Board 8 > Games only you remember

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Obviously a hyperbolic title but let's talk about games you played that no one else talks about, ever.

I used to play, a lot, Hugo's House of Horrors. It was a DOS point and click adventure where you could type stuff, kind of like a Maniac Mansion ripoff. I don't remember how we had the game, let alone a disc containinh like hundreds of games including Hugo 2, Hugo 3, and Hugo 3D. The games were awesone at the time. Hugo 2 was some weird whodunit game while Hugo 3 took place in a jungle. Hugo 3D was a pretty cool Doom knockoff. I have super fond memories of theae games.
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Iggy's Reckin' Balls

From Dust

really great god simulator with super impressive water physics for its time; surprised it never got more attention
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PS2 platformer called Whiplash where you were a weasel chained to a rabbit and you could swing him around as a weapon and power him up and stuff.
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I've never found anyone that remembers "Midnight Hacker" which was a DOS game that my brothers and I played. My parents didn't like it and made us throw it away.
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POD: Planet of Death. Very basic racing game that essentially existed as a tech demo for when the MMX instruction set was new with Pentium processors, and a shareware version of the game was bundled with most Gateway and Dell PCs sold around 1997.

I thought the shareware version was better than the full version of the game because it lacked rubberbanding AI and the tracks were a bit tighter and tougher to learn.
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Top Shop
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Orb-3D

It was an NES game that sorta had a pong mechanic as a base, but rather than just paddling back and forth, you had an objective every level that was often a puzzle of sorts. There was also a fuel gauge and a gas station in space.

I never did beat it, but I was able to make it a fair ways into it back in the day.
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Samurai Western
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Treasure Mountain
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Rolling Ronny
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No One Lives Forever. Best FPS I've ever played.

Splashdown: Rides Gone Wild

One of my favorite racing games ever, and that's saying a lot!
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Warcraft II online
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Michael Jordan's Chaos in the Windy City
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The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang

Vengeful_KBM posted...

No One Lives Forever. Best FPS I've ever played.

This is the only game here I'm certain I remember.
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Snake5555555555 posted...

PS2 platformer called Whiplash where you were a weasel chained to a rabbit and you could swing him around as a weapon and power him up and stuff.

Hated this game soooo much
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Used to be Drakengard. Then the series kept going and going, and now Nier Automata happened, so huge amounts of people at least have heard of Drakengard.
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Sub-Terrania

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoMIRvDTw-w

Music was great.
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League of Pain

My grandmother rented it for me while I was at school. It was so bad that I called to tell her it was stupid. Maybe that hurt her feelings, but to this day it's still the worst game I've ever played.
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Battle Isle

Basically Advance Wars but on DOS and played on a hex grid.
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There was this game called Street Racer for the SNES that in my seven year old head was just as good as Mario Kart but I can't find anyone to agree with me because no one knows what the hell im talking about.
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Shadow Madness - Crazy good PS1 RPG

Swing Away Golf - A PS2 golf game with an RPG-style story mode

And so far everyone has been pretty good in this topic. I don't remember/know any of those games you all mentioned.
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Suprak the Stud posted...

There was this game called Street Racer for the SNES that in my seven year old head was just as good as Mario Kart but I can't find anyone to agree with me because no one knows what the hell im talking about.

Nee and I have both had discussions on the game
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guffguy89 posted...

Shadow Madness - Crazy good PS1 RPG

Swing Away Golf - A PS2 golf game with an RPG-style story mode

And so far everyone has been pretty good in this topic. I don't remember/know any of those games you all mentioned.

I really like Shadow Madness!

I remember it had some weird early level cap though. I feel like I hit it without even really trying with like 40% of the game left to play. It was also directly from the FFVIII era of "nothing looks right and my eyes are bleeding" visuals.
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Little Computer People

The inspiration for The Sims

KCF0107 posted...

Suprak the Stud posted...

There was this game called Street Racer for the SNES that in my seven year old head was just as good as Mario Kart but I can't find anyone to agree with me because no one knows what the hell im talking about.

Nee and I have both had discussions on the game

Can I join this cool people club?
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Skyridge87 posted...

Iggy's Reckin' Balls

good game
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Only if you bring lots of pillows to add to our fort
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Suprak the Stud posted...

There was this game called Street Racer for the SNES that in my seven year old head was just as good as Mario Kart but I can't find anyone to agree with me because no one knows what the hell im talking about.

Holy shit yes this game was better than Mario Kart! I loved the soccer mode which, now that I think about it, was pretty much SNES Rocket League.
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Megaman X: Command Mission, super solid RPG.

I've very rarely seen it brought up anywhere.
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Let's go for a board game.

Yali - You play on a board that's balanced on a fulcrum. You move metal balls from pocket to pocket, and you can move as long as the board is weighted toward you. If the board swings back to your opponent, it becomes their turn to move the balls. The object is to get all eight of your balls to your opponent's end of the board.
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Mickey's Racing Adventure

Actually thought it was decent once I got the hang of it, though then again I was like 8 or something like that?
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Hansel and Gretel the Enchanted Castle for DOS
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Moonbugs (early 80s DOS game)

For years I would search the internet and wikipedia and gameFAQs and literally not find any evidence that the game ever existed. Finally maybe 5 years ago a youtube video (with a spanish video description) showed up so I could prove I'm not crazy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztCp9uthUKA

First game I ever played (at like 3-4 years old I think?) Still holds lots of nostalgia for me.

Also, while I'm sure this is more common, Adventure Island on the Gameboy (1992) I felt was really high quality for a gameboy game at the time.

And even higher on the quality scale (but also better known), there is perhaps the best game on the SNES, Wario's Woods, but I've definitely met other people who've played that, and we bonded about how fucking amazing that game is/was, she busted out her SNES, and we played till 4am.
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LeonhartFour posted...

Michael Jordan's Chaos in the Windy City

Better game than people gave it credit for.





Metamorphic Force? Remember playing this beat em up when I was visiting in Germany, was pretty fun.
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Evil Zone on PS1

It was a very very simple fighting game. Not a great game but it had potential.
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Solioxrz362 posted...

Evil Zone on PS1

It was a very very simple fighting game. Not a great game but it had potential.

It was a simple fighting game that you had to spend a few hours of tutorial to understand half of what the game wanted you to know.

Pretty neat ost though.
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Rule of Rose. I wish more people had played that, never played such a game that just decides to punch you right in the feels
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Lots of master system games from when I was barely a toddler like Alien Syndrome and After Burner
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Streets of Sim City / Sim Copter

Specifically the parts where you could straight up play those games inside your Sim City 2000 cities.

It was incredible, I remember building fucked up bridges everywhere, just so I had more ramps.
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Roll Away, also called Kula World

PS1 puzzle game where you roll a ball around


I've heard of maybe half the games mentioned so far but only played a few of them: Splashdown, Treasure Mountain, Metamorphic Force, and Mega Man X Command Mission
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Troll Island for SNES

I have no idea why but my sister and I rented that game a million times as kids

edit: actually called Super Troll Islands
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Dusty Diamond's All Star Softball
Super James Pond
The Super Aquatic Games staring the Aquabats
The Adventures of Dr. Franken

Funball

A strange board-ish game where you play as one of two colored balls, with the goal of making it across the board to your opponent's base.

Larger balls or balls of the same size could merge with smaller balls, including the enemy's type. But if a smaller ball intentionally jumped into a larger ball, it could make it pop, sometimes surviving with a little bit of itself left.

The odd thing is, I remember it having music, but there's no actual music. My memories are just mixing things up.

There's also some games I remember from my very early childhood that I don't know of now, including one game whose only detail I remember being rainbow neon lines and structuring them somehow? or it might've been a screensaver, I don't remember and I'm scared I never will. There was also an ASCII-style Hobbit game that played a bit like Kingdom of Kroz but more scene-based. Unfortunately I think that game might've been an indie game and all records of it might be lost forever.
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Skyridge87 posted...

Iggy's Reckin' Balls

Enjoyed this a lot!



Johnbobb posted...

From Dust

really great god simulator with super impressive water physics for its time; surprised it never got more attention

Just played a few levels the other day! It was a lot of fun rerouting a river, I just need to actually beat more levels.



NBIceman posted...

Megaman X: Command Mission, super solid RPG.

I've very rarely seen it brought up anywhere.

I wanted to get into this, but couldn't. Oh well.



ShadowYosuke posted...

Super James Pond

Game Gear game I think, right? Peetty sure I played some of this.
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Another one I remember was some astronomy/constellation game or something. I don't remember much about it.

The thing is, whenever I think about it, this music plays in my head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTDcpK7rgZc

And I want to say it had music similar to this, but at the same time, it could be just my memories merging together, like with Funball having music that it didn't really have.
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Bugdom.
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ShadowYosuke posted...

The Super Aquatic Games staring the Aquabats
The Adventures of Dr. Franken

Kinda crazy you mentioned both of these, they're my go-tos for topics like this. I actually liked them both quite a lot too, the music in Dr. Franken was great.
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