Obscure game you have played - What have you played that you think, maybe, nobody else here has played?

The Last Stand said:
I went to an arcade and played Super Pac-Man. I've heard of Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, but not SUPER Pac-Man.

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They used to have at at a bowling ally near me in the 90s. Only time I ever saw the cabinet. I don't think it was very popular.
 
Yeah, it just kinda came and went in the arcades, I think mostly because the original and Ms. were still so popular. There's also Jr. Pac-Man, which has an interesting idea of a combo video game and pinball, but neither part plays all that well.
 
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there was this mecha rpg demo on itchio called Corona Black (this was before the coof virus). it was made by brazilian game developers i think. you were a dude who wanted to win the mecha gladiators or something and you had a certain amount of days to do it. there were also areas where you could do mini games to get money and upgrade your mech. the art style was pretty cool too. i still have it on a usb somewhere.
 
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I recently found a game on Steam called Ukhar it is some kind of 2D Zelda clone.

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Despite being on the store for 4 years, it only has 23 reviews, but it's not a bad game, it is rather short but considering the price it's a nice distraction for a couple hours.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Ballistics. The first game out of GRIN(later Bandits, Bionic Commando and urgh, now in Starbreeze).

It was in development for along time(at the time) and it was targeted as an e-sports game in the late 90's.
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The screenshot is weird but it's like the tunnels in F-Zero. It's actually a lot like F-Zero but there's only tunnels. With obstacles. The selling point of the game, and this is neat, was that there were no max speed. You went faster and faster and it became harder and harder to avoid crashing.

They even made arcade machines for it.
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I liked it.

I am Jack's dead arm said:
Yeah, it just kinda came and went in the arcades, I think mostly because the original and Ms. were still so popular. There's also Jr. Pac-Man, which has an interesting idea of a combo video game and pinball, but neither part plays all that well.
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UM ACKHUALLY Baby Pac-Man is the pinball thing. Jr. Pac-Man is the one that scrolls horizontally and the mazes are huge.

Super Pac-Man is the "real" sequel to Pac-Man, developed by the creator of the original. It's a pretty cool game if you ask me. There is also Pac 'n' Pal, which is even weirder and less successful. Because Namco actually has all the rights to them, those two get ported to everything.
 
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Parasite Eve 1 and 2 are maybe not that obscure, but they are rarely mentioned and I do not know anyone else who played them.

Shit, their was loads from the early 2000 shooter genre. Chromium (I think it was called that), and one called Black something. THat sort of solid 6 and 7 out of 10 genre of games, you play and enjoy them over a weekend instead of college course work. I wonder how many games we have all forgotten we ever played. I only remembered a few years ago ever playing KKND, and I loved that game back in the day. Right up there with Total Anihilation.
 
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Calandrino said:
I liked it.


UM ACKHUALLY Baby Pac-Man is the pinball thing. Jr. Pac-Man is the one that scrolls horizontally and the mazes are huge.

Super Pac-Man is the "real" sequel to Pac-Man, developed by the creator of the original. It's a pretty cool game if you ask me. There is also Pac 'n' Pal, which is even weirder and less successful. Because Namco actually has all the rights to them, those two get ported to everything.
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When it came to Pac-Man, there's either Namco's sequels like Super Pac-Man, Pac & Pal and Pac-Land or the ones Bally/Midway did on their own like Jr. Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus and Professor Pac-Man, basically a trivia game.
 
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whogoesthere said:
Shit, their was loads from the early 2000 shooter genre. Chromium (I think it was called that), and one called Black something. THat sort of solid 6 and 7 out of 10 genre of games, you play and enjoy them over a weekend instead of college course work. I wonder how many games we have all forgotten we ever played. I only remembered a few years ago ever playing KKND, and I loved that game back in the day. Right up there with Total Anihilation.
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Oh, you're talking about Chrome! That's an odd one, the devs previous games were things like:
Pet Racer
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and Indiana Jack
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then they took a drastic turn for the mediocre and made the often forgotten Chrome, Civvie should play it someday.
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That's about it, I don't think Techland ever made anything of note after that...
 
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Have any of you ever played the Civilization: Call to Power series? Basically it was two Civilization spinoff games by Activision in the late 1990s.


There were a lot of interesting ideas such as the future eras and wonders, space/sea colonization and some unique non-military strategy units but I think it sort of fell through due to poor AI and lack of real uniqueness to the civilizations. One of those games that seems like it could have a lot of potential if there were a modding community but I don't know if that ever took off or if they had enough access to the code to do anything with it.

Of course Civilization 3 came out in 2001 and basically ended these two for good.
 
Fondly remembered buy some but largely forgotten: POD by ubisoft. Fun racing game. When I think about that game I'm always reminded of the era when it came out. The MMX era. Games were MMX as fuck for a hot minute back in 1997 and some of them had a fascinating and crusty as fuck software rendered look. They even ran well in 640x480!

POD, Dreams to Reality and MDK, side by side, all released in '97 and they share a certain look in my opinion and the look isn't just "brown" and "rust".
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Dreams into Reality is pretty obscure by itself, and fucking inscrutable iirc, but this short moment in time is more obscure, it was when software rendering took a step forward but was soon completely overtaken by 3D acceleration.
 
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whogoesthere said:
Parasite Eve 1 and 2 are maybe not that obscure, but they are rarely mentioned and I do not know anyone else who played them.
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Played both like a motherfucker on release, had to import PE1 because Square loved fucking over the european market back then, no PE1, no FFT, no Xenogears, to name a few big titles.
I liked 1 more than 2 because of the somewhat deeper RPG mechanics but both games are absolute classics worth a play even today. It's crazy how much Square innovated mechanicswise in the PSX era, not one of their RPG played like the other, complete quality output with very few outliers.
Crying shame what they became, i forever will blame the merger.
 
I played more Mortal Kombat clones than I care to admit, I swear the PS1 was flooded with shitty 3d fighters that no one remembers anymore and thats probably for the best. One of these stinkers was Bio Freaks. A totally unremarkable fighter and my main memory of it is complete frustration because it was clunky as hell. It's also super cringe looking back at it - over the top gore, stupid 90s cool spelling, lame designs, even the title look like try-hard shit.
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I'd be very surprised if anyone has heard of Wild Riders, an arcade game released for NAOMI 2 hardware. It's puzzlingly obscure considering it's a SEGA game. Came out in 2001 and rode the cel-shaded wave, plus featured a banger of a background song. It's easy to emulate now in FlyCast but considering a run through will last you less than 10 minutes it might be worth just watching a video.
 
whogoesthere said:
Parasite Eve 1 and 2 are maybe not that obscure, but they are rarely mentioned and I do not know anyone else who played them
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I've played the first one. I mentioned in another thread that the PS1 is when I started not liking RPGs, but somehow Parasite Eve was still good. I've also seen the live-action movie based on the novel.

Growing up, I always had weird luck with what I would get. Like somehow as a kid I completely missed Contra and Castlevania and only got into Mega Man near the end of the NES... but instead I had games like Bad Street Brawler (which I think is a port of a Commodore 64 game, because I recall one of those games AVGN showed off looking a lot like it--it stars a dude who looks a lot like a 2D Duke Nukem) and Destination Earthstar (which starts out as sort of a space combat sim, but then becomes a 2D shmup).

Part of me is happy it turned out this way, because sometimes these weird and potentially bad games are fascinating.
 
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