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[Criminal Upper]

There's those obscure characters you remember from your childhood, that just barely register on the fringes of your recollection. I once spent an entire day trying to remember this one super hero guy from a SNES beat em' up. I even enlisted a friend to help me, and we couldn't remember the guys name no matter how hard we tried.

Weeks later, I was falling asleep at work, then it just hit me:

SONIC BLAST MAN!

Are there any other obscure characters that never quite made it to stardom, but you remember fondly anyway?

Some bonus ones:

Rocky Rodent

Hotra Toxic

 

[impact]

Not that obscure but Freya is the secret best FF9 character.

 

[Gambit]

Not that obscure but Freya is the secret best FF9 character.

You mean apart from Beatrix, of course. And Steiner.

BTW: Is that Amy Acker in your avatar? Fred?

 

[Ciastek3214]

Jarek Ovitz - Gorky 17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpuC42Sm1lQ

 

[ffdgh]

I would assume Scaler

 

[smurfx]

 

[sixteen-bit]

 

[mclem]

SONIC BLAST MAN!

Particularly weird in that he originally came from a *vastly* different arcade game.


I'm sure I can come up with a couple that many people here would struggle to get...

8-bit computer era (Counting only characters who were pretty big at the time, here, because it's a bit old and obscure otherwise!):
Charlie Fotheringham-Grunes
CJ the Elephant
Seymour
Sweevo
Thing

NES/SNES era:
Alfred Chicken
Mr. Nutz
Spike McFang

PSX+ era:
Clockwork Knight
Bug
Croc
Rascal


...but in the spirit of the thread, going to the very backs of my mind: who can recognise *these*?

Learic & Leanoric
Kwon
Hasrinaxx (and I had to look the *name* up on this one!)
Mervyn (a frog)
Catelite
The Ondoyante Sisters
Tanya & Vanya


And a few acronyms:
SPRAT
The BEAST ( Probably not a living creature. Not as in "Shadow of the". )
GERALD
BLOB

 

[UncleSporky]

So do you lose the thread if somebody else remembers the character?

I mean, I've played Kid Niki.

 

[matrix-cat]

The Mass Effect series is like heaven for me with every single character reappearing in some form or another. Even Combustion Manifold Krogan popped up in ME3 (although he ate it about thirty seconds later).

Almost every character reappears, I should say. Mass Effect 3's biggest failure is that my girl Gianna Parasini isn't in it at all.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

Not that obscure but Freya is the secret best FF9 character.

Freija is a secret character? I always thought you get her because the game forces you.
Arent you thinking about Amarant? But he was a shitty and very late character in game, and im pretty sure is also forced to join your game, as all the FFIX characters.

 

[DonMigs85]

Hog from Dirt Trax FX, he had the coolest theme song.

 

[Criminal Upper]

Hog from Dirt Trax FX, he had the coolest theme song.

 

[impact]

You mean apart from Beatrix, of course. And Steiner.

BTW: Is that Amy Acker in your avatar? Fred?

Yes. My waifu.

 

[mclem]

Two double-posts in as many days, what's *wrong* with me lately?

 

[bengraven]

I like the bald Imperial agent you meet in Nar Shaddaa's slums as well as Lt. Sylas from Black Talon.

I have something for female Imperials - a shame you never to get to sleep with any of them.

 

[pje122]

DR. DOAK!

O...M...G...

 

[Finaika]

Zrygunte

 

[ThatStupidLion]

Boken!

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Vin from Jak 2

 

[Mihos]

Not terribly obscure, but I still love Rydia.

 

[impact]

Freija is a secret character? I always thought you get her because the game forces you.
Arent you thinking about Amarant? But he was a shitty and very late character in game, and im pretty sure is also forced to join your game, as all the FFIX characters.

Don't hate. Dragoons are awesome. Freya <3

 

[we.are.the.armada]

Not terribly obscure, but I still love Rydia.

Damn dude, I wanted to post this. Rydia was great! Great theme song too.

 

[Pociask]

Does anyone remember this character, think his name was Mega-man or something? Pretty sure he fought other robots. Haven't seen him sitting on store shelves in FOREVER.

 

[Criminal Upper]

Does anyone remember this character, think his name was Mega-man or something? Pretty sure he fought other robots. Haven't seen him sitting on store shelves in FOREVER.

I think you must have imagined him.

 

[jett]

I remember this game being kinda cool.

Also, first time in 24 years that I realize what H.E.R.O. stands for, lolz.

 

[kafiend]

Gribbly Grobbly

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

Psycho fox

 

[Seik]

Faulkner from Vanguard Bandits, typical villain with typical motives to dominate the continent, but man I like him anyway!

His robot, the Zulwarn, is fucking OP too.

 

[Shin Kojima]

Never seen anyone mention

 

[SuperAngelo64]

Ricardo Gomez from Shadow Hearts: New World.

A mariachi bard? Fuck yes.

Thank you, Japan, for your whimsical take on the Americas.

 

[edgefusion]

It's Lymle from Star Ocean: A New Hope, 'kay?

Also Rygdia from FFXIII, such a waste of a character with more potential than any of the mains.

 

[impact]

Damn dude, I wanted to post this. Rydia was great! Great theme song too.

Yea she was pretty hot great.

 

[Mdk7]

 

[PuppetSlave]

Never seen anyone mention
rick_dangerous

That game was so hard. I made it to the 2:nd "world" when the enemies changed but basically gave up after that.

Captain Comix is my suggestion.

 

[Kinyou]

This little assh*le called "Louis from the gameboy color game "PowerQuest"

I can't really remember what exactly, but something super tragic happened to him and it made me totally sad.

 

[vall03]

Wonder Momo, the first game I can consider moe I guess...

 

[Kusagari]

Oh yeah.

 

[Tizoc]

Kyo's girlfriend Yuki, from KoF-

...and Jihl Nabaat from Final Fantasy XIII-

OH and Sheelah from Trinity: Souls of Zill O'll-

 

[Cow Mengde]

Carmine Ragussa

 

[Jamie OD]

Nikki and Fargus from Pandemonium on the PS1.

 

[Typographenia]

I don't remember the names, but I remember the characters of 7th Level's BATTLE BEAST.

 

[Degen]

Hog from Dirt Trax FX, he had the coolest theme song.

I liked Hawk's theme the most. "And now, a certified badass is in first place."

 

[SSReborn]

DJ Boy

Recently spent the whole day trying to remember who this guy was

 

[cagelessrat]

Kid Klown. This first box art is horrible...

I think he was created to replace Mickey Mouse in a game on Famicom that lost the license when it came stateside. He's loosely connected to the whole "Crazy Castle" series.

 

[thekonamicode]

 

[edgefusion]

Sadly these two guys will go unknown forever because you failed to mention their names or what game they were from.

Seriously, I know it's a habit of GAF to just post pictures with no identifying text but in a thread about obscurity it seems counter-productive no?

 

[Rawket Lawnchair]

The chicks from Heavy Metal FAKK 2 (PC) and Urban Chaos (PSX).

 

[anotherVegan]

This. Doak ticked me off so many times trying to get that invincibility cheat. To this day, I don't think I've ever gotten it legitly.

 

[thekonamicode]

Sadly these two guys will go unknown forever because you failed to mention their names or what game they were from.

Seriously, I know it's a habit of GAF to just post pictures with no identifying text but in a thread about obscurity it seems counter-productive no?

Two guys?! That's a girl and a dog.