/vr/ - Retro Games

I owned one of the least popular Commodores. I'm trying to remember. Zodiac was pretty weird. I'm probably the only person on this board that played it. Apart from Mastertronic (game publisher) they weren't fun games for some reason, they were really deep and meaningful, uncompromising. Bleak.

>>7799519
Wasn't there a weird commodore game called soft and cuddly or something

Where did you learn to fry?

OP’s Adventures In The Land Of Reddit

>>7800018
Maybe. The C+4 came with a set of Commodore branded games on cassette, but that wasn't one of them.

Obsidian

>>7800157
Pic related is a nice movie, sadly that gif removed the moon scene before the eye being cut. It changes the scene to a cloud crossing the moon, as if they didn't want to show the eye being cut, but the scene changes back to the eye being cut. Pretty cool.

>>7800160
I remember the ads.

>>7799342
Clan Lord
http://www.deltatao.com/clanlord/index.html
A graphical MUD that was 5 years behind the times when they released it in 1998.
Not a very good or impressive game. You bump into object to attack/interact them with. Ranged combat is virtually non-existent and the 3 classes are Fighter, Healer and "Mystic".
Mystic does not throw fire balls but instead solves puzzles or "dispels" illusions.

NPCs understand less of what you type than in a full fledged MMO like Ultima Online and the game feels like it runs at 20 FPS.

It started off as Mac Only for a while until they ported the client to Java.

It has a fairly small community these days. I think it peaked around 300 players online at the same time.

>>7800212
is it any fun?

>>7799342
>where did YOU learn to fly?????

>>7802727
Flight school

Xenimus was a small MMORPG with pvp and a bunch of secrets. It was pretty fun back in the day, looks like the original guy still runs it. It was pretty grindy but I remember having a lot of fun with it when I was a kid.

>>7799342
TONE
PC, RTS

>>7799342
Perihelion: The Prophecy
Amiga

Paintball 3 Extreme. Online top-down paintball shooter from maybe 2001-2002. Have never met anyone else who played it.

>>7803180
Do people still play it

>>7803198
People barely played it then so I really doubt it.

WW2: Normandy by a studio named, I shit you not, “Valu-Soft.”
Was an Odd Lots exclusive game in the States. So many good memories of losing my shit at the pisspoor AI of the German soldiers

>>7800018
that one was on the ZX Spectrum

>>7804958
>WW2: Normandy by a studio named, I shit you not, “Valu-Soft.”
>talking shit about Valuesoft, the god-tier publisher willing to support gems like Nina and the Quake3 killer LASER ARENA

>>7804972
aaaah you're right, thank you

>>7799342
Not sure how obscure but I've never talked to anyone who knew of it.

Not one obscure game in this thread.

>>7805807
Lana Del Rey is considered cult.

Balance of Power. It was more like a dissertation than a game.

>>7805807
How is Eastern Mind well known???

>>7805929
It's well known as "that one weird game".

>>7799342

>>7805929
It literally has a Wikipedia article describing it as "a cult classic."

>>7805929
And according to that same Wikipedia article, has been praised by Complex, Wired, Rolling Stone, the fucking Wall Street Journal, and a bunch of other mainstream rags.

Drowned God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowned_God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiwFvZ4j4-I

People talk about weird obscure games all the time like Garage, but this one I can't remember ever being mentioned anywhere. It doesn't seem like it was obscure for its time, but has been forgotten about.

>>7806089
if you can find it being praised by magazines I would genuinely pay you

I've never seen Dracula 2 on sale ever. Until I own a copy in my hands I dispute its existence.

>>7806441
What about dracula 1

>>7807583
We don't talk about Dracula 1.

I've had this game for over 10 years and never played it once.

Never see people talk about it and have no idea if I even want to get it out of the closet and play it.

>>7799342
/r/ing an edit with Il Duce edited in his place

>>7807621
it's interesting but sadly not very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRY3Ze7xv6A

>>7806110
>Around the time of the game's release, Horse stated that its story was incomplete, and that the rest of the story would be revealed in a sequel called CULT,[3] planned to center around Area 51.[12] However, he killed himself, as well as his wife and pets, a decade after the game's release,[17] and no sequel was ever completed.
what the fuck

Got re-released on Steam recently, and I only found out about it through a friend. I don't see anyone talking about it and I think that's a damn shame.

Simutrans

There was this one called Save the Gweeks, which I can't even find a screenshot for so I made an MS paint with some of the things from my memory.
The game had these green guys on the ground of different landscapes who would walk around being attacked by aliens/UFOs (I think) and you were this silver ball that went around saving them / shooting the aliens. IIRC you controlled a bit like a lander and followed the mouse and shot in the direction of the mouse cursor.

Kohni Shogun, it's a game released for the PS1 that's a fusion of a Dating Sim and a Sound Novel, The game starts off like the typical dating sim fare, but around a certain point you get sent back to to the warring states period and the game becomes a sound novel.

>>7808508

>>7808548
>sound novel
you mean an audio book?

>>7799342

Top Banana often shows up in these threads and for good reason, but it's so often that the game has lost some of its obscurity.

So here's a game by the same makers, Big Bang.

>>7809210
I remember having the demo disk of that. It genuinely felt really creepy, running around with that clown dude who did that horrifying scream when you died.
Everything was psychedelic but I just remember the rave like intro, running really fast like Sonic and the boing noise on top of what I mentioned earlier.
Was the red clown the bad guy who chased the yellow clown?

Anyone ever play this one? Was is an Elite knock off?

>>7799342
>not posting the sequel to this game which was far more obscure
shiggy diggy

Based game

>>7806441
>wanadoo
>canal + multimedia

I had no idea they even did video games and wanadoo was my ISP back then. Holy shit.

>>7809210
>>7809368
The way the character keeps staring at the player with that constant smile is a bit discomforting.

>>7809175
I don't want to render my organs

>>7805795
I read about that game a while ago while binge-playing old point-and-click adventure games. Never actually played it though, how is it?

I liked Obsidian, pic related.

>>7809210
What about bottom banana?

>>7809368
I've never been able to play it, but it sounds like you can pick between two characters that are enemies, and you're supposed to either collect certain things or make it to a finish line (I forget which) while avoiding your nemesis chasing you.

Spud! is one of the worst DOS points and click I ever played.
The humor doesn't have any punch line.
The game tries to appeal to adults but the edgy elements are cringe.
If you left consumable in earlier levels you cant solve some puzzle.

are there any screenshots of the STG (save the gweeks) game that aren't magazine scans?

Ythin


https://gamejolt.com/games/ythin/1098?feed_last_id=1258437600

i have not heard a single soul mention popol maya.

>>7811208
Yeah but there's a hot reindeer

>>7812692
>Yeah but there's a hot reindeer
furries, I'm not into it

>>7812325
what's it about

>>7807732
Illumate got to him.

>>7809124
What is this game? I've been looking for an old Mac shmup game that has wacky sound effects, looks like it's little better than moon patrol, and is kinda hard. I had it when I was a kid.

Sega's answer to Blackthorne/Blackhawk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-1GAEX8qPM

Primitive 3D fighter monster tower climber with extremely aesthetic stair climbing.

>>7813227
>Asmik
>PSX game
JFC I thought by then they turned in to b-tier movie distributor/producer?

>>7809508
Sus

>>7813236
They still had a few years left

Fishin’ Frenzy is an Atari arcade game that never made it past the prototype phase. It plays pretty similarly to the fishing mini game in the Game Boy Advance port of DKC.

It’s one of those games you find in a big MAME rom set and play out of curiosity. It’s actually kind of fun. The sheer fear in the goofy Jamaican narrator’s voice when the sea monster is about to show up makes me laugh every time. But I can’t imagine it attracting too much attention in a crowded arcade, they probably just hoped to use up a bunch of rotting Jaguar hardware.

Maid Marion Moonbase

>>7809513
What game is this?

>>7813753
A based one

>>7813256
Is this game so bad it's good thus worth playing or just actual irredeemable shit?

>>7813258
>It’s one of those games you find in a big MAME rom set and play out of curiosity.
one of my favorite genres of retro game experiences

>>7814090
No it's genuinely one of the most boring things I've ever had the idspleasure of seeing

>>7807621
also the origin of the OOF sound

>>7812325
I see titties

>>7802727
*whiny cuck voice* Where did YOU learn to be an ASSHOLE?!

>>7799342
>most obscure
KZ Manager for C64 and Amiga. Apparently popular in Europe but now no one admits playing it.

Produce for the PC-88 was a trip. Never met anyone who's heard of it

>>7817032
what is it about

shitty 2.5D

>>7812182
This looks neat, but is there anything to do after the bit where you're in the ruined city and pans up to the Asteroids section from the beginning? I get an error message after that and it doesn't seem like it progresses from there.

>>7818876
Resource management game. Pissed people off because you're managing a Nazi Concentration Camp.

>>7814090
the opening cutscene is so bad its good kino. the game itself is shit

>>7799342
is this obscure?

>>7820653
this game is a crime against humanity.
A good aesthetic trapped on a management game.

>>7820653
Yeah

>>7819183
I need to pick up a copy of that game. It has a great cover, and I do love spiders.

>>7809210
Any video of it?

Old macintosh computers at elementary school which had something called ‘Bug Hunt’. You played as some guy called Commander Armadillo and walked around corridors in some spaceship and got ambushed by creepy bug aliens. No real animations iirc but the alien suddenly appearing scared the crap out of me as a kid.

>>7799342
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJjiVqeHeYA

>>7821695
Bizarre.

>>7821084
Yep.
https://youtu.be/RzFdXklTgww

>>7799342

Here's a few that stand out in my head.

Pencil Whipped. A one-man FPS project with graphics made entirely with pencil drawings.
https://youtu.be/ozcOeyUmrmE

Oshioki Kirai! 2 (Hate Punishment! 2). Odd PC-98 game where a little man runs away from the attacks of giant digitized sprites of the creators.
https://youtu.be/ajdWtJ1-BsM

Paparazzi. Slightly more obscure first person "shooter" from the creator of Exploding Lips (a more well-known weird game that served as the basis for a Doom WAD). Get chased around town by a pack of ravenous paparazzi.
https://youtu.be/6NWhA3GbtFU

Dragon Tycoon Edge. 3DO dungeon crawler-ish RPG where you play a shape-shifting alien.
https://youtu.be/uCs0_fK6F_M

>>7807697
>Occult/religious feel to ads and promo art
>Actually a sci-fi game with robots and mutants
Talk about false advertising.

>>7821081
i thought it was meh mostly because the controls are a derp-fest

>>7807621
I still have the demo disk.

>>7812325
Papilloma?

>>7803180
I remember getting Paintball Xtreme 1 on a shareware disc my parents found. The game as presented didn't work at all. Was the game at least fun?

>>7809513
Pekka Kana 2 was fun, too bad suomipelit is dead now...

>>7824094
What about Pekka Kana 1

>>7826138
We don't talk about Pekka Kana 1.

this game called "super mario bros" for the nintendo power base, it's a lost gem of a retro scotformer

>>7799342
>most obscure games you know
know is a funny word
i remember seeing some game, i dont even know where, and i have zero idea what system it was for
if i had to guess, the colors and overall look suggested it was a sega master system game, and judging by the subject matter id assume if it was an old 8-bit sega game, it was most likely for the mark III only (JPs SMS)

the style of the game was weird as hell
i guess you could call it a platformer version of space harrier
ie your character (some samurai lookin dude) was running into the screen on these platforms and making jumps at platforms that were further in the distance

the idea of the game was to simply move forward, platforming until you got to the end of the stage easier said than done due to how weird the perspective on the fake-3D was
the "twist" was if you fell off the side, or missed a jump, youd fall into the underworld. the underworld was pitch black, except for the platforms, and loaded with demons
if you fell off the platforms down there, you wouldnt die, but would instead take constant damage (while still getting fucked by all the demons)
the stage was still possible to complete once in the underworld, but it was much MUCH harder

does anyone have any fucking clue what im talking about?

anyways, weird faux-pas-3d japformer idk the name of aside...

one game i see never get brought up, thats actually really fucking good is magical pop'n for super famicom
easily the best 16-bit action platformer voiced by an ex japanese pornstar that ive ever played
bar none

anyone ever played this one?

>>7826382
that sounds super familiar and i don't know why. kinda like 3d world runner but. not.

>>7826424
Yeah, it's pretty good, i wouldn't consider it too obscure, similar to Do Re Mi Fantasy

>>7827351
>kinda like 3d world runner but. not.
exactly
the 3d effect was very crude, not nearly as smooth as 3d world runner (which is what makes me think its an 8-bit game)
considering how few 8-bit games had a 3rd person 3d perspective like that, youd think it would be obvious
but i only vaguely remember seeing the game once, and idk where

the theme of falling off into the underworld reminds me of that one PCE game that arino played on GCCX in like season 7 or 8 its the nip version of samurai ghost. idk the nip name but it had a separate top down level not in the TGFX-16 where if you fucked up youd fall into the underworld
i KNOW its not that game, but for some reason the sprites and colors in that game remind me of this one, in addition to the underworld theme

>>7827375
yea i guess its not that obscure
more people should play it though
its a tight little game
its kind of a long game for the fact it doesnt have any save/password function, but its still beatable in under 2 hrs

another not-so-obscure one, that isnt posted ITT yet, that more people should play is front mission: gun hazard
its a nip only sidescrolling ARPG (i guess) made by prime-era squaresoft. the first front mission is pretty cool too, but its just a mech based fire emblem rip-off

the second one is far more unique, and i cant really think of another game thats even similar
the fan translation ive been playing is really well done, and due to its much more action-oriented playstyle, its basically a 90s square JRPG for people that hate 90s square JRPGs
you can customize your mech in between battles, and after the intro, you become a merc and can challenge many different stages in whatever order youd like
just a really cool game
now i happen to enjoy the mid-90s JRPGs in general, but i wish this game was more of a hit so that wed have seen more other games try to rip it off. its certainly not just another DQ rip-off

Did this ever get a proper translation?

>>7799519
i played Zodiac in a German department store in the 80's; it was a Shamus clone, and the 12 star signs of the Zodiac were pickups; key items. When your little not-Shamus dude got vaporized his hat dropped to the floor like a leaf in autumn.

it looked like a C64 game though, i didn't think the Plus4 supported multicolor sprites.

>>7807697
i enjoyed it; stealth puzzle game that revolves around a body-hopping mechanic. Cool world and character designs.

>>7828142
Kind of? All the text is translated but the UI and items are not, you need to look up the translations in a separate file. Playable but janky.

>>7800128
?

>>7828142
Yes but no one cares because it turns out the game is trash

>>7807732
Britain's Sunday Times newspaper has revealed a cover-up in the death of writer Harry Horse and his wife, Mandy, which was initially passed off as a suicide pact in a cottage at Papil, 25 minutes from Lerwick, on the Scottish island of Burra.

When the bodies were found in January last year, published reports suggested they had died in each other's arms after taking painkillers, and they were buried together.

But the two New Zealanders, whose names were not published by the Sunday Times, said Horse, 47, was roaming the house, proclaiming: "It's a wonderful night for a killing."

His wife was distressed, and did not want the friends to leave, the newspaper reported. At 9.40am the next day, January 10, the friends returned to retrieve an item of clothing, but on opening the front door they found the two bodies on Mandy's bed, with blood on the floor, windows and walls.

Horse had stabbed her 30 times with such ferocity the blade broke from the handle of the knife inside her body and he collected a second knife to continue the attack. Her arms were covered in defensive injuries sustained as she tried to fight him off.

Leaving her to bleed to death, Horse then killed their dog, a chihuahua Mandy liked to cuddle, and their cat before turning the knife on himself, slashing his arms and mutilating his genitals, as he stabbed himself 47 times.

>>7813006
Are you thinking of Sky Shadow?
http://macintoshgarden.org/games/sky-shadow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEeR4_QbnaQ

I've played a lot of obscure freeware/shareware games in the late DOS and win 95/98 era, a lot of them finnish.

Some absolute "gems" like Muta-Antit

>>7831280
I always think about Sky Shadow

>>7821887
I've only heard of Pencil Whipped many years ago. The other ones were new to me. I think I'll try to find that Oshioki Kirai!2 game -maybe it will be a difficult finding?

>>7807621
It was marketed a lot, not really obscure imo