Shyguys, the bunny ears from Mario Land 2: if you can name it and it’s from a Mario game, it’s in this homebrew. You can play as Mario, Luigi, or Toad, and go through worlds featuring pretty much anything you could think of from Mario games. This game takes the basic Super Mario 3 engine and throws in about as many things from as many different Mario games as possible. This small change drastically alters how you play the game and it’s enough to make a title I know like the back of my hand seem fresh again. You can only hurt enemies while firing that, and it takes a moment after you fire it before you can fire it again. sidekick named Nicole that shoots a small energy blast in front of you. But Sally Acorn in Sonic the Hedgehog was the most interesting to me, partly because it was cool to see a character from the old Saturday morning Sonic cartoon in the games, but also because this seemingly small change completely alters the gameplay.Īs Sally, you can’t hurt enemies merely by jumping on them. Hell, I even found one where you play as Nintendo’s Kirby. There are tons of ROM hacked versions of the first Sonic game featuring the various different Sonic characters. I may even do full reviews of these down the line, but for now here are my top five bootleg games you should all check out. I knew I was taking a risk by buying it, and it’s not like I paid a great deal for it anyways.īut most of the ones I’ve played and/or bought have been great, and I thought it would be worth sharing some of the better ones with all of you.
In fact, it was a Russian hack of a game called Outlander, but with a GTAV title screen. I figured it would be like the original top-down Grand Theft Auto, but with the graphics downgraded to the Genesis’ level.
For instance, I recently found a bootleg of Grand Theft Auto V for the Sega Genesis. Some of the ones I’ve played have been amazing while others have been wastes of time and-in some cases-money. You can find ROM hacks on cartridges for the old systems, or even just download them off the net if you know where to look. Some of them take the engine of an existing game and make a whole new title out of it, while others just take an existing game and add a different playable character. The types of ROM hacks out there are as varied as the bits of corn in a fat kid’s diarrhea dump. Some call them ROM hacks, some call them homebrew games, but either way, they’re the same thing: modded versions of classic cartridge-era games. Last year, I had just stumbled onto a copy of Sonic Megamix at a local retro game store when I discovered the vast world of fan-made bootleg retro games. One of the best things about retro games is they’re still being made… sort of.
Way back in my first Reaxxion article, I talked about why I love retro games.
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