El VientoĪdmittedly, the hack-and-slash action in this Wolf Team game is pretty generic, but there’s something so batty about El Viento that it’s worth recommending despite its flaws.
With apologies if we’ve missed any of your favorites, here’s our selection of 50 Sega Genesis games that never quite got the mega-selling attention they deserved… 50. Yet, while Sonic and several other core hits were responsible for selling a legion of systems, there was also a range of other cracking titles among the Genesis’ hundreds of releases. Although it faced tougher competition in Japan from Nintendo’s Super Nintendo, games like Sonic the Hedgehog, Altered Beast, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, and a range of licensed sports titles made the Genesis a zeitgeist-grabbing hit in the west. The Sega Genesis became a hugely popular console in America and Europe.
In the late ’80s and ’90s, Sega enjoyed a golden period of success.