John Madden '92's best feature is when the QB gets injured, an ambulance cruises onto the field and plows through everyone in it's way to get to the QB! Cracked me up every time!
Fun fact: Rings of Power has an Easter egg that, when a certain button combination is held when you boot it up, makes the girl in the Naughty Dog logo appear topless.
John Hancock: Rings of Power has more content than any other RPG for the system. You can do much more things than the manual says. Once you learned how the game works, you can not stop playing. For me, this is a wonderful game. A true gem to discover!
EA was golden in the early 90's. Back in college my buddy had NHL '92, i had NHL '93 along with Road Rash II, Bill Walsh College Football, PGA Tour Golf II. That's all 6-7 of us played for 2 years, with some sort of tourney just about every day. Good times.
Just discovered your channel and really enjoyed this series! I played a lot of EA Sports games on the Genesis back in the 90s but I had never played JMF ‘92 or ‘93. Thank you for the tip- they are excellent! Such a great blend of arcade and sim, just as you said.
@Solitarian My dad wasn’t into gaming either but he did play baseball and boxing video games sometimes! I always laugh that he had 3 base runners on third base!
I miss those days when EA was such a fun company putting out great games of all sorts. Heck, even their bad genesis games still had some charm to them.
More EA Ranking videos here: EA 1992 ua-cam.com/video/H7Lo7Eak1qI/v-deo.html EA 1993 ua-cam.com/video/Nz_IGDf8whs/v-deo.html EA 1994 ua-cam.com/video/OXa_4zz_a6Q/v-deo.html EA 1995 ua-cam.com/video/cOItuPBx6XE/v-deo.html EA 1996-97 ua-cam.com/video/iDm8YABUGnE/v-deo.html
I just LOVE The Immortal, and I was actually able to finish it back in the day. I never understood how such a rich game on every level never got a sequel, I find it quite underrated. I just love the whole atmosphere of the game, its graphics, its engaging story with all its mysteries and twists, and its very competent soundtrack. It deserves at least a remake!
John is just so charismatic and optimistic, even when he's bashing a game. I'm kinda addicted to these videos. I'd love to see a collab with James from Cinemassacre.
YES! Road Rash was a favorite with my dad growing up 👏 Didn’t know about most of these titles before this video. Thanks for the showcase and rating videos :)
For a country kid with no PC, F22 Interceptor was the closest to a flight sim as I was going to get. Nostalgia glasses make it seem better than it really was, but I sunk hundreds of hours into that game. And it was pretty deep for a Genesis game.
Thanks for the content John Hancock. I love your sincerity in what you do (gaming/reviewing). *Remember to keep telling your audience to grab some popcorn. Cheers from Thailand
The review I've been waiting for. Finally, an accurate synopsis and appreciation for how good a game The Immortal is. I look forward to a more in depth review in the future. Thank you sir.
I remember watching videos of Shadow of the Beast and The Killing Gameshow (Fatal Rewind) on the Amiga at Walden Software, and kept thinking how fun they looked.
I agree wholeheartedly...From the Genesis/SNES to PS2/OG XBOX/GameCube era...EA was top-notch and it had so many fun games to play...Since then, a copious amount of Microtransactions, half-assed games and overuse of DLC’s destroyed them.
Thanks for creating and sharing. No early 90s EA stories from me, I was a SNES owner during the console wars. They were much less prolific on Nintendo.
Populous brings back many memories. It was one of the best games i had. Along with Madden, and NHL hockey. On populous, i remember that face would scare me on the game over screen. Edit: oh yea! Road Rash. Can't believe i forgot that. After renting it, i bought it asap. Luvd that game.
I like how most of these games look like old school PC games...with actual sound and smoother scrolling. And I am surprised how different EA was back then 😔
I really enjoyed this whole video. But I have to admit I initially watched it just to make sure Starflight got an S rating. ;) Your ranking lists and John Riggs' lists are both a joy to watch. Keep it up, guys! And thanks.
EA's mix of publishing ports and original IP made them such a great company at the first half of the megadrive's life. I feel towards the end EA concentrated more on presentation than with gameplay with the likes of Fifa.
I owned original copies of Centurion, Starflight, Might and Magic. Great games! Starflight came with a booklet. Also I played most of these games and agree with your ranking. These were the best days of EA
F-22 is special to me. Very close friends of the family, an older couple, bought a Genesis at launch (they had grandkids that would regularly visit them). I remember hanging out at their house as a kid and they had three games: Altered Beast, Arnold Palmer Golf and F-22 Interceptor. AB because it was a pack-in, APG because the guy was an avid golfer and fan of AP, and F-22 because he was a retired Air Force colonel and enjoyed flight sims. All 3 of those games mean more to me than any other Genesis games, because of those memories, even though I received my own Genesis a little later and played an extensive library of fantastic games.
I really did like Centurion, Starflight and eventually Buck Rogers, which took a few tries to get into. I know you're not up to '93 yet, but I really wanted Virtual Pinball to be as good as Pinball Construction set was. I miss old EA.
Buck Rogers uses the SSI engine for RPGs, and it is fantastic. Budokan was a flawed game, but graphics were amazing. Road Rash was a whole summer for me... Friends came over to play Road Rash, lot's of fun. Very difficult game
I think this is the first time I've ever seen anyone do a review on The Faery Tale Adventures. Which is pretty cool, as I remember borrowing this game off my cousin during the summer of '94. I got pretty far in it. But sadly, I wasn't able to finish it before I had to give it back. Maybe someday I will sit down and beat it....
Hahaha I hope you still have it and are still friends with that friend. Always a good story and reminder that one time their parents got you one of the worst games. lol
Great review. I used to love EA back in the 80's and 90's. It was a completely different company when Trip Hawkins was running things. I really loved Buck Rogers Countdown To Doomsday, but I had played through that on the Commodore 64, so I never got the Genesis release. My favorite game you reviewed here was Road Rash. It came out during my first year of collage and I have a lot of fond memories playing it with friends. Back then I preferred the computer version of Fairytale Adventure but in present times have found the Genesis version a lot of fun when playing it on a newer clone system that can save your place so you don't have to deal with that horrendous password system.
Like wow that King Bounty is a really awesome game my brother bought the game and times when I to play my console it really hard to get him off and later I gave the game thy and I love it!!!!!
Might & Magic was the first RPG I ever played at the age of 10. Because I had nothing to compare it to I put in dozens of hours and it’s a really special game to me today. Playing it now it’s pretty hard, requires strategy and patience. For the time it had a lot of variety, and as a collectibke it comes with a huge detailed instruction manual and a color poster of the world map.
I loved LAKERS VS CELTICS back in the day. I remember the first time I saw it, I was in Shock because at the time I was still playing Double Dribble for the NES so when I saw LAKERS VS CELTICS the graphics blew my mind. thats why it was the first game I got for the Genesis when I bought it (Well when my mother bought me the Sega Genesis in 1992)
I got to defend Lakers vs Celtics a little... I purchased this game on day one and by the time this game came out the best basketball game I could remember was Double Driver on the nes,. To me, this was a great update to the genre and a start for a big franchise. Not only it got real NBA teams, but you could also play with real basketball players, you can even see the numbers on their jerseys and the players started to have signature moves. To me is a gem, plus it has music between halftimes. (Optional of course.)
I picked up a near pristine copy of The Faery Tale Adventure from the local store I get my vintage stuff from. They had Dark Castle there previously for about a month, and when it sold, I joked it was bought not because anyone -wants- to play it, but to only add it to a collection. Well, another copy of it showed up along with TFTA. When I got home with my copy of TFTA, I opened it up and found a receipt from an Electronics Boutique that it was purchased from in 91, along with Dark Castle. Turns out it was a matched pair with it. Cases in ok description, manuals and cartridges look new. Long story short, I had to buy that copy of Dark Castle and have never hated having to buy a game so much before. I'll never play it again, but its now part of my collection again. EA published 2 more of my top Genesis games and I can't wait to see you cover them.
Road Rash my personal fave purely for nostalgia. Grade 9 '92 got chickenpox first day of 2 week school holidays so mom got me this game. Played it nonstop, beat it, recovered just in time for first day back at school dammit. But those tunes bring back all the memories I still play it on my emulator from time to time 😍
King's Bounty ate up so much of my childhood. Such an amazing game and very important to the gaming landscape as a whole. Add in Might and Magic and you've got a genre defining set with the HOMM series coming out of early EA. I hate what EA has become, but their roots show why they became the gaming giant they are. Madden, NHL, HOMM, and their RPGs in general were all well done and came to a much wider audience on consoles.
King's Bounty en Starflight are definite highlights and two of my favourite games for the Mega Drive / Genesis! Hours upon hours of fun gameplay, even to this day.
I played so many hours of Might & Magic 2 back in the day, such a great game! I never beat it. I got to the end of game, where I assumed the answer to the puzzle hint PREAMBLE would be entering the preamble to the US constitution, but I could never get the exact answer correctly. EA dominated the Genesis back then, and there's so many titles in this video that I used to own and love.
Centurion was my first strategy game.... I beat that thing black and blue and was pro at it, but going back the controls are a frigging mess, especially for battles.
This reminds me of the episode of Futurama when they walked through the library and found rooms with various book categories. "FICTION" "REFERENCE" "STEPHEN KING, A-AARDVARK"
As a Roman historian, I naturally had an affinity for "Centurion: The Defender of Rome". Though the battles are extremely limited in scope, I love the atmosphere of the game, and the overall "feel". Plus, if you wait long enough to push into Egypt, and succeed in negotiating an alliance, you can actually shag Cleopatra. Seriously, you go through an entirely additional cutscene with dialog choices. It blew my mind when I first had that happen. No, they don't show anything explicit, but it was still pretty risque for the time. Oh, and I also have fond memories of The Fairy Tale Adventure and think it's really underrated. I haven't played it in probably twenty-five years or more, so I'm curious if it still holds up.
I love the EA box art. They packed so much info on the back of the box to help convince you to buy the game. Loved King's Bounty and Centurion. I agree that Starflight was a true gem. I remember the sense of accomplishment beating that beast! Sadly 25 years later I don't have the patience to grind through it again. But I'll fire it up once in awhile just to do some exploring and hear that sexy computer voice say "orbit established"
I really liked Populous and Zany Golf and NHL. They seemed more... sophisticated than what I was used to. I could never find the RPG carts. Looking forward to part 2. Regarding Madden, my uncle loved that game. I bought Mutant League Football. Bribing the ref, throwing Dynamite, using a jetpack.. My uncle won't play sports games with me anymore.
I think I finished Might & Magic: Gates to Another World on Megadrive back then, or at least made it to the puzzle in the middle of the lake. I'd like to say the MD version is more playable than the PC version, because IIRC the MD version displayed the names of the spells, and it used only the A/B/C/Start buttons (+Dpad). Although I think I may have muted the TV... Rings of Power was a game I really liked (an early open-world RPG), although the battles weren't fun (esp. if the enemy cast Frenzy). Finding the place where to get all characters to max XP easily certainly helped, and I think I had a spot where I could get infinite money and random goods as well. I can't remember how that happened, though.
That NES version of the 2nd stage of "Marble Madness" rocks. I was hoping for a 16-bit rendition of it that sounds really good, but it didn't appeal to me too much. Hell, even the Captain N rendition of it sounded bad ass back then too. But as far as gameplay wise for the good ol' Genesis, I agree it's middle of the road at the end of the day.
I absolutely ADORED F22 and King's Bounty and then saw the EA logo on a game at my local Toys R US in the bargain bin and thought "Hey the last 2 games have been great lets go for it!"...it was Dark Castle...shudder.
Buck Rogers countdown to doomsday needs it's own episode to do it real justice. A rank is pretty low for what is still one of the greatest games of all time. Glade to see you liked Fatal Rewind. I find some people either like it or hate it. I played and beat it back when it first came out. Definitely a hard game but like most old games from that time, once you learn the levels and where the keys are it get much easier. Star flight is a truly epic game with a pretty great story and a ton of lore to it. Game is a bit of a slow burn till you really learn the game, but once you do oh man is it so good.
Nice. I still playing bounty every now and then. Never gets old. Let's have a 2 player head to head version!! And rings of power was good once you get rolling. Buck Rogers is also dope.
I used to love F-22 as a kid. It's one of the more playable "realistic" flight sims on consoles of the time. Madden 92 is an S for me too, it's a good middle ground between arcade and sim. Many would argue 93 is a more complete package but there's something more charming about 92.
I love James Pond 2 probably more than I should.
Hi Riggs, " A Hancock, Riggs side by side
EA games comparison would be cool", :)
I love the SNES version, titled Super James Pond, but it's mostly nostalgia. As a platformer, it's enjoyable but not great. C+ or B-
That game is so cool, I really enjoyed Aquatic Games as well
@@rioncitylife1917 that’s actually a good idea , they should deffs be in more videos together
You are not the only one :-) Great video.
John Madden '92's best feature is when the QB gets injured, an ambulance cruises onto the field and plows through everyone in it's way to get to the QB! Cracked me up every time!
Happens in 93 as well.
This was my goal in those games. I didn't even care about winning just get that ambulance to come out.
😆 I remember that my brother and he's friends played that
Fun fact: Rings of Power has an Easter egg that, when a certain button combination is held when you boot it up, makes the girl in the Naughty Dog logo appear topless.
John Hancock: Rings of Power has more content than any other RPG for the system. You can do much more things than the manual says.
Once you learned how the game works, you can not stop playing. For me, this is a wonderful game. A true gem to discover!
One funny thing about “Populous” is that EA put a screenshot of the ending on the back of the box.
EA was golden in the early 90's. Back in college my buddy had NHL '92, i had NHL '93 along with Road Rash II, Bill Walsh College Football, PGA Tour Golf II. That's all 6-7 of us played for 2 years, with some sort of tourney just about every day. Good times.
STARFLIGHT is hands down my favorite game for the Genesis and in my top 10 favorite games ever. Absolutely love it
Just discovered your channel and really enjoyed this series! I played a lot of EA Sports games on the Genesis back in the 90s but I had never played JMF ‘92 or ‘93. Thank you for the tip- they are excellent! Such a great blend of arcade and sim, just as you said.
Road Rash is great but my father loved it but he passed away a little while ago, I can't bring myself to play it anymore. I miss him terribly.
@Solitarian thanks, I really appreciate that.
My dad passed away last year, whenever I see a game I played with him I smile remembering the good times!
@Solitarian My dad wasn’t into gaming either but he did play baseball and boxing video games sometimes! I always laugh that he had 3 base runners on third base!
The strike series were truly awesome. EA won't ever make games like these anymore.
💯 I grew up with Jungle Strike and later discovered Desert and Urban. Really good games
A really good series.
Ahhh, the good old days when EA sold you a complete game... and what games! We had it good, it was ground-breaking times.
King's Bounty, Buck Rogers and Starflight. All amazing games deserving of more attention.
I miss those days when EA was such a fun company putting out great games of all sorts. Heck, even their bad genesis games still had some charm to them.
Lakers vs Celtics was my jam. the '89-'90 Celtics were my favorite team ever. Genesis had the one good basketball video game with that team.
More EA Ranking videos here:
EA 1992
ua-cam.com/video/H7Lo7Eak1qI/v-deo.html
EA 1993
ua-cam.com/video/Nz_IGDf8whs/v-deo.html
EA 1994
ua-cam.com/video/OXa_4zz_a6Q/v-deo.html
EA 1995
ua-cam.com/video/cOItuPBx6XE/v-deo.html
EA 1996-97
ua-cam.com/video/iDm8YABUGnE/v-deo.html
This series is a great idea!
Hey John is it possible to get the list of the genesis games of your ranking video an the ratings? thx for the videos they are great.
I just LOVE The Immortal, and I was actually able to finish it back in the day. I never understood how such a rich game on every level never got a sequel, I find it quite underrated. I just love the whole atmosphere of the game, its graphics, its engaging story with all its mysteries and twists, and its very competent soundtrack. It deserves at least a remake!
Thank you for these videos sir this is one of the best gaming channels on UA-cam. Keep up the great work!
EA was my favorite publisher on the Genesis. This video was packed with some absolute gems. Excellent video as always!
John is just so charismatic and optimistic, even when he's bashing a game. I'm kinda addicted to these videos. I'd love to see a collab with James from Cinemassacre.
For me the big winners were Buck Rogers, The Immortal, Starflight and Road Rash.
YES! Road Rash was a favorite with my dad growing up 👏
Didn’t know about most of these titles before this video. Thanks for the showcase and rating videos :)
For a country kid with no PC, F22 Interceptor was the closest to a flight sim as I was going to get. Nostalgia glasses make it seem better than it really was, but I sunk hundreds of hours into that game. And it was pretty deep for a Genesis game.
Thanks for the content John Hancock. I love your sincerity in what you do (gaming/reviewing). *Remember to keep telling your audience to grab some popcorn. Cheers from Thailand
Your ranking videos have been a huge help as I continue my Genesis collecting. Love those plastic cases they came in.
I have to say this. Your videos are a lot of fun. I really enjoy hanging out with you any time I can.
The review I've been waiting for. Finally, an accurate synopsis and appreciation for how good a game The Immortal is. I look forward to a more in depth review in the future. Thank you sir.
Oh wow, I remember Centurion from the old 90’s PC days. I had no idea it was also on the Genesis.
I remember watching videos of Shadow of the Beast and The Killing Gameshow (Fatal Rewind) on the Amiga at Walden Software, and kept thinking how fun they looked.
It's crazy how good EA were back in the day. All the way up to about 2008 or so and then...
I agree wholeheartedly...From the Genesis/SNES to PS2/OG XBOX/GameCube era...EA was top-notch and it had so many fun games to play...Since then, a copious amount of Microtransactions, half-assed games and overuse of DLC’s destroyed them.
These videos have been insanely entertaining thanks for another one!!
Glad you like them!
agree, cant wait for part 2 - I owned a ton of EA games back in the day.
I've been waiting so long for this list, oh man, I'm so excited!
Glad to deliver this one.
Video was fantastic! Can't wait to see more stuff!
Thanks for creating and sharing. No early 90s EA stories from me, I was a SNES owner during the console wars. They were much less prolific on Nintendo.
Populous brings back many memories. It was one of the best games i had. Along with Madden, and NHL hockey. On populous, i remember that face would scare me on the game over screen. Edit: oh yea! Road Rash. Can't believe i forgot that. After renting it, i bought it asap. Luvd that game.
Starflight has so much depth and is a great game. It is really underappreciated.
Great video, John. Like you, I played most of these games on the Amiga. EA had some great stuff back in the day. I look forward to your next video.
You are going to like it ;)
Been waiting for this one✊🏾💯
EA was so different back in the day! Some great games here
Imagine if EA had supported the Dreamcast like they did the Genesis.
EA would never support the DreamCast because Microsoft already had a plane for it and EA found about it.
I like how most of these games look like old school PC games...with actual sound and smoother scrolling. And I am surprised how different EA was back then 😔
I really enjoyed this whole video. But I have to admit I initially watched it just to make sure Starflight got an S rating. ;) Your ranking lists and John Riggs' lists are both a joy to watch. Keep it up, guys! And thanks.
I am happy to see Might and Magic 2 and Buck Rogers get high ratings. Love them games.
EA's mix of publishing ports and original IP made them such a great company at the first half of the megadrive's life. I feel towards the end EA concentrated more on presentation than with gameplay with the likes of Fifa.
I owned original copies of Centurion, Starflight, Might and Magic. Great games! Starflight came with a booklet.
Also I played most of these games and agree with your ranking. These were the best days of EA
Starflight: what a magnificent upgrade to the DOS classic. Hours of fun!
Thank you for the video, a pleasure as always !
I love what you are doing with these games ,John! This is VERY pleasantly nostalgic for me💯💯💯😃
These rankings were awesome! Thanks for the review John! No cap I laughed out loud when he said "it's a turd of a game" hahaha 😂🤣😆
F-22 is special to me. Very close friends of the family, an older couple, bought a Genesis at launch (they had grandkids that would regularly visit them). I remember hanging out at their house as a kid and they had three games: Altered Beast, Arnold Palmer Golf and F-22 Interceptor. AB because it was a pack-in, APG because the guy was an avid golfer and fan of AP, and F-22 because he was a retired Air Force colonel and enjoyed flight sims.
All 3 of those games mean more to me than any other Genesis games, because of those memories, even though I received my own Genesis a little later and played an extensive library of fantastic games.
The AVGN episode on Dark Castle is a classic
Yeah its hilarious
I really did like Centurion, Starflight and eventually Buck Rogers, which took a few tries to get into. I know you're not up to '93 yet, but I really wanted Virtual Pinball to be as good as Pinball Construction set was. I miss old EA.
Love these! It would be a long one as there’s like 98 of them, but it would be great to see a Genesis launch black grid box ranking. Thanks John!
Guess they could be split up by genre
Loved Starflight on the Amiga. Never played it on the Mega Drive / Genesis though, so I will definitely give it a try now.
Buck Rogers uses the SSI engine for RPGs, and it is fantastic. Budokan was a flawed game, but graphics were amazing.
Road Rash was a whole summer for me... Friends came over to play Road Rash, lot's of fun. Very difficult game
So glad for the Starflight love. One of my favorite games from my childhood, and a lot more people need to play it!
Good list!
I think this is the first time I've ever seen anyone do a review on The Faery Tale Adventures. Which is pretty cool, as I remember borrowing this game off my cousin during the summer of '94. I got pretty far in it. But sadly, I wasn't able to finish it before I had to give it back. Maybe someday I will sit down and beat it....
It’s a great game but it’s one of those games it’s better to play blind maybe with a few hints here and there but it will take a while to beat.
I got Dark Castle as a Christmas present from a friend of my parent’s. They must have truly hated me.
Hahaha I hope you still have it and are still friends with that friend. Always a good story and reminder that one time their parents got you one of the worst games. lol
This video was very fun to watch... Talk about a treasure trove of E.A. knowledge thanks again talk about a true sega guru.
I have been waiting for your EA ranking video. It didn't disappoint, brought back so many good memories 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Right on John. I have a lot of these games for my Genesis. Keep up the good work.
nice of you to show some love to King's Bounty. It is a really good game.
Great review. I used to love EA back in the 80's and 90's. It was a completely different company when Trip Hawkins was running things. I really loved Buck Rogers Countdown To Doomsday, but I had played through that on the Commodore 64, so I never got the Genesis release. My favorite game you reviewed here was Road Rash. It came out during my first year of collage and I have a lot of fond memories playing it with friends. Back then I preferred the computer version of Fairytale Adventure but in present times have found the Genesis version a lot of fun when playing it on a newer clone system that can save your place so you don't have to deal with that horrendous password system.
Nice 'American Werewolves in London' homage in your Might and Magic clip.
Bro. Brother. Buds. Youve stressed how you don't like strategy rpgs, or whatnot. But you love this one. You rock
Like wow that King Bounty is a really awesome game my brother bought the game and times when I to play my console it really hard to get him off and later I gave the game thy and I love it!!!!!
Road Rash, Madden and Madden 92 and NHL hockey were my faves.. got them all for Christmas 91 or 92
Enjoying the reviews..!🦅
Might & Magic was the first RPG I ever played at the age of 10. Because I had nothing to compare it to I put in dozens of hours and it’s a really special game to me today. Playing it now it’s pretty hard, requires strategy and patience. For the time it had a lot of variety, and as a collectibke it comes with a huge detailed instruction manual and a color poster of the world map.
I liked EA a lot more back then. Especially the Strike series.
Great video, so many great memories of EA on my MEGA DRIVE in 1991 onwards. Road rash, pga golf, great times. Greetings from bangor N,ireland
I loved LAKERS VS CELTICS back in the day. I remember the first time I saw it, I was in Shock because at the time I was still playing Double Dribble for the NES so when I saw LAKERS VS CELTICS the graphics blew my mind. thats why it was the first game I got for the Genesis when I bought it (Well when my mother bought me the Sega Genesis in 1992)
I always like to say that King's Bounty is my favorite Genesis game that doesn't have the words "Phantasy Star" or "Streets of Rage" in the title
Kings bounty 2 is coming out very soon
I got to defend Lakers vs Celtics a little... I purchased this game on day one and by the time this game came out the best basketball game I could remember was Double Driver on the nes,. To me, this was a great update to the genre and a start for a big franchise. Not only it got real NBA teams, but you could also play with real basketball players, you can even see the numbers on their jerseys and the players started to have signature moves. To me is a gem, plus it has music between halftimes. (Optional of course.)
The Strike series is my favorite on this generation of consoles. That shit was sooooo much fun! Takes me way back.
I picked up a near pristine copy of The Faery Tale Adventure from the local store I get my vintage stuff from. They had Dark Castle there previously for about a month, and when it sold, I joked it was bought not because anyone -wants- to play it, but to only add it to a collection. Well, another copy of it showed up along with TFTA. When I got home with my copy of TFTA, I opened it up and found a receipt from an Electronics Boutique that it was purchased from in 91, along with Dark Castle. Turns out it was a matched pair with it. Cases in ok description, manuals and cartridges look new.
Long story short, I had to buy that copy of Dark Castle and have never hated having to buy a game so much before. I'll never play it again, but its now part of my collection again.
EA published 2 more of my top Genesis games and I can't wait to see you cover them.
The only game I had out of these was Sword of Sodan. So, yeah, you can guess how my life went after that.
Road Rash my personal fave purely for nostalgia. Grade 9 '92 got chickenpox first day of 2 week school holidays so mom got me this game. Played it nonstop, beat it, recovered just in time for first day back at school dammit. But those tunes bring back all the memories I still play it on my emulator from time to time 😍
King's Bounty ate up so much of my childhood. Such an amazing game and very important to the gaming landscape as a whole. Add in Might and Magic and you've got a genre defining set with the HOMM series coming out of early EA.
I hate what EA has become, but their roots show why they became the gaming giant they are. Madden, NHL, HOMM, and their RPGs in general were all well done and came to a much wider audience on consoles.
F-22 Interceptor was my favorite game next to Sonic, and the actual plane wasn't even finished at the time. It later became the F-22 Raptor.
King's Bounty en Starflight are definite highlights and two of my favourite games for the Mega Drive / Genesis! Hours upon hours of fun gameplay, even to this day.
I played so many hours of Might & Magic 2 back in the day, such a great game! I never beat it. I got to the end of game, where I assumed the answer to the puzzle hint PREAMBLE would be entering the preamble to the US constitution, but I could never get the exact answer correctly. EA dominated the Genesis back then, and there's so many titles in this video that I used to own and love.
Centurion was my first strategy game....
I beat that thing black and blue and was pro at it, but going back the controls are a frigging mess, especially for battles.
Boudokan was one of my favorites growing up. It was super hard and the animation was great
This reminds me of the episode of Futurama when they walked through the library and found rooms with various book categories.
"FICTION"
"REFERENCE"
"STEPHEN KING, A-AARDVARK"
As a Roman historian, I naturally had an affinity for "Centurion: The Defender of Rome". Though the battles are extremely limited in scope, I love the atmosphere of the game, and the overall "feel". Plus, if you wait long enough to push into Egypt, and succeed in negotiating an alliance, you can actually shag Cleopatra. Seriously, you go through an entirely additional cutscene with dialog choices. It blew my mind when I first had that happen. No, they don't show anything explicit, but it was still pretty risque for the time.
Oh, and I also have fond memories of The Fairy Tale Adventure and think it's really underrated. I haven't played it in probably twenty-five years or more, so I'm curious if it still holds up.
Great video as always.
I love the EA box art. They packed so much info on the back of the box to help convince you to buy the game. Loved King's Bounty and Centurion. I agree that Starflight was a true gem. I remember the sense of accomplishment beating that beast! Sadly 25 years later I don't have the patience to grind through it again. But I'll fire it up once in awhile just to do some exploring and hear that sexy computer voice say "orbit established"
I really liked Populous and Zany Golf and NHL. They seemed more... sophisticated than what I was used to. I could never find the RPG carts. Looking forward to part 2. Regarding Madden, my uncle loved that game. I bought Mutant League Football. Bribing the ref, throwing Dynamite, using a jetpack..
My uncle won't play sports games with me anymore.
I think I finished Might & Magic: Gates to Another World on Megadrive back then, or at least made it to the puzzle in the middle of the lake. I'd like to say the MD version is more playable than the PC version, because IIRC the MD version displayed the names of the spells, and it used only the A/B/C/Start buttons (+Dpad). Although I think I may have muted the TV...
Rings of Power was a game I really liked (an early open-world RPG), although the battles weren't fun (esp. if the enemy cast Frenzy). Finding the place where to get all characters to max XP easily certainly helped, and I think I had a spot where I could get infinite money and random goods as well. I can't remember how that happened, though.
I had NHL Hockey on Genesis as well..love that game especially its music
That NES version of the 2nd stage of "Marble Madness" rocks. I was hoping for a 16-bit rendition of it that sounds really good, but it didn't appeal to me too much. Hell, even the Captain N rendition of it sounded bad ass back then too. But as far as gameplay wise for the good ol' Genesis, I agree it's middle of the road at the end of the day.
I didn´t know about King´s Bounty! I love the early Heroes of M&M, happy to know where it came from!
I absolutely loved the immortal as a kid! The music really fit the game well.
faery tail adventure is my favorite of all these that ive played
I absolutely ADORED F22 and King's Bounty and then saw the EA logo on a game at my local Toys R US in the bargain bin and thought "Hey the last 2 games have been great lets go for it!"...it was Dark Castle...shudder.
Buck Rogers countdown to doomsday needs it's own episode to do it real justice. A rank is pretty low for what is still one of the greatest games of all time.
Glade to see you liked Fatal Rewind. I find some people either like it or hate it. I played and beat it back when it first came out. Definitely a hard game but like most old games from that time, once you learn the levels and where the keys are it get much easier.
Star flight is a truly epic game with a pretty great story and a ton of lore to it. Game is a bit of a slow burn till you really learn the game, but once you do oh man is it so good.
Nice. I still playing bounty every now and then. Never gets old. Let's have a 2 player head to head version!! And rings of power was good once you get rolling. Buck Rogers is also dope.
Centurion was addicting as hell def one of my favorites, I actually liked F22 with the pilot style controller
I used to love F-22 as a kid. It's one of the more playable "realistic" flight sims on consoles of the time.
Madden 92 is an S for me too, it's a good middle ground between arcade and sim. Many would argue 93 is a more complete package but there's something more charming about 92.
Sword Of Sodan makes China Warrior look S tier 🤣
I loved Centurion, A+ from me. So much fun, and of course beating Egypt was always good for a laugh, hehe.