I would agree, I usually browse "All games of certain consoles", there are some great games that are sadly untranslated, others get held back by bad controls or bad visuals, tbh checking those marathon Library videos and experimenting is worth sometimes, that's how I found the great poki and roki series and Riviera the promised land gba from studio sting (atlus)
RUclips algorithm brought me here and it didnt fail, great collection of games, i didnt know any of them and i sure watched tons of retro game raccomendations
I love the filters you use in your footage. They’re subtle enough to not be obtrusive yet present enough to make the games look their best. I wish more RUclipsrs did this.
I have been looking for a video like this FOREVER. Thank you! Finally a hidden gems list that doesn’t cover the same exact 50+ games over and over again. Please do more of these!
Great vid. I really appreciate the scanline shaders being applied to the games. Makes a lot of difference. You've got really good style. Not overly excited and annoying or trying to be too cool and edgy. I've just put Tetris Gaiden on my R36s! Subscribed!
Thanks for giving a Shout-Out to Retro Handhelds!!! I'm an OG of Retro Handhelds and I always get excited to see people give these Handhelds a shout-out. 😁
Really enjoyed this. Games I genuinely haven't heard of before. Really clean video capture. Good calm voice over. Looking forward to more videos from you.
Subbed for "Warriors of the Blue Dragon Legend." Or, "Bushi Seiryuden," as I tended to call it. I've known about this for *years.* I've been obsessed with it for *years.* I have what is possibly the earliest footage of the game on YT. I could not tell you how happy I was when it got a fan translation. It's so good, and more people need to play it. Also, amazing list of "actually" obscure games. I knew about most of these already, but it is a *solid* list, even so. Most of these are ones I never see people talk about (Cocoron, Willow and Crusader of Centy might be the most popular of this list, but even then). I think Samurai Kid is the only one I didn't know about offhand, and as the guy who tends to tell people about games they never heard of? Yeah, I'm glad to find a new one to check out someday.
I love it. I'll look at these lists with my Retroid out adding them to my "To Try - Nintendo" (or whatever system) collection lists to never try later.
First video I've seen from you and I love the polished presentation and chill voice over. Instant subscribe. ALSO, I've been playing games my whole life and had never heard of half of these! I'm hyped to go check em out
GANPURU MENTION!! It quickly became one of my favorite games ever. The thing is though, I never played A Link to the Past! (Unless you count A Link Between Worlds, that is)
Now that's a fun list! I feel you're being a bit harsh on Cocoron, my experience with it was reasonably enjoyable all the way through. Then again, I probably have a higher tolerance than most people for rough game design. Plus it has good music.
I believe that Cocoron is as rough as you allow it to be. If you pick a very bad combo, you are going to suffer all the way through, but a very good/broken one makes a very enjoyable and fun game. In no way, playing Cocoron is "scrapping the bottom of the barrel". We really miss a very good one here in the west.
I love Samurai Kid. It's such an awesome game. It's actually the spiritual successor to Daiku no Gen-san: Kachikachi no Tonkachi ga Kachi. The gameplay is exactly the same. Except you play as Carpenter Gen (aka Hammerin' Harry)
If i can adda few of my own which i don't hear mentioned very often... Ihatovo Monogatari - SNES Is a fantastic cozy folklore inspired adventure games which hosts one of the best OSTs on the system. (English patch available) Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS - GB Is a fantastic Shmup which makes unique use of the screen ghosting of the gameboy. Bulk Slash - Sega Saturn This one does get it's fair share of love from the Saturn community but is certainly not in the public eye. 10/10 for music, graphics and style. (English patch available) Red Alarm - VirtualBoy If you can gaslight yourself into buying a VB or if you want to mod a 3DS (it's actually quite easy) and emulate using RedViper, this is easily one of the most interesting games for the system. Not great as a Shmup but fantastic as a tech demo with it's wireframe graphics. Power blade - NES A stella 8-bit platformer.
This is a REALLY good list We're finally at the point in retro gaming as a hobby where we have to dig up obscure stuff even for people who look through romsets all day for years and I think this does a good job of that I feel like I eat and sleep this stuff and I have never heard of the first half of the games here I REALLY gotta try out that Game Freak one, good video
Great List, I'd also add: + Avenging Spirits (Game Boy) + Marvelous Another Treasure Island (SNES) + Alcahest (SNES) + Linda Cubed Again (PS1) + Dr.Slump (PS1) The last four games are Translations. 😅
12:40 That part blew my mind only for the one reason that they reused the music in that game for the game Eversion if you ever played that. I didn't know they ripped it from that
Niiice, definitely playing these ones! Not really an old game, but Pilot Quest on the UFO50 collection on Steam is a great Zelda like game with elements of idle base management, very great game
When I daw Warriors of the Blue Dragon Legend's sprites on The Spriter Ressource, 2 things came to my mind: - "I guess it's like Zelda 2 or the DS Adventure Time game where you have the top down sections and the side scrolling sections. Except that you can also attack in the top down section like in Zelda 1 and 3" (Guess I'm wrong on the side-scroller section because I expected more Zelda 2 than turn based-esque combat) - The sprite work kinda leads into gen 3 (or at least, looking at the 16bit sprite work of the top down sections and the idle side scroller sprites give me more gen 3 vibes due to the snes colors.)
I bought a copy of Bushi Seiryuuden (Warriors of the Blue Dragon Legend) for Super Famicom like a decade ago for a couple bucks at a consignment shop, very cool little find.
Please, do you know what song is that, thats playing in the whole Crusader of Centy section of this video? I did seach the entire CoC ost and did not find it
I'll echo other comments and say *finally* a list of obscure games that are actually obscure. I played 6 from the list, the rest was all new to me. All cool looking games!
Willow is doooope, i played it on an NES emulator when I was a kid, and hot damn is it hard. I actually used graph paper to map out the world at the time, it was super engaging. I doubt i'd do it again but eh still cool!
Very interesting video, but some of the recommendations didn't feel like recommendations at all with phrases like "scrapping the bottom of the barrel", I think every game shown in here is worth giving a chance and I think you believe that too, but at times it didn't sound like it.
Brilliant list, thank you for this. I got so tired of a million "hidden gems" lists full of games literally everyone knows about. I'm putting at least half this list into my next round of gaming, as you've covered some really interesting stuff. Side note - does the artwork from "Violinist of Hameln" remind anyone else of WestOne / Wonderboy III / Monster World IV ?
truly bizarre that nintendo has never re-released or localized gunmans proof. another really cool one is chaos seed. one of the most interesting games the snes/sfc has
There is a game I would like to say is also rare and overlooked. One is Tengai Makyō Zero which translates to Far East of Eden Zero, a Japanese only Super NES game RPG. Excellent story, characters and design. Weird, very weird, but in a good way. It has a very interesting time of day system where you cannot access certain areas or shops depending on what time you are playing.
Great video, love to see some oddball recommendations! One thing, not sure where "Gunple" comes from when Ganpuru is just a contracted way of saying "gunman's proof (purufu)"
Let's see what i've played. - The violinist of Hameln back when it was translated, it's a really fun game. For whatever reason it reminds me of Whirlo, a very difficult platformer game (mostly because you are a one-hit-point wonder), but also very satisfying if you manage to finish it (and you have multiple endings AND unconventional game over screens - like making choiced midway that take you to a bad, instant game over - just like E.V.O. Search for eden had). -Willow is a nice NES game, i have yet to actually play it fully. - The Jetsons SNES game, i've not finished this game, but got to the last stage. remember getting this one with Kirby's golf-like game from video-rental. And having to share the console with my sister, she wanted to play Kirby, and i wanted to finish Jetsons. lol - was my first Kirby game, and i enjoyed both. Aside from those, your list really brought some unknown titles for me that i want to play now. Gunman's proof i already knew about, but your display of it made me interested in playing. Cocoron and Crusaders of Centy looks interesting.
Takeru (the development team that created Cocoron) was composed entirely out off Capcom ex-employees, which would explain the similarities to Mega Man, they also developed Little Samson which due to its limited release in the US eventually became rare enough to become the most expensive comercially released NES game in that region.
The frog for whom the bell tolls has an in-progress colorization hack by toruzz. I'm waiting for that to be completed before I finally play it I've loved the games main theme since i heard it in links awakening
Also if you see me comment this a million times and have no idea what I’m referring to look up “cool cat there he is” and clip on the 5 second video or the 1:16 minute video
nice, I didn't know Warriors of the Blue Dragon! Btw does anybody knows what's the name of the shader he's using in the video? Those scanlines are glorious.
bushi seiryuden represent 😎😎😎😎 literally one of the best non-pokemon games by game freak next to drill dozer, shame how even with the english translation it continues to be obscure
some awesome games, just the intro flips got me excited. Im a bit sceptical of some of the harsh criticisms you had, like saying a game is bottom of the barrel..... but I guess well see
I am always amazed at just how many games are out there that are unknown gems. This is why i don't really bother much with the bad games. There are too many good ones to really worry about it with more being made all the time. This is also why efforts like those being done by Nintendo will ultimately fail. Preserving these hidden gems & classics of the past will always win out over corporate greed, hyper inflation & artificial scarcity.
Nice. Actual obscure games. Most of these types of vids are filled with Faxanadu, Earthbound, and other games that fans already know.
Yeah true
They copy other youtubers list
I would agree, I usually browse "All games of certain consoles", there are some great games that are sadly untranslated, others get held back by bad controls or bad visuals, tbh checking those marathon Library videos and experimenting is worth sometimes, that's how I found the great poki and roki series and Riviera the promised land gba from studio sting (atlus)
RUclips algorithm brought me here and it didnt fail, great collection of games, i didnt know any of them and i sure watched tons of retro game raccomendations
His underrated videos are awesome too. Found a lot of hits.
Same
And did you enjoy his recommendations as well?
I love the filters you use in your footage. They’re subtle enough to not be obtrusive yet present enough to make the games look their best. I wish more RUclipsrs did this.
I have been looking for a video like this FOREVER. Thank you! Finally a hidden gems list that doesn’t cover the same exact 50+ games over and over again. Please do more of these!
Gunple Gunmans Proof is super underrated, everything about it is so quirky. Really happy to see more people cover it .
Great vid. I really appreciate the scanline shaders being applied to the games. Makes a lot of difference.
You've got really good style. Not overly excited and annoying or trying to be too cool and edgy.
I've just put Tetris Gaiden on my R36s!
Subscribed!
Really enjoy and appreciate all of your videos. Keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
Holy crap there are ACTUALLY games I don't recognize here. Can't wait to try em out, thanks for this!
Love the scanlines and probably CRT filter you use. Great collection.
Just found this channel and this was genuinely one of the best “hidden gems” videos I’ve seen in a very long time. Love the content 🙌🏻
Thanks for giving a Shout-Out to Retro Handhelds!!! I'm an OG of Retro Handhelds and I always get excited to see people give these Handhelds a shout-out. 😁
What a unique list. Have not heard of most of these. Thanks!
Really enjoyed this. Games I genuinely haven't heard of before. Really clean video capture. Good calm voice over. Looking forward to more videos from you.
Subbed for "Warriors of the Blue Dragon Legend." Or, "Bushi Seiryuden," as I tended to call it.
I've known about this for *years.* I've been obsessed with it for *years.* I have what is possibly the earliest footage of the game on YT. I could not tell you how happy I was when it got a fan translation. It's so good, and more people need to play it.
Also, amazing list of "actually" obscure games. I knew about most of these already, but it is a *solid* list, even so. Most of these are ones I never see people talk about (Cocoron, Willow and Crusader of Centy might be the most popular of this list, but even then). I think Samurai Kid is the only one I didn't know about offhand, and as the guy who tends to tell people about games they never heard of? Yeah, I'm glad to find a new one to check out someday.
Great suggestions! I found Monster Maulers as well randomly romping through classic vids and found it to be really interesting.
Whoa, this is the first one of these videos in a long time that had games I legit never heard of. Thanks for not just being clickbait.
you know a rec video is gonna be good when you don't recognize a single title :) good stuff my backlog is all the longer now
This is a fantastic list. I think ive only heard of like 2 of these, and i spend WAY too much time on RUclips. Great video!
Oyh my god thank you for these recomendations! All of them look so fun! Gunple looks so cute omg
Excellent, I love to see people talking about late release Super Famicom games
I love it. I'll look at these lists with my Retroid out adding them to my "To Try - Nintendo" (or whatever system) collection lists to never try later.
First video I've seen from you and I love the polished presentation and chill voice over. Instant subscribe. ALSO, I've been playing games my whole life and had never heard of half of these! I'm hyped to go check em out
GANPURU MENTION!!
It quickly became one of my favorite games ever. The thing is though, I never played A Link to the Past! (Unless you count A Link Between Worlds, that is)
Great video, I really like that it's a good mix, I took some notes on which games to try.
Now that's a fun list!
I feel you're being a bit harsh on Cocoron, my experience with it was reasonably enjoyable all the way through. Then again, I probably have a higher tolerance than most people for rough game design. Plus it has good music.
I believe that Cocoron is as rough as you allow it to be. If you pick a very bad combo, you are going to suffer all the way through, but a very good/broken one makes a very enjoyable and fun game. In no way, playing Cocoron is "scrapping the bottom of the barrel". We really miss a very good one here in the west.
I love Samurai Kid. It's such an awesome game. It's actually the spiritual successor to Daiku no Gen-san: Kachikachi no Tonkachi ga Kachi. The gameplay is exactly the same. Except you play as Carpenter Gen (aka Hammerin' Harry)
Your channel was a great finding. Really loving your videos. This one in particular with so many games I've never heard is really good. keep doing it!
lol super mario on the TI-83 was a completely unexpected flashback to highschool
If i can adda few of my own which i don't hear mentioned very often...
Ihatovo Monogatari - SNES
Is a fantastic cozy folklore inspired adventure games which hosts one of the best OSTs on the system. (English patch available)
Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS - GB
Is a fantastic Shmup which makes unique use of the screen ghosting of the gameboy.
Bulk Slash - Sega Saturn
This one does get it's fair share of love from the Saturn community but is certainly not in the public eye. 10/10 for music, graphics and style. (English patch available)
Red Alarm - VirtualBoy
If you can gaslight yourself into buying a VB or if you want to mod a 3DS (it's actually quite easy) and emulate using RedViper, this is easily one of the most interesting games for the system. Not great as a Shmup but fantastic as a tech demo with it's wireframe graphics.
Power blade - NES
A stella 8-bit platformer.
I loved Willow on the nes! I didn't even realize it was a movie til years later and I loved it too.
I've had already watched the movie at least twice when i found out there was a game. That was a nice surprise :)
You're doing the Lord's work. 🤘
These games are perfect hidden gems
Thank you very much for recommendations
This is a REALLY good list
We're finally at the point in retro gaming as a hobby where we have to dig up obscure stuff even for people who look through romsets all day for years and I think this does a good job of that
I feel like I eat and sleep this stuff and I have never heard of the first half of the games here
I REALLY gotta try out that Game Freak one, good video
Great List, I'd also add:
+ Avenging Spirits (Game Boy)
+ Marvelous Another Treasure Island (SNES)
+ Alcahest (SNES)
+ Linda Cubed Again (PS1)
+ Dr.Slump (PS1)
The last four games are Translations. 😅
Nice to see monster maulers and top hunter get the attention they deserve
12:40 That part blew my mind only for the one reason that they reused the music in that game for the game Eversion if you ever played that. I didn't know they ripped it from that
As a fan of Crush series I'm surprised I never heard of Dragon's Revenge. Thanks for mentioning, gotta try it.
Excellent recomendations. Almost all of them were included in The Tiny Best Set, but that was expected.
Niiice, definitely playing these ones! Not really an old game, but Pilot Quest on the UFO50 collection on Steam is a great Zelda like game with elements of idle base management, very great game
When I daw Warriors of the Blue Dragon Legend's sprites on The Spriter Ressource, 2 things came to my mind:
- "I guess it's like Zelda 2 or the DS Adventure Time game where you have the top down sections and the side scrolling sections. Except that you can also attack in the top down section like in Zelda 1 and 3" (Guess I'm wrong on the side-scroller section because I expected more Zelda 2 than turn based-esque combat)
- The sprite work kinda leads into gen 3 (or at least, looking at the 16bit sprite work of the top down sections and the idle side scroller sprites give me more gen 3 vibes due to the snes colors.)
I bought a copy of Bushi Seiryuuden (Warriors of the Blue Dragon Legend) for Super Famicom like a decade ago for a couple bucks at a consignment shop, very cool little find.
I've been playing Far East of Eden Zero (or Tengai Makyō Zero) for the SNES on my RG353V the past couple days and it's been super impressive so far
Fire video love stuff like this
Awesome vid. Gonna check a bunch of these out
Crusaders of Centy!!! one of my favorite games ever. Its quite difficult as well especially later in the game, but super fun
Please, do you know what song is that, thats playing in the whole Crusader of Centy section of this video? I did seach the entire CoC ost and did not find it
I saw a big bara guy in loincloth and had to click… thoroughly enjoyed the list!
I'll echo other comments and say *finally* a list of obscure games that are actually obscure. I played 6 from the list, the rest was all new to me. All cool looking games!
Willow is doooope, i played it on an NES emulator when I was a kid, and hot damn is it hard. I actually used graph paper to map out the world at the time, it was super engaging. I doubt i'd do it again but eh still cool!
Finally, games I don't know. Thank You.🤘
Very interesting video, but some of the recommendations didn't feel like recommendations at all with phrases like "scrapping the bottom of the barrel", I think every game shown in here is worth giving a chance and I think you believe that too, but at times it didn't sound like it.
Brilliant list, thank you for this. I got so tired of a million "hidden gems" lists full of games literally everyone knows about. I'm putting at least half this list into my next round of gaming, as you've covered some really interesting stuff. Side note - does the artwork from "Violinist of Hameln" remind anyone else of WestOne / Wonderboy III / Monster World IV ?
please do more vids like this, this is awesome
Thanks for the recommendations! I'll love to play them on my Miyoo Mini Plus!
SAMURAI KID APPRECIATION HEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLL YYYYEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Good work chief, I subbed 😎
Pretty cool, but I would like to see more games for other platforms other than Nintendo
truly bizarre that nintendo has never re-released or localized gunmans proof. another really cool one is chaos seed. one of the most interesting games the snes/sfc has
There is a game I would like to say is also rare and overlooked. One is Tengai Makyō Zero which translates to Far East of Eden Zero, a Japanese only Super NES game RPG. Excellent story, characters and design. Weird, very weird, but in a good way. It has a very interesting time of day system where you cannot access certain areas or shops depending on what time you are playing.
those are some really good recommendations. i've heard before that the jetsons game is a real hidden gem, i need to track it down
Love your content!
Nice. I want to request more retro gaming related videos!
Nice list. I subscribed! The actual timestamp for Cocoron is 12:39 , you put 13:39 ✌
Thank you, fixed 🙏
Great video, love to see some oddball recommendations! One thing, not sure where "Gunple" comes from when Ganpuru is just a contracted way of saying "gunman's proof (purufu)"
Violinist of Hamnel looks like a “Little Nemo Dream Master” sequel
Subbed. Got a few gameplay vid ideas from this! Thanks!
Nice one,Subscribed. Please keep it comin...
+ Dark Arms (NGPC). Hidden gem for sure
Gunple looks cool :D
Amazing list! 😃
Excellent video, thanks !
Let's see what i've played.
- The violinist of Hameln back when it was translated, it's a really fun game. For whatever reason it reminds me of Whirlo, a very difficult platformer game (mostly because you are a one-hit-point wonder), but also very satisfying if you manage to finish it (and you have multiple endings AND unconventional game over screens - like making choiced midway that take you to a bad, instant game over - just like E.V.O. Search for eden had).
-Willow is a nice NES game, i have yet to actually play it fully.
- The Jetsons SNES game, i've not finished this game, but got to the last stage. remember getting this one with Kirby's golf-like game from video-rental. And having to share the console with my sister, she wanted to play Kirby, and i wanted to finish Jetsons. lol - was my first Kirby game, and i enjoyed both.
Aside from those, your list really brought some unknown titles for me that i want to play now. Gunman's proof i already knew about, but your display of it made me interested in playing. Cocoron and Crusaders of Centy looks interesting.
Takeru (the development team that created Cocoron) was composed entirely out off Capcom ex-employees, which would explain the similarities to Mega Man, they also developed Little Samson which due to its limited release in the US eventually became rare enough to become the most expensive comercially released NES game in that region.
Wow talk about a step up for Little Samson!
Woa, how you even find games like these? literally just looking at complete lists and checking games lol?
Super cool though! You should make a discord
just download stuff and try it
YES YES Thank You!!!
The frog for whom the bell tolls has an in-progress colorization hack by toruzz.
I'm waiting for that to be completed before I finally play it
I've loved the games main theme since i heard it in links awakening
I really appreciate that you used filters and shaders for the gameplay footage! This list is very much fire tysm
Great list
There he is
Also if you see me comment this a million times and have no idea what I’m referring to look up “cool cat there he is” and clip on the 5 second video or the 1:16 minute video
nice, I didn't know Warriors of the Blue Dragon!
Btw does anybody knows what's the name of the shader he's using in the video?
Those scanlines are glorious.
for the crt effect it's zfast crt and for gb its the simple dot shader. both in retroarch.
Could you do a Winlator showcase of retro inspired games, e.g. would Parking Garage Rally Circuit run on the RP5M?
nice video really appriciae the scanlins TY
Violinist of Hamlin seems like a fun platformer
bushi seiryuden represent 😎😎😎😎
literally one of the best non-pokemon games by game freak next to drill dozer, shame how even with the english translation it continues to be obscure
9:51 "Aping," clear and true,
Old words find their place again,
Orangutan claps.
Fantranslations are the salvation for people that are disappointed with the modern gaming landscape.
And rom hacks too. Nothing like revisiting old classics with new additions
I love monster maulers ..still playing it ..
some awesome games, just the intro flips got me excited. Im a bit sceptical of some of the harsh criticisms you had, like saying a game is bottom of the barrel..... but I guess well see
Neat retro reviews!
Man, gotta get my semi-lucid pinball state on 🤣
good recommendations ♥
Great video :D
Crusader of centy was released in Pal regions a Soleil though I really loke the Japanese box art and paxkage as a whole.
These are the games I see on rom lists and just ignore until it is introduced to me somehow. I really need to finish these too
Dragons Revenge looks like Devils Crush on Turbo Graphix 16 console. That’s where they got that type of pinball style. TG16 done it first.
Wow for a small channel do you ever reply to comments?
Btw I didn’t know about these really obscure games. Thx for the video.
sometimes when I have something worth responding with. I'm glad you liked the video.
@@CABROWN oh you're that you tuber
Does anyone know the song that play at the start of the Crusader of Centy section?
I thought that Jetsons game was based off a Japanese game i had no idea it was the other way around 😮
sneaking in that Kotetsu man-booty in the thumbnail.. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I am always amazed at just how many games are out there that are unknown gems. This is why i don't really bother much with the bad games. There are too many good ones to really worry about it with more being made all the time. This is also why efforts like those being done by Nintendo will ultimately fail. Preserving these hidden gems & classics of the past will always win out over corporate greed, hyper inflation & artificial scarcity.
Hearing Akira Kitamura referred to as the "planner" of Mega Man killed me
Great list though
Yeah, I just defaulted to what he is credited as on Moby Games.