Like with Earthworm Jim but even more so, the 2nd title in the Aero the Acro-Bat series is better than the first. And just like with Flashback, the frustrating gameplay aka: you will die A LOT somehow intrigues me to want to keep coming back to figure things out and see where this story is going and thank god for being able to check Youtube for play-thru examples on what to do next, because this game will have you getting stuck often, way more than Flashback.
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Look, Super Monkey Ball shouldn't work. It's a ridiculous concept. It's about a monkey, trapped in a hamster ball, across a selection of platforms to reach a goal.
It's a bit mad. Although originally released in the arcades, its the GameCube version, released in , that really made the series as popular as it is. Best fact: The Western and Japanese releases have slightly different storylines - the Japanese version of which is really, really complicated. You can read it in full here. If we told you we'd played an awesome game about a dolphin that was given a quest to travel back in time using a machine built by the Atlanteans in order to restore order to the ocean, you'd probably ask us to move to another seat on the bus.
Yet it's this ridiculous story, but the inventive game scenarios that spring from it made Ecco one of the most enjoyable games of the Mega Drive. And that final boss fight against something out of Alien still haunts us. Best fact: The game's designer Ed Annunziata was so worried about kids being able to rent the game and beat it in a weekend that he purposefully made it harder than it needed to be.
The bastard. Set around the story arc of the hit TV series, Clone Wars saw you battle an alien race called the Phalanx who wanted to control the Earth with clones. Only Beast, Psylocke, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Wolverine and Cyclops have avoided capture, uniting with their old foe Magneto in a bid to take down the likes of Apocalypse, the Sentinels, Exodus and Deathbird.
It was brilliant. Best fact: The game started with what's known as a "cold open" sequence, where you were assigned a random character and no instructions as to what was going on. It stuck in our minds as a bonkers way to drop you into a game, and we loved it.
Gamers were initially confused by the crash-landing of this unlikely alien duo, with poor sales threatening to bury this slice of creative genius. Part comic satire, part adventure game, the jazz-funk soundtrack and comedy helped the game gain a cult-cool status via word of mouth. There was a brilliant co-op mode that saw ToeJam and Earl hunt for parts of their downed ship amidst gangs of angry nerds, man-eating letter boxes and hot tubs of hot babes.
It was really weird, and we loved it. Best fact: Sega didn't think the Mega Drive would be able to support the game's randomly-generated level design, threatening to axe the game altogether. The tiny development team at Johnson Voorsanger Productions managed to prove them wrong, and created the sleeper-hit title of the console. The bounce of the ball. The roar of the crowd. The spittle of the whistle.
When Sensi lined up on Mega Drive consoles in March , it was a footballing triumph: none could match its 60 frames per second animations, the pitch-wide view and customisable teams. We're going to stick out our necks and say Hard Corps is the pinnacle of the Contra series, such was the frequency of its lavish boss battles, animated in stunning style. The multi-path choice system also blew our nineties minds. Best fact: See that wolf guy in the screen shot? He's called Brad Fang - a cyborg with a gatling gun for an arm.
He is the best video game character ever. Ways to play: Mega Drive Mini. Long before Dead Island or Dead Rising had us running amok with a spade amidst a sea of brain nibblers, this gem of a game had us fleeing for our lives. As either Zeke and Julie, players were tasked with saving their neighbours from the undead, using weapons that ranged from tomatoes to bazookas.
There were 55 levels, with an impressive array of strategies for taking out the zombies. If a Mega Drive game deserved a remake, this would get our vote. Best fact: In , word swept the darker corners of the web that a film adaptation was in the works, with screenwriter John Darko Insidious linked to the project.
It's still yet to reach production. A platforming hero who never got the same level of fame as Mario or Sonic, Sparkster was a rocketeering opossum it's a marsupial, look it up , who must destroy a powerful ship known as the Pig Star, and its evil emperor intent on destroying the kingdom.
Sort of like Star Wars, but with animals. Best fact: Despite Rocket Knight Adventures gaining high praise from critics - with many drawing comparisons to Sega's famed hedgehog - the game and its two sequels never found mainstream success.
If you're a keen retro gamer with an interest in platformers, we urge you to dig up this lost gem. No, they never worked out how to spell 'fantasy', but that didn't stop this JRPG the J stands for Japan from being any less excellent. A turn-based battler, the story took place on the once-lush world of Motavia, now crumbling and filled with biomonsters.
As Chaz Ashley, you set out to kill bugs, build a team of badasses and take down the sinister character known as Zio. It was massive, with a storyline that meandered all over the place in satisfying style. You can find it on Steam even now. The Mega Drive was spoilt for platform titles; while Sonic stood out as a console-shifting triumph, there were many other fine examples of "jumping on things and running about a lot", like Kid Chameleon.
As the titular hero, you went about in search of flags - often running into teleporters that could sling you into different levels, forcing you to find a new path through the game. Masks would give you different powers and abilities to take on increasingly difficult foe hence the 'Chameleon' title. Best fact: Wish you could relive this nineties classic? It's available on PC for 79p. The only excuse you have for not having played Battletoads is being born after it was originally a NES game, before receiving a superb Mega Drive port in The scrolling brawler adventure starred three battle-hardened toads Rash, Zitz, and Pimple , tasked with rescuing Princess Angelica after she's kidnapped by the Dark Queen.
The game was hard as nails, with the Mega Drive version proving only a smidgen easier due to players getting a larger number of lives - which made the hoverbike sequence of the game nearly manageable.
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