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Games that you *think* only you on GAF have played
- Thread starter rpmurphy
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Also, probably some others have played it, especially in Europe? but I've never heard anyone else talk about Slicks 'n' Slide, the first game I ever sent in money to get the full version for. Found it on one of those 101 shareware games discs, and it was so awesome!
Yup, especially being able to play with 2 (or maybe it was even 4) players simultanously on the same computer was great about this game.
Btw, anyone else played Super Worms?
Anyone here play Major Stryker on PC?
First shmup I played. Blew my mind as a wee lad.
Hell yeah.
Anyone play/remember a game called H.E.D.Z (Head Extreme Destruction Zone)?
Interesting to note that it was released on PS1 and PS2, I don't remember which one did I play.
Well we only tried the first few minutes, it's just that we were expecting something else.Hey, I've bought this for the PC and liked it a lot!
Maybe I should give it another shot.
I've played whatever the American version of this is called.
Big Top
It was one of the games I spent most of my time with when I was little and I loved it.
Captain Comic
It was one of the games I spent most of my time with when I was little and I loved it.
Captain Comic
Loved the game. It may not have been very good, but the idea of your units being giant lego blocks was just really neat.
OMG, that game. I used to play it every fucking day, loved it, and I've never met anyone else who's played it.
Anyway, mine would be this one. Probably lots of people here played it, but, as with the previous one, none of my friends has:
Cool thread, some great mentions.
I've got a relatively recent game that I hope other awesome and cool GAFfers have played, yet is only very rarely mentioned. It is a Playstation One and PC game that doesn't get mentioned. I was recently reminded of it when watching Giantbomb's Airmech quick look and whilst indulging into a little too much Super MNC.
Futurecop:LAPD
I fucking loved this game on Playstation, pouring many, many hours into it, primarily in multiplayer.
I've got a relatively recent game that I hope other awesome and cool GAFfers have played, yet is only very rarely mentioned. It is a Playstation One and PC game that doesn't get mentioned. I was recently reminded of it when watching Giantbomb's Airmech quick look and whilst indulging into a little too much Super MNC.
Futurecop:LAPD
I fucking loved this game on Playstation, pouring many, many hours into it, primarily in multiplayer.
nintendors
Member
this is what sparked my interest in aviation ^_^
Windows 98 SE will always be the best OS :')
Mognet
Member
I play a lot of strange japanese games, but I'm pretty sure that I'm not alone on GAF.
I could use some old obscure Thomson games, but I'll try this one :
Jissen Pachinko Hisshouhou! CR Sakura Taisen.
Is there here other Sakura Taisen fans crazy enough to have played everything related to the series? Columns games, ST Online games, Mysterious Paris and such obscure tites ?
(I must say that I wanted to try pachinko when I went to Japan, but never dare to do it, so I would have bought a pachislot simulator anyway. Could have been an Evangelion one, though)
I could use some old obscure Thomson games, but I'll try this one :
Jissen Pachinko Hisshouhou! CR Sakura Taisen.
Is there here other Sakura Taisen fans crazy enough to have played everything related to the series? Columns games, ST Online games, Mysterious Paris and such obscure tites ?
(I must say that I wanted to try pachinko when I went to Japan, but never dare to do it, so I would have bought a pachislot simulator anyway. Could have been an Evangelion one, though)
Alex Connolly
Member
Pretty obscure on GAF, I've never seen these games mentioned ... :
The Ring is an SF adventure game based on Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs with artwork by French comic book artist Druillet.
Cryo were one of the artistic greats of the medium.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
I have bought and enjoyed Sonic 2006 3 times.
Legend of Kay for the PS2.
Although, there was a thread recently about this game. Still, it had just a few posts. One of my favorite games. A solid Zelda-clone.
Goemons Great Adventure for the N64.
I sometimes read about Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon here, but this game? It is one of the best 2.5D Platformers out there.
I have (the french version). Many of those foldable travel games were great, I should have bought more of them when they were available.
I really doubt anyone has played this gem. The toy store I bought it in when I was 5 or 6 (24 years ago) just closed last year
I've played both, and I love the side-scroller.
But I'm not sure if this one is the 2.5 side scroller? There's a great cooperative 4-player in the side scroller, and the box seems to say otherwise?
ColdBlooder
Banned
No one propably knows about this one :
Danger Valley on the C64. Only released on Datasette (Input64) in Germany
Has an awsesome opening tune on the title screen.
You are a treasure hunter. Your goal is to collect a tresure and get back to the village. You need to find a key to open the gate to reach the treasure. You have to carry the treasure home. You also have to fight squid/spider like monsters you see on the second screen. You could even starve to death and ask for directions. That is a fun (and if you crack up the difficulty insanely hard) game.
Danger Valley on the C64. Only released on Datasette (Input64) in Germany
Has an awsesome opening tune on the title screen.
You are a treasure hunter. Your goal is to collect a tresure and get back to the village. You need to find a key to open the gate to reach the treasure. You have to carry the treasure home. You also have to fight squid/spider like monsters you see on the second screen. You could even starve to death and ask for directions. That is a fun (and if you crack up the difficulty insanely hard) game.
ColdBlooder
Banned
I don't think I could find any game that noone else here played, but I can at least try:
SkyRoads
*ZOMG* I know this one! For some weird reason this was on our schools computers in the old computer lab. When we were allowed to play (When schoolwork was done) i played it a few times.
GodfatherX
Member
Meremanoid:
A PS1 RPG about mermaids. I went out of my way to get this because... mermaid RPG. You play as the only merman in existence. Although, with a character who looks like this:
I'm sure no one was able to tell.
It's been forever since I played this and I never finished it, so I don't remember too much about it actually. Just that the swimming mechanic was really terrible.
More screens: http://www.c-games.info/games,002,6568.html
A PS1 RPG about mermaids. I went out of my way to get this because... mermaid RPG. You play as the only merman in existence. Although, with a character who looks like this:
I'm sure no one was able to tell.
It's been forever since I played this and I never finished it, so I don't remember too much about it actually. Just that the swimming mechanic was really terrible.
More screens: http://www.c-games.info/games,002,6568.html
Played that one too. It was bad, but kind of fun when played with a friend. I think ScrewAttack or something even did an episode about it.
I've played this in my good old 286.
Yes, this one is the 2.5D side scroller. The first game is called "Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon", and GGA actually has only 2-player co-op.
After that game, I simply can't see NSMB and DKC Returns as 2.5D Platformers. Goemons Great Adventure had paths that completely went into other directions.
SkyRoads
Oh hell yes. I never could finish the second half of the worlds. Should dig it up and try it again.
HiddenWings
Member
Dragon Rage
I really doubt that I'd treading on any toes by saying this game was beyond awful, there was nothing redeeming about it whatsoever. It looked bad, played bad, the design was uninspiring, I could go on.
It's relatively obscure for a reason, I can't believe that I played it!
I don't think I could find any game that noone else here played, but I can at least try:
SkyRoads
But I don't really know which older games sold well and which didn't.
I played all three of these, and I'm only sorry for one of them. (Dragon Rage is REALLY BAD.) I think I can add this to the pile:
This was a platformer that released at $20 and was surprisingly good. Its unique thing was that you could shapeshift into some of the enemies in order to use their abilities to progress.
You can download it from their site for free.
Cyborg Justice had a final boss, but the developers were total dicks about it. If you played on Normal, the game would just end on the third-last level; if you played on Hard, the game would end on the second-last level; and only if you played it on the hardest difficulty would you actually get to the last level.
Cyborg Justice
I nominate this purely for the fact that I have never heard it mentioned outside of a few brief instances, and even it's been entirely contained to one corner of the internet. It had a quirky gameplay mechanic in that you could replace your own body parts with those of your enemies, which I seem to remember making everything easy. It wasn't particularly long, and I'm pretty sure it didn't have a final boss, but I still remember it fondly. Fucking nostalgia!
I remember really loving Lords of the Realm 2, only I was terrible at real-time strategy and twice as terrible at kingdom management, so I only ever managed to win one game, ever, by picking a map where there was only one road into my territory that I could camp thousands of soldiers at, and some of the most ridiculous attrition in the history of video games.It was a lame version of Civilization, but stuck in the dark ages.
My contribution: Maelstrom, an old PC strategy game so obscure that it took me about three tries to actually Google it.
I could barely make sense of it and I'd almost always die about half an hour in, but in the time it took me to die I remember doing some pretty awesome stuff by mining my planet and researching weapons that really should have been considered war crimes.
Alex Connolly
Member
My contribution: Maelstrom, an old PC strategy game so obscure that it took me about three tries to actually Google it.
I could barely make sense of it and I'd almost always die about half an hour in, but in the time it took me to die I remember doing some pretty awesome stuff by mining my planet and researching weapons that really should have been considered war crimes.
Very intriguing! Now, wasn't there a more recent RTS with the same name, involving land deformation..?
Looks like a clone of Mazogs/Maziacs. Slightly different mechanics, though; no key in Maziacs, but there's a 'releasing prisoners' mechanic.
I could probably do okay on this if I were to delve into either my archive of Spectrum games (The Covenant? Hocus Focus? William Wobbler? Backpackers Guide To The Universe? Prodigy? Kokotoni Wilf? The Gordello Incident?) or my archive of BBC edutainment (Space Mission Mada? Mapventure? Developing Tray? Albert's House? The Lost Frog? The Wizard's Return? Osprey!?)
ajim
Member
Firestorm: Thunderhawk 2
Honestly played the fuck out of this.
Broder Salsa
Banned
My cousin had just moved out from his parents when this came out and her boyfriend was playing this but he sucked and needed my help. Played it so much and it was great. didn't it come with those shitty 3d glasses? See lots of love on it from GAF. Another world is still better though.
Glad to see none of these posted yet
A great puzzle game that I have seen nothing like since. It's just begging for a iOS port or a proper PSN/Steam/XBLA remake
A Jazz Jackrabbit clone with attitude, never got past the first level but was really fun.
An awful awful game, like a 3d Pacman, that has actually gotten and iOS port. If anyone out there has played this we can shed a tear together.
A great puzzle game that I have seen nothing like since. It's just begging for a iOS port or a proper PSN/Steam/XBLA remake
A Jazz Jackrabbit clone with attitude, never got past the first level but was really fun.
An awful awful game, like a 3d Pacman, that has actually gotten and iOS port. If anyone out there has played this we can shed a tear together.
Captain Chaos
Member
F1 Circus on Sega Megadrive.
An awful awful game, like a 3d Pacman, that has actually gotten and iOS port. If anyone out there has played this we can shed a tear together.
Why play this when you can kickstart a sequel
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1479679929/gubble-3d-new-retro-maze-videogame-by-ex-atari-des
(Perhaps not)
I bring this up once in a while on GAF and NOBODY seems to know what I'm talking about, so I nominate this abysmal game:
http://www.giantbomb.com/millennium-auction/61-3590/
Set in the far flung future time of 2011! And where the winning bidder is always the guy who does absolutely nothing!
http://www.giantbomb.com/millennium-auction/61-3590/
Set in the far flung future time of 2011! And where the winning bidder is always the guy who does absolutely nothing!