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

On my old computers it was Mixed up Mother Goose and Trivia Monster.

Mixed Up was only one I could actually play. I tried to play Trivia Monster but I was pretty young. Oh uh.

The monster is pretty terrifying.

Around the 10:50 mark the monster comes out.

Yes. I did have nightmares about monsters.
 
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Valiant said:
On my old computers it was Mixed up Mother Goose and Trivia Monster.

Mixed Up was only one I could actually play. I tried to play Trivia Monster but I was pretty young. Oh uh.

The monster is pretty terrifying.

Around the 10:50 mark the monster comes out.

Yes. I did have nightmares about monsters.
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Jesus, that's pretty fucking intense.
 
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I should probably do a bit more of a detailed write-up, but I do remember this game quite well. I may even have my copy laying around somewhere.
It was... interesting. It was largely terrible, but there was the nucleus of a good idea in there. Too bad that anything that might have been good was half-assed at best, and the writing seems to have been done by someone with a political axe to grind. (And even that was half-assed!)
 
Serotoninphobia.

The sites associated to it are either dead or have been struck with malware, so now you can no longer play it.

There's also Flatland Rover.

Maybe also a bunch of 2006-era Nickelodeon games on their website that died at some point without a single person backing it up.
 
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My pick is Scott Pilgrim vs the world: the game
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This was a game that was a tying with the movie.
It was released on the ps3 and xbox360 and its a side scrolling beat-em-up.
I enjoyed playing this game with my friends because it was so good.
Unfortunately it has been removed from the xbox live arcade/ PSN store
 
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I played the DS game Lost Magic a couple times. It's kind of a top down stategy RPG where you use the touch screen to draw your spells. The plot is that The Diva of Twilight is controlling the sages and after she kills your master you have to defeat the sages and eventually The Diva if Twilight who wants to make herself the new Creator.

I also played a game called Vexx on Gamecube that I've never seen or heard anyone talk about. I remember fuck all about this except that it was an action platformer.
 
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Illbleed. It's a relatively obscure survival horror game for the Dreamcast, but it's...something else. It's one of the more unique horror games I've played, as you have to monitor your heart rate so that you don't end up fainting or having a fucking heart attack. There's a lot of neat little mechanics in the game, but they don't take away from the overall experience.

It's also one of those games, unfortunately, that's gone up in price over the years because of collectors. If you ever get the chance to play it, it's worth sitting down and playing through in one sitting.
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D2 was also another neat horror game on the Dreamcast. There's this sort of pseudo-open world aspect to the game, along with some light survival elements like hunting animals for food. The story itself is pretty good, and it's still a fair bit unsettling. For me, it's one of those games that lets you immerse yourself in its world.
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Fun fact: Kenji Eno, the director of D2, also was responsible for Real Sound: Kaze no Regret, which was a Japanese-exclusive game on the Saturn which was done entirely with audio.
 
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I used to play the shit out of this game when I was young. It's a bunch of weird, blue creatures that the player has to navigate different puzzles to get them to a settlement. Civilization needs more games like this.
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I remember playing this fucking thing at school.

Cool shit.
 
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Project: Overkill for the PS1. It's a 2d isometric shooter that controls like a twin stick shooter except you can't shoot while going backwards, probably to add some difficulty. It's actually quite good. Here's some gameplay footage:

I was browsing a used game shop several years back when I saw this game and I bought it pretty much based on the title alone.
 
Some really old ones...

Jailbait on the Interstate (C64, did this on a dare. Text adventure.)
Star Goose (DOS game)
Dragon Wars (DOS game)
Anything from Keypunch Software (Old DOS games)
Anything from Microprose and Sierra from the late 80s through early 1990s.
Mechwarrior 1!

There's probably others, but I'm old. It's cold. I need a bran muffin.
 
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Well, you know, beat 'em ups were, for the longest time, the easiest way to make a semi-decent, if generic, game featuring licensed characters although the genre of choice for "lowest common denominator" licensed character game developers has long since shifted from beat 'em ups to kart racing (and, really, that shift was already well underway by the time that Shrek 2 game was made; licensed character beat 'em ups were already much less common in 2004 than they were in the 1990s, unless the licensed characters in question are the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, of course).

 
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Tai-Pan on the Amstrad CPC home computer in the mid 80's. It was pretty much Elite with pirates, and had one of the greatest game soundtracks ever. You could get a crew, buy or steal a shop, trade, smuggle, fight, gamble. It was brilliant. Wish they'd remake it, because Sid Meir's Pirates! never even came close.
 
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