Aldo's Adventure
A friend of mine had only this and another game on his family's PC. I am ashamed to say I played too much of this Donkey Kong clone. Just look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVPyxYOH8D8
I recall playing a demo of this on a big collection of arcade ripoff shareware titles. I used to love that disk. Still have it somewhere around here, although I'd imagine half of the games won't run, and almost none of them are purchasable at this point.
The first game I ever owned. I remember being disappointed that it wasn't like the SNES bombermans with multiplayer,but I grew with the gameplay.
The Christmas I got my GBC (the first Nintendo console I owned since the NES; I grew up a Sega kid), I got this and
Tetris DX. This wasn't half-bad, but the bosses were such shit. Really liked Jump Mode, though.
This was actually fairly widespread, and the fact that it's related to
Doom, which has to have the most devoted-to-a-DOS-game-that-came-out-in-1993 fanbase I've ever seen, means it was pretty well archived, to boot.
Bonus: one of the developers for this game came back a few years ago and released
Chex Quest 3. Requires ZDoom or a variant, but hell, it's worth it.
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Anyway, now for my suggestions.
Sonic's Schoolhouse
I got this back in my "if it has Sonic on it it must be good" phase. Not that I explicitly regret it, since it's not
terrible, but still, it's one of the most obscure entries in the series. If you'll forgive the plug,
I recorded myself playing it a few years ago - outside of the broken sound effects, it's fairly thorough.
Star Wars Droidworks
I don't remember the circumstances around our getting this game, but it was remarkably fun taking the various robot pieces you could get and creating every combination under the sun. Dicking around the test area and the training areas was great fun. Don't recall much of the actual
missions, though, and since the game has issues running on modern hardware, I doubt I'll ever know what they were like at this point. :I
Have a video.
Baku Baku Animal
It's like
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, but with food and the animals that eat it, instead of gems and weird glowy orb things. Good fun.
Have a video.
Asterix and the Great Rescue
This was actually my first interaction with anything
Asterix, although I kind of liked it, despite it being hard as a rock. Just a somewhat mediocre platformer, but I rather liked it regardless. You guessed it -
have a video.
Goofy's Hysterical History Tour
I believe I got this game with my console, among many many others (most of my Genesis library, in all honesty). It's no
Quackshot, but it's another fairly solid platformer that's ridiculously difficult. Gameplay centers around this hand-extending gizmo Goofy invented as he travels through time - well, more like imagines travelling through time while cleaning a museum out (don't ask, the plot makes no sense). On the plus side, this is one of the few games I can think of to have even a level devoted to the American Revolution - a fairly untapped set piece, really (and yes, I'm aware of
AC3). I'm going to mix things up a bit and let you
have a video.
Rolo to the Rescue
Another tough-as-nails platformer for the Genesis (seeing a pattern here?) that I believe I got for my fifth-or-so birthday. Designed by the
James Pond blokes (he even gets a cameo!), and published by Electronic Arts back when they weren't winning golden feces, it's actually fairly solid, if a bit lengthy for a game with no save feature. You have to save all your friends by killing a dude with a big hat and a key, then using that key to automatically open any cages you pass by. Your friends all have specific skills, too, so you then have to switch to and use them to clear a way to your other friends for you, but they're all one-hit wonders - and if
you get hit with them in tow, one will run away, possibly rendering a level unwinnable without restarting it. I recall being weirded out by the Blockbuster Video sticker our cart had on it, and the strange design of the cartridge (which, in retrospect,
all EA Genesis games sported), thinking this was either a rental or a strange bootleg, but nope, it's mine, and it's legit. Anyway,
have a video.