Most impressive games on old hardware?

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What games for old systems would you consider impressive and why?

For me, I'd say the old Banjo Pilot beta was pretty impressive for the GBA. I mean, it's full 3D with voxels on a SNES like system where most 3D was fairly bland or mode 7 like:


And this Asterix game was mighty impressive too, tech wise. It was a 3D platformer on the GBA:


For the original Game Boy, well, I remember seeing a full blown First Person Shooter in development for that:


And for the NES, this Batman game was mighty impressive. Looks almost like an early 16 bit game to some degree:


For Nintendo 64 games, some custom Mario 64 levels are incredibly detailed for something on such old hardware:


So what games for old systems would you call technically impressive and why?
 
Chrono Trigger had the most impressive graphics on the SNES to me - especially with Dark Matter and the vortex's visual styling. Donkey Kong Country blew my mind when I first saw it, as did the Mortal Kombat games as those looked like real people back then.

For NES godzilla had some mighty detailed character sprites for a very poor game. The cutscenes in the Ninja Gaiden Trilogy were top-notch animation as well.
 
Oh yeah, Chrono Trigger did look fantastic!

Then again, I'd say Seiken Densetsu 3 (Japan only) gives it a run for its money visually:

 
CM30 said:
Oh yeah, Chrono Trigger did look fantastic!

Then again, I'd say Seiken Densetsu 3 (Japan only) gives it a run for its money visually:

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oh, i am fully aware of SD3 (if you remember the animated gif I used on your last forum it was a pallet swap of Angela from it that I made after smoothing over the graphics a bit). I agree it looked great, but the special effects for skills weren't there like the turn-bases style of CT allowed for (such as Dark Matter and Luminair).

Off subject: Always wondered why SD3 never got a point considering that we got all the other games in the series and I felt 3 was the best one - especially with how you could choose so many character and story options similar to Dragon Age 1 or Elder Scrolls Online.
 
Not to double-post, but I thought of one that was the most-impressive graphically way over anything else I've mentioned. Great story, humor, graphics, gameplay, music... everything too!

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars! And why shouldn't it? After all, Squaresoft made it using a combination of the engines from Donkey Kong Country and the one they used in both Chrono Trigger & Final Fantasy 6!
 
Super Mario RPG definitely looks brilliant for a SNES game.

For a more modern few examples... well, Banjo Tooie has to be one of the most impressive N64 games:


And for the Gamecube... some of Nintendo's titles still hold up pretty well today. Luigi's Mansion has a ton of atmosphere even now:



Mario Sunshine was pretty nice looking too. Especially the water effects.

 
For GameCube the Resident Evil remake, Resident Evil Zero, and my personal favrite; Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem are the top three graphically superior games on the console that I can think of. heh, funny all three are horror games.
 
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