Forgotten games

[Anonymous No.3093975]

Discuss games that are so poorly documented that they might as well not exist. Bonus points if you've actually played them.

[Anonymous No.3093983]

There was a PC myst-style first person puzller that was based on the Charlie Sheen movie "The Arrival". You played as Charlie Sheen and have to escape from this big spooky space station. I owned it around 1996. It came in a double cd jewel case with 3 or 4 discs. I have only been able to track down one picture of the box art. I don't think that there are even any images of gameplay anywhere. I would love to play it again, or just see some screenshots,

[Anonymous No.3093994]

>>3093983
Amazon's got some copies for a good price.

[Anonymous No.3094118]

>>3093983
Since i watched the movie i was looking for that game the other day and there's literally nothing.
It was actually good?

[Anonymous No.3094130]

>>3093983
https://firedrop.com/3122a51ee38e957b

[Anonymous No.3094158]

>>3093975
Pixy Garden. There's practically nothing about it and only one playthrough on Nico.

[Anonymous No.3094161]

Well this reminds me of a game I forgot about. The game is a trxt adventure, the story involves a college student going to his school computer lab. While there he stays incredibly late to work on a paper until he is alone, it also so happens that a snow storm occurrs. Due to the storm he is locked alone in the computer lab, while there he hears noises coming from the basement and eventually decides to investigate. I remember the game was quite lovecraftian. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[Anonymous No.3094197]

Did anyone here have the Galaxy of Games Gold Edition disc from Egames? It had a shitload of obscure game demos on it. Here's a list of some I remember.

Booym (breakout type game with a kickass soundtrack)
Crazy Drake (Earthworm Jim clone)
Demonstar (space shooter)
Ludo Safari (Board Game)
Miniverse (mini golf)
Moon Buggy (Moon Patrol clone)
Oxide (space shooter)
Puzzle Master (jigsaw puzzles)
Speedy Eggbert (platformer)
Tile Blazer (very unique multiplayer game)

I still have the disc if anyone's interested.

[Anonymous No.3094301]

>>3094130
>https://firedrop.com/3122a51ee38e957b
Outstanding. How/WHY do have this??

[Anonymous No.3094373]

>>3094197
>Earthworm Jim clone
Oh my fuck, I have to look this up right now.

[Anonymous No.3094674]

>>3094301

;^)

[Anonymous No.3095121]

>>3093975
Does toypop count? If not then sky skipper and space firebird both by nintendo are my picks.

[Anonymous No.3095268]

>>3094197
i think i still have mine do you want me to rip the disc

[Anonymous No.3095270]

>>3095268
dur im a retard who cant read sorry

[Anonymous No.3095279]

i have a shitload of these

[Anonymous No.3095280]

[Anonymous No.3095282]

impossible to find a copy of this, despite being worked on by osamu sato of lsd fame

[Anonymous No.3095286]

capcom point and click

[Anonymous No.3095289]

funky ass game made by some japanese musician

[Anonymous No.3095295]

[Anonymous No.3095302]

amusingly this guy ended up receiving royalties for the game like 15 years after the fact because it got fairly popular on japanese psn, until then it hadn't broken even.

[Anonymous No.3096048]

>>3095279
>>3095280
>>3095295
I'm into nip Ps1 games, tell us something about these.

[Anonymous No.3096162]

>>3096048
don't know much about the first, second and third are on there way to me right now.

[Anonymous No.3096178]

>>3095268
Please rip the disc, I'll be your best friend

[Anonymous No.3096204]

>>3095302
Hmm what is this one, I'm interested.

[Anonymous No.3096236]

Realms of the haunting? Haven't played it but it's on my list

[Anonymous No.3096238]

>>3096048
But I'm a simple, profound, full games for light users.
Although not as flashy, get-length play instead.
Competition is hot doctor! Can be played simultaneously from one up to four people!
Mission mode, which is described with easy-to-understand system of egg, the fun!

[Anonymous No.3096361]

[Anonymous No.3096491]

A metroidvania by Konami yet there is almost no information about it on the English internet.

[Anonymous No.3096521]

This shit came with a bootleg GameShark I got as a kid

[Anonymous No.3096523]

>>3093975
Beeralaga. Not the ROM hack, the 90s freeware PC game (which was probably the inspiration for the ROM hack).

As far as I can tell there are literally 0 mentions of this game on the entire internet.

It's probably lost forever, which sucks because it was an awesome game.

[Anonymous No.3096589]

>>3094197
I'd like a rip. I'm not sure which edition I had, but Speedy Eggbert and 3D Maze Man were my shits

[Anonymous No.3096676]

>>3094301
If this doesn't eat your computer, post screenshots

[Anonymous No.3096779]

>>3096236
I played it. I think it was considered rather innovative in spookiness for its time.

[Anonymous No.3096792]

Since we're talking about old games, anyone remember that shareware disk that had a sabertooh on it? The other disk in that series had a tiger.

They had a lot of interesting games from One Must Fall 2097, to a shitty port of Street Fighter, Desert Strike, Hocus Pocus, man I could go on. There was also a game where you were a monkey and had to escape from your cage.

[Anonymous No.3096798]

Pretty much anything that ran on the RM Nimbus that is not Granny's Garden.

It's hard to even find lists of these games *names*. Screenshots and video is rarer still, and actual roms, well... good fucking luck.

[Anonymous No.3096813]

>>3096521

I vaguely remember renting this.

I don't recall it being very good.

[Anonymous No.3098164]

Glucoboy on gba. I never got to play this, nor have I ever seen one, but I just found out about it recently. I'm a type 1 diabetic and from the little information I found about it, it is an rpg with a blood sugar meter built into the cartrage. You basicly get to progress through the game if you keep your blood sugars in control. Since I am diabetic, I thought it would be cool to find one today, but there is barely any information about it anywhere.

[Anonymous No.3098226]

>>3098164
Holy shit that's hilarious, but how are they allowed to market that to kids? Don't you have to prick your finger to measure bloodsugar, and wouldn't a whole lot of administrations have some grievances to air about it?

[Anonymous No.3098246]

The Battle Gear series as a whole is fairly elusive (with the only known NTSC rip of the second game having a dead link) but the first game, released in 1999, is one of those games I'm confident I'll never play. I've never seen any moving footage of it: just some stills and cabinet pictures. It was only released in Japan as far as I know and it runs on the Taito Type Zero, which has yet to be emulated.

Also, the non-/vr/ second game had a pretty rad intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwk6oWLHl6M

[Anonymous No.3098253]

There was a 2D Zelda-like South Park game on download.com back in the late 90s/2000 I've never been able to find again, it was fun

[Anonymous No.3098261]

>>3098246
The Side by Side series works in mame, which was made by Taito before battle gear. There's also a PSX port of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGBqkPg2R0g

[Anonymous No.3098264]

>>3098261
I've played the entire Side By Side series, as well as Battle Gear 2 and 3, but I'm a completionist and the fact that I'll never play BG1 (or 4 until I get the Type X loader working) will bother me forever.

[Anonymous No.3098315]

>>3098253
I'm probably way off, but is it Legend of the Lampshade?

[Anonymous No.3098318]

>>3098315
Never mind, I read that at "South Park-like Zelda game"

[Anonymous No.3098339]

>>3093983
>Anon cant find obscure adventure game
>Anon claims to have searched the entire internet
>check adventure legends
>it's there
How many times must we do this dance?

legendsworld.net/adventure/game/2631

[Anonymous No.3098346]

>>3096236
It's on fucking Steam. And gog.

[Anonymous No.3098354]

If there's a single person in this board who has ever played this game, then I may die at peace.

[Anonymous No.3098360]

>>3098164
similar but tenori-on for wonderswan. predates the physical object of the tenori-on.

[Anonymous No.3098371]

Silver Island. Originally found on download.com, it took me a very long time to find a download for it. I'm pretty sure it was a mega upload from someone on here. Maybe there's documentation on it on some website somewhere, but good luck googling it.

[Anonymous No.3098383]

>>3095268
Please don't, you'll only lower the resale value for collectors who own the physical disc.

[Anonymous No.3098389]

>>3098383

[Anonymous No.3098391]

>>3098354
Looks like Choro Q at first but with rally icons

[Anonymous No.3098402]

>>3098354
Oh my fucking god, close but not quite. I got the sequel for christmas back in '97 or '98 or whenever. The game is so cheaply made they didn't change the music, it's still got ooga booga jungle drums and a black announcer voiceover.

[Anonymous No.3098459]

>>3093975
Long ago, I had my first internet access through an Amiga BBS running some version of Citadel.
Anyways, it had a door game that I'd really like to set up and play again.

It was one of those RPGs in the style of Legend of the Red Dragon or Usurper, but it had a lot of extra stuff. You could buy a ship and go fishing, sometimes you'd catch a leviathan and have to fight it like you would another ship (with cannons).

I wish I could remember its name, I don't think I have the fortitude to set up every fantasy rpg door game from 1994 that runs under Citadel on an Amiga.

Do any Amiga folks have any recollections?

[Anonymous No.3098559]

surprisingly forgotten for a big Maxis game

[Anonymous No.3098682]

>>3098559
a shitload of people played that anon

[Anonymous No.3098687]

>>3098346
over 30% of games on Steam never get played. Just because it is there doesn't mean it can't be obscure and semi-forgotten

[Anonymous No.3099184]

Probably not a "forgotten game", but it's game I forgot the name of:
>90s MsDOS dungeon crawler/first person rpg
>kinda like Eye of the Beholder and Ultima Underworld, but "easier" or at least not as serious
>main character is sucked from our world to a fantasy world
>you play as one dude who can transform into different creatures depending what the situation asks for (turn into lava monster in lava level, turn into flying monster, etc.)

[Anonymous No.3099237]

>>3099184
Shadowcaster?

[Anonymous No.3099253]

>>3099237
Yes! That's it. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.3099286]

>>3098682
You can't even find the manual online, good luck figuring it out. And I don't think it ever sold that much.

[Anonymous No.3099304]

A game (I think it might have been a Klik n Play game but something tells me no) called Gold of the Kast, or just Kast, a cartoony point and click adventure that only now I realise must have been some kind of furry game where you play a woman called Lois Brice and speak to all these characters trying to find some secret mask or something. It was actually really good but I've never been able to find any reference to it anywhere on the internet apart from one guy mentioning it in a forum post years and years ago.

[Anonymous No.3099372]

Magic and Mayhem.

It's one where you're a wizard, and you have a bunch of reagents, and between levels you can slip a reagent into either 'defensive', 'offensive', or 'utility'. In these three slots they do different things- from spells to minions to buffs.

So you're trying to put yourself or your minions on these 'places of power' to regenerate mana, and you're spending mana to summon minions or cast spells, and fighting other wizards.

[Anonymous No.3099374]

Dataware's games. I played the trial versions all the time as a kid, though admittedly their games aren't really that good. Still, it wasn't every day that PCs got Dragon Quest and Famicom Wars clones. http://www.datawaregames.com/html/games.htm

They're not that obscure, but good luck finding any info on a retro game when it's called "Modern Warfare".

[Anonymous No.3099375]

It's a shit game anyways do it don't matter.

[Anonymous No.3099390]

>>3099374
Winged Warrior was the shit, I played the shareware versions all the time as a kid. Warrior Dragon was another decent DQ clone.

[Anonymous No.3100548]

>>3096676
Link-giver here. Haven't set it up yet, my virtual machine is giving me grief, but I got it installed, it just hangs on startup right now.

Will post pics later, OK?

[Anonymous No.3101337]

Does anyone remember the name of the post-apocalyptic Fantasoft RPG? It was basically a reskin of Realmz, all green and radioactive and shit, looked cool but I never bought it (was happy with my shareware Realmz), and Archive.org says their website uses robots.txt, so I can't find anything about it anymore.

[Anonymous No.3101343]

>>3096491
Holy shit there actually was an HxH game for the the GBC?
well shit, i'mma find this and play the shit outta it.

[Anonymous No.3101723]

>>3094161
The lurking horror

[Anonymous No.3101821]

Not a game, but a game website. I used to download demos from a site called Kickass Games in the 90s but I can't find any evidence of it existing. I've tried the wayback machine but couldn't find it there either. Anyone else remember this?

[Anonymous No.3101860]

Sound Novel Tsukuru for Super Famicom. I came across it on some German website while looking up information about RPG Maker 2 for SFC. I found a ROM and downloaded it, however I can't speak Japanese so I am not entirely sure what it does. It appears to be a graphic novel maker, much like the RPG Maker games.

[Anonymous No.3101880]

>>3098383
Do it, if only to piss off this guy

[Anonymous No.3101905]

>>3096521
All those A1 published games were packaged weird with those symbols.
I have one of them whci is a Ps1 port of an awesome arcade game where the goal is to not lose all your time called Starfighter Sanvein.
Fucking great ost too.

[Anonymous No.3102138]

>>3101343
There is even a second GBC game and a lot of HxH games in general. I've heard many fans glamoring over the idea of a Greed Island RPG and they actually already exist. One for the PSX and one for the WonderSwan Color.

But oh well, I don't think you can play any of these without the knowledge of Japanese. Tell me if you manage to get any deeper into Kindan no Hihoue.

[Anonymous No.3104868]

bump

[Anonymous No.3104874]

hopefully in the process of being remembered because there was a script translation just recently, but mizzurna falls is incredible. it's like twin peaks themed proto-shenmue.

[Anonymous No.3104876]

also a big fan of yuuyami doori tankentai although only easternmind has really covered it in my experience.

[Anonymous No.3104894]

>>3098402
Looks like they stole the logo from Sega Rally

[Anonymous No.3104959]

>>3096491
Hey. I have that one, I got it randomly while I was in Japan.

It's so-so game, could be better could be worse. The buttons are reversed from your usual ~vania, so it's a bit confusing.
I suck so I'm stuck at the first boss, for now heh.

There's a game for GBA as well, that's RPG like. I forget the name now.

[Anonymous No.3105002]

Gearheads. It took me years to find a full PC version of this game.

[Anonymous No.3105583]

Thousand Arms~

Stumbling across it in a random Funcoland back when, then giving it a chance on a whim, only to have my first real exposure to light dating sim/jrpgs with relationship mechanics.

Never saw anyone with or met anyone who owned it ever besides myself.

[Anonymous No.3105645]

Bonk's Adventure arcade. I've never been able to find a picture of an actual cabinet.

[Anonymous No.3105648]

>>3095286
what does the kanji after fushigi deka say?

[Anonymous No.3105660]

>>3096523
it's funny, when you google beeralaga you get a /vr/ thread from last July with a guy on there saying he played the crap out of it as a kid

[Anonymous No.3105710]

http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=49884843793496760886

gladius, ms-dos rpg.

[Anonymous No.3105717]

>>3105710
game is pretty hard. the more you savescum, the less loot you get from chests. gotta manage resources really well, and pick your fights. not quite sure it's even possible to get anywhere as a caster, as you don't regenerate hp or mana by resting.

[Anonymous No.3105846]

>>3105648
刑事 (detective)

[Anonymous No.3105892]

>>3105645
http://aucview.aucfan.com/yahoo/f120144512/
picture of the board at least

[Anonymous No.3105907]

>>3101337
New Centurions

[Anonymous No.3105920]

>>3105645
looking into it further the guy mentions puzzle bobble/rainbow island arcade cabinets as being compatible, i believe.
http://planetharriers.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html
probably would look something like this.

[Anonymous No.3105924]

>>3098253
I think i played that, if it was one where you play as kenny, then it was shit.

I also had this game where it was a sidescroller with cartman, you are weight gain 4000 and eat cheesy puffs.

[Anonymous No.3105943]

>>3105920
and here's an incredibly shit marquee shot

[Anonymous No.3105956]

All of those early Wildtangent games. I want to play Blackhawk Striker again so bad. Also there was some old top down Men in Black game that I can't remember the name of.

[Anonymous No.3106107]

>>3105956
>Also there was some old top down Men in Black game that I can't remember the name of.
that was super fun, no lie

I actually enjoyed Wildtangent's little games that came installed on my Compaq. Most people consider that bloatware.

[Anonymous No.3106293]

>>3104874
More like a proto-Deadly Premonition, i'm pretty sure Swery plagied this game.
I hope we have a translation soon.

[Joan Johnston No.3106520]

>>3101860
that's cool, here I just expected a precursor to that audio novel on the Saturn.

[Alexandra Holden No.3106524]

>>3095280
>>3095279
>>3095282
>>3095286
>>3095289
>>3095302
>>3096361

Are these really hard to find, or just obscure nowadays? Some of them look cool but I won't get my hopes up now if they're just gonna disappoint.

[Wallace Joyce No.3106776]

My go-to on this topic is DragonMaze because the game's most powerful weapon doesn't even show up in Google if you search for the name of it, and there's half a dozen other games named "Dragon Maze" or "Dragon's Maze" that pop up if you search for it.

Searching it does bring up this unadulterated cancer, though.

[Clifford Zuniga No.3107810]

>>3106776
What a cunt.

[Everett Campbell No.3108274]

>>3105645
I actually remember seeing one of these at an arcade as a kid, actually a rollerblading rink
Tennessee

[Anonymous No.3111835]

>>3106776
Holy fuck, I haven't been this infuriated at another person in months, thanks for posting.

[Anonymous No.3111842]

>>3093975
what about Angst: Rahz's Revenge?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inzeVWdQfn8
it's not that obscure but there isn't much documentation about it either.

[Anonymous No.3111952]

>>3093975
That one game we discussed some time ago in another thread. Forgot the exact name already, but played is back then too.
Rocky Rock? Or something like that, with a jetpack and gory shooting, of where only the shareware version floats around but the full seems to be lost even by the developer.
Was a fun game but really sad that the full might be lost forever :(

[Anonymous No.3111970]

There was a text and still picture adventure type game on Amiga I remember that seemed kinda cool, you could only go a few steps until you encountered these goblins and had to give them a line from a book that came with the game. My copy was a rip son I never got past the damn goblins kek.
I don't remember the name if the game anymore, it seemed like it would have been a cool game.

[Anonymous No.3111987]

Every might and magic game

[Anonymous No.3112005]

An old DOS text mode shooting game. It might have even been an IBM demo/freebie with PC-DOS or something.

You controlled a gun at the bottom of the screen that could move left and right. At each position you could fire once, straight up.

Below you was a row of bullets (represented by that ASCII char that looks like a house), allowing you to keep track of where you'd fired and where you hadn't.

The enemies were like these flying caterpillar things, represented alternately by a row of *s and then +s. They varied in length and simple shuffled across the screen at various altitudes.

[Anonymous No.3112058]

>>3099375
fucking hell i played the demo of this thing years ago, but i never remembered it's name

[Anonymous No.3112294]

[Anonymous No.3112446]

>>3111952
OK it was Rodge Rock btw.

[Anonymous No.3113525]

>>3106776
I re-installed it just to spite that guy

First game I started, I spawned under a pile of high level goblins and died instantly

I guess that's roguelikes for you.

[Anonymous No.3113748]

>>3093983
Half Life? :^)

[Anonymous No.3113767]

>>3096521
>bootleg GameShark
Aren't all GameSharks bootleg?

[Anonymous No.3114086]

>>3113525
Can you upload it? Would like to play.

[Anonymous No.3114127]

The italian job pc

[Anonymous No.3114189]

"Your Interactive Pet Dinosaur" from Viacom New Media, 1996.

I still have this disc, it's one of the first computer games I ever played. Nearly impossible to find any information about it.
I uploaded the iso to warez-bb back when that was a thing.

http://www.virtualpet.com/vp/farm/dino/dino.htm

>>3098339
Whoa first time I've seen this site. Cheers

[Anonymous No.3114206]

>>3094373
Holy shit, it's a bigger Earthworm Jim ripoff than I imagined.
https://youtu.be/9HG5EN7FnOQ

[Anonymous No.3114237]

>>3093975
what about this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iis05qYrWqc

[Anonymous No.3114241]

As Silly as this sounds, i rank the Gameboy color's library as a goldmine of forgotten games there's a lot of games that are amazing and even the shovelware released for it was kind of enjoyable (any game with music like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnzHTkRLcE4 deserves more). I am sure that you can find a lot of games on the GBC that aren't well documented, specially JP-only games (see >>3096491)

[Anonymous No.3114276]

Anyone ever heard of this?

"Tlon: A Misty Story"

I've literally never seen one person mention it on 4chan or other forums that I've browsed. The only mention I find of it is if I specifically search for it.

[Anonymous No.3114294]

>>3114276

HOLY SHIT YES
I lost my copy years ago. I remember it being hard as fuck.

[Anonymous No.3114296]

>>3114241
haha man, you have no idea. the wonderswan is basically entirely forgotten except for the square ports. even hanjuku hero draws blank stares.

[Anonymous No.3114298]

>>3114294
You can still download it online. I found some link of it the other day - I wanted to do a review of it for Youtube (along with some other older, obscure games), but I couldn't get the recording software to work for it properly. Surprisingly the .exe runs perfectly fine even on Windows7 64 bit. The start menu is a bit buggy, but the game itself runs pretty much perfectly.

[Anonymous No.3114303]

>>3095289
That guy looks so like Snoopy

[Anonymous No.3114307]

I've only played the original Tempo on the 32X and when i completed it, i kinda wanted to see more. There was a sequel but only released in Japan. Incredibly underrated series

[Anonymous No.3114514]

>>3114086
http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=15117
Hope you have a Basilisk or Sheepshaver setup, seems to.be Mac OS 7/8 only

[Anonymous No.3114537]

>>3114307
There's also a game gear spinoff.

[Anonymous No.3115563]

Foodman

A danish educational DOS game about eating healthy. You're in a supermarket, and you're supposed to progress through the different floors. There is a lot of different food to eat, some of which is rotten. The exit for each floor opens when you gather enough points from answering nutrition questions. You can die from being too fat, starvation, drinking etc.

The enemies consist of unhealthy foods chasing you around. There are obstacles like slippery tiles that sends you flying in one direction, and hallways that are too narrow to get through if you are fat.

I managed to find a working download link along with a video earlier this year, but still there are very few traces of it.

Danes might also remember Olga's Arbejdsmiljo, which is just fucking impossible to find even a screenshot of.

>tfw modern games don't have toilet bowls with turds in them on screen at all times

[Anonymous No.3115568]

>>3115563
here's the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgE_cbzjG1k

[Anonymous No.3115575]

>>3114514
It's a shame SheepShaver and Basilisk are such garbage emulators. It's hard to emulate anything that doesn't work in mini vMac. I'm still hoping we get Mac Plus hardware clones from BMOW someday.

[Anonymous No.3115593]

>>3114206
Lol basically just a pallette change

[Anonymous No.3115698]

Bier: The Last Eichhoff is a german/swiss shmup that seems to be pretty much unknown in most other countries.
It was released as Freeware for DOS in 1993 and I remember getting the copy from my brother and playing the shit ouf ot it when I was a wee little boy.
It's actually one of the best shmups I've ever played and pretty innovative imo; you upgrade your "beer ship" with different kinds of beer bottles and cases that all fire in a different way with the points that you've earned in the previous level. Funny sound-FX and cool graphics. Kind of a shame that it didn't get a lot of recognition, but that's probably to be expected.

[Anonymous No.3115712]

>>3115698
You can actually play it here, which is great:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_beer11_shareware

[Anonymous No.3115713]

Blobbo, a Sokoban type game for the Mac. It's easily on par with Chip's Challenge, despite the simple graphics.

[Anonymous No.3115724]

I have no idea if this is /vr/, but Space Trader was an Elite clone for Palm OS. You could trade and travel between hundreds of planets, chase down pirates, become a pirate, smuggle illegal goods, upgrade your ship and do the occasional sidequest. The actual flying through space part is a lot simpler, though.

It's not completely forgotten. There's a shit Android port under the name Dark Nova, and a Windows port: https://sourceforge.net/projects/spacetraderwin/

Can Palm OS be /vr/?

[Anonymous No.3115848]

Guru Logic Champ, a really cute (and taxing) puzzle game by Compile for the GBA. Rotate the stage and place crates to fill in all the gaps, kind of like picross with gravity or something.

[Anonymous No.3115918]

I remember going to some museum on a field trip as a kid, and they had some educational Mega Man clone that you could play. I'm pretty sure that it was teeth based, and you played as a toothbrush or something, and you fought candy? Either that or it was health food based. There's no way I'll ever find out what it was, but I remember it being pretty fucking brutal. We took turns, and I don't think any of us could beat the first level.

[Anonymous No.3116013]

I remember this game that played kind of like Out of this World / Another World. It was on PC and pretty fucking dark, it scared the shit out of me as a kid. Have never been able to recall the name.

[Anonymous No.3116142]

>>3115848
Not retro.

[Anonymous No.3116182]

>>3116013
Heart of Darkness?
Well known game I think. Made by the same guy.

[Anonymous No.3116292]

[Anonymous No.3116332]

>>3105956
>tfw no Wildtangent Dark Orbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_5j5D8rEs

Go ahead a look up Dark Orbit on google or any other search site. All you'll find is that garbage MMO with the same fucking name. Meanwhile, I played the shit out of the demo for this game and I can't find any fucking thing about it. It's like it disappeared off the face of the earth and everyone forgot about its existence.

[Anonymous No.3116346]

[Anonymous No.3116434]

>>3105002
Hey, my friend has a copy of that CIB

[Anonymous No.3116446]

>>3114206
Christ, even the music is similar.

[Anonymous No.3116447]

>>3115724
>Can Palm OS be /vr/?

It was released in 96, so yeah, it's in.

[Anonymous No.3116546]

>>3106776

My dad bought me a freeware disc at Kmart or some shit when I was a kid and this was one of the few games on it that was worth playing. Glad to be reminded of it after all of these years, thank you. Mac had some really strange top down rpgs.

[Anonymous No.3116556]

Every time I think I have a rare game that people don't know, /vr/ reminds me how casual I am.

Pic related.

[Anonymous No.3116558]

>>3114206
i hate this. the duck should use his curly dick as a whip ffs

[Filename thead No.3116561]

>>3095279
>Egg is an strategy puzzle game in which the player has to maneuver an egg through mazes and obstacles with the end game being full development from embryonic type of lifeform to offspring.

>The gameplay is about throwing the egg in different directions to create new parts of your town, and evolve it through more throwings.

[Anonymous No.3116563]

>>3106524
little bit of both

>>3116561
i've only seen one copy of it on ebay, i wanna get it at some point.

[Filename thead No.3116565]

>>3095280
>TIZ Tokyo Insect Zoo is an interactive animation game based on the Japanese anime. The game plays like a first person perspective movie with key points that you have to choose a path or perform an action.

>In the game the player takes the role of Ryo that is the main character of the game and is a 11 years elementary school student. In the summer, Ryo met a strange white girl, that asked him if he wants to save her world since the Tokyo Insect Zoo is soon to be demolished, and when that happened most of the insect species die. Sometimes during the game the player will travel to the insect world.

>The game uses a curious interactive talking system that depending of the button pressed the conversations will go in a way or another. The other part of the game uses a 3d engine and the player can move the character using a first person perspective.

[Filename thead No.3116569]

>>3095282
>Tokyo Wakusei Planetokio is an surreal action adventure game that takes place on floating cities hefted by anti-gravity in which Osamu Sato provides the computer generated characters and scenery.

>The game takes place in a near future in the city of Tokyo when the city is attacked by alien invaders that got a personal shield that allow them to receive no harm.

>The story begins when Iken (a meal delivery boy that works in a ramen restaurant) is talking to Dr. Hokin in his basement laboratory (that can be accessed using the refrigerator that is in the restaurant). The Dr show him his new invention a gun that fire energy balls. Soon his boss tell him to deliver a meal, and as soon as he arrives at the deliver point a man collide with him and stole the delivery. The game begins them.

>The gameplay is about going around the town talking to the characters and getting new items to advance to other parts of the game. In some places there are some TVs that explain the invasion that is happening during the adventure. There are places in the game when the character have to avoid being catched by robots, and the battle parts are turn based RPG since the player can choose between his items to use which one wants to use in each turn to attack the opponent.

[Filename thead No.3116573]

>>3095286
>Fushigi Deka is a weird and funny cartoon adventure game in which the player is a police detective that have to investigate a murder and try to catch the murderer. To do that you have to examine all the locations in that fantasy island and objects, talk to the different characters that are around the town and use different kind of objects to advance in the adventure and catch the murderer.

>About the gameplay the game is played from a first person view and the player have to examine careful each location to locate the item that allow him to go to new places in town, sometimes only using that item with a specific character will allow the player to advance in the adventure.

[Filename thead No.3116576]

>>3095289
>DOB is a Japanese Future Project combines many different Music Styles ranging from Ambient, Indie, Pop to Drum'n'Bass (sometimes in one song). Their album 'La Lu La Roo' (1996) comes as a CD-Enhanced (CD-Audio and CD-Rom). Recently they invented their own game for the Sony Playstation called 'Planet Dob'.

>An alien flying above Earth gets knocked unconscious after his ship crashes while avoiding a giant net. Scientists strap his passed out frame on a table and send a very unwilling subject (his glasses are shaped in the letters Y-O-U) into his mind to see what makes him tick.

>The absolutely whacked-out result is Planet Dob, one of the strangest and coolest games on any console. Part adventure, part puzzle, part music, and completely inspired musically. The visuals mix pre-rendered backgrounds, 3D elements, and CG characters, and are full of vibrant colors that pop, swirl and spin.

>The "plot" spells itself out as you play in loads of Japanese text, but there are so many visual cues and English signage that it's not too difficult to play. The "Super Lounging Music" is almost too relaxing;"Oh yes, It's like no gravity, dippily, Super relaxing and Lounging kind of sound", according to one of the two fold out manuals included. But the frantic, hysterical urgency of some of the mini-games and the "Mixing Hour" stages (where you play around with music from the game) will keep you glued to your tee vee for days.

[Filename thead No.3116579]

>>3095295
>In ToPoLo the player is given a virtual set building blocks to build a character and them fight against already made characters in virtual fighting arenas.

>Different kind of themes and a lot of different possibilities, is up for the player to build his own character.

[Filename thead No.3116582]

>>3095302
>The purpose of Panekit is to complete every single mini-game using vehicles build from your own imagination. The player basically drive around In his own custom made vehicle in colorful landscape, playing the mini-games and then unlocking more terrains and mini-games to play and travel to.

>In the beginning, the game gives three vehicles in the player's inventory to choose from. So basically, the player drive around looking for parts and other equipment scattered around the terrain. Most of those parts are located in hard-to-reach places like on top of trees, on the summit of a high cliff, on an island right in the middle of the ocean, or even on top of a suspension bridge. Those parts the player collect are then added to the inventory so they can be used to build new self-designed vehicles.

[Anonymous No.3116592]

>>3096361
>In Colorful Logic features more than 250 picross puzzles and a story mode in which the player will follow the girl story (that starts in a jungle with a treasure map) solving the picross puzzles. The game also features a complete tutorial in japanese and a free mode in which the player can choose the difficulty level (from beginner to master) and the size of the puzzle.

>Nonograms or Paint by Numbers are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid have to be colored or left blank according to numbers given at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. In this puzzle type, the numbers measure how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column. For example, a clue of "4 8 3" would mean there are sets of four, eight, and three filled squares, in that order, with at least one blank square between successive groups.

>These puzzles are often black and white but can also have some colors. If they are colored, the number clues will also be colored in order to indicate the color of the squares. Two differently colored numbers may or may not have a space in between them. For example, a black four followed by a red two could mean four black spaces, some empty spaces, and two red spaces, or it could simply mean four black spaces followed immediately by two red ones.

>There are no theoretical limits on the size of a nonogram, and they are also not restricted to square layouts.

[Anonymous No.3116619]

>>3114537
I know that, Kid Tempo or how it's called. It's not as good as the Genesis version, but it's worth a honorable mention.

[Anonymous No.3116691]

Castle of the Winds. It took me years to figure out what it was based on childhood memories of my mother playing it.

[Anonymous No.3116734]

>>3112005
C'mon guise. I know you can doo iit. Oldfags will tell me the answer....

[Anonymous No.3116802]

>>3104876
Holy shit this is my dreamgame, why didn't I hear about it before ?

I'm currently in Japan, do I have any chance at getting a copy of this ? Do jap PS1 games work on a yuro PS1 ?

Sorry if I sound a bit crazy but urban exploration and creepy supernatural legends are my absolute favorite things

[Anonymous No.3116814]

>>3116802
>I'm currently in Japan, do I have any chance at getting a copy of this ?

It's one of the most expensive Japanese PS1 games, so even if you manage to find one of the rare few copies that are still sold in stores, it will probably cost you 20000Y at best.

>Do jap PS1 games work on a yuro PS1 ?
Nope. Not unless you have a PAL -> NTSC converter, and a modchip or some other way to play region-locked games on your system.

[Anonymous No.3116815]

>>3116802
nope on the working on a yuro ps1, and it's unfortunately a fairly expensive game in the 200+ range complete with the map. you can likely run it with a ps-x-change or some other bootdisc though, or on a chipped ps2 if you have one of those. at that point though you may be better off burning a copy.

[Anonymous No.3116820]

>>3116814
what this guy said, it's common on ebay if you're willing to pay more. way to go is probably either a burned copy or playing it on a psp or something.

[Anonymous No.3116834]

>>3116815
>>3116820
Ok that's a bit too expensive for me, I've looked and found some copies for 170$

I see what PAL -> NTSC is, but what exactly is a modchip? Sorry I'm completely new to modding consoles.
My console is a fat PS1 (or the boxy one, I don't know how english people call it) from Europe. Tbh it's not the first nip game that triggers my interest and I'm considering tweaking my PS1 a bit if it means being able to play those games.

[Anonymous No.3116841]

>>3116834
as for the modchip you can either buy one and solder it in or hunt someone down to do it for you.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MM3-Multimode-3-IC-PSX-PS1-PSOne-New-Prewired-/181984684080?hash=item2a5f21e830:g:w0IAAOSwu4BV7bDJ
here's an example one. shouldn't be too painful to install if you have any soldering experience.

otherwise you can get a disc like a ps-x-change or something that'll let you play games from outside of your region, although you'll have to swap it out every time.

[Anonymous No.3116856]

>>3116841
Unfortunately I have no experience in soldering and retro gaming isn't that big in my country, on the other hand the PS-X-Change disc looks pretty easy to use I'll give it a try

Very informativve, thanks

[Anonymous No.3116858]

Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle (Numbskull Emptybrook moves to the countryside) is still relatively well known by older Finns, but beyond that, I'm pretty sure it's obscure as fuck. It's based on a Finnish comedy movie of the same name and is pretty damn hard too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3d7XK-a3MU

[Anonymous No.3117787]

>>3116858
uli uli uli

[Anonymous No.3117813]

>>3116691

I recall seeing a box for this game stashed away in a messy back corner of some Baltimore mall general store. I was floored when I saw it, but didn't have enough money at the time to ever get it because lel broke teenager.

Granted that this was about eight years ago, but still. Pretty amazing what you come across in some unassuming shop.

[Anonymous No.3117954]

All kinds of old Commodore games. Legacy of the Ancients and Legend of Blacksilver were pretty good.

[Anonymous No.3117996]

Legend of the Ancient Dragon was a Korean RPG with a story that was pretty much stolen from Record of Lodoss War. I found it in a bargain bin when I was 10 or so and I'm certain that to this day I'm one of maybe 20 people to have ever played it.

The English version that I had was lacking music, and in some cases wasn't even translated. I still have the CD but I think it's scratched. I've ben posting it in Games only you played threads with a $100 reward for literally years now and not a single person has gotten it.

It's odd how such a small fan project found its way over here.

[Anonymous No.3118242]

Most horrifying 3d models I've ever seen. Yaku Yuujou Dangi (although pic related is the sequel)

[Anonymous No.3118249]

>>3118242
Trust & Betrayal: The Legacy of Siboot

[Anonymous No.3118251]

>>3118249
Incarnatia, a Salvador Dali Myst-like

[Anonymous No.3118362]

Mission in McDonald land, a game that came in Australian happy meals during 1999.

[Anonymous No.3119372]

>>3116556
>see sprites from this game in an old Newgrounds sprite movie in the early 2000's
>remember it years later, find the game and try it out
>it's shit
I'm not sure what I expected

[Anonymous No.3119616]

Operation Carnage

[Anonymous No.3119620]

4th Generation

Prob one of the better shmup games for Dos. Insane amount of customization

[Anonymous No.3122873]

Okay so this game intro really creeped me out, haven't been able to find the game anywhere though. Here's what I remember:

>ps1
>third person, but really zoomed out.
>horror/sci-fi/action
>in the intro a fat man is watching a tv and a red-blob like thing sneaks up and eats him
>the game world is set in some sort of city with overpasses and cars but everything's covered in that red goo.
>run around shooting monsters

Not silent hill or resident evil. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

[Anonymous No.3122893]

>>3093975
Always wanted to play this game just for the premise alone.

>In the future, a series of nuclear disasters have devastated the Earth and forced it into an orbit nearer the Sun. The increased temperatures have formed vast deserts and transmogrified the planet into a barren wasteland. All hope seems lost for humanity until the discovery of a metal ore that seems to protect against the Sun's heat and radiation. Only one problem. The only place where the ore can be tested in time to save them is within the Sun itself.


http://www.old-games.com/download/1586/sign-of-the-sun

[Anonymous No.3122905]

>>3118362
oh shit, reminds me of this

[Anonymous No.3122908]

dragon axe warrior for sega master system

Nobody knew of it, but its a better zelda 1

[Anonymous No.3123046]

Old point and click adventure game with dinosaurs. Intro had some volcano erupting and some kids trying to escape on a row boat from the island. Cutscenes looked like some 90's cartoon. Alas not even /vr/ has been able to help me though.

[Anonymous No.3123220]

>>3115918
Captain Novolin?

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/captainnovolin/captainnovolin.htm

[Anonymous No.3123495]

>>3096236
>Realms of the haunting
>>3112294
>Chex Quest
>>3122908
>dragon axe warrior
>>3123220
>Captain Novolin
>unknown

At least >>3116556 knows where he stands.

[Anonymous No.3124976]

>>3106776
Ah shit

Some mathematician help me out here

[Anonymous No.3124979]

>>3123495
the thread title is forgotten games, not unknown games, choke on those cheetos

[Anonymous No.3125000]

>>3123495
Whoa, we got ourselves a legit hardcore video game connoisseur, please do hang around this board, we need your experience and irreplaceable knowledge to improve the quality of the average post concerning retro video games.

[Anonymous No.3125338]

My go-to on this topic is Rick Ribbit's Math'n'More. Maybe it had different titles, or even multiple games in a series. You can find a few obscure tidbits about "Rick Ribbit in Arknoodle's Math Challenge", which might be the same game, but nothing about "Math n' More"

It's an educational platformer where you play as a frog, throw marbles at enemies and solve simple math problems by hitting blocks. Pretty much the only information available on the internet is my past /vr/ posts, and, inexplicably, the game's full soundtrack on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acdOrXjVFsk (a bit repetative but pretty bangin' for an edutainment game)

>>3099372
I've played the sequel, it was pretty good I think

[Anonymous No.3125364]

I don't know if this is the right thread for this, but I'll ask anyways.

Does anyone know the name of a game for SNES (and possibly Genesis) about a beat-em-up similar to Battletoads, but where you played as a cute witch, and she wore different outfits in each level?

It had really good and stylized graphics, and the main character had that typical 90's anime face.
I think that the game only released in Japan.

[Anonymous No.3125381]

>>3123495

[Anonymous No.3125429]

>>3125364

Not really the right thread, but whatever. Is it Ghost Sweeper Mikami?

[Anonymous No.3125464]

>>3125429
Damn, yes, that's the game.

Thanks, anon, you made my day.

[Anonymous No.3125474]

>>3125464

Glad I could help.

[Anonymous No.3127526]

>>3100548
>will post pics later
>never returns
inb4 download is a botnet

[Anonymous No.3127528]

>>3127526
OH SHIT, sorry

Hang on

Forgot all about this

[Anonymous No.3127535]

>>3127528
Title screen

[Anonymous No.3127539]

>>3127535
The dude in the opposite cell from you

[Anonymous No.3127542]

>>3127539
And then he lurches towards you in that unique "budget 1996 PC title" kind of way that you really have to see to really understand how laughably dated it is, but lovably laughable.

He keeps mentioning someone named Jenkins too. You can find out more from a datapad in your cell that goes on FOREVER.

[Anonymous No.3127547]

>>3127528
Anon actually delivered. +1

[Anonymous No.3127573]

>>3127547
Apologies for lateness again. I guess I didn't add this thread to the watcher.

[Anonymous No.3127579]

>>3124976
First one. AVG damage is 5.2, second is 4.9.

[Anonymous No.3127616]

>>3093975
Back in 1996 on AOL there was a really shitty flash game in the AOLGAMES tab that was basically the scene from Jumanji with the monkeys in the kitchen. I think you played as the boy character and had to jump around and avoid food and shit getting thrown at you.

Ive never seen it since, and nobody knows what I'm talking about

[Anonymous No.3127617]

There's this game Called Slithereens, an interesting mix between Pac-Man and Snake.

It's actually pretty fun and FULL of sexual innuendos I didn't get as a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FH-YN_QqCY

[Anonymous No.3127724]

>>3123220
Oh shit, that's it. I've heard of this game before, but never connected the dots. I remember that creepy black doctor like it was yesterday though. My memories were pretty off otherwise. Thank you so much anon, you've narrowed down my nagging memories by one.

It was the McKinley museum by the way. I'm surprised that an actual government facility bought into the whole shitty edutainment bullshit.

[Anonymous No.3127762]

>>3095279
Funny, you made me remind of another EGG game. No relations btw, of course. Is this rare? I've never seen anyone talking about it here and is obscure even by dreamcast standards.

I've never actually played it btw, the only reason I found out about this game is because I'm almost sure the artwork for the cover is made by Tsutomu Nihei, the same guy who did Blame! and Sydonia. It seems interesting.

>>3116346
Hell yes I played this with my brother A LOT. The demo at least, we never actually had the full game and would play the same 3 or 4 stages over and over again. I thought about playing it again but I'm afraid the game is not very good and it will ruin my childhood experience of it.

[Anonymous No.3129659]

Gungage is a cool shooter by Konami.

[Anonymous No.3129737]

>>3114206
>Crazy Drake
It looks so fucking boring.

[Anonymous No.3129742]

>>3094197
>Tile Blazer
Is there a gameplay video?

[Anonymous No.3129754]

>>3116569
>in which Osamu Sato provides the computer generated characters and scenery.
Is this line about literal game or it's a part of in-game story?

[Anonymous No.3129765]

>>3095302
I'm non native English speaker, can someone translate the post to me? I can't understand shit.

[Anonymous No.3129904]

>>3116292
It often appears in creepy threads.

[Anonymous No.3129905]

>>3129765
That game's creator gets a portion of the profits. The game did not make any profits until 15 years later, and only because the digital version was suddenly popular in Japan.

[Anonymous No.3129910]

>>3116556
>Stepbrother tells me that there's a game where you can fart and pick nose and kill enemies with it
>I call it bullshit
>Later discover it's truth
>>3119372
But it's pretty good. Or is it an intended pun?

[Anonymous No.3131809]

>>3127762
>because I'm almost sure the artwork for the cover is made by Tsutomu Nihei
It reminds me a bit of the mech. design in Dragon's Heaven.

[Anonymous No.3133386]

>>3129754
The game itself. Apparently it's even rarer than Chu-Teng.

[Anonymous No.3136620]

>>3094197
>>3095268
Could one of you guys please rip it? Those games sound really interesting, and such disc never appeared here.