What are your favorite underrated or lesser known classics, ps1/n64 and older?
I downloaded a rom set on my handheld so I’ve been trying games I’d never played before
New to me
- 2020 Super Baseball (neogeo) - futuristic arcade baseball
- Baseball Stars 2 (neogeo) - regular arcade baseball
- Ehrgeiz : God Bless the Ring (psx) - 3d wrestling/fighter with a single player dungeon crawling mode and a bunch of FFVII characters
- Garou: Mark of the Wolves (neogeo) - 2d fighter with nice artwork
- Rival Schools : United by Fate (psx) - 3d fighter with a voiced campaign
- Soccer Brawl (neogeo) - futuristic arcade soccer
- Tobai No. 1 (psx) - 3d fighter with a single player dungeon crawling mode
- Waku Waku 7 (neogeo) - 2d fighter with nice artwork
Still want to try
- Armored Core (psx)
- Breath of Fire IV (psx)
- Front Mission 3 (psx)
- Industrial Spy : Operation Espionage (dreamcast)
- Racing Lagoon (psx)
- Saga Frontier 2 (psx)
- Shadowrun (Genesis)
- Shadowrun (snes)
- Skies of Arcadia (dreamcast)
- Vagrant Story (psx)
If you like Tobai No. 1 then give Bushido Blade 1 and 2 a shot. Also published by Square, they’re weapon-based fighting games but with the unique mechanic that weapon damage is relatively realistic: a crucial blow/cut to a limb means the opponent can’t use it anymore, and instakills are possible by direct strikes to the chest or head.