Post your current gaming want/wish list, aquire opinions.

[marurun]

I enjoy Rocket Knight Adventures so much more than Sparkster, on any platform. RKA is just so refreshing!

[Exhuminator]

Ristar
Rocket Knight Adventures

Both of these games are equally excellent, brilliant even. Ristar is an incredibly beautiful and wholly unique platformer. I can't believe Bone doesn't like Ristar.

[Michi]

I can't believe Bone doesn't like Ristar.

I guess head-butting isn't the same as bump combat.

[Segata]

RKA is AMAZING! Ristar is...well...crap. lol Nah. Ristar is actually pretty good. It's a fun game. Dynomite Heady was also pretty good.

[Reprise]

My copy of Shinobi III has dispatched

It's just a shame I had to get the PAL MD version instead of the Genesis version

So I guess I'll be buying both Ristar and Rocket Knight Adventures next year. Well, RKA is the cheaper of the two games and since both seem highly rated here, I guess I'll go with the cheapest (RKA) first.

[dunpeal2064]

Shinobi III is sa-weet. Pro-tip for awesome 6 button action

To be able to use a 6 button controller with the game, plug a 6 button controller into port 1 of the Genesis console and then another controller into port 2. Turn the game on, and at the main menu, highlight options. On controller 1, hold down the mode button, and on controller 2, hold up and the C button. With all of these buttons held down, press start on controller 1. When you enter the options menu, you can tell if the code has worked as the text at the top will should now say "OPTION" rather than the usual "OPTIONS". When you start the game, you will be able to use a 6 button controller.

An unusually obtuse code, no doubt, but having access to on-command sword attacks is too cool.

[Sarge]

I didn't care for Revenge of Shinobi that much (that last stage sucks!), but Shinobi III is definitely one of the best 16-bit platformers. Good, good stuff.

[Reprise]

I didn't care for Revenge of Shinobi that much (that last stage sucks!), but Shinobi III is definitely one of the best 16-bit platformers. Good, good stuff.

I'm the same. It's the reason really that I'm only just getting around to picking up Shinobi III. Revenge of Shinobi is one of the first games I got for the Mega Drive, as part of one of those 'Mega Collections' (not sure if you had those in the 'States? I'm sure you did, but no doubt they were called something else). I never thought too much of it, so never delved any deeper into the series. It was only after I heard so much praise for Shinobi III and saw it near the top of most Genesis/MD lists that I decided to try it out via emulation. I've got it on a couple of those Genesis/MD compilations for PS2 and PS3 too. I've only played the first few levels, but I loved it.

[Sarge]

Yeah, we had a single "Genesis 6-Pak" release here, but I think it had a slightly different collection of games from the PAL region. Ours had Super Hang-On, Columns, Golden Axe, Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage, and Sonic the Hedgehog. That's actually how I own all these carts; I'm pretty sure I don't have the original releases.

[Xeogred]

I didn't care for Revenge of Shinobi that much (that last stage sucks!), but Shinobi III is definitely one of the best 16-bit platformers. Good, good stuff.

I'm the same. It's the reason really that I'm only just getting around to picking up Shinobi III. Revenge of Shinobi is one of the first games I got for the Mega Drive, as part of one of those 'Mega Collections' (not sure if you had those in the 'States? I'm sure you did, but no doubt they were called something else). I never thought too much of it, so never delved any deeper into the series. It was only after I heard so much praise for Shinobi III and saw it near the top of most Genesis/MD lists that I decided to try it out via emulation. I've got it on a couple of those Genesis/MD compilations for PS2 and PS3 too. I've only played the first few levels, but I loved it.

Same. Shinobi 3 ruined the entire series for me, if only because you can't run in the other games and the controls are ass. I can't get into any of them.

Shinobi PS2 was really cool though and insanely hard. Badass OST too: