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Games that you *think* only you on GAF have played
- Thread starter rpmurphy
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I've played Xexyz. I almost posted that one myself.
I'm glad to see a few people who know about GNOME, I'm the only one of my friends who has heard of or played the thing. I'm gonna throw another one out there, I'm pretty sure SOMEONE has played this game.
I've mentioned it in a few threads here but no one has ever acknowledged. If you had Sega Channel you've played this game!
I played this( J version when it came out). In fact when I saw this post I started humming the level music from this game. No idea why that music is still embedded in my brain nearly 18 years later.
The first game I ever owned. I remember being disappointed that it wasn't like the SNES bombermans with multiplayer,but I grew with the gameplay.
Dear Lord pretty much my first game i ever owned. Looked up gameplay on youtube and it brought back so many memories. Only ever got to the dragon boss who i beat like once or twice.
Hecatonchires Custom
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Rollo Lawson
Banned
eeeeh...i'll go with custom robo. always get dead silence when i mention it
Finaika
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demosthenes
Member
Same!
Alex Connolly
Member
Alright, a more clear post now that I'm not on my phone. To reiterate:
L-R: Wonky but artistically earnest god-sim from 1999, Utterly French. One of those early MMO games way ahead of its time.
EDIT: WHOA, I forgot about this one. One of the coolest games I've never heard anyone else yarn on about.
It was a cyberpunk sandbox game with a complete game editor from 1998. Perhaps the Australian development by...former Blue Tongue guys (?)...and poor distribution might have hampered exposure.
L-R: Wonky but artistically earnest god-sim from 1999, Utterly French. One of those early MMO games way ahead of its time.
EDIT: WHOA, I forgot about this one. One of the coolest games I've never heard anyone else yarn on about.
It was a cyberpunk sandbox game with a complete game editor from 1998. Perhaps the Australian development by...former Blue Tongue guys (?)...and poor distribution might have hampered exposure.
I played the sequel to this which was one of the best mech games. It's actually what eventually leads into the Starsiege and Tribes universe
A few people here might have played it.
Brilliant game. Also had one of the best soundtracks ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEfC4y8KT3E
It really was far better than Counterstrike, simply because it was so easily moddable. It also had some awesome levels.
Probably not alone but
I don't remember anything about this game except that it was around and I play 5 minutes of it.
I never ended up playing this game but I remember reading about it in a pc gaming magazine I picked up before I had a computer.
Spazznid
Member
Freaking LOVED that game on the GC. SAme happens when I mention it.
I know some here probably played it, but The Void
Powerdrome
Eureka Seven Vol. 2: New Wave
Robot Alchemic Drive (RAD)
And I'm not too sure how many people actually played Voodoo Vince. one of the few Platformers I can play.
EDIT
Overgrowth?
Not me but my friend played this game and was obsessed with it; I have never heard anyone else mention it before:
I still have this in the big box, was active on the developer's forum and even remember helping him track down a ROM of Time Lord for NES he was looking for back in '98.
UltimateIke
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I still own this. I haven't played it in a long time, but I remember the computer being a hack and only being able to beat it by getting into fights with other players and knocking them out of the game.
Or maybe I was just bad at it because I was young. Either way.
The Hermit
Member
ELASTOMANIA!
Great game!
Finally!! I loved that game and I completely forgot the name... thanks!
Anyway, my game is not that obscure, and I hated it:
Played it, it's not terrible, but not that great either.
Oh man, I remember playing this, I'd totally forgotten about it. Fun game though.
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I played the shit out of the demo of this I got with an issue of PC Gamer, but I never saw it for sale. Even now trying to search for it on places like ebay just bring up the Legacy of Kain series. Sucks, as I always wanted to play it.
My submission is Doctor Who: Destiny of the Doctors
I used to play this over at a friend's place and I've never known anyone else to have played it.
A fun adventure game with clips and trivia from the first seven Doctors, having to battle the Master in quirky little side-games.
Bubble Metropolis
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Those of us that grew up with a Mac may have an advantage in this thread.
I was way too young to know what I was doing, but I tried every night to make my way through this. Would always just end up bumping into things because the fact that it would play a voice sample each time amazed me.
A little more recent and less obscure than Taskmaker, but Realmz was the game I have the most memories of as a child.
I was way too young to know what I was doing, but I tried every night to make my way through this. Would always just end up bumping into things because the fact that it would play a voice sample each time amazed me.
A little more recent and less obscure than Taskmaker, but Realmz was the game I have the most memories of as a child.
Alex Connolly
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Loved the game. It may not have been very good, but the idea of your units being giant lego blocks was just really neat.
A much better game that the original 3D RTS with custom unit designs, that's for sure.
The horror. I bought this blind back in 1996 and it remains, to this day, the butt of many jokes with friends.
Night_Trekker
Member
From another thread post (which refers to another thread):
I love this game. I don't think anyone else has played it.
This game kicks ass. My favorite part was the random NPC who would get mad and attack you for just walking into his house (like you do in all RPGs).
Tsumu!
From another thread:
[URL="http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=403384"]Night_Trekker said:
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I love this game. I don't think anyone else has played it.
This game kicks ass. My favorite part was the random NPC who would get mad and attack you for just walking into his house (like you do in all RPGs).
Alex Connolly
Member
Night_Trekker, that sounds awesome! It is time. Time for a sequel!
billy beane
Banned
Such an awful, awful game. I don't even remember why I got it, I think it was a birthday gift from like a grandparent who knew I had a Nintendo 64.
I actually got threw the game because it wasn't too hard, but it was very bad. It was thing that killed my interest in Power Rangers really.
Also this, I think this was one of my first Game Boy Color game. Looking bad, it was a mediocre Excitebike clone, but I really liked.
Night_Trekker
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Alex Connolly
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Smells like a Kickstarter project.
Cool thread idea.
Here's mine, a dumb point and click adventure game on the Dreamcast and PC.
The official website for it is still up! www.stupidinvaders.com
Oh wow, I found this link.
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0
I love digging through OLD websites.
Night_Trekker
Member
Played this twice 100% through and still love it more than Endless Ocean and its sequel. This is an underwater treasure diving game done right.
So yeah... an obscure fantastic game on an obscure genre.
This game is awesome. I like Endless Ocean (need to grab EO2), but this is a lot more fun. I remember someone on GAF trashing it for some reason. It's sort of low-budget (the out-of-water menus are pretty lousy-looking), but it's got a ton of content.
I was actually working on a high quality soundtrack rip for a while. I've still got all the files... maybe I'll finish it someday.
Pretty much everyone's jumping on the bandwagon, so that wouldn't surprise me.
Well okay, it would surprise me a little.
DCharlie
And even i am moderately surprised
Somewhat cheating...
Tokyopia Wedding Game
other than that, i fear i might be on my own with this one :
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and slightly more known :
Tokyopia Wedding Game
other than that, i fear i might be on my own with this one :
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and slightly more known :
AwayFromInfinityx
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Alex Connolly
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Thing is, we're talking hamsters and forklifts! If that doesn't sell itself, I don't know what would. In fact, pitched correctly and we'd have console manufacturers knocking down doors for exclusivity deals.
Syph Medwes
Member
Did anyone play Continuum??
Dude I literally jumped out of my freakin seat when I saw that haha.
I absolutely loved this game a couple years back, played it 24/7. Still go back to it sometimes.
Lionel Mandrake
Member
Only tactics game I've enjoyed.
That was going to my choice. Bought it at a drug store for $5.
Some others:
Wizard Games, an indie Scottish company made a DOS shareware game in the early-90's called Rockstar!.
Here's a youtube video of it emulating an acid trip
Pretty unique game that allowed you to create your own band, name your own songs, then watch as they climb the charts. It had a system (pre-dating The Sims by some years), where you had multiple bars (Happiness, Creativity, Addiction, etc) that you had to keep balanced to progress further into the game. Quite often you would die of drug overdoses, suicide or bankruptcy. It was a terrific game that I wished would have became a mainstream game one day.
Legend of the Red Dragon, old BBS game.
WOW, thanks for the nostalgia rush. I actually played this game BEFORE it had fancy ANSI graphics (like in this screenshot). It was a very frustrating game for me, because there was always one guy that I couldn't beat.
Loved the game. It may not have been very good, but the idea of your units being giant lego blocks was just really neat.
Not very good? I beg to differ, it's an excellent RTS. Had a lot of fun with it. My only problem would be the visual design, which was drab and dull.
Shadow Hog
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I recall playing a demo of this on a big collection of arcade ripoff shareware titles. I used to love that disk. Still have it somewhere around here, although I'd imagine half of the games won't run, and almost none of them are purchasable at this point.Aldo's Adventure
A friend of mine had only this and another game on his family's PC. I am ashamed to say I played too much of this Donkey Kong clone. Just look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVPyxYOH8D8
The Christmas I got my GBC (the first Nintendo console I owned since the NES; I grew up a Sega kid), I got this and Tetris DX. This wasn't half-bad, but the bosses were such shit. Really liked Jump Mode, though.
The first game I ever owned. I remember being disappointed that it wasn't like the SNES bombermans with multiplayer,but I grew with the gameplay.
This was actually fairly widespread, and the fact that it's related to Doom, which has to have the most devoted-to-a-DOS-game-that-came-out-in-1993 fanbase I've ever seen, means it was pretty well archived, to boot.
Bonus: one of the developers for this game came back a few years ago and released Chex Quest 3. Requires ZDoom or a variant, but hell, it's worth it.
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Anyway, now for my suggestions.
Sonic's Schoolhouse
I got this back in my "if it has Sonic on it it must be good" phase. Not that I explicitly regret it, since it's not terrible, but still, it's one of the most obscure entries in the series. If you'll forgive the plug, I recorded myself playing it a few years ago - outside of the broken sound effects, it's fairly thorough.
Star Wars Droidworks
I don't remember the circumstances around our getting this game, but it was remarkably fun taking the various robot pieces you could get and creating every combination under the sun. Dicking around the test area and the training areas was great fun. Don't recall much of the actual missions, though, and since the game has issues running on modern hardware, I doubt I'll ever know what they were like at this point. :I Have a video.
Baku Baku Animal
It's like Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, but with food and the animals that eat it, instead of gems and weird glowy orb things. Good fun. Have a video.
Asterix and the Great Rescue
This was actually my first interaction with anything Asterix, although I kind of liked it, despite it being hard as a rock. Just a somewhat mediocre platformer, but I rather liked it regardless. You guessed it - have a video.
Goofy's Hysterical History Tour
I believe I got this game with my console, among many many others (most of my Genesis library, in all honesty). It's no Quackshot, but it's another fairly solid platformer that's ridiculously difficult. Gameplay centers around this hand-extending gizmo Goofy invented as he travels through time - well, more like imagines travelling through time while cleaning a museum out (don't ask, the plot makes no sense). On the plus side, this is one of the few games I can think of to have even a level devoted to the American Revolution - a fairly untapped set piece, really (and yes, I'm aware of AC3). I'm going to mix things up a bit and let you have a video.
Rolo to the Rescue
Another tough-as-nails platformer for the Genesis (seeing a pattern here?) that I believe I got for my fifth-or-so birthday. Designed by the James Pond blokes (he even gets a cameo!), and published by Electronic Arts back when they weren't winning golden feces, it's actually fairly solid, if a bit lengthy for a game with no save feature. You have to save all your friends by killing a dude with a big hat and a key, then using that key to automatically open any cages you pass by. Your friends all have specific skills, too, so you then have to switch to and use them to clear a way to your other friends for you, but they're all one-hit wonders - and if you get hit with them in tow, one will run away, possibly rendering a level unwinnable without restarting it. I recall being weirded out by the Blockbuster Video sticker our cart had on it, and the strange design of the cartridge (which, in retrospect, all EA Genesis games sported), thinking this was either a rental or a strange bootleg, but nope, it's mine, and it's legit. Anyway, have a video.
Broder Salsa
Banned
By Deadline Games, the guys who did total overdose. The game was point and click but the graphics was stop motion, it looked pretty awesome at the time. You play as a schizofrenic person with multiple personalities, who wakes up next to a headless corpse, and have no idea who or where you are, and from there on you have to remember. It was a lot about choices and the story would change depending on whatever you did.
The devs with a set :
SpaceDrake
Member
Nope, played this one too, and actually beat it. I barely remember anything about it now, though, but yeah, it was really a pretty ghetto Wing Commander ripoff. Which is why I wanted it since I was hurting for more WC in the wake of Wing 4.
I played the hell out of this on my IBM!
"Your imagination is the real super hero!"
Played the hell out of this on my Packard Bell when I was 12! Great times. Even then I knew it kinda sucked but it made use of my CEE DEE ROMMMM and I could USE MY VOICE IN IT!!!!
Anyway, for my own entry, I wonder if anyone's ever played: Fragile Allegiance!
As for the description, I'll let Wikipedia do the talkin':
Basically, it was a 4x space-based strategy game with real-time fleet combat. It was completely amazing in every way and I am deeply, deeply saddened that Gremlin was disbanded. I spent far too much of my youth played FA and I would give a major limb to see it on GOG and running properly on modern machines.
The Third World War for the Sega CD. It was sort of like Risk, but it had pseudo RTS tactical battles when you invaded a country. I remember it being pretty difficult.
Oh man, I always confused this with Looking Glass' Terra Nova. Now I realize I have never played Terra Nova.
