The Smallest Sega Genesis Games 

Its crazy to think that a single photograph on my phone is more than 20x larger than an entire Genesis game.

Was going to bed, NOT ! 😀

Rambo and space invaders i have massive memories of as they were some of the games my late friend who died of an overdose who had one of the first megadrives in the UK due to his dad importing it.... space invaders tunes were awesome. Still play it today.

I absolutely love Columns. I still play it regularly on the Sega Genesis Classics game on Xbox One. I got my Genesis for Christmas in 1990 (6th grade) and, as a huge Tetris fan, was thrilled that Sega's big puzzle game was only $30. That music really takes me back to those winter and spring nights in 1991 with just the flickering light of my TV in my bedroom.

Ms.Pac Man helped me get so many higher priced games for a while. They sold it for 20 bucks at Toys r Us, and at Funcoland in the same plaza they took the game for 45 bucks. It only lasted about a summer, but so useful.

'Championship Soccer' was known as 'World Cup Italia '90' in the UK, & actually ended up being quite popular due to being part of the 'Mega Games 1' bundle

Seriously though, the Tengen Ms Pac-man is great and has so many options. The arcade mazes, mini ones that don't require screen scrolling, big ones that are the size of 2 screens, and strange ones that look like something out of rom hacks. Plus, it has 2 player simultaneous play, co-op or competitive. Something I've only seen in the World's Largest Pac-man arcade game since. And it was only 20$!

Simple doesn't always mean "bad". I've played a bunch of these games during childhood and had a blast! I'm sure some would disagree, but I still feel some of these games are still worth a run now. I used to play Columns, Ms. Pac-Man, Pac-Mania, and Pac-Attack quite a bit as a kid. These games offered a quick burst of fun! Beating a high-score was sometimes a fun little challenge, especially against your friends!

The Genesis port of Ms. Pac-Man is still the best version of the game even to this day.

"if you're looking for excitement, you won't find it here" (perfect review of "Shove It")

1 Megabit = 128 Kilobytes, btw. By comparison, Donkey Kong Country is 32 Megabits (nearly 4 MB). A typical Neo-Geo game at the time was 100+ Megabits (More than 10 MB).

I got Columns for Christmas. I wanted a different game, but I got Columns. I didn't play it until the last 2 days of Christmas break because I was upset. Then, I played it pretty much straight through those last two days. It was addicting. Also, one of the few games my parents could play with me. It now holds a special place in my memories. I'd love to play another round with my parents again.

While I didn't own a dedicated Flicky cartridge, I did buy the Classics Collection that bundled Gunstar Heroes, Alex Kidd, Altered Beast and Flicky on one cartridge. Bought it at retail for £20 too!

Fatal Labyrinth is easily the cream of this crop, i can only imagine how much better it could have been with a larger cart.

Ms Pacman on Genesis is such a good two-player game, the way you can send your opponent flying across the screen right into a ghost is so nasty, I love it!

Flicky is my go-to game on the Mega Drive for if I have a little bit of time to play something. Incredible pick up and play value and even a little bit addicting.

I LOVE Fatal Labyrinth, and its predecessor Dragon Crystal on the SMS/GG. They’re just simple Roguelikes, which makes them extremely replayable and addictive.

Small rom games were always nice to see back when I used my Super Magic Drive MD/GEN cartridge copier. I have a couple of floppy disks (1.44MB) where I could fit six games on the single disk. It was kind of a game all in itself. :)

I always enjoyed Columns and Rambo III a ton. I think Columns has some of the best music on the Genesis. I also agree that the Tetris game isn't the best example of Tetris. We got that on the Sega Genesis Mini and I would have much rather seen a different title in its place. The music in it is just dumb.

I remember I was amazed at the commerial from Rambo III, especially the third person helicopter level. When we got the game it wasn't as good (graphics wise) but I really liked the gameplay!

Osomatsu-Kun was also a 2meg cart, it was meant to be 4mb, but they literally chopped out half the levels to fit it on a cart.

Space invaders 91 is an underrated gem.

Always looking forward to your stuff man, it's very well done.

Loved the NES ProAm. I had an NES Advantage that made it great to play. The Genesis version looks like it could have been on the NES though.

Art Alive seems like a game that could shine through emulation, where the option to save will be there through save states and screenshots.

Sega Lord X is a content master, super fun yet again!

AWW, MAN! I LIVE for the "C'mon, boy" acknowledgements in Zoom! That game is a great challenge. My older brother and I used to go for hours on it.

New vid just in time for bed, time to watch!

I actually used to love Hard Drivin lol the cinematic recreation when you crash always cracked me up 😂

Only sega lord X has the ability to make a video about anything and it always works

Love this channel... Your videos sometimes just plays on my TV in the living room for hours, just for the ambient :) So much memories... Watching your videos I feel like Im at home :) Anyway this one brought so much memories. I played most of those games back in day and some of them I really liked it. I bought those games when they were actually really cheap and nobody liked them.

28:37 "Tetris buttholes everywhere" THAT ISN'T HOW I WOULD'VE PLAYED THAT PARTICULAR INSTANCE...

Some of these games are better than some of the 60 gig+ games released today!

They may have been small but I put big time into Rambo and Pac-mania as a kid. Great upload.

Beautiful selection of Megadrive / Genesis games ❤️

8:44 You can tell if your Mega Drive system has TMSS by it's revision number. TMSS was introduced on the VA6 board revision of the model 1 MD, so the game won't lock on systems with previous revisions. For me, the game will definitely work on my Mega Drive as mine is a VA1, the first hardware revision after the launch model VA0.

Gotta love that rubber band bass, hissy cardboard drums, and electric piano. However the melody could remove your ear wax.

Always great videos!

I really loved Blockout, Columns, Klax, Ulimate Qix and Ms. Pac-Man. Nice list of games!!

Top notch filming and editing SLX! Really liking your new software, much like fine wine, your videos and channel get better as time goes on. There is no substitute for quality. I personally find it easier to measure the games by byte like the EverDrive's do rather than bit as when you say a game is 1 megabit i'm forever calculating in my head each time what that is in bytes. 2 Megabits = 256K - 1 Megabit = 128K? My favourites showcased here are Space Invaders 91, Pacmania, Flicky and Columns. Alex Kidd In The Enchanted Castle is not a bad game, much like Ariel The Little Mermaid, it's just not a really good one either, exploring the levels and the castle at the end keeps things interesting. Of all the games shown in this video, Space Invaders 91 has the best music, I recognise that Cube sound driver anywhere! And Pacmania has awesome music aswell by Paul Webb.

Thanks for reminding me of some of these slx, and Rambo was always a particular favorite of mine. And I know im going to get some flak for this, but I loved that fighting masters game when I was younger. Which I know you don't much care for, but I enjoyed it quite a bit. But great video as always

Fatal labrynth appears to be a complete Dragon Crystal reskin (also a Sega title) from the Sega master system / Sega game gear. Well slightly upgraded but i bet it's the same engine.

Thanks for the vids man, even if I don't have the time to watch them when I'm working on the computer I'll thumbs up and leave them playing in the background!

I still enjoy the simple fun of Flicky to this day, although it's quite shocking to remember that it sold for the same price as Streets of Rage 2

Cracking work as always mate.

Yay! A small video to watch just before bed! 😋♥️

Super Volley Ball are very good to play. Despite the limited content, it was very fun and challenging.

I love the "Come on Boy" of Zoom

19:53 - Most Space Invaders games are really unsettling for me to look at. The enemy movement patterns just give me the same feeling I get when I see screen tearing.

I love this channel and your knowledge/enthusiasm.

Cool ideas for videos like this are why Sega Lord X is awesome. It feels like a lot of my other RU-vid subscriptions are all about talking about some future revision to the Nintendo Switch or how Sony is a jerk to their customers. Content like this, in contrast, is such a breath of fresh air.

Frogger is just under 1Megabit too, although shipped on a 4Megabit cartridge probably because by 1998 it was cheaper to just use larger ROMs than source the smaller ones even if they ended up 3/4 empty.

Dude, why are you so good at speaking?

I bought Flicky new for $20 at Babbages. I also think the program itself was smaller than 1 megabit (125K) but it was the smallest memory storage Sega could get a hold of at the time.

Some of these games I've never heard of. Rambo III, Columns & Fatal Labyrinth are the best of this selection. And, on a side note Rambo III is by far my FAVORITE game on the Genesis.

it’s amazing how tiny these games files are

I always thought the big problem with the Sega Genesis early on was a lack of cartridge space. It's hard to make a really great game in 4 megabits. It can be done but it's really tough especially when your user is expect lots of big high resolution sprites.

Man, I played Rambo 3 so much as a kid. Over and over for hundreds of hours. lol It's one of my favourite games for the sega genesis. I still have it to this day, in the case with the manual!

My favourite Genesis games were definitely on the more expansive side: Phantasy Star 4, Shining Force 2, Uncharted Waters 2, Shadowrun, and Sonic 3 & Knuckles.

Nice addition SLX, I had a number of them back in the genesis days that I had completely forgotten about

Great topic as always. Do you do a lot of brainstorming for new topic ideas? I’m always surprised at the originality and consistent quality. I imagine a giant cork board full of different notes and strings connecting the different topics maybe lol.

Great video again Lord X. I loved Rambo, and the fact that most character's looked the same actually helped in my opinion, giving the impression Rambo is taking on an army, who would all look alike. Love your channel.

Ms. Pac Man ended up on the top ten best selling genesis game list as it was sold for ten bucks at retail. This price point was almost unheard of for new software in the 16 bit era.

Awesome vid as always. :) I actually like Art Alive tho. Lack of: Battery back up might seem disappointing, but I think it was pretty rare, so kinda understandable. There’s drawing on another cart and also Sega cd, so all 3 put together, they’re quite good. :)

Hey, for what it was, Rambo III was a pretty decent early game on the Genesis. It was one of my favorites early on. I definitely remember Super VolleyBall as one of those games that looked cool in magazines, but quickly lost that shine the moment you started playing it. I’m so glad you could rent games before buying them back then.

My god its 4:22 am

1 Mb games: 2 to 3 minutes of endless fun!

Now I want to see a largest episode over this topic as I think its interesting to see devs working under certain constraints

Loved this video idea! Groups of games you'd never really think of as a "group". Allows for covering games that wouldn't typically get covered! Great as always!

I remember I had bootleg cartridge with 9 games in early 90's all of the games are on this video except one game like mahjong clone. Now I understand how normal cartridge includes lots of games that time. They are just small games:)

Oh, this explains why like half of these games I had on the same 1 cartridge collection. Have much love for Fatal Labyrinth for being my first Roguelike.

What, you don't like Zoom?! COME ON BOY!!

Wow just when I thought there wasn’t anything/anyone left to watch on here than Sega Lord X drops a video thank you from one Sega retro brother to another much love enjoy the week Rambo 3 Tecmo World Cup And World Championship Soccer Awesome Games Great Times For Me And My Brothers

I've spent an inordinate amount of time trying and failing to get good at Qix.

Art Alive! My dad bought me that, traded it in instantly.

If you're looking for excitement, you won't find it here. Sega Lord X you slay us lol.

We were only able to afford on consol when I was younger which was the snes. So hearing some one else's perspective is eye opening. What a great wholesome channel.

Awesome video man!

Oh man, your graphic overlay game is really stepping up!

I played Flicky a good amount on the Sonic Mega Collection for my GameCube. It was a simple but kind of fun time killer.

13:09 It's impossible for me to look at this game without thinking of UrinatingTree's video review of it from upwards of a decade ago. Speaking of which, 13:37 "There are six million ways to get *PWNED!* in this game!"

Some one get that poor fellow in Shove it a pallet jack or a forklift. It might make his job of moving them crates around a little easier.... ;-)

At last a review of Art Alive! Thank you!!!

LMAO "Shove it" 🤣

Quite a few of these games were also released on the Atari Lynx.

I love seeing Sega Lord X videos

love ❤️ this channel!

Fatal labyrinth- 16bit dragon crystal without the cool dragon mechanic.

When 12am is stricken I usually think MID-NIGHHHT to the theme of the opening jangle

I find myself getting into Ultimate Qix quite often, it's surprisingly fun. Another fine episode, sir. I Really enjoy the ones I can sink my teeth into

I have so many great memories with shove it, columns and rambo 3, I was really impressed with the boss fights.

I appreciate the conversation of file size vs fun. Games can be fun regardless of file size. You could fit a lifetime of games in the same amount that takes to fill a buggy mess of a modern game. It's all about perspective.

You know what's even crazier than these tiny cartridges? The fact almost every game now is made via middleware engines for ease of coding or cross platform porting........which is highly inefficient unlike the games of yesteryears which often coded down to 'the metal' as they put it. Basically optimised to the systems architecture.

Man taking me back I had pac attack as a kid forget all about it..sweet video. I just got the bleemcast games looking at that what could have been..best of what ifs ps1 bleem ports video lol

Ahhhhh I want Clotho to be played at my funeral. Such a fine tune.

A member of the dev team responsible for porting Out of this World has previously gone on record stating that the team was limited to how many megabits the port was allowed to have on the Genesis and had the dev team been afforded more menory, the port would have been more faithful to the Amiga version.

Keep rocking sega Lord X I look forward to all your awesome work.🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

good vid SLX I just find it impressive in general in what they managed to make on the SNES and Genesis and NES and Master System with the size limitations they had someone said ghouls and ghosts is 5 megabits, which seems like a good game for it's size I've seen some of your other videos, and altered beast I think was a game launched at the system's release and it seems good and is probably small and there is that ninja game that I can't remember the name of it and it was an arcade port that you've talked about, and I think you said it was a small cartridge too

You do the sega era justice my friend

Block Out was re-released on the virtual boy later as tetris 3-d.