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

Elysian said:
I played that game! I found the secret skate park at one point and never wanted to make my character leave it. I had an old save for it on a memory card from 2004 that my little sister overwrote and I was super annoyed even though I lost the disc ages ago. So much nostalgia though...
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...Secret skate park? WHERE?
 
ICametoLurk said:
Also I've played Odell's Down Under (An education game where you play as a fish and eat other fishes) that would count as obscure
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My fourth grade class had that game, it was awesome. I loved being a shark and eating fucking everything. Until the AI shark was faster and ate me instead. Was still a welcomed break from Oregon Trail and that stupid math game though.
 
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This was one of my favorite titles on PS2. It's a Car-PG, in other words, a racing game with an open world you can drive around. I thought it was cute how the cars would talk and had hobbies like soccer and fishing. Lots of shit to collect, too for 100 completion. The smooth jazz soundtrack was neat, too.

One of its sequels also made it to the US, titled Choro-Q. But it wasn't as good. The whole open world got replaced with three small towns. And the physics were a lot more annoying in races. There was more of an actual story, but that didn't make up for that stuff and a questionable translation.
 
If we're including non-vidya, I have a good one.

It's called, no shit, "Nuclear Armageddon." It's kind of like Risk, but with the ability to bring the wrath of an atomic shitstorm on your enemies. You pick a region to start in, and the objective is to take over as many different regions as possible.

Of course, there's always something that gets in the way--the Act of God cards. These are dealt to a player at a certain time, and they're usually like "uprising in XY region, you lose access to your stockpile there," but there is one Act of God card that is always ignored.

This particular card states that "the Pope has made war illegal." This resets everything in the game back to the beginning. Keep in mind that playing this game without the Pope card usually takes a whole weekend, and can take up to a week with the card. Needless to say, every time that card is dealt, we ignore it and just put it off to the side.

It's a really fun game, and I wish it was more well-known.
 
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Dare Devil Derby 3D, known as Supersonic Racers elsewhere.
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Had a pretty serious looking cover, but was actually cartoony as hell. Weird, yet generic characters like a basketball player who drives a taxi for some reason, a baby driving a semi truck, Igor, a rich lady, an army general, a prisoner, etc.
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Played like a slow RC car racer, though in some levels you played as boats or blimps. The cars were all scaled to fit in the same square space, so you had a jeep that was bigger than a semi, a super skinny dragster, a Cruella DeVil car and some other weirdly proportioned cars. I think there was actually no difference in speed or handling so it didn't matter who you were. I also remember not liking the camera at all. I'm not sure what happened to my copy, but I've never met anyone else who played it.
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Angel Devoid: It looked like the coolest game ever, sat in the bargain bin, but turned out to be a pile of dogshit, like virtually every FMV game ever made.
 
For the life of me I can't remember the name but in like 2000 or 2001 taco Bell gave out these CD games like they were promotion games for the Xgames the cd I had was like a copy of excitbike just with different graphics
 
Finding Nemo for the Game Boy Advance. Possibly the only licensed game I've completed due to pseudo-enjoyment.
 
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  • Big Motha Truckers: Friend had me buy it as a joke. It's as bad as it sounds.
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I've never played it, but it's from Eutechnyx which made a couple of fantastic underrated racing games I have on Playstation 2, <strike>Le Mans 24 Hours (a.k.a. Test Drive Le Mans on Dreamcast, a version which I also own)</strike> and Ferrari Challenge: Trofeo Pirelli.

Maybe Eutechnyx racing games that feature licensed cars racing on real tracks are great but the cartoon-ish ones aren't?

EDIT: Oops, the PS2 and Dreamcast versions of Le Mans were developed by Infogrames, Eutechnyx only developed the PS1 and PC versions.
 
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Vigilance said:
Graffiti kingdom was basically a game where you could draw your own monsters in a 3d editor and transform into them to fight other monsters. You just drew shapes and the game would make them 3d for you. Hilarity very often ensued as you got to watch your shitty monster limp around on misshapen legs and make noises vaguely reminiscent of a thwomp.
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Fantastic little RPG. Some really lovely music in it as well as some fun gameplay mechanics. I always loved the end cutscene being animated by Studio Ghibli and always wanted an anime for Graffiti Kingdom.
 
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I had an N64 version of a golf game called CyberTiger
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I really found this game pretty surreal considering the weird golf courses you can play at and the option to make your golfer's head big while making a coughing sound. What a way to endorse Tiger Woods.
 
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^ Game Sack just reviewed Illbleed in their second "Backlog" episode. ("Backlog 2: Electric Boogaloo".)
 
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