I'm a little late to the game (aren't we all since this is retrogaming), but I finished playing through Battle Kid for NES and it was probably the best homebrew game I've sat through, let alone paid for. IMHO it's good enough to have been a licensed title even in the early 90s (with a few art tweaks).
So I'm going to nab Battle Kid 2, but I'd also like to ask if there are other homebrew title recommendations that are equally high quality. There's an awful lot of free homebrew that feel like little more than tech demos, and some commercially available homebrew that doesn't look too exciting at all. But I'd like to start building a short list of things to check out.
Edit: I have the following physical platforms: NES, Sega Master System, Genesis/Megadrive, Turbo Grafx 16 / PC Engine (HU and CD), GB/GBC/GBA/DS, SNES, N64, Playstation. Also, a Commodore 64, an old 486, and the Altair 8800 clone, but since these are general purpose computers the homebrew title gets a little fuzzy but a good modern title for a retro platform is a good title!
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[–] Northvvait [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Unofficial ports are a hard line to draw. I saw Alter Ego on the NES which is a port of a ZX Spectrum game which felt fresh and substantially different thanks to having music and better graphics. Then again, there are ton of Tetris/Columns clones out there which are undoubtedly good because of the source material, but hard to really justify playing it over the originals IMO. But I'll admit if there was a Tetris Grandmaster unofficially ported to NES I'd be all over it instead of Nintendo's or Tengen's.
I keep harping on NES because it has a special place in my heart, but I'll update the post to include the crowd: Sega Master System, Genesis/Megadrive, Turbo Grafx 16 / PC Engine (HU and CD), GB/GBC/GBA/DS, SNES, N64, Playstation. Also equipped with Commodore 64, a 486-class PC, and the Altair 8800 clone, but at that point since they're computers developing on them isn't as much as a mission as it is on consoles so I don't consider them "homebrew" per se but any modern recommendations for retro platforms would be pretty sweet!