I need advice

[Gooseberrysoda]

I bought a Genesis for a friend a few days ago (for 5 bucks with all cables and controllers, YAY) and I need to know which games would be best for him. I'm thinking one of each category:
Fighting
Incredibly hard platforming
Arcade Conversion
and, if there's an RPG for under 10 bucks, that.

I'm looking for fairly cheap games of high quality.

[PGchris]

For a good/hard platformer you should pick up Dynamite Heady its pretty cheap too, i think you can find it for like 5 bucks.

[pkdavid]

Fighting
Street Fighter 2 Championship Edition
Mortal Kombat 2
Streets of Rage 2 (scrolling beat'em up)

Platform
Tailspin

Also, check out the lists at racketboy
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/sega/gen ... drive.html

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2007/04/ ... games.html

http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2009/08/ ... -rpgs.html

[Flak Beard]

You know, I was playing a really great Genesis arcade conversion this morning.

Midnight Resistance

I love this game. It can be found for fairly cheap and has an epic soundtrack.

[samuraifez]

The music in that video fucking ROCKS.

I must have Midnight Resistance.

[samsonlonghair]

Incredibly hard platforming

When You said that, "Marvel Land" came to mind. This game is also known as "talmit's adventure" in some territories. It's lots of fun, but very, very hard to get all the way through all sixty levels.

[tcpballa93]

Why, thank you, Alex. Street fighter 2 and any of the MK games are always safe bets. For RPGs, I think the Phantasy star series runs fairly cheap. Also, did you get that locally, if so where?

[Ack]

The music in that video fucking ROCKS.

I must have Midnight Resistance.

I concur, that was awesome.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

The Adventures of Batman and Robin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k0ZqBA9 ... re=related

It's like contra and a shmup mixed together with some Batman and techno thrown in. Plus the graphics push the Genesis to it's max (256 colors on screen at once, scaling, rotation, polygons, morphmation, insane amounts of parallax and more) in some areas.