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Mine is Lady Sia for GBA. It's just a platformer but I just love it played and completed more 20 times. Will probably speedrun it in future.
Quarantine the killer taxi game including the australian alternative rock soundtrack https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(video_game)
Classic, I had the demo on a coverdisk, played it several hundred times for a few years before getting the game.
Is a game like Vib-ribbon or Devil Dice considered obscure? Because those would probably be tied for my choice.
Breath of Fire 2 for me
Blaster Master on NES. I was so addicted. And then I got the NES Advantage controller and it was just pure Blaster Master bliss.
Disney Princess is a very underrated gba game and that's the hill I will die on.
Is The Last Blade obscure or just old?
M.C. Kids for the NES. It was a rock solid platformer held back by the McDonald's theming. It was a bit too hard for the target audience, but it's a fun romp otherwise.
Tomba 2 baybee
I don’t know if this is obscure anymore, but “Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite!” was always one of my favorite GBC games. The artwork was adorable, the way they communicate with each other is adorable, it’s just great.
Treasure are such a famous developer within the retro subculture that it's hard to call any of their stuff "obscure" at this point, but I want to give my nod to Light Crusader for the Mega Drive (Genesis).
Light Crusader Full Soundtrack on Youtube.
It's got a bit of that isometric controls jank, but it's just got the perfect vibes for a Genesis game. The right level of difficulty (hard but beatable), awesome art, quirky as hell, and one of my favorite soundtracks of the entire 16-bit era. Do yourself a favor and check it out--at the very least, give the soundtrack a listen, as it's some of the best that the Genesis has to offer, in my opinion.
Maybe it's not obscure enough, but for me, Starflight on the Sega Genesis remains the greatest space exploration game ever made.
It was unforgiving the way games were back then, which added to the feeling that you're just out there in unexplored space.
More than 800 different planets, most of them empty (except for resources), but that just makes it so exciting when you find an artifact hidden in ancient ruins.
And an incredible story on top of that. A huge mystery unfolds organically as solar flares start destroying planets across the galaxy and your explorable space slowly shrinks.
The back of the manual was a journal written by another starship captain who sent it to you from the future. It serves as a guide and a warning, giving some valuable locations and clues, in case you're having trouble finding the path.
Oh, and the soundtrack! I can still bring it to mind thirty years later. Haunting.
Crush for PSP, it's a puzzle game where you switch between 2d and 3d. The style is cartoony, the music is amazing, and the puzzles are generally engaging without being too difficult. It's really a shame it only came out for PSP and a slightly different version on 3ds.
I personally loved ice climbers on the nes
3D MonsterMaze
atomic runner on the Sega Genesis is pretty neat
But of a desperate cry for help, but there was a 2D game on the NDS, in which you controlled a mech to fly through side-view levels and shoot enemies and turrets. It also had a story mode with an anime girl in orange and anime boy in blue as mech pilots. There was also a level editor, and you could transfer the levels to other DS's with the same game using sound, which sounded a lot like internet over a phone line.
I played this so much back in the day but I can't find the game (my mother discarded all my games from the attic some time after moving out, inc. fully functional SNES. Unrelated, I just needed to reshare the trauma) not the name of it.
Does anyone have any idea which game this could be?
The game you're thinking of is Bangai-O Spirits: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangai-O_Spirits. It was a DS sequel to Bangai-O on the Sega Dreamcast (another excellent, and imho the superior version). I had the DS version as well and it was a great game. If you ever get the chance (emu or native) I'd highly recommend playing the original on Dreamcast. Pure Arcade shmup goodness.
Yes, that's it! Thank you so much!
For sure! Such a trip it made it on the DS, with a level editor even.
I had sunken bazillions of hours into that level editor, showing my levels to my friends! Loved that!
I never used it myself, but I appreciated that it existed nonetheless.
Not sure if obscure, but I really like Buggy Run from Master System