Games only you played....

[Anonymous No.4610661]

>That bitch wharf clerk
>The goddamn White Tower (but easy once you learned the "cheat")
>Patrick Stewart as King Richard

My first "real" game. Still feels great to play, still have the CD I got for Christmas in '94.

What are some games you feel like only you played, /vr/?

[Anonymous No.4610745]

The Nonsense Trilogy.

[Anonymous No.4610827]

>>4610661
Maybe it was just my circle of friends but nobody I know seems to ever talk about megatraveller 2.. I still mess with it off and on to this day.

[Anonymous No.4610869]

[Anonymous No.4610875]

I havent heard anyone mention Starlancer too much or even at all, only Freelancer and Wing Commander.

[Anonymous No.4610932]

>>4610875
ahhh, starlancer, im actually about to get that game, looks fun, tell me about it!

[Anonymous No.4610942]

Liero

Its real time 1v1 worms with grappling hooks. Fucking great game.

[Anonymous No.4610948]

>>4610827
Seems kinda interesting.

You ever pla B.A.T. or day of the viper?

[Anonymous No.4610949]

>>4610869
Fuck man i miss these types of games from 95 to 2003 ish. Where its point and clicky but with these awesome cgi scenes. there were so many wierd quirky games with that feel.

[Anonymous No.4610960]

>>4610869
Is the implication that he's sliding *up* the ziptie? I hope someone was fired for this bullshit.

[Anonymous No.4610962]

Gemtree Games -- looks like the site is down, but they had this educational programming language called Peter and a gallery of sample games for it. Most of them were just bad tech demos or trash, but a few of them were actual gems.

The only one people have played is "desktop destroyer," pictured.

[Anonymous No.4610963]

>>4610962
Here's a "bar tycoon" game. A bit rudimentary but it was pretty fun.

[Anonymous No.4610964]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2z6bjL_yYk

Don't even ask.
And yes, it's a card game featuring Spanish celebrities and politicians.

[Anonymous No.4610965]

>>4610963
And a card game called Ant Wars.

[Anonymous No.4610968]

>>4610661
Apprentice for the Amiga 500. Euro platformer from 1990 with a wonderful ost by Chris Huelsbeck

[Anonymous No.4611081]

Ken's Labyrinth. Everyone was busy playing Wolfenstein3D and Doom until Duke Nukem 3D hit the scene, but Ken's Labyrinth was my shit back then. This game was everything Wolfenstein was and much much more. Live in-game maps on walls, vending machines with items, weapons, and powerups, all kinds of crazy enemies and secrets, and relentless difficulty. I was bored stiff playing Wolfenstein after playing Ken's Labyrinth once, and I never went back. If you like early 3D FPS games, you owe it to yourself to take a stab at this.

[Anonymous No.4611115]

>>4611081
I actually beat that over one very long summer. In the tech department it had some pretty neat things (slot machines, ricochet weapons etc), but stylistically it was a big mess. There would be imposing cyborg enemies, and you'd turn around and see a giant rolling 8-ball. wth
>coding guy in charge of visuals

[Anonymous No.4611125]

>>4610661
I played this last year. It's pretty good, fuck the ghosts and the infinite spawn rooms though.
I also tried to play Eye of the Beholder after, but I think it doesn't have the same automap system, which puts me off.
The first one is the best Lands of Lore game in my opinion.

[Anonymous No.4611150]

>>4611115
>but stylistically it was a big mess. There would be imposing cyborg enemies, and you'd turn around and see a giant rolling 8-ball. wth
That was actually one of my favorite parts of it. It was like being trapped in a nightmare where nothing made sense. The live in-game maps that showed where you were at helped add to the surreal atmosphere, since they made no logical sense at all.
>coding guy in charge of visuals
And sound, and level design, and everything else. A full 1-man team shareware title. And speaking of 1-man team shareware titles:

Army(Campaign), pic related. Originally called Army, but it changed to Campaign at one revision for no apparent reason. A very simple turn based strategy game that used a dice based system for moving and attacking. You start the round by having your 5 dice rolled, then you moved your units across the map using the numbers you got, or attacked if adjacent to an enemy. The foot soldiers were the weakest, and moved 1 space for each number on the die, the calvary was medium power, and moved 2 spaces if I recall correctly, and the cannons were the heavy hitters but moved slow I think. Whoever had forces standing after it was all over won. Very simple game, but it was fun to burn time with now and then. Got it on one of those 100/200 in 1 shareware CD's full of 90-95 era DOS shareware and never have met anyone else who's played it before.

[Anonymous No.4611172]

Kye

Everyone thinks of SkiFree, Chips' Challenge, Jezzball, and the other Microsoft Entertainment Pack titles when they think Win3.1 specific games, but I always go to Kye. This one I heard was pretty big in the UK where it was made, but I never knew anyone here in the US that played it other than me. Solid action-puzzle game that required good reflexes in addition to planning. Had a shitton of levels, and even came with a level editor so you could make your own. One of the best Win3.1 exclusive games, and unique for being a charity shareware title that you could send in your proof of donation to Save The Children and get instructions on how to remove the beg screen, plus additional levels.

[Anonymous No.4611190]

>>4611150
>full 1-man team
Yeah I know. He put his face in the intro, as if there would be any doubt.

[Anonymous No.4611202]

>>4611190
And his first name is part of the title. Can't leave it to chance.

[Anonymous No.4611205]

>>4610960
That's doable if the tie thing has a motor in it. I've seen some things that do that. For example, that's how ski lifts work.

[Anonymous No.4611209]

>>4611150
Would you share your ware? I cannot find it on the abandonware pages.

You are not the only person who played it. I remember also getting it from those weird compilation CDs.

[Anonymous No.4611219]

>>4610965
I played the SHIT out of Ants. It came bundled with a gaming magazine I used to buy.

Apparently there's a flash remake of it on Kongregate.
http://www.kongregate.com/games/m0rkeulv/castlewars

[Anonymous No.4611234]

>>4610942
This is one of those "computer class games" all the kids would play when the teacher left the room, especially in Finland where Liero was developed.

[Anonymous No.4611242]

>>4611209
I'd be more than glad to. Here's a .rar with two revisions of the game I've found, Version 1.2 when it was called Army, and Version 4.1 when it was called Campaign.

https://mega.nz/#!gcEWEKjZ!v42UIb_so8IwLIgnw4Yjr8mtHU7iGdUWGJW3bAeM5gc

[Anonymous No.4611263]

Return to Ringworld. It got me into Larry Niven. It's got some flaws, some more serious than others, but I had fun with the CD-ROM version moreso than most graphical adventure games of the era. Most of the puzzles are straight forward, aside from a few early on that are just bullshit, and the voice acting is decent.

The best part is the computer console available from the start of the game until you reach Ringworld, that contains a game called Outpost Alpha. Pic related. The game is entirely optional, and can be ignored, or played as often as you want. You play against three AI opponents, who ever can build their outpost first wins. You need one of each 8 types of sections, and you need to put down framework before you can put up a section. You can only have one of each type in your outpost. Each turn you play a single build card if you have one, and then you have 8 temporary and 4 long-term effect cards, and meteor/rocket cards, agent/counter-agent cards, and cure cards reflecting the four long-term effect cards. If your opponent doesn't have the corresponding section of their outpost, you can hit them with a temporary effect card, forcing them to skip a turn. You can use the long-term effect cards on anyone, forcing them to cease building until they cure it with the right cure card. You can use the meteor cards to wipe a section of an opponent's outpost, or a rocket card to defend your own from a meteor card. And you can use Agent cards to steal a card from an opponent, or use a Counter-Agent card to steal a card from an opponent who just tried to use an Agent card on you. Games can be over fast, or last for ages, depending on the luck of the draw. I've probably spent more time playing this mini-game than the actual game, even though I beat it.

[Anonymous No.4611264]

>>4610745
found it

[Anonymous No.4611320]

>>4610661
the original Hostile Waters

[Anonymous No.4611323]

>>4611242
Thanks anon, you are a true gentleman and a scholar!

[Anonymous No.4611370]

>>4610661
Soulbringer. I've replayed this game many times but only finished it once. It's incredibly slow and it controls... so... poorly. But something about it keeps pulling me back.

[Anonymous No.4611481]

The Legend of Kyrandia series.

[Anonymous No.4611510]

>>4610661
I was on the mac during the late 90s so this is basically cheating.

Squirt Derby is a weird thing where you bet on races to improve a character you have no control over.

[Anonymous No.4611521]

>>4611234
Im an american, so i never heard of it til i was older.

[Anonymous No.4611523]

>>4611242
Tanks.

[Anonymous No.4611538]

>>4611510
Legendary Lair was a roguelike, I think, probably, I don't know because I played it before getting into this genre or even hearing about it.

[Anonymous No.4611552]

>>4611538
Lost Souls was a strategy game I found on a shareware CD and never got the full version of. It found a really neat niche between pure abstract games like Chess and strategy games that actually have terrain and stuff like Advance Wars.

[Anonymous No.4611596]

>>4611552
Unlike the rest of these, Bumbler Bee-luxe is actually really fucking good. It's an arcade-style game where you're a bee shooting things with stingers that only fire backwards.

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[Anonymous No.4612213]

>>4611481

>Kyrandia
>games only you played

pick one

[Anonymous No.4612428]

>>4611552
https://www.macintoshrepository.org/5471-lost-souls

i wonder if that's the full version

[Anonymous No.4612448]

>>4611081
>yfw you find out Ken wrote the BUILD engine

[Anonymous No.4612453]

Rocket Jockey

Ludicrously fast and unmaneuverable rocket sleds with grappling hooks for tight turns/hooking other competitors' rockets/hooking other jockeys off their rockets and dragging them around to their deaths

Infinitely steep learning curve, but oh man once you master the timing on the grapple guns, it becomes legendary

[Anonymous No.4612454]

I have never heard anyone mention this game or Betrayal at Krondor.

[Anonymous No.4612774]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32mwJV5-7GE
It even takes me a long time to actually find anything with Google. I don't know if the full game actually exists.

[Anonymous No.4612784]

The only strategy I could come up with at that time was to throw in as many soldiers and tanks as I could. I think that's the only working strategy in this game, anyway

[Anonymous No.4612961]

>>4611172
I had a "Christmas For Windows" in the 90s that came with something called Christmas Kye and had no idea it was a MS game until now

[Anonymous No.4613007]

Time for more shareware.

Bolo Ball. It's a turn-based puzzle type game. Pretty basic, you just push one of your balls each turn down the playfield(straight down only, there are no angles), and attempt to land as many of your balls as possible without them going off the bottom of the playfield. The arrow blocks move the balls in that direction, switch directions, and the gray circle things are portals that drop balls out the other side. You can also get points for getting the yellow colored blocks on the playfield. On a long game, all balls still on the field turn into yellow colored blocks, and you get another round and fresh set of balls.

It's nothing amazing, and I'm convinced the CPU cheats, but it can be fun and was a bit more memorable than most of the flood of minor name shareware.

[Anonymous No.4613043]

Games nobody else played?
Heh, easy mode for me.

Arctic Baron, a.k.a. Transarctica. You control a huge train in a post-apocalyptic world which is perpetually in winter. It's a strategy game with real-time combat which, unfortunately is pretty bad due to poor controls. After you fight the Union's trains a couple of times, you then spend most of the game actively trying to avoid doing that.

War, Inc. A sort of mercenasy company sim (though not in the vein of Jagged Alliance). You did research to unlock various vehicles/engines/equipment/weaponry, played on the stock market (could even buy out companies, and that added bonuses to various things) and did missions. The missions were pretty convoluted since you needed to make sure you didn't spend more money than you earned from them. You could (and sometimes needed to) have multiple bases, but the control scheme was cumbersome and the actual combat usually devolved into blobbing more and harder stuff than your enemy.

[Anonymous No.4613059]

>>4611205
>For example, that's how ski lifts work.

No it is not. The cables on ski lifts move, not the chairs. There are huge pulleys at the top and bottom.

[Anonymous No.4613076]

>>4612454
Betrayal at Krondor is definitely the more popular game. As is typical, old games had some never adressed bugs and exploits. Krondor had this wishing well that could infinitely boost your stats.

[Anonymous No.4613090]

>>4612774
I can't even find a mention of this anywhere, and that video is too low res to make out any of the copyright info. Tried googling up some of the phrases and things from the game, and after filtering out Star Trek and Starcraft related stuff, I found nothing. Impressively rare find anon, any chance you have the demo to share?

[Anonymous No.4613198]

I'm probably the only person who played this game...and lived.

[Anonymous No.4613241]

>>4610942
popular as fuck in slav and nordic lands.

[Anonymous No.4613408]

>>4610962
oh yes my buddy had this on his 486. Used to cover the screen with ants and destroy them all. So much fun.
I had After Dark and would spend a lot of time watching Rat Race or playing Lunatic Fringe.

[Anonymous No.4613497]

>>4612213

The OP said "game you FEEL like only you played." Pay attention. Or are you trying to say no one play but OP played Lands of Lore?

Maybe no body >>4611481 knew played Kyrandia.

[Anonymous No.4613502]

>>4612454

Fucking loved Betrayal at Krondor!

[Anonymous No.4613506]

>>4613497
>The OP said "game you FEEL like only you played." Pay attention.
No he didn't. Did you pay attention?

[Anonymous No.4613543]

>>4610965
I still play it on android. called by its czech name: Mravenci

[Anonymous No.4613642]

>>4613090
Somehow I managed to find this
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/pc/windows-games/dreadnought-1997-shareware/

If you find anything else please post it. Part of it being obscure has to do with the name overlapping with other games and non-games.

[Anonymous No.4613649]

>>4613198
Is really that bad it could actually kill people?

[Anonymous No.4613715]

>>4613506

Read the last line.

[Anonymous No.4613751]

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[Anonymous No.4613794]

>>4612428
I wonder too. Apparently setting up a mac emulator is quite involved.

[Anonymous No.4613797]

[Anonymous No.4613837]

>>4610661
Sup Kikoskia.

Your shit was better when you didn't feel the need to be talking 105% of the time.

[Anonymous No.4613913]

>>4610942
Based Liero poster.
Both players with gauss rifles and reload time set to 0 was the shit!

[Anonymous No.4613920]

>>4610661
>easy once you learned the "cheat"
Which one? The cube isn't a cheat, and it's still passable without it.
If you meant abusing the ghosts' pathing and finite amount of enemies present on one map, then yeah, maybe that's an exploit. Abusing pathing is critical in Castle Chimaera though.

[Anonymous No.4613946]

>>4613642
Interesting. Small-time company for sure, calling themselves Battle Sim Software. Their website was already dead by 99, so the only chance of a full version of this game existing somewhere is if someone spent the big dollar and bought the full version in the 2 years they appeared to be selling the game.

Unfortunately, given that it was a small operation, there's a good chance that everyone involved has long moved on, and all materials have long been destroyed. This is true for many old shareware titles that didn't come from Apogee or Epic.

[Anonymous No.4613949]

[Anonymous No.4613980]

>>4613920

Using the cube in the tower prior to using (and subsequently loosing) it on Scotia's Barrier to get into Yvel was what i was refering to. That's why it was in quotes: not really a cheat but not exactly how it was intended to be done either.

[Anonymous No.4613998]

>>4611234
Tapan Kaikki was pretty popular too. Literallly translates to "I'll kill everyone". The best kind game for elementary kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxXob1m9SG8

[Anonymous No.4614002]

>>4613920

What's path abuse?

[Anonymous No.4614016]

>>4613998
Any guesses what are the chance that the devs of Hotline Miami are fans of the TK series?

[Anonymous No.4614032]

rotox, 1990. no serial number. you had to answer a question that asked for a specific word from a specific page of the manual when you started the game.

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

[Anonymous No.4614089]

>>4614002
You can get the ghosts to cluster onto one square and avoid direct conflicts by stringing them along behind you. This is normally pointless because enemies will just bunch up behind you so you'll have to fight them on the way back anyway. The ghosts, however, are not impeded by walls so it's possible to cheese their direct approach technique to bypass them both ways as long as you keep them fairly close.
Castle Chimaera has ghosts as well so you'll need to string them along and blow past them far enough to despawn them if you want to get any rest if you've lost /never found the cube.

[Anonymous No.4614340]

They're by no means uncommon, but I seem to be the only one on /vr/ with any vested interest in Hudson's Soldier games. For most people, the games are either too easy or too hard. Plus not that many people ever got their hands on a PCE / TG16 outside of Japan.

Awesome soundtracks, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o05vng38XA4

[Anonymous No.4614651]

>>4610661
>Lands of Lore
>obscure

You're stupid. Lands of Lore was insanely popular and successful.

[Anonymous No.4614753]

This game called Sting. I played a localized version of it when I was younger (Not in English) and I loved it to hell.
It's a pretty fun platformer/Kirby clone with lots of nice humor and fun powers. Only much later did I realize this is actually a Korean game.

[Anonymous No.4614786]

>>4613715
Nice, I've won another Internet argument! Now I can go back to my anime stuff

[Anonymous No.4614894]

>>4613946
I'd saddens me no end to see such a project go down like that. Nowadays games try to stick to proven and working designs instead of trying things out. This game however tried to blend 360° shooting and RTS elements, and the result is unique. The only games I 'm aware of that have tried that are Battlezone and Urban Assault.

The shareware version is worth checking out, although depending on the hardware you might need to find a way to FPS-cap it, because it seems to measure time in frames. Fast computers break the gameplay completely.

>>4614032
Many games did something like that back then. The Incredible Machine at least did.

[Anonymous No.4614929]

>>4610661

Divinity 2: Ego Draconis

[Anonymous No.4614936]

I still play this sometimes. It's just me, right?

[Anonymous No.4615620]

>>4614016
Looks more like TK took (huge) inspiration from Alien Breed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfZtX8Vj4s0

But I alway suspected that the Hotline Miami devs were fans of Dream Web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNmRCYcN2ls

[Anonymous No.4615631]

>>4612453
This was the best game ever when I was a little kid.

[Anonymous No.4615691]

>>4614032
Man, I played the crap outta Rotox. It had such a great atmosphere

[Anonymous No.4615693]

>>4613007
Soleau made some great puzzle/logic games, I remember a load from the dos shareware days

[Anonymous No.4615742]

>>4613797
Same anon, I couldn't have been the only one playing Microsoft puzzle games growing up.

>The disc includes ten all-new puzzle games, some of which were designed by Pajitnov, although it's never made clear exactly which ones

[Anonymous No.4615930]

>The 7th Legion

I've never heard of anyone IRL or on this site who has played this game.

It's pretty crap, as expected.

[Anonymous No.4615960]

The DOS version of Pac-In-Time. Came bundled in a value set that included MegaRace and a few others. I've never heard anyone talk about it. The rope swinging was actually kinda fun. The console versions are significantly shittier and different.

[Anonymous No.4616025]

>>4615930
I got this for Christmas as a stocking stuffer surprise gift one year. I presume it was being dumped for like 5 bucks. Can confirm, it's shit, but I've never liked RTS games anyway.

[Anonymous No.4616074]

Falcon flight simulator for Macintosh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEB4Yi2hCRs

[Anonymous No.4616170]

>>4610745

used to have these, I don't know why

[Anonymous No.4616183]

>>4610661
Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat
Lords of the Realm I

[Anonymous No.4616271]

[Anonymous No.4616345]

>>4610942
Oh shit, too bad OpenLiero is dead :(

[Anonymous No.4617390]

[Anonymous No.4618946]

>>4614786
>get btfo
>better insult the winner so that I can keep my dignity!
fucking pathetic

[Anonymous No.4618947]

Tzar: Burden of the Crown
the game is mediocre but the OST is goat

[Anonymous No.4619034]

>>4616271
i played that. it was sick

[Anonymous No.4619061]

I never managed to make my friends get interested in CC. They'd always go for stuff like KKnD/C&C and Starcraft later.

[Anonymous No.4619134]

[pic] I'm sure i'm not the only one who's played it, but no one seems to know what i'm talking about any time I mention it. Maybe it just gets disregarded.

This game left a huge impression on me as a kid.

[Anonymous No.4619139]

>>4611510
>Squirt Derby

fucking loved that game
All I had was old mac during my childhood, some of my favorite games were:
Quagmire
Asterax
The Big One
Pathways into Darkness
Glider
Kid Pix (not a game but come on it was good for role playing)
Darkwood and Siege of Darkwood

[Anonymous No.4619164]

Creatures 2. I thought it was a pretty big game at the time, along with its predecessor. But I've never run into anybody who's ever played it, or even heard of it, either online or offline. Not since JRChat.