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1. Rocket Knight Adventures
2. Panorama Cotton
3. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
4. Langrisser II
5. Sonic 3 & Knuckles
6. Contra: Hard Corps (Japanese version)
7. Mega Bomberman
8. Ristar
9. Micro...

"Additionally the emphasis this time is on best games as opposed to personal favorites."

Can you explain what you mean by that? I would give the same response unless I'm supposed to take average...

For those interested in a poll series covering each year:
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/916377-genesis/79068774

Also doing them for SMS, and probably Saturn later on.

https://i.imgur.com/4OSocp6.jpg

Auto-conversion of the Totoro pic with a few tweaks just for fun, it would require some more work to remove noise and optimize some shades. It being a jpeg also...

Quick mockups which remove one but add 4 and 5 other colors respectively (30 to 33 mid, 34 rightmost - top of roofs and log stairs highlight):
https://i.imgur.com/Z4kG68Q.gif

Would be interesting...

Dark, dreary and overly contrasted, with sometimes boring hue shifts.

Landstalker was mentioned and I think it could use some work. Soleil already looks great overall (as mentioned it pops more on real hardware) though this edit made it go from a light overcast to...

It might also have to do with these games being more uncommon so that a lot of people didn't grow up playing them and thus, didn't get the "training" during childhood.

Oh thanks, I'll have a look at these for my PSG usage in MD games documentation I was working on (soon-ish).

Right, well a jump shadow might be an easier quick fix for that rather than redesigning the jumping puzzles. In theory anyway. Soleil on the other hand could've used more challenge in some areas, and...

Rocket Knight Adventures
RKA! This game is a smörgåsbord of all things I love about Konami during this era; fast and tight movement, great variety with a couple of shoot 'em up levels mixed in as...

Panzer Dragoon Zwei
Saturn Bomberman – Hudson Soft
Elevator Action Returns - Taito
Cotton Boomerang and Cotton 2 - Success
Bulk Slash – Hudson Soft
Batsugun
Darius Gaiden - Taito
Shining Force...

I liked this one overall:
https://info.sonicretro.org/Metal_Sonic_Hyperdrive

Square did do it with Brave Fencer and Threads of Fate, but as you can see they are rather zoomed in and lacking free look.

Yeah Virtual Hydlide isn't a bad early example besides that, though it seems you can't freely look around in it or change the camera so it's kind of rigid.

Focusing on third person games:...

Kinda sorta examples:
WiBArM (PC-88, 1986/PC DOS, 1989) - TP segments only, Manual stat allocation when leveling up
Star Cruiser (X1, 1988/X68K, 1989/MD, 1990) - Except it has vehicle upgrades...

Whatever happened to that Mega Man port?

You could try reddit or retrogamer.net forums, it's an underrated system in the US.

Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap/Monster World II
Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
Power Strike II
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Bubble Bobble/Final Bubble Bobble
Fantasy Zone II: The Tears...

1989: SimCity, Quest for Glory, Indiana Jones: Last Crusade

1990: Stunts, Chip's Challenge, Loom, Monkey Island, King's Bounty, Wing Commander, Prince of Persia

1991: Lemmings, Scorched Earth,...

Thanks for checking it out tisurame, I'll see if I can finish up the MD section today.

The comments generally shouldn't be read as a judgement of the OST's PSG use as a whole, those two have very...

As most of you know the Mega Drive/Genesis could use both an FM (YM2612) and a PSG (SN76489) chip for sfx and music in games. This simple guide that I've been adding to for the past few weeks...

^Thank you, man of culture.

~40 games seems more reasonable:
Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap/Monster World II
Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse
Power Strike II
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Bubble Bobble/Final Bubble...

Well, it's just a run of the mill platformer. Nice intro track though!