Shawn | 31 Posted April 1, 2020 Share Posted April 1, 2020 56 minutes ago, RH said: also recall the novelty wore off after about the first playthrough. Correct :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremiahJT | 75 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 17 hours ago, Shawn said: I had an Action Max VHS game system when I was a kid. Only 2 game tapes though. I forgot about my Action Max. I had every game except Blue Thunder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,925 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 We had the Action Max too, didn't get bored of it as fast as you two did I guess. I liked the change in light gun games as you could only go so far playing Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley, and well that's it. i remember having like 3 of the tapes, seems 5 were made looking at the wiki. I had the blue thunde movie knockoff, the sub game hydrowar, and that aerial combat sonic fury one. Having the variety between the three kept it more interesting longer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintegageo | 580 Posted October 7, 2021 Author Share Posted October 7, 2021 Robotrek. A game no one else seemed to know when I was young even existed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintegageo | 580 Posted October 7, 2021 Author Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) Wow sorry I did not realize that this thread was so old. Edited October 7, 2021 by Nintegageo 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code Monkey | 2,002 Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 I used to rent Metal Storm all the time as a kid. A few years ago I tried remembering the name of it and couldn't figure it out. When I eventually figured out what it was and looked online at prices, I was pretty shocked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Webhead123 | 675 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 (edited) As a kid, I don't know that I played anything all that obscure...or, at least, nothing really seemed obscure to me at the time. I just played whatever games I came across. My mother went back to school to get a Computer Science degree, so I spent a lot of time in the university computer labs playing DOS games. Crystal Caves, Duke Nuke'm and Duke Nuke'm II, Space Quest and a bunch of others I can't remember. As a teenager (and through to this day), I was the only person I knew that had a Sega CD, so anything I played on that system felt very unique and rare. Also, my friend's dad, who was in the music business, had bought a CD-i. The only game I remember playing on it was The 7th Guest. Not a rare game, per se, but playing it on the CD-i was probably not a very common occurrence. In the mid-90's, I traded a friend a bunch of my Magic cards for a box of NES games (oh, if only I had held on to those cards today...). Among them was Clash at Demonhead, which was quite a fun game, although cryptic enough that I never did finish it. The rest of the games were pretty standard fare: Super Mario Bros. 3, Metroid, Zelda II, Tetris, Dr. Mario, Monopoly, Fester's Quest and about 10 others I don't remember. Edit: I just remembered, the same day I got a Gameboy, I bought Bubble Ghost for it. Not really sure if it is considered obscure but I've never met anyone who's played it, let alone owned it. Fantastic game, by the way. Edited October 10, 2021 by Webhead123 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
croagunk | 798 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 I have a pretty small collection of NES, SNES, and Genesis games. They were before my time, but every once in a while I’ll pick up one that’s not too expensive. A more obscure NES game I have is Amagon. The cartridge art intrigued me. Haven’t played it much, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMR | 516 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 On 10/7/2021 at 12:12 PM, Code Monkey said: I used to rent Metal Storm all the time as a kid. A few years ago I tried remembering the name of it and couldn't figure it out. When I eventually figured out what it was and looked online at prices, I was pretty shocked. I've owned a lot of games before that I didn't think would ever be worth anything. Frankenstein and Sword Master were two of them. If only I had know back then what I know now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaMan52 | 2,423 Posted October 10, 2021 Share Posted October 10, 2021 (edited) I'm not sure if I played any console or handheld games that are considered obscure during my childhood. I didn't come across Donkey Kong Jr. Math, the Tengen version of Tetris, or multicarts until the early 2000's. However, I do remember renting the NES versions of Micro Machines, Pac-Mania, Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, and The Jungle Book in 1994. I also rented The Flintstones: the Surprise at Dinosaur Peak the same year. In the year 2000/2001, I played a few obscure PC/Flash games. I went to the Kraft Foods website and played some Oscar Mayer Flash games, such as Oscar Mayer Wiener Pong and a side-scrolling game where you drive the Wienermobile and pick up some kids. On another website, I played a Pac-Man game. It played basically like the original, but I believe it had all red ghosts, I think the maze was white, and Pac-Man was replaced with...someone's head. In 2003/2004, I visted Blizzard's website and found a demo of Rock n' Roll Racing for Game Boy Advance. I don't remember anyone ever talking about these games, but I was able to revisit some of them last year via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine: Edited October 10, 2021 by MegaMan52 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScaryD | 235 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 On 1/13/2020 at 8:55 PM, Reed Rothchild said: Probably something on PC. Kingdom of Kroz or Mixed-Up Mother Goose I rented Utopia as a kid as well. That is probably the most obscure game I played as a kid and I used to love that game. When I play the game now I do not get the same enjoyment and have not played it in a long time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanooki | 4,925 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 @MegaMan52 Blizzard if you have a battle.net account gives away Rock N Roll Racing for free, they popped it into a zip file with a copy of zsnes they had permission to use so you can play it in windows. Also put up a copy of Lost Vikings with DOSBox, and the lesser known Windows port of Blackthorne -- the latter two DOS games too but also SNES and GBA as well. Might as well relive a few more for free. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OptOut | 8,869 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 Ironically, the NES's FINAL hidden gem, Isolated Warrior, was one of two games we got with our NES the first Xmas! Mario 2 was the other game and it got WAY more play time, obviously! We also had Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu back then too, that was an awesome game to be able to grow up with! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchylde28 | 1,546 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 Borak. It's a title that's so obscure that it was only in the last several years that a reference to it (and not even directly) showed up on Moby Games. What is it? It's an Ultima clone that a guy started writing for fun many, many, many years ago, didn't complete, then uploaded to a BBS to let people have what fun they could with it. My brother ended up with a copy, who passed it on to my dad, and that's how I ended up seeing (and briefly fooling around with) it. There's zero reference to the actual game anywhere on the internet, despite me looking off and on for years (as I didn't have a copy anymore, went looking, then in the last year dug far and deep enough into random CDs I'd burned at the dawn of burning backups to discover a copy deep, dep, into a directory tree of a single disc out of hundreds). The sole "reference" to it on Moby Games is in the description for the game Proton, which was done by the same author, whose online handle was the same name as the game--Borak. (Proton is another super obscure game I played back in the day, a PC version of the "Photon" IRL Laser Tag game) For something that more people would recognize, probably Werewolf: The Last Warrior, which I got reasonably impressively through (3rd or 4th stage IIRC), all without any media coverage or walkthroughs/guides back in the day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp1nz | 610 Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 Galilei ja Kadonneet Lelut (TL: Galilei and the Lost Toys) - a video game based on a Finnish children's show of the same name. I have played more obscure games on DOS but I still haven't found out what they were. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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