Ranger X - Pushing the Genesis to its Limits!

Have you played Ranger X?

Have always loved this game. I wish there were modern 3D games that would just flat out copy the art style.

Yes! I love this game! I was surprised you didn't mention how it takes advantage of the 6 button gamepad to allow you to independently control the mech and the bike at the same time. This game really does squeeze every drop of capability out of the Genesis.

One of my fave Genesis games and I never shut up about it. Even made the mech in Gundam Breaker 3 lol. For some reason in my head it's 16-bit ZOE.

Fantastic game. The first time firing off that giant green laser blew me and my brother's minds

I didn't knew Wolfteam worked on this...but in hindsight, it ABSOLUTELY makes sense, it has that "Earnest Evans" type design to it (like, how EE supposedely takes place in our world but you fight like, giant mutated spiders, demons and mythological monsters in the jungle and thats before they go full on magical realism). The last boss certain fits in that mold.

Love the mech designs.

One of my favorite sega genesis games. Short and quite easy but tons of fun

This is like SEGA's own Target earth/ battle suit leynos. Love this game.

Wow, I seen it a long long time ago. A guy who sell Sega Genesis and Bootleg Nintendo Console have displayed and play this game in the wet market using the generator, I suspect all the cartilage he sold was Bootleg, but it was also so expensive that the kid me who have 50 cent as daily school meal couldn't afford it. I thought it was a Gundam/Macross game since I watched Gundam Wing and any mecha games that is cool = Gundam Wing. It was so hard back when I was young kid with a impatient brain. I played a few games you reviewed and recommended, definitely give this a try.

One of my favourite games ever. If you play it on HEAVY mode the whole game changes its color palette. Well, in most stages tho. For example, in the first stage in normal it's a blue sky but in HEAVY it's a sunset.

I’ve never heard of this one. Definitely going to check it out.

Hands down one of my favorite games as a kid. I just downloaded the Ex-Ranza rom just so I could experience the secret level, and I think with the Ex-Ranza secret level code it's just a matter of putting your index, middle, and ring finger on the A, B, and C buttons and doing that in sequence 3 times in the options screen as fast as your fingers will type (while selecting the difficulty mode to easy after of course) as it seemed to have worked for me on the first try.

Thank you for sharing your time and passion with us. Are you at all familiar with the game "Shattered Steel" (an early mech game with terain deformation) or the various modern arcade games of Astro Port. (Steel Strider, Armed Seven, Gigantic Army, etc?)

This one has been on my list to play for quite a long time. Also, it's hard to say how developers would feel about the state of games today. We tend to forget the bad stuff as time goes on.

One ill have to keep an eye out for when browsing through retro game shops

My friend justin had this game. I was eternally jealous.

Easy top ten genesis game for me. The dream would be this getting a remake/remaster in the same vein as what Tengo Project is doing with the old Natsume titles.

I thought that was Gundam ZZ for a second

I really enjoyed this game, pretty hard sometimes though