Great Visual Effects on the Sega Genesis - The Series

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Nearly one hour of great-looking Sega Genesis games!
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Opening 3D Logo By:
Jan Neves
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Opening 2D Animation By:
Kevin Bhall
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Episode Notes:
1. All games are captured via a Mega SG.
2. If you're in the market for physical games, some of these are still quite affordable.
3. You could always tell when a developer really had some skill. Not only do most of these look great, but they also play and sound great too.
4. I had a list of about 30 games when I started. We could definitely do a part 2 and 3 to this if you guys enjoyed it.
5. I played my Genesis well into the life of the Sega Saturn. It's one of my favorite machines of all time, and its library is second to none in overall quality.
6. Like most of the best games, the majority here were system exclusive and appeared on no other hardware of the time.
7. Traveller's Tales also did Toy Story from the first video. Those people really could program well for the Genesis.
8. Shadow Dancer is one of the few games I actually prefer the console version of. The arcade was good, the Genesis version is great.
9. I was always a big fan of the Genesis hardware, even after the SNES showed up. The Genesis still had its own look and feel that stood the test of time well. Even when it was aged well past its prime, it still managed to impress.
10. A few of these games have Sega CD variants with even more content. Puggsy, Mickey Mania, and Out of this World spring to mind. There is also a Saturn version of Sonic 3D Blast, but it's much less impressive there.
11. The SNES version of Virtual Bart is radically different visually in a few of the segments. If you ever get a moment, take a look at the bike segment. It's entirely flat Mode 7. The Genesis engine is far more impressive. I wanted to include a side by side, but I couldn't find my damn RGB cables before the video was due to go up.
12. I really wish there had been a Street Racer for the Sega CD. With the Genesis handling the track and the sprite scaling done by the Sega CD, it could have rivaled the Saturn version. Maybe.
13. ExoSquad pissed me off so much while capturing footage. I died countless times trying to get some good shots. I almost omitted the game entirely.
14. In the earliest stages of Ristar's creation, he was imagined as a bunny that could grab things with his ears. This lost out to Sonic's original design, but would still grow and mature into the game you see here.
15. The ending references Galaxy Force II and Super Hang On, two pseudo sprite scaling games of very different quality. The former was awful, while the latter was incredible for such an early title for the hardware.

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@Trialwolf Год назад

One thing I love about this era of gaming and technology is the creativeness of developers to squeeze every last bit of power or ways to manipulate the hardware to do things it was not designed for.

@sloppynyuszi Год назад

It’s amazing how they cramped so much visual information into just 2mb, while I want to download a pixel retro game on my phone it’s 1gb which is basically the whole library combined. Even the retro rereleases are 80mb space harrier 2 is 500kb so not sure how bad is the extra Ui, but 80mb?

@noaht2005 Год назад

That’s why I’ve always found retro games so fascinating. It takes real genius and skill to push a console like this, and the results speak for themselves. Of course, many AAA modern developers still try to push the limits of modern consoles, but the results are not as obvious

@davidt3563 Год назад

One of my favorite things to look at are the last games on the consoles. It's crazy to see the difference in graphics from launch to the last. Edit: You guys should check out Coding secrets on RU-vid, he was one of the devs behind some of the amazing graphics you remember on Genesis.

@kamilpotato3764 Год назад

That's why lot's of games from this era look way better on crt and run through composite cable(dithering blending)

@morbidcorpse5954 Год назад

Vastly different from the current era where developers release half-assed games and squeeze every bit of money out of gamers.

@fernando651 Год назад

I have to admit, as a life long Nintendo fan boy- this is impressive. Especially the 3d effects in red zone. I was always impressed with the smooth animation in Sega's Aladdin. I'm pretty sure it's better than SNES.

@EOTA564 Год назад

Capcom’s Aladdin was a nice looking game but the use of actual Disney animators was a trump card for Sega. Aladdin on the MD is also the prototype for the fantastic Earthworm Jim.

@bobsanderz3005 Год назад

@@EOTA564I didn’t know either of those facts, so that’s pretty awesome

@jordanbenson2980 Год назад

The Aladdin are both great but for different reasons to be honest.

@yousefslimani99 Год назад

Agreed and that's why SEGA Genesis is my favorite console of all time!

@MrZillas Год назад

@Fernando Rico - I was very jealous for "Abu" in the SNES-version, but all in all I think, SEGA's version is better. I played meanwhile again "Prince of Persia" and when I watched Aladdin on SNES later on, I thought, that's actually only "Prince of Persia" on SNES, plus the sweet little Abu.

@TboneTenEighties Год назад

Living through these times as a child = priceless. Sega attracted me from day one. Genesis is an incredible console. Parents purchased the Altered Beast package for me Christmas of release. Ripping open the wrapping and seeing the box for the first time in hand was something I will never forget. I sold everything years later as a teen (bad move) but got everything back and then some as an adult. I own all Genesis models and a much larger amount of physical games. Emulation is cool indeed but putting in the cartridge in the real hardware again = priceless. Great video.

@TboneTenEighties Год назад

@@jash21222 Welxome to your doom!

@soldatheero Год назад

MEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! :D

@ProcyonAlpha Год назад

Goddamnit

@SonicTheDutchHedgehog Год назад

The Mega Drive always was the king of parallax scrolling to me developers really knew how to make it look beautiful

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt Год назад

How difficult is it to map the most important two layers onto the hardware for each scanline? SNES has some DMA for this.

@MaxAbramson3 Год назад

@@ArneChristianRosenfeldtYou can use hardware interrupts and the scanlinw counter to get that effect. Alternately, you can write the game loop so that it updates during HBlank.

@AnthonyRiddle Год назад

That Motorola X68000 CPU was an absolute beast. It was the heart and soul of Capcom CPS1&2, the Sharp X68000, the NeoGeo, the Genesis, and a bunch of other arcade machines. Even with the SNES's 7 different modes, the Genesis could rival all of their special effects with the creativity of the developers

@maroon9273 Год назад

Japan had the best pc hardware in the 80s.

@gc3k Год назад

With the notable exception of color, Genesis was able to rival all of the heavily advertised tricks of SNES, by sheer brute force

@shadowangel2235 Год назад

Lol Creativity and Seven Modes, seems like dumb advertisement really works on you. The "7 Modes" of the SNES are nothing special. Every system can do it, heck Yuji Naka once showed the background scaling and rotation (and that's really that "Mode 7" is) working on the Master System. The sole difference was that the SNES had those 7 different effects built into its horrendous CPU, while on every other System you had to program them in software, but that's not really much of a challenge.

@shadowangel2235 Год назад

@@maroon9273 Except that pretty much all the hardware came from american companies. Neither the 68000, nor the Z80 are japanese, since Motorola and Zilog were american companies. Same with for example the CPUs in the NES (based on MOS Technologies 6502), the SNES (WDC 65C816) or PC Engine (WDC 65C02). MOS Technologies and Western Design Center were of course also american. MSX also ran on the Z80 as did a ton of other computers back then. The japanese actually knew nothing about Microprocessors themselves. All they did was mostly licensing the CPUs and slap their own label on it (another example is the NEC VR4300 in the N64, it's actually the R4200 from MIPS Technologies). Same is true with GPUs, were most came from Texas Instruments back then. It was even the same with the Arcade Hardware. For their Model 2 platform, Sega licensed a Flight Simulator GPU developed by GE Aerospace which originally were used by Lockheed Martin in Flight Simulators for Pilots.

@f.k.b.16 Год назад

Traveller's Tales was also great at graphics!! GameHut really shows the details of how a lot of this was done in an easy to understand way!

@williamdrum9899 Год назад

Yes, and it was no easy task. I tried re-creating his "rocking boat" effect from Puggsy just by watching his video on it. I didn't get it to work, since I wasn't sure how to make it sway back and forth. I could only scroll each scanline in one direction

@f.k.b.16 Год назад

@@williamdrum9899 I bet! That's cool you are trying though. Are you doing home brew stuff?

@williamdrum9899 Год назад

@@f.k.b.16 I was but I kinda gave up. It's a lot of work to maintain it all. I don't think I can do it alone

@Nathan-rb3qp Год назад

The tunnel effect in Ranger X was recently referenced in the fan made Sonic Triple Trouble remake.

@cousinjimmydean4233 Год назад

I love your voice

@steveb7932 Год назад

i love his toes

@hdemetri Год назад

Flashback was amazing visually and a nice step up from the impressive Out of This World. The rotoscope animation was silky smooth. It was also a great playing game for its time.

@cringycook9597 Год назад

The man that never sleeps to keep us entertained 👌

@Canadian_Gamer Год назад

The Genesis was a 16-bit monster. I am interested in checking out Formula One. Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker looks damn impressive.

@Tsargate Год назад

Formula One is a great game yup. Used to play on Amiga and it was called Vroom.

@joegalford2319 Год назад

I like the "push the limits of the system" videos. Cool to see what talented people could do.

@KXPriestess Год назад

Where is Kid Chameleon??? Seriously one of the best visual experiences on the Genesis/Mega Drive! The most underrated game ever and most difficult! Show my favorite game some love one day...please

@datassetteuser356 Год назад

I remember discovering Thunder Force IV back in the early 2000s. I got a Mega Drive from a friend an bought a couple of games cheap online. This was was in the lot. And man, after I switched it on and that title screen and the awesome music was done, I just called my friend next door to have a look at this. We were mostly into PC gaming at that time, but heck: after he saw it as well, we dove into that game and enjoyed the heck out of it. Also played through the first Streets of Rage in coop on that very same day. I won't forget the impression this console made on us at that time, so long after it had been out of the market. The Mega Drive / Genesis is the stuff of legends. Still have that one, by the way, and my collection only grew. Cheers!

@Gambit771 Год назад

You don't need to add 'genesis'. Everyone knows what you mean.

@MrZillas Год назад

Go for "Streets of Rage 2 and 3" and for the "Streetfighter"-series and Turtles, Landstalker and Alien 3 and also the Shinobi-titles.

@Nightopian1982 Год назад

I've been playing Thunder Force IV on the MD and Thunder Force V on the Saturn the past couple of days after watching these videos. Unbelievable games, it has to be said. It actually brings a tear to my eye when I consider the modern era next to such titles. I'm sorry, but I just can't take to them in the same way. Over-complicated controls, visuals and gameplay setups (taking about twenty minutes tinkering with options etc is not my idea of fun). Give me slapping a cartridge in, powering on and pressing start any day of the week (or loading an emulator and pressing start 😉).

@Nightopian1982 Год назад

@@Gambit771 easy, it's not exactly necessary to criticise them for that. Some younger people (like my mate's son) who are only just getting into retro games might actually not be aware of their different names in Europe/US/Japan etc. Seems barmy to us I know!

@datassetteuser356 Год назад

@@Nightopian1982 Totally agree. Except for the emulator part 😄😉 Just kidding, that helps keeping these games alive many people,but still, I prefer original hardware. Guess you do as well from what I read. Cheers!

@KISSFan1977 Год назад

my first time playing Alien Soldier was on the ATGames 2018 Sega Genesis Flashback HD which was imho the only solid clone console they made with SEGA on it.

@thehumbleone1983 Год назад

Love Mega Turrican and Panaramic Cotton and especially the music from mega turrican was awesome

@RARufus Год назад

Vectorman was impressive. Ran at 60 fps if I remember correctly, which was crazy for the Genesis.

@bowmanencore Год назад

Never sleep on blast processing.

@floatingkites2420 Год назад

A nearly hour long SEGA Lord X video to get me through the last hour at work? Thank you big guy!

@GeomancerHT Год назад

Do you like to rewatch videos over and over?

@elperroreggae Год назад

@@GeomancerHT the full series it was never posted, we need the Director cut

@GeomancerHT Год назад

@@elperroreggae I'm waiting for the backwards videos, to have something fresh to watch.

@acem7749 Год назад

One my fav Genesis games for gfx as an early release, Open world ocean game Bimini Run. Nice line scrolling for wave layers and color cycling for animation, change of weather. Ominous thunder storms sky gets dark and lightning strikes.. night time levels where the lightning lights up the ocean. Definitely one the few 16bit boat games and very few had the behind the view. Plus 2 player coop gunner support..

@secretysecret1551 Год назад

Lets get a music version of this list!

@adambishop5739 Год назад

Hi SEGA LORD X. Just to let you know, I'm from the UK and we do snooker..lol..and we love it too. It IS the very hardest billiards type game there is, period! It's also played on a 12 ft table. I think its the only thing us Brits do BIGGER than how America does things! The bottom line of this game is- your first shot, is ALWAYS, to hit a red ball first, when you come to the table. Go for RED first, if there are any left to play. The are worth 1 point every time you pot one and are the key to accessing going for the colour balls next shot. The colour balls are valued as such: Yellow= 2pts Green= 3pts Brown= 4pts Blue= 5pts Pink= 6 pts.....and... Black= 7pts So while there are still red balls on the table, take any colour ball you like after potting your red. Obviously, aim for the highest value colour you can comfortably sink. You MUST go for a COLOUR, everytime you pot a RED and you must go for a RED again, after potting a COLOUR; so you alternate all the time. The general idea is to pot as many RED, then COLOUR balls, consecutively and rack up a score as you go (this is called a BREAK). The higher the break, the more awesome your play was. Ultimately, your job is to score more points than your opponent however. The BREAK, means little other than showing off your ability. After you have potted ALL the REDS, you must pot the colours in order of point value (as above). The very best way to learn is to watch some snooker matches on RU-vid, or on the BBC, when tournaments come around (usually Jan/April). This game is kind of like Pool, but with a very strong CHESS element throw in. Its highly strategic and you really need to have an incredibly high level of skill. Its WAY harder than American Pool, which is damn easy by comparison. Once you throw the element of "SNOOKER'S" into the game (meaning putting your opponent in an awkward position where they cannot easily hit the object ball), the game becomes extremely tactical. Your first thought is always to try to score as many points as the situation will allow (because highest score determines the winner) but if scoring is not possible, try to snooker your opponent, to make their next shot a tough one. Thats the "Adam's" explanation for you, I really hope it helped...just incase you want to play REAL snooker, or if you just wanna play that Genesis version properly..😉

@Shikaku11373 Год назад

I always wonder what happen to Treasure, personally they pulled off some amazing & memorable games on the Genesis.

@Spewa-em8cm Год назад

They still exist and release games from time to time, but from what I understand the company only has a handful of employees now and development has gotten slow.

@zsiles Год назад

Guardian Heroes, Sin and Punishment 1 and 2, Bangai O, Bleach DS, Ikaruga...

@Shikaku11373 Год назад

@@Spewa-em8cm Thats a shame.

@Shikaku11373 Год назад

@@zsiles I have all of them but it felt like they were at their prime during the 16bit era. Then after that it kinda started slowing down a lot. I'd wish someone would just make a Treasure collection for current consoles.

@zsiles Год назад

@@Shikaku11373 totally agree

@rafaelraad555 Год назад

Loved every bit of this episode and of my gaming days in my old genesis back in the late 80s/1990s.

@alex64gaming Год назад

Wolfenstein 3D is so underrated

@RobsRetroGaming Год назад

I didn't give my Genesis the love it deserved when I had it in 94-95, but I am these days!

@Chaz4543 Год назад

I didnt really either. By 95 I was only playing SNES.

@AppliedCryogenics Год назад

I think in some ways the Genesis was the high-water mark of parallax scrolling in 2D games. It's hard to find better, even on the Saturn.

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt Год назад

SNES has four layers

@golfboy83 Год назад

Great lists! One game I was pretty blown away by back on the day was Ecco The Dolphin: Tides of Time. It was so beautiful, and it had those cool 3d sections for the bonus rounds I think, going through the rings. 🐬

@ren7a8ero Год назад

This just reignited my love for old games. My first impulse was start to taking names and making a schedule for buying them. Until you talked aboout Wolfenstein, so I should just start with an everdrive, and then slowly build a collection, taking my time. P.S.: tell me what is a good everdrive to get. I know only that it exists, but I don't know about similar carts, their capabilities, or what are the best cost-effective options. Listening, and tks in advance!

@gregtom3272 Год назад

hello the sega lord x , i'm greg and i wanted to tell you that i'm some one who followed your channel for a long time , seriously , your content is one that deserve a lot of appreciation for shedding light on many topics more specifically sega , and i can't help but appreciate the amount of work that you went through to make this content , nor how happy to hear from one of your last videos that you're moving to the era where sega become a third party developer , keep up good work man , you've been done great for about as long as this channel started and i wish you good luck in your future content

@griffgames9538 Год назад

No space after the word before the comma. The word and comma are stuck together. There's only a space after the comma.

@ShiftingFlesh Год назад

Welcome to the Next Level

@thecunninlynguist Год назад

Sega had some clever effects. I was impressed with lawnmower man, since the SNES version used mode 7 but genesis didn't need to. Same with hard corps with some of the bosses

@thingsiplay Год назад

I think the missing transparency effects was a greater deal/problem than the color palette itself. I never liked this type of transparency.

@maroon9273 Год назад

That's why genesis had many grainy/Dithering graphical games.

@thingsiplay Год назад

@@maroon9273 Yes. But the water effect in Mega Turrican actually looks really good.

@maroon9273 Год назад

@@thingsiplay crazy how those developers were able to access the vdp dma and program to its advantage.

@Nobunaga1983 Год назад

X-men 2 graphics blew away as a kid. The scaling, end boss size, use of colors, the apocalypse fight, sentient fight etc

@GreySectoid Год назад

The games look amazing here. Perhaps a sequel to do the same kind of video of SNES, would be fun to compare.

@ZombieRommel Год назад

One thing I've come to appreciate more about the Genesis as time goes on is its average framerate. Most goodlooking games on the SNES ran at sub-60 FPS, whereas it was the opposite for the Genesis. Compare Contra 3 the Alien Wars which suffered from FREQUENT slowdown to Contra Hard Corps and it's night and day.

@kubev Год назад

14:54 - I can't stand the Turrican games from a game play perspective, but anytime I get a brief listen of that stage 1-1 music from Mega Turrican, I can't help but pause the video I heard it in to seek out another video with just that music to hear it in all its glory. Easily one of the best music tracks on Genesis.

@KoolKeithProductions Год назад

NAME of song playing towards end of video? At 48:10?

@Gambit771 Год назад

I'll never understand the complaint about the MegaDrive's pallet. Other machines on the market had far smaller pallets like the puke coloured en-ee-es and the monochrome gameboy. They aren't slagged off for it and you remember the MegaDrive's games as being extremely colourful.

@ChaoticHoly Год назад

43:59 "Ripcity, baby!" _...What?_ I guess this is what happens when a phrase/slogan from 1971 isn't trademarked until _2009._ Hearing it out of any voice but legendary Portland Trailblazers announcer Bill Schonely is just _weird,_ though.

@Bones98 Год назад

For me, it was this game where you are in some random planet that had almost full motion video for cut scenes. I think it was called Flashback.

@SieIaQ Год назад

Might be time for episode: "Games yous should play with your son before he gets PC" I would immediately put 3 titles there my son liked the most: Gunstar Heroes Contra: Hard Corps The Adventures of Batman & Robin But there so many other titles that you could fill the episode Bio-Hazard, Golden Axe etc...

@albdamned577 Год назад

This vid is perfectly timed. I recently went from an av cable to a hdmi converter, holy crap! It’s like it doubled the bits! Gotta try some of these games pronto!

@loganjorgensen Год назад

I look back on 16-bit and I am always impressed by what those coders managed on the Genesis. Makes me wonder what it would have been like if the Genesis didn't have the strong CPU it had. The SNES CPU really seemed to be too slow in retrospect because every time it did anything remotely complex you'd need a helper-chip Eg. even launch titles like Pilotwings needed on cart assistance. To this day anyone can just start coding for the Genesis directly rather than trying to work out which specific type of cart hardware your SNES homebrew needs to run it.

@unforcedterror3136 Год назад

I still play Batman & Robin sometimes today and I’m still impressed even after such a long time. However, the game is brutally hard, and I never managed to finish it, even in two-player-mode

@zezizezseze7544 Год назад

Great video as always.Seing how Megadrive does this stuff i wonder if NeoGeo would be able to do similar stuff but even better?Neither console was made with 3d in mind of course but wonder being NeoGeo so powerfull would been able to do some really nice 3d stuff(maybe a more basic Virtua Racing or Virtua Fighter etc).

@zezizezseze7544 Год назад

@@BigBillKelly-x2z Think you are right.I google it better and seems it was an purely 2d machine(very powerfull for the time),so couldnt to poligonal games,games like Viewpoint kinda look its using poligons but its just 2d.

@gc3k Год назад

The Genesis is able to calculate polygons because of the M68k the Neo Geo has

@segaforce79 Год назад

Big fan of Bimini Run. I have a fondness for driver/gunner co op games.

@Chaz4543 Год назад

My parents bought that for me because it was cheap/discounted and I remember not wanting it because it wasnt brand new expensive game lol.

@Whateverfloatsurboat2 Год назад

Am I really about to spend 50 minutes watching the whole thing? HECK YEAH!

@blackenedheart9592 Год назад

Cannot Be Tamed said that Castlevania Bloodlines is an ugly game and has no great effects at all and is completely boring. Lol. I thought that game looked amazing on the Genesis/Megadrive. She doesn't like it at all. 🤣 Lol. Oh well.

@igodreamer7096 Год назад

Great video, SLX man. It always amazed me how colorful, exciting and marvelous Contra Hardcorps (GEN-MD) appeared to me in comparison to Contra III The Alien Wars (SNES). Developers back then really had to make the impossible and some diagonal thinking with the limitations of Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. I wonder if Sega Japan had a better understanding of the marketing, less ego and more humble approaching, Saturn and the later Dreamcast could give to us even better and surprising original games and/or sequels! Well, that is a though to another time. Anyway, thanks for this amazing video and keep up the good work, man! SEEGAAAAAAA! =D

@loganjorgensen Год назад

9:06 I think the on screen color limit of the Genesis getting dogged was more a later day thing which was three fold, one was the competition aspect arising with the SNES's 256 colors, secondly was the increase in multiplatform game development which often had the Genesis versions looking much worse in comparison, and thirdly the last of the arcade ports were hardest color-wise for the oldest 16-bit console to approximate. Mainly you got to look at the earlier titles and or the exclusives to see the Sega graphics that have the strongest grasp of the four palette graphics setup. When the pixel artists understand how to get the most out of any platform's palette restrictions the result is always better. It's much like the hardware chiptune aspect where you really have to know what you're doing to get the best results.

@horroRomantic444 Год назад

Formula One on the Sega Genesis is quite impressive since it is actually 3d. Kawasaki Superbike is also impressive for the same reason. It is stock Genesis with no specialized chips.

@Rodzilla97 Год назад

i used to make fun of the genesis. us snes diehards can claim the win when it comes to sales, it won that war. most my friends had genesis except me and my cousin, and i used to think the snes had the edge in graphics by a long shot. now i have found out through the past 5 years or so that the genesis at it's best was far better in the graphics department. like it's not even close strangly. wider resolution as well. i seriously think it's a 24 bit system. snes is only 16 for sure. some edges the snes has is better sound, mode 7, and more colors. but the genesis still stomps it when it comes to onscreen action and graphics, raw power, the genesis cpu is a juggernaut. i still prefer the snes library of games. but the genesis keeps getting new home brews constantly, and the snes never gets any, at all, none worth a look anyway. annoying nobody makes great new games for the snes, it's completely ignored in that area.

@chrisw8069 Год назад

I love Thunder Force series, but wish someone would release a patch to get rid of the voice. To me it seriously kills the quality of the titles.

@darkchild130 Год назад

Comix Zone still blows me away to this day.

@juggalo4life247mfrs Год назад

I think pulseman is worth mentioning!!

@patrickholt8782 Год назад

Seems skys the limit for effects on the genesis. It was up to the programmer.

@lazarushernandez5827 Год назад

The line scrolling technique used in Batman and Robin and Alien Ranger X could have been put to good use in the Super Thunder Blade over levels on the Genesis.

@gc3k Год назад

The helicopter stages in Red Zone embarrasses Super Thunder Blade

@lazarushernandez5827 Год назад

@Benjamin Jagun Very true, it is cool looking back and what clever programmers could do with proper time and memory space.

@Lost--boy Год назад

𝐏𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫 ⁽ᴳᵉⁿᵉˢⁱˢ⁾ 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 ♡

@TheFLOMAN76 Год назад

Visual Shock! Speed Shock! Sound Shock! Now is the time for the 68000 heart on fire!! Ok! 👍😁😂😅🤣

@griffgames9538 Год назад

^ props.

@maroon9273 Год назад

I'm suprise tempo was never ported to the genesis after seeing ristar pulling off bright colors. Missed opportunity and genesis was great with software graphics. Had snes added dma on its gpu, it would've been neck and neck with the genesis in software graphics. Which snes was lacking.

@matrixguardian4539 Год назад

Can you do ugly Sega Genesis games as you did with the Saturn?

@emanuelferreira6875 Год назад

Pitfall the mayan adventure was beautifull and full of nice effects

@fusionspace175 Год назад

Thanks for this video, I have played a lot of these games but not to the visually impressive parts, and now I'm going to revisit too many to list. i really wanted to like Exo Squad too, because I loved the show as a kid. I remember it being as adult and well written as X-Men, and it continued that tradition of forward moving narrative kids cartoons based on fighting. But it was some deep sci fi too, the main conflict was a literal slave rebellion, aliens who were genetically created to be that and who got sick of it, the neosapiens, and it dealt with the ethical and moral implications more deeply than you'd expect form a show made to sell a toy line. Game was a huge letdown, especially after the X Men genesis games were pretty darn good for the time.

@mjdf122 Год назад

1989-1998 (North America) Amazing Sega Genesis Memories We’re Not Spring Chicken Anymore Sega Lord X Enjoy Your Week And Thank You For Your Hard Work It’s Appreciated

@hicknopunk Год назад

Motorola really made a good processor with the 68xxx.

@sethmartin2588 Год назад

When people would try and trash the Genesis I would put in Megan Turrican and Castlevania Blood lines and Vector Man and or Shinobi 3 and that ended there bash quickly and earned respect for the Genesis. And always gave me pride to be a Genesis owner from 1990 to this vary day. I appreciate your content and work Sega Lord X THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

@joshoshea3194 Год назад

You say that playing Ranger-X you would just run back & forth to see the 3D effects in motion. I think that's funny because I would do the exact same thing with various titles. I remember playing Doom for the very first time & it blew my mind. Some games used to have that "WOW!" factor, something I feel is lost in modern games because at this point we've seen it all. Top 10 "WOW!" factor moments on any console would make an interesting video I think?

@MatticusFinch1820 Год назад

I just recently got a Tower of Power set up with an Everdrive and ive been digging into the Genesis library and discovering so many amazing games i never knew about! and your channel has been my obsession ever since. I marathon your channel while i play Genesis and it helps me discover games i would never have otherwise given a chance to. Keep doing what you're doing!

@nebwachamp Год назад

The first game I remember getting the 2.5D label was the great Yoshi Story on n64. The best of the yoshi series. By far.

@Thor-Orion Год назад

Most people prefer Yoshi’s Island. I like them both.

@retrogamer8085 Год назад

nice long video... i did prefer the snes overall for the color palette and mode7 fx, but some devs could pull off feats on the genesis. only thing i was let down on is that later in the genesis life span, music and sound fx for games... were horrible. if only yuzo koshiro could have done the music for EVERY game lol right? but i think it was that GEMS sound engine or whatever that was responsible for the less than stellar sound in many later games. then again, the snes had some turds as well with muted sounding music and sound fx that sounded like they were recorded in a pringles can lol. EA games on genesis were the most notorious for grating sound, high pitched fx and music that was just horrid. dark castle is an example and might & magic 2 music. shudder.

@stephandolby Год назад

Three game/series that I think also deserve some credit - Ecco for its backgrounds, Road Rash/Skitchin' for its scaling, and Sub-Terrania for the amazing pre-rendered ship sequences.

@ArneChristianRosenfeldt Год назад

But is there any trick with scaling? It looks to me like those games scale using the CPU, but then cache all scales. The last instance of a sprite marks its cache as garbage going up the scales. maybe they use a tool to always max out memory usage, sprite count, and CPU usage.

@vintagebluenote8564 Год назад

snes blurry mega drive sharpest console ever

@julien2983 Год назад

Awesome list! While not a game but rather a demo, fans of the Genesis absolutely must check out "Titan Overdrive 2" it's so impressive, I modded my Genesis with a region switch so could show it to my friends.

@Casp3r.aka.Droid. 2 месяца назад

I don't know how many different ways you can talk about the same games over and over and over but. I don't see your channel lasting very long bro. I mean how many different ways can you say you love a game and the way it looks the system how many things can you really say about it that you really haven't already said At this point you're just rehashing the same videos over and over again just trying to add new fancy words. And different video effects either way you hash it down bro it's still the same system in games.

@hardkoregamer1981 Год назад

What's amazing is the love Sega Genesis gets all these years later from fans and content creators.

@Fuuntag Год назад

Is this new or just a collection of the previously uploaded (and great) videos?😊

@tombokriju Год назад

I was a sucker for the weird one offs that were visually odd and unexpected, given the platform. Games like Zero Tolerance and Outlander's driving sequences come to mind.

@deadseveredheads Год назад

NOW IS TIME TO THE 68000 HEART ON FIRE!!!

@FabioCosta-kc3sj Год назад

Kawasaki superbike Also have great visual effects.

@Oysterblade84 Год назад

Awesome video SLX and great series! I loved watching every minute of this and I got to watch it without ads popping up. so many great games on the system and you introduced me to a few i've never heard of before so thank you very much. I noticed Super Thunderblade was missing in this video entirely? No doubt it's a terrible conversion with awful play mechanics but it was late 1988 and a launch title at that and apart of me thinks it could maybe count as passing for an early scaler on the system but I respect your decision to leave it out. Only Galaxy Force II can be worse.

@z80player Год назад

All these games may be AAA indie games for Switch nowadays

@Chaz4543 Год назад

Theres no such thing as AAA indie games. Indie is indie. AAA is AAA. I think AA can still be indie, Im not sure.

@budrip3479 Год назад

thank you for covering Bimini run man I always thought a sega cd sequel would be grate like the core games with the scaleing and what not just needed maybe ammo and fule pick ups like in the strike games

@Aenima308 Год назад

Alien soldier is on the genesis for NSO expansion pack

@RyanLeCocq Год назад

49ers Cowboys divisional tonight boss. Just like the good ol days. Which 16-bit version are you playing before the game?

@Marc_Araujo Год назад

Ranger-X is the last game I got for the Genesis (and/or its add-ons) as a kid, before moving onto the next gen with the N64 and PS1, and man was it awesome. It took me a little bit to get used to its gameplay mechanics, but once it all clicked, it was a hell of an experience.

@Patsfan1987 Год назад

God I still have my copy in Hard Driven and when I was younger that game was infuriating!!! Plus the single sound of the “engine” haunted me in my dreams lol but honestly still holds a special place in my heart to this day

@kathrynradonich3982 Год назад

Doing that bridge jump for the first time as a kid was so awesome. I loved this game back then not so much now though 😅

@evgaming9390 Месяц назад

Nintendo games always felt like games. Where as Sega always felt like tech demos. Although I had both consoles I always went back to Nintendo because they kept me feeling like a kid

@retrojoe85 Год назад

Man, this was amazing! Not just for the effects themselves who shocked me from the very start to the end of the video, but also for the immense work you made just for this episode, X! You deserve to be employed by Sega as an official archivist, I'm not joking.

@GeomancerHT Год назад

Did you watch the video? XD

@48hourrecordsteam45 Год назад

Some of the greatest games of all time or top 10 games Start with having the best graphics. Gameplay will be remembered. But if the graphics is poor what’s memorable .! The total package of stunning graphics , good gameplay with variety & good storytelling length. When making an absolute , I mean ABSOLUTLE TOP TEN list, Greatest graphics have to push on top of great gameplay Take donkey king for instance ..! It’s graphics , presentation & brand is way better than its gameplay…! I tried to stick with it.! But I saw through its colorful gloss .!! It was not good in the gameplay department but fans was blinded by the graphics to even see that ..! They will fight you to death that the gameplay in donkey kong is actually good.. Take starfox…. It’s enjoyable because the presentation bleeds into the graphics for a beautiful package .! But there isn’t a lot there to talk about in the gameplay department. It’s afterBurner very much slowed down & given story progressive gameplay & presentation and 3d esq graphics .. Maybe my expectations are always too high …!! I loved metal gear solid as one of the greatest video games ever.!! But playing it I always wondered.! Why they hell I couldn’t drag the person I have in a choke hold …. Everything about the game was perfect and it was just missing that, but it’s still to me one of the greatest games ever made .!! My taste for variety was so high at a young age, a lot of games people love and revere I played and wanted to throw them away .!! A reason why I got deep into sports sims from 2k Nfl2k5 & college hoops Games like mvp baseball. The amount of depth…in every aspect running a franchise , contracts , gameplay that have different results every play,. Years and years of drafting,training, stats changing . Wild amount of variety and longevity.

@pauldadzie6991 Год назад

Ecco and the tides of time was a looker, but I was too afraid to play it as a kid because it was super weird. Even my mom asked "is this really a kids game" when the intro music started.

@Shishkebarbarian Год назад

I had a genesis in its heyday and my next door neighbor back in '93 had Hard Drivin' for it. I played it a lot cause we only had like 10 games between us but i have to say, that game is a massive turd and ran like a slideshow. i'm so surprised to see it mentioned here as 'impressive' by any stretch of the imagination. I would've loved to see you talk about Shinobi III, Sonic 3& Knuckles, Steel Empire, X-Men 2, Outrunners or any of the 3d Sega arcade titles like Space Harrier or Super Thunder Blade. Great video series, definitely gave me a few games to track down!

@budyll1 Год назад

Great video as usual :)! I can't disagree that both Vector Man and Batman & Robin looked impressive on the hardware, but I could never get into them. Vector Man had some of the most annoying sound effects I've ever heard and the latter when compared to the SNES version had, to me, a very boring gameplay. Batman & Robin on Genesis reminded me of the Batman game on NES. It looked incredible, pushing NES to it's very limits, but had Batman running around shooting everything like Rambo.

@Nightopian1982 Год назад

I used to absolutely adore the Fantasy Zone series, both on the MS and MD. You've got a great video here, although I'd have given notable mentions to Probotector, Alien Soldier, Flashback, Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter 2 to name a few. Many of them were as impressive as Saturn games. I'm also pleased to see you included Zero Tolerance. It would have been sacrilege to miss it out.

@loganjorgensen Год назад

13:35 Never played Bimini Run bitd but what impresses me is how well it approximates a 3D space using 2D graphics, other than Miracle Warriors on SMS I haven't seen too many engines like that. Usually you get the impression of movement from these 3D approximate games but typically you never reach any of those distant horizons like you can in BR.

@VashStarwind Год назад

This is why i always have thought that they really cut console life spans too short. They seriously should have kept making Snes and Genesis games for another 5 years. Imagine how many more great games we could have got ha. Always was kind of disappointed that 32bit didnt really keep the pixel style games and started making very rough 3d style games, that have not aged NEARLY as well as the 16bit 2d games have. But i think 32bit games done in more pixel art form would have looked super cool, and aged well also. The few that they made are awesome.

@sausagesausage Год назад

Love to see true blue blooded SEGA fans making great content like this!

@Zeropointill Год назад

How can you be amazed at a raycasting engine like Wolfenstein 3d to barely make it on Genesis, but then wonder MULTIPLE TIMES if people could attempt to make a doom port?

@brandonfarfan1978 Год назад

That is alot of amazingly impressive graphical stuff on the genesis. Those devs back then definitely possessed, some magical wizardry programming skills back then.👍😲