Previous Slide Next Slide. Share This Story. Sign up for Complex notifications for breaking news and stories. No Thanks Allow. 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. ShortList is supported by you, our amazing readers. When you click through the links on our site and make a purchase we may earn a commission. Learn more. By Holly Pyne. Relive your childhood days with one of the best retro consoles 40 classic games.
Sega Mega Drive Mini. The easiest way to dip back into these games is with a Mega Drive Mini, one of the very best retro mini consoles to date. Best Mega Drive games. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Buy the cart at Amazon. Release date: Forget Pes or Fifa, the nineties witnessed a far more polarising fanboy war over a hedgehog and Italian plumber. Thanks for voting. Release date: Yes, Streets of Rage was good - really good. Golden Axe Buy the cart at Amazon. Release date: And you thought Dark Souls was hard.
Aladdin Buy the cart at Amazon. Release date: The best "video game based on a movie"? If your answer isn't Aladdin, it's wrong. Release date: We're not proud to admit it, but much of what we knew about the Gulf War as a kid was owed largely to this game.
The Revenge of Shinobi Buy the cart at Amazon. Release date: Set three years after the original title, The Revenge had a simple storyline: the ninja badguys have reformed, changing their name from Zeed to Neo Zeed nice , killing our hero's master and nicking his bride nasty. Micro Machines Buy the cart at Amazon.
Release date: "We want to make a racing game about Micro Machines. Are you sure? Release date: There's a time and a place for accurate sports simulations. If you've never laid down a power dunk to win the game in the final second, you haven't lived. Earthworm Jim Buy the cart at Amazon. Release date: Sega has never shied away from unusual animal protagonists.
Gunstar Heroes Buy the cart at Amazon. Release date: Guns! Fire balls! Guys in sunglasses! Ecco the Dolphin Buy the cart at Amazon. Release date: 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.
Release date: Don't think it's possible to make a decent comic book video game? X-Men 2 begs to differ. 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.
Release date: Gamers were initially confused by the crash-landing of this unlikely alien duo, with poor sales threatening to bury this slice of creative genius. Release date: The bounce of the ball. Best fact: This game is older than Raheem Sterling. Lightening Force: Quest for the Darkstar. YuYu Hakusho: Makyou Toitsusen. Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Battlemania: Daiginjou. Castlevania: Bloodlines. Wonder Boy in Monster World.
Ghouls 'N Ghosts. Thunder Force III. Super Fantasy Zone. Contra: Hard Corps. Lunar: The Silver Star. Forgotten Worlds. Lunar: Eternal Blue. Advanced Busterhawk Gley Lancer.
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