[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/vr/ - Retro Games

View post   
File: 39 KB, 250x322, 1_tongnou-int_cover_large.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8831691 No.8831691 [Reply] [Original]

Let's talk about some Obscure or Interesting retro games. Could be games that not many people talk about, or just games with weird or unique aesthetics. Eastern Mind: The Lost Souls of Tong-Nou isn't really that obscure after a bunch of famous youtubers have covered it but it still has a place in my heart.

>> No.8832314
File: 43 KB, 640x768, gadget.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8832314

i have an ongoing interest in Gadget. It's a japanese adventure game of the same era, all stills or simple quicktime video, though all but devoid of puzzles. Very atmospheric and mysterious, both on purpose and by accident. it's oddly literate, there are references to works by William Burroughs and Phillip K Dick, with a similar paranoid Kafka esque tone to those writers. It's had a weird longevity, apparently it was influential among several American filmmakers, Guillermo Del Toro has mentioned it and Alex Proyas of Dark City has confirmed he played it, Mark Laidlaw of Half Life wrote a novel which I still have to read. The game itself was made almost entirely by Haruhiko Shono, who went on to direct the CG for stuff like Casshern or the Terraformars movies.

>> No.8832323

>>8832314
This is a neat game.
What is that JP PS1 game where you are a detective and drive around a dark city? It's a crazy first person adventure with mutants and shit.

>> No.8832367
File: 235 KB, 800x961, 112616-the-residents-bad-day-on-the-midway-macintosh-front-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8832367

I don't think anyone's talked about this game before.

>> No.8832385

>>8832367
This game is what I imagine overdosing on Benadryl to be like

>> No.8832554
File: 40 KB, 227x285, 1573662559944.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8832554

>>8832367

>> No.8832567

The Dark Eye (can’t post images since I’m using Merlin on iOS and it crashes when I try to choose file)

It’s a weird, point-n-click claymation game that takes you into a few Edgar Allen Poe stories that involve murder and has you play the stories from the perspective of both the murderer and the victim. Not a very good game in terms of playability but it’s very surreal and basically unlike anything else I’ve ever seen.

>> No.8832602

>>8832367
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk__VTSGZ4A
it's literally famous on youtube

>> No.8833037

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRmMOveppLGPAZZdzY5zCZab5fqj1v_tl

>> No.8833216

>>8833037
lmao more like fart games

>> No.8833251

>>8832323
Germs?

>> No.8833259

I really need to quote >>8827537 because is beyond awesome this anon did to this obscure PC game nobody played before.

>> No.8833268

>>8832367
Looks like if Tim Burton took meth and then pitched a game

>> No.8833306

What was the name of that japanese adventure game where you are a robot on somw rails or something.

>> No.8833329

>>8833306
Garage: Bad dream adventure

Got a english release on mobile of all things

>> No.8833603
File: 63 KB, 320x390, kult.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8833603

this one for sure

>> No.8833627

>>8833603
is that based on the tabletop rpg at all

>> No.8833651
File: 77 KB, 540x720, D666C80A-1DFD-43BB-8833-39A360DC8113.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8833651

Doki Doki Picnic.

Not a lot of people know this, but it’s the game that Mario Madness was originally based off of.

>> No.8834549

>>8833651
my favorite mario game

>> No.8834578
File: 2.36 MB, 2379x3461, 1556438185-2327927160.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8834578

>>8831691
Pretty good Viewpoint clone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YN820hQ50NM

>> No.8834691

>>8834578
Viewpoint of what?

>> No.8834776
File: 103 KB, 800x1144, 602030-harvester-dos-manual.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8834776

>> No.8834806

>>8834776
Tell us about it.

>> No.8834917
File: 71 KB, 320x240, mv8qDJ.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8834917

The Lion King V: Timon & Pumbaa, Famicom

>> No.8835273

>>8834776
not obscure or weird4SH

>> No.8835284
File: 27 KB, 471x640, 1558984-dark_eye_cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8835284

>>8832567
May as well post pic now that I'm at my PC.

Check it out-- some anons might even manage to find it inspiring.

>> No.8835316
File: 46 KB, 289x345, the dark eye pc.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8835316

>>8832314
Speaking of Burroughs, he did voiceover for The Dark Eye, a point and click adaptation slash guided tour of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories. A really unnerving game with stop-motion animation years before The Neverhood. The same company made this a year later >>8832367

>> No.8835321

>>8832567
>>8835284
>>8835316
wtf. I didn't refresh before posting and now I feel like I've been cloned. What the hell is going on in this thread.

>> No.8835323
File: 80 KB, 640x480, cosmologyofkyoto-15.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8835323

>>8832314
Cosmology of Kyoto is another weird Japanese adventure game that also influenced Del Toro.

>> No.8835384
File: 144 KB, 1280x720, 1593027561170.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8835384

>>8835321
It's /vr/'s answer to /x/

WELCOME MY SON, TO THE MACHINE

>> No.8835473

>>8835323
the only game roger ebert liked

>> No.8835483

>>8835473
He probably thought it was jaw dropping

>> No.8835502
File: 564 KB, 521x454, 1616893976011.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8835502

>>8835483

>> No.8835537
File: 23 KB, 290x324, 1647533489944.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8835537

>>8832602
ok, yeah that's one example, but you know what i mean. it's not that LITERALLY no one's talked about it, i'd say it's akin to maybe rakuga kids in terms of recognition, but whatever.

>> No.8836416

>>8835502
no that guy just has no jaw

>> No.8837068

>>8835384
why is he shaving his hair?

>> No.8837070
File: 330 KB, 1280x1280, sonicr.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8837070

This isn't a weird or obscure game, but a weird or obscure detail
The Sonic R OST released in Japan has Sonic Adventure-style Sonic on its cover when this design wouldn't be formally unveiled for like a full year. Always thought that was weird as fuck.

>> No.8837185
File: 337 KB, 1280x720, Viewpoint.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8837185

>>8834691

>> No.8837191
File: 104 KB, 800x788, 790420-warheads-windows-other.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8837191

>>8831691
Plays like team 17 worms, but on planets in space. It's good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHA7jvU2leg

>> No.8837218

Descent was pretty good.

One game I have/had but computer could never load it past the opening screen: Rise of the Triad
I have no idea what the game is, what it looks like or if it was any good.

>> No.8837289

>>8837068
It’s a lesser known fact that women will shave their heads during time of extreme, spiritual distress

>> No.8837295

>>8832314
Are you playing the original or the 1997 remake?
https://www.zombs-lair.com/gadget-collection

>> No.8837321

>>8837289
all you need to feel compelled to shave your head is to believe you're in a training montage. works on everyone, no exceptions

>> No.8837357

>>8833268
Thanks for the input, gex.

>> No.8838078

>>8837295
can you tell apart which versions are these?
Gadget Invention, Travel, & Adventure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C58MMwxTSvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzYxAF0pEz4

>> No.8838191

>>8838078
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG2uDTNnaOA

>> No.8838316

>>8838191
GADGET Trips: Mindscapes (Haruhiko Shono, Koji Ueno, Shin'ichi Tanaka) [FULL MOVIE]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-G4zfJKP1s

magical stuff for sure

>> No.8838602

>>8838078
What about Gadget like the hot rat from that one cartoon

>> No.8838934
File: 149 KB, 640x480, Screenshot (15).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8838934

>> No.8839094

>>8838934
seems you're running the game wrong, colors aren't supposed to look that way

>> No.8839820
File: 36 KB, 480x360, earthboundgame.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8839820

>> No.8840090
File: 73 KB, 800x987, 1667-messiah-windows-front-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8840090

>>8831691
A game that encourages ridding the world of sinners, prostitutes, criminals and other assorted scum.

>> No.8840108
File: 120 KB, 1200x900, 1473245648-746198541.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8840108

>>8840090

>> No.8840205

Top Banana
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k4CFYiBrPE

>> No.8840426
File: 306 KB, 1129x1564, Gadget 2 ad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8840426

>>8831691
an advertisement for gadget

>> No.8840429

Nice vid, Saint

>> No.8840431

>>8840429
Thanks

>> No.8840562
File: 28 KB, 480x360, 1650718416205.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8840562

Salchicha mortal

>> No.8840646

>>8840429
>>8840431
>>>/v/

>> No.8841059

>>8837185

Excellent graphics.

>> No.8841435
File: 524 KB, 962x721, azraelsteargeffrye.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8841435

>>8831691
Azrael's tear,i discovered that game on here and im glad i tried it,kind of a point and click but you can move around freely.
its a puzzle game but really open and you can do stuff in different order AND different ways too wich kinda suck if you get stuck and search for a solution but the game isnt too hard and got a really nice atmosphere and interesting lore.

>> No.8842027

>>8840646
I don't get it

>> No.8842393

>>8841435
oh that looks rad. is it easy to find and run

>> No.8843059

>>8834917
did that lion kill itself

>> No.8843346

>>8842393
its easy to find a quick google search should lead you to a abandonware website but i had a bit of trouble installing it i had to use D-fend reloaded and it runs through dosbox.

>> No.8843591
File: 69 KB, 350x353, 1650788539383.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8843591

>>8832367
I feel like The Residents is cheating.

I had Arcade America as a kid, that I ever hear anyone talking about. It was probably shovelware. But it was a weird janky platformers that I had a lot of fun with. It was about a shortbus windowlicker tarding across America to get to Woodstock or something.

>> No.8843598

>>8843591
This was on Ross's Game Dungeon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDuVcyIf26U

>> No.8844126

>>8843591
that man child scares me

>> No.8845909

>>8833329
If I recall the original office working on an English translation back of Garage in the day was stationed in the WTC and destroyed on 9/11.

>> No.8846612
File: 84 KB, 463x523, raugh.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8846612

>>8843598
I can't get enough of the scream Ross makes at 2:23.

>> No.8846915

>>8843591
This game was on a space station demo disc on like windows 98 or 95 when I was a tiny kid wow....... The memories flooding back......

>> No.8847031
File: 36 KB, 264x378, Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents_The_Final_Cut.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8847031

>>8831691
https://youtu.be/dJdbWRJvHJ0

>> No.8847186

>>8832367
>just getting into The Residents
>see this
What a weird world we live in

>> No.8847204
File: 354 KB, 644x484, garage.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8847204

>>8833306
>>8833329
Came here to post this lol. Never played it but it looks like LSD Dream Emulator if it was hellish and industrial.

>> No.8847206
File: 40 KB, 640x480, Screenshot (11).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8847206

>>8847204

>> No.8847217

>>8847206
I gotta learn Japanese one day so I can play all their weird ass games.

>> No.8847221
File: 410 KB, 720x480, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8847221

>>8847217
SUZUKI BAKUHATU

>> No.8847280

>>8837218
Descent and Rise of the Triad were both popular and are still well known... you mongoloid.

>> No.8847284

>>8840090
It's a unique and charming game - sadly... the gameplay is really bad.

>> No.8847513

>>8847217
It was released in English for Android.

>> No.8847674

>>8835284
>The Brown Eye

>> No.8847882

>>8837295
>https://www.zombs-lair.com/gadget-collection
https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com
any other blogs or sites like the two above?

>> No.8847919

>>8847284
It's terrible. Sacrifice on the same engine was a good game however.

>> No.8848495

>>8847882
Not a website per se, but there's the Livid Bunny collection: https://archive.org/details/@lividbunny
He archives games that were delisted and rare games (like Russian or Italian games).
Not everything is retro but there's plenty of cool thing to find.

>> No.8848716
File: 337 KB, 799x599, iblard6.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8848716

>>8831691
Iblard - Laputa no Kaeru Machi is an adventure game for the original Playstation that's based on the works of the artist Naoisha Inoue. It doesn't have a translation but it isn't overly story focused and you don't need to know Japanese in order to play

>> No.8850790

>>8840090
https://www.moddb.com/games/messiah1
no mods exist to fix gameplay and improve graphics.

>> No.8852345

>>8848716
I really like the atmosphere from this image

>> No.8853565

>>8833259
I'm downloading this right now out of respect for the dudes effort. Hope the game is fun.

>> No.8854010

>>8833259
this is a great 3rd person shooter, really obscure and would have vanished if it was not for this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zECoDS8iOQA

>> No.8855352

>>8852345
yeah the game is full of this stuff, it's definitely worth trying if you like liminal space stuff

>> No.8857087
File: 911 KB, 1461x1944, iceberg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8857087

>> No.8857093

>>8831691
His old music is pretty good. Check out Lucy In The Sky With Dynamites.

>> No.8857101

>>8857093
Yeah Osamu Sato's music kicks ass

>> No.8857106
File: 2.69 MB, 600x376, ezgif.com-gif-maker(1).gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8857106

>> No.8857120

>>8857101
If you haven't already, check out early Ken Ishi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6maVVFs0As
Osamu Sato started his projects because of him.

>> No.8857172
File: 2.74 MB, 1600x1071, 3D83D37D-740B-40FF-8B15-38B67FD895A6.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8857172

>> No.8857707

>>8857172
creator fuckin killed himself

>> No.8857768

>>8857707
Didn't he kill his whole family in the process too?
Also this game has a PS1 version

>> No.8858160
File: 260 KB, 744x960, B7FC6D17-62E1-4DFA-8154-B942E4DDBA77.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8858160

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xsfq2PXTxSA

>> No.8859552

>>8857768
His wife and their pets.

>> No.8859961
File: 191 KB, 256x362, file.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
8859961

I have literally never seen anyone talk about Blue Ice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrS4wqRgpxo