What's your favorite sleeper 8-bit game?

[DankNuggets]

cyborg hunter for the sega master system

[Ronn]

I dont know what bit this is but when I was a kid my old man had an Amiga and I remember playing this.

Sensible Soccer


http://www.gamefabrique.com/ Go there to download old megadrive games etc for free, and you can also play them online multiplayer.

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I still have the old hand-held Mattel Baseball, Basketball & Football games. I do not even think they are 8 bit. What a great use of LED lites and cheap sound.

[PH]

Castlevania 2: Simon's Curse. A lot of people hate this game, yeah. The Angry Nintendo Nerd gave it a lot of shit. But you have to remember that this title spawned the present Castleroids approach to the series, basically saving it from being just a trite themed platformer. In this one you feel like you're actually adventuring, doing something yourself ... the others, you're just along for the ride, left to right. C2 rough around the edges and takes a lot of exploration and thought to get anywhere, but is overall a damn good game.

YOU NOW PROSSESS DRACULA'S RIB. I actually just beat this again a few days ago. Awesome game.

anything that tried to talk to you. double dribble for example... when that game started up, it vomited some nasty noise at you that was supposed to be "double dribble"

He means this, for those of you who have not played it. Man, it was a sweet game. It even had full-motion video for dunks! ... Alright, so it's more like 6 badly rendered frames of a guy drawn in grayscale, but still...

I would also like to nominate Arkista's Ring. A buddy of mine had a copy of this way back in the day. It's a little bit of Zelda, a little bit of Gauntlet and a little bit of crack. Fun game.

[Zeebu]

bayou billy

captain skyhawk

marble madness

anything that tried to talk to you. double dribble for example... when that game started up, it vomited some nasty noise at you that was supposed to be "double dribble"

there are other games too... ill write em down when i remember

[gdugwyler]

Dragon Spirit. The picture is utter garbage, but it's your basic who-the-hell-has-ever-heard-of-this top-down shooter. There were two game modes: if you fail to beat the increadibly easy level at the start, you become a gold dragon, meaning you have autofire enabled and go through a shorter set of levels; otherwise, you're blue, mashing the buttons, and the game is about twice as hard to beat. But in both modes, you can grow extra heads. Three of them.




Castlevania 2: Simon's Curse. A lot of people hate this game, yeah. The Angry Nintendo Nerd gave it a lot of shit. But you have to remember that this title spawned the present Castleroids approach to the series, basically saving it from being just a trite themed platformer. In this one you feel like you're actually adventuring, doing something yourself ... the others, you're just along for the ride, left to right. C2 rough around the edges and takes a lot of exploration and thought to get anywhere, but is overall a damn good game.




Dragon Warrior (Quest) I. OK, everyone in Japan knows of it, but in the US this was actually a sleeper. I got this in the mail when I was 6 for subscribing to Nintendo Power. What a great game. You aren't pampered for an easy time as in the FF series, and the story is succinct to the point of perfection: go kill the Dragon Lord. In retrospect I think games in the series went progressively downhill, more and more bogged down with side quests and other such tripe. This one did it all naturally.

[Ewan]

Oh right yeah.

Wasn't really paying attention.

[Da1andonly]

YES, squeezer.

[Kim]

What the hell Ewan, get with the program :grin:

[stark]

Adventure Island (1&2) were fuckin great... I still have them.

Blades of steel (not much of a sleeper, but great nonetheless)


Metal Gear




battletoads
rampage
super c

[Dant-Zu]

But Ewan. That's not 8-bit, it's 16-bit. :<

[Ewan]

Street Racer

The SNES version, not the crappy SEGA version. Wikipedia tells me there were other versions too, but I don't know if they were like the SNES or SEGA one.

Me and my brother used to play Rumble all the time. Fun times. (Hodga was clearly the best for racing, Frank for Rumble).

[cundor]

Super Spike V'Ball for the NES. Like the dodgeball game, only on sand .. and 2v2.

This game rocks DA, I still play it! I totally own everyone...beat USSR with 15-4

[PH]

Going through my ROM folder I found some more notables (PAUL, PLEASE FORGIVE ME IF YOU DO NOT CATEGORIZE THESE AS "SLEEPERS"): PS, YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE
Adventures of Lolo
Bionic Commando (fighting Nazis + horrible translation = win)
Blaster Master
Fire 'n Ice (Solomon's Key 2 for you non-Yanks)
Gyruss
Kid Icarus (compared to Metroid, which was hogging all the attention at the time, I'd call this a sleeper)
Life Force
Metal Storm
R.C. Pro-Am
Rush'n Attack
Skate or Die 2

[duel pasta]

Contra!!

I played contra with s4j3n on a ness simulator I think