Random Games Worth Checking Thread

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Yume Penguin Monogatari - Famicom
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Totally awesome sidescroller from Konami where you play a Penguin who got dumped by his girlfriend for being too fat. He goes on a quest to loose weight and win her back but there's a catch, her new boyfriend wants to see you fail and unleashes his minions to feed you into obesity. A total gem.


Obocchama-kun - PC Engine
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Quirky as hell sidescroller from Namcot. Highlights include the face of a bearded man on a helicopter and turning into a dog when pushing down on the d-pad.


Gekisha Boy - PC Engine
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One of my favorite Irem games. Strange game where you work for some kind of paper or something taking photographs of all kinds of weird stuff. Graphics are great and the gameplay is fun and well balanced.


Gunbarich - Arcade
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Great ball and paddle/pinball game by Psikyo featuring Gunbird's Marion. Instead of just having a regular paddle you've got one that has pinball flippers giving you added control of where the ball goes. Very lush and colorful graphics with addictive gameplay.
 
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Silverload - PSX
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A point and click adventure game that includes some on-rails shooting segments. It was an early Playstation game that has been forgotten. It's a horror-type game that takes place in the Old West.
 
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New Ghostbusters 2 NES/Famicom,this GB title only had a europe&jpn release.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UykNrnjfiF4
Ya know i got it recently for the famicom and it's great.I offen wounder how this gem never made it to the states.
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k'_127 said:
Ninja Baseball Batmen - Arcade

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A nice 4-players beat em up.
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I remember going to an arcade when I visited Korea in 1994 or 95 and playing this there. I thought it was the coolest thing. The graphics looked so good to me at the time.

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Gekisha Boy - PC Engine
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One of my favorite Irem games. Strange game where you work for some kind of paper or something taking photographs of all kinds of weird stuff. Graphics are great and the gameplay is fun and well balanced.
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This game is awesome and hilarious. A real under-looked gem. I really wish the series had continued. We need a remake for the PSP or something.

Ore no Ryouri or "My Cooking" for the PS1 is an awesome cooking game that never came out of Japan. You have to use a dual shock controller to play it since most of the controls are done with the analog sticks. You play as a cook who works for various restaurants and prepare all of the orders of each customer that comes in. You get graded on how well you did on each step of cooking and also how fast/slow you prepared it. Did a shoddy job of pouring in the ramen broth? The customer complains out loud in outrage. It's pretty hilarious. Really fun and addictive game with ingenius use of the analog controls.

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Gameplay video of the first stage. Works well with ePSxe. You don't need to know Japanese to play it. There's a faq (probably on Gamefaqs) that tells you how to play.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wF2RQaBMGs
 
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Great thread indeed, I remember playing 3 wonders in the arcade. Terranigma is also a good game. The PAL version is indeed quite rare. I still had it in storage at my folks, slightly beaten but CIB, only to find out a few weeks ago that my mother had binned all of my snes stuff :mad:

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Gunbarich - Arcade
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Great ball and paddle/pinball game by Psikyo featuring Gunbird's Marion. Instead of just having a regular paddle you've got one that has pinball flippers giving you added control of where the ball goes. Very lush and colorful graphics with addictive gameplay.
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That looks awesome.
 
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Just wanted to note that Live-a-Live has a very solid translation patch out there, too.
 
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Jaki Crush (Super Famicom)



The followup to Devil's Crush/Dragon's Fury, but this time themed around more Japanese myth than western demonic stuff. Good music and just all around fun. Not entirely surprising that it didn't come here, but still a damn good time.

Mega Man V (Game Boy)



Primarily noteworthy for being the only "classic" Mega Man game with a plot that's distinct from the whole "Dr. Wily's at it again" motif. This time, you're facing off against enemies from OUTEERRRRR SPAAAAAACCCE! Each one named after a planet, and generally themed around the source of the planet name's inspiration. A solid game all around, and one that really deserves a NES-type upgrade.

Ranma 1/2: Ougi Jaanken



A surprisingly fun versus puzzle game, that works off of your basic rock-paper scissors premise. Not terribly well-balanced, but still one of the better games of its type out there. My friends and I played this game for hours on end. You don't even have to like the series to enjoy it.
 
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Stefan said:
He oversaw that licensed game's creation? News to me. What sources are you citing?
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I wrote about most of these games last year. It's either that I misinterpreted what I read about this game or wrongfully thought I read about Miakmi's involvement in it lol

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Kaiketsu Yancha Maru 3: Taiketsu! Zouringen for Famicom
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This is the 3rd game in the series the US knows as "Kid Niki Radical Ninja". It's a shame we never saw the sequels, because this game is a whole lot of fun.


Nosferatu for SNES
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The game I never shut up about when people ask for old school game suggestions. An atmosphere like Castlevania with gameplay like Prince of Persia (the really old original game, not the new ones). The video includes the intro, which is just superb.



Loving this thread, hope it lasts for a while.
 
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Platypus PC/ PSP

Really good Shooter made out of clay, the PSP version is made by Mumbo Jumbo on the budget range.

Monster's Probably stole my Princess
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PSN/ coming to (XBLA)

Upwards Side scrolling platformer


Muramusa: Demon blade
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Wii
Side scrolling beatem up Really good game and amazing animation.
 
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Kazuki Dash said:
Nosferatu for SNES
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The game I never shut up about when people ask for old school game suggestions. An atmosphere like Castlevania with gameplay like Prince of Persia (the really old original game, not the new ones). The video includes the intro, which is just superb.
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Loved this game... well... the first two levels anyway. After that it just becomes unbearably (is that a word lol) difficult. Fun atmospheric game to play around Halloween time though. I'll probably bust it out in a few weeks for a go or two. I was disappointed by it, only because it had the potential to TRULY be an epic gem. Nonetheless, I'm glad they released it after all the delays... just not the masterpiece Castlevania/Prince of Persia combo I was hoping for. Still, not a bad game to have in your SNES library. Oh yeah, when did NG.com get youtube vid service? nice
 
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One of the many nasty bosses to be dealt with in Ys: The Oath in Felghana...
 
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1.) This threadis truly awesome. Thanks to everyone for posting game suggestions in this.

2.) I really need to get caught up on my Ys gaming.
 
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Majikaru Hashito no Butsutobi Turbo! Daibouken - Genesis *this one came out in the states as Decap-attack.* some interesting palette swaps for sure. I enjoyed playing through both. My contribution to the list: DownLoad2, PCE CD. I can't usually stand hori STGs. . .LOVE THIS GAME THO! From the movie atmosphere, to the T's Music soundtrack, to the great weapons/levels/control-this cyberpunk classic is horribly overlooked.
 
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Dood, I introduced my students to Wild Guns last week and they LOVED it! I should get more of the games on this list so they can play them. They're 7th and 8th graders and they're used to Halo, GTA, Guitar Hero, Madden, and Modern Warfare 2. One of them said "Wow, games you grew up with were fun!"

Here's my contribution: Pocky and Rocky for the SNES/Super Famicom



I didn't start playing this game until two years ago and I gotta say it's FUN!!!! :D
 
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Steve said:
Loved this game... well... the first two levels anyway. After that it just becomes unbearably (is that a word lol) difficult. Fun atmospheric game to play around Halloween time though. I'll probably bust it out in a few weeks for a go or two.
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Maybe something like THIS might help make that difficulty a little more bearable.
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Keep the good stuff coming guys.
 
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Trying to choose some games that weren't exactly mainstream....

Shonen Ninja Sasuke SNES
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Armada on the DreamCast
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Armada is an overhead shooter where you can choose one of several new races of Humans. The battles are fast and the effects are beautiful - as I remember, it was one of the first few titles to support the DreamCast VGA box.

VGA+particles+spastic space battles = That game literally blew me away. Big fan.
 
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k'_127 said:
3 Wonders - Arcade / PS1 / Saturn

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A collection of 3 games: an action/adventure game, a shooter, and a bomber-man clone.

It's from Capcom, and strangely, these 3 games were released together in arcade as one game, instead of having them released seperately. The advneture game is really cool. It has 2-players co-op.
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Three Wonders is a great game, especially the puzzle one "Don't Push". This game was a real hit with my wife. All three games are fun and good co-op. The shooter is decent with an interesting mechanic. The only problem is it's one of the CPS-1 games that suicides.
 
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k'_127 said:
Rakugaki Showtime - PS1

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A 4-players party fighting game, similar to Poy Poy and Power Stone. It's from Treasure, and is Japanese-only.
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I would like to note that from my notice the green haired girl looks very similar to Marina Liteyears from Mischief Makers(Go Go!! Trouble Makers[JPN]) -1997
Made by Treasure, & published by Enix.

Truly a very underrated game and one of the best side-scrolling 2D platformers you will ever play on the N64. Great boss fights, and enjoyable puzzles. I would post a boss fight video, but I'd prefer keeping the spoilers away out of this one.

here's a gameplay video that will give you an idea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1kXaawsQzY
 
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