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 TH-cam.
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!
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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
😊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.
@@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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
There is a lot of great titles here Addams Family and Value, Dick Tracy, Batman, Aladdin, Aliens 3, Pinocchio, jungle book, ghost buster, lost world, demolition man, judge dredd, predator 2, jurrasic park 1and 2, lion king, moonwalker, Pocahontas, rambo 3, terminator and arcade, toystory, true lies, universal soldier enough here to make a great collection!
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!
Sega obviously didn't have exclusive rights to Jurassic Park games, since SNES got a different JP game. NES too. Heck, maybe even Game Boy. That Jungle Book game has me wondering why there is ground in the trees.
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.
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.
You were much more merciful to "Wayne's World" than the AVGN was. Some recommendations for future videos are below: Genesis games based on television shows like "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Echoes from the Past," "Beavis and Butthead," and "Bart's Nightmare." Saturn film games like "The Lost World," "Independence Day," "Die Hard Trilogy," and "Street Fighter: The Movie."
Back to the Future 3 for Genesis, I’m sorry but I got some enjoyment out of it. The first level is infuriating but I weathered the storm and was persistent. I finally beat it and nowadays I can usually beat it first time every time. It’s not that hard once you get to know the controls. Once you’re done with it, the rest of the game was more fun. Trying to get the score needed for the shooting game, and throwing the pie plates was fun to play. The last level was the funnest of all. What gave it replay value was the difficulty so I guess I just didn’t give up so easily. Definitely should have never been paid a big price for though. We got it cheap back in the day. No big deal.
Point of order - the Sega CD/Mega CD Dune game is based on the first Dune title that was released for DOS/Amiga/Atari ST. That's why it's completely different.
hahahaha, dude, I love how you just show no mercy on ripping apart some of the shittier games and their developers. and rightfully so. there is absolutely nothing worse than a half assed game made, in some cases completely broken just to take advantage of sales from innocent gamers. it's friggin insulting. if anyone who managed these companies or was a programmer for some of these terrible games, hang your head in shame.
In a lot of cases it's simply a lack of time - nobody sets out to make a bad game, but when you're forced to get the game out before the movie's release date and the budget for the project simply wasn't high enough to begin with, there's not much you can do. It's not really the developer's fault in most cases. Plus, at least for the merely mediocre titles there's still a lot of people who have fond memories of those games when they were younger, even if they pale in comparison to the best games on the system.
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. 😂😂
Terminator 2 the arcade game, Rambo III, Predator 2, Moonwalker, Aladdin, Ghostbusters, Pinocchio, Dick Tracy, all three Jurassic Parks, Toy Story, Pocahontas and Power Rangers the Movie were the best for me. Alien 3, and Hook were decent.
Alien 3 was tough as old boots and had a amazing soundtrack I remember having it on headphones playing it at night and being tired at school did anyone beat it?
I discovered Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, True Lies & Stargate well beyond the 16 Bit era and IMHO are very solid games. They all have some similarities gameplay wise but they’ve got a lot of action, exploration, music and solid sound effects. Wish I knew about these games back in the early 90’s but I was probably distracted by other AAA games back then.
Movie-based games usually have bad rep but on Mega Drive it's quite a different story as there are so many good ones! Among the best we can find: -Rambo III -Mickael Jackson's Moonwalker -Ghostbusters -Dick Tracy -Alien3 -Dune: The Battle for Arrakis -Demolition Man -Batman -Aladdin -The Jungle Book -Home Alone -Predator 2 -Addams Family -T2: The Arcade Game -True Lies -Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie -Jurassic Park (and the Mega-CD follow-up is also a good one) -The Lost World: Jurassic Park -Pocahontas Quite a great line-up with most genres covered from platformers to beat 'em ups to light gun shooters. And on top of great presentation and (more or less) good gameplay, most of these games also happen to have great soundtracks! And I might also add The Lawnmower Man (and not just because of the mind-blowing pseudo-3D sections), Toy Story (another impressive game but what about the gameplay?), Home Alone 2 (which seems pretty good actually), The Lion King (looks nice and the music by Matt Furniss are once again fantastic but the gameplay doesn't seem as good as other Disney games on the system) or Warlock (heard good things about it). But then there are also stinkers for sure such as Last Action Hero (although the music is the kind of so bad it's hilarious so there's that), Fantasia (looks great, plays like crap) or Wayne's World (not *too* bad but not good either).
Didn't really understand the "we'd have had a winner" part. Lion King is awesome, one of the best platform games on the console, really. Never understood the difficulty argument either, i finished it several times as a kid with no particular trouble.
Just want to add that Terminator is one of those 1 death means a game over. Where the game is so short it's easily repayable so it's relatively easy to get good at it. Awesome game.
Yeah, that first Batman game from Sunsoft is beyond awsome. One of the best games on the system and one of my favorite games of all times. Also you should mention games like: Pirates of Dark Water, Tom and Jerry Frantic Antics, Silvester & Tweetty, Gargoyles, Spider-Man The Animated Series Video Game and TaleSpin.
Back to the Future 3 on genesis. I rented that, and hated it so much. I got decent at the first stage, but I got so mad at howI'd have to re-do that first stage so many times. Later on in life I went through with an emulator and beat the game. Very unfulfilling life I lead
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?
I've heard the story that Cutthroat Island was designed as poorly as possible (at least on some versions) because the developers were trying to claim a loss on their insurance, or something to that effect.
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? 😐
@@ChillingCrowley "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 TH-cam.
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+
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
Anyone from the UK remember the TV shows The Gamesmaster and Bad Influence lol those were the good old days.
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
whaaat? Aladdin has some of the best tunes on the system! especially from an American developer.
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.
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. 🤣
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.
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...
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 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 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 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.
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 TH-cam?
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.
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 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 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'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.
the amount and quality of content you put out is amazing!
Rambo III is my favourite Genesis movie game AND my favourite Genesis game overall as well.
Jurassic Park for the Genesis is still the greatest movie game of all time.
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
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.
you crazy Music on Aladdin's Sega MD game is epic!
My top 5 would be
1. Aladdin
2. Alien 3
3. Batman
4. Ghostbusters
5. Rambo III
I MUCH prefer your longer vids like these. It's pretty entertaining and informative.
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
😊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.
Watching this video, was like watching a battle between Stallone and Schwarzenegger of who had the better Genesis games!
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.
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
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.
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.
Jurassic Park was so addictive. A great finale too with the T-Rex and all. Just wish it had more memorable music
Man, I loved Toy Story on the Genesis!
Great video I love the BatMan from SunSoft was awesome when I played it for the first time on my Sega Mega Drive 👍👍👍👍👍
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.
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.
Your critique of games you dislike never fail to make me laugh. Love this channel.
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.
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.
24:02 Jaw dropper. Just for the title screen background alone. I mean, look at its animation.
I appreciate the hours of work that went into this, so on behalf of gamers everywhere, I thank you 🙏🏽
50 titles? 44 minutes? You're a machine.
Editing was the key. Episode was well over an hour originally.
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.
No way dude, Home Alone was great.
I enjoyed finding items and manufacturing different weapons.
‘I fear to watch, yet I cannot look away.’ - Milhouse.
“Dark, soulless graphics rape your eyes”😂😂😂🙌🙌🙌 Perfect.
That killed me😂
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.
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.
Ghostbusters was soooooo much fun and even more fun with a friend
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.
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.
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
Power Rangers the Movie on Sega Genesis is one of my favorite beat 'em ups.
There is a lot of great titles here Addams Family and Value, Dick Tracy, Batman, Aladdin, Aliens 3, Pinocchio, jungle book, ghost buster, lost world, demolition man, judge dredd, predator 2, jurrasic park 1and 2, lion king, moonwalker, Pocahontas, rambo 3, terminator and arcade, toystory, true lies, universal soldier enough here to make a great collection!
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 like Batman Returns, for some reason, and Judge Dredd was awesome to me. I really liked Terminator on Sega CD.
Sega obviously didn't have exclusive rights to Jurassic Park games, since SNES got a different JP game. NES too. Heck, maybe even Game Boy.
That Jungle Book game has me wondering why there is ground in the trees.
Home Alone is an awesome game, Aladdin has great music, and Last Action Hero is a great movie.
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.
Dude...."Warlock" was a video rental store classic!
I liked the film myself, but you gotta admit it was a strange choice to bring out 6 years later as a video game.
@@SegaLordX yeah?.. I'll definitely agree with you on that!😅
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.
You were much more merciful to "Wayne's World" than the AVGN was. Some recommendations for future videos are below:
Genesis games based on television shows like "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Echoes from the Past," "Beavis and Butthead," and "Bart's Nightmare."
Saturn film games like "The Lost World," "Independence Day," "Die Hard Trilogy," and "Street Fighter: The Movie."
Back to the Future 3 for Genesis, I’m sorry but I got some enjoyment out of it. The first level is infuriating but I weathered the storm and was persistent. I finally beat it and nowadays I can usually beat it first time every time. It’s not that hard once you get to know the controls.
Once you’re done with it, the rest of the game was more fun. Trying to get the score needed for the shooting game, and throwing the pie plates was fun to play. The last level was the funnest of all. What gave it replay value was the difficulty so I guess I just didn’t give up so easily. Definitely should have never been paid a big price for though. We got it cheap back in the day. No big deal.
Point of order - the Sega CD/Mega CD Dune game is based on the first Dune title that was released for DOS/Amiga/Atari ST. That's why it's completely different.
hahahaha, dude, I love how you just show no mercy on ripping apart some of the shittier games and their developers.
and rightfully so. there is absolutely nothing worse than a half assed game made, in some cases completely broken just to take advantage of sales from innocent gamers. it's friggin insulting. if anyone who managed these companies or was a programmer for some of these terrible games, hang your head in shame.
In a lot of cases it's simply a lack of time - nobody sets out to make a bad game, but when you're forced to get the game out before the movie's release date and the budget for the project simply wasn't high enough to begin with, there's not much you can do. It's not really the developer's fault in most cases.
Plus, at least for the merely mediocre titles there's still a lot of people who have fond memories of those games when they were younger, even if they pale in comparison to the best games on the system.
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. 😂😂
Terminator 2 the arcade game, Rambo III, Predator 2, Moonwalker, Aladdin, Ghostbusters, Pinocchio, Dick Tracy, all three Jurassic Parks, Toy Story, Pocahontas and Power Rangers the Movie were the best for me. Alien 3, and Hook were decent.
I have several of these games on my Genesis. I completely agree with your analysis of the games (the ones that I own).
Alien 3 was tough as old boots and had a amazing soundtrack I remember having it on headphones playing it at night and being tired at school did anyone beat it?
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If you had had a chance to publish this almost three decades ago, so many birthdays and Christmases would have been saved.
I discovered Judge Dredd, Demolition Man, True Lies & Stargate well beyond the 16 Bit era and IMHO are very solid games. They all have some similarities gameplay wise but they’ve got a lot of action, exploration, music and solid sound effects. Wish I knew about these games back in the early 90’s but I was probably distracted by other AAA games back then.
Hey Man, I love your videos but Alladdin has an amazing soundtrack. I was actually humming it the other day.
Movie-based games usually have bad rep but on Mega Drive it's quite a different story as there are so many good ones! Among the best we can find:
-Rambo III
-Mickael Jackson's Moonwalker
-Ghostbusters
-Dick Tracy
-Alien3
-Dune: The Battle for Arrakis
-Demolition Man
-Batman
-Aladdin
-The Jungle Book
-Home Alone
-Predator 2
-Addams Family
-T2: The Arcade Game
-True Lies
-Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie
-Jurassic Park (and the Mega-CD follow-up is also a good one)
-The Lost World: Jurassic Park
-Pocahontas
Quite a great line-up with most genres covered from platformers to beat 'em ups to light gun shooters. And on top of great presentation and (more or less) good gameplay, most of these games also happen to have great soundtracks!
And I might also add The Lawnmower Man (and not just because of the mind-blowing pseudo-3D sections), Toy Story (another impressive game but what about the gameplay?), Home Alone 2 (which seems pretty good actually), The Lion King (looks nice and the music by Matt Furniss are once again fantastic but the gameplay doesn't seem as good as other Disney games on the system) or Warlock (heard good things about it).
But then there are also stinkers for sure such as Last Action Hero (although the music is the kind of so bad it's hilarious so there's that), Fantasia (looks great, plays like crap) or Wayne's World (not *too* bad but not good either).
Nah not Home Alone
Aladdin was probably the most quality and it was difficult. I loved it! True Lies has gotten a lot of praise for how fun it is..
Didn't really understand the "we'd have had a winner" part. Lion King is awesome, one of the best platform games on the console, really.
Never understood the difficulty argument either, i finished it several times as a kid with no particular trouble.
Lion King is insanely difficult. From a person who's completed Gunstar Heroes, Lion King is stupid-hard in a very cheap way.
@@HieroicDose No it's not.
Just want to add that Terminator is one of those 1 death means a game over. Where the game is so short it's easily repayable so it's relatively easy to get good at it. Awesome game.
Yeah, that first Batman game from Sunsoft is beyond awsome. One of the best games on the system and one of my favorite games of all times. Also you should mention games like: Pirates of Dark Water, Tom and Jerry Frantic Antics, Silvester & Tweetty, Gargoyles, Spider-Man The Animated Series Video Game and TaleSpin.
Back to the Future 3 on genesis. I rented that, and hated it so much. I got decent at the first stage, but I got so mad at howI'd have to re-do that first stage so many times. Later on in life I went through with an emulator and beat the game. Very unfulfilling life I lead
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?
toy story was perfect in every aspect
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.
Sega lord is quickly becoming my favorite youtuber
The little mermaid gameplay seriously reminds me of storm from spiderman and the xmen arcades revenge lol
I've heard the story that Cutthroat Island was designed as poorly as possible (at least on some versions) because the developers were trying to claim a loss on their insurance, or something to that effect.
I had Pocahontas. It was a great game, maybe only too short.