Sega Genesis/MegaDrive

Your girlfriend Jennifer is trapped in a living nightmare and it's up to you to save her. The only option is to don the terror mask to transform into a buffed-out mayhem machine, ready to smash and bash a path to freedom. Utilize every weapon from your gnarled fist to a roaring chainsaw to conquer legions of oozing zombies and ghastly ghouls. With...

Puyo Puyo is a puzzle video game released in 1991 by Compile for the MSX2. Since its creation, it uses characters from Madou Monogatari. It was created by Masamitsu "Moo" Niitani, the founder of Compile, who was inspired by certain elements from the Tetris and Dr. Mario series of games. The main game of Puyo Puyo is played against at least one opp...

The Lost Vikings is a side-scrolling platform adventure in which the player alternates control of the three Viking characters, guiding each of them one at a time (though control may be swapped from character to character at any point) from a designated start point in each level to the exit (The game offers a two-player cooperative mode in which eac...

Desert Strike is a shoot 'em up game in which the player pilots an AH-64 Apache helicopter. The game is less frantic than typical shoot 'em ups, with the addition of greater strategic elements. The action takes place on open, multi-directional scrolling levels viewed from an isometric perspective. The player views the action from outside the helico...

Sure, you've eaten his hamburgers, played in his Playland, and collected his Happy Meal toys, but now's your chance to actually be Ronald McDonald in McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure for the SEGA Genesis. Ronald finds a piece of a valuable treasure map and decides to embark on an adventure to find the booty. The only problem is that the other thr...

In Burning Force, the player controls a 21-year-old space cadet named Hiromi Tengenji (天現寺ひろみ Tengenji Hiromi?), who as part of her final training, must battle high-tech enemies through six worlds of four areas on a futuristic airbike named "Sign Duck". The gameplay is similar to that of Sega's Space Harrier, but the worlds are divided into f...

The player controls Harry Tasker, who is tasked with the duty of foiling the terrorist plot of Salim Abu Aziz. Each stage has a particular series of goals that the player must fulfill before reaching the stage's goal. Harry's abilities includes the ability to keep his aim steady at one direction while shooting and a diving shoulder roll move that a...

Ristar, the son of a legendary hero who's been captured, is the solar system's last hope against the evil space pirate Greedy. Ristar must travel to the 7 planets of his home system to restore peace to their once happy worlds and ultimately free his father. Ristar stretches his long elastic arms to grab enemies and head-butt them! His long limbs he...

Join Pac-Man as he embarks on new journeys in PAC-MAN 2: The New Adventures. You must guide Pac-Man through a series of cartoon like stages. Since you don't have complete control over the yellow hero, you will have to use a revolutionary Character Guidance Interface. As the adventure progresses, Pac-Man will go for a wild ride in a mine cart and an...

All your Play-Doh dreams can come true thanks to CLAYFIGHTER. This is serious hand-to-hand combat, but the competitors are all made of clay, so you can expect some hilariously wild antics to ensue when you step into the arena. You can play as eight different characters including Bad Mister Frosty, Taffy, Bonker, Blob, Helga, Ickybod Clay, Tiny, and...

Dinosaurs for Hire is a run and gun game published by Sega and developed by Malibu Interactive for the Sega Genesis. The game features Archie, Lorenzo and Reese as the main playable characters while Cyrano shows up from time to time to give mission briefings but is not playable (although preliminary screen shots showed Cyrano initially being availa...

Dick Tracy, the legendary comic strip hero, is back - and he's tougher than ever! A call just came in... "Tracy, the streets are in turmoil. Big Boy Caprice has every last one of his slimeballs armed to the teeth! Eyewitness reports have "Lips" Mantis, "Flattop," and "The Brow" roaming the city, with armies of thugs in tow..." It's up to you! Take...

The pace is intense. Enemies come at Alisia from everywhere. And nowhere. Battle hordes of crazed barbarians, mow down mobs of poisonous centipedes, and slay squadrons of winged gargoyels. Blast enemies in waves or one by one with multi-directional, auto-targeting laser fire. Recruit killer companions like the DragonFrye, Ball O'Fire, Thunder Ra...

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie is the title of four different video game adaptations of the film of the same name which were released for the Super NES, Genesis, Game Boy and Game Gear. While the games were ostensibly based on the film, they also featured characters and plot elements from the second season of the original TV series. Like t...

One dark and stormy evening, the civic-minded Professor Stinkbaum was working in his lab where he was secretly building a machine that would save the world from pollution by transporting it to a place he called Dimension X-Crement. That same evening, eccentric millionaire Snotty Ragsdale paid a visit to the lab to investigate this project and find...

Pac-Mania is an arcade video game in the Pac-Man series, released by Namco in 1987. It is a pseudo-3D interpretation of the classic maze game genre using an oblique view and features many of the elements from the original 1980 Pac-Man arcade game, as well as several new features. As in Pac-Man, the objective of Pac-Mania is to score as many poin...

Ms. Pac-Man is an arcade video game from the Golden Age. It was produced by Illinois-based Midway Manufacturing corporation, the North American publisher of Pac-Man. Ms. Pac-Man was released in North America in July 1981, and is one of the most popular arcade video games of all time. This popularity led to its adoption as an official title by Namco...

In the 21st century, noted scientist and computer engineer Doc Yoshiyama had succeeded in creating the world's most advanced Artificial Intelligence. He called his creation C-Life and managed to make her aware, thinking, and feeling. However, he soon found himself in love with this C-Life girl and wanted to be closer to her, so he digitized and upl...

The Dalsis Empire has laid seige upon the Castle of Baltia to seize the legendary sword WARSONG. In a desperate attempt, King Alfador sends his only son, Prince Garett, into the countryside, away from impending death. Now Garett must rally his allies from across the kingdom, and lead their valiant armies in a battle against the Empire to retrieve t...

Jungle Strike is a video game developed and published by Electronic Arts in 1993 for the Sega Mega Drive. The game was later released on several other consoles such as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), and an upgraded version was made for the Amiga. The Amiga and other home computer conversions were the responsibility of Ocean Softwar...

Dynamite Headdy[a] is a 1994 platform game developed by Treasure and published by Sega. It was originally released for the Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear, and Sega Master System. The main character, Headdy, can throw his head at enemies to defeat them and use it to pull himself to various areas and move objects. The player can find a wide variety of...

Road Rash 3 was released in 1995 exclusively for the Sega Genesis. For the most part, this entry is separate from the earlier games. Races now take place across the world, each level featuring five of seven total locales: Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Kenya, Australia, and Japan. In addition to the now standard fifteen bikes, four par...

Road Rash II was released in 1992 exclusively for the Sega Genesis. The sequel took the engine and sprites from the first game and added more content. The biggest addition was proper two-player modes: "Split Screen" versus the other computer opponents, and the duel mode "Mano A Mano". The races now take place all across the United States: Alaska, H...

Road Rash is the name of a motorcycle-racing video game series by Electronic Arts in which the player participates in violent, illegal street races. The series started on the Sega Genesis and made its way to various other systems over the years. The game's title is based on the slang term for the severe friction burns that can occur in a motorcycle...

Primal Rage is a versus fighting game developed and released by Atari Games to arcades in 1994. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic version of Earth called "Urth". Players control one of seven large beasts that battle each other to determine the fate of the planet. Matches feature many of the conventions of fighting games from the era, inclu...