Those amazing games no one knows about.

[retrolinkx]

Actually, I'd like to add two more.

Project Justice and
Red Dog: Superior Firepower

Both being very underrated, unknown games.

[Mass Distraction]

Anyone heard of Kula World? Tomba?

No? Okay...

[Reeves Reus]

Well, I was laughing a lot with this one when I was a kid.

[Mighty Jetters]

Well, I was laughing a lot with this one when I was a kid.

Spoiler

is that Ernie and Burt from Sesame Street?

[Reeves Reus]

Well, I was laughing a lot with this one when I was a kid.

Spoiler

is that Ernie and Burt from Sesame Street?

Yes, you can say that! It's in a more Pew-Pew-Everything-Shows-Up-In-The-Screen version.

[BumblebeeCody*]

Anyone heard of Kula World? Tomba?

No? Okay...

First page at the very bottom ;D

Though I would also put Tomba on that list.

[TomGuycott]

Most of these are games that I think are amazing, no accounting for other people's taste. Here goes:

-Little Samson (NES): a platformer with four cute characters each with unique traits. The bosses are big and difficult, and the graphics and animations are some of the best on the NES (given it was one of the last). Actual copies are extremely rare, though.

-Cocoron (Famicom): a Japanese only platformer where players built characters with a head, body and weapon of their choosing and fought in a dream world. An unreleased PC Engine prototype remake/sequel exists, but has never been made public.

-Clash at Demonhead (NES): a unique platform shooter where you guide the main character through routes of your choosing to find and defeat the bosses in order to stop a bomb. Has a lot of adventure feel to it with the exploring, and the game is complimented with dialogue between supporting characters and villains.

-Legend of Mana (PS1): sort of considered a black sheep among fans of the original Secret of Mana. It was released relatively late in the playstation's life, and it features a unique method of story progression and beautiful sprites (especially the bosses). Some people are turned off by the art style, sometimes underdeveloped story, and the fixed, unskippable battles.

More to come later, I'm out of time for now.

[Mass Distraction]

Anyone heard of Kula World? Tomba?

No? Okay...

First page at the very bottom ;D

Though I would also put Tomba on that list.

Ah, I seem to have missed that. Well then, that makes two of us.

[aapjes]

Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals (SNES)
EVO: Search for Eden (SNES)
Knights of the Round (SNES)
Steel Empire (Genesis)
Boogerman (Genesis)

[BumblebeeCody*]

Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Half-life 2
Guitar Hero 3
CoD: MW2

[Yawackhary]

Sadly all I can think of at the moment are these:

Blood Bros. - Many people these days remember a SNES game called Wild Guns but imagine if the same type of game was made earlier with the same theme. That is pretty much Blood Bros, made by TAD the same company who also made Cabal (earlier but with a military theme). It's a 2 player cursor based shooting game where you must shoot the enemy ranging from cowboys and indianas to a runaway train and some times you get upgrades. I was actually lucky enough to play this in a bar in Spain years ago. Another game similar to this but even more unknown is Alligator Hunt by Spanish arcade developer Gaelco but that is space themed and the player looks like Mighty Max.

The Outfoxies - I think people are more aware of this game now but still worth a mention. It is an inspiration to Super Smash Bros and PlayStation All-Stars but not directly so since the controls are slightly different, two player only and this game is not a "fighter". Basically your goal is to kill all your enemy in an zooming arena with whatever means you have whether it is fist fighting, weapons or taking over a turret in the plane stage. The characters have a range between a man, a woman, a monkey in a suit and a few others (I think a professor is one of them).

Biomechanical Toy - Okay this game isn't known since it was made in Spain (but it is in English), not many machines were made and for the fact that the arcade doesn't seem the right platform for this kind of game since it is an action/platfomer game. Yeah, it this game came out on consoles or even the Amiga it would have been more successful instead of being mostly forgotten. Anyway the game is set in themed stages such as western, train, jungle where you shoot or jump on enemies even cigarette butts (don't ask) while saving other toys giving you power ups and at the end of a stage, there is a huge boss taking up much of the screen. One boss you fight is a computer glitch on a computer desk. The graphics look nice and plays quite well.

These ones are arcade only so the only option would be to play these via MAME unless you are lucky enough to find one in an arcade somewhere. There is also Panic Park, a game that uses two joysticks but that isn't emulated and I have only a very poor memory of the game (it was made by Namco and it was in an arcade in Gran Canaria in the late 90s).

However on the DS, there's Pang: Magical Michael proving that even DS games can be left out since it was only released in Europe by a low key publisher so not many copies were made (probably minimum print run, maybe a tiny bit more) even though it was developed in Japan and it could have been mistaken for the shovelware that the handheld has at the latter stages (seriously there's driving tests, cooking guides/e-books and licensed games based on UK things, the DS games right now have really dropped in quality). It is part of the Pang/Buster Bros. series (popping bubbles/balloons with your weapon with a bit of thought) but replaces the characters with a magician who has some charm. Luckily it plays the same and personally it is more accessable than the previous games in the series but not dumbed down.

Oh and how I found this game was bit a story. Basically Gamestation was closing down last year (2012) and had this game [I think it was barely used, might have been new] cheaply since I was getting Mario vs. Donkey Kong 3 as well since that was reduced. Before that I never saw the game for sale at all.

There's more that I can think of but that will do for now. Oh and I know Kula World, pretty good game.

[2D Brain]

Anyone heard of Kula World? Tomba?

No? Okay...

Tomba, for sure. I was really happy when Monkeypaw Games got the licensing and made the emultation finally work for PSN.

Well, I was laughing a lot with this one when I was a kid.

Spoiler

I had that game too. I bought it so that me and my cousin could have two guncons for Time Crisis, and it ended up being really fun.

-Clash at Demonhead (NES): a unique platform shooter where you guide the main character through routes of your choosing to find and defeat the bosses in order to stop a bomb. Has a lot of adventure feel to it with the exploring, and the game is complimented with dialogue between supporting characters and villains.

-Legend of Mana (PS1): sort of considered a black sheep among fans of the original Secret of Mana. It was released relatively late in the playstation's life, and it features a unique method of story progression and beautiful sprites (especially the bosses). Some people are turned off by the art style, sometimes underdeveloped story, and the fixed, unskippable battles.

Clash at Demonhead was awesome. I'm a huge fan of the genre I call "action-rpgs" and the sidescrolling ones like Zelda II/Faxanadu/YS III/Popful Mail (and the Symphony of the Night era Castlevania games imo) are part of that legacy to me... so that game is very important and influential to many of my favorites games. Classic, must own for any NES library.

Legend of Mana was great... I slept on it for a long time even though I bought it when it was new. I think it being different than the SNES original (and the import sequel) put me off... but when I finally got over it, I played that game out big time. Now I think of it as like a spiritual precursor to odd, but awesome games like Odin Sphere that have tons of branching paths, cool animation and art, and some decent action/brawling. Definitely underrated compared to everything else Square put out back then.

[Mighty Jetters]

Zelda: Ocarina of Time

but everyone knows about this game!!! reported!!!!!

[Shadowcr94]

I know that there's a community out there for fans of this game, but I'm not sure if it's actually "popular" or not: Oni (PC). Probably the best fusion of fighting, third-person shooter, and platforming/adventure I've ever seen. (Not to mention the best "breaking the fourth wall" moments XD)

[Klonoa]

Dynamite Headdy: A Mega Drive platformer that is really good, like, has some amazing bosses, music and graphics for the Mega Drive. Made by Treasure to boot.

The Klonoa series (Particualy the second game) are nice, simple platformers that focus on a mixture of some (admittedly basic) puzzles and platforming. The soundtrack is also bloody fantastic, seriously, look it up now.

The Puyo Puyo series: Okay, I know that the series is quite big in Japan, but in Britan is is pretty much unknown.