- 1 Sonic and Knuckles & Sonic
- 2 Sonic the Hedgehog
- 3 Dragon Ball Z
- 4 Streets of Rage 2
- 5 Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- 6 Castlevania - Bloodlines
- 7 X-Men 2 - Clone Wars
- 8 Golden Axe II
- 9 Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- 10 Aladdin

HARDWARE REVIEW
Before  the  legendary  Super Nintendo  appeared, there  was the Sega Genesis, the one system that almost toppled Nintendo. The Genesis came out when  the NES was starting to go out of popularity, and more and more people began to gain interest in the Genesis. The Genesis was  superior  to the  NES in seemingly  every way,  which was  the main reason people were buying IT instead of Nintendo's aging console. Everything  appeared  to  b e going  Sega's  way,  until  Nintendo  unleashed  their 1 6-bit  secret  weapon:  The  Super Nintendo. The Super Nintendo  was  more  advanced  than  the Genesis in every aspect, and crushed it on the open market. Sega continued making games for a few more years, but eventually, it just couldn't keep up with the success of the SNES. Bad marketing was also key to Sega's downfall. While Nintendo was making bestselling games like Mario and Zelda, Sega was mostly making horrible sports titles that no one wanted to play. However,  that's  not say that the Sega Genesis is a bad system. Far from it. Here's why. Games 9/10: Despite what I said earlier, Sega did have  some pretty  good games. They just weren't very good when it came to sports games, but neither was Nintendo at the time. I guess I'll just shut  up now  and  list  the  types  of  games  the Genesis  had. Game  Genres: Action/Adventure  10/10: Like the SNES, this was the Genesis's  strong  point. With  many, many successful action and adventure games under its belt, it's surprising that the Genesis went out popularity with the gaming world so quickly. Here are some of the most memorable action/adventure titles for the Sega Genesis: Sonic the Hedgehog  1,  2, and 3, Jurassic Park,  Shinobi 3. RPG's 10/10:  Genesis didn't have  too many  RPGs, but  some  of the  ones  they did  have became  so popular, that they were remade on some of the ''next generation'' consoles. The most obvious of these was Phantasy Star, now on the Gamecube. But anyway, here are some of the more well known RPGs: Phantasy Star 1, 2, 3, and 4, Super Hydlide, and Dragon Slayer 1 and 2. Racing 7/10:  Like most systems of its day, Genesis wasn't great when it came to racing games. The graphical capabilities weren't really suited towards  games of  that genre. Not all were bad though. Here is a list of the few good racing games on the Genesis: Road Rash 1, 2, and 3,  Super  Hang  On, and Top Gear 2. Flight Simulators 7/10: The SNES definitely had the upper hand in this department with their Super FX chip. Even so, Sega  had  managed  to  scrap  together some pretty decent flight sim games. They weren't great, but then again, they  weren't  awful  either.  Here's  a list: MiG-29 Fulcrum, F-22 Interceptor, and F-15 Strike Eagle 2. Puzzle 10/10: The Genesis had some very  good  puzzle  titles  on  it. Some  of  them  were based off of hit game shows, others off of popular board games, and still, others that were  based  off  of  who  knows what.  Here's a list  of Sega's puzzle games: Jeopardy, Monopoly, and Lemmings. Fighting 10/10: What was strange  about  Sega wa s that  their  fighting  games  looked  exactly  like they  did in  the arcade. That's not really a bad thing, but other companies like Nintendo always improved the graphics and sound qualities on a game that they were  porting from the arcade to the SNES. Oh well, it's no big deal. Sega had some great fighting titles that were ported from arcade  games. And here's a list of them: Street Fighter 2, Primal Rage, and the doomed title Shaq Fu. Sports  1/10: Bad  graphics,  bad  sound,  bad  everything. Sega's sports titles were the very things that led to their downfall. Instead of trying to develop some great action games that would hopefully bring all the attention back to Sega instead of Nintendo, Sega made a whole bunch of crappy sports titles  that  no  one wanted to play. Besides the fact that nobody was interested in these games, Sega should have noticed that the Genesis simply didn't have the power to make a GOOD sports game. But they went along with it anyway, and  the  Genesis  got  annihilated by the SNES on the open market. Here are some of the terrible titles that no one  in  their right  mind would ever want to play: Madden NFL '94 - '98, NBA Live '95 - '98, and FIFA Soccer. Graphics 9/10: At the time the Sega Genesis came out, everyone was amazed at how great the graphics were. 16-bit graphics were some high quality stuff back then. When  the  SNES  came  out, we  could  see that although the Genesis's graphical capabilities were very good, they couldn't compare to the sheer power of  the  SNES. But  still  if  you  look at them, the Genesis's graphics weren't much worse than the SNES's. They just didn't have enough colors in them, and  they were slightly more blocky than the SNES as well. Sound 10/10: The Genesis, in some ways had even better sound qualities than the SNES. The Genesis, unlike the SNES, made good use of voice clips, a thing I rarely hear in Super Nintendo games. The  Genesis's  sound  processor  worked  wonderfully,  producing  clean, clear  music  and  sound  effects.  Sega  really  outdid itself in this catergory. Durability 10/10: Like the Super Nintendo, the Genesis was built to last. It's older than the SNES, and it still works just fine. Controls 9/10: From  what  I  know  Sega  made  a  number  of  different controllers, but I'm going to rate the controls on the three button controller, since that's the type I own, and the type I have the most experience with. The controls can be a bit frustrating at times. They seem to be a bit slow at times, but other than that, they seem to work allright. I can only assume that the 6-button controllers are just as good or  better.  Well, there  you  have  it. The  Sega Genesis. The one console that came the closest to beating out Nintendo. But like the Cleveland Browns and the SuperBowl, it  just  couldn't do it. Here's a little advice, buy this great system at the first chance you get. If you don't you'll probably regret it for the rest of your life.