Konami and the Sega Genesis

Zombie ate my neighbors was one of the hardest games man. Seriously.

Tiny toons.... one of the few megadrive games i bought back in the day for full new release retail: a whopping 129,- guilders.

Recently played Bloodlines again till i could beat it :) Then we did Hard Corps 2 player till we beat it too. Love the genesis.

"Thank you nice boys."

Sunset Riders is being re-converted from the ground by ThiangSc and Pyron: till now what's ready is almost arcade perfect, way better than the SNES version, which proves once again that the MD/Genny can / could deliver much more if really developers would actually care..

Of all the games on this list I played only Animaniacs (original cartridge) and a little bit of Castlevania Bloodlines and Contra Hard Corps on the Mega Drive Mini.

Rocket Knight is still one of the best platformers ever. Such a shame it’s been buried. That 360 reboot was crap

You’re pronouncing Nigel Mansell wrong SLX, it’s pronounced Tosser 😄

I wonder why a Gradius game was never ported to the SEGA Genesis? Still, there was/are plenty in the space-shooter genre to choose from. Such as the badass "Thunder Force IV" for example.

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Rocket Knight Adventures was my youngest brothers ALL TIME favourite game. When we played co-op, we played Gun Star Heroes ✨ 🔫

I have 2 blue justifier guns and molded one with a 6 pin phone cord and made a player 2 gun. Works great and it is fun with 2 people. I have the sega cd version of lethal enforcers.

Zombies ate my Neighbors is the best game IMO.

You are one of the few content creators to talk about Tiny Toons Acme All Stars. I personally suck at sports games but all stars was so damn good! It's one of the few I can pick up and play every so often.

capcom and konami didn't give sega their best. there were nice things in all of their ports, but they could have been so much better, as rom hacks in modern day have proven with titles like these. people forget how often a game would be ported to both snes and genesis and while the snes would have slightly bigger looking sprites (we find out later that all the games were just zoomed in!) and more colors (to make those ever important screenshots to sell the game in magazines), the genesis port would have more options and be more playable and fun. at the same time, CastleVania Bloodlines is awesome... not just a rehash of an old castlevania game (except one level, to be fair).

yeah good point about Contra Hard Corps... again, instead of just remaking the old game with new graphics, they created a new one (compare Castlevania Bloodlines to Super Castlevania IV). so konami mostly just dropped the ball on the turtles game

we can also look at a company like SNK... their port of Fatal Fury on the snes... vs. the genesis. the latter cut out a stage but you could play as pretty much every character in the vs. mode even the final bad guy with a code (like the sequel fatal fury special). awesome! why bother when the neogeo version is identical to the arcade (because it IS the arcade in a box)? because only two people could afford an actual AES home system back then... you played the game for 50 cents at the mall and then you went to blockbuster and rented it for your genesis or you bought it at toys r us or target.

To me TMMT IV : Turtles In Time on SNES is better than TMMT : The Hyperstone Heist and I've played them both a lot Turtles In Time at home and The Hyperstone Heist at a friends house

I contacted Konami withholding in Japan because I'm developing a new Castlevania. This is what there response was.....
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So for now I'm publishing Castlemania .....
I made touch features to so you have to move platforms and doors by touch . I got 3 level files so far so maybe in about a year I should be all wrapped up.

Nigel mansell [pronounced mansall] was a famous British F1 driver, I remember playing it loads on the mega drive thinking it was so realistic lol

Now I'm not an expert on technical details but these games look a tad better than what I had on SNES back in the day.

Animaniacs Genesis was so good. Loved the bosses too.

I remember the news stations covering the rise of TMNT.
And the fear associated with kids playing in sewer drains.
Just think about the problems in today's parents mind's from our generation.

I have loved Rocket Knight for decades and I'm glad you said "it's that damn good" here!

If Rocket Knight Adventure is the 1992 Aladdin movie, Sparkster is The Return of Jafar. However, it’s still a good game. But Rocket Knight? Great game

man this brings back memories. auto subscribe

Awesome

Konami put out some real hits at the end of the Genesis lifecycle.

Castlevania bloodlines came in the USA in March of 1994

The demand for digitalized graphics after the success of MK was a plague in the 4th generation, with many games being ruined by it (it consumed a great amount of memory and offered poor results outside MK). That being said, I don't think Lethal Enforcers looks so awful as mentioned. It's graphics are not pretty, for sure, but are at least functional, and don't stands in the way of the gameplay, that is what matters in this kind of game, imo.

Great retrospective. Konami was top notch back in the day.

sparkster is only game come close to sonic 2 and 3knucles quality. rocket knigt more like sonic 1. the missleading thing about sparkster you need to beat game hard. 2nd phase of bosses inlucding final boss and 2nd phase of levels missing on normal and easy diffculty. also skipping first intro make to skip robot level which you cant collect all sword to become golden sparkster. people are playing game normal and skipping first part make expeince like sonic 3 without s&k lock on.they missing half of game and claming first rocket knight better. for graphicly sparkster look better. move faster close to sonic fast maybe faster when double flying. instead of sword shot first game you need to be close combat more which feels more knighlty. levels have diffrent parts even trap sections. pyramid level more comlplex then s&c pyramid. the only thing missing on sparkster compared rocket knight and s3&k can be space themed final levels but game final levels absulty close to those. for music ı think bettter than sonic 2music but s3&k music better bcouse more levels more tracks. for us it was better game than sonic 2 in neighboorhood. if you want to trade sparkster with sonic 1 and 2 no one accepted. its 2nd must buy game for system after s3&knlcues number 1. number 3 depatable sonic 1 or rocket knight. its realy shame that sega and nintoro still using sonic and mario but konami forgets about sparkster rocket knight. it can easly be maskot of system or exlusive game today. ı will argue more vaulable brand than mgs or castlevania and slient hill.

Why does every single reviewer refer to Contra Hard Corps as Contra Hard Core? I swear to god every single review calls it Hard Core. It says Contra Hard Corps right on the fucking box! What is wrong with you people?

Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2 is really underrated.

Lethal Enforcers didn't look bad to me.

SNES: Best Castlevania
Genesis: Best Contra

Ohh, I love Tiny Toons Adventure.

It's funny that as a former Capcom fanboy during the 6th generation, that Capcom's games are/were hella cheap during the 4th generation, while Konami's are expensive as hell now.

Now 20 years later (fuck I feel old), Capcom's more niche games from the 6th Generation (Crimsom Tears as an example) are expensive as fuck, while Konami's 6th Gen output is fairly cheap.

I owned rocket knight and really liked bloodlines definitely an underrated title in the castlevania franchise.

I really like this video great work ❤

Konami did at least do right by Sega fans with their exclusives like Rocket Knight Adventures and Castlevania Bloodlines.

Konami's Genesis counterparts for Contra and Castlevania are way better but far more underappreciated or misunderstood sadly. Bloodlines was so satisfying to master/figure out and feel is a true masterpiece. MD has RKA 1-2 SNES only had Sparkster.

Everything that the SNES did the Genesis matched it step for step.
You lose absolutely nothing by choosing the Genesis over the SNES in the 90s.

SunsetRiders on the Genesis was better than on the SNES, exhibit A being the Chief Scalpem level. On the Genesis you actually had american natives with bows and arrows, completely different level design. The Genesis version was full of improvements and little details. As for only having 2 characters, we got Cormano, that's all you need.

Snatcher is litterally blade runner 😂

You do so much gaming, across a number of different system gens with different controllers. Do you suffer from repetitive stress in your hands after all your years gaming? At my age, I'm starting to feel it in my hands. My sessions are getting shorter.

the usa did not get castlevania bloodlines until march/april of 1994

Snacher, good team made that one!

what made it part of this epic journey

I was waiting for gunstar heroes forgetting that it was treasure, basically Konami employees unhinged.