Sword of Sodan is flaming garbage, but is it THE WORST GAME ON THE SEGA GENESIS?

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Back in May, I endeavored to find the worst game on the Sega Megadrive, or Genesis as we call it here in GOD'S country, and thought I had a pretty good first go with Osomatsu-kun: Nonsense Theater, or おそ松くん はちゃめちゃ劇場 as it's known in its native Japan. But, as the Internet is want to do, someone challenged my accusation and offered up a list of 5 of their own candidates for the biggest blight in the Genesis library. Top among their suggestions was Sword of Sodan! A hack and slasher ported over from the Amiga, that should have stayed there.

Watch as Retro Nick struggles to do even the most basic actions, and eventually give up on trying to save the kingdom of what's-its-nuts.

Sure it's bad, but is it, THE WORST GAME ON THE SEGA GENESIS? You'll just have to watch to fin out!

Sources.

Sword of Sodan gameplay captured through a backed-up ROM of the game played through Retro Arch with a Retro-Bit Sega Saturn game pad and recorded using OBS Studio at 60 frames per second. Sword of Sodan is the property of Discovery Software and Electronic Arts.

RNR Theme:
Powerup!
Jeremy Blake
Red Means Recording - YouTube

RNR Interlude:
Itty Bitty 8 Bit by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-...
Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Gameplay segments from other games and media included in the video are listed with their respective owners below.

Bojack Horseman: Netflix

Splatterhouse 2: Namco.

NIGHTs Into Dreams: Sega

Air Zonk: Red

Amiga 500 computer image: © Bill Bertram 2006, CC-BY-2.5

Osomatsu-kun: Hachamecha Gekijō, Sega Enterprises

Sword of Sodan (Amiga Version): Discovery Software. Captured by AL82 Retrogaming Longplays on Youtube

Zoolander: Paramount Pictures - Hosted by Movieclips.com

Seinfeld: NBC Television

The Room: Chloe Productions | TPW Films

The Simpsons: 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company

Star Trek: Paramount Television

Bomberman '94/Mega Bomberman - Hudson Soft

Southpark: Comedy Central

Virtuosity: Paramount Pictures

Family Guy: 20th Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company

Cadash: Taito

Clerks: Miramax Films

Hook: TriStar Pictures

Airplane!: Paramount Pictures

Monty Python and the Holy Grail: EMI

Gamefaqs.com: Gamespot.com

Rastan Saga II: Taito

The Kung Fu/China Warrior: Hudson Soft

Bad Santa: Miramax Films

Men At Work: Triumph Releasing Corporation

The Venture Bros.: Cartoon Network

"I don't care!": Kevin Meaney

Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law: Cartoon Network

Rick & Morty: Cartoon Network

Spaceballs: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Lance Boyle Footage from the game “MegaRace” by Cryo.

A HUGE thank you to the Retro Game Squad podcast, for promoting the show and being generally awesome, standup guys! They often have me on to talk about more obscure Japanese games that no one around here has ever heard of, as well as flaming heaps of garbage like Sword of Swodan! You can find them here, at http://www.retrogamesquad.com. You can hear yours truly wax nostalgic on their Turbografx-16 and Sega Saturn episodes, as well as their co-op games and PC-Engine episodes.

And thank you to Vito Gesualdi who took the time to offer some helpful critique with my background graphics, which is why we have the nice, subtle diagonal logos slowly gliding by with scanlines instead of a bright, red mess. Check out his channel at    / vito  , or listen to his podcast “The Biggest Problem in the Universe,” and vote on all the problems at http://wwww.biggestproblem.com


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