LookAtMeGo
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Im trying to remember correctly, I'm not sure but I think this game sticks out in my memory because I think it's the first time I ever experienced 3D graphics.
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What's an extremely obscure computer game you played back in the day?
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Sheriff_Battlesnake
Banned
The Space Bar. A point and click adventure game where you're a detective questioning a bunch of weirdo aliens in a bar.
I never got very far but I had a ton of fun with it.
Doesn't Alan Rickman voice a character in this game???
IAmtheFMan
Member
Citadel Adventures of the Crystal Keep
A pretty meaty RPG for Mac.
A pretty meaty RPG for Mac.
Purple Dinosaur Massacre
I think I played a slightly modified version of it, though. Pretty sure the game's still on a floppy sitting in a box with some other old computer stuff.
I think I played a slightly modified version of it, though. Pretty sure the game's still on a floppy sitting in a box with some other old computer stuff.
I didn't have a PC that could play anything good until the back-half of the 90's, and even then I played mostly the big-name stuff, but my favorite of all time was Silent Death Online.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BvgxDCbZxE
It was a part of Gamestorm until about 1999 when EA bought the whole service and put it behind a pay wall. It promptly died. It was the first game I would stay up to see the sunrise playing, made it all the way to the 2nd to top rank (Lieutenant Commander, below Commander) before it died. I credit it with teaching me to type. You had to type fast in order to not get killed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BvgxDCbZxE
It was a part of Gamestorm until about 1999 when EA bought the whole service and put it behind a pay wall. It promptly died. It was the first game I would stay up to see the sunrise playing, made it all the way to the 2nd to top rank (Lieutenant Commander, below Commander) before it died. I credit it with teaching me to type. You had to type fast in order to not get killed.
DavionStriker
Member
Two:
Rockford
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Alley Cat
Someone posted Sopwith earlier. That game was great.
Rockford
Alley Cat
Someone posted Sopwith earlier. That game was great.
Adam Prime
hates soccer, is Mexican
Solar Winds
"I NEED MORE PAY" was my favorite line, this one was also good:
"I NEED MORE PAY" was my favorite line, this one was also good:
I always get that game confused with "Messiah", the third-person shooter from the 90s with the cherub.I remember buying Pariah and had never heard of it. To this day I've never heard or read anyone talk about the game. I loved it! Played it and completed it in about 3 sittings. Thought the graphics were absolutely amazing. It looked fantastic to me. Very fond memories of it.
4D Boxing was the best! I think I still have the big box of it. I will have to look.
Cover Action, Sid Meier's most forgotten brilliant game.
PapaEmeritus
Member
Toy Bizarre on C64 and there was some Goblins Pinball Game by sierra I can't for the life of me remember the name
KinofChaos
Banned
I watched one of my cousins beat that game when I was younger, but I thought it was just another sci-fi shooter at the timeI remember buying Pariah and had never heard of it. To this day I've never heard or read anyone talk about the game. I loved it! Played it and completed it in about 3 sittings. Thought the graphics were absolutely amazing. It looked fantastic to me. Very fond memories of it.
I don't know how obscure they are, but...
I loved the Movie Monster game.
You picked your monster, your city, and your scenario at the start. You got a fun little theater experience pre-game, and a text prologue and epilogue.
Most of the monsters wererip-offs homages to real movie monsters, but they did get Godzilla.
Another that you can actually play on archive.org is Dracula in London. You're trying to run down Dracula by finding clues to his location, eliminating boxes of dirt he uses to rest in and, hopefully, killing the count himself at the end.
Each character can be controlled by a separate playeronline sitting around the keyboard. I never played it that way though.
One! One Count! Ah ah ah.
I loved the Movie Monster game.
You picked your monster, your city, and your scenario at the start. You got a fun little theater experience pre-game, and a text prologue and epilogue.
Most of the monsters were
Another that you can actually play on archive.org is Dracula in London. You're trying to run down Dracula by finding clues to his location, eliminating boxes of dirt he uses to rest in and, hopefully, killing the count himself at the end.
Each character can be controlled by a separate player
One! One Count! Ah ah ah.
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
I'm not sure how obscure it really is, but I never see anyone talk about it. Hype was a pretty decent action/adventure game. I think there was eventually an N64 port.
I remember playing this old adventure game and digging the graphics, but I don't think I ever got very far.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XO4ODsBACxE
Coulomb_Barrier
Member
There was one I played. Can't remember the name as it was obscure.
Forsaken82
Member
10six on Heat.net
Oh jesus, it was the Cool Spot of Chupa Chups
What the hell was happening?!
Try showing this screenshot to someone and explain "its a game where you run a pizza restaurant"
Mackenzie 92
Member
VGA Civil War Strategy
Sunk hours into it. Great game.
Sunk hours into it. Great game.
AngmarsKing701
Member
Parsec for the TI-99. Loved the hell out of that game.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec_(video_game)
What do I win? I can't imagine anyone else on GAF having played it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec_(video_game)
What do I win? I can't imagine anyone else on GAF having played it.
void_if_removed
Neo Member
Mad Show, a sack of utter crap that I picked up on PC for something like £1 in John Menzies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXovmywvYSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXovmywvYSI
ebullientprism
Member
Liked it a lot too.
Dunno if its obscure though.
Wow. I would have never even remembered this one without being shown an actual screenshot. Good times, that was probably ~20-25 years ago, right?
SweetJohnnyCage
Member
Cyberia came with my first computer. IBM Aptiva from The Wiz back in like 1994 or 1995. Absolutely LOVED playing this game.
DryvBy
Member
Liked it a lot too.
Dunno if its obscure though.
I still have it and it's amazing. When everyone had Goldeneye, I had this. Then Smash Bros. forced me to buy an N64.
LookAtMeGo
Member
I played the ever living shit out of this game. Those blood spatters lol
Liked it a lot too.
Dunno if its obscure though.
Liked it a lot too.
Dunno if its obscure though.
This game was my jam. Played it with my friends all the time
Shogo was a pretty big release from Monolith, arguably on the rise to the pinnacle of what they'd become. It was a showcase for the Lithtech Engine. I would agree it's name doesn't get tossed around much, however it is the furthest from obscure.
I'm not sure how obscure it really is, but I never see anyone talk about it. Hype was a pretty decent action/adventure game. I think there was eventually an N64 port.
"Hype Time Quest"? eh?
Such a fitting game for the time of the year.
whiteninja
Member
I got this in one of those multi dos game packs they sold at sears. You control this overlord guy trying to stop an invasion of his castle by setting traps, placing monsters or just going down there himself to fight. You could create your own monsters in a lab too. I sucked it at though I would always get overwhelmed.
Mixolydian
Member
I'm in my early 30s, but everytime I mention this game, NOBODY knows what it is. Well, unless they are 40+ usually. Bonus points if you do.
Legend of The Red Dragon.
Legend of The Red Dragon.
There's an old DOS game that I used to play a lot of which comes to mind, but I'm not sure if it counts as obscure. Shareware game with customizable levels, had ASCII graphics. Could have sworn I've seen an image from it recently, might have to dig it up.
I wrote an article on NetMonster so I could submit it to Hardcore Gaming 101, but then I couldn't get the thing running in order to take images. D'oh. It was a Pokemon knockoff, but instead of exploring the game world, you could put a NetMonster cage on a web page and players could find a monster from there. They could have custom images, and there was a random chance that they'd be a boss or miniboss. People actually kept records of where to find bosses and stuff and posted them around.
It's a relic of the Angelfire / Geocities era, so it seems like most of the old sites are gone.
I wrote an article on NetMonster so I could submit it to Hardcore Gaming 101, but then I couldn't get the thing running in order to take images. D'oh. It was a Pokemon knockoff, but instead of exploring the game world, you could put a NetMonster cage on a web page and players could find a monster from there. They could have custom images, and there was a random chance that they'd be a boss or miniboss. People actually kept records of where to find bosses and stuff and posted them around.
It's a relic of the Angelfire / Geocities era, so it seems like most of the old sites are gone.
Liked it a lot too.
Dunno if its obscure though.
Underrated, maybe. Obscure, definitely not.
I mean, it was made by Monolith. It got a lot of attention just for the Lithtech engine, at the time.
Didn't Chupa Chups have to come in and finance the completion of the game which led to all of the in-game advertising? At least I remember reading that a long time ago.
I liked to play a game called "Mange Cailloux" on Amstrad CPC at my cousin's place.
It's an action-oriented puzzle game ; a kind of mix of Adventures of Lolo and Bomberman.
That looks like a Pengo clone to me.
Hey, I played Legend of the Red Dragon 2! As an ASCII man it appealed to me more. I still need to break it out again; it's been years and I don't remember it too well anymore.
Simbabbad
Member
My avatar, Sepulcri on Amstrad CPC, even people who were into the CPC generally don't know about it.
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I wrote an article about it on my (French) blog. It's the most complex and hugest (and hardest) isometric platform/adventure game I've ever played.
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I actually did a complete map of it, which was quite a lot of work:
I wrote an article about it on my (French) blog. It's the most complex and hugest (and hardest) isometric platform/adventure game I've ever played.
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