Red Silvers
Pokemon Red w/ 1 Nidoran
I've been slowly introducing my nephew to more and more retro games. The NES and SNES/Genesis era in particular seem to have so many games that you'd never hear about on a Top 10 list or best sellers list, maybe not even in the pages of something like Nintendo Power. Heck, sometimes a game I played a ton seems like a really obscure title!
I have to take the obvious route and mention The Guardian Legend here, it's a great game my grandma bought, and I loved it, but it was also a game no one I went to school with seemed to hear about. But let's get a little more obscure.
Road Runner was one of the other NES games my grandma owned, and this was an oddity. You played as the Road Runner running from the Coyote, sometimes even navigating mazes, while public domain music like the William Tell Overture played. There were obstacles and such to avoid, and yet if you got too far ahead of the curve, then the Coyote would pull out his Acme Rocket Skates and speed up and become harder to avoid, so getting too far ahead had its issues.
Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus was a game my cousins owned; half the game was future space man fighting brains in computers, and the other half was space man piloting a giant robot dinosaur and slugging it out with other dinosaurs. The dinosaur mode used a weapon system that reminded me of Castlevania's subweapons, though this was your main attack and you could power it up by collecting the same powerup!
Of course there are a bunch more of these I could discuss, but let's hear some of yours!
I have to take the obvious route and mention The Guardian Legend here, it's a great game my grandma bought, and I loved it, but it was also a game no one I went to school with seemed to hear about. But let's get a little more obscure.
Road Runner was one of the other NES games my grandma owned, and this was an oddity. You played as the Road Runner running from the Coyote, sometimes even navigating mazes, while public domain music like the William Tell Overture played. There were obstacles and such to avoid, and yet if you got too far ahead of the curve, then the Coyote would pull out his Acme Rocket Skates and speed up and become harder to avoid, so getting too far ahead had its issues.
Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus was a game my cousins owned; half the game was future space man fighting brains in computers, and the other half was space man piloting a giant robot dinosaur and slugging it out with other dinosaurs. The dinosaur mode used a weapon system that reminded me of Castlevania's subweapons, though this was your main attack and you could power it up by collecting the same powerup!
Of course there are a bunch more of these I could discuss, but let's hear some of yours!