/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9080064
marble madness is not a hidden gem
it was an insanely popular arcade game

>a game by the author of Knack 2
>hidden gem
???

>>9080067
Really? It was pretty unpopular in thearcades I used to live nearby

>>9080064
Hyperbowl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sOXSf5KgEc

>>9080067
Also sold like hot cakes for Atari

Jetstrike for Amiga/CD32. It's one of the few truly unique, one-off games out there. While there are a few games that with similar controls and perspective like Wings of Fury, they all seem like crippled demo versions compared to the full Jetstrike experience. Yet the only people I've met who are even aware the game exists are a handful of bongs, and most of them never seriously got into it because it's really hard.

>>9080064
Somer Assault for PC-Engine is a weird but enjoyable one. Also, Splash Lake for PC-Engine CD which I've never seen anyone discuss but is even more of a hidden gem.

>>9080827
PC Engine and it's derivatives seem to be where the Japs really put their love into. Nintendo, Sega, etc. always seemed to be more of a side hustle.

>>9080536
i played it on nes first
i think its still fun today

>>9080938
pic related

>>9080067
where do you live? it was roughly 3 weeks ago i went to the doctors for marble hand, he just looked puzzled

More of a overlooked gem, n64 exclusive also

Commandos

>>9080942
You know those aren't balls you're shooting your load to, right?

further proof that the snes was basically a neo geo but a quarter of the money.
>Like the arcade game crossed swords but a little bit more fun..

Illusion of Gaia has got fifty of them

>>9080072
What year?
I remember my Dad loved this game, but I didn't start really paying attention to arcades until 1987-1988 at least which would have been several years after it was new. By 1989 it would have been one of the older cabinets collecting dust in the back while everyone else was playing TMNT.

>>9084435
And by gem I mean a somewhat enjoyable curiosity. True gems are too good to stay hidden. That one is a platformer based on a TV mascot for chocolate snacks. Here's another one, a golfing game in the broadest sense but with extra gameplay and scoring mechanics. Also you hit frogs instead of balls.

>>9084453
Also an absurd bomb defusal puzzle game interspersed with equally weird movie chapters.

>>9080064
Some, but I won't be sharing. This kind of thread always have the faggiest OPs of all time - they request 'hidden gems' and let their threads to rot. Then it devolves into botposting with almost no interaction.

>>9084435
>>9084453
>>9084461
Late PS1 games are a genre of their own. Cyborg Kuro-chan over here is a run'n'gun on the easy side, but also has some of the best (sequenced) music in the platform.

>>9084353
unlike the jannies here
i only get off to women
and by women i mean people with vaginas

sadly i have to clarify this in 2022
also those "controllers" arent balls
theyre clicky 4-way uh... lumps

>>9083513
I too enjoyed this game. Nobody really picked up the formula despite it working really well as a casual-friendly action/stealth/puzzle game.

>>9084663
>I wish these threads were good and people would contribute to them
>but I won't do that, on purpose
Retard, bait, or both?

>Popular arcade game
>Kickstarted the career for many who worked on it
>Ported to literally fucking everything for the next decade
>Even found some success in Japan
>Hidden gem

>>9085652
>and by women i mean postop ladyboys
If that's what floats your boat, cool. But maybe you should have clarified more clearly?
>uh... lumps
Everyone I knew called them titsticks. Because they felt like a bag of sand.

>>9086067
Whatever you choose, it matters little to me. If you check the archives, in the past 2 years most of these threads have a list posted by me. I even did care to post webms with some gameplay. And I don't know why I'm explaining myself to a sucker like you. Oh well, fuck this place and this world.

>>9086765
So retard, then. Got it.

>>9080942
>fake trackball

>>9086765
Fuck off you shitter. I'm not even reading your trash.

>>9086765
>listfag
Lists kill threads every time, maybe you’re doing more harm than you realize to your precious hidden gem threads

>>9087339
Good.
>>9087384
While I see your point and agree with it to some extent, these aren't mine threads, as I already have games to revisit that I found by myself.

Am say Marble Madness was a truly gender neutral product so gender and neutral it had you playing as a tranny's lost balls.

>>9083513
I too enjoyed this game
I will never have my own computer for the first time entering college and playing Commandos, Gun Metal, Battle Engine Aquilla, NFSU and Crimsonland alongside any game I wanted off the dorm network.. again

>>9083513
Just bought this in Steam after remembering the demo 20 years ago. So happy

>>9080064
You know this board is irredeemable when retards think that Marble Madness is a hidden gem. JFC

>>9080067
It also had a ton of clones on home computers. It was like a little genre of its own. If you want a hidden gem, try Spindizzy Worlds.