Recommendations on lesser known sega genesis games

[wartoy]

Hello im trying to give a little more love to my sega genesis collection.Their is a local store near me with a large amount of genesis games most of them I never even heard of.Anyone have any recommendations of harder to find or lesser known titles to look out for.

[panjin79]

Alissa Dragoon is a lot of fun if you like action games

[pzeke]

The Genesis wasn't my thing growing up, so I pretty much "discovered" it fairly recently (figuratively speaking), so I don't have much to recommended. However, I played Wings or Wor, High Seas Havoc, and Burning Force and enjoyed them quite a lot.

[zenimus]

Elemental Master is a fantasy themed vertical shooter with cool graphics and awesome music.

Gauntlet IV gets overlooked a lot, but it has a great soundtrack that's exclusive to the Genesis by Hitoshi Sakimoto. He's the guy who went on to do tons of RPG soundtracks, like Final Fantasy Tactics, Valkyria Chronicles, and Dragon's Crown.

[dreama1]

mystical fighters.  It's a beat em up.

arcus odyssey, it's a little like gauntlet sort of but much improved. 

el viento , it's from the makers of the tales franchise. It has very unusal graphics.

Valis series.

Blue Almanac, it's a rpg like phantasy star.

[seberhusky]

Vapor Trail.

[aliensstudios]

I plugged in Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Hidden Treasure, just to test it after I got it in a lot and couldn't put it down.

[stealthrush]

Crack Down - action

DJ Boy - beat'em up

Marvel Land - platform

Atomic Runner (Chelnov) - Run'n gun

Dahna: Megami Tanjou - platform

[bikingjahuty]

The Flintstones: Essentially a 16-bit version of Surprise at Dinosaur Peak. Fun fact, this was the first video game I ever owned.


Dinosaurs for Hire: Fun Run and Gun game similar to contra. Hard as balls though.


Mic and Mac: Global Gladiators: Fun platformer with slime and McDonalds advertising

[vivigamer]

World of Illusion - All I ever hear about is people talk about Castle of Illusion, but I found World of Illusion to be one of the finest examples of 2D platforming there is - Also it's Co-op! I honestly find Castle of Illusion very average in comparsion. It's not a long game by any means but every level is so colourful and rich in animation, it really is my favourite game of the era. It might not be lesser known but it always seems overshadowed by Castle' so I had to give it a shout out!

[wartoy]

Thank you all for your input I came away with about 10 suggestions I either never heard of or forgot about.Definitely going to have to research them.If anymore come to mind please feel free to post them it's much appreciated.

[Flashback2012]

Flicky!

Dino Land, Dragon's Fury, and Dragon's Revenge if you like video pinball. DF is a port/remake of Devil's Crush from TG16.

Herzog Zwei is the proverbial granddaddy of RTS. The game inspired Westwood Studios to make that one game called Command & Conquer or something.

Super Hydlide

[aliensstudios]

Flicky!

Dino Land, Dragon's Fury, and Dragon's Revenge if you like video pinball. DF is a port/remake of Devil's Crush from TG16.

Herzog Zwei is the proverbial granddaddy of RTS. The game inspired Westwood Studios to make that one game called Command & Conquer or something.

Super Hydlide

Dino Land is damn good.

[pzeke]

Check out Alien Soldier, too.

[dreama1]

Back again.


-jewel master

-two crude dudes

-Bloodshot. FPS game (yeah really) Even has a 2 player mode. Godly game makers to get that running on a 16 bit console.

-rampart

-dashin desperadoes

-Dyna brothers 2 (Import)

-Shadow blasters