There is no shortage of older games that hold up today. Sometimes due to nostalgia, but mostly due to them just being fun enough at their time of release that they are still fun today.

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One particular system that is still fun is the Sega Genesis. Although Sega would get out of the console market and focus on games, for a while, the company was pushing the boundaries of what gaming technology could do at the time. Here are 10 games from the Sega Genesis that need a remake today.

10 Beyond Oasis

This action-adventure game didn't become a classic like many of the other games of its time, but it was still a brilliantly designed mixture of cool ideas. It felt like many of the action-RPGs of the time, but with an Arabian setting reminiscent of Aladdin

The levels are gorgeous, the story is fine, and the gameplay is more than tight enough to make Beyond Oasis well worth revisiting. A redesign of it with updated technology, or just a remaster, would be at least visually great.

9 Vectorman

This side-scrolling shooter was famous at the time for the same reason Donkey Kong was on the rival SNES system. Vectorman had 3D graphics. While not as pretty in design as Nintendo's 3D games, this one used the new, weird, visual look to create a game world that matched.

It would be cool to see a new take on Vectorman that somehow uses the intense graphical improvements games have had to make a weird meta-game about robots that shoot each other.

8 Ghouls 'n Ghosts

Now, admittedly, this game series popped up on a multitude of retro consoles, but the Sega Genesis's Ghouls 'n Ghosts, ported from the arcade version, deserves mention just because the genre of cruelly hard fantasy action games has become wildly popular today.

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Somewhere within the DNA of Dark Souls and the plethora of games that have since followed it, is Ghouls and Ghosts. The painfully hard side scroller would be right at home in today's market, either remastered or rebuilt from the ground up.

7 Road Rash

It wouldn't be right to clammer for a Road Rash remake without mentioning Road Redemption. The Steam game is the closest thing to a true follow-up to the classic series that exists and does a great job at capturing the madness of motorcycle racers swinging bats at one another.

However, it isn't the perfect remake, and until a real Road Rash follow-up graces current generation consoles, fans will not be satisfied.

6 Earthworm Jim

Earthworm Jim standing in valley stage with crane holding fridge

This one hurts particularly bad, as it still feels like it could happen any day now. The famous space ranger worm was slated to have a sequel back in 2008, but it never came out. An update in 2011 stated the game was still in development, but again, nothing.

As recently as last year, it was said that an Earthworm Jim sequel was still being developed. At this point, it has become easier to assume it won't happen, but, hopefully, Jim finds his way back to consoles sooner rather than later.

5 Shining Force

shining force combat screenshot

Before Nintendo's RPG tactics series Fire Emblem dominated the market and half the Smash Brothersroster, there was Shining Force. The RPG strategy game was Sega's answer to the Nintendo game at the time, and what an answer it was.

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Both the first and second installments are widely beloved and still brought up in a lot of conversations today. It is the perfect time to update them to 3D with a remake.

4 Gunstar Heroes

Maybe the most popular Sega exclusive that wasn't about a fast hog was Gunstar Heroes. This frantic run-and-gun side scroller is part Power Rangers and part Metal Slug, and it is pure fun.

Featuring multiplayer co-op, Gunstar Heroes has remained playable enough that it has been re-released on many systems since the Genesis. However, other than a weak 3DS attempt, it hasn't been truly modernized. It's time to change that.

3 Mutant League Football

Maybe the most addictively fun sports game of the '90s – if NBA Jam didn't exist – was this Genesis exclusive about monsters, mutants, and robots playing a deadly game of American Football.

Landmines, pits of spikes, and barbed wire line the field in a game where a good hit can tear opponents in half. The fact that Mutant League Football hasn't been remade for the modern age is a travesty.

2 Altered Beast

This chaotic beat-em-up comes up in every discussion about the best Sega games of all-time. Although it had a sequel on the PlayStation 2, it has been absent from the current generation of systems, and that needs to change.

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Altered Beast centers around a man battling everything the Greek underworld can throw at him using the power to turn into different mythical beasts. How that premise was allowed to disappear is beyond understanding.

1 Comix Zone

Perhaps the game on this list that has held up the best is this beat-em-up style action game where players jump across the panels of a comic book. The level design is unbelievable and the controls are tight, making nearly everything feel ahead of its time.

Comix Zone's look and gameplay would barely need to be tweaked, with the comic style being easy to replicate without a massive visual upgrade.

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