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[2blackcats]

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

Wow, there was a second Return Fire. Loved the first one.

 

[Gero]

Fate, an action rpg for PC. I spent hours and hours on that game but I don't know anyone who played it.

 

[BenedictBlakbrn]

Played this game a ton as a kid. The arcade version too.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

 

[Archtreyz]

Hunted: Demon's Forge is a co-op loot-based 3rd person shooter published by Bethesda. It wasn't amazing, but playing with a friend was fun.

 

[Lijik]

Crazy Drake, a pretty blatant ms-dos clone of Earthworm Jim

never seen anyone else talk about it. found it like ten years ago by just looking a list of pc games (maybe on gamefaqs?) and just picking titles at random. its pretty bad so im not surprised its obscure lmao

 

[Bahorel]

also I haven't talked to anyone that played Follow the Reader, which was a DOS game where you told Mickey what to do with his day

 

[Dives]

 

[Bahorel]

Yo Torrin's Passage was the shit

BOOGLE

my fave part was the fake tv show family

 

[NimbusD]

Never beat it either, bet I could if I played it now though.

Used to rent all these games. Damn, I mustve cost my mom so much money at blockbuster instead of just buying this shit.

Btw pretty sure body harvest was made by the same team that wound up doing gta3 right?

 

[Giga Man]

I don't think Glover's all that obscure. I see it from time to time, including on GAF. I have it myself and hate it. lol

Which Yo-Kai Watch is this?

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I choose Rave Master for GameCube.

This is a very very bad Power Stone clone that doesn't even have grabs! I used to love it and played it to death because it was so unique to me. A new take on "Smash Bros."-type of play... Until I later found out that Power Stone exists. When I saw Power Stone 2, I damned Rave Master GCN to hell and asked my dad to order me Power Stone 2.

At least Rave Master GCN had a neat little story maker mode. I found some pleasure in that.

Oh, and as far as I was aware, you couldn't find this game in stores. You had to order it online. I think we got it from Amazon.

 

[Old Snake]

Specifically the black and white version on floppy disks

 

[Jacqli]

The first Dreamcast game I ever got.

[IMG*]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Trickstyle.jpg[/IMG]

Are you me? I also played this game because it was my first one for the console.

My title: Nancy the happy whore and the perfidious petrol station
A little adventure graphic game from the creators of Technobabylon.

 

[MTC100]

Wow, I think we got a winner for western Release Monster Hunter sub title right there!
MAXIMUM IMPACT!

 

[vern]

Yo Torrin's Passage was the shit

BOOGLE

my fave part was the fake tv show family

One of my favorite games ever .

 

[Menome]

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 elements—the Atreides, the Harkonnens, the spice—before 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.

Holy crap, I remember playing this just once maybe 25-odd years ago when I was a kid. It was on my stepdad's friend's computer and all efforts to find it again were fruitless because I never realised it was a Star Trek game until this moment.

 

[Bahorel]

it's so weird looking back and seeing the games that captivated you as a child have such simplistic art

this thread as my synapses going nuts, I'm suddenly remembering so much stuff

Lenny's Music Toons

Forever Growing Garden

Busy Town

 

[theaffection]

Crazy Drake, a pretty blatant ms-dos clone of Earthworm Jim

never seen anyone else talk about it. found it like ten years ago by just looking a list of pc games (maybe on gamefaqs?) and just picking titles at random. its pretty bad so im not surprised its obscure lmao

HOLY SHIT came here to post this


Game was pretty fun at the time. Not too bad

 

[Bahorel]

Thinkin' Things

 

[Godcannon]

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

Holy shit I played this in like 3rd grade, and the other one.....and it was dope lol. I'm the same age. I think some people had access and played these simply because of school.

I gotta go with Armageddon Riders for PS3, Curses N Chaos for Ps4, and Ninja Senki DX for Ps4.

If not those, then Mortimer and the riddles of the medallion.

Edit: welp, I'm out.... I'm pretty sure someone if not a lot of people have played Jill of the Jungle, especially on GAF.

 

[Zap Rowsdower]

Nightmare Ned. It was a PC game made by Disney that was a cross between a survival horror game and a puzzle platformer, sort of like Heart of Darkness. It lead to an even more obscure cartoon adaption that was cancelled just as it started. It doesn't run on modern OSes so I haven't played it in years.

It's a real shame too because the atmosphere and soundtrack were fantastic. The atmosphere straddled the line of being kid-friendly but still actually being unafraid to be unsettling and its really creative too. I know I'm not the only one who's played it but its still probably one of the most criminally underrated horror games ever made. It's what got me into the genre as a kid.

Here's some of the soundtrack.

If not those, then Mortimer and the riddles of the medallion.

You're not alone there, pal.

 

[T.A.L]

Iggy's Recking Ballz on N64. Don't even know what the genre is. You just race vertically against other ballz .

 

[GreenMonkey]

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 elements—the Atreides, the Harkonnens, the spice—before 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.

Probably related, I played a lot of EGATREK.EXE which was on the servers at the college my parents were attending.

Off the top of my head, a weirder one I played a lot of:

I also wanna say the DOS game Barbarian, but it was on a bunch of systems and had a sequel, so, probably not that uncommon.

 

[Hexa]

My first FPS.

 

[MTC100]

I guess I win this one, this game is so rare that you won't even find images, let alone a box art about it in the google image search:

Also, who of you remembers Nintendos first(and I think only) space shooter?

 

[Falcs]

I used to rent this game from Blockbuster. Loved it.

 

[MTC100]

I think I have played this but in color and on a Windows 3.1 PC(maybe it was a MS DOS game running in window mode though) -and I had a blast.

 

[KDR_11k]

Rarely seen:

(That's Chou Soujuu Mecha MG or Super Control Robot MG)

Spiritual successor to Robot Alchemic Drive.

Note how the bottom screen's controls change with every mech. There are dozens of mechs in the game and each has its own control panel and idiosyncrasies. Also because it's Sandlot you can pick up buildings and use them as clubs. And the framerate often goes to hell.

Never seen anyone else talk about it:

(PC)

All those block-based vehicle building games coming out lately? This is a hex based one where you build a (literal) flying fortress and it came out in the 90s.

 

[Goldboy]

The weirdest Dreamcast launch title, Pen Pen Tricelon. It's not great, but I really like it.

I want to try this game based on the cover art alone.

 

[Gnome Scat]

I would honestly be fascinated to know who bought this title on the OG Xbox besides me.

I played this a week ago on my GameCube lol

 

[retroman]

There's a series of Commodore 64 games I'm 99.9999% sure nobody on GAF has ever played:

Courbois Software, a Dutch developer, released various compilations of their own games, all packaged in a very simplistic manner like the example above. The games were very primitive as well, but I still had some fun with them. I have about four of those tapes at my parents' place.

 

[KDR_11k]

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 elements—the Atreides, the Harkonnens, the spice—before 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.

Trek is an ancient classic game AFAIK. This version dates back to 1971, when "microcomputer" was a term that mattered.

 

[Red Devil]

also I haven't talked to anyone that played Follow the Reader, which was a DOS game where you told Mickey what to do with his day

I remember an educational Disney game starring Mickey with graphics like this, but it was all about numbers. I can't remember the name but it isn't very obscure though.

 

[venom473]

I feel like this could have been somewhat popular back when it was released, but I never see it mentioned anywhere. It was probably my favourite game in my childhood, wish I could play it again.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Before Scott Pilgrim, I thought I just imagined "Clash At DemonHead" I've never heard that game come up even once outside of that movie.


3-D WorldRunner on NES

Some 3D Mario-esq fake ass Space Harrier that was hard as hell.

Also Hide and Seek on Atari 2600

Buck Rogers on cassette tape game for my Adam Computer

 

[PendekarRajawali]

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.

What is this? Crayon Sinchan game?

 

[IndustryX]

 

[Chessr]

Creature Crunch. It's insane how almost no one mentions it. I love it. Pretty hard to find information tho.

Dark Colony. RTS of my childhood. These days they only have russian based servers. Loved it.

Woop i had Dark Colony when i was a kid

 

[Doctrine Dark]

 

[Stiler]

Hardly ever see mention of any of these, I loved all of them:

 

[PlayALLtheGames]

Wolfchild on Amiga 500+

Shit was tight

 

[Hambulance]

The Race to Galamax

 

[Chessr]

This gem
Dukes of hazzard 2: Daisy dukes it out.

 

[Symphonia]

Overblood 2

 

[Footos22]

Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker

I have never ever seen anyone talk about this game.

I played that for years

 

[Doctrine Dark]

What is this? Crayon Sinchan game?

It's a cooking game called Ore No Ryouri.

This game was hard, but pretty fun.

 

[KefkaPalazzo]

Executive Suite

An old ass text based game where you climb the corporate ladder. I used to download a ton of aboadonware games as a kid, so this is a thread for me.

 

[Footos22]

Hardly ever see mention of any of these, I loved all of them:

Dark Earth was the shit. Always got stuck in same place though and couldn't work out how to advance

 

[TheRazielim]

 

[lord_kelvin]

Mad Maze, shit came with a prodigy internet subscription in like 92