What is your favorite game from your youth that others may not have played?

Monster Smash -C64 - My all time favorite.
Mail Order Monster - C64
Adventure Construction Set - C64 - I finished River of Life!
Realm of Impossibility - Best Co-op that side of System Shock 2.

Strangely, I still have a sealed copy of "Below the Root" from a B Dalton going out of business sale.
 
[quote name='zionoverfire']The magic of scheherazade[/quote]

I remember discovering this game. I was amazed at how good it was, and how obscure it was at the time.

Culture Brain made that along with many other fine games, including Baseball Simulator 1.000 and I believe they also made Flying Warriors.
 
I forgot about Space Taxi.... was it as hard to control as I remeber?

Cranston Manor and Apple Panic Apple II/IIe
Parsec - TI994A
Impossible MIssion (which I just bought at KB thanks to whoever alerted me to this)
SUmmer Games - C64
Summer Games 2- C64
Winter Games - C64
World Games - C64
California Games - C64
THe Games - Summer Edition - C64
The Games - Winter Edition - C64
Racing Construction Set - C64
Raiders Of THe Lost Ark (Which I somehow figured out to beat) - 2600
Montezuma's Revenge - 2600
Bagman - Arcade
Skyfox (??) - C64
HERO- 2600
Elevator Action - arcade
Circus Charlie - arcade

I'll stop here for now!!!
 
Ghengis Khan on NES was pretty damn fun. I remember 3 years ago my firend came over and we played it till 5 in the morning the next day.
 
[quote name='"tolhurst"']I forgot about Space Taxi.... was it as hard to control as I remeber?

/quote]

Yeah it wasn't an easy game, but I thought it controlled well. It played very similar to those lunar lander games. Took lots of practice, but I was hooked on it.
 
Best Genesis games:
1) Evander Hollyfeild's Real Deal Boxing
2) Tiny Toons ACME All Stars
3) Super Baseball 2020

Best NES games:
1) Little League Baseball
2) Bump n' Jump
3) Adventure Island 3
 
[quote name='Ledhed']Probably somewhere in the middle regarding popularity, but I must say Beyond Oasis.[/quote]

oh man, I forgot about that game. It was awesome.
 
I was an Atari 2600 kid . . . there was this device called the Arcadia Supercharger . . . it worked with the 2600 to increase the memory. Games came on cassette tape and loaded into the Supercharger. Most of the games weren't that special.

But one is a Doom-style game called Escape from the Mindmaster. A 3D environment almost a decade before Wolfenstein 3D! (I was an early CAG, got the Supercharger at TRU on clearance for $10! in 1983.)

http://www.atariage.com/box_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=167&ItemTypeID=BOX

game images here
http://www.intellivision.ca/Reviews/minmas.html

BTW, the Supercharger turns out to be a really cool hacker cult toy . . .

You can modify it and play a ROM of almost any 2600 game made!

http://members.cox.net/rcolbert/txt/scmod.txt

I got a set of Worship the Woodgrain CDs with 400 2600 games (says $30 but because they don't have cases, I think it was $20) and modded my Supercharger last year.

http://home.earthlink.net/~resqsoft/wtw.htm
 
[quote name='Wet Ninja']You know more than I do about them, then. I wasn't aware of the various developers of Enix products. [/quote]

Nah, I just happened to see it mentioned on the first page that came up when I was searching for the box art.

[quote name='Wet Ninja']How much was that complete copy of DW VII? Complete copies of it aren't too hard to find, and they go for around $30. There's one in my local EB Games I really should pick up, since I don't own that game. [/quote]

I think it was in the 25-30 range. Not too sure. Still, it's the only one I've ever seen. New or used. Back on topic, not sure how rare these games are but I sure enjoyed them:

Cabal was released on the NES but I was addicted to the arcade cabinet. It was in the local MWR bowling alley when I was in 7th grade and being in a league at the time I spent plenty of time at the place. Played this game so much I actually got to the point where I could complete the whole thing with only one quarter. That's the only game I've ever been able to do that with.

Star Tropics (side note: do a Google search for "Star Tropics nes." The first link is to CAG)
Star_Tropics_thumb_boxfront.jpg

I loved this game. Traveling around the tropics and going through trap filled dungeons. Felt like a mix of Indiana Jones and the Goonies (the atmosphere, not the games). If I remember correctly it even got to a point where a password was needed that your lost uncle left for you. You actually had to submerge the instruction manual (or some other print material that was packed in with the game) in water and the password was revealed. Not so cool for collectors trying to get a mint copy but a neat innovation I haven't seen since.

I've seen a few other posters mention Jackal, that was some great co-op fun. There are a ton of 2600 games I played the hell out of but I'm pretty sure most of them are the usual suspects the rest of you played as well.

Keystone Kapers, Maze Craze, Superman, Spiderman, Yar's Revenge, Laser Blast, Kaboom, Breakout...
 
[quote name='Grave_Addiction'][quote name='jlarlee']A lot of people talk about tecmo super bowl but hardly anyone talks about the excellent basketball game they made too. It was aesome randomly you would trigger a cut scene ala double dribble. I loved paying with bird int hat game because every other three he would shoot would trigger a cut scene which was a guarantted make. It also kept stats which was a first for a basketball game at the time I believe. i would score like 70 points a game with my hero at that time Reggie Lewis R.I.P[/quote]

Tecmo Pro Wrestling should not be forgotten either.[/quote]

That's one of the few 8-bit NES games I still own. I like the commentary running while the match goes on. I always had a hard time pulling off cutscene-inducing special moves, though.
 
[quote name='Nirvanaguy777']Dig Dug- Aracades

I spent much money at my local arcade playing dig dug, love that game.[/quote]

I played it all the time on my TI. I saw the world record in Guenness book (or however you spell it) and tried to beat it. I think it was around 800,000, and my top score was like 680,000. Now, I'm lucking if I get get 1/10 of that on Namco Museum.

[quote name='mtxbass1']Kings Bount (Genesis)[/quote]

I LOVED me that game -- except for the HUGE password screen with the crummy font. Y'know, 3DO updated it on PS2 as Heroes of Might and Magic. Same everything, but different graphics. Check it out.

[quote name='mtxbass1']
Best Genesis games:
1) Evander Hollyfeild's Real Deal Boxing [/quote]
Remember "The Beast" code, where you became a super-amped green dude? That was my favorite part.

I can believe so many people here owned a TI-994a. Seriously, I thought I was the only one who ever had one. Y'know, there's a pretty good TI emulator, but it may have just been for Mac. It's been a while since I used it. I slipped some TI reviews in the Classic GI section of Game Informer. Could never find a working Tunnels of Doom rom, though.
 
[quote name='HeadRusch']Persian Gulf Inferno on the Amiga, same with New York Warriors.



Any of the Data East games for the C64 (Bruce Lee, Zorro). Beach Head, the knife-fight scene at the end was priceless, complete with digital screams.

Larry Bird vs. Doctor J on the Apple II+ in greenscreen :)

Raid Over Moscow on the C64..

And one of the best all time greatest strategy-type games ever, NUCLEAR WAR for the Amiga.
(also released on other systems, but the Amigas was definately the best....they probably had it for Atari ST too)[/quote]

Not Data East, DataSoft. They werein Chatsworth, CA and I knew a lot of the folks who worked there. They had some great early computer games like Canyon Climber. Incredibly simplistic by today's standards. It would barely qualify as a mini-game today but I spent at least 24 hours of my life on it.
 
[quote name='schultzed']I was an Atari 2600 kid . . . there was this device called the Arcadia Supercharger . . . it worked with the 2600 to increase the memory. Games came on cassette tape and loaded into the Supercharger. Most of the games weren't that special.

But one is a Doom-style game called Escape from the Mindmaster. A 3D environment almost a decade before Wolfenstein 3D! (I was an early CAG, got the Supercharger at TRU on clearance for $10! in 1983.)

http://www.atariage.com/box_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=167&ItemTypeID=BOX

game images here
http://www.intellivision.ca/Reviews/minmas.html

BTW, the Supercharger turns out to be a really cool hacker cult toy . . .

You can modify it and play a ROM of almost any 2600 game made!

http://members.cox.net/rcolbert/txt/scmod.txt

I got a set of Worship the Woodgrain CDs with 400 2600 games (says $30 but because they don't have cases, I think it was $20) and modded my Supercharger last year.

http://home.earthlink.net/~resqsoft/wtw.htm[/quote]

One great story about the Supercharger is the lawsuit over the Sierra version of Frogger released for it. Parker Bros. thought they had an exclusive on console version and a big chunk of the computer market too when they licensed the title. Their contract specified they could produce version on ROM cartridges. Sierra On-line's license specified magnetic media, so they decided the Supercharger was a legit venue for them. The court agreed with Sierra.

There was a similar goofy agreement for Donkey Kong. Coleco had console rights and Atari had computer rights. The defining difference? Whether the system included a keyboard. This meant Atarisoft could produce a superior Donkey Kong with all levels for the Coleco Adam but not the ColecoVision, yet by sheer coincidence it worked just fine on a ColecoVision...

Coleco was already on life support by them so they did little more than shake their fist at Atari.
 
Metal Warriors -Snes

No one seems to know about this game, but its really well done. I think its even a lucas arts title, published by capcom I think. It has the best looking opening sequence I've seen for the snes, very detailed and well animated.

Basicly its a side scrolling mech-shooter, but there are different mechs you can use and during a level you can get out of your mech and fly around to either hit switches in tiny rooms your mech cant go in, or just capture an enemy mech in the level. Good stuff. It even had a 2-player deathmatch mode, which is great.
 
I rented Brain Lord, got stuck on some puzzle that said it required part of your controller to solve or some junk. That game was pretty tough.
 
[quote name='ViolentLee']I rented Brain Lord, got stuck on some puzzle that said it required part of your controller to solve or some junk. That game was pretty tough.[/quote]

The second or third boss was horribly difficult, even after checking the FAQs. This was the room with the giant cockroaches and the big suction ball.

I've always meant to go back and finish that. I wonder if the save battery in mine is still good.
 
[quote name='radjago'][quote name='Plumberboy']Favorite game few others have played would probably be Uniracers for the SNES. I haven't played it in a while so I may be looking back at it through rose colored glasses but I remember it being a wicked fun, challenging, racing title.

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[/quote]
Yes I loved Uniracers as well. I picked it up again at Gamestop recently on the cheap. I used to race against my friends all the time.[/quote]

Uniracers was one of my favorite racers on the SNES after Super Mario Kart, and it even looked pretty good for the time.
 
Peter Packrat - Arcade

I loved this game so much. Thank God for Mame, since it was never brought to any home console that I'm aware of. I spent so many quarters on Packrat...
 
There are tons of games from the 8-bit home computer era that would make great collections for the GBA. The resolution would be about the same and putting ten or so on a cart for $20 buck would be a reasonable price but still profitable.

Whistler's Brother
http://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n12/Product_Reviews.html

Spare Change
http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/sparechange.shtml

Jumpman
http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/jumpman.shtml

Wizball
http://www.classicgaming.com/rotw/wizball.shtml

Serpentine
http://www.omninet.net.au/~irhumph/products.htm
Remake version, scroll down about halfway.

Many, many more. Even with spruced up graphics and sound there are tons of old games with uniques concepts that would make minigame collections today.
 
Yo Noid! (NES) Has anyone said that yet? I don't know how popular that was, but it was fun. I still remember the day I bought it. It was on clearance for $10 (I think)

EDIT:

Some of these I loved too, but were already mentioned

Zombies Ate My Neighbors (SNES)
Bump N Jump (Atari)
 
[quote name='CrashSpyro123'][quote name='radjago'][quote name='Plumberboy']Favorite game few others have played would probably be Uniracers for the SNES. I haven't played it in a while so I may be looking back at it through rose colored glasses but I remember it being a wicked fun, challenging, racing title.

118592.jpg
[/quote]
Yes I loved Uniracers as well. I picked it up again at Gamestop recently on the cheap. I used to race against my friends all the time.[/quote]

Uniracers was one of my favorite racers on the SNES after Super Mario Kart, and it even looked pretty good for the time.[/quote]

I'm sorry to say, but I didn't like Uniracers. I rented it back in the 16-bit days, and was very unimpressed. Maybe I just didn't give it enough of a chance.
 
How about Crash n the Boys Street Challenge for nes, has anyone played that gem?
Nes - Gemfire, Iron Sword, Demon Sword, Xexyz, Whomp em, Nightmare on Elm Street

Genesis - Mutant League Football, Warsong

Snes - Gemfire, Knights of the Round
 
[quote name='rockhero']
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TRUE THAT

seemed to use the same engine as Zelda 2.


Also, I was a huge fan of the Rastan arcade game. Very cool music, and one of the coolest death animations (your guy disinigrates from the bottom up!)

However, a very "market" driven game. If you couldnt beat the ENTIRE last level, including boss, in one quarter, you had to start from the beginning.
 
[quote name='ViolentLee'][quote name='Grave_Addiction'][quote name='jlarlee']A lot of people talk about tecmo super bowl but hardly anyone talks about the excellent basketball game they made too. It was aesome randomly you would trigger a cut scene ala double dribble. I loved paying with bird int hat game because every other three he would shoot would trigger a cut scene which was a guarantted make. It also kept stats which was a first for a basketball game at the time I believe. i would score like 70 points a game with my hero at that time Reggie Lewis R.I.P[/quote]

Tecmo Pro Wrestling should not be forgotten either.[/quote]

That's one of the few 8-bit NES games I still own. I like the commentary running while the match goes on. I always had a hard time pulling off cutscene-inducing special moves, though.[/quote]

Yeah, the commentary was awesome. Definitely a game that was ahead of its time.
 
I have several:

Kid Icarus - NES
Baseball Stars - NES
Discs of TRON - Intellivision
Dreadnaught Factor - Atari 5200
Ladybug - Colecovision
Bomb Squad - Intellivision w/ Voice
Sid Meier's Pirates - C64
Rail Baron - Avalon Hill board game!

and easily my most favorite games:
Lance Haffner's College Basketball, College & Pro Football, and MLB baseball text-based simulators for the C-64. MAN, we must've played that College Basketball game about 10-12 hours a day every day during the summers!!!
 
[quote name='Parathod']Legacy of the Wizard[/quote]

I remember how huge that game seemed when I rented it. It was like it never ended. One of the few 8-bit games I still own.
 
[quote name='ViolentLee'][quote name='Parathod']Legacy of the Wizard[/quote]

I remember how huge that game seemed when I rented it. It was like it never ended. One of the few 8-bit games I still own.[/quote]

I've tried on and off for many years to beat it, i've yet to reach the end.
 
2600:
Jedi Arena (I could give myself minimum shields and Darth maximum shields and still beat him!)

Colecovision:
Miner 2049er
Fortune Builder

NES:
Super Dodge Ball
Rolling Thunder
Klax

Genesis:
Fire Shark
Toejam & Earl
Super Monaco GP
Shadow Dancer (Shinobi with a dog!)

TG16:
JJ & Jeff
 
[quote name='vgamergirl']-Toy Bizzare ( C64 )
[/quote]

I have never seen anyone give this game love but it was fun. My sister and I played the hell out of that game.

Also on C64:
Raid Over Moscow
Impossible Mission
Dino Eggs
Wastelands (and I'm not big on RPGs)
Jumpman
Mini-Putt
Boulder Dash
Last Ninja (hard to get the damn jumps right)
Maniac Mansion
Zak McKraken
Night Shift
 
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