THIRD PARTY (or first/third party collaborations)ġ991 – Spider-Man vs. Sega Interactive (previously Interactive Designs)ġ994 – World Heroes (port of the SNK arcade game) (1994 – assistance with development of Sonic the Hedgehog 3) (1992 – assistance with development of Sonic the Hedgehog 2) None of the sports or licensed games have modern re-releases except for Aladdin, though.

A few titles do have modern digital re-releases, I am not counting those here. Note: Games are Genesis-exclusive unless noted. I only covered those because Aladdin aside, they are often more overlooked than original titles like Kid Chameleon or Vectorman. I’m not a big fan of any of these games, my Genesis sports game loves are for the NBA Jam, Hardball, and EA’s NHL games, but they are mostly quality games and deserve to be remembered as such.Īfter the list, I did a quick list of my rankings for the licensed platformers. Sega published nine football games on the Genesis, all American-made six baseball games, four American-made and one hockey game and two basketball games, all made in the US. Sega’s many Western-made baseball and football games, and the smaller number of hockey and basketball games, are important and a key part of the system’s success in North America. People want to play them, and a more successful platform with the general audience usually has more sports games on it. Fantasia is awful, for instance, but Marsupilami is a somewhat unique and fun game.Īnd lastly, again, sports games are important! They sell very well and are a key part of any successful console’s library. And some of the licensed games are well worth playing as well it’s a mixture for su1re. But we all know that, so how about we focus on something Sega succeeded at instead, and that was making a lot of Genesis games for its largest market, the US? I know that some people like to hate on Western Genesis games, but it’s not deserved certainly there are many sports games and mediocre licensed games on the list, but there are also great classics like Vectorman, Comix Zone, and The Adventures of Batman & Robin. Sega mismanaged things badly after the boom years of the early ’90s. Unfortunately for Sega, both the first and third party relationships listed in this list almost all broke down during the Saturn generation. Each developer appears in the list at the point they made their first game published by Sega, so developer relationships go forward in time as you go down the list, though time bounces around depending on how long developers worked with Sega for. I think grouping it by developer is an interesting way to look at this information.

Sega contracted a lot of third-party studios to make Genesis games, though a few, most notably Novotrade/Appaloosa and Blue Sky Software, released the most titles by far. Sega’s few first party developers go first, followed by their third party studios. I decided, for this list, to list games by their developer. Many of the best Genesis games may be Japanese, but American developers contributed many of the best-selling, and some of the best, games on the system as well. I do not agree with people who dismiss the Genesis’s Western library. It is one of the best consoles and has an outstanding game library. This list shows the depth of the Genesis’s Western support. Please note that I do say when games didn’t release in North America, but not necessarily when they didn’t release in Europe or Brazil sorry about that. Games like sports games are important, they are some of the best-selling titles and sports games for Western markets were a critical part of the Genesis’s success. As you look down the list you will notice some classics and some forgettable games. Here is a quick list I just made of what should be all Western-developed games Sega published for the Genesis, Sega CD, and 32X. I probably have written something similar to this before, but not in this format.

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