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[RedRooster]

Pretty sure I'm the only one who ever played Jones.

edit: APPARENTLY NOT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goM3M-flemc

Heck no, between that and Leisure Suit Larry I think video gaming peaked at that point!
"Hmm, do I buy rotten groceries or good ones for this week?!"

 

[Clearos]

Wish this game was still online:

Found this game in a $5 bin at a Price Club in Connecticut in the early 90s.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

I've long wondered if I'm the only person who hasn't successfully managed to block out having played Klendathu

Gogo CoCo Trash 80

The game may have been fun (or at least playable) with a real joystick, but I was stuck with this fucking thing as a kid:

See how it lies there at an angle? That's because it doesn't return to the center.

 

[RP912]

Loved this game

 

[Mindwipe]

Nightmare on Robinson Street. A Speccy game that's so obscure I was genuinely amazed someone had uploaded YouTube video of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-xkj-A1A5A

It's an Operation Wolf esque game where you're required to mow down the entire cast of Aussie soap Neighbours.

 

[Sakwoff]

Played the above...Has anyone played any of this below?

Oh god, Billy The Kid, right?

I could never figure out how to leave the Jail, but I had other executables that started in different levels.

I think I had this from some obscure dutch shareware collections.

 

[anotherVegan]

Police Quest: SWAT

Essentially a point and click adventure game, only you're in control of a SWAT team. A friend and myself played this game to no end, constantly dying and mucking up along the way. It was fun, though.

 

[striferser]

No wikipedia article on this game, and no one mention it. I play it when i was 4th or 5th grader.

 

[KernelPanic]

There was an old PC adventure game in the early 80s called Crime Story (I think) where you play as a private detective. First person graphics with a text parser.

I remember the into screen showing a shady figure breaking the glass and opening a door from the outside.

It was pretty open and you could wander the city, at one point you get ambushed and you Hebe to escape a shootout with some mobsters.

I can't find any mention or screenshots of this game and I've looked.

 

[Jimnymebob]

Pretty sure I'm the only one who ever played Jones.

edit: APPARENTLY NOT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goM3M-flemc

Was this the board game-esque game were if you lost money or something your character would lose their clothes and wear things like a barrel etc.?
If so it was one of the first PC games I played.

 

[Wiz]

An old dungeon crawler RPG on the Macintosh. You could pick your class and move square by square through a dungeon. I can't even remember the name.

 

[SweetJohnnyCage]

No wikipedia article on this game, and no one mention it. I play it when i was 4th or 5th grader.

There were games called Drug Wars and Dope Wars, looked exactly like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugwars


Does anyone remember Hyperman? It came in a bundle of games with my IBM Aptiva.

 

[Crimson_Fate]

I've long wondered if I'm the only person who hasn't successfully managed to block out having played Klendathu

Gogo CoCo Trash 80

The game may have been fun (or at least playable) with a real joystick, but I was stuck with this fucking thing as a kid:



See how it lies there at an angle? That's because it doesn't return to the center.

haha.. I have one of those sticks and one of the deluxe ones (white) which does return to the middle.

 

[BrassDragon]

Captain Goodnight on the Apple II... hard to appreciate now, but this game felt amazingly cinematic for its time with cut scenes and dialogue. I went from things like Frogger and Pac-Man to this and it blew my young mind.

In action: http://youtu.be/hapg2Y1KplU

 

[Ouroboros]

Never did beat this game...

 

[Dusk Golem]

There was a period of time I would of responded with WhiteDay: A Labyrinth Named School, but it's gotten a small cult audience in the last couple years, which to me is nothing but good news.

Honestly probably some niche small horror game or RPG Maker game I've downloaded and played, I've downloaded and played games with less than 100 total download from the only download link ever made of the game, so probably quite a few actually. On top of some of my short projects that almost no one ever plays.

 

[Wubby]

I have one I can pretty much guarantee no one else has played:

Radio Baseball - Electronic Arts -1986



This game came with a stack of cards with player stats on them. It's unplayable otherwise. I had a complete copy though. Really hard to find. Boring as sin though especially in today's day and age. Booting it up once was enough for me!

 

[Baron Von Beans]

FX Fighter. I found it in a discount bin for $5 and still have it laying around somewhere among my stuff.

Apparently there was a sequel and an SNES version that was canceled.

Ho-lee shit. I had the same experience. Made me go out and buy a 2 button controller for it, and if I remember, it required at least 3 or 4 buttons...But MAN..."good" times...

I have been wracking my brain, trying to figure out odd games from my childhood. I can't remember them, aside from the few I've seen posted here - Hover, FX Fighter, The Incredible Toon Machine, and that Spiderman Cartoon Maker. The SM Cartoon Maker introduced me to generic sound effects for real life objects in a way I could play them over and over, till they were burned into my memory. To this day in TV and movies, I still hear the generic babble on the cb radio from the cartoon maker during any cop drama.

 

[TheHall]

Still one of the most original games ever...

 

[nillapuddin]

H.E.D.Z.

Please tell me I'm not the only one.

 

[Crowza]

Sierra On-Line's Championship Boxing

 

[Senor Kami]

Man, my Dad was at Office Depot and they were selling this for like $2. 9 year old me was not ready for this game.

Mine would be this gem

I don't know if it was really that unpopular but it's a really good game I don't see many people bring up. I love the art style too. I wish this look and the OG Starfox look would come back around. Pixel art doesn't do much for me but that early 3D no-texture polygons is love.

 

[Max Knight]

Pac-Guy

It's a collection of Pac-Man clone games, except they have strange story lines, and sometimes Pac-Guy has an assault rifle for some reason.

It's weird, but also hilarious. I'm not sure if any of that is intentional; I could see it going either way.

 

[inm8num2]

Microman!

There was also a game I got from my friend/neighbor in which you controlled a crosshair and had to kill as many Barney the Dinosaurs as possible without letting them escape the screen. It was pretty violent. Not sure if it was something a local made, or if it was something gotten from the early days of the internet. Searched endlessly but can't find any information or screenshots of it.

 

[Mr Git]

Nice to see some Blake Stone and Nocturne love in here.

My first 'console' (technically a computer, just a shit one) was a Dragon 32, I haven't met anyone who seems to have heard of it or owned one. It was basically an inferior Spectrum which I didn't get for years later. Most of the games were ripped from others or were also released on the other better machines.

Hunchback

Apparently it's really difficult to find Dragon32 screenshots..


Also Quarantine on PC (1994) I absolutely adored but barely anyone seems to remember it.

 

[Crowza]

Mastertronic's Shogun
An Action-RPG that was way ahead of its time.

 

[Dr.Jerkberg]

Swarm Assault... Used to spend hours on this game.

 

[Hawkian]

Iz & Auggie, Escape from Dimension Q... This was such a peculiar game and I loved it. Had this weird wacky dystopian universe where people get turned into goo and you can steal musical talent. Ostensibly it was for 10-year-olds (I can't remember how old I was, I suppose it could've been around that) but some of the puzzles were pretty esoteric and took me a really long time. Uncommonly good voice acting too.

As silly as it sounds, this was the game that demonstrated to me that a videogame could be primary about delivering a compelling narrative. Up until that point all the games I'd played were about "session victory," either beating a level, winning a match or race, getting a high score, killing the other players. This was the game where I was like "oh, it can be about finding out what happens next? awesome!"

 

[DuncanR2N]

Ready, GAF? I'm about to lay down those 90's/early 00's classics.

KKND Krossfire II

Take No Prisoners

Prince of Qin

Those are classics. I loved KKND (both games). I really liked in 2 how you could customize your own unit builds. That was good fun.

SHOGO. Great game that was underrated and overlooked.

Great unappreciated game. I think I still have my Shogo T-shirt.

Afterlife. It was basically Sim City set on Heaven and Hell.

I never could really get into this game but I did appreciate the humor. It was very well presented.

And I'll present a few of my favs from way back when:

Settlers II

Lords of the Realm

Majesty

 

[Hellshy.]

HELL CAB
Not sure how obscure this game was but no one i know or have spoken too has ever heard of it. I was pretty young when it came out and couldnt figure it out. though i was playing sim ant and police quest at the same time and had no problem with them so maybe the game was just a bit of a mess.

 

[Altazor]

I played these two games back in the day, they were on the same CD:

Eagle Eye Mysteries

Peter Pan: A Story Painting Adventure

and the disc they came in...

must've gotten it when we bought the SOUND-BLASTER speakers. Good times.

 

[Nezzhil]

I remember playing a PC game in the 90s that seemed to be a straight rip off of Lemmings.

Cant remember the name.. had cavemen instead of lemmings.

The Humans, an amazing game. But in Amiga the loading time were ridiculous (more than 5 minutes).

SHOGO. Great game that was underrated and overlooked.

Awesome game!

Its probably not even obscure but I used to love Toonstruck for some reason![/IMG]

A really hard game. I think that his development was really expensive, to bad that bombed so hard.

Afterlife. It was basically Sim City set on Heaven and Hell.

This game received a lot of cover in his time. I always wanted to play it, but I never found it

To bad played it. In fact I love Tzar!

In Spain this game could be found everywhere, including kiosks! I'm sure that thousands and thousands of units are waiting in a abandoned warehouse in middle of nothing.

Still one of the most original games ever...

I think that I played it in a NES. Could be possible?

 

[wreckml]

I'm sure others played it, but 3D Movie Maker on Windows 95 LOL

 

[Zalman]

I remember playing a Batman painting game for PC in the 90s. I have no idea what it's called.

 

[CassSept]

I do think I played some of the games in this thread. I could probably pull some obscure stuff if I were in my hometown However, these:

Oh and this game, but I'm pretty sure some people on gaf know this one

http://images.mob.org/sisgame_img/the_bizarre_adventures_of_woodruff_and_the_schnibble/real/3_the_bizarre_adventures_of_woodruff_and_the_schnibble.jpg[img]
[img]http://www.adventureclassicgaming.com/images/galleries/382/382_2.gif[img]

So many hours on this one just roaming around to try and make sense out of it.[/QUOTE]

Guilty! I played it through completion (possibly using a guide though) and it was ridiculous. One hell of a bizarre game.

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Only other person I know who has played the same kind of adventure games is SalsaSharky if I recall correctly.

A friend of mine definitely owned it, but I might had borrowed it from him.

Trolls

This one now, hell. I'm 99% confident I played it. It's like something pulled from the furthest reaches of my memory. It look very familiar, but I can't be entirely sure it's that. I played it almost 20 years ago, I think.

 

[Nezzhil]

My two games (I think that I never saw them mentioned here, in NeoGAF):

A Colgate 2D shooter game (yes, the toothpaste!). I think that was only in dutch or german.

Hardline, a FMV Rail shooter. Really bad game. The only thing I remember about it was that this game comes in 3 CDs, in 1996 that was very rare!

In Mobygames I saw that David Cage (Heavy Rain) was the composer!

 

[Bumhat]

This entire thread is complete nostalgia overload, I love it. Me and my brothers were big into obscure shareware DOS games back in the very early 90s, some of which have already been mentioned such as Alley Cat and ZZT, and some that haven't such as:

Crystal Caves

Rockford

Round 42

There were plenty of other games that I think other people will have heard of, such as Major Stryker, Jill of the Jungle, and Xenon-2 (which had such a totally awesome soundtrack, even if it was basically one song).

 

[DiipuSurotu]

I'm sure some people here played it:

The journeyman project

Oh and this game, but I'm pretty sure some people on gaf know this one

So many hours on this one just roaming around to try and make sense out of it.

Close - "Logical Journey of the Zoombinis." I can never forget that game - came here to post it. I have no idea how widespread it was, but it was amazing (and super educational).

If I had to pick another one, it'd be:

Also no idea how obscure this was. Anyone else play these?

Septerra Core.

Its probably not even obscure but I used to love Toonstruck for some reason!

The Adventures of Willy Beamish

Still one of the most original games ever...

Settlers II

C'mon, these aren't very obscure at all, are they?



My contribution:

P.A.W.S.

 

[Currygan]

first one popping out is Sargon 3,

a damn old chess game for computers and DOS. It was mega incredibly difficult!

 

[Baron Von Beans]

Also Quarantine on PC (1994) I absolutely adored but barely anyone seems to remember it.

Ho-leeee SHIT!! THIS was the game of my childhood. I never played Quarantine, but I had Road Warrior, which I think is the sequel to it. Regardless, I won't ever forget that cabbie cockpit HUD. That game....man oh man what a wonderful thing for a 12 year old to play..

The thing I remember most is the weapon called "The Probe" - literally a pitchfork extended out from the front of your vehicle. When you drove over a person, they would be impaled on your car until you hit them off, or until you withdrew the probe. That and playing fireman in certain levels, by lobbing water balloons onto burning buildings, a nice break from massacring tons of crazed psychopaths during the rest of the game.

I <3 this thread.

 

[FaintDeftone]

Ended up being one of my top ten favorite games ever, yet I feel no one played it.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Robocop 3D. It was basically no where on the internet until I wrote a wiki page for it on giant bomb.

It always was weird to me that a licenced game like that would get so little attention. I need other people to share my trauma as a kid of trying forever to beat that damn ninja in fist to fist combat with tank controls and the worst camera angle ever, and never winning.

Someday I'll probably be able to return to that game and finish what i started decades ago, but even now the trauma hasn't faded enough yet.

Holy shit. I remember that game just from the screenshot alone! It's the first time I've even thought about it in years.

I must see a video!!!

Edit: Blade runner was hugely popular too. It's Ana amazing game. One of the best ever.

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Played the crap out of this game but nobody I know has ever played it or heard of it. Please someone on GAF must of played this and can share my nostalgia?!

I played this! It was a pretty cool game. I could never finish it though >_<

 

[The Rain King]

Mad Martha. I don't think I ever got out of the first room though.

 

[Screaming Meat]

Robocop 3D. It was basically no where on the internet until I wrote a wiki page for it on giant bomb.

It always was weird to me that a licenced game like that would get so little attention. I need other people to share my trauma as a kid of trying forever to beat that damn ninja in fist to fist combat with tank controls and the worst camera angle ever, and never winning.

Someday I'll probably be able to return to that game and finish what i started decades ago, but even now the trauma hasn't faded enough yet.

Ended up being one of my top ten favorite games ever, yet I feel no one played it.

Loved both those games.

 

[Mr. Luchador]

Dink Smallwood.

This game was awesome, I slaughtered all the pigs.

 

[petran79]

Warlock's Quest
this game was much harder than Ghost and Goblins

Cyber Gladiators

3D version of One Must Fall, basically

and another mid-90s MS-DOS game with animal teams playing soccer. havent found its title yet.

 

[Jeronimo Jones]

EDIT: Lol, they remade this game? Nice! Will buy

Damn... Mixed-up Mother Goose was so cool to young me.

 

[JoeMartin]

House Atredies for life. Sonic tanks and Fremen is where it's at.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Superhero League of Hoboken - I mention this game frequently on gaf and NO ONE ever has said anythign about it.

also


Dungeons and Dragons: Stronghold - i recently made a detailed thread about this game asking if anyone has ever played it because i never see it discussed....and not one person commented in the thread

This is my last chance.... DID PEOPLE PLAY THESE AMAZING GAMES?!