Megadrive Games, Which Ones To Buy?

Saltour Sossiez

Seeing as there is a SNES one in this section that got a few responses I thought I'd start a Megadrive one to help me decide which games to purchase.

I've made out a list. Most of these games I owned before and will probably try and get them again.


Sonic Games
Shining Force Games
Zombies ate my neighbours
Haunting - starring Polterguy
Comix Zone
Gunstar Heroes
The Lost World - Jurrasic Park
Taz
Anamaniacs
Streets Of Rage
Golden Axe
Sparkster
Vectorman
Fifa 97
Fifa - Road To The World Cup
Mutant League Football
Flicky
Alex Kidd
Street Fighter
Mortal Combat
Power rangers
Virtua fighter
Ecco
The Lion King
Beavis And Butthead
Shinobi
Worms

Which others would you recommend guys? I've probably left out a good few games which I used to have and enjoyed.

I forgot to list Mega Bomberman. I still have that one.

Lands Leaving

EA Hockey. Legendary.

o1s1n

Ah, a topic close to my heart

Out of the ones you mentioned, I've arranged them into 'worth getting' and 'meh' -


Sonic Games - Worth getting
Shining Force Games - Worth getting
Zombies ate my neighbours - Worth getting
Haunting - starring Polterguy -Worth getting
Comix Zone - Worth getting
Gunstar Heroes - Worth getting
The Lost World - Jurrasic Park - Meh
Taz - meh
Anamaniacs - meh
Streets Of Rage Worth getting..and Streets of Rage 2. Avoid 3 though. Try to get Bare Knuckle 3 instead.
Golden Axe - Worth getting (Sure get 2 while you're at it. 3 is a bit of an odd one)
Sparkster -Worth getting
Vectorman - Worth getting
Fifa 97 - meh
Fifa - Road To The World Cup - meh
Mutant League Football - meh
Flicky - Worth getting
Alex Kidd - Worth getting
Street Fighter - meh
Mortal Combat - meh meh meh
Power rangers - meh
Virtua fighter - The 2d one is crap. If you get a 32X, the version for that is brilliant.
Ecco - Worth getting (And get Ecco 2: The Tides of Time)
The Lion King - Worth getting
Beavis And Butthead - meh
Shinobi - Get all the Shinobi games for the MD. Revenge of Shonobi, Shadowdancer and Shinobi III. All great games
Worms - mehhhhh

More games you should get (I'll start off with the imports ) -

MUSHA (Genesis and Japan only though..best shooter on the system)
Pulseman (Japanese only, but brilliant. I don't know why this wasn't released here)
Gleylancer (Japanese only shooter and super expensive. Brilliant though)
Eliminate Down (Same as above & even more expensive)
Panorama Cotton (More Japanese only silly expensiveness)
Shadowrun (Another great game we didn't get here)
Vectorman 2 (US only)

Now on to the stuff we actually did get here -
Thunderforce IV
Thunderforce III
Alien Soldier
Probotector
Mega Turrican
Ranger X
Phantasy Star IV
Road Rash 2 & 3
Super Fantasy Zone
Rocket Knight Adventures
The Adventures of Batman and Robin
Megaman: The Wiley Wars
Another World
Demolition Man
Space Harrier 2
Aladdin
Ghouls n Ghosts
Dynamite Headdy
Castle of Illusion
Gaiares
Alisia Dragoon
Chakan
Hellfire
Herzog Zwei (First ever RTS. Really should check this game out)
Dune 2 Battle for Arrakis
Lethal Enforcers 1&2 (And get the Justifier Light guns, great fun!)
Mercs
Micromachines
Ristar
The Story of Thor
Strider
Sub-Terrania
Sunset Riders
The Lion King

Edit - Actually check out Beggar Prince. It is an RPG that was released for the Megadrive in 2006. A developer called Super Fight team took a Taiwanese only MD title and translated/enhanced it. Intereresting to pick up.

There is also another project nearing completion called Pier Solar. It's a 100% new RPG release for the Megadrive.

There are more...but I'll let you buy all of those first

TomCo

Zero Tolerance; my favourite game on the mega drive.

I even bought a mint copy off ebay a few years back even though I don't have a mega drive anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fclyq5t5Dtc

Mutz

Rock 'N' Roll racing.

Great game and great tunes.

Dessert/Jungle Strike!

o1s1n

Mutz wrote: »

Rock 'N' Roll racing.

Great game and great tunes.

You do know that they tagged the music on afterwards as they had basically made a crappy game and needed a gimmick to make it stand out? Rubbish game. Avoid!

Mutz wrote: »

Dessert/Jungle Strike!

I'd include Urban Strike too if it wasn't for the terrible oil rig/ out of Helicopter levels.

BlitzKrieg

i quite like those oil rig levels...urban strike was one of two MD games of mine that got stolen And I have fond memories of it, especially its pretty cruel (to the bad guy) end boss


I'd put in a second nomination for dynamite heady (well any treasure game full stop) it is blisteringly difficult but the levels and set design (literally) is worth playing it for...dont think I ever completed it myself...

Stercus Accidit

Two Crude Dudes!

Great co-op, battle toads style, very tough game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ByemDqPxQ

Retr0gamer

I think Oisin pretty much has all bases covered there.

However I'd recommend against Sparkster. It's not that great and not a patch on the SNES version.

Rocket Kight Adventures though is simply amazing. It really is a must have.

rizzla

Mega-lo-mania, my favourite mega drive game. Pumped tonnes of hours into it.

pablomakaveli

Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Mega Bomberman, Dynamite Heddy ,Ristar and Sylvester and Tweety all some of my favourite games for the mega drive.

CCCP^

These few I can recommend may have already been mentioned, but have a look -

Aladdin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp1XvV8BBfQ

Cool Spot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93G-mRLQio4

Strider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SL8Q4d-HzY

Virtua Racing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAGhdlj4qnA

TomCo

TomCo wrote: »

Zero Tolerance; my favourite game on the mega drive.

I even bought a mint copy off ebay a few years back even though I don't have a mega drive anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fclyq5t5Dtc

First FPS game I ever played Brilliant!

Cunny-Funt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu7dxRtePHM

also, theme park!




edit bah thats not the megadrive version, oh well