Cabal
While most games of the time focused on showing things from a side view, the side scroller, Cabal did things slightly different. In this game the view was from behind as you advanced forward into a military base doing what you do in all these games, shoot and throw grenades. The refreshing part of this game was that the view was from behind which gave people a slightly different perspective and during a time when people copied everyone else, it was nice to see a deviation from the norm. This game never made it to the NES but it was successful in the arcade.