River City Ransom
The Guardian Legend
Conquest of the Crystal Palace
Clash at Demonhead
Top Secret Episode: Golgo 13 (probably doesn't hold up, but hey)
There's more, but that's off the top of my head
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How is 3-D Worldrunner?
Other games I'm curious about that haven't been listed:
*Bee 52
*Impossible Mission II
*Iron Sword: Wizards & Warriors II
*Kabuki Quantum Fighter
*The Lone Ranger
*Narc
*Snow Bros.
*T&C Surf Designs: Thrilla's Safari (I played the hell out of the first one, which isn't supposed to be nearly as good as this one.)
*Trojan
*Ultimate Stuntman
And I second RC Pro-Am
Monster Party!
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is always right. -Learned Hand
"Jesus christ you are still THE WORST." -FirstBlood
Has anyone mentioned Destiny of an Emperor yet? Because that shit was fun AND informative. Basically like a middle ground between Final Fantasy I and the equally engrossing KOEI games (Romance of Three Kingdoms, Nobunaga's Ambition, etc.).
Speaking of KOEI, the NES version of Uncharted Waters was pretty cool as well.
- World Runner's impressive graphically, very smooth. I think the game's just okay.
- I never liked Impossible Mission II as much as the first for some reason. The computer versions look better stylistically anyway.
- I like Ironsword but it's nothing special. Like the first game, it can be really frustrating with the constant slippery hopping around.
- Kabuki Quantum Fighter's got some great atmosphere and level design. I love it.
- Lone Ranger's interesting in that it mixes controller and Zapper play. I never really got into but it's fairly good, better than Bayou Billy anyway, a game that reminds me a bit of it.
- NARC I wouldn't bother with since the arcade version's available in compilations. It's not a bad port gameplay-wise from what I remember but the graphics suck.
- Snow Bros. is a good single-screen platformer but I would go for the arcade version.
- Trojan's another one where the arcade version's best. The NES version's decent enough but like Melf said, it's short.
- Ultimate Stuntman's pretty neat. It mixes different genres like driving and platforming quite well. I like the C64-ish music, too.
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