Reanimating the "forgotten ones"

[Zubiac666]

Yesterday I was going through my SNES collection and discovered some action treasures noone seems to care about.

and so I want YOU to post some ACTION games (8 and 16bit; 2D) which were highly underrated,not mentioned (in magazines etc) or simply forgotten (due lack of ads etc) back in the past!

Here are mine (I only have nes/snes stuff cause I'm a fanboy):
SNES:
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Hagane
Everyone was talking bout "Shinobie" and "Hagane" was ignored. What a shame!! I dare to say that it is THE perfect action game: Awesome graphics+sound; perfect gameplay and hard but FAIR difficulty.
Why does noone mention it nowadays? Just Contra3 etc bla bla bla :shameful:
http://www.gamezero.com/team-0/final_word/snes/hagane__2.jpg
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Realm
Also a great action game. OK,it may have it's faults in leveldesign and gameplay but it's fun to play and gfx are also good.
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NES:

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Kabuki Quantum Fighter
Weird story,smooth animations and great leveldesign.
What do u want more?
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..more to come

Now gimme yours!

^ -- ^
:-D

[Oobgarm]

Metal Storm - NES
Powerblade - NES
Axelay - SNES
ActRaiser - SNES

[Neil Koch]

Forgotten Worlds -- one of the few Genesis games that I'll still play all the way through.

[Cmosfm]

Shadow Of The Ninja - NES

[Sotenga]

Great topic. :)

I have a pantload of submissions to make...

Gunstar Heroes (Genesis)
Journey to Silius (NES)
Mystic Defender (Genesis)
Splatterhouse (Arcade, TG-16)
Alien Soldier (Genesis)

I have many, many more that I could post here... BTW, I'd play these games if you're into platformers just loaded with action. They're all pretty difficult, to some extent.

[le geek]

Super Spy Hunter for NES, think Contra in a car...

http://www.abscape.org/legeek/screens/superspy2_lrg.gif

[Ze_ro]

Cybernator - SNES (at least, I don't remember much news of it until I tried it on an emulator)

Shatterhand - NES

--Zero

[Ed Oscuro]

Wow, everybody's pretty much taken my picks and added a few (some of which I've only seen in the NP mags I've gotten recently), but I'm still going to add one: Run Saber for the SNES. Cannot say I've played it, though.

[Zubiac666]

found some more

SNES:
Rendering Ranger (yeah it's famicom only but I have to mention it)
Mechwarrior (Mode 7/3D mech battle rules)
Operation Logic bomb

NES:
Solar Jetman (shooter with unique controlls)
Trojan
Wrath of the black manta