Is this the one where u capture an enemy and swing it over your characters head left and right smashing it against the floor? If so i played it a lot at a friends house.
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Old computer games you're pretty sure no one but you ever played.
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dickgumshoe
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hooijdonk17
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Rodland (Amiga)
That game was AMAZING. One of my favorite AMIGA games of all time.
When I actually bought a C1084 monitor, hooked it up, and realized the spheres (that represented lives) actually had FACES on them, I was floored!
I never knew this game was obscure (it was pretty popular among me and my friends) and if it was, that's a fucking shame!
ResidentDante
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Somehow the abandonware sites never mean good news to me
I get excited about the games, but its always such a chore to get them running
And sometimes i just cant run em at all
hooijdonk17
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Champions of Krynn
Death Knights of Krynn
Dark Queen of Krynn
I remember my cousin getting me to read the Dragonlance Chronicles when I was like 10, and then playing these games on the computer afterward. I haven't tried playing them in probably 15 years, but they were fun as hell when I was a kid. I don't think I've ever met anybody else who has played any of them.
First two games were good to great, then the third was pretty shit. I played all three.
I also played Pool of Radiance -> Azure Bonds -> Silver Blades -> Pools of Darkness and Gateway to Savage Frontier -> Treasures of the Savage Frontier
The Pools series was mostly good; some games better than others. Pools of Darkness was the best of the Golden Box games. Savage Frontier was pretty weak overall.
Those were good times. I would sit on the crapper and read the adventurer's journal, trying to piece together what would happen later in the game.
(I also played EOB 1, 2 and 3. SSI were amazing in the day..)
casablanca
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dickgumshoe
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I just assumed it was obscure... none of my friends did know it then, and I only found out about it by chance at an Amiga convention.
You are right, it was a very cool game. I liked it a lot (otherwise I wouldn't even have remembered it now).
Shanks D Zoro
Banned
In Bed with Rednex.
I remember playing it on my Mac when I was a young kid. All i remember was random members of the band Rednex popping up and that you were meant to blow up some type of wall.
CyanideFuse
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Nexus on the Amstrad CPC 464: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnOX8Y7TB9A My 6-year-old self had not a clue what was going on.
Night Shift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvs0CsHgj9E
Night Shift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvs0CsHgj9E
neurosisxeno
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In Bed with Rednex.
I remember playing it on my Mac when I was a young kid. All i remember was random members of the band Rednex popping up and that you were meant to blow up some type of wall.
I wish I hadn't played that piece of shit.
My submission;
This game, was so damn fun.
The Crystal sodding Rainforest
Dude, this was like 90% of the reason why I bothered to go to the library in primary school.
I remember reading about this in one of my PC magazines in school and wanting to try it but it faded from memory. I'm guessing its basic but I'll have to look into getting it to try it out. If I recall correctly you were supposed to help the robot AI escape or guide it?
Classic arcade game and fantastic Amiga port, loved rodland to bits.
Duyu Ivanlift
Banned
i havent been going through all the pages (first7), so sorry if that has already been mentioned.
Z
As far as i remember it was a very hard and unforgiving game. I think i never got past level 7 or 8.
Z
As far as i remember it was a very hard and unforgiving game. I think i never got past level 7 or 8.
Mihos
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Champions of Krynn
Death Knights of Krynn
Dark Queen of Krynn
I remember my cousin getting me to read the Dragonlance Chronicles when I was like 10, and then playing these games on the computer afterward. I haven't tried playing them in probably 15 years, but they were fun as hell when I was a kid. I don't think I've ever met anybody else who has played any of them.
I played the hell out of them. I still have them and the wheel they used for DRM also (sooo many floppies)
I would beat them, then edit the plain text files that had the character data and give everyone the best weapons and armor and wreck it a second time. I think it was the first games I played that would let you bring your characters from the last game in, even though they would always wake up naked in an inn at the beginning.
Raven77
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I remember playing this game (maybe it was just a program?) about 10-15 years ago where you could throw bricks or balls at giant tower of blocks and watch them fall. The graphics were basically untextured polygons but it was a blast watching the physics go to work. I've been trying to find it for years, all i can remember is that I THINK it was developed by some company with either "Rocket" or "Rhino" (maybe both?) in their name.
Exactly the game
Awesome! I'd forgotten the name of it. But i remember it was a great game. Wouldn't mind playing it again now
Old Apple IIe game. I have never met anyone else in real life who knows what this game is.
You can watch a playthrough here.
Man, I loved this game. The opening music always got me pumped.
Sodding_Gamer
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Holy crap I had this! It was a copied CD though and kept crashing at one point in the game so I never finished it. But what I remember it wasn't too bad.
SpookyFries
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Here's one that I remember as a kid (Sorry for the tiny pictures. Couldn't find anything better)
It was called the Tectrix VR Bike and it had like 5-6 games built into it. One game was just a biking simulator where you rode around a little free roam village or you could race other bikes. The cool thing is that the resistance would change depending on hills/slopes and the machine even had fans that would blow when you went downhill fast.
Another game I remember was some sort of Battle Tanks game. It was a multiplayer deathmatch type game where you cycled to move your tank and you would try to shoot another player. It was such a neat concept and lots of fun to play.
It was called the Tectrix VR Bike and it had like 5-6 games built into it. One game was just a biking simulator where you rode around a little free roam village or you could race other bikes. The cool thing is that the resistance would change depending on hills/slopes and the machine even had fans that would blow when you went downhill fast.
Another game I remember was some sort of Battle Tanks game. It was a multiplayer deathmatch type game where you cycled to move your tank and you would try to shoot another player. It was such a neat concept and lots of fun to play.
hooijdonk17
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I also loved Parasol Stars, in case you remember that one.
DodgyGeezerFella
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That was such a cool/weird feature of old RPGs. Even if you stripped off the equipment, it doesn't seem possible to balance in the slightest.
Armitage Shanks
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Lambda Pie
Banned
Paradise Café for the ZX Spectrum.
extremely NSFW.
i can tell you one of the game overs is getting fucked in the ass by a huge black guy if you fail to pay a prostitute after doing her.
Google it.
extremely NSFW.
i can tell you one of the game overs is getting fucked in the ass by a huge black guy if you fail to pay a prostitute after doing her.
Google it.
CrimsonCommie
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Has anybody else played Jumpman: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpman
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
I had Champions of Krynn but I can't remember if I had the other two. I also owned Pool of Radiance.
Champions of Krynn
Death Knights of Krynn
Dark Queen of Krynn
I remember my cousin getting me to read the Dragonlance Chronicles when I was like 10, and then playing these games on the computer afterward. I haven't tried playing them in probably 15 years, but they were fun as hell when I was a kid. I don't think I've ever met anybody else who has played any of them.
Didn't catch this in your post before but I also had Thing On A Spring, and yes that music is ridiculously catchy.
Darkmakaimura
Can You Imagine What SureAI Is Going To Do With Garfield?
Some more awesome C64 music from an also obscure game I used to play.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBms3w2786A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBms3w2786A
I've always enjoyed this one ever since I encountered it on a PC Gamer demo disc years ago. I must've put a few hours into the demo over the years before I bought the game. It has neat little touches too (the robots smoking/drinking and shooting wildlife while idle fit the dysfunctional army setting).
I do remember it being pretty tough (demo was level 6 if my memory is correct) and I could only get to level 9-10. A few weeks ago I had the urge to dig it out and see if I could finally conquer it, might have to give it a try this weekend.
Nikodemos
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Z was crazy hard. The latter levels were basically timed puzzles, if you didn't perform a certain number of actions a certain way in a specific amount of time you invariably lost.
The environments themselves were pretty hazardous as well. In jungle missions your robots tended to get eaten if they ventured into the water, and animals that ended up flying into the air (after getting shot) usually crashed down on top of your troops, causing damage.
I remember that if you sent a robot type that was too low level to fight whatever enemy you targeted, that soldier would protest quite vigorously.
The environments themselves were pretty hazardous as well. In jungle missions your robots tended to get eaten if they ventured into the water, and animals that ended up flying into the air (after getting shot) usually crashed down on top of your troops, causing damage.
I remember that if you sent a robot type that was too low level to fight whatever enemy you targeted, that soldier would protest quite vigorously.
Forgottonone
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LOOM! I'd spend weekends watching LOOM playthroughs on you tube
Turnstyle
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I had this on the c64. Like you I had no idea what was going on - just ran around doing flying kicks on baddies.
OuterLimits
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Back in the early to mid 80s I loved playing the game Taipan on my father's Apple II.
I was about 8 years old and was confused on why opium was making me more money than other crops or products. Plus the pirates came after you more when you had opium.
I was about 8 years old and was confused on why opium was making me more money than other crops or products. Plus the pirates came after you more when you had opium.
Glass Shark
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Lost in Time
Galactic Barret
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I'll never remember the name but it was a edutainment type deal. It was about a scientist rat working in his own(?) brain through a series of mini-games. Brought it to school one day and it was installed in all the computers later that week. Its suck because the only concrete thing I remember about it is Synaptic Cleft being mentioned often. Was totally awesome at the time.
Stormhammer
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I never knew anyone else who played this. MegaRace
And this guy was kinda weird to witness as a kid in the cutscenes.
And this guy was kinda weird to witness as a kid in the cutscenes.
Yup. Cute game
I've never seen this mentioned anywhere. Surely someone else has played it, right?
Nikodemos
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I remember playing the shareware version, along with another Mario Kart clone, called Skunny Kart.
I've never seen this mentioned anywhere. Surely someone else has played it, right?
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soxinthebox
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Yeah I only remember Skunny Kart but had fun with it (didn't get to play Super Mario Kart until much later).
TheNamelessOne
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Lost in Time
Aw right, played both Lost in Time and Inca. The latter is probably the most confusing game I've ever played.
This is one really underappreciated gem:
Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth
GamingIsDead
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I've never seen this mentioned anywhere. Surely someone else has played it, right?
Best game ever. Loved the taunts in splitscreen that would obscure your friend's screen.
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