I always wanted to play this one.
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I always wanted to play this one.
It was pretty bad.
I liked it, to be honest. It wasn't great but I enjoyed it. I liked the war-is-just-a-TV-show setting, the fact that you needed money for everything - including game saving.
Haven't finished it, though. For some reason the full version ran like shit on my PC, especially in later missions. Demo was working well - probably because they have only added PhysX in the final release or something. Demo was most likely using a different physics engine.
I think I can safely say that not many people here have played the 1996 release of Fable, the one and only game by the little-known Simbiosis Interactive:
I haven't played it since I was a kid, but it's a 2D point-and-click adventure game with lovely, storybookesque visuals. I'd snap up the game in heartbeat if it were on GOG.
I played this when I was a kid.
Not an obscure game by any means. I know a lot of people that have it and I used to own it myself. (Didn't really enjoy it, though I did enjoy how the hearts would make your controller vibrate)
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
HOLY CRAP. This game. I have been looking for this since my goddamn teen years. This was a huge, huge part of my childhood. Outside of Mega Man and Castlevania, I played this masterpiece like crazy. I always remembered the boxart as a giant, multi-armed purple demon with tusks. Obviously not that hahaha.
Now to find the other missing game from my youth (some sort of of action RPG where you had to rescue a princess and fought a giant steel crab...I think?)
Anyway...not sure about this one but I don't see many folks talking about this ever...
Looks great, make a PC version and I'll buy it. Wasted in the iPad audience.Here is a game I worked on that no one played. Thanks, jerks.
SapientWolf
Trucker Sexologist
Oh man, that game was awesome. Only problem was that no one knew about it.Here is a game I worked on that no one played. Thanks, jerks.
Wait, I'm thinking of the PC prototype.
Here is a game I worked on that no one played. Thanks, jerks.
Those designs are kickass dude. If I had an iOS device I'd play it.
Paddington Bear
Member
Haha I love how this thread is crazy popular.
Oh NeoGAF
Oh NeoGAF
Oneironaut
Neo Member
Here's mine:
It was an arena-type FPS where you spent most of the game running backwards while shooting the hordes of enemies that would spawn. It's been a while, but I remember it having some sort of upgrade system, and it had something like three different levels. I bought it off the developer's website, and it looks like that site is still operational.
It was an arena-type FPS where you spent most of the game running backwards while shooting the hordes of enemies that would spawn. It's been a while, but I remember it having some sort of upgrade system, and it had something like three different levels. I bought it off the developer's website, and it looks like that site is still operational.
Data Elemental
Member
It was a perfectly good game!
Such a shitty game. I dont know what I was thinking (obviously I wasnt) and it was my first "on my own" purchase for my Game Boy when I was 9.
I played that.Oh and this also. Saw this in Nintendo Power and got the cartridge used for a printed folded paper as a manual haha
So, what about this PC game called Warpath?
Lumpy Onion
Member
Anyway...not sure about this one but I don't see many folks talking about this ever...
Probably because it's a steaming pile of crap of a game whose only saving grace is the neat anime intermissions. Even as a gun game it felt entirely mediocre. Don't mean to rag on it though, but I found it to be rather disappointing.
Lakedaimon
Member
My bros and I played a lot of games made in this that I'm sure no one else has played,
When my family first got a computer in the 80s, a relative immediately gave me like 30 bootleg games including this. Unfortunately I quickly saved over the default adventurers and never got to properly play them.
Heres a couple other uncommon games:
made by a developer you may have heard of...
thing I remember most about it was the instruction manual. It had old fashioned copy protection (whats the first word in the third sentence of page 42, etc) and in order to stop you from just photocopying the manual, it was like black ink on extremely dark brown paper and almost impossible to read.
This has to be a rare one:
And ill always remember this game:
it was the first computer game that I just could not get to run even though my machine was well into the recommended specs. I ended up calling the studio, and since this was still basically pre-internet they mailed me a 3.5" disk with a patch on it. First PC game I ever remember having to patch :/ Absolutely fantastic spiral-bound manual though, covered all the basics of flight and fighter combat and included profiles of all the aircraft.
GOOD THROWDOWN TWO POINTS WON
Game was pretty good but that had to be the weirdest gameplay system ever
RiddleofSteel
Member
I loved this game on Commodore 64. Moebius was an early RPG, and was so awesome.
Played it, but it crashed at one point, so I wasn't able to complete it.
SalsaShark is the only other gaffer I know that had played this.
Beat it, was fun.
I remember buying Zool after reading a review for Zool 2. Never cleared it.Some other classics:
2 more from me:
And Wacki, a Polish adventure game:
BoneyardBrew
Neo Member
Being an Aerosmith fan I have indeed played this one. I guess that makes two of us!
Aerosmith PC game from 1995 that came with a plektrum that was ued to strum along to the rythm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jdd26HZW34
Spanx McFranks
Banned
Wrath of the Black Manta
Oh man, this is one of the first three games I ever played. In fact, I am pretty sure I still have my old copy. I should pull it out and play it again.
rhophiehalul78
Member
Granstream Saga
Characters have no faces.
Also, Fighting Eyes
Characters have no faces.
Also, Fighting Eyes
Open Source
Banned
Maybe Omni-Play Basketball. First sports game I ever played that had a "franchise mode" with season to season progression, players aging, etc.
Lumpy Onion
Member
Princess Minerva for the PC Engine SCD. A rather pervy JRPG with a group of female protagonists. Pretty abysmal, but the person as Diehard games said it was good!
anonymous_abc
Member
Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy.
An actual good movie-game tie in that had potential and wasn't rushed out (Came out a year after the film) however it suffered from average reviews. The game itself was ok, for an RTS it played like Ground Control with only your soldiers as the resources.
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I agree it was a solid game, I enjoyed it
was a fun and unusual game
blame space
Banned
i used to have some weird multimedia CDROM suite that had some weird ass games on it.. i can't remember any specifics though. i know some people here are into DinoPark Tycoon. that game was my shit back in the day.
if i'm going to be honest, the most obscure game i've ever played is probably a game my uncle used to boot up on his commodore 64 or something like it. it starred snoopy from peanuts, and involved his ".. it was a dark and stormy night" author persona. i can't remember much else about the game but i can't find any record of it online, and i'm beginning to think that my mind created it in order to repress other memories.
if i'm going to be honest, the most obscure game i've ever played is probably a game my uncle used to boot up on his commodore 64 or something like it. it starred snoopy from peanuts, and involved his ".. it was a dark and stormy night" author persona. i can't remember much else about the game but i can't find any record of it online, and i'm beginning to think that my mind created it in order to repress other memories.
pettson3816
Member
Anyone play Uninvited back in the day?
freaked me out as a kid.
I used to play this a lot as a kid. But that skeleton lady got me stop playing every time.. Shit, that's a scary game. Also played Deja Vu a lot which is the same principle type of game.
Cock of War
Member
Played the shit out of those, 32 hereShows my age (38) but when I was still using a pre-windows PC running DOS 5.0, there was a qbasic compiler built into DOS and it came with code for two games. Most people had no idea this was in there. You opened qbasic, opened the code and executed it.
Gorilla
Nibbles
Played both of those, good times!Had it. was a huge fan and I needed a videogame fix. Reviews be damned.
Anyone?
Digger is the BOMB! Installed on every PC I came across in the mid-eighties.This is the first game I ever chose for myself in the game store as a kid. I was so happy playing it.
I thought this would be rare too, but it can't be all that rare if it has a Wikipedia entry and an HD remaster.
Descent, Descent 2 and wasn't Freespace some kinda Descent spinoff? Played the feces out of them all.
Played it
How about:
Clive Barker's Nightbreed
Love the film, was impressed by the game at the time.
Midwinter
Legendary openworld choose your own route to victory, so worthy of a modern remake!
Terra Nova
Don't remember so much about this except I was blown away by the graphics and the difficulty.
Dune
Awesome beautiful game, mix of strategy and adventure. Visuals inspired by David Lynch's film.
PaulExcellent
Member
Fast Typer 2.
Come at me.
Come at me.
I agree it was a solid game, I enjoyed it
was a fun and unusual game
Played the shit out of that.
I still remember going to the store to buy that one.
Dark-Cloudz
Member
How about Metal Mutant, anyone?
When I finally got to play it a few years later, I don't think I've lasted 30 minutes, because it was so hard/not fun.
I remember reading the review in a gaming magazine, wanting to play it super bad, because of the ability to transform and the main character being a cyborg.
When I finally got to play it a few years later, I don't think I've lasted 30 minutes, because it was so hard/not fun.
Played this game years ago. Still have it.....somewhere. Wasn't Arthur C. Clarke in it as well? Or the "making of" videos at least?
TheNamelessOne
Member
I think I can safely say that not many people here have played the 1996 release of Fable, the one and only game by the little-known Simbiosis Interactive:
I haven't played it since I was a kid, but it's a 2D point-and-click adventure game with lovely, storybookesque visuals. I'd snap up the game in heartbeat if it were on GOG.
I just came to post this. Still have both the box and everything from the game. A truly underrated gem.
Strummerjones
Member
I used to really like Hammerfist, pretty sure I completed it. Really huge boss enemies and a neat mechanic where you could swap between the slow fighty guy and fast jumpy woman.
I played the hell out of the Detective but never really got anywhere. It wasn't even fun really, I just played it compulsively due to how original it was. About the furthest progress I made was find the secret passageway in the kitchen or whatever.
I used to be obsessed with Nightbreed as a kid due to this game, even though it was mostly awful and the film is pretty bad too (I actually ended up seeing the recent director's cut due to this, which amusingly was probably even worse than the cinema cut). Midwinter's been mention loads in this thread already, the sequel was good too.
Yeah, a friend of mine had this, we spent ages playing it mainly due to the (at the time) neat graphics and the character switching novelty.
Oh hell yes! I spent a long time trying to remember the name of that game, and I just remembered it a couple of years ago... I was so impressed with it back in the day.
I guess mine is Bruce Lee... played the crap out of it on my friend's Mom's Atari 800:
I played it on Atari 800.Archon (NES)
1 of my favorite games of all time. Would love a version of this to play online against people on PSN or Wii U. Would be really fun.
British Monsoon
Member
Ah, Shinrei Jusatsushi Taromaru - I'm thankful I managed to pick this up for a reasonable price (with the insert card & sticker, too!), as the amount it goes for online is ridiculous.
Fantastic Shinobi-like game and great fun with 2 players - I adore the music and some of the bosses were excellent.
Speaking of rare Saturn games, I'll be surprised if anyone's played this - it's another very expensive Saturn rarity, but one that isn't as popular or well known as Taromaru;
Comic book style point and click adventure game with FMV dialogues. To 13yo me this was an amazing game. Bought the box on Ebay a few years ago because MY PRECIOUSSS!
Also used the hero's superhero name (Darksheer) as my online nick for a very long time.
Also features full topless scene. First one I encountered in a game I believe,
MrCompletely
Member
Comic book style point and click adventure game with FMV dialogues. To 13yo me this was an amazing game. Bought the box on Ebay a few years ago because MY PRECIOUSSS!
Also used the hero's superhero name (Darksheer) as my online nick for a very long time.
I played this! IT has live action boobies in it.