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Bucket List - Genesis Edition
Apr. 12th, 2015 11:41 amI'm proceeding with these lists in the order of my personally owning the systems, for future reference. But before my self-serving list extravaganza continues, last issue's honorable mentions from the NES days:
Adventures of Bayou Billy was only an average game, but the difficulty was way over the top and I was soooo close. Dragon Power was, as I often wax nostalgic if the topic ever comes up, my first(unknowing)exposure to Dragon Ball, and the game drew me in quite a bit even though I never got around to seeking it out. Dragon Warrior IV is of course my next target after III is done. Battletoads, well, because Battletoads. Karnov, Rygar, and Willow round out the runners up as 3 action games that got good reviews but were missed by me due to not having a job yet. Now then, the Sega Genesis, the beginning of my life long love affair with Sega franchises.
1)Castlevania: Bloodlines - I'm actually not sure whether I ever finished this game or not, but it belongs in any CV fan's library, so that's close enough for me.
2)Contra: Hard Corps - I know damn well I never finished this one, since it more than lived up to its title. I may have gotten one of the several endings at one point, but I never felt satisfied that I'd really conquered the game.
3)Ghouls and Ghosts - This was one of the games that got me really hyped to owning a Genesis, and somehow I totally whiffed on sitting down with it. One day...
4)Phantasy Star II - I have been sleeping on this acclaimed RPG series for nearly 30 years. I was a massive fan of PSO and even in the limited fashion of that game's storytelling I was totally sucked in to the series lore by it. It is probably the biggest target on my Genesis radar.
5)Thunder Force II - At a time when I was actually pretty good at Shmups, this was another game that was highly touted and made me want to own a Genesis, but I landed Thunder Force III instead(possibly my all-time favorite of the genre).
Adventures of Bayou Billy was only an average game, but the difficulty was way over the top and I was soooo close. Dragon Power was, as I often wax nostalgic if the topic ever comes up, my first(unknowing)exposure to Dragon Ball, and the game drew me in quite a bit even though I never got around to seeking it out. Dragon Warrior IV is of course my next target after III is done. Battletoads, well, because Battletoads. Karnov, Rygar, and Willow round out the runners up as 3 action games that got good reviews but were missed by me due to not having a job yet. Now then, the Sega Genesis, the beginning of my life long love affair with Sega franchises.
1)Castlevania: Bloodlines - I'm actually not sure whether I ever finished this game or not, but it belongs in any CV fan's library, so that's close enough for me.
2)Contra: Hard Corps - I know damn well I never finished this one, since it more than lived up to its title. I may have gotten one of the several endings at one point, but I never felt satisfied that I'd really conquered the game.
3)Ghouls and Ghosts - This was one of the games that got me really hyped to owning a Genesis, and somehow I totally whiffed on sitting down with it. One day...
4)Phantasy Star II - I have been sleeping on this acclaimed RPG series for nearly 30 years. I was a massive fan of PSO and even in the limited fashion of that game's storytelling I was totally sucked in to the series lore by it. It is probably the biggest target on my Genesis radar.
5)Thunder Force II - At a time when I was actually pretty good at Shmups, this was another game that was highly touted and made me want to own a Genesis, but I landed Thunder Force III instead(possibly my all-time favorite of the genre).
