Genesis does what Nintendon't, nah i'm just kidding. SEGA Genesis/Megadrive is a SEGA's best 16-bit system that are well known for some of the great arcade titles and exclusives back in our childhood days. Last year I already did make my original top 5 favourite Genesis/Megadrive games on my gaming blog, so why do I need to make another top 5 Genesis/Megadrive games? because I been wondering what are my 10th to 6th favourite games on my Genesis/Megadrive library. There are some of the great Genesis/Megadrive games that I really enjoyed it that should have been listed on my top 10 favourites Genesis/Megadrive games, but instead I only did top 5 list last year.
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I decided to rank these games from 10th to 6th which I've already made 5 list on my Top 5 Genesis/Megadrive games.
So without go further do, here are my another top 5 Genesis/Megadrive games that should have been on my top 10's list.
10 - Outrun
We all know that Yu Suzuki was the mastermind of SEGA arcade titles in 80's to 90's days such as After Burner, Space Harrier, Hang-On, and Virtua Fighter. My favourite arcade racing game on the system was Outrun for Genesis/Megadrive. It was released in 1986 as the original arcade machine which had becoming the highest grossing arcade game having sold over 20,000 arcade cabinets within a year. The success of the game has spread with the various of the home console ports, so my favourite ports goes to Genesis/Megadrive version of the game because it is a huge faithful to original arcade counterpart.
This game was known for non-linear gameplay where you have to drive through the stages and choose two of the different junction routes which is pretty innovative for arcade racing genres. The game are also pioneered with arcade like graphics which are heavily focused on third-person rear perspective and selectable soundtracks to listen with while playing on arcade mode. It has smooth driving controls with impressive handling and spectacular range of speed which increases the challenge of overall gameplay. The graphics feels vibrant and colourful on the environment details of beach themed presentation and it's also has the most memorable soundtrack that really fits well on the game.
Outrun is a perfect arcade ports for the home console that Genesis/Megadrive owners should able to enjoy this amazing racing game classics.
9 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
Back in our days, Konami made so many great licensed beat em ups titles such as The Simpsons Arcade, X-Men Arcade, Batman Returns, and of course Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. They made several of TMNT games for Arcade, NES, SNES, GB and Genesis/Megadrive, so they bought TMNT, TMNT II: The Arcade Game, TMNT III: Manhattan Project and TMNT IV: Turtles in Time. Konami decided to bring the first TMNT title for Genesis/Megadrive was TMNT: The Hyperstone Heist is a beat em ups game where you get to play as four badass Ninja Turtles to take down groups of Shredder's gangs and prevent Shredder from taking over the Ellis Island.
This game just plays similar with TMNT: The Arcade Game for Arcade and TMNT IV: Turtles in Time for SNES, but it features longer levels, more aggressive enemy AI and faster-moving gameplay that adds the improvements of overall experience. It has total of 5 stages to play through such as New York City, A Mysterious Ghost Ship, Shredder's Hideout, The Gauntlet, and The Final Shell Shock. There are 6 bosses in each stages such as Leatherhead, Rocksteady, Tatsu, Baxter Stockman, Krang and the main villain of the series Shredder. You can also play with your friends with the 2-player co-op mode which adds the enjoyment of the game.
The gameplay has excellent combat controls with different movements and cool special moves which handles really well in the game and each of the playable turtles has different variations of abilities such as Leonardo are balanced character with average attacks, Donatello has slower but powerful attacks, and Michelangelo and Raphael has faster but weaker attacks which makes the game feels more well-rounded for overall gameplay. It has epic boss battles, cool surfboarding action, incredible locations like caves, sewers and city, and insane hazard traps that really makes the game such entertaining to play. The game also has well dawned animations with comic-book style presentations and colourful details for stage environment that made the game look amazing for 16-bit era.
8 - Castlevania Bloodlines
Castlevania Bloodlines (A.K.A Castlevania: The New Generation in EU releases) is a side-scrolling action game for Genesis/Megadrive by Konami and it was the only Castlevania game being released for the SEGA's system. This game focuses on two vampire hunter such as John Morris and his friend Eric Lecarde has their quest to take up the fight against the female vampire named Elizabeth Bartley to prevent her from resurrecting her uncle Dracula.
Unlike the Super Castlevania IV for SNES, this game features story cutscenes, more variation of combat gameplay and two playable characters with different levels which adds the new elements of the game. This game features 5 stages to play, so you get to play as two of the playable characters such as John Morris which uses his whip as weapons and swings past through gaps, while Eric Lecarde uses his spear for attacking enemies and performing high jumps. This game has precised gameplay controls which worked well for those two playable characters and the boss battles are very challenging and entertainning at the same time to experience Castlevania's universe. Each stages are pretty well made with awesome use of 3D parallax effects on the backgrounds environment and it has impressive vampire themes of level design that made the graphics feels darker, but looked stunning for the 16-bit hardware. The soundtrack is just sounds good as the Super Castlevania IV for SNES which still makes the game so memorable.
Castlevania Bloodlines are far superior to Super Castlevania IV for SNES that Genesis/Megadrive owners should able to experience this action-platform adventures.
7 - M.U.S.H.A
Compile was really known for shoot em ups titles such as Power Strike, Super Aleste, and GunHed. There's one of the well known mecha shoot em ups games in 16-bit era was M.U.S.H.A (acronym for Metallic Uniframe Super Hybrid Armor) for Genesis/Megadrive.
You take control of flying mecha pilot called who has the mission to destroy a large super intelligent computer that threatens the human life and planet Earth. This game features vertical perspective view of gameplay and different special weapons with upgradable power-ups. The player starts off with the main weapon that can be increasingly upgraded by collecting power chip and there's also three different special weapons can be picked up such as piercing lasers, fire-based explosives and rotating shields. It also has useful drones which can be set to one of the six attack modes, such as aiming forward, behind, or rotating around the player.
The gameplay plays really well with unique set of weapons and power-ups, the graphics in the game has wicked use of parallax effects for the animations, and this game has kickass 16-bit heavy metal soundtrack that adds the overall atmospheres of the game. This game is quite expensive for most of the online stores with ridiculously priced from £200 to £300, so I was very lucky that I've bought this game as a reproduction copy of the game from Ebay for £7.00 last year. If you're the fan of the shoot em ups genres then buy this game cheaper by getting reproduction copy or you can also get it from Wii Shop Channel (via Virtual Console) for Nintendo Wii because M.U.S.H.A is such an awesome Vertical Shooter game for 16-Bit system.
6 - Thunder Force IV
Technosoft has bought their mind-blowing side-scrolling shooter legacy in 16-bit era was Thunder Force IV for Genesis/Megadrive. The developer teams behind Herzog Zwei, Dragon's Fury and Hyper Duel was able to make one of the best side-scrolling shooter of Genesis/Megadrive's library that really shows the powerhouse of 16-bit hardware machine. You take control of fighter spacecraft called Rynex to battle against Vios forces throughout the ten stages.
This retains same upgradeable defaults, speed settings, and unique extra weapons from the previous third game. The game is on horizontal perspective view with selectable weapons to choose from such as twin shot, back shot, blade, rail gun, snake, freeway, hunter, and thunder sword. The claw are very useful device that circles around the ship allowing you to fire extra shot of each weapons, while the shields protects the ship from getting damaged from collisions hazard objects.
This game has magnificent use of upgradable weapons making it easier to wipe out the enemy's ships and changing the speed of ship which makes the playabilty easier to control. It has 10 epic stages with intense action, insane enemy's ships, cool boss levels and quite atmospheric level design that made the game so amazing to play. This game has impressive parallax scrolling graphics with detailed environment and faster animation that really pushes the hardware limits and it also has the most metal soundtrack of Genesis/Megadrive library that helps motivates the player to enjoy the side-scrolling madness.
Thunder Force IV is fun shoot em ups game that I really liked on my video game collection.
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