100 Underrated/Lesser Known/Hidden Gem SNES / Super Famicom Games in 10 Minutes

Some lesser known but still pretty darned good (if not necessarily great) Super Nintendo / Super Famicom games. Lots of Japan exclusives here - but most of them are fully playable to those who don't speak the language.
Oh, and before you complain about how "everyone knows Terranigma and it shouldn't be considered a hidden gem", please be aware that Terranigma was never released in North America, so many viewers have never seen it!
Complete gamelist:
2020 Super Baseball
Aerobiz Supersonic
Alcahest
Araiguma Rascal
Ardy Lightfoot
B.O.B
Battle Cars
Battle Cross
Battle Grand Prix
Battle Racers
Battle Tycoon - Flash Hiders SFX
Best Shot Out of Bounds Golf
Big Sky Trooper
Biker Mice From Mars
BlaZeon - The Bio-Cyborg Challenge
Brain Lord
Brainies, The
Brandish
Claymates
Clock Tower
Cybernator
Deae Tonosama - Appare Ichiban
Dirt Trax FX
Do-Re-Mi Fantasy - Milon no Dokidoki Daibouken
Dossun! Ganseki Battle
Dragon View
Dream Basketball - Dunk & Hoop
Equinox
Firemen, The
Firepower 2000
FireStriker
Front Mission
Ganbare Goemon 2 - Kiteretsu Shougun Magginesu
Ganbare! Daiku no Gen-san
Gemfire
Ghost Chaser Densei
Ghost Sweeper Mikami - Joreishi wa Nice Body
Ghoul Patrol
Go Go Ackman
Gojira - Kaijuu Daikessen
Goof Troop
GunForce
Hagane - The Final Conflict
Hameln no Violin Hiki
Heisei Inu Monogatari Bow - Pop'n Smash!!
Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures
Iron Commando
Keeper
Kid Klown in Crazy Chase
King Arthur's World
Lock On
Lode Runner Twin - Justy to Liberty no Daibouken
Lufia II - Rise of the Sinistrals
Maerchen Adventure Cotton 100%
Magical Pop'n
Majuu Ou
Mechwarrior 3050
MechWarrior
Mega Man Soccer
Metal Marines
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - The Fighting Edition (USA)
Nosferatu
oldMagical Pop'n
On The Ball
Operation Logic Bomb - The Ultimate Search & Destroy
Paladin's Quest
Peace Keepers, The
Phantom 2040
Pirates of Dark Water, The
Plok
Pop'n TwinBee - Rainbow Bell Adventures
Power Instinct
Rendering Ranger R2
Robotrek
Rocky Rodent
Run Saber
S.O.S
Saturday Night Slam Masters
SD F-1 Grand Prix
Shien - The Blade Chaser (Japan)
Shin Kido Senki Gundam Wing - Endless Duel
Skyblazer
Soldiers of Fortune
Sonic Blast Man II
Space Megaforce
Spark World
Sparkster
Street Racer
Super Bomber Man - Panic Bomber W
Super Earth Defence Force
Super Family Tennis
Super Mad Champ
Terranigma
Tsuyoshi Shikkari Shinasai - Taisen Puzzle Dama
Turn and Burn - No-Fly Zone
Twisted Tales of Spike McFang, The
Umihara Kawase
Utopia - The Creation of a Nation
WeaponLord
Wildsnake
Wings 2 - Aces High
Wrecking Crew '98

[@nikopteros1659]

i love how Go Go Ackman is just chibi Trunks xD

[@schwarzerritter5724]

Well observed, it is one of the game illustrated by Akira Toriyama.

[@srjacoby6637]

I don't know how to describe it, but for 11 long years I tried to find a game from my childhood and never managed to, but with your video I finally found it. The game is Battle Cross. Thank you very much.

[@lucasfreire4401]

Bro, I found all lot of games that I always wanted know the name... Thank you, my childhood is here.

[@RetroPaolo]

Great video. Thanks for adding the names of the games to the description too!

[@mr.buttram2837]

The Super Nintendo was the first video game console I ever owned. Nothing will ever beat the time me and my mom finished super mario world together, including the star levels.

[@interghost]

A video with some games Ive not seen at last! Nice one cheers!

[@erMagnes16]

Thanks for the video! Great TOPs! ^^

[@eireian4939]

Love coming back and watching these. Pure nostalgia. :)

[@R0n1n760]

Just finished seeing this on your channel. Thanks for recommending it!! Awesome video and definitely searching for some of these games now to buy. Cheers!

[@GaryRetroGamer]

+Edgar glad you enjoyed it! I make these videos for precisely this reason: for people to go out there and discover new things!

[@bwong77]

Thanks for posting this compilation, this helped me find Ganbare Goemon 2!

[@matter3669]

TY for making these vids, theyre super helpful for rom collecting!

[@panicfarm9874]

Matter that’s illegal

[@michaelaizen1137]

@@panicfarm9874 tell that to the Clinton's. 😜

[@clydefrog2175]

Are you people really gonna bring up the legality of collecting roms for a dead system? Really? The snes is a 29 year old system. The only people making money off these old games are collectors/sellers of the original cartridges. Though I’m sure everyone is just trolling in here. But ya never know.

[@jpizzlefromdahizzle]

No Radical Rex... a shame 😑

[@Rountree1985]

Panic Farm fuck off, rich boi

[@marsiozo]

Great list!!! Some of my all time favourites such as Sky Blazer, Soldiers of Fortune and more....but many games I never heard of....a TRUE hidden gem compilation I might say... And...being a fan of the game 'Zombies' I was pleasantly shocked to see that there's a hidden sequel ....Ghoul Patrol....never heard of that one before...

[@trik6727]

I just got my rg350 with every SNES game on it so I need this video to give me clips of games that are interesting to me to play, so thank you

[@matheus666]

Nice list bro, I really like your videos :)

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Thanks for watching! :D

[@aznaishah]

OMG! Terranigma! I love this game in my childhood! Love them to bits

[@renanlinard7]

Excellent video!

[@griffth_clips4274]

THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHH I'VE BEEN TRYING TO FIND ARDY LIGHTFOOT BC I FORGOT IT AND ITS BEEN MY CHILDHOOD GAME AND I STILL LOVE IT

[@stevechavez3885]

Gundam Wing was so damn good! It was so fast paced with the dashes and air combos. Later on Marvel Super Heroes made that fight system more popular.

[@isurvolte]

ROCKY RODENT, THE FIREMEN, I WAS LOOKING FOR THEM FOR YEARS THANKS

[@Augustria64]

Great list. I have only played like 70~80% of this xD I woud like to add some of my list: actraiser 1,2, Ogre battle, Alcahest, Lodoss-tou senki, Romancing SaGa 1,2,3, Pocky Rocky 1,2, Shiren the wanderer, Jutei senki, First Queen, SD Gundam Power Formation Puzzle, The Great Battle IV, Ganbare Goemon 3, Yaiba

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Thanks! If you're someone who has played 70-80% of these games, then you are someone who knows your stuff and I am flattered you like it! I love your suggested titles - many of them will make it into my next SFC/SNES video!

[@tximinoman]

Great list! I didn't know some of them and they look awesome. I'm missing two though; Front Mission: Gun Hazzard (sort of a sequel/spin off of the "Front Mission" game featured here with different mechanics) and Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together.

[@squiggly_lines]

The Power Rangers games were definitely a favorite of mine, I rented them all the time.

[@kevindewaynelowe]

Nice saw alot I like and did not know about. Thanks.

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Thanks! If you're looking for more SNES treasures, please check out part 2 of this vid: kzbin.info/www/bejne/emScnJaXa62Kqpo

[@SwiftieLuma]

THANKS! I was looking for Pop'n Twenbee and never found it because i just remembered it as a game with cute robots but forgot the name lol

[@AdanyGT]

same here,eventhough im 23 years old dude guy, this is my childhood game.

[@niespeludo]

I like this list a lot. I know most of them but I've been playing and games looking for "hidden gems" since I was a teen in the early 2000s. Very good picks and actually less known games.

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[@henrycannon4194]

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[@henrycannon4194]

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[@toxickandy9669]

Looking at Go Go Ackman like is that Trunks from DBZ. Looks up Go Go Ackman, is the main character in another of Akira Toriyama's works of the same name. Guess i'm gonna go read the manga for that

[@cowciumchloride5702]

2020 Super Baseball creators back then: This is baseball in the future! 2020: Nope!

[@filiberto9729]

Great video amigo, Alcahest doesn't show in video.

[@BetoDrummaster]

if you have lufia and terranigma on this list, your list is a true gem! well done sir!

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Technically, I have Lufia II, not the first Lufia on this list. Does that still count? If so, thanks :)

[@BetoDrummaster]

@@GaryRetroGamer of course It counts!! 👏🏽

[@GaryRetroGamer]

:D :D :D XD

[@dobrozner7784]

Terranigma is quite possibly the most underrated game ever made.

[@BetoDrummaster]

@@dobrozner7784 poisbly, form famicon, indeed, but there's more underrated, for e.g seiken densetsu 3, @gary had it on one of he's list.

[@danshan8503]

Plok and Pop n' TwinBee, I knew both about these good games, which were unpopular, so I expected seeing both in this video.

[@clemennelly]

I love Battle Cars, Bike Mice From Mars, Cybernator, The Firemen, Goof Troop, Space Megaforce and Super Earth Defence Force for my childhood and how to remember these great games in SNES emulator for my old windows.

[@eazyep]

Cutthroat island was a great SNES game I always used to play. Also one of those games was Hammering Harry (or looked like it)

[@scratchingballs9940]

I love underrated list !!

[@dorondavid4698]

There was a snes version of wrecking crew?? Holy crap, I'm on it!

[@n0k3hilari0us3]

Terranigma best game ever played on SNES. Imagine if they make now a remake. Boah

[@mikubrot]

Fun fact about Brandish! The protagonist of this game "Varik" was used as the protagonist of the infamous Earthbound Halloween Hack made by the one and only Toby Fox! Varik's design seems to have also inspired Kris' dark world design

[@jeffcox6539]

Great collection of games. Wish I saw this before emuparadise shut down.Don't know anywhere to find Famicom games.

[@Cyclepath1269]

21. Deae Tonosama: Appare Ichiban !!! Damn this one is so much fun, literally my favorite game in my childhood.

[@luisdiaz1980]

Wow someone else who knows about "On the ball"! That's such an addictive puzzle game for a guy who barely likes puzzle games here. I first played it back in the early 90s on a friend's super Famicom that had a pirated floppy disk system with hundreds of games attached to it. No mention of super valis IV? That's one of my favorite SNES hidden gems. It's not perfect but it has good graphics, nice cutscenes and an amazing soundtrack. I highly recommend it.

[@K-kof2000]

I already played sky blazer, b.o.b., brain lord, utopia, front mission, gemfire, sparkster, nosferatu, mechwarrior, cybernator,rendering ranger r2, maju ouu, king arthur's world,and others I do not even remember. I know basically 80% of the games

[@neojack333]

I had ghoul patrol and mechwarrior 1 as a kid !

[@cid5087]

Biker mice and gun force man those memories damn! :)

[@NESADDICT]

Some fun titles!

[@hye_rye]

its about to be 2020 and we aint got no robot baseball players

[@Antartikz]

Bruh some of these had such good pixel art :o

[@lucarreguy1]

Super Family Tennis was released in Europe with the name Smash Tennis. ps: I'm admin of a group in Facebook, called SNESREVWC. We make tournaments of SNES online (emulator + Hamachi). We already made tournaments of Dossun Ganseki Battle, SD F1, Megaman Soccer, Power Rangers Fighting Edition, and many others ;)

[@argolds]

I loved these games. Battle Racers. Battle Cars. Battle Running Vehicles. Battle Golf. Battle Tetris. Battle Fighting Game. Battle Battalion. And Cooking.

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Playing all those games must have been quite the uphill battle

[@lukinhab]

Brain Lord is the most underrated RPG game, i've played countless times, and it's just perfect

[@DialthebarSoap]

44. i played a game similar to that and I think the characters are mostly from a TV show Kero Kero Keroppi if I'm not mistaken. It was one of the best game I've played as a kid

[@haro6693]

i wish we could playing outdoor sport like how the 2020 super baseball development think in the future

[@lovelycars1]

Makes you think how many sbes games were released in one day because I'm in my thirties and just when I think I seen it all I realize I was wrong

[@aaaa-xg3dk]

u missed SD gundam power formation puzzle, its also a good game. and so many fun games, especially: battle cross Battle Cars magical pop'n they are my fav.

[@DerpDerp3001]

I want Equinox. By the way, Equinox was made in the UK. Also, Plok!

[@bruno_cfh]

Gundam Wing is amazing!

[@nicolascares5945]

Number 20 "Cybernator" seems to be a sequel from Metal warriors as it has the same looks and playability

[@TheZknot]

So true, but metal warriors is one of the best games for me.

[@kevinrameau4291]

Terranigma is still today the best game I’ve ever played.

[@PixelDebh]

Lufia 2 is my favourite rpg 💕

[@predtralo]

Cybernator, Hagane, Weaponlord = AWESOME GAMES.

[@Trancelistic]

Yeah. I agree with some.

[@Chickenworm9394]

#31 Front Mission is actually quite famous in Asia

[@FelipeTaranto]

I had "Turn and Burn: No-Fly Zone". The main problem was learning to land. Then it became a fun game

[@squiggly_lines]

guages man, gotta watch those guages, my dad taught me how to play that game when I was 7 years old, we used to rent it.

[@andrecalheta7700]

B.O.B I MISS YOUUUUUUUUUU

[@papsnine]

THANK YOU

[@iamstephanflowers7578]

Terranigma is love.

[@hotryu]

5:25 How Mario sees himself... damn shrooms

[@darinherrick9224]

Played a bunch of these recently and it's very interesting how games that look or sound good (Space Megaforce; Wings 2, Indiana Jones) aren't really all that fun and are high on frustration factor, and some real obscure knock-off looking games are a ton of fun.

[@nichttuntun3364]

Absolute brilliant collection. It's so hard to find really original concepted games for those consoles. So many generic garbage. Who needs the 200th fighting game or another mediocre platformer? ❤

[@Phed98]

what a pretty games

[@animeclips7294]

skyblazer is my favorite

[@dubber66]

Forgot about Plok what a game that was

[@theermac6024]

Hagane is my shit man, hard but cool. I'd like to put my recommendations being supapoon and supapoon dx, arkanoid, the 7th saga, bomberman b-daman, Arcana and congo's caper.

[@gabrieldufloth5497]

7 saga and arcana are awesome games

[@xxwhatevahxx]

jikkyou oshaberi parodius and gokujou parodius, try that Gary!

[@PsychoticLuke]

Legend and Judge Dredd. Two of the best games on the SNES.

[@user-xs3hu5nj9b]

2023, and i im here trying to find a game from the 90s to play😢😢😂😂

[@Something-Waffle]

Cybernator is a good game, but if I'm going for a good mech game to play on the SNES, I'm going with Metal Warriorsm

[@Augustria64]

Yeah Metal Warriors is just so great xD

[@NotABot55]

Cybernator is a version of Assault Suits Valken with several story elements removed (including character portraits that show who is saying what.) Metal Warriors... well, came from the same developers that did Zombies Ate My Neighbors, so it holds its own.

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Agreed! Metal Warriors actually is on my "Top 100 SNES Games" list; I didn't want to repeat games, so I didn't put it here.

[@ShokoArc]

Magical pop'n is pretty Rad

[@mauricioreyes5853]

Bob was my favorite one

[@brunomenezes9011]

People who don't play Front Mission don't know what they're missing

[@Justforvisit]

Sad to see "Lufia II" among "lesser known / hidden gems" In my opinion it's one of the top 3 RPG's of the system, along with Chrono Trigger and Terranigma

[@vialactea5549]

I still play Gundam Wing on my phone emulator lol

[@sierzzz2851]

Same

[@eyokfla]

Flashback, NBA Give n Go, Doom

[@nikopteros1659]

I really recommend Skyblazer (an amazing 2d sidescroller with tight controls and fun powers to mess with and a very agile protagonist its a short but very fun game), Terranigma (an action rpg with top down view with preety cool story and a great moveset to slay the many bosses and creatures you may find in your quest to revive the world), Sonic blastman 2 (a regular beat em up but a preety good one at that if you like beat em ups like final fight you should like this one), pirates of dark water (the same as sonic blast man but with pirates that's always good right?), B.O.B (i haven't played this one in a while but i remember it to be a slow sidescroller shooter with a puzzle element and a nice comedy element b.o.b is a cute game with a cute robot to get a smile out of you always), Biker Mice From Mars (a preety good racing game that strays from the mario kart formula of camera in the back preety fun game), Goof Troop (great puzzle game to play with a friend ok one to play alone still a recomended one), Lufia (i played this one for a little bit so i don't remember much but its a good rpg if you want to try something that's not final fantasy), power rangers fighting edition (FIGHTING GIANT MEGAZORDS WHAT ELSE CAN YOU WANT!?!?!), Gundam wing endless duel (FIGHTING GIANT GUNDAMS WHAT ELSE CAN YOU WANT?!?!?! preety similar to the power rangers one being that its the same developer team but gundam wing is more polished being faster and with better moves in general still recomend power rangers if you like slower fighters if you like faster ones go with gundam win) and any other that looked good to you and i DON'T recommend Kid klown (its... its just not great) and Equinox (stay away from this game unless you are in for a very surreal hard as crap and boring yet somehow interesting experience all i can say is it scared me as a kid xD i kinda recommend this one just for the weirdness of it, its not a good game though in my personal opinion)

[@wichateSIMPact6725]

it looks really nice, i will play it

[@nikopteros1659]

@@wichateSIMPact6725 awesome! which will you try?

[@wichateSIMPact6725]

@@nikopteros1659 Skyblazer and Gundam 👍

[@wichateSIMPact6725]

when i look at the comments i always find something to try, thanks for these recommendations

[@nikopteros1659]

@@wichateSIMPact6725 Nice!

[@DiegoSanchesCabral]

Missing some great games here and in other list in 100 top games.

[@gulyasdavid6170]

Dragon quest 1 in eu... very underrated

[@livanbard]

cybernator has a patch witouth the censorship its called assault suit valken (the og jp name)

[@Theshark15z]

Forgot X-Kaliber, Super Turrican 2, Doom Troopers.

[@jshada11]

Should have added Magic sword and Knight's of the round to the list.

[@MrGRmask]

aaaand now I regret deleting my Super Famicom romset :| EDIT: it seems "Shien - The Blade Master" has also been out in the west as "Shien's Revenge"

[@LlLnig]

Fuck off

[@sarionsarioner3240]

9:00 doy like y me suscribo por reconocer este juego que es buenardo y nadie lo conoce

[@hippykar]

Excuse me, I need 100 games to buy

[@diogoleonardo7848]

Run Saber❤❤❤

[@schwarzerritter5724]

I have Cybernator, Ghoul Patrol, MechWarrior, Metal Marines, Plok and Terranigma out of those. I don't like MechWarrior, but the others are good.

[@sergiocerda5709]

What??? No Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia?? Two of the best games on the SNES. Both games pushes the limits of the console, and have an amazing story.

[@Augustria64]

I think they're not really underrated since they came from well known franchise, i could go with Der Langrisser, Ys, Arcana, Majin tensei, any super robo war, Doraemon 4 xD

[@RadicalSharkRS]

sonic + mario = army lightfoot

[@dyahnurrizkinanugraheni4747]

Heeey, what is the game title in 6:48? I am desperate to play it again!!

[@suchiuomizu]

The video shows the name of every game.

[@boyonthephone1]

Help. I'm lockedown and I've got a plethora of games to play. Then there's you, MJR and SNES Drunk to choose from. What a beautiful time to be alive. Stay safe everyone. Jah bless

[@haroldgarrett2932]

have brain lord paused in the background while watching this.. great game!

[@cedrio1027]

I NNEEED MORE

[@heretwoexpose4255]

Go Go Trunksman🤭🤫

[@nuitnoire8627]

Still no Tetris Battle Gaiden??