Just like with PART 1, this 2nd collection of 10 (more) games that I would add to my hacked Sega Mini, if I was you and if you were like me, does not attempt to claim that these are the best games you can get on the NES/Sega/SNES systems. I’ve looked at too many ‘best of’ video game lists to realize my current sensibilities do not perfectly align with some of the consensus best games. The games included in my lists are the ones that appeal the most to me as an old millennial who pretty much stopped playing video games back in the late 90s and is now dipping my toes back in—which requires a different consideration than thinking about where a game would sit on an all-time list.

Because, once you discover that you can add any game from the 3 classic consoles of the pre-2000s era to your hacked Sega Mini, the next most important thing to discover is which of those games would you actually still want to sit down and spend some time playing instead of tackling that never-ending Netflix queue or reading a boot or maybe even venturing outside (ps - If you’re wondering what a Sega Mini is and how you can hack it to add any NES/Sega/SNES game you want, I wrote a blog post about how I hacked mine).

So, with that in mind, here’s my second list of 10 games that you should definitely add to your hacked Sega Mini… if you happen to also be spending some of the quarantine going down a similar retro video game rabbit hole:

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Ok, that’s it for another list of 10 games that I would recommend making sure you add to your hacked Sega Mini if you’re an old millennial with similar gaming tastes as me (ie. these are the lists that I wish I stumbled upon when I was trying to figure out which games to add to my mini).

If you missed PART 1, you can read that over here, and then I will be back with a few more ‘lists of 10’ over the next while (I’m thinking of doing 5 parts, so by the end of my list making I’ll have 50 recommended retro video games in total — 20 Sega, 20 Super Nintendo, and 10 Nintendo).

But, until then, feel free to holler at me with whichever NES/SEGA/SNES games you think I should definitely have added to my hacked Sega Mini—I’ve got list 3 and 4 loosely mapped out, but there are still some decisions to be made when it comes to list number 5.

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Jeremy / @HI54LOFI

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* For legal reasons, I suppose I should add that this post is entirely a work of fiction and I would never actually hack my Sega Mini with games I did not acquire in whatever the proper legal manner is for acquiring old 90s games in 2020 — in fact I would never even hack my Sega Mini, period, because hacking is bad, kids. "Follow the rules and always do things the way you were told to do them" — that's my motto. SEGA! (also NES! and SNES!)