Nontraditional NES, SNES, and Genesis games?

[Pizmo]

By nontraditional, I mean games that don't easily fall into traditional genres like platformers, shmups, beatem ups, RPG's, fighters, ect... I've played all these genres to death on these consoles.

I'm looking for more unique games like Ignition Factor, Pilot Wings, Desert Strike, Sub-Terrania, Shining Force, Solar Jetman, ect...

[Fajita Jim]

There's a Tarot Card 'game' for the NES.

Also

A Boy and His Blob - NES
Solstice - NES
Marble Madness - NES
Wall Street Kid - NES

♥♥♥♥ I loved that little 8bit box.

[Kamiyama]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

ActRaiser and Sim City

+1 for Actraiser. It combined side scroller combat with city building.

There's a new Actraiser on the Switch. It's not too bad.

[Pizmo]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

There's a Tarot Card 'game' for the NES.

Also

A Boy and His Blob - NES
Solstice - NES
Marble Madness - NES
Wall Street Kid - NES

♥♥♥♥ I loved that little 8bit box.

Solstice has made me it's ♥♥♥♥♥ more times than I can count. I've never even come close to beating it.

I also agree that the NES is a beast

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Pizmo:

Solstice has made me it's ♥♥♥♥♥ more times than I can count. I've never even come close to beating it.

hahaha IKR? ♥♥♥♥. lol

[Kamiyama]

Ogre Battle on the SNES is a bit unique. It's a strategy game where you capture towns and cities on a map and send out units. But you don't directly control them in battle. You can only control their formation when you build them, assigning different types of soldiers to a unit.

It also had a card game based on tarot cards. You could draw a card when you captured a city and then use cards to influence the game.

Ogre Battle and Ogre Battle 64 were the only ones in the series that I know of. Ogre Battle 64 lost the card game mechanics. There was a spinoff called Tactics Ogre but it's not a true Ogre Battle game is more comparable to Final Fantasy Tactics.

There is a spiritual successor on the Switch called Unicorn Overlord that is basically just a new Ogre Battle game. The same core concepts are there. Vanillaware did the artwork and it all looks like Ogre Battle, except in high quality HD graphics.

There was a sexy witch in both Ogre Battle games called Deneb, and while being a tad evil she was a great ally if you convinced her to join your side. Unicorn Overlord has a witch class of heroes you can get and the witch Yahna is immortal like Deneb. Like I said, spiritual successor.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

Ogre Battle on the SNES is a bit unique.

And also very valuable, even for a used copy.

But you really need that chart that shows who changes into what or you're gonna be lost.

[Kamiyama]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

Ogre Battle on the SNES is a bit unique.

And also very valuable, even for a used copy.

But you really need that chart that shows who changes into what or you're gonna be lost.

I still have my N64 and a copy of Ogre Battle 64. It looks like it's not worth quite as much as the SNES version.

Don't have my SNES anymore.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

And also very valuable, even for a used copy.

But you really need that chart that shows who changes into what or you're gonna be lost.

I still have my N64 and a copy of Ogre Battle 64. It looks like it's not worth quite as much as the SNES version.

Don't have my SNES anymore.

I do not have my SNES version anymore but I do have my Playstation 1 version. I just don't have a Playstation as I used BLEEM back in the day.

[Ray Rook]

NES
Jaws
Town and Country Surf Designs
Excite Bike
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Gunsmoke
Crystalis
Kid Icarus
Base Wars

Sega Genesis Some of these are genres, but very unique.
Beast Wrestler
Toe Jam and Earl
Earthworm Jim
Beyond Oasis
Jungle Strike (Since you mentioned Desert Strike)
NBA Jam
Third World War (If you include Sega CD)
Altered Beast
Comix Zone
Might and Magic 2 Gates to Another World (RPG, but Western RPG + Japanese RPG combined into something weird. This is a port of a port.)
Road Rash
Kings Bounty (A HoMM game)
The Immortal
Mutant League Hockey
Warsong

SNES
Couldn't agree more with Ogre Battle.
Secret of Mana
Earthbound
The Lost Vikings
Clock Tower
Boogerman
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Harvest Moon
Shadowrun
SimCity

[Ray Rook]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

And also very valuable, even for a used copy.

But you really need that chart that shows who changes into what or you're gonna be lost.

I still have my N64 and a copy of Ogre Battle 64. It looks like it's not worth quite as much as the SNES version.

Don't have my SNES anymore.

They aren't the same game. SNES Ogre Battle was ported to PS1, but not to N64. Ogre Battle 64 is a whole other game.

[Fajita Jim]

Originally posted by Ray Rook:

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

I still have my N64 and a copy of Ogre Battle 64. It looks like it's not worth quite as much as the SNES version.

Don't have my SNES anymore.

They aren't the same game. SNES Ogre Battle was ported to PS1, but not to N64. Ogre Battle 64 is a whole other game.

oooooh

[Kamiyama]

Originally posted by Ray Rook:

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

I still have my N64 and a copy of Ogre Battle 64. It looks like it's not worth quite as much as the SNES version.

Don't have my SNES anymore.

They aren't the same game. SNES Ogre Battle was ported to PS1, but not to N64. Ogre Battle 64 is a whole other game.

Yes I've played both. The 64 version didn't have the tarot cards. Some of them were crazy powerful in the SNES game.

[zero is good]

Demons Crest or Blaster Master, are ones I remember. Not sure if you played them.

[Ray Rook]

Originally posted by Fajita Jim:

Originally posted by Ray Rook:

They aren't the same game. SNES Ogre Battle was ported to PS1, but not to N64. Ogre Battle 64 is a whole other game.

oooooh

The PS1 port has a different angle of view too. On SNES you only get the angled top down view. On PS1 you get the true top down view. PS1 can also save mid battle map. It's not as important today, but back before emulators and save states, this meant you could save scum treasure findings on PS1, but not on SNES. This meant a lot of people on PS1 had dream crowns way early in the game.

[Ray Rook]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

Originally posted by Ray Rook:

They aren't the same game. SNES Ogre Battle was ported to PS1, but not to N64. Ogre Battle 64 is a whole other game.

Yes I've played both. The 64 version didn't have the tarot cards. Some of them were crazy powerful in the SNES game.

No. They are quite literally different games. Not just no tarot cards. They are straight up different games.

Incidentally, Unicorn Overlord is a game that came out this year and similar to that style of game. You have to get a few hours in and past tutorials to really see it start to shine, but it's there.