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

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Anyone mention Body Harvest?


It's the direct predecessor to the 3D open world gameplay of GTA 3. Loved it as a kid even though the controls didn't age too well. Snowball's chance in hell of it happening but I would kill to see a remake.
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Great game also Jet Force Gemini on N64 was very similar with the gorey Starship Troopers vibe.

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This is a fun first person point and click horror. Only one monster is chasing you throughout the game and it's constantly mutating and changing. As you're fleeing it you end up in the sewers and encounter a cult.
 
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More retro games I remember playing.
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Point and click puzzle game with a very twisted sense of humor. I loved the sound design. Still do.

This one taught me so much about marine biology, well before they ever touched the subject in school. I remember it mainly for the cool music, and the "photo" realistic graphics they attempted.
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You'd probably remember it better if you watch it in action.
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I wish I could remember this one PC game, because its image is pretty burned into my memory. You were a fat guy who always grunted while he walked, with a pretty prominent ass crack hanging out. (Especially when climbing ladders) and you had to escape from Prison (maybe Alcatraz?). It was a very crude cartoony game that probably wasn't appropriate for kids.
 
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big ups liquid richard said:
I wish I could remember this one PC game, because its image is pretty burned into my memory. You were a fat guy who always grunted while he walked, with a pretty prominent ass crack hanging out. (Especially when climbing ladders) and you had to escape from Prison (maybe Alcatraz?). It was a very crude cartoony game that probably wasn't appropriate for kids.
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Arcade America is the game you're thinking of.
 
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Fuck yeah! I remember that yellow guy with the tail but I couldn't remember anything else.
Thank you so much.
I only had the demo so that's why I only remember the Alcatraz part.
 
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Oh man...

Mail Order Monsters on the C64

But the big one was...

OMEGA where you build your own tank and design the AI code for it. I played the shit out this thing. Sure, you could brute force your way through with a basic scanner, max armor, and a nuclear cannon, but it was fun to design better and better AI code for it.

I played a lot of video games in the mid to late 80's on the C64, Apple IIc, IBM PC, and Amiga.

A lot of favorites that are lost to time.

The old SSI/TSR Buck Rogers games were fun too.

Kind of wish they'd bring some of them back, but you know they'd just fuck them all up.
 
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In elementary school we had a game called "The Hazards of Voltageville" which was made either by or for the power company.

It was an edutainment type game that was supposed to teach kids to not touch downed power lines and such. An Apple II sidescroller where you played as a kid trying to get home (I think) by avoiding electrical dangers. Jumping over sparks and such.

It seems to be completely forgotten and is probably lost forever.
 
Likely not all that obscure now, but there's a game called "Unheard," which is amazing imo. It's short, and only costs around five bucks on Steam, but the quality is incredible. You basically listen in on conversations and try to figure out what is going on. Most of the voice acting is amazing, and all of the mysteries are very intricate. If someone is looking for this sort of thing, I also get the feeling that the game kind of acts as training tool for weaponizing autism. You really have to obsess over really stupid details in order to solve some of the cases.
 
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>Princess Maker 2 (DOS)
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>Asura's Wrath
>9 Hours, 9 People 9 Doors.
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I remember playing this game called "The Eternal Ring" when I was a kid. It was trippy as shit. Basically you found gems and crafted them into magic rings to battle eldritch horrors. I remember liking it so i refuse to go back and play it.
 
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I loved these games, I actually have them on my tablet to fuck around with.
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Ever tried the Samorost games or Amanita Design's games in general? They're similar in gameplay(click and see if something funny or interesting happens) but the graphics have a northern/eastern Europe vibe to them, like a John Bauer-style adventure game.

Bauer:
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Samorost:
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All old dos games, but that's sort of cheating I guess?
Janitor Joe, an old platformer that can still be found if you look enough
Autoduel, a great game where you can customize your deathcars
Popcorn, a french clone of arkanoid, really fun
flightmare, if you can find this and like old cga games, it's hard as fuck but rewarding

A quake clone called Chasm: the rift was p fun too if anyone's heard of that
 
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Avalon Code on DS. Weird rpg featuring RE4 style inventory management as a central puzzle element.
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Time Hollow, an adventure/puzzle game for Nintendo DS
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and Ephemeral Fantasia, a JRPG with a Groundog Day time loop for PS2. The latter is one of the first PS2 games I ever played, and even after buying it years later I was never able to beat it.
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Legal Crime for PC. It was a multiplayer only game that I got on a demo disc from the back of a magazine in the 90s. I've never heard anyone else talk about it before. It's an RTS that takes place in a big city and you collect money by sending units to shake down businesses for protection money. The only difference between the full version and demo was that game was that games were limited to 15 minute time limits in the demo. I never did have the full version. You unlocked the fullversion by I believe calling in credit card information to the developer and they would email or fax back an activation key, but I couldn't convince my dad to let me use his credit card to do it.


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Byte Enchanters, Inc: unique Internet strategy games

Home of Internet real-time strategy game, Legal Crime. The demo version is downloadable on our site, as well as links to strategy pages and Alcatraz, the virtual gathering place for virtual gangsters.
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I just remembered Enthusia Professional Racing by Konami(by reading the name Ephemeral Fantasia), if that game isn't obscure it is at least very forgotten, this is the entirety of its Wikipedia page:
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It was a good driving sim but it had some stiff competition, three months before it's release Gran Turismo 4 came out. On the same day of its release the first Forza came out. Oof.

It was a different type of game though, physics was one of the selling points and it had a HUD when playing that showed the inertia on the car, traction for each tire and the wheel position, in addition to that there were a couple of bars that showed the pressure on gas and brake.

It also had its own version of Forza's dynamic driving line, but only in practice mode.

Compared to GT and Forza it felt a little bare-bones, it didn't look that great compared to them either, but the racing itself was really good.
 
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Road Trip Adventure for the Playstation 2. It's known as Choro-Q (something) in Japan.
 
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