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Genesis-A-Day: Eternal Champions

Upon finding a magic lamp, Alex rubs out a genie. Obviously, Alex wishes for a ton of genesis games. In this feature, Alex documents the results of that wish.

Classic

Time played: 3 minutes.

Rounds Lost: 4

Eternal Champions sounds like it would be a fantasy brawler.  Turn out it is a fighting game with some of the wackiest characters ever.  There is a trident wielding fish man, and wolf man, a half robot man, and generic looking super hero lady, a cool black dude straight from the 80s.  You name it, it's in here.  I have to give it props for that.  And actually, the game plays pretty decently.  I wish this turned into a hilarious franchise because the characters are funny.  I would have loved to see a 3d version of this game with 25+ ridiculous characters.  If only I had enough patience to learn some special moves, it might have been fun.

Genesis-A-Day: The Punisher

Upon finding a magic lamp, Alex rubs out a genie. Obviously, Alex wishes for a ton of genesis games. In this feature, Alex documents the results of that wish.

Time played: 2 minutes.

Characters controlled simultaneously: 2?

Standard beat 'em up.  That's all there is to say about the actual game.  The real interesting thing is that for some reason my game let me control both the Punisher and Nick Fury with just one controller setup.  If it weren't for this i probably wouldn't have played for more than 30 seconds. but controlling 2 charters that were synchronized fighting was amusing.  This isn't Streets of Rage 2, and therefore it's not very good.

Crotch grab!!!

Genesis-A-Day: Ranger-X

Time played: 12 Minutes

Amount of awesomeness: Turbo!

Mech? Check. Motorcycle? Check. Okay, let's ship this game.

This is hands down the best game I've played for our turbo popular Game-A-Day series.  Most games that let you play as a giant mech that can fly around with giant blue flames that shoot out of the back, are already incredibly awesome.  This game lets you stand on and ride around on a mech motorcycle that independently shoots.  ALSO, you can press down and combine with the motorcycle mech thig and the gun will autoaim at enemies and the bike will be able to jump, and switch your special weapons.  How have I never heard of this game?  It's brilliant.

The graphics are great, especially after you start the game and are introduced to terrible looking vector graphics which for some reason the developers thought would make for good cut scenes. The first boss is f-ing cool, you can shoot his legs and eventually thy get destroyed leaving the body left to sit motionless on the ground shooting rockets at you.  I wish I had this game as a child.   If you get a chance, try it out.

Genesis-A-Day: Star Control

Upon finding a magic lamp, Alex rubs out a genie. Obviously, Alex wishes for a ton of genesis games. In this feature, Alex documents the results of that wish.

Time played: 5 minutes.

Ships destroyed: 4

I have to admit, I thought this game would be another heaping pile.  I mean, it IS, but it has a little something special too.  The menus are horrifically archaic.  This game doesn't seem to be anything more than pitting 2 space ships against each other.    It plays like asteroids but ship vs ship rather than ship vs asteroid.  There are 2 factions with completely different ships, each faction has 9 ships with various handling and weapons.  Shooting a weapon uses up fuel which is constantly recharging, and crew is a measure of your ships health.

The controls are terrible, and half of the ships seems useless.  Some are too slow to catch an enemy ship, yet the weapons are extremely short range.  On the other hand the ship designs are really cool and they all have different weapons.   I think every ship has 2 attacks?  I don't know, I didn't really care and I was confused.  My favorite part if that on the right side of the screen is a shot of the ships' cockpit and how it is controlled.  This includes images of various aliens.  For example, a pterodactyl that apparently turns the ship by turning it's head.  Another is controlled by a crystal that shoots lightning at other crystals. This is actually the only reason I kept playing this game.  If I cared I would make a gallery for your all, but I don't care so just accept what i give you.

Genesis-A-Day: Rolling Thunder 3

Upon finding a magic lamp, Alex rubs out a genie. Obviously, Alex wishes for a ton of genesis games. In this feature, Alex documents the results of that wish.

Cybord Cheetahs? Check.

Time Played: 6 minutes

Special weapons used: Shotgun, grenade launcher, and laser.

When I saw the title for this game, I thought "Oh great, a side scrolling shooter."  I was confused when it asked me to pick from various hand held weapons.  I chose some random weapons I couldn't see because the game was glitching.  Turns out it was a grenade launcher for use by a stereotypical bad boy protagonist.  I was not pleased when it turned out to be a side scrolling on foot shooter.

The level design is atrocious.  Levels consist of 2 a lower level and a balcony you can jump up to, and some boxes thrown in to jump on or hide behind.  But surprisingly the controls are pretty good.  You are given a pistol, and whatever special weapon you choose.  The grenade launcher arched over boxes and killed strong enemies in a single hit.  I wouldn't suggest anyone go out and play this game.  But trying out the different special weapons is pretty fun.  I have no idea who I was fighting or why.  In the second level there were cyborg cheetahs, which is pretty fucking awesome.  I give this game an 8.1 for the cheetahs alone.  and another .1 for having good controls.

Genesis-A-Day: Mr. Nutz

Upon finding a magic lamp, Alex rubs out a genie.  Obviously, Alex wishes for a ton of genesis games.  In this feature, Alex documents the results of that wish.

Time Played: 8

Acord Thrown: 21

So I was scrolling looking through my genesis games when I saw Mr. Nutz.  How could I resist.  So I loaded it up put it in my Genesis.  I was expecting a guy looking like Mr. Peanut, unfortunately I was greeted by I squire that was far too happy to be ambushed by various woodland items, such as an apple with arms and legs.  More laughs were on the way, the first level was called "Woody Land."  I'm glad developers of the mid 90's had a good sense of humor.  The game has a very cutesy style and the graphics are pretty good.  I was determined to get to the second level to see more.  The scenery changes during the third section of the first level into a really cool night scene.  I get a very Sonic vibe from the game, but that's a compliment when shit games like Yogi Bear exist.  The controls are a little floaty, but there is a nice ammo system where you can pick up scorns to throw which are very helpful, but limited supply means you can't really too heavily on it.

Genesis-A-Day: Olympic Winter Games – Lillehammer 94

Upon finding a magic lamp, Alex rubs out a genie.  Obviously, Alex wishes for a ton of genesis games.  In this feature, Alex documents the results of that wish.

"Dick Congo competes in a lot of events, but he hasn't mastered any."

Time Played: 7 minutes

Best Event: Biathlon

In honor of the Winter Olympics I chose this fantastic game.  16 years ago the Winter Olympic Games were held in Lillehammer, Norway.(thanks Wikipedia!)  And to cash in on this great world past time, a video game was made about it.  I knew going in I would not win any event, likely be disqualified from many, and if possible, my character would die.  I was Dick Congo from France.  I tried my luck at ski jump.  Going down the slope it's obvious you need to try and keep a line centered over the skis.  But once in the air my skis crossed instantly and there was no obvious way to prevent this, so I crashed.  Same thing the second time except I landed it, I don't know why.  I tried some other events, the only even that seamed obvious as to what you were supposed to do was the biathlon which was surprisingly fun, and I was only a few second behind everyone.  The shooting mechanics worked surprisingly well for having only a D-pad, a good amount of challenge without being frustrating.

"Dick Congo falls! What an upset!"