VeeshanVault

I was recently involved in a discussion about the lesser known games of the past... and considering this is primarily a gaming oriented community, I figured I'd pose the question here.

What were your top five favorite games you don't feel got the recognition they deserved?


For me it would be -

River City Ransom (NES)
Super Dodge Ball (NES)
Metal Warriors (SNES)
Kirby's Dream Course (SNES)
ActRaiser (SNES)

Super Dodge Ball was pretty popular pls.
Metal Warriors was gr8 too, and Tiger Heli!

Hunt the Wumpus (Commodore PET)
Star Trek (Commodore PET)
Lunar Lander (Commodore PET)

The GBA version of RCR is out or coming out soon if I recall :d

Ok, I'll be the dick.... WRONG FORUM!

Besides, Civilization has been on each of my computers since it first came out.

nm, i didnt read the title correctly

Haunted House for Atari


ok that sucked, but not as bad as E.T.

Bubba Grizz wrote:Ok, I'll be the dick.... WRONG FORUM!

i h8 u.

Metal Warriors was fucking great




I'll add Rocket Jockey to the list

I'm sure you've heard of it, but just how popular was Phantasy Star II for Sega Genesis? That was one of my favorite games ever.

Yar's Revenge for Atari 2600.

Quake 2: LMCTF mod for PC

I was fascinated with Pitfall on the Atari 2600 when I was wee.

agreed, Pitfall for atari..also:

Tanarus (PC - still play it)
Hard Hat Mack (Apple II)

Xenogears(ps1)
Shadowrun(SNES)
others when I remember

Sionistic wrote:Shadowrun(SNES)

This game was so late, Blockbuster was about the call the legbreakers on me.

Maniac Mansion

i think this is how you spell it....

Ugh-Olympics

it was caveman olympics. one event you grab your woman by the hair and see how far you can throw her.

fun game

Utopia for intellivision

The firstest of the civ style games!

metal warriors was awesome. also you have to play the spiritual predecessor cyber warriors if you can find it somewhere.

also, ico for ps2.

Maniac Mansion was GREAT!!!

You could actually click on things (desks etc) and open them!!!!

I remember being amazed that you could actually interact with your surroundings...

ahh.. the old days...

masteen wrote:

Sionistic wrote:Shadowrun(SNES)

This game was so late, Blockbuster was about the call the legbreakers on me.

My copy has the 16,000 movies sticker scratched off

The Labyrinth (C64, Lucasarts first attempt at adventures, BEFORE Maniac Mansion, text + graphic/command based, cool game)
Maniac Mansion (C64, the game that more or less made adventure games)
Grim Fandango (PC, never got the credit it deserved)
The Longest Journey (PC, BAD marketing, but sold well in europe, but almost noone know it for some reason)
Crusader - No Remorse/No Regret (PC, imo one of the best action games ever made, but also fairly unknown, get the full version for the cutscenes, ripped version suck)

Oh, and while sitting here listening to my extensive game music collection, i might wanna add Phantasmagoria 1 on the list for the title number alone, noone know that, but seriously nice music, scary.

Sylvus wrote:I'm sure you've heard of it, but just how popular was Phantasy Star II for Sega Genesis? That was one of my favorite games ever.

I never played I II or III, but I LOVED IV. Definitely my favorite Sega game.

I was big into the LucasArts graphic adventure games.

Maniac Mansion being one, but the Indiana Jones and Monkey Island serieses, Zak McKracken, etc etc.

And I just want to add that River City Ransom was own.

Solar Jetman for the NES! I used to play the fuck out of that when I was little.

Ikari Warriors(I think) was pretty fun, no idea if it was popular or not though. Tiger Heli was also tons of fun, but it's been mentioned.

Pirates! for the C64 later released on the sega genessis(sp)

Hesten wrote:The Longest Journey (PC, BAD marketing, but sold well in europe, but almost noone know it for some reason)

Great game. They are work on a sequel too!