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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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This is a cult classic. Tons of people have played this and it's gone on to inspire a lot of other games as well.
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I have a nearly full library for Atari Lynx & Turbo Grafx 16, the exceptional 2nd cousins of the console wars.
I had no loot & couldn't get them when I was a child and they first came out. I wanted an Atari Lynx so badly after I watched kids connect & play theirs on bus trips in school, so as soon as I could make my own cash, I set about making up for lost time. Same with the Turbo Grafx 16. It sounds stupid in retrospect but working my butt off & acquiring the toys I dreamed about as a child was a liberating experience.
I have a strange fondness for cancelled systems.
It's like adopting a memory.
I had no loot & couldn't get them when I was a child and they first came out. I wanted an Atari Lynx so badly after I watched kids connect & play theirs on bus trips in school, so as soon as I could make my own cash, I set about making up for lost time. Same with the Turbo Grafx 16. It sounds stupid in retrospect but working my butt off & acquiring the toys I dreamed about as a child was a liberating experience.
I have a strange fondness for cancelled systems.
It's like adopting a memory.
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That's how I see it. The TurboGrafx-16 does deserve a lot of love though.
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Putting a Hu-Card into the Turbo Express & playing Bloody Wolf on the go STILL amazes me.
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I wish I can got those Turbo Grafx games when they were dirt cheap. I really like the console especially the quality of games on the CD add on. I am just happy to own a Duo and have an everdrive and burned CDs to enjoy the library.
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Unnatural Selection.
I did a search in the thread, and didn't see this one.
It's an early Maxis game, kind of a RTS hybrid. I played the hell out of it when I was a kid.
You can download it on several abandonware sites, or just play it in-browser @ Classic Reload
It can take a little while to get the hang of it, so if you can find a pdf of the manual I suggest that to be step one.
I did a search in the thread, and didn't see this one.
It's an early Maxis game, kind of a RTS hybrid. I played the hell out of it when I was a kid.
You can download it on several abandonware sites, or just play it in-browser @ Classic Reload
It can take a little while to get the hang of it, so if you can find a pdf of the manual I suggest that to be step one.
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It's got that impact, when compared to the portable systems of that time, and I did like the idea of games coming on cards like that.
I once had a "CoreGrafx" unit with a hacked switch added to it so I could play both Japanese and US HuCards on it!
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Two of my blind pick discoveries on the PC Engine are Metal Stoker and Gekibo
Metal Stoker is a fun tank shoot em up with strafing controls that you blast through different stages and bosses. The music and level variety makes it good and has a good difficult.
Gekibo is a interesting and amusing game as its a Japanese take on Western culture. You play aas a photographer who has to get set amount of points to please his boss to get into the next stage by photographing interesting things and dodging obstacles. Lots of western pop culture that would not have been released due to copyright issues along with "Fuck" graffiti in the ghetto level.
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Metal Stoker is a fun tank shoot em up with strafing controls that you blast through different stages and bosses. The music and level variety makes it good and has a good difficult.
Gekibo is a interesting and amusing game as its a Japanese take on Western culture. You play aas a photographer who has to get set amount of points to please his boss to get into the next stage by photographing interesting things and dodging obstacles. Lots of western pop culture that would not have been released due to copyright issues along with "Fuck" graffiti in the ghetto level.
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I read a review of Betrayal at Krondor in a magazine and the graphics looked really good, but I didn't have a PC. It was based off of a book series I had never heard of, I remembered that from the review, so some time after that I went to the bookstore where I got confused and bought The Sword of Shannara thinking it was probably the right one and then I read it. That's my tale, thank you for attending my book report.
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I've played that. That was weird af. I got it on one of those shovelware compilation CDs. I think it was notable for supporting unusual graphics modes and being absolutely eye-watering.
Anyone for a Lesdidian Warrior?
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a mediocre x-box 360 game by the name of "naughty bear" (not a consolefag btw, i switched to pc)
you basically played as Not Important in a teddy bear form, going around the block fucking brutalizing other bears. it was like hitman, i think. you could disguise and shit, and do environmental kills. looking back on it, it was pretty repetitive, however, i thought it was fun and the unlockables were worth playing the game.
you basically played as Not Important in a teddy bear form, going around the block fucking brutalizing other bears. it was like hitman, i think. you could disguise and shit, and do environmental kills. looking back on it, it was pretty repetitive, however, i thought it was fun and the unlockables were worth playing the game.
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If you have not yet rectified your mistake and read the Riftwar Saga and played Betrayal at Krondor you need to get your ass to Amazon and GoG.com respectively, that shit is legitimately some of the best fantasy I've ever read.
Also, anybody here ever play Attack of the Mutant Camels on C64?
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In retrospect it was terrible (if pretty playable regardless) but when I was a kid playing that on my old-ass AT clone, I thought it was fun as hell. Helped kind of cement my preference for dungeon crawlers.
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Sounds like Jeff Minter's doing. I have played Revenge of the Mutant Camels on Atari ST and Llamatron on same though. Llamatron. The game that invented the seizure post and earrape with the level transition screen and Screaming Mandy respectively.
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Of all the Jeff Minter games over the years it's still Hover Bovver that I think about once in a while, his most normal game. It was about moving the lawn, it had a narrative, it also had a dog health meter, the dog was what chased away the neighbor that tried to take back the lawn mover the player had "borrowed".
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Reminded someone recently ported that to the Intellivision (with extra voices)!
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It was indded, this is my childhood right here: https://youtu.be/ybzUgiE_vQM