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)
    • mechwarrior2 [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Not played it but I came across a Japanese psx game Chocobo Stallion with racing and breeding apparently adapted from their horse derby games of that period

      gameplay https://youtu.be/en4Y4Y_-wj8?t=233

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        11 months ago

        This is like the chocobo mini game in FF7. I know that horse racing games are pretty popular in Japan, so it's not too surprising.