Kazza
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A really nice video going through each US Genesis release of 1990 in chronological order. I feel 1990 is an often neglected time in Genesis/Megadrive history, being both pre-Sonic and pre-SNES console wars era (although there was a battle with the Turbogragx and NES).
The system's reputation for shooters was well-earned, with 8 released that year (with a whopping 6 released in the mid-Oct to mid-Nov period alone). On the other hand, there were surprisingly few sports games released.
I have lots of happy memories of that period (although I lived in the UK and often got imported Japanese games, so I may have played some of them in 1989). There were some great arcade ports (Golden Axe, Afterburner, Super Monaco GP, Strider). I remember buying Madden on the back of amazing reviews, but being British I didn't really quite get what I was supposed to be doing, so was left feeling a little disappointed. Although the console would later be flooded with them, it was a little lacking in mascot platformers that year, until the release of the sublime Mickey Mouse: Castle of Illusion (despite liking it on the Master System, the 16-bit Alex Kid game wasn't particularly exciting to me at the time). We were also pretty starved of beat'em ups/brawlers as well, with DJ Boy being the only option (if you don't include Golden Axe), which I enjoyed quite a bit.
Ghostbusters, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker and Phantasy Star 2 round up the rest of the games that left an impression on me. I really wanted Buster Douglas Boxing due to the beautiful big sprites, but never did get it (poor Sega, he had already lost his title belt to Evander Holyfield by the time the game came out).
While I would say that 1991 would see even better games (Sonic, Streets of Rage, Toejam and Earl, Road Rash etc), the system was already hitting its stride in 1990. Any memories of the Genesis in 1990 here?
EDIT: corrected a couple of date-related typos
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