A list of games I've either played and loved in the past or would be willing to try if I had the opportunity.
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Quite possibly the best game ever created (for Sega Genesis, at least), this adventure has you chop down grass to get coins, collect and team up with animals, and use their special powers in strategic ways to defeat the bosses.
The Phantasy Star franchise has continued in ways I don't like, but none of that can take away from the pure joy of what's possibly the best RPG ever created: Phantasy Star IV. I also enjoyed Phantasy Star I through III to varying degrees. The multi-generational branching game Phantasy Star III is highly underrated.
My favorite game in the franchise is "Shining Force II." Along with Crusader of Centy and Phantasy Star IV, it ranks among the very best of the Sega Genesis games I played back in the day.
There are apparently five games across multiple platforms, but I think the best one might be "Ecco: The Tides of Time" a.k.a. Ecco II. It's like the first game, but with more story. Almost nothing can beat playing a dolphin in a video game.
Here's the granddaddy of them all: the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. No Sega Genesis list would be complete without it. Sonic 1-Sonic 3, plus Sonic & Knuckles, were the best, but I've played other Sonic games, both in the Genesis era and beyond.
Here's one where you play as a pony that you customize yourself! It was fun to play with colors then have that pony run around, I honestly don't remember much about the gameplay, but it was worth a rental for the custom ponies.
This character is linked to eight games on GiantBomb, but I only remember the Sega Genesis game. Perhaps the others are re-releases. I played a LOT of platformers back in the day -- they were easy to pick up and put down quickly. Ristar had to be the best, even though I probably put more hours into Bubsy games.
There were a few different games, as I recall. There were a lot of different features and power-ups for Bubsy.
Unapologetically a '90s mascot, I still had fun playing his games because he was a cheetah. Not sure Cool Spot could compete.
Aero the Acro-Bat may very well be my first Sega Genesis game rental from the local library. Had I started with the A's?? In any case, these were fun games, but kind of frustrating, too. Perhaps I was too young to fully appreciate them.