Bonus camera footage at the end before the credits! Man I didn't know US ESWAT had any changes. I purchased the Japanese version back in the day. I was on the phone with the guy at the game store and he said "Man ESWAT on the Mega Drive has a bunch of voices... and they sound like REAL RECORDINGS!" That's all I needed to hear and ran down and bought it. I've never played the US version but now I'll have to fire it up on a flash cart. Maybe I'll have to do another Regional Differences episode sometime. Oh, and JP MD Strider also makes a "Pah" vocal noise every time he swings his sword. It's the same with the arcade. They took it out in the North American version because the version of the arcade here doesn't do that either. Not sure if I like it or not. What's censored about the last boss? I honestly can't remember and I have both JP and NA versions.
Western Eswat loses a couple of voice samples and a few level details / traps that exist in the JPN original. It's not only watered down but less challenging, for better or worse.
Closest thing I can think of is that the last boss of Strider loses his voice in the US version. In the Japanese version, he says "All sons of old gods, die!" before you fight him (same in the original arcade).
I like your attitude to this hobby. I’ve replaced some old MegaDrive games I had lost and picked up a heap that I never owned all at reasonable prices here in 🇦🇺. But the ones I set out to own at the beginning are more than I want to spend. Last MegaDrive pick up was EA Double Header Madden/Hockey.
I got Virtua Racing complete w/ box/manual for only 5 bucks at a collector game store few years ago, and it was in pretty great condition almost brand new !
Bloody love this channel. Loads of regular content, informative, & puts in personal perspective & memories alongside facts about each game. Excellent stuff.
I've been playing a lot of retro games lately and it's really made me completely forget about all the modern crap that's coming out. The thing is, there are so many great games that came out forever ago which I haven't even played. I have a backlog of games I'd like to play before I die and the ironic thing is I might not even get to play them all before I die because there are so many. We are truly in a golden era of video-gaming. Great video as always sega lord. You always make these retro trips so entertaining 😃
There's a lot of old crap just like there's a lot of modern crap. And there's a lot of good new games just like there's a lot of good old games. I own over 1000 games and some of my favorites are really old, but some of them are pretty recent. I have replayed the Mass Effect series countless times. I'll never get tired of Hyper Light Drifter. I love FURI to pieces. I love Horizon Zero Dawn and Persona 5 and could replay them over and over (and do). But the Genesis also had some good games. I love Sonic, Aladdin, Toejam & Earl, Lightning Force, Jungle Book, Cool Spot, Castle of Illusion, The Lion King, Road Rash Trilogy, John Madden Football, etc. I love Saturn most of all currently but there's countless good games on NES I have never played and countless modern great games I haven't played either. But good grief, weeding through modern and old games alike takes forever because there is so much crap in both old and new games. I think like 9 out of 10 Genesis games I've tried are terrible. On SNES it's MUCH worse. Like 24 out of 25 are terrible. Not sure about NES yet. Gotta dig in more.
Could not agree more! I have completely shifted my focus to past games and systems I missed out on decades ago. Thanks to everdrives and how far emulation has come I have been having a blast exploring stuff I only dreamed about as a kid.
Your insight is much needed to be heard in the video game space we are in. A positive outlook is much needed and you sir are are shining light 💡 don’t let no shadow cast over you or your shining light! God bless my guy and Sega forever!!
JP Sonic 1 is definitely worth it. The background parallax enhancements really add a lot of depth to Marble, Spring Yard and Scrap Brain. Nice ripple effects in Labyrinth were also added.
@@TheNawaf258 It's in the JP version. In fact, spikes have the same behavior in very early Sonic 2 builds, as it's basically an official ROM hack. It's modified in Sonic Jam and completely patched out in Mega Collection.
Thank you for lists like this. Helps me collect a little more. I have a large collection but my local game store went under so it's hard to find random cheap games to pickup and play RIP CD GAME EXCHANGE.
I literally just came here after having a little play session of Jungle strike.. haven't watched this video yet, am about to, but saw this comment right away and have to agree 1000% I loved the striker series on Megadrive/Genesis and, as I said, still play them to this day. Lovely simple mission based gameplay to counter long sessions of open world games. There's a below comment about "woke" companies being reluctant, which might be right, but id be totally onboard. The crazy thing is literally just a day or two ago I caught myself thinking "with all the cash grab remakes that we get but don't need, this is one game Id love to see re-made" and here I find this comment a day later!
@@Vulpas U might be right, but I wonder - if that was the case, why do we not only get 37 Call of Duty sequels, but remakes and remasters of them as well?! Surely, someone along the way might have been worried about upsetting a middle eastern audience (in the case of modern warfare to name one, which is one of the few I've played), and altho I'm not a huge COD fan and don't know all the narrative of the games, I'm sure other nationalities MIGHT find offence to some other games, but here we are. With that in mind, I see no reason we couldn't get a remake of the strike games, tho of course they are a different company and I suppose, sadly, u might be right.... but I hope you're wrong! I see no reason not to give us desert or Jungle strike... tho, obviously Soviet strike might be one to avoid right now.
Great stuff as always. Genesis has tons of quality cheap games. I'm glad you call out asshole speculators and price gougers too. I really wish the community as a whole just flat out stopped paying high prices for old games. Flippers and resellers would fall flat on their face and liquidate their stock at a loss. Then real fans of collecting and having original games and hardware would enjoy the hobby paying very little. Greed has ruined old school gaming. As long as idiots pay high prices scumbags will keep taking advantage of them. Buy an Everdrive, download entire ROM sets and watch the prices plummet.
Man, Sega Lord X.. That Saturn game collection at the end, was a thing of beauty. 👍 It brought a tear to my eye.😭 I really miss being a kid. If I had a time machine, I would go back in time and live in the 90's forever.
Thanks for making this video! I was just at a retro game store and picked up Desert strike without even knowing that it was going to be on this list! Some of these games are awesome and I’m happy that they’re not so expensive yet
I definitely do agree that there are still a lot of good affordable games out there even if you can’t afford the greatest ones. In fact, I think besides the Atari 2600 and possibly the PS1 or 2, I think I’ve noticed that out of most retro game consoles out there the Sega Genesis has the most affordable games you can get for it. I think that’s probably a major factor as to why the Genesis has become one of my favorite retro game consoles, and how I was able to acquire so many games.
My Genesis collection is about 90 games, probably 65 or so CIB, while my SNES collection lags behind at 40-ish, only about 10 CIB. Price is a big reason. Even during my prime collecting years in the late 2000s (about 15 years ago now!), a CIB Genesis game averaged about what a loose SNES game cost, and CIB SNES games cost a pretty penny and the boxes were still usually beat up. I remember getting my Earthbound cart in 2011, it was an obvious rental mule in C-grade condition, cart only, and still cost a triple-digit dollar amount. Even today, something as relatively common as Earthbound in that condition would never go for north of 100 bucks on Sega Genesis. There is a Nintendo tax in vintage game collecting, and that's been true for many years. March 25, 2022 11:29 pm
Another excellent video. For me it wasn't that I'd gotten every Nintendo game I wanted, more the chance to experience what I missed out on with Sega stuff growing up. It's much easier to appreciate now that it's not always put up against a competitor, and can be more clearly seen as one medium of pixel art and chiptunes among many. On the flip side, one factoid about Whip Rush people might appreciate is that it was programmed by Takayan, the guy behind Battle Mania. He said he did them for the Mega Drive because he "didn't like Nintendo."
Another alternative is the Sega Genesis Mini, a nice micro console with a lot of games, including several mentioned in this video. I find this to be preferable to a real Genesis, because the games are built in, more can be added with minor hacking, and it can be easily connected to a modern television. An actual Genesis... does not look so great on a flat screen TV!
You can always get an Analogue Mega SG if you want to have the best possible picture. I went that route and it looks astoundingly good on my HD TV. Not cheap but beautiful.
Using the RGB video output on the Genesis ran through the OSSC or Retrotink looks amazing at 1080p. The Genesis has like the worst yellow RCA composite output that's not the N64, but it probably has the best RGB output. Looks just as clear and sharp as emulation.
I bought a Genesis because i always saw the Toy Story game advertised on the VHs intro and wanted to play it. Bought a carboard box complete for $20. I've enjoyed the simplicity of the system
Another fine video by SLX! I sadly must admit I was NOT a gamer as a kid, and didn't become one until the Late 90s. My sisters DID OWN an NES and SEGA Genesis, but had limited games for it. My first handheld was a GameBoy Color and first console was a Nintendo 64, and for that reason most of my games are good to hold onto (I still have a in-box copy of "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door" that honestly, I only played for about 3-4 hours before losing interest in it...) In recent years of collecting the games I have been curious about that I missed out on as a kid (such as Ristar, Earthworm Jim: Special Edition and literally ANY GAME in the SEGA Saturn Library) or games people online have slammed on but still was curious about, wanted to give a fair chance and honestly got some enjoyment out of (Earthworm Jim 3D, Wild Woody and the Gex Trilogy of Games), I will admit the prices for collecting retro games is bottom-line ridiculous. So much so, that one year I wanted to put "Burning Rangers" on one of my holiday wishlist, but the price for a complete boxed copy alone later made me face reality and scrap the whole idea... For that reason, my retro game collection is quite tiny, but being how I only play video games on a once-in-a-while basis these days, I'm PERFECTLY fine with that. I still do have games I wish I had played back in the day and owned a copy of, but for the most part, those are the games I already own in my collection...
To all the people complaining about prices or how these games used to be dirt cheap… that’s just collectible markets in general. In the 1960’s, nobody cared about owning a Topps 1952 Micky Mantle. In the 1970’s back issues of early Amazing Spider-Man comics were probably affordable. I was buying retro games in the 90’s and remember getting bulk lots for less than $2 a game. Now games are in demand and the dollar has less purchasing power than 20 years ago also. Higher prices are par for the course.
I totally agree with buying games in bad shape and giving them a better home. I think it also gives some "patina" to them. The most important thing to me is playing the original hardware, not looks.
Sega has done a fantastic job of rereleasing Genesis/megadrive games on modern consoles, not to mention the Genesis mini. And now we are even getting some of the more obscure games for the Everdrive. An alternative way of collecting official commercial releases for a lot less.
I was impressed that you showed the "Dick Tracy" game as I recently found it on an emulator (Super Console X) and love the game. The ability to shoot the targets in the foreground as well as background is also orchestrated very well. It is unlike any other game of that time period IMO. Great video. Peace!
Yea, it is an awesome game, it was a favourite of a mate and mine back in the early 90's. We would hire it from the video shop. I bought it for the Master System and it has the shoot the bad guys in the background too.
@@johnbowles5399 That's definitely the big problem with this game. The final stage's difficulty is absolutely ridiculous and I can't beat it even with savestates. Everything up until then is great though. If you consider Stage 5 the final stage and ignore Stage 6, Dick Tracy on Genesis is a fantastic game.
@@atrocity3010 The game is so bloody tough that as a kid I had a theory that Sega never actually finished making the game, so they made stages 5 and 6 almost impossible to complete so you'd never find out. 😆
I believe video games are made to be played, so while I mostly agree about not sweating over something like a worn label as long as the game is playable I personally prefer something identifiable rather than a worn out mess. We rented the heck out of Phantasy Star IV in the 90s and in the late 00s or early 2010s I chose to look for a complete-in-box copy on eBay. Found one for under $50 and was surprised how little it was worn, like it was barely played at all. No noticeable creases in the instructions or tears in the map, and the box was intact.
I LOVE Genesis 6 pak, bought 1 loose and another plastic boxed, boxed i paid under 20 or even less. Aladdin boxed complete/great condition paid less than 30, Sonic Japanese boxed minus manual i think paid 20 at import collector store
Hey slx it's the guy who emailed you awhile ago about his two dogs and Im doing better than at the time I emailed you and thank you for that email it meant a lot more than u know. I watch every one of your videos some of them multiple times and I want share I got a loose copy of NBA jam at a local pawn shop for snes about 7 months ago for 10 bucks and still can't believe I found it for so cheap and you can't spend ten bucks and get as much fun out something for that price. And your videos have given me something I look forward to that I always learn from about a hobby that I love weather its a hidden gem for a steal or games that stupidly over priced. Or games to avoid.
I still have about 32 gameboy advanced games in mint condition with every original insert for the boxes and the original receipts when I bought them back when I was like 16. Did the math combined their worth like 7k ish. People that I know used to say that I was crazy for keeping all my stuff but look at me now lol.
This is a really tough time for people getting into retro video games. All the best games went way the hell up and flash carts from trusted sellers/retailers have become scarce. Unless you’re willing to dish out the big bucks to resellers. Mister Devices and Retropies are probably the next best thing. After that its PC Emulation.
I still have most of the games featured in the video all in cases and in perfect conditions..... and till this day, I still think that Evander Holifields read deal boxing and Greatest Heavyweights are still two of the best boxing games I've EVER played
Love the video Sega Lord X, excellent break down of what games are affordable from different regions. I'd like to point out that those prices shown in your video are the U.S. prices, here in Australia they're roughly anywhere between $50 and $100 dollars as the Aussie dollar is buying roughly 72c U.S. cents.
Im lucky enough to have begun collecting before prices got too out of hand but I am late to the Genesis party. I do have a couple from this list already but will keep my eyes peeled for Tiny Toons, Jungle Book, the Strike series and Toy Story. Always on the lookout for games to play with my little girl.
1.) I bought Tiny Toons immediately after your review video on it and was able to get it CIB for $20. Duuuuuuuuuuude! Thank you. That game is amazing! 2.) A suggestion for a Japanese only Mega Drive game I would make for some people (I'll explain) is King Colossus. An over head, action RPG. Thing is there is an English translation patch for it now so if you have say a Retron 5 or something that allows you to upload translation patches to the device it's fully playable. Those without such devices I would suggest stay away. Goes between $40-$50.
I was lucky finding Warsong complete in Germany for 50,- Dollars . It had a lot of additional huge stickers (price tags) on the cart and box. I used a slight alcohol solution, removed the stickers carefully and it looks now like almost like in very good condition. Really happy that I purchased and done that
I'd highly recommend all the titles on your list. Here in the UK the Micro Machines games were very popular as you say, and I too highly recommend them for fast and fun multiplayer madness. I think Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament was the best in the series, but they're all great. 👍
@@doriandavies5140 Yes. It was called a J-Cart and was designed by Codemasters, the developers and publishers of the Micro Machines games amongst other titles. It had two controller sockets actually built into the cartridge to enable four player games to be played via four Mega Drive controllers.
HELL YEAH Skitchin' was my jam. That was perfect game for my preteen self who was all in with the inline skating scene at the time.
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I just paid $43 for one cartridge that has 480 games on it for Sega and it works flawlessly on Amazon I also got the super 64 cartridge for Nintendo has 350 games on it for a total of $143. I probably got $20,000 worth of games. I recently got back into gaming after 20 years now that I’m 38 The only games I actually buy are my favorite ones from my childhood. I try to find them in perfect condition in the box with the manual. Those are the ones I paid sometimes 300 bucks for but at the same time I have access to hundreds of games Frees up the money to buy the collectibles
I love this channel sega lord x awesome work man. You can still get great games especially if it’s cart only which doubles the games if your only collecting carts only. The genesis probably has the best bang for the buck for collecting games
Honestly the prices are what drives me away now. As a gamer who started in 1988 with a NES , I just don't see some of that stuff being worth that much. You can often get a genesis game collection for x box 360 , switch and others for like 30$. I got guardian heros and other saturn games downloaded on my 360. I got tons of Nintendo stuff on my wii U. I know its fun collecting but for me I am happy just playing the games. There are mini consoles , collections , and tons of ways now to retro game. I got a genesis mini 1 and 2 , neo geo mini , snes mini , and idk how many game compilations. Trust me guys you can buy a switch , ps 4 , 5 , x box and it will still be cheaper than retro collecting. If you go buy a genesis and say even 10 good games like sonic 2 , sonic 3 , sonic and knuckles , shinobi 3 , gunstar heroes, rocket knight adventures , Streets of rage 2, Shining force 2 , Phantasy star 4 , ranger x , and others. You could easily be looking at 600$ or more just for that. Or you can buy a mini console for 100$. Or a game compilation for 30$. I don't care about collecting , i just want to play them.
hitting the local shop, today, to see if they still got a loose ATARI cart I wanted to pick up but didn't have the loot for. Hopefully they are still open I haven't checked since the "virus" crap happened
Awesome list! Not sure I'd put Greatest Heavyweights ahead of Super Punch-Out!! as the best 16-bit boxing game though. :) Keep up the excellent work SLX!
I've been gaming my whole life but only collecting religiously for the last 7 years or so. And I'll say this, I'm almost 30 years old and have NEVER witnessed the INSANE used game price hike that we have seen since 2020. It can make you really frustrated with scalpers. I totally understand they have the right to sell what they want at whatever price they want, but some of these absurd prices really show how greedy of a person many of them are. They KNOW it's not worth what they charge. But some rich shit heads somewhere fork it up anyways for nostalgia lol.
I been buying a bit of sega cd on eBay lately pricecharting often doesn’t list sales that go under “average “ …I hope some attention by the influencers can be brought to them artificially lifting prices
I only collect games I personally assign a perfect rating to, so it's a very small, but high quality library. Even a good game isn't good enough to bother with, I'll just emulate those types. Example, Super Mario Bros 1 is cool and nostalgic, lots of historical importance, but I don't need to own it. I instead have SMB3, a truly perfect game.
Greatest Heavyweights... "I'm so pretty! I'm so pretty!" I'll ALWAYS remember this game, and naming my character "Meat" so the headlines read "Muhammad Ali Beats Meat!!" when I lost....
My fiancee just bought Aladdin 2 weeks ago off of EBay complete and nearly mint for $20. I was kinda stunned because I was expecting to pay more. The animation is pretty insane on that one. i also use that 6 Pak to save major shelf space. I've got Whip rush too and that one is better than a lot of people know. I have only seen one video on TH-cam where someone actually understands the mechanics of that game.
Aladdin and The Jungle Book can also be obtained in the Disney Classics Collection for multiplatform along with The Lion King, which would explain why they're not worth that much these days. But the problem is that it costs too much for what it's worth, so I'd suggest waiting for a sale. I especially find it annoying how the GOG version doesn't have the option to buy the expansion as DLC if you already own the vanilla release, which just has The Lion King and the Virgin Interactive version of Aladdin.
I'm having the same problem on PS4. I already have the Aladdin/Lion King bundle, but the one with Jungle Book is a new separate bundle while it should just be DLC.
@@hiltwo I was fortunate enough to get The Jungle Book and Capcom's Aladdin as DLC on the Switch and Xbox, But the fact it's not offered as such for every platform it's released on is really frustrating!
Great video here. You don't have to spend a fortune to enjoy the wonderful world of retro games. Plenty of stuff like you highlighted is fairly common and affordable and like you said a game only with a repro box is another great alternative if you just want to play the more expensive games👍
On east European PAL market, if you're looking for a Mega Drive games, Disney's Aladdin and The Lion King is the first game you'll bump into. I do not now any kid (back then) who owned or rented a Mega Drive who did not owned or played these two titles. They were everywhere. Every game "shop" had these. Today, you can find them on farmers markets! 😄😄😄
There is one RPG that belongs on this list IMO - Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday. The PAL version can be had complete for $40. I beat the US game many years ago, it is quite complex for what it is.
Idk if you’ll see this but when you show game prices- would you be able to show the price they usually go for in Europe too? Since the prices between England and America can vary sometimes, love the content btw
It will be interesting to see how the Genesis prices are 30 years from now, when the generation that still cherishes them dies off. I don't see a kid born in the year 2022 being interested in Ristar or Musha. The Sonic games might still be worth something.... maybe. All the other stuff? No one is going to care. Also the carts may not work anymore 30 years down the road.
I got FIFA '95 last year for £8. Not (only) to play it, but for that music. Skitchin' used the same sound driver and that sounded great too (particularly in a sea of GEMS titles, of which the majority sounded awful). Desert Strike and its superior sequel Jungle Strike are well worth getting. I can't believe I owned both at one point before swapping for other games, but I got a lot of mileage out of them. I remember that some magazines (*cough* GamesMaster *cough*) saying the SNES version was probably better, but it did nothing with the hardware (not one colour more was added, unless you consider a slight palette shift an upgrade), was occasionally frustrating to play due to the lowered horizontal resolution, and was censored. The Immortal goes for very cheap as well here in the UK. As this wasn't meant to be a pro-EA post, Sub-Terrania and Red Zone are also very affordable.
Aladdind used to be worth a lot more, but even complete in box, its gone down like 300%. Dang...Im still holding onto my copy along with everything else in a clamshell :P And toe jam And Earl gone down in price too? Dang...T
Thanks for the video! Here are some other cheap recommandations : sub-terrania, lion king, cool spot, global gladiators, decap attack, street fighter II sce, the NHL games, pac attack,...
If you can't find the AMAZING game that is Castle Of Illusions, the remake also available on the Xbox 360/One via backwards compatibility. And I honestly think it's an amazing remake as well!
What's good about this is that the best selling games back then are the ones more affordable now, I mean, just compare this list with the previous one about the more expesive cartridges... It's so stupid to pay that much for shitty games just because they're scarce when you just can play great games for a fair price, or just emulate them. Games are meant to be played, not to be displayed.
definitely some great picks! I do have the SEGA 6-pak I think I found it for 10 bucks or so some years ago?! may have to look up that tiny toons game it definitely seems to have a bit of a sonic vibe to the gameplay. may eventually start collecting for the Japanese side if I can, though!
Twin Cobra, Midnight Resistance, Columns III, Comix Zone (US), Puyo Puyo Tsu (JPN, Sequel to mean bean machine), Vectorman 1&2, Gauntlet IV, Super Street Fighter 2 can be had affordably loose.
I still remember the magazine ads for Skitchin':
"Skatin' - hitchin' - Skitchin' - bitchin"
It was 90's AF
Bonus camera footage at the end before the credits! Man I didn't know US ESWAT had any changes. I purchased the Japanese version back in the day. I was on the phone with the guy at the game store and he said "Man ESWAT on the Mega Drive has a bunch of voices... and they sound like REAL RECORDINGS!" That's all I needed to hear and ran down and bought it. I've never played the US version but now I'll have to fire it up on a flash cart. Maybe I'll have to do another Regional Differences episode sometime. Oh, and JP MD Strider also makes a "Pah" vocal noise every time he swings his sword. It's the same with the arcade. They took it out in the North American version because the version of the arcade here doesn't do that either. Not sure if I like it or not. What's censored about the last boss? I honestly can't remember and I have both JP and NA versions.
Another regional differences video would be great to see.
Western Eswat loses a couple of voice samples and a few level details / traps that exist in the JPN original. It's not only watered down but less challenging, for better or worse.
Closest thing I can think of is that the last boss of Strider loses his voice in the US version. In the Japanese version, he says "All sons of old gods, die!" before you fight him (same in the original arcade).
@@chaospoet Brilliant idea, would love to see that.
E-SWAT is a great game!
I like your attitude to this hobby. I’ve replaced some old MegaDrive games I had lost and picked up a heap that I never owned all at reasonable prices here in 🇦🇺. But the ones I set out to own at the beginning are more than I want to spend. Last MegaDrive pick up was EA Double Header Madden/Hockey.
I got Virtua Racing complete w/ box/manual for only 5 bucks at a collector game store few years ago, and it was in pretty great condition almost brand new !
Nice score.
Kick ass dude. 😀👍🎮
Bloody love this channel. Loads of regular content, informative, & puts in personal perspective & memories alongside facts about each game. Excellent stuff.
I've been playing a lot of retro games lately and it's really made me completely forget about all the modern crap that's coming out. The thing is, there are so many great games that came out forever ago which I haven't even played. I have a backlog of games I'd like to play before I die and the ironic thing is I might not even get to play them all before I die because there are so many. We are truly in a golden era of video-gaming.
Great video as always sega lord. You always make these retro trips so entertaining 😃
There's a lot of old crap just like there's a lot of modern crap. And there's a lot of good new games just like there's a lot of good old games.
I own over 1000 games and some of my favorites are really old, but some of them are pretty recent.
I have replayed the Mass Effect series countless times. I'll never get tired of Hyper Light Drifter. I love FURI to pieces. I love Horizon Zero Dawn and Persona 5 and could replay them over and over (and do).
But the Genesis also had some good games. I love Sonic, Aladdin, Toejam & Earl, Lightning Force, Jungle Book, Cool Spot, Castle of Illusion, The Lion King, Road Rash Trilogy, John Madden Football, etc.
I love Saturn most of all currently but there's countless good games on NES I have never played and countless modern great games I haven't played either.
But good grief, weeding through modern and old games alike takes forever because there is so much crap in both old and new games. I think like 9 out of 10 Genesis games I've tried are terrible. On SNES it's MUCH worse. Like 24 out of 25 are terrible. Not sure about NES yet. Gotta dig in more.
Just beat Phantasy Star IV for the first time and now working through Front Mission. Highly recommend both.
Could not agree more! I have completely shifted my focus to past games and systems I missed out on decades ago. Thanks to everdrives and how far emulation has come I have been having a blast exploring stuff I only dreamed about as a kid.
Your insight is much needed to be heard in the video game space we are in. A positive outlook is much needed and you sir are are shining light 💡 don’t let no shadow cast over you or your shining light! God bless my guy and Sega forever!!
I am constantly amazed at how great Sega games look on HD
Well the genesis does say "High definition graphics" :P
JP Sonic 1 is definitely worth it. The background parallax enhancements really add a lot of depth to Marble, Spring Yard and Scrap Brain. Nice ripple effects in Labyrinth were also added.
And fixed spike damage glitch
@@TheNawaf258 It's in the JP version. In fact, spikes have the same behavior in very early Sonic 2 builds, as it's basically an official ROM hack. It's modified in Sonic Jam and completely patched out in Mega Collection.
@@ZonicMirage but in us and eu spike damage can hit you multiple times
@@TheNawaf258 Like I said, Sega only truly patches the spike behavior in the Mega Collection ROM.
Thank you for lists like this. Helps me collect a little more. I have a large collection but my local game store went under so it's hard to find random cheap games to pickup and play RIP CD GAME EXCHANGE.
the Strike series was so underrated, i would love a mild hd remastering of Jungle, Urban, Soviet and Nuclear Strike
It ended up on the PlayStation correct ? I remember playing a PlayStation version with a friend.
@@Gatorade69 that would be Nuclear or Soviet, the first three games were on Genesis/Megadrive.
Not gonna happen with woke companies these days. Even Advance Wars was delayed, no shot sadly.
I literally just came here after having a little play session of Jungle strike.. haven't watched this video yet, am about to, but saw this comment right away and have to agree 1000% I loved the striker series on Megadrive/Genesis and, as I said, still play them to this day. Lovely simple mission based gameplay to counter long sessions of open world games. There's a below comment about "woke" companies being reluctant, which might be right, but id be totally onboard. The crazy thing is literally just a day or two ago I caught myself thinking "with all the cash grab remakes that we get but don't need, this is one game Id love to see re-made" and here I find this comment a day later!
@@Vulpas U might be right, but I wonder - if that was the case, why do we not only get 37 Call of Duty sequels, but remakes and remasters of them as well?! Surely, someone along the way might have been worried about upsetting a middle eastern audience (in the case of modern warfare to name one, which is one of the few I've played), and altho I'm not a huge COD fan and don't know all the narrative of the games, I'm sure other nationalities MIGHT find offence to some other games, but here we are. With that in mind, I see no reason we couldn't get a remake of the strike games, tho of course they are a different company and I suppose, sadly, u might be right.... but I hope you're wrong!
I see no reason not to give us desert or Jungle strike... tho, obviously Soviet strike might be one to avoid right now.
Great stuff as always. Genesis has tons of quality cheap games. I'm glad you call out asshole speculators and price gougers too. I really wish the community as a whole just flat out stopped paying high prices for old games. Flippers and resellers would fall flat on their face and liquidate their stock at a loss. Then real fans of collecting and having original games and hardware would enjoy the hobby paying very little. Greed has ruined old school gaming. As long as idiots pay high prices scumbags will keep taking advantage of them. Buy an Everdrive, download entire ROM sets and watch the prices plummet.
Man, Sega Lord X.. That Saturn game collection at the end, was a thing of beauty. 👍 It brought a tear to my eye.😭 I really miss being a kid. If I had a time machine, I would go back in time and live in the 90's forever.
Thanks for making this video! I was just at a retro game store and picked up Desert strike without even knowing that it was going to be on this list! Some of these games are awesome and I’m happy that they’re not so expensive yet
I definitely do agree that there are still a lot of good affordable games out there even if you can’t afford the greatest ones. In fact, I think besides the Atari 2600 and possibly the PS1 or 2, I think I’ve noticed that out of most retro game consoles out there the Sega Genesis has the most affordable games you can get for it. I think that’s probably a major factor as to why the Genesis has become one of my favorite retro game consoles, and how I was able to acquire so many games.
My Genesis collection is about 90 games, probably 65 or so CIB, while my SNES collection lags behind at 40-ish, only about 10 CIB. Price is a big reason. Even during my prime collecting years in the late 2000s (about 15 years ago now!), a CIB Genesis game averaged about what a loose SNES game cost, and CIB SNES games cost a pretty penny and the boxes were still usually beat up.
I remember getting my Earthbound cart in 2011, it was an obvious rental mule in C-grade condition, cart only, and still cost a triple-digit dollar amount. Even today, something as relatively common as Earthbound in that condition would never go for north of 100 bucks on Sega Genesis.
There is a Nintendo tax in vintage game collecting, and that's been true for many years.
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Thank you. As someone who didn’t have any sega growing up this is helpful.
Appreciate the feedback. Thank you.
sorry to hear that, SEGA stood out and gave Nintendo a fight, even though SEGA was totally outmatched, gotta respect the underdog!
Another excellent video. For me it wasn't that I'd gotten every Nintendo game I wanted, more the chance to experience what I missed out on with Sega stuff growing up. It's much easier to appreciate now that it's not always put up against a competitor, and can be more clearly seen as one medium of pixel art and chiptunes among many. On the flip side, one factoid about Whip Rush people might appreciate is that it was programmed by Takayan, the guy behind Battle Mania. He said he did them for the Mega Drive because he "didn't like Nintendo."
Toejam and earl is a great two player time, I highly rate the remake that came out a couple of years on practically everything!
Another alternative is the Sega Genesis Mini, a nice micro console with a lot of games, including several mentioned in this video. I find this to be preferable to a real Genesis, because the games are built in, more can be added with minor hacking, and it can be easily connected to a modern television. An actual Genesis... does not look so great on a flat screen TV!
No
You can always get an Analogue Mega SG if you want to have the best possible picture. I went that route and it looks astoundingly good on my HD TV. Not cheap but beautiful.
You must play a Genesis model 1 via S Video on a Sony Trinitron.
Mike drop
@@darinherrick9224 sadly it's not available anymore.
Using the RGB video output on the Genesis ran through the OSSC or Retrotink looks amazing at 1080p. The Genesis has like the worst yellow RCA composite output that's not the N64, but it probably has the best RGB output. Looks just as clear and sharp as emulation.
I bought a Genesis because i always saw the Toy Story game advertised on the VHs intro and wanted to play it. Bought a carboard box complete for $20. I've enjoyed the simplicity of the system
Another fine video by SLX!
I sadly must admit I was NOT a gamer as a kid, and didn't become one until the Late 90s. My sisters DID OWN an NES and SEGA Genesis, but had limited games for it. My first handheld was a GameBoy Color and first console was a Nintendo 64, and for that reason most of my games are good to hold onto (I still have a in-box copy of "Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door" that honestly, I only played for about 3-4 hours before losing interest in it...)
In recent years of collecting the games I have been curious about that I missed out on as a kid (such as Ristar, Earthworm Jim: Special Edition and literally ANY GAME in the SEGA Saturn Library) or games people online have slammed on but still was curious about, wanted to give a fair chance and honestly got some enjoyment out of (Earthworm Jim 3D, Wild Woody and the Gex Trilogy of Games), I will admit the prices for collecting retro games is bottom-line ridiculous. So much so, that one year I wanted to put "Burning Rangers" on one of my holiday wishlist, but the price for a complete boxed copy alone later made me face reality and scrap the whole idea...
For that reason, my retro game collection is quite tiny, but being how I only play video games on a once-in-a-while basis these days, I'm PERFECTLY fine with that. I still do have games I wish I had played back in the day and owned a copy of, but for the most part, those are the games I already own in my collection...
To all the people complaining about prices or how these games used to be dirt cheap… that’s just collectible markets in general. In the 1960’s, nobody cared about owning a Topps 1952 Micky Mantle. In the 1970’s back issues of early Amazing Spider-Man comics were probably affordable. I was buying retro games in the 90’s and remember getting bulk lots for less than $2 a game. Now games are in demand and the dollar has less purchasing power than 20 years ago also. Higher prices are par for the course.
+ezehogan
Glad to find someone else who knows economics.
I totally agree with buying games in bad shape and giving them a better home. I think it also gives some "patina" to them. The most important thing to me is playing the original hardware, not looks.
Sega has done a fantastic job of rereleasing Genesis/megadrive games on modern consoles, not to mention the Genesis mini. And now we are even getting some of the more obscure games for the Everdrive. An alternative way of collecting official commercial releases for a lot less.
I was impressed that you showed the "Dick Tracy" game as I recently found it on an emulator (Super Console X) and love the game. The ability to shoot the targets in the foreground as well as background is also orchestrated very well. It is unlike any other game of that time period IMO. Great video. Peace!
Yea, it is an awesome game, it was a favourite of a mate and mine back in the early 90's. We would hire it from the video shop. I bought it for the Master System and it has the shoot the bad guys in the background too.
I'm also a big fan of Dick Tracy on the Mega Drive. It's extremely playable and has tight gameplay. It gets ridiculously hard towards the end though!
@@peteanderson2533 Agreed. That game has stood out to me as a extraordinarily great retro classic game. Totally unique! Peace!
@@johnbowles5399 That's definitely the big problem with this game. The final stage's difficulty is absolutely ridiculous and I can't beat it even with savestates.
Everything up until then is great though. If you consider Stage 5 the final stage and ignore Stage 6, Dick Tracy on Genesis is a fantastic game.
@@atrocity3010 The game is so bloody tough that as a kid I had a theory that Sega never actually finished making the game, so they made stages 5 and 6 almost impossible to complete so you'd never find out. 😆
I believe video games are made to be played, so while I mostly agree about not sweating over something like a worn label as long as the game is playable I personally prefer something identifiable rather than a worn out mess. We rented the heck out of Phantasy Star IV in the 90s and in the late 00s or early 2010s I chose to look for a complete-in-box copy on eBay. Found one for under $50 and was surprised how little it was worn, like it was barely played at all. No noticeable creases in the instructions or tears in the map, and the box was intact.
I really appreciate seeing some PAL coverage. Thank you, X.
I LOVE Genesis 6 pak, bought 1 loose and another plastic boxed, boxed i paid under 20 or even less. Aladdin boxed complete/great condition paid less than 30, Sonic Japanese boxed minus manual i think paid 20 at import collector store
All good pick ups.
Hey slx it's the guy who emailed you awhile ago about his two dogs and Im doing better than at the time I emailed you and thank you for that email it meant a lot more than u know. I watch every one of your videos some of them multiple times and I want share I got a loose copy of NBA jam at a local pawn shop for snes about 7 months ago for 10 bucks and still can't believe I found it for so cheap and you can't spend ten bucks and get as much fun out something for that price. And your videos have given me something I look forward to that I always learn from about a hobby that I love weather its a hidden gem for a steal or games that stupidly over priced. Or games to avoid.
I still have about 32 gameboy advanced games in mint condition with every original insert for the boxes and the original receipts when I bought them back when I was like 16. Did the math combined their worth like 7k ish. People that I know used to say that I was crazy for keeping all my stuff but look at me now lol.
This is a really tough time for people getting into retro video games. All the best games went way the hell up and flash carts from trusted sellers/retailers have become scarce.
Unless you’re willing to dish out the big bucks to resellers. Mister Devices and Retropies are probably the next best thing. After that its PC Emulation.
I still have most of the games featured in the video all in cases and in perfect conditions..... and till this day, I still think that Evander Holifields read deal boxing and Greatest Heavyweights are still two of the best boxing games I've EVER played
Love the video Sega Lord X, excellent break down of what games are affordable from different regions. I'd like to point out that those prices shown in your video are the U.S. prices, here in Australia they're roughly anywhere between $50 and $100 dollars as the Aussie dollar is buying roughly 72c U.S. cents.
You missed the puggsy game, great playstyle, great garphics, great ost
Boogerman doesn’t get the love it deserves.
I picked up a complete in-box Street Fighter 2 Special Champion Edition for under 20 bucks at a Garage Sale 25 years ago and I was satisfied.
Im lucky enough to have begun collecting before prices got too out of hand but I am late to the Genesis party. I do have a couple from this list already but will keep my eyes peeled for Tiny Toons, Jungle Book, the Strike series and Toy Story. Always on the lookout for games to play with my little girl.
1.) I bought Tiny Toons immediately after your review video on it and was able to get it CIB for $20. Duuuuuuuuuuude! Thank you. That game is amazing!
2.) A suggestion for a Japanese only Mega Drive game I would make for some people (I'll explain) is King Colossus. An over head, action RPG. Thing is there is an English translation patch for it now so if you have say a Retron 5 or something that allows you to upload translation patches to the device it's fully playable. Those without such devices I would suggest stay away. Goes between $40-$50.
as always thank you. This video is a great help for those just starting to collect.
Excellent vid! Would love to see a sega cd and Saturn episode like this
Excellent list for those wanting to start their collection and anyone else wanting to expand theirs!
5:22 - NBA Hangtime is really missing something without Tim Kitzrow.
I was lucky finding Warsong complete in Germany for 50,- Dollars . It had a lot of additional huge stickers (price tags) on the cart and box. I used a slight alcohol solution, removed the stickers carefully and it looks now like almost like in very good condition. Really happy that I purchased and done that
I'd highly recommend all the titles on your list. Here in the UK the Micro Machines games were very popular as you say, and I too highly recommend them for fast and fun multiplayer madness. I think Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament was the best in the series, but they're all great. 👍
Didn’t micro machines 2 have an extra 2 pad input built into the cartridge?
@@doriandavies5140 Yes. It was called a J-Cart and was designed by Codemasters, the developers and publishers of the Micro Machines games amongst other titles. It had two controller sockets actually built into the cartridge to enable four player games to be played via four Mega Drive controllers.
I remember playing World of Illusion and Mega Bomberman for many an hour, great games
Thank you for shouting out Whip Rush, as I loved that hidden gem of a shooter!
It doesn’t get enough love for sure.
I bought almost all of these games over 10 years ago for less than £1 each. It's insane how much they have gone up in price.
Anyone in gaming market could use the wisdom of Sega Lord X.
I love Animaniacs, such underrated game.
I just like listening to his voice
One hidden gem I recommend you can get for about $15 - $20 is Eternal Champions.
Haha hidden gem? That game is a garbage fighter.
HELL YEAH
Skitchin' was my jam. That was perfect game for my preteen self who was all in with the inline skating scene at the time.
I just paid $43 for one cartridge that has 480 games on it for Sega and it works flawlessly on Amazon I also got the super 64 cartridge for Nintendo has 350 games on it for a total of $143. I probably got $20,000 worth of games. I recently got back into gaming after 20 years now that I’m 38 The only games I actually buy are my favorite ones from my childhood. I try to find them in perfect condition in the box with the manual. Those are the ones I paid sometimes 300 bucks for but at the same time I have access to hundreds of games Frees up the money to buy the collectibles
I love this channel sega lord x awesome work man. You can still get great games especially if it’s cart only which doubles the games if your only collecting carts only. The genesis probably has the best bang for the buck for collecting games
This was a great episode! Thanks for this advice! We appreciate the time and effort you put out! Awesome job man!
Man, I loved Toy Story on the Genesis. There's a lot of variety in that little game.
I saw a clean copy of road rash at the shop yesterday for 6 bucks, fun game to this day.
That’s a steal. Probably won’t last long.
i got Sub Terrania complete in box for $14.
Sonic 3 for $25.
complete with tabs.
Sub-Terrania never really gets the love it deserves, sadly.
Hearing SLX saying the opening lines to the tiny toon adventures theme was really something!
Dessert strike is among my all time favorite games. That being said, the Amiga version is the one to have. It is just so much better than the rest.
Yum dessert strike 😋 do you prefer cake or pie?
Honestly the prices are what drives me away now.
As a gamer who started in 1988 with a NES , I just don't see some of that stuff being worth that much.
You can often get a genesis game collection for x box 360 , switch and others for like 30$.
I got guardian heros and other saturn games downloaded on my 360.
I got tons of Nintendo stuff on my wii U.
I know its fun collecting but for me I am happy just playing the games.
There are mini consoles , collections , and tons of ways now to retro game.
I got a genesis mini 1 and 2 , neo geo mini , snes mini , and idk how many game compilations.
Trust me guys you can buy a switch , ps 4 , 5 , x box and it will still be cheaper than retro collecting.
If you go buy a genesis and say even 10 good games like sonic 2 , sonic 3 , sonic and knuckles , shinobi 3 , gunstar heroes, rocket knight adventures , Streets of rage 2, Shining force 2 , Phantasy star 4 , ranger x , and others.
You could easily be looking at 600$ or more just for that.
Or you can buy a mini console for 100$. Or a game compilation for 30$.
I don't care about collecting , i just want to play them.
hitting the local shop, today, to see if they still got a loose ATARI cart I wanted to pick up but didn't have the loot for. Hopefully they are still open I haven't checked since the "virus" crap happened
Thank you!. Best ever. Game sack and sega lord X together . wow!
Awesome list! Not sure I'd put Greatest Heavyweights ahead of Super Punch-Out!! as the best 16-bit boxing game though. :) Keep up the excellent work SLX!
Greatest Heavyweights is better than Chump Out!
Love your recommendations and reminding people that a game doesn't have to be expensive to be good. 🔥🔥🔥
Funny, Astérix and the Great Rescue on the Mega Drive was one of the first videos of the Joueur du Grenier, France's answer to the AVGN.
I've been gaming my whole life but only collecting religiously for the last 7 years or so. And I'll say this, I'm almost 30 years old and have NEVER witnessed the INSANE used game price hike that we have seen since 2020. It can make you really frustrated with scalpers. I totally understand they have the right to sell what they want at whatever price they want, but some of these absurd prices really show how greedy of a person many of them are. They KNOW it's not worth what they charge. But some rich shit heads somewhere fork it up anyways for nostalgia lol.
Based for mentioning Jungle Book. It's one if the best games on the Genesis imo
I been buying a bit of sega cd on eBay lately pricecharting often doesn’t list sales that go under “average “ …I hope some attention by the influencers can be brought to them artificially lifting prices
Definitely. I do my own charting and it's alot more reliable.
I only collect games I personally assign a perfect rating to, so it's a very small, but high quality library. Even a good game isn't good enough to bother with, I'll just emulate those types.
Example, Super Mario Bros 1 is cool and nostalgic, lots of historical importance, but I don't need to own it. I instead have SMB3, a truly perfect game.
I love Earthworm Jim 1 on SNES
Greatest Heavyweights... "I'm so pretty! I'm so pretty!" I'll ALWAYS remember this game, and naming my character "Meat" so the headlines read "Muhammad Ali Beats Meat!!" when I lost....
My fiancee just bought Aladdin 2 weeks ago off of EBay complete and nearly mint for $20. I was kinda stunned because I was expecting to pay more. The animation is pretty insane on that one. i also use that 6 Pak to save major shelf space. I've got Whip rush too and that one is better than a lot of people know. I have only seen one video on TH-cam where someone actually understands the mechanics of that game.
Aladdin and The Jungle Book can also be obtained in the Disney Classics Collection for multiplatform along with The Lion King, which would explain why they're not worth that much these days. But the problem is that it costs too much for what it's worth, so I'd suggest waiting for a sale. I especially find it annoying how the GOG version doesn't have the option to buy the expansion as DLC if you already own the vanilla release, which just has The Lion King and the Virgin Interactive version of Aladdin.
I'm having the same problem on PS4. I already have the Aladdin/Lion King bundle, but the one with Jungle Book is a new separate bundle while it should just be DLC.
@@hiltwo I was fortunate enough to get The Jungle Book and Capcom's Aladdin as DLC on the Switch and Xbox, But the fact it's not offered as such for every platform it's released on is really frustrating!
Great video here. You don't have to spend a fortune to enjoy the wonderful world of retro games. Plenty of stuff like you highlighted is fairly common and affordable and like you said a game only with a repro box is another great alternative if you just want to play the more expensive games👍
Love the channel keep it up brother
Thank you.
On east European PAL market, if you're looking for a Mega Drive games, Disney's Aladdin and The Lion King is the first game you'll bump into. I do not now any kid (back then) who owned or rented a Mega Drive who did not owned or played these two titles. They were everywhere. Every game "shop" had these. Today, you can find them on farmers markets! 😄😄😄
Man, World of Illusion is great. It will be one of the first games I'll introduce to my kids if I ever have any.
I loved the Jungle Book as a kid. For me, it's right up there with Aladdin and the Lion King.
There is one RPG that belongs on this list IMO - Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday. The PAL version can be had complete for $40. I beat the US game many years ago, it is quite complex for what it is.
Awesome game and the only rpg I have ever played from start to finish.
@@brendanroberts1310 Did you beat it with or without the strategy book? I used the book.
@@bmwolgas with out the book, just used to grind the canteen fights to get money to buy the good equipment and level up your characters.
i cant believe that the Strike games are so cheap, those were impressive games even back in the day.
Yea desert strike was awesome and jungle was ok. I believe they are so affordable due to EA producing a buttload of them on their own cartridges.
@@ralphiemay8933 whatever the reason, i'm glad that the Strike series isnt breaking any wallets these days, everyone should get to play that series.
Always love sonic on megadrive
Work if Illusion is my favorite game ever! Really a gem!
Thanks for all Sega content you have provided over the years@Sega Lord X
And thank you for watching it.
Idk if you’ll see this but when you show game prices- would you be able to show the price they usually go for in Europe too? Since the prices between England and America can vary sometimes, love the content btw
It will be interesting to see how the Genesis prices are 30 years from now, when the generation that still cherishes them dies off. I don't see a kid born in the year 2022 being interested in Ristar or Musha. The Sonic games might still be worth something.... maybe. All the other stuff? No one is going to care. Also the carts may not work anymore 30 years down the road.
I got FIFA '95 last year for £8. Not (only) to play it, but for that music. Skitchin' used the same sound driver and that sounded great too (particularly in a sea of GEMS titles, of which the majority sounded awful).
Desert Strike and its superior sequel Jungle Strike are well worth getting. I can't believe I owned both at one point before swapping for other games, but I got a lot of mileage out of them. I remember that some magazines (*cough* GamesMaster *cough*) saying the SNES version was probably better, but it did nothing with the hardware (not one colour more was added, unless you consider a slight palette shift an upgrade), was occasionally frustrating to play due to the lowered horizontal resolution, and was censored.
The Immortal goes for very cheap as well here in the UK. As this wasn't meant to be a pro-EA post, Sub-Terrania and Red Zone are also very affordable.
I got NBA hang time out of a bargain bin about 15 years ago for 25 cents. Played it constantly and loved it
Aladdind used to be worth a lot more, but even complete in box, its gone down like 300%. Dang...Im still holding onto my copy along with everything else in a clamshell :P And toe jam And Earl gone down in price too? Dang...T
I dunno man, a Big Mac combo with chicken nuggets sounds pretty good right about now! 😂
Thanks for the video! Here are some other cheap recommandations : sub-terrania, lion king, cool spot, global gladiators, decap attack, street fighter II sce, the NHL games, pac attack,...
If you can't find the AMAZING game that is Castle Of Illusions, the remake also available on the Xbox 360/One via backwards compatibility. And I honestly think it's an amazing remake as well!
What's good about this is that the best selling games back then are the ones more affordable now, I mean, just compare this list with the previous one about the more expesive cartridges... It's so stupid to pay that much for shitty games just because they're scarce when you just can play great games for a fair price, or just emulate them. Games are meant to be played, not to be displayed.
I can't hear the name Mystic Defender without thinking of the All-Seeing, All-Knowing Radio Buddy.
Came here for Road Rash and was NOT disappointed!!
definitely some great picks! I do have the SEGA 6-pak I think I found it for 10 bucks or so some years ago?! may have to look up that tiny toons game it definitely seems to have a bit of a sonic vibe to the gameplay. may eventually start collecting for the Japanese side if I can, though!
Got a complete copy of Thunder Force IV a couple of years ago for £20. Worth every penny...
I have a loose copy of E Swat and man I love it. The music is so damn good
Twin Cobra, Midnight Resistance, Columns III, Comix Zone (US), Puyo Puyo Tsu (JPN, Sequel to mean bean machine), Vectorman 1&2, Gauntlet IV, Super Street Fighter 2 can be had affordably loose.
I remember just about every commercial for these games.(God I feel old)