I’ve been filling out my emulator collection and thought I’d poke my head into the world of Sega consoles, which I have no experience with.

What classic Master System/Genesis/32x/Game Gear/Sega CD games should I try? I’m more of an RPG guy, but I’ll play a good retro platformer or whatever.

What I’ve found so far from my own research (mostly Genesis):

  • Altered Beast

  • Beyond Oasis

  • Castlevania Bloodlines

  • Comix Zone

  • Crusader of Centy

  • Death and Return of Superman (I just really liked this comics arc)

  • Earthworm Jim 1+2

  • Gauntlet 4

  • Golden Axe 1+2

  • Landstalker

  • Might and Magic - Gates to Another World (I think this is MM2?)

  • OutRun and OutRun 2019

  • Phantasy Star 1-4

  • Shadowrun

  • Shining Force 1+2

  • ToeJam and Earl

  • Ys - The Vanished Omens

What I have no interest in:

  • Sonic

  • Fighting games

  • Sports games

EDIT: I’ll definitely take note of any Saturn/Dreamcast recommendations too, but my plan is to start with the older consoles and work my way up.

  • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    Sports Games

    Well, I have bad news for you about a significant fraction of the Genesis’ library…

    Some other decent Genesis/Megadrive titles I can think of off the top of my head: Gunstar Heroes, Vectorman, Megaman: The Wily Wars, Zero Wing (for the memes), Aladdin (which was a completely different and vastly superior game to its SNES coutnerpart), Blaster Master 2, Contra: Hard Corps, Ecco the Dolphin and its sequels, Jurassic Park, and probably loads of others I’m forgetting.

    The Saturn is notable for having Radiant Silvergun locked to it, in Japan only no less, and I don’t think that title was ported or rereleased at all until the XBox 360 version. It’s the precursor to Ikaruga, which is itself on the Dreamcast.

    If you’re into shmups, the Dreamcast is kind of a holy grail. It also has the first two Shenmue games on it.

    Alas basically everything on the Sega CD is crap with few exceptions. I will probably surprise my readership by mentioning that I think Sonic CD is not one of them, as its easily the weakest of the classic Sonic titles. It has some cult favorites that are so bad they’re good, though, infamously including Night Trap, Time Gal, Corpse Killer, Sewer Shark, etc. For games on it that don’t suck, don’t forget that the first two Lunar games originated there, there’s Popful Mail, Keio Flying Squadron, Snatcher, etc.

    The 32X is an interesting novelty but I’m not certain there’s a single compelling title in the entire library. Which, admittedly, is only something like 30 games.