Series with a title on every Sega platform?

Thought of another game that, while it definitely isn’t all every Sega platform, is on a surprising amount for a single title

Primal Rage:

Game Gear: Primal Rage
Master System: not officially but GG2SMS hack/port
Megadrive: Primal Rage
Mega CD: N/A
32X: Primal Rage
Saturn: Primal Rage
Dreamcast: N/A

so it is missing a few versions but surprisingly prevalent all things considered

 

It’s been mentioned in passing earlier I think but the Phantasy Star series is very well represented on various Hardware generations from Sega:

Game Gear: Phantasy Star Adventure & Phantasy Star Gaiden
Master System: Phantasy Star
Megadrive: Phantasy Star, Phantasy Star 2, Phantasy Star IIi, Phantasy Star IV, Phantasy Star Adventures 2 via MegaNet
Mega CD: Phantasy Star Adventures 2 via Game Can Vol 1 & Vol 2
32X: No
Saturn: Phantasy Star Collection (the 1st 4 games in a compilation)
Dreamcast: Phantasy Star Online

 

Thought if another series with very good representation on Sega’s hardware.

Road Rash

Game Gear: Road Rash
Master System: Road Rash
Megadrive: Road Rash, Road Rash 2, Road Rash 3
Mega CD: Road Rash
32X: No game
Saturn: Road Rash
Dreamcast: No game

it’s an interesting one as obviously all the systems (other than 32X and Dreamcast) have a game called Road Rash.

The original version was on Megadrive and this got downported (surprisingly well) to Game Gear and Master System.

The Saturn game is a port of the successful 3DO entry

The Mega CD/Sega CD is an interesting hybrid - featuring the engine from the Megadrive game but the FMV sequences, styling/presentation and soundtrack from the 3DO game. So a weird/interesting kind of bridge between the 16 bit and 32 bit versions.

 

Another series with superb representation - a version of the original game playable on all major hardware - plus extras/spin-offs/rebrands and follow ups of various quality across the platforms

OutRun

This time it is the Mega CD that misses out which is a shame.

Game Gear: OutRun, OutRun Europa

Master System: OutRun, OutRun 3D, OutRun Europa, Battle OutRun

Megadrive: OutRun, Turbo OutRun, OutRun 2919, OutRunners

Mega CD: No game

32X: No game but OutRun Ferrari makes a cameo Easter Egg appearance while refuelling

Saturn: Sega Ages: OutRun in Japan and as part of Sega Ages Vol 1 in the West. OutRun music also appears as an Easter Egg in Fighters MegaMix and as an unlockable Easter Egg by entering your initials as O.R in Daytona USA

Dreamcast: Included in ShenMue II and in Yu Suzuki Game Works Vol 1 (albeit with car licencing amendments)

This is much more tenuous but what about Ninja Gaiden. In a round about way it is fairly well represented.

Game Gear: Ninja Gaiden

Master System: Ninja Gaiden

Megadrive: Ninja Gaiden (unreleased arcade port but playable proto exists

Mega CD: No game

32X: No game

Saturn: Ryu Hayabusa playable in Dead or Alive

Dreamcast: Ryu Hayabusa playable in Dead or Alive 2

as I said - tenuous at best - but I was playing some 8-bit Ninja Gaiden and your mind starts piecing together games across Sega platforms.

 

I'm pretty sure After Burner is playable in some form on every Sega console, but you have to count the Game Gear through the master gear converter. It's also almost always a port of AB II, except for the Sega CD getting some crap game rebranded as AB III.

If you just count licenses, then the X-Men should have appeared on everything except the Pico. But the Dreamcast had no separate x-men game, they just made up a large chunk of Marvel vs Capcom 1-2 characters, and the 32x game was unreleased.

Donald Duck had no games on the Sega CD and 32x, but he was on everything else including the Pico.