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The games see Bart Simpson throwing tomatoes at other Simpsons characters, riding down a log flume a sequence with some surprisingly good pseudo-3D effects , riding a motorbike through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and weirdest of all, beating up clowns while in the form of a pig. Copies for the Genesis are now rather scarce, but Virtual Bart is worth picking up for the humor in its cutscenes and novelty value alone.
This side-scrolling run-and-gun game was ported to numerous computers and consoles, including a great version for the ZX Spectrum. The agile hero can shoot in all directions and even crawl while doing so. As well as dealing with the bad guys waiting for you on your journey across each level, there are more enemies lurking in the windows and doors further in the distance.
You can also spit blobs of your own goo at enemies, but again at the expense of your overall mass. Free-roaming platform shooter Turrican received a brilliant port in , and like its computer counterparts, was a superbly designed and slick game in a similar vein to Metroid. By way of consolation, you can download Mega Turrican from the Wii Virtual Console for just a few bucks.
A perfectly respectable version for the Master System came out in North America and Europe in , yet the Genesis edition failed to follow suit.
An exceptionally faithful rendition of the arcade original, Rainbow Islands Extra retains the bouncy, deceptively punishing action of the coin-op. Your main weapon is a rainbow, which you can throw out in front of your character to either kill enemies or use as a kind of escalator to help you reach high platforms. A steadily-rising water level adds a layer of tension, as one slip from a platform or fading rainbow can leave you falling to your doom.
Driving down a post-apocalyptic road to nowhere, you have to shoot oncoming vehicles and collect the fuel orbs within, all while staying on the tarmac long enough to reach the finish line before your petrol runs out.
Or it could just be the feeling of exhilaration you get from reaching the finish line with one tiny drop of fuel left — or the delicious agony of stopping mere inches away from victory.
Released in America as M. A , this later entry in the series from Compile is among the very best vertical shooters available for the Genesis. Its creators use its Tenryaku-era setting as a springboard for some truly inspiring creations, such as ancient Japanese temples that transform into tanks, or huge flying cannons topped with eerie Noh theatre masks.
Japanese developer Treasure excelled itself with this adorable and typically strange platform game. You control a slightly ungainly-looking puppet hero, who storms a colorful series of levels in a quest to save his town from an evil demon king. The usual action-adventure trappings apply: you traverse the environment looking for four elemental spirits, and see off a series of area bosses in the process.
Both characters are adorable creations, and there are some great and sometimes quite tricky bosses to fight, too. Instead, Monster World IV stands alone as a delightful and all-too-rare one-off. Treasure pitches the player headlong into one bizarre encounter after another. The running, jumping, and shooting is time-worn stuff, but Treasure injects the game with so much energy and sheer invention that it never feels anything less than fresh.
Konami brought its long-running, consistently excellent run-and-gun series to the Genesis in , and the results are spectacular. Like Castlevania: Bloodlines see later , Hard Corps shakes up the platform shooter gameplay with some stunning visual ideas. The first level alone brings with it the arresting sight of a giant robot silhouetted against a burning cityscape, only for the mecha to leap into the foreground and begin menacing the player with its superior firepower.
Konami really was on form at this point in its history, and Hard Corps is one of its many bit masterpieces. Be warned, though — Hard Corps really does live up to its title and offers up some of the toughest challenges in any Contra game. If you were very, very lucky, you may have stumbled on this eminently playable fighting game, which remained almost unknown outside Japan.
The busy, polished visuals and anarchic action make sense when you consider that Makyo Toitsusen was handled by Treasure — this being one of several underrated gems from the studio to make this list.
And just to spice things up even more, Genesis owners with a multi-tap could indulge in a blistering four-player multiplayer brawl — something unheard of in fighting games at the time. Only released in Japan and Brazil, Makyo Toitsusen is the very definition of a cult item and is now highly sought after by collectors.
Konami has made Castlevania games for a multitude of systems since the series began in , but only one for the Sega Genesis — Bloodlines , which is arguably among the best of the 2D entries. Its beefed-up heroes traverse landscapes full of traps and imaginative monsters, including a gigantic wolf boss whose howl is powerful enough to shatter windows. Further Reading: 10 Best Castlevania Games.
By the standards of the Castlevania franchise, Bloodlines is one of the lesser-known entries, and increasingly difficult to get hold of in its original cartridge form. True fans of the series should go for the full-blooded Japanese release rather than the US or European versions, which were censored. On one hand, the timing meant that its designers were well positioned to get the most out of an aging system just as Team Ico did with Shadow of the Colossus on the PlayStation 2 , but on the other, the game came out when many players were already thinking about the next generation of consoles.
Games like Batman: The Caped Crusader hadtoyed with similar ideas years earlier, but Comix Zone does things that could only be dreamt about on the ZX Spectrum, like the sequences where Sketch rips through the white space between panels to get to the next scene.
Every moment of Comix Zone is full of personality and thought, from the little speech bubbles that keep the story going on the fly, to the stunning animation on even the most incidental creature, such as the little rats whose eyes glint in the darkness of a sewer.
In , the then little-known Japanese developer Game Freak released Pokemon Red and Blue on the Game Boy, resulting in a multimedia, multi-million-dollar phenomenon. In terms of attention to detail and unique touches, Pulseman is stunning.
The title hero is a half human, half digital being who can enter the digital realm. Eschewing the usual elemental themed worlds of most platform games of the time, Pulseman is instead set in distinctive electronic landscapes, futuristic cities, or behind the scenes of a TV news show. Fast, exciting, and full of surreal moments, Pulseman is a superb, often overlooked moment in Genesis gaming. For some, this run-and-gun game from Treasure is the holy grail of Genesis rarities.
But unlike some collectible games for the console, Alien Soldier is a masterpiece of design rather than merely a low-print-run cult oddity.
There are gigantic bosses that almost fill the screen, explosions all over the place, and an agile, brilliantly animated lead character.
One boss is a giant toad that lays explosives. Another takes the form of a colossal, steam-powered ED robot that fires rockets. There are a total of 31 bosses to fight against, each more curious and surprising than the last. A scene where you fight a colossal alien-helicopter hybrid on the roof of a moving train has to rank among the most spectacular boss moments in any Genesis game. Even when played today, Alien Soldier feels refreshingly modern and slick.
Skip to main content area. Wani Wani World In , Japanese studio Kaneko created an arcade game called The Berlin Wall — a revival of the old Space Panic game with better graphics, end-of-world bosses, and lots of power-ups. Crying Known as Bio-Hazard Battle outside Japan, this otherwise familiar side-scrolling shooter is livened up by some great weapons and a really ominous atmosphere. Join our mailing list Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!
Landstalker This action RPG has to be one of the most handsome games of its type available on the Genesis. Further Reading: 20 Best Dystopian Games As the maps become more complex and the enemies more numerous, Crack Down becomes increasingly engrossing, and small touches — like being able to lean against a wall to avoid enemy fire — were relatively unusual at the time.
Atomic Robo-Kid A combination of shooter and maze game, Atomic Robo-Kid is unusual in that it actively punishes any attempt at rapid progress. Stormlord Readers of a certain age may remember Stormlord coming out in the late s. Techno Cop Seemingly inspired by RoboCop , this British action game was notable for its unusual amount of violence.
Gain Ground The concept behind Gain Ground is simple, but therein lies its appeal: your goal is to get each of your four characters to the exit located somewhere on the screen, all the while avoiding the attacks from topless enemies sprinting around after you. Herzog Zwei This unusual game from Technosoft was one of the earliest attempts to create a real-time strategy game for a console.
Virtual Bart This is surely one of the more unusual Simpsons games yet released. Midnight Resistance This side-scrolling run-and-gun game was ported to numerous computers and consoles, including a great version for the ZX Spectrum. Mega Turrican Free-roaming platform shooter Turrican received a brilliant port in , and like its computer counterparts, was a superbly designed and slick game in a similar vein to Metroid.
Musha Aleste Released in America as M. Dynamite Headdy Japanese developer Treasure excelled itself with this adorable and typically strange platform game. Further Reading: The Evolution of Handheld Gaming Treasure pitches the player headlong into one bizarre encounter after another.
Contra: Hard Corps Konami brought its long-running, consistently excellent run-and-gun series to the Genesis in , and the results are spectacular. Castlevania: Bloodlines Konami has made Castlevania games for a multitude of systems since the series began in , but only one for the Sega Genesis — Bloodlines , which is arguably among the best of the 2D entries.
Further Reading: 10 Best Castlevania Games By the standards of the Castlevania franchise, Bloodlines is one of the lesser-known entries, and increasingly difficult to get hold of in its original cartridge form.
Pulseman In , the then little-known Japanese developer Game Freak released Pokemon Red and Blue on the Game Boy, resulting in a multimedia, multi-million-dollar phenomenon.
Alien Soldier For some, this run-and-gun game from Treasure is the holy grail of Genesis rarities. Share: Share on Facebook opens in a new tab Share on Twitter opens in a new tab Share on Linkedin opens in a new tab Share on email opens in a new tab Comment: Comments count: 0. Tags: Sega Sega Genesis. Written by Ryan Lambie. Read more from Ryan Lambie.
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