Night_Trekker
Member
Anyone else own this piece of crap?
I rented that once. Not a great game, but not totally unplayable or anything. I think my mom rented it for me once when I was sick.
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Games that you *think* only you on GAF have played
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I rented that once. Not a great game, but not totally unplayable or anything. I think my mom rented it for me once when I was sick.
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
One Saturday my father, brother and I sat down and worked our way through the first disk of this. Then it came up and asked for the second disk which my brother put in. Then he pressed the reset button. We had not saved. We never played it again.
I remember enjoying it though!
Another that I enjoyed was Slay. Never had the full version though so it was only the shareware version. More hexagons you own the more money you earn per turn. The stronger your army the more it cost, if trees grew on a hex you lost the money for it. Most enjoyable.
Also the army had to be supported from the connected hexagons. So even if you had 100 blocks if your knight got cut off and was on a patch of just 10 hexes he would die if you didn't get it connected again.
Still available http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/slay.html and has been ported to iPhone but not android.
Played it and completed it on PC (using a walkthrough since the beginning, but that's how I rolled then). To be honest, I thought the game was really popular back in the day, so I'm kind of surprised you're saying no one have heard of it.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
MarkMclovin
Member
I don't remember getting very far on it though.
And :
EDIT - And :
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
That's the thrill of old Sierra adventures! At least didn't throw it in your face how big a screw up you were like in KQ3 where the wizard would just show up to kill you if screwed up baking cookies.
Loved this game.
One of my favorite lesser-known N64 games.
Loved this game.
I had that, it was pretty good.
Defcon 5
Anyone remember this? A friend gave me it years ago. Watched the opening sequence, then spent 20 minutes wandering around empty rooms trying to figure out what to do. Never touched it again.
Got this for my birthday, one of my favourite games of that gen. Agree with you about the difficulty though, never beat it either. I remember being blown away by the FMV in it - first and only time I've ever enjoyed 3D.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
played
Get outta here. There are tons of Lynx fans around here. How about Marlboro Go! for Lynx? Or Loopz? Played those on the Lynx?
Xybots for Lynx or any other Lynx game for that matter
I have, on real cartridges...Really? This has devolved into an "old games" thread.
The "#1 Best Seller" sticker on the box should be a hint that this isn't really obscure.
stuminus3
Member
I bet most of GAF didn't know that Street Fighter had a "sequel" (long before SFII: The World Warrior) called Human Killing Machine.
Like the U.S Gold version of Strider II (unrelated to Capcom's own Strider II that came out many years later), HKM was a "sequel" to the home computer ports of Street Fighter. Nobody ever talks about it or references it when talking about Street Fighter, but I quite clearly remember this crap being pushed in all the UK gaming magazines as an actual sequel. Remember, this is long before the Street Fighter 2 boom of the early 90s, long before 2D fighting games were popular.
I played it on ZX Spectrum and Atari ST. It was awful. But then again, so was the original Street Fighter, which was pretty much the same as this.
Gameplay video.
Like the U.S Gold version of Strider II (unrelated to Capcom's own Strider II that came out many years later), HKM was a "sequel" to the home computer ports of Street Fighter. Nobody ever talks about it or references it when talking about Street Fighter, but I quite clearly remember this crap being pushed in all the UK gaming magazines as an actual sequel. Remember, this is long before the Street Fighter 2 boom of the early 90s, long before 2D fighting games were popular.
I played it on ZX Spectrum and Atari ST. It was awful. But then again, so was the original Street Fighter, which was pretty much the same as this.
Gameplay video.
Neat. It's kind of baffling how games like this were put forward after the smoothness of International Karate (on the Commodore 64, among others). Honestly, HKM is so jerky (in this video) that it's embarrassing.
Angelus Errare
Banned
I actually liked some of the concepts of the game
Garcia Hotspur
Neo Member
Weird DS RPG developed by Grasshopper Manufacture.
Seeing that other snowboard game above reminded me of this one for PS1. You could play as Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield, and a zombie from RE2.
Seeing that other snowboard game above reminded me of this one for PS1. You could play as Leon S. Kennedy, Claire Redfield, and a zombie from RE2.
Oldie:
I miss that franchise one of my most played games during my PCGamer time.
Perfect to play wile you're doing other things:
It's sad cause I think is one the better games of this gen.
So exited for chaos edition announcement.
Other mention:
Dracula - PSX
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - PSP
I played some of the games mentioned like Heart of Darkness, awesome.
I miss that franchise one of my most played games during my PCGamer time
.Perfect to play wile you're doing other things:
It's sad cause I think is one the better games of this gen.
So exited for chaos edition announcement.
Other mention:
Dracula - PSX
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex - PSP
I played some of the games mentioned like Heart of Darkness
, awesome.
I had this game on my family's first PC. I think I was only around 5 or 6 at the time but it was one of the few games I was able to get working on my own.
Weird DS RPG developed by Grasshopper Manufacture.
Nice one, although Contact does get a moderate amount of love on Gaf from time to time. I consider this game to be a console-defining DS game, along with Advance Wars Dual Strike, Castlevania DoS, and TWEWY.
I'm a huge fan, and super disappointed that we will never get an English version of Sakura Note :/
I'm pretty certain there was a demo disc included in some Kellogs cereals back then. Or else in one edition of the German Micky Maus Magazin, that's also possible.
This totally looks like that one colony from Mass Effect 3
edit: not "looks like" but "reminds me of".
Capture the Flag.
Kinda deep strategy game for it´s time I guess (and I was YOUNG). Diferent stances, fog of war etc. And there was a cartoon-like fight when you cought someone.
Nightshift.
You had to watch a factory of some sort. I remember being pretty lost in it, but liked navigating around.
Earthsiege. Cybrids!!!
And Earthsiege / Missionforce: cyberstorm
Kinda deep strategy game for it´s time I guess (and I was YOUNG). Diferent stances, fog of war etc. And there was a cartoon-like fight when you cought someone.
Nightshift.
You had to watch a factory of some sort. I remember being pretty lost in it, but liked navigating around.
Earthsiege. Cybrids!!!
And Earthsiege / Missionforce: cyberstorm
cj_iwakura
Member
Has anyone else played I-SPY: Operation Espionage? I'm starting to think it's easily the most obscure game I own.
I had to look up the name of this game, but I loved it as a kid. It was fun to play because it had puzzle elements and apparently I learned how to spell as well. ha
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I've played it! I was fine with the spelling, but the puzzles were really tough for me.
MuddyDonut
Member
Weird DS RPG developed by Grasshopper Manufacture.
Played. Didn't like it much when I did, but I think I would appreciate it more if I played it today.
Anyone?
Dr Frasier Crane
Member
Hmm. Let's try and really obscure this thread up:
Zarch for the Acorn Archimedes
Mystery of the Java Star on the Acorn Electron
Positron on the Acorn Electron
Ah British Micro Computing at it's finest.
Zarch for the Acorn Archimedes
Mystery of the Java Star on the Acorn Electron
Positron on the Acorn Electron
Ah British Micro Computing at it's finest.
Betta Lines
Member
I wouldn't be surprised if others were suckered into buying this but I hope I'm the only one who did, because it was painfully bad.
I actually liked some of the concepts of the game
I still have this! Barely remember it though.
ChaChaChaChia
Member
Stunt Copter
Cannon Fodder
Swamp Gas
Gertrude's Secrets
Rocky's Boots
Cannon Fodder
Swamp Gas
Gertrude's Secrets
Rocky's Boots
Stunt Copter
Swamp Gas
Played both of these, I remember pounding through games of Swamp Gas to get the the arcade game at the end.
Also, in the vein of Stunt Copter, did you ever play "Despair"? It was a shareware game where you played a god and got to kill your minions (which you could spawn at will) with really interesting weapons. Like spawn an iceberg on wheels to freeze them and then shatter them with rocks?
Not a great game, but twisted little 10-year-old me loved it.
There was also a Scorched Earth clone for Mac that I loved, it had some really interesting terrain-based tools too. Wish I could remember the name of it.
RiderKairuu
Member
I actually liked some of the concepts of the game
This game was boss! Some of the enemies were bland as hell but the game was pretty fun. I rented it a bunch of times.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Bujingai was waaaaay too easy, and I remember being disappointed because I'd gone into it expecting a flashier version of Shinobi or Nightshade. But it was still decent fun, and it was pretty as hell.
Diablohead
Member
Hmm. Let's try and really obscure this thread up:
Zarch for the Acorn Archimedes
I did a youtube of this and it looks extremely close to a game which use to be on a primary school computer back when I was a little kid, we never did figure it out and always ran out of fuel or crashed at full speed into the floor lol
Atomic Bombermannnnnnn
I had this with one of my first pc's I think, I just remember owning it and it never really playing on my computer or failing to boot most times I tried.
Kind of a RTS. more of a squad based shooter in the trappings of an rts. Kind of cheesy and fun. The only problem characters had an 'Aggression' stat which basically controlled whether or not they listened to you or just went around killing everything in sight. Losing control of your people is not fun.
ChaChaChaChia
Member
No, never heard of Despair. Stunt Copter was played on my grandparents Mac back in the early to mid 90's. I don't think they would have gotten a game like that!
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
Absolutely loved that game as a kid, lent it off a friend and ended up trading Colony Wars for it, never did complete it though.
I remember playing this old ass PC game in about 95-96, it was vehicles only and you could chose from a helicopter or a tank whilst playing. I just remember going around destroying towers and bases, cannot remember the name of it though!
(Got it with MDK I think).
Anyone?
I've never played the GBC version, but I did play the N64 one.
Was the GBC just a collection game with a bunch of mini-games? because that's all the N64 game was.
SappYoda
Member
Owned it and remember it being the most hated of my GB collection. Also played Glover and Starcraft 64 which I saw mentioned.
Anyone else own this piece of crap?
I have a copy of this game.
The controls were awful and I never beat the damn game.
arglebargle
Member
I imported Bujingai when it first came out in Japan, and I loved it. Well, maybe not so much the last stage, which has some really infuriating platforming/jumping stuff, but the first stage has pretty much perfect design. I actually replayed that first stage enough that I got to the point where I could keep my Chain gauge going all the way up to the boss at the end.
I also loved the way it threw you immediately into a short stage of the game, only to reveal it was recording you for the attract mode - I spent way too much time replaying that over and over until it looked really cool.