ichtyander
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I'm sure this isn't obscure in the least but this thread reminded me of Bow and Arrow for Windows 3.11.
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Old computer games you're pretty sure no one but you ever played.
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Oh fuck I played that game SO much when I was a kid. I'm not even joking I would play that game over and over for hours. I think I was 4 or 5 and it was one of the first video games I ever played. Brings back a lot of memories.
Emperor Bohe
Member
most of these games that I'm about to post probably aren't rare/obscure, but I had fun remembering the titles since I haven't played these games since I was a child:
Challenge of the Ancient Empires:
Supersolvers: Treasure Mountain:
Supersolvers: MathStorm!
fuck it, all of the Super Solvers/Super Seekers games received a lot of play time from me when I was a kid. They're probably not too obscure though. moving on...
Blockout:
Math Circus Act 1 & Act 2:
Sango Fighter 2:
Super Fighter:
uggh, there is a lot more but my brain isn't working. I'll post more once I remember them.
EDIT: yeah yeah, I know that these are not obscure (pretty sure everyone with a Windows PC in the early 90's had these games) but fuck it, the nostalgia is still there:
Chip's Challenge:
Rodent's Revenge:
Pipe Dream:
JezzBall:
Challenge of the Ancient Empires:
Supersolvers: Treasure Mountain:
Supersolvers: MathStorm!
fuck it, all of the Super Solvers/Super Seekers games received a lot of play time from me when I was a kid. They're probably not too obscure though. moving on...
Blockout:
Math Circus Act 1 & Act 2:
Sango Fighter 2:
Super Fighter:
uggh, there is a lot more but my brain isn't working. I'll post more once I remember them.
EDIT: yeah yeah, I know that these are not obscure (pretty sure everyone with a Windows PC in the early 90's had these games) but fuck it, the nostalgia is still there:
Chip's Challenge:
Rodent's Revenge:
Pipe Dream:
JezzBall:
Train of Midnight
Banned
Supersolvers: MathStorm!
Holy crap. When I saw this thread this is the first game I thought of but couldn't remember the name!!!
Baron_Calamity
Member
Most of these games look like old computer games that everyone played.
How many of you played....
I lost a summer to this crappy buggy pc game. Look at this amazing graphics! Who could resist this? Who??
Seriously though, I bought it on a disk with a bunch of other games and it offered a co op rpg experience. So my friends and I would stay up until the next day play this game. It was like crack for a time
How many of you played....
I lost a summer to this crappy buggy pc game. Look at this amazing graphics! Who could resist this? Who??
Seriously though, I bought it on a disk with a bunch of other games and it offered a co op rpg experience. So my friends and I would stay up until the next day play this game. It was like crack for a time
I'm sure some people here played it:
The journeyman project
I was thinking of this same game when I read the title... so clearly I got nothing.
Blockout:
Pretty sure I've still got the box for that sitting around here somewhere.
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
I've posted this one before but it's worth repeating:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stunt_Island
It was basically a part flight-simulator, part movie-maker game with great graphics for 1992. You could create your own stunts in real-life places like the Golden Gate bridge or do one of the many pre-coordinated stunts the game offered. You got to create how it looked via camera angles, pans, etc and could add sound effects later on. Being a flight simulator, the game was challenging; you essentially could make it as challenging as you wanted depending on how daring your stunts were. One of the funny parts was when you crashed because you were sent to the doctor who would diagnose you (via a German accent voiceover) with varying injuries depending on the severity of your crash. I always seemed to get a broken nose.
Granted I was a kid when this released in 1992, it felt like such a feat to complete a really tough stunt. Great game!
I've sunk so many hours into this game. So many hangnails.
I grew up scared to death of My Hero, and TransBot was one of my favorite games on the system. I have multiple copies of all 3 of these! <3 SMS
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
Yeah, there was a massive media blitz when Rad Gravity came out for the NES in the US in fact. Nintendo Power and Gamepro hyped the hell outta it.
I don't think anyone cared though.
Dare to Dream - any Cliff B. fans in the house?
I remember having the shareware version, couldnt beat it.
plasmawave
Banned
The Berenstain Bears: Learning At Home.
Dare to Dream - any Cliff B. fans in the house?
HELL YEAH! I could only play the first episode (the shareware one) so I was always curious to see how the story progressed. Years later I found out and I promptly forgot. LOL.
It was a rudimentary but charming game.
This gave me endless hours of fun.
Hilarious stuff. Could do anything in it...to a certain extent.
Came with my our first ever family PC, that rocked a 700mb HDD.
hahah, I made the dumbest shit with this game.
SpookyFries
Member
Anybody else play this?
This gave me endless hours of fun.
Hilarious stuff. Could do anything in it...to a certain extent.
Came with my our first ever family PC, that rocked a 700mb HDD.
I loved this game and still play it occasionally. Its amazing that the 3dmm online community is still strong. Custom actors/props/scenes kind of spoil the creative hoops you had to jump through as a kid but its nice that it has new stuff to play with now.
Here is the homepage of the developer(google translate).
https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.die-dunkle-dimension.de%2Fi-dd64al.htm&edit-text=
Sadly the game was only available in german (afaik). He also made a mobile remake a few years ago (don't know if it is available in english, looks more like a snes game, never played it).
The original was hard as hell (u loose exp. when u flee from a fight e.g.).
I also loved the manual which included all the cities, weapons, monsters, spells, etc (aside from secrets ofc.).
Everything is freely downloadable (in german) on his hp.
ElectricThunder
Member
i remember different vehicles, but all that stuff didnt make any sense to me.
watching youtube videos lets me think i was just too young to know how to play it
btw,
kknd, dune2 and blade runner are freaking famous games. cant imagine someone from that time didnt play these
how about panza kick boxing
Cool. Thanks. My wife speaks German, so maybe I'll just make her sit next to me and translate everything!
Weirdest Bomberman I've ever played... Probably also my favorite.
The cow and chicken voices were just weird, and it had bugs and an aesthetic that made it seem like a Thai ripoff.
I wanted this game sooooo bad before I had a PC (ATOMIC bomberman? Wow this must be better than normal plain ol bomberman). When we finally got a PC and I found the game at a local mom and pop PC store... My hype vaporized lol.
Hypemaster
Member
I don't know the exact title of the game, but it was an old Land Before Time point and click pc game....I think. Played it at my friend's place when I was 5. Looking through google images but my memory is too foggy so here is a miscellaneous picture of it.
God, I loved Stunt Island. It was so ahead of its time. Great graphics all around.
MEGATRON
Was supposed to be a 1-v-1 mech combat game, was essentially a maze simulator. Was just about terrible in all ways.
(WHY DID I PLAY IT SO MUCH!?)
They used to have this at the Boston (?) Computer museum. It was a 4 player machine and I had a great time playing on it back in the day. It was so effing futuristic.
Had a 286 in my bedroom growing up, pretty sure I had this (I used to love the Berenstain Bears). But I might be confusing it with one of the Sticky Bear games...
Did anyone else play D-Zone?
Blockout:
Sorry, I might had not thought about this game for the last 15+ years but I most certainly played it
Blargonaut
Banned
Good to see KKND, Tzar, Jumpstart and Humongous Entertainment get the praise they deserve! 
I got a whole new wave of nostalgia for y'all. Here's a few more of my childhood favourites I forgot to put up. Let's see how much of GAF has played THESE other 90's/early 00's classics:
Swat 2 (LOVED this game. Someone already mentioned this one, but a few screenshots will help jog people's memories!)
Anno 1602 (12-year-old me wasted soooo much time on this game)
Dark Reign
Comix Zone (This surprisingly got re-released a bunch of times across different consoles, and sort of recently too... I never knew that many people played this too)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand lastly, but not AT ALL least:
Moon Tycoon (ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIME. OF. ALL. TIME. IT'S LIKE SIMCITY IN SPACE, WITH A FULL CAMPAIGN AND DISASTERS AND FUCKING EVERYTHANG. I pressured my parents to buy this shit out of a Scholastic catalogue when I was still in elementary school, BEST PURCHASE OF MY LIFE. THIS GAME. THIS. GAME.)
LOOK AT THOSE BUILDING DESCRIPTIONS. REEEAAAD THEMMMMM.
ALL LIVING BEINGS MUST PLAY MOON TYCOON.
I got a whole new wave of nostalgia for y'all. Here's a few more of my childhood favourites I forgot to put up. Let's see how much of GAF has played THESE other 90's/early 00's classics:
Swat 2 (LOVED this game. Someone already mentioned this one, but a few screenshots will help jog people's memories!)
Anno 1602 (12-year-old me wasted soooo much time on this game)
Dark Reign
Comix Zone (This surprisingly got re-released a bunch of times across different consoles, and sort of recently too... I never knew that many people played this too)
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand lastly, but not AT ALL least:
Moon Tycoon (ONE OF THE GREATEST GAMES OF ALL TIME. OF. ALL. TIME. IT'S LIKE SIMCITY IN SPACE, WITH A FULL CAMPAIGN AND DISASTERS AND FUCKING EVERYTHANG. I pressured my parents to buy this shit out of a Scholastic catalogue when I was still in elementary school, BEST PURCHASE OF MY LIFE. THIS GAME. THIS. GAME.)
LOOK AT THOSE BUILDING DESCRIPTIONS. REEEAAAD THEMMMMM.
ALL LIVING BEINGS MUST PLAY MOON TYCOON.
C4EMGEN
Member
Alright, here's one:
It's a point and click game that came with some Shareware collection CD-Rom...
It was set in an 80's vision of the future. Tall, shiny buildings, flying cars... all-pre rendered, cartoon-like '3D' animation sequences.
Anyway, you were this dude (detective, police officer?) with a dog and by interacting with people and objects you would make your way into the city.
At some point, you would enter a big company skyscraper. There were police robots, a machine that would 'generate' hamburgers and something to do with special pills?
I could never get past a certain security checkpoint because it required a keycard or something that was supposed to be on a different floor.
Anyone? Would love to finish the game someday.
It's a point and click game that came with some Shareware collection CD-Rom...
It was set in an 80's vision of the future. Tall, shiny buildings, flying cars... all-pre rendered, cartoon-like '3D' animation sequences.
Anyway, you were this dude (detective, police officer?) with a dog and by interacting with people and objects you would make your way into the city.
At some point, you would enter a big company skyscraper. There were police robots, a machine that would 'generate' hamburgers and something to do with special pills?
I could never get past a certain security checkpoint because it required a keycard or something that was supposed to be on a different floor.
Anyone? Would love to finish the game someday.
C4EMGEN
Member
Nope :-(
Definitely newer than that. I remember it having some basic voice acting/recorded sound effects/ambient loops.
Anyone else play this one in Elementary School back in the early 90's? It was a compilation of educational games on the Apple II called Mastery Arithmetic Games.
Title screen:
Bomber game, if you did well enough at the math you could get a stealth bomber:
Miss Muffet:
Mathland, could never figure out the King's riddle back in the day:
Title screen:
Bomber game, if you did well enough at the math you could get a stealth bomber:
Miss Muffet:
Mathland, could never figure out the King's riddle back in the day:
DiipuSurotu
Banned
Beneath a Steel Sky?
C4EMGEN
Member
LurkerPrime
Member
This thread is really neat, good idea OP.
Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain is a space-based 4X game that I played a long time ago. I was really enamoured by it, sinking dozens of hours into the game. I never really understood how to play it, as I was probably facing off against the easiest A.I.s. I would often turtle and tech up until researching drones, and then go off to conquer the universe.
Great game, and one of the earliest PC games I ever played.
(Can't find any decent images of it, unfortunately! So here's the game's cover, instead.)
Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain is a space-based 4X game that I played a long time ago. I was really enamoured by it, sinking dozens of hours into the game. I never really understood how to play it, as I was probably facing off against the easiest A.I.s. I would often turtle and tech up until researching drones, and then go off to conquer the universe.
Great game, and one of the earliest PC games I ever played.
"Pussla med Alfons Åberg" (Puzzle game based on the Swedish character Alfons Åberg in books for children) by Scandinavian PC Systems.
Can't find the floppies, can't find a screenshot online, no mentions of there being games made of the character. Nothing but the pictures in my mind.
The only descriptive mentioning of it i can find is from a bachelor's thesis in Swedish from 1996, and even that just says it was made by the above company.
Can't find the floppies, can't find a screenshot online, no mentions of there being games made of the character. Nothing but the pictures in my mind.
The only descriptive mentioning of it i can find is from a bachelor's thesis in Swedish from 1996, and even that just says it was made by the above company.
Ivan
Member
Amiga gaffers might know, but a lot of you won't:
Franko: Thre Crazy Revenge
Just look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRGIww533Y4
New York Warriors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9X6A7GSOF0
Franko: Thre Crazy Revenge
Just look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRGIww533Y4
New York Warriors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9X6A7GSOF0
Forsaken, it is very popular at the time due to being used as a benchmark for early 3d video cards. So I think almost all enthusiast PC gamers played it.
These friggin cereal box games my parents always gave me.
A game about raising a crunch berry monster by playing minigames.