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[Roundabout Lout]

I haven't seen this yet on this forum, so I'll ask it. What are your favorite classic console games, I'm thinking along the lines of NES, SNES, Genesis, and anything else that seems right. Bonus points for them being hidden gems.

The Ganbare Goemon series. Mostly the SNES games, but the rest of the series is good too. Had side-scrolling action broken up with a couple of awesome first person giant mecha fights.

[Sean Mirrsen]

NES:
Over Horizon. Best scrolling shmup I ever had the pleasure to play on all the classic consoles.
Ice Climber. No comment.

Genesis:
Contra:Hard Corps. The only Contra I know off where they pulled it off right.
Dune:The Battle for Arrakis: Well, The RTS. No comment, really.
Herzog Zwei: The other great RTS, with a hell of a control system. (transforming mecha isntead of a mouse cursor?)
The entire Phantasy Star series. I actually liked it better than Final Fantasy, depite the latter's superior plot lines.
Zero Tolerance: The closest any game on these consoles ever got to Doom without copying it.
Battletech: Should've been "Mechwarrior", actually, and has quite a few errors (gauss rifle grenade launcher?), but still a great action game.
Surprisingly, Ecco the Dolphin. I never expected myself to like a game about a dolphin. Despite the wacky storyline, a very original game.

SNES:
Since I didn't own one (for long, anyway), my first-hand experience with it is rather limited, but I did get a few games on emulators, mostly well-known ones, like E.V.O., Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country(1,2,3), and various Final Fantasies.

[Torak]

Ogre Battle.

[Okenido]

Ogre Battle.

QFT

[chaoticag]

I use to like secret of mana and mortal kombat three on the SNES.
Too bad everyone is screwing with classics these days.

[Aqizzar]

Hmm... I'm going to mention a lot of games that would go without mention, if they didn't demand mention.  So many to get through I'll probably have to post again.

For the SNES, there were the last great SquareSoft games.  Final Fantasy 6 was operatic in a way none since have managed to match.  It was just all around fantastic for it's time.  Surpassed only by Chrono Trigger, which can only be called the best RPG ever.  Bar none.  Don't even think about it.  And to be honest, I don't even really know why, so I can't even defend that.  Oh yeah, and the Super Mario RPG, which was just loads of fun.  They also made a platform-shooter-RPG called Front Mission: Gun Hazard, but it was never released outside Japan.  You need an emulator and a patch for it.

Other games to remember were things like Harvest Moon, which was just irresistible; Battletoads, Earthworm Jim, and such, great time wasters from the heyday of platformers; plenty of nice Kirby games.  Act Raiser (the first one) was an ingenious if simple combination of platformer and city building, hampered only by being ass bastard hard.  The Chaos Engine was a really spiffy isometric shooter, made very playable by being co-op.

Any Genesis list would be incomplete without Sonic, bless his tortured license.  Alien Soldier was a neato platformer in the Contra vein.  Can't forget Golden Axe, dwarf FTW.  The Road Rash games were some of the best pre-3D racers out there, 3 especially, if only for the way cool music.  Vector Man will always have a place in my heart, for being the first game I had on the console.

Interesting tidbit about Contra: Hard Corp - it was chopped down (or was it the other way 'round?) to make Contra 3 for the SNES, but Hard Corp had far better speed and performance.  However, it started as a Japanese Contra arcade game, was ported to the Master System, where it was so hard that for the only time in the series, it gained a three hit life bar.  When it was released in America, they dropped the life bar but changed nothing else, making it probably the hardest of all Contras, near unplayable without an emulator.

I only had a few NES games but besides the obvious Mario titles, two really stand out.  One was Iron Tank, hard top-down shooter.  The other, Faxanadu - a platform RPG that, as far as I can tell, is actually endless.  I've logged like 30 hours with an emulator and I don't think I'm anywhere near an end.

[Hawkfrost]

NES:
Ice Climbers
Super Mario 1-3
Gradius
Adventure Island
Final Fantasy 1 (In my humble opinion, the best one they ever made.)

SNES:
Super Mario World (Best Mario game ever.)
Mario Kart
Mortal Kombat 3

Genesis and Mastersystem:
Sonic 1-3
Sonic Spinball
Fantasy Zone 2
Montezuma's Revenge
Ultimate Qix

I think I played too much Mario and Sonic.

[Tuv]

I had some games I really liked for NES and SNES, But I can't think of them!

Genesis:
Alien Storm
Phantasy Star 4 : The End of The Millenium
The first Home-Alone game
Haunting starring Polterguy
and the Earthworm Jim games

[Ryo]

I liked Super Fantasy Zone for the mega drive (Genesis), and still have it on both the mega drive and wii (virtual console ).

[Nonanonymous]

I don't know if it counts, but check out ROM CHECK FAIL at this site.  It's pretty hilarious, blends a whole bunch of classic NES games into one wonderful mess.

[Cthulhu]

Genesis:

Earthworm Jim
Gunstar Heroes
Castlevania: Bloodlines
Mortal Kombat 1/2
Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

[Mister Thou]

for NES, Shingen the Ruler and Rush 'n' Attack (and obviously Legend of Zelda)

for SNES, I agree with Aqizzar about FFVI and ChronoTrigger
also Robotrek and Star Ocean

Edit: Yeah, forgot about Lufia II.

[Duke 2.0]

 Remember: Most computer keyboards cannot take more than a few inputs at once. So any SNES game you have legally(cough cough) on an emulator will make problems if you need to do anything like running in a direction, holding something and jumping. Alas, even if Super Mario World was legal, you would not be able to carry items and jump while going in some direction.

 What I recommend(From the cartridges I used to own): EVO(To get rid of any Spore bummer feeling you might have. Lots of grinding), Soul Blazer(Part of a trilogy, consisting of Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma.), Lufia II(An RPG FAR ahead of it's time), Uncharted Waters, New Horizons(If you know what to do, expect a lot of nautical fun!).

 Also, Terranigma. Early to midgame plot is just grand. Endgame not so grand, but the beginning is just grand.
 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You revive the world. Not some one-time event, thats the plot of the whole game. This isn't some god-game, you are playing a character who is re-creating the world.

 I never got into Chrono Trigger(That's right, mock me for heresy), I was too occupied with Soul Blazer and Terranigma.

[Strife26]

My favorites

Super Mario RPG
Kirby Superstar (Where did I put it!?)

<Moves into bunker>
Final Fantasy 7

It may not be a 'true' console, but ummm.

I'm just going to go now . . .

[Nonanonymous]

 Remember: Most computer keyboards cannot take more than a few inputs at once. So any SNES game you have legally(cough cough) on an emulator will make problems if you need to do anything like running in a direction, holding something and jumping. Alas, even if Super Mario World was legal, you would not be able to carry items and jump while going in some direction.

I have some difficulties with this, but I've found that using WASD for movement, and home, end, delete, insert, and page up/down for the buttons works fairly well.