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Time to have a little more fun. I'm going to try and start a new thread every week and pick a different company or system of games. See what everyone likes and why. Doesn't matter if they made it or distributed it.

This week:

Favorite Games By Sega

First Sega game that I played the crap out of would be Frogger. Not much to say about this one, who doesn't like Frogger. I found one in the wild a few weeks ago and had to play it till I got the HS, which wasn't very high.

In the mid 80's I specifically, remember just looking at the Marquees to see what game to drop my quarters in. If it said Sega then there was a good chance I'd try it out and at that time it would be a System 16 game. The 2 I played the most were Shinobi, Altered Beast, and Golden Axe. No matter what the time period ninja's are cool and Shinobi was fun. One quarter usually lasted to the first bonus round or right after if I was doing well. Altered Beast was just a good game with a good theme. Sega just had a bunch of good System 16 games and Golden Axe was another that I dropped tons of quarters in.

What's your favorite Sega game?
 
Sega

Now if we are only talking about Sega Arcade Games? Not console games? I could go on forever with Console games. *Alittle Blue guy comes too mind*

But Arcade Games Sega / Nintendo's Space FireBird, Golden Axe, Golden Axe 2 Revenge of Death Adder.
 
Technically Frogger is Konami, just released by Sega :) Konami really has lots of good games licensed by others -- They would be harder to pick a best of.

For Sega -- my current fav: Pengo

Others:
Frogger, Zaxxon, Congo Bongo, Turbo, Space Fury
 
Its hard to narrow it all down with sega, as they have soooooo many genres from flyers, drivers, platformers, and classics, but for me:
OUTRUN. to me that summed up where sega would try to take all their future games. To try to go fast, well animated, crisp colors, spectacular sound, etc etc. Future games like afterburner would follow the same patterns.
 
Time to have a little more fun.
This week:
Favorite Games By Sega
What's your favorite Sega game?

Carnival. Not a hugely popular game, but I always liked it. Getting to the bonus screen of 2 pairs of bears, each pair going in the opposite direction was really really tough. Never saw or heard of anyone making past that. I'd be interested to hear what the next bonus screen is.
 
hmm sega? Itd be a tie between Golden Axe and AfterburnerII cockpit. Thank god pcbs are swappable otherwise I'd need a dedicated Golden Axe + a ton of other dedicated games.

Tom
 
For the classic era, my favorite Sega game would be Turbo, with Space Firebird and Frogger being in 2nd and 3rd place.

From the jamma era, my favorite Sega title is Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder. The graphics were so large and crisp, and it was probably the most polished beat-em-up of it's time. Loved how your character (I usually used the centauress) could ride a scorpion or praying mantis, which could then take a bite out of an enemies face! Brutal!

Kyle :cool:
 
My favorite Sega games are Astro Blaster and Golden Axe.

Astro Blaster is one of my grails that I hope to have some day.
 
Had to choose a hard one to start, eh?

Old school (pre-1990) - I'll have to go with Turbo as that's likely the Sega game I put the most dough in to.

Mid school (1990-1999) - Crazy Taxi... but far. GREAT game...

New school (2000+) - None...I don't think I've played a 2000+ Sega game.
 
Had to choose a hard one to start, eh?

Yeah, I thought I'd start with a well rounded company that would bring in a variety of people to start with. They have a lot of great games and by starting with Sega I don't think anyone is going to be turned off by the thread saying Sega sucks.

As for post 2000 Sega, I don't think I've played one either, but I bet Outrun is good.
 
Altered Beast and Outrun are the 2 late 80's games with the most memories for me.

Outrun was at the big arcade in Long Prairie Minnesota and we'd go there after we thrashed in the roller rink on Friday and Saturday nights. I liked the game because of the shaker motor, the satisfying feeling of shifting into high, and the fact that your chick's hair flowed in the wind.

Altered Beast was in an entrance way arcade to the Target Store back in '88-89. I loved the graphics, the sounds and the fact that the weird characters all were rendered with some sweet otherworldly detail. The intermediate steroid transformations to beast always felt cool as hell.
 
Frogger would be my favorite.
2nd place would be Hot Rod.

Honorable mentions to Choplifter, Congo Bongo, and the House of the Dead series.
 
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