Board 8 > What are your personal favorite overlooked classic games?

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A couple of mine are Shadowrun for the SNES and Genesis, which are different games.

The SNES version is an RPG-Shooter-Adventure game hybrid.

The Genesis version is a SUPER ahead of its time open world WRPG, with weapon mods, skills, and two different forms of combat, via ATB hacking and overworld fighting with guns/melee/magic.
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I'm guessing you mean SNES/Genesis and back.

Dynamite Heady (Genesis) and Bucky O'Hare (NES) come to mind.
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Aw shit, yeah I accidentally refreshed and forgot to type my explanation when I retyped it.
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Gimmick!, though among those in the know when it comes to NES it's not so overlooked these days. Definitely overlooked by general gaming populace though

For SNES I would probably say Metal Warriors
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Actraiser. It's my goal in life to revive the franchise, and even the reason I decided to major in Computer Science.
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Uniracers
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Cool Spot and Biker Mice from Mars

Overlooked like most licensed games, but a very solid platformer and a very solid racing game.
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Unira...
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benjamin3740 posted...

Actraiser. It's my goal in life to revive the franchise, and even the reason I decided to major in Computer Science.

I'm not sure what Comp Sci has to do with Act Raiser, but you have my support.

Act Raiser 1 is super duper good.

I'm ok with ignoring the sequel.
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Live a Live
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Rudra no Hihou (Treasure of the Rudras in the English fan translation)
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Digimon World
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Psst ActRaiser 2 is a more solid game than the first, outside of the novelty
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SimCity on SNES, I guess.
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Vice: Project Doom is an NES game I never really knew anything about back in the day. I just saw this print ad on the back cover of a magazine and thought it looked stupid as fuck:
http://www.gamingmagz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Vice-Project-Doom.jpg

But I heard it brought up once or twice in "hidden gems" discussions so 2 years ago when I saw a copy at a local shop I picked it up, and when I finally got around to playing it last fall, it shot up to my top 5 NES list. It's primarily a Ninja Gaiden style side scroller with a sort of sci-fi hardboiled detective theme, but it also has a couple Spy Hunter style driving stages and first person shooting gallery stages.

Astyanax is another NES game I hadn't tried until recently. It's another side scroller, in this one you have a power meter that fills automatically when you're not attacking so that your attacks are much more effective if you take your time and wait for the right time to attack. The same mechanic was also used in The Legendary Axe on TurboGrafx-16. There's also a 3-tier weapon upgrade system like Castlevania, but here each weapon is a valid option, depending whether you want stronger attacks, cheaper magic, or a balance of the two. It's not perfect though, your movement is a little slow and not very agile, and even though your character swings his weapon in an overhead arc, it only hits directly in front of you, so when you're getting the hang of the game you'll feel like your attacks are just passing through enemies.

And speaking of TurboGrafx games, Bonk's Revenge and Air Zonk were my favorites, but as TG16 games go they're pretty popular so I don't know if they count, even though TG16 as a whole is pretty overlooked.
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Sword of Vermilion. It was the second game I ever played -- by like an hour. I played Sonic the Hedgehog until I got a game over at Spring Yard Zone and then I popped this one in. Haven't played it since I was 4, maybe 5 years old. But yeah. Serious memories.
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Sub-Terrania on the Genesis. Game was stupid hard but I loved the music.

I don't think I've met anyone else that's played it.
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I'm a big fan of Puggsy, a puzzle-platformer on the Genesis.

surprising amount of physics-based gameplay in a 16-bit game
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Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled
Vectorman
Skitchin'
Road Rash 2 & 3
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I came to say Act Raiser, but I also feel like it isn't really that overlooked anymore.
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Do PC games count? If so, Lords of the Realm 2.
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HaRRicH posted...

Bucky O'Hare (NES) come to mind.

Also Alpha Centauri, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (getting more love lately though, same with Bucky).
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Descent series (although the first one isn't too obscure)
Freespace series
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
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Clash at Demonhead
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ActRaiser is a good choice.

I'd say the Streets of Rage series is heavily overlooked as well. I'd love to see Sega bring it back.
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NES:
Spot the Game
Crystalis
Metal Storm
The Little Mermaid
Adventure of Link
Mega Man
Mega Man 5
StarTropics
Wheel of Fortune
Jeopardy
Whomp Em
Bucky O'Hare

SNES:
Sparkster
Dixie Kong's Double Trouble
Tetris Attack
Mega Man X3

Sega Genesis:
Toejam and Earl's Panic on Funkotron
Crystal's Pony Tail
Zombies Ate My Neighbors

GBA:
Can't think of anything atm

Wii:
Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo's Mystery Dungeon

DS:
Golden Sun Dark Dawn (it'll never be in the same league as the first two, but it's still a fun game)

2DS:
Animal Crossing Happy Home Designer

WiiU: Mighty No. 9 it's not a favorite, but I do like it a lot.
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StifledSilence posted...

I'd say the Streets of Rage series is heavily overlooked as well. I'd love to see Sega bring it back.

man, this is like one of the stand-out Genesis series. it's dead now but I would hardly say it was overlooked at the time.
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I would argue Act Raiser isn't really that overlooked also.
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Knights of the Round
King of Dragons

Both solid SNES Beat-em-ups by Capcom.
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DeepsPraw posted...

I'm a big fan of Puggsy, a puzzle-platformer on the Genesis.

surprising amount of physics-based gameplay in a 16-bit game

Ah! I've played it that game is weird. :p
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Critically it was a standout. But it's not really a big talked about series as far as Genesis fans go. Especially not anymore.

Although you could probably say that about most non-Sonic series on Genesis.
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Figured one out for the GBA:
Konami Krazy Racers

I like it better then Mario Kart.

SNES:
Mario Paint
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StealThisSheen posted...

Cool Spot and Biker Mice from Mars

Overlooked like most licensed games, but a very solid platformer and a very solid racing game.

Biker Mice has one of the greatest TAS of all time
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WazzupGenius00 posted...

Biker Mice has one of the greatest TAS of all time

To think I was going to complain about the password skip
In one of the races his last lap was not his fastest, I think The TAS could be improved
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