Eddie-Griffin
Banned
PO'ed
Nuts & Milk
Frosted decapitation
Whistlers Brother
Nuts & Milk
Frosted decapitation
Whistlers Brother
Hell yes, I loved this game. Spent far too long painstakingly recreating Gradius ships in the editor after getting my hands on a non-shareware copy.One of my favorite games is pretty obscure.
I’ve bought the game a few times. Still have the floppy. The company will just send you the files in a zip now.Hell yes, I loved this game. Spent far too long painstakingly recreating Gradius ships in the editor after getting my hands on a non-shareware copy.
And what a novel idea, scanning your hard drive and generating levels out of file hashes.
It might seem quaint to the casual onlooker now we're in the post-procedurality era and computer literacy is more common, but at the time this game evoked the same tech-magic mystique as TRON. Top level stuff.
And fun bit of trivia: Inner Space is so old-school that it'll refuse to run off anything except a floppy disk.
No doubt you can get around that with virtual devices these days, but trying to archive it (read: hand it out to my school friends) presented some unique challenges at the time
Yeah, the relations and factions were really cool - it made the virtual world feel more alive to have NPCs with agency who you could make friends or enemies of, then settle beef with them in a Dodge City duel.I’ve bought the game a few times. Still have the floppy. The company will just send you the files in a zip now.
Not only did it do the files on your pc thing, but it did the rivalry thing people praised in Shadow of Mordor. That didn’t even seem like a big deal to me during SoM because I’ve played a ton of Inner Space.
Lol, I had that as a kid. It was a pretty good game if I remember correctly. A bit like a dinosaur pokemon game. But it was way too short, I remember finishing it in a day or two.Here's mine:
Loved this game but was never able to beat it. Harsh time limit and great graphics for its time. Zamzara for the C64
The Residents also had Freak Show. I still lave the long box of that.Clock Tower?
This is a great thread! Always love chatting about forgotten/obscure games that very few really talk about.
Here are two quite obscure adventure games with creep and unsettling atmospheres. These types of games have a certain flavor that is totally unique:
Bad Day on the Midway (a game designed by the weird musical band, The Residents)
Very strange point and click game that evokes memories and feelings that you've never had...
The Dark Eye
Another strange point and click game. Wholly unique, nothing like it has been made since. Very unsettling vibe.
I was going to say Hylics, but anything you can open Steam and search for doesn't really feel that obscure.
And the absolute deepest pull I have is so obscure I've never been able to find it - some bizarre homebrew PSP isometric RPG thing with PS1-ish graphics, a tentacle monster hivemind thing called 'the huntress', magic cast effects that looked like yellow swastikas, and an extremely oppressive psychological horror atmosphere. If anyone knows what the fuck I'm talking about I'd be grateful to know, because it still haunts me today.
So in absence of that, I'll throw in Blitter Boy: Operation Monster Mall; A top-down shooter for PS1 that got included on one of OPSM's coverdiscs as a Net Yaroze title back in the day:
Brilliant little game with an off-beat sense of humor and some cool demoscene-looking 2D effects. The Fruit Drops weapon is a work of genius.
I remember doing this! The name always eluded me, but no wonder - that's about as 90s of a title as you could hope for
If memory serves it was a pretty decent game too.
For some reason this game is always in the back of my mind and I'm pretty sure I'm the only soul that ever gives it any thought anymore.
Fun thread: