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Do any of you know of any other games that have virtually unknown sequels that are substantially better than the original and better known game?

>> No.2496549

Bionic Commando on GB

>> No.2496560

>>2496438
Never played. Anyone care to explain what makes this better than the original?

>> No.2496581

>>2496560
It isn't. It's a good game, but worse and easier in several ways. It's "Kid Icarus Lite" or "Kid Icarus Jr". Not a bad game though. Shame Uprising pretended it didn't exist.

>> No.2496770

>>2496438
But it was significantly worse. The original is on a whole different level. The sequel wasn't *bad*, but it's being compared to a game that was really unique.

>> No.2497126
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How about unknown sequels and prequels in general?

Anyone remember Halloween Harry/Alien Carnage for DOS?

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>>2497126
It was actually the second game in the series with the first one being released for the Microbee System in 1985.

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>>2497129
And then there's also the pretty unknown Windows-only sequel, Zombie Wars.

>> No.2497193

>>2496438

Athena: Full Throttle - the sequel to SNK's classic Athena, bu for mobile only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena:_Full_Throttle

There's not a whole lot of footage of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePqP15gvUC0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP3mLoOsMOk

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Metroid 2 IMO. Also the first Wolfenstein game is pretty forgotten nowadays.

>> No.2497221

>>2496438
Can you imagine what that snake is thinking?

Look at that fucking snake.

>> No.2497235

>>2497221
the snake and eggplant are looking at each other in a strange way

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Metal Gear, which is virtually inexistent to most of current Metal Gear fans who think the series started in Metal Gear Solid.

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2497321

Mystic Towers is a pretty well known Apogee game, its prequel, Baron Baldric, on the other hand not so much.

>> No.2497334

>>2497245
I think it was a good idea to add it in MGS3 Subsistence (or the HD version for that matter) so people actually have a chance to play them.
I'm playing it right now and it's fun.

>> No.2497458

It's not completely unknown, but Mario Land 2 doesn't get as much attention as the first game despite being better in just about every way.

And I say this as a person who actually really likes SML 1.

>> No.2497465

>>2497245
Or how about Ghost Babel for the GBC? Should be on the VC or something.

>> No.2497617

>>2497458
Super Mario Land 2 is to Super Mario Land what Super Mario World is to Super Mario Bros.

>> No.2497847

>>2497126
This is actually free on 3DRealms' site now, along with Stargunner.

Pick this shit up, it's fun.

>> No.2497881

>>2497139
Windows 3.1 windows style
Noice.

>> No.2498564

>>2497881
Well, it doesn't really work on anything BUT Windows 3.1.
Even getting it to run on Windows 95 is a bitch.

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>>2496438
It's not unknown, but a lot of people probably missed out on Um Jammer Lammy, since it came out between Parappa the Rapper and Parappa the Rapper 2 and didn't have the name in the title or anything. But plenty of people on /vr/ are already intimately familiar with the trilogy, while most of the gaming world remembered Parappa again for all of two weeks when the PSP port came out.