SNES Hidden Gems

[@thatvideogamesshow]

For more SNES recommendations, check out my SNES playlist with every episode I’ve made on the console - tinyurl.com/snes-videos

[@Trustyfilms]

I have no idea how you keep managing to find so many genuine hidden gems. This channel is second to none as far as telling me about great games I have never heard of, and I've played a lot of old games!

[@SECONDQUEST]

I thought you were gonna be onto something until the first game was Run Saber, one of the most well reviewed games on the systems.

[@omegaweapon116]

@@Trustyfilms Run Saber looks great

[@chiarosuburekeni9325]

This channel is the goat for my Steam Deck emulation needs 😳

[@imadeitupinmyheadakaimiuim3617]

Meta critic

[@SimonPiano42]

@@SECONDQUEST I've never heard of Run Saber in my life, and I'm a retro fan and been alive when the SNES was still the most recent systems. So, sounds like a hidden gem for me. Games can be well reviewed and still not well known.

[@ChaoticHoly]

For those wondering about the Ranma 1/2 game, try it with the hack. It's AMAZING. Especially TAG TEAM MODE.

[@MadAtreides1]

May you please tell me the name of the hack and where to find it?

[@derekbuckler9888]

I've been watching your show for quite some time now, and I tend to rely on you for showing me games might have overlooked. And though I've been gaming, and collecting myself since the late 70's. I still find I miss the hidden gems you show, thank you my friend for your unending dedication to retro gaming.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Thanks Derek!

[@braddl9442]

The reason some of these are so hidden is many of them were stuck in japan till fan patchs and translations.

[@rafaelfigfigueiredo2988]

7th Saga is good but do yourself a favor and play the mod for it, the rebalancing makes the game actually enjoyable mid to late game. The start is not that horrible but it gets bad, real bad Also if you like this kind of exploration and narrative in an rpg, i suggest Mystic Ark, almost a carbon copy of assets but has a more "fables" plot

[@omegaweapon116]

Run Saber definitely does look like a hidden gem. I need to go get that one now.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Have fun!

[@martinquetzal5346]

It's a little bit on the easy side once you know the total extent of your character's capabilites, but it's a great game overall.

[@omegaweapon116]

@@martinquetzal5346 That sounds like what I think of Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I always thought that game was too easy but it's so fun to play that It really doesn't matter in the end.

[@SECONDQUEST]

Wild you think it's a hidden gem. It's been talked about in the snes community for at least a decade.

[@omegaweapon116]

@@SECONDQUEST I guess that makes two of us: me and the guy who runs this channel. So it came out in 1993 and people were talking about it in the last decade? That sounds like a hidden gem to me.

[@karimcheese7257]

The Ignition Factor is on the Switch online service. I never thought to play it but now I sure will

[@thatvideogamesshow]

It’s well worth checking it out!

[@Sliider36]

also check out The Firemen. thats my recommendation for a fire-fighting game, also available on snes. and two player co-op. its excellent.

[@Zontar82]

just because it's on the switch?

[@Sliider36]

also recommend The Firemen. snes fire fighting perfection. two player co-op. super addicting.

[@GeovaneSanciniSR]

And to achieve the best ending on Majuu-oh (King of Demons) you should use a different transformation every stage. Just a tip for those who want to play

[@justbrowsing9031]

Great channel, liking the videos! Also loving the tekken 2 feelings of nostalgia from the intro tune :D

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@HBangerHS]

This channel is the real deal. Every single video has a bunch of games I want to try out

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Cheers!

[@reiyun]

holy shit never expected anyone to mention Emerald Dragon good shit

[@emi_later]

I love Run Saber! My mom used to take me to rent a game most weekends and one day I saw they were selling this snes gane I had never heard of for $3 which was cheaper than a rental. I thought sure, why not? Turned out to be a great game! I still play it

[@shigshug8581]

I played Run Saber as a kid in the 90's, it's a VERY underrated game.

[@maxalmonte14]

Man, even with all the videos I watch about SNES games, That Video Games Show manages to showcase even more awesome games I've never seen before, bravo!

[@thatvideogamesshow]

More to come! 🙂

[@MyBrothersKeeper101]

Sky Blazer is outstanding it's so good I recently bought it CIB

[@thatvideogamesshow]

How much did it set you back?

[@MyBrothersKeeper101]

@@thatvideogamesshow was lucky enough to win a bid on eBay and get the game alone for $50. Got the box and the instruction manual not in perfect condition but in pretty damn good condition for another $60. Not saying everybody is going to have that luck on eBay.

[@omegaweapon116]

That must've been expensive unless you got it from a garage sale or something

[@jordantaylor4390]

Have you played Hook? Licensed Peter Pan game by the same team!

[@RJV-s3l]

Metal Combat looks sick!! Especially in terms of enemy designs! A lot of them remind me of many of my favorite yugioh monsters.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Such a fun shooter!

[@mjdf122]

Taking it back to the SNES with TVGS always a pleasure watching your videos

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Thanks mate!

[@MawgVT]

I've been watching your videos and streamed some of these games now. Love the recommendations!

[@thatvideogamesshow]

More to come!

[@Mario-ui9ww]

I have been looking for metal combat for DECADES. I had played it as a child but couldn't remember what it was called and couldn't quite explain the gameplay. This was a nice surprise, thanks

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Glad I could help!

[@CMONCMON007]

Wow thank you for this. All these games look really amazing. So much better than what we get these days. So much creativity those days...

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Couldn't agree more!

[@GameCubeGalaxy]

Run Saber looks really cool, and furthermore a great looking co-op game! Skyblazer is one I was always interested in, and looks awesome! Another excellent episode man! More SNES games for me to try out!

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Hope you enjoy them man!

[@Tasuke]

The Ignition Factor looks like a pretty fun game to play in some down time! I might have to give it a look! The Ranma 1/2 game looks pretty fun too! I've been interested in the series for a while but I haven't given it a shot yet besides the first episode.

[@shoked99]

Thanks for introducing me to some new SNES games. Run Saber looks sweet.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Hope you enjoy it!

[@inceptional]

Some nice choices there. And I don't know what setup you are using to capture the footage, but it looks really nice and vibrant. :)

[@freddiejohnson6137]

I love Run Saber and it's one of those early games that tries to use as many of the systems strengths as possible although I found that Japanese developed games were more likely do do that over western developed ones which would often be multiple platform and try and offer the same experience across all systems which usually resulted in less impressive looking games.

[@goatbone]

I need to get into The Ignition Factor. I've played through The Firemen so many times.

[@rgbcrafts]

Kingnof Demons is probably the first known title to actually have a roll in its mechanics. Way before any Zelda or Dark Souls.

[@volvoguy804]

Great picks! King of Demons is awesome, played that game to death.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

It’s so much fun!

[@johnmartinez-valentin5427]

I'm so glad that I have both u.s and jp snes

[@doafan455]

With a modded Wii I do really appreciate this video, thanks a lot man 😊

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Glad I could help!

[@doafan455]

@@thatvideogamesshow you always help me, a lot

[@EoR_2B4GOT10]

Rund Saber and Skyblazer are pretty good games. As cool as ignition factor is. There is an even better Firefighter game on the SNES simply called Firemen. Unfortunately this game never came out in North America so the price of the european copy is stupidly high. Emulation or an everdrive is probally your best option if you want to expirience the best firefighting game of the 16-bit era.

[@lionelottison1471]

Great video, I hope some of these games come Switch subscription.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

I’ll second that!

[@AndreSP89]

8:31 look how they could have easily made a cool Metal Gear game for SNES with those graphics! 🤤

[@samuelmelendez7566]

Even though SNES waa a bit before my time it has ao much classics especially platformers and rpgs

[@thatvideogamesshow]

So many classics!

[@Sliider36]

someone likes the Sea of Stars ost 😉

[@thejervis86]

Run Saber is a 💎!!!

[@boarMcberry]

Ranma is perfect on this list, especially with the upcoming anime remake on netflix, which hopefully will covers the entirety of manga content, unlike original which got left unresolved but still great anime nonetheless. Already had blast with game back in 90s, but still looking great nonetheless. :D

[@Pridetoons]

Wow two Fire Fighter Games for the Super Nintendo! 😁

[@indianajons2711]

Ey dude ive been wondering where you cet your background music from sounds awesome

[@victordeluca7360]

A Ranma 1/2 fighting game was not on my bingo card for this

[@the-NightStar]

That's........... really weird that you made up a name for the Ranma 1/2 game that it's not actually called. Apparently now that I go look it up, I guess some sites like Wikipedia grossly mistranslated it like they ran it through google, but the real title is Chougi Rambu-hen, which just means "Special Technique-style Battling", which is just the phrase of Ranma's style of fighting that he uses in the series, which the official English releases always called "Anything Goes Martial Arts" describing his free-form martial arts style which means using special technique styles acquired from all other styles mixed into one. So the real title, IF it was PROPERLY localized as intended WOULD be "Ranma 1/2 - Anything Goes Martial Arts" or "Ranma 1/2 - Special Technique-Style Freestyle Battle" or something like that. Either way "Super Skill Wild Dance" is just some nonsensical word salad misinterpreted by a bad machine translation, and you probably shouldn't have used that for the video. At the very least just err on the side of what's easiest to be accurate and just call it "Chougi Rambu-hen" if you didn't know what else to call it.

[@XAntohax]

Looks like very cool games!

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Thank you!

[@NukeA6]

Luckily, 7th Saga has a rom hack that fixes the high difficulty and a class patch so that all the characters don't all play the same.

[@flamingwoodz]

Skyblazer is tight, recommended.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Such a solid platformer!

[@victorpeixotovieira2878]

Wow nice

[@xmini-ul7je]

What if the Snes had more resolutions?, i mean, we all know that the Snes was made based/inspired on the X68000, having the possibility of displaying up to 128 sprites, 32 sprites on the same line of ANY SIZE with the "33s Range over" feature (almost never used), a POWERFUL PROCESSOR, practically no latency, not like the Motorola 68k, which runs at a 1/4 of its speed when running external memory (obviously games), which makes the Sega Genesis processor even slower than the Snes' SLOWROM processing speed, the "blast processing" hoax IS OVER. Kwowing this, we have similar numbers of processing between the Snes' slowrom/fastrom and the CPS1/CPS2 numbers, Which also use the M68k (remember that it runs at a 1/4 of its speed when running games), that's why there's a high probability that Capcom helped design the Snes (see the "Capcom Super Machine" in Capcom vs SNK 2, the Street Fighter Alpha 1 story, and the incredible love they always showed for the Snes, like it was their own console). The Snes can also display up to almost 2050 colors in modes 3 and 4 (BG1), there's an AGENDA against the Snes when we have incredible games with incredible performance even with NO CHIPS, NO LOADINGS, NO SLOWDOWNS, SLOWROM games like Super Smash TV (4megs), Rendering Ranger (16megs), Gundam E.D. (16megs/fullscreen, see the debugger), TMNT Turtles in Time, Flying Hero, Super Aleste, Firepower 2000, etc, which reminds us that we can have incredible games with little memory also, Just compare Gundam E.D. to the Street Fighter Alpha 2 port for Snes, Gundam E.D. is TRUE CPS2 GAMEPLAY. If you don't believe me there's an agenda (even back then) against the Snes, just take a look at how programmers "destroyed" the SFA2 and the Final Fight 3 programming and how hackers "fixed" those games. We see a small glimpse of how the Snes could be in Gizaha's Killer Instinct mega patch, so games like SFA2 are a joke for the Snes.DEUS BENEDICAT TIBI.

[@deafomega]

happy to own a copy of sky blazer.

[@agustiniturrideluca6051]

Dude the other day I was walking my dog and I had this tune stuck in my head, and I didn't know what it was.. Then I realized it was the fucking intro music from that videogames show.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

😅😂

[@mekman4]

Great Stuff, as always!

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@joshua7426]

I mean u look at world heroes and then mortal kombat, its easy to see why world heroes didnt reach the same level of play

[@evilblader7]

A new Snes video from that game show? Me: ZOOOOOMM.... 🏃 🏃 Good choises, Waygan paradise is a good a cute game, sadly never left japan and there is no translator yet, but if you like Kirby You'll love this one. Ganpuru Gunmman proof, rudra no hihou, as well, trust me SNES/super famicom, was so huge.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll check it out 🙂

[@jaodasilva7993]

Shampoo-chan!

[@blackenedheart9592]

Always love to see a new video from you my man! 🤘

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Thanks man 🙂

[@juniorbarranqueiro]

Does anyone knows from where is the character from the thumbnail?

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Ranma, her name is Shampoo.

[@juniorbarranqueiro]

Damn, I really forgot her existence hahahahahahah

[@sabin1981]

Another cracking vid of super hidden gems, nice one! :) ... As an aside, what is the music playing during the Metal Combat segment? It sounds *so* painfully familiar but I can't place it!

[@gregorys9629]

Some real deep cuts here - great video! I would recommend Actraiser 2 as a hidden gem - it's Actraiser without the city building element which turns a lot of people off but it's a beautiful tough-as-nails platformer in its own right.

[@thatvideogamesshow]

Love me some Actraiser!

[@leviskata]

these need timestamps... like i dont understand why they refuse to do that

[@symptomaticblackout]

Next time use a crt shader to showcase snes games, raw pixels look horrible

[@ThePanacon]

Don't you think it would look so much better when you applied a CRT Scanline filter to the console games from that era? The image was so much sharper and more detailed on a CRT compared to this cheap pixel looks without the proper look from back then.

[@Kruonen]

xa

[@Vik1919]

Sky Blazer was based on Hinduism?! I would have never known if it wasn't for you. I am definitely gonna play that game now. They shouldn't have censored it. Probably would have sold more. Not many games have Hinduism elements in them. Spelunky has Kali, La-Mulana has Shiva, there's Uncharted: Lost Legacy and SMT/Persona games. There are a few more.

[@alvaromendes1099]

Brvh. At best only two games on this list could be considered "hidden gems". No, just no my guy.

[@rodzandz]

Please note: 1. Mediocre games that received little fanfare when they were released do not mean they are "hidden gems" now. (e.g. 7th saga, World heroes 2, Emerald dragon, Ignition Factor, etc.) 2. If a game is on EVERY hidden gem list on the internet.... it's not a hidden gem anymore (e.g. Run Sabre, King of Demons, Sky Blazer)

[@SonofSethoitae]

You not enjoying a game is not enough to disqualify something as a hidden gem.

[@rockfresh1993]

H

[@L4wnM0w3rM4n]

Shadowrun...

[@skeletor6697]

Not a hidden gem is it

[@L4wnM0w3rM4n]

@skeletor6697 Shadowrun SNES? I beg to differ. If someone brings up 16bit era Shadowrun, as rare even as that is, it's usually the Genesis one.