Overlooked NES Games

[Anonymous No.1184081]

And by overlooked, I don't mean games that eventually got their due like Little Samson or Metal Storm, I mean games nobody talks about, they never come up in conversation with the top games in the system either like the classic Nintendo games.

For me, it's Adventure Island II and III, way more fun than the first game, nicely drawn graphics, ride-able dinosaurs, lots of worlds and levels. In general, a lot of Hudson's later NES releases are overlooked.

[Anonymous No.1184090]

I feel like Metal Storm and games like Adventure Island have the same amount of spotlight shined on them. They're all dated, (should have been) classics but there were enough similiar clones to stuff like AI which lead to it gaining minimal popularity (at least in the states)

[Anonymous No.1184104]

Kickmaster rules. It's basically Castlevania but it replaces Simon Belmont with Jean-Claude Van Damme.

[Anonymous No.1184106]

>>1184090
Maybe the original Adventure Island, but it's more for it's infamous difficulty farther into the game. Even in Japan there seems to be no nostalgia for anything other than the very first game. I assume it's because everybody assumed, both in Japan and the US, that the later games were as hard as the first one.

[Anonymous No.1184127]

>>1184104
Yeah Kickmaster is a good choice, it probably didn't help that it never got a Famicom release.

[Anonymous No.1184126]

well first off, I don't know how you can think that Little Samson or Metal Storm aren't overlooked but AI 2 and 3 are but w/e

and I love AI but I could just never get into 2 or 3 as much (love 4 btw). the dinosaurs didn't add much fun to the gameplay IMO.

[Anonymous No.1184132]

For starters, here are some lists of underrated/overlooked games as suggested by /vr/ and compiled by Specter!!EIMQlVZ3gqv.

platformers
>http://pastebin.com/J7sFtMFx
shoot'em up
>http://pastebin.com/xUDKCP55
puzzle
>http://pastebin.com/rzwErk3k

Refer to the NES sections.

[Anonymous No.1184437]

>>1184081
why does it seem that I am the only one who likes Adventure Island 4?

[Anonymous No.1184448]

I almost never see anyone talking about the Kunio Kun sports games, specifically Nekketsu! Street Basket: Ganbare Dunk Heroes

This shit is probably the most "cuhrayzee" sports simulator I've ever played, and it's an NES game. Whereas NBA Jam is "Basketball with shoving" this game is "River City Ransom meets Basketball with 3 fucking rims stacked on each side and ridiculous American caricatures to play against"

Character descriptions from wikipedia:

>Every game is two-on-two with baskets being able to be broken by shots and slam dunks. Opponents include the U.S. Navy, New York, (a team of hip hop-obsessed boys), Florida (a team of researchers at the Space Center), Texas (a team of countryside boys), Hawaii (stereotypical surfer team), San Francisco (a team of very powerful bodybuilders), and Las Vegas (a team of magicians).

[Anonymous No.1184460]

>>1184448
>cuhrayzee
can you guys please stop that?

[Anonymous No.1184468]

>>1184460
No.

[Anonymous No.1184489]

>>1184468
It's really, really lame

[Anonymous No.1184491]

The Wizards & Warriors series is good stuff, though the 3rd is more questionable.

[Anonymous No.1184496]

>>1184491
Really? Third one is my favorite out of the trilogy, with the first game coming in second.

[Anonymous No.1184621]

there is a thin on master system. Kinda neat.

[Anonymous No.1184792]

Famicom Mystery Club, it was a pretty good mystery game with much better sounds and visuals than Jake Hunter. Though I've only played the second one, since it was the only one out of the three translated.

[Anonymous No.1184847]

>>1184792
Hell yeah motherfucker.
Worth note, the guy who translated the game is a legitimate professional translator . I know he's worked for Viz, pretty sure he worked on the script for Dragonball or some crap.

Really sad that the two projects for Famicom Detective Club 1 both failed

[Anonymous No.1184850]

>>1184847
>Worth note, the guy who translated the game is a legitimate professional translator . I know he's worked for Viz, pretty sure he worked on the script for Dragonball or some crap.
That's actually really cool, and yeah it really sucks that the first games translation efforts fell through. It also sucks that the third game was on Satellaveiw.

[Anonymous No.1184854]

>>1184850
To be completely honest, everything that I know about the third game leads me to believe it would be playable without the Satellaview data. The Satellaview stuff was just voice data that played over the text, sure it'd be cool to have the voice acting but lets be fair it's not really gonna help non native speakers.
No idea if it's been dumped even, I should probably look into that

[Anonymous No.1184857]

>>1184854
It has, http://www.emuparadise.me/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_(SNES)_ROMs/BS_Tantei_Club_-_Yuki_ni_Kieta_Kako_-_Kouhen_(Japan)/33219

[Anonymous No.1184858]

>>1184792
So you don't need to know anything about the first game to play it?

[Anonymous No.1184860]

>>1184858
Nope it's a prequel.

[Anonymous No.1184861]

>>1184857
hmm, interesting. I'd love to publish a patch for this, I have some experience with text dumping from roms, but of course I'd need a translator for that. Either way thanks for the link

[Anonymous No.1184863]

Nobody remembers Super Adventure Island 2.

[Anonymous No.1184865]

>>1184863
I think I still have my cart of it somewhere.
That game was cool times.

[Anonymous No.1184875]

>>1184861
No problem, I hope you find a translator.

[Anonymous No.1185039]

[Anonymous No.1185064]

>>1184448
This was,like, a thing. There was a similar game called "Crash n the boyz Street Challenge or some shit." And a dodge ball kind of game.

[Anonymous No.1185068]

>>1184448
>cuhrayzee
you brilliant troll. I can feel the rage slowly building up inside

[Anonymous No.1185070]

>>1185068
I don't see any trolling in that post...

[Anonymous No.1185231]

>>1184861
when do we get started?

or rather, do you have experience with getting the translated text back into the game again? that's more difficult

[Anonymous No.1185276]

>>1185231
May I say Dragon Quest on the American side? Not really overlooked but it never really did well at all and people seem to just forgot about it.

[Anonymous No.1185305]

>>1184081
Dig Dug 2.

[Anonymous No.1185345]

>>1185305
Meh. I played the NES version, wasn't really impressed, it's fun but nothing I would call great.

[Anonymous No.1185348]

>>1184437
I've never heard of any games past 2 tbh. What's 4 got going for it?

[Anonymous No.1185351]

>>1185276
I think about it fondly until I remember the grinding, and then I pick up the translated 1+2 remakes on SNES

[Anonymous No.1185353]

I'd say North & South, it's got some of the best multiplayer action on the NES.

Maybe Clash at Demonhead, but that seems to be getting more love due to that shitty Scott Pilgrim movie.

>>1184863
I remember renting that as a kid, it was pretty damn good.

[Anonymous No.1185363]

>>1185351
1 and 2 very much yes. 3 not so much since even after class changing you can level your other characters fairly quickly. Guess I meant Dragon Quest in general then just Dragon Quest 1.

[Anonymous No.1185371]

>>1185353

North and south was awesome.

Captain skyhawk is one that I never see mentioned but its a personal favorite of mine. A top down 2.5d shooter that lets you Dock an f14 with a space station. What's not to love.

[NESfag No.1185404]

Zen The Intergalatic Ninja. Had never heard about it until a few months ago.

it's an action game with a lot of stages being a different gameplay type. Some stages are kinda like Street Fighter 2010, another is like a cart chase in isometric view, etc

Gameplay is tight, graphics and musics FANTASTIC both on an artistic and technical point of view, difficulty is hard but you can play on easy and give yourself more lives if you'd like to.

[NESfag No.1185410]

Imo Mission Impossible is very looked upon.

Based on the TV show and made by Konami, it's a lot like Metal Gear, except better than the NES Metal Gear. You can choose to fight or to go stealth for a good part of the game. Gameplay and music are great. It's REALLY REALLY hard though, and sometimse a bit unfair, for example you'd find out how to get out of the snow level by yourself only after you're so tired of turning in round that you'd start punching every single wall... also the floor traps in the later levels are very unfair imo. But past those points it's a very solid game.
There are also moments of diversity for the sake of it and for fun which was rare at the time (think kinda like Vice Project Doom), for example the 2nd stage is a boat chase from topdown view.

[NESfag No.1185417]

If Famicom counts, Moai Kun (again, by Konami) should be given more credit. It's a puzzle-platformer in the vein of Fire'n'ice or Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle. You have to save all your friends in the screen while pushing rocks, and avoiding/killing enemies; Be careful not to block yourself by pushing the wrong block or you'll have to press the suicide button so gently taken from Lolo Adventure!

The concept of this game was totally ripped off by the company which made Toki Tori and became famous with it. That's okay though because it's a great concept.

[NESfag No.1185423]

Super Off Roads isn't an unknown game, but it's overlooked. It's the most fun racing game on the console but it's overlooked only because it's a sports game, and 'gamers' dismiss sports game just because it's "sports" and because with how sports games have mostly become in these recent generations, they've forgotten that they could be fun.

The NES version is also superior to other console versions because it's the only one in which you can play 3-4 players.

[NESfag No.1185428]

Everybody knows Batman on NES by Sunsoft, as well as Batman Return Of The Joker, and also Batman Returns on SNES.

But there is also Batman Returns on NES which is a whole different game and which is completely overshadowed by the other ones, even though it's definitly better than say, Return Of The Joker.

It's a challenging beat'em up with enough variety, a dark atmosphere, just what you need for story and very faithful to the source material (contrary to Batman by Sunsoft). The only shame is that, just like Batman Returns on SNES, I wish there was a 2players co-op mode.

[Anonymous No.1185490]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmj9l8jtaDI

Street Fighter 2010 had some kickass music.

[Anonymous No.1185582]

>>1185039
This game was going to have a sequel like ducktales and chip and dale rr.

[Anonymous No.1185916]

Conquest of the Crystal Palace. Really awesome action adventure that nobody else I know has played and it's seriously got all the makings of a classic NES game. Even a shop run by a cute girl character!

[Anonymous No.1185940]

>>1185490
That is some Megaman ~3-4 tier music right there.
Silver Surfer had great music too, but people seem content with just labeling it as the "hardest nes game ever" without even paying the slightest bit of attention to it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGNSHNf-nlU
Worst part is that people compare it to things like Battletoads without apparently ever even having played either of the games.

Bucky O'hare on the NES was underrated too, but since the Screwattack shit came up today I'm guessing it'll get at least a little bit of upswing.

[Anonymous No.1185990]

>>1185404
That's based off a comic book series I believe or the other way around. My brother has the first issue signed. Might be worth five bucks one day.

[Anonymous No.1186218]

>>1185039
This.

This game is so much better than any other Capcom NES games.

[Anonymous No.1186260]

>>1184437
I really liked 4.

>>1184863
SAI2 is definitely a game I want a cart of, I played an hour or so one day emulated and thought it was pretty fun. I'm a big Zelda 2 lover, and this game improves on it a lot from what I saw.

[Anonymous No.1189326]

Gun Nac

best famicom shoot em up that isn't Crisis Force

hell it's better than Crisis Force

[Anonymous No.1189331]

>>1185490
Damn, that is pretty fucking nice.

[Anonymous No.1189338]

>>1189331

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXn5EvqmOHg

[NESfag No.1189353]

>>1189326
>Crisis Force

wouldn't that be RECCA?

Crisis Force is great but it's a shame it lags and flickers so much in 2 player.

[Anonymous No.1189354]

>>1189338
You had me at (C) Konami 1991.

[Anonymous No.1191410]

>>1185348

Adventure + RPG, tons of minigames

Password-based, tho. But you'll be writing them no matter what, because you'll feel the need to keep going because it's that much good

[Anonymous No.1192620]

super robin hood on quarto adventure, rest of games on it were quite medicore/bad though.

And speaking of codemasters, fantastic adventures of dizzy was good too