Players who subscribe to Switch Online know that it comes with a wide variety of retro games from past Nintendo consoles such as the NES and SNES. If they opt to spend more for the Expansion Pass, they get access to games that appeared on additional hardware, including the Sega Genesis. But that hardware library was extensive, and only some of its best games are available on Nintendo’s service. Here are 10 essential Genesis games still missing from Switch Online, which we hope will make an appearance there soon.
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Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure
Released: Nov. 18, 1994
For a brief time there, Interplay was riding high on a brief series of personality-driven game releases. One of the wilder ones of the bunch was Boogerman: A Pick and Flick Adventure, which featured a comic superhero type who subdues his enemies with burps, farts, and boogers. The game relied heavily on gross-out humor, but featured competent platforming action to go with it, as well as vividly drawn characters who sold the joke. If you can look past the humor, you’ll find a solid experience that spans more than 20 levels, complete with puzzles and bosses. Nintendo made the game available on Virtual Console in 2008, but it hasn’t been seen since.
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Championship Pro-Am
Released: 1992
Championship Pro-Am is an enhanced remake of R.C. Pro-Am, which found wide success as an NES franchise. It adds a few nice touches, including improved visuals and six cars racing at once, instead of the usual four. Even with additional drivers on the track, a top-three finish is necessary. The letters players collect on the track no longer spell “Nintendo,” either. Player high scores are also saved, which wasn’t true of the NES original. Microsoft and Rare included the standard two versions of R.C. Pro-Am as part of 2015’s Rare Replay compilation, but Championship Pro-Am didn’t make the cut and some retro fans who might enjoy it don’t even realize it exists. Switch Online could fix that.
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Ecco: The Tides of Time
Released: Aug. 25, 1994
Ecco: The Tides of Time is the second game in the Ecco the Dolphin series. It keeps the story from the first game going, and makes the sort of additions one would expect from a sequel. One change is a new power-up, Pulsar, which lets Ecco unleash sonar attacks. It is joined by Metasphere, which allows Ecco to change into a different animal. The game also features scavenger hunts, which encourage players to explore the far corners of each sprawling stage. Although it’s sometimes a little too easy to get lost in the environments, fans of the brave dolphin are unlikely to mind, and would surely welcome more underwater adventures on Switch Online. With a remaster on the way, maybe right now is even the perfect time.
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Forgotten Worlds
Released: Nov. 17, 1989
Capcom originally made Forgotten Worlds as an arcade shooter featuring nine stages. The Genesis port was handled by Sega and lost two of those stages. It added long-range weapons to make up for them, as well as a convenient auto-fire feature. The control scheme also needed some tweaking, which it received; the A and C buttons now let the player rotate to face enemies approaching from the left or right. The Genesis version of the game arrived on Virtual Console in 2008. But after the Wii Shop Channel shuttered in 2019, you won’t find that version available to experience on Nintendo hardware now unless you have an old Wii kicking around.
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