Man, Toe Jam & Earl is still one of the weirdest, coolest things to come out of the Sega Genesis. You play as these two aliens—one’s a funky red dude with three legs, the other’s a chunky orange guy—who crash-landed on Earth and have to find their spaceship parts. But Earth? It’s bizarre. You’ll run into hyperactive kids with hula hoops, nerds in rocket skates, even giant sentient tomatoes trying to knock you off floating islands.

The whole thing plays like a roguelike before roguelikes were a thing—randomly generated levels, weird power-ups (some helpful, some hilariously bad), and this constant "what the heck is around the next corner?" vibe. The co-op’s where it really shines, though. My buddy and I spent hours laughing at the dumb ways we’d die, like getting chased off a cliff by a pack of angry dentists or slipping on ice into a lake.

And that soundtrack? Pure funk. It’s the kind of game where you don’t even mind failing because the music’s too good to turn off. If you missed this one back in the day, it’s like someone mashed up Earthbound’s weirdness with early procedural generation—but way more chill.