10 under-the-radar NES gems that should be remade now

#6 Star Tropics

Star Tropics

The original: Imagine a mash-up of The Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy, give it a modern (for the time, anyway) setting, and have it blatantly designed for the American market, and you have Star Tropics.

If that doesn't sound awesome to you, well... I regret to inform you that you're wrong because it was and is still awesome.

Mike Jones is an adventurous kid, as well as an ace baseball pitcher, who is visiting the tropical island his scientist uncle, Dr. Jones (sound familiar?), is doing research on.

Unfortunately, when he arrives he is immediately informed that his uncle has gone missing (dun dun duuuuuun!) and only you can find him

Here's a video that will explain it better than I can:

The potential: With the announcement of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening getting a fancy pants to remake on the Switch, it would be a lot of fun to see this cult favorite also get the same treatment (this goes the same for Earthbound, but we thought that was too obvious of an entry and, besides, everybody knows about that game at this point).

Keeping the same top-down, 2-D perspective, but fancying it up on the switch, maybe adding new content and all sorts of other upgrades, and Nintendo could have another sleeper hit on their hands.

Kind of like how the original Star Tropics was.