Overall the game is best known for its impressive graphic effects, frantic action, great music, and epic boss fights. A single-player 'sequel', Gunstar Super Heroes, was released in 2005 for the GBA, and sets up a new team of heroes (who have the same names as their predecessors) to fight against the Empire Army once again to stop Golden Silver from reviving a second time.

Just a friendly reminder that the day has finally arrived and that Final Fantasy VII isn't the only game getting a long-overdue retro release. M2, the emulation magicians behind all of SEGA's excellent 3D classics, is releasing their most challenging project yet on the Nintendo 3DS. 3D Gunstar Heroes can be yours anytime and anywhere for just $5.99.

If you haven't played some iteration of Treasure's undisputed masterpiece, be it the original SEGA Genesis release or the modern day Steam port, then this is the place to do so. Each of M2's fabulous upgrades have proven to be a 'criterion' release of the games with bonuses far exceeding the 3D graphics.

Even without the added bonuses, 3D Gunstar Heroes is still $5.99 for the ability to crash through one of the most intense action games of all time, playable no matter where you go and emulated to absolute perfection by the best in the business. I'm having trouble seeing a downside here.

More thoughts after I download and play it.

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It's been exactly 25 years since Sonic the Hedgehog's loop-the-loops and pinball speed revolutionised our gaming lives.Before the little blue cannonball burst onto the scene in 1991, the Mega Drive was struggling to lure us from the charms of the Nintendo NES and a certain moustachioed plumber.But that all changed thanks to an incident on the technicolour South Island. With his eye on the island's six Chaos Emeralds, Dr.

Robotnik started imprisoning local animals and (naturally) turning them into robots. Sonic came spinning from a hedgerow into the Green Hill Zone, and the rest is gaming history.

Nintendo had Tetris, and the Mega Drive had Columns. It didn’t start off life on the console, having been originally developed for the Atari ST, but Sega snapped up the rights when it saw just how damn popular Tetris was with Nintendo gamers.Take some classic match-3 gem stacking, add some repetitive yet strangely compelling music, and throw in an ancient roman theme for good measure, and this was the result. Guaranteed to eat hours of your life in huge chunks of gameplay.Sure, the Mega CD version sounded better, and Tetris was so addictive it’s got an honest-to-goodness medical condition named after it, but if you wanted a puzzle fix in the 90s and weren’t a Nintendo fanboy, this was your go-to game. Also known as Super Shinobi, this series was probably the main reason why the gaming world was so obsessed with ninjas in the ‘90s.It was a terrific side-scrolling, hack and slash (and shuriken) action game, in which you play a ninja (duh) on a quest for vengeance (duh).One of the hardest games on the Mega Drive, the game was also infamously known for featuring several iconic level bosses; or rip-offs of iconic characters. Revenge of the Shinobi was soon followed by several well-received sequels, and became one of Sega’s most famous franchises.

Your girlfriend’s been kidnapped, your best bro is frozen in ice, monsters are crawling all over your treetop village, and you’re a giant anthropomorphic egg. Welcome to Fantastic Dizzy.This explore-em-up had no combat, just a massive side-scrolling map and plenty of head-scratching puzzles that left you cursing your tiny three-item inventory every time you forgot where you’d left that one crucial key a few hours before. The soundtrack was phenomenal, too, pumping out atmosphere from the Mega Drive’s Yamaha YM2612 audio chip. The best thing about Outrun, apart from the Ferrari, winding open roads, epic skids and huge vistas, was the music. Not only did they completely nail the authentic. handling and feel of driving a Ferrari Testarossa Spider, the soundtrack was the perfect accompaniment to your checkpoint-filled coast-to-desert race.' Passing breeze', 'Splash wave' and 'Magical sound shower' were all mega chiptune hits that would still sound radical if you were cruising the west coast in your drop-top 458 Italia today.Having never driven a Testarossa, we can't actually vouch for the authentic handling.

Known in Japan as I Love Mickey and Donald - The Mysterious Magic Box (seriously, what an amazing name), this third title in Disney's Illusion series blew our tiny little minds away with its incredible (for the time) visuals and superb soundtrack.Its co-op gameplay let two players pick up gamepads and trawl through gloriously vivid, rich levels as both Mickey and Donald, and unique combat mechanics like magic cloths and flying carpets made for some memorable gameplay, fuelling our passion for all things fantasy from a young, impressionable age. Treasure made some utterly brilliant Mega Drive games, and sure, Gunstar Heroes is normally top of most players’ lists, but don’t ignore Dynamite Heddy.It was almost as fast-paced, just as colourful, and unless you were a gaming god, impossible to get through in a weekend rental from Blockbuster (we never managed it, anyway).This bonkers single-player platformer was hard as nails, had some properly wacky power-ups, and saw you fight off demented bear puppets with your disembodied head.

Hey, we said it was bonkers. Remember when film tie-ins were good? Neither do we, but this came pretty close, mainly by not sticking to closely to the film's plot. In Alien 3, Ripley crash lands on a penal colony full of men without any guns and a single canine alien in waiting, then tries to save them all.In the Mega Drive version Ripley appears running full tilt with an arsenal of pulse rifles, flame throwers and grenades and what appears to be an entire prison full of acid blood filled aliens. Case clicker value list. Oh, and all the prisoners are stuck to the walls, their chests waiting to burst if you fail to free them within the pretty strict time limit.

A pretty lose retelling of the film, but all the better for it. Yet another classic turn-based tactics RPG, Shining Force is held in high regard and has seen more re-releases than the Star Wars movies.You play Max, a young swordsman who has to gather allies to aid his quest to stop the evil Kane. Like all evildoers, Kane is up to no good, and by that we mean he intends to opening the Shining Path and resurrect the Dark Dragon.The gameplay is challenging and addictive, with energetic cutscenes punctuating the strategic movement of your troops. A gem in the Japanese RPG (JRPG) genre for sure. This second outing for the two titular aliens was lightyears ahead of the original in terms of looks, soundtrack, and a level of funkadelic brilliance that just can’t be beat.Turns out you should check your cargo hold for stowaways when hightailing it off of Earth. That’s how TJ &E’s home planet got overrun with the worst kind of people: tourists (shudder).OK, so the procedurally generated levels got ditched in favour of more traditional side-scrolling, but we can forgive all that thanks to the bizarre mix of bonus stages - and for catching humans in jam jars, Ghostbusters-style.

Imagine pitching Ecco the dolphin to the Sega board today. You sit down opposite the all-powerful men in charge of budgets, take a sip of triple filtered volcanic glacial water and deliver your well-rehearsed opening line.' It's a game about a dolphin who mysteriously loses his pod and, on his journey to save them, meets the oldest living sea creature, travels back through time, visits the ancient city of Atlantis, gets rescued by a Pteranodon, defeats an alien vortex queen (on her spaceship) and rescues his pod.' 'With the greatest of respect' says the budgets man 'we'll pass, it just sounds too weird'. In an era when Sonic and Mario battled to be king of the platformer, an altogether less bony challenger rose from the soil in an attempt to compete for the title.Earthworm Jim, a gun-wielding invertebrate in a spacesuit, brought a much-needed dose of surreal humour and imagination to the genre, and while his fame never reached the same heights as Sega and Nintendo’s in-house heroes, Jim’s 16-bit outing was packed with inventive gameplay ideas that became standard issue for years to come.

Before NBA Jam arrived, if a stadium announcer exclaimed “he’s on fire!” during a basketball match you’d reach for the nearest extinguisher – but Midway’s two-on-two dunkathon gave the phrase an entirely new meaning.Sink three in a row with the same player and the ball would burst into flames, burning the net with each additional basket scored. NBA Jam was a hectic, end-to-end multiplayer smash and these days it’s available to stream on PlayStation Now, or download on iOS and Android. Fortunately, it’s still every bit as addictive as it was back then. The Mega Drive wasn’t exactly short on racing games, but Road Rash’s heady concoction of speed and violence sent its rivals rolling into roadside shrubbery. As you blasted around illegal street races in Sierra Nevada and Redwood Forest, you’d have to keep one eye on the track and the other on flinging a perfectly placed fist into Rude Boy’s face.It wasn’t complete anarchy – a pesky police bike was always around to bust you and hand out a hefty fine. But assuming you avoided him and finished in the race’s top three, you’d get to upgrade your bike to the likes of a Diablo 1000 and tear around extended versions of the courses. Fancy a re-run?

Check out its spiritual successor on Steam. Like a cross between a racer and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, this Codemasters classic was way more fun than virtual toy racing cars had any right to be. Its addictive brilliance came from two things: the surprise element of its top-down view, and the huge variety of its superbly designed tracks.One minute you’d be driving a speedboat around Soap Lake City’s bathtub, the next ploughing into a giant waffle in The Breakfast Bends. The only real way to succeed was to memorise each track’s twists and turns – but it was all worth it to see your vehicle plonked into the middle of another nerve-shredding household adventure. Yes, many will argue (with some justification) that Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was the better all-round game, thanks to its introduction of Tails, bonus levels and the 'spin dash' that let Sonic rev up on the spot before firing off like a cannonball.But we've plumped for the original game for our number one spot, and not just because today is its 25th birthday. Not only did it introduce all the elements that made its sequels so great - the speed, timeless graphics and levels with hidden depths - it helped trigger an avalanche of brilliant and hugely varied games that forced Nintendo to up its game with the SNES.

Happy birthday, Sonic!Oh, and if you have an Android phone and fancy taking Sonic through a 3D obstacle course for free (with no in-app purchases), Sonic Dash is now a free download on.