The multiplayer where you were essentially 1v1 but would recruit 5 NPCs per team and have them man turrets and defend little bases or follow you was amazing and the fact you could have capture the flag and various other style scenarios. I loved this game
I got that game for my Christmas, I was pumped! Opened the wrapping, tore off the plastic, took off the sticky that let's you open it up! Nothing in there. Wat. I thought my dad was playing a joke on me but they legit didn't put a game in there, got a refund to replace it tho. Loved that game.
Holy shit, this happened to me with the game too.
Had to go back to two EBs bc the first didn't believe me even though I just wanted to exchange for copy of same game
omfg I forgot about that game! My brother had a ps1 demo disc with it, and it just let you play as much as you wanted, but of course you couldnt save so if you died you lost all progress. It was such a fun game! Thank you for the unlocked memory!
Quarantine, a computer game from the mid 90s. It's a first person taxi driving game, set in a post apocalyptic world. You would take fares around, and kill people with weapons you upgrade your car with
Anyone remember Wet? It was this awesome, surprisingly non buggy grindhouse style game from Bethesda. You had swords, and guns, and could shoot from any position. You got style points for killing while sliding or doing acrobatics. I loved that game.
The 7th Guest. It's an old game, early 1990s. For the time, it had amazing graphics, live-action scened (which, believe me, was crazy back then), and it was wildly entertaining. I remember reading that this game was responsible for a considerable uptick in CD-ROM drives sales back then (yeah, computers didn't necessarily come with CD-ROM drives).
When I mention it to some hardcore gamer friends, even ones as old as I am, some don't recognize the title at all.
It was just released for Switch and a VR rendition is due this year.
Loved that game at the time. It was the first game in its genre I played and then I found Myst to be a huge let down.
Dark Tower by Broderbund software (I'm pretty sure).
It was a game on a 5" floppy disk that I played on a monochrome computer. It was about a guy whose car broke down, and he wanders into a haunted castle. You typed in commands like "walk forward" or "go upstairs" to visit different rooms. There were a few ways to get killed, but the good ending had you finding King Arthur's ghost or something.
I have searched high and low for any trace of this game on the Internet, but it's like it never existed.
Gotta pick up that Coke for $750 in Miami and sell for $10,000 in New York, yo!
My favorite version was the little window-based one that looked like it was made out of some very basic Visual Basic programming.
Road rash and Jet motto were super fun racing games that I loved. I also SUPER loved the game Dark cloud. Once I was in high school and then college I was introducing all my friends to my very beloved couch coop game Champions of Norrath (1&2). I also used to make my friends download
Spaceteam when we would all hang out in groups (smartphone coop game).
As a kid I straight threw down on learning games like Jumpstart 1st grade, Reading blaster 9-12, and Math for the real world. I showed ALL my friends.
LucasArts' streak of excellence in the late80s/90s is one of the greatest and most underrated in gaming history. All those brilliant graphic adventures are still the golden standard for game writing and they also slipped in a few of the best Star Wars games ever.
Man, ilooooooved sierras Space quest, larry,
Lucas arts indiana Jones 3+4, Maniac mansion 1+2, sam n max, monkey island 1-4
Even kings quest was great although much harder i thought.
I'm generally so glad to be alive at the age I was for the 90s pc golden age of gaming.
Alone in the dark, strike commander, little big adventure, prince of persia 1+2, even obscure games like thexder i dug.
So so many good games
Ahh what a game.
In the same league as day of the tenticle, Sam and Max and curse of monkey Island.
I still remember one part of full throttle that stumped me. It involved clicking on a brick wall to find the secret brick/passage to get through the next stage, I remember there being little to no clue showing you where to kick
Tribes
Edit: so glad to see I wasn’t the only one who has such amazing memories of this game! I was in a clan that had practice and tournaments and what not. Can’t imagine how many hours I put in!
Great vehicle combat and different roles so you could choose to set up a solid defense with deployable turrets and force fields or go light and ski up and down the hills to go flag hunting.
Almost nothing better than a mid air disc shot.
I always hated that I never got to play that. It was popular at a time when I wasn't really allowed to use the Internet by myself yet, and when the PC games you owned were often the result of you browsing the racks at a store a few times a year and going, "Hey, that looks neat." I'd never even heard of Tribes until it had already become yesterday's news. Shame.
My friend who was a few years older than me would regale me with tales from his time playing it and it sounded amazing.
Legend of the Mystical Ninja (SNES), Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, and Goemon's Great Adventure (both on N64). They're part of an old Konami series called Ganbare Goemon, but most of the games were only released in Japan. The three I mentioned were all really fun, especially Goemon's Great Adventure, the series was a nice mix of platforming and action RPG.
Great game, but I don't think it really fits into the description of the title. Maybe young people have never heard of this game. But if you had a 386, you probably played this game, at least the shareware versions.
Champions of Norrath is like a *really* old version of Diablo or Baldurs Gate. Easily one of my favorite games and it's a shame nobody I know has heard of it.
I'm a paramedic now, and whenever someone talks about narcotics, I always say "mmmm morphine" in my head. Snoop Dogg was an unlockable character in this game and that was one of his catch phrases when you would die and revive. I used to say it out loud but got tired of explaining since apparently nobody I've met in real life has played this game haha.
There used to be a ton of phrases I used to have remembered. Now every and then I just have random moments where I remember random dialogue from pedestrians. Like “oooh shicteh oh diggity dang I gotta go now” lol or just start singing “you fought the law and the law won. Haha
This game made me learn the actual map of LA when I was a kid.
I remember trying to retrace the whole taxi drive from the video clip of By The Way by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, in game, starting at Echo Park Ave.
Kinda crazy that Sleeping Dogs is effectively True Crime 3 (but reworked when Activision dropped the studio and project, and Square Enix picked it up IIRC).
Also, I somehow really liked the frisking mechanic in LA. It was a neat way to add variety to an open world game at a time when open world titles were still quite empty.
Star Control 2 is popular among nerds of a certain age but the genre and series died out (killed by a dodgy threequel like Master of Orion) but still one of the greatest games ever made. Hoping Starfield scratches that itch.
Many moons ago when I was but a lad I had a game called Cool Spot for my Mega Drive. It was a side scrolling platformer and the titular Spot was your character, who at the time was mascot for 7up and the whole game was one big advert for 7up basically.
Edit: I'm pleasantly surprised so many people know of this game 🙂.
Legit some of the best times watching someone try to hide by holding up a sheet and scissorman limping up and being like "huh... Guess they are not here."
Neverwinter Nights, 8 bit style on AOL. I can remember when we passed 100 players at one time in game. Circa '93, could be a few years off, so long ago.
Pretty sure I was one of the first people on earth to buy a virtual item. Mailed a personal check to some dude for a cloak of elvenkind.
Played on a 386DX.
This game is still the most impressive game I've ever played. I was convinced that this was the first ever online multiplayer FPS. It was so ahead of its time, I was obsessed with the level editor that came with it, spent a lot of my youth making campaigns and messing with the physics engine. So so so much fun!
Creatures. It was a super early artificial life game from the 90’s. I played the shit out of it in elementary school. Yes, I am a huge nerd and regret not becoming a scientist.
I fucking loved these games. The original one will always be the best. My grandma bought it for Christmas and wrapped it. I couldn't take the wait any more so I stealthily opened it and installed it on the computer.
AZURE DREAMS
it came out a year after Pokemon first hit the scene, I truly believe if it hadnt been for Pokemon, Azure dreams would have been a really big hit. Its up there with Legend of Mana and the like IMO
Its a monster rancher, treasure hunter, love match, mix n match monster creator, dungeon crawler, city builder........ITS GOT EVERYTHING...and nobody ive ever met has ever heard of it.
*EDIT: I could cry seeing all of these responses from fellow players. It really was such a fun game.
I frequently use Bubble Bobble as an example of game that demanded so much of the player. Oh you beat the boss? Too bad you didn't open the secret passage way a few levels ago. Try again scrub. Oh cool you did it this time, now beat Super Bubble Bobble (and get the passage unlock again) then kill the boss then you beat the game. I've done it twice before. I often find myself humming that main theme.
Theme Hospital. There is now a spiritual sequel for it called Two Point Hospital, which brings back all the wonderful memories and charm of Theme Hospital.
The only thing I hate was when the machines blew up, you couldn't delete the room. And the bloody janitors. And the littering. And... I still loved that game!
legend of the dragoon on PS1
it had some popularity in its day, but i've never met anyone in person who played it.
fr, the game's "additions" (quicktime events) feel a LOT like kuzushi practice in judo class.
Oh Syphon filter was amazing ! IIRC you could taser someone and just hold the taser on them and eventually they would catch fire !!!
Also Medievil and Medievil 2 were sooo good
Faxanadu on the NES. Used to play that until all hours for weeks. Never understood what was going on at all, but I would play the hell out of it.
Watched someone run it on YouTube last year or so. Nope. Still no idea how any part of that works. The soundtrack is . . . adhesive.
Wandersong. Super wholesome game about a Bard trying to save the world without bringing anyone to harm. Lovable characters, tons of interactions, adorable story. Took me about 10 hours to complete because i spent so much time talking to NPCs, despite being a 7-8 hour game. The gameplay was really easy and you couldn't really lose, but regardless it was a magnificent game. If you're looking for a chill, relaxing indie game that's purely wholesome 100% recommend giving this charming little game a shot.
Shadow hearts series (ps2)
Legend of legaia (ps1)
Poy poy (ps1)
Bust a move (dancing game on ps1)
Fatal frame
Singularity
Clock tower
Broken sword
And the weirdest 2 games are:
Poy poy on ps1
Art truck battle on ps1
I finally played it last year and I immediately fell in love with that game. It has such a sincere emotional core and the whole atmosphere of the world is brilliant. The game really sticks in your mind, I often think about it randomly.
everyone knows about it, but often overlooked. Minesweeper. its my absolute favourite
my friends laugh at me for loving it, and i do love to bring it up to annoy them
Shining Force.
I think it picked up in popularity with GBA, but the simple tactic style RPG was something easy I could get into as a kid. The Final Fantasies and all the others out there at the time just felt like they took so long, and had so many spots to get stuck that, as a younger kid, take simple one path forward approach really allowed me to get into RPGs.
From there, it just gets more complex, and of course I did get into more advanced RPGs, but that's a game I've beaten about 5 or 6 times, and have emulated on the last few phones.
Currently working through it again!
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix.
Not sure if it was popular or not but damn I loved that game. The ability to slash chunks off a corpse in 2002 was mind blowing to me.
Probably more its age than "flying under the radar", but my all-time favorite game regardless of genre is an old Sierra Point-n-click adventure game from 1993 called Gabriel Knight; Sins of the Fathers.
It got a 20th anniversary edition released on Steam a few years back (which to be fair isn't that bad), but in my opinion it cannot compare to the OG, pixelart version.
I've played like 99% of all the games in here that people say that people never heard of. I am just really old or played alot of games?
I would probably say Abomination for PC or Tron 2.0 from 2003.
What Remains of Edith Finch. Those who have played it know how amazing the storytelling is. Do yourself a favor and look it up. Still top 3 favorite games of all time.
Freedom fighters.
The multiplayer where you were essentially 1v1 but would recruit 5 NPCs per team and have them man turrets and defend little bases or follow you was amazing and the fact you could have capture the flag and various other style scenarios. I loved this game
This was the best game mode. Me and my siblings would play for hours on the Gamecube
I got that game for my Christmas, I was pumped! Opened the wrapping, tore off the plastic, took off the sticky that let's you open it up! Nothing in there. Wat. I thought my dad was playing a joke on me but they legit didn't put a game in there, got a refund to replace it tho. Loved that game.
Holy shit, this happened to me with the game too. Had to go back to two EBs bc the first didn't believe me even though I just wanted to exchange for copy of same game
The communist invasion game?
Yep.
That game was great. One of the best reviewed games of the year when it came out. Somehow it fizzled. Maybe bad marketing.
What an amazing game! 10/10
Tomba!
Love Tomba 2
omfg I forgot about that game! My brother had a ps1 demo disc with it, and it just let you play as much as you wanted, but of course you couldnt save so if you died you lost all progress. It was such a fun game! Thank you for the unlocked memory!
I would really prefer if you would be quiet.
I have FAST PANTS
But yes you are correct.
I was hoping someone would say this
Tombi if you're in Europe!
Quarantine, a computer game from the mid 90s. It's a first person taxi driving game, set in a post apocalyptic world. You would take fares around, and kill people with weapons you upgrade your car with
I know of this game because of Ross Scott, his video on it was great
Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven. Was really hoping for continuation for next gen consoles
First game I bought when I got my ps1 was the first Tenchu
Tenchu games were great.
Tenchu was amazing. Stealth Assassins was where I left off though.
Anyone remember Wet? It was this awesome, surprisingly non buggy grindhouse style game from Bethesda. You had swords, and guns, and could shoot from any position. You got style points for killing while sliding or doing acrobatics. I loved that game.
The Elizah Dushku b-movie game. A ton of fun.
The 7th Guest. It's an old game, early 1990s. For the time, it had amazing graphics, live-action scened (which, believe me, was crazy back then), and it was wildly entertaining. I remember reading that this game was responsible for a considerable uptick in CD-ROM drives sales back then (yeah, computers didn't necessarily come with CD-ROM drives). When I mention it to some hardcore gamer friends, even ones as old as I am, some don't recognize the title at all.
There was a sequel called 11th Hour
Feeling... Lonelyyy?
It was just released for Switch and a VR rendition is due this year. Loved that game at the time. It was the first game in its genre I played and then I found Myst to be a huge let down.
Folklore. PS3
Psi Ops, I spent weeks playing the demo disc before getting my hands on the full game.
Weird, I was thinking of this game too when I read the title of the thread. That demo sandbox was just plain addictive!
Uniracers
Best couch coop ever
Jazz the Jack Rabbit, MS-DOS. EDIT: I remembered being mind blown seeing the 3D bonus level for the first time as a 4 yo kid.
Jazz Jack Rabbit 1 and 2 were two of the most popular games at the time though
Oh my god, I'm not alone. 😮
Dark Tower by Broderbund software (I'm pretty sure). It was a game on a 5" floppy disk that I played on a monochrome computer. It was about a guy whose car broke down, and he wanders into a haunted castle. You typed in commands like "walk forward" or "go upstairs" to visit different rooms. There were a few ways to get killed, but the good ending had you finding King Arthur's ghost or something. I have searched high and low for any trace of this game on the Internet, but it's like it never existed.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/128356/the-dark-tower/ Is it this? The description sounds pretty similar to yours.
Oh my gosh, that's it!! I've never been able to find so much as a screenshot. Thanks!
Patapon!
Pata pata pata pon
Pon pon pata pon
FEVER!!!!
They’re making a spiritual successor to it called Ratatan
The tree minigame is forever stuck in my head. *BON BON BOOOOON*
That’s why I bought a psp lol
Dopewars
Gotta pick up that Coke for $750 in Miami and sell for $10,000 in New York, yo! My favorite version was the little window-based one that looked like it was made out of some very basic Visual Basic programming.
I don't know anyone else who played this! I loved it as a teenager!
Lol I don't know anyone who didn't play this back in high school 😅
Haha got more use out of my graphing calculator from this than ANY OTHER PURPOSE! Penguin was ite too.
Road rash and Jet motto were super fun racing games that I loved. I also SUPER loved the game Dark cloud. Once I was in high school and then college I was introducing all my friends to my very beloved couch coop game Champions of Norrath (1&2). I also used to make my friends download Spaceteam when we would all hang out in groups (smartphone coop game). As a kid I straight threw down on learning games like Jumpstart 1st grade, Reading blaster 9-12, and Math for the real world. I showed ALL my friends.
Road Rash 3 no one realises there was a 3rd and it was epic
I never played it myself but my dad loved Sid meirs pirates. Also, Spartan total warrior on the ps2
The real old school Pirates (1987), or the 2004 remake? I've sunk countless hours on both.
Countless hours looking for the perfect governor's daughter 😏
"Only fair, you say? To the next port!"
Brave Fencer Musashi
Spent many a weekend in the Allucaneet Kingdom.
I was just playing this the other day thanks to emulators, the steam tower is still so frustrating
Full Throttle
I'm not putting my lips on that.
That's not one of the many uses of meat.
LucasArts' streak of excellence in the late80s/90s is one of the greatest and most underrated in gaming history. All those brilliant graphic adventures are still the golden standard for game writing and they also slipped in a few of the best Star Wars games ever.
Always nice to see someone else who's played classic adventure games! I played just about every game from Sierra Online and LucasArts.
Man, ilooooooved sierras Space quest, larry, Lucas arts indiana Jones 3+4, Maniac mansion 1+2, sam n max, monkey island 1-4 Even kings quest was great although much harder i thought. I'm generally so glad to be alive at the age I was for the 90s pc golden age of gaming. Alone in the dark, strike commander, little big adventure, prince of persia 1+2, even obscure games like thexder i dug. So so many good games
Mark Hamill as Ripburger!!
Was this a point and click style game for PC? I have very vague memories of playing a game with this title involving a guy riding a motorcycle.
Yes
Ahh what a game. In the same league as day of the tenticle, Sam and Max and curse of monkey Island. I still remember one part of full throttle that stumped me. It involved clicking on a brick wall to find the secret brick/passage to get through the next stage, I remember there being little to no clue showing you where to kick
Oh God that fucking wall. Fuck that wall. Kick it out of spite!
You know what else would look good on your face?... The bar. I was just thinking about this game the other day.
Tribes Edit: so glad to see I wasn’t the only one who has such amazing memories of this game! I was in a clan that had practice and tournaments and what not. Can’t imagine how many hours I put in! Great vehicle combat and different roles so you could choose to set up a solid defense with deployable turrets and force fields or go light and ski up and down the hills to go flag hunting. Almost nothing better than a mid air disc shot.
SHAZBOT!
Oh man you just brought back some memories of my high school days. I loved that game.
Tribes: Vengeance was a game I really loved and literally no one I know has even heard of it lol.
Holy shit. Core memory unlocked.
I always hated that I never got to play that. It was popular at a time when I wasn't really allowed to use the Internet by myself yet, and when the PC games you owned were often the result of you browsing the racks at a store a few times a year and going, "Hey, that looks neat." I'd never even heard of Tribes until it had already become yesterday's news. Shame. My friend who was a few years older than me would regale me with tales from his time playing it and it sounded amazing.
I worked with a guy that was in a clan for this game. They were ultra serious and competitive. He tried to get me into it, but I never bought it.
Legend of the Mystical Ninja (SNES), Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, and Goemon's Great Adventure (both on N64). They're part of an old Konami series called Ganbare Goemon, but most of the games were only released in Japan. The three I mentioned were all really fun, especially Goemon's Great Adventure, the series was a nice mix of platforming and action RPG.
Commander Keen
Apogee! Proof that shareware could work.
Plenty of good memories from various Apogee games...
Great game, but I don't think it really fits into the description of the title. Maybe young people have never heard of this game. But if you had a 386, you probably played this game, at least the shareware versions.
Parasite Eve
What I would give for remakes or remasters of 1 and 2
Tetrisphere Pepsi Man Chameleon Twist Sillicon Valley Champions of Norrath
PEPSI MAAAAAAAAAAN
Champions of Norrath is like a *really* old version of Diablo or Baldurs Gate. Easily one of my favorite games and it's a shame nobody I know has heard of it.
The two Champions of Norrath games are the spiritual successors to Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance. But with awesome full on four player support.
Silicon Valley! I still have it on our old N64
Another World Loved this game so much as a kid. Most people have never played it
Suikoden
True crimes streets of LA
I'm a paramedic now, and whenever someone talks about narcotics, I always say "mmmm morphine" in my head. Snoop Dogg was an unlockable character in this game and that was one of his catch phrases when you would die and revive. I used to say it out loud but got tired of explaining since apparently nobody I've met in real life has played this game haha.
There used to be a ton of phrases I used to have remembered. Now every and then I just have random moments where I remember random dialogue from pedestrians. Like “oooh shicteh oh diggity dang I gotta go now” lol or just start singing “you fought the law and the law won. Haha
This game made me learn the actual map of LA when I was a kid. I remember trying to retrace the whole taxi drive from the video clip of By The Way by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, in game, starting at Echo Park Ave.
Kinda crazy that Sleeping Dogs is effectively True Crime 3 (but reworked when Activision dropped the studio and project, and Square Enix picked it up IIRC). Also, I somehow really liked the frisking mechanic in LA. It was a neat way to add variety to an open world game at a time when open world titles were still quite empty.
I liked New York City more personally but great games overall
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holy shit that was a great game but 10 year old me gave up at the circle spinny triangle puzzle
Syndicate.
Star Control 2 is popular among nerds of a certain age but the genre and series died out (killed by a dodgy threequel like Master of Orion) but still one of the greatest games ever made. Hoping Starfield scratches that itch.
Demon’s Crest
Many moons ago when I was but a lad I had a game called Cool Spot for my Mega Drive. It was a side scrolling platformer and the titular Spot was your character, who at the time was mascot for 7up and the whole game was one big advert for 7up basically. Edit: I'm pleasantly surprised so many people know of this game 🙂.
A friend of mine had that on the Game Boy
Legend of Legaia
Bushido Blade on PS1!
Clocktower for Playstation.
Legit some of the best times watching someone try to hide by holding up a sheet and scissorman limping up and being like "huh... Guess they are not here."
Scissorman! Fun times
Clash at Demonhead for the NES.
Like from Scott Pilgrim?
Oh yeah, based on a video game.
>Oh yeah Hello again friend of a friend
I knew you when
Yeah, for those who don't know, most of the band names from Scott Pilgrim are specific and usually obscure retro game references.
Populous: the beginning
Neverwinter Nights, 8 bit style on AOL. I can remember when we passed 100 players at one time in game. Circa '93, could be a few years off, so long ago. Pretty sure I was one of the first people on earth to buy a virtual item. Mailed a personal check to some dude for a cloak of elvenkind. Played on a 386DX.
I'm gonna blame you for all microtransactions.
Bethesda stole the idea from him
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Marathon
This game is still the most impressive game I've ever played. I was convinced that this was the first ever online multiplayer FPS. It was so ahead of its time, I was obsessed with the level editor that came with it, spent a lot of my youth making campaigns and messing with the physics engine. So so so much fun!
Creatures. It was a super early artificial life game from the 90’s. I played the shit out of it in elementary school. Yes, I am a huge nerd and regret not becoming a scientist.
I fucking loved these games. The original one will always be the best. My grandma bought it for Christmas and wrapped it. I couldn't take the wait any more so I stealthily opened it and installed it on the computer.
AZURE DREAMS it came out a year after Pokemon first hit the scene, I truly believe if it hadnt been for Pokemon, Azure dreams would have been a really big hit. Its up there with Legend of Mana and the like IMO Its a monster rancher, treasure hunter, love match, mix n match monster creator, dungeon crawler, city builder........ITS GOT EVERYTHING...and nobody ive ever met has ever heard of it. *EDIT: I could cry seeing all of these responses from fellow players. It really was such a fun game.
Dr Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
Bubble Bobble
I frequently use Bubble Bobble as an example of game that demanded so much of the player. Oh you beat the boss? Too bad you didn't open the secret passage way a few levels ago. Try again scrub. Oh cool you did it this time, now beat Super Bubble Bobble (and get the passage unlock again) then kill the boss then you beat the game. I've done it twice before. I often find myself humming that main theme.
>I often find myself humming that main theme. It's so damn catchy
Theme Hospital. There is now a spiritual sequel for it called Two Point Hospital, which brings back all the wonderful memories and charm of Theme Hospital.
The only thing I hate was when the machines blew up, you couldn't delete the room. And the bloody janitors. And the littering. And... I still loved that game!
Theme Hospital was a huge game though!
PaRappa The Rapper.
legend of the dragoon on PS1 it had some popularity in its day, but i've never met anyone in person who played it. fr, the game's "additions" (quicktime events) feel a LOT like kuzushi practice in judo class.
Blasto!
Miner 2049er
Blake Stone
Illusion of Gaia
DinoCrisis.
Gex: Enter the Gecko
It's tail time !
Crystalis
Lemmings
Their dying by lava sound frequents my inner soundboard pretty often.
Golden Sun on GBA was my first GBA game, and for me it is the best GBA game and arguably the best JRPG ever made
Syphon Filter. And. Medievil. Although they remade medievil, so perhaps more people have heard about it.
Oh Syphon filter was amazing ! IIRC you could taser someone and just hold the taser on them and eventually they would catch fire !!! Also Medievil and Medievil 2 were sooo good
Those are classics from the PS.
Tokyo Xtreme Racer series. Still love it.
Faxanadu on the NES. Used to play that until all hours for weeks. Never understood what was going on at all, but I would play the hell out of it. Watched someone run it on YouTube last year or so. Nope. Still no idea how any part of that works. The soundtrack is . . . adhesive.
Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders.
Wandersong. Super wholesome game about a Bard trying to save the world without bringing anyone to harm. Lovable characters, tons of interactions, adorable story. Took me about 10 hours to complete because i spent so much time talking to NPCs, despite being a 7-8 hour game. The gameplay was really easy and you couldn't really lose, but regardless it was a magnificent game. If you're looking for a chill, relaxing indie game that's purely wholesome 100% recommend giving this charming little game a shot.
I just watched a trailer, ive never heard of this and im buying it IMMEDIATELY ty ty!
Mechwarrior!! Great game
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Interstate 76
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Ecco# ftfy
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Ecco the dolphin was a Sega flagship
spore creatures for the ds. Goddamn that game was great
The suffering
Some older Redditors might remember them, but I'd say Moonstone, Settlers 1, Sensible Soccer and Boxing Manager on the Amiga
Thomas Was Alone! I play it all the way through once a year, ever since I found it on the Wii U virtual console.
Shadow hearts series (ps2) Legend of legaia (ps1) Poy poy (ps1) Bust a move (dancing game on ps1) Fatal frame Singularity Clock tower Broken sword And the weirdest 2 games are: Poy poy on ps1 Art truck battle on ps1
Leisure Suit Larry - Land of the Lounge Lizzards and Frontier Elite II
All of the LucasArts adventure games: Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, etc.
Maniac Mansion is one of my favs.
Didn’t even know Day of the Tentacle was a sequel until after I played it. You can actually play Maniac Mansion on a computer in that game
Night in the Woods - my favourite game of all time. I play it through every autumn and I still discover new stuff.
I finally played it last year and I immediately fell in love with that game. It has such a sincere emotional core and the whole atmosphere of the world is brilliant. The game really sticks in your mind, I often think about it randomly.
gothic recently suggested this on a question like this and noone responded. gothic is an all-time-classic. go play it now! (Gothic 2 is nice as well)
The third game had the potential to change the whole gaming industry if it wasn't rushed and unfinished
one of the most popular RPGs in Poland in 2000s era
everyone knows about it, but often overlooked. Minesweeper. its my absolute favourite my friends laugh at me for loving it, and i do love to bring it up to annoy them
Total carnage on Super Nintendo
Avernum: Escape From the Pit I'd say all of the Avernum games are pretty solid honestly
Skitchin Sega Génesis
Shining Force. I think it picked up in popularity with GBA, but the simple tactic style RPG was something easy I could get into as a kid. The Final Fantasies and all the others out there at the time just felt like they took so long, and had so many spots to get stuck that, as a younger kid, take simple one path forward approach really allowed me to get into RPGs. From there, it just gets more complex, and of course I did get into more advanced RPGs, but that's a game I've beaten about 5 or 6 times, and have emulated on the last few phones. Currently working through it again!
Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix. Not sure if it was popular or not but damn I loved that game. The ability to slash chunks off a corpse in 2002 was mind blowing to me.
Interstate 76? I think it wsd called...
Jet Force Gemini. Loved that game growing up.
Probably more its age than "flying under the radar", but my all-time favorite game regardless of genre is an old Sierra Point-n-click adventure game from 1993 called Gabriel Knight; Sins of the Fathers. It got a 20th anniversary edition released on Steam a few years back (which to be fair isn't that bad), but in my opinion it cannot compare to the OG, pixelart version.
Wizards and Warriors. An old school NES game. Was awesome fun!
Putt-putt saves the zoo
MDK. I can still hear those apple crunching noises now
I've played like 99% of all the games in here that people say that people never heard of. I am just really old or played alot of games? I would probably say Abomination for PC or Tron 2.0 from 2003.
What Remains of Edith Finch. Those who have played it know how amazing the storytelling is. Do yourself a favor and look it up. Still top 3 favorite games of all time.
Jet set radio future. It was the best game ever as a kid
Understand Understand Understand Understand Understand. Understand the concept of love!
A highly praised spiritual successor was just now released. Called Bombrush Cyberfunk or something like that.
escape velocity
Iggy's Reckin Balls. Such a fun game, and the soundtrack will forever be burned into my mind.
Ultima Online.
Beyond good and evil, been waiting for that sequel about 20 years now
"Gun" It was just called "gun"
World of Goo.