The Definitive List of Great, Obscure NES Games

[VanillaGorilla]

Sure, everyone knows about Zelda, Mario, Mega Man, and the Bionic Commando. But what made the NES so great was it's library of lesser known, although just as great, games. Take a look at some of my favorites:

Whomp Em
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
Little Samson
Bad News Baseball
Mappy Land
Cybernoid
Darkwing Duck

Anyone else care to add your favorite games to this list? I am just going off the top of my head, and I'm sure I could think of others.

 

[video_gamer324]

A Boy And His Blob
Burgertime
Disney Adventures
Panic Restaurant

 

[RedvsBlue]

Rescue Rangers
Jaws

 

[Strell]

Solstice
Legacy of the Wizard
Goonies II
Deadly Towers (yes I know it was incredibly cheap...)
Micro Machines (tank racing, omg...)

 

[Mid Boss]

Battle of Olympus
Snow Brothers

 

[GuilewasNK]

Mendel Palace.

So good it hurts.

 

[the_deej]

no wait wait princess tomato was seriously my FAVORITE nes game, I spent hours and hours on that game.

 

[punqsux]

gun-nac
rescue: embassy mission

 

[thisiswack]

pro wrestling, bitches!

and Jackal

 

[gregthomas77]

Solar Jetman!

 

[ramprider0]

Monster Party
Adventure Island series
Xevious
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

 

[Morrigan Lover]

Metal Storm
Crystalis

 

[mtxbass1]

Trog

 

[Starky27]

Xexyz
Snake, Rattle and Roll
Cobra Triangle

 

[drone8888]

Rocket Ranger
Conquest of the Crystal Palace
Dragon Spirit
River City Ransom

already mentioned favorites:

Monster Party
Battle of Olympus
Crystalis

 

[drone8888]

Oh, forgot 3 great games:

Fester's Quest
The Guardian Legend
Blaster Master

 

[snotnose_colossal]

zodas revenge

 

[GizmoGC]

McDonalds Kids (Think Super Mario 3, just alot HARDER)

 

[captaincold]

The Classics are:

Cabal
Abadox
Yo-Noid
Heavy Barrell

 

[mrnomis27]

- Kickle Cubicle
- Duck Tales
- Super Sprint
- Galaga (still the best version other than actual arcade)

 

[peteloaf]

My all-time favorite: G.I. Joe

Also, I spent MANY hours on Clash at Demonhead

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Duck Tales rocks. So does:

Little League Baseball Championship Series
Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers
Adventures of Lolo
Tiny Toon Adventures
Little Nemo: The Dream Master

 

[drone8888]

Ahhhhhh Little Nemo,... many, many hours of bliss.
Same with Duck Tales and Rescue Rangers,... but they were mainstream back then, and are hardly obscure titles.

McDonalds Kids,.... HAH, Treasures' early array of hits began!! I wish I had that game still sealed.

Abadox..... sweet game, but frustrating. Not as bad as Swamp Thing, or Werewolf though.
I hear that there is an Altered Beast ROM floating around out there for the NES.
I wonder if its' a SMS build, or a real NES game.

HMMMM?

 

[PsyClerk]

Overlord - great strategy game that reminds me of Star Control
Vice Project Doom - still have this one somewhere
Amagon
Flying Warriors
Swords and Serpents
Magic of Scheherazade
Faxanadu


Others already mentioned:
Crystalis
Guardian Legend
Little Nemo
River City Ransom
Princess Tomato
Blaster Master and so many others...

 

[CoffeeEdge]

Kabuki: Quantum Fighter
Demon Sword
Destiny of an Emperor

I'll add more later.

 

[pimpinc333]

River city ransom
Marble Madness
Little Nemo- The Dream Master
Rescue Rangers
TMNT 2
Bucky O Hare
Jaws
Maniac Mansion
Tecmo Super Bowl
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Three Stooges
Tiny Toon Adventures
Califonia Games
Double Dragon

 

[modcase]

ill have to admit i am kind of a sellout when it comes to nes games
i like everything that is usually popular
metroid
Little Nemo
Marble Madness
gold carts / multi carts (rare swapmeet/garage sale grabs)

 

[lionheart4life]

I second Whomp Em, Darkwing Duck, and Yo-Noid. Add:
- Ducktales
- Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers
- Blaster Master (not sure if this is really obscure)
- Super Spike V-Ball

 

[Esper]

^one of my favorite games. "Wrath of the Ninja"

 

[doodle777_98]

cyrstalis is awesome
so is kung fu heroes, ninja gaiden, bigfoot, rc-pro am

 

[bisquit]

Captain Skyhawk

 

[xspeedracerx]

Kick Master

 

[doomlv20]

Pinbot, one of my favorate pinball games of all time.

 

[GuilewasNK]

Pinbot was awesome!

Esper, I love that animated gif with John Cleese!

 

[urzishra14]

Sky Shark..

hmm.. stuff that wasn't mention.. this Street Fighter 2010 game (i thought it was arcade street fighter when i got it so).. Journey to Silos.. (great..) hmm.. Conquest of the Crystal Palace rules.. as does blaster master.

 

[DigitalSpace]

Arkanoid
Bump 'N Jump
Crystalis
Kings Of The Beach
Qix
RC Pro-AM
RC Pro-AM 2
Wolverine

 

[ViolentLee]

The two that come to mind for me are:
Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball - every character is different, and fields are weird. It's like Mario Baseball, only 15 years earlier!
Tecmo World Wrestling - play-by-play commentator and anime-like special move cutscenes.

 

[thisiswack]

Code Name: Viper was good, I don't know anyone who remembers that

 

[camelking6969]

[quote name='Strell']Solstice
Legacy of the Wizard
Goonies II
Deadly Towers (yes I know it was incredibly cheap...)
Micro Machines (tank racing, omg...)[/QUOTE]
i loved this game, it rocked, i still have it, got a nes a yard sale yesterday for 5 bucks cuz i wanted to play it

 

[camelking6969]

wizadry-- one of my all time favorites
wall street kid--- was fun playing stock market

 

[stocker08]

NARC
Mickey Mousecapade
GUNSMOKE!

^Top games right there^

 

[GreenMonkey]

Magic of Scheherazade
Dragon Spirit
Pinbot (one of the best pinball games ever!)

Too bad Scheherazade crashes midway through the game on my GBA pocketnes emulator...and Pinbot doesn't work right either

Dragon Spirit owns, great shooter! 2 different ways to play through it, too, depending on the initial fight, whether you win or lose. Hell, I can remember the 1st stage music right now.

 

[wageslave]

[quote name='gregthomas77']Solar Jetman![/QUOTE]

Another vote for Solar Jetman
Dragon Warrior IV (I think)
Golgo 13
Blades of Steel
Journey to Silius


Not:
Back to the future
Just about anything published by Acclaim

 

[mrbunk]

Bionic Commando
Gremlins 2
Battletoads ruled too.

 

[daroga]

I'm surprised to see my favorite obsecure game not mentioned in this thread, which might make it REALLY obsecure, but from the bowels of SquareSoft comes:

The Adventures of 3D World Runner!

It's $5 from EB and worth every penny. It's so much fun (especially as a drinking game ).

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/product/194232.asp

How can you go wrong with a game that originally came packaged with those red/blue 3D glasses and had a setting to play the came in "true" 3D?!

daroga