History of your Genesis and Genesis Games

[Novaka]

Speak about those moments way back whenever to when you first got this 'master' system!


Well first i must say i first saw a genesis in 1997 ( i was four) My older bro and sis we're playing Sonic 3 co-op. I was facinated by video games and wanted one! (i did not know of other system at that point.)


Later (oh say 2000?) my brother left the house and he left me with his Sega Genesis!! i was thrilled (at the moment he had Sonic 3 Sonic 2 royal Rumble Earthworm Jim NHL 95 and NBA Jam) i popped them in and played intentivly mastering all aspects of each game.

In the next whiles (2001-2004) i wanted some new games. With *my* money i bought sonic the hedgehog and Sonic and Knuckles, and later i bought Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the hyperstone heist and Sonic Spinball, And for my birthday my bro bought me Toejam and Earl: Panic on funkotron.

About a year passed passed and my mom (THE most frugal person you could know) who checks out thrift stores even to this day is my main source for games! In 2005 she got in this order:X-men, Dr. Robotniks mean bean machine, NFL 95, Super monaco GP, Disneys Aladdin, Maximum Carnage, Kid Chameleon, Rocket Knight adventures, Eternal Champians, Toy Story, Star Trek:The next generation, And last but not least Young Indiana Jones in Insturments of Chaos.

And thats all....I've enjoyed (and still enjoy) every moment of classic gaming.

[Joe Redifer]

I was in high school when Sega decided to release the Genesis. Literally. So I had my grandmother (who didn't work during the day) call the stores to see if any came in. I always went to her place after school to wait for my mom to come pick me up after she got off of work. One day after school I walked in the door and she jumped out of the kitched and proclaimed "I got it!" I was a very happy li'l bastard indeed. I hooked it up via RF to her black and white TV and played and played. Then I finally went home and hooked it up via RF to my personal black and white TV. I was pimpin'. Now I have that same exact system hooked up to something much better than RF. MUCH!

I had played the Mega Drive about a month earlier at some car show or something like that. The only game on display was All Turd Beast. I was so pissed off when the boss at the end of the level didn't scale larger like he did in the arcade. The magazines all said the Genesis had "scaling and tracking" and they never retracted their comments! I even told my dad as the boss said "Welcome to ur doom lol" to watch as the boss would grow smoothly because of the built-in scaling. Nothing happened. I looked like a fool and my father disowned me right there on the spot for being a dumbass.

I have played more than 600 games on my Genesis. I demand that everyone be jealous.

[VinnyT]

Originally posted on Digital Press:

Remember in Dickie Roberts, where Rob Reiner ask David Spade to act like a 6 year old climbing down the steps to see a big red bike under the christmas tree? Yeah, just replace" Big, red bike" with " New Sega Genesis", and add authentic excitement about it.

It was the year 1993. From September on, I had asked my dad for a SNES, because I used to hear about Nintendo at preschool ,and wanted to be one of the "cool" kids. But my dad instead would just explain that the Genesis had better graphics than the SNES. He'd even take me to Sears to try out Kid Chamleon and Fatal Labyrinth. He'd even call me in the room when a Genesis commercial came on. So, by October, I was demanding a Genesis.

November, I get so desperate Icall my grandma and ask for a Genesis that day. She actually goes to the store and almost buys me one, but unfortunatly, my mom was at the same K-Mart and wouldn't let her. I was punished from TV for a week( except for my dad showing me Genesis commercials)

December. It's cold. I want a Genesis. I hear stories about Nintendo, and tell them there all wrong. They laugh. I learn my first swear from some kid saying the Genesis "sucks".

Christmas eve, I sit infront of the TV, waiting for the 11'0'clock news so I can get to bed(Dick Goddard demanding kids to go to bed for Santa is a Clevelanders only delight). I ask for the Genesis one more time before I go off to bed, i'm told the infamous" we'll see" and go to bed. I wake my 4-year old brother up, and ask him to ask for a Genesis, he doesn't seem to care, and fall backs to sleep. I go to bed, soon forgetting about Christmas and dream about my dogs running in a Sonic 2 commercial( don't ask how I somehow remember this).

Christmas morning, I walk down the steps, make a waffle, and sit and watch TV in the living room. The tree is strewn with gifts, but i'm used to the rule of waiting for everyone to get up first before gifts can be opened. ( I declare NEVER to subject my future kids to that torture). Soon, I get tired of waiting and poke my brother so he cries and wakes up the whole house. We get in the living room, and I run for the huge box in the middle, but i'm told not to touch that one yet. I open random gifts of clothes, tapes, and some dinosaur book. Then, there were two presents left, the big box and some small thing on the side.

I go for the big box again, but I get the smaller one shoved in my face. I open it hastily, and out pops a second party Genesis controller! I automaticly jump up and down screaming that the "Big Box is the Genesis!". I get so excited that I start hitting my brother, who was sitting on my moms lap. He starts crying, and I have to get a TIME OUT. The worst possible time for one! I sit on the couch, staring at the box, just wanting to rip the fucker open. Eventually, my brother calms down, and i'm allowed back to the tree. I rip open the box, and there it was. A Genesis 2 and Sonic 2. I shoved it my dads face asking him to set it up. He did so, and I played Sonic 2 within seconds of him saying he was done. I just sat amazed at Sonic and Tails jumping out of the screen. The only other game experince I had was playing the 2600. I never thought about it as one being better, but just diffrent.

Within day one of trying out all the modes, and learning that the controller you have has to be plugged into the right spots for it to work, and getting to act 2 of Chemical Plant Zone, I was beat. Course, a quick 2 hour nap had me playing again at 2 AM, with the sound down. I still was never caught with climbing out of bed in the middle of the night.

Oh yeah, I also got Bart Vs. the Space Mutants that day( me being a Simpsons fanatic), but it was quickly sold a few days later for R.B.I. Baseball '93 and BattleToads.

I know I wasn't the only kid that cried when they realized that Bart's voice was done by a girl.

Back to my LORE, the next few years were full of ridicule at school for having a Genesis instead of a SNES. I didn't care, I was playing World of Illusion( and almost beating it everytime) and Kid Chamleon, so they could screw them selves.

Over the year, I got new systems, new intrests, but I never sold my Genesis. It was my friend when shitty things happend in my life.

" Your aunt just died Vince"
*cries, then plays TaleSpin, then feels a bit better*

There was a 5 year peroid of having NO new Genesis games. I hadn't really found out about the wonders of Funcoland, and no one was donating Genesis game to the Goodwill/Thriftstore, so I concentrated on PS1 and Gameboy for a while. I eventually boxed up my Genesis*GASP*, losing intrest.

But one day in mid 2002, my brother decided to set it up again i nthe basement. I had about 30 something games with it. By this time, Funcoland was around my house. I went into the Funcoland and grabbed a copy of Ristar, and it slowely started coming back to me. Now, i'm up to 89 games as of right now. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Thanks Sega, for making a great system, thats helped me through out the last 8+ years of my life.

[landstalkerx]

I recieved my first Genesis in 1995 as a christmas present. It was a model 2 and it came bundled with Sonic the Hedgehog 2. My brother who was slightly older always played as Sonic and I would be stuck playing as Tails. My brother and I saved up some money and bought a few games including Aladdin, Pagemaster. We were also given Sonic 3D blast as a gift, probably for another christmas. After a short while my dad got tired of us playing Genesis on the main T.V. so my mom bought us a cheap T.V. at wal-mart, (which I later chiped with an axe.) but thats another story.

After a few years my rabbit chewed through the RF cord and I went without my beloved Genesis for a while...

In grade 7 (2001) the local video rental store started selling off their Genesis stock for $6.00 per game. Every week I walked to the store and bought 3 games. My first few purchases included S&K, Sonic 3 and ACME ALL-STARS. After my first few visits the lady who owned the store started giving me the games at the discount of $5 per game. After I had bought the majority of their stock, the owner got amother lot of Genesis games from a video rental store in Richmond (about 30km away.)

Then I moved to San Diego (2003, I think) and I was forced to find a new source for my Genesis needs. I picked up a few from Gamestop while they still sold them, before moving onto online stores and E-BAY.

I've done some pretty crazy things in my quest for Genesis games. I once had my mother drive me to a Gamestop in Riverside (about 1.5 hrs away) for the sole purpose of getting Phantasy Star 4. When we got there they didn't even have it, they did however have quite a large selection of other Genesis Games. I've also ordered a copy of Alien Soldier through a Japanese importer from Yahoo-Auctions Japan. It took about three weeks to get here but it arrived none the less.

[Chris Marsh]

My brother got a Sega Genesis (Model 1) in 1996. He got Sonic and NHL 94 with it. I originally did not like the system (All we had before that was a broken Coleco, NES, and a CD-i). I use to hate it so much that I got an SNES two years later. I started to change when I started buying sports games and I got some Genesis games brand new. In 2000, I bought a Model 2 Genesis that I had for about two years before it broke because it smelled like it was going to blow up and was not working. I bought another Model 2 Genesis after the Model 1 started to have a problem with the picture. I used the Model 2 to test a Sega CD that did not work. On a side note, my brother also got a 32X on his birthday in 1996? or 97? with Virtua Racing Deluxe.

[George Foreman]

For many years I had wanted to be able to play this "Sega Genesis" that I had only heard of in dreams and Toys R' Us's and one day(a few months ago) I walked into a thrift store in the middle of nowhere. I saw three Sega Genesis's: a model one with only a controller, a model two w/o anything at all, and a georgeous model one with a controller, and an adapter. Seeing as I had a universal R/F adapter I had bought for my NES I snapped this one up for just $12(they had a 20% sale). I rushed home to try out some Genesis games I had found at a garage sale a few weeks prior and lo and behold it worked like new!!!! George Foreman was happy and the world was saved from his terrible wrath.

[David J.]

I got the SOR 2 pack-in bundle the christmas it came out. 1992? 1993? Played tons and tons of it until '96 when I became a PC gamer and then I came back to console gaming in 2000. I bought a few games seldomly until 2003 when I became REAL intrested in the Genesis again and here I am 80 odd games later, two systems, two sega cd's and a 32X. Damn.

[kain611]

Well my story harkens back to around 1990. My best friend at the time(who went insane like 2 years later) got a Genesis in '89 from his "deadbeat" dad as he referred to him. We played the so affectianately name All Turd Beasts nonstop and some other game he had that I can't remember. Well anyway I loved it. Now fast forward a year or maybe it was two, can't quite remember, till my purchase day. I saved my money nonstop from mowing lawns for like 6 weeks until I had enough dough. At the time I was thinking of getting a Turbo Graphix but upon arriving at the store decided on the Genesis. It came with Sonic and I also purchased Revenge of Shinobi. I spent the rest of my highschool days playing my Genny as much as possible. But alas video game stores started taking in tradeins and well I ditched my Genny once I got a SNES and later ditched that for a 3DO. Ugh... Luckily by the time this last generation (ps2-gc) came around I've learned...only trade in sports games!! and crap...and keep all systems and hookups!!

Thank god I got another Genesis a month ago. I haven't had so much fun in a long time! Now all I need to find is a SNES, NES, Turbo Graphix/CD, Sega CD, and a Jaguar. Then I may rest..oh and I'll most likely pick up another Dreamcast...damn you EB and your trade in offers!!!

[Genesis Knight]

The magazines all said the Genesis had "scaling and tracking" and they never retracted their comments!

:wtf: What's 'tracking' supposed to be? Another buzzword like 'blast processing'?

[Elusive]

The first was bought with the Sonic 1 pack-in ... that puts it at late 1991. Acquired about 10 or so games (so he says), whole lot got stolen after some bastard puts our front window through with a brick.

One house move later, we get the Mega Drive 2 with the Sonic 2 pack-in, the one I now play and own. Dad bought the Sonic series, left it at that, then put the lot in the loft for years.

2004, I took it down out of the loft, wept at how sad and dusty and lonely it was, finally bought a few more games. The very first non-Sonic game it played for a decade or so was Rocket Knight Adventures.

It's still going strong today :)

[FishySaysSpoon]

My love for sega first started around 93 when I got my genesis for my birthday. I had the decision of either the snes or the genesis. I had an nes and didnt want an snes. I ended up going with the genesis because I thought Sonic was cool. I rented a lot of video games and never had the money to buy other games. Eventually I was able to buy dr robotnics mean bean machine. Those were my only genesis games that I played religiously. I played my genesis more than my nes even though I had more nes games. Soon 2000 came around and I bought a dreamcast. It wasnt until then I started collecting genesis games.

Soon after my dreamcast I bought a 32X upgrade plus a few more genesis games. I was hooked and wanted more! That year I also bought a nomad off of ebay. In 2002 I managed to see a sega cd in a store and bought it for $10 it game with a genesis and 3 games. The cd unit was broken but I managed to fix it. One of the games, vay was also broken ie scratched. I managed to get around it by burning another copy of it ignoring errors. Luckily the scratch was on a cinematic scene. I ended up getting two different lots of games and genesis' for my birthday.


There was one point that I tried to sell my genesis on ebay when I wanted to buy a snes but it didnt sell and for that I am grateful. I love all my sega consoles and have at least 5 genesis' and 2 sega cds. (had more but sold it on ebay)

My most recent genesis game purchase was X-men. It was my one of my favorate genesis games. I used to play it all the time at a friends house. Toe-jam and Earl 2 is another of my favs. Ever so often I go looking in stores for games but few end up having any good games left. Mind you there was a store that had a new genesis bundled with 6 games that recently sold.

Thats my story and I am sticking to it.

[DigitalSpace]

The first half of this post doesn't have anything to do with the Genesis console I own now, but it's about my experiences with the Genesis prior to that.

One year, my older cousin stayed with us for Christmas, and he brought over his Genesis 2/Sega CD combo. I had a blast playing Sonic 1, Sonic CD, and Ecco The Dolphin until he left.

Later on, a friend of mine got grounded from TV for a week and his mom thought it would be best if we borrowed his Genesis for the week. I spent that whole week trying to play through Sonic 2 and 3.

The year the Lion King bundle came out, my brother got it for Christmas (I had an SNES at the time). He also got Sonic 2 that year. Over time, his collection grew to include X-Men, Rocket Knight Adventures, Lakers Vs. Celtics, Sonic & Knuckles, and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. When he got an N64 about five years later, he traded nearly everything in at a GameCrazy for credit towards an N64 game.
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I was deprived of Genesis gaming until April 2004. At that time, I had a PS2 and an SNES, and I had just bought a Gamecube. While I enjoyed those systems, I had been reading about the Genesis online and wanted to check out the good games I didn't get a chance to play in its heyday. Also, Genesis games seemed to be pretty cheap everywhere I went.

A local member on Digital Press was selling off a lot of extra stuff he had, including a lot of Genesis consoles and games. I met him one day and wound up buying the following for $23 total:

-A Genesis 2 console with Sonic The Hedgehog, and 2 6-button controllers, AC adapter, and a/v cord
-Altered Beast, Monopoly, and Golden Axe II

Today, my Genesis collection contains 62 games.

[Fang]

After my nes broke I was without a video game system. One day I went to Target and I saw that they had just released Sonic the Hedgehog and you can play it there. I just saw so much bright colors and the game looked so much fun that I had to play it. That day I got a taste of the Genesis system. After that day me and my brother wanted a Genesis for our birthdays. Time past and when our birthdays came we got our model 1 Genesis which was the Sonic the Hedgehog bundle. Since then I bought and rented Genesis games until no more games were released. A couple years back I started buying games again since they are so cheap now. Finally I get to play the games that I missed.

[j_factor]

Back in 1991, I was a happy little boy. I had a lot of games for my Master System, and even though I'd found out they were not gonna release any more games for it, I still liked it, and came back to my games frequently. I would continue buying European games for a couple years. Anyway, I also had a Turbografx-16 at the time, having gotten it the year prior. I really enjoyed Keith Courage (I don't care what anyone says, it rocks), as well as Bonk and etc.

So, old system out, new system in. I was in fine shape, settled in for a while. Or not. See, I really wanted a Genesis, especially in 1991. Not just for Sonic -- in 1991 there were so many games coming out for it that I wanted (I read mags and print ads and stuff). I wanted to be a spoiled brat who had both (SNES was too new for me to care). I begged and pleaded with all of my family members to get me a Genesis for Christmas. I think there were some reservations about how Genesis games tended to be more expensive than Turbo games, but I pointed out that Genesis had been out for two years and the older games were cheap now. I made it clear that I still liked my Turbografx and still wanted games for it, and wanted to keep my SMS lying around too. So Christmas '91 consisted of the following:

Genesis system
Sonic the Hedgehog
Toejam & Earl (I wanted this game the most)
Phantasy Star II
Revenge of Shinobi
Battletoads
Streets of Rage
Castle of Illusion
and!
Bonk's Revenge
Parasol Stars
Devil's Crush
Cadash
and!
Golden Axe Warrior

Plus, nobody bought me clothes. Best Christmas ever.

Now, you're probably thinking I had rich parents or something, but I really didn't. In fact, my parents were kind of poor. But all of these games are divided up amongst my parents, three sets of grandparents (my dad's parents were divorced and remarried), and an aunt and an uncle. Plus, the Genesis system was bought used, and the older games were pretty cheap.

Anyway. From then on I loved my Genesis. I didn't stop loving my Turbo, and in fact got the CD attachment for my birthday in May '92. I got an SNES sometime in '93, and a Sega CD in early '94. Even back then, I liked having several game systems. 32x, Jaguar, and 3DO didn't interest me, so Christmas '94 was this huge fest of game-getting across multiple systems. Score!

In 1995, I decided I wanted a Saturn. But I didn't want one while they were scarce and had 3 games, so I waited. When the "official launch" came (god that was so stupid), a lot of games were released, and then the price dropped to what it should've been, and then more games came out for the Christmas season. After the acquisition of Christmas monies (as well as the usual game-fest for my old systems), I said goodbye to my old friend, the Master System, trading it and the NES I had gotten (and games for both) for a used Saturn. Trade-in credit seemed better then than it is now, so I was able to get several games. The Saturn became my gaming focus, although I didn't forget my Genesis (or SNES, but I did get rid of the Turbo shortly) and played the few games that still came out.

In October '98, I traded my Genesis, Saturn, and SNES in all at the same time, to get a Playstation. Trade-in credit started sucking by that point. Playstation was my only system for 2 years. I shunned Dreamcast because of Sega's "dead period" when they released no games for a year and a half; that left a sore spot for me.

Anyway, it wasn't long before I wanted a Genesis again. With only a Playstation, I yearned. Or something. I'd always wanted a Nomad, and in late 2000 I finally convinced a friend to sell his to me. It initiated my return to multi-system gaming, and in 2001 I acquired a Saturn, SNES, Dreamcast. bla bla bla. I got an X'Eye in 2003, and a CDX last year (or was it early this year?) and a 32x sometime around then too.

[redrum666]

nov 16, 1991 my B-day

i got the genesis with Sonic The Hedgehog 1 i all so got that day Bimini Run and D.J. Boy the next month x-mes i got Street Smart, Streets Of Rage, Pit-Fighter and think the game genie i few month latter i got the Power Base converter at toys r us but toys r us was doing away with the sega master system so they only had 3 games and the only good one was Altered Beast so i got that with it wane the guy at toys r us came out with the Power Base converter the box was dustty he blow off the dust a big cloud of it came off but it still had some on it LOL

the 1st sega system i played was the sega master system a friend of mine had one with Hang-On/Safari Hunt, Ghost House and Astro Warrior (i love this game) think this was in 1989 or 1990

the 1st time i played genesis was at the store BJ's back in 1990 i played Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle

whats funny is at that same BJ's was the 1st time i played saturn i think in 1996 i played BUG

part 2 of my genesis story

my b-day of 1994 i got a super nes i had about 40 games for genesis at the time i started to trade some away with friends and at EB for super nes games i traded at ones with a kid in my class 6 genesis games just the carts for a game gear with 3 games A/C PLUG game genie and carrying case cut to b-day 1996 i got a ps1 i trade my super nes games and genesis games to get ps1 games cut to summer of 2000 i had this hunger a hunger that can only be fill by the genesis and a sega cd so i wane on ebay got my self a genesis with sega cd and 10 genesis games and 40 sega cd games for $100 and right now i have over 130 games for genesis an 70 sega cd games

[tim333]

I was 6 when I got my first Genesis, Christmas 1991. It came with Sonic 1 and Quackshot. I had only played an NES before that, so Sonic 1's parallax backgrounds and translucency blew me away. I simply could not believe how pretty the game was. Hard to believe now, huh? I also thought Quackshot was impossibly hard, then. I was stuck on one part for years.

That system got me through my troublesome pre-adolescence. I was a devoted follower of everything Sonic (I came to own all but 2, which I rented repeatedly), and I was lucky enough to stumble upon the awesomeness that was toejam and earl at a pawn shop. My sister and I used to play that game for hours. Some of the best games I played on it back then were Ecco 2, Klax, and Rocket Knight Adventures. My friends also all had geneses (that's honestly the plural), so I got to enjoy a lot of other games for it that way. Though I would have told you that Nintendo sucked at the time, I played with their SNES's and loved it, too. >_>

My Sega frenzy (seriously, I even had a game gear) began to decline with the release of Sonic 3D Blast, which I didn't hate... in fact, it was kind of fun, but it definitely wasn't the next big Sonic game I was waiting for. Tragically, that next big Sonic game never came.

My excitement was renewed when I read a preview of the upcoming Knuckles Chaotix for the 32x in a magazine. Oh, how it gushed. I still remember the sentence that made me willing to sell my soul for Chaotix: "I have to tell you, I have a playstation, a saturn, and a Nintendo 64 sitting here on my desk (I know, lucky me) and none of them have anything that can touch this... yet."

I saved my allowance dilligently and blew it all on the 32x as SOON as it came out. I may be the only one on the planet to have done this. I got Chaotix, and you know, I loved it; but I beat it, and then I didn't get anything else for the 32x, ever. There was nothing to get.

Furious with myself over my rushed purchase, I dropped Sega like a hot potato. I didn't get the Saturn, despite drooling over NiGHTs; I went with the Playstation, which I still think was a good decision. In 1998, I made a less good decision and sold my whole sega collection for about $90. Whoops.

My grudge toward Sega was gradually overcome by lingering Sonic passion, and I acquired a Dreamcast (a worthy little system) in 2000. In April 2005, I noticed a game store selling a Genesis for $15 with a controller and 3 games, and I immediately started a collection. It was great playing my old favorites again (well, a few didn't age well), and I discovered some great titles I missed the first time around, like the Streets of Rage series. Now I'm a Genesis nerd so entrenched in his habit as to spend nearly $50 on a new game for incredibly outdated hardware...


If you bothered to read this boring tripe, thanks. It was fun for me to reminisce.

[Joe Redifer]

I bought a 32X at launch, but Chaotix wasn't available for quite some time after that, I don't think.

[tim333]

Whoops, you're right, sorry. I actually got it as soon as Chaotix came out.