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[PantherLotus]

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[Persona86]

WTFOMGOTL.

Download link.
http://www.insani.org/omgwtfotl.html

 

[sn00zer]

One more

Star Wars Droid Works.

Edutainment game where you build your own droids from assorted parts then put them through their paces in levels with various physics based and layout puzzles.

totally played this at a friends house....was frustrating as hell

 

[Eppy Thatcher]

For me it was Constructor

But fuck Chip's Challenge. Fuck it right in it's stupid face. Trying to play that game on your uncle's new machine when you are like 7 years old is enough to give anyone a serious fuckin complex.


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R

I loved this game on the PS1. Never beat it tho.

 

[Imbarkus]

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I played it for C-64.

EDIT: Really, going to bed I swear. Also, AriolaSoft?

 

[Eppy Thatcher]

This was the first co-op game that I ever thought played well. First time I can recall sticking to cover in a game as well... i believe it was a decent amount of time before killswitch came out ... but you couldn't blind fire. Shotty was king.. natch.

 

[Layell]

So many good memories of this lovely little platformer, I still own the CD.

 

[eternalthree]

Riders of Rohan, 1991 Konami.

 

[Toad.T]

H:

...I am ashamed.

o:

I know what you're thinking, but it's a PC port, NOT the original.

r:

So hey, remember when you got free prizes in cereal? It's kinda like that with this, but with Sega Game Gear eBay orders instead.

 

[Millsington]

H?

C'mon, nobody had a 3DO.

 

[MikeOfTheLivingDead]

Judge Dredd Arcade, at a test arcade location. The game was never released.

 

[EDarkness]

Probably not that obscure, but this is my favorite genesis game BY FAR.
Love the OST.

Damn. Ranger X was an awesome game. I still own a copy of that.

I've always been a fantasy RPG fan, so this game was my fav back in the day:

 

[Brokun]

This was the first co-op game that I ever thought played well. First time I can recall sticking to cover in a game as well... i believe it was a decent amount of time before killswitch came out ... but you couldn't blind fire. Shotty was king.. natch.

Totally played this.

 

[NinjaCatfish]

One more

Star Wars Droid Works.

Edutainment game where you build your own droids from assorted parts then put them through their paces in levels with various physics based and layout puzzles.

Does the demo count? I played the crap out of that demo. I was just mesmerised by how nice it looked on my parents' Pentium MMX without any 3D Accelerator.

 

[akira28]

I could be a shit and put up old C64 small release and shareware titles....

And I may still..

But first :

I assume there's a prize?

 

[Creaking]

Millenium Soldier: Expendable, or just Expendable in the US. 1998. It had shared-keyboard co-op!

 

[Brokun]

Time to break out my Tandy 1000.

A-10 Tank Killer.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Castle Shikigami: Fantasy of the Seventh Moon.

 

[akira28]

May have just remembered an O:
Sub Culture for the PC

This game was so ahead of its time. It was so damn good and different when it came out.

Anyone else played this

Also scratch off SuperHero Leage of Hoboken.

o?

 

[Herbspiceguy]

Mid 90's shooting gallery game for PC, by the developers of the Super Star Wars games (they put this on the box), anime style with cutscenes.
Was an impulse buy since I never saw or heard about the game before. Game was pretty mediocre, repetitive levels, uninteresting story and okay puzzles. It did have a pretty unique charm/style, especially for the time it was released.

Mid 90's adventure game for PC. As you can see from the box, really cheap CG look. It was a point and click game played from a first person view, where you go after Santa Clause (and yes that's Rudolf the Reindeer on the cover, and you can see an evil pixie in the bottom right). The game featured gruesome deaths, but presented in a comic fashion (bit like Braindead 13), hence the "Only looks like a kids game!" on the box.
I remember being the game quite fun, but also very odd.

edit:

I'm also probably the only one around here who played Chron X. An online trading card game released in 97(!). Cyberpunk setting and cool art. I really liked this game.

 

[cuilan]

Realmz (Mac Shareware)

Glider PRO would have been too easy.

Back to
H

I played those two.

As for me, H:

 

[joffocakes]

I've played this! Other than the shareware version of Doom it was the only thing fun on my dad's PC. I also might have played it on mac, the apple 2, in primary school? Or something similar. It definitely had a sound file in it that said "But if you took the bones out it wouldn't be crunchy, would it?". It was in the Assistant headmaster's office.

I'd need far more time to think of anything there's a chance no one has played. I do love reading the thread though, for the combination of really obscure games I've never heard of or barely remember and games like Ballz which I'd thought were pretty popular in their day (despite the fact it's dreadful).

There's this game, jumpman, on PC which I played because of the name. I doubt it's rare though because I'm sure it was free:

A game featuring this little dude.

By entering commands such as "forward 50", then "right 45", an then "forward 25" it does this

and from here, you can create any type of art

It's from the Logo Foundation and it's essentially an educational bit of programming that mixes math, computer commands, and art. Might not be a game per se, since it's kind of like etchasketch with computer commands. But I would play the shit out of it when I was a tiny thing. Except I would put huge numbers in it and the turtle would go blasting off the screen. I seem to remember it being in color though.

I'm hoping that someone else has played this as well. I've been looking for any information on this for a very long time and I finally found it tonight while thinking of something I could add to the thread.

I "played" this too. Must have been around 1993/4 and we had a school trip for a full week to some activities centre where we did things like climbing, map reading, bouncing on a trampoline for a bit and learning about computers by rotating a turtle 60 degrees. I remember it being colour too; red on black. I was only ten at the time.

 

[guitarhero]

So many good memories of this lovely little platformer, I still own the CD.

Yep. Gotta love shareware CDs. Apogee was involved.

O:

 

[Uriah]

Lost Eden for the PC

I was 5 years old and had never played an adventure game in my life. It was a disaster. I never managed to get anywhere. And I recall there being a surprising lack of dinosaurs in the beginning of the game except for the pterodactyl.

 

[drgambit]

This:

Realm of impossibility. Used a joystick and rapid fire dongle in my c64, was dropping crosses like a muthafucker.

 

[Papercuts]

Can I get an R??

I've played this. I remember the gate with the earth behind it, roaming around that area and the guy that talked to you constantly.

There was an old ass game I played around the same time that I can't even remember the name. All I remember is similarly walking around like in 3d dinosaur adventure only it was in a hospital and inside a body. I remember walking around inside a stomach, haven't been able to track down what it was though.

 

[nikos]

I'll start with this, though I'm sure many have played it.

 

[nkarafo]

This Game:

Title says: "1453-1821 H ΩΡΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΗΣ"

Its a Greek made game about 1821. Sorry for the cover, i don't have it and i couldn't find a better quality image

 

[nikos]

This Game:

Title says: "1453-1821 H ΩΡΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΣΗΣ"

Its a Greek made game about 1821. Sorry for the cover, i don't have it and i couldn't find a better quality image

As a Greek person, I need to find this.

 

[Invisible Man]

 

[EDarkness]

Cover art is awesome. Never played it, though.

 

[The Smoking Bun]

GHOST MASTER

The Sims Via [Insert Horror Movie]

 

[timetokill]

Going for H here. Trying from the shareware bin:

Star Hammer

Hugo's House of Horrors

 

[Colocho]

This piece of shit

 

[Mr_Appleby]

NES

played this on the Amiga, does that count? I ended up using the god-awful keyboard that came with it as a MIDI controller for a few years until one night at a gig, overcome by it's shittiness, I pulled full-rockstar and smashed that fucker to bits.

So many games from c64 days I would list.. if I could remember the names.

edit:

This:

Realm of impossibility. Used a joystick and rapid fire dongle in my c64, was dropping crosses like a muthafucker.

sorry dude. that was super-popular in my town. and sorry Hugo's House of Horrors guy also.

There's this game, jumpman, on PC which I played because of the name. I doubt it's rare though because I'm sure it was free:

also really common growing up for me, the c64 version anyway.

 

[Atomski]

I played some obscure japanese arcade game and I cant even remember the name...

 

[Mushroomer25]

H-Take 3: Hot Wheels Stunt Track Driver for the PC

Stunt Track Driver quite literally defined my childhood. Completely absurd in retrospect (Really, you were just moving the car back and forth to avoid obstacles, and landing tricks) - but I spent hours on end perfecting those 8 tracks. Sandcastle was the best.

Let's Explore The Airport! with Buzzy

Pretty sure I'm only gonna be able to win this with kid's games from PC...

Played it. I think it sparked my life-long fascination with airports. Additionally, the baggage-sorting game drove every member of my family to the brink of insanity.

My entry?

Men In Black : The Series, the game for GBA. First GBA game I ever played. Absolutely god-awful.

 

[dark_prinny]

 

[Ragnaroz]

DAMNIT

Alright um....
H take 2: Yu Gi Oh: Digital Dice Monsters for the GBA

Played it and had a lot of fun.

 

[Banzai]

actually hoping im not the only one whos played this. it always did annoy that it didnt get a sequel.
for me on one level with jak & daxter or ratchet & clank.

 

[Spwn]

Ok, let's try this. Quoted for size.

H

 

[Family Fry]

Vividly remember getting this on a demo disc.

 

[WooHooAlex]

I have no idea if this game sold well or has a cult following, but I've never heard of it outside of me buying it randomly as a kid.
I'm sure others here have played it.

 

[davepoobond]

I really, really would like to know who made these games and what the hell are they coding nowadays lol

I just got mind blew when discovered Don Mattrick was the creator of this beauty:

uh. i remember playing this. but i couldnt figure out how to actually "play" it. i just drove around and crashed into stuff endlessly.




there's a Peter Pan storybook game for DOS made by EA*Kids -- I don't think anyone has played that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdVPp6HccTY


i played it a lot. there was a lot of different options you could do. it was a lot of fun

voice acted too.





another game was "World Empire."

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


INDY 500
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_500:_The_Simulation



Discoveries of the Deep
http://www.mobygames.com/game/discoveries-of-the-deep


another game i played a lot but had no idea what i was doing.

 

[Mozendo]

Ok, let's try this. Quoted for size.

H

Played it.
Bought it years ago, fell in love with it with it and weeks later my cousin stole it and moved to another country. I was so god damn pissed. I called him out on stealing the game when I visited him but my mother grounded me for saying he was a liar and claimed I gave him the game. Hate my cousin so much. He also stole Gameboy SP years later and same thing happened.

 

[TheNamelessOne]

Just found the disk to one of the first games I ever played. I've never heard anyone else mention this game for the PC ever.

688 Attack Sub

 

[kassatsu]

Popopo Garden on PSM

 

[CheesecakeRecipe]

Deus - Silmarils software (1996)

A hardcore survival sim developed by the same guys who did the old school dungeon crawler/first person RPG series Ishar. It came in two modes - regular and fuck you. Regular mode was only mostly difficult and played more like a traditional first person game. You had to still worry about some survival elements but were ridded of the field surgery and advanced health problems that could occur. Simulation mode had something like 100 different ways you could die from your heart stopping to being exposed to the cold too long, various diseases which would manifest over time and infected injuries. You were equipped with only so much medicine and tools to deal with each one and if you ended up having to hack off a leg (Which had to be done methodically, by the way. Anesthetics, tourniquets, surgical laser, cauterization and rest) you would actually limp for the remainder of your painful time on that run.

I keep this box around as an example of one of the craziest concepts old school PC gaming could offer, even if it was absolutely terrible in so many ways.

 

[TheNamelessOne]

Hugo's House of Horrors

Played all three of them.