Very Impressive Retro Games? (Punching Weight)

[diet_orange]

Inspired by the series by Derrick of Stop Skeletons From Fighting, what are some games that you feel totally "punch above your weight class" and are very impressive?

One for me has always been the SNES Mechwarrior. Played this for hours and it authentically replicates the feeling of the home computer games

 

[ArchienineZXAdventArchienineZXAdvent's icon]

Impressive in what? Graphics? Gameplay? All of these?

 

[diet_orange]

Impressive in what? Graphics? Gameplay? All of these?

All of the above? I guess a good example would probably be the Driver games on the GBA. Just something that should not be possible on such a small handheld

 

[Majora Fi]

All of the above? I guess a good example would probably be the Driver games on the GBA. Just something that should not be possible on such a small handheld

You stole my example!

 

[Anoobis]

Phantom Dust for the Xbox and Resident Evil for the GameCube are both visually impressive. They can almost pass for being from the next hardware generation, especially RE.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

People like to dump on it, but the port of Doom for the SNES runs better than it has any right to..

 

[guireis]

Policenauts for PC-98. The crispy and clean pixel art is far superior to the compressed digital artwork of the late console releases. It's a shame that we probably will never play this version in English.