Genesis/Megadrive import scene = lame?
It seems with most systems out of Japan, specifically the NES, SNES, and Turbografx-16, there are quite a few great games that never made it to the US, many of which are playable if you can't read Japanese. But with the Genesis, it seems like every good game for the system made it to the US, and the few that didn't are too language intensive for me to play. I know the Genesis wasn't very popular over there, but am I missing some hidden gems?
Yes... Alien Soldier, Super Fantasy Zone, Panorama Cotton, Snow Bros., Eliminate Down, Gley Lancer, Twinkle Tale, Undeadline, Battle Mania 2, Puzzle & Action, Pulseman, Puyo Puyo Tsuu to name a few.
There are awesome import genny games that never made it to US or PAL:
Vixen 357
Surging Aura
Legend of Heroes 1 and 2
Maten no Soumetsu
King Colossus
Blue Almanac
Rent a Hero
Sorcerian
etc..
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Don't forget the Dragon Ball Z game. It had awesome graphics for it's time and was fun to play too.
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Originally Posted by THE 1 2 P
I'm not sure if I'd be able to enjoy Legend of Heroes or Sorcerean without understanding the language. Maybe with a walkthrough or just by random luck, but I don't think it'd be much fun.
So there are good Japanese Megadrive games that didn't make it here, they're just all very rare and expensive.
Yu Yu Hakusho Makyou Toitsusen (4 Player Multi-Tap Fighter by Treasure)
Puyo Puyo 2 is quite cheap
So is Tanto-R (Puzzle&Action)
and i have Super Fantasy Zone for sale for 25€ as an example.
Some of them, yes. But most can be found quite cheap if you look around a bit.
Some more good ones,
Snake Rattle n Roll and Megapanel
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Sailor moon is a decent beat-emup. Dragonballz is a good fighter, as well as YuYuhakusho. and always Rockman Megaworld(aka Megaman Wily Wars)
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QFT. You covered all the import based, although I'd personally add:
Yu Yu Hakusho Makyo Toitsusen
Slap Fight
Rainbow Islands Extra
Plus there's some PAL games that never came out in the US that are definitely worth getting, eg:
Micro Machines Military
Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament
Mega Man: The Wily Wars
Combat Cars
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Erm, Combat Cars was released over here.
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What's this Rainbow Islands Extra? An enhanced version of the Bubble Bobble sequel?
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Rainbow Islands (Extra version) in arcades was the original RI remixed with new enemy sprites. I believe the songs associated with each island is new too. The new enemies are from other Taito franchises such as Darius and Kiki Kai to name a few. Rainbow Islands Extra on Mega Drive is by default a conversion of the Extra version from arcade and in the options it has the choice for the original/normal game. It's a pretty good game to pick up (pardon the dull colours compared to the original) and from what I hear the FM Towns Marty version was even better overall.
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