Ultra obscure games that only you know exist

[RanD00M]

Anybody here old enough to remember Lighthouse or Phantasmagoria?

Oh how i hated Lighthouse.The only level i could stand when my mother played that game was the submarine level.Granted i was only 5 years old.

 

[Shadow Daeris]

hmm... not sure if it's very obscure in other places but one game for the ps1 that was very rare and obscure in the uk anyway is "Parasite Eve 2" which i thought was amasin hehe

 

[thewerebuffalo]

Freaky Flyers and Go-Go-Hypergrind

 

[GrinningManiac]

Evil Genius to an extent...but my money is on...

I mean, you play as giant monsters and duke it out in cityscapes! You can use cars as projectiles, and climb buildings and impale each other with antennae and suchlike!

Spoiler: How could you not find THIS awesome in every way?

 

[sid02]

It's well-known enough to have been re-released by SoldOut. So it's pretty well known and pretty damn easy to find.

Call of Cthulhu is an Obscure game, and it's also very good. Scary in some parts, similar to Eternal Darkness.

I love call of cthulhu and im glad that someone brought it up

 

[ParadoxBG]

"Impossible Creatures" on PC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Creatures

An RTS where your army is made of hybrid animals that you can make yourself. You can combine animals together, like a lion and a hunchback whale (among many other walking, flying and swimming animals). You can choose which body part from which animals they get and what abilities they can get from the animals that they're made of.

It's just as awesome as it sounds. I barely even actually played the game though, I mostly just sat there and made a whole buttload of funny looking hybrid creatures.

No lie, less than two weeks ago I went looking for this online but I couldn't find any freeware even though it's been out for nearly ten years, the developers said they weren't going to go anywhere with it, and no one actually plays it anymore. I played the demo with my wee fingers when it first came out, so good memories accompany it. Archerfish-snow owl hybrid, FTW!

 

[matnatz]

"Impossible Creatures" on PC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Creatures

An RTS where your army is made of hybrid animals that you can make yourself. You can combine animals together, like a lion and a hunchback whale (among many other walking, flying and swimming animals). You can choose which body part from which animals they get and what abilities they can get from the animals that they're made of.

It's just as awesome as it sounds. I barely even actually played the game though, I mostly just sat there and made a whole buttload of funny looking hybrid creatures.

No lie, less than two weeks ago I went looking for this online but I couldn't find any freeware even though it's been out for nearly ten years, the developers said they weren't going to go anywhere with it, and no one actually plays it anymore. I played the demo with my wee fingers when it first came out, so good memories accompany it. Archerfish-snow owl hybrid, FTW!

I actually had that game, boxed and everything. A freind of mine gave me it, I hated it. It had good graphics though.

 

[DownOnTheUpside]

Out of my friends.. I'm the only one that knows about this game. And it was badass too. I still play it whenever I hook up my N64.

 

[philzibit]

Bought it because of the wacky cover and stayed because it was a rather good shooter.

 

[Aeryn Seoung]

Magical drop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Drop_%28series%29

Number three was my favourate. It was one of the first games I ever played on the PC.

 

[Asimov]

Pretty much all of my friend's games. He makes his own games, for the enjoyment of him and his friends exclusively. He doesn't publish them, so they are uber-obscure. They're frickin awesome too and can solidly kick the ass of most mainstream titles.

 

[Nemu]

Oddly fun game.
It's a sim where you design the hospital and run it until you reach a certain goal, then level up (and starting from scratch). Each new level earns you new diseases, new specialties and larger hospitals to run.

It's got a very dark sense of humor--if you get the "right" receptionist, she will all but call patients cheap bastards, but in a pleasant way.

It's definitely not a popular game, but despite it's very limited amount of playtime, it still makes me laugh whenever I pop it in.

I'm sure people know about it, but I have yet to hear anybody acknowledge its existence:

This is one of my favorite games for the N64, if not one of my favorite games of all-time. As bugged as it may be, I still love it to death.

I absolutely adore the Harvest Moon series (tho, some of the Playstation titles are terribad). Such a cute, quirky game. x)

 

[cj_iwakura]

soul hackers

this was the jrpg equivilent of sex. it was a mixture of sherlock holmes and the matrix

it was going to come over here but SCEA turned it down

It's being fan translated by the duo who did Innocent Sin.

 

[C117]

The best I have, is Castleween. Not that obscure, but not very well-known.

 

[MetaKnight19]

Maybe you have heard of these, but everyone else I know has never heard of them

Also there is a Monty Python game for the Atari 2600, but I can't find a picture for it anywhere

 

[robinkom]

Death Mask for the Commodore Amiga.

A really obscure FPS I used to have for my Amiga 1000.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAXTThFUfMg

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

Here are my Top 6 Obscure Games;
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If you want to see mine and my friends video game reviews about the games mentioned above then please watch these;

SVGB Pilot featuring Dragon Power and Gun-Ac.

SVGB Episode 3 featuring Flying Warriors.

SVGB Episode 6 featuring Yo Noid!

SVGB Episode 7 featuring DJ Boy.

SVGB Episode 8 featuring Mickey Mouscapade and Kickle Cubicle

 

[Wintermoot]

Postal 2 Share the pain
Insanitorium

 

[Mana Fiend]

Oddly fun game.
It's a sim where you design the hospital and run it until you reach a certain goal, then level up (and starting from scratch). Each new level earns you new diseases, new specialties and larger hospitals to run.

It's got a very dark sense of humor--if you get the "right" receptionist, she will all but call patients cheap bastards, but in a pleasant way.

It's definitely not a popular game, but despite it's very limited amount of playtime, it still makes me laugh whenever I pop it in.

"Patients are asked not to die in the corridor..."

Theme Hospital was, and still is, my favourite SIM game Fantastic game...

Alas, I don't have a little-known game.
Erm...
Halo! Has anyone heard of that series?

 

[Nevyrmoore]

Also there is a Monty Python game for the Atari 2600, but I can't find a picture for it anywhere

If it was also on the Commodore 64, I think Guru Larry covered it in his Retro Corner.