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Games you're pretty sure only you have played
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pete_clarf
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I have a Finny the Fish plush. It was a giveaway for pre-ordering the game. Natsume used to do that all of the time. I have tons of their plushes.
CherryIcee
Member
I remember this game. I also loved Gizmos and Gadgets from them as well.Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue
bobawesome
Member
Please tell me I'm not the only one here who has played Dogolrax.
faceless007
Member
For some reason I remember this game really fondly despite literally never hearing a single other person ever discuss it, anywhere. Hell, it was like 50 images down when I searched for it just now....
Anyway, cool little game where you control the protagonist indirectly via a CCTV system, with a cursor, folders, and resizable windows and all. Way ahead of its time. Not sure where you could find it now or if holds up at all, but a neat little game that I have good memories of.
I played this, and even even wrote up a brief review in 2 parts. My memories are not as fond.
(This thread is going to be 25% game suggestions and 75% posts disproving them.)
Prophane33
Member
This was so much better than the first one. Though it got really damn hard. I still own both of them.
I preferred the Z Gundam game to Char's Counterattack.
Off the top of my head my picks are
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Though I've played a lot of obscure Japanese games nothing else really springs to mind as something no one else on GAF has ever played (other than maybe handheld versions of Nobunaga's Ambition games and multiple games in the Densha de GO! series).
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Holy crap I own both of these lol
I'll throw in this game since I brought it up in the PSP appreciation thread and nobody responded
bobawesome
Member
I never hear anyone talk about Shadow Blasters.
Maybe it's not great but I don't remember it being offensively bad.
Glover, really? lol
Maybe it's not great but I don't remember it being offensively bad.
Glover, really? lol
Samanosuke Akechi
Member
This was so much better than the first one. Though it got really damn hard. I still own both of them.
Nice. Yes it was hard but I replayed it and beat it multiple times. Good fun.
I preferred the Z Gundam game to Char's Counterattack.
I always wanted Z but never got a chance to play it.
Nice. Yes it was hard but I replayed it and beat it multiple times. Good fun.
I preferred the Z Gundam game to Char's Counterattack.
I always wanted Z but never got a chance to play it.
These aren't anywhere near obscure. I knew a few people in real life who liked these games, myself included.
mindatlarge
Member
The limited color version was for DOS in the 80's, there was a Window's version released in the 90's which had the added colors which you probably played. You're the first person I've ever talked to that even knew this game existed!
Haha, can't say I ever heard of that game you posted. By then I was probably playing stuff like Duke Nukem and Doom.
Samanosuke Akechi
Member
This was good fun. The intro alone is worth tracking this game down for.
Samanosuke Akechi
Member
You think so? I never hear or see anymore talking about these games in real life or online. They couldn't have had that big a following.
pete_clarf
Member
My roommate at the time bought Glover because it was $9.99. That's also how we ended up with Trickstyle (Dreamcast) in the house.
Tarextherex
Banned
I remember each cup had three tracks, one of them was a mirrored version of another track from the same cup. Basically you had very little unique track layouts in the game. That made mirror mode a joke since there would be only one track that you haven't experienced in a mirrored layout
Also I remember playing Legend of Kage on some bootleg NES compilation thing. When it released on Wii VC it had like 3,5 from IGN, I wasn't surprised. You could basically double jump through every level or so. Very amateurish level/game design overall
Clockwork5
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When I was in 6th grade I wrote a letter to Psygnosis as a school assignment. I gushed over their Amiga library and let them know they made all of my favorite games.
This was in the early 90s so game development for the Amiga was nearing the end and I'm not sure if Psygnosis was still making Amiga games by that time.
Regardless, they sent me a thank you letter and included a never released demo of a top down futuristic tank game. I think the name Vindicator was written on the disc. I'm fairly sure I am one of the few who ever saw that demo.
This was in the early 90s so game development for the Amiga was nearing the end and I'm not sure if Psygnosis was still making Amiga games by that time.
Regardless, they sent me a thank you letter and included a never released demo of a top down futuristic tank game. I think the name Vindicator was written on the disc. I'm fairly sure I am one of the few who ever saw that demo.
loli pantsu
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Mercurius Pretty: End of the Century
The game is essentially Princess Maker for a homonculus in a bottle.
It got pretty hyped up in Japanese game magazines before release, what with the amount of talent attached to the artwork and voices, and then fizzled into obscurity after it got released because of all the average review scores it received.
The game is essentially Princess Maker for a homonculus in a bottle.
It got pretty hyped up in Japanese game magazines before release, what with the amount of talent attached to the artwork and voices, and then fizzled into obscurity after it got released because of all the average review scores it received.
Uchigatana
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I'm pretty sure that I'm one of the few players out there who played Sengoku Blade. Heck, I even have Aine as my avatar!
Professor Lexicovermis
Member
I love hubol's work, but some of the bosses in 2 were extremely annoying.
Especially Papa Urchin. *shudder*
Pontiaction
Member
Hell yeah. I have this (and Future Shock) to this day. Loved them, way ahead of their time. How about the previous Terminator game from Bethesda, Terminator Rampage? I actually sank a lot of hours into that one too.
I've played some other real oddballs over the years too, some likely more familiar than others. Most of my catalog of weird games is from the '90s. For instance, how many other people actually played this heap?
BenedictBlakbrn
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A European action RPG in a similar style to Risen and Gothic series of games, and a weird mini game compilation game made by Visual Concepts as they were trying to venture away from the constant 2K sports games they were making, never got an Ep. 2
dickroach
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never heard of it. looks sweet. thanks for the heads up
ReyVGM
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I'm sure some of you know about this game, but anytime I bring it up outside of GAF, no one has a clue what I'm talking about lol.
You must be talking to children because any self-respected gamer knows about this awesome game.
Samanosuke Akechi
Member
I'm sure some of you know about this game, but anytime I bring it up outside of GAF, no one has a clue what I'm talking about lol.
Famous game. Lots ppl played this. Probably not anyone in their teens or pre teens though. Ppl in their 20's-30's will know this.
QuixoticNeutral
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I arrived at the PC market just a tad late to have played Dune II, but it was the first RTS I ever heard of by way of schoolyard chatter. It's possible that hearing friends talk about the game was my first exposure to Dune and its principal elementsthe Atreides, the Harkonnens, the spicebefore I knew any of that came from a major science fiction novel or a film.
Anyway, here's something I'm quite confident nobody will name (and which I had trouble hunting down from my faint memory of it myself):
This is Trek, an unlicensed Star Trek game on Apple Macintosh System 6, and the standout title from the Mac shareware/freeware floppies I used to comb through in the early 1990s via the public library. A grid-based starship simulator, I honestly remember it to be the best Trek game I've played, though I haven't touched it in over twenty years and would need to assess it again with fresh eyes to know how well it holds up.
There are a ton of Mac obscurities from that era that outclassed their contemporaries on MS-DOS in control and interface design (but fell behind in support for colour), products of a healthy shareware community (an ancestor of sorts to today's indie market) that was necessarily restricted by the platform it was on, especially with Apple entering a period of serious trouble which established the reputation that Macs still have today as computers not known for serious games. I'm still trying to retrace my way to a space 4X from that era as well as some HyperCard puzzle adventures.
Strangelove77
Member
Robot Alchemic Drive.
I've brought it up once or twice here and no one ever says anything, so I'm guessing most haven't played it.
Some others would be Clockwork Knight, a side scroller on the Saturn and Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi, a PS1 fighting game.
I've brought it up once or twice here and no one ever says anything, so I'm guessing most haven't played it.
Some others would be Clockwork Knight, a side scroller on the Saturn and Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi, a PS1 fighting game.
mindatlarge
Member
I know what you mean. In my circle of friends, they know like Mario and Duck Hunt.
I'm sure some of you know about this game, but anytime I bring it up outside of GAF, no one has a clue what I'm talking about lol.
On boards like this though, a game like Batman for NES is pretty well loved and known.
D4rth Man7iz
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I didnt get to play this game until emulators came out. I dont know why because I thought I went through every NES game at my blockbuster. Even that shitty gorilla surfing game.
I'm sure some of you know about this game, but anytime I bring it up outside of GAF, no one has a clue what I'm talking about lol.
Samanosuke Akechi
Member
Very good and very underrated game. Played it all the time in 2002. Very rare now and expensive.
Samanosuke Akechi
Member
You need new friends. Like seriously lol
Red Arremer
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Samanosuke Akechi
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2blackcats
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I loved Dune 2.
Doctrine Dark
Member
No one but me played this shit.
You invest in stocks and bonds, go on dates and do social stuff. As a 4 yr old, my mind couldn't comprehend any of this.
No one played this, either. I refuse to believe anyone else did, anyway.
Man, Dune 2 was huge when it came out. Everyone played it on PC.
I'm gonna go with Zero Wing. Everyone knows the memes, no one played it. Chiki Chiki Boys was also one of my favourites on the Mega Drive, but I rarely see it mentioned even here.
Only know about this one because Funhaus played it this month.
If you played the 80s version you're probably a little older than me (I turn 30 soon for reference) but did you ever play Treasure Mountain, same company?
LowerLevel
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This.
40's and just seeing the box has the 1st stage music playing in my head still after all these years...
xXRedxSlugXx
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Both games are from 1998 and on PC.
Dark Side of the Moon is a full motion video adventure game. I remember playing it back in the day closer to when it came out. Game came on 6 CD's lol
Return Fire 2 is a military styled vehicle only CTF game