Underrated Super Nintendo games

[Dire 51]

Seconding Spanky's Quest - the game is fun and the music is phenomenal, and even better: there's a sound test menu (I think you might need to enter a password to get to it, but I'm not positive).

And IIRC, it was recommended by Archie (you know, as in Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica). Anyone have a scan of the magazine ad?

[RickHarrisMaine]

I'm kind of having fun with Super Ninja Boy......that's a good one.

Darius Twin is pretty great too.....

[Tetsu]

S.T.G (Strike Gunner).

Raiden-style top-down shooter.

Catchy music. Lots of cool weapons. Two player simultaneous action. Player ships can combine, one flies, the other shoots.

[CDiablo]

This thread makes me mad that I dont have more SNES games or money. What a system!

[Famidrive-16]

I was addicted to Super Adventure Island 2 when I was younger, and the RPGish aspect was great. It gets a lot of flack compared to the rest of the series though.

[Roehm21]

E.V.O.: Search for Eden was always one of my favorite games when I was younger. I don't know if it was for the interesting evolution system or just because dinosaurs where in it. But I really love playing that game even today.

Peace,
Dan

[FrakAttack]

Seconded. RRR is one of my favorite games of all time. In fact, I didn't know it was underrated; every brazilian gamer I ever met loves it deeply. I assumed it was also revered everywhere else...

Nice music! Those isometric view rally car games never really caught on in the US like they did overseas. R.C. Pro-Am's the only one I can think of that was popular here.

[tom]

Frantic Flea, the game's gotten bad reviews in most mags, but I just love that game.
Also, Unirally is one of my faves.

[RyoGeo]

Space Megaforce on the SNES from Toho

It's basically Blazing Lasers/Gunhed with the graphics and sound of the SNES. LOTS of levels and totally kick ass KABOOOOMS that I used to pump through twin Infinity tower speakers.

If you like overhead sh'mups , you would probably really enjoy Space Megaforce.

[edit] I should mention that it is indeed a completely different game than Blazing Lasers, but the power ups, and game mechanics are almost identical.

[GrumpyTF]

The best video game movie tie-in of the 16-bit era:
Alien 3

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Slpmy8HI5-s

If it wasn't a movie tie-in I'm sure it'd be as popular now as Super Metroid

[Steven]

It's nice to see the wide range of opinions in this thread, and I absolutely agree with most of the choices. Nice to see B.O.B. get some love too. I highly 3rd Demon's Crest too (what a fukin' awesome game) as well as The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang.

The SNES simply had an awesome library

[mobiusclimber]

Man, I clicked on the title so I could post TWISTED TALES OF SPIKE MCFANG!!! (yes, all in capitals w/ three exclamation points), but I see the TC here has already listed it. Hell I suspect this whole topic was made solely to mention that one game. (It deserves it.) Having been cheated out of the opportunity to sing the praises of this great game, I'll just list a few other titles that are worthy of inclusion:

Arcana - said it before in another topic, but this is the spiritual sequel to Shining in the Darkness, but with a much darker tone. It kinda loses steam near the end when the dungeons start to become frustrating chores with difficult random battles every few steps, but until then it's a blast.

Magic Sword - an excellent port of an excellent arcade two-player beat-em-up in a medieval castle setting.

Shadowrun - not as good as the Genesis game (which is totally different), this is still an amazing action-adventure-rpg. My only quibble is that the gameplay is not nearly as open-ended as the Genesis game, but it's still totally engaging.

Actraiser - or is this not underrated enough? It has the perfectly balance between tough yet fair platforming action sequences and sim-rpg-style segments. Not sure if any other console game ever offered so many different yet well-done genres in one game.

I'll also second EVO: The Search For Eden. What other game has you playing as creature whose evolutionary trajectory is so sped up you can change forms every ten minutes? ... Oh yeah, didn't Wil Wright rip this off?