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[DangerStepp]

Dink Smallwood (only played a demo)


Beaten!


Hell yea, I remember the Cyberia games. Amazing graphics at the time.



Do you mean Microsoft's Hover? Came free with Windows 95 IIRC.

...

The Realm - one of the early MMORPGs, amazingly people still play it

Came here to post 'The Realm Online'. I never hear anyone mention this and I find that strange since it's one of the early MMOs.

 

[Hellshy.]

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

Love this game. i had so much fun with it for years and years after release. your post makes me want to play it now,. Wish i knew where to get it

 

[borghe]

Because the topic title says "computer games" I am going to go with "almost everything ever commercially released for the TRS-80 Color Computer" and one up that with "every damn BASIC game I ever typed in from either Rainbow Magazine OR from those small hardback books I checked out from the library"

 

[ThatStupidLion]

also

Maganic Wars.

http://www.maganicwars.com/

loved this card game back in the day

 

[Duane Cunningham]

I bet I win the thread with this one. Nobody else has played this (unless I'm wrong), but I sure loved it. Car Builder on Apple II...

 

[Clearos]

I bet I win the thread with this one. Nobody else has played this, but I sure loved it. Car Builder on Apple II...

I actually played that in middle school. We were divided into 10 groups and had to see who could design the most fuel efficient car while still reaching other benchmarks.

 

[Raticus79]

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.

The joystick had cruise control! "It's a feature"

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

Heh, I edited the sound file for the intro to Dune 2 with my friends and replaced "spice" with "beer". Did a cool reverb effect to match and everything. "The house that produces the most beer will control Dune". Our sonic tanks made fart noises.

Here's my entry, although it has a wikipedia article: Knights of Legend
http://crpgaddict.blogspot.ca/2013/05/knights-of-legend-final-rating.html

It had a decent little combat system, choosing low/mid/high attacks. "Foresight" contributed to getting hints at where the enemy might attack so you can direct defense at the appropriate height.

 

[besada]

Time Bandit, a Wizard of Wor-like clone for the TRS-80 CoCo:

Temple of Apshai for the TRS-80 Model I:

Cashman for the TRS-80 CoCo:

Calixto Island for the CoCo:

 

[feraltennisprodigy]

Not *super* obscure but most people probably haven't played this one:

Urban Assault, a game from 1998 that was part real time strategy and part first person shooter. You control the big base on the box art and use it to create & command ground vehicles and aircraft. You can assume direct command of one unit at a time with and control it from the first person pov. It was somewhat similar to Battlezone, which came out in 1998 as well.

Gameplay video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnROcp5tmBk

 

[MoxManiac]

Castle of the Winds:

I think I got it from a CD that came with a magazine way back in the mid-90's. Was a lot of fun, despite its simplicity. The character graphic used an icon file, so I used Locke from FF3/6 for mine. lol

I played this from a shareware disc i purchased back in the day.

 

[Thing on a Spring]

The Commodore 64 version of Ninja Spirit. As a kid I would play this 'til my eyes hurt.

 

[Sami+]

I'd imagine most GAFfers would have been too old for edutainment games in '99, but I played a lot of this one -

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Because the topic title says "computer games" I am going to go with "almost everything ever commercially released for the TRS-80 Color Computer" and one up that with "every damn BASIC game I ever typed in from either Rainbow Magazine OR from those small hardback books I checked out from the library"

I just found one of those damn magazines in an old box the other day. Along with my CoCo. Almost tempted to hook it up and feel the power of 16K RAM.

 

[KORNdoggy]

i feel like i was the only one who played this

although i'm sure i wasn't.

 

[besada]

Because the topic title says "computer games" I am going to go with "almost everything ever commercially released for the TRS-80 Color Computer" and one up that with "every damn BASIC game I ever typed in from either Rainbow Magazine OR from those small hardback books I checked out from the library"

As you might notice by my post, you are not alone. And that includes slavishly typed programs from Rainbow.

I just found one of those damn magazines in an old box the other day. Along with my CoCo. Almost tempted to hook it up and feel the power of 16K RAM.

My Coco 2 still worked great last time I hooked it up. At the moment I don't have a TV to connect it to.

 

[jack...]

I bet I win the thread with this one. Nobody else has played this (unless I'm wrong), but I sure loved it. Car Builder on Apple II...

There were copies of this in the computer lab at my elementary school. I loved this game.

 

[borghe]

Calixto Island for the CoCo:

#dead

I have not thought about this game one single time in probably around 28 years, despite dozens and dozens of hours into it as a kid.

The only text adventure I probably played more than this on the CoCo was the Pyramid 2000 cassette text adventure.

 

[deejay8595]

Executioners

 

[Sami+]

There were copies of this in the computer lab at my elementary school. I loved this game.

Man, I wish my school had games this cool. D:

I suppose Oregon Trail is a classic, though. Really happy to have grown up with that one lol.

 

[besada]

#dead

I have not thought about this game one single time in probably around 28 years, despite dozens and dozens of hours into it as a kid.

The only text adventure I probably played more than this on the CoCo was the Pyramid cassette text adventure.

I was a goon for those CoCo text adventures. DallasQuest, Blackbeard's Island, and The Black Sanctum. So much goodness.

I was going to mention Dungeons of Daggorath, but since Ready Player One came out, everyone knows about it.

 

[borghe]

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

not sure if it was a later model or what... but the version of that we had was definitely switchable. i.e. return to center or floating. Yours might have just been broken (or you didn't know). Though thinking back to it ours was "coco white" and TRS-80 branded.

I was a goon for those CoCo text adventures. DallasQuest, Blackbeard's Island, and The Black Sanctum. So much goodness.

I was going to mention Dungeons of Daggorath, but since Ready Player One came out, everyone knows about it.

DallasQuest was actually NOT coco exclusive. Granted aside from a handful of Infocom titles, also the only mainstream text adventure coco ever saw

 

[ignata]

Sammy Lightfoot anyone? Anyone?

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Oh sh#t I just thought of another one. I must of played through this a dozen times:

Holy shit I played this... I'm old lol.

 

[Minister of the Dog]

Probably this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzuHNrhcnE4

Lucky Luke demo I got on a cereal box. Maybe this one is more fitting in a "forgotten games" rather than this thread, though. I've never seen anyone mentione it anyway.

 

[Gloam]

Druid: Daemons of the Mind - garbage.

 

[Mengy]

This thread could be owned by C64 games from back in the day.

Here is one that I played the hell out of on my C64 that none of my friends ever bought, I've never met anyone else who also played this game, this is Echelon for the C64:

Man I can't even find a decent screenshot of the game, lol. Here is a youtube vid of someone playing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9hebX2QXzs

 

[Cth]

Endorfun:

VIDEO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IEFC_Y3nrA

EDIT:

This thread could be owned by C64 games from back in the day.

Here is one that I played the hell out of on my C64 that none of my friends ever bought, I've never met anyone else who also played this game, this is Echelon for the C64:

Loved this game.. bought it for the headset stuff and the deciphering codes stuff.

Anyone played Modem Wars on their 300 baud modem? I could never find anyone to play with except for my friend across town.

 

[cacildo]

I wish i could play all these games.

Somehow they all look beautiful to me now

Nostalgia is everything they say and more

 

[SOME-MIST]

I've played Zach McKracken - granted I never owned floppys, but I've played the game

noctropolis is a severely underrated adventure game for it's time. surprised it reviewed so horribly.

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

yup

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

that's because toonstruck is awesome!

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

blade runner is hugely popular among the classit adventure game scene

Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5STxHdqcw

A-tier point and click adventure game. <3 Eurylochus

never played it but it looks awesome. gonna have to check it out

this is probably a bad thread for me to be in since I'm such a huge p&c adventure fan.

 

[Pirabear]

Bugdom.

This was quite literally my SHIT in elementary school.

Who needs Oregon Trail? I dropped that after playing it a bit as a class. Bugdom was only installed on the Mac computers in the after-school activity trailer

Played this, and Otto Matic (same developer):

 

[jonabbey]

Asylum on the TRS-80 Model I.

http://www.swobi.at/asylum/asylum.html

It was a 3d first person perspective adventure game on an 8bit system with 128x48 monochrome graphics and a sentence parser comparable to Infocom's. All loaded on tape and fitting into 16k.

Think 'Outlast', except with a huge map that you had to map out on paper yourself if you wanted to have any chance of beating it.

 

[flarkminator]

Didn't see it, so I know I had to post it.

Darklands

It was baldur's gate before there was a baldur's gate.

Played the hell out of this as a kid. It was set in medieval Germany and instead of magic, they had alchemy.

 

[tuffy]

Sammy Lightfoot anyone? Anyone?

I put plenty of time into this one back in the day. It was a Donkey Kong-style game where you're guiding a dude through an obstacle course across three(?) stages that get progressively trickier as the game goes on.

 

[Sciz]

Man, that's Kingdom of Kroz. Huge game in its time.

Crystal Caves

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).

Those are all fairly well known, yeah.

Some random DOS version of Monopoly

My grandparents had this one on their PC for whatever reason.



For my own contributions, anyone here remember some of the old Soleau Software titles?

MadMaze

Blind Maze

RatMaze

Played all three of these ages ago, and they've all but dropped off the internet.

Shout outs to Janitor Joe and Hard Hat Mack, but both of those were pretty widespread.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

not sure if it was a later model or what... but the version of that we had was definitely switchable. i.e. return to center or floating. Yours might have just been broken (or you didn't know). Though thinking back to it ours was "coco white" and TRS-80 branded.

Mine could have been broken and I certainly wouldn't have known better at the time. That's not my photo, but it's definitely the device I have. I've got two in a box, one intact and one I apparently tore apart out of curiosity

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Fine then...

 

[cacildo]

Loved this game. Who else is old enough to remember what this is!

Dont.

Its cursed

 

[Sciz]

Lemmings:
The Incredible Machine:
Seven Kingdoms:
Chex Quest:
Wing Commander:

Man, read the thread title.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Jane's Combat Simulations.

Anyone else grow up on these?

 

[cacildo]

Mentioned already?

First time i heard I Just Cant Get Enough (or a bizzarre midi version of it)

 

[GoaThief]

Settlers II

Etc...

How are these unknown games? They were huge and I'll bet many people here have played them.

 

[daveo42]

Sierra On-Line's Championship Boxing

Oh god I remember playing this game ages ago on an IBM 8800.

Here's something I haven't seen in here yet that might fit the bill: Janitor Joe

And this one's just fun, but I'm sure some have played it: Test Drive on MS DOS

 

[SOME-MIST]

I'm sure mine aren't that obscure either since many adventure game fans have probably played 'em.... but

cosmology of kyoto (this is one of the games Ebert brought up on a couple of occasions)

duckman - legend of the fall

the dark eye (1995)

and two others:
gadget - invention, travel & adventure
shadow of the comet

 

[L.O.R.D]

C&C teberian sun

 

[notoriousKTR]

 

[iclash]

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

Dune 2000? I loved that game but ORDOS

 

[inm8num2]

Executioners

I remember this - bought a demo disk for it!

 

[iclash]

Love this game. i had so much fun with it for years and years after release. your post makes me want to play it now,. Wish i knew where to get it

I believe Dune II is available on abandonia, not sure how legit that site is though

 

[4lejandro]

One of my first point and click adventure games, I remember playing that (great) Titanic (Adventure out of time?) game and this almost back to back, alongside Full Throtle, good times!

I remember Noctropolis for it's puzzles, atmosphere and digitized tits.

 

[Mengy]

Going back to my ColecoVision, I have a game called Wingwar that my brother and I paid $50 for back in the day. None of our friends could ever find it, not in stores, not even at flea markets later on, but we bought it at a Richols and never saw it in stores again. We played the hell out of it, took us forever to actually "win" the damn thing.