Sumez | 2,950 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I think that's long overdue. I still occasionally ran into people who are surprised that game got two sequels, however. I like the third one a lot. Each game in the series is very different though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 5 minutes ago, Link said: I declare Kid Niki Radical Ninja tHe NeXt HiDdEn GeM Nope, played that one as a kid at a neighbor's house. Good ol' Death Breath! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,709 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 1 minute ago, captmorgandrinker said: Nope, played that one as a kid at a neighbor's house. Good ol' Death Breath! huh. Huuh! HUUuuuuuh! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arch_8ngel | 1,597 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 50 minutes ago, MiamiSlice said: I also played Swords & Serpents on NES. I think I've only heard it mentioned once. I might have been the only person to buy a Four Score for this game (though at least I got some more use out of it with Smash TV) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhyNotZoidberg | 585 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I asked for, and received, an Atari Lynx for my 10th birthday so Batman Returns on Lynx is as obscure as it gets for young me. Then we somehow ended up with a 3DO in 1994, I owned 3 games for it. Dragon's Lair is far from obscure, but Crash n' Burn and Total Eclipse remain mostly ignored to this day as do most 3DO exclusive that aren't featured in an AVGN episode. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromableedstudios | 24 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Loom! Or maybe Detroit. I guess my folks liked Sierra? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fox | 1,667 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I didn't have Duck Tales or Contra I had Rockin' Kats and GI Joe. Also: I had a pretty weird collection of games 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craigly1234 | 110 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 2 hours ago, Sumez said: I never played any of the Oddworld games, but I feel like I hear people talking about them constantly. They seem especially popular in circles of people who aren't normally big into game (ie. nerds). They seem like they'd be right up my alley, too. Very high on my endless to-play-list. They are ridiculously difficult, funny, and beautiful. Can't reccomend them enough! No other games is like them (closest thing I can compare them to it heart of darkness, but odd world is way better). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Count | 527 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 I remember playing Irritating Stick for PS1 when I was 16, did anybody else ever play that game? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nesmaster14 | 435 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Probably Cosmic Spacehead on Genesis, I thought it was pretty unusual as a kid. Still seems obscure to this day. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 47 minutes ago, The Count said: I remember playing Irritating Stick for PS1 when I was 16, did anybody else ever play that game? I only had a demo, but thought it was amazing. I also felt that way about I.Q.: Intelligent Qube. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart010 | 1,707 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Dos games: Abuse, Johnny dash in monster bash, jazz jackrabbit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWunderful | 2,927 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 My parents got me circus caper along with zelda 2 when I got my NES which was weird, because the game always struck me as creepy and random. A buddy’s brother had mighty bomb jack that I was in love with for some reason. He was a friend whose house I didnt go to that often AND it was his older brothers who was 18 or so when I was 10- he kept it in his “secret” drawer (with condoms and a knife- dude was fucking badass) so even trying to get it was a sketchy maneuver. I forget why I wanted to play it so bad 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Link | 2,709 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 2 minutes ago, MrWunderful said: I forget why I wanted to play it so bad ...because it was in the drawer with the condoms and the knife. Duh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,523 Editorials Team · Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Probably something on PC. Kingdom of Kroz or Mixed-Up Mother Goose 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombiemicrowave | 42 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Little Ninja Bros and Kickmaster for the NES. I think I got them from Blockbuster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,523 Editorials Team · Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 On SNES we owned MechWarrior, Out to Lunch, and Ys III, and I rented stuff like Equinox and Utopia 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MachineCode | 159 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 +1 on Circus Caper. I love that weird game. My brother and I used to beat that semi regularly back in the day. Actually got a boxed copy sitting here that I picked up at random the other year. Another obscure game that I used to play the shit out of, and still play a lot is Skyroads(DOS). One of my all time favorites. The developers actually released it as freeware on their site a few years back http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/skyroads/ Also, Cyberia. Not the best game by any measure, but cool as fuck 90's sci-fi vibe. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmorgandrinker | 1,649 Administrator · Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 6 hours ago, WhyNotZoidberg said: I asked for, and received, an Atari Lynx for my 10th birthday so Batman Returns on Lynx is as obscure as it gets for young me. Then we somehow ended up with a 3DO in 1994, I owned 3 games for it. Dragon's Lair is far from obscure, but Crash n' Burn and Total Eclipse remain mostly ignored to this day as do most 3DO exclusive that aren't featured in an AVGN episode. Crash N Burn is amazing. One of the main reasons to snag a 3DO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teh_Lurv | 254 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 My first console was the Intellivsion up until around 1989, so I had in my childhood library some of the very obscure games put out by INTV. My favorite among them was Hover Force. It's one of the most graphically impressive games on the Intellivision: During my teenage years, I wasted many hours playing a Macintosh shareware RPG called Realmz. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,933 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 The thing is, back then outside of the popular stuff that got spread all over Nintendo Power or their competition most games were fairly obscure, the box art and gibberish on the back sold it. I had pretty good taste in games as a kid either buying or gifted as you generally ask for things. I think while it's not now, back then maybe Faxanadu would have fit or Silent Service. I was gifted Fester's Quest which was screwball unless you knew it was Addams Family stuff and watched it in reruns. Also Little Nemo I definitely feel would qualify as it's just weird and most people probably had little idea it was based upon a turn of the century comic strip pretty much lost to time. I didn't get the truly obscure quirky stuff until 1995 when I started picking up stuff at the end of high school into college at a second hand shop close by. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californication | 1,477 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Changed my mind. Has anyone heard of Dinosaur Safari for the pc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumez | 2,950 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 I forgot about Game Boy games... As a kid I owned (and still own) The Sword of Hope. I got it thinking it would be something like Shadowgate, but was immediately disappointed when I learned it was something I didn't understand at all (a first person RPG/dungeon crawler with random encounters and turn based combat). Eventually I pulled myself together to get through it, and actually liked it a lot. I didn't realise it then, but it would be my first JRPG. Also, I got the game in Swedish and didn't understand half of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErickRPG | 42 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 When my parent's visited my Grandparents when I was under 10. My Grandma busted out my Grandad's Intellivision. So I guess something like Thunder Castle would be fairly obscure right? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,691 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Rolan's Curse 2 for GameBoy (I chose it because of the badass cover art). I never really understood how it worked as a kid, but I played it later as a teenager and really enjoyed it. It's a nice little multi-character action RPG with a unique leveling system. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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