I'd highly recommend playing Wonderboy in Monsterland for the Sega Master System. It has a very slight RPG element - you buy upgrades for your armour, and special weapons as you go along, but it's mainly an action platformer. The RPG element just changes the way the game can be played in certain areas.
I loved Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap when I was a youngster, and I've often wondered about this, so I'm going to ask (
): Is Wonder Boy in Monsterland worth it after that, or will it seem too dated or possibly clunky in comparison?
Looks like we share a taste in Games then, I hate RPGs too.
Hah, it's always nice to know that I'm not alone in that! Seems to be a somewhat rare thing, at times, though I'm sure it probably isn't, and that that's a result of the media skewing things in some way or another.
If you're not averse to DOS (or have already played all of them, perhaps that's why you didn't ask for DOS ), I'd recommend Pushover and StoneAge, both excellently designed puzzle games.
I'm not averse to MS-DOS, though I didn't mention it for a reason. I probably should have mentioned that in the first place!
I go through phases with what sorts of games I'm in the right frame of mind to play. Right now, my focus is stuff that was well-known in the UK and Europe in the early to mid-1990s, that I somehow didn't find interesting at the time even though it actually was to my tastes. When I was a kid, unappealing character design could put me off of a game entirely, for example; It does mean that there's now a goldmine of games to my tastes in these times of games-to-my-taste drought, at least! I could probably have expanded my list of systems a bit, to that end, since the Master System (which an alarming amount of people are forgetting was Europe's dominant-by-far 8-bit console) was still going strong, too.
It was the case that x86 hardware running MS-DOS and/or Microsoft Windows wasn't really much of a player in the games market here at all until around 1996, for most people (x86 hardware's place largely seemed to be in workplaces, and most home users had Amigas and Atari STs). The very first MS-DOS game I ever encountered myself was Lemmings 3D, funnily enough.
I've recently gone through a phase of picking up MS-DOS stuff that wasn't really a big thing here, so I'm on to different pastures for the time being.
Of course for platformers, Prince of Persia and Commander Keen, in particular 5, which you probably know already though.
I have most of the Commander Keen games by virtue of them still being sold, luckily enough. Keen 5 is at about the limit of the hardware I usually emulate classic games on, though.
I have never played Prince of Persia. I know that I need to rectify this, so thanks much for suggesting it.
On the Genesis, there's a platformer called Kid Chameleon which, as far as I know, was Sega's answer to Super Mario (and it shows ), it's pretty challenging the first time around, but I find it very enjoyable.
That's all I can think of right now, and then I haven't played that many games.
I have Kid Chameleon! Brilliant title, that. For some reason, these days it puts me in mind of a game version of the cartoon series, Ben 10.
I can only imagine that, had that been a 1990s TV series, that's the kind of game that would have been made of it.
Thanks guys, the suggestions are much appreciated.
