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[RetroGamingUK]

This month celebrates the 30th anniversary (at least in PAL land) of the greatest 16-bit platformer of all…

Some things I absolutely love about this Treasure classic

- Art style, its jam packed with Japanese 90s charm, the stages and crazy enemy designs are gorgeous

- Level design, it just never gets boring, as soon as you’ve mastered an ability or level aspect it quickly moves onto something else

- Power-ups, Headdy can literally change his head when a power-up is collected for a few seconds enabling variety in the combat and navigation, there’s always options to these and they’re always in just the right place

- Soundtrack, I’ll let a couple of videos do the talking





Thankyou mum for getting me this wonderful surprise for Christmas 30 years ago

 

[Krathoon]

They got it in the Genesis Collection.

Can you use a usb Genesis controller with that collection?

 

[Dzab]

Easily one of the best Megadrive games, amazing OST. Classic Treasure doing their thing as always.
Still have my original cartridge

 

[SkylineRKR]

Yeah its one of the best MD games. Its on Mini and I played it a ton on there. I can't beat it but its brilliant all over.

 

[RetroGamingUK]

Yeah its one of the best MD games. Its on Mini and I played it a ton on there. I can't beat it but its brilliant all over.

Yeah the last few levels are ridiculously hard. This level gave me nightmares…

 

[Sojiro]

I don't know if I can call it the best 16 bit platformer, but damn is it not one of my favorite Genesis games. It's wacky as fuck, but plays like a dream, and is very fucking good. I also love that soundtrack. Probably not a popular opinion, but I think this is Treasure's best game on the platform, even over the also excellent Gunstar Heroes.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Back in the day when me and my friends scored the occasional 1/8th of really good weed, we'd call the nuggets "Dynamite Headies"

 

[Magic Carpet]

I've never even head of this title. Now I got to have it.