NES What are your favorite "obscure" NES games?

[BjornSmallpeen]

A lot of people might point to Metroid or Zelda or something that became extremely popular and grew into itself in the next generation as the best games, but in a lot of cases I don't think that's really so. The best ones are weird random things that don't have a lasting legacy (in terms of a growing franchise) but were unexpectly gems.

Master Blaster and Crystallis are probably my favorites.

I know that very little will be obscure to the type of people that use a forum like this but you can imagine what I mean.

 

[SeventhSon]

Kickle Cubicle
Willow
The Battle of Olympus
Super Dodge Ball
Jackal

 

[Dyne]

Master Blaster and Crystallis are probably my favorites.

I know that very little will be obscure to the type of people that use a forum like this but you can imagine what I mean.

Yeah I personally don't think of Blaster Master as obscure but I guess could be considered subjective.

Kickle Cubicle
Willow
The Battle of Olympus
Super Dodge Ball
Jackal

I love Jackal!

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

Little Samson and The Guardian Legend are two I really like.
Holy Diver is another, but it's difficulty might turn some people off.
Everyone knows NES Batman, but I feel like the sequel Return of the Joker deserves more love.
Maybe not the most obscure, but I think Mighty Final Fight is a super underrated Beat Em Up too.

 

[Dyne]

An obscure one I like is Conflict.
Its a turn based strategy game. We used to rent it all the time because my dad really liked it.

 

[BjornSmallpeen]

I personally don't think of Blaster Master as obscure

yeah we live in an age of post-obscurity as well, where anyone can know every detail of every niche hobby with minimal effort. But there were lots of games I didn't know about or have until I was an adult with an emulation machine, and I find that very rarely are the first entries to the most popular franchises the best games of this console is really what I meant.

 

[Tonberry]

Does Shatterhand still count?
If so I pick Shatterhand, love that shit.

 

[thumbsdown]

I don't really think they're obscure, but my favs are prolly Banana Prince and Mitsume Ga Tooru (there's way more for sure, but those are special)

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I also love this chinese bootleg which is a backport of Link's Awakening, but not really lmao (not in the Repo, you can find it on The Archive.org): https://bootleggames.fandom.com/wiki/Feng_Yin_Dao

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

yeah we live in an age of post-obscurity as well, where anyone can know every detail of every niche hobby with minimal effort. But there were lots of games I didn't know about or have until I was an adult with an emulation machine, and I find that very rarely are the first entries to the most popular franchises the best games of this console is really what I meant.

Yeah, it's hard to list truly obscure games now that the NES and other console libraries are so well known and documented online. I take the question myself more to mean "good games that need more love"

 

[DrunkGecko]

felix the cat

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

felix the cat

I know it's not the same game but...

HET

 

[DrunkGecko]

I know it's not the same game but...

HET

that version is fun to speedrun

 

[Zerpina]

Monster Party...

I have kind of a love/hate relationship with it. I love how weird it actually is, even for obscure Japanese to English NES games, and I hate how cheap it is. But that's standard fare for NES games

 

[Luxfin]

I love but I suck at it.

 

[χKai]

Obscure you say

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Possibly Little Samson (1992) because he is very similar to Rockman/Mega Man and that is reflected in its game system and also apart from playing with Little Samson also play with the Dragon, Golem and Mouse that will help you a lot throughout the stages that come later.