Ys

Ys Famicom Title Screen

…the Famicom port is not considered to be of very high quality when compared to all of the other Ys ports.

Choujikuu Yousai Macross

Macross Famicom Title Screen

While this first entry in the Macross game franchise isn’t a bad game, it’s just not very interesting or fun. And it’s definitely not as notable as some of the other entries yet to come.

Mobile Suit Z Gundam – Hot Scramble

Gundam-Hot-Scramble-Title-Screen

Hot Scramble consists of two very different styles of gameplay: Cockpit view shooting (it’s really an FPS) and side-scrolling action shooting. The beginning of each level puts you inside of the Z Gundam’s cockpit on earth, where they are flying along the ground and shooting at other Mobile Suits with a beam rifle.

ActRaiser

ActRaiser Title Screen

The high quality of this game’s soundtrack can not be overstated. To many it remains one of Yuzo Koshiro’s finest and most defining works, and it certainly shows that he understood how to use the SNES/Super Famicom sound chip to its fullest extent right from the beginning of the system’s life.

Monster Hunter G

Monster Hunter G Title Screen

While Monster Hunter G makes the first generation of this series much more palatable, it probably won’t convince someone who found the first entry unplayable to jump into the series.