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Obscure game you have played - What have you played that you think, maybe, nobody else here has played?
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Coincidentally, all three were fighting games:
Clayfighter 63 1/3: Sculptor's Cut
In true Interplay style, Clayfighter 63 1/3 was rushed out the door unfinished and was unsurprisingly pretty terrible. In what may be the most inexplicable marketing decision I have ever seen, the Sculptor's Cut version, which fixed a bunch of problems and added cut content, was released as a Blockbuster Video rental exclusive. Apparently, it is now one of the rarest N64 cartridges because grubby kids who rented this game like myself basically beat the already limited number of copies to death.
Fighter Destiny 2
Another game I rented from the same shitty Blockbuster that had Clayfighter 63 1/3: Sculptor's Cut, this game barely has a Wikipedia entry and I can't remember anything about it other than you could fight a cow named Mou who was a total asshole.
Zero Divide
One of my older cousins somehow came across this one in the 90s; I remember it being a really solid fighting game with truly bizarre characters. It kind of looks like a fucking acid nightmare in retrospect but I remember really enjoying this game, except for fighting the dragon guy, he could go straight to hell.
Clayfighter 63 1/3: Sculptor's Cut
In true Interplay style, Clayfighter 63 1/3 was rushed out the door unfinished and was unsurprisingly pretty terrible. In what may be the most inexplicable marketing decision I have ever seen, the Sculptor's Cut version, which fixed a bunch of problems and added cut content, was released as a Blockbuster Video rental exclusive. Apparently, it is now one of the rarest N64 cartridges because grubby kids who rented this game like myself basically beat the already limited number of copies to death.
Fighter Destiny 2
Another game I rented from the same shitty Blockbuster that had Clayfighter 63 1/3: Sculptor's Cut, this game barely has a Wikipedia entry and I can't remember anything about it other than you could fight a cow named Mou who was a total asshole.
Zero Divide
One of my older cousins somehow came across this one in the 90s; I remember it being a really solid fighting game with truly bizarre characters. It kind of looks like a fucking acid nightmare in retrospect but I remember really enjoying this game, except for fighting the dragon guy, he could go straight to hell.
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Evolva is a weird game:
Some sort of 3rd person RPG shooter, where you gain random evolutions when you level up, and you get to unlock separate weapons/movement/flight depending on what path you chose.
Some sort of 3rd person RPG shooter, where you gain random evolutions when you level up, and you get to unlock separate weapons/movement/flight depending on what path you chose.
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Just going to assume people haven't bothered playing most old atari games
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Treasure Planet: Battle At Procyon
A weirdly competent strategy game, with solid mechanics, fun gameplay and an interesting story. Wild game, but fun.
A weirdly competent strategy game, with solid mechanics, fun gameplay and an interesting story. Wild game, but fun.
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Honestly, my only Atari 2600 game experiences were playing them for a couple of minutes at "arcades" at elementary school bake sales circa 1984 and, even for the time, Atari 2600 games looked primitive compared to the next generation graphics of Commodore 64 or Colecovision.
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My family had a 2600 and yes actually we did have Freeway. It's just Frogger, only with more lanes of traffic instead of the pond. Also had Pole Position, Midnight Magic (that my mom and sister broke getting high scores, somehow), Boxing, and Kangaroo. My family didn't have a lot of money then and so this was all we had, until we got an NES and a whopping three games in 1990.
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While I don't think they were obscure at the time, I don't hear anyone talking about them anymore. I think about two PC games that we had when I was a kid pretty frequently, The Lighthouse and The Dark Eye. I don't remember much about the Lighthouse except that a monster comes and steals your baby from its crib. I would get really scared when I would be watching my dad play it when I was a kid, especially since I thought it was going to be like Myst or Riven. The Dark Eye you played through Edgar Allen Poe stories with really unnerving claymation style characters. That one freaked me out, but I don't remember being as scared of it. It did help me a lot in English class whenever we read a Poe story.
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It's somewhat obscure and I don't know if it is worth playing today but...
That's one of the three you play as in the campaign, the other one is the water tarts and then there's Kabuto, the giant monster. It's a game with humor and I could describe the first part of it as british Master Chief's crashing into someone Black & White campaign and starting to take quests from the local population so they can repaire their spaceship and there is also a giant creature stomping around the world.
It plays a bit like MDK2 but it's also an RTS sometimes, and a racer, and a smash'em'up. After getting into it and learning to tolerate the rough edges it was a good and memorable game back in the day.
That's one of the three you play as in the campaign, the other one is the water tarts and then there's Kabuto, the giant monster. It's a game with humor and I could describe the first part of it as british Master Chief's crashing into someone Black & White campaign and starting to take quests from the local population so they can repaire their spaceship and there is also a giant creature stomping around the world.
It plays a bit like MDK2 but it's also an RTS sometimes, and a racer, and a smash'em'up. After getting into it and learning to tolerate the rough edges it was a good and memorable game back in the day.
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I had. This was my early childhood in the 80's.
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>ah, yes, remembering my old non-existent days in Japan
I remember this was mentioned in Nintendo Power. Lots of games never actually came to the west. I got around to revisiting it. You control a fairy who is looking after an android, to teach him what it means to be human.
The sequels are fully playable now, but I have never given them a go.
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You don't need to assume. Newer generations doesn't care about atari unless they super deep into retro gaming. The people that care enough to play them fall into three categories. AVGN knockoffs (a long dead breed of reviewer at this point), retro collectors, and people who grew up playing them.
Newer generations of kids would look at most back 1-2 gens, if you are lucky 3 from the current gen of consoles. Why bother when they can just play the newer games. That or they are mobile game gatcha slaves willing to pay sugar daddy *input company name that makes the game here* for that sweet sweet dopemine hit that comes from rolling the RNG dice so they can get a shiny Jpeg, But I digress.
Like how many people do you ever hear talk about Commodore 64, or MSX who didn't grow up playing them, or collect the games?
While I personally don't care enough about games on the atari to play them. I do find them fascinating.
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There's nothing quite like it, lol. I think the closest you could compare it to is Evolve? Anyone remember that?
Anyway, the game plays like a base building/MMO clan wars... Each side has some resources to harvest, antelopes, which give meat and replenish, and some aliens, who are used for building, upgrading. So the basic gameplay loop for your faction is go out, get the aliens to upgrade your base, harvest the antelopes to get the meat, upgrade your base, replenish your ammo, repeat. There's no permadeath, only if your base gets destroyed.
So yea, the factions:
* There's the Space Marines, who have your basic FPS weapons and gadgets. You can see it in one of their screenshots. They can fly and get hellicopters.
* There's the Sirens, who are a little more mobile and have devastating spells, but cannot fly. They can swim and get some speedboats.
* Then there's Kabuto himself, which is close to Evolve's Goliath. Kabuto is only one player, and he does not have a base, instead he roams and eats stuff to grow in power.
It hasn't aged well and the singleplayer campaign is shit; it's a very tedious and needlessly long tutorial. This game came 20 years to late, and it is only fun in multiplayer with a large number of players. If you are gonna find 5-10 players, you might like the game, but single player it's not worth playing today.
With this in mind, maybe now you understand what's going on in this gameplay video.
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I wouldn't say 20 years too late, 2 years to late is more reasonable. If it had been released in 1998 or even 1999 the rough edges would have been more tolerable. It was a slog for it to really get going but I enjoyed it at the time.
Their spiritual sequel "Armed and Dangerous" was no good.
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Life and Death 2: The Brain. Old DOS game that was basically a brain surgeon simulator. Last I checked, it was still on archive.org for free. Funniest thing about it was that no matter how much you messed up, they wouldn’t fire you. Wish more games were made like that.
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Sorry, I meant early. 20 years too early.
I think this game would have thrived with matchmaking and dedicated servers.
It would at least have had a better shot and a better introduction than that boring, drown out campaign.
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Oh, yeah that makes sense. It came out during the period where PC devs tried to figure out how to make console-like games using their PC games knowledge, those games were always a bit odd/off in certain areas.
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Yes, I know Daytona isn't obscure, but the actual arcade cabinets kinda are, you aren't just gonna find them everywhere.
I miss arcades, you don't see many of them anymore.
I miss arcades, you don't see many of them anymore.
