The Genesis is my favorite retro system!

I never get tired of videos like this. Love sharing enthusiasm for the cheap, good games.

I plan on recollecting soon.  I'd want to look for: Earth Worm Jim, Street Fight II Turbo, Mortal Kombat, etc.  Great video, keep it up John.

As a collector, this is a Great video for people just getting into the hobby, because the Genesis is one of the most affordable and widely available consoles to collect for. Many CIB games that are reasonably priced for people to fill their shelves with boxed games without breaking the bank. Great Video.

The Six Pack cart is a crazy good value after all these years, worth ten times its usual going price. Worth it just for Sonic and Streets of Rage alone.

Wish I'd started serious collecting for the Genesis much sooner. My best friend had one when we were kids, but I had the NES and SNES then (early '90s). I didn't start getting into Genesis until I was nearly 30, though, when my mother-in-law was about to get rid of her sons' old Model 1 in a garage sale. I rescued it, and now nearly 20 years later, Genesis/Mega Drive makes up the second biggest slice of my collection with over 100 carts (NES is still my primary, ~240 carts). Absolutely love the Genesis, and I might be in the minority, but that original 3-button controller is probably my favorite controller design of all time.

Might be worth noting how awesome the Genesis' selection of new after-market games is, too, so tons of NEW games to check out and always more coming from devs all over the world.

Other than the ones mentioned, Zombies ate my neighbours, Aladdin, the Jungle book, Micro machines, Speedball 2.

I appreciate that, despite your incredibly comprehensive and valuable game collection, you make a point of telling the audience to basically play the games in any way that's available to them. That clearly comes from a true passion and love for the medium. Keep doing what you do, great content as usual.

Seeing this vid, I started thinking. How difficult it would be to start collecting in this day and age. As I continued to watch, you reminded me that's there's still great games out in the wild that are available and affordable. At the stage I'm at with my collection, I couldn't personally imagine starting again. Then I think, how much fun it would be to do so. At this point in life, it would be a grind but very rewarding. I look forward to seeing more collectors starting out and finding some amazing games, not jaded by nostalgia, as I'm sure you know, difficult to ignore. Great topic and vid as always John ☝️🙌✨️

The original hardware is also bullet proof, they were made really well👍🏻😎🍺

I didn't have a ton of games as a kid but i did have vector man, nba jam, nhl 94, and desert strike. My pops didn't play games but he loved desert strike.

I still own my original genesis model 2 console from when I was a kid in the 90s, I also have the 6-pak game and sonic and knuckles, plus I have sonic 2 and 3 and other games in the box already. Spot goes to hollywood is a pretty good hidden gem that is fun to play and I got that in box still.

Aladdin & Joe Montana Football are two FANTASTIC budget friendly games every SEGA GENESIS beginner should definitely pickup.

We moved several years back and I did not have the room to haul my collection from Michigan to Arizona. Once we got settled in, I started browsing marketplace & craigslist and eventually found cheap 20 inch CRT and a Sega Genesis. The most important thing I got next was a Mega Everdrive x7 flash cart! I was floored when I figured out it not only plays Genesis games but Master System too!! I have discovered so many great games thanks to John and other retro YouTubers. I have since added flash carts for my NES, Atari 2600 and SNES systems. I do also collect physical carts when I can afford them but flash carts have been a game changer for me. Thanks for another great video John. :)

Don’t forget also there so many new great games like XenoCrisis , Tangle Wood , Tanzer , Demons of Asterborg , AsterBro , and so many more I even heard Yuzo maker of Streets of Rage has demo shooter game that he might release which looks incredible and I definitely back it like all the new release MD/GEN games I cant believe growing up with the Md/Gen til now love the console to death

Need a World Series Baseball

Tecmo SuperBowl cant be beat

I was thinking about you going back to Sega it’s been a while you’re the Sega Legend along with Sega Lord X let’s start over with all of Sega from the Master System Genesis Game Gear CD 32X Saturn and Dreamcast about time you updated these videos from many years ago I appreciate you

Another opyion is just to buy someone's collection or a big lot of games that someone is moving at at once.

Solid list, John! The Genesis was the arcade experience of my teens. Along with the NES, it's probably my most cherished system.

One of my favourite ways to start or re-start a collection, specifically if it's something from my childhood, is to try and repurchase the games I had at the time. We never had a massive Genesis collection growing up, but that would mean I'm rebuying Sonic 1-3, Spinball, NFL Quarterback Club, and Sub-Terrania