Shining in the Darkness

Shining in the Darkness

Developer: Climax     Publisher: Sega     Released: 1991     Genre: RPG Shining in the Darkness was one of the first dungeon crawlers I ever experienced. While the genre was ubiquitous on the PC they were rare on consoles. Phantasy Star gave me my...
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Christmas Nights into Dreams

Christmas Nights into Dreams

Developer: Sonic Team     Publisher: Sega     Released: 12/12/96    Genre: Action In spite of their rocky history at times Sega has always cared about its fans. When the Genesis took off in the US Sega of America were extremely aggressive about...
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Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar

Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar

Developer Technosoft    Publisher: Sega    Released: 1992    Genre: Shooter Someday we will learn why Sega renamed Thunder Force IV to Lightening Force. Silly name change aside, if you are even a slight fan of the shooter genre you need to buy...
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Turbo Outrun

Turbo Outrun

Developer: Tiertex    Publisher: Sega     Released: 1992    Genre: Racing Outrun was a formative racing game for me. I played the console version first and had my mind suitably blown when I saw the arcade game. But more than its...
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Daytona USA

Daytona USA

Developer: Sega AM2     Publisher: Sega     Released: 1995     Genre: Racing Daytona USA in the arcades was a revolutionary title for a number of reasons.  With its slick texture mapped graphics and 60 fps it was like nothing we had seen before,.....
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The Adventures of Batman & Robin

The Adventures of Batman & Robin

Developer: Clockwork Tortoise    Publisher: Sega    Released: 05/95    Genre: Action In the history of the video game industry there have been far too many games that try to skate by on their technical merits to distract from their lackluster gameplay...
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Sword of Vermilion

Sword of Vermilion

Developer: Sega AM2     Publisher: Sega     Released: 1990     Genre: RPG Role playing games usually do not show up early in console’s life. They take longer to develop than your typical action game or shooter so require more time. Let’s be...
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Fantasy Zone

Fantasy Zone

Developer: Bits Laboratory    Publisher: NEC    Released: 1989     Genre:: Shooter I’ve loved most of Sega’s major arcade games dating back to the late 80s but the two that I have the least attachment to are Hang-On and Fantasy Zone....
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Maken X

Maken X

Developer: Atlus    Publisher: Sega    Released: 04/26/00   Genre: Action For many years the first person view was only used for shooters and adventure games. It is easy to see why: games like Doom and Quake with their twitch action and...
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Shinobi Legions

Shinobi Legions

Developer: Sega     Publisher: Vik Tokai     Released: 1995     Genre: Action Shinobi III is one of the greatest action games of the 16-bit era. Sega practically mastered the genre with that game and even to this day I still revisit it often....
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