20 Severely Underrated 90s Video Games You Forgot You Loved

18. Mischief Makers - N64, 1997

The N64 was defined by fantastic platformers. Yet its heyday was that uncomfortable time for gaming when pixels and 2D platforming were seen as anachronistic in a time when polygons were becoming the order of the day. The N64, in particular, was guilty of leaving the pixel for dead. Maybe that's why 2D platformer Mischief Makers was drowned out amidst its 3D contemporaries like Super Mario 64, Banjo-Kazooie, and Donkey Kong 64. But with a pixel revival now in full swing there's no better time to go back and appreciate this forgotten gem. You control Marina, a green-haired robotic maid and eponymous Mischief Maker who journeys through the bizarre world of Planet Clancer to save her creator. The gameplay was like no other platformer made up to that point, with destructible environments, tons of grabbable objects you could throw at enemies, and imaginative boss fights. With all that said, the professor whom it's your mission to rescue is a little on the lecherous side, making you wonder what kind of grim Hannibal-esque Marina went through to want to save him; perhaps that's a stone best left unturned...