 So let's kick off with the first game amazing war or mashing war This is the Genesis, sorry the Genesis version is Mazzing Saga mutant fighter, and I think that's the same in the US And Japan this is the PAL UK version I was lucky enough to pick up at a car boot for I think I paid I think it was 15 quid So I've never heard of it before somebody recommended it They reckon it's really good They did point out though that it can be quite difficult for the end-level bosses So I'm looking forward to this Let's get this show started. Let's start to look at the options quickly Let's stick to normal especially if it is hard I won't have the sound too high because the music is a bit annoying Would have been great if it's 8 bit but for 16 bit Saga Mega Drive Genesis. You expect a bit more So round one Tokyo So this game came out in 1993. Ah, this is all right. Look at this. So this is the first time I've actually played it I've determined not to load it up Until I until I did this video That's a nice little kick initial thoughts initial impressions reminds me a little bit of Teenage Mutant Hero or Ninja Turtles With smaller sprites, but the graphics animation and Definitely pleasing to the heart to the eye Impressed so far nice Oh Very good that gold there wasn't expecting that Where's my tow giant bloody foot? Where's the rest of the bloody body I'm not gonna lie to you. I'd have been impressed In 1993 when this came out if I'd have played it back then. Oh, I think I got him Yeah And we move ever forward So basically I'm Robo cop with the sword. Oh, look at that nice little spin there Not quite sure how I pulled that off. Let's try again. This looks lovely Very post-apocalyptic. However the fuck you say it. I'm terrible at multitasking. I can't play and talk at the same time awful oops The place is completely totaled. It's been wrecked beyond belief Aliens there Well, they're all aliens, but those are the ones from the actual movie from the looks of it so far so good I'm really enjoying this. I Love the atmosphere of the game. I love the graphics. Apparently it's based on a Manga cartoon or something. Oh you bastard get that gold or whatever it is food Bit of a nasty section this Yay Take that backdrops are brilliant absolutely fantastic looking just got a bit of energy back there and then lost it Sods look these bloody things are doing my head in So yeah, it's a little bit like streets of rage not the second one the first one off we go again Yeah, they've put a lot a lot of effort a lot of time into this game Imagine the further you go on The more everything's been destroyed I'm sort of massive alien attack So far so good though. I wasn't expecting this. I didn't think it would be this good It's got a few problems. I think For starters, I couldn't see it. I couldn't see a two-player option And this is one of those games where it would really benefit from two players The sprites although they're detailed. They're quite small. I Like my sprites to fill the screen, but there's good use of color Everything zips along. It's smooth. I like the flying kick and the and the throw move and There's a special move as well. I haven't used yet But I'll show you now when there was get a few enemies on the screen Can't seem to pull it off. I don't know why let's get that energy Are you bugger? It's coming up behind me and it's bloody sneaking up like that When they do the flying kicks, they always seem to get the drop on you. Nice. Look at this. Are you Not concentrating. I come at you really quickly there You've got to jump on them and kick them. I was at the top of the screen and he still got me. What? It's only gonna put me back at the start of the level That sucks a bit. I don't like my games too easy If I want to play easy games, I'll play on the ps4 or the Nintendo switch And I'm not joking. I've completed every game I've ever played on the ps4 and I've also Completed every game I've ever played on the Nintendo switch honestly Some games take 30 40 50 60 hours But you if you stick with it, you'll get through it. You'll get through it in the end Where these older games there are some games on the Sega Mega Drive And the SNES that I still haven't completed I Bought them years ago I've played Hours and hours and hours and I still haven't completed them because they're that difficult two of those games are The super Empire Strikes Back on the SNES Super return of the Jedi I've beat the original Super Star Wars a beating. Sorry and On the Sega Mega Drive, I think the game's called Alien Storm I've not completed that one But there's a ton. There's a ton of them So that just says something about modern gaming doesn't it really? It's more like playing a movie Today on the ps4 there are some fantastic games are uncharted The last of us to Demon souls, I think it's called so there are still a lot of games a lot of good games and they are difficult. It's just that You you will complete them I Like some of these games Could be really quick and get much reaction time You almost have to I didn't even touch him Just had to guess that it was there. Oh For goodness sake Yes, come on. Come on. He's had me. Oh God. This is embarrassing I'm just gonna guess it's coming that way That was a complete guess Hardly any time to react It's just no way just shit at this. I am at the moment. Oh Well, I'm not gonna continue on that. This is what I'm going to persevere with and come back to But yeah I've really enjoyed it so far So let me know what you think is this one that you've played back in the day. Is this one you enjoyed? And are there any other similar games like that? That's you recommend as well On with the next This is another game that's been recommended by a friend I originally saw this game on the Amstrad GX 4000 and I believe it was called Panzer kickboxing I think there was another version as well called best of the best But I don't think there was any difference In the two titles other than the name So let's give this one a go I've already changed the the face there. You can you can change the look. Let's go for that one I've looked at the physical type, so let's just go straight in for a match Get this show on the road last man standing very very Good intro there good that you've got a referee as well. Oh Yes, come on Just gotta be aggressive. I think I like the moves. Oh, did you see that? He went underneath and then got another body shot Although he seems to be winning. Oh, he might have won that round. I think he's got three Three lights. I've only got two around to really good so far enjoying this Whoa, did you see that knocked him right back knock the wind completely out of his sails Don't seem to be having much success with that kick Come on block block. Oh nice back in there. That's it knocking back Come on round three I survived. I was definitely out for the count there Woken up by a hot blonde seemed to be getting some success there. Come on Come on. Got me with a bloody axe kick. Oh the bugger Come on. Oh, that's He's not getting up. He's not getting up from this one really good game I'm coming back to this one. I'm gonna persevere Yeah, unfortunately, I lost that one. Oh god Feel quite useless, but I'm gonna come back to that one. It's really good. I like all the different moves that you've got There's a lot of there seems to be three defensive moves as well So, yeah, really good. I enjoy that Shame I missed that one back in the day Anyway on to the next So I'm told X-Men 2 Clone Wars is an absolute gem. I completely miss this one again back in the day Let's get in and have a have a good look 1995 game. Oh that was quick. Oh god what we're doing Already lost half of my energy more than half. What is it a bit of a shinobi clone or I get up there? Must be away No, you can't Plays a bit like shinobi. Oh Look at this. I Think shinobi 3 allows you to do this where you stick to the wall. Oh, that's it. I say you get in So far all little bit of strider there How'd you get him? Oh, yeah, I like this this. Oh bugger. Yeah, I really like this Oh, you've got to kind of get there. You've got to jump that one jump there and kind of jump now, I think Neely Maybe maybe not. Oh, what's that? Oh, what was that so far so good? Oh Hopefully that's some sort of energy, you know another game. I completely missed. Oh, let's choose somebody else There we go. Hopefully I can continue. Yeah, I like this firing at the eyes. Oh My god, it's tough though. You got to get used to the controls. They're a bit weird Wolverine Wolverine Let's go Getting my house kicked. How do I get out of here? So far this game is brilliant. It's gonna take me some getting used to but It's doing everything right everything that I like in a game Completely miss this one back in the day completely missed it unbelievable Let's give somebody else a go. It's a good selection of characters. This guy seems Tough quite tough. Oh, he sticks on the walls as well. Oh I didn't need to go down there. I've already been down there balls that up Makes you go back to the the start Bit disappointing that you okay, you can continue But it's disappointing that you only get the one one life before doing so Try this guy then to have a weapon you can get a bit further this time. Oh What do people think of this game? Is it is it one you played as a kid? Back in the day Bloody tough So, you know, what would you give this one out of ten? I'm gonna need lots of practice at this I'm absolutely stinking at it So we'll leave it there. That is definitely in my mind I'm not sure about anybody else but that for me. I've never played on the Sega Mega Drive before so definitely for me a good find a hidden gem and This one didn't even come recommended. I was just scrolling through Some Sega Mega Drive games and noticed it and thought bloody hell Didn't even know that came out so on that bombshell, let's move on to the next this next one is Panorama cotton never heard of it before certainly never played it I found this one just by going through Like a Japanese collection of Sega Mega Drives So I say the Mega Drive Genesis games in a local video game shop about Two weeks ago and thought wow I need to cover this it reminds me a little bit of Star Fox Slash Space Harrier Let me show you it's by Sunsoft and it's and it was made in 1994 This game features lots of color. I think it probably even pushes the Mega Drive Genesis nice little intro there. Let's start Let's have a quick look at the options actually, so I'm not done that yet So select the original score attack. Let's go for that level normal easy Let's just go for normal I like reverse She's known as invert to some people these days start so completely in Japanese although if you've got a Retron 5 There's a patch where you can play it in English and I just happen to have one But that's for another video another episode This is stressful enough Here we go, and then straight away you can see What I mean about space harrier Racing into the screen Now I have had a quick go at this before only one mind and It does start off a little bit slow, but then by the second level if I make it It ramps up a little bit and the course Appears to be a little bit interactive where there's options to sway off in another direction either Down or or the controls are tight You can pretty much aim and hit the target. There's no guessing Getting through these little bridges reminds me of the star fox bit you can't call that mode seven, but Initial thoughts is is it using something near? But I don't think it is. I'm not sure the Sega Mega Drive is capable of such Feet you got to get that there try and get that bonus You know just pop those whatever they are so he's quite accurate you can And there's a but there's a bonus that there's a weapon that you can press by clicking on the far left far right button In fact try and go for that tunnel pickups Just seem to be following this fairy or whatever it is In the distance there, but there's I don't you don't seem to be able to interact with it but I've never seen this before and It's alright. It's good And so has anybody else seen it has anybody else owned it back in the day? I Certainly, I think it's Japanese only So unless you had it on import But we all had games on import back in the 90s. I remember getting the Cartridge that allowed you to play allows you to play in ports. So I thought everybody You know would have had those But no I never came across this So following some sort of rainbow river that then turns into a waterfall You'll see So this one's about trying to get through the levels where the other mode is about trying to get the highest score you can But it's absolutely brilliant. It's easily as good if not better than space Harrier 2 on the Sega Mega Drive I mean goodness me thinking back. I had some amazing games on the Sega Mega Drive There we go. Look the waterfall here. I thought that was quite a good Nice little graphical effect And as he gets closer and you go through it and now this is where it ramps up You've got to try and you've got to try and see you can go down But I haven't worked out how you do it yet Maybe it just drops here and that's when you can that's it there you go down So that's a nice little extra added dynamic that you you didn't get in space Harrier going above and below the levels Fire a big tour one of my special moves there And again, but yeah, it's good. It's very challenging And if I'd have selected the hard difficulty, I think I'd have been screwed now But yeah, I had fantastic games if I think about it going back Golden axe that was a fantastic conversion to the Sega Mega Drive Pretty much identical to the arcade if you ask me Altered beast. I know it's got I know there's people out there that aren't fans But for me, so let's go back up now But for but for me. I thought that was a brilliant game Stridor what a game that was I mean Is there a better game on the Sega Mega Drive than that? I'm not entirely sure how it's aged these days, but I Reckon if I played it, it wouldn't take much to get back into it, and I think I'd enjoy it as well I Loads of other games games. I just can't even remember half the time Alien storm that was the other one, and then there's another there's another game alien something that's really difficult Alien soldier probably and that was immense then there's all the games like truck stern and Musher that were fantastic as well. In fact, it was probably the ultimate 16-bit console or a PC engine owners might counter that argument for shoot-em-ups And then I think with the Sega Mega CD it took it up another notch as well with I can never remember the bloody name of it where you're racing into you're going into into the screen in 3d on this on the Sega Mega CD Can't remember the name of it for the life of me, but that was a good shoot-em-up as well gave a good 3d perspective But this is bloody good. I'm enjoying it There's lots of different elements to the levels we go. He's pushing us into something else now It's obviously based on some sort of manga cartoon There we go must be end-of-level boss now lots of things you can seem to be able to collect Giant cake or something coming towards me. There we go fire Level down it's saying I'll try not to keep this one too long because I realize people have got lives Places to be things to see Yeah, I mean this is an absolute cracker if you've never heard of this Wow if this video only reaches one person and You get to play this game, and I've never played it before then job done. That's all I care about There we go got him completely smashed him Look at the graphics. It's really good loads of color nice detailed sprites I Think I've got to collect those actually there's me trying to shoot them Yeah, I could say it's the first time I've properly played this game And it's definitely one I'm gonna come back to and try and complete It's just fun. I can't ask for any more than that and hot manga babes Again, it's slightly different When you see stuff like this you think to yourself wipe out could have been possible from Psygnosis on the Mega Drive And little things like this you can just imagine this your little ship racing along Right, I'll leave it there. Otherwise it's gonna go on and on and on Because you can you can continue so On to the next video. Hope you enjoyed that So welcome to this next game predator 2 So as you can see it's getting a bit dark now, so I'll put me fleece on to keep me warm So then I played predator 2 on the Amstrad CPC Probably on the C64 and the ZX Spectrum back in the day and It was a operation wolf style from left to right right to left you know cross their shoot them up and It was awful. It was so slow It was just the most awful game and I think for the Amstrad version I paid about 10 pound So I think I even saw this back in the day on the Mega Drive And I and I thought because of how bad it was on the other systems I played it on that it would be rubbish, so I didn't bother Big mistake Absolute big mistake because this is an absolute brilliant game It borrows some other genres for instance. It feels a little bit like smash TV at times Robots run if you like It feels a little bit like Obviously you can strafe left and right by holding the fire down So that's a bit of a doom element obviously before probably doom was even on the scene and It's just out and out of fun. It's fast paced Anyway, let me show you. Let's click start So if you haven't played this It's I think it will be a nice little surprise if you have played it Then it might be a good excuse to go back in that you've forgotten about so level one the streets Rescue nine hostages. Let's go You can't kill the hostages by shooting them. So don't worry about that But it's this is it's basically a shooter. I Pick up some really good weapons Change that. Let's go back. Let's go to that one Yeah, and so you're just basically shooting collecting the hostages and There's nothing wrong with that Good old arcade fun and you can see, you know, why I mentioned smash TV because if that sort of thing The difference being that there's the scrolling Multidirectional scroll I'll pick up the things if they're easy to get to but I'm not gonna go out of my life and die No, the hostages there. I don't know if these enemies when you kill them. They just spawn back See they just seem to have come from nowhere and this guy in the taxi is a pain There we go. I've got it. I didn't think I'd do that. I do wish there was more Variety in the weapon and there probably is I mean I've just changed that one to what looked like something a bit beefier and Yes, the bullets are beefier Yeah, the bullets are beefier but Maybe just a little bit more Just for that effect try and get rid of this guy in the taxi Difficult because he fires at you really quickly Right. He's gone. It's gone. So there we go Let's rescue him. So that's it. I think I've got all the hostages and there we go to the next level So I just have a quick look and you know not keep you too long because Too many spoilers for you might want to play it on the rooftops now a helicopter grenade grenade I think it reminds me a little bit also of Rambo 3 on The on the Megadrive, which I think personally was a great game. So what am I doing? Oh, yeah, go down that way. Oh look the Predac is there So you're getting like a little bit of a glimpse as you're starting off at the beginning You're fighting the gangs and you're getting like a bit of an inkling that something's not right because all of a sudden you saw these Three dots coming towards you Anyway, we'll leave it there That's my five games what I consider to be Hidden gems really one, I've never played them before and Two Although some of them don't look great It's the playability. I believe in the cold light of day at the end of it that matters the most And those five games there that I've just mentioned have it in abundance So please if you like this video, don't forget to subscribe comment and Until next time see ya