In the 7800 community, most of us are very fond of Ninja Golf. But in other retro game communities, people dog it sometimes for the reasons I provided.
Impossible Mission is great. I beat it on the Wii, in fact. And beating Possible Mission on the 7800 is one of the best gaming moments of my life. LOL. That was cathartic.
"Plane" Smashers could be vastly improved with a small graphical hack and fixed audio. The audio is atrocious... and a plane in space is stupid. Atari dorked up their protagonists in almost every single game: Adventure, Centipede, Midnight Mutants, Motorpsycho, Fatal Run, Mean 18, Super Skateboardin', Scrapyard Dog, Planet Smashers, etc etc etc.