10 Hidden Gems For The Sega Mega Drive

McDonald's Treasureland Adventures is a true "hidden gem" for the Genesis. At first you'd think kiddie game, and you'd be correct. But give it a chance and you'll see it's a polished masterpiece.

Oh yeah, Skitchin', such a great game. I even uploaded all music to my channel years ago, I recommend everyone to have a listen to it. The game is worth it just for the sound test alone. It's sick.

Some more great Genesis Hidden Gems: Ranger-X Blades of Vengeance Mazin Saga Dahna: Megami Tanjou

THANK YOU for mentioning Warriors of the Eternal Sun! It was one of my childhood games and I love it so much. It never gets enough love, in my opinion.

Treasureland Adventure is an all time classic

So happy to see Warriors of the Eternal Sun and Countdown to Doomsday here. Such criminally underrated games.

I had Skitchin' and it was a lot of fun to play. Shout-outs too for Jewel Master, Quackshot, Alisia Dragoon, and Mercs. Robocop vs. Terminator perhaps, though is that a hidden gem?

The only ones I've heard of on this list was McDonaldland and Talmit's Adventure, the others are all new to me. Thanks for bringing these underrepresented hidden gems to our attention, I'll have to check some of these games out

I love skitchin, I rented it from my local blockbuster when i was a kid. Would rent it quite often.

My go-to is High Seas Havoc (or Cap'n Havoc if you wanna get all EU about this). Absolutely lovely looking game, soundtrack's a belter. Controls are a little on the stiff side, and the difficulty curve is pretty much a vertical line, but it's a really nice little game nobody talks about.

I actually had most of these on the list, because I was a Genesis enthusiast when I was in my early teens. D&D was as difficult as you said... it was REALLY tough, especially for my adolescent mind. Shadowrun and Buck Rogers were my favorites at the time, too. I still like the genesis Shadowrun far more than the SNES one.

One of the better made lists I've stumbled across TJ stuff so far! I am a long time MegaDrive fan, and even then I've only acknowledged half of the list, from which I still recomend Shadowrun and Skitchin to this day. Very nice that I've had some more titles to add to my list. ;)

Hell yeah, I had both Red Zone and D&D Warriors of the Eternal Sun. The first was hard as heck, but had impressive graphics and music. Some of its tunes I still hum nowadays. The second one has a fantastic story (your castle was transported to another dimension where the sun IS ALWAYS UP, so everyone starts becoming mad. I particularly remember the priest, that starts bickering about you needing healing or revive and later on doesn't even do it. Oh, and I'm going to have a seizure. WHY THE HECK NO ONE EVER MENTIONED YUU YUU HAKUSHO!???

Anyone remember a game called Rollerball 2? I loved that at the time and never see it mentioned. NB - this game could have been bigger than the Beatles at time of release but considering I was still in short trousers I'd be none the wiser.

Dungeons & Dragons: Warriors of the Eternal Sun has just enough game to allow a wizard to cast Fireball before it ends- but the wait is worth it.

I hope Buck Rogers makes the list! Early X-Com lite, squad-based tactical RPG, very cool, unknown game.

nice to see warriors of the eternal sun getting a shout. great game. might and magic 2 was awesome too.

Wow, these hidden gems were a bit too well hidden! I owned a Mega Drive as did many of my friends and yet I've not even heard of any of these!

The Mega Games packs that came with the Megadrive 2 console got rinsed for donkeys, dined out on that multi-game cartridge for a very long time... I had the one with Golden Axe and Shinobi on it, I think!? Vaguely remember these days!

My personal "hidden gem" (or at least a game nobody really talks about) was Genghis Khan 2. It got me into the grand strategy genre big time.