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Oooh thank you! I actually considered a few of those for this video, but it was getting rather long so I had to trim it down considerably. I might include these in a sequel video though ^^
I love that the Game Gear was given so much care and love in Japan, with serious developers making interesting, exclusive games for it, like the Shining Force handheld series, Sylvan Tale, this game and many others. It felt like American developers thought of handhelds as an afterthought to consoles or mere toys. In reality, the Game Gear was its own thing, and could also be thought of as a way for developers to keep making 8-bit gems in a 16-bit age.
@@st1ka Have you ever heard of Time Avenger: Diver? It was a canned Taito game that they turned over to an unlicensed company to have it get published even after being canceled
@@ankosgbx I don't think they turned it over to an unlicensed developer, rather they just happened to get their hands on it. It's virtually unchanged from that canned game, Time Diver Eon Man, aside from the title. As far as I'm aware, Taito never made any money off it.
@@zanegandini5350 The thing is, the unofficial release came many years before the prototype was found. It has not been 100% confirmed that it was officially licensed out by Taito, but the theory exists for a reason. I want to say Frank Cifaldi is a believer in it
I'm an Indie game developer and this video helped me decide on what type of graphics I want for the game I'm working on. I now decided on 8 bit NES styled graphic.
I was wondering why that Power Blade music sounded so familiar. Apparently the composer, Kinuyo Yamashita, also contributed to the soundtracks for the original Castlevania as well other Natsume games like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Ghost Sweeper Mikami. She's pretty talented!
Freaking fantastic video! One of my favorites that you've ever done thus far! Exhaustive, & based on more obscure retro games that we all need to pay more attention to! Great work!
I used to play Shatter hand to death on the NES. Very fun game. Also nice recommendations of games I missed out playing back then. Also, you reminded me I did play Kabuki quantum fighter a few times. That was a good one as well.
Getsu Fuuma Den is awesome for 1987, there's also a fairly new sequel/reimagining up on Steam; Psychic World is great too, especially the Master System/MSX versions; Shatterhand - and most other Natsume action games - are great too! Honestly, lots of little gems here...
Yep, lots of underrated gems here. Of note: In _Kick Master_ 's ending credits, Ken Loeb is mentioned. He has quite a few great games under his belt, giving us the _Killer Instinct_ series, for instance. The man is a gaming legend!
Hells yeah Power Blade! That game was awesome! Believe it or not i found it in the trash when i was a kid, still have the cartridge to this day. Its such a fun and criminally underrated game! Im glad to see more people talking about it!
@@st1ka They threw out much more then Power Blade. I found a whole bunch of Nintendo games, Ninja Gaiden, Super Mario Bros, Time Lord, Blades of Steel, etc. Its insane what people just throw away sometimes.
Ok. I just put this comment right here. I want to propose to talk about Sylvan Tale. This is a very high quality Action RPG from 1995 on Game Gear from Sega CS with very beautiful graphics, wonderful music and good gameplay.
I actually considered including Sylvan tale, but had to reduce the number of games because the video was getting rather long. Perhaps when I do a sequel video I'll include it.
Fantastic list! Nice to see the Power Blades and Shatterhand get some love and attention. Not sure if they count as "forgotten 8-bit gems", but the only games I would add are Vice Project Doom and Faxanadu on the NES, and Rastan on the Sega Master System.
Faxanudu was a less famous but still pretty well known one for older nes players. That said i knew it as the one with the shield and weird name all the way till last year. It's my more difficult zelda 2 now
@@st1kadude I always walk away from Your videos with lots of ideas for stuff to play , you have a unique perspective on the retro scene and that allows you to come up with content ideas that are actually interesting and avoid rehashing the same tired old topics that get covered over and over again . And for that I salute thee ! And consider you my favorite UA-camr homie
yeah, admittedly, finding hidden gems for the NES is usually harder (unless I post bootlegs or modern games), but I still want to show the NES some love. haha
Oh my word, Survival Kids. I owned this game as a kid and was absolutely obsessed but I never hear anything about it. It was a really ambitious and charming little game.
one game that still plays very well to this day that i see no one talking about is CJ's Elephant Antics, it's one of the 4 games that came in the cartridge/rom called Quattro Arcade (all 4 games are good but this one is special) it's for the NES
It's mostly because I feel it's not fair to compare the neogeo pocket color with 16 bit systems. The visuals and sound are closer to a master system than a sega mega drive
Another great video! About missing games, if you like the Aleste series, check the three games for the MSX2, since they're the originals, have the story cutscenes and sadly were missing from that PS4 collection. (Not to mention Zanac Ex, specially with the FM/turbo enhancement patch) The MSX standard has many other hidden gems.
Question about your comment. And I will say if you don't mind because I maybe try Google also .But Question goes What language are those MSX games done in please and ty
@fr_schmidlin oh thank you kindly for the speedy reply and that is incredible that you know about this fr_schmidlin but I was wondering about English or Japanese dialect languages?
I love your videos. Thanks for all you do. I get a lot of entertainment from the longer videos you create. I can't get enough of the way you say shmup!!😅
Heh, either you made a background soundtrack to it, or that first game uses the soundtrack from 'Legend of Kage'! Great video, and also glad you mentioned the Amiga version of Rodland which is nearly arcade perfect, and one of my favourite arcade and Amiga platformers of all time.
Really good video, I’ve been at this a long time so I usually don’t get much new from this sort of video but I found several I’m going to try out from this. Thanks!
I've got Rod-land demo for the ZX in a british magazine in the 90s, played that demo THOUSANDS of times, loved that game so much that 30 years later I finally managed to find a copy and bought it, AMAZING game. PD: now there is an upgraded version with colors available for the speccy,
Nice video! Loved seeing Psycho World here. I grew up playing the GG version, and only found about the MSX original, which is now my favourite, years later. Sadly, Hertz wasn't a prolific developer: I only know about one other game to their name, a "submarine shooter" for the MSX named Hydefos. Amazing soundtrack also. If you ever do a follow up to this video, you must include two gems for the Spectrum: Mighty Final Fight and Castlevania: Spectral Interlude. Mighty Final Fight is specially amazing, with a soundtrack as good as the NES one, and even better graphics (like more detailed and animated backgrounds) in some areas.
Survival Kids Fun Facts: this game had not one or two but _several_ possible endings, an expansive map full of branching cave systems and intricate puzzles, and a great story to carry it along It’s fair to say that the game was a work of art, especially given the limitations of the hardware at the time, GBC had only just released less than a year prior, so this game was made to run on both the classic and color systems
Nice! I have played Shatterhand's japanese version called Solbrain, wich is a Tokusatsu serie that was relased here in Brazil back in the day. That was AWESOME! :-D
Wurm, Journey to the Center of the Earth, for me, is a hidden or forgotten gem. A lot of gameplay styles and the story was so cool! One of the first NES games I cleared.
'Survival Kids' is a really good game, very atmospheric (for a GBC game). It also has more than half a dozen different endings. A sequel also came out in Japan: Survival Kids 2: Dasshutsu! Futago Shima. Pretty good, too. A fan translation for that is available, too. After that the series continued on the Nintendo DS as 'Lost in Blue' 1-3, and then there was one more entry on the Wii: Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked.
Nice video!! ^ ^.. The Kick Master wasn't made by Taito at all, it was by 'KID' japanese developer, theyr famicom/NES games has a very distinct,unique graphics, same engine, music/sound design.. Banana Prince, Low G Man, G.I. Joe, Recca, Burai Fighter, Trolls in CrazyLand,etc.. all of them made by same people... Some didn't had famicom version and only NES release yet was made by japanese developers of that company which is weird.. You can easily tell a game made by them if ur familiar with any of them.. Some games even have same reused tiles, graphics used in other of their games..
Joguei bastante o Phantis na minha juventude, mas na altura conhecia-o como Game Over 2. De qualquer forma, um grande jogo! Parabéns pelo canal, abraço
I find it rather funny how Kick Master and Shatter Hand are polar opposites of each other. One is a game set in a fantasy setting with many different kicking moves, the other is in a SciFi setting where you punch things and have a complex powerup system. Also, bringing up the GBC Daikatana game reminded me that there was a official GBC demake of Quest 64 that's also better then it's 3D counterpart. It's called Quest RPG: Brain's Journey (or something like that anyways) which has scripted story sequences and characters interacting together. It still doesn't have everything that was cut from the N64 game, but it's a closer look at what they may have intended for the final game to be like if they hadn't been forced by THQ to push it out the door before it was ready. Not sure if it's good enough for this list, but it is a curiosity non the less.
I remember playing Kickmaster (my friend's cartridge) many times and actually finishing it several times. Same with Solbrain (the game that was adapted into "Shatterhand"). I remember playing Kabuki Quantum Fighter, but never got to finish it.
Some games I loved on the NES that I almost never see mentioned anywhere: A Boy and His Blob Crystalis Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode The 3-D Battles of Worldrunner Willow
@@st1ka I wish we could get something similar but in the modern day, preferably by Studio Platinum. A mix between Metal Gear Rising and Anarchy Reigns! One can only hope. haha Keep posting awesome vids. Glad I found your channel :)
And now I understand the DLC character and level from Castlevania Harmony of Darkness so much more! I was so confused for the longest time because I thought it was the character from the Namco games, and I just couldn't comprehend Konami teaming up with Namco to bring an outside property to a Castlevania game based mostly on legacy and nostalgia
I was almost certain the ZX Spectrum Rodland had music, but I guess I was mistaken! Also, thank you so much for an Ultionus shoutout! To this day Phantis is one of my favorite 8-bit games, and I just had to remake it in some capacity: )
oh wow! I know you! I remember seeing your account when the first Phantis trailer came out, haha. I wonder if a 128k version of Rodland came out? Maybe I was playing the 48k version and didn't realize there was a 128k version with music? but yeah, thank you for Ultionis, I hope my video brings you some extra sales!
@@st1ka The 128k ver of Rodland has a lot of music in the intro and title screen, but seemingly none in the game itself?! Weird! Also, isn't it weird how pretty much all 8 and 16-bit incarnations of Phantis (and Game Over II) have identical gameplay and variations on the same art and music, except for the C64 version, which is very much its own thing! It even has its own music track during platformer section, though it weirdly doesn't loop.
@@darkfalzx ah yep! When I played Rodland for the Zx spectrum It only had music during the intro and title screen. And yeah, the C64 version of Phantis for some reason that music in that one level. It's almost like they started and then gave up lol
Wish I'd made this comment a bit sooner but this video was really good and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Personally, I'd love to see a sequel for 16 and maybe 32-bit games in the future if ever get the chance to do so.
19:20 That Power Blazer song reminds me of music that could have been on Star Tropics. I looked it up and it's not the same person on both games, but man does it sound very similar.
One of the first times I ever heard anyone talk about dark arms and man is that an under appreciated game but only ever been released on the neo geo pocket it was never going to spread far and wide!
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, as a kid in South Africa it's good to see some of the games on this list, we had the Famicom here so we just got Japanese games, I loved Getsu Fuma Den although as a kid I didn't get far because of the language barrier, it was nice to finish it years later with the patch, I loved playing Kabuki Quantum Fighter aswell and man did I love Power Blade, the soundtrack is a part of me and I will never forget it, I remember being at school and just wanting to get home so I could play Power Blade lol.
@@st1ka I remember a very cool Chinese man at a local flea market always had tons of cartridges on sale, I was lucky, strangely enough we never got Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, so I only grew up with the first 2 Castlevania games, I was shocked in adulthood to find out Castlevania III exists lol. You should make a video of your gaming journey, games you loved, games you hated etc. Would be interesting 👍
Kick master was my first medieval fantasy game. Sadly I didn't recognize it as such because I couldn't recognize it as such because I couldn't recognize most of the sprites such as the lizardmen which is a medieval rpg staple, or the small hopping enemies.
All console ports made in the 90s of Rod Land only have the first half of the game included. In the Arcade original it gives you a code to input in title screen to play second half of the game if you beat the final boss. This mode has all new music,bosses,story,enemies and stage layouts and uses none of the ones from the other mode and is only way to see staff credits so it's weird it was left out of every console port in the 90s. Bubble Bobble had a code for a harder version of the game too which is missing,does not work in all versions.
Power Blade is great. I got it for a few bucks at a swap meet when I was little. Usually the games I would get would be complete crap, I couldn't believe I got a cheap game that was actually fun.
God I love the Game Gear! & they play GREAT on the Master System, aka for the ones that have been ported at least. I hope one day that ALL Game Gear games get ported eventually, and that they find a way to better stretch the visible area of the screen. For games like Lunar Walking School they could make it so you can see the character's stats at all times instead of the weird scrolling thing it does!
@@jengelenm I mean I don't really agree with that specific reference as I've never had any issues with the GG Sonic games but yeah I get what ya mean. I've always been great at the GG Sonic games so maybe I'm not the best person to ask about that.
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you should check out:
Faselei (neo geo pocket color)
Evolution eternal dungeons (GBC)
Azure dreams (GBC)
Dive alert Becky's version/Matt's version (neo geo pocket color)
Biomotor unitron (neo geo pocket color)
Dicing knight (wonder swan color)
Head buster (Game Gear)
Demon child zenki (game gear)
Sylvan tale (game gear)
Bashi bazook morphoid masher (nes)
Cocoron (nes)
Faria a world of mystery and danger (nes)
The guardian legend (nes)
Holy diver (nes)
Jesus (nes)
Last armageddon (nes)
Matendouji (nes)
Moon crystal (nes)
Ninja jajamaru (nes)
Rippe island (nes)
Valkyrie no bouken (nes)
love your stuff btw.
Weird comment but I've grown to love your accent. 😅
Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain
Oooh thank you! I actually considered a few of those for this video, but it was getting rather long so I had to trim it down considerably. I might include these in a sequel video though ^^
haha thank you!
I love that the Game Gear was given so much care and love in Japan, with serious developers making interesting, exclusive games for it, like the Shining Force handheld series, Sylvan Tale, this game and many others. It felt like American developers thought of handhelds as an afterthought to consoles or mere toys.
In reality, the Game Gear was its own thing, and could also be thought of as a way for developers to keep making 8-bit gems in a 16-bit age.
Those Taito games look more like something Inti Creates would put out today than actual NES games. Super impressive stuff
Right? Taito made some really impressive NES games that went under the radar.
@@st1ka Have you ever heard of Time Avenger: Diver? It was a canned Taito game that they turned over to an unlicensed company to have it get published even after being canceled
whoa, I have not. Adding it to the list
@@ankosgbx I don't think they turned it over to an unlicensed developer, rather they just happened to get their hands on it. It's virtually unchanged from that canned game, Time Diver Eon Man, aside from the title. As far as I'm aware, Taito never made any money off it.
@@zanegandini5350 The thing is, the unofficial release came many years before the prototype was found. It has not been 100% confirmed that it was officially licensed out by Taito, but the theory exists for a reason. I want to say Frank Cifaldi is a believer in it
wow, unlike the usual hidden gems list I actually haven't even heard of the majority of these, yet they look like something I want to play. Well done
Thank you! :D
It's pretty tough to stand out from the retro crowd on UA-cam, but I think you do a great job with your selection of games. You keep it interesting.
Thank you! I try! :D
I'm an Indie game developer and this video helped me decide on what type of graphics I want for the game I'm working on. I now decided on 8 bit NES styled graphic.
oooh glad I could help
I was wondering why that Power Blade music sounded so familiar. Apparently the composer, Kinuyo Yamashita, also contributed to the soundtracks for the original Castlevania as well other Natsume games like Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Ghost Sweeper Mikami. She's pretty talented!
aaah that makes sense.
I have to mention that the original Getsu Fuuma Den was translated and included in the new Fumma Den game that has a global release
damn, I didn't know the sequel included the original. I'll have to look into that.
Freaking fantastic video! One of my favorites that you've ever done thus far! Exhaustive, & based on more obscure retro games that we all need to pay more attention to! Great work!
haha thank you! I hope to do a sequel video soon-ish. Maybe focusing on the 16-bit era.
I used to play Shatter hand to death on the NES. Very fun game. Also nice recommendations of games I missed out playing back then. Also, you reminded me I did play Kabuki quantum fighter a few times. That was a good one as well.
thank you! Glad you liked the video! ^^
Shatterhand, Quantum Fighter, Metal Mech, and Phantom Fighter are the games I rarely see mentioned that were formative for me. ;P
I sure miss being a kid playing these kinds of games with my friends. 😢
Aye, I know what you mean :(
i dont because if emulation
The great thing is that you can still play these games 😊
I know that feeling 😓
Getsu Fuuma Den is awesome for 1987, there's also a fairly new sequel/reimagining up on Steam; Psychic World is great too, especially the Master System/MSX versions; Shatterhand - and most other Natsume action games - are great too! Honestly, lots of little gems here...
indeed! Glad you liked the video! :D
kick master was such an underrated gem , would be awesome to see a modern remake
agreed, so underrated
Yep, lots of underrated gems here. Of note: In _Kick Master_ 's ending credits, Ken Loeb is mentioned. He has quite a few great games under his belt, giving us the _Killer Instinct_ series, for instance. The man is a gaming legend!
oh wow, that's awesome
Indeed. And you you beat the third loop of the game, the ending comes with a message of Ken telling you what an awsome player you are. Fantastic game.
Hells yeah Power Blade! That game was awesome! Believe it or not i found it in the trash when i was a kid, still have the cartridge to this day. Its such a fun and criminally underrated game! Im glad to see more people talking about it!
wow! I can't believe someone would just throw it in the trash
@@st1ka They threw out much more then Power Blade. I found a whole bunch of Nintendo games, Ninja Gaiden, Super Mario Bros, Time Lord, Blades of Steel, etc. Its insane what people just throw away sometimes.
@@squidzarecool720 damn that's insane! I'm jealous haha
@@st1ka Yeah if you have any socials I can DM you some photos.
Oh I have twitter and a discord server discord.gg/Asm5wxHq
Man, I love Dark Arms SO MUCH! Its a really amazing game that deserves more love (and a remake).
Agreed completely!
Ok. I just put this comment right here.
I want to propose to talk about Sylvan Tale.
This is a very high quality Action RPG from 1995 on Game Gear from Sega CS with very beautiful graphics, wonderful music and good gameplay.
I actually considered including Sylvan tale, but had to reduce the number of games because the video was getting rather long. Perhaps when I do a sequel video I'll include it.
@@st1ka ok. Thanks for answer.
anytime!
Rod Land’s great!!! Played it a couple of times.
Oh I bet youve been to Rod Land a few times
Ummm Phrasing!
it's such a fun game
Fantastic list! Nice to see the Power Blades and Shatterhand get some love and attention. Not sure if they count as "forgotten 8-bit gems", but the only games I would add are Vice Project Doom and Faxanadu on the NES, and Rastan on the Sega Master System.
Oh I think Vice Project Doom definitely fits the "forgotten" bill. ^_^
Faxanudu was a less famous but still pretty well known one for older nes players. That said i knew it as the one with the shield and weird name all the way till last year. It's my more difficult zelda 2 now
Missed the premiere due to travel but enjoyed very much what I saw after arriving home, great way to close down the day. Thank you very much! :)
glad you enjoyed it! ^^
Every time I think I've seen them all... Great video!!!
glad I could help xD
If I recall, John Romero released the rom of the NTSC-U version onto his website at some point
hah, that's awesome
Hell yeah ! The only UA-camr worth watching!!
The "Only" one ? I mean St1ka is great but there's other great UA-camrs too.
oh there's a lot of great youtubers out there, many of which I consider better than me ^_^
@@st1kadude I always walk away from Your videos with lots of ideas for stuff to play , you have a unique perspective on the retro scene and that allows you to come up with content ideas that are actually interesting and avoid rehashing the same tired old topics that get covered over and over again . And for that I salute thee ! And consider you my favorite UA-camr homie
@@adventuretaco7140 aww thanks man! I really appreciate it! :D
Rod-Land on the Amiga was fantastic, it was up there with the arcade version for sure.
indeed, it looks like a surprisingly faithful port too.
I loved Shatterhand as I kid! Both me and my brothers played as much as we played Super Mario Bros 3 and Ninja Gaiden 2
All great games!
ive played all the nes and famicom games
but ive never heard of most of the others
i need to check out several of them
thanks for the video St1ka
yeah, admittedly, finding hidden gems for the NES is usually harder (unless I post bootlegs or modern games), but I still want to show the NES some love. haha
i mean those are pretty deep cuts for nes/fc
i imagine they will be new to some people
unfortunately the nes pond is a bit overfished these days
@@tylerd4884 Yeah, the NES and SNES are too over-explored topics, so I try to talk about other systems :)
Oh my word, Survival Kids. I owned this game as a kid and was absolutely obsessed but I never hear anything about it. It was a really ambitious and charming little game.
I appreciate that this video actually contained a lot of games I've never heard of.
Glad I could help!
one game that still plays very well to this day that i see no one talking about is CJ's Elephant Antics, it's one of the 4 games that came in the cartridge/rom called Quattro Arcade (all 4 games are good but this one is special) it's for the NES
interesting. I'll add it to my list and check it out
Dark Arms so good that it found its way into a video about 8-bit games! Quite the feat for a 16-bit game 👀 (I loved the video! Thanks)
It's mostly because I feel it's not fair to compare the neogeo pocket color with 16 bit systems. The visuals and sound are closer to a master system than a sega mega drive
Great list. I'm loving the NES on my MiSTer right now, mainly because of new homebrew games like Full Quiet. Incredible game.
indeed, I need to explore more NES modern games :D
@@st1ka Definitely. There are some real gems in homebrew. Apart from Full Quiet, I'd also recommend Micro Mages, Alwa's Awakening, and Project Blue.
@@miltonbates6425 yep exactly!
Really loving your videos. You cover some really good topics.
Nothing better than a good hidden gems video!
thanks man! ^_^
Genuinely hadn't heard of a bunch of these. Great video.
thank you! Glad I could help! :D
What a great compilation man! I'll give a try to every game in this list for sure, thank you! ♥
Glad you liked it^^
I think Getsu Fuma Den is available on the Switch now. It’ll be great to play this famicom game.
hope you have fun!
These games look fun and I like that they're underrated
they're super fun :D
Another great video!
About missing games, if you like the Aleste series, check the three games for the MSX2, since they're the originals, have the story cutscenes and sadly were missing from that PS4 collection. (Not to mention Zanac Ex, specially with the FM/turbo enhancement patch)
The MSX standard has many other hidden gems.
Yeah, it honestly bothers me that the Aleste collection doesn't have the MSX games. Such a missed opportunity.
Question about your comment. And I will say if you don't mind because I maybe try Google also .But Question goes
What language are those MSX games done in please and ty
@@quinnreiswig-vc3cy They're made in Z80 assembly.
@fr_schmidlin oh thank you kindly for the speedy reply and that is incredible that you know about this fr_schmidlin but I was wondering about English or Japanese dialect languages?
I love your videos. Thanks for all you do. I get a lot of entertainment from the longer videos you create. I can't get enough of the way you say shmup!!😅
Haha thank you
Ótimo vídeo como sempre st1ka!
Muito obrigado! :D
I thought shatter hand and cave noire weren't that obscure? That being said, both are fantastic, yes.
I have to admit, I don't think I've ever seen Cave Noire being mentioned.
Some of these games I've heard about but never actually played. Great video as always!
thank you! ^^
I first played kickmaster when i got a 500 in 1 cart and was really impressed.
damn, a pirate cart with 500 games and one of them is kickmaster? That's a steal!
Heh, either you made a background soundtrack to it, or that first game uses the soundtrack from 'Legend of Kage'! Great video, and also glad you mentioned the Amiga version of Rodland which is nearly arcade perfect, and one of my favourite arcade and Amiga platformers of all time.
Oh that was actually a remix I found. And yeah, Amiga Rodland is excellent :D
Really good video, I’ve been at this a long time so I usually don’t get much new from this sort of video but I found several I’m going to try out from this. Thanks!
Glad I could help :D
I've got Rod-land demo for the ZX in a british magazine in the 90s, played that demo THOUSANDS of times, loved that game so much that 30 years later I finally managed to find a copy and bought it, AMAZING game. PD: now there is an upgraded version with colors available for the speccy,
You have such a fun voice. It cheers me up. 😊
haha thank you!
Love this video. I’ve been a huge fan of many of these games for decades and I’m glad someone’s getting the word out.
glad you liked it! ^^
Nice video! Loved seeing Psycho World here. I grew up playing the GG version, and only found about the MSX original, which is now my favourite, years later. Sadly, Hertz wasn't a prolific developer: I only know about one other game to their name, a "submarine shooter" for the MSX named Hydefos. Amazing soundtrack also.
If you ever do a follow up to this video, you must include two gems for the Spectrum: Mighty Final Fight and Castlevania: Spectral Interlude. Mighty Final Fight is specially amazing, with a soundtrack as good as the NES one, and even better graphics (like more detailed and animated backgrounds) in some areas.
Funny you mention that, I actually included Castlevania: Spectral Interlude in my Castlevania video.
Survival Kids Fun Facts: this game had not one or two but _several_ possible endings, an expansive map full of branching cave systems and intricate puzzles, and a great story to carry it along
It’s fair to say that the game was a work of art, especially given the limitations of the hardware at the time, GBC had only just released less than a year prior, so this game was made to run on both the classic and color systems
It's such a good game and I need to try the sequel
I am most impressed with Getsu Fuuma Den. Designing levels that are meant to be played forward and backwards is a great way to conserve resources.
yeah it's pretty darn cool! :D
I'm a new fan of yours and must say that this video rocks. Keep it up. you're an inspiration to us all.
aww thank you! I try! :D
Nice!
I have played Shatterhand's japanese version called Solbrain, wich is a Tokusatsu serie that was relased here in Brazil back in the day.
That was AWESOME! :-D
That version was also sold as a Bootleg called Robocop 4, which I imagine they thought was more popular to westerners 😅
Solbrain's theme song is so, so good!
I've never managed to sit through more than a couple of episodes, but I listen to the OP regularly.
damn that's so cool!
to be fair, a robocop tokatsu does sound like an improvement lol
Wurm, Journey to the Center of the Earth, for me, is a hidden or forgotten gem. A lot of gameplay styles and the story was so cool! One of the first NES games I cleared.
thank you for the recommendation. I'll check it out ^^
'Survival Kids' is a really good game, very atmospheric (for a GBC game). It also has more than half a dozen different endings.
A sequel also came out in Japan: Survival Kids 2: Dasshutsu! Futago Shima. Pretty good, too. A fan translation for that is available, too. After that the series continued on the Nintendo DS as 'Lost in Blue' 1-3, and then there was one more entry on the Wii: Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked.
Yep, I own the wii game too! :D
Does it remind you of "Don't Starve"?
@@gorilladisco9108 I know of 'Don't Starve' but have never played it, so I can't tell you.
Nice video!! ^ ^.. The Kick Master wasn't made by Taito at all, it was by 'KID' japanese developer, theyr famicom/NES games has a very distinct,unique graphics, same engine, music/sound design.. Banana Prince, Low G Man, G.I. Joe, Recca, Burai Fighter, Trolls in CrazyLand,etc.. all of them made by same people...
Some didn't had famicom version and only NES release yet was made by japanese developers of that company which is weird..
You can easily tell a game made by them if ur familiar with any of them..
Some games even have same reused tiles, graphics used in other of their games..
aaah thank you for clarifying that ^^
Joguei bastante o Phantis na minha juventude, mas na altura conhecia-o como Game Over 2. De qualquer forma, um grande jogo! Parabéns pelo canal, abraço
Muito obrigado! :D
Some great soundtracks in these games. Excellent selection.
hehe thank you ^^
St1ka's videos. Aka "How to fill up a backlog!"
Great video as always
haha thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
I find it rather funny how Kick Master and Shatter Hand are polar opposites of each other. One is a game set in a fantasy setting with many different kicking moves, the other is in a SciFi setting where you punch things and have a complex powerup system.
Also, bringing up the GBC Daikatana game reminded me that there was a official GBC demake of Quest 64 that's also better then it's 3D counterpart. It's called Quest RPG: Brain's Journey (or something like that anyways) which has scripted story sequences and characters interacting together. It still doesn't have everything that was cut from the N64 game, but it's a closer look at what they may have intended for the final game to be like if they hadn't been forced by THQ to push it out the door before it was ready. Not sure if it's good enough for this list, but it is a curiosity non the less.
I remember playing Kickmaster (my friend's cartridge) many times and actually finishing it several times. Same with Solbrain (the game that was adapted into "Shatterhand"). I remember playing Kabuki Quantum Fighter, but never got to finish it.
All great games!
Some games I loved on the NES that I almost never see mentioned anywhere:
A Boy and His Blob
Crystalis
Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode
The 3-D Battles of Worldrunner
Willow
Ah classics! ^^
The games on this list are going to fuel my next plane ride this week! Thank you!
haha, glad I could help
Loads of interesting games there I had not seen. Rodland was an ace game and still enjoyable to play today on C64. (PS great video, I've subbed)
thank you! ^^
A few of my personal NES favorites in this list (Power Blade and Kick Master, notably). :)
hope you enjoyed the video ^^
@@st1ka Did indeed. Thank you. :)
@@tallikx glad to hear it ^^
Daikatana GBC and Dark Arms NGPC are so good.
agreed 100%
Truth be told, Rodland was my favorite Amiga's game.
I used to play it with my friend Raphael as a kid all the time!
It's such a cool game! :D
Well, it's good to know that Psychic World actually exists and I didn't just dream it up one day while on cold medicine.
Oh it's real :P
Thank you for mentioning Shatter Hand! That's a personal favorite of mine, while it's a localization of a Tokusatsu / Metal Heroes game for Solbrain.
It's SUCH a good game.
@@st1ka I wish we could get something similar but in the modern day, preferably by Studio Platinum. A mix between Metal Gear Rising and Anarchy Reigns! One can only hope. haha Keep posting awesome vids. Glad I found your channel :)
@@gowgearhead That'd be so cool! That reminds me, check out a modern game called Wanted: Dead. It looks super cool
And now I understand the DLC character and level from Castlevania Harmony of Darkness so much more!
I was so confused for the longest time because I thought it was the character from the Namco games, and I just couldn't comprehend Konami teaming up with Namco to bring an outside property to a Castlevania game based mostly on legacy and nostalgia
Yeah the two series are so similar
Just discovered you channel with this video. Consider me a new fan. Great work!
thank you! ^^
What a pretty sweet list😃I know some 8 Bit Games, but not the one, which aren't well known🤔
Glad I could help then ^^
Wow! Amazing new-old games. Need to check these games.
hope you'll enjoy them ^^
@@st1ka Thanks! :3
@@AlexMakovsky ^-^
Daikatana having a gameboy spinoff that's actually good is insane.
Haha right?
Nice, more games to add to my backlog that I may or may not ever get to.
Joking aside, these look great.
glad I could help xD
Incredible video man!
Thank you :D
Really cool list of games! Finally a list that I actually don't know most of the games
haha, glad I could help
I was almost certain the ZX Spectrum Rodland had music, but I guess I was mistaken!
Also, thank you so much for an Ultionus shoutout! To this day Phantis is one of my favorite 8-bit games, and I just had to remake it in some capacity: )
oh wow! I know you! I remember seeing your account when the first Phantis trailer came out, haha. I wonder if a 128k version of Rodland came out? Maybe I was playing the 48k version and didn't realize there was a 128k version with music?
but yeah, thank you for Ultionis, I hope my video brings you some extra sales!
@@st1ka The 128k ver of Rodland has a lot of music in the intro and title screen, but seemingly none in the game itself?! Weird!
Also, isn't it weird how pretty much all 8 and 16-bit incarnations of Phantis (and Game Over II) have identical gameplay and variations on the same art and music, except for the C64 version, which is very much its own thing! It even has its own music track during platformer section, though it weirdly doesn't loop.
@@darkfalzx ah yep! When I played Rodland for the Zx spectrum It only had music during the intro and title screen.
And yeah, the C64 version of Phantis for some reason that music in that one level. It's almost like they started and then gave up lol
Hi man. Were you recording the NeoGeo pocket footages using emulator?
Yep I was! :)
Wish I'd made this comment a bit sooner but this video was really good and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Personally, I'd love to see a sequel for 16 and maybe 32-bit games in the future if ever get the chance to do so.
oh that's the plan actually! :P
19:20 That Power Blazer song reminds me of music that could have been on Star Tropics. I looked it up and it's not the same person on both games, but man does it sound very similar.
Oh interesting. I wonder if they share a composer?
One of the first times I ever heard anyone talk about dark arms and man is that an under appreciated game but only ever been released on the neo geo pocket it was never going to spread far and wide!
Dark arms is SO good
Wow… Shatter Hand rocks! Thanks for the tip.
it's such a good game! Highly recommended ^^
I thoroughly enjoyed this video, as a kid in South Africa it's good to see some of the games on this list, we had the Famicom here so we just got Japanese games, I loved Getsu Fuma Den although as a kid I didn't get far because of the language barrier, it was nice to finish it years later with the patch, I loved playing Kabuki Quantum Fighter aswell and man did I love Power Blade, the soundtrack is a part of me and I will never forget it, I remember being at school and just wanting to get home so I could play Power Blade lol.
you played some great games! I had a famiclone growing up, but I didn't discover those games until much later.
@@st1ka I remember a very cool Chinese man at a local flea market always had tons of cartridges on sale, I was lucky, strangely enough we never got Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, so I only grew up with the first 2 Castlevania games, I was shocked in adulthood to find out Castlevania III exists lol. You should make a video of your gaming journey, games you loved, games you hated etc. Would be interesting 👍
@@gianpyres3 that's so cool! For me, there was a stationary shop where you could buy or rent bootleg carts, but the best games you could only rent
Kick master was my first medieval fantasy game. Sadly I didn't recognize it as such because I couldn't recognize it as such because I couldn't recognize most of the sprites such as the lizardmen which is a medieval rpg staple, or the small hopping enemies.
All console ports made in the 90s of Rod Land only have the first half of the game included. In the Arcade original it gives you a code to input in title screen to play second half of the game if you beat the final boss. This mode has all new music,bosses,story,enemies and stage layouts and uses none of the ones from the other mode and is only way to see staff credits so it's weird it was left out of every console port in the 90s.
Bubble Bobble had a code for a harder version of the game too which is missing,does not work in all versions.
oh how interesting, I did not know that.
Out of all these, I only played Power Blade and Shatter Hand. The rest I either heard of or never did.
hope you enjoyed the recomendations! ^^
Fantastic video, but the uncanny faces at 4:45 will come back in my dreams.
Sounds like prime creepy-pasta material
Power Blade is great. I got it for a few bucks at a swap meet when I was little. Usually the games I would get would be complete crap, I couldn't believe I got a cheap game that was actually fun.
I'd love to own it some day
God I love the Game Gear! & they play GREAT on the Master System, aka for the ones that have been ported at least. I hope one day that ALL Game Gear games get ported eventually, and that they find a way to better stretch the visible area of the screen. For games like Lunar Walking School they could make it so you can see the character's stats at all times instead of the weird scrolling thing it does!
Yeah, those cropped GG games like Sonic should be modded. Enemies pop up too fast on the screen!
@@jengelenm I mean I don't really agree with that specific reference as I've never had any issues with the GG Sonic games but yeah I get what ya mean. I've always been great at the GG Sonic games so maybe I'm not the best person to ask about that.
yeah. I like the game gear to master system ports, but they often feel like they're not optimized for the bigger screen :\
Lunar : Magic School had a hilarious 10-minute OVA.
In fact, you can find it on UA-cam. I just checked :D
oh wow, now THAT I did not know
SHATTER HAND!!! I totally remember this game!
such a great game too!
Good work, St1ka!😁👍
Thank you! I try! :D
13 year old me would have fallen in love with the pixels on the screen at 4:21
Haha i don't blame you
i need more!!! more 8 bit hidden gems!!!!
hehe, perhaps I'll do a sequel video. Although I'd like to tackle 16-bit gems too :P
@@st1ka cool i love both 16 or 8bits
@@Deunan_Knute glad to hear it ^^
Mano muitas joias que eu não conhecia 😍 parabéns pelo video👍
muito obrigado! :D
I played Getsu Fuuma Den when it came out in the deluxe edition of its sequel Undying Moon last year.
niiice
Rod Land was published during the peak of the cute'em-up genre and was one of the best.
Yep very true
That bootleg GBC Fighting game looks incredible, it's always impressive to see a game that matches or exceeds the best official games on a system.
right?! :D
Psichic world was awesome. I played this so much back then
Indeed, I love that game!