Recommendations for PC Engine games CD/hu card

[Justinjcox20]

I have a pc engine duo now. It's awesome, but not region modded. I needed some recommendations of games. I have star parodier, and a home brew (insanity???) Anyway, I do not know jappanese, so it would have to be shmups and platformer. Let me know, I'm looking for hidden gems to play

[lukester]

Platformers

Rondo
Bonk's Revenge
Liquid kids
Ninja gaiden
New adventure island
Ninja spirit
Tonma
Aoi blink
Legendary axe 1 and 2
Parasol stars: bubble bobble 3

Shooters

Override
Salamander
Gate of thunder
Lords of thunder
Galaga 88
Final soldier
Gunhed
1943 Kai

[nopepper]

You just want hidden gems? If so, here are a couple:

Formation Armed F - I'm probably in the minority, but this game is brilliant. It might be a shoddy conversion of the arcade game, but it's still a great game.

Violent Soldier (US Sinistron) - Similar to above, but more recognized. Great level designs and very challenging.

Download - another awesome shooter with a great vibe and some of the best engrish ever.

I suggest you invest on an Everdrive first, so you can sample the games you like and then you don't have to take my or anybody else's word.

[Caseh]

Kinda new to the PCE myself but a few I've discovered recently:

Kaze Kiri
Double Dragon 2
Pomping World
Valis 3
Forgotten Worlds (brilliant port)
Gain Ground SX
Bomberman 94

I'm still discovering games myself so will add anything else I stumble across.

[Black Tiger]

Good, but not expensive CD games:

Cho Aniki
Ai Cho Aniki
Download 2
Macross 2036
Gradius II
Super Darius II
Neo Nectaris
Motoroader MC
Panic Bomber
Shapeshifter
Spriggan
Spriggan Mk2


Arcade Card needed:

Kabuki Itouryoden



HuCards:

Hana Taka Daka
Bomberman '93
Be Ball
Parodius Da!
Detana Twinbee

[imparanoic]

my recommendations, for reasonable priced ones ( best to buy after xmas, as its cheaper), note pc engine cd rom has no region code, you can play us cds

shootemups hucards

Soldier Blade ( can be pricey nowadays at US$70/GBP50), Super Star Soldier, PC Denjin, Airbusters,

shootemups CDs

winds of thunder, spiggan 2, gates of thunder

Platformer hucards /cds

Jackie Chan, PC Genjin/Kid 2, ninja spirit

[Keith Courage]

Look at http://www.thebrothersduomazov.com/

He goes in to pretty big detail as to what games require japanese knowledge and which don't

[jtucci31]

^^^Brothers Duomazov is THE site to go to (aside from The PCE Software Bible). I always go to that site for reviews of games I'm thinking about buying or to read reviews of games I already own. He even has some guides for games (which are also linked to on here as well).

Sift through his site and spend an afternoon reading some reviews, they're pretty well written and have great screenshots to showcase whatever game you're looking at.

[Punch]

Go after PCE shooters, there's a lot of underrated games (specially in the shootie dept.) that can be purchased for cheap.

[Vimtoman]

Try Gamola Speed it's a nice game and still available at a reasonable price.

[VenomMacbeth]

Try Gamola Speed it's a nice game and still available at a reasonable price.

Agreed, an excellent & unique action puzzler.

Also, it's *Gomola Speed.  Unless you're my girlfriend...then it's Granola Snake. Lol

[Groover]

Rondo

Gate of Thunder

Those are good. Also others have a pretty good list for sure.

[cr8zykuban0]

ai cho aniki and toilet kids if you like shooters with humor

[retro junkie]

Here are some that I have discovered.
Hucards
BIKKURI MAN WORLD - It is really Wonderboy in Monster World.
Don Doko Don- reminds me of snow brothers
MÄRCHEN MAZE - an overhead shooter, sort-of Alice in Wonderland characters
MOMOTARŌ KATSUGEKI - basically Peach boy, platformer
OBOCCHAMA-KUN - a very odd wacky platformer (usually fairly cheap to pick up)
YŌKAI DŌCHŪKI - good platformer, some spooks and monsters
GENPEI TŌMA DEN - KANNONI - can't explain it, but I love this game. side scrolling platformer. Maybe its the giant worm, flying eyeballs, or the blasted monkeys. It gets so weird in places.
Dungeon Explorer - even though it is in Japanese and you won't know what the story is about, you will still have a lot of fun and the gameplay will in certain ways remind you of Gauntlet.
Street Fighter 2- hey it is a very good port of the arcade game.
And the shooters, as everyone is recommending, are awesome, if you are into that genre. I have 18 just in my PC Engine library alone. I have 10 in my Turbo Grafx 16 library. A total of 28 different shooters. Gate of Thunder and Lords of Thunder are good CD-Roms of the same genre.

Image Fight
W-Rings
Heavy Unit
Paranoia
Armed F
Final Blaster
Super Star Soldier
Rock On
Cyber Core
R-Type I & II
Dragon Spirit
Space Harrier
After Burner 2
Rabio Lepus
Down Load
Raiden -simply the best arcade port of its day
Galaga
Soldier Blade
Aero Blasters
Air Zonk
Side Arms
Dead Moon
Blazing Lazers
Sinistron
Ordyne
Gradius
Salamander
Hini in the Sky

And I am still looking to add more.