Kim Justice's Top 50 WORST Sega Mega Drive/Genesis Games

After 10 years, it's time to revisit the worst games on the Mega Drive and count them down -- and this time, it's a top 50! Where will the likes of Rise of the Robots, Dark Castle, Slaughter Sport and Sword of Sodan rank? Let's find out.

Shoutouts to @LeftoverCultureReview - who's actually doing some pretty cool pictures with Art Alive.

0:00 Intro
1:32 #50 to #41
12:35 #40 to #31
23:51 #30 to #21
35:16 #20 to #11
46:35 #10 to #6
52:59 #5 to #1

#kimjustice #retrogaming #segamegadrive #worstgames #segagames

[Kim_Justice]

Just how many of these dreadful games have you played? Have a shout about it in the comments, and thanks for watching! :)

[Giantwaspface]

I had a friend in school whose cheapskate parents would only buy him games from the local Cash Converters. While the rest of us played Sonic, he was playing Bubsy, Fantasia and Captain Planet... Poor bastard.

[SuperMookles]

I absolutely love Kim's "worst videos". Top-notch tongue lashings.

[Nov-]

14:19 Fun fact, according to an interview from the TV show "Cybernet" Xenon 2 is Peter Molyneux's 4th favorite game. He placed it higher than Half Life.
He was probably referring to the Amiga version though.

[LaurentCourtin]

The Infogrames games based on French-Belgian comics are (in)famous among the French-speaking YouTube/gaming community for their brutal difficulty. The consensus is always the same : very nice looking, with graphics faithful to the comics, but so hard you will want to smash your controller.
As for the Tintin game, believe it or not, but Spirou (or even the Smurfs) have the reputation to be even more difficult.

[medes]

I know it's probably dreadful, but I loved Captain Planet as a child. I was so enamored with the cartoon that a game I could play and control myself was always going to be ranked highly by me.

As a kid, it was my absolute favourite show. I got the magazine every week form the newsagents and watched the new episodes every weekend lunchtime on BBC2.

Looking at the footage I'm sure the game sucks. But my nostalgia for it will likely win out if play it again.

[roskapostikohde]

I got Art Alive preowned -- like most of the console games I had at the time, and created a "title screen" for at least one "short film" (if we're extremely very generous) by recording it on VHS tape first.
Sword of Sodan is on Evercade, and maybe I should try playing it some more. So far, I prefer it over Coffee Crisis.
With Last Action Hero, I feel I made a critical save by getting Wiz'n'Liz instead.
A friend had Fantasia and Technocop. Politely put, we didn't like those titles even at the time.

[ChrisSmout]

Good list, and better for me that I never had to experience any of these myself. Games I love to hate include Asterix The Gaul and Tazmania; both of which are brutally unfair and quickly become frustrating in the extreme.

[vilangel]

Mis juegos favoritos de Sega Mega Drive:

- PHANTASY STAR 2
- PHANTASY STAR 3
- PHANTASY STAR 4
- BOB
- SPLATTERHOUSE 2
- SPLATTERHOUSE 3
- EX-MUTANTS
- ROLLING THUNDER 2
- ROLLING THUNDER 3
- THE FLINTSTONES
- ZERO WING
- THE LOST VIKINGS
- AERO THE ACRO-BAT
- AERO THE ACRO-BAT 2
- RAIDEN TRAD
- STREET FIGHTER 2
- SUPER STREET FIGHTER 2
- ZOMBIES ATE MY NEIGHBORNS
- VALIS
- SYD VALIS
- VALIS 3
- AERO BUSTERS
- THE JUNGLE BOOK
- GAIARES
- ROBOCOP VS TERMINATOR
- PRINCE OF PERSIA
- ARROW FLASH
- KID CHAMELEON
- CHUCK ROCK
- CHUCK ROCK 2: SONS OF CHUCK
- STEEL EMPIRE
- STREET OF RAGE
- STREET OF RAGE 2
- STREET OF RAGE 3
- ELIMINATED DOWN
- DYNAMITE HEADDY
- SHINING FORCE
- SHINING FORCE 2
- SHINING IN THE DARKNESS
- JOE & MAC: CAVEMAN NINJA
- MEGA MAN: THE WILY WARS
- MUSHA ALESTE
- NEW HORIZONS
- SOLEIL
- COMIX ZONE
- THUNDER FORCE 2
- THUNDER FORCE 3
- THUNDER FORCE 4
- SHADOW DANCER
- THE REVENGE OF SHINOBI
- SHINOBI 3: RETURN OF THE NINJA MASTER
- WONDER BOY IN MONSTER WORLD
- WONDER BOY 4 IN MONSTER WORLD
- CASTLEVANIA: THE NEW GENERATIONS
- RISTAR
- GLOBAL GLADIATORS
- SONIC THE HEDGEHOG
- SONIC 2
- SONIC 3
- SONIC & KNUCLES
- SONIC 3D BLAST
- SAGAIA 2
- GHOULS 'N GHOSTS
- KRUSTY'S SUPER FUN HOUSE
- STORY OF THOR
- GUNSTAR HEROES
- SOLEIL
- CONTRA: HARD CORPS
- EARTHWORM JIM
- EARTHWORM JIM 2
- LANDSTALKERS
- ALISIA DRAGOON

Saludos desde España 🇪🇦🇪🇺👍🏻

[Rodney]

Fantasia gaslit me as child into thinking I was just bad at it. It looks so nice... and Disney would never make an inferior product, right?

[bjornh]

Now THIS is one well researched list! Regarding Double Dragon II... the arcade game also suffered from major slowdowns, so the unfaithful ports were all the better for it!

[zusk]

I'd agree on all of them except Osomatsu-kun, Rastan II & Double Dragon II. Maybe 16t as well, but that's meant to be like a 2 minute play and put down. I know even the creator hates the Osomatsu game, but I've always loved the graphics and I usually have some fun with it for about 20 min or so at a time. Rastan II is mostly the same, it's bad but it's so bad it's good for me, like a cheesy 80s sword and sorcery movie.

Double Dragon II plays horribly until you get into the groove, at which point it's actually one of the better ports since it's arcade accurate, whereas most of the others aren't. You just have to move with the lag and cut it some slack, lol.

[jaethemanchild]

This was like watching a Match Of The Day style highlights program of the worst moments of the last 6 months of your life! Love it!

[doricdream]

God i love Earnest Evans. Unironically one of my favorite genesis games, its SO silly.

[mikepatterson]

I was glad to see that Fantasia made it into this list. It was the first truly terrible game I played as a kid. Thankfully my parents only rented it for me 😂

[orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Aahhh... nicely done ma'am!
I really needed this; a typical (worst of...) vid... its comfort watching. I needed this because my oldman randomly dropped and died a week or so back... he already had cancer and an emergency operation. Worst part was he stated he was having chemo. Was going great, no side effects it seems...well yeah - because he wasn't even turning up to the treatment! It was aggressive and he knew it was terminal which makes sense to his anger, because yes he was old but he was extremely health conscious aka never smoked, drank very good diet, was still playing badminton for Wiltshire aged 78!!
He died immediately there and then walking to the pub due to a blood clot travelling to his heart....
But what really makes the memories hurt the most is, he bought me in my childhood most of my collection. Every sega released etc. Sadly a decade ago life dictated i had to sell them (and I certainly didn't know some of the rare ones I had worth serious money such as Keio flying squadron for mega cd. Demo and game etc) at a dirt cheap rate because I had adult boring things to pay such as about to lose my house due to rent unpaid. My only comfort was that these machines were not mint condition. They were very much loved and used 24/7; and thus serious mileage and extremely temperamental etc ....
Regardless im greatful for emulation big time, but thank you Kim. Been watching you since 2014/5 area. Well before you discovered the journey you took - I thought you were the coolest dude around back then and would of absolutely enjoyed nerding out with you for an afternoon at one time or another...
Stay you, and may life keep you in relative comfort.
The only good thing to come my way is.... im his only son, he was pretty damn successful wheras I failed everything and even had to overcome addiction! - now I will never have to worry about rent etc... well assuming vultures like the government don't somehow hurt me. I know how things go so I won't relax until I get what I'm due etc.
Sorry to over-share thanx fir being a sound board and the comfort viewing; couldn't come at a better time from one of my favourite long time channels!
Best wishes

[sacredbanana]

Really enjoying this video! Btw you should continue your Amiga A-Z streams where you left off. Really enjoyed that journey of discovery

[camerongreenwoodcrampakacgc.]

Great video Kim Justice.

One of your best.

I’m a big fan of your videos too mate.

Keep it up.

A big shout to you from Cameron Greenwood Cramp AKA CGC from Melbourne Australia.

[JustBNJI]

It's shameful how much time I spent on Art Alive back in the day...I have no idea how I even came to own it

[manmonkee]

50:40 Yaah I did this :), only the sprites though. Yes there are a lot of moves, Marvel pressured us really quite strongly to put a shite load of usless moves in. We didn't want to but Marvel paid the bills, The bad gameplay was the Game Directors fault.