10 Most Underrated Mega Drive & Genesis Games Ever

4. Comix Zone - Sega (1995)

Comix zone game
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When you think beat-em-ups on the Mega Drive, it's human nature to immediately default to the Streets of Rage series. And, while there is no denying the lasting appeal of these classics, there were some surprisingly decent entries into the genre that failed to gain a fraction of the exposure.

Comix Zone is a very unique beat-em-up on account of an art style that not only looks the part of a comic book page brought to life, traversing levels is literally a matter of crossing from one comic panel to the next.

An interesting story, a wide variety of enemies and that art style mentioned above all made this one stand out from the pack. It was known for being unforgivingly difficult, however and having been released quite late in the Mega Drive's life cycle all factor into why it remains relatively unknown.

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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.