Show Off Games…

[Sparky]

Ok, so you have some friends over or even some family with that crazy drunken uncle of yours and you want to show off how damn good your TG16/Cd or Duo is, what games do you bring out to show off and to maybe get them playing? Also which ones do you not ?…

For the TG16 Soldier Blade would be front row to show with its fast pace and big fire power and if its a little to fast for'm then good old Bonk's will get them smiling young or old

Any of the sports games that starts with the word "TV" would not be shown

EDIT: for spelling mistakes…

[guyjin]

Sapphire. Definitely. If you aren't lucky enough to have it, you can substitute Lords of Thunder.
Then, Show them Bonk's Revenge. If someone comments about it being 'kiddy', remove it quickly and replace with Splatterhouse.
Finally, put in Bomberman '93 and invite all to join in

as for games I'd hide: Timeball, China Warrior, Ballistix, and Keith Courage (worst pack-in ever.)

[_joshuaTurbo]

Lords of Thunder, Bomberman '94 and of course Kickball

[nat]

Air Zonk, Gate of Thunder, Sapphire, Lords of Thunder, Castlevania/Rondo of Blood, Terraforming (OK, so the gameplay is average, but the visuals are awesome), Bonk 3, Dungeon Explorer, the list could go on and on and on.

[runinruder]

I'd hide my whole collection.  I wouldn't trust some crazy drunken uncle around my precious games and systems.

If the uncle passed out, then I'd show off Anearth, Sapphire, Lords, Gate, Air Zonk, Burai, Ys, etc.

[Keranu]

If the uncle passed out, then I'd show off Anearth, Sapphire, Lords, Gate, Air Zonk, Burai, Ys, etc.

Hahahaha! I love how Burai got thrown in there!

[SignOfZeta]

At this point pretty much everyone thinks 20 year old systems are just old junk so it would have to be Bomberman/93/94 or nothing because they'd have to play a game in order to appreciate it. The visuals will do nothing for them regardless of how good they are "for back then".

Drunk uncles don't know how impressive it is for a PCE to do Saturn quality graphics (could be said of Sapphire) because they think Saturn quality graphics suck too.

[Sinistron]

people always get a kick out of photoboy.

[awack]

I use to live about 200 yards or so from my brother and best friend who were roommates at the time so there was always allot of people around and this was eight years ago when i just got back into playing classic games.

I wanted to show every one how cool these games were, i showed them what i thought were the best games on the Duo, Snes and Genesis and the response i got from about half of the people, was (what is that, a nintendo game) even if it was a cd game with cd quality music

One day i was playing this little game called Rondo of blood when my brother came over and watched me play for about an hour, not saying anything during or after me playing the game, the next day he comes over with two of his friends, one of which had said that Macross sv for the snes and Lords of thunder looked like nintendo games , and tells me to show them the game i was playing the day before, so i did and they were very impressed, one of the guys wanted to borrow my Duo and the game...that didn't happen.

[Sinistron]

yeah seriously if rondo doesn't impress you then you're probably a blooming idiot

[Necromancer]

Hawaiian Island Girls - boobies are always impressive. 

Seriously though, I'd show 'em Lords of Thunder, Sapphire, Air Zonk, Bomberman '94, and Street Fighter II' if they're SNES or Genny fans.

[Black Tiger]

Legend of Xanadu II (bosses through debug mode)
Dungeon Explorer II (intros)
Lords of Thunder
World Heroes 2/Fatal Fury Special
Parodius
Dracula X

[Tatsujin]

Sapphire. Definitely. If you aren't lucky enough to have it, you can substitute Lords of Thunder.
Then, Show them Bonk's Revenge. If someone comments about it being 'kiddy', remove it quickly and replace with Splatterhouse.
Finally, put in Bomberman '93 and invite all to join in

that would probably be my session as well somewhere i would add dracula x. the intro alone is worth it!

[vestcoat]

The Duo has some impressive shooters that might dazzle your guests for a moment but I've found that casual gamers from back-in-the-day never really played shooters and they're too difficult for a newbie to pick up and get into.

At this point pretty much everyone thinks 20 year old systems are just old junk so it would have to be Bomberman/93/94 or nothing because they'd have to play a game in order to appreciate it. The visuals will do nothing for them regardless of how good they are "for back then".

I agree, you'd have to get them playing right away and also go for the nostalgia factor.  Bonk, Alien/Devil's Crush, and Legend of Hero Tonma are good titles that anyone can pick up and play; with two-players like Bonk 3, Shockman, Splash Lake, or Devil's Crush being even better.  Besides Bomberman, Moto Roader, Dodgeball and Battle Load Runner are good party games.

My friends tend to get turned-off by bad voice acting and long loading times.  Because of this, DE2 and the ACD fighters have never gone over terribly well.  I've had better luck getting people to play four-player Gauntlet 2 on the NES than DE2.

(Making them wait 20 minutes while you try to swap files with a Tennokoe Bank in a Barney converter and then try to figure out why your Duo Tap doesn't work with your extension chord doesn't help either...)

[Sinistron]

Besides some of these shock & awe games you guys are mentioning a game like Parasol Stars is a good one to show.  Gameplay is so addicting, music is nice and zippy and zany, graphics have to make you smile and are colorful as hell, and all the points and bonuses and levels are dizzying for a small little cartridge -- and whoever doesn't love Bubble Bobble is probably brain dead.