These are my recommendations:

• Sonic 1 to 3 (& Knuckles)
• Quackshot starring Donald Duck
• Zero Wing
• Ecco: Tides of Time
• Alien Storm
• Zool
• Shadow Dancer: Secret of Shinobi
• World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
• Atomic Runner
• Daffy Duck in Hollywood
• Aladdin
• The Incredible Hulk
• Dick Tracy
• Virtua Racing
• Super Smash TV

The Phaser only works on a CRT, I thought it was (primarily?) a Master System peripheral.

Oddball games I picked up over the years.

Jurassic Park - follows the novel which has some fun set pieces. Difficult

Toy Story - TT game, and a fun “doom” level

Zero Tolerance- FPS for genesis

Scooby Doo Mystery- unless the snes game it’s actually a point and click adventure. Very fun

Awesome. I’ve got my old one in my parents attic somewhere. Need to dig it up. Got my old chipped PS2 from them though.

I wish I had a CRT for the one I got back in 2020. Genesis/mega drive, in my opinion, is such a cool system… at least the first model design. Love the ability to plug in a pair of headphones and play games without bothering anybody in the middle of the night.

As for games, I’m pretty basic because absolutely I love 4 out of the 5 Sonic games I got on here: Sonic 1-3 and 3D Blast/3D: Flickies Island. Spinball is the frustrating one ( mostly due to me sucking at it and the controls not being as fluid as the original trio, IMO ). Though, not including those, my next favorite would be the only other title I have but haven’t played much of: ToeJam & Earl.

As for phaser gun, no idea because I have no idea what games even use it, let alone how many. Could be cool to keep as a collectors thing, kind of like how I have some official controllers that don’t really work and I can’t use. Or it could bring in a little money if you don’t want to go overboard on spending more just to get any other things you might need/want for the console. No idea how much that phaser could bring in, but even a percentage of what you bid being brought back into your pocket is money saved, as I see it.

I wasn’t a huge fan of the system but Ecco the Dolphin, Golden Axe, and Eternal Champions were dope.

Can I piggyback on this post? What are some good RPGs for the megadrive/genesis? I like to live translate games as I stream them and I’m looking for some text-heavy games, but it seems like the Super Famicom/SNES had a near-monopoly on RPGs.

Ranger-X - fantastic mecha side scrolling shooter where you can dock your mech with motorcycle or spaceship. Love that game.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Chemical Plant Zone is easily one of, if not, the best sonic level ever

X-Men - the music alone is fantastic

Phantasy Star II - one of the greatest RPGs ever.

Battletech - like jungle strike but with Mechwarrior

Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine - awesome and addictive puzzle game

Jurassic Park - the graphics at the time were fairly game changing, especially the T-Rex

Skitchin - like Road Rash but on rollerblades

Mortal Kombat - IMHO, other than the Sega CD version, best home port of the game just remember to enter in the blood code

Super Monaco GP II - one of the best racing games of the 16bit era

The Genesis is such a great console. I love how it really tried to bring the arcade home. Street Fighter 2, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Strider, Air Buster, Out Run and come to mind.

Back in the day, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles. I find the series can be a hard sell to people who didn’t grow up in that era though. Sonic 1 is a classic too, but doesn’t hold up as well as the others, imo.

Streets of Rage is another solid trilogy. I think it peaked at SoR2, but the other games are fun too.

If you’re just looking to play games and not buy them, Crusader of Centy is a lot of fun. A bit of a unique Zelda-like game where instead of new items, you get new animal followers!

The Shining Force duology is great, too. It was probably one of the first SRPGs to be released in North America!

And obligatory name drop for Star Control. The sequel is so much more fleshed out, but this one is a tactical strategy game where you have space ship fights when you encounter the enemy. There are two sides, each with ~7 unique and distinct ships!

Other than those…check out Sega Lord X on YouTube! He always talks about Shinobi, the arcade ports, and other awesome Sega games!

Make sure you try to get both Toejam & Earl games, although diehards will swear the 1st one is better than the 2nd one. I also recommend the Batman & Robin side scrolling beat em up, not only was it fun but it had a banger soundtrack.

I’m not certain if you got the version compatible with the Sega CD but if you can locate one there were several ports of Genesis games to it. Eternal Champions was better on it because it had actual CGI and better animations, the Batman game was baller and, of course, there was Sonic CD as well.