a game about...
kissing...
We have a copy of this. It refuses to run, so I've never played it. :I
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.
I have both this and
its sequel on PC. I can't locate either. I'm not particularly troubled.
obviously not true, but it sure feels that way.
Heh, I know the feeling. Still, even if the game was a great showcase for UE3 (before
every game in existence became a showcase for UE3), it had the misfortune of showing up roughly when I got into
Team Fortress 2, and I never felt compelled to play it. Just didn't hook me like
UT2K4 did...
Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks (Windows 3.1)
Man, screw those rhinos.
Last night, while I was racking my brain for a list of games for this topic, this game came to mind, but I didn't have a name to attach it to. Now I do. Thanks!
Incidentally, I wound up discovering these games through another obscure PC title:
Adi's [insert subject here]
Some Sierra-published edutainment software. You take tests on various subjects, and unlock games.
Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks was one of them, but it wasn't all educational stuf -
Gobliiins was another, as I recall. I don't recall maxing out any of them, though, and given how old they are, they have almost no chance of running on my Win7 x64 machine at this point.
Also, one more obscure game:
Dr. Brain's Action Reaction
At some point in the late 90s/early 2000s, Sierra stopped making
Dr. Brain games and some company called Knowledge Adventure started making
Dr. Brain games instead. Sierra's featured an elderly, mad-but-generally-benevolent scientist. Knowledge Adventure's featuring a young and hip orange-haired dude. If there's any connection to these two Dr. Brains outside the name, I'm not aware of one.
Regardless, KA made several titles for their doctor, and this was one of them. A sinister mad doctor (well,
dentist), the head of S.P.O.R.E. (Sinister People Organized Really Efficiently) has captured you and Dr. Brain and imprisoned you in his deep sea lair. Fortunately, Brain has broken out and into a control room, and breaks you out as he needs your legwork to bring the facility to its knees as you both escape. It's like a first-person puzzler (long before
Portal made this vogue) built off of UnrealEngine1 - every subsystem is apparently powered by various puzzles, and shut down once the puzzle is solved. Puzzles involve rerouting giant colored balls into the correct colored bin through twisting pipes, kicking colored balls into the correct bins while avoiding drones, directing colored drones into the correct bins (y'know, I'm sensing a pattern here), navigating mazes of floating platforms, navigating mazes of portals (just like the ones in
Portal, complete with the whole "window to another part of the level" aspect, only they're fixed in place), toying with antigravity... all the while avoiding guards who'd pummel you to death, armed only with a "helping hand" (which can temporarily stun the guards, at best, or otherwise flick switches from afar).
Plus, it's the only FPS I know of where you can play as a Scottish dude in a wheelchair. Who can apparently still jump. Don't ask, I couldn't explain it.
Another game that's fairly obscure would be
Glover, but I'm fairly confident I'm not alone in having played that, so I won't go into the whole spiel.