Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Genesis) Playthrough

A playthrough of Sega's 1993 license-based platformer for the Sega Genesis, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.

Sega's games based on Home Alone were quite good, and it seemed reasonable to expect a similar level of quality from the sequel.

I, for one, was pretty disappointed by it. I do think that it's the best Home Alone 2 game overall, but when you look at the competition - primarily the games on the Nintendo platforms - I think you'll agree that there wasn't much competition.

It's not particularly bad - not at all - but compared to Sega's earlier Home Alone games, it falls a bit flat. The graphics are fairly good in spite of the massive amounts of dithering, and the animations look nice - I'm not sure if it was rotoscoped, but the style and relative fluidity certainly makes me think it might have been. The sound holds itself together well enough with some good music (except that first stage, yuck), and the grunt and scream effects can be pretty entertaining.

My biggest gripe I have with it is over the gameplay. It's as by-the-numbers as platforming can get. Whereas HA1 gave you something resembling a platformer/strategy/tower defense-hybrid game, HA2 plays things far more safe, and the experience overall suffers for it. For the most part you're running in a straight line or through a maze while jumping on tree limbs/shelves, collecting items, and at the end of each stage fighting the Wet-turned-Sticky Bandits. (Gross. Did they forget to wash their hands after their alone time?)

There's really no variety, and it's entirely too easy to run through the whole game on autopilot. Being the sequel to an innovative and thoroughly enjoyable first game doesn't do it any favors.

Still, there are plenty of worse games out there, particularly if you are looking for Christmas games. Back in the day, this was worth a rental. Now, I'd say if you see it for $5, go for it. You'll have some mindless fun, and it's easily worth that much. If it's $20, you'd probably be better off picking something else.

(The ending scene is pretty cool though!)

And finally, my long run of Home Alone videos comes to an end with this playthrough, for now at least. Hope you enjoyed them, and the holidays overall!
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.

[NintendoComplete]

Here we go with the last Home Alone upload for the time being. Everybody be safe and have fun with your new year's celebrations! 🍾

[KOOPAS]

2:53 Oh man, I remember that scene from the movie where Kevin is stuck in a weird world of luggages and having weird tunnels that are a size of a human and Kevin has to maneuver his way out, loved it.

[broganhogan]

I give you tons of credit for playing this all the way through. Frustrating and never lived up to the goodness of the first one on Genesis

[tryffel]

Your Chanel has become my first source to find new games from the 8 and 16 bit era. I really like your small rewiews in the description and you are good to point out the good things about them. As many of the games you are covering bearly has no mention at all anywhere ele, your videos and video desription is an exelent guide to my games collection.

[WispyBlueBricksGPX]

Happy New Year, NintendoComplete
And I'm not gonna lie, the thumbnail for this felt like it was staring at my soul

[supersexysega]

Pretty nice animation especially considering it's only a 4-Mb cart. I have a soft spot for alot of Sega of America work. Good enough game could have mailed it in with a far worse effort. Also don't mind the dithering and some of the music is good. 3:11 and 25:52 👍

Seems like they used the Tale Spin engine with some slight improvements.

[VahanNisanian]

With a decent chiptune cover of Darlene Love's "All Alone on Christmas".

[michaeljoyce]

At least no floating keys, vacuums and briefcases attacking you. That was so stupid in the other versions

[SoulTaker]

First of all, kudos to your dedication. I have watched some of your walkthroughs and felt amazed at the number of games you've been through to provide content. Truly amazing.

Second and unrelated, there's a NES game i wanted to ask about that i haven't seen in your list but you might know, since i want to play it on emulator for the old days' sake but can't remember its name. It's a side scrolling shoot'em up featuring a ship that can also turn into a mecha and fight on ground punching stuff. As far as i remember the bosses looked like giant floating cities/domes you defeated by shooting blocks underneath said dome. I haven't been able to find it so far.

Wether you know it or not, thanks for the content and keep it up! Games like these should be remembered for their value as pioneers in an industry spamming through (and joining) entire generations.

[cleversonmonterosylvah]

In my opinion this was the best version of Home Alone and very well done graphics!

[therealseanw.stewart]

Well, it's no masterpiece, but I enjoy the high energy of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York for the Sega Genesis. Despite how ugly some of the graphics are (look at Harry and Marv's faces on the bottom right corner! Eeugh!!), the animation on Kevin himself is pretty good, and it's a relatively safe, inoffensive, fast-moving platformer that I'm sure was an enjoyable Holiday rental. *Happy New Year, * everyone!!

[Dorian_Scott]

The only Home Alone game that is worth playing. The character animation in this is really nice. Look at that run cycle!

[Sandlot]

love that picture at the end credits! I could use that as my email greetings to one of my family and friends!

[KenMasters.]

"Sega turned me into a f**kin' a**hole!"

— Macaulay Culkin

[TeamBlueToad]

Might not be as good as the first Home Alone game for the Genesis but it's still really fun and worth playing. There are no doubts whatsoever. Sega's Home Alone games will always be the best ones!

[wiecsawkowalewski]

As i remember it, the game was tedious as hell, most frustrating part was enemies. How come e.g. regular bystanders by any possibility would turn hostile towards a kiddo? Anyway, it left mostly good memories after all, maybe reason we all were kids and this was Home Alone game :)
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Hell, looking at the SNES version I think I should consider myself lucky, it's a total fustercluck

[thecunninlynguist]

Played this one on emulator in my teenage years. Wasn't bad for what it was. Glad they retained the weapon crafting element to some extent

[Detson]

Omg this brings back so many memories!

[ELEKTRA_LUXXX]

This version was fun! Very smooth/clean gameplay!

[darinstaley]

Strange that the hotel is omitted in this one