| Jaicee said: Biggest Cultural Impact: Super Mario Bros. 3 was clearly the most impactful game originally released in 1988 for reasons we all know by now and don't require further explaining on my part. The Game I'm Voting For Anyway: Too bad though because the oft-missed little gem that is The Guardian Legend combines aerial combat of the highest quality with the exploration emphasis of adventure games, voice acting (yep, on the NES!), and a female protagonist to emerge as my absolute favorite NES game by a wide margin. I vote for it out of defiance. Nearly invisible and long-forgotten though it may be, it deserves to be the winner! This game earned better than its commercial fate!! Feast your eyes (and ears). Here is The Guardian Legend, the greatest NES game ever made. The next game I want to see re-released in streaming form for the NES Online on the Switch rather than more of the garbage we've been getting lately: |
Obvious Compile is obvious! The shmup sections screamed "Zanac/Aleste" audio-visually.. and that's not a bad thing! 2 minutes into the video and I thought "This feels too Zanac-like to not be a Compile game, let me rewind and see the developer. Yep!"
I'm impressed by how it mixes two genres (Proto-NieR?) while looking as good as it does on a low-end hardware. Plenty of great overlooked/forgotten games from that generation...
I did mention Aleste which is the closest game in this thread to your pick! Zanac MSX is one of my first ever video games, the crazy thing is that Zanac Neo on PS1 which was supposed to make you feel nostalgic, is now itself a nostalgic game. Time is brutal.
