Underated or little known platformers for Megadrive/SNES

hellsing101

I recently got back into retro gaming and was looking for some fun platformers to play outside of the Mario/Sonic sphere, something fun that isn't too common. I have been playing some of the Disney megadrive games:

Quackshot
World of Illusion
Castle of Illusion
Mickey Mania

Any suggestions on games similiar you guys have would be appreciated.

Dr Bob

hellsing101 wrote: »

I recently got back into retro gaming and was looking for some fun platformers to play outside of the Mario/Sonic sphere, something fun that isn't too common. I have been playing some of the Disney megadrive games:

Quackshot
World of Illusion
Castle of Illusion
Mickey Mania

Any suggestions on games similiar you guys have would be appreciated.

I've always had a soft spot for Kid Cameleon.
https://youtu.be/GkG-bdbXFtw

hellsing101

Dr Bob wrote: »

I've always had a soft spot for Kid Cameleon.
https://youtu.be/GkG-bdbXFtw

I remember playing that as a kid, as far as i remember it was pretty fun.

piplip87

Alex the kid. Can't remember was it Mega Drive or Master System or even both. Seen it on Xbox 1 around Christmas, was in my element.

hellsing101

piplip87 wrote: »

Alex the kid. Can't remember was it Mega Drive or Master System or even both. Seen it on Xbox 1 around Christmas, was in my element.

It was on both, the megadrive version was The Enchanted Castle, I heard the the master system games were far superior.

super_furry

Always had a soft spot for Mr Nutz myself.

o1s1n

piplip87 wrote: »

Alex the kidd. Can't remember was it Mega Drive or Master System or even both. Seen it on Xbox 1 around Christmas, was in my element.

FYP, pet peeve of mine

Ristar is a great Megadrive one, very similar visuals to Sonic with a pretty interesting game mechanic.

Pulseman is also another great, more obscure Japanese only title that should have been released in the west.

hellsing101

o1s1n wrote: »

FYP, pet peeve of mine

Ristar is a great Megadrive one, very similar visuals to Sonic with a pretty interesting game mechanic.

Pulseman is also another great, more obscure Japanese only title that should have been released in the west.

Both games I would love to own but they are pretty expensive, Pulseman in particular for a boxed copy with manual.

o1s1n

hellsing101 wrote: »

Both games I would love to own but they are pretty expensive, Pulseman in particular for a boxed copy with manual.

Has Ristar gone up in value too? When I picked that up it was only about 20 euro from what I remember.

Yeah Pulseman has gone off the charts in the last few years, I remember when it could be had for under 50! Silly me kept putting off buying a copy.

hellsing101

o1s1n wrote: »

Has Ristar gone up in value too? When I picked that up it was only about 20 euro from what I remember.

Yeah Pulseman has gone off the charts in the last few years, I remember when it could be had for under 50! Silly me kept putting off buying a copy.

Cheapest I have seen a boxed copy was CEX for £40, not breaking the bank but still fairly expensive for a pretty common game.

smurf492

The Lion King... Great but tough in places

Jack burton

Even though I know it's ****e, I love greendog

KeRbDoG

Wiz 'n' Liz on the Megadrive/Genesis, was always impressed by the smooth/fast animation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSOYuNRlw-E

o1s1n

Yeah the speed of that game always blew me away, really shows you what the Megadrive could do.

Just realized nobody has mentioned Rocket Knight Adventures! By far one of the best games on the system.

hellsing101

Wiz n Liz looks pretty cool, looks to really make use of that "blast processing".

Rocket Knight is a great game, Sparkster the sequel or prequel is also supposed to be really good, don't know if it was released outside of Japan though.

o1s1n

Sparkster had a PAL release alright, pretty pricey one that.

Jack burton

o1s1n wrote: »

Sparkster had a PAL release alright, pretty pricey one that.

Rocket Knight is after becoming so popular. It's sound track got a vinyl release this year and all

Retr0gamer

I never liked kid chameleon. Never understood why people like it.

Rocket Knight Adventures is my second favourite mega drive game. It's just amazing. However it's closer to a contra game than a platformer.

On the snes do re mi fantasy is the best platform that isn't Mario. It's a sequel to the god awful milons secret castle but don't let that put you off. It's absolute quality.

Retr0gamer

Jack burton wrote: »

o1s1n wrote: »

Sparkster had a PAL release alright, pretty pricey one that.

Rocket Knight is after becoming so popular. It's sound track got a vinyl release this year and all

Same composer as symphony of the night. She did most I do the Konami mega drive soundtrack work. Made that yamaha chip sing. Did some fantastic chip tune work on the msx as well.

Kidchameleon

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I never liked kid chameleon

Wut?

CiDeRmAn

I used to like Alien 3 on the SNES, possibly better than the film!

Jack burton

Actually a big fan of that myself too!

McDonald's treasure land adventure is another one that comes to mind

Kidchameleon

Im playing through Wonderboy in Monsterworld at the moment. I reccomend that OP. Rolo to the rescue, James Pond 3 also

gmisk

I have a soft spot for aero the acro-bat,comix zone, rainbow islands and pulseman

CiDeRmAn

Anyone play Zool, the port from the Amiga I think.
I could never get into it.
It was no Superfrog that's for sure!

smurf492

CiDeRmAn wrote:

Anyone play Zool, the port from the Amiga I think. I could never get into it. It was no Superfrog that's for sure!

Zool.. Chupa chups did well seizing that marketing marvel!!!

brianregan09

No love for Aero the Acrobat had 2 games aswell

CiDeRmAn

The Indiana Jones game on the SNES is a great title, though ultimately a reskin of the Super Star Wars games.
I've a want on me for the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on the SNES as well, but it's expensive.

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Anyone play Zool, the port from the Amiga I think.
I could never get into it.
It was no Superfrog that's for sure!

Yeah I had that for my Megadrive towards the end of the consoles lifespan. Bought it from a mate for five pounds! Along with James Pond 3 and a few others.

Retr0gamer

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I've a want on me for the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on the SNES as well, but it's expensive.

Very much inferior to the NES originals and far more expensive.

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Very much inferior to the NES originals and far more expensive.

I'm only missing the third one, I have the first two on the Famicom.
I believe the Famicom one has superior music or something?

Relikk

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm only missing the third one, I have the first two on the Famicom.
I believe the Famicom one has superior music or something?

Not sure how accurate the Trilogy versions are, compared to the original NES versions, but there's an MSU1 hack of Trilogy available now with the original NES soundtrack.

Shapey Fiend

Always loved WB3: Monster Lair, although I've seen it noted as one of the worst games on the Mega Drive a couple of times which is frankly madness.

Been playing Pinochio with the young lad a bit lately and it's gorgeously animated with great controls. It's a bit confusing though I need to look at a FAQ cos I'm just going around in circles.

hellsing101

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Always loved WB3: Monster Lair, although I've seen it noted as one of the worst games on the Mega Drive a couple of times which is frankly madness.

Been playing Pinochio with the young lad a bit lately and it's gorgeously animated with great controls. It's a bit confusing though I need to look at a FAQ cos I'm just going around in circles.

Is WB3 the one that has SMUP sections in it?

Pinochio looks pretty cool, Disney really had great games back in the 16 bit era, definitely some of the best platformers on the Megadrive.

Relikk

Relikk wrote: »

Not sure how accurate the Trilogy versions are, compared to the original NES versions, but there's an MSU1 hack of Trilogy available now with the original NES soundtrack.

Just to follow up on this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTlGMJFhTEE

Retr0gamer

Relikk wrote: »

Not sure how accurate the Trilogy versions are, compared to the original NES versions, but there's an MSU1 hack of Trilogy available now with the original NES soundtrack.

The SNES music is inferior but there's also other issues. It just doesn't look as nice as the NES games with many visual effects missing and no parallax scrolling which is insane on a SNES game.

For the hundreds of euro you will spend on the trilogy you can get just get the original 3 on famicom, the cutscenes are impressive but the story is garbage so you aren't missing out that much.

Inviere

Relikk wrote: »

Just to follow up on this...

Very interesting. Have to say, I find the MSU1 stuff interesting in general. It's like a "what could have been". I wonder if there's a list of the MSU1 releases to date anywhere?

Retr0gamer

Inviere wrote: »

Very interesting. Have to say, I find the MSU1 stuff interesting in general. It's like a "what could have been". I wonder if there's a list of the MSU1 releases to date anywhere?

MSU just would not have been practical at the time. All it does is allow the SNES to access massive amounts of memory fast and if you could do that it would have lead to NEO GEO price carts.

Still it's probably a very good indication of what the SNES CD/Playstation could have been.

Relikk

Inviere wrote: »

Very interesting. Have to say, I find the MSU1 stuff interesting in general. It's like a "what could have been". I wonder if there's a list of the MSU1 releases to date anywhere?

Most of them are created by the same 4 or 5 people over at Zeldix.

http://www.zeldix.net/f45-msu-1-hacking

I've contributed to a good few of the soundtracks. Mainly games that are arcade ports (SF2) or that had better soundtracks from other systems (Dracula X).

You'll like these. The SF2 one in particular because they found a way of adding the heavy damage themes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF4No-HDuMk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmh0CE1XEo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhyUXnEoX8I

Infernum

Wiz 'n' Liz was a pretty solid platformer for the Mega Drive.

Risky Woods wasn't bad either.

Shapey Fiend

There was a guy on the Sega 16 doing colour hacks of Mega Drive games that mostly looked great.

http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?28100-Gabriel-Pyron-s-Color-Hacks!!!-(Golden-Axe-Street-Fighter-II-Final-Fight-CD-etc)