/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1621765]

Can we have a thread about old games that are overlooked?

Pic related: I barely see anyone talking about this gem for the NES

[Anonymous No.1621768]

>>1621765
Yeah, Shatter Hand (or Shatterhand or ShatterHand) is awesome.
Not many people talk about Robotron 64, and that game's awesome.

[Anonymous No.1621780]

>>1621765

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/natsume/natsume.htm

[Anonymous No.1621786]

Power Blade

[Anonymous No.1621794]

+Destiny of an Emperor and Zen - Intergalactic Ninja

[Anonymous No.1621826]

>>1621794

>Guerrilla war

Now that's bananas

[Anonymous No.1621892]

>>1621765
Shatter Hand is 8-bit generation's God Hand.

[Anonymous No.1621908]

>>1621892
>Shatter Hand is 8-bit generation's God Hand.

No, that would be River City Ransom.

[Anonymous No.1621930]

>>1621765
Good. Almost as good as Batman and Ninja Gaiden.

My vote is:

>nes: Mr Gimmick

>Genesis: Panorama Cotton

>Snes: Kiki KaiKai

[Anonymous No.1621935]

>>1621930
Tbh, Mr. Gimmick is gaining in popularity. Is it appearing in everyone's collection? No, and it isn't talked about much, but I've been seeing it more and more in those top ten hidden NES game videos or whatever, and I hear about it frequently when talking about most technically advanced NES game. Which Mr. Gimmick wins hands down.

[Anonymous No.1621971]

ghost N Goblins close the thread

[Anonymous No.1622014]

Super R Type. Never see anyone talk about this. Fun, well-made game. Though the one-hit kills combined with no checkpoints is pretty bullshit. Have some epic boss music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t93lz_zAeS0

[Anonymous No.1622116]

>>1621935

which is nice cause mr gimmick was a late nes game that received some unfair reviews back then.

[Anonymous No.1622138]

>>1622014
R-Type III is just better in every single way possible.

[Anonymous No.1622145]

>>1622116
god damn, so many objectively false statements. It's hilariously obvious that none of them but the second guy played more than the first or second level.

[Anonymous No.1622150]

>>1622116
Only the guy who gave it an 8 actually bothered to play the game.

[Don Rumata !!rYqzYYFAejo No.1622257]

The team behind Gimmick actually did some games for Japanese PCs that no one's played. You can check them out at Gimmick's programmer's personal page: http://www.electricsheep.co.jp/rc.html

Speaking of /vr/ Japanese PC games, three soft houses deserve more recognition: Arsys (Wibarm, Star Crusier), Exact (Aquales, Jumping Flash (and its predecessor Geograph Seal)), and Zoom (Genocide 2, Zero Divide). Really awesome, arcade-like games from each studio. The dude behind Arsys designed both the original, early-'80s Thunder Force and Omega Boost, and Exact and Zoom were informal rivals making the best games for the X68000.

[Anonymous No.1622313]

>>1622138
Not in music it isn't.

[Anonymous No.1622315]

>>1622313
Also Super's first stage doesn't take nearly as long to get moving.

[Anonymous No.1622446]

[Anonymous No.1622801]

>>1621765
I blame the name more than anything else

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkExWD02Y9U

[Anonymous No.1622957]

>>1621794
>Destiny of an Emperor

And Magic of Scheherazade are my 1-2 for great less-talked-about NES games. As they ruled my childhood.

[Anonymous No.1622961]

>>1621765
Metal Warriors. Incredibly sophisticated late SNES release that was screwed out of first party Big N publishing by the Playstation. Best 2-player competitive multiplayer ever along with Liero for PC.

[Anonymous No.1622963]

>>1621794
are these supposed to be underrated games? I played a few of them, as a kid, and some of them were not fun. Clash at Demonhead, being one... makes me want to go back to some of these.

on the other hand, how would GI Joe be underrated? it came out at the zenith of the toy's popularity, and had a huge spread in Nintendo Power!

I agree that most of these games are Must Plays. Little Nemo is still one of my favorite games of all time.

[Anonymous No.1622986]

>>1622963
I made that list few years ago and the original point of it was to make a list of NES games to play after playing the must play classics everyone knows about like Super Mario, Zelda and Mega Man games.

[Anonymous No.1623047]

>>1621794
>U-fouria but not Mr. Gimmick!

Explain yourself.

[Anonymous No.1623156]

>>1622014
>well-made game
No. The game isn't popular because it has deathly slowdown - the kind that suddenly goes back to normal, meaning you'd crash into things for BS reasons.
Hence shmup veterans ignore/despise this game.

>>1621794
>S.C.A.T.
W-what is this game about?

[NESfag No.1623179]

>>1623156
SCAT is a sidescrolling shooter, except that instead of a spaceship you're controlling a guy and a girl using jetpacks. It's not the best of its kind, but it's really good imo; also the 2 players coop is excellent, very smooth, with little to no flickering or slow down, which for this kind of game on NES, is worth noting.

[Anonymous No.1623326]

>>1623047
(Mr.) Gimmick ALWAYS comes up within few replies in every underrated game discussion thread (especially here on /vr/) and is a well know game but no-one ever even mentions Ufouria. In other words GImmick is an "underrated" game that is so well know there is little to no reason to mention it as everyone already knows about it.

While >>1622986 is the main point of the list it also had a subgoal of bringing up games that are lesser known and aren't mentioned that often. Then again I listed Crystalis, Guardian Legend and River City Ransom so I kinda failed on my own goals as they all are well know games that are also often talked about...

This brings up a question; IF I were to update my list should I take out the better know lesser know games or just add few games to it?

[Anonymous No.1623505]

>>1621971

>Ghost and Goblins
>Overlooked

[Anonymous No.1623516]

>>1623326
>no-one ever even mentions Ufouria

Probably because it sucks, both the gameplay and the unsightly character design. Ufouria is a D-class platformer, at best. I would hardly call it a hidden gem.

[Anonymous No.1623652]

never understood how this game isn't a widely known classic

[Anonymous No.1623697]

Flimbo's Quest on Commodore 64

amazing side-scrolling platformer where you keep collecting scrolls in each level to progress. a bit late in the day for the commodore though (1990) so it basically sank into obscurity. was bundled into a 4-game cart that came with commodores (and the failed C64 console) bought around 1990/91 mainly in the UK iirc so was relatively popular for a period
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0msxihp1fFQ

another late C64 title: 'Creatures'

brilliant sidescroller; though insanely long and massive for a C64 game and practically unbeatable without a lives cheat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ3CeHrPzxk

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.1623710]

>>1623326
>Gimmick is an "underrated" game that is so well know there is little to no reason to mention it as everyone already knows about it.

Same with Umihara Kawase. It's great, but not underrated.

That's the problem with words like "underrated" and "overrated." The more often people say it, the less true it is.

[Anonymous No.1623715]

>>1623652
it is

[Anonymous No.1623986]

>>1623516
Ufouria may not stand out as a platformer but as far as "metroidvanias" on the NES go, it's one of the better ones.

>>1623710
Even bigger problem is people thinking the following is true:
underrated = game I like
overrated = game I don't like

[Anonymous No.1624150]

>>1623986
>it's one of the better ones

No. It's not.

[Anonymous No.1624707]

Banana Prince

Doesn't help that it has a quiz game and it's only released in German or Japanese. But I think it's pretty good as far as platforming goes.
There should be an English translated ROM somewhere nowadays.

[Anonymous No.1624712]

>>1624150
Nigga, at least read his whole post before responding. Failing that, at least finish reading the sentence you quoted.

[Anonymous No.1624713]

>>1621765
You know, I passed up renting this game as a kid, because of the cover. Then I played it as an adult, and kind of hated myself a little bit for depriving myself of Shatterhand in my childhood.

[Anonymous No.1624784]

>>1624713

>passed up

What the fuck kind of late 80s/early 90s kid were you? That was the whole reason I rented it. Turned out it was just as rad as the cover promised. In fact, MORE SO.

[Anonymous No.1624792]

>>1624784
I'd been burned several times before by cover art, and ended up making a mistake because of it.

[Anonymous No.1624813]

>>1621826
Guerrilla War is just as good as the Contras. And a lot harder too if you play it the proper way.
>>1621908
River City Ransom probably has more in common with Yakuza or Kenka Bancho than with God Hand.

[Anonymous No.1624816]

>>1621794
>Street Fighter 2010
That game would've been a cult classic and not the butt of everyone's joke had it not been for the title.

[Anonymous No.1624867]

>>1624816
I tought it was because of the unfair unbalanced difficulty

>stiff controllers
>only one shot on air
>starting damn weak
>power-up grinding taking way too much than needed
>not enough power-ups for some stages , specially when you die and start over again
>losing your power when getting hit
>Those missiles EVERYWHERE
>that poorly designed last level
>not acommodating the boss battles in consideration of restarting with no power ups
>the times doesnt reset when you fight the final boss!

[Anonymous No.1625479]

For the Genesis
>Haunting Starring Poulterguy
>Skitchin'
>El Viento
>Toe Jam & Earl: Panic On Funkotron
>Ultimate Qix
>General Chaos
>Zero Tolerance
>Gauntlet 4
>Devilish

[Anonymous No.1626749]

>>1623516
>Probably because it sucks, both the gameplay and the unsightly character design. Ufouria is a D-class platformer, at best. I would hardly call it a hidden gem.

[Anonymous No.1626750]

>>1622963
Most people I know online only talk about the first one, but not the second game, which I liked better as a kid despite of the shitty 3x3 grid passwords

[Anonymous No.1627145]

My step dad's tweaker friend found a copy of this in a dumpster and cleaned it up, gave it to me on my 7th birthday. I was obsessed with it for years, and I still don't understand why it's not talked about more.

[Anonymous No.1627345]

Considering this shit got ported to every platform in existence back then.

Yea / Nay?

[Anonymous No.1627372]

[Anonymous No.1629490]

Hardwar is still overlooked even on /vr/

[Anonymous No.1630516]

>>1627372
Even the cartoon it is based on is overlooked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ad4MBqAfvA

[Anonymous No.1630552]

>>1627145
I loved that game. I used to Game Genie the fuck outta it.

[Anonymous No.1630858]

Whomp' Em

with all the mega man neckbeards, you'd think this game would be appreciated more

[Anonymous No.1632902]

>>1621765
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMKSVjq54k0

[Anonymous No.1632907]

>>1621935
Mr. Gimmick actually has the SNES sound chip in the cartridge.

[Anonymous No.1632908]

[Anonymous No.1632920]

>>1632907
no it doesn't. It has the Sunsoft 5B, which isn't even related.

Heck, the non-JP version has NO audio expansion.

[Anonymous No.1632924]

Avenging Spirit for the Game Boy.

[Anonymous No.1634669]

>>1621765
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UEDW1SIcB0

[Anonymous No.1635583]

>>1621765
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8D3B99_7to

[Anonymous No.1635860]

>>1621765
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QNPqD8UGA

[Buzzclaw No.1635880]

>>1621765
Hellfire for the MegaDrive