Obscure, Interesting and Weird Retro games

[Anonymous No.4960557]

Let's talk about the Odd, The Obscure, and the Disturbing.

First up I have Virtual Nightclub, a FMV game that (I guess) is meant to simulate what a person from the 90's thought a virtual night club would look like. Includes interviews from sci-fi authors (including the author of snow crash) and a suprising amount of liscencing for an obscure game put out by a nobody company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jA1tjwnl_Y

chip chip, i need the chip

[Anonymous No.4960571]

chip chip, i need the chip
superior VNC video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGgCnoOocOk

[Anonymous No.4960582]

What came out of the Labyrinthe leak situation? Has there been a stop to finding of old games? Is roly polys eternally destined to never come out?

[Anonymous No.4960586]

I always wanted the Residents releases - Freak Show, Gingerbread Man and Bad Day On The Midway

[Anonymous No.4960590]

>>4960571
is that guy dead?

[Anonymous No.4960634]

>>4960590
yes, RIP

[Anonymous No.4960904]

gay

[Anonymous No.4960962]

>>4960557
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Easter_eggs_in_Microsoft_products#Office_95

[Anonymous No.4961012]

>>4960582
https://mega.nz/#F!y3xREIQJ!yt3XqFtRnOoRp5pFRu6j4A
https://mega.nz/#F!t1dkSKwD!seEdpDWtMCEkC71yPJ89Pg

to my knowledge this is the full leak. no roly polys.

[Anonymous No.4961052]

I know some time ago some anon was taunting a beta version of zelda 64, no idea what happened with that

[Anonymous No.4961069]

The Saboten Man

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

[Anonymous No.4961761]

https://youtu.be/zKgvR5na2OU

[Anonymous No.4961856]

Anyone know about Eastern Mind? It was an interesting little adventure game made by an obscure Japanese musician named Osamu Sato. It was quite interesting, though badly made

[Anonymous No.4961959]

>>4960557
star ship titanic
little big adventure
abes odysey
Ecstatica

[Anonymous No.4962168]

>>4960557
Not enough people talk about this russian masterpiece
The pain it gives your eyes improve the experience

[Anonymous No.4962193]

>>4961856
Pretty much everyone here that's even semi-regular knows about Osamu Sato. This board actually tracked down the sequel to Eastern Mind, Teng Chu, and put it on the internet. Even Sato didn't have copy anymore when they got in touch with them. And LSD Dream Emulator is well known now.

But yes, Eastern Mind is cool.

[Anonymous No.4962203]

Culpa Innata seems to have gone under the radar. Its official minimum hardware requirements were obtainable by the end of 1999.

[Anonymous No.4962590]

Space Kids
AFAIK the full version hasn't been dumped and I doubt that there even IS a full version.

[Anonymous No.4962594]

[Anonymous No.4962759]

>>4962193
>the sequel to Eastern Mind, Teng Chu
hmmmm

[Anonymous No.4962929]

[Anonymous No.4962962]

>>4961856
When Chu Teng popped up everyone here was busy trying to figure out how to get it working and attempting to get through the game which was all Japanese, it was fun.

[Anonymous No.4965094]

>>4962929
> obscure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rzTTN8wVKw

[Anonymous No.4965134]

>>4962594
This and GNAP turned me off of adventure games for a while.

[Anonymous No.4965147]

>>4960557
Help me remember the name of one. I think it was an Amiga or Spectrum or some other home computer game, with lots of surreal graphics, called "Nice and Clean", or "Soft and Gentle" or something like that...

[Anonymous No.4965164]

I can't say I've never seen this posted, but it's rare. Even back in the '90s a lot of kids I think had the Humongous games, but the Headbone games were less common. They had surreal cut-out art styles and unique premises.

In this one you have to explore a bizarre rural setting for a cyber-bug that'll help you win a bug show. In the sequel, you have to get your science fair project back from retarded mafiosos.

They were optimal kids' games in my mind because for the most part they didn't treat you like an idiot, and they are written well. Even as an adult you still have to use your head a little bit and think abstractly.

[Anonymous No.4965187]

The Dark Eye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiVzcm3JQO4

[Anonymous No.4965347]

>>4960590
Soon

[Anonymous No.4965362]

Cosmology of Kyoto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCEym0XUj98

It's not really a game and more of a software toy of sorts. You're transported into 8th century Kyoto where all of the beliefs, mythology, superstitions, and legends of the time are real. It's simultaneously beautiful and horrifying, enlightening and disgusting, all at the same time. And it's educational! With each legend you encounter it gives you a concise summary of what you've seen and how it affected the flow of Japanese history.

If you want some real nightmare scenes, look no further than the deepest circles of Buddhist hell.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrW54npKP0w

[Anonymous No.4965425]

>>4961761
This was ported from the PC version, which is entirely in English.

Japan seemed to get a lot of weird ports of Western developed PC games to the PS1. Gadget: Past as Future and Darkseed also got this treatment.

[Anonymous No.4965445]

>>4965425
Also Ultima underworld.

[Anonymous No.4966118]

all these games are gaaaaay

[Anonymous No.4966148]

>>4960582
>>4961012
The dude came here and posted a mega link full of scans of games he's never going to upload because Labyrinthe got leaked. Roly Polys wasn't there anyway.

[Anonymous No.4966178]

I've never seen it discussed here actually but a pretty bizarre "game" is Kamikuishiki-mura Monogatar, a game made by a Japanese cult. For anyone unfamiliar with Aum Shinrikyo I suggest researching them but essentially they were Japanese cult mostly active in the 80's and 90's. They become pretty influential during this time as they're numbers grew pretty large. They were known for taking weird influence from western Sci Fi and anime of the time, this attracted a lot of otaku and computer nerds to the cult. In 1995 they issued a attack on the Tokyo subway system using sarin gas and ultimately killed 13 people and injured about 1,050 others.

It's weird knowing a genuine cult responsible for the death of people, we don't even know how many cult members were killed for whatever reason, actually exists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv29qBuflrk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brEEbJ-uG0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YDMepD9VIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJO0LvepSWQ

[Anonymous No.4966253]

>>4966178
Had no idea Aum Shinrikiyo made games. They also had anime!

They were genuinely damn close to getting much larger death tolls than 13, but the members were kind of incompetent, mostly due to being starved and constantly drugged up. If they were actually concious, they genuinenly could have become a terrorist organization on the level of Al Qaueda

Not to mention they were pretty clearly the inspiration behind the blue cult from earthbound

[Anonymous No.4966272]

>>4966178
>>4966253
http://z3.hunlang.com/pc98/%E3%80%90PC98%E3%80%91%E4%B8%8A%E4%B9%9D%E4%B8%80%E8%89%B2%E6%9D%91%E7%89%A9%E8%AF%AD.rar

if anyone wants to play it

[Anonymous No.4966573]

Zeddas 3

[Anonymous No.4967462]

>>4965147
Soft and Cuddly

[Anonymous No.4967578]

>>4965362
>>4962168
Good stuff, came here to post these.

There's also Deus Ex Machina on the ZX Spectrum https://youtu.be/0ZS6JVCDI9s which is more like an art game.

>>4962929
>Pathologic
If anything, Cargo! The Quest for Gravity is Ice-Pick Lodge's lesser known game along with Knock-Knock.

[Anonymous No.4968465]

>>4965147
Speccy game called Soft and Cuddly. It wasn't soft and cuddly.

[Anonymous No.4968475]

>>4967462
>>4968465
Different guy here, what was it about?

[Anonymous No.4968604]

>>4968475
Not being soft and cuddly.

It was basically meant as a shock game, regular british platformer but instead of aliens or house appliances you had corpses, heads, malformed babies and more

[Anonymous No.4969464]

>>4960557
EXPERIENCE

[Anonymous No.4969467]

>>4966573
What about it, you found it?

[Anonymous No.4969493]

>>4966178
They just executed the fucker in charge of this cult like nearly a month ago.

[Anonymous No.4971042]

>>4969493
Good riddance

[Anonymous No.4971763]

I really wanna play Garage: Bad Dream for PC, but it's only in moon runes

[Anonymous No.4971778]

>>4967462
>>4968465
Ahh yes, thanks anons.

[Anonymous No.4972314]

>>4971763
A pretty complete translation came out a bit back, pretty much only signage wasn't translated. Some anon posted it a while back on a labyrinthe thread

[Anonymous No.4973095]

>>4960557
This is Ga Show. Say something nice to him

[Anonymous No.4973942]

>>4973095
What does Ga Show want from me

[Anonymous No.4973946]

hi anonymous I back i have the beta zelda game. you can only find it if you git gud

[Anonymous No.4973984]

>>4966178
aum shinrikyo is a really cool thing to research, too. their rise to power was insane. i've seen menus and stuff from a food delivery service that they ran too. they had their fingers in all sorts of weird shit.

>>4966253
the anime is really weird, people should check it out.

>>4965362
cosmology of kyoto is sweet. i haven't played through the whole thing, but what i did was super interesting. only game roger ebert ever held in any esteem, too.

>>4962168
mandalore did a good review of that fairly recently.

[Anonymous No.4973991]

>>4966148
that guy is a total pissbaby

[Anonymous No.4974004]

>>4973991
The hell's a piss baby?

[Anonymous No.4974020]

>>4972314
you're confusing it with Chu-teng

[Anonymous No.4974093]

>>4973984
It's honestly insane as their leader was essentially blind since birth, he could only barely see. Since his childhood he would be grouped with special needs children and terrorize them as mentally he was fully stable. Even as a kid he was a manipulative and tyranical fuck.

I don't mean to shill but a podcast show, Last Podcast on the Left, did a series on Aum Shinrikyo that I highly suggest listening to.

[Anonymous No.4974098]

Paranoiascape is weird.

[Anonymous No.4974130]

Germs.

It plays sort of like LSD but with a less surreal atmosohere and some focus on combat. It's not really scary as a horror game but the game's extremely primative 3d enviorments makes things feel odd and sort of tense.

[Anonymous No.4974147]

>>4961012
>try to download anything
>says i need the desktop client for zip files
>already have the client downloaded
the fuck?

[Anonymous No.4974150]

>>4969467
>Zeddas 3
is this it?

[Anonymous No.4974202]

>>4974093
i've listened to that, it's good.

>>4974130
i've wanted to play that. i can't believe they got away with that cover art.

>>4969467
it's in the mega link i posted further up in the thread.

[Anonymous No.4974209]

>>4974202
>i can't believe they got away with that cover art
For years I couldn't understand what it until someone pointed out it was naked bodies to me.

I guess it being a horror game it feels appropiate but it's still weird.

[Anonymous No.4974216]

>>4974209
I hadn't noticed that until you pointed out.

This game is pretty weird, early 3d always creeps me out: https://youtu.be/-B6ig8uZ8kY

[Anonymous No.4974232]

>>4974216
I had thought it eas a normal germ spore and when someone told me it had bodies it blew my mind.

The early 3d of things like germs really does give a horrorific atmosphere, doesn't it? I often see people say "why don't indie devs copy the bad early 3d of the fifth gen of consoles?", used to ask that myself, and it amazed me to learn that creating early 3d like that isn't really possible on modern technology. To create old 3d it would have to be on old technology, how weird is that? It's sad though, things like the original Baroque (not the shitty remake) really do have a atmosphere unmatched. It's definitely something I would love to see again in gaming.

[Anonymous No.4974243]

>>4974232
Really? I must confess I don't know much about graphic rendering and such. Why would it be impossible to replicate the old look?

Early 3d is really weird because it almost looks good enough, but then it doesn't, and it falls straight into creepy valley when it tries to be something that's not cartoonish. The dull colors don't help either.

[Anonymous No.4974316]

>>4974093
Thirding the LP on the left episodes about Aum Shinrikiyo

Honestly I just recommend them in general for most cult / true crime shit. They're (generally) well researched and really fucking funny

[Anonymous No.4974318]

>>4974130
>like LSD
Doesn't it actually have a story though?

[Anonymous No.4974346]

Drowned God

[Anonymous No.4974348]

>>4974243
I admit my research into it is limited but from my understanding I have heard that trying to accurately recreate 3d as primitive as fifth gen 3d is near impossible as I think modern software literally can't create the same look as they're so advanced they can't create the purposely shitty look.

I'm really not the best person for this stuff but I've seen people discuss it in detail. Low poly is easily possible obviously but recreation of old 3d seems impossible.
>>4974316
I enjoy them a lot too, didn't want to seem like a shill but their videos are pretty informative for any interested in Aum Shinrikyo.
>>4974318
I believe so. It's supposedly some horror game, something about some germ infecting and mutating people I think, not that the plot is of interest. The gameplay is what reminded me of LSD, you move and aim in a first person perspective very slowly in sad and lonely empty 3d spaces.

[Anonymous No.4974361]

This podcast sounds interesting, but the name kinda turns me off. Is it a history podcast, or is it more about politics?

[Anonymous No.4974370]

>>4974361
It's a reference to "The Last House on The Left"

[Anonymous No.4974379]

>>4974361
It's based on a rather famous horror film called "The Last House on the Left", which was incredibly controversal atvthe time of its release.

I suggest them. They cover things like serial killers, the occult, urban legends, historic events, and so much more. It's only three guys and all of them feel equal in the conversation, there's no "that guy" among them.

[Anonymous No.4974380]

>>4974361
Last podcast on the left? The title's a reference to "Last house on the left", it's a general true crime / paranormal comedy show. They pick a topic (Aum Shinrikiyo, Bigfoot, Richard Ramirez) and talk about it for an hour. Some topics (like Shinrimiyo) take multiple episodes, anywhere from 2 to 5. It's run by 3 comedians, and is both informative and pretty damn funny. Also they're just generally great guys IRL, have had drinks with them in Toronto

[Anonymous No.4974382]

>>4974243
it'd definitely be more of a pain in the ass to replicate certain things, the saturn used quads instead of tris to render things and the ps1 didn't support floating point for graphics. both of those gave a pretty distinct vibe.

>>4974361
comedy/conspiracy/UFO/true-crime/horror. they don't skew particularly left or anything, the name is just a reference to a horror movie. one of them did run for mayor or something though.

>>4974316
they do a pretty good job of making conspiracy/alien stuff comprehensible for people without schizophrenia too. the MIB episodes were a trip.

>>4974346
this and obsidian are both cool.

[Anonymous No.4974384]

>>4974370
Oh, I had no idea. I have no excuse to not listen to the podcast now. On a side note, is that movie worth watching?

>>4974379
>>4974380
I mean, I always wanted to listen to a podcast about this kind of stuff, I used to be obsessed with this kind of stuff when I was a (weird) teen. Thanks for the recommendation.

[Anonymous No.4974397]

>>4974384
They're honestly great, some three weirdos who research a topic, discuss it, and joke about it. What I love is when they do really bizarre things like their episode on David Bowie's relation and involvment in the occult. If anything paranormal or weird interests you see if they did an episode, they probably have.

[Anonymous No.4974407]

>>4962203
Thats not how it works. Go read the fucking sticky, dipshit

[Anonymous No.4974443]

>>4974407
That is how it works. There's several games for retro consoles made this decade and they're allowed. It's the same for games that can run on a 90s PC.

[Anonymous No.4974450]

Back on topic (I love lpotl but still) I'm reminded of "Produce", after looking up Soft and Cuddly.

Produce was basically a cheap but interesting Japanese PC-88 game made by a company mostly known for eroge and hentai games. Funny to think someone bought this thinking it anime titties only to get a surprise.

The game involves four central characters: Gilbert, Toshio, Tina and Sayaka. Toshio is secretly in love with Sayaka but he is crushed to find out Sayaka loves Gilbert. Toshio one day wanders into a abandoned building only to find a Lovecraftian monster. The being tells him that if he can bring his three friends to them it will kill Gilbert for him and make Sayaka love him. He agree to do this and once he gets his three friends up to it The monster absorbs Sayaka and presumably kills the three boys, betraying Toshio.

What makes Produce really interesting though is its bizarre gameplay concept. Toshio will monitor each of the three friends through one of the monsters eyes to see what they are doing in the building. As the player you have to strategically place various monsters around each floor to scare your friends further into the building. Your three friends wander the building and can explore further or try to run away. If a single friend gets away they alert authorities of the building's true nature and it is demolished, game over. Each friend has different behavior, one may find a particular monster not too scary while a different friend finds that same monster horrifying. You also have to monitor each character's heart rate, if you scare them too much they will die of a heart attack which is also a game over. Essentially it's like a bizarre horror themed manager about a boy trying to kill his friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cTzVjLtNSg

[Anonymous No.4974618]

>>4961012
Holy shit, I've been looking for some of those for some time now

[Anonymous No.4974624]

>>4974443
>Retro gaming means [...]computer games, [...]launched in 1999 and earlier.

[Anonymous No.4974852]

Where the fuck is the simcity NES rom.

[Anonymous No.4974857]

[Anonymous No.4974886]

>>4974857
Hooray, I sure love some drama to make sure we never see a few obscure games out there.

[Anonymous No.4974891]

>>4961012
Which of these were in the "do not upload" folder?

[Anonymous No.4974908]

>Pentti-Antero Sillanköykäys has been severely disabled for his whole life. After his 27th birthday he starts seeing prophetic dreams which help him to miraculously cure himself. He feels an urge to contribute something back to the society and starts a taxi service for the disabled; the Inva-taxi.

>Even though Inva-taxi was originally meant to be a simple joke, it was one of those games that spread in Finnish BBS systems. The gameplay is based on a unique feature: speech recognition by the player. The player listens to the incomprehensible mongling of instructions given by disabled people and tries to select the right destination for the taxi ride. There really isn't any more content in the game than listening to the samples and clicking the right spot on the map.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3zDNDKK3hU

[Anonymous No.4974951]

Advanced Lawnmower Simulator (ZX Spectrum, 1988)

[Anonymous No.4974998]

>I figured some guy with mental issues would desperately want to upload Labyrinthe despite that it's completely in Japanese because some of you weirdos out there have some strange obsession with the game
What a fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.4975036]

>>4974857
I disagree with but understand not uploading based in the creators request, but that other reason is complete and utter bullshit. I truly don't get it, what's the point of hoarding this shit? So now what? Is he gonna go out of his way to autistically find the rest if this shit and snap the discs in half? Does he get his rocks off from hiding obscure or occult games? Like what?

What the fuck is the point of consuming and creating media if you can't share it?

[Anonymous No.4975041]

>>4975036
He thinks that he can't resell the games if it was leaked before.

[Anonymous No.4975052]

>>4974998
>>4974857
Here's a list of other games he'll "never" upload
Doesn't seem really interesting apart from some tech demo stuff that I know a handful people would love to have

[Anonymous No.4975071]

>>4975052
"Abyss boat" sounds cool. What a faggot

[Anonymous No.4975108]

Yaku is a pretty bizarre game. I was actually pretty surprised at seeing in on the PSN Network considering that almost nobody knows about it has played it. I don’t know how many times I can actually play I though, since not only is it unsettling, but you can switch between characters at will so there are a ridiculous amount of ways to view the story. Pretty cool idea actually, that works a lot better than it did I Machi.

Now on the other hand if you want to talk about an amazing game that got swept into the shadows of history (even though it had a DS remake) is Tokyo Twilight Busters. This has to be one of the coolest games that I’ve ever played. The story, gameplay (which switches between investigative story mode and point and click adventure mode, and features RPG-lite combat), sound and graphics are all amazing. If you can read Japanese fluently (it’s set in the Taisho period so expect some Kanji not used in Contemporary Japanese) I highly recommend it.

>>4974232
Baroque Syndrome is probably one of the better Sound Novels out there. Fairly linear, multi-story, dead end system but the stories are pretty cool. If you like the PSX Baroque I’d say give it a shot since it’s the prequel to that game.

[Anonymous No.4975113]

[Anonymous No.4975115]

>>4960586
Huh, I had no idea they made computer CD-ROMs

[Anonymous No.4975480]

>>4967462
Also see GO TO HELL by the same guy

[Anonymous No.4975483]

>>4974093
>Young RMS trying footchips for the first time, 1945, colorized

[Anonymous No.4975501]

>>4975113
What's this

[Anonymous No.4975547]

>>4975501
Daina Ailen, aka Dino island
One of the "leaked" windows games from here:
>>4961012
It's basically a somewhat bizarre anime/VN with branching paths, just like Yumimi Mix

[Anonymous No.4975557]

Here's something that I'm not sure was mentioned on /vr/ already: a recent interview with the creator of Hong Kong 97
https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2129690/developer-worlds-worst-video-game-hong-kong-1997-ends

[Anonymous No.4975680]

>>4974407
>This board is for the discussion of classic, or "retro" games. Retro gaming means consoles, computer games, arcade games (including pinball) and any other forms of video games on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier.
>any other forms of video games on platforms launched in 1999 and earlier
>official minimum hardware requirements were obtainable by the end of 1999
Are you stupid

[Anonymous No.4975691]

>>4975680
Crysis can run on that hardware. Doesn't mean that the game is related to this board though.

[Anonymous No.4975736]

>>4975557
That's really damn interesting. Huh.

Anyways, I don't know if this would count as "obscure" but it certainly isn't well known, but Escape from Hell is a interesting RPG made off the Wasteland engine. It's about a teenager who got dragged down to hell and has to save his girlfriend. One of the highlights includes the fact that hell is full of historical figures that can join your party, meaning you can finally have that party of Yourself, Stalin and Hitler.

It was honestly pretty mediocre, but the concept and fact that you can be buddy buddy with hitler makes it an interesting curio.

[Anonymous No.4975760]

>>4975691
>Crysis can run on that hardware
Proof

[Anonymous No.4975772]

>>4975680
Then we could talk about whatever modern indie shit that has low minimum requirements, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

[Anonymous No.4975779]

>>4975772
What about Deus Ex and Diablo 2

[Anonymous No.4975787]

>>4975779
Shouldn't be allowed according to the rules but mods make exceptions because reasons.

[Anonymous No.4975853]

Here's a bunch of stuff https://collectionchamber.blogspot.com/

[Anonymous No.4975942]

>>4974450

this sounds cool as fuck

[Anonymous No.4975961]

>>4974450
Where can i download this? PLEASE

[Anonymous No.4975974]

>>4975961
http://www.ceiling-gallery.com/blog/2015/2/24/produce

Bottom of the page provides a download link and pc-88 emulator.

[Anonymous No.4975994]

>>4974450
Bizarre side note: the company that made this, MacadamiaSoft, made the controversal "177".

"177" is the number in the Japanese criminal legislation paragraph that forbids rape, I think you know where the game is going with this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KBIP1Ilr8SI

Excuse the annoying commentary here, I link this particular video as it was the only one I found that showed the rape scene, though he censored it.

[Anonymous No.4976070]

>>4975974
The emulator that's on the bottom of the page didn't really work, and the latest build has been deleted. It's super easy to find one if you google it (in case someone else runs into the same problem that I had).

[Anonymous No.4976110]

>>4974243
it can be done in modern engines like Unity and Unreal but you have to create a TON of shaders to replicate the feeling.

[Anonymous No.4976146]

>>4960557
It's freeware, so you have no excuse not to play it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjZ_67Ttznk

[Anonymous No.4976268]

>>4975052
damm, is there any way to take a look at any of those games? really the title attracts a lot of attention

[Anonymous No.4976280]

>>4976268
Nope, they're gone. Thanks Saint

[Anonymous No.4976290]

>>4975108
Cool to see someone mention the Yaku games. I've always wanted to play them as Hideshi Hino, a great horror writer and artist, was involved with them. Sadly these games are near impossible to understand with no knowledge of Japanese.

Someone on youtube started a series where they were playing the second game while providing English subtitles butbthey quit early on sadly.

[Anonymous No.4976494]

>>4965362

What's the best way to play it? I can't get it working.

[Anonymous No.4976510]

why are people talking about these games being "leaked"?
i can get some of these on archive .org and the downloads there have probably been up for years

[Anonymous No.4976612]

>>4976494
I have a windows XP pentium 4 that runs most windows 95 - 98 games surprisingly well. I think you're going to have to get a virtual machine though if you want to run it on any modern system

[Anonymous No.4976631]

>>4976612
Not either one of you, but you could also try PCem; it's a hardware emulator specific to 80s and 90s PC architecture and really good. It's almost as easy to use as Virtualbox, but appears to run a lot better since it's focused on emulating specific chips instead of being a generalist. However, it's very demanding on the CPU, and sadly MOAR CORES doesn't seem to help much, but my 3.5GHz/core system can run a 133 MHz Pentium DOS machine that performs better and more accurately than DOSBox, and a 90-133MHz Windows 98 VM very reasonably. It even supports voodoo graphics emulation.

[Anonymous No.4976646]

>>4974098
are those buttholes peppering the ground?

[Anonymous No.4976903]

>Did you luxuriate in the wind?
Also, does this game really not have an exploration mode without a timer?

[Anonymous No.4977485]

>>4965187
I swear to good, I've played a good deal of horror games/games with horror elements, but few have unsettled me as The Dark Eye

[Anonymous No.4977798]

>found 0 posts for monster party
what is this thread?

[Anonymous No.4977828]

>>4974998
autism

>>4975052
>guardian heroes final
wtf

[Anonymous No.4977839]

>>4977798
>Monster party
>Obscure in any way
Famicom and NES games have no place in this thread unless they're lost betas or prototypes. The systems libraries are just too well known and studied to really be obscure

[Anonymous No.4977854]

>>4976268
He uploaded scans of the covers and in some cases of the manuals

[Anonymous No.4977858]

>>4977828

[Anonymous No.4977871]

>>4966178
this is so fucking weird. i had no idea something like this existed. thanks dude

[Anonymous No.4977885]

>>4977798
Interesting game. It became well known and lost some of its appeal, but it's still an oddity.

>>4977839
This thread is about more than only obscure games.

[Anonymous No.4978172]

>>4977885
alright then who wants to talk about the Johnny games

[Anonymous No.4979089]

Yoyo's Puzzle Park for ps1

[Anonymous No.4979117]

>>4960557

[Anonymous No.4979641]

>>4979117
more like semen

[Anonymous No.4980453]

>>4961959
>abes odysey
The Abe franchise certainly isn't obscure. There was a friggin' music video spinning on the tv music channels during its time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSLGJs96Hy0

[Anonymous No.4980529]

>>4965187
>game based on Poe
>narrated by Burroughs
This is everything I ever wished for unconciously.

>>4965362
I love this game but I had trouble saving. I always had to start a new game.
Is there any difference between playing as a man or a woman?

[Anonymous No.4980850]

>>4976903
Just use cheat engine or something and make the time infinite.

[Anonymous No.4980986]

What's the most obscure RPG you guys know of? Preferably in english or otherwise translated

[Anonymous No.4982127]

>>4980986
Monstania.

[Anonymous No.4982635]

>>4980986
The Cerberus Expirement

[Anonymous No.4982642]

Reminder:If a game is Western it is NOT obscure

[Anonymous No.4982646]

>>4980986
Might and Magic 3

[Anonymous No.4982968]

This thread has the big gay

[Anonymous No.4982970]

>>4980986
The Broken Land.

It's shit.

[Anonymous No.4982990]

>>4982970
Ur shit

[Anonymous No.4983490]

>some faggy drama stopping some obscure games being released
what the fuck? i thought people would encourage others to play some obscure shit and not make money by selling them

[Anonymous No.4983508]

What are some obscure FPS?

[Anonymous No.4983525]

>>4983508
Marathon is somewhat obscure

[Anonymous No.4983534]

>>4983490
This is a fucking retarded idea. Sorry to tell you sweetheart, the world doesn't run on goodwill, people are here for money and notoriety. Why the fuck should someone spend hours searching, thousands of bucks and so much more just to give their hard work away for free? Why does everyone have to be mother goddamned Teresa? Cmon now.

[Anonymous No.4983547]

>>4983534
because im a poorfag that doesnt want to pay
>thousands of hours searching
imagine getting some really rare game but never sharing it out only for it to get damaged or the files get corrupted and thats the only copy you have

[Anonymous No.4983554]

>>4983534
Well sweety, that's pretty ignorant. Maybe purely autistic individuals are in it purely for money, lacking the proper neurological connections to handle emotion or understand the concept of selflessness or shared joy, but the rest of us are here because we enjoy this shit and want to help others enjoy it too. Communities like this have always thrived on mutual generosity and a desire to preserve and share. Maybe you should get into this "real world" you think you know so well and look a little harder, because these concepts are what make civilizations thrive.

[Anonymous No.4983594]

>>4983554
>>4983534

[Anonymous No.4983609]

>>4983594
I think you clicked the wrong numbers my man

[Anonymous No.4983616]

>>4983609
nah you both got 4's

[Anonymous No.4983664]

never played it
was it any good?

[Anonymous No.4984115]

>>4983525
No, it isn't.

[Anonymous No.4984134]

Why the fuck did that saint asshole have to fucking ruin it for everyone. He realizes we're not ever going to see those games again right? You know for a fucking fact that autismo hoarder is now going to go hog fucking wild, quit his job and find every game fucking remaining and make sure we don't get it. And he'll do it, more important than money he's got A: Time and B: The autistic fucking drive to do it

Thanks assholes. You could have instead just slowly leaked the games to archive.org, but instead you had to make a big deal of it

[Anonymous No.4984162]

Anyone else play kekcroc here? I'm stuck on the third level boss, the one with the big fan and the swinging children. Any help?

[Anonymous No.4984191]

>>4984162
Nah, playing Dr. Claw's Dump n Pump.

[Anonymous No.4984315]

>>4984134
>let's suck this guy's dick for a small chance we might get unripped games
no thanks

[Anonymous No.4984572]

>>4960557
vangers is not only obscure and disturbing gameplay, story and gameplaywise but it is also one of the few games that uses a voxel engine with physics and destructible terrain.

Even to this day the game still looks and plays impressive. You expect a simple dos game, but it's does a lot of things in a unique and dynamic way, wildlife, seasons, dynamic water

[Anonymous No.4984580]

sonic spinball, it's so different from normal pinball games, that it's the only pinball game I ever liked.

Ad it's the sonic game with the best art direction/atmosphere and music (note, pal version has rearranged music than the ntsc)

[Anonymous No.4984592]

this game was so fucking weird, could never figure it out as a kid.

[Anonymous No.4984952]

>>4965187

William S. Burroughs is a spooky man

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3cxvzd

[Anonymous No.4984969]

>>4983508
Midi maze(spaceball 2000) for the gameboy

[Anonymous No.4984994]

Not sure if weird enough but in 10 Made Jack you are Jack from the Jack and the Beanstalk story but in a platformer by Enix. The game's gimmick is each level is a higher section of the beanstalk which you are climbing up while collecting items. It has some interesting bean-climbing mechanics like a grip meter and you can throw your head at enemies.

[Anonymous No.4985046]

>>4984315
You stupid asshole, do you realize the power this man has? Do you realize the amount of developers he knows, connections he has and more?

I was looking forward to playing Silicon Scream, thanks assholes

[Anonymous No.4985059]

>>4984572
>Vangers (Baнгepы, also known as Vangers: One for the Road) is a racing role-playing video game developed by K-D Lab, a Russian company.
>Platform(s) Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, FreeBSD

>racing role-playing
>FreeBSD
>Russians

Topwew.

[Anonymous No.4985360]

>>4985046
but Silicon Scream has been online for like a year

[Anonymous No.4985671]

>>4984994
>interesting bean-climbing mechanics

[Anonymous No.4985939]

>>4985360
post a link then. The author has explicitly said NOT to post it inline you faggot

[Anonymous No.4987027]

where do i even find these obscure games?
do i just have to research some forums and game websites? what do i do if i accidentally find some rare game?

[Anonymous No.4987265]

The Next World (Mondo Futuro) is a FPS with interesting ideas, like the fact you're completely harmless, enemies can easily kill you and the only mean of destroying them is to use vehicles, sometimes even giant creatures; they serve you as weapons and also helps you to move faster or even fly. Your goal is, if i remember correctly, to grab orbs like objects in order to fix your time machine (?) and voyage through the levels; these are always populated by factions at war, and you can decide to be an ally for whoever you want and do side missions for them. The only thing i've found about this game is a discussion on an italian forum, luckily there's gameplay and download, but that came a lot later and people still don't know about it. It's like the quintessence of "obscure". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgdBJbXxTvw the intro with the bald man talking near a fire gave me nightmares when i was little.

[Anonymous No.4987349]

>>4987265
I tried to find info but I couldn't even find a cover. What's the story behind this? Doesn't seem to be a low budget game and even if it was an italian exclusive there's too little info about it.

[Anonymous No.4987428]

>>4987349
I had an original copy of the game, but i don't remember how i got it. The easiest guess would be that it came as a prize on a box of cereals; it wasn't unexpected at those times to have very obscure games shipped through cereal boxes, only because games were the "new" kool thing. That was probably the only way; in fact, the only pictures you can find on the internet are related to that very gameplay i've posted before. There's absolutely nothing else about it, the fact alone we have this little is a real gift, because i myself couldn't find anything about it some years ago. It was like i've played a game that never existed... Then, finally, the download arrives. I can finally experience this thing once again. I'm not saying it was good, far from it, but i do have some nostalgia surrounding it. I'll post it here, maybe someone will find it useful. https://www.mediafire.com/file/k8w6q2u2uqw80qs/Mondo+Futuro.rar

[Anonymous No.4987431]

>>4987428
Here's some basic info taken directly from the game itself.
Name: Mondo Futuro
Developer: Buka Entertainment
Publisher: Microforum

[Anonymous No.4987438]

>>4987428
>>4987265
>>4987431
Based as fuck

[Anonymous No.4987627]

>>4987265
Is this Russian Roulette 2?

[Anonymous No.4987635]

>>4987265
>>4987627
Oh yeah, it is. It's a Russian game originally, and it was called "Russian Roulette 2: The Next Worlds".

[Anonymous No.4987647]

>>4987428
Also, here is a first Russian Roulette game:
http://www.maxwolf.ru/misc/lj/rr/RR.zip

[Anonymous No.4987659]

>>4987647
And even manual:
https://www.maxwolf.ru/misc/lj/rr/RussianRouletteGamerManual.pdf

[Anonymous No.4987668]

>>4987627
>>4987635
>>4987647
Thank you very much for the huge illumination you guys gave me. /vr/ is still frequented by acculturated and coincise anons, i like it very much. Thanks again for clearing this mistery of my childhood, a little reasearch i had earlier pointed me out to a russian developer, but yeah, perhaps i just needed to dig more into it and find out the original russian release.

[Anonymous No.4987672]

>>4987627
>>4987635
>>4987647
the videoludic history teaches once again that russian developers are memes and can't program for shit

[Anonymous No.4987701]

>>4987265
I fucking loved the sound of that animal you ride on the second world or so, it's like a spasm of an handicapped person an this is everytime you accelerate (spoiler: always).

[Anonymous No.4987702]

>>4974998
Exclusive rare pepe do not steal.

[Anonymous No.4987778]

>>4962168
I really wanted to get into this, but it was just too impenetrable, even with the manual. Maybe I'll try again someday.

[Anonymous No.4987901]

>>4984134
saint did nothing wrong

[Anonymous No.4988312]

>>4985671

[Anonymous No.4988334]

>>4974450
Neat, I've got every single pc88 game but hadn't spotted this.

>>4975994
There are many like this, they truly didn't give a shit with the pc88 until the laws changed.

[Anonymous No.4988343]

>>4974093
Apparently he was finally executed just last month
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoko_Asahara

[Anonymous No.4988362]

>>4988343
>death by hanging
>in 2018
>in Japan

This is just as crazy as his cult.

[Anonymous No.4988428]

>>4961856
>an obscure Japanese musician named Osamu Sato
it's literally the LSD guy

[Anonymous No.4988439]

>>4974130
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYeYhmbd_pM
This looks cool as fuck, is there any translation?
Also the cover looks like a music album

[Anonymous No.4988478]

>>4988312
That looks like a lot of fun.

[Anonymous No.4988643]

>>4988428
Keep in mind, that LSD was not based on his dream journal, but on the dream journal of some chick working at Asmik.

[Anonymous No.4988694]

Can anyone help me remember the name of a PS1 game relevant to this thread?
>Japanese only release I think
>You transfer to different levels on a train/tram
>Looked like a 3D puzzle platformer
>Levels were very bright and colorful, lots of flowers/gardens
>Whole game basically looked like an impressionist painting

[Anonymous No.4988701]

>>4960557
the only home console port of Minesweeper is on the Turbografx, and includes a whole host of new modes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGVnltu8VWY

[Anonymous No.4988817]

>>4988643
Oh didn't know that, interesting

Also does anyone have a link to 14/?? and 14/??? ? I can't seem to find it

[Anonymous No.4988856]

Alright, been looking into some oddities for this very thread, hopefully something I post interests you.

Ugetsu Kitan on the ps1 is a Japanese only horror adventure game. What makes it interesting is that it is actually a recreation of Ugetsu Monogatari (雨月物語, Tales of Moonlight and Rain) which os a collection of nine supernatural tales by the Japanese author Ueda Akinari, and was first published in 1776. Gameplay is nothing insane but it's weird enough to maybe hold some interest.

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

[Anonymous No.4988865]

Originally called Quarantine on DOS and the 3DO, it was later released as Death Throttle for the Japan only Saturn release and Hard Rock Cab for the Japanese only Ps1 release.

Essentially it's Crazy Taxi, Carmageddon, and 90's cyberpunk thrown in a blender. In a dark cyberpunk future you play as a cab driver who has to escort various people. The problem is while doing this everyone is trying to kill you. It's not as intense as other more famous vehicle combat games but it's a pretty fun premise and the cyberpunk atmosphere is cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZFfjo3qzoo

[Anonymous No.4988879]

Superhero League of Hoboken is a pretty interesting rpg. You control a party of super heroes as you defeat villains and do other heroic tasks. It's more on the humorous side, kind of reminds me of something like Sam and Max and similar 90's adventure games from the time in terms of writing.

[Anonymous No.4988893]

Otocky is a horizontal shooter original released for the famicom disk system. The game has a really interesting music theme and, just like Rez, the player can interact with and change the music based on their actions in the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A2mzS6toMo

[Anonymous No.4988905]

Released late in the super famicom's lifespan, 1997, Solid Runner is a cool jrpg with a sort of cyberpunk mecha theme. As the player you use your combat mech suit to go around the city stopping crime and solving other cases. The art is really impressive and the game has a really slick presentation in general. Sadly though it seems no English patch exists for it.

[Anonymous No.4988935]

Anybody heard of this game? Its called jailbreakers. No idea what its about. Looks interesting tho

https://youtu.be/mTrxjRHrCxM

[Anonymous No.4988940]

>>4988856
What. The. Fuck. The idea behind this is pretty cool. Time to watch the longplay.

[Anonymous No.4989153]

Why the obsession with the Horror Tour/Zedda games?

Far as I can tell, nothing about them seems especially interesting other than their having been though lost.

[Anonymous No.4989163]

>>4988865
i had this game when it came out. it found terribly difficult and unfriendly and never really got into it, but i was a child so maybe it wasn't that bad

[Anonymous No.4989319]

>>4988935
>0:49
>that scream in the background combined with those CGI faces
comedy gold

[Anonymous No.4989717]

>>4988694
LSD Simulator?

[Anonymous No.4990228]

So you're telling me there were dozens of unfound retro gems that were uploaded to archive and NOBODY downloaded them?

[Anonymous No.4990265]

>>4990228
yes

[Anonymous No.4990276]

>>4989717
Thanks but nope. It had a similar vibe though. It actually had some level of "gameplay" too I believe

[Anonymous No.4990357]

>>4974951
*sips* now THAT was a game

[Anonymous No.4990369]

>>4988694
Iblard Laputa no Kaeru Machi

Interesting game, and you don't need to be able to read Japanese to complete it. Finished it myself a few weeks back.

[Anonymous No.4990389]

>>4990369
This is exactly it, thank you anon. I'm home sick for a bit so I'm going to give it a whirl.

[Anonymous No.4990497]

The Lost Golem was a puzzle game for the Dreamcast that sold only a pitiful 500 copies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymIEKi9RSv4

[Anonymous No.4990549]

any obscure western games?

[Anonymous No.4990581]

>>4990549
>>4982642

[Anonymous No.4990597]

>>4990581
why not?

[Anonymous No.4990606]

>>4990549
The full version of Rodge Rock in Retroactive is essentially lost.
Even the programmer doesn't have it or the source code anymore:
https://www.squakenet.com/download/rodge-rock-in-retroactive/8113/

[Anonymous No.4990607]

>>4990597
Because western games are shit

[Anonymous No.4990619]

>>4990497
Seems like a cute fun puzzle game. Sad that it sold like shit.

[Anonymous No.4990625]

>>4990607
fuck off pleb

>>4990606
>losing the source code and the rest of the game
why does this keep happening?

[Anonymous No.4990648]

>>4990625
It's a damned shame is what it is. For one thing, I'd love to see the old Smiley Productions games, but if the binaries even exist still even the remaining crew doesn't know where they are.

[Anonymous No.4990652]

>>4989153
Zeddas 2 was lost until 2014, and 3 until 2018. It's basically if you could buy Myst easily and find a download online, but Riven and Exile were impossible to play and never got resold anywhere.

[Anonymous No.4990653]

>>4990597
Because western games are shit

[Anonymous No.4990658]

>>4990652
>Riven
>exile
found them easily on some website, are they rare?

>>4990653
domo arigato Mr Roboto

[Anonymous No.4990680]

>>4990658
Disregard this, i suck cocks

[Anonymous No.4991152]

>>4966148
I get the feeling this guy had no intention of releasing anything else anyhow and at best he would have tossed a bone or two if people begged him enough.

[Anonymous No.4991169]

>>4990549
There are tons of obscure western made games but keeping track of them is harder since they come out in microcomputers and japanese games have the advantage of weeaboos digging them back up.
Still, let me post an example
Yogho Yogho is a platformer with gorgeous graphics, probably the best pixel art on ms dos and its an advergame.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKGOqRgWsX8
If you want obscure western made game just look up stuff from old micro computers, they're all there.

[Anonymous No.4991358]

>>4991169
>If you want obscure western made game just look up stuff from old micro computers, they're all there.

This.
Remember the DOS shareware game Halloween Harry/Alien Carnage?
That wasn't even the first game in the series which actually started on the Microbee.

[Anonymous No.4991647]

>>4984580
This game was so much fun, maybe better than regular sonic games. So satisfying when you would get on a roll and smash the shit out of the bosses.

[Anonymous No.4991662]

>>4990625
>why does this keep happening?

rewrittable media wasn't cheap and reliable back then

[Anonymous No.4991716]

>>4990625
>why does this keep happening?
A CD-R only lasts a couple years.

[Anonymous No.4992023]

>>4987027
https://obscuritory.com/resources/discovering/
Trawl a bunch of game databases until you find something neat

[Anonymous No.4992210]

>>4975052
>Gundam 0079 The War For Earth
That's in public domain though. The fuck? I really question how many of these are actually private.
He sounds like a sperging tard honestly.

[Anonymous No.4992254]

>>4992210
you stupid fucking idiot you don't realize what you guys have done. Right now he doesn't have much, but he has CONNECTIONS. He's going to hunt it all done, zelda 64 beta, roly polys, fucking everything and he's going to make sure that we NEVER find it because you guys are idiots

Say fucking goodbye to roly polys idiots. Just a matter of time before he posts a box

[Anonymous No.4992262]

>>4992254
If he can find it why can't you? You're a fucking retard feeding into him more than anyone else here.
That list is utter bullshit, most of that is in public domain.

[Anonymous No.4992265]

Holy shit, didn't realize but the chu teng translation is basically done (just fixing up minor glitches and translation errors). Just started playing and really enjoying it

[Anonymous No.4992318]

Rammstein had an official video game that came bundled with the single "Das Modell".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j4wEszVNqA
I've seen Klik & Play titles with higher quality.

[Anonymous No.4992342]

>>4960557
One sentence is all I need. VRCHAT clubs with drugs. Not irl drugs, i mean drugs in-game, and it gets TRIPPY.

[Anonymous No.4992358]

>>4977858
looks like shit desu

>>4988312
this is actually dope

>>4988701
there was one for the gameboy as well. japan only and extremely uncommon for some reason.

[Anonymous No.4992367]

>>4992358
>looks like shit desu
Looks like an old indie game nobody gave a shit about. Lost media maybe, but it's not like anybody would really care if it leaked.

[Anonymous No.4992549]

>>4984134
Please redpil me, Whats the game?

[Anonymous No.4992563]

>>4990625
in terms of storage digital data is shit.
we can read stone-plates from thousands of years ago, but storage-media and/or file-formats from the 80s? hmmmnmmnmnnmmmmnnmmm.

[Anonymous No.4992572]

>>4992563
This. The higher the data density the lower the durability.

[Anonymous No.4992734]

For obscure western stuff, I think Hardcore Gaming 101 is pretty useful.

In fact, I found a game there that I remember reading about in a comp mag my dad was buying at the time.

The fun part is that it was made even obscurer by having had a Japanese PlayStation port.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/dogday/

[Anonymous No.4992881]

>>4992563
Another problem is, often that stuff's so obsolete, no one has the software/hardware to read it any more.

[Anonymous No.4993309]

>>4992734
HG101 is a mixed bag honestly. They cover interesting stuff but the writers range from decently competent to offensively bad. Some articles on series for example will have the writer jerkoff a particular game while displaying a complete disregard for the other games in a series.

[Anonymous No.4993319]

>>4980986
Shada

terrible, buggy Ys clone on pc engine hucard which has good music and was translated last year

[Anonymous No.4993330]

i feel like Bad Mojo was pretty obscure for some time and of course it's super weird. now it got a steam re-release but some years ago it was hard to find and wasn't anywhere to be downloaded.

[Anonymous No.4993368]

>>4993309
Can you give me a good example of a bad article? For the most part (in my experience) they seem to range from component to pretty alright, no real deep cut information or well written prose, but nothing outrageously bad.

[Anonymous No.4993379]

>>4993309

one of the guys who used to write there was a poster in a forum i frequented and he was such a total douchebag. everyone hated him.

[Anonymous No.4993426]

>>4993368
One that comes to mind is this article on Breath of Fire IV. The entire section on the series is weak but this article in particular feels extremely juvenile and unprofessional.

https://hg101.kontek.net/bof/bof4.htm

[Anonymous No.4993491]

>>4993309
Yeah sure, but to me it's more about discovering things rather than the writer's opinion, so I can easily look past that.

[Anonymous No.4993946]

>>4966178
I read their official books in Japan. They're difficult reads if you don't know your buddhist terminology. Fascinating stuff, staring right into the eyes of madness.

The scene with the girls standing on the truck and people wearing elephant masks was from when they ran a party in the Tokyo election. They used that "Shoko, Shoko, Asahara Shoko" song.

[Anonymous No.4993947]

>>4969493
Him and two others in the cult. The execution was delayed because one of the leaders turned themselves in, so their trial of course opened things up again and delayed Asahara's death.

[Anonymous No.4994153]

>>4993946
Would the average person be able to read one of these books?
And can you elaborate a little on how Shoko Asahara twisted buddhism in order to gather so many cultists?

[Anonymous No.4994852]

Dead thread is dead. Good. These threads are always shit when they pop up

[Anonymous No.4994927]

>>4994852
ur mom is shit.....
lol rekt

[Anonymous No.4994942]

>>4994927
UR WILLY IS RUBBISH

[Anonymous No.4995686]

>>4994153
Learn Japanese to near-adult fluency. Read some books on Aum Shinrikyo in English that give you some of the key terminology.

Shoko Asahara was a very, very typical cult leader. He took part in more than one cult of his time, read very widely and made a decent syncretic theology. He was well versed in Buddhism; they have a photo of him with the Dalai Lama.

There's a lot of little details about their vocabulary which is very buddhist. They misused a lot of words like "shambhala", "om"/"aum", "Mappo" (Kali Yuga), "Vajrayana", etc. I can't remember much of it now but the books are really worth reading.

They were only moderately successful as far as Japanese cults go. Omotokyo, Shukyo Mahikari and Nichiren Shoshu all did a lot better. Aum didn't get the membership Asahara wanted to avert the eschaton, failed to gain seats in the election, and were going to be crushed by the government soon even without attacking (murders, lawsuits, tax evasion, illegal weapons etc). I think Shoko Asahara saw the writing on the wall and that's why he sped up the coming of the eschaton (1999 -> 1995 -> 1994) and the attack.

[Anonymous No.4995710]

Aum books on Japanese amazon. I think these are the ones I read at uni in Japan:

亡国日本の悲しみ―迷妄の魂よ、大悪業の恐怖を知れ

日出づる国、災い近し―麻原彰晃、戦慄の予言

麻原彰晃、戦慄の予言 君は人類最終戦争を生き残れるのか? (麻原彰晃の世界)

Asahara's name is 麻原彰晃 in Japanese, if that helps. They published manga as well but I never read them.

[Anonymous No.4995859]

>>4995686
Nice, thanks for your answer, I find this topic very interesting.
I also meant "would the average japanese person be able to read one of these books", since it's full of terminology that not everyone might be aware of. I'm certainly very, very far away from reading anything in japanese.

[Anonymous No.4997064]

>>4983554
>we enjoy this shit and want to help others enjoy it too
Yet you do nothing for the hobby. You want to eat the fruits but do no work.

[Anonymous No.4997079]

>>4997064
Most people can't or don't contribute to their hobbies, specially one such as this. And they have every right to complain since they enjoy it just as much as everyone else in this thread.

[Anonymous No.4997085]

>>4997064
One, you have no idea who I or any other poster here is, nor any idea what I or anyone else here has done. Two, just because one hasn't the time, resources, or pure luck to find excessively rare things doesn't mean one cannot contribute in other ways.

Consider, for instance, those who assist with creating, maintaining, and improving emulators or engines, and ensuring that they're able to be distributed to and used by those who wish to utilize them. For your information, I personally have assisted with this on several occasions and in several categories.

Or, if you insist in sticking with the physical, remember the tedious efforts of the anon last year or so who shared his rare Japanese Super Mario guidebooks purely because they were fucking awesome. He asked nothing in return but our (You)'s and appreciation, of which he received many and much.

Even the shitposters here sometimes accidentally give good advice, or take mercy on someone who asks for help.

[Anonymous No.4997121]

Weird, never thought my post on the Aum Shinrikyo game would raise such interest and discussion on them. They're a cool topic to research.

Anyway I recently discovered something cool. In 1985 Lucasart, then Lucas Films Games, created Habitat, the first known MMO. Developed for the Commodore 64 it was never officially released but a beta supposedly leaked in 1986. As of now there are plans to try to potentially get it back online.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpulhO3jyc

[Anonymous No.4997338]

>>4997064
How does autisticly hoarding games and only giving them to your private tracker buttbuddies benefit the hobby at large, the only thing you're contributing to is your circle of friends

[Anonymous No.4997667]

>>4997121
Funny enough, it did evolve into weird ass looking Social MMO called Worldsaway and finally vzones

[Anonymous No.4997739]

>>4977858
Those are Fate/ characters, not even lookalikes just straight up the actual characters from the franchise.

[Anonymous No.4997778]

>>4992881
This is the problem I run into. I have a bunch of weird shit on 5.25, but no way to read it

[Anonymous No.4997954]

>>4997739
and Cho Aniki's Samson

[Anonymous No.4998031]

>>4977858
Fakest shit I've ever seen
>literally Saber from FATE
>Cho aniki disc

[Anonymous No.4998049]

>>4974232
Such a shame, I also love og Baroque but playing it in jap is a pain...

[Anonymous No.4998058]

>>4980986
oriental blue on the gba. has a full fan translation but i never hear anyone talk about it. interesting game, too, it's got a weirdness to it like nonlinear storylines and different starting points depending on your character's gender. not retro but it's part of the tengai makyou series.

[Anonymous No.4998085]

>>4998031
>>4997739
i'm pretty sure it's a doujin game and not an actual, like, treasure game

[Anonymous No.4998610]

>tfw finding some good games to play whilst looking for obscure games

[Anonymous No.5000065]

>>4962168
I remember trying to play this and I couldnt get far even with a guide
All the dialogue and weird stuff happening gave me actual headaches when I played it
Legit fucking headaches, and I always felt like my sanity is leaking, it was like being transported to an alien eldritch dimension or something. The language of characters was hard to understand and the landscapes were bizarre

[Anonymous No.5000328]

>>4998610
what gaems did u find

[Anonymous No.5002136]

>>4960904
0/10 Bait.

[Anonymous No.5002480]

>>4997079
>And they have every right to complain since they enjoy it just as much as everyone else in this thread.
They have no right as they do no contribution. You want people to be slaves just so you can get free stuff.

>>4997085
>One, you have no idea who I or any other poster here is,
I do have an idea of who you are. You aren't anyone with anything worthwhile to say. You want free shit, literally a nigger.

[Anonymous No.5002558]

>>5002480
Is he, dare I say, /ourguy/?

[Anonymous No.5003015]

>>5002480
>>And they have every right to complain since they enjoy it just as much as everyone else in this thread.
>They have no right as they do no contribution. You want people to be slaves just so you can get free stuff.

>>One, you have no idea who I or any other poster here is,
>I do have an idea of who you are. You aren't anyone with anything worthwhile to say. You want free shit, literally a nigger.

I guess anything longer than a line is too hard for you to read, so this might be tough, but just so you know, you're kind of a dumbass. I don't even want or care about the particular title in question, but I do contribute, so by your logic I'm entitled anyway. I was pretty sure before, but I am absolutely convinced now that you're just a useless shitposter. Not even a fun one, just the waste-of-space kind.

[Anonymous No.5003603]

>>4995859
No, I imagine that most Japanese people wouldn't know all the terminology he uses. If they were educated in (their own) religious doctrine they might. The key demographic for Aum was 18-30 year olds with science backgrounds.

[Anonymous No.5003616]

>>4988362
Japan has the death penalty and they do a few executions every year. It's just not heavily publicised.

[Anonymous No.5003667]

>>4976280
>Thanks Saint
>Blame one guy for another autist's actions.

[Anonymous No.5004505]

>>5003667
The guy explicitly asked to not share it off of REQUEST FROM THE ORIGINAL CREATORS. He was being a nice enough guy by sharing them in the first place, then this selfish asshole had to go and ruin it, we should be thanking him for saving old games

[Anonymous No.5004559]

>>5004505
Are you actually him? I think that he's a bastard and those games might as well not exist because he's choosing to hold them hostage because of his autistic fuckery.

[Anonymous No.5004656]

>>5004559
You should be THANKING him for fucking FINDING these games you asshole. He's literally saving them from obscurity. The creators DO NOT WANT TO RELEASE THE GAMES YOU IDIOT, if it wasn't for him NOBODY would ever have them, he's being merciful by allowing us to still have access to them if we prove that he can trust us. Which he clearly can't now, because of that idiot Saint

[Anonymous No.5004726]

>>4976646
Your butthole is just the other end of your mouth anon.

[Anonymous No.5004745]

>>5004656
Y-Yeah, w-we should totally kiss his feet because of it haha not that I'd like it or anything

[Anonymous No.5004993]

>>5004656
Trust who? A small circle of asslickers who would constantly stroke his ego to be allowed to play those games so he can lord it over the rest of us about how he and his inner circle would only ever play them?

[Anonymous No.5005340]

>>5004993
What part of THE AUTHORS DIDN'T WANT TO RELEASE THE GAME do you not get? We are fortunate enough that ANYONE ELSE by the creators are getting to play it in the first place due to his skills at finding games and conversing with the creators (Because obviously all of you know fluent English and Japanese)

[Anonymous No.5005885]

>>4965164
oh shit, this was my game back in the day.

[Anonymous No.5005902]

>>5005340
you're retarded or just baiting, he bragged about finding multiple copies of zeddas 3 for like $30 he's just butthurt that he can't sell them for 10x the price anymore. besides who cares about an author's wishes anyway, if some guy tells people to burn some game he made part of 30 years ago no one's going to fucking listen to him

[Anonymous No.5006130]

>>5005902
>he bragged about finding multiple copies of zeddas 3 for like $30
Proof?

[Anonymous No.5006306]

>>4961012
Has anyone here managed to get Kumdol No Ken to work? I don't really have any experience with Macintosh emulation so it's possible I'm just fucking something up but it always says that the disc cannot be read when I try to use it in Basilisk II

[Anonymous No.5006406]

>>5004656
>He's literally saving them from obscurity.
>The creators DO NOT WANT TO RELEASE THE GAMES YOU IDIOT,
hmmmmnmnnnmnmnmnn

[Anonymous No.5006601]

Fuck the original creators. Everything should be shared whether they like it or not.

[Anonymous No.5006724]

>>5006406
He explicitly said he planned on releasing them when the time was right asshole

[Anonymous No.5006725]

Winged Warrior. Downloaded it off AOLs game section over 20 years ago

[Anonymous No.5006730]

>>5006725
Tell me more

[Anonymous No.5006757]

>>5006730
Just play it https://classicreload.com/winged-warrior.html

[Anonymous No.5006781]

>>5006730

I had it too. They're still selling it And I'm tempted to get it.. http://www.datawaregames.com/html/games.htm

Modern Warfare's an interesting one because it copied Famicom Wars years before the series was even released in the West.