36 Years After It Released, There Are So Many New Genesis Games Someone Has Built A Site To Track Them All

I actually think there are a lot more new games than that for Genesis either already released or in the works, so maybe it's only covering boxed games or something?

Someone should do something like this for SNES too--but it also needs to start getting a lot more new games to really make it worthwhile. Still, I'd like to ask someone out there to start it to get the ball up and running for that system too.

Here's some to start: Yo-Yo Shuriken, Nightmare Busters, Xeno Crisis, SNES Doom Definitive Edition, Cooly Skunk, Shockman Zero, Aero the Acro-Bat (re-release?), Black Jewel Reborn, Rendering Ranger R2 (western release), etc.

Edit: Ah, yeah, it says at the top it's physical releases. My bad there.

As stated, it's for physical releases.

@ambifx Yeah, I should have checked a bit more before posting there. lol

It would be nice if it also included many of the games that over the last decade or so as well as trying to find a good list of what has been released can prove tricky.

This is very helpful, a great resource, though it is missing a lot, just from a quick cursory glance:

-Busterhawk Gleylancer (Retro Bit and Columbus Circle)
-Mega Man Wily Wars
-Demons of Asteborg
-Cotton Panorama
-Xeno Crisis
-Tanglewood

I’m not sure if the list is to be exhaustive, or just ‘recently released and upcoming’

Either way, glad for the use of it. Thank you.

** ignore most of what I said, the website clearly says it only covers this year and a bit before, with an aim to add more over time.**

Hi all! I'm the person behind the side. I know some of this has been clarified in the comments already, but just to confirm a couple of things.

As of now, I am indeed only focusing on physical releases, in part because those can be easy to miss out on if you don't know they're happening. That was part of the inspiration behind the site. That might change in the future, however.

Also, the site was born from my previous plan of putting together a simpler list of 2024 Genesis / Mega Drive releases that I was going to post on my personal site. I then decided that, instead, I'd build a more powerful option for browsing the games. I wanted to get it up quickly to give more immediate access to tracking the games that were upcoming, but I will absolutely be going back to add in as many previous releases as possible. It's just more a case that I already had the information for all of this stuff on-hand, where as I'll need to make sure I get all of the right details for prior titles that I wasn't already directly tracking.

Hope that clarifies those points. Thanks for checking out the site!

@mollipen - Thank you so much for setting this up! It’s nice to have a central listing for physical releases with links to the official site.

@mollipen Thanks for all the extra info.

Now, unless you have some good reason for not doing so or just some bias against it, could you do a SNES list like this too?

@RetroGames The child inside of me never stopped fighting the 16-bit war against Nintendo.

The main reason the site focuses on Genesis / Mega Drive is (a) at the moment, there are a lot more new releases for it over any other retro console, so it's harder to keep track of what's coming out, and (b) I'm actively collecting games for the console, so I'm already paying attention to what's coming out.

If I get to a point where I feel like I'd have the extra mental bandwidth to keep up with other modern retro releases, I could potentially add in other platforms as well. For now, though, I don't want to get too ambitious with it and find myself unable to keep it up to date.

@mollipen

Thanks for clarifying, and thank you for setting this up, it certainly has been hard work knowing all of these various releases coming out, this record will certainly take the burden out of that for everyone in the community.

Also keep the fight real, don’t give in to the SNES fans pressure machine 😆

Yes, many new Mega Drive games are released today...but only a few are on brand with their releases. 😉😂

@AJB83 I do like my conformity when it comes to video games. 😊

Even though Sega is out of the hardware business, it seems like money being left on the table by not having a modern mega drive on the market with with all the new releases and interest in the system. One with hdmi out , wireless controllers etc.. I bet a eshop would do well for their back catalog, there could be downloadable games with no changes from the original releases since it would be on real hardware or (close to). Just a thought with the delisting of the Mega Drive collection on multiple platforms.

@RetroGames Haha wtf dude, can you imagine how much work it must be staying on top of all the recent Genesis releases? I wasn't even aware of all these, and I follow the retro-dev scenes religiously.

"Now, unless you have some good reason for not doing so or just some bias against it, could you do a SNES list like this too?"

That phrasing is just so demanding and paranoid... it's just a simple website to track Genesis releases, man. You're reacting as if it's some "Genesis Does" advertisement you need to protect the SNES from. Given how soon your top comment appeared after the article was posted, it's clear there was a knee-jerk reaction there. Relax! We're all here to enjoy the hobby.

Besides, you seem quite plugged in to the SNES scene yourself. What's that quote... "be the change you wish to see in the world," I believe? Why not take it upon yourself to make a similar page for the SNES?

Having a browse through at the moment and this is great.

A couple of years back, I had a similar idea for keeping track of new SNES releases although I only got as far as listing them in a spreadsheet. There were quite a few, but not so many as to be overwhelming. Apart from the fact I couldn't work out if a Kunio compilation had actually been released or not I think I got them all down.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the list anymore. There's also been quite a few releases since then so it would be outdated anyway, but it would have been a good starting point to take another crack at it.