Topic: Games that took full advantage of the systems they released on

@ReaderRagfihs that is simply unbelievable. I got it for the psp but street fighter alpha 3 looks great. Mind blowing stuff. Now I wanna buy it.
Just checked out the gameplay on YouTube

I don't know how technologically challenging it was to make, but Nano Assualt EX has very impressive graphics for a 3DS game.

nevertheless, they persisted.

Hyrule warriors legends 3ds.

Opinion-games that were technically advanced with great sound and gameplay for their time:
Atari 2600-Solaris
NES-Kirby's Dreamland
Super Nintendo-Illusion of Gaia, Secret of Mana, Link to the Past, F-Zero, Donkey Kong Country trilogy, Star Fox.
N64-Perfect Dark and Rogue Squadron.
Sega Genesis- Gunstar Heroes and Castlevania Bloodlines
Dreamcast-Shenmue
Xbox-Halo 2 and Battlefront II
Gamecube-Rogue Squadron II
Wii- Skyward Sword
Wii U-Twilight Princess HD
X360-Fallout 3 and New Vegas
Xbox One-Dragon Age Inquisition
Switch-Breath of the Wild
This was an opinion. These are the games that left me in awe when I first played them.

Nintendo DS - Blood of Bahamut.
I feel that the DS had a great deal of games that pushed not only the limits of the platform, but also the creativity of the developers, thanks to the limitations. Blood of bahamut is just something that popped into my head, but I know there are several others that pushed the system.

@Illusion I always thought the bosses in Gunstar Heroes were especialy impresive, doing stuff I only thought was possible on the Super Nintendo. Seven Force was always my favorite.

3D games on the Game Boy Advance really blew me away big time, back then.
Some games used clever tricks, such as the two Iridion games from our friends at Shin'en:

However, the one that REALLY impressed me, and still does to this day, is Top Gear Rally GBA:

I remember really feeling blown away by Star Wars Rogue Squadron 2 on Gamecube. It was one of the the few games on the system to support digital 480p via the component cables and really showed that the system had more potential that many gave it credit for. The 3D models of the fighters still look rather impressive.

@Heavyarms55 Well, I can definitely agree to that one too. And the game does still look good, even on a modern TV.

@ReaderRagfihs Yeah, that was a decent effort as well, except that due to the type of game, it had far more obvious pop up and clipping problems, and a more or less stationary background, Sega Saturn style (just look at footage of the Saturn version of Sega Rally and you'll get the point), whereas Top Gear showed far less of both pop up and clipping, and also added a rotating background, and several other, more advanced effects in play,
as well as a decent frame rate, giving it a good sense of speed/motion, especially in the later levels, so that still remains my #1 3D title on the GBA.

Platforming/adventure games tend to move far slower, which made the weakness of the hardware, and thus
the weakness of the 3D effects, more noticeable, as well as how pixelated everything looks. A game running at a higher speed, or at least giving the impression that it does, makes those chunky pixels somewhat less obvious while playing.

A good example of a middle ground title, and one that I forgot to mention, is the GBA version of Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance. Because of it's speed and reasonable fluidity, you don't really notice all the time how blocky it actually looks, which you will notice if you just watch a video of it, instead of playing it:

Either way: I hope that someone with a GBA or compatible DS, who never knew these games, might have become interested enough, to give any of them a go, because in the end, all of them are worth it.

@Dezzy You are correct about the removal of GamePad usage. However, just in terms of maxing out the hardware I think BotW did a great job of fully utilizing the Wii U hardware. I personally think the graphics of BotW look much nicer than in Xenoblade X with less pop in as well, but that might just be because BotW went with cell-shaded graphics while Xenoblade X went with realistic graphics.

I'm not sure how much it pushed the hardware but I was blown away by Silpheed on the Mega CD. I thought it was much more impressive than Starfox, which came out the same year, 1993. It still holds up pretty well too unlike Starfox. I'd love to play it again, it's been near 25 years.

Check out 13:10, 24:30, 27:15, 36:25

for some really impressive 16 bit CD graphics.

No mention of Tearaway on the PSVita. This game took everything the Vita had feature-wise, and used it. The touchpad, camera, motion/giro controls and the microphone.