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The Best Video Games On Awful Systems

Posted by Soulskill on from the diamond-in-the-rough dept.

Buffalo55 writes "For the most part, classic games manage to reappear on different systems. Just look at Nintendo. The publisher has done an excellent job bringing NES, SNES, Genesis and even old school Neo Geo titles to the Wii's Virtual Console, while Microsoft's Game Room brings the best of Atari's 2600 into the living room. Of course, not every console was a success. The '90s, in particular, saw quite a few flops from companies like Panasonic, Sega and Atari. Just because a system is a failure, though, doesn't mean all of its games suck. On the contrary, most of these machines have a few gems that fell between the cracks once the console croaked." What overlooked game on a failed platform would you like to see revived?

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  1. Utopia! by aunchaki · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I had an Intellivision as a kid. It was awesome. There was a game for it called Utopia that was the first Civ-style resource management game I ever saw. I played it endlessly.

  2. Bungie's Marathon on by AHuxley · · Score: 5, Informative

    Apple Macs.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_(video_game)

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    1. Re:Bungie's Marathon on by petermgreen · · Score: 3, Informative

      From the article you linked
      "Bungie released the source code of Marathon 2 in 1999 shortly before being acquired by Microsoft, which led to the advent of the Marathon Open Source Project, more commonly known as Aleph One by fans. The project, which is still active as of 2010[update], is committed to adding enhancements to the Marathon 2 engine. In 2002, a project to port Marathon to the Marathon 2 engine, called M1A1, was completed. Several of the game's music tracks have been remixed and enhanced multiple times by different people. In early 2004, Bungie released the entire Marathon Trilogy as freeware, allowing it to be downloaded free of charge. "

      So it seems that one has already been revived :)

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  3. Scorched Earth - Ported to Android by ticklemeozmo · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Scorched Earth!!! The mother of all games!!! I would pay to have it multiplayer on Android.

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  4. Tunnels of Doom by sproketboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    On the TI-994a. Excellent game for the time.

    A rebooted version was written a while back which is as good.

    http://www.dreamcodex.com/

  5. Little gems: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Syndicate Wars
    Theme Hospital
    Z - yes that the title

    All little that I loved playing on the Playstation. Although I cant say I'd wanna have a remake of Theme Hospital that one ca stay there.

  6. Sonic CD?! by morari · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sonic CD is still one of the best games in the franchise. I like Sonic & Knuckles (connected to Sonic 3, of course) a little better overall, but that may just be because of the times.

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  7. Re:Shaq Fu by ProppaT · · Score: 3, Funny

    You got this backwards. We're looking for good games on bad consoles, not bad games on good consoles.

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