When I was 7, we rented legend of the mystical ninja. I played it all weekend with my best friend and absolutely loved it but I could never remember the name. Thank God for all these retro gaming channels to finally remind me of the game almost 30 years later.
Only problem with Jurassic Park was it didn't have a save function. I have finished that game on OG hardware and it takes about 6 hours. It's Nintendo hard. Trust me.
The rest of the Ganbare Goemon series for the SNES need to be released/translated to the public. Yeah, the fan translations are done and out there, but everyone deserves the chance to play them all.
May I suggest Plok for consideration towards a hopeful part 2 of this? Plok could’ve been a top-tier game if it only had a save or password function. It’s a very unique puzzle-platformer and it has one of the best soundtracks on the system.
Yeah the whole mystical ninja/ganbare goemon series is incredibly fun and anyone interested should check it out. I used to play them on emulators as a kid 20+ years ago and loved them, even without translation.
Oh ye gods, strong disagree with Zombies Ate My Neighbours being a "hidden gem". It's an unfinished mess. IIRC after somewhere in the level 12-15 range the level design completely drops off, with only a single person to rescue in each level - as if they were a placeholder until they properly finished level layouts. I bought it new back in the SNES days and regretted it within a few hours. Actraiser is brilliant, as is Lufia 2 ("LOO-fee-ah", not "luh-FEE-uh" - that made me wince), but neither are really that hidden - Actraiser is a classic, if unique, while the Lufia series were relatively successful, if not quite on the same level as Squaresoft. Shadowrun is decent, but pales in comparison to the Genesis Shadowrun, which is a completely different (and vastly superior) game, based on the same pen-and-paper RPG. And I mentioned this in your "Top 10 RPGs" video but Secret of Evermore is a steaming pile of crap. Play Secret of Mana, or the excellent Secret of Mana 2 (Seiken Densetsu 3), which was never released in the English-speaking world but got a decent fan translation - get the translated SNES ROM, rather than buying the recent release of "Trials of Mana". Fuck you Square, I'll happily give you my money for anything else, but if we weren't good enough for SD3/SoM2 in 1995, you don't get to cash in now. Evermore is an example of Square thinking it can throw money at a rapidly-assembled rookie US dev team and cash in on SoM's popularity, and is likely a big part of the reason why we didn't get the vastly superior SoM2 until 25 years later. PS I don't mean to again be critical, but you start off by saying "...the top 10 hidden gems for the Nintendo Entertainment System!" rather than SUPER Nintendo Entertainment System... Get your intro right!
There's a remake of Actraiser on steam I have to complain about... from a technical perspective it's better in every way, but it makes a real critical error in presentation: In Actraiser SNES you help your people by guiding them, but you work so subtly you might make the argument that the master doesn't exist at all; but in the remake you do EVERYTHING for your people, they're a BURDEN not the driving force.
Why are most of the games like Jurassic Park, Lufia 2, Shadowrun and Act Raiser hidden gems? They are famous and all very good games but not "hidden gems"
I'm loving this series of videos. In this one, the "hidden gems" from the SNES actually didn't have any cover features in Nintendo Power magazine, but a whopping SIX of the ten games had cover mentions in Nintendo Power magazine, despite the fact that for an entire year during the SNES era the covers had either zero or one non-feature mentions! One of the games in this hidden gems list was actually mentioned on more than one cover! Fun Fact EDIT: ActRaiser, one of the "hidden gems" listed in this video, was the first ever SNES game ever mentioned on a Nintendo Power cover!
Well, I enjoyed the 7th Saga, so Brain Lord became a favorite as well. It's definitely not hidden though since I recall seeing ads for it in Electronic Gaming Monthly as well as in GamePro.
