Best Mobile Games Not To Be Forgot.. Any Platform.

[skeezix]

Alright, lets cut to the heart of the matter! Let us aim for the best of the Best Ofs

We've all done "Best of SNES" and "Best of Amiga" and such (check my previous postings for Best of Spectrum, Best of C64, etc.); but what I'm curious about now are best of the best.. not to be forgotten games.

Lets just ignore the 'big tickets' like "Final Fantasy" -- while I've not yet played them (!!), the very name is burned into my cranium due to all the references to it.

But Eye of the Beholder trilogy is popular, but one of those things so many people never experienced.. since it was mostly PC based (admittedly, there are some Amiga versions, and I just found out about a SNES version of EoB1, which is what caused me to make ths post.)

Another good example for DOS could be Commander Keen, or the original platformer Duke Nukems, or my just went-on-about Wing Commander.

What are the greats that should be experienced.. any platform at all. Even if it isn't emulated (yet!) on your gp32, gp2x, Pocket PC, Palm OS, PSP, NDS, etc..

We already know some, so no need to add Final Fantasy, Sensible World of Soccer, Civilization.

(Maybe SMAC - Sid Meiers Alpha centauri - counts, since its one of my favourites but a lot of people just remember Civ series. Hell, Civ II is gorgeous and a little retro..)

Best Of Yet Nearly Forgotten
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Wizardry 7 - Crusaders of the DarkSavant : PC
- one of the very best RPGs of all time; lots of stats, +5 weapons, and a huge damned world that'll take hundreds of hours to beat. If only it had a modern UI .. having to click on everything with no key-shortcuts is infuriating by todays standards

Military Madness : TG16
- a great turn based strategy wargame; peopel love the TG16 for its shooters, and maybe the Bonk platformers.. but Moto Roader and Military Madness shouldn't be passed over!

SO these examples are to show .. games that are great, that you may have forgotten and want to revisit, or if you nevetr tried a TG16 you know to check out Military Madness.

jeff

 

[skeezix]

Leisure Suit Larry (add in Space Quest and the other Sierra adventures) : PC, ST, Amiga, you name it.
- LSL is depraved and amusing/cute .. there are a _pile_ of these games (5 or 6 at least!) and I never touched more than the first.. but it was guilty-fun, and I hope to try and beet it some day.

In my brain right now are mostly RPGs for some reason .. but I wonder if Hacker 1 and Hacker 2 should count as greats?

The Guild of Thieves : ST, Amiga, PC
- one of the Magnetic Scrolls text/graphics adventures; wonderluf parser that you enter commands into, and gorgeous artwork. a fun twisted plot, where you adventure arond an island treying to figure out how to steal things. If you like this kind of thing, be sure to check out The Pawn,also by Magnetic Scrolls.. or the Infocom titles of course, like Zork, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, etc.

jeff

 

[chaos engineer]

Chaos Engine (Amiga version)

 

[mittens]

My list for 'Best but Almost Forgotten' is:


Dungeon Master I and II in many platforms

UFO enemy unknown PC

Syndicate PC

Elder Scroll first two versions

Metal gear 2: Solid snake MSX2 (MGS in PS borrowed whole tricks from it)


...and how about 'Alien Cross Fire'? (For AC addon)

 

[fomit]

I'm not quite sure of the point of this thread. As you already pointed there are countless "Best of for X system". All you seem to want are "sleeper" hits. Except what you have listed aren't sleeper hits.

The Quest series (including LSL) all sold like hotcakes. As did Keen, Alpha Centauri, and pretty much any Wizardry game (maybe up until around Nemesis, that one stunk to the heavens).

I could list System Shock (I preferred that one to the sequel, the only Irrational games I have dug so far are the Freedom Force games) but in a best of thread someone would list it eventually and then someone else would immediately say "But Ultima Underworld I + II were first and better." And then someone would lament Peter Molyneux and the downfall of Bullfrog saying that no good games were ever produced in the US, only in Europe.

Anyways, that's my rant on best of topics. What is best is subjective. Favourites aren't. I would rather check out someones favourites than what people consider to be the best, much less the best of the best.

 

[shrubberyrobbery]

Best Of Yet Nearly Forgotten

Gauntlet 4 on megadrive. As good as the arcade and better than any of the other 8 or 16 bit conversions.

Hunter's Moon on C64. a great game to have on a handheld, for a quick blast. also very hypnotic.

Frontier: Elite II on Amiga. I know, I know its more 'notorious' than forgotten :rolleyes:

Vroom on Amiga. a great handling, really fast racer, in an 'outrun' pseudo-3d style.

 

[Julius]

Military Madness : TG16
- a great turn based strategy wargame

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If you like that game make sure you try out the "BattleIsle" and "HistoryLine" series. It is available for Amiga and DOS, but I was told it partially exists for the AtariST also but I was unable to get my hands on it so far

Megalomania is also great (Megadrive, DOS, Amiga and maybe ST?).

I will think of other sleeper hits

 

[Johndifo]

These are the games that I remember as the very best moments in gaming.

- Sierra / Lucasarts adventures, any gamer must try some of this.
- "Tomb Raider 1", a masterpiece
- "Star wars Dark forces 1", go inside a SW movie for the first time.
- "No one lives forever", must be played to be believed


Also very good games:

Diablo 1/2
Half life 1/2, Half life 2 is f***ing gorgeous
Pro Evo Soccer
Moto Racer
Star Wars Racer
Warioware inc
Advance wars, plays like chess, strategy 100% pure

And if you have a pornammount of money to spend...
"Magic the Gathering Online"

 

[tekt5]

Harvest Moon (SNES)
Advance Wars (GBA)
Diddy Kong Racing (N64)

 

[moz]

bloodwych

 

[skeezix]

Cool stuff Lets keep it to sleepers or 'must sees', so Advance Wars is out I imagine, since they're still making them and everyone loves them

Bloodwych.. nice, I remember folks raving about that 15 years ago, though I never looked at it..

Mega-lo-mania -- there was an ST version.
I think there was also an ST Battle Isle.

Star Wars Racer? Never heard of that!

jeff

 

[Jegriva]

MediEvil
for Playstation.

Probably the most amazing music of all times.

 

[GpDogg]

tapper, really great fun!

maniac mansion, was scared of that as a kid!

Broken Sword, absolutely great game

Sonic The Hedgehog, of course!

Rise of the robots (sorry, just a joke!)

Streets Of Rage 2, brilliant stuff!

Metal Slug, probably favourite platromer of all time next to sonic and mario.

There are TOO many to list! Perhaps a list of just a game which could be played on the gp2x. Like if the gp2x had only ONE game, which one would you choose?

Me? Metal Slug all the way baby yeah!

 

[moz]

tapper, really great fun!

maniac mansion, was scared of that as a kid!

Broken Sword, absolutely great game

Sonic The Hedgehog, of course!

Rise of the robots (sorry, just a joke!)

Streets Of Rage 2, brilliant stuff!

Metal Slug, probably favourite platromer of all time next to sonic and mario.

There are TOO many to list! Perhaps a list of just a game which could be played on the gp2x. Like if the gp2x had only ONE game, which one would you choose?

Me? Metal Slug all the way baby yeah!

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Rise of the robots

 

[Goemon4]

ani dudes-zodiac

gunstar heroes-genesis

fade to black-ps1

jet grind radio-dreamcast

the elderscrolls 1,2 and redguard-pc (great rpg's)

 

[Draken]

Metal slug 1 on ngpc

Lufia 1 and 2 for snes

Leisure Suit Larry, of course

Nois2za for zodiac (and gp32)

Crimson Field (and BI) for pc and zodiac.

 

[thecheat]

Gunstar Heroes... now perfectly emu'd on GP2X!

 

[diablo2]

Heros of Might and Magic
Any of them. They rock.