I'm currently in the process of repurchasing my childhood and rebuilding my NES, SNES (and, shortly, Genesis) collections and I'm running across a lot of good games I missed out on as a kid in addition to enjoying my old favorites again.
What were/are your favorite 8/16-bit era games that I should check out?
And if we could reignite the Nintendo/Sega console wars in this thread I'd be SOOOOO happy ;)
The first Metroid on the NES.
Back in the early 80's I had a Commodor 64 and loved their stable of games, particularly the EA games: Archon, Archon II, Seven Cities of Gold, Mail Order Monsters and others I can't even remember the name of.
I remember my buddy had an Intellivision and I loved the game Dreadnaught Factor. Another buddy had an Atari 5200 which had some good games but crappy joysticks.
In college a suite mate had an early Nintendo system and I got addicted to Doctor Mario. I could beat that on level 19 but not 20.
I still play some of my favorite NES and SNES games on the emulator for my touchpad. On my list:
Nobunaga's Ambition (NES)
Final Fantasy (NES)
Leged of Zelda (NES)
Zelda, Link to the Past (SNES)
Castlevania (NES)
Super Castlevania (SNES)
Ogre BAttle (SNES)
Dragon WArrior (NES)
Final Fantasy VI (SNES, my personal favorite)
Breath of Fire (NES)
Super Mario World (SNES)
I was a Sega Master System kid and later got a SNES.
For the Master System, I thought R-Type, Operation Wolf, [strike]Conan[/strike] Rastan (oh God, fucking Rastan, I sometimes get on YouTube just to listen to the level 1 midi and chanced upon this awesome "remake" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwHqakyRLxc)) and Wonder Boy II were da bomb.
For the SNES, Super Mario World and Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past are the no-brainers. I was also big on arcade game conversions: Final Fight, Ghouls & Ghosts (if you defeated the final boss without collecting the key you were sent back to the start of the game. Fucking brutal and unthinkable today), R-Type (I think it was called R-Type Zero or something) and a side-scrolling beat'em-up game which was balls-out D&Dish fantasy whose name escapes me.
Quote from: The Butcher;736915...a side-scrolling beat'em-up game which was balls-out D&Dish fantasy whose name escapes me.
A few that fit that description on SNES were Magic Sword, and Knights of the Round, but I'm guessing King of Dragons?
Also no SNES collection is complete without Chrono Trigger.
Quote from: JamesV;736923Also no SNES collection is complete without Chrono Trigger.
Chrono Trigger costs a bajillion dollars, yes?
Quote from: Piestrio;736926Chrono Trigger costs a bajillion dollars, yes?
There is a good chance of that, since like Super Mario RPG, it was released near the end of the SNES lifespan.
If you're willing to compromise, it was also ported to the DS. In either case it's a great game.
Quote from: Piestrio;736926Chrono Trigger costs a bajillion dollars, yes?
Just a quick Google shopping search shows prices for a used copy ranging from $80 to $110. Those are inflated, of course. I think it's fair to say a bare cart could be had for somewhere between $40 and $80 if you hunted a bit.
The game was also ported to the DS and PS1. The PS1 version is on the Final Fantasy Chronicles disc which you can still find new on Amazon for under $20. The DS port is also available new on Amazon for under $25. Failing that, it can be downloaded for the PS3 through the Playstation Store for $10. Not that any of those options will help a SNES collection.
But another option if you want to play SNES games on real hardware (not a clone system) is to get a flash cart. I own two for my SNES: the Super Everdrive and the SD2SNES. Both support Chrono Trigger. The SD2SNES is the more expensive option with greater capability. The Super Everdrive is the cheaper route. Either one will make up for their purchase cost as soon as they're loaded with Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and whatever other hard to find carts strike your fancy.
A few for SNES
Starfox
Super Castlevania IV
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II
Gemfire
Final Fantasy II or Final Fantasy III
Earthbound (probably better to get a flash cart, it would be about the same price)
Ogre Battle
Rock n Roll Racing
Mortal Kombat II
Final Fight 2 or 3
King of Dragons
And a few for Genesis if you go that route. Despite this being a smaller list, I'm more of a Genesis gamer.
Golden Axe (hunt down 6-Pack which has this game and some other cool ones)
Streets of Rage 2
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Phantasy Star 2 and/or 4
Shining Force
Lightening Force
Shadowrun
Alisia Dragoon
Ranger X
Castlevania Bloodlines
Road Rash 2
Thanks Gabriel,
I'm seriously temped by one of those Flashcarts...
Don't know about you Windows lot, but this works nicely in OSX:
Open Emu (http://openemu.org/)
QuoteWe combine some of the best emulation projects together into one beautiful unified application that simply organizes your personal games library. Watch as you drop in backups of your games (ROMs) & they are gracefully added to their appropriate library along with original box art!
(works with my PS3 controller too!!)
Hooooleee shit, now we're talking my time. What'cha wanna know? What are your favorite genres? How willing are you to play imported games, especially those with a different language?
Was a SEGA kid from the beginning and been there from arcade and SMS to Dreamcast. Still love the other systems, but SEGA always had my favorite type of games at my favorite difficulty level: PUNISHING! So if anyone wants to throw down like it's 1989, it's ON!
Off the top of my head, stuff I played and liked:
SMS
-rpgs-
Y's Vanished Omens
Phantasy Star
Miracle Warriors
Golvellius
Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Lord of the Sword (an exercise in agony! ten continues, that's it!)
-shooters-
After Burner (gets much harder after 11th level. :p)
Astro Warrior
Action Fighter (a neat game, part spy hunter, part 1942.)
Bomber Raid (1942-esque)
Choplifter
F-16 Fighting Falcon (card. you just jet duel off HUDs! fun!)
Fantasy Zone I & II
Galaxy Force (this & Zaxxon 3-D blew my little child mind back in the day)
R-Type
Space Harrier & in 3-D
Thunderblade
Transbot
Zaxxon 3-D
-action adventure-
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
Alien Syndrome (3 lives, no continues, 8 levels, one-hit-wonder. suck on that.)
Aztec Adventure (use gold to hire enemies! weird bosses!)
Bonanza Bros (bank heist stealth while tripping up the cops!)
Bubble Bobble
Double Dragon (ooh! two players!)
Gain Ground
Kung Fu Kid (easy, but you can FLY! early wuxia craziness.)
Psychic World
Psycho Fox
Quartet (gettin' high huffin' the chiptunes)
Rainbow Islands (bubble bobble's sequel)
Rampage
Rastan (still huffin' the chiptunes)
Shinobi
Spy vs. Spy
Time Soldiers
Wonder Boy I & II
Zillion
-miscellaneous-
Casino Games
California Games
Paperboy
Parlour Games
Shanghai
Penguin Land
Rescue Mission (light gun)
Hang On
Outrun (zOMG! Magical Sound Shower! *HUFF*)
well this is too long... give me a genre or three and I can drive you on through to all there was in each system, even PC Engine/TG-16, SNES, NES, Genesis, Sega CD, and on.
Quote from: The Butcher;736915and a side-scrolling beat'em-up game which was balls-out D&Dish fantasy whose name escapes me.
Dungeons & Dragons Tower of Doom. Wonderfull rendering of D&D by Capcom.
Also the sequel, Shadow over Mystara.
My favorites, all for SNES, were:
Drakkhen
Actraiser
Legend of Zelda
Shadowrun (#2 pick)
Super Metroid (#1 pick)
There's one other that I had and loved but can't remember its name; it's the port of the British Isles computer games. I liked Castlevania 4 but found it somewhat difficult.
Chrono Trigger should be everyone's first answer. Though, some might just call it my opinion. RPGS were a strong love of mine and still are. Final Fantasy series, Shadowrun, Zelda, Ogre Battle.
Sonic, Mortal Kombat, Lost Vikings, Killer Instinct, Rampage, Paperboy, TMNT: Turtles in Time, Battle Toads. I still play a lot of Starfox. Mega Man X is a game that a friend of mine gets together with me to speed-run every year to keep it fresh.
There are just so many wonderful titles of the years past, and to try and pick out favorites is a far larger list than just finding the ones that I really didn't enjoy! I just know I'm missing a number of games... Perhaps I should go back and review the catalogs of titles, for old time's sake.
Although they get unfairly shat on a lot by general geek consensus, I find the later 8-bit Mega Man games (4, 5, and 6) to be very smooth and pleasant experiences that I enjoy revisiting more than the better regarded 1, 2, and 3.
Speaking of Megaman, Megaman X-1.
Lets see. Mostly SNES games. Sticking to just the RPGs.
Shadowrun: I know one of the designers for that game.
7th Saga: Played that to death, mapped the world.
Drakkhen: For an early walkearound RPG-lite it wasnt bad.
ActRaiser: Neet little game and an early god sim.
Eye of the Beholder: STILL have not finished this one.
Final Fantasy IV(II on the SNES) Fun game and good story.
Final Fantasy VI: The epic.
Final Fantasy USA/Mystical Quest: Much maligned but not bad in and of itself.
Tenchu Muyo RPG: Wierd but fun.
For the arcades played to death
Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Shadow over Mystarra. Really good translations of D&D into a sidescrolling fighter. Lots of items to find, branching paths even.
Dungeon Magic: Multi path adventure.
Too many to list. I stick with a top RPGs.
Super Mario RPG
Earthbound
Final Fantasy (as in 1, 4, and 6 when they were just called 1, 2, and 3)
Final Fantasy Mythic Quest (OMG I completely forgot about that. Basic and made for newbies to gaming in general, but for some reason I love that game. In fact I still own it in wii console.)
Chrono Trigger
Secret of Mana
Dragon Quest Series
Breath of Fire 1 and 2
Illusion of Gaia
I had notice that super nintendo was pretty much the golden age of rpg games.
Some of my highlights and most memorable include:
All of the Zelda games on (S)NES
River City Ransom NES
Castlevania I/II NES
Rygar NES
All of the Final Fantasy on (S)NES
AD&D Pool of Radiance NES
Faxanadu NES
Nobunaga's Ambition NES
Kid Icarus NES
Shadowgate NES
Ultima III/IV/V NES
Super Mario Kart SNES
Secret of Mana SNES
King Arthur's World SNES
Super Ghouls and Ghosts SNES
The Lost Vikings SNES
I had a Sega Megadrive (or Genesis).
All the Sonic games were good. I remember playing a lot of brawler games like Streets of Rage, Golden Axe and the more obscure Alien Storm. Shinobi was pretty fun, only that one jump (you know which one ;)) I never made was frustrating.
Ecco the Dolphin was frustrating as well and the level sequencing didn't make any sense. If you took the wrong turn in one level they send you back right to level one!?! I never was able to find out the level sequence, maybe I try to find it online somewere.
Mickey Mania was really cool with levels based on Mickey Mouse cartoons like Steamboat Willy and the Prince and the Pauper. Fantasia was fucking hard. God, what a difficult game. I also played the more obscure platformer named James Pond (codename Robocod) which was actually pretty good.
I love the Lost Vikings. Brilliant puzzle platformer developed by a company that would later become Blizzard. I finished the game with two controllers, playing one with my hands and one with my feet. That was pretty much the most epic gaming I ever did. I switch character fast enough in the final level, that's why.
Quackshot was pretty epic as well. Donald Duck shooting different plungers all around the globe. I also had fun with Bubsby, another platformer.
Quote from: JamesV;736923A few that fit that description on SNES were Magic Sword, and Knights of the Round, but I'm guessing King of Dragons?
The one and same!
The local arcade bought a machine a few months after my dad got me the 1991 D&D Introductory Game. A synergy of awesomeness, as it were. God, the memories.
Quote from: Shipyard Locked;737016Although they get unfairly shat on a lot by general geek consensus, I find the later 8-bit Mega Man games (4, 5, and 6) to be very smooth and pleasant experiences that I enjoy revisiting more than the better regarded 1, 2, and 3.
Classic Megaman is my one true love (nobody tell my wife).
I had a Genesis first but got an SNES later on. I still remember getting the Genesis on the morning of m 5th birthday, truly it was glorious.
As far as games go
Streets of Rage 2
Vectorman
Golden Axe
Samurai Showdown
Street Fighter 2 Turbo
Final Fantasy 3
Chrono Trigger
A Link to the Past
Earthworm Jim 1 & 2
Most of the best 8 and 16 bit games have already been touched on, here, but I would like to draw some out that are less obvious, and I think deserve special attention.
"River City Ransom" for the NES. The graphical sensibility of the game helps it be more playable on the NES than other beat 'em up games of the same era, like Double Dragon. It's a funny game and requires a lot of skill. I highly recommend it.
"Punch Out" for the NES. An excellent fighting game, before really there were fighting games. In my opinion the original Nintendo game is better than its SNES sequel. In the NES game, you have to conserve your energy through the match, so it really feels like you have to "go the distance".
These games are also notable for not breaking your bank trying to acquire them, unlike some obviously great games - like Ogre Battle, Chrono Trigger and the like, that while wonderful had better damn well be at the price they command. You should be able to find River City Ransom and Punch Out for under $20.
//Panjumanju
And here are some of my NES recommendations. These are more affordable overall than my SNES and Genesis recommends.
Dragon Warrior = pure grinding satisfaction
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar
Castlevania
Contra = surprisingly difficult to find
Lifeforce
Balloon Fight = a Joust rip off, but a good one
RC Pro Am
Cobra Triangle
Gyruss
Heavy Barrel
Jackal
Kirby's Adventure
Vice: Project Doom
All these consoles....
I was an Atari ST man.
Xenon
Dungeon Master
Bubble Bobble
Dizzy
Llamatron
Loderunner
Rainbow Islands
Elite
HHGttG
Turrican
Silkworm
Speedball
Double Dragon
Millenium 2.2
Oids
Shufflepuck cafe
Quote from: Piestrio;737130Classic Megaman is my one true love (nobody tell my wife).
Which one's your favorite and why?
Quote from: Shipyard Locked;737279Which one's your favorite and why?
2.
It has the prefect difficultly level, spot on music and the absolute best end game of any of the classics. Music, atmosphere, pace, bosses, everything.
1 is good but has some rough edges.
3 feels like a retread of 2.
4, 5, and 6 are all fun but get a bit repetitive and are often too easy. They're fun and light but missing the punishing difficulty of the earlier games.
Purely personal Mega Man opinion incoming.
I appreciate the easiness of 4, 5, and 6 for when I just want to relax. I also appreciate how much more polished they are in terms of flow and graphics.
2 has a lot of visual glitches. Its enemy placement and level rhythm of can be a little haphazard. Going through Crash Man, Heat Man, and Flash Man's stages can feel like a stop-and-start chore. Quick Man's stage is distinctly unpleasant to me, and he's a very arbitrary boss to boot. The 4th Wily fortress stage and its boss are just obnoxious and never feel rewarding on a revisit.
On the plus side, 2 has the best music of the classic series, no contest, and is a lot more fun than 1 or 3. Whenever I finish it I feel very satisfied, if a bit tired.
I suppose my personal favorite is 5. Not a popular opinion and I can see why people would object to some of it, but it works for me.
Quote from: Shipyard Locked;7373762 has a lot of visual glitches. Its enemy placement and level rhythm of can be a little haphazard. Going through Crash Man, Heat Man, and Flash Man's stages can feel like a stop-and-start chore. Quick Man's stage is distinctly unpleasant to me, and he's a very arbitrary boss to boot. The 4th Wily fortress stage and its boss are just obnoxious and never feel rewarding on a revisit.
Huh, I would have said "varied". I like the way each level (and even sections within easy level) require a different pace, a different strategy.
Quickman's stage simply serves to separate the men from the boys ;)
I almost agree about WC stage 4 boss but I appreciate what it was trying to do. Instead of yet another pattern recognition/platforming challenge, it was a puzzle.
Quote from: Piestrio;7373692.
It has the prefect difficultly level, spot on music and the absolute best end game of any of the classics. Music, atmosphere, pace, bosses, everything.
1 is good but has some rough edges.
3 feels like a retread of 2.
4, 5, and 6 are all fun but get a bit repetitive and are often too easy. They're fun and light but missing the punishing difficulty of the earlier games.
zOMG, you must be around my age. I'd say 2 as well, for roughly the same reasons.
If you like punishing difficulty, might I recommend Castlevania Circle of the Moon for Gameboy Advance. New gamers can't stand the difficulty, but it brings back so many memories (that and I thought it was easy with lots of replay value).
If you still like punishing platformers I'd recommend Gunstar Heroes (also easy) and Vectorman. Then we can get into other cruelty like Kid Chameleon for Genesis, Target Earth (un-fucking-believable game) also for Genesis, Air Fortress for NES, or Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle also for NES.
Also give a shout out to Parasol Stars for the PC Engine/Turbo Grafx 16, the third in the Bubble Bobble series, and easily my favorite.
Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap.
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Quote from: Opaopajr;737710If you like punishing difficulty, might I recommend Castlevania Circle of the Moon for Gameboy Advance. New gamers can't stand the difficulty, but it brings back so many memories (that and I thought it was easy with lots of replay value).
I preferred the later ones, but really, the entire GBA/DS series was good.
Also, someone mentioned Bonanza Brothers, I loved that game growing up. Would happily buy a 3D Classics version on my 3DS; Mr Sega, I know you're reading this, make it happen pls.
Anyway, I kinda missed out on the NES / SNES / Mega Drive era, having an STe and an Amiga at the time, so I only really know the obvious ones from emulation; Mario World, the Sonics, R-Type, EVO : Search for Eden, the Streets of Rage, Donkey Kong Countries, Zelda (Although the handheld ones were always the best), Cannon Fodder.
I still think Frontier : Elite 2 is tied for best game intro ever, though.
Chrono Trigger has always been one of my favorite games. I recommend the PS1 version because it has animated clips that look really good (I don't know if other versions of the game have them as well).
Quote from: Maese Mateo;738626Chrono Trigger has always been one of my favorite games. I recommend the PS1 version because it has animated clips that look really good (I don't know if other versions of the game have them as well).
The DS version has them, and fixes some bugs to boot.
Street Fighter 2 is my favorite one. I like playing it.
Street Fighter 2 Turbo has better fidelity on SNES, but the AI cheats like a mother (it does moves you CANNOT do, like Double Dragon Punch or Walking Flash Kick). The Genesis graphics, and especially sound, is not as good, but the control is spot on and the AI doesn't cheat as bad. And with the 6-button controller, closest to a Saturn controller (THE GOD CONTROLLER for fighting games), it's as close as you're gonna get to the arcade goodness on 16-bit.
Samurai Showdown, essentially an impossibility for 16-bit, also works best on Genesis oddly enough. It does zoom scaling and bomb/meat items closer to arcade fidelity than the SNES counterpart. For some reason the SNES port locks it at full distance and does no zooming, and skips the random item drop IIRC, slower too. Overall an inexcusable port in comparison, but there you go.
However, the real fun is in the fighters designed for 16-bit. For SNES there is TMNT Tournament Fighter. For Genesis there is Eternal Champions. Eternal Champions is the better game.
And then there's the other contemporary (not really 16-bit, but the rich kid's toy), SNK's Neo Geo system, and their plethora of amazing fighters: Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, World Heroes, Samurai Showdown, King of Fighters, etc.
Don't know about this new stuff you guys are listing. It's gotta be Intellivision Triple Action (biplanes), Utopia, and Auto Racing.
Quote from: Opaopajr;738873And then there's the other contemporary (not really 16-bit, but the rich kid's toy), SNK's Neo Geo system, and their plethora of amazing fighters: Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, World Heroes, Samurai Showdown, King of Fighters, etc.
Although they were butchered by their port to the SNES, the SNK fighters did feature prominently on the system. Of all of them I think only Fatal Fury Special retained anything of its arcade feel.
//Panjumanju
256-bit woot! However, given that I would place Neo Geo as a contemporary of the 16-bit era, I wouldn't bother for 16-bit conversions in the age of MAME and other Neo Geo emulators. It's really just better to go for the gold standard and call it a day.
One of the more problematic emulations during my "emu phase" would be finding an adequate emulator to compare to the incomparable shareware Magic Engine, and things that ran off CD ROMS like Turbo CD, Sega CD, Neo Geo CD, etc. I cannot tell you how happy I snagged a Sega CD when I could on its downstroke: Sonic CD, Dark Wizard, Lunar, Eternal Champions, Shining Force CD, Rise of the Dragon, etc. have been my major coups. Still need to snag Snatcher, Vay, Backup Cart, Lunar Eternal Blue, and a few others.
I have a lonely Y's book I and II for TG-CD that needs a system or good emulator, though. ;(
To continue on the awesomeness of MegaMan 2, the first time the dragon showed up, I literally dropped the controller in surprise.
That's a good game.
One of my favorite games on the Genesis was Warsong. I played that game till it caught on fire.
Loved Castlevania 3, too. The alt's sold me on the game.
I started out with a Commodore 64 (the chocolate brown Keyboard version).
It started out with a text Adventure called "Classic cave adventure". Good fun and at the time was an awesome experience.
Later I got the Ultima RPGs and Elite when it came out on the C64.
Also Might and Magic, another classic RPG.
I played countless other games on the C64 and had a great time with them.
Quote from: danskmacabre;751730Later I got the Ultima RPGs and Elite when it came out on the C64.
Ultima, Fuck yeah!
I remember playing tons of Elite. Me and a friend had been trading off control as we did drug runs from one system to another. We had gotten good enough that pirates didn't scare us. Then we got jumped in hyperspace by those alien bastards and they punched our ticket. Pissed us off! Good times.
As for Ultima, my friend was a huge software pirate. I remember us sitting up all night connected to a BBS downloading the game over the slow modem of the time. We had to watch the transfer in case we needed to swap discs. And even though it was the middle of summer, we had coats and gloves on because we were running the air conditioner full blast and doing everything we could do to keep the room frigid, because the C64 had the tendency to overheat. We even had ice packs and a fan on the power supply to ensure we didn't overheat during that download.
Then when we were playing we were in a race with someone else a few towns over to get through the Abyss. I remember the calls back and forth and the progress reports.
Quote from: Novastar;749688To continue on the awesomeness of MegaMan 2, the first time the dragon showed up, I literally dropped the controller in surprise.
I had a similar reaction to that moment.
I also got the anticipatory chills the first time I reached the last level and it was a creepy music-less, enemy-less tunnel full of dripping slime unlike any other level in the game.
Mainly C64 and Amiga guy here.
Elite
The Sentinel / The Sentry
Paradroid
Head Over Heels
M. U. L. E.
The Lords of Midnight
Seven Cities of Gold
Mercenary
Maniac Mansion
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Sim City
Lemmings
Tetris
Prince of Persia
Turrican 2
Captain Blood
Some console faves :
Super Metroid
Super Mario World
Chrono Trigger
A Boy and His Blob
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Hrm. Off the top of my head:
C64:
Elite
The Ultima series
Bard's Tale
M.U.L.E.
Seven Cities of Gold
Pirates!
F-15 Strike Eagle
NES:
Ghosts 'n' Goblins
Legend of Zelda
Intellivision:
The Dreadnought Factor
Amiga:
Dungeon Master
Falcon
SNES:
... not actually a ton of "favorite" SNES games on my part. Huh.
Falcon was excellent, but it's one of those things I wonder about how it compares with today's games. (My recommendation of Mercenary assumes depth of play still holds interest despite primitive graphics.)
Kind of a threadjack, but fans of 8-bit and 16-bit side-scrolling shooters (and/or 80s/90s action movies) owe it to themselves to immediately stop whatever they're doing and get a copy of Broforce (http://store.steampowered.com/app/274190/) on Steam. YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FREEDOM
Quote from: Phillip;762320Falcon was excellent, but it's one of those things I wonder about how it compares with today's games. (My recommendation of Mercenary assumes depth of play still holds interest despite primitive graphics.)
True, and Mercenary was a good game.
I still don't think I've seen a dynamic campaign done as well as Falcon's, though. More complex, sure, but not as engaging from a player standpoint.
no recommendations for the sega master system ninja gaiden?? fuck the nes versions, this is the real deal - more than three colours on screen at once and lovely acrobatic gameplay (the best platformer on the system if you ask me)
actually the sms was, in objective terms, much better than the nes (see the port of r-type if you don't believe me - smoother than a baby's bum, and, like, an actual pallette. Or sonic 1 and 2, which retain the speed of the mega drive - and it is called a mega drive, you savages - versions if not the graphical fidelity), and it's a real shame the software support just wasn't there. it was a popular system among lower middle class dorks like me in nz, but by the end of the system's lifespan it was all cheap licenced crap and a few overpriced new old stock classics in the shops. sigh
so yeah:
ninja gaiden
r-type
sonic
sonic II
I guess sonic chaos if you're ok with easy games
fantasy zone
power strike
power strike II
shinobi is kinda old and crusty but what the hell I liked it
astro warrior / pit pot (fuck you they're great, despite pit pot's laughable reputation at my primary school. admittedly mostly caused by me running my mouth before I sat down to play it properly)
that donald duck game where the first level is the yukon. magica de spell steals your nephews, I can't remember the name any more
castle of illusion had a pretty ok port too, speaking of disney stuff
NES
Blades of Steel
Baseball Stars 1
Bases Loaded
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior 1
Legend of Zelda
Adventure of Link (F U Haters)
Desert Commander
Conflict
Genghis Khan (probably all-time favorite for NES)
SNES
Aerobiz Supersonic
A Link to the Past
Genesis
Master of Monsters (probably my all-time favorite console game)
Buck Rogers and the Countdown to Doomsday (liked much more than PC version)
Yay, another SMS fan! Unfortunately a lot of those games were quite rare in USA, and during the end of its cycle here, as 16-bit was in full swing by then. Heard great things about Power Strike, Ninja Gaiden, Sonics, Donald's Great Coin Caper, Mickey's Castle of Illusion, etc. but they were just harder to find as they were not the current hotness. Sucks because many of those are collectable now, esp. things like Golden Axe Warrior, etc.
I have a line on a Master System. Now just to figure out how to get it around my wife ... :p
Well shit, you guys started a Sega Master System love-in and didn't invite me? Fuck you all. I'm crashing it anyway.
Altered Beast
Assault City*
Cyborg Hunter
Golden Axe Warrior
ESWAT
Kenseiden <== SO AWESOME. IF YOU FIND IT GET IT AT ALL COSTS.
Psycho Fox
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Rastan
Shinobi
Operation Wolf*
R-Type
Wonder Boy (fucked if I know which one)
Whoa. Now that was a trip down memory lane.
Ant Attack
Boulder Dash
Like Angry Birds, these are great when you have just a few minutes to play. Ditto many arcade games. I love having on-the-go access to classic games via emulation!
Atari 2600 fave: Yar's Revenge
Populous and Powermonger were great on the Amiga, but maybe there are similar but in some ways improved things today?
Not old, but old school: VVVVVV
Picked up a master system, two controllers, phaser gun and three games.
:D
Quote from: Piestrio;764645Picked up a master system, two controllers, phaser gun and three games.
Model 1 or 2?
If Model 1, now all you need are the 3d glasses.
Quote from: Gabriel2;764655Model 1 or 2?
If Model 1, now all you need are the 3d glasses.
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Whoa, nice pull!
I'm going to hazard a guess that because of Hang On/Safari Hunt combo cartridge that the built-in SMS game will be Snail. It's a little game about moving a snail through a timed labyrinth. Cute, and gets progressively harder.
My SMSystem is like one of the last variants of that angular design, like 7th iteration or something, and by then Hang On/Safari Hunt was built-in to the system motherboard. All you had to do was turn it on, no cartridge needed. However Snail was still embedded, too, and required a basic code at power up to access.
Alex Kidd Miracle World is an oldie, but still a gem. Way better than old school Super Mario Bros 1. It wasn't up until SMB 2 (Arabian Adventure) and beyond, and the general decline of Alex Kidd sequels, that things reversed.
Wonderboy in Monster Land is absolutely solid. It's quite the departure from the first two Wonderboys (which is where Hudson's Adventure Island comes from -- Wonderboy was the arcade original and Hudson just ported the relicense as SEGA anted up a few licenses for cash to launch the Genesis in the states). But the departure is very good, making a solid side-scroller Action RPG.
How much did it run you? Miracle World and Monster Land should run higher than usual SMS cartridge market rate as they have routinely been in higher demand. I sort of wish I had them myself.
So I just tested it out.
From an NES kid perspective: holy shit the buttons are backwards! And why do the colors look wierd?!?
But overall I'm excited to play it in ernest.
Quote from: Piestrio;736895I'm currently in the process of repurchasing my childhood and rebuilding my NES, SNES (and, shortly, Genesis) collections and I'm running across a lot of good games I missed out on as a kid in addition to enjoying my old favorites again.
Awesome! I want to do this sometime soon, before it becomes cost prohibitive. I'll see if I can come up with a list of my favorites tomorrow at work (:D).
Great avatar, by the way. I just recently purchased all of the old MotU cartoons so that my son could watch them.