[Ignignort]

Hey, I've bought this for the PC and liked it a lot! :(

Yep I remember this game being amazing!

[Skirn]

ESWAT
Not too rare, but I don't think I've ever seen it mentioned on GAF before:


Marko's Magic Football:

[666]

Firepower on Amia 500

The Jester on Commodore 64

Zork on C64 cassette. Well probably not Zork.

[Apenheul]

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?

[Rapstah]

It only released in Europe and I have never seen a copy other than mine.

[DanCarew]

The Red Star, a co-op-RPG-beat-em-up-bullet-hell.
A Gaffer's wet dream.
Hardly anyone heard of it.

[spats]

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)?

[krumble]

This was reason I bought PC to play games, crazy I know

I LOVED this game :)

[I Push Fat Kids]

Spyborgs
Monster Lab (maybe?)
The Calling
Ju-On


The Red Star is a fantastic game. FANTASTIC.

[Mista Koo]

Really liked it, played it on both Game Boy Advance and PS1.

Interesting to note that it was released on PS1 and PS2, I don't remember which one did I play.

Hey, I've bought this for the PC and liked it a lot! :(

Well we only tried the first few minutes, it's just that we were expecting something else.
Maybe I should give it another shot.

[fallagin]

That N64 game Kablooey. A weird puzzle game with bombs and stuff, pretty cool stuff.

Oh wait it might have been a snes game I think... I'm confused.

[dimb]

http://s3.discshop.se/img/front_large/84293/villes_varld_3_7_ar.jpg I seriously doubt it.

I've played whatever the American version of this is called.

[Lain]

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

[Yager]

[img]Warzone[/img] 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:

[sephi22]

A game called Three Dirty Dwarves on PC. Beat em up. Thought it was pretty good as a kid. Had nice humor. Probably shit now.

And another game called 'Iron Man and XO Manowar in Heavy Metal'. Side scrolling action game. Not good

[elfinke]

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.

[nintendors]

this is what sparked my interest in aviation ^_^

Windows 98 SE will always be the best OS :')

[kruis]

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.

[Mognet]

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. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/69CsO.jpg[IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hdRzj.jpg[IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mSVJ6.jpg[IMG] [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/cUmaq.jpg[IMG] here's the intro

I used to own this when I was a kid. I agree it was very difficult and I also didn't get too far but the cover was so cool, I'd keep coming back to it.

[Koren]

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)

[Pylon_Trooper]

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]

I have bought and enjoyed Sonic 2006 3 times.

[Myriadis]

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.

[Koren]

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 have (the french version). Many of those foldable travel games were great, I should have bought more of them when they were available.

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'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]

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.

[Jucksalbe]

I don't think I could find any game that noone else here played, but I can at least try:


Playful Professor for C64.

Cultures 2 (PC)


SkyRoads


But I don't really know which older games sold well and which didn't.

[ColdBlooder]

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.

[ajim]

Duck Maze, NES.


Sea Bass Fishing, Saturn. The best fishing game made.


Baku Baku, Saturn (probably not so much this, but I don't think many have played it).

[GodfatherX]

For a long time I was addicted to this indie puzzle game called Blocksum



A fresh take on the traditional Tetris style formula

[Lissar]

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

[Hasemo]

And another game called 'Iron Man and XO Manowar in Heavy Metal'. Side scrolling action game. Not good

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.

[Atreides]

I've played this in my good old 286.

[daviyoung]

Firestorm: Thunderhawk 2

[Galdelico]

Anyone?



It's actually the PAL version of The Camera Kozou.


And another one, which I think is also a great game:

[Myriadis]

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?

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.

[FillerB]

SkyRoads

Oh hell yes. I never could finish the second half of the worlds. Should dig it up and try it again.

[haikira]

While I'm sure some people around here must have. I feel like I've never come across anyone, who's played the MMO Legend Of Mir.

[Jamie OD]

Mercenary Force, the first game I got for my Game Boy (besides Tetris but that goes without saying).

[HiddenWings]

Free download here.

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.

[Mista Koo]

Oh hell yes. I never could finish the second half of the worlds. Should dig it up and try it again.

You can download it from their site for free.

[Coxswain]

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!

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.

It was a lame version of Civilization, but stuck in the dark ages.

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.



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.

[Pylon_Trooper]

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..?

[mclem]

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.

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]

Firestorm: Thunderhawk 2

Honestly played the fuck out of this.

[WoodenLung]

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. ['IMG]http://i.imgur.com/69CsO.jpg[/IMG] ['IMG]http://i.imgur.com/hdRzj.jpg[/IMG] ['IMG]http://i.imgur.com/mSVJ6.jpg[/IMG] ['IMG]http://i.imgur.com/cUmaq.jpg[/IMG] here's the intro

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. :p

[doomquake]

[Toppot]

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.

[Captain Chaos]

F1 Circus on Sega Megadrive.

[mclem]

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/...y-ex-atari-des

(Perhaps not)

[steviedisco]

An oldie but it got my juices flowing when I was little: Twin Kingdom Valley. A text adventure with GRAPHICS on the Acorn Electron..



I guess some of the older folk may have played it but hey

failing that, one of the first games on the PS2: Ring of Red



An SRPG based on Mechs