Graphically Impressive Sega Genesis Games

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Even though the Sega Genesis is just over three decades old now, some games that released for the console are still graphically impressive to this day! Join TVGS as I take a look at some gameplay of the best looking, visually and graphically impressive Sega Genesis games the console ever received! Let me know your choice of Mega Drive games with the best graphics down below.
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@ericjames19 Месяц назад

Adventures of Batman & Robin should be on this list

@inceptional Месяц назад

100% yes.

@SuperPowerPainter Месяц назад

I agree! It is a Genesis technical marvel!!!

@gjergjaurelius9798 Месяц назад

Not only graphically but that soundtrack!!!💯🤟🏻

@jonathanlisowski5618 Месяц назад

Definitely

@JC-cb8oi Месяц назад

@@gjergjaurelius9798 godtier soundtrack!

@ParrotMan01276 Месяц назад

Toy Story the game should be on this list. Incredible visuals.

@Autotrope Месяц назад

Indeed, it was made by the same developer as Sonic 3D Blast. I think people forget it was on Genesis because it came out after the Saturn game that inspired it (Clockwork Knight)

@claudiosacchi3720 Месяц назад

This list needs part 2 including: adventures of Batman and Robin, battle mania 2, alien soldier, streets of rage 2, mega turrican, musha, ristar, rocket knight adventures, shinobi 3, sonic 2. So then i can suggest 10 more titles for part 3 😂

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

In the works! 🙂

@abcmaya Месяц назад

Sonic 2 and SOR 2 definitely. Sega had 5 games in development and they were hoping Ristar was going to be their new mascot but it ended up being Sonic.

@LeningradetZ Месяц назад

+ "World of illusion"

@PsychomachineryEBM Месяц назад

Dynamite Headdy

@Tarquin23 20 дней назад

@@abcmayaDefinitey not Sonic 2. Sonic 3, on the other hand…

@joemonkeyman4675 Месяц назад

Comix Zone is an absolutely incredible game!

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

I’ll second that!

@iwanttocomplain Месяц назад

Apparently is was designed by normal people initially but Tom Kalinski needed to make it unbeatable in a weekend so made it bad. The character artist is not on the level as the background artist.

@blackflame4506 Месяц назад

Comix Zone, Gunstar Heroes, Castlevania Bloodlines, Contra Hard Corps, hell you even included Ranger X all of them are bangers!

@GOPSlayer Месяц назад

Comix Zone is an old boob. No game makes me more angry.

@tarantinoish Месяц назад

Either Red or Blue can be fixed or free shot in Gunstar Heroes. The player chooses the option after choosing their first main gun slot.

@MaxAbramson3 Месяц назад

Thank you so much for this video! I had an SMS, Genesis, and Sega CD as a kid. There were over 1200 titles for the CDX platform. We never did get to see the best of them.

@the_gmer1955 Месяц назад

SEGA Genesis was my favorite console when I was growing up and it remains my favorite to this day, I love this console.

@omegaweapon116 Месяц назад

Vectorman was a good one too.

@SetsunoKai Месяц назад

Thunder Force has really good music

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Some of the best on the system for sure!

@Akatsukileader9 Месяц назад

Gunstar Heroes, probably the first game I ever beat as a kid where you could game over.

@GroovyFlacko Месяц назад

another great list. Sega genesis was my first console and all these titles bring back amazing memories

@AzureSymbiote Месяц назад

Good list. Here are more recomendations: - The Adventures of Batman & Robin. - Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle 1 and 2. - World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. - Disney's Aladdin.

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Thanks for the suggestions!

@ArkVogel 15 дней назад

I'd pair SoR 2 with 3. 2 is still the greatest of all time, imho.

@AzureSymbiote 15 дней назад

@@ArkVogel This list is about graphically impressive games.

@pacoroto Месяц назад

I played Phantasy star IV two or three years ago, and let me tell you, I did NOT expect I would play one of the best RPGs of my life on the mega drive

@leelee7334 Месяц назад

I hope you keep the Switch in the rotation. With emulation, there are so many systems and games that are fascinating.

@Ivegotsomewater81 Месяц назад

Part 2 needs to have Toy Story, Adventures Of Batman And Robin, And Zero Tolerance.

@naikjoyx4291 Месяц назад

Virtua Racing released for the arcades all the way back to 1992, not 94

@48hourrecordsteam45 Месяц назад

😵 😱 seriously.! Wow.. I think I saw it in 1995/6

@Autotrope Месяц назад

Yep the machine (Sega Model 1) was way back in 1992, it was definitely a trailblazer in real polygonal graphics.

@naikjoyx4291 Месяц назад

@@Autotrope mhm it was cool.. though Winning Run came 4 years prior in 1988 and that looked crazy for the time.

@Autotrope 28 дней назад

@@naikjoyx4291 wow I didn't even know winning run existed, that is indeed similar in many ways but years earlier

@naikjoyx4291 28 дней назад

@@Autotrope yeah.. there was quite a battle between Namco and Sega arcade systems since the 70s.. though it started raging in the early 80s with Namco's Pole Position and Sega's Outrun. Good times and all. Namco went crazy with the subsequent system and released the first texture mapped racing game in 92 called SimRoad with an mx-5 as a cabinet.

@SonofSethoitae Месяц назад

Star Cruiser is impressive, not in that it looks particularly amazing now, but because what it accomplished on stock hardware in 1990 should have been impossible. Its ludicrously ambitious.

@falksi3182 Месяц назад

Best console ever for me. A library which just gives and gives. No Alien Soldier in the list is wild though.

@lucaandreax Месяц назад

The adventures of batman & robin is worth for this list

@thehumbleone1983 Месяц назад

Agree

@mikahl757 Месяц назад

Just adding to Steam Deck Library here, thank you.

@ArkVogel 15 дней назад

I remember game mags going crazy over Sonic 3D Blast's Genesis release. Everyone thought that it was going to be a Saturn exclusive when it was first announced. Having said that, it did not age well at all. I still find myself going back to S3K.

@samuelmelendez7566 Месяц назад

Even though I'm more of a snes guy I can appreciate some games on the Sega Genesis

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Same here man

@truffled_one Месяц назад

I agree. I lean more toward SNES but there are some amazing Genesis games. Both systems are classic

@gcapeletti Месяц назад

There's a lot of excellent games on the Genesis.

@omegaweapon116 Месяц назад

I only owned SNES as a kid but I loved to go to a friend's house and play Golden Axe, Sonic, and Shinobi on his Genesis. Of course, if you wanted to play MK1, you had to play it on Genesis with the code to unlock the blood and fatalities.

@evilblader7 Месяц назад

Yeah me too...

@Autotrope Месяц назад

Note: "corps" is pronounced like "core" - an English word for a military unit that comes from French, hence all the silent letters. The title "Hard Corps" was a pun, because it sounds the same as "hardcore".

@PsychomachineryEBM Месяц назад

Dynamite Headdy, Adventures of Batman and Robin, Ristar, Mickey Mania and Beyond Oasis deserve to be included in a next chapter

@Junier-Hussein Месяц назад

Brilliantly put together as ever! Comix Zone 🔥 The GBA port is also good. I'm sure I learnt about it from you (1 one of the GBA videos) 😊

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Much appreciated!

@paulblackwood9662 Месяц назад

Alien Soldier and Vectorman seem to missing from the list.

@xRocketzFighterx 22 дня назад

So many legends on this list

@patrickkromer161 Месяц назад

Great list! Nice that you put Comix Zone in it. Awesome Game 😉👍

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Glad you enjoyed!

@david.majchrzak7069 Месяц назад

Genesis and SNES both. Are excellent.

@millenniumwatcher Месяц назад

Great to see Gunstar Heroes being recognized!

@abcmaya Месяц назад

I think that game will always be in the mix when it comes to top 10 genesis games LOL

@WhatIsMatter101 Месяц назад

Any Genesis game from Treasure is always recognized. Is this your first rodeo?

@millenniumwatcher Месяц назад

@@WhatIsMatter101wrong. It doesn’t get recognized enough. Your rodeo is most definitely different from mine 👋

@tvshacker 25 дней назад

Almost everyone knows Gunstar Heroes, but the fact that they never followed up with a sequel is proof that it didn't get the proper recognition

@millenniumwatcher 25 дней назад

@@tvshackeractually there is a sequel on GBA called Gunstar Super Heroes.

@alejandrobenaventeundercol2208 Месяц назад

Beautiful video dude.... cheers ✌🏻

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Thank you!

@realguitarthur Месяц назад

I am extremely blessed to have the original physical versions of all of these games (except Virtua Racing...lol!)! Great list! I would have to add Sparkster, Crusader of Centy and M.U.S.H.A. too (which I also have). #RETROGAMING4EVER :)

@engcristiano10 Месяц назад

8:40 This song from 7th stage of Streets of Rage makes part of my life! So nice!

@41illusion Месяц назад

I have Gunstar Heroes remastered in 3D for the Nintendo 3DS and it's 100% the definitive version: it plays like a dream via controls and looks beautiful in 3D like other Sega classics they remastered. The biggest regret I strongly feel is them not remastering Comix Zone in 3D for the 3DS which would've would've looked incredibly stunning visually (to this day I still wonder if Comix Zone has the best graphics on the Genesis in terms of aging well versus others attempting 3D graphics when they were still brand new at the time). Thanks for the content as always! The intro music always makes me feel better 😂😂😂

@wrena79 Месяц назад

The megadrive/genesis is known for it's abundance of shooters but unfortunately (at the time) Gradius and R-Type were not among them. Darius was but released as Sagaia (Darius 2). Either way. Love your videos. I subscribe to likely 100+ gaming channels and yours is certainly in my top 5. Thank you for all the great content

@leighbyford635 15 дней назад

Excellent list. I think you could do a part 2.

@thatvideogamesshow 14 дней назад

Definitely!

@mulletronuk Месяц назад

Great video! FYI "corps" is pronounced "core" so it's a pun: "hard core". But you already knew that - consider your engagement driven 😊

@skarmachild Месяц назад

Was looking for this correction, lmao00aa00a0a0a0a0a. It could be Hard Corps tho, like "Corporations" or "Corporal". But yeh nice game

@WhatIsMatter101 Месяц назад

Corp. = corporation, no such thing as "corps." Corps = a group in an army Corpse = !d!○t who can't pronounce "corps"

@Tenpouin 29 дней назад

Beyond Oasis should be on this list. Amazing 2D sprites and backgrounds

@michaellong8812 Месяц назад

Great video!

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Thanks!

@TheRoninteam Месяц назад

great video

@IamLegend32 Месяц назад

What graphic/video filter settings are you using for these games? Everytime I try and play these games in my modern TV, I can never get it to look as good as it does when watching your videos..

@geminielectro Месяц назад

I thought there was Toy Story, Vectorman, Batman & Robin, Red Zone, Kawazaki Superbike Challenge, Ristar, Flink...

@TheDemonking82 День назад

Man castlevania bloodlines was an amazing game. Got it at pioneer pawn back in 96 for 5.99 best money I have ever spent was addicted to this game tile I got killing time and a 3do in late 97. I would play it with a six button with turbo on the attack. It was easy mode.

@mardosavage6426 10 дней назад

Good taste in music 🎶 that tekken 2,intro was 🔥🔥🔥

@thatvideogamesshow 8 дней назад

Glad you like it

@Virtualnerd101 Месяц назад

Thanks for the gaming history lesson! The two games that I think should be added are Ristar and Vectorman. Ristar on an artistic level is hands down the best looking genesis game, and Vectorman was basically SEGA's response to Donkey Kong Country's prerendered 3D graphics.

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Great suggestions! Will consider them for part 2 =)

@thecamobot Месяц назад

Love the genesis I definitely need to get some more games for mine

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

So many great games for it!

@thecamobot Месяц назад

@@thatvideogamesshow for sure, just have to find the room for them too haha

@jorgelourencoyt Месяц назад

Excellent list, but I really missed Duke Nukem 3D there. Amazing port made by Tec Toy

@silverwolftheretrogamer9792 Месяц назад

You should take a look at red zone some people consider it a strike clone but, graphically it completely fantastic

@AnthonyRiddle Месяц назад

I'd like to see a cell shaded remaster of Comix Zone with a good bit of quality of life and modern tweaks

@evilblader7 Месяц назад

Well... I'm not SEGA fan but I must admit there are interesting games... You know another graphycal impresive is Star cruise, a little weird and never left japan.. but check it out.

@volvoguy804 Месяц назад

Battle Mania 2...pretty.

@48hourrecordsteam45 Месяц назад

This all I need to see on RU-vid New sega Genesis content everyday .!

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

More in the works!

@gc3k Месяц назад

Kawasaki Superbike Challenge-- Virtua Racing was really impressive, but KSC is a polygonal racer (with real-time sprite scaling for the opponent bikes) on a stock Genesis with no additional processors

@matiasjauhojarvi9551 Месяц назад

Great video.

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Thanks!

@mjdf122 Месяц назад

I’ve been blessed to see all from 1980-Now what a life of gaming 1980s was all about NES Master System Turbo Grafx and Genesis

@goatbone Месяц назад

Corps is pronounce 'core' not 'corpse'

@thrilleex Месяц назад

Where ? I guess somewhere, but I've never heard it being pronounced like that.

@SonofSethoitae Месяц назад

@@thrilleexEverywhere. "Corps" is French

@thrilleex Месяц назад

@@SonofSethoitae yet not everywhere is pronounced like that. Like how America is dotted with Spanish names towns/cities and still non Spanish speakers pronounce them differently.

@SonofSethoitae Месяц назад

@@thrilleex Yes, but "corps" is only correctly pronounced one way

@thrilleex Месяц назад

@@SonofSethoitae oh that might be true, I'm not debating that, just that it is not pronounced as "core" everywhere. And like I said, I haven't heard it that way in my life.

@inceptional Месяц назад

You missed Dynamite Headdy, Alien Soldier, Adventures of Batman, and Robin and Ristar, to name a few other graphical standouts imo.

@iwanttocomplain Месяц назад

Here's the thing. There's s many better graphically games than this tired old list. Just what about Speedy Gonzales in Cheese Catastrophe? Looks better than anything on this list I'd say. Phantasy Star 4 looks dog awful if I'm honest. Which I always am.

@inceptional Месяц назад

@@iwanttocomplain Hmmm. Apart from the intro and some decent use of overlapping parallax mostly in the first stage, I'd say Speedy Gonzales in Cheese Catastrophe is quite a generic platformer and standard affair to be honest, and nothing particularly graphically impressive. But horses for courses. It certainly doesn't look bad at all.

@ChaossX77 Месяц назад

He didn't say this was every graphically impressive game or the video would be hours long. Plus he said there'll be a part 2.

@iwanttocomplain Месяц назад

@@inceptional no it doesn't look bad. Because the animation is as good as a Loony Toon cartoon. The loading routines for all those frames of animation are in fact something to write home about. The colours and overall scene in action displays mastery of the hardware and excellence in hit boxes and such things. I'm super bored of muscle men with guns and the character pixel art of Gunstar Heroes, Phantasy Star 4 and Contra, is primitive by comparison. Do people talk about Alladin? Sure. But what about the Looney Toon games. That animation is as good as the Disney games.

@iwanttocomplain Месяц назад

@@inceptional the Speedy Gonzalez games is just barely serviceable as a game. It's not even nearly as pretty as Tazmania. I was actually thinking about the sms version. The backgrounds are just ok but Speedy looks pretty good. Maybe the programming is just ok too. But Sonic 3D Blast is not a programming tour de anything. It's just 1 background layer and 1 sprite layer. I saw that programmer's channel and it's complete nonsense.

@MaxOakland 25 дней назад

Hard corps isn’t pronounced like “hard corpse” it’s pronounced like hard CORE. The S is silent

@ismailmuttaqien1203 5 дней назад

Contra HARD CORPSE

@Simoss13 Месяц назад

4th Gen consoles, one of (if not THE) best console generation. Depending on taste you could argue 6th Gen was amazing also

@Crying_Onion Месяц назад

You can add Red Zone to the list. Not a great game, but sure shows some technical achievements, like rotating-scaled background and some solid 3d depth tricks

@galvanicmass Месяц назад

Coming zone was brilliant

@user-fy6dq3sy5p 7 дней назад

Beyond Oasis was a beautiful game

@DemoniteBL 3 дня назад

Hot take, but CV Bloodlines was more atmospheric than Symphony of the Night.

@opts9 Месяц назад

Thanks for the vid! I wouldn't say Castlevania Bloodlines/new Generarations 'doesn't look anywhere near as good' as Castlevania IV! That's a bit of a stretch! haha! I think I've actually grown to prefer the Megadrive Castlevania over the SNES outing over the years! And I just can't get down with Phantasy Star IV being considered graphically impressive! - sorry to it's many fans, but it looks so dull and unappealing to me. I'd have swap that one out for (pretty much any other game) The Lost World, Sonic 1-3, Battle Mania, Divine Sealing.. Thanks for putting out quality content TVGS!

@franciscocampos8857 Месяц назад

A list like this without Robocop vs Terminator is a joke

@FZuloaga 25 дней назад

There are some others 3D games without using the SVP such as LHX Attack Chopper which is a port and F-22 Interceptor. And don't forget Red Zone. It uses A LOT of FX without special hardware. If you're gonna put LHX on other videos, please have in mind that the framerate could be improved by pressing start on the 2nd controller... just to make justice to the game.

@cam9144 Месяц назад

Growing up with the Genesis, I still find myself preferring the SNES BUT!!! When the Genesis has a banger, it's one hell of a banger.

@ghost-user559 Месяц назад

Yeah I had both as hand me downs and I can say Genesis was more visually impressive most of the time, but Super Nintendo had better and more memorable games.

@mr.raw-CH Месяц назад

You habe to make a video about todays Homebrew programmera. Awesome graphically Games such like Paprium or Demons of Asteborg 🥰

@sebastienlopezmassoni8107 3 дня назад

And Beyond Oasis ? Castle of illusion, Street of Rage 2, 3 ?

@TheMagnificentGman Месяц назад

Comix zone was so hard couldn't get very far

@victorlgcarvalho Месяц назад

Thunder Force IV easily looks like a Sega Saturn game.

@Greg_Games Месяц назад

My favorite console!

@ciuffoarancione8929 Месяц назад

Mega turrican, sub terrania, biohazard, streets of rage 2/3, robocop vs terminator, batman & robin, soleil, mazin saga, landstalker, story of thor, sonic 3, red zone, quackshot, mickey mania, Aladdin, ristar, dynamite headdy, eternal champions, alien soldiers, Shinobi 3...

@tvshacker 25 дней назад

Soleil (aka Crusader of Centy) is amazing. Maybe not the best graphics wise, but I have very good memories of the gameplay.

@digitalworms 22 дня назад

I could never get on a side with Nintendo vs sega back in the day I owned both and loved both! The software was the part you had to choose some same some completely different! Snes had the top rpgs sega the shmups! TurboGrafx 16 was king of shmups imo!

@johnmartinez-valentin5427 Месяц назад

I had the the chance of getting the sega genesis HD but I think I'll buy it from ebay or Amazon

@piticusomancuso953 Месяц назад

Alien Soldier? Sonic 3 & Knuckles?

@NickOchoa Месяц назад

Comix zone is so hard to beat

@nguyengamer7906 Месяц назад

Earthworm Jim?

@jaffakeks. День назад

Vectorman !

@JoshuaJacobs83 Месяц назад

Just played Comix Zone!!!

@opaljk4835 Месяц назад

It really is a shame how huge of a skill ceiling comix zone has. It’s such a unique and dope looking game. Nothing else out there like it, really…I think sega has a patent on it’s design or something

@gabrielleraul488 Месяц назад

Please please include Alien Soldier in part 2 ..

@segat-800 Месяц назад

If you really want to see these games at their best, play on a CRT. LED screens just makes them look grainy.

@khamla616 25 дней назад

Flink should be on the list

@Onailim3 Месяц назад

Toy Story Aladdin Mortal Kombat 3 Super Street Fighter II Sonic and Knuckles ISSS Deluxe Greendog (Game Sack)

@PAINNN666 19 дней назад

Looks like I need here. People Already drop you for 2 videos but forgot 1 title. Red Zone. Yes it's more impressive in pre-game area game but still

@gamerblisters 14 дней назад

YEAH!! TFIV!!!!

@JeremyNoblitt 9 дней назад

When I started this video up, i thought PS4 should be on here. And not because it's my favorite rpg ever either.

@GOPSlayer Месяц назад

No Rocket Knight Adventures? No Toy Story or Aladdin? I mean, Disney was cool back then. Don't judge me! LOL

@llorenstorrespr4409 23 дня назад

The Adventures of Kate & the Ohlahumbos didn't make the cut!!!!😲

@joaogilbertomarques8882 Месяц назад

If you make a #2, check out Beyond Oasis

@SonofSethoitae Месяц назад

Beyond Oasis. Legend of Oasis was on the Saturn.

@clanpsi Месяц назад

Did you forget to edit in an introduction, or did you leave it out on purpose?

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

I feel they waste time and would rather get straight to the content of the video.

@gmila84 Месяц назад

I think you miss Sonic 3 and Knucles in this list. But awesome list, anyway

@thatvideogamesshow Месяц назад

Part 2 in the works 🙂

@gmila84 Месяц назад

@@thatvideogamesshow you never fail!

@WongIreng590 Месяц назад

I swear Earthworm Jim 1&2 has the best graphic on the genesis

@StreetsofATL_19 17 дней назад

Sega was great at marketing based on hype but horrible at marketing their library of games. When debating during the 🇺🇸 16-bit wars, the Genesis owners I knew didn’t know anything but Sonic, Streets of Rage and Sports games! I was waiting for them to talk about the games I saw in GameFan and EGM but they didn’t even know about them. 🤷‍♂️