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)
  • AlkaliMarxist [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    PSX

    • Jade Cocoon - Fantasy style Japanese RPG with Pokemon-esque monster battles
    • Monster Rancher 2 - Another monster battling game but with a sim/management style
    • Tombi/Tomba - weird platformer/rpg-lite hybrid
    • Ridge Racer Type 4 - not so underrated but I feel forgotten, banger soundtrack
    • Dino Crisis - Resident evil but with dinosaurs
    • Kula World - Puzzle game where you play as a beach ball traversing blocks floating in the void without popping
    • Nuclear Strike - Not a great game, but the cutscenes have a Red Alert style cheesiness I like a lot.

    Neogeo

    • Metal Slug - Platformer with Shmup characteristics.

    If you can go up to PS2 then Road Trip Adventure is a Racing/RPG where you play as sentient cars. Janky controls though.