History Platform / SegaGenesis

* Like the main console, the Sega CD has limited support for real time 3D, such as the main fighter and enemies in ''Silpheed'' (with the backgrounds being pre-rendered FMVs) and the port of ''Starblade''.

* ''Last Battle'': Early launch title for the Mega Drive, notable for being a [[{{Bowdlerise}} bowdlerized localization]] of a Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar video game.

* ''Menacer 6-in-1'': A six game cartridge that is only playable with the Sega Menacer light gun. Notably, the game "Ready, Set, Tomatoes" is a SpinOff of Toejam & Earl games.

* ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers''

* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIII''
* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarIV''

* Franchise/ShiningSeries

** ''Super Street Fighter II''

* ''Williams Arcades Greatest Hits'': Compilation cart, including ''Defender'', ''Defender II'', ''Sinistar'', ''Joust'' and ''Robotron''.

** The system was heavily marketed for its ability to render objects faster than the {{SNES}}, a feature for which the Sega marketing division coined the term ''"Blast Processing"''. The higher performance allowed the Mega Drive to be able to render 3D polygons even without any special chips, like with ''Hard Drivin''' and ''StarCruiser''.
** Like the NES and {{SNES}}, the Mega Drive could expand through chips on the carts. One was the Sega Virtua Processor, which functioned like the Super FX chip on the SNES, allowing for more advanced polygonal rendering (it was in fact even more powerful than the Super FX chip). Unfortunately, incorporating it was a lot more expensive than a SNES chip, and only the port of ''VirtuaRacing'' used it.

* ''[[VideoGame/BrutalPawsOfFury Brutal: Above the Claw]]

* ''Arcade Classics'': Compilation cart including Missile Command, Centipede and Pong.

* ''VideoGame/AwesomePossum Kicks Dr. Machinos Butt''

* ''Jurassic Park''
** ''Jurassic Park''

** ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park''

* ''Last Battle'': Early launch title for the Mega Drive.

* ''VideoGame/DungeonExplorer''

* ''Road Avenger'' (aka ''VideoGame/RoadBlaster FX'' in Japan)

* ''VideoGame/WildWoody''

* ''6-Pak'': Combo cart which brings together Sonic 1, Columns, Revenge of Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe and Super Hang-On together in one cart.

* ''Aero The Acrobat''

** Sega brazenly championed the 16-bit aspect of their console as a marketing point over the 8-bit NES. After Nintendo upgraded to [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem their own 16-bit console]], Sega decided it was [[MovingTheGoalpost time for a change of pace]] and instead championed the "Blast Processing" aspect of their console, which was just an exaggeration of the fact that the Genesis had a slightly faster processor than the SNES.

** Ironically, Sega themselves would end up aping the SNES; once the roaring success of DonkeyKongCountry and the SNES Super FX chip came to light, this prompted Sega to create games such as Sonic3DBlast and the Vectorman series, plus their Virtua Racing port, complete with the Sega Virtua Processor, their own take on the Super FX chip. Also, the Sega CD came about because Sega heard rumors of Nintendo's deals with Sony to make their own cd add-on, and because NEC's Turbografx 16 had just released its own CD attachment, prompting Sega to jump the gun and push out the attachment as a countermeasure. See, aside from the Sega-Nintendo rivalry, there was also a Sega-NEC ''corporate'' rivalry going on inside both Sega and NEC[[note]]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Turbo[[/note]]. The CD add-on also allowed the Genesis to perform otherwise impossible features similar to the SNES, such as Mode 7 effects and sprite rotation.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The Mega Drive was never a huge success in Japan compared to the PC Engine and the Super Famicom, but it was ridiculously popular in the rest of the world, especially North America and Europe. In fact, the Mega Drive outsold the SNES in countries like the United States and United Kingdom, thanks to being released two years before the SNES, promoting it as a more "edgy and cool" system, and the critical and commercial success of the Main/SonicTheHedgehog games. In fact, the only reason the SNES was able to outsell the Mega Drive in North America during the dying days of the 16-bit era was thanks to the release of ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''.

* Could not do scaling and rotating sprites in hardware, but the faster CPU could imitate them in software by resizing sprite data.

** Sega loved to champion the size of their game cartridges by their Megabit size to get an edge over Nintendo, with their port of ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'' being championed as one of the biggest games of its day due to the fact that it was the first Genesis game to use an 8 Megabit cartridge.

* ''Ghostbusters'': Generally considered the best of all the original Ghostbusters tie-in games.

** LighterAndSofter: For extra irony, their biggest breadwinners ended up being their most family friendly titles ([[BadButt albeit with a light streak of 'tude]]), namely the first two SonicTheHedgehog games and the Disney Aladdin video game, which were all the highest selling games for the console. VideoGame/CastleOfIllusion was another early hit for the system that completely contrasted the consoles edgier image. And to hit this trope home, Sega even released a Series/{{Barney|AndFriends}} game. For the records, there were no Barney games for other consoles.

-->--'''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7nsBoqJ6s8 North American advertisement]] showing the system's TagLine'''

* ''The Film/{{Terminator}}''

* ''VideoGame/ChakanTheForeverMan''

** Sega loved to champion the size of their game cartridges by their Megabit size to get an edge over Nintendo, with their port of ''VideoGame/Strider'' being championed as one of the biggest games of its day due to the fact that it was the first Genesis game to use an 8 Megabit cartridge.

* The console has a 16/32-Bit [[UsefulNotes/CentralProcessingUnit Motorola 68000]] runs at 7.68 [=MHz=] (varies per region). The 16-bit part was prominently used as a marketing point over the 8-bit NES. Its arithmetic and logic unit is 16 bits wide, but its registers are 32 bits wide. This CPU uses microcode to emulate 32 bit instructions in hardware slower than a full 32 bit processor, but faster than emulating the 32 bit instructions in 16 bit software.

* Like the main console, the Sega CD has limited support to real time 3D, such as the main fighter and enemies in ''Silpheed'' (with the backgrounds being pre-rendered FMVs) and the port of ''Starblade''.

* Like the main console, the Sega CD has limited support to real time 3D, such as the main fighter and enemies in ''Silpheed'' (with the backgrounds being pre-rendered FMVs).

* PolygonCeiling: Towards the end of its life in the mid-nineties Sega attempted to create (at least the illusion of) 3D games on the system, such as with ''Sonic3DBlast'', ''VideoGame/{{Vectorman}} 2'', certain levels in ''[[Franchise/JurassicPark The Lost World]]'', the WesternAnimation/ToyStory video game, and others. While the graphics were ambitious for a 16-bit system, the gameplay tended to suffer as a result. Virtua Racing managed to break through it thanks to using the Sega Virtua Processor chip to allow real time 3D graphics, but the added cost of this chip (which skyrocketed the game's cost to 100$) kept anymore games with the SVP from being made.
** To add insult to injury, due to relying on certain hardware, Virtua Racing was incompatible with the 32x and the Model 3 Genesis ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqpWRc9BE_A unless you mod it]]) and pretty much all of the unofficial clone systems. So if you bought the game years later and happened to own a Model 3 system, you were SOL.

* TakeThat: The Genesis's ad campaign in America took hearty pot-shots at Nintendo, whether it was comparing Genesis Blast Processing (represented as a drag race car) to a broken down ice cream truck with VideoGame/SuperMarioKart playing on it, or having an ad comparing Nintendo to a bloodsucking mosquito because they charged 10$ more for certain games on the SNES. Heck, their original slogan was "Genesis does what Nintendon't!" They even took a snipe at the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3D0]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no1xCpLJgaI in one of their 32X ads.]]

* TakeThat: The Genesis's ad campaign in America took hearty pot-shots at Nintendo, whether it was comparing Genesis Blast Processing (represented as a drag race car) to a broken down ice cream truck with VideoGame/SuperMarioKart playing on it, or having an ad comparing Nintendo to a bloodsucking mosquito because they charged 10$ more for certain games on the SNES. Heck, their original slogan was "Genesis does what Nintendon't!" They even took snipes at the [[UsefulNotes/ThreeDOInteractiveMultiplayer 3D0]] in later ads, with one ad having both it and the SNES cremated on screen.

* TakeThat: The Genesis's ad campaign in America took hearty pot-shots at Nintendo, whether it was comparing Genesis Blast Processing (represented as a drag race car) to a broken down ice cream truck with VideoGame/SuperMarioKart playing on it, or having an ad comparing Nintendo to a bloodsucking mosquito because they charged 10$ more for certain games on the SNES. Heck, their original slogan was "Genesis does what Nintendon't!" They even took snipes at the [[UsefulNotes/3DOInteractiveMultiplayer 3D0]] in later ads, with one ad having both it and the SNES cremated on screen.