Gunstar Heroes - Sega Genesis and Mega Drive

Third-Person Shooters - ranked by preference (62 games items)

"Release Date: September 9, 1993 (NA) Publisher: Sega Developer: Treasure Genre: Shooter - Third-Person Gunstar Heroes was the rookie effort from the wonderful developers at Treasure...And in their first attempt, they may have created the single best game available on the Genesis. Gunstar Heroes is a great shooter that can potentially be different each time you play through due to the way that you're able to combine weapon power-ups to find a style of firepower that is to your liking. The game a"

Genesis Games - ranked by preference (31 games items)

"Release Date: September 9, 1993 (NA) Publisher: Sega Developer: Treasure Genre: Shooter - Third-Person Gunstar Heroes was the rookie effort from the wonderful developers at Treasure...And in their first attempt, they may have created the single best game available on the Genesis. Gunstar Heroes is a great shooter that can potentially be different each time you play through due to the way that you're able to combine weapon power-ups to find a style of firepower that is to your liking. The game a"

Favorite Boss Fights (34 games items)

" Seven Force Gunstar Heroes is a game that's fun to play at all times, whether it be in the level itself or against the boss at the end of the level. Seven Force was seven times the fun, as it was a boss that could change into seven different shapes through the battle. This basically meant that each time you fought Seven Force, you'd very likely be getting a different experience than the other times you battled it. I like variety, which is why Seven Force makes the list."

The 15 Most Annoying Levels In Video Game History (15 games items)

"Mine Cart Level Continuing the long held tradition of super difficult mine cart levels in video games, the mine cart stage in Gunstar Heroes takes the genre to a whole new level of “come on!”-inducing frustration. With a relatively straightforward premise and gameplay design, the goal of the level designers is clearly just to overwhelm you with numbers. And, though they were nice enough to give you unlimited ammo, one gets the feeling they only did it to make you that much more pissed off w"

AVGW Reviews by Ape (106 games items)

"Gunstar Heroes Review 9.5 out of 10"

Greatest 100 Video Games (100 games items)

"Sega Genesis - 1993 "We didn't try to make a hardcore game...we made what we'd want to play." --Masato Maegawa, GH Producer"