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Games that you *think* only you on GAF have played
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RiderKairuu
Member
Such an awful, awful game. I don't even remember why I got it, I think it was a birthday gift from like a grandparent who knew I had a Nintendo 64.
There was a Lightspeed Rescue game??!! Holy shit.
Good lord....
I am quite lost for words. I guess if
Night_Trekker
Member
failing that, one of the first games on the PS2: Ring of Red
An SRPG based on Mechs
My only problem with RoR (aside from the pretty terrible translation) is how damn long the maps are. They need to be because of how battle is handled, but that's stopped me from sitting down to play it so many times.
Noisepurge
Member
hehe, i even have a baseball cap with UBIK logo still around somewhere, random swag.
one of the best PS2 games ever, still has the best gangfight mechanics, they dont just wait for their turn.
Invisible Man
aka SexyNerd
BEST THIRD PERSON SHOOTER EVER/
long live Dreamcast
really interested to see who played these.
YES! Been trying to remember the name of this one. Remember having fun playing splitscreen with my cousins and brothers.
Phaethon0017
Member
I will always be Customer number 1. No one else played this game but me.
And if someone did(God bless you) I know damn well they had too much sense to actually finish it. Unlike me.
To this games credit, it was one of the originators of QTE. RE4 and GoW are just posers.
:O! I came in here to post this, so you can imagine my surprise. And yes, I finished it to the end too.
Dr Frasier Crane
Member
Sphinx Adventure on the Acorn Electron.
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tkscz
Member
Heart of Darkness - PC/PS1 (as far as i know)
I have never met anyone who has heard of it, let alone played it. It was really fucking hard for me! I never beat it. The intro was really cool. I hope someone on GAF has played it, because then I won't feel so alone.
here's the intro
Dear god yes. Me and my friend tried staying up all night to beat this. Never did.
The Neverhood, inventive, funny, puzzling and my first romp into P&C adventure games. The music was fucking awesome.
ThankeeSai
Member
Monsters (Acorn Electron)
One of my earliest gaming memories. iirc, this actually came with the computer, but when I ask friends who had the Acorn if they remember it, they look at me like I have 2 heads.
Citadel (Acorn Electron)
Vaguely remember this. Remember having to find keys to unlock doors, that's about it. Again, another one other people don't seem to remember.
Twin Kingdom Valley (Acorn Electron)
My first text adventure game (go North, look at that, pick up this etc), but this one had graphics to show you the places you were at. I remember it taking ages to load and if you went the wrong way, made a wrong choice and got "Game Over" you had to reload the entire thing again.
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There was also one on the MSX that I can find no screen shots of. It was a scrolling shooter called Valkyre (I think). It doesn't seem to exist anywhere, but I swear it was on there. I vividly remember it containing the first digitised speech I had ever heard - As you started the game an 8 bit tune played, then a voice said "Welcome to Valkyre". It wasn't great quality obviously, but you could certainly make it out.
One of my earliest gaming memories. iirc, this actually came with the computer, but when I ask friends who had the Acorn if they remember it, they look at me like I have 2 heads.
Citadel (Acorn Electron)
Vaguely remember this. Remember having to find keys to unlock doors, that's about it. Again, another one other people don't seem to remember.
Twin Kingdom Valley (Acorn Electron)
My first text adventure game (go North, look at that, pick up this etc), but this one had graphics to show you the places you were at. I remember it taking ages to load and if you went the wrong way, made a wrong choice and got "Game Over" you had to reload the entire thing again.
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There was also one on the MSX that I can find no screen shots of. It was a scrolling shooter called Valkyre (I think). It doesn't seem to exist anywhere, but I swear it was on there. I vividly remember it containing the first digitised speech I had ever heard - As you started the game an 8 bit tune played, then a voice said "Welcome to Valkyre". It wasn't great quality obviously, but you could certainly make it out.
Herbspiceguy
Member
Cool, what do you guys do now?
Neverhood, Nosferatu and Heart of Darkness weren't that obscure. I remember seeing/reading about them in gaming magazines and playing demo's of the Neverhood and Heart of Darkness.
Dr Frasier Crane
Member
Monsters (Acorn Electron)
One of my earliest gaming memories. iirc, this actually came with the computer, but when I ask friends who had the Acorn if they remember it, they look at me like I have 2 heads.
Citadel (Acorn Electron)
Vaguely remember this. Remember having to find keys to unlock doors, that's about it. Again, another one other people don't seem to remember.
Twin Kingdom Valley (Acorn Electron)
My first text adventure game (go North, look at that, pick up this etc), but this one had graphics to show you the places you were at. I remember it taking ages to load and if you went the wrong way, made a wrong choice and got "Game Over" you had to reload the entire thing again.
_______
There was also one on the MSX that I can find no screen shots of. It was a scrolling shooter called Valkyre (I think). It doesn't seem to exist anywhere, but I swear it was on there. I vividly remember it containing the first digitised speech I had ever heard - As you started the game an 8 bit tune played, then a voice said "Welcome to Valkyre". It wasn't great quality obviously, but you could certainly make it out.
I have played all these my Acorn Electron brother!
I met him at the company a bunch of the ex-SCi developers set up after they were made redundant, about 8 years ago now. Now we're set up in our own indie Flash games company. I'm not going to make a whole spiel of it so as not to go off-topic, but here's our site (which sorely needs updating).
MMaRsu
Banned
Not me but my friend played this game and was obsessed with it; I have never heard anyone else mention it before:
Dink Smallwood was funny as hell! Killing PIGS HELL YEA
I will have to go with this garbage game :
Fuck you you POS!
My goodness, this thread has helped me remember two games that I have been thinking of, EOE and Heart of Darkness.
Huge nostalgia right now.
Finished it.
Huge nostalgia right now.
I will always be Customer number 1. No one else played this game but me.
And if someone did(God bless you) I know damn well they had too much sense to actually finish it. Unlike me.
To this games credit, it was one of the originators of QTE. RE4 and GoW are just posers.
Finished it.
BEST THIRD PERSON SHOOTER EVER/
long live Dreamcast
really interested to see who played these.
I played the demo of it from one of those Generator demo discs. I remember loving the visuals but fighting the controls.
... why did you post the PS2 box art?
Dictator93
Member
I most likely am not the only person to have played this but...
Azure Phoenix
Member
I seriously doubt anyone else has shared the pain of playing this laughable "game". You can't even wash cars using the analog stick, you have the use the D-Pad to sweep across, move up a few millimetres and sweep across again.
ThankeeSai
Member
Party Popper
Member
My mom used to take me to the local mom and pop video store back in the 80s quite a bit to rent NES games. The first one that springs to mind that I never hear anyone talk about is Robowarrior.
Another one that my friend and I played a ton on the NES was Rescue: The Embassy Mission.
From my Atari 2600 days, I really loved this game as a kid called Frogs and Flies.
Another one that my friend and I played a ton on the NES was Rescue: The Embassy Mission.
From my Atari 2600 days, I really loved this game as a kid called Frogs and Flies.
British Monsoon
Member
If anyone's played these two obscure point & click adventures, I'll be pretty surprised;
Say you've played it. I bet none of you have
yup, had a neighbor who was obsessed with this game
Data Elemental
Member
Yeah, that was pretty fun.People probably have played this but not many.
Lovvveeddd it on the snes.
From what I remember, this one was on many shareware collections back then.
SkyRoads
But I don't really know which older games sold well and which didn't.
As for games nobody else played... Maybe Kaiser Deluxe for DOS? It was in some huge, red and gold plastic/faux leather case with a map and tokens, I think. Only ever saw one copy of it in the shops and got it after seeing it sit there for a long time.
Another one might be ZombieVital Deluxe for PC, although that might not really qualify for the "played in our past" bit, as I only played it recently. And I just played the demo version. It's a Japanese dungeon management game.
Alex Connolly
Member
If anyone's played these two obscure point & click adventures, I'll be pretty surprised;
Lost Eden, while on the easy side, was one of the most memorable adventure games I played as a young scamp. Stéphane Picq, who also did the Dune adventure game OST (Spice Opera under one half of the Exxos name), worked magic and I still have the intro music burned into my brain.
"I am Eloi..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mQlVtSS2xo&feature=related
I'd imagine this was more popular than the other 2 but playing Trials recently reminded me of it so I added it anyway.
I've plated How To Be A Complete... and ATV Simulator. Infact, I played the later quite a bit.
I don't think the Columns games are that obscure, though I've only played the DC (and not the Saturn/Arcade) one. Otherwise, I think Mysterious Paris is as obscure as I got (which is odd enough, given I don't really read Japanese).
Necron
Member
yeah, I also played it and couldn't get very far because of the difficulty. I think I gave up on that swamp level. Seeing as Titanic is back in cinemas, has anyone played Titanic: Adventure Out Of Time? Probably not obscure enough...
semiconscious
Member
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
DiI will have to go with this garbage game :
We have a winner. I tried to spend 10 minutes playing it, never figured out what I was supposed to do, a few years later it saw its way in the trashcan.
Only very few of these I've played (Heart of Darkness, Time Commando, Atlantis were great). Couple I wish I could forget (such as Marko). Nice thread, got me to try a few of them that I never heard of, or at least look for them.
The only game I can think of that I can reasonably believe I'm the only one to have played in a general random grouping of people is
for the APF M1000.
Has anyone else even played the APF M1000? I got the thing as a gift from an American uncle who used to collect electronics, but as far as I can tell it's the most ignored "mass release" console in the States.
The only game I can think of that I can reasonably believe I'm the only one to have played in a general random grouping of people is
for the APF M1000.
Has anyone else even played the APF M1000? I got the thing as a gift from an American uncle who used to collect electronics, but as far as I can tell it's the most ignored "mass release" console in the States.
If anyone's played these two obscure point & click adventures, I'll be pretty surprised;
Fistbumps to the pair of you, my Lost Eden fan brethren. This game literally made me beg and scream for my first CD-ROM drive on my old PC.
Even though he was really a big pansy, Moorkus Rex has the most terrifying laugh of anything in the entire world, ever.
The Red Star, a co-op-RPG-beat-em-up-bullet-hell.
A Gaffer's wet dream.
Hardly anyone heard of it.
this surprises me as it was well known on the 1up boards back in ....06? Here are mine
I bought a few of those dirt cheap preowned PS2 games GS will have in shoeboxes. Tried this and its pretty much a net yaroze game
odd choice? well its never listed in any of those Gaf hidden gems threads, which is wrong, and its never listed in any of the great soundtrack threads, which is also wrong, so clearly nobody played....or they are dumb ;p
Messofanego
Banned
A PC/Mac CD-ROM adventure game based on a series of Edgar Allen Poe stories acted out by scary looking claymation figures. Narrated by William S. Burroughs.
That sounds awesome, another claymation game!
Ventilaator
Banned
This game is also great, but since I played it in a total vacuum I have no idea how well known this is. Doesn't come up that often, so whatever.
Why is it, the moment I think of posting an Amiga CD32 game, someone else owns up to owning one? That said, I didn't own Base Jumpers!
Anyway, it was going to either be Swords & Serpents for the NES, but I know a couple of other people who have at least heard of it, or Whale's Voyage on the CD32.
It was quite good, from what I remember of it.
Anyway, it was going to either be Swords & Serpents for the NES, but I know a couple of other people who have at least heard of it, or Whale's Voyage on the CD32.
It was quite good, from what I remember of it.
I love this game. :3 I keep seeing a used copy of the PSP version at the store, but I'm not sure I want to play it since I heard they redid the voice acting... :/
Shadowflare!
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Man, I love dragons! Thanks to bring this "news".
*goes to GOG and Steam to check if the game is available*
Cries in the end.
Argh I've wanted this game for the longest time.