This post is to help gamers who are perhaps younger, and don't remember or know some of the great but not well known games through the years. Also with that would be games that were well advertised, were great games (old or current systems) but bombed in sales. Any system or P.C.
I'll start:
P.C.
1. Worms Armegedon (OHHHH, what fun during college years!!!)
2. Star Control II (a very quirky, zanny, imiginative space adventure; you start out with a single ship (humanoid) and seek to gain other races and their ships in your quest to defeat the bad guys. One of the races is a suicidal racoon who believes he is the last male or something like that. You find him a female (out in outer space of course) they get busy and have mass babies; which means you have unlimited crew members instead of paying for them. You travel through space, explore planets, have active battles with your ships, and if I remember right the quest it timed and must be finished in X number of days.
Old P.C. game, would be hard to find, but was loads of fun to play. There is also a competive two player mode that has excellent replay value. I beat the game with the help of an online guide. Good luck finding it, greater luck getting to work with Vista 
; and more luck than that to beat it without an online guide.
NES
1. Startropics (there was a sequel as well, but I never played it; zelda type game)
2. Maniac Mansion (point and click type game, adventure)
Gamecube
Ikaruga (space shoot em up)
Anyone else????
