The Top 10 Greatest SNES (Super Nintendo) Hidden Gems

Ah, no love for Metal Marines? One of the best hidden gems on the SNES in my opinion.

I actually was surprised to even see "Lagoon" near the beginning of this video (as an Honorable mention) especially considering that some people refer to "Lagoon" as a "bad game'. LOL I don't consider "Lagoon" to be a "Hidden Gem", but I also don't consider it to be a bad game either. LOL

First and foremost, this is a pretty good list with a few games even I haven't heard of and I grew up during the 4th generation. I was/still am a huge gamer that had both the Sega Genesis/Sega CD and Snes when they were current (I got all three at Christmas of their first year). Sorry, I'm impressed with the obscurity of some of these games. However...

I don't know if you were around for the fourth generation but Shadowrun is not a game I would consider a hidden gem. What I mean by that is both the series and games (Genesis/Snes) were huge when I was a kid. I remember playground arguments that lasted all day solely on which version of Shadowrun was the best. My generation grew up on Cyberpunk themed everything. From games like The Syndicate, Zero Tolerance, Shadowrun, System Shock (1994 release on PC), and the like.

What about the HD Custers Revenge remake

OMG I found another Aerobiz Supersonic fan. I love that game, despite all of its flaws. Thank you for giving it some love.

Hagane was hard af

Shadowrun is the best snes game of all time!

One word: Arcana. Not super innovative, but decent story, great atmosphere, and really awesome soundtrack.

I’ve only heard of Magic Sword as an arcade back near 1990. I didn’t see it in home systems till the xbox360 had it in their online store. Would have loved to have that game on snes back in the day.

Video is well put together, but I wonder how many of these can actually be considered "hidden gems." Ogre Battle and Space Megaforce are generally considered a rare classic among enthusiasts, and their prices have long served as a barometer for the SNES collector's market.
Any "hidden gem" status that Hagane had went out the window almost 10 years ago when Mike Matei mentioned it as a hidden gem in a video, and prices shot up for it pretty much over night from ~$60 to well over $200! In fact, it looks like Hagane broke the $1,000 mark last year.

Man, I remember playing the heck out of Baseball Simulator back in the day. Target Earth was one of my favorite Sega Genesis games of all time. I never knew the SNES had a sequel. I will have to track down Cybernator and play it. I had a copy of March of the Black Queen. I couldn't get into it. I traded it in for credit towards Popful Mail on the Sega CD.

My favorite console of all times , and My favorite gen.

I absolutely loved Shadowrun.

Cant even find a ROM download for Hagane

Pto2 may have been more unknown than gemfire. It would be good drop in replacement for that pick.

front mission gun hazard should be on the list.

Great video...I'd only heard of a few of them. I'd add EVO to this list since it was so obscure and hard to find that most game stores hadn't even heard of it when it was released.

Baseball Simulator is my favorite sports game of all time.

If we’re counting Japanese releases with English patches, I’d have to put “Fire Emblem 4: Genealogy of the Holy War” in there also!

Love the genre variety you have here. Bravo Sir.

Hagane is the one of the Hardest SNES Games for me!

These are nice picks and very unique. I need to look into Star Ocean and had completely forgot about Baseball Simulator 1000. Fun video!

Gemfire was on both the super Nintendo and the Sega genesis. The exact same game but just a little faster on the Genesis

A nice selection of games. I have played both aerobiz games, gemfire on the SNES and Genesis, Shadowru, Genesis Shadow run which is different than SNES but I never played the original Star ocean. Only the later games.

paladins quest

Superb list!

Solid list. Not sure what my top ten hidden gems would be but Front Mission Gun Hazard would definitely make the list 👌

You want a hidden gem, go play EVO on the snes, it's like the snes spore

Gemfire looks like Dragon Force. I want some good new "map conquering" games like Dragon Force. Anyone know any?

I loved magic sword! They had an arcade machine of it at my local Pizza Hut when my dad worked there when I was probably 7 or 8 years old. I loved the arcade crawl of the gameplay, and it was just such a fun game, although it was very challenging!

Cybernator fav weapon is the napalm launcher ^^

Ogre Battle was the first game I played where I actually felt I could have a unique replay everytime I restarted

Great list of SNES games. Usually its always the same games and I was wanting to try something new. Great work man!

Good to see KOEI getting some love, and sports games. Those are 2 staples for me.

Shadowrun was so ahead of its time. It pushed the hardware as far as possible to create the early elements of a more open world exploration. Wonderful forever.

Lol hagane hidden gem more like no one can afford it

Only 25,000 Ogre Battles. didn't know that, was lucky to get it in the UK through a grey importer back then.
Dont think i managed more than 3 endings over 8 playthroughs, sigh, no internet back then.

This man is going to make dig out my old CRT TV and my old systems. Fantastic channel.

Lufia 2 I think is under-rated or maybe just not talked about too much.

Cool, man. I already talked to you about your number one on this list so, let's talk about another one you mentioned that I have. Super Baseball 1.000. It is pronounced one thousand, but it is a reference to a baseball players hitting statistic. 1.000 is a perfect batter who hits the ball every time they go up to bat. Nobody in the history of ever has this statistic.
Oh, and that's it. I only own #10 and #1 from this list. Oh, wait. I have Shadowrun also, but I've never played it. Maybe I will now as many of these types of videos recommend it.

Is this SNES drunk?

I like your work for the most part but the mention and praise of Ogre Battle while it uses tarot cards can encourage people to rely on them in real Life which will open them to real demonic attack! Which is not Good, if no one could tell!

Star Ocean is criminally overlooked. Anyone who enjoys 16-bit JRPGs needs to play it, especially since it has a full translation patch. That game was so far ahead of its time in so many different aspects.

My personal favorite video game is U.N. Squadron, but I never see it mentioned anywhere. Very rewarding shmup to play at Gamer difficulty, and it doesn't remove your upgrades when you die.

I can just watch this channel for hours lol. Fantastic content Mr Xygor

Hagane is INSALEY difficult too, don't forget that either

Space Megaforce was a total banger!

7th saga and Lufia 2