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sin2beta:
Mine tends to bounce between the Genesis and the Dreamcast. But the Genesis is probably it. It's lifespan was around 1989-1998 putting me between the ages 4 and 13. It was what I grew up on. Sure not a lot of stuff was out in 98, but Toys R Us had discount bins full of games. This is how I got Comix Zone and X-Men 2. And now as an adult, the length of these games fit my schedule a lot more. It's hard to fit in longer games. But games that take 30 minutes to beat after months of practice are perfect. The dreamcast has a special place since I did buy that with money from a summer job. I got it on launch day. And that was the age I was going to the arcade a lot. The dreamcast, and its many naomi ports, remind me of that time. But the Dreamcast wins out by a smidge.

Exclusives are tough since SEGA rereleased these so much. It cuts out things like Sonic, Streets of Rage, etc. Some of these may have been rereleased on virtual console etc.. But I think it is accurate. I'll only do 10 to avoid looking for rereleases.

1. X-Men 2: Clone Wars
2. The Ooze
3. Alisia Dragoon
4. TNMT: Hyperstone Heist
5. Contra Hard Corps
6. Castlevania Bloodlines
7. Eternal Champions
8. Herzog Zwei (may have received a computer release...)
9. MUSHA (virtual console?)
10. Moonwalker

burningdoom:

--- Quote from: sin2beta on February 02, 2015, 10:43:10 am ---Mine tends to bounce between the Genesis and the Dreamcast. But the Genesis is probably it. It's lifespan was around 1989-1998 putting me between the ages 4 and 13. It was what I grew up on. Sure not a lot of stuff was out in 98, but Toys R Us had discount bins full of games. This is how I got Comix Zone and X-Men 2. And now as an adult, the length of these games fit my schedule a lot more. It's hard to fit in longer games. But games that take 30 minutes to beat after months of practice are perfect. The dreamcast has a special place since I did buy that with money from a summer job. I got it on launch day. And that was the age I was going to the arcade a lot. The dreamcast, and its many naomi ports, remind me of that time. But the Dreamcast wins out by a smidge.

Exclusives are tough since SEGA rereleased these so much. It cuts out things like Sonic, Streets of Rage, etc. Some of these may have been rereleased on virtual console etc.. But I think it is accurate. I'll only do 10 to avoid looking for rereleases.

1. X-Men 2: Clone Wars
2. The Ooze
3. Alisia Dragoon
4. TNMT: Hyperstone Heist
5. Contra Hard Corps
6. Castlevania Bloodlines
7. Eternal Champions
8. Herzog Zwei (may have received a computer release...)
9. MUSHA (virtual console?)
10. Moonwalker

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The Ooze is on Sonic Mega Collection Plus (or maybe it was Sonic Gems?). And Sega never re-released Eternal Champions? For shame! It was a unique take on 16-bit fighters, very cool characters.

X-Men 2 is a must-have on the Genesis. It's one of the reasons I bought my Genesis back in the day.

I still need (and really want!) the Contra and Castlevania games on Genesis.

Cadash is another you should check out for non-re-released exclusives. It's also on TG-16, but not a lot of people own one of those. Great little action-RPG that started as an arcade, believe it or not.

sin2beta:

--- Quote from: burningdoom on February 02, 2015, 12:23:11 pm ---
--- Quote from: sin2beta on February 02, 2015, 10:43:10 am ---Mine tends to bounce between the Genesis and the Dreamcast. But the Genesis is probably it. It's lifespan was around 1989-1998 putting me between the ages 4 and 13. It was what I grew up on. Sure not a lot of stuff was out in 98, but Toys R Us had discount bins full of games. This is how I got Comix Zone and X-Men 2. And now as an adult, the length of these games fit my schedule a lot more. It's hard to fit in longer games. But games that take 30 minutes to beat after months of practice are perfect. The dreamcast has a special place since I did buy that with money from a summer job. I got it on launch day. And that was the age I was going to the arcade a lot. The dreamcast, and its many naomi ports, remind me of that time. But the Dreamcast wins out by a smidge.

Exclusives are tough since SEGA rereleased these so much. It cuts out things like Sonic, Streets of Rage, etc. Some of these may have been rereleased on virtual console etc.. But I think it is accurate. I'll only do 10 to avoid looking for rereleases.

1. X-Men 2: Clone Wars
2. The Ooze
3. Alisia Dragoon
4. TNMT: Hyperstone Heist
5. Contra Hard Corps
6. Castlevania Bloodlines
7. Eternal Champions
8. Herzog Zwei (may have received a computer release...)
9. MUSHA (virtual console?)
10. Moonwalker

--- End quote ---

The Ooze is on Sonic Mega Collection Plus (or maybe it was Sonic Gems?). And Sega never re-released Eternal Champions? For shame! It was a unique take on 16-bit fighters, very cool characters.

X-Men 2 is a must-have on the Genesis. It's one of the reasons I bought my Genesis back in the day.

I still need (and really want!) the Contra and Castlevania games on Genesis.

Cadash is another you should check out for non-re-released exclusives. It's also on TG-16, but not a lot of people own one of those. Great little action-RPG that started as an arcade, believe it or not.

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This post is great info. The Oooze being released on a Sonic collection is not even something I would have thought to look for. I'll check out Cadash.

funeria:
Even though it tanked, mine has to be Sega Saturn. I'm a huge fan of fighting games (especially the 2D ones) and that system had a HUGE leg up in that department. Darkstalkers comes out on PS One, Night Warriors comes out for Saturn. MK3 for PS One, Ultimate MK3 for Saturn. The exclusives were great, but even the games that did come out for both were better in pretty much every respect for the Saturn.

Then there were all those great Working Designs games like Dragon Force and Iron Storm. I know that they folded, but does anyone know why nobody has released a collection of WD games? It seems like a no brainer to me... :/

Funeria~

bloodybaron:
It's a no brainer gotta go with the PSP as my favorite console. A little background is I'm 20 so back when the psp first came out I got it basically as soon as it was released and I was 10 years old. The reason that it is my favorite console comes down to one simple fact that still hasn't really been replicated IMO. I could bring it on long drives or play it whenever and wherever I wanted in the car, school bus, bedroom, living room while the adults watched tv and guess what... I never ever had to worry about reaching a save point! Holy shit that was the greatest thing ever I could play games as much as I wanted and whenever something in real life happened I just shut the thing down and when I powered it back on I was right where I left off. This capability made my gaming back then pretty easy. I remember playing a soccer game so much because I never had to worry about actually finishing a game or simming it I just shut it off and was good to go. Also good in a few of the other action and rpg games with long fights that would have to be left on or abandoned on other systems :p And I can't even name 20 exclusives I just love the system for that saving aspect, unfortunately the games are near impossible for me to find let alone good deals on them.

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