Kim Justice's Top 50 WORST Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Games
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- Опубліковано 19 чер 2024
- After 10 years, it's time to revisit the worst games on the Mega Drive and count them down -- and this time, it's a top 50! Where will the likes of Rise of the Robots, Dark Castle, Slaughter Sport and Sword of Sodan rank? Let's find out.
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0:00 Intro
1:32 #50 to #41
12:35 #40 to #31
23:51 #30 to #21
35:16 #20 to #11
46:35 #10 to #6
52:59 #5 to #1
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Just how many of these dreadful games have you played? Have a shout about it in the comments, and thanks for watching! :)
I know you probs don't read messages but, I just wanted to say that last year i lost my Dad to lung cancer and your videos helped me through this time... So thanks!.
@@peter.jibbetson5601 I'm sorry for your loss and glad I could help through such an awful time. Much appreciated. :)
I have memories of a lot of these games thanks to the sega channel in the 90s lol
Fortunately, I got away with playing only one of these terrible games and it was Fantasia.
I have played many, although not all (usually the ones I've missed are licensed affairs like that fucking Young Indiana Jones game). I have to say that above all else, Slaughter Sport, Awesome Posseum, Heavy Nova, etc, my least favourite Mega Drive game might very well be Ultraman. Maybe I'm just biased and doubley offended by its utter shitness because I quite like the franchise it's dragging through the mud. Getting kicked in the balls sucks, but it sucks even more when you're told you're going to get a lovely warm hug just before they instead punt you.
I had a friend in school whose cheapskate parents would only buy him games from the local Cash Converters. While the rest of us played Sonic, he was playing Bubsy, Fantasia and Captain Planet... Poor bastard.
I absolutely love Kim's "worst videos". Top-notch tongue lashings.
I received Sword of Sodan AND Technocop on the same christmas day. It was a magical day
14:19 Fun fact, according to an interview from the TV show "Cybernet" Xenon 2 is Peter Molyneux's 4th favorite game. He placed it higher than Half Life.
He was probably referring to the Amiga version though.
Actually not surprised Molyneux had something bad and pretentious as his top. He's insufferable, and a liar.
I played xenon 2 in our school computers and loved it so much, when I got my megadrive and saw xenon 2 for it I got it and god I was so disappointed by it
The Infogrames games based on French-Belgian comics are (in)famous among the French-speaking UA-cam/gaming community for their brutal difficulty. The consensus is always the same : very nice looking, with graphics faithful to the comics, but so hard you will want to smash your controller.
As for the Tintin game, believe it or not, but Spirou (or even the Smurfs) have the reputation to be even more difficult.
Good list, and better for me that I never had to experience any of these myself. Games I love to hate include Asterix The Gaul and Tazmania; both of which are brutally unfair and quickly become frustrating in the extreme.
Taz-Mania is incredibly easy. Sure there are some cheap hits and deaths, but the game is forgiving enough in lives, health, and pace to make up for it.
This was like watching a Match Of The Day style highlights program of the worst moments of the last 6 months of your life! Love it!
God i love Earnest Evans. Unironically one of my favorite genesis games, its SO silly.
Yeah I like that one too
I'd agree on all of them except Osomatsu-kun, Rastan II & Double Dragon II. Maybe 16t as well, but that's meant to be like a 2 minute play and put down. I know even the creator hates the Osomatsu game, but I've always loved the graphics and I usually have some fun with it for about 20 min or so at a time. Rastan II is mostly the same, it's bad but it's so bad it's good for me, like a cheesy 80s sword and sorcery movie.
Double Dragon II plays horribly until you get into the groove, at which point it's actually one of the better ports since it's arcade accurate, whereas most of the others aren't. You just have to move with the lag and cut it some slack, lol.
Also even the original arcade versions of Double Dragon 1/2 are atrociously choppy which is why I hate them
Really enjoying this video! Btw you should continue your Amiga A-Z streams where you left off. Really enjoyed that journey of discovery
I know it's probably dreadful, but I loved Captain Planet as a child. I was so enamored with the cartoon that a game I could play and control myself was always going to be ranked highly by me.
As a kid, it was my absolute favourite show. I got the magazine every week form the newsagents and watched the new episodes every weekend lunchtime on BBC2.
Looking at the footage I'm sure the game sucks. But my nostalgia for it will likely win out if play it again.
Now THIS is one well researched list! Regarding Double Dragon II... the arcade game also suffered from major slowdowns, so the unfaithful ports were all the better for it!
Yeah I bought the Switch version of the first DD and couldn't believe the amount of slowdown in what was presumably an arcade perfect port. During the final boss battle it was often running at 2-3 frames per second due to the amount of sprites onscreen.
Let's just retcon that there was never a series, but it ended with part 1. No part 2&3, no fighter, no movie, no cartoon. It could be seen as a diamond in the rough nowadays... but somebody just had to throw too many quarters into that Mofo.
Still, the original is an iconic game, slowdown and all. And the sequel is amazing on NES, heard the PC Engine version of DDII is really good too.
To be fair the Megadrive Version is better than most ports of Double Dragon II, there are not really too many great ports though (I don't consider the NES DD2 to be even the same game since it's so different, more like a re imagining. A great game in its own rights though)
I got Art Alive preowned -- like most of the console games I had at the time, and created a "title screen" for at least one "short film" (if we're extremely very generous) by recording it on VHS tape first.
Sword of Sodan is on Evercade, and maybe I should try playing it some more. So far, I prefer it over Coffee Crisis.
With Last Action Hero, I feel I made a critical save by getting Wiz'n'Liz instead.
A friend had Fantasia and Technocop. Politely put, we didn't like those titles even at the time.
Great video Kim Justice.
One of your best.
I’m a big fan of your videos too mate.
Keep it up.
A big shout to you from Cameron Greenwood Cramp AKA CGC from Melbourne Australia.
Aahhh... nicely done ma'am!
I really needed this; a typical (worst of...) vid... its comfort watching. I needed this because my oldman randomly dropped and died a week or so back... he already had cancer and an emergency operation. Worst part was he stated he was having chemo. Was going great, no side effects it seems...well yeah - because he wasn't even turning up to the treatment! It was aggressive and he knew it was terminal which makes sense to his anger, because yes he was old but he was extremely health conscious aka never smoked, drank very good diet, was still playing badminton for Wiltshire aged 78!!
He died immediately there and then walking to the pub due to a blood clot travelling to his heart....
But what really makes the memories hurt the most is, he bought me in my childhood most of my collection. Every sega released etc. Sadly a decade ago life dictated i had to sell them (and I certainly didn't know some of the rare ones I had worth serious money such as Keio flying squadron for mega cd. Demo and game etc) at a dirt cheap rate because I had adult boring things to pay such as about to lose my house due to rent unpaid. My only comfort was that these machines were not mint condition. They were very much loved and used 24/7; and thus serious mileage and extremely temperamental etc ....
Regardless im greatful for emulation big time, but thank you Kim. Been watching you since 2014/5 area. Well before you discovered the journey you took - I thought you were the coolest dude around back then and would of absolutely enjoyed nerding out with you for an afternoon at one time or another...
Stay you, and may life keep you in relative comfort.
The only good thing to come my way is.... im his only son, he was pretty damn successful wheras I failed everything and even had to overcome addiction! - now I will never have to worry about rent etc... well assuming vultures like the government don't somehow hurt me. I know how things go so I won't relax until I get what I'm due etc.
Sorry to over-share thanx fir being a sound board and the comfort viewing; couldn't come at a better time from one of my favourite long time channels!
Best wishes
Oh mate, I'm so sorry for your loss. Always happy to see your comments, they're much appreciated. Will keep on keeping on. All the best to you!
Always...@@Kim_Justice
I was born in the former USSR and the reality in post-Soviet countries in the 1990s was, well, grim. It was the 2000s when the things started getting much better. I remember very well the end of the 1990s when I was 16 and we basically lived for 20 dollars per month - those 20 dollars were given to us by the parents of my mother, because my parents earned nothing. They worked, simply the salaries were delayed for like a year or two, or so. In those times I certainly dreamt of Sega Mega Drive (that cost 60 dollars, it was the pirate clone), and watching the covers of cartridge boxes, watching the demo versions of the games played on TVs at the stores was one of the leading forces that supported me in those years. Once my granma gifted me 7.5 dollars and I bought me the book about games on SMD. That became my favourite book for years! I almost learned all its hundreds of pages of text by heart! I have even written the SMD anthem with the chorus like that: "We're loving you, oh Sega Mega Drive"...
Now I have 3 computers, 2 smartphones, tons of discs - and I want to be thankful. I am thankful to the band Queen and to Sega Mega Drive, among others.
I hope everything will be OK in your life. Music, books, movies, games indeed support us, heal our wounds. Good luck, good everything to you, sir!
@@DeadnWoon thank you for sharing sir.
May peace love and empathy prevail for you forever onwards.
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP Thank you. Let us hope for the best possible life for all of us on Earth.
50:40 Yaah I did this :), only the sprites though. Yes there are a lot of moves, Marvel pressured us really quite strongly to put a shite load of usless moves in. We didn't want to but Marvel paid the bills, The bad gameplay was the Game Directors fault.
I was glad to see that Fantasia made it into this list. It was the first truly terrible game I played as a kid. Thankfully my parents only rented it for me 😂
I have nostalgia for your original Worst Genesis Games list because it was the first vid of yours I ever clicked on. I recognized Slaughter Sport from the thumbnail :P
dang, i thought that the Captain planet that came with our Amiga was a stinker, but at least that had a banger of a music track for the intro screen and the wind level
Yes I too also loved the music on that game. As platformers go I did not hate it, I never managed to clear the first stage though
Ernest Evans is certainly an oddity. They attempted to use a 2D skeletal animation system to make more fluid animations, but the way they used it makes Ernest look more like a marionette than a person.
As for American Gladiators, the NES version is a completely different game with a more arcade approach that works far better in its favor. For instance, The Wall event, instead of being a mindless button masher where you occasionally climb sideways, is instead a massive, multi-story behemoth with twisting paths, dead ends, areas with sparse handholds that require precision movement, and multiple gladiators chasing you instead of only one! You're still button mashing though, but it way more responsive than the 16-bit version. The only thing it's missing is a version of the Atlasphere, which was always my favorite event in the show.
Oh, and Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales for the Atari Jaguar was the game that followed Bubsy II, not Bubsy 3D. Most people probably forget it because it not just a bad game, but one on a platform that nobody bought. That, and probably the old "3 is 3D" trope.
My only comment on Foreman For Real is, if we're getting "Foreman For Real", why is his body CG? If they wanted to do the Mortal Kombat treatment and actually film every boxer full body?
To save on ROM space most likely, given how big the boxer's sprites are
@@zenksren8206 You could be right. It's much easier to do head swaps on a model than can be generalized to fit every boxer. And I suppose it would be less noticeable on a CRT.
It feels like "your character is useless" is the recurring theme here, the common thread binding these very different games together (well, except for the sports games).
Hey Kim fun checking this out - i luckily never had any of these for my Genesis. But i did have Xenon 2 Megablast on Amiga - i recall liking it back then but it was so long ago.
I remember my mate having an Amiga and I was blown away by the music on Xenon 2. I was poor so 8 bit Micros were my only frame of reference at the time.
@@jasonrockley3724cool to hear that! yeah the Amiga had such great game sounds with those 4 channels of samples it could do back then
Thank you for your service.
Just out of curiousity how far into the Japanese exclusive stuff did you go considering a lot of it is unavailable in english?
Hey KJ, I liked your original Worst Of video and it’s cool that you’ve done an updated version. I only own good SGEN games and none of the bad ones, LOL!
I remember as a kid going to John Menzies with my parents and buying Sword of Sodan thinking it's was going to be just as good as Golden Axe. After a couple of weeks I told my parents to get rid of it along with Turrican (One in the Star Control Box). Tazmania gave me a headache because of that mine cart as it was too fast and I feel you need luck to be able to get passed it.
The only game I ever owned that I hated was Tazmania, I am surprised that didn't make it borderline into this list
Sadly, Foreman For Real was the last game we bought for our beloved Snes. What a way to ruin all those good memories.
Fantasia gaslit me as child into thinking I was just bad at it. It looks so nice... and Disney would never make an inferior product, right?
It's shameful how much time I spent on Art Alive back in the day...I have no idea how I even came to own it
Technocop I have a soft spot for, used to play it on my Amiga back in the day. Sword of Sodan was clunky as hell but nice to look at. Time Killers I wasted tons of money on at the arcade and then drove my friend nuts with the Genesis port when it came to SEGA Channel. X-Perts had a cool concept going but they bungled the execution. Xenon 2, yeah I agree, Amiga title theme then turn it off. Nightmare Circus, funnily enough, showed up in beta form in the Test Drives section on SEGA Channel and I remember at the time thinking it was pretty crap.
Yeah, Test Drives is where I first played it!
An enjoyable video of misery and bad memories, thank you Kim thank you very much 😂
Will we see a top trumps series on adventure point and clickers through time?
As a 10 year old in the mid 1990s, I enjoyed the Terminator 2 platform game. I'd just seen the movie upon television and the programmers made it so you could destroy the background and were given a score based upon minimising damage. Me being 10 I thought it was fun to destroy as many things as I could.
TERMINATOR 2 isn't a bad platformer at all. I'd say THE TERMINATOR by Virgin Games was worse with only 4 clanky levels. If the T2 game had a pull out map for the road sections and a password save I'd be more forgiving. Never got why we only had 2 tracks yet the SNES had 4 one extra for the final and one for credits. Also the lack of a strafe and inferior graphics on the sega didn't help.
I remember renting Awesome Possum and thinking it would be a fun Sonic style platformer, I was wrong.
This was amazing, ta Kim! Oh and a very belated Happy 2024!
Right out of the gate, I just can't hate Earnest Evans because of the pure "Wolfteam" it exudes.
Have to disagree with you on Spider-Man: The Animated Series being ranked so high up on the list. There are so many games that are worse than that one including some in this very video (like Wolverine: Adamantium Rage). Hell, I don’t even think it’s the worst Spider-Man game on the system. That goes to Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade’s Revenge.
On the other hand, the only thing I’ll disagree with you about Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones is that is didn’t take the number one spot (then again, I’ve never played Awesome Possum myself). Got Instruments of Chaos the same day I got Spider-Man: TAS (and three far better games) back in 2015 and, to this day, it’s still in a three way tug-o-war for the worst game in my collection… oh not my Sega Genesis collection. I mean my video game collection as a WHOLE! All 1,000+ of it.
ah, feeling awful and in pain. nothing like a kim justice video to help
You know Arcade classics is terrible when it doesn't even have the Atari logo on the box. They are not even mentioned on the front cover of the PAL release.
Sword of Sodan was the only MD game I ever bought that I thought was rubbish. Never really trusted Amiga ports after that. Also taught me to be suspicious of games with overly large sprites…
Watching the putting on Pro Challenge actually made me say "oh, bastard". Out loud, lol. Good placement, cool video as always Kim. :o)
Perhaps a new Best 50 as a pallete cleanse. Perhaps there some new favorites or JP exclusives you've found that are great. I hardly hear anything about JP only Genesis games, probably because the North American library is already so great.
Im surprised Green Dog wasn't on here. Great list btw.
I feel lucky that in this entire list I've owned 0 and played only 1 😅
Woah! World Cup Italia 90 was one of the first games I rented for the Mega Drive, and I had a good time with it back then. Glad it didn't make your list :) On the other hand, placing Wolverine above Dark Castle and Back to the Future 3 is criminal!
What's that music during the Patron credits from?
congrats on playing every megadrive game lol, that used to be my playground boast back in the day, unaware of the import market. on a note of one of the games listed here my late father bought me fantasia, and i was completely unaware how horrendous it was to play compared to the classic castle of illusion. I've never completed it as i just left it gathering dust. like someone else stated for their absolute horrific difficulty i cast the first Asterix game and Taz mania (with its weird interactive soundtrack) to the fiery pits of retro hell!
i honestly love the Fantasia game, i know it's bad and frustrating at times, but it was the 3rd mega drive game i got as a kid so i hold a very nostalgic place for it that i cant help but love it when i play it. Was pleased when i finally beat it
After the Wheel was completed, this was inevitable.
I watched all of this waiting for the point where I'd find the single one that I disagreed with and boom, there it is, Xenon 2. Still a game I genuinely like, even if it is hilarious that it's literally subtitled after a song and then doesn't have music during the levels.
In its place I offer Centurion: Defender of Rome, which hits so many of the perfect "bad MD game" notes - from a deceptively good intro, to being a collection of terrible minigames, to having abysmal graphics and a frame rate rivalling that of a set of traffic lights. One of those games where you spend years convinced that there are hidden depths only to eventually conclude that there are only depths.
Xenon 2 absolutely does have music when you're playing it. It's just that for some reason you have to enable it on the title screen. 🤷
I enjoyed Centurion! Do graphics really matter in a strategy game? Not the deepest, but probably about right for 13 year old me…
I played through the Spider-Man Acclaim game on the SNES multiple times. It was slow-moving but fine, albeit surprisingly easy. I guess I have to try the MD version to see if it’s really that bad? But it looks like it’s mostly the same game… which I wouldn’t put anywhere near its position on this.
I remember the first time I saw Sword Of Sodan, the first game I saw running on my friends Amiga. It totally blew me away with its graphics compared to my C64. I was dead jealous :p
Always happy to see Curse get kicked around for a while. Between that game and Osomatsu, you can understand why the Sega Genesis was a total non-starter in Japan.
Love the list Kim, seems very definitive, although I'm surprised Pitfighter didn't get a mention. Is it because the original game itself was pretty dreadful to begin with?
How dare you.
Pit Fighter for Genesis is actually better than the arcade version. It moves and plays much smoother. It's a lot of fun with 2 players. The SNES version is worse than the arcade version.
I just bought an old beat up Genesis, and ordered a multi-cart from AliExpress to play with. I now have this dreaded feeling that this cart will include most if not all this 50.
The best thing is I always like a good number of what gets rated worst Sega Genesis games. Shows how great a library they had.
Fricking,"Infogrames, of all people. And I spit take my Tetley tea , laughing. Brilliant and too true
Technocop was originally released on the Amiga in 1989 by Gremlin Graphics.
Same for Sword Of Sodan, also released in 1989 by Discovery Software
Know this list is legit because it has Where's Waldo game in it, every other list like this Ive seen didnt include it. It wasnt released in the UK but one of the UK magazines like Sega Power did do a review of it (with extremely low score given, maybe it was meant for release but the bad critical reception changed that
After all those years i think i would have all double dragon games in the worst list for the mega drive, 3 close to the top. Also Terminator 2 (action game), that Indiana Jones and back to the future 3 deserves the top spot. Fantasia should not exist, for good. But the worst of the worst must be beast wrestler, no game before or after made me shout that amount of cursing and profanation that exists in more than one language. This one gets double points for having awesome cover art that probably fooled a lot of people everywhere. If there is some calculation to relate a bad game from good art, beast wrestler is one of the extremes.
I have a completely unreasonable fondness for Beast Wrestler, even though I know in my heart of hearts that it's absolutely terrible. "Even a bovice like you can handle thisbeast" is one of the great gaming mistranslations.
Another great video, Kim. I didn't own one of these consoles so it's always fun and interesting to look through what I missed, both good and bad.
I never owned a Sega console before, but I’ve recently been doing research on all of their consoles, and now I want stuff like a Sega Saturn when I’ve always been a Nintendo guy before. I’d recommend getting an emulator and trying some Mega Drive exclusives sometime (also, watch GamesMaster; it’ll get you even more excited for Sega games).
The music in Ernest Evans rocked. The gameplay, I can't make any excuses for. Zero i-frames, you can burn through 3 lives in 5 seconds, weird awkward movement\controls, duck and roll animations that resembled suicidal tendencies.... Güd tunes though, for the Genny
That old video is so nostalgic! Love this!!!
Was Bubsy that bad though? I still got Close Encounters of Furred Kind, not played since a kid but remember was ok. Aside from getting touched by an enemy meaning instant death ha
It's bad, but not top 50 bad at all
Bubsy gets especially notorious during it's later sequels. I have the first Bubsy game on Genesis. I don't like it, but it's billions of times better than the Atari Jaguar exclusive "Bubsy in Fractured Furry Tales", which is EXTREMELY TERRIBLE. I sadly own that game and I can go into a multiple paragraph essay about all the things wrong with that game. However, Bubsy 3D on Playstation 1 is arguably the worse Bubsy game. It's really terrible. REALLY, REALLY terrible.
@@johnpenguinthe3rd13 yeah going 3D doesn't always mean improvement, also see earthworm jim 3D ha
Bubsy's instant shot is very reminiscent of Alex Kidd's games
"A sight for sore eyes" means you like it lol
Great list as always. I'm playing through several arcade games, and came across some truly awful ones myself.
The fact that Sword of Sodan is only #25 makes me very afraid of the ones up ahead
Also huge respect to you for liking Bloodstorm
Imagine if someone told a gaming company to make a video game based on an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, and that movie was "Junior". :)
"Making the enemy bullets visible should be a rather basic thing in a game like this" - you might think so, but it's all too easy to screw up! Even Gradius V has this problem. Here it looks like they've made the classic mistake of using too much contrast and saturation in the background. So many pixel artists of the day seemed to have no understanding of how to use colour effectively... you could probably make the game look half-decent just by hacking the colour palettes about.
I am thankful that I have not played too many stinkers in my time with gaming, but I always feel fascinated watching gameplay of panned old-school games.
Kim: imagine playing this game on a tv with a broken volume control, smartass
Me: *ptsd flashback* i don't have to imagine it.
Sword of Sodan was awesome. I don't care what the list says.
Seriously a channel that should have thounds more subscribers. One of only a few channels that's more European. While the US was having the video game crash in the 80s. Europe was doing fine with its euro computers.
Just found your channel and been binge watching. Great stuff!
The Tick shouldn't have a life bar he's invulnerable he doesn't take damage. The only way to do a proper Tick game would be like Wario Land or Pizza Tower where he can be knocked back and slowed down but never die and you get rated on how well you did getting through the stage. A platformer that references the comic's humor and visual design would be far more appropriate than a beat em up.
First video of yours I've watched and really enjoyed it. Managed to get my Mega Drive out of the loft and connected to the tv recently and looking to buy more games for it. I'll certainly avoid these!
Thanks. Being in school in the 90's and only knowing these from magazines, I was not aware that there seem to have been a massive difference between Awesome Possum, Bubsy & Aero the Acrobat.
And I recall Xenon2 on PC being one of the better shareware titles. Interesting seeing it being shat on
Back in the day I stayed away from anything licensed like it was the plague
Well that was dumb. You missed out on some really good games this way.
I play Foreman for Real so I can look at the back of George Foremans head. Left Over Culture is the most under the radar gaming channel on youtube. I been watching him for 10 years. Always rooted for the guy.
Mom: I got you some fun art video games.
Kid: Oh Boy, Mario Paint!!!!
*Mom pulls out Art Alive and Color a Dinosaur.
Hey, what happened to your Sega in 1995 video? Seems like it's gone right when I got the time to watch it
Earnest Evans - i'd say that was the proper place for EE, it's not necessarily a BAD game.. well still bad but not BAD. Wolf Team was trying to make something interesting and it's tricky to say the least in order to play this game effectively, but there are most certainly worse games than EE.
Bonkers - wait, no? hell no, this aint bad. it's lacking and i'd feel ripped off if i paid $50 for it back in the 90s, but BAD? definitely a subjective pick if i'm being honest. for me this is more Mediocre than bad.
Bubsy II - i know a LOT of people dont like the first 2 Bubsy games, but i do. i will always applaud a game for trying to do something different, even if the execution sucks.
The Tick - wow, i like me a beefy game, but for a basher, it sounds 3X too long, Streets of Rage 2 has 8 long stages and that feels perfect in length. the devs got way ahead of themselves in this one, overperforming when some other things needed refinement.
Sword of Sodan - much like Bubsy II i enjoy Sword of Sodan, i dont see why it is so hated. not calling it perfect by any means mind you, but if this is one of the 50 WORST MD titles, then that just screams volumes as to the quality of the console's library.
Art Alive - oh this belongs on the list, not only because it pales to Mario Paint on SNES, but because it offers so damn little. if you're gonna charge $$$ for a game or "Toy" like this, it better be packed.
Time Killers - like this one as well, played it on SEGA Channel back in the day and Emulation when i learned about being able to play Retro games on PC long after the MD became Retro. it's no MK, KI, etc, but i have fun with it on occasion.
Great Waldo Search - much like with Bonkers i think this game's grievest sin is lacking more levels, if i had paid money for this i'd be livid, but since i never paid a pence on it, i'm fine with it as a game that i can show to my Nephew soon and occasionally play myself. after all, it's not like you can buy Waldo books anymore, at least not to my knowledge.
The top 10 is solid 😂
As a kid I liked Bubsy 2. It is packed with hilarious moments, has a varied gameplay and looks and sound decent for the time.
I'm surprised the US version of the port of Shadow of the Beast isn't on your list. Not only is it unplayably fast because they didn't convert the game properly to NTSC, but the collision detection is easily the worst of any 16-bit game ever. You can literally take damage from enemies/obstacles that were almost halfway across the screen
Fun fact: I never played Pica-Pau the Mega Drive version, instead I played the Master System version believe or not, from TecToy as well. Master System was more popular than Mega Drive here in Brazil, so most of the Mega Drive games get a Master System version and this game is no different. When I was kid I got a Master System III with come with Sonic 1 8-bit in the memory, so maybe explain why is so popular, not to mention Brazil is a very poor country and Master System is very cheap.
Both Master System and Mega Drive versions of Pica-Pau are equaly bad.
PS: I wouldn't call Monica's Gang a hack, they act more like a localization because Wonder Boy is very unpopular here and both Monica's Gang games are official licensed game.
The Bohemian Rhapsody bit from Wayne's World had me in tears! So bad!
Time Killers was already a bad fighting game by itself, but I can agree that its Genesis version is possibly 10x worse. I’d probably want to try playing that game just because of how bad it was.
Congrats on making it through the whole library!
im a Heavy Nova fan, i like it 😁 needs a part two with tuns more mechs. i like the challenge trying to pull off every move. needs a part two with a bit of tweaking.
have you reviewed every Saturn soccer ⚽ game? few video reviews out there. i havent played them all so be nice to see some reviews.
Great stuff Kim thanks for this, as it is most appreciated.
your commentary is among the best on the internet. You never fail to make me laugh with your unique vocabulary for slamming a game.
44:17 Oh dear! Xenon 2: Megablast - Never played it on the Megadrive, but I did own it for the Atari ST... I TRIED, I REALLY TRIED, I wanted to like it, God I played the hell out of it... But everything you say is right - Terribly Designed, Slow, Unfair, I only ever managed to get to the end of Level Boss on Stage One ONCE!!!!
Yesssssssss..always happy to see new content from kim
A worst-of list from Kim... you just made my day.
Awesome Possum still isn't as annoying as modern Sonic though.
Although I completely agree on the horrendous controls on Wolverine AR and Spiderman, I cannot agree with them being bad per se. I was quite surprised by both titles appearing on this list and by them being so high on it. Young me came on top of the awful controls on both titles and I loved both of them. The music, bosses and action on both titles was great. Except the funhouse music ofc :D
Nice vid nonetheless ;-)
...I dunno, I never thought that Spider man game was THAT bad, it's not good, I had all of them at some point, but I"d put Arcade's Revenge lower. The final boss fight vs Venom was the worst part that took me like an hour to do when i was a kid.
Nightmare Circus wasn't actually finished when they released it I thought?
You have to hand the sound programmer some credit on Dark Castle he got very clear samples on the Megadrive's kludgy PCM playback that doesn't even support interrupts. On a technical level the game's sound programming is impressive.
On the other hand turning the music off just freezes it on whatever note it's currently playing so good sound programming? Not so much
Proud to say I owned both #1 and #2 on your list as a kid. I was also looking for Shaq Fu, Hard Drivin', and Super Battleship on this list, all of which I spent way too much time playing as a kid.