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| Honourable Mentions | |||||
| I've decided to add an honourable mentions section to this top 100 because there were so many brilliant games that it pained me to leave out, many if not all of these games were originally intended to be in the list but unfortunately after I had made my original list I had 140 odd games all of which I felt deserved to be in the top 100! these games didn't make it due to a few different reason, many of them are sequels, and I felt that it was unfair to mention them at the expense of pushing out other games, many of them belong to genre's that were already extremely well represented in the list, such as the platform and Shmup genre's, and I also felt that when choosing between an original Mega Drive game and a port from a different system that the original game should win out, especially if the port is from a much older system such as the NES abd little has been done to improve it. | |||||
| Addams Family Values | Nice overhead RPG similar to Zelda style games | ||||
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| Adventures of Batman and Robin, The | quite graphically impressive run and gun thats a bit repetitive | ||||
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| Aero Blasters | Shmup with cool look and 2-player mode | ||||
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| Battletoads | Remake of the NES classic | ||||
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| Bio Hazard Battle | Shmup with a strange look of it's own | ||||
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| Crack Down | Top down Shooter where you have to defuse bombs nice multiplayer too. | ||||
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| Desert Strike | The original in the Strike series of tactical shooters | ||||
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| Donald in Maui Mallard | Very well presented platformer | ||||
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| Earthworm Jim 2 | A great sequel which retains the style and sense of humour that made the 1st a classic | ||||
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| Ecco the Dolphin | well made RPG and Ecco's first outing | ||||
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| El Viento | I really like this game it's a really action packed Platform-Shooter. | ||||
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| ESWAT | Cool platformer completely redesigned from the original arcade. | ||||
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| Fatal Rewind | Unique platform-shooter where you have to reach the top of the level before the acid rises and kills you. | ||||
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| Fire Shark | Great early shmup for the system. | ||||
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| Forgotten Worlds | Classic arcade shooter | ||||
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| Gain Ground | Brilliant top down action strategy game where you can collect an army of characters | ||||
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| Ghostbusters | Nice platformer | ||||
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| Gynoug/Wings of Wor | Another good shmup with a lot of style | ||||
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| High Seas Havok | One of the most visually pleasing platformers on the system, this game is very impressive all around, it's a bit overly difficult though. | ||||
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| Lion King, The | Another platformer with very high levels of presentation. | ||||
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| Mazin Saga | Cool Beat-em-up with some nice orriginal ideas, see my section on beat-em-ups for more info | ||||
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| Mega Man - The Wily Wars | A remake of the first 3 NES games with slightly better graphics and slightly off controls. | ||||
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| Mercs | The arcade classic, a top down shooter with an excellent extra mode added into the mix | ||||
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| Mickey Mania | Another great Mickey Mouse game that is based around the cartoon history of the character. | ||||
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| Micro Machines Millitary | Codemaster took the formula of micro machines and then added vehicles with weaponry, it's an excellent addition to the series. | ||||
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| Midnight Resistance | Contra style game with peculier controls, it's a lot of fun though a little dated. | ||||
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| Mystic Defender | Sequel to the Master System game Spellcaster but much more of a traditional platformer, the weapons system was pretty unique though and the game a lot of fun.. | ||||
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| Phelios | A well made if a little generic vertically scrolling shooter | ||||
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| Quackshot | Another extremely well made disney licence, and a great overall platformer. | ||||
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| Snake Rattle N' Roll | Update of the NES game, it's still retains it's greatness | ||||
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| Sparkster | Sequel to Rocket Knight Adventures though with much more freedom in respects to the rocket pack use. | ||||
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| Steel Empire | Cool Shmup with a great style to it | ||||
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| Streets of Rage | The first in the series of classic highly polished Beat-em-ups, loads of great presentation | ||||
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| Sunset Riders | Run n' gun arcade port, it's missing a lot of the greatness of the arcade but is still a lot of fun | ||||
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| Toki | Completely new version of the same-named arcade game, it's a very fun run n gun style game with a vertical bent to many of the stages. | ||||
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| Trouble Shooter | Pretty unique Shmup where you play as 2 flying girls simultaneously. | ||||
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| Truxton | very much an old school shmup, it has some great over the top weaponry, and is still a lot of fun. | ||||
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| Ultimate Qix | Puzzle game where you have to divide parts of the screen without touching any of the enemies. | ||||
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| Vectorman 2 | Sequel to the classic, not sure if it's quite as good but it's an excellent game nonetheless. | ||||
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| Warsong | Very nice strategy RPG | ||||
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| World of Illusion | Classic platforming action, the stand-out thing about WOI is the excellent 2-player co-op mode. | ||||
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| X-Men | A nice game based on the comics series with a look and style of it's own, great in 2-player too | ||||
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| Ys III - Wanderers from Ys | platform-RPG in the same vein as the Wonder Boy games, really nice game. | ||||
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| Zombies ate my Neighbours | Top down shooter where you have to rescue hostages before the zombies get to them. | ||||