/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.4386647]

What's the most obscure retro title (if even just to the West) you've played?

[Anonymous No.4386652]

>>4386647
Metal Max isn't that obscure, right?

[Anonymous No.4386654]

>>4386647
Pixygarden, it's basically an aquarium-sim style game for the PSX. Has nice art and cute sprites. Not much to say about it. It's comfy.

[Anonymous No.4386656]

>>4386652
It's really obscure my dude.

Anyhow I'm not sure what the most obscure retro game I've played is. Captain Tomaday maybe? Or some Neo Geo puzzle game I guess. *Shrugs*

[Anonymous No.4386657]

>>4386652
It's one of those things where the name is known but nobody actually knows what it is

[Anonymous No.4386658]

>>4386656
But we had threads about Metal Max here.

[Anonymous No.4386663]

>>4386658
Sure >>/vr/?task=search2&ghost=yes&search_text=&search_subject=Metal+Max&search_username=&search_tripcode=&search_email=&search_filename=&search_datefrom=&search_dateto=&search_op=op&search_del=dontcare&search_int=dontcare&search_ord=new&search_capcode=all&search_res=op

[Anonymous No.4386664]

>>4386656
Actually fuck that, I'd say a Japan-exclusive PS1 game I played like Aquanauts Holiday is probably unknown to everybody else here.

>>4386658
vr also complained when Clock Tower wasn't on the SNES Mini. Clock Tower.

[Anonymous No.4386667]

>>4386663
I'm pretty sure we had better ones.

>>4386664
Aquanauts Holiday appears in lots of exclusive japanese games lists, there has to be something darker.

[Anonymous No.4386668]

>>4386663
You are a faggot and a pedophile. In an attempt to prove that you were right, you deliberately picked the most obtuse field for your search that nobody uses after searching the text field according to the search logs

>>/vr/?task=search2&ghost=yes&search_text=metal+max&search_op=op

[Anonymous No.4386684]

>>4386647
Metal Max isn't obscure, and Returns is one of the most well known games in the series.

[Anonymous No.4386701]

>>4386647
>(if even just to the West)
Misc 90s eroge I guess

[Anonymous No.4386703]

>>4386668
/v/ is that way

>>4386667
Does it? Huh. What about Acid? Rakugaki Showtime? Yaku Yuujou Dangi? Blue Legend of Water, Manic Game Girl, Yuuyami Doori Tankentai, The Note, Moonlight Syndrome,
Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force, etc?

Also Ganryu, Eight Man, Money Puzzle Exchanger, Ninja Commando,, Ragnagard, Battle Circuit, Armoured Warriors, Red Earth, Bang Bead, Kabuki Klash, and Voltage Fighter Gowcaiser are among the unheard of Neo Geo/arcade games I've played off the top of my head. Could probably think of some NES, SNES, and Genesis games too but I'm not sure if any of them are unplayed here considering everybody and their mother has the full libraries downloaded.

[Anonymous No.4386705]

>>4386684
Am I the only one who feels bizarre going from "every game that isn't CoD/GTA is obscure" with my irl friends to coming on vr and seeing people say Metal Max Returns isn't obscure?

[Anonymous No.4386739]

Doki Doki Card League

[Anonymous No.4386746]

>>4386652
It gets name dropped on video game imageboards quite often.
To the average player in the West it is totally obscure.

[Anonymous No.4386769]

>>4386668
>16 individual mentions, latest being in june
>Most of them are mentioned with other games
You won a kill your armchair now.

[Anonymous No.4386793]

What does vr even consider obscure at this point? Untranslated Japan-only sound novels on the Sharp X68000 that can't be emulated and require an expensive peripheral to play?

[Anonymous No.4387012]

>>4386793
PC88 homebrew games only 10 people ever played

[Anonymous No.4387017]

>>4387012
You can find those on online lists though so I don't see how they're obscure.

[Anonymous No.4387024]

>>4386793
Socks the Cat, Twelve Tales, Bouncer, and Polybius

[Anonymous No.4387027]

>>4386705
/vr/ has had a bad backlash against the "hidden gemmers" and has a dick waving contest every time something similar is brought up. I get it, but metal max isn't a very well known series, but everyone is right saying returns is the most known one. Which is fucking hilarious in a way because saga was localized.

[Anonymous No.4387040]

I play obscure games all the time thanks to emulation. Though not that obscure, I've been playing the arcade version of Tatsujin Oh (Truxton 2) lately, one coin try there each day, as well as some other Toaplan games.

For some reason I don't see that much discussion of these titles, not even in dedicated communities. Oh well, I like their mechanics.

Honestly, I don't see much of a point to this thread since it's hard to exactly quantify how "obscure" a game is or not, it's prone to derailment.

[Anonymous No.4387043]

>>4387024
Ok I agree with the rest but Polybius? Not by internet standards it ain't.

[Anonymous No.4387049]

>>4386647
I started playing Metal Max returns last week after hearing so much about it on /vr/ and on /v/. Seems neat so far, though I haven't played an older JRPG in a while and the gameplay feels a bit dull.

[Anonymous No.4387057]

Enigma for the PSX.

[Anonymous No.4387059]

>lol everybody knows that games
>let's post some more Sonic and Mega Man threads

[Anonymous No.4387071]

>>4387059
I've played Rockboard, Battle & Fighters, Wily Wars, Battle & Chase, Challenger from the Future, Mega Man Soccer, Super Adventure Rockman, Xtreme 1-2, Command Mission, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne, Network Transmission, EXE WS, and even Rock Man Strategy but most people here would just say "they have Mega Man in the name so how are they obscure?"

[Anonymous No.4387079]

>>4387071
I'll give you rockboard, battle & chase, challenger, tron bonne, and exe ws.

[Anonymous No.4387080]

>>4387071
Network Transmission = The Jamminest

[Anonymous No.4387083]

>>4387079
>>4387079

[Anonymous No.4387146]

>>4386654
This looks awesome and I want to play it now.

[Anonymous No.4387150]

>>4387071
>>4387079
How the fuck could anyone think Tron Bonne is obscure?

[Anonymous No.4387151]

>>4387150
My bad then cross it out.

[Anonymous No.4387163]

someone name five CONSOLE (not ps1 since it had thousands of games and no quality control) games that i haven't played. fm towns marty and c64gs aren't consoles, they're pcs without a keyboard

[Anonymous No.4387178]

>>4387163
>I loaded up every game in my goodset to make sure it ran once

[Anonymous No.4387205]

>>4387163
We got a huge Mahjong fan here

[Anonymous No.4387226]

>>4387150
It was rare and went for a lot of money unlike the first two and has only somewhat gone down after the PSN store added it. That said I'd say it's less obscure than Strategy

[Anonymous No.4387238]

>>4387163
Captain Tomaday
Voltage Fighter Gowcaizer
Arabian Fight
Chimera Beast
Chase the Chuck Wagon

[Anonymous No.4387269]

>>4387163
Conveni Wars Barcode Battler Senki: Super Senshi Shutsugeki Seyo!
Pachi-Slot Kanzen Kouryaku: Universal Shindai Nyuuka Volume 1
Pro Mahjong Kiwame II
Jinmu Denshō Yaksa
Fushigi no Yume no Alice
Zipang
Hanataa ka daka!?

[Anonymous No.4387294]

>>4386647

[Anonymous No.4387412]

Love & Destroy for the PSX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db8AeUaOM6w

[Anonymous No.4387497]

>>4387049
To me, it's fun because you can really customize the shit out of your tanks. Especially once you start getting a good cash flow going. Defeating the first boss and getting out of the starting area felt like a huge achievement to me, and the weird world drew me in. I was always excited to see what the next area would be like, what the next bounties were gonna be, donating money to places and bugs to see what would happen, etc. etc. Plus the overworld theme rules when you're riding a tank.

[Anonymous No.4387706]

>>4386739
I dunno much about that card version but I'm planning on getting Doki Doki Pretty League for Playstation

[Anonymous No.4387712]

Hover Racing, wish is a shame. It's damn good.

>>4387024
Vertexer

[Anonymous No.4387836]

>>4386654

REEEEEE
STOP CALLING PSOne PSX ITS SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING

[Anonymous No.4387857]

Comfy 90's edutainment game.
Heard it's rare or something

[Anonymous No.4387898]

>>4386652
It used to be

[Anonymous No.4387957]

>>4387024
Dont forget vertexer

[Anonymous No.4387968]

>>4387412
Those characters look familiar... or are they Masakazu Katsura designs?

[Anonymous No.4388795]

>>4387968
Obviously.
I remember this game being announced in western videogame magazines so I guess it's not that obscure.

[Anonymous No.4388853]

>>4386647
dangerous vaults or vangers

[Anonymous No.4388864]

>>4387706
I honestly can't remember if it was DDPL that made me try out Card League, or Wrestle Angels. They were made by the same company and the card-based system of DDCL is basically the same gameplay as Wrestle Angels.

[Anonymous No.4390142]

>>4387836

[Anonymous No.4390165]

Pretty much anything I played in the early 90s on my Macintosh. The least obscure of them was The Fool's Errand; I made a thread about it once and got 0 replies so I'm guessing even that wasn't as popular as I assumed.

[Anonymous No.4390198]

>>4386647
It depends on in what way you mean "obscure" by. Everything in the age of emulation is easy to play... unless it isn't. Like in the case of Tiger LCD games, which WEREN'T obscure in their time, but ARE obscure now.

Then you have other games that are obscure in the sense of "virtually nobody's heard of them", the most obscure of which would be any of the countless lost PC games and Japanese computer games that might not even exist anymore.

[Anonymous No.4390243]

>>4387836
Shut the hell up,bunghole!

[Anonymous No.4390258]

>>4388864
oh I just got Wrestle Angels for PCE >>4390104
I'll try that first

[Anonymous No.4390530]

Anyone ever play Mouryou Senki Madara?

[Anonymous No.4390539]

>>4390530
What console? The anime is vaguely familiar but I can't recall why

[Anonymous No.4390561]

>>4390530
I picked up the sequel last month
>>/vr/thread/S4299598#p4308638
but the original didn't look quite as appealing, haven't got it, maybe if I like the sequel
VRC6 sound chip is nice tho

[Anonymous No.4390580]

>>4386647
Not that. lol. For me it's an >9000 way tie between games made years before you born that no longer exist in any form outside the vague memory of the handful of people who ever saw them. No game that sold hundreds of thousands of copies is remotely obscure in any way.

[Anonymous No.4390642]

I wrote some games in BASIC on my Atari 800 when I was a kid and no one but my family has played them

[Anonymous No.4390667]

I loved it. The psychedelic atmosphere just get me.

[Anonymous No.4390839]

>>4387146
It's 6/10, 7/10 if you like these kinds of games. Emuparadise has the ISO, it used to be reaaaaally difficult to find even in ISO form. It's entirely in nip but it's simple enough to play.

[Anonymous No.4390892]

>>4390530
yeah, the combat system is tedious and characters lose all their equipment when they die
character AI is also mostly retarded
play radia senki reimeihen or minelvaton saga if you want something similar

[Anonymous No.4390950]

>>4390580
>>4390642
Game don't count if you didn't learn about it from youtube.

[Anonymous No.4390986]

Cosmology of Kyoto. By far the most unsettling game I have ever played. Any unsettling retro games to recommend?

[Anonymous No.4391506]

>>4390198
Individual LCD games could be pretty obscure. They were well known in general, but there were fifty billion different ones and it was common enough to see some one with a game nobody you knew had a clue existed.