10 Most Underrated Mega Drive & Genesis Games Ever

7. Weapon Lord - Namco (1995)

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The mid-90s was the global one-on-one fighting game craze and titles in the genre began flooding home consoles of the era with unrivaled ferocity. Many were copy/paste jobs of Street Fighter II or Mortal Kombat, but a few snuck into the fray that tried something very different.

Enter Weapon Lord from Namco. Not only was it one of the first fighting games to integrate weapons, it also attempted to create combo systems just as deep defensively as offensively.

Because of its steep learning curve, most gamers, swimming in a torrent of fighting game options, never bothered learning the system to master its nuance. Sadly it was little more than a flash in a very flooded pan but picking it up today yields a surprisingly deep fighting system.

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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.