Home Alone (1992). Play online

Summary

I first saw Home Alone on the Sega Genesis and was instantly drawn to its quirky mix of top‑down sledding and side‑scroll shooting. You race Kevin from house to house while the Wet Bandits scramble in their van, and whenever a robbery starts the view flips to a 2‑D side‑scroller where you fend them off with a BB gun, a makeshift bazooka or even glue‑filled snowballs.

Each home has its own defensive gimmick – a tarantula that crawls across the floor, a security robot that patrols the hallway, a phantom that haunts the living room, a cat that darts between furniture, or collapsing floor panels that change the battle space. Before a break‑in you can lay traps, and captured Kevin is hung on a wall but can drop down to keep fighting.

The game features two difficulty modes; on hard the police wait 40 minutes instead of 20, the bandits’ van speeds up and more powerful weapons appear.

Sega Master Force gave the title a modest 63 % score.

Storyline

Home Alone on the Sega Genesis follows Kevin McCallister after his family jets off to Paris for a Christmas vacation, leaving him alone in the house. He must stop the bumbling burglars Harry and Marv, known as the Wet Bandits, by rigging everyday items into traps and weapons. The Genesis version widens the plot: instead of protecting just his own home, Kevin is tasked with defending several neighboring houses while the police are on their way. The Wet Bandits move from house to house, trying to loot each one and even threaten to flood them, forcing Kevin to battle them across the block. His improvised defenses keep the burglars at bay and protect the whole neighborhood.