how it is that we have come to do as we do

I'll be straight with you. There has not been and may never be a true genesis party. The tyrannical will and evangelical vim for 16-bit revolution (the consummation of which, I suppose, would be the Genesis party) has been sapped by some combination of me n DLHB having a job, not having a job, the modern condition, basketball, and the technological superiority of the Xbox 360 over our old and cherished order of games.
Every day, DLHB, gets up at 3:30 AM, and with a meager breakfast in his belly walks out into weather cold enough to kill a man, takes a train to a bus to a train to a ten-mile walk uphill to a train to one last final walk/leap/crouching punch/jumpkick through a particularly unfriendly suburb until at 10 he arrives to his thankless work.


Me, I'm less burdened by the troubles of reality so much as I am entirely apart from the human race. In trying to write the Fallout 3 review which would unify the nodumbgames theory of past and present video games, I have lost my way. I could go on and on about this condition, but suffice it to say, in order to save money on rent I've moved into a stasis pod:



These are the troubles, the excuses, and not the real dirt at all; for that, I apologize. What you, dear reader, want to know is not why we are rutted but how we, nodumbgames, will deliver "the goods." Well, I'm glad you mentioned that! Unified theories are still to come, but in the meantime I thought I'd shore some fragments against my ruins and go back to glorifying the past. The exactitudes of our current joys and dissappointments can only really be made sense of through an understanding of where we come from, of what kind of games we stand for, etc. So, I'd like to propose a series of posts with the theme: "how it is that we have come to do as we do." Genesis games may only be the half of it (the other half are late 90's computer RPG's: Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Planescape: torment), but they're the half I'm going to give thanks and praise to for a while. So, prepare yourself for a list of my favorite genesis games of all time.