What are your favorite underrated or lesser known classics, ps1/n64 and older?
I downloaded a rom set on my handheld so I've been trying games I'd never played before
New to me
- 2020 Super Baseball (neogeo) - futuristic arcade baseball
- Baseball Stars 2 (neogeo) - regular arcade baseball
- Ehrgeiz : God Bless the Ring (psx) - 3d wrestling/fighter with a single player dungeon crawling mode and a bunch of FFVII characters
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves (neogeo) - 2d fighter with nice artwork
- Rival Schools : United by Fate (psx) - 3d fighter with a voiced campaign
- Soccer Brawl (neogeo) - futuristic arcade soccer
- Tobai No. 1 (psx) - 3d fighter with a single player dungeon crawling mode
- Waku Waku 7 (neogeo) - 2d fighter with nice artwork
Still want to try
- Armored Core (psx)
- Breath of Fire IV (psx)
- Front Mission 3 (psx)
- Industrial Spy : Operation Espionage (dreamcast)
- Racing Lagoon (psx)
- Saga Frontier 2 (psx)
- Shadowrun (Genesis)
- Shadowrun (snes)
- Skies of Arcadia (dreamcast)
- Vagrant Story (psx)
Great post! Here are some that come to mind:
Aggressors of Dark Kombat (Neo Geo): It's not an Mortal Kombat clone, nor is it an Street Fighter one, it's an mix of a fighting game, an beat em up and a wrestling game with a potentially hilarious counter-grapple mechanic.
Bank Panic (Arcade): An amusing western-themed "FPS" with many goofy elements.
Boogie Wings (Arcade): An 1920-theme side scrolling shooter with many unique mechanics, including a grappler hook and many vehicles.
Guerrilla War (Arcade / NES): An top-down shooter starring Ernesto Guevara and Fidel Castro. Yes, really! The NES version is quite different and slightly better than the arcade one.
Hebereke no Popoon (Arcade): Versus-puzzle-game with match three mechanics, special attacks and probably the best voice acting in the video game world.
Violent Storm (Arcade): A quick-paced beat em up with great aesthetics and various vocal songs.
The Japanese version is just called Guevara