Fuck Sonic: Eight Genesis games that need to come back. (834 hits)
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Submitted by garudave <misterkick.at.gmail.com> (View user info) at 2007-03-11 03:02:39 EDT
STREETS OF RAGE: Unless you're gay, this one should pretty much explain itself. Think, there hasn't been a good beatemup in like ten years... or whenever Fighting Force came out. Streets of Rage was the most badass game of its time, and you beat the fuck out of a whole lot of people (and a few robots, too.) The recent tendency towards more challenging titles (DMC3 and Ninja Gaiden, etc.), a SoR game could really fit in, as they were always fairly difficult.
MUTANT LEAGUE: Back in the day, no other sports game was worth playing. From throwing "The Bomb" in Mutant League Football, making your intercepting opponent explode, to the fights in Mutant League Hockey, everything in the series was done differently. And it was great, bloody fun. Since half the games that come out nowadays are full of gore, an over-the-top Mutant League title could stand alongside such gems as Dead Rising and Resident Evil 4. Mostly, I just want to play an unrealistic sports game again.
KID CHAMELEON: Alright, so we've got no shortage of platformers nowadays, but Kid Chameleon has so many interesting possibilities that await it on next-gen systems. The overlapping and confusing level mapping in the original could be improved upon and offer almost infinite possibilities... so that no playthrough would be the same. Kid Chameleon's costumes could really be explored more in a 3D realm. The original had this strange charm, like how anytime you died the game would scream "DIE!" in a digitized voice at you. I'm sure they could work off of that in a big way, what with games like Katamari and Elite Beat Agents pulling quirk right out of their asses and succeeding because of it.
PHANTASY STAR: Ok, so PS didn't start on the Genesis, but how many of you fuckers owned a Master System anyway? Phantasy Star deserves a true update because the new ones are shit and because the classic ones had such class. They broke from the norm by bringing in macros and by featuring a future timeline, whereas everyone else was aiming for a steampunk or full-out fantasy timeline. I just want to see a good RPG that isn't released by Squarenix, really.
ROCKET KNIGHT ADVENTURES: How many of you played this? You played a possum, in blue armor, with a jetpack and a sword... and you fought pigs. That should pretty much explain how sweet this game was. The levels were as long as Metal Slug's, and featured more variety than most games nowadays. In one level, you swim down a river, into a tangle of vines with rails for you to hang on, then you go into a cave, then you're on train tracks, where you have to evade bomb-throwing pigs, only to meet up with a robotic train boss. There were eight or nine levels, too. Thrilling, no?
SUB-TERRANIA: A bizarre mix of Lander and generic shooters, this game had you flying around underground and shooting giant bugs and shit. I don't remember the story but the graphics were killer and you really had to think out your actions, since your fuel was limited and controls were extremely difficult to get used to. The complete lack of good shooters nowadays has really left me thirsty, and I've pretty much always turned back to this one. It was way ahead of its time.
VECTORMAN: YES. This was the closest thing to a Transformers video game I ever got, and I enjoyed the fuck out of it. The only moment I really remember was the last boss fight, where you have to jump up a tornado on rooftops and shoot a giant robot in the face. It was so over-the-top, and we really don't have too many extremely badass games like that, anymore. When was the last time you were attacked in a game by a plane with morningstars on its wings?
BEYOND OASIS: This game killed. A mix of a beatemup and Zelda, it had you running around fighting giant crabs and hedgehogs. Bringing the lack of good beatemups back into conversation, I really want to push how fun the fighting was in this game. You had a pretty big repertoire of moves and an update would probably just improve on that. The main thing I want for this game is more recognition... no one else seems to have heard of this classic and if an update came out, I think that would just garner attention to the original. It really deserved it.
That's all. I pulled this out of my ass, because, well, I like Sega and I'm having complete writer's block on Vergil. New episode to come in the next week!
User Reviews
Submitted by DarthFaded (user info) at 2007-03-12 16:20:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
+2 just for the mutant league...
That series was the SHIT.
Submitted by rorrim (user info) at 2007-03-12 09:46:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Von_Tristof (user info) at 2007-03-12 03:49:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Mutant League +2
MEAT ! MEAT ! FRESH MEAT !
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-03-12 09:39:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Von_Tristof (user info) at 2007-03-12 03:49:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Mutant League +2
Submitted by Von_Tristof (user info) at 2007-03-12 03:49:52 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Mutant League +2
Submitted by Istaros (user info) at 2007-03-12 01:21:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
thank you for remembering rocket knight adventures. ristar was good too
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-03-12 00:53:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
i thnk basewars was genesis...but it coulda been nintendo...you know the one where you were robots playing baseball in a "battlechess" kinda way and you could get weapons and shit and fight for base position and make opponents explode by hitting them with wild pitches, i always used the unicycle guy and gave him that rocket fist thing, i kicked ass at that
Submitted by garudave (user info) at 2007-03-12 00:46:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Kuroneko: I tried to mention games that haven't been updated. TJ&E was revamped for the XBox, Altered Beast had an update but it was cancelled early on, and Golden Axe is currently in development on X360. Road Rash was a good one, but it really kept moving onto the PSX and N64. All of these games were either forgotten or turned into shitty MMORPGs (PSO, I glare in your direction.)
Submitted by kuroneko_sama (user info) at 2007-03-12 00:29:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
wasnt streets of rage the first game to feature like 63 different fighting moves (for a 3 button controller that's pretty decent)
vectorman rocked, a dude made entirely of spheres...yay
rocket knight adventures kicked ass too zipping acrossthe screen ramming shit
the 3 original phantasy star games were released on the GBA
you failed to mention golden axe, that game was cool
alterd beast too
and road rash... nothing like cattle prods and motorcycles
i kinda also miss toejam & earl
but i dont miss pa rappa the rapper
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2007-03-11 23:24:34 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuck yes.
No, you can not be a mother fucking Kangaroo in Streets of Rage.
Submitted by Sinistral (user info) at 2007-03-11 23:02:38 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Is SoR the one where you can be a kangaroo?
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-03-11 21:40:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Streets Of Rage rules. I will still bust out the old Sega to play it.
Submitted by CM-102 (user info) at 2007-03-11 19:12:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Awesome, i remember playing streets of rage with my uncle.
He always got pissed and quit after i kept killing him though.
Submitted by i_can_get_you_a_toe (user info) at 2007-03-11 19:10:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
No Comment
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2007-03-11 18:09:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Sonic gets more pussy than you.
Submitted by consuelo212 (user info) at 2007-03-11 18:02:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
mutant hockey league rocked.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2007-03-11 17:34:55 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
No Comment
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-03-11 16:24:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by jfreakman (user info) at 2007-03-11 14:53:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
good stuff
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-03-11 14:38:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
By the way, the old Madden games were better than now, too, just because when somebody got hurt, the ambulance would storm onto the field, running over anybody who happened to be standing near the injured player. THAT was fun.
Submitted by IntangibleHands (user info) at 2007-03-11 13:37:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
HOLY FUCKING YES.
Beyond Oasis is without a doubt, one of the greatest and most underrated games of all time.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-03-11 11:27:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
PS Fuck Sonic, Mario gets what he wants cos he earned it
Submitted by garudave (user info) at 2007-03-11 11:18:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-03-11 04:51:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
+2 Streets of Rage
-2 fucking with Sonic & you forgot Toe Jam and Earl
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Did you not play the X-Box Toejam and Earl? It blew dicks.
Submitted by jojo747 (user info) at 2007-03-11 11:09:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
pathetic
Submitted by hot_pocket (user info) at 2007-03-11 09:51:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
beyond oasis and vectorman
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-03-11 09:03:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Video games - and Uber - are for mos.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-03-11 08:56:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Oh, it looked like Shlongy had signed in as Director by mistake then made the eternal error of making a comment about himself using the alter.
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-03-11 08:41:26 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
No no no. I'm director/EbolaMay. Shlongy is just creepy guy in a pink bathrobe right now.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-03-11 08:38:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-03-11 08:26:11 EDT (#)
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Shlongy is up early this morning.
It's scary to know that somewhere in the world right now there is a Shlongster who is awake in a pink robe and bunny slippers, slurrping coffee and eyeballing his sleeping old lady's crotch.
<shudder>
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Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-03-11 08:15:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Christ I'm old. I never even heard of this shit.
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Shlongy is Director?
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-03-11 08:26:11 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Shlongy is up early this morning.
It's scary to know that somewhere in the world right now there is a Shlongster who is awake in a pink robe and bunny slippers, slurrping coffee and eyeballing his sleeping old lady's crotch.
<shudder>
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2007-03-11 08:22:51 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
rethro computer games +200!!
Submitted by Director (user info) at 2007-03-11 08:15:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Christ I'm old. I never even heard of this shit.
Submitted by TechnoRatty (user info) at 2007-03-11 07:56:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Streets of rage ... was actually playing the game on my ancient Sega megadrive last week ... It was still friggin' great.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-03-11 07:36:01 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Streets iof Rage +1
Mutant League +1000000000 I fucking loved that game!
Submitted by Donitsu2002 (user info) at 2007-03-11 06:40:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Vectorman is probably my favorite video game. They were supposed to make a PS2 Vectorman, but it never came out.
Submitted by JoeyG (user info) at 2007-03-11 06:10:05 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Theres a whole heap of emulators you can download if you want to play any of those games.
god bless nostalgia
Submitted by particle_man58 (user info) at 2007-03-11 04:51:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
+2 Streets of Rage
-2 fucking with Sonic & you forgot Toe Jam and Earl
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-03-11 03:44:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This deserves a hearty "OMG YEESSSSS"
I was ready to -2 the anti-Sonic title, but Streets of Rage and Mutant League Hockey and Football still are three of the best games I have ever played. I never played any of the others but mutant leagues need to come back. They NEED to.