StinkySnork

I played the hell out of this game back in the day. Still love it.

Extra points for it for the frisbee catching dog bonus game.

Not sure about underrated, but definitely mostly unknown anymore, would have to be Star Control 2.

The exploration, combat, and humor are all just so involving. I can pick it up now and enjoy it as much as I did decades ago.

Add to it, Marble Drop and Full Tilt from Maxis. Marble Drop was a fun puzzle game with marbles in intricate machines, and Full Tilt was three Pinball games, one of which was the original Space Cadet Windows later used with XP. The other two tables were pirate and dragon slaying based, but equally as engaging for me

For me, this controller (neo Geo pad) worked so much better than anything else out there at the time, short of an arcade stick. The directional pad is what I wish all others would at least attempt to do, rather than four individual buttons.

The Master System version included a hidden level and boss that I don’t believe were on any other ports. I could be completely wrong, as I’m going off memory from a long time ago.

That hidden level was quite difficult for me then. Probably still is.