Name me some obscure Snes/Megadrive games to play

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Some Mega Drive fun:

Undead Line, ridiculously hard top-down run and gun thing, but it's do-able once you realise how to use your shield...


Granada, another top-down shooter only this time you drive a tank. Some maze elements in this one as well.


Outlander, more or less "Mad Max: The Game". Drive around shooting folk from your car, then get out every so often and have a fight. Nice.


Sub-Terrania, fun puzzle/shooter thing, with some heavy gravity effects. The mirror puzzle's my favourite.

[The Laird]

I kept forgetting to post in this thread and Granada was going to be the first game I recommended! It has some really nice scaling and rotation effects too.

I also would have mentioned Subterrania, very nice game indeed.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Great minds and all that, what ho!

Also these few MD-nuggets are definitely worth a bit of time:

El Viento, like Shinobi on double-speed, and triple-difficulty.


Valis III, another Shinobi-ish thing but with more adventure elements, like you can switch your characters and all that.


Trouble Shooter, a shoot-em-up where you play as two girls on jetpacks, and you can fire in both directions and so on. The sequel's really good too, maybe even better.


Earnest Evans, the weird way your guy moves takes some getting used to (and is unintentionally hilarious), but there's a decent platformer hiding in there.

[gman72]

This is a good thread. I've had five cool new games from it so far.

[merman]

I'd recommend Super Valis IV on SNES too, if you like Castkevania style platform action.

[sscott]

The Firemen on SNES, very expensive though there are other ways to play it of course!

[HisNHer_LP]

The Firemen on SNES, very expensive though there are other ways to play it of course!

I only recently found out about this, and so far what I have played of it, it's fantastic

[rolan]

curse + battle mania on megadrive.

Battle soccer 2 on snes is like megaman soccer but a bit better... its oddly compelling footy game thats better then 99% of actual football games

100% cotton on snes is amazing

[gman72]

Good shout for Battle Soccer 2. I just tried it and its quite a cool soccer sim... God knows what I was selecting in the menus though. So did Banpresto make a range of these Battle games? I mentioned Battle Pinball earlier in the thread but I didn't know there were more Banpresto battle games. One wonders how many.

[c0nfu53d]

Banpresto did Battle Dodge Ball 1 & 2

[Shinobi]

Try Evo: Search for Eden on SNES. I only found out about this game a couple of years ago, but I'm glad I did.

Managed to pick up a cib jap version of Evo about 10 years back for £15 buy it now luckily the person had no idea how much that games really worth.. Some of the best music I've heard on the snes and Gaia looks pretty good considering she's 46 billion years old, but how do you find the evolution aspect?

I understand level 1 you start as life in a pond and by evolving jaws, fins, body tail etc the better killer you become as well as the visual difference to your fish.. But later when you evolve on the land does how you evolve make the game easier of harder or it just individual playing style say 2 or 4 legs slow armored body or agile unprotected body etc make certain parts easier?

[Shinobi]

[quote="TwoHeadedBoy"]Some Mega Drive fun:

Undead Line, ridiculously hard top-down run and gun thing, but it's do-able once you realise how to use your shield...


Undead Line looks brilliant been trying to find that game but didn't know what it was called reminds me of Elemental Masters one of the Megadrive's best games.. Never heard of Battla Masters either looks a really good Side Arms clone and I thought that Ernest Evans was a Mega CD game.. On your recommendation I got a Valis 2/Paperboy 2 double pack of Ebay obviously dodgy Asian cart but only £3..

It was actually this game Syd of Valis



The Snes version of Valis is also fabby

[Shinobi]

Been play on the Megadrive Wani Wani World like a cross between Mr Do's Castle and Panic


And Snow Brothers actually arcade better

[sirpigmeat]

I don't know whats obscure and isn't but I quite enjoyed Mystical Defender on the MD. If you get to the end you get to see a very small naked girl!

I've obscured it below so as not to ruin it for anyone who chooses to play the game.

[SuperFamiKing]

Psycho Dream



Hagane (not really obscure, but worth a mention)