I personally think Jet Force Gemini for n64 is VERY underrated.. It is one of the best games i have ever played, and yet noone has ever heard of it, and it only got like a 8.6 (rough guess) on gamespot... Anyone who has played (and finished it) would agree that it desevers much higher, right?

My pick would have been Rise of the Triad, an older PC game. I spent many, many hours playing that one but it was largely overlooked by most people because the technology was a bit outdated when it was released... but it was still -great- fun...

believe it or not i played that game.. Quite a bit actually, and it is pretty cool acrtually, but i wouldn't say its GREAT.

One of my favorite games that was never widely played was Sonic CD for the Sega CD system. It had great CG rendered graphics way before Donkey Kong Country came out, and the music was great thanks to the CD format. It also had some 3D-like levels that were pretty advanced for the time. I think I'm the only person who bought the Sega CD though =)

HAHAH!!! I remeber that system! It was in the store for like a week! LOL! Wow thats funny.

I guess "mmmmmmmm SEGA" commercials didnt work out like planned :p

oh wow i LOVE sonic...ive got most of the demos sonic and knuckles collection sonic 3-d the LOT!that comes 2nd after FFX

secret of evermore for the SNES, was an extremely under rated game.. as far as i can remember, it didn't get much publicity either.
a great rpg with lots to do throughout the entire game.. probably a bit easy to beat, but well worth it.

Not sure i ever played that..but i DID play secret of MANA for SNES. VERy good, although i never did get very far in it...it was cool.. Brings back good memories...

So tell me, HAS anyone les played JEt Force Gemeni???? I promise you if you have a N64, that you should go out and by the game, i promise you won't regret it. (i think u need an expansion pak though, maybe not...i never tried it with out it)

kung fu heroes - NES that game took skillz

don't worry caedes i fell for that sega gag as well. and to prove i didnt learn by my mistakes I also invested in the Sega 32x which had a similar shelf life - fearing another debacle I avoided the saturn and went down the Sony road and sure enough the Saturn went belly up as well.

haha! I never even HEARD of 32X... lol. How many games where there? Remeber Jaguar? And Virtual Boy? lol

{I'm not even going to mention pac man, space invaders, or that Amiga game with the bricks....let alone the first game I ever played on a huge digital computer in 1977 - a randomiser game called 21/aceydeucy... I had to program the thing into the hard drive from a text book first!!!}

lol!! Does anybody remeber something called "Comador 64" We got it with our atari, and to this day i never really figures out what it was, but it had this keyboard on it, and you could tyupe stuff on a black screen (yay!) And then somehow we found a game on it, and you have to move a man back and forth to catch hats on his head that where falling.........

Ooooh, yes, my little sis got one - a Commodore 64 - some years later.
It also had a game where you typed in a range of (limited) instructions. I forget the name, but you began with a sentence (no graphics??? or maybe blurry ones???) that was given to you ...
i.e. "you are in a room, and everything is blurry". To play, you had to give instructions such as "walk to door" or "pick up money". No clues were given, no sample instructions or anything. Only the correct instruction would advance you in the game. Both my mum and sis spent hours trying to get out of the first room. I think they gave up in disgust in the mid 1980's!
....Turned out later that the correct instruction was "put on glasses".

lol.

Man, that wouldn't even be fun... I know i say i like hard games but thats a bit ridiculous, lol...wow, thats crazier than King's Quest VI. In KQ VI, you make one simple mistake, and it's immpossible to finish the game, although after that mistake (which u may not even know u did) you could play tthrough the entire game, and find out at the end that you cant finish it lol.

No, I think King's Quest VI sounds harder... imagine realising all that effort was wasted - and an infinite number of times that might happen before reaching the end! arghhh. I seem to remember a lot of the pre-screen games ( i.e. in the dark ages (literally) before monitors arrived) games were either numeric, like card games, or they were logic based. I did Comp science for a semester in 1980 and we got to graduate from punch cards, vax system to the first "green screen" monitors. They were so COOL, so HIGH TECH! (but nothing fancy like pictures....)
I can hear the speeches to my grandkids now, and I'm still only 42!
"Back in my day...."

yeah, my dad talks about using those punch cards in school, lol.

groan.

The Commodore 64 was the ultimate in PC creation, revolutionary to say the least...

indeed - considering its only competition at the time was the Commodore PET which was about as portable as a Pinto and the Sinclair ZX81 replete with cardboard keyboard.

Other gaming disasters I have purchased in my youth were: a Dragon Sword computer (looked cool but about as much use as sunblock in a blast furnace) and (i think this is what it was called) a Coleco Vision which was totally useless other than it had Zaxon on it which at the time was a great game.

Never mind the commodore 64, the Vic20 was a wonderful piece of kit. And as for the ZX Spectrum 48k.....*sighs*

Talking of games, there is a game called Stars! (the exclamation mark is part of the title) distributed by GT Interactive software. Now that is a hardcore strategy game - hardly any graphics worth speaking of.

I think the ZX81 had a full 4K memory. I remember once i punched in a program to calculate prime numbers which took about a half hour to do and when i eventually got it to run my brother beat it hands down at calculating the numbers with an hour to spare. cutting edge technology in something small enough to fit into the nearest garbage shute.

The ZX81 was great - if you accidentally knocked it then you could easily lose everything you had done.

I remember my ZX Spectrum+2 with (wait for it...) a built in tape deck! Ah yes...the warbling sound of the programs loading and the stripes moving up the TV screen....

The good old days (not). Trying to make fractals in Fractint on a CGA monitor with 4 colours on a computer with no harddrive and 512k memory. It's no fun nowadays!

Jet Grind Radio for Dreamcast and Jet Set Radio (sequal to JGR) for XBox

Underrated games... Hmmm.. I would have to say "Savage Skies" for the PS2. I don't get into flight sims or arial combat games, but this one was excellent.

Old computer systems.. I had the Texas Instruments TI99/4a... it was a cross between a computer and a game console. it had a game cartridge slot and there was decent amount of games for it. I had to teach myself BASIC to use it as a computer.. no hard drive, so I had to save anything to cassette tape.. the monitor was our TV.
I've also got the first Macintosh model from 1984.

good call, my friend also owns a TI, we didnt have to learn BASIC because we already knew it from when we were kids, but its still fun to mess around on the old machines.

underrated games of all time: pong.

I have a Ti-83 Plus... But i dont know basic (its crazy). But u can make some fun games with the program editor it comes with. That used to be all that me and my friend did in school. lol

the TI piner is refering to is not a calculator hehe

oops ;)
Well you actually CAN use basic on the calculator one, but i dont know it much.

its kind of a basic knock off, its not really the true essence of BASIC

Anyone ever play Ape Escape for Playstation? It had awesome graphics, huge worlds, it was the first game to fully utilize the analog joysticks, and it was horribly addictive! I mean, who wouldn't have fun chasing monkeys through time with a lightsaber ripoff called a "Stun Club"

i played it once in the store, it looked pretty fun.

Anybody remeber those Panasonic systems that came out....around 97? (rough guess).