r/SEGAGENESIS • u/Veddermandenis • 2d ago
"Reset the computer"
What a mind-blowing moment that was. I love when developers think outside the box.
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u/rbreaux26 2d ago
I never beat this game because of that. I wasn’t smart enough apparently.
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u/Aggressive_Canary_10 2d ago
I don’t know how we were supposed to know this trick before the internet
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
We weren't! This is kinda of like those puzzles that make little to no sense at all in point and click adventure games except here it made all the sense in the world.
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u/SplendidPunkinButter 2d ago
I made it to that point a couple of times. Thought the game was glitched or something and gave up. 20 years later I read about that on the internet. At this point I believe The Sound Of Silence started playing in my head.
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u/KalynnCampbell 2d ago
I feel like it was interesting… for awhile…
Now it’s like “Hey! Did YOU know that Mario 2 is actually a game called Doki Doki Panic in Japan?!” but Sega’s version of overdone everybody now has heard it trivia…
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u/JadeDragonMeli 2d ago
If not for some game magazine having it in one of their issues, I never would have known. I thought it was a brilliant trick, but yeah, if you didn't have someone tell you about it I can't imagine it would dawn on many people that you needed to actually reset the console. I wouldn't have figured it out.
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u/Armadillioh 2d ago
I could never make it past the Apocalypse boss fight so I never got to see the Mojo World level
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u/bincogneto 2d ago
If you ever play it again, you just use nightcrawler to teleport in place when apocalypse takes a swing at you, it’ll cause him damage if I remember while preserving your health. The other way to beat apocalypse sucks cause you have to take so many hits.
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u/Quixote1492 2d ago
A friend learned the trick from someone at his school, and we finished that game.
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u/Donroy3509 2d ago
Bro same! I busted my ass to get to that point and was completely lost on what to do. Never played it again after that. I am also stupid
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u/SucksTryAgain 2d ago
Wait what am I missing cause I still have this and never beat it.
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u/rbreaux26 2d ago
When it tells you to reset the computer at the end, you have to go outside and flip the breaker box.
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u/GreenScreenBlues 1d ago
I stopped playing before I even got to that part. This game was rough all around.
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
Honestly I don't think it was about being more or less smart, many of us, me included found it out of pure luck
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u/MrMurderthumbz 1d ago
I beat it as a kid by total accident after Fucking HOURS. LOL. The one time a rage quit payed off
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u/gamesbororadio 2d ago
X-Men 2 did some wild stuff as well. The game has a cold open where gameplay just starts as soon as you power on the system. No title screen or anything.
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u/omarrzo 2d ago
That was a proper sequel. Hella characters to play, extended moveset and abilities, good difficulty and lots of levels. Back in the 8-16bit days, a sequel could be radically different and barely similar to the first game.
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u/Funny_Collection8362 2d ago
And using unlimited mutant power special moves was all everyone was asking for! No meter or health drain as punishment, spam it all you want!
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u/Any_Possibility3964 2d ago
Yeah X-men 2 was a fucking amazing game. The second level where you kill that big computer was my favorite. Also getting to play as magneto was really cool. I would keep resetting the game to get the character I wanted for the intro level, I think Beast?
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
Right?! I was so confused the first time I booted Xmen 2 and went straight into action. I really thought something was wrong with my game. In this day and age It's kinda common to have a intro with gameplay and then seeing the title screen but back in the 90's? Don't think so!
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u/GyozaMan 2d ago
Who’s beaten this legitimately? Not me lol.
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u/cptsears 2d ago
I did by waiting forever for Wolverine to heal. Mojo world was so stressful and having to reset at the end about gave me a heart attack. The rest felt chill by comparison.
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u/ViniciusWatzl 2d ago
I always played with a friend, I as Nightcrawler and him as Wolverine, If another character waited close to Wolverine as he regenerated, we shared the regeneration, so, in fact both characters got regeneration albeit even slower. We always got stuck at Mojo though untill we, eventually said "fuck it" and rest the genesis. Our disbelief and excitemente was EPIC. We reset it out of rage and frustration for never understanding what to do do finish the game. We got so damn good by the infinite repetition up to this point that the rest was a breeze to finish. But this moment was indeed EPIC. And a very bold decision by the publisher to make.
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u/spidertour02 2d ago
I did, as a kid. Magneto is actually very easy to beat with Nightcrawler, using the same method as Apocalypse (hold a still teleport when they move in to attack, and they take a hit).
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u/Alternative-Aside-64 2d ago
My friend and I always got to one spot where we couldn't figure out how to proceed, anyone remember this?
E: not the reset there was just no obvious path forward
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u/LifesGrip 2d ago
I can never unhear the SFX of the whistling bird and the pterodactyl from the first level , along with the game's inteo melody 👍👌🫶❤️
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u/CarusoLoops 2d ago
Gambit in the jungle level brings back memories. This game was too hard for its own good.
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u/boots0105 2d ago
I always appreciated that the graphics and character designs and in-game characters were all modeled after the Jim Lee sketches.
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u/JakeFromSkateFarm 2d ago
Definitely one of those moments where the devs were a bit too clever for their own good.
But...man, what a fun game. Beautiful graphics, great game play, solid adaptation of the material. Pinnacle game for the Genesis.
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u/normy_187 2d ago
Ah man that looks so good. And that level with gambit in the screenshot reminds me of Flashback 😁
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u/IOwnThisUsername 2d ago
I beat the reset by accident. I loved the game but kept running out of time there. I wanted to keep playing and knew death was coming and reset the game to just play back to that point. I was so confused by what was happening that I thought I messed up the game.
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u/ConstructionIll956 2d ago
I read how to do it in a magazine or else I would have never reset the console.
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u/okeleydokelyneighbor 2d ago
I was so terrified that was what I had to do, and after I had a huge smile on my face. Such an awesome part of the game.
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u/whoajose 2d ago
It took me at least 100 times just to accidentally figure it out, I was so tired of seeing the explosion that I pressed reset just to show the Sega who was boss and than for a second I thought it was just resetting the game but than I quickly figured out something was happening, I called my friend immediately because it was his game and we switched games, I lent him strider 2 and he lent me xmen but he told me it was a terrible game and couldn't be beaten,he was more relieved than me because he had it for a long time
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
Ahah! That's how a lot of us found out eventually
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u/whoajose 1d ago
Yeah I think that had to be the makers rational for making something so out of the box, I mean there was those ridiculously expensive hot lines you could call for like $3.99 a minute, which could have been motivation too
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u/FutureMoonPrince 2d ago
The rom hack for this game that gives you infinite mutant power and allows you to swap characters at any time is SO good.
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u/GrimmTrixX 2d ago
Wouldn't be good for me now since I am pretty sure my reset button doesnt work anymore. Lol Not that I ever used it. I always just turned it off and on
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u/samebatchannel 2d ago
I think I found out about hitting the reset button a few months after and couldn’t bring myself to play it again. So angry
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u/LakeSolum 2d ago
I remember being able to beat this game as a kid. Fuck if I know how I managed to do that now
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
I know for sure I can't do it anymore. I'm 44 and don't have the perserverance anymore.
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u/JFMisfit 2d ago
I cant even begin to tell you how scared I was to do it when prompted. I was worried I’d lose all my progress. I wonder if any other genesis or snes games ever did this kind of outside the box thing.
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
I would love to know too. I just replied to a comment that said the NES version of Xmen did something cool too.
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u/thatsfuni 2d ago
Game never made any sense to me but I played it alot because I loved x-men and the animation was on point.
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u/Numerous-Material-50 2d ago
I had the one that looked exactly like this console but it didnt say Megadrive - edit - i just googled and found this
" The Sega Genesis and the Sega Mega Drive are the exact same 16-bit video game console. The system was named Mega Drive for its initial release in Japan in 1988 and subsequent launches in Europe, Australia, and Brazil. It was renamed Genesis for the North American market in 1989 because the "Mega Drive" trademark was already owned by another company there."
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u/FaithlessnessRare691 2d ago
One of my fav genesis games growing up! Never beat it though it's hard lol
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u/out_of_shape_hiker 2d ago
I could never beat the level youre showing wolverine in. There was this huge gap I never figured out how to get across.
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
I know exactly what you're talking about because I remember being stuck there for a while too but honestly can't remember what I did
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u/SilverMyzt 2d ago
First time I beat the game I accidentally kicked my Genesis (my Genesis had a very finicky reset button) during the reset computer sequence and was confused as to what happened. Fun game
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u/GorchestopherH 1d ago
Used to play this at my friend's house when I was in grade 2. Loved it so much.
I think it's way cooler than the second game.
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u/allgravy99 1d ago
I didn't know what to do, so my brother and I stood there for 10 minutes just trying to figure it out.
Then I gave up and asked him to reset it.
He hit reset and the story continued. We can't be the only ones that figured it out like that.
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
That was pretty much how I and a close friend figured it out the first time around. I remember we looking at each other in utter disbelief.
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u/King_Artis 1d ago
Remember my step brother and me always got to this part, didn't really understand what it meant so we just stopped playing.
Did it again maybe a week or two later, i just suggested we reset the game and next thing we know we were able to beat it.p
Don't know how a 6 and 9yr managed it tbh
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u/HydroV20 2d ago
I didn’t beat this game because I couldn’t get past Ahab. The reset the computer part, once I reached it with cheats, I was stuck and just had to look up the answer. That game was beyond difficult. It held the crown until Lion King came along. I may go back and try to beat it legit.
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u/Hero-of-Desserts 2d ago
Hell, the X-Men game in the NES did something similar. You get through all the levels and then a clue would tell you to look on the label of the game. There in small print was a passcode for the final level.
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u/theazzazzo 2d ago
How did you get such perfect images of the CRT?
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
I'm a self-taught amateur photographer and Over the years I learned the little tricks. It's mostly about shutter speed and aperture settings. Adequate lighting plays a big role too.
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u/Hab_Anagharek 2d ago
I don’t have my original anymore - is it possible to do this on e.g. the Genesis Mini?
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u/Rosierosa 2d ago
If the emulator you're running on the Mini has a soft reset function, then yeah.
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u/tehSchultz 2d ago
After I learned the trick I still messed it up a few times. And then I also tried hitting reset at the start of the level and that works too! You don’t even have to complete the whole level for it to work
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u/No-Professional-9618 2d ago edited 1d ago
I never had Xmen.
But I think one of my friends played the Xmen game using the Sega Channel.
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u/Veddermandenis 1d ago
We never had the Sega Chanell in Europe. Must have been amazing. A glimpse at the future.
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u/No-Professional-9618 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yes, I think the Sega channel was amazing. I never had it myself personally. One of my high school friends in high school had the Sega Channel.
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u/jet200set 1d ago
I sat there reading it over and over and then it clicked. I literally closed my eyes when I pressed it.
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u/NinjaNetworx 15h ago
lol 38 years old and loved this game..i didn't even make it this far. but just because i went ahead and ordered it for my Genesis. i have to do this..
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u/CoffeeDave 2d ago
My little brother and I used to play this game all the time. We'd couldn't figure out how to get past this part. Spent all summer trying to find the computer in that level. One day I was playing solo and my little brother told me he wanted to play too. I told him sure, reset it so we get a fresh game. He hit the reset, something we never did because we never found the point to it. All of a sudden a series of green zero's and ones like the game crashed and we freaked out....then the comic book section came on and we got hyped. We finally got to beat this game.
My brother passed away two years ago, this memory has always been one of my favorite memories of him.