he is the originally signer of the Declaration of Independence. We owe a LOT to John! #TrueStory
The console is called Genesis because of most Americans' have an invisible friend and someone has written a book genesis in a book of fairy tales called bibel.
He's named after one the founding fathers of this great country. U know, the one to sign the Declaration of Independence first?
Tommy: "John Hancock. It's Herbie Hancock. Duh!"
Dave Rigali Thanks for the history lesson. Now explain how this man is immortal because there are a lot of people named after others and nobody claims to be immortal because they have the name of somebody else. Now if his name was count dracula it might make more sense.
To John Hancock's beard: Welcome back buddy!!
Doom Troopers was such a cool game back then, I still remember the first level by heart.
Light Crusader absolutely a hidden gem. LOVE that game!!!
Some sweet games. I'll check some of those out!
Love these hidden gem shows!
Still have my Genesis and it still works many childhood memories
i actually remember last crusader!!!
I love John's enthusiasm!
I loved Battletech. Thanks for the flashback.
Oh man Buck Rogers was so good. Better than the IBM version IMO. Love the SSI manuals too they had so much info in there. The golden days.
Starflight as well is fantastic
unfortunately not, i wish they did tho. i played the shit out of buck rogers, finished it like 30 times
They don't make game covers like they used to.
WHERE IS PART 2??
Great vid. You had several of my recommendations on here as well as some I have never heard of. Immortal and Light Crusader are awesome.
Watching you guys in the same video is just awesome. I love the Genesis so thank you for all the great info. Keep up the great work guys!
I could never figure out Buck Rodgers. Skeleton crew looks great.
Yes!!! Sega Genesis!!! My childhood!!! xD This was my first console!!! Omg I played Chuck Rock II: Son of Chuck soooo many times!!!!!! :D
I loved Buck Rogers on the genesis. Played that a ton when I was young!
I love that you take the time to include game play for each game. much appreciated and we'll done guys!
Yeeees! I was looking for Toki: Going ape spit for ages. I remember it from my childhood, that it was a super tripy game, but could never remember the title. Thanks for this!
Usually these "Hidden Gems" videos are literally the same games EVERYONE posts as hiddgen gems.But he really found a bunch of games that look AMAZING to me for the Genesis. Most of them are also ones I've never heard of as well.
I love seeing his collections. Great hidden gems video MJR!
Would lovvvvvvve to check out this dudes collection some day. Played the genesis religiously as a kid but a lot of games I borrowed or rented and for the life of me only remember minor details about, like a cool boss fight or interesting main character sprite. Took me a long time to put names to cartridges for a couple of games like gauntlet and dinosaurs for hire because I was just so young at the time. You ever have a game that took you forever to rediscover?
u make my day man, i love videogames, but is so hard to find origimnal ones on my city, but i can emulate, an if i find them, i buy it, awesome channel, i miss my oldie psp :(.Congratulations awesome colecction
I love these videos as a reference point when I play my retro pi. I have a running list of games to play thanks to these awesome videos!!
Glad to see the beard is back John!
The Immortal. That's a legit hidden gem. Hard as she-ite. I remember renting it from Hastings and late fees and re-renting and only one copy so hard to get. Loved the bloody melting deaths.
@metaljesusrocks please do a game review for Iron Maiden legacy of the beast. it's a mobile game that came out about 2 weeks ago. it's pretty cool!
Steel Empire was one of my favorite Genesis games growing up.
Oh man, Battletech was my favorite game on Genesis!
Awesome video as always!
Out of these games games I only own Toki in a box, a friend of mine was going to send me Growl but turned out he lost it or some such, shame really.
Doom Troopers I never liked due to the ugly pre rendered visuals, now thanks to this video its price will skyrocket so I'm never going to get it even if I wanted to lol...nah i don't want it, even on SNES it looks like ass to me and it's all clunky and weird
Nice job with the video freq. lately MJ .Somebodys not taking the summer off
I wish I could find these games when I hit up yard sales. But all I can ever find are sports games. Only sorts games that make me even a tad interested are hockey or soccer games. Great video guys! Looking forward to part 2!
I love seeing the dream team!
Zero listing for Growls on ebay. and after this video this game just became 30% more harder to find, and 50% more expensive than it used to sale after this video.
100% true man.
it lacks multiplayer which bites. I picked it up for like 2 bucks at my Mega Replay. I didn't realize it was so hard to come by.
There are multiple growl games on eBay. You just spelt it wrong
sorry but i dont get it!...I collect for MD/Genesis for nearly 20years! everytime MJR puts a hidden gems vid out, the midgets come out and complain! HOW ABOUT DOIN YOUR OWN RESEARCH!? I the case of "Growl" maybe you find it under "Runark"!! MOST PEOPLE WANT THE BIG PRICY BLOCKBUSTER OF A GAME ON A SILVER PLATE FOR CHEAP!!! If you want so,go find your own "Collecting niche" and Start your own Collecting Project! Only sitT there,wait for the next Hidden Gems Video to come up and then rush to Ebay isnt enough! Go ask when Hancock started his Collection! I Bet he started when nobody cared about stuff like NES,SNES,MD etc. This is how you make it!!
Oh no.