Let’s Play Home Alone for Sega Genesis! Generally when they make a game for multiple consoles, they just port it, make a few necessary tweaks, and put it out to save time and money. Joe and Mac is a good example of this. But when the original game was kind of a stinker, the example in this case being Home Alone for the NES, then I have no problem when the developers or even another developer wants to take a second or their own crack at it.
Let’s Play Home Alone for Sega Genesis:
I know about this game because I owned it on Game Gear. I wasn’t a Sega Genesis guy, but I preferred the Game Gear over the Game Boy because of the simple fact that it was in color. My grandmother lived a couple of hours from our house when I was growing up, so for all of the major holidays we’d trek down there which was probably half of the reason I wanted a portable gaming system to begin with.
I loved my Game Gear and had roughly 30 games for it. I had them all organized carefully as only an obsessed kid could and even had a hard carrying case for the system which had slots for up to eight games, AC adaptor, and the device itself. Sorry, I’m digressing because I forgot how much I loved that damn system. I was an NES/Nintendo guy first and foremost but I loved the hell out of that Game Gear.
Anyway, Home Alone was one of the games which I had for the system and this was the same version which was released for the Genesis, the one I played for the channel. When I played Home Alone for the NES a year earlier, I couldn’t believe how shitty it was in comparison. And I think there was even a lesser version for the SNES, as well.
This is the game that not only was the best game with the title Home Alone attached to it, but it’s the most faithful reproduction of the movie aside from the fact that you’re defending the entire neighborhood and not just your house/mansion.
You got to set traps ahead of time which was fun, but you also got to construct your own homemade weaponry out of stuff you’d find around the neighbor or in the various houses. The idea was to get the Wet Bandits’ pain meter all the way up so that they’d finally bail on a house. Fortunately if they caught you, they wouldn’t try to bite off your fingers or shoot you with a sticky gun like in the movies, they just hung you up by your sweater on a coat hanger or nail on the wall (effectively ruining the sweater, but bigger picture). Solid movie to game adaptation. And don’t be fooled; this is the best one.