ITT: Games only you played

[Anonymous No.10400820]

What are some of your favorite games from the past nobody you know has ever heard of?

[Anonymous No.10400861]

>>10400820
I post gliderman once in a while, nobody ever replys. It's a good game I swear, think win95 platformer on xp. It's got a sequel on 3d that's also nice.

[Anonymous No.10400885]

>>10400820
I played Yahtzees game, don't remember much but it's not retro

[Anonymous No.10400895]

Steel Reign for the PS1. Cool music but pretty difficult in a bullshit way at times. Never seen it referenced anywhere and I've never seen it in person aside from my own copy. Despite being rare it's still pretty cheap to buy.

[Anonymous No.10400916]

>>10400885
>but it's not retro
5 Days came out in 2003
7 Days in 2004
Trilby's notes came out in 2006
and 6 days in 2007

[Anonymous No.10400919]

[Anonymous No.10400934]

>>10400820
Love this game. 2nd was great as well, never beat 3rd.

[Anonymous No.10401102]

>>10400916
Not retro.

[Anonymous No.10401421]

>>10400820
XIII. I absolutely loved XIII and I never knew anyone else who had it. Since then I never hear anybody talk about it. It's one of my favorite games ever. If I were to do a top 15 or top 20 of my favourite ever, it'd be 13th.

Call of Duty : Finest Hour. Honestly it's as if this game never existed. I go on yhe Microsoft store or whatever and I can buy 2, 3, 4, and all the rest but the first console COD just seems to have disappeared entirely. I never hear anybody mention it either. Its weird because it was a huge deal at the time. They took half of the Medal of Honor Frontline staff, got in decent voice actors and musicians, and made campaigns as Brits and as Russians. It was hype, and now its as if it never even happened.

[Anonymous No.10401670]

Probably doesn’t fit here (2006)

[Anonymous No.10403435]

>>10400919
I always thought that game was really hard until I figured out you're supposed to have some characters doing chaos non-stop to get funds. Then it was just hard.

[Anonymous No.10403467]

I absolutely loved this game back in the day (Though I had the DOS version), shame that point-and-clicks don't have much replay value once you know everything to do. It's been a few decades though, I should play it again. Likely have forgotten most of it by now.

[Anonymous No.10403483]

>>10403467
>Psygnosis
ohh yeah, it's got that real raunchy aesthetic.

[Anonymous No.10403538]

>>10400820
I played this too anon, that makes you WRONG

[Anonymous No.10403626]

>>10400820
Me and my dad played it and neither of us has ever met someone outside the family that played Wing Nuts on PC.

[Anonymous No.10404047]

>>10400820
Dark castle on og mac

[Anonymous No.10404069]

To this day nobody in my family knows where the cartridge came from. My dad didn't buy it, I didn't borrow it from a friend, we never rented it... It just appeared in my library one day and I played the shit out of it even though I never heard of it before

[Anonymous No.10404087]

I played Project Altered Beast on the PS2 religiously. I only know one other dude who has played it and he heard of it through me lol.

[Anonymous No.10404234]

Sylvan Tale for Game Gear. I never see it get brought up anywhere, even in the rare occasions there's an actual discussion on Game Gear or a list of hidden gems for the system. I myself even owned a Game Gear as a kid but never heard of this game until way later in the emulation days and I played it all the way through and loved it. Fun little action RPG.

[Anonymous No.10404403]

>>10404069
I owned this but I don't even remember what it was. Was it pinball?

[Anonymous No.10405883]

>>10400895
Getting a Battletanx vibe from the aesthetics

[Anonymous No.10405895]

>>10400861
This reminds me of one of those games that come with those CDs stacked with shareware/freeware. There were a ton of games I discovered in those CDs that I have fond memories of. Some ran comically bad on a windows 98/XP machine due to compatibility issues.

[Anonymous No.10405914]

>>10400919
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIHv6meICYg

Nice, it''s like if Shadowrun was a strategy sim instead of a cyberpunk dungeon crawler. Looks like there's a learning curve to visually figure out what's going on though

[Anonymous No.10405927]

>>10401421
This XIII?

Cel shaded always looks so cool, I'm surprised this one flew under the radar.

[Anonymous No.10405935]

>>10403626
I love when they put effort into the character selection screens.

[Anonymous No.10405943]

>>10404047

Medieval-themed fantasy computer games will always have a special place in my heart.

>tfw Quest for Glory never got an official Mac port

[Anonymous No.10405956]

>>10404069
I've had an experience like that once, this showed up in the family game collection one day. I think an extended family member left it here after visiting, but nobody talked about him bringing it or leaving it around. It's weird how this stuff just pops up sometimes

[Anonymous No.10405994]

>>10404069
>Well, let's see what we have here:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mntYpPUKUg
>That title screen
>Oh neat, so this is gonna be some kind of Joe n' Mac like platformer--
>That gameplay
>confused_gentleman.jpg

Is it just me or can you take manual control of the ball and walk around sometimes? This game actually looks really cool, I'm not surprised you dumped a reasonable chunk of time into this

Did anyone play Battletanx? This was the most batshit nuts plot for a game about tanks I'd ever seen at the time.

[Anonymous No.10406013]

>>10400820
I played this. I was big on the AGS scene back then, I always thought they were a cut above most of the stuff made with it. Yahtzee needs to start making narrative games again and not whatever Stardew Valley clone he's working on now.

[Anonymous No.10406049]

>full open world with non-linear quests, all in a genesis cartridge

I only wished the game didn't have the awkward isometric viewpoint.

[Anonymous No.10407240]

>>10403467
Sequel is better.

[Anonymous No.10407312]

>>10406049
Really loved this once I finally took the time to learn how to play it.

[Anonymous No.10408240]

>>10400820
Bug Hunt. An old shareware Mac game based on the movie Alien. Part text adventure, part first person dungeon crawler. I spent the past 30 years or so trying to find it and managed to get it going a couple of days ago. It's fucking horrible from a gameplay perspective, but I'll be damned if I don't still shit myself when the alien kills me, which evidently happens a lot.

[Anonymous No.10408428]

>>10400820
I never really played too many games that were heavily obscure until going into the 2000s once I started experimenting with emulation and coming across cheap used games. Azure Dreams, Evil Zone, and perhaps to add that I got Evolution as one of my games with my Dreamcast for Christmas in '99. I may have played some more obscure DOS games at a friend's house around 94 - 96 but I don't really remember a lot of their titles now.

[Anonymous No.10408430]

>>10400820
Everyone knows about this series, faggot.

[Anonymous No.10408541]

tfw first coom game

[Anonymous No.10408709]

[Anonymous No.10408775]

I played and recorded SoulTrap for some anon who couldn't get it to work, this was about 4-5 years ago and shit was sparse and I don't think PCem or any forks were as popular so I had to fuck around in Vbox and it ended up a bit janky. Should still be up on YT, though I do forget the game name everytime I bring this up. Game felt a bit schizo, but I had fun as the mechanics mostly worked. It is definitely what you'd expect from a '96 PC platformer though.
It kinda got me into playing entirely random things on entirely random systems too, but I already had the tolerance for it.

[Anonymous No.10409303]

Ahriman's Prophecy, a little obscure early RPGmaker creation with neat music and passable everything else. As a kid, I was super invested in the story, which in retrospect was basic af. This series is more known for its sequels, Aveyond 1/2/3/4. Is it worth playing in 2023? If you have spare time and love comfy retro RPGs, then it is! Especially since it's a free download.

[Anonymous No.10409324]

>>10408541
how thr name? I remember playing it a lot as a kid.

[Anonymous No.10409631]

[Anonymous No.10410125]

>>10408709
Kek, this made me remember playing the demo version long time ago. Some stages were challenging.

>>10409303
>Ahriman's Prophecy
>Is it worth playing in 2023?
Nah, it's abysmal combat sucks from beginning with these damn snakes to the last boss, where it's special attack spamfest between two chars standing next to each other.
Main story is a mess, and only sidequest seemed interesting due to worldbuiliding.

[Anonymous No.10410228]

>>10400820
Very fun Gauntlet clone.

[Anonymous No.10410246]

>>10400820
5days was one of the first indies i bought back when you could pay for the deluxe version, Never beat Triliby's Notes cause that dimension hopping was real difficult to navigate

[Anonymous No.10411546]

>>10400820
Played the shit out of the Chzo Mythos before Zero Punctuation was a thing. Better than most horror adventures.

>>10400885
sure fucking is kiddo.

[Anonymous No.10411558]

>>10400861
>>10405895
has a moraffs escapade look to it

[Anonymous No.10411572]

>>10400820
Azrael's Tear,but i dont know anyone who does retro gaming besides one person that occasionally play the first doom.

[Anonymous No.10411582]

[PC speaker noises intensify]

[Anonymous No.10411592]

>>10404069
This happened to me with Conquest of the Crystal Palace on NES.

[Anonymous No.10411606]

Creepers from Psygnosis. I recall it being Lemmings mixed with The Incredible Machine.

[Anonymous No.10411985]

>>10400820
Ah, so you were upset about what happened too, huh?

[Anonymous No.10412005]

>>10411558
Holy shit, there's a blast from the past. This was on one of those "500 free games!" CDs. I spent hours with that thing. Suddenly reminded of Dino Slots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLhMBrtAYIc

>UGH :(
>BUNGA BINGA :)

[Anonymous No.10412206]

>>10411546
>Better than most horror adventures.

Not saying much, since that's already a very small subgenre to begin with.

[Anonymous No.10413042]

>>10412005
I pretty much got all my shareware exposure from Game Empire Vol 2 and Galaxy of Games Vol 3

[Anonymous No.10413314]

This Robin Hood game. Graphics are hideous, even for it's time, but it is the first open ended game I remember playing with multiple choices. You want to save a guy about to be hanged? Get in a strategic location, fire an arrow and run away. Congrats, you just got a new merry man. Want to see him hang? Sure, just wait and see him die. Want to shoot little John in the face? Nothing stops you. You can still finish the game. Hell, you can fuck up king john at any time and hang in his castle.

[Anonymous No.10415037]

Super mario lost in time. Nobody played that.

[Anonymous No.10415068]

it's garbage

[Anonymous No.10416428]

[Anonymous No.10416431]

>>10413314
>"He deered to kill a king's dare!"

[Anonymous No.10416443]

>>10415068
it was hot trash but the music was kinda catchy

[Anonymous No.10416447]

I liked it

[Anonymous No.10418309]

Streakin
Jerkin my shit

[Anonymous No.10419248]

>>10400895
I played that one anon. I used to play with my sister the versus mode.
Great times.