This game was so awesome when I was a kid.
Awesome, underrated brawler game, so much fun.
Anyone here play Major Stryker on PC?
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First shmup I played. Blew my mind as a wee lad.
This is actually an amazing game
Played it.
And Kickle Cubicle.
Honestly, if it was on NES or Game Boy, chances are someone here played it. You gotta reach back to the Wild West of old PC and 8-bit computer games.
I could probably pick any number of random cracked Atari 800 games we had growing up, but I'll go with Action Quest, because it was one of my favorite games back then (and it was legit published):
You were a ghost who could transform into a gun, and your goal in each room was basically to collect a treasure and escape. But each room was a different abstract puzzle--half the game was just figuring out what you were supposed to do in each room. Oh and you had about ten or fifteen seconds to do so before you faded out of existence.
Though it is a much more deliberate game (and no music), Action Quest also has a very similar mise en scene to VVVVVV.
Not mega-obscure, but my picks:
Pepper's Adventures in Time
(this game bombed, I believe, plus it was basically for young girls, which makes it not GAF's normal taste)
The first game I ever owned. I remember being disappointed that it wasn't like the SNES bombermans with multiplayer,but I grew with the gameplay.
I've probably played tons of obscure titles back in the 8-bit days, but I'll never be able to remember the names.
Something a bit more recent that I never saw mentioned (probably because it wasn't good0:
Something to do with Skittles and stuff...
Just replayed that some months ago. Amazingly despite it including such concepts as time traveling and a hippie Ben Franklin it makes the most sense of any Sierra adventure game I've played.
Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu is probably the most obscure console game I've ever played. Not sure if it's truly obscure, but I've never seen it again
One of the most difficult games ever, but it had a fantastic ending if you could actually make it there. Horrible box art and it came with a black & white cartridge label.
This was a bit of an Ultima clone, but I remember one of the coolest things it did was do a light show on the Apple disk drives on the title screen. It was pretty slick.
This game was fucking AWESOME.
I know I'm not the only one, but from what I can remember, I either get crickets or just see a couple responses when these get mentioned:
Target Earth (Genesis)
One of the most difficult games ever, but it had a fantastic ending if you could actually make it there. Horrible box art and it came with a black & white cartridge label.
About not thinking anyone played it or that it was scary for me at the time?
Legend of the Red Dragon, old BBS game.
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.
I remember that game. I had no idea how it worked and I was horrible at it. It came with my old Packard Bell PC.
Okay GAF.
It's so offensively terrible I'm not really surprised no one else on GAF seems to have played this piece of shit.
I'm sure someone has, but I'm the only one in my extended circle of friends that played these thoroughly, and I still own Ironsword.
Legend of the Red Dragon, old BBS game.