10 Most Underrated Mega Drive & Genesis Games Ever

9. Aero Blasters - Kaneko (1990)

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Kaneko

Aero Blasters is one of those games that goes by many different titles, depending on where you live in the world. It was Air Buster in Japan, and, while it failed to attract a strong global following, proved that the Mega Drive was capable of delivering intense horizontal shoot-em-up action as well as any other hardware at the time.

Most often compared to R-Type, Aero Blasters added a nice robust color pallet and massive boss sprites to the fold. The biggest complaint at the time was that the game was too short.

It isn't always easy to track down today but the experience still holds up even after all these years.

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Jason Russell has been working in video game journalism since the early 1990s before the internet existed, the term "fanzine" had meaning and sailors still debated as to whether or not the earth was flat. The first time. More recently he has been the guy responsible for the Retrospective column for Old School Gamer Magazine, pens up a Game Skinny column on a plethora of video game topics. He's somehow managed to author nine novels, writes and runs the blog CG Movie Review, is co-founder of the science fiction publishing house Starry Eyed Press, and sometimes, when the planets align and the caffeine has fully left his system, it's rumored he sleeps.