Games You Didn't Know Were Obscure When You Played Them

[Anonymous No.8249613]

I had no idea when playing Dink Smallwood how obscure it was. I thought it was as popular as FF7 or Age of Empires.

[Anonymous No.8249752]

Claw and this one educational PC game starring an orange haired kid

[Anonymous No.8249776]

I had it the other way around where somehow I thought Zelda was obscure as a child, because everyone around me had a playstation.

[Anonymous No.8249782]

>>8249613
Does this hold up? I noticed it's free.

[Anonymous No.8249891]

Wild Guns and Earthbound on snes (back in the 2000s obviously, not anymore, had em since i was a kid)
Lost Eden on pc
Heiakyi Alien on GB(first game i had for it)
Guardians crusade on ps1

[Anonymous No.8250141]

>>8249782
Zoomer

[Anonymous No.8250148]

Has anybody played this one? I used to play it a lot back in the day.

[Anonymous No.8250158]

>>8250141
Great conversation add there, asshole. Really upping the quality of this board.

[Anonymous No.8250163]

Almost every game is obscure. It is almost guaranteed that your true favourite game of all time is one you have not heard of.

[Anonymous No.8250187]

>>8249613
As a Macchad it took a while for me to accept than Marathon wasn't as big as Doom

[Anonymous No.8250221]

Is this one considered obscure?

There was a copy of FCEUX and this rom on every shitty computer at the boys n girls club I went to as a kid.
I remember playing it a lot everyday over one summer.

[Anonymous No.8250226]

>>8250221
I had it on a pirate famicom multicart around 1993. Also there was Bucky O'Hare on the same cart. Crazy shit.

[Anonymous No.8250231]

>>8250226
That's funny, I wish I had some of those older roms from that boys and girls club honestly.
There was a bunch of gba and snes ones that we got later.
Some of the gba ones had cracktro intros on them, with like curse words and stuff so I thought it was cool.

[Anonymous No.8251350]

>>8249613
I honestly thought this came before Sonic and that the series was seriously competing with Sega's efforts. Stupid little me also thought there would be plenty more games after 2.

It's hard letting go.

[Anonymous No.8251392]

I tried talking to people about this game for years. To this date I don't think I've ever encountered a single other person who played it, even online

[Anonymous No.8251396]

>>8250221
This was obscure until they ported it to 3DS, anyone talking about SHUMPs or games pushing the NES limits in the mid 2010s will remember a lot of discussion about it

[Anonymous No.8251417]

This is the first time I've seen anyone talk about this game. It's still fun. Really weird proto-indie action RPG. Good sense of humor.

[Anonymous No.8251425]

>>8249613
Same as you. I would have expected this being as popular during its time. Looked pretty dope then. Played it when I was 12.

[Anonymous No.8251431]

>>8250148
Sure as fuck I played it. Hell, it even was the PS1 version where you only controlled 1 character and savegame took 2 or more memory card slots. Never got far, because I had only 2 memory cards and sure as fuck didn't want to delete saves from my other games.

I also remember being scared shitless by the first dungeon, because a boss (or miniboss?) was some fire dude that terrified me for some reason.

Also, reminds me that Diablo for PS1 took like 8 memory slots to save. I haven't seen another game that take that much space.

[Anonymous No.8251452]

>>8249752
Was literally going to post this. I played the demo and thought it was sick but I never got it bought for me in the end.

Pic related to topic I guess.

[Anonymous No.8251457]

>>8249613
Legend of the dragoon

[Anonymous No.8251459]

Got a demo of this game with PCGamer - again, didn't think it'd be particularly obscure considering it was a Microsoft Studios game.

[Anonymous No.8251538]

>>8249891
>Wild Guns and Earthbound
Most games were obscure back then, in terms of meeting fellow fans or seeing much media coverage. It wasn't as bad in the 8bit era, but in the 16 bit era console gamer core demographic in the west was completely dominated by sport games and fighting games. Everything else aside from flagship mario/sonic titles were dismissed.

Outstanding games that make modern top 10 lists would get reviewed on a half page article on page 86 in EGM or gamepro and you wouldn't meet another living person who played it. Unless it was a game hyped enough to be on front page of a game mag, it wasn't talked about whatsoever at school. The only games that mattered at school were the annual EA sports titles and mortal kombat.

[Anonymous No.8251592]

Pepsiman. It was very popular in South America.

It was always weird when people online commented about it being some super obscure kusoge when it was so popular here.

[Anonymous No.8251626]

Imagine trying to talk to other normie kids about how rad this shit was.

[Anonymous No.8251695]

>>8251626
That one was heavily hyped (easily On par with Sin) and on the cover of every game magazine, with some publishers giving it a near perfect score and shortlisted for some game of year contenders (never won, as 1997 was just too amazing a year).

[Anonymous No.8251704]

>>8249752
I thought the exact opposite. I thought it's an obscure game and later found out how many people remember this.

[Anonymous No.8251731]

>>8251392
I've played it for a bit around 15 years ago I think but dropped it very soon. The UI is not quite terrible but is pretty bad, unit voices are terrible, sound effects like building selection and such are bad, animations are stunted, visuals in general evoke a feeling I can't quite pen down but something along the lines of shitty cartoon for little children meets uncanny valley. I remember that it had some neat ideas but I just couldn't take it anymore. Maybe I'm being too harsh and it's some kind of idiosyncrasy.
I've seen a few anons talk about it in obscure games thread on the strategy board.

[Anonymous No.8251787]

>>8251538
I remember around when halo 2 came out in high school, we had parties where we were allowed to bring in an xbox and play it and i would bring my copy of Metal slug 3 to play between matches and let others try out and so many people were confused as to what the hell it even was.

[Anonymous No.8251789]

>>8251592
Bootlegs im assuming or did it actually get released there?

[Anonymous No.8251828]

>>8251695
that game was total wack

[Anonymous No.8251837]

>>8250148
I always wanted it after seeing it at Walmart in a bargain bin, but I've yet to buy it. It's in my cart on Amazon though, for when I have a few spare bucks. Determined to get the PS version.

[Anonymous No.8251847]

>>8251425
That was left behind at a LAN at my friends house. Nobody wanted it, so I got to keep both GC2 and World in Conflict for free.

[Anonymous No.8252028]

>>8251789
Bootlegs obviously, usually mass pressed discs from Hong Kong.

[Anonymous No.8252035]

>>8249613
>>8249752

[Anonymous No.8252063]

>>8250221
It's babys first obscure famicom game nowadays

[Anonymous No.8252079]

>>8250141
What the hell? I'm a zoomer because I haven't heard of an obscure game? I'm 35.

[Anonymous No.8252427]

>>8251392
I have played it.

[Anonymous No.8252435]

>>8249613
>>8249613
>>8249613
What's rarer are the pc executable dink smallwood/zelda clones that were only avaliable via download in the late 90s.

Still looking for them to this day

[Anonymous No.8252905]

>>8251731
I remember very little except the dual sides of trying to manage the business and also do RTS stuff. I played a ton of it way back when but mostly just remember finally getting the big mecha spider with the railgun and being mind of underwhelmed by it

[Anonymous No.8252994]

>>8250148
I remember playing a demo of this on a Incite Magazine disc. It was pretty neat for what it was.

[Anonymous No.8253296]

>>8250148
I did.
It was Diablo, but with 3D and shallower.

The game got rereleased for android with absolute cashgrab money-leeching port

[Anonymous No.8253314]

>>8249613
My older cousin got me into that game when I was a kid

[Anonymous No.8253318]

>>8250148
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSyfO_j9AD0

[Anonymous No.8253323]

>>8252079
>35
Get the fuck out of here, this board is 40+.

[Anonymous No.8253435]

Maybe someone here might be able to help me.

When I was a little sproggling, I had a mech-racing game on the Playstation 1. I remember it being a lot like F-Zero, just with mechs like in Gundam. I can't remember its name and have never been able to find even a screenshot of it. I remember it came as a part of a multi-game bundle, but most of the other games were shit.

Anyone here might know what I'm talking about, lol?

[Anonymous No.8253558]

>>8253435
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_xQ5Heu_OA
?

[Anonymous No.8253591]

>>8253558
Looks interesting, but I don't believe that's it. Sorry. I seem to recall a largely purple / indigo and green colour scheme. The mechs would seem to glide over the track with energy engines sprouting out of their backs like wings. I also remember it was possible to hit other mechs that might be to one side of you.

I'm sorry if my description isn't helpful lol. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. :)

[Anonymous No.8253593]

>>8253558
Wait, I think I found it! :D

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

This is my answer to >>8249613 lol

[Anonymous No.8253608]

[Anonymous No.8253635]

>>8252079
booty blasted 30yo zoomer

[Anonymous No.8253652]

>>8249613
For me was this game, I remember the first time I played, I bought it from a game magazine and I was really into superheroes at that time when I bought it, like 2006/7, I was only 13

[Anonymous No.8253747]

>>8249613
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS4G4SDY8_c

[Anonymous No.8253810]

>>8249782
It's fun. Don't expect anything ground breaking, it was free from the moment they ran out of CDs to sell.
But it's fun.

[Anonymous No.8253824]

Played this game a ton as a kid. I think my older brother downloaded it in like 2002. Blood and Magic.

I forgot what it was called for 15 years

[Anonymous No.8254594]

>>8249613
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW_GB9pO4EA

[Anonymous No.8254595]

>>8249613
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeTf_IzKf6A

[Anonymous No.8254662]

[Anonymous No.8254692]

>>8253323
hope you drank your metamucil this morning grandpa

[Anonymous No.8254713]

Wonderboy for the Sega System. When people think Wonderboy they think of the sequels which had nothing at all to do with the first game. To make matters worse they cloned the original Wonderboy on the NES and called it Adventure Island which got 2 real sequels. The original Wonderboy is way more fun than the unrelated sequel games and the NES knockoffs.

[Anonymous No.8254762]

>>8253652
Level (Romania)?

[Anonymous No.8255214]

>>8249613
I think I played Lode Runner circa 2000 and ten years later spent hours trying to describe it to people. I don't think I've ever spoken to a person to who had seen it before.

[Anonymous No.8255221]

>>8252028
>that Players logo
Soul.

[Anonymous No.8255240]

>>8249613
My childhood dentist has Munch Mobile right between Popeye and Pole Position, and I assumed it was equally famous. Barely even discussed on /vr/

[Anonymous No.8255532]

>>8255214
This was a very popular game my man all my friends knew it. Same with Worms Armageddon, age of empires, duke3d

[Anonymous No.8255537]

>>8251350
jazz jackrabbit is not obscure

[Anonymous No.8255546]

>>8250148
Game name? Also what version is the one to play, PC or PS1?

[Anonymous No.8255550]

This one, i thought that it was pretty popular

[Anonymous No.8255934]

>>8255546
Darkstone. It's on GOG so I'd go with PC

[Anonymous No.8255970]

I never see anyone talk about the PC series of Army Men, let alone Air Tactics.

[Anonymous No.8256012]

Not sure if this is actually obscure, but I've never seen anyone talk about and never met another person that played it.

[Anonymous No.8256032]

Everyone loves Westwood's Blade Runner but what about another PKD adaptation, Cryo Interactive's Ubik? I thought the novel was quite enjoyable but I've yet to play this one

[Anonymous No.8256057]

>>8255970
It's a weird series. Why were toy soldiers so popular in late 1990s and early 2000s? Because of Toy Story? A lot of shovelware too but some good games as well.

[Anonymous No.8256069]

>>8255970
The first Sarge's Heroes game for the N64 consumed years of my life. It's a flawed game but I wouldn't deny I had lots of fun. Don't know how many times I finished that game.
A fond memory is my little brother being like 5 and telling me to connect the N64 again because he wanted to play "3DO" or "the game where the green people kill the yellows".

[Anonymous No.8256083]

It had the production values of a popular video game so I just assumed it was one.

[Anonymous No.8256418]

>>8255970
loved this series as a kid. Not sure if it's obscure.

[Anonymous No.8256557]

>>8252028
>>8255221
Holy shit I had a famiclone with that logo

[Anonymous No.8256612]

>>8254713
You sure it's obscure? The original arcade game was pretty popular here

[Anonymous No.8256673]

>>8256012
Oscar was ubiquitous on the Amiga. It's decent I guess. Flair Software made another, more obscure game on the same engine called Trolls (based on the toy franchise), filled with utterly eyefucking psychodelic graphics and sound effects. Give it a try, it's actually pretty fun.

>>8256032
I played the demo and it's a janky squad tactics game.

>>8256057
Nostalgia becomes marketable after 20 to 30 years and tin soldiers were popular toys until the mid-late 70s I think.

[Anonymous No.8257036]

>>8251695
>>8251626
There were a lot of titles like MDK that were hyped up back in the day as they were the next big thing and then they kinda came and went without making much of an impact.

Wild 9 was another game by Shiny Entertainment that was hyped up, but nobody talks about it nowadays. Not even for the waifus.

[Anonymous No.8257061]

>>8256083
Tradewest tried to hyped it up back in the day without being good at it.
>From the company that published these two unrelated IPs from different developers comes this other unrelated IP from yet another developer.

[Anonymous No.8257092]

>>8257036
Wild 9 was just shit. Funny enough it came out at the best possible time for a B-list PS1 action game. Games like Ninja: Shadow of Darkness, Tai Fu or Akuji the Heartless were getting decent traction without a media push and are a better fit for this thread.

[Anonymous No.8257116]

>>8257092
I thought the redhead waifu wearing the schoolgirl skirt looked cute, so I just looked her up and it turns out her name is fucking Boomer McTwist.

[Anonymous No.8257390]

>>8257116
lmao, this reminds me I was sure Vendetta was one of Konami's biggest hits.

[Anonymous No.8257450]

>>8257390
I'm sure it likely did well in its day, but not at the same height as the two TMNT games or the six-player X-Men cabinet. I think the only original IP Konami that did well in the U.S. back in the early 90's was Lethal Enforcers.

[Anonymous No.8257476]

>>8257450
>I think the only original IP Konami that did well in the U.S. back in the early 90's was Lethal Enforcers.
*in US arcades.

[Anonymous No.8257498]

>>8253824
I remember some levels being shockingly hard.

[Anonymous No.8257559]

>>8254662
Great game, I only beat it with the barbarian, wanted to try the amazon too

[Anonymous No.8257578]

>>8249613
I thought the whole world is crazy about Gruntz as the best puzzle game ever

[Anonymous No.8258143]

>>8249613
Had this for Lynx, thought it may have been ported to more systems. I never did save his dog...

[Anonymous No.8258157]

>>8258143
It’s on the Atari 7800 too

[Anonymous No.8258204]

>>8258157
I know, but not the NES, Mega Drive, or PC, which should have been possible at the time. Shame, it was a decent game.

[Anonymous No.8258209]

A Truly Obscure game is Grey Worlds: Ascension

[Anonymous No.8258516]

>>8253652
Same. Loved the original. Great game. Thought it was well known everywhere but it wasn't.

[Anonymous No.8259464]

>>8258157
That image looks like it was drawn by someone completely unfamiliar to what a dog looks like and they were given a 10 second description of one by an alzheimer's patient

[Anonymous No.8259472]

>>8257092
>Ninja: Shadow of Darkness
I only played this on a demo disc, but holy shit I really wanted to play the full game so badly. Putting this on my backlog, for sure.
>Tai Fu
I actually rented this from Blockbuster, but was a bit disappointed by how easy and boring it was. Think I completed it in a day or 2 and had a 5 day rental on it, so was pretty bummed. Not terrrible, just mediocre. Looked cool, though.

[Anonymous No.8259483]

Played it pretty much at release, without even knowing it was by the same guy that made Earthworm Jim. Had no idea it sold like shit, had fun with it, but gave up after a while because it kept crashing on the family PC.

[Anonymous No.8259489]

>>8259483
Same deal with this one, though I did manage to make it trough. Still mad we didn't get the sequel.

[Anonymous No.8259747]

>>8249613
This game, I don't remember too much about it other than equipping a staff as a melee class so I could hit things multiple times in a swing.
and you got a kickass legendary staff at the end of the game.
staves always seemed so broken compared to other melee weapons.

[Anonymous No.8259850]

Any of you fellas ever play Ultizurk?

[Anonymous No.8259873]

>>8249613

dinky small wood is what my ex girlfriend used to call me.

[Anonymous No.8259914]

[Anonymous No.8259969]

>>8249613
I considered it one of those things everyone knew about but nobody played.

[Anonymous No.8260063]

>>8259914
I prefer the JP version with the original soundtrack over the shitty chiptuned Psykosonik loops.

[Anonymous No.8260087]

>>8249613
The demo of Dink Smallwood was included on PC magazine discs and quite a lot of people played it (in the UK at least). I wouldn't really call it obscure. Yahtzee made a video about it.

[Anonymous No.8260116]

>>8260087
The full game was also distributed on cover discs, often packaged together with modding tools. That was after the dev relaxed the license, around '98 I think.

[Anonymous No.8260705]

>>8249752
magic claw!

[Anonymous No.8261389]

>>8249613
Dungeon siege 1

[Anonymous No.8261393]

>>8259747
Loved those games

[Anonymous No.8261736]

>>8249613
The concept was very creative but graphics were kind of poor. The reception was quite bad for a game that could have had a lot of potential if it had sequels.

[Anonymous No.8262343]

For some reason I thought Disruptor was this big PS1 hit, since it came from the same publisher as Crash Bandicoot, but nobody talks about it that much nowadays. Then again, I don't think anyone cares about PS1 FPSes that much.

[Anonymous No.8262384]

>>8262343
I remember seeing Disruptor at every video rental place, every game store, but never played it or knew anyone that had.

[Anonymous No.8262490]

>>8257116
>schoolgirl skirt
That's traditional Scottish dress, anon.

[Anonymous No.8263061]

>>8262343
Disruptor deserved better, it got overshadowed pretty hard by Alien Trilogy. Another good game that people forgot was Jumping Flash, and it used to be big enough to get sequels.

[Anonymous No.8263875]

Pitfall3d for the psx
thought it was a really cool and good game and quite popular

[Anonymous No.8266496]

>>8253608
my nigga. what a strange atmosphere this game had

[Anonymous No.8266828]

>>8249613
i've never met somebody else that actually played this.

[Anonymous No.8267958]

>>8266828
I actually played it because it looks similar to Brigandine and Vantage Master.

[Anonymous No.8268121]

>>8249613
So that's what this game is called. I remember playing this as freeware forever ago but couldn't remember the name. I remember the blood effects and ducks

[Anonymous No.8268861]

>>8268121
The name is literally mentioned in OP’s post, go look it up

[Anonymous No.8269234]

>>8249613
Ah, Dink Smallwood! I feel like a lot of people remember it fondly from their childhood, but completely forgot about the game until someone brought it up again. It was on a lot of those cds that came with gaming magazines in the late 90s, first as a demo, then as freeware.

[Anonymous No.8271619]

That Nerf quake arena clone that was basically that but with nerf guns

[Anonymous No.8271690]

>>8271619
>Quake Arena Clone
It's more of an Unreal Tournament clone. As in it's actually Unreal Tournament with a Nerf skin. Fucking love Nerf Arena Blast too, I'd play that over either Q3 or UT99.

[Anonymous No.8271693]

>>8271690
>I'd play that over either Q3 or UT99
that is because you are very stupid, my child.

[Anonymous No.8271713]

>>8271693
>Someone had more fun with something other than my preferred product, so they must be stupid