Recommend me some SNES/Megadrive games

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Found my two old consoles in the loft and fancied having another go. I want to pick up some games from auction but need some suggestions.

Please recommend me a few and why they are good.

Thanks!
 
Streets of Rage 2 for the mega drive + Street Fighter II Special Edition (or championship edition, cant remember - the one with the blue case). Two fave games for the megadrive. :cool:
 
megadrive :

Toejam & Earl
James Pond 2 - Robocod
Worms
Flashback
Sonic & Sonic 2
Coolspot
Earthworm Jim 1 & 2
Gunstar Heroes
Mortal Kombat Series
Micro Machines Series

SNES:

Mario Kart
Street Fighter 2
Super Mario World
 
SNES:

Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Zelda
Mario World
Mario Kart
Super Tennis
DK Country
Starfox
Contra III
International Superstar Soccer......DELUXE!!
 
Copy and pasted from my post in another forum, with some editing out of non SNES/MD games ;):

Ignoring the obvious Mario/Sonic/etc games:

Castlevania series (SNES) - Excellent vampire-stabbing fun.
Final Fight series (SNES), Streets of Rage series (MegaDrive) - Both quality old-school side-scrolling beat-em-ups (hyphen-tastic!)
Jurassic Park (SNES) - Used to love this on my mate's SNES. Top-down shooter, good fun, with admittedly rubbish 3D indoor segments.
Alfred Chicken (SNES) - I really loved the GB version of this, but apparently the SNES one isn't much cop, so watch out.
The 'Strike series (Urban Strike, Jungle Strike, etc) (MegaDrive) - Fantastic games, all of them. Top-down chopper shooter.
Lost Vikings (SNES) - Bit like Hidden and Dangerous. Only 2D. With Vikings. In Space. So not much like it at all really.
Mortal Kombat series (SNES), Street Fighter series (SNES) - If you haven't heard of either of these, please leave the room now.
Bomberman (any of them, they're pretty much identical) (various) - There's nothing quite like drunken multiplayer Bomberman. Can't be beaten.
Super Mario RPG (SNES) - Suprisingly good, and very unlike any other RPG out there.
R-Type series (various, I think) - Top notch side-scrolling space shooter.
Super Star Wars series (SNES) - Yet another side-scrolling shooter, quite like the Metal Slugs, and good fun.
Yoshi's Island (SNES) - Overlooked quality platformer.
Super Metroid (SNES) - Just plain excellent.
Megaman series (SNES) - Hard as hell, but pretty good fun games.
Sensible Soccer (MegaDrive) - :cool:
Kirby series (SNES) - Another series of quality overlooked platformers, quite unique.
Mean Bean Machine (MegaDrive) - Quite simply, one of the best puzzle games ever made.
Super Off Road (SNES) - Top-down driving game. Great fun.
'Turtles Tournament Fighters (SNES) - Great fighting game. Up there with the Street Fighters and 'Kombats on the SNES imo.
Almost any SNES RPG (Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasies, Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia) - Well duh, they're pretty much all excellent, quite frankly. Chrono Trigger in particular is my favouritest console game of all time, so I order you to buy that at the very least.

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Secret of Mana, Mystical Ninja (Goeman the Warrior), Final Fantasy 6, Super Mario World 1 & 2 (Yoshi's Island), Super Mario Allstars, Super Mario Kart, and Super Boberman are my fave SNES games - the the only games I refuse to sell :)
 
Cybernator (Assault Suits Valken) is one of the best shoot 'em up games ever.
Axelay is also pretty cool
R-type on the SNES was pretty poor and suffered from severe slow down when it got busy. Check out R-type 3, Axelay and Parodius as well as Pop 'n' Twin Bee though.
Rock 'n' Roll Racing - superb soundtrack and a great racer.
Super Probotector (Contra III) - rock hard arcade shooter.

Kirby series (SNES) - Another series of quality overlooked platformers, quite unique.
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Erm... what Kirby games were on the SNES? :confused:
 
I remember Kirby Superstar, it was a weird mini-game thing plus the original Kirby's Dreamland, but I'd never seen Kirby's Dreamland 3 before. Looks like it came out in late 1997 (:eek: ) and didn't even get a European release. You learn something new every day. :)
 
I swear I saw it in a Mega Drive box with Chaos Engine written on it :\. Maybe that's the U.S version or something?

Actually not maybe, yes it is. get The Chaos Engine now it's just about the best game ever.
 
I can't stress this enough:

Unirally!

It's as mad as a cheese sandwich but it's a fantastic game, I ploughed so many hours into that it was ridiculous. If you can find it I'd definitely recommend it :)
 
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