A test of memory for myself. Partly about which games I played, partly about now where did I put that? This isn't a list of games I've only owned for the exclusive fact that my childhood was spent living a block away from a game rental store. My weekly allowance of 5 bucks never got saved for a new title, as I didn't know anybody who played games to talk about with anyway to where it would be big thing. Instead, 5 bucks got me 5 games for 5 days, or if I snuck a couple bucks out of my mom's purse, 7 for 7 for 7! I'll make note of where I owned the Genesis games if I can recall.
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Honest to god my first game I ever owned. I could never get past one of the very very early stages of the game, and usually only played the combat stages.
Owned this! With the goddamn red cartridge no less! Still an awesome game, though my first grip of completionism took hold and led me to madness. I acquired the strategy guide to happily find that except for a few little things I had found almost everything myself! But wait, there's a Statue of Liberty Level!? How!? I feverishly read through, and whether the strategy guide was unclear or if I just didn't grasp that the cutscene could be interacted with, I never figured out that you needed to press buttons while the cutscene of Venom being tortured was occuring, and so sat perplexed many nights working my way all the way to that section only to not get the hidden level.
Swapping over to the Game Gear section despite starting with Genesis. Fewer games, easier to look through and remember (and owned) them all. I would play this everywhere, and never ever could beat Goro at the tender age of 8. Finally one afternoon where I hadn't slept at all the night before, waiting for my mom to get off work so we can head home, I beat Goro! Then Shang Tsung shows up and throws all kinds of shit at me, leaving me speechless as I realized I was going to lose, and that I would never beat Goro ever again.
I actually had this on the Game Gear! Lugging that handheld on road trips from Louisiana to Georgia was a ten pound affair. 2 pounds or so of the Game Gear, my handful of games, then HEAPS of batteries pre-organized into groups of six.
Oh my god this Game Gear game was my sole companion for a long, long time as I would sit in my room until way into the morning memorizing the enemies entrance points during the jeep levels, feverishly mashing away at those buttons. I still never understood why Brontosaurus would bite at you though.
The Lizard in this game is a fucking DICK! Game Gear yo.
You know, I can't ever remember which system I actually had this for. I think Game Gear? Either way I know I played both at one point, and found them both strange, annoying, and lacking in the fun department. (Where now it's usually just the handheld version am I right? Boom!)
The sound in this game is absolutely amazing. If you're familiar with the Game Gear games that had the really quick "SEGA!" shout at the beginning, and how static filled and garbled it was, then imagine that sound applied to every single umpire call. The music is actually really enjoyable, though if that's simply some type of Stockholm Syndrome from the hold this game had on me I couldn't tell you.
It took me a bit to reconcile the three different X-Men Sega games I had played, but I believe I've got it down now. This one I believe I had on the Genesis. Not too shabby, but not a lot I remember aside from Nightcrawler having his badass teleportation.
This I also had on the Genesis and was I think the first time that I bought a sequel to a game (though how much it is an actual sequel is probably up for debate). I remember this game absolutely blowing me away after playing the first game. Still hold fond memories for it though I'm sure, like most games at the time, I never beat it. Also I LOVED the cold start to this game. Fire it up and just BAM, here's a random X-man and a badass snow level, GO!