[Closed] underrated computer games.

finbar - it was surprisingly satisfying wasn't it - loads of air time, lots of swoops, tricks to learn and then great sound effects to reward you. Do you know if it's on any of the wii/ds virtual consoles?

Not sure if they were under-rated or not, but great games from back in the day:

Rick Dangerous (1 and 2) - Atari ST
Turrican (C64 version)
Horace and the spiders - ZX Spectrum
Horace goes skiing - ZX Spectrum
Myth - I think that was on the C64
Prince of Persia, the first one possibly on the Atari ST

Mario Kart, Goldeneye etc... are all obviously classics, so not under-rated at all. Going to dig out the SNES and N64 this evening! May even see if my Gameboy original still works and have a blast on SupermarioBros.

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The tv series was one of my favourites when I was young and rememember the game being quite fun and addictive.

Most of my favourite underated games are Jap or US imports from the 90s

Good 3d adventure game

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Great platform game

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Another great platform game - Chan and Chan - PC Engine:

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Really good shoot em up based on an anime film - Steel Empire Megadrive:

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Starcraft on the PC will always hold a special place in my heart. Especially the cinematic ending.

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vigilante 8 was a great game - as was that run the gauntlet

what about ...

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both on the spectrum

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on the amiga 1200 for me though not the c64

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Blast Corps
Those early days of N64 ownership were lean, but the few that did appear were really good.

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Wheelie gets my vote

Written in BASIC, that. You could BREAK into it and read the code.

Fight the Green Yamo

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Kill him, my robots

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Was addicted to Centipede on the Atari Games Console in 1984/85 🙂

Also, Keystone Cops and Pitfall.

Got an Atari ST in 1988. Too many favourites to mention but Buggy Boy, Double Dragon and Lombard RAC Rally got played to distraction as well as F-14 interceptor at the time of the first Gulf War 8)

Battalion Wars

There was also a Karate game for Atari ST where your character changed colour of belt as the game progressed - used to kick timebombs away - can anyone remember what it was called?

You could also press the space bar and your opponents trousers would fall down

That was IK+.

(And it was 'T' rather than Space)

^ sounds like International Karate + to me....

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IK+ was great, brings to mind another classic, panza kickboxing. 🙂

I always thought IK+ was a poor man's WOTEF.

Anyone remember Karateka? Like WOTEF/IK+ but with a bit of a story. These games take me back to the good old days, being at school and getting videos out called things like 'American BMX Ninja'

IK+ - what a game - pyoor yaaaassss!!

Happy Days indeed!

What was WOTEF?

What was WOTEF?

It was the mighty...

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funny, I never heard of that one.

Any Weegies on here? In the early 90s I used to go to the Barras nearly ever Saturday morning - there was a team of shady lads who had loads of Atari and Amiga games copied in dodgy briefcases and a list of all the games typed up.

My Mum and Dad quite possibly have all these games in the loft 🙂

I also liked Kick Off - harder than sensible soccer but addictive nonetheless.

Never got that into Lemmings.

Trying to remember others from that time - mind is going blank though!

Jack Nicklaus golf was good - had a primitive course designer as well so you could make your own courses

Moving on, I got hooked on Oddworld for the original Playstation and Medal of Honour as well - very atmospheric

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From that era I also liked Kick Start (again with a course designer) and Spy Hunter. From slightly earlier, Attack of the Mutant Camels & Hunchback kept me busy on the C64, while on my mates Spectrum we played Gauntlet and Jetpak

Loved Paperboy on my mate's commodore! That was state of the art!!

What was the game for the Atari where you were in a submarine? It was made by Psychosis but I can't remember the name of it?

Edit - blood money - class!

that "way of the exploding fist" graphic is terrible 😆 the bit on the right looks a bit plain, I know stick some grass in there

Completely forgot about Speedball and Xenon II megablast (Xenon was a bit rubbish) as well!

Also, anyone remember Blue Max? I can't remember what format it was on, but it was a top down shoot 'em up with the player flying a blue biplane. Loved that game...

yes! speedball was great!

talking of top down games - there was one for Atari where your character was like a little Rambo type guy and you took on all comers in a jungle setting. You could get into tanks and that sort of thing.

May have been Akari Warriors?

Xybots - friday nostalgia is great 🙂

Spent a LOT of time playing this on my beloved Amiga 500 back in the mid 90s

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i used to love Spy vs Spy on the C64, spent hours playing that with my brother trying to blow each other up!

Did we have River Raid on the Atari 2600

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Exhumed on the PS1

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Manic Miner on the Spectrum

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None of the other aliens/avp games on other formats were anywhere near as good (or at all the same game!).

i used to love Spy vs Spy on the C64, spent hours playing that with my brother trying to blow each other up!

Probably the funniest 2 player game ever. The jungle one was best IIR. Loved it big time.

Probably the funniest 2 player game ever. The jungle one was best IIR. Loved it big time.

i was thinking after i posted that clip it doesnt really look like that much of a game, but i think its one of those that you have to play to realise how great it was!

Might see if i can find an online version of it now 🙂

@meeeee Plenty of downloads available but can't find anything online. That would be proper cool though.

i could find a few spy vs spy online games,but none with c64 graphics. here is a link to the first one that google came up with http://www.playr.org/play/spy_vs._spy/1532 i haven't played it though (or any of the spy vs spy games to be honest/didn't have anyone to play against 🙁

Nice try raceface but that's a different game 🙁

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Wheelie gets my vote
Written in BASIC, that. You could BREAK into it and read the code.

I remember doing that on football manager on the spectrum, running out of money, just break and get the code and change one line, then RUN.

good call on way of the exploding fist, ik+ and river raid.

Also TLL - tornado low level

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and deatchase, the first 3d game 🙂

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ah sorry. :oops:edit will ask on lemon 64 if anyone knows if there is an online version.someone there will know (they are all supercomputers of c64 knowledge there 🙂

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I remember doing that on football manager on the spectrum, running out of money, just break and get the code and change one line, then RUN.

good call on way of the exploding fist, ik+ and river raid.

Also TLL - tornado low level

If anyone's interested in a trip down memory lane, the marvin emulator for android phones is linked into the world of spectrum library and can access any (literally) spectrum game for your phone. Whilst awesome, a touchscreen sucks as a control device. You really need buttons.

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slainte 8) rob

+1 for TLL, cracker of a game for its time.

i used to love Spy vs Spy on the C64

You may be interested to know, there's a film in development.

Psytron on the Speccy - ignored by far too many

http://www.theoneliner.com/game1.html

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turbo esprit on speccy was cool as was robocop, c64 version was rubbish!
Peyote I had blue max on c64 played it a bit and one of the few games my sister bothered about.
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gribbly grobblys day out was fun
xenon 2 was good but a bit easy
toejam and earl?
ATF2 and fighter bomber on the amiga

Oh and no idea if it was under rated or not but vagrant story was pretty freaking awesome

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Ha! I loved Liberation, but I was rubbish at it, never managed to get anywhere. I once was told to meet someone at a certain location, then my robot got shot. :/

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Legacy of Kain Defiance - it got 4/10 from Edge, which from that point made me take anything Edge says with a pinch of salt.

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Was quite well recieved at the time, but doesn't get much love now. Proof that advergames can be good! Actually quite a few of the advergames in 16 bit era were good - Superfrog (Lucozade), James Pond Robocod (Penguins), Pushover (Quavers). Sleepwalker (Red Nose Day), Zool (Chupa Chups).

And of course, Fantastic Pets, a Kinect for the 360. You should all buy it, and marvel at the awesomeness of the pet customiser. Ahem.

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Future Cop: LAPD

Epic, intense 2 player co-op and VS games. Amazing gameplay for it's time (1998) but never heard anyone else mention it. Was it a big game? Think I picked it up in the bargain bucket for a fiver. Good times...

http://youtu.be/aGoBfIJ0P4s

WIndows demo: http://download.cnet.com/Future-Cop-LAPD/3000-2095_4-10023607.html

spy vs spy, kickstart 2, gauntlet, international soccer, impossible mission, boulderdash - C64
Sensible soccer - Atari st
super tennis, nba jam - snes
Spy vs spy has been re-released since on the xbox with the origional game included but it didn't have the same playability :0(

I was gonna post Carrier Command actually. I found it as a bundle disk with some other stuff and I had no manual for it, so I had to figure it all out. Phenomenal - way before its time. I managed to beat the enemy ship by sinking it - only time I ever won.

Also - don't think it was popular at the time, but this:

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And it's prequel.

SPy vs Spy & Bitmap Bros games - wow, I've gone all nostalgic at the thought of them 🙂

toejam and earl?

Oh, good call, definitely an underrated classic.

Anyone else remember [url= http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/get-dexter ]Crafton & Xunk[/url]?

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I don't think anything bitmap brothers can be called "underrated" though I'll perhaps give you Z.

Flicky
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Shining Force II, way better than final fantasy at that stage.

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Palace of Magic on BBC Micro, I still wake up at night having nightmares about that ****ing boot.

Oh and Psychonauts as someone already mentioned

loved this on my amiga 500+

Ooh, I know. [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_%28video_game%29 ]Silver[/url].

Don't know what happen to my original post ❓

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revs on the bbc.

Shining force 2, great call. The shining games are some of the best made, I've got them all mint boxed, won't ever sell them.

Wow, how much of shining force III do you have? That must be worth a few quid. I've only ever played it as a fairly dodgy ROM.

In fact that reminds me of a game which is hardly underrated but certainly is somewhat overlooked: panzer dragoon saga.

So many games in this thread are either forgotten, or just weren't big hits. Quite a lot of them were critically acclaimed so I think I'm just gonna throw up a few I have fond or vague memories of and maybe others do too. Cant believe how much of Sabrewulf I recalled from that screenshot. Anyway, here goes.

Saboteur
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Who dares wins II
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Fighting warrior
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ATV Simulator
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Zub
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Gauntlet
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Renegade
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Zombies ate my Nighbours
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Immortal
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not underrated by any stretch but I must mention

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and the daddy
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hehe. What a great thread. Some awesome memories going on there.

Chaos Engine and Jet Set Willy really ring a bell. As does Wheelie.
One game that I've not seen so far though is orbitor on the Spectrum.

And Arkadia...

Still, this is all nothingness, compared to....Populous 2!!!!

Speaking of Speccy games,

Did anyone get to the end of Dragontorc (or Avalon for that matter)?

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Don't know why my Fury of the bloody Furries image keeps getting removed. Hardly offensive.

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The greatest pre-online multiplayer game ever - Skidmarks

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Original Delta Force, playing on line till the early hours.
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Gunship 2000
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Diablo II
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Laser Squad on the Amstrad.
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And can anyone remember the name of that game where you controlled 4 men set in the future where you did missions around a city? You earn't money and developed weapons like a gattling gun,flame throwers.

Nobody has mentioned Solitaire.

It's free sits on your PC for those bored moments at work

2 more speccy classics.

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And I think the "4 men set in the future where you did missions around a city" must be...

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slainte 😀 rob

not really played any computer games since this.. apart from a brief vacation into nerdworld to complete silent hill..

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Yep thats the one Colournoise.

Just found out there is a ZX spectrum Elite collection on itunes thats got Laser Squad on it for the iphone/itouch 😀

And can anyone remember the name of that game where you controlled 4 men set in the future where you did missions around a city? You earn't money and developed weapons like a gattling gun,flame throwers.

Syndicate (as above, or syndicate wars).

Gauntlet, Diablo 2 "underrated"?!

Gunship 2000 though - top choice! Also skidmarks 🙂

Some great suggestions on here: Elite, Turbo Esprit, Sabre Wolf brings back some good memories of my Spectrum 48 days, I had many an hour wasted plaing Commando & Green Beret (again probably not underrated).
My favorite from back then was Quazatron:
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Actually downloaded it with an emulation pack a couple of years back, unfortunately the fustration caused playing it, didn't translate well 😳

Slightly more up to date (but not too much) & maybe more I remember as their game play was great (maybe another thread in the making?):

Systemshock, you can have monster jump out at you left and right in Doom et all, but the downright spooky calls of the Ai in the this game were great atmosphere-wise (Bio-shock was a contempory apparently) & the lack of ammo meant you couldn't just run amok with your gun. Though Wiki kinda suggest it did "moderately successful", so may not really come under the "underrated title"
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Also there was an IGN modern day soldier/assasin RPG game I can't recall the name of (damn thats fustrating, and IGN have release quite a few games)

oh and Max Payne's bullet time, cool as ****

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British Lowland on the Speccy 48k. Why bother with graphics when they are shite?!

I still play Speccy games (very occasionally 🙄 ), using FUSE on Ubuntu. Emulator available [url= http://people.igalia.com/berto/ ]here[/url] and games available [url= http://www.worldofspectrum.org/games/index.html ]here[/url].

Agree with lots of the above sentiment 😀 Have to say though I don't like games that are just about blowing things up and shooting. I worked that out of my system with original Doom. Free browser version [url= http://www.gameshot.org/?id=3088 ]here[/url], I've played it full screen somewhere on the net......