Videogame Canon: Sega Genesis

[JuntMonkey]

Definition of "canon" from Wikipedia:

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The Western canon is a canon of books, music and art (and specifically one with very loose boundaries) that is thought by many to have been highly influential in shaping Western culture. It is a list of the greatest works with significant literary and artistic merit. The selection of a canon is important to the theory of educational perennialism and the development of high culture.

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As you can see, this narrows the field down a bit. Games like Sonic 2 or WWF games do not make the cut. Only highly original, influential, and truly great games are "canon".

[ligastar]

EA Sports PGA European Tour game was sweet with courses such as Valderrama, Crans-sur-Sierre and Wentworth. It was also the first golf console game that I'm aware of that offered match play.

[SharkTank43]

Toejam and Earl
NBA Live 96
Madden 96
Any of the Sonics
Road Rash II
Mortal Kombat II

[crosse91]

Vectorman? Earthworm Jim?

[JuntMonkey]

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Vectorman? Earthworm Jim?

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I don't think so...they're not terribly significant if you look at the entire videogaming landscape. If you're looking at strictly Genesis games, yes, but we're looking at videogames as a whole. Some systems may have only one game that is truly canonical.

[Dan R]

Streets of Rage
Toejam and Earl

[ed8383]

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MKI-III were solid games.


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mk 3 a good game? that is when the franchise started going downhill.

[heater]

If I could only have one game it would be Toejam and Earl.

[Keepitsimple]

NHL 94

I was godly with Larry Murthy (a defender in Pittsburg). Come from the left and go right. And then hold on to C while you aim to the left. Instant score.

Sonic 2 was great too but I could never collect everything which sort of bugged me.

[MediaPA]

Coach K College Basketball - definite
Andretti Racing

Mutant League Football was entertaining, but doesn't really belong

If I think of more later, I'll post