Games no one else has played but you

[Tuesday Night Fever]

Submarine TITANS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_TITANS)

I bought this game on a whim back in August of 2000. My birthday was the 24th, and I got a $25 gift card to Best Buy from one of my aunts. Despite the game being a recent release, the price had already dropped to $20. I was in the mood to play an RTS, and I've always been a big fan of submarine movies (not to mention that aunt's husband served on the SSBN-742 USS Wyoming)... so I picked it up.

I ended up falling in love with that dumb game. Depth actually played a part in combat (you could maneuver your submarines to ambush the enemy from above or below, or have your submarines change depth to try to dodge enemy fire), you could set your units to automatically attempt to retreat for repairs if their armor reached certain percentages, and you could capture enemy technology and add it to your own build options for future missions (including both buildable units/structures and researched buffs). It was also a very colorful and pretty game for its time.

I'm having a bit of a powerful nostalgia trip, so I might actually try to reinstall it again at some point. I kinda wish a patched version of it would come to GoG or something.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

Decent was awsome back when the playstation came out.

So was summoner and summoner 2.

Anyone remember Street fighter : the movie: the game? No ? Count yourself lucky.
What about : chaos legion? It was a dmc clone on the Playstation 2.

Would you really say it was a DMC clone? I remember it being more like a story-drive Dynasty Warriors.

OT: Well, I made this horror game in high school that I never shared with anyone I also made Evil Pacman where you ate people instead of dots. Pretty confident nobody played those :']

It's pretty rare to find folks who've played Rocket Knight Adventures but apparently there was demand for a modern sequel, so ya know! I'm still yet to find another James Pond 3 lover, though. Everybody is obsessed with the second game, Robocod, but the third game is so, so much better in every single way.

 

[Twinrehz]

An old top-down war-game called Mass Destruction. That game was AWESOME! Piloting a tank around, destroying shit, there were different tanks with different features (heavy armor were obviously slow, light armor were fast but couldn't take many hits).

Aww, thank you for making me think about this game, rare good times!

Didn't find a video with the soundtrack, but it was some sweet music.


I don't know if this game was rare or not, but I've never heard anyone else talk about it.

 

[AkaDad]

Chex Quest

Chex Quest is a non-violent first-person shooter video game created in 1996 by Digital Café as a Chex cereal promotion aimed at children aged 6?9 and up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest

My daughter and I used to play this.

 

[Varrdy]

I remember using drvspace a lot to try and squeeze ... anything .. out of the 4mb PC I started with (it was a 386).

I had an old 286 which I had some pretty good games on but the EMS issues only arose with my first "serious" PC, with it's "mighty" 133Mhz Pentium processor and 16Mb RAM (later upped to 32Mb, which was all I would ever need, apparently). Although it ran Windows 95, I used to exit to DOS to play most of my games as doing so freed up a lot of valuable resources. Most games were fine but Nomad and X-Wing required EMS memory for caching and sound. Luckily for me, a gaming magazine I happened to have told me how to modify the config.sys file to shunt certain functions to higher memory and thus free up the precious EMS.

It sounds ludicrous to me now and yet I still look back at the games I had with great fondness. Some I wish I still had...

 

[Buccura]

I have some TI-83 games I coded that I could tell you for sure no one has played except me.

But back on topic, The Last Dynasty. Anyone play that? It was a Sierra FMV game made for Windows 3.1? Had a mix of space combat and first person point and click?

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Well there is Mega Man on DOS, but that was shit is I'd rather not remember playing that.

 

[PsychicTaco115]

I distinctly remember playing A Series of Unfortunate Events game on the original Xbox...

Don't look at me like that, the game was dope and I still hold the book series as a pinnacle of children's literature

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I distinctly remember playing A Series of Unfortunate Events game on the original Xbox...

Don't look at me like that, the game was dope and I still hold the book series as a pinnacle of children's literature

Honestly it wasn't a bad game, and the movie wasn't horrible either just was sad that it was only cashing in on the whole Harry Potter craze.

OT: LBA Twinsen's Odyssey one of the better old school PC games. Its available on Gog and I recommend anyone who likes action/adventure games try this out. I wish they'd take the gameplay from that series and redo it to make the controls less clunky, but overall it would be a great great game to remake or at least update to HD but keep the simplicity for it.

 

[Michael Tabbut]

I more or less go out of my way to find games that my friends never played. I've played and beaten Summoner, Summoner 2, and Saya no Uta/Song of Saya.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Two games made by Desperado Software for the ZX Spectrum; the puzzler SafeLock (kind of a precursor to the escape-the-room-type games so beloved of Flash developers) and the maze-em-up Eric's Bike.

Desperado Software was my dad. I think he offered Eric's Bike to a publisher but they weren't interested.

Actual commercially released software: Hamte Damte (a Starquake ripoff - yup, a ripoff of a ripoff!) and Mean Streak (won in a Your Sinclair competition - the game got a bit of buzz on announcement but no fanfare after its release).

Non-Speccy: Colonial Conquest II (Amiga); Ultra Peril Snake, X-Quest (PC).

 

[Gergar12_v1legacy]

Very few people play dragon's dogma dark arisen that I know of. I think it beated Kingdoms of Almar

Even fewer play ace of combat infinity- the best fighter jet game as of right now

Even fewer played kingdoms under fire legion of doom. The combat was not smooth, but very refreshing, and different, and the if it were refined allot more this could easily beat final fantasy.

 

[Rayce Archer]

I just beat Marlow Briggs! Let's see...

Blast Corps. N64 not-quite-launch title from Rare where you must demolish buildings before a runaway missile carrier wipes out on them. Quickly devolves into a surreal time-trial puzzle driving sim. And you go to space, in a dump truck.

Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth. The only entry in the Star Soldier franchise WITHOUT a crazy cult following, possibly because it is WAY WAY EASIER than any other Star Soldier game. Still fun. Noteworthy for a level where you must guard a space shuttle while it is being launched, in spite of the player and his army having FTL space fighters and the like. On a side tangent what was with N64 games and space shuttles? You save them in VE, Goldeneye, Aerofighters Assault, and the aforementioned Blast Corps, and I think a couple show up in Sin and Punishment too. Hey, speaking of that-

Sin and Punishment. It's Space Harrier made by Treasure and it's awesome. I think it's on the virtual console.

Nightstone. A shitty diablo clone from Germany. All the classes are horrible, there's a stealth mechanic that you have no need to ever use, and spider enemies can outrun wolves. Released in glorious 2D in spite of coming out well into the 3D era.

Nox. A GOOD diablo clone by Westwood. I believe it's public domain now. Nox has a forgettable campaign; the most memorable thing about it is its deathmatch mode in which players build a mid-level character than run around arenas setting traps, sniping, and looting. It even had primitive debris physics and ray-traced LOS. Every MOBA owes something to Nox, even if they don't talk about it.

Soul Bringer. A classic-style 3/4 RPG released by Epic in the dark days before Unreal. Noteable for being in 3D but using sprites for each part of a character- so your dude's head is a sprite, then his torso is another, and his arms are like 3. They all rotate kind of on their own and sometimes they drift apart. It's unsettling as hell, especially on the "hot girl" barmaid model.

CyClones. The game that put Raven on the map. Using an engine similar to Duke Nukem, you play a cyborg commando who- look, it's basically a serious Blood Dragon that runs in DOS, okay? Notable for having an inventory and for inventing those rotating black robots with all the red eyes that show up in like every single Raven game.

Strife. It's an action RPG made in the Doom engine. It's actually REALLY FUN, but it's very unstable and most modern Doom VMs and engine rebuilds don't seem to support it.

Damage Incorporated. Real-world action game built on the Marathon engine that sees the player direct a squad of marines in counter-terrorism operations. Think Rainbow 6 with no Z-axis to speak of. Had an awesome opening theme, tons of guys to recruit, and amazingly gory deaths (especially from the corrosive shotgun rounds).

Arcade Mario 1. NOT the playchoice release, this was a modified rom with support for score tables and the like. Since it was rebuilt for arcade play, most 1-up mushrooms and shortcuts were removed, making it kind of the Hardmode Super Mario Brothers.

Arcade Battletoads. And yeah, it's harder than the NES one.

 

[Belaam]

Star Wars: Rebellion was a game I kept playing for years after everyone I knew had dropped it.

Also loved Stunt Race FX for the SNES, but everyone else was playing MarioKart.

 

[FPLOON]

I also grew up with Chibi-Robo as one of my favorite games, but that game is slowely coming back into the public eye and it did actually get a sequel so I don't know if that really counts.

Odama: No, not "Obama" because X-Play already made that joke... Yes, it utilized the GameCube mic in terms of overall gameplay... Yes, the game can get a bit luck-based if you either suck at Pinball or suck at giving out voice commands, even though I won't blame you on the latter since you could literally just say anything and that may or may not make your army do "something", at least... Yes, it's better than Virtua Quest in my opinion, but that's not saying much...

I remember Odama! I actually fucked up my throat from yelling "ADVANCE!" "FALL BACK!" "ADVANCE!" all day for a few weeks when that game came out. Still, a Feudal Japan themed voice controlled pinball strategy game is a rare thing indeed, I don't know how the hell they'd pull it today, but I'd love a sequel, if nothing else then so that horrific man-spider from level 8 can haunt a whole new generation.

I love how I would brag to my friends that I was the best Odama player, since no matter how much it would seem like I screwed up some of the commands or how low moral was at the end of every battle, I could never loose a single battle... (Man-Spider ain't got shit on my Odama!) Plus, whenever I would be playing it alongside my cousins, I would hand them the mic so that they would yell out the commands (mainly "PRESS FORWARD!" because it was sometimes that OP) while I focused on keeping the Odama from loosing to the opposition... Hooray for alternative co-op play!

Also, I still regret not picking up Chibi-Robo when I had SO MANY CHANCES to at the time!
*flips self due to lack of a proper table to flip*

 

[Xerosch]

Oh, there are quite some obscure games in my collection. Just to mention a few that I genuinely liked:

Rule of Rose
Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure
Echo Night (the one for the PS1)
Spy Fiction
Michigan: Report From Hell
Flower, Sun and Rain
Melty Blood
Crimson Gem Saga

And there's a really nice PSP RPG which's name escapes me. Something like Lollorollo. It's a combined remake of two PS1 games with plenty animated cutscenes and a kidsy artstyle.

EDIT: Ah, yes. It's called PoPoLoCrois.

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine (PC version)

Quality of the video is really bad, but you can't be too fussy when there's fuck all to find on YouTube. (actually, there is a let's play without commentary, but eh, doesn't seem appropriate to just slap some random LP video on here)

Spoiler

Massive childhood favourite of mine. I never really see it get spoken of anywhere, and after recently replaying it, I can sort of see why. The controls are... well, just really fucking hard to get used to. But I still really enjoyed it, though more out of nostalgia than anything else, I guess.

H.E.D.Z. (PC)

Now talk about obscure. I haven't seen anyone ever speak about this except for a GOG thread that has under 100 votes, or so. This was another one I played a lot as a kid, and I had a lot of fun with it. Really cool concept as well, being some kind of alien gladiatorial combat that takes place with the alien using heads taken from humans, which grants them powers of what that human used to be in life (an alien wearing the head of a medic would have healing abilities while an alien wearing the head of an old gangster would use a tommy gun, and one with the head of an old grandmother would drive around in some disabled vehicle thing while yelling "coochie-coo"). Yeah, really fucking wacky game. Unfortunately, I lost my copy of it ages ago, and it's too damn expensive to get it on eBay these days. I'd like to play it again, though I doubt it has held up well.

Spoiler

 

[lord canti]

There's a couple I rarely hear people talk about. The first one is a game called Tonic Trouble for the N64, a platformer in the same vein as rayman 2. The other one is A game called Second Sight for the ps2, sadly it got over shadowed by psi ops.

 

[StoleitfromKilgore]

@Tuesday Night Fever:

"Submarine Titans": I always liked the underwater-setting. I played the demo years and years ago and recently reinstalled it, but have yet to try it. I don't think, that "Conquest: Frontier Wars" is quite as unknown, but check it out anyway. Especially if you are looking for a somewhat more "normal" Space-RTS.

http://www.gog.com/game/conquest_frontier_wars

Also "Leviathan - The Tone Rebellion". A rather weird strategy-game. The races are weird, the environments are weird and the control scheme is weird. If you want to try something unique than that's certainly a good possibility. It is kind of a "side-scroller" and the workers can only be controlled indirectly. I don't know with what to compare it. The gameplay is probably the most normal thing about it. Just ressource gathering and military expansion with some storytelling and some slight RPG-elements (leveling etc.) thrown in.

A basic tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l93eXHMyXhI

I think both "The Cat Lady" (side-scroller adventure on depression) and "Knock-Knock" (creepy side-scroller on similar topics) have been mentioned here, but I still wanted to use the possibility to convert some additional people ;-)

 

[Fursnake]

Breakdown, a hybrid of fps and fighting game for the original Xbox system. I rather enjoyed it and I thought it was an interesting mix of gameplay types.