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[USC-fan]

Grandest Fleet.

Played well over 1000 hours back in the day....

 

[Het_Nkik]

Rocket: Robot on Wheels! AMAZING

Mickey Speedway USA.. A Rareware racer from N64 era, that nobody talks about:

very underrated!

I've played both. Own the first and played the second at Disneyland in their rotating science building thing.

 

[Twentieth]

Here's some more

Played it in japanese (Poy Poy). Love the sequel.

 

[AmyS]

 

[MightyHedgehog]

I've been checking ebay for this game and its never up! How does it play?

It's a real piss-easy sidescrolling SHMUP. Best things about it are the Super Robot/Mazinger nods and old anime feel. Stages are mostly an easy powerup opportunity before each slightly meatier boss fight, like Alien Soldier. At least four playable ships/mechs with their own standard and sub-weapon with a super attack and chargeable shot. Was worth it for the goofiness and fake commercials, but I never played it again after the one time and then sold it off.

 

[GenericBadGuy]

Someone has probably played it but its the most obscure thing I can think of that isn't some tiny browser game.

 

[Lumpy Onion]

philosoma

What a cinematic game that was. One of those shooters that really was pretty crap, but the visuals kind of made up for it in the end. It must not have been that great because I can't hardly remember a damn thing about it except for maybe the last boss being really difficult. I think the only thing I remember about it was the hype surrounding it from reading Gamefan.

 

[RustyNails]

No idea where this game actually stands, but a recent thread made me remember Robinson's Requiem. Fascinated the hell out of young me. Mostly because I had no idea how to not die within the first hour.

I remember this game. My thoughts were

 

[twisteddeeds]

One of my favourite snes games..

I remember renting it.. such a classic..

Running from the jason guys who could chop down hedge's lol..

A classic

 

[velociraptor]

I can't remember the name of the game but it was for the PS1.

It was on a demo disc. It was one of those user created games (Net Yaroze)

It was a top down 2 player shooter. It was fun as hell.

 

[plagiarize]

Alright let's get really obscure.

http://cyplexia.net/games-development/moonquake

Moonquake for Risc Os based Acorn PCs.

And Star Fighter 3000, again, for Risc Os.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Segmts6ISno

 

[SpongeBob NoPants]

Mickey Speedway USA.. A Rareware racer from N64 era, that nobody talks about:

Wow. I live in the UK and, until you posted that cover, I didn't realise that the person who gave me this (who was a Rare employee at the time) took account of the fact that I was using an imported N64. I'm even more indebted than I realised.

 

[qa_engineer]

Anyone remember SEGA CD...and Sewer Shark?

Uh Fuck Yea. This was as next gen as you could get at someones birthday party.

 

[Fushichou187]

This fucking game.

Third game I ever had for the SNES after Super Mario World and ActRaiser. I literally had no idea what the fuck I was doing for the first couple hours just walking around, hoping I didn't die. Never bothered with its sequel, Dragon View, but always wished it had spawned a remake/sequel on the N64 where i thought it would've worked better.

 

[NewFresh]

Dancing Eyes in the arcade

 

[schwabdizzle]

I was hooked to this at one point.

 

[velociraptor]

I can't remember the name of the game but it was for the PS1.

It was on a demo disc. It was one of those user created games (Net Yaroze)

It was a top down 2 player shooter. It was fun as hell.

HOLY SHIT, I FOUND IT.

Psychon

Nostalgia kicking here. I loved this.

 

[RustyNails]

anyone remember these games?

Angel Devoid

Lost Eden

 

[Dr. Light]

Also got this classic for Christmas 1991:

Good memories, man. (Seriously)

 

[thecosmicfly]

Feel like DanishGAF has a good chance of recognizing this game/franchise. All I could recall about it was that when I was young I would play this game on our family PC from time to time. Wasn't until very recently that I remembered its existance.

 

[meppi]

philosoma

That one probably suckered in quite a few shoot em up fans. Myself included.

 

[Mahonay]

Battle Bugs:

I just noticed the bad brand jokes. Oh god.

I have a faint memory of playing this game, I just can't remember where. I was 8 or 9 years old.

 

[velociraptor]

Tunnel PS1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNqTJZeccG0

 

[Tenrius]

I double dare you. Inner Worlds is actually pretty good, too.

 

[tuffy]

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Video here.

I remember this one being on the flip side of the "Return of Heracles" diskette. In retrospect, both had the feel of games made by an RPG creator program, but the Heracles one looked better.

Probably more obscure is:

Earth Orbit Stations

which was a very exhaustive space station simulator set in the future of the 1990s.

 

[Dr. Light]

That was the game that made me realize games could be awful

You just couldn't handle the mind-bending puzzles. Or whatever the game was. I can't really remember...

 

[Accoun]

On PC. AND I LOVED EVERY MOMENT OF IT =D

Played it. Finished it. Liked it. Was a pretty good FPS. I think I got it from some German magazine. It wasn't even released here.

This game was a little bit successful in Germany at the time it was released (I think it was even on top of the sales charts) but it remains an insiders' tip and I think I'm pretty much the only one who remembers this game.

Yeah, this and Robin Hood: Legend Of Sherwood (which has recently been in some indie bundle) were pretty good Commandos-alikes. I think it was one of the games that were popular in Germany and Poland, but not much outside of them, like Gothic series.

Animated Ace Ventura PC point and Click adventure game. Surprisingly fun and engaging.

Again, dunno where are you from, but it used to be hugely popular in Poland. I think it was one of the first (or the best) dubbed translations here.

 

[Keasar]

Man this game was horrible.

 

[The Boat]

I was hooked to this at one point.

What a great game <3

 

[Order]

Got mediocre reviews but I loved it.

I played this. Fuck that game.

 

[Chezzymann]

Betch'a a million bucks no one here has played this. I would be very, very surprised if anyone here did. This game is about as obscure as it gets. Clocked in 2,000 hours on this game over the past 4 years. Its an MMO that has been around since 1998 and is a mix of Animal Crossing and A Link to the Past.

 

[John Harker]

do not-yet-released games count?

 

[someguyinahat]

Wow, in only two pages I see three more games that I've played.

Boppin' - fantastic game. Sort of a puzzly action game with cutesy characters and blood.

Druid: Daemons of the Mind - I tried SO hard to get into this game. I wanted to like it. Hell, it was by Sir-Tech, they made Jagged Alliance, how could it be bad? It must be me! ...I eventually concluded that it wasn't me. That effin' magic system! It always used three or four permutations of the four elements plus mind. Then I got a recipe and it contained three legible words and then some stupid word like "Chroit" and I'm wondering what the unholy fuck this word means. I don't think I ever got that spell to work.

Starship Titanic - I find it hard to believe that it's obscure. It's tied to Douglas Adams for crying out loud! Anyway, yes, the text interface was tough, but some of the visual puzzles were very cleverly crafted, so much so that you didn't even know it was a puzzle until you were done (example: trying to get my bed to work in the third class cabin.)

But yeah...that text, man. "Take a tv and throw it down the well." Took so many tries to get THAT one right.

 

[twisteddeeds]

I remember playing Drakkhen..

1994 I remember being so into my c64...and coming home from a walk in the park and then having my eyes opened by street fighter

 

[Discobird]

Definitely Missionforce: Cyberst-

Turn based strategy with mechs. The real standout of this wasn't just its great gameplay, but this ridiculously dark corporate world that it portrayed, with mechs being piloted by these genetically engineered human beings that you would grow in tanks, that usually had massive defects.

Oh wait.

Yeah the gameplay was fantastic and the death animations/sounds for your genetically engineered pilots will haunt me to my last day.

I'm gonna submit Hunter Hunted for PC:

1-2 player side scroller (co-op and head to head) where the objective is to escape from a bunch of trap-filled dungeons and/or kill the other player using weapon pickups. Had a fun time playing this with my brothers.

 

[The Technomancer]

Anyone ever play Taskmaker?

My first real introduction to RPGs, even if I only played the demo for dozens of hours

 

[BrosephJ]

 

[IAmtheFMan]

Citadel: Adventures of the Crystal Keep

Anyone?

 

[sonic moob]

I completed Titus The Fox on the Amiga.

 

[Septimus Prime]

For all you guys who also played Drakkhen...my condolences.

Here's another one:

 

[tearsofash]

Does anyone else here have a Casio Loopy? I've played a good chunk of games on that.

 

[Tenrius]

Betch'a a million bucks no one here has played this. I would be very, very surprised if anyone here did. This game is about as obscure as it gets. Clocked in 2,000 hours on this game over the past 4 years. Its an MMO that has been around since 1998 and is a mix of Animal Crossing and A Link to the Past.

You wouldn't have lost $1000000 if you had only paid attention to the thread:

Original, Launch Graal Online

edit: Hard to find a pick of actual launch graal sadly

And if you did by chance play back then..you probably knew (of) me..

 

[Chezzymann]

You wouldn't have lost $1000000 if you had only paid attention to the thread:

I didn't want to read all 700 replies :/

But yeah, the game was way more popular back then. Its a lot more obscure now.

 

[twisteddeeds]

For all you guys who also played Drakkhen...my condolences.

Here's another one:

I feel your pain........... lol
snes.... the king of consoles..

 

[HyperCubed4]

Quite fun, but feels rigged at times.

 

[jono95]

I have no idea how popular/unknown this game was, but did anyone play Bill's Tomato Game?

It was a puzzle game on the Atari ST/Amiga where (I think) you lost your tomato girlfriend off the back of a truck and had to go find her.
It could be a horrible game, but I remember having a lot of fun with it.

 

[spadge]

Betch'a a million bucks no one here has played this. I would be very, very surprised if anyone here did. This game is about as obscure as it gets. Clocked in 2,000 hours on this game over the past 4 years. Its an MMO that has been around since 1998 and is a mix of Animal Crossing and A Link to the Past.

I played GraalOnline back in the early 2000's when I had a shitty pentium 2 laptop that couldn't handle 3d graphics.

 

[Discobird]

Wow wait, I think I remember this game?

It was 3D right? Were you on what looked like the surface of mars and you had a tank that would fire some sort of beam that cured little people that turned green from some sort of bug that zombified everyone? I must of been 8 when I played it... didn't get very far!

Are you thinking of Scorched Planet my friend? These are the best screens I can find.

 

[twisteddeeds]

I played GraalOnline back in the early 2000's when I had a shitty pentium 2 laptop that couldn't handle 3d graphics.

But did you enjoy it?

 

[Daingurse]

Real talk, I loved this piece of shit. Dat Coop.