List of sega robot games

It gives the player two paddles to control instead of one — the first only able to move left and right, the other able to move forward and back as well as from side to side.

With a bit of practice, the system quickly becomes second nature, and as the action progresses up the screen, Bad Omen begins to more closely resemble a scrolling shooter than something like Arkanoid — there are enemies to destroy, obstacles to avoid, and area bosses to take out. A few technical flaws and design choices knock it back a little such as the annoying bit where you have to fight your way to an exit after destroying a boss — die and you have to fight the boss again but it remains a novel, overlooked title.

Its colorful graphics and transforming robot enemies provide the atmosphere of a Saturday morning TV anime show, and if you thought bullet hell shooters were the preserve of later consoles like the Saturn, you may be surprised at how much mayhem Aero Blasters manages to throw at you.

Conventional level designs are interspersed by stages where the scrolling speeds up and the player hurtles through a maze of narrow, sharply-angled corridors, injecting a welcome bit of variety and tension. This is a pity since Columns III is a great extension of the original. The single-player mode is now a Puyo Puyo -like battle against the computer as opposed to a solo score attack like the first game, while the main draw is arguably its multiplayer mode, which allows up to five players to compete simultaneously.

With a big enough television, the latter can offer hours of bickering and cajoling. On a side note, Columns III ditches the weird Greek and baroque themes of the first two games and features lots of cartoon chickens instead. We heartily approve of this alteration. This action RPG has to be one of the most handsome games of its type available on the Genesis. The Genesis version of Toki is a bit different from the arcade original, yet it remains a quirky and challenging platformer.

The player takes control of an ape whose slow movement is offset by his uncanny ability to spit deadly fireballs at enemies. Really coming into its own in two-player mode, Bonanza Bros. A cracking little game, this. There are gigantic amalgams of screaming heads, pistons, and arteries. A half-giant, half-train monster. Demonic skulls with wings and nautilus-like monsters. Oh, and the player character is a muscle-bound hero with Icarus-like wings.

More of an expanded port of the arcade original than a true sequel, Chase HQ II is a cracking little racing game. The aim is to scream down a highway in a sports car and apprehend fleeing criminals by repeatedly ramming them until their own vehicle finally grinds to a halt — a Jason Statham approach to law enforcement if you will.

Unlike the original, this version offers three different cars to drive rather than the standard-issue black Porsche, and there are additional little touches like ramps that flip your vehicle up on two wheels. Inevitably less smooth and flashy than the arcade version, Chase HQ II nevertheless replicates much of its white-knuckle excitement. Copies of the Genesis version are now difficult to come by and, as a result, unusually expensive.

An update of the arcade game, Pengo is a simple maze game that involves sliding ice blocks around to crush enemies. Although billed as a top-down shooter, the aim of the game goes beyond just firing at things: to complete each level, you have to leave explosive devices in predefined positions on the map, and then get to the exit before the digital timer ticks down to zero.

Further Reading: 20 Best Dystopian Games. As the maps become more complex and the enemies more numerous, Crack Down becomes increasingly engrossing, and small touches — like being able to lean against a wall to avoid enemy fire — were relatively unusual at the time. Bio-Ship Paladin is one of the better examples, with its typical side-scrolling action spiced up by a Missile Command — like cursor that allows you to shoot accurately at enemies wherever they are on the screen.

A combination of shooter and maze game, Atomic Robo-Kid is unusual in that it actively punishes any attempt at rapid progress. Learning when to advance and when to retreat or duck for cover becomes the key to success, and once this is mastered, Atomic Robo-Kid really comes into its own. The central character — a diminutive robot with heavy feet and big eyes — is an adorable creation, and the whole game is handsomely designed from beginning to end.

Some distractingly repetitive music can grate after a while, but the variety of the levels and sheer challenge makes this shortcoming easy to overlook. Its sprites flicker horribly, and the dreary lack of color in some levels make it look more akin to a Master System title than a release for the then new bit Genesis. Readers of a certain age may remember Stormlord coming out in the late s. Notable at the time for its large and dubious sprites depicting naked fairies, it was also a supremely playable platformer from British game design ace Raffaele Cecco.

The Genesis version appeared in , by which point the fairies in the US version had been given a few bits of skimpy clothing to protect their modesty — most likely at the behest of Sega of America. Seemingly inspired by RoboCop , this British action game was notable for its unusual amount of violence.

Play switches between driving sections, where your sci-fi law enforcer speeds to his next crime scene in a red sports car, and a side-scrolling platform section, where Techno Cop can either capture villains in a net or blast them into a crimson mist with his gun. You can probably guess which option is the most entertaining — not to mention controversial at the time. Are those guard dogs, foxes, or giant rats?

Adventure , this game was based on a TV anime that never appeared outside Japan, which is why it was given a visual overhaul and released as Decap Attack in America. Although intent on bombarding you with extra lives, Magical Hat emanates a certain care-free charm, with its hum-along music and expansive — and occasionally devious — level designs. A kind of companion piece to the similarly demon-themed Bad Omen , Devil Crash is a digital recreation of a traditional pinball machine, albeit with sundry marching demons, bats, and a huge female face that gradually becomes eviler as the points build up.

With catchy music and timeless gameplay, Devil Crash MD is the very definition of quick-fix gaming. With a shadowy fantasy theme, Elemental Master sees you control a cloaked figure who can fire powerful blue streaks of lightning — a handy ability, given the hordes of giant bats, fleshy plants, and other critters waiting for you as you advance up the battlefield.

Further Reading: 50 Underrated Multiplayer Games. The enemies, on the other hand, look terrific — the bosses are a truly exotic bunch and include a giant flying sea serpent and a demonic hedgehog. The games industry needs more demonic hedgehogs. As one of a small band of Indiana Jones-like heroes, you batter and shoot your way through a landscape of ivory poachers and other cruel villains, and every so often, a few animals will join in to deliver their own spot of retribution.

Yes, we did look that collective noun up. Fatal Labyrinth is, in many ways, a fairly generic 2D dungeon crawler where you navigate your hero across 30 randomly-generated floors of nasties and treasure chests in search of a mystical trinket guarded by a dragon.

He must be a nightmare in all-you-can-eat restaurants. Such details aside, Fatal Labyrinth is an entertaining and endearing little game, with a great sense of progression, as your hero builds himself up from a humble beginner to a hero in a winged metal helmet. Released in the west on a good, old-fashioned cartridge, the game probably seemed laughably backward in the face of the brash, flashier stuff available at the time, but Flicky has a simple, endlessly replayable appeal that makes it just about timeless.

With an infuriatingly catchy background tune and one of the most addictive bonus stages on the Genesis, Flicky is a modest yet hugely entertaining little game. The concept behind Gain Ground is simple, but therein lies its appeal: your goal is to get each of your four characters to the exit located somewhere on the screen, all the while avoiding the attacks from topless enemies sprinting around after you.

Each of your characters has his own unique weapons, and the game looks and plays a bit like Gauntlet , except all the action takes place on one screen. Initially very easy, Gain Ground quickly improves as the screens fill up with dozens of enemy sprites and other pitfalls.

Strange, but lots of fun. A top-down shooter, Granada hurtles along at an incredible pace, offering up a maze of futuristic buildings where all kinds of enemy hardware await. The level designs are varied, too, with the second stage taking place on the back of a gigantic flying fortress. A modest yet hugely entertaining game, Granada deserved to get a lot more attention than it did.

This Simpsons tie-in is a hybrid of Lemmings and traditional platformer: as Krusty, you have to clear your mansion of rats, which is achieved by placing blocks and leading the zombie-like rodents to a Heath Robinson-esque killing machine operated by Bart Simpson. This unusual game from Technosoft was one of the earliest attempts to create a real-time strategy game for a console.

Numerous developers attempted to reverse-engineer the brilliance of Super Mario Bros. Its elfin hero bounds through a vibrant series of fantasy landscapes, collecting things like milkshakes and power-ups while occasionally jumping on the heads of his enemies.

Its handful of fresh ideas really stand out, too. Less famous than Sonic , Marvel Land nevertheless holds its own appeal — not least because, with a rapidly rising difficulty level, it takes considerable skill and practice to complete.

This is surely one of the more unusual Simpsons games yet released. The games see Bart Simpson throwing tomatoes at other Simpsons characters, riding down a log flume a sequence with some surprisingly good pseudo-3D effects , riding a motorbike through a post-apocalyptic wasteland, and weirdest of all, beating up clowns while in the form of a pig.

Copies for the Genesis are now rather scarce, but Virtual Bart is worth picking up for the humor in its cutscenes and novelty value alone. This side-scrolling run-and-gun game was ported to numerous computers and consoles, including a great version for the ZX Spectrum. The agile hero can shoot in all directions and even crawl while doing so. As well as dealing with the bad guys waiting for you on your journey across each level, there are more enemies lurking in the windows and doors further in the distance.

You can also spit blobs of your own goo at enemies, but again at the expense of your overall mass. Free-roaming platform shooter Turrican received a brilliant port in , and like its computer counterparts, was a superbly designed and slick game in a similar vein to Metroid.

By way of consolation, you can download Mega Turrican from the Wii Virtual Console for just a few bucks. A perfectly respectable version for the Master System came out in North America and Europe in , yet the Genesis edition failed to follow suit.

An exceptionally faithful rendition of the arcade original, Rainbow Islands Extra retains the bouncy, deceptively punishing action of the coin-op. Forgotten Worlds. Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball. Fun 'n Games. Fushigi no Umi no Nadia. Gadget Twins, The. Gain Ground. Galaxy Force II. Ganso Kyuukyoku Girl 6-nin Adventure Mahjong! Garfield: Caught in the Act. Gemfire Royal Blood JP. Generations Lost.

Ghouls'N Ghosts. Gley Lancer Advanced Busterhawk. Golden Axe. Golden Axe II. Golden Axe III. Goofy's Hysterical History Tour.

Gouketsuji Ichizoku. Great Waldo Search, The. Greatest Heavyweights. Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude! Gunstar Heroes. Gynoug Wings of Wor NA. Hard Drivin'. Hardball III. Hardball ' Haunting starring Polterguy.

Heavy Nova. Heavy Unit: Mega Drive Special. Herzog Zwei. Hit the Ice. Home Alone. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Honoo no Doukyuuji: Dodge Danpei. Humans, The. Hybrid Front, The. Hyokkori Hyoutan Jima. Incredible Crash Dummies, The. Incredible Hulk, The. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Insector X. Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones. International Rugby. International Superstar Soccer Deluxe. Ishido: The Way of Stones. Izzy's Quest for the Olympic Rings. League Pro Striker 2.

Jack Nicklaus' Power Challenge Golf. James Pond: Underwater Agent. James Pond 3: Operation Starfish. Janou Touryuumon. Jantei Monogatari. Jerry Glanville's Pigskin Footbrawl. Jewel Master. Jimmy White's 'Whirlwind' Snooker.

Joe Montana Football. John Madden Football ' Jordan vs. Judge Dredd. Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition. Justice League Task Force. Ka-Ge-Ki: Fists of Steel. Kawasaki SuperBike Challenge. Kick Off 3: European Challenge. Kidou Keisatsu Patlabor: shiki Kidou seyo! King Colossus Tougi-Ou. King of the Monsters. King of the Monsters 2. King Salmon: The Big Catch.

King's Bounty: The Conqueror's Quest. Kishi Densetsu. Krusty's Super Fun House. Kyuukai Douchuuki. La Russa Baseball Langrisser II. Last Action Hero. Lawnmower Man, The. Lemmings 2: The Tribes. Lethal Enforcers. LHX Attack Chopper. Liberty or Death. Link Dragon Unlicensed. Lord Monarch. Lost Vikings, The. Lost World, The: Jurassic Park. Lotus Turbo Challenge. Lotus II: R. M-1 Abrams Battle Tank. Madden NFL ' Madou Monogatari I. Magic Bubble Unlicensed. Magic Girl Unlicensed.

Magical Taruruuto-kun. Mamono Hunter Yohko: Dai-7 no Keishou. Man Overboard! Marble Madness. Mario Andretti Racing. Mario Lemieux Hockey. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Master of Monsters. Master of Weapon. Maten no Soumetsu. Math Blaster: Episode 1. McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure. Mega Bomberman. Mega SWIV. Mega Turrican. Menacer 6-game cartridge. Metal Fangs. Michael Jackson's Moonwalker. Mickey's Ultimate Challenge. Micro Machines.

Micro Machines 2: Turbo Tournament. Micro Machines: Turbo Tournament Micro Machines Military. Midnight Resistance. MiG Fighter Pilot. Might and Magic: Gates to Another World. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Mike Ditka Power Football. Minnesota Fats: Pool Legend. Miracle Piano Teaching System, The. Monster World IV. Mortal Kombat 3. Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Boxing. Mutant Chronicles: Doom Troopers. Mutant League Football. Mutant League Hockey. NBA Action ' NBA Hang Time. NBA Jam.

NBA Live NCAA Football. New Zealand Story, The. NFL ' NFL NFL Quraterback Club NHL Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing. Nightmare Circus Brazil Only. Ninja Burai Densetsu. No Escape. Nobunaga no Yabou: Bushou Fuuun Roku. Nobunaga no Yabou: Haouden. Normy's Beach Babe-O-Rama. Olympic Gold: Barcelona ' Olympic Summer Games: Atlanta Ooze, The. Osomatsu-kun: Hachamecha Gekijou.

Ottifants, The. Out Run. Out Run Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. Pachinko Kuunyan. Pagemaster, The. Panorama Cotton. Paperboy 2. Party Quiz: Mega Q. Pepen ga Pengo. Pete Sampras Tennis. PGA Tour Golf. PGA European Tour. PGA Tour Phantasy Star. Phantom Pink Goes To Hollywood. Pinocchio Disney's. Pirates of Dark Water, The. Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure.

Pocahontas Disney's. Pokemon Crazy Drummer Unlicensed. Powerball Wrestle Ball JP. Power Drive. Power Monger.

Predator 2. Premier Manager. Premier Manager Primal Rage. Prince of Persia. Pro Quarterback. Pro Striker Final Stage. Psycho Pinball. Punisher, The. Puyo Puyo Tsuu. Race Drivin'. Radical Rex. Rainbow Islands Extra. Rambo III. Ransei no Hasha.

Rastan Saga II. RBI Baseball 3. RBI Baseball 4. RBI Baseball ' Red Zone. Rent A Hero. Revolution X featuring Aerosmith. Richard Scarry's Busytown.

Rings of Power. Rise of the Robots. Road Blasters. Road Rash. Road Rash II. Road Rash 3. RoboCop 3. RoboCop versus The Terminator. Rock N' Roll Racing. Rocket Knight Adventures. Rolling Thunder 2. Rolling Thunder 3. Rolo to the Rescue Zou! Rescue Daisakusen JP. Saint Sword. Sampras Tennis Sangokushi Retsuden: Ransei no Eiyuu-tachi. San San Requires Mega Modem. Saturday Night Slam Masters.

Schtroumpfs, Les: Autour du Monde. Scooby-Doo Mystery. SeaQuest DSV. Second Samurai, The. Sensible Soccer: European Champions. Sesame Street: Counting Cafe. Shadow of the Beast II. Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye. Shaq Fu. Shougi no Hoshi. Shove It! Shura no Mon. Side Pocket. Simpsons, The: Bart vs. Simpsons, The: Bart's Nightmare. Skeleton Krew. Slap Fight MD.

Smurfs, The Several localized European releases. Snake Rattle 'n' Roll. Snow Bros. Socket Time Dominator 1st JP. Sonic the Hedgehog. Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Sonic 3 EU. Space Harrier II. Spider-Man Marvel Comics. Spiritual Warfare Unlicensed.

Spirou Robbedoes NL. Splatterhouse 2. Splatterhouse 3. Spot Goes To Hollywood. Star Control. Star Cruiser. Steel Talons. Street Racer. Street Smart. Strider Strider Hiryuu JP. Summer Challenge. Sunset Riders. Super Battleship. Super Battletank: War in the Gulf. Super Daisenryaku. Super Fantasy Zone. Super Hang-On. Super High Impact. Super Hydlide. Super Kick Off. Super Monaco GP. Super Off Road. Super Skidmarks. Super Smash TV. Super Thunder Blade. Super Volleyball. Surging Aura.

Sword of Sodan. Sword of Vermilion Vermilion JP. T2: Terminator 2: Judgement Day. T2: The Arcade Game. Taikou Risshiden. TaleSpin Disney's. Task Force Harrier EX. Taz in Escape from Mars. Tecmo Super Baseball. Tecmo Super Bowl. Tecmo Super Hockey. Tel Tel Mahjong.