How popular is the Genesis these days?

[Koa Zo]

ugh, this is also severely under painting the breadth of titles/genres the Genesis saw. even arcade style stuff like Strider, Streets of Rage, or run-n-gun like Rolling Thunder 2 fit your criteria on length, but make up for it with challenge as they're meant to be replayed/mastered, no idea why that's a negative here but if you want to pretend they were all like a rushed launch title...okay, i guess?

Yeah his referencing Altered Beast, which was a "free" pack-in game, is entirely narrow sighted.
My early library consisted on Herzog Zwei, Populous, Thunder Force III, Phantasy Star II, Revenge of Shinobi, Ghouls And Ghosts, and a few others like Mystic Defender, Castle of Illusion....
tell me you're beating them in 20 minutes and there's no replay value...

So many of the games were terrible or had about 60 minutes of play value attached (ahem, Altered Beast), but looked so cool, and the fact that one could finish the game in about 20 minutes with about zero reason to play through again didn't matter.

What?

Gleylancer maybe and verytex

and Slap Fight, and Crusader of Centy, and Snow Bros, and Panorama Cotton.
The original comment suggested there are "lots of" Mega Drive games "consistently selling" in the $400-500 range.
That isn't happening.