Board 8 > Games only you remember

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bryans7 posted...

One of the handful of Nintendo games to never get any remakes or sequels (beyond the original NES sequel) or anything that I can think of.

I think you'd be surprised how many there really are
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Odell Lake
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Like azuarc I was gaming prior to the 90s so I remember some of the games he listed. I also remember Kula World and Hard Drivin from the games mentioned.

As for me, Nightbreed: The Interactive Movie for the Amiga 500 (I am the creator of the sole longplay for this game on youtube)

Also Moon Patrol for the Atari 2600
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Oh man I just remembered an old PC game I played the fuck out of

Epic Pinball

It had like 12 different pinball tables and they were all really fun, probably still the best pinball game I've ever played

ESWAT and Eternal Champions are probably the two most niche games I've ever played.
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Jeff Zero posted...

ESWAT and Eternal Champions are probably the two most niche games I've ever played.

I love Eternal Champions. The 'fatalaties' were awesome!
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Oh yeah, I saw Joel of Vinesauce stream Eternal Champions the other day. Ridiculously brutal fatalities.
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Eternal Champions for Sega CD was one of the few "Okay this is actually really good" games on the system
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Paratroopa1 posted...

Oh man I just remembered an old PC game I played the fuck out of

Epic Pinball

It had like 12 different pinball tables and they were all really fun, probably still the best pinball game I've ever played

We had Epic Pinball make an appearance in Best OST 3, where it shocked the world by beating Chrono Cross in round 1. (Excalibur's music was serious business.)

While we're talking shareware, here's a few other titles:

Raptor - Call of the Shadows
Dark Ages
Captain Comic (which I believe was a port from somewhere else, but I didn't know that at the time)
Tyrian (which is relatively well-known, but dearly beloved and I still have to mention)
Bouncing Babies
Test Drive

Also, let's talk classic arcade. Anyone remember Pango? I remember Pango, and I'm surprised I never hear it referenced. I thought it was right up there with Q-Bert.
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azuarc posted...

Captain Comic (which I believe was a port from somewhere else, but I didn't know that at the time)

another one i remember!

it was also an unlicensed NES game, but that was actually the port rather than the other way round.
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I just remembered Cyber Storm, an RTS for PC with mechs. Liked that a lot growing up, but can no longer confirm if it was actually any good or not.
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Jeff Gordon XS Racing
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The first two games I ever played: Ducks Ahoy on Commodore 64 and Mouse Stampede on the original Macintosh.
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C64:
Donald's Playground
Beach Head
Match Wits
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Riviera: The Promised Land

Golden Sun and Fire Emblem get a lot of attention for being great GBA RPGs, but Riviera should be right up there. Great characters, great story, great gameplay, it's got it all. The boss battle theme is still stuck in my head after all these years.
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I bought that game like a decade ago and still haven't played it
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A more contemporary, non-PC option that probably some people HAVE played but:

Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution

This is a fantastic game, and considering it's a GC game I don't know how it flew so under the radar - it remains probably my favorite deck building game ever, and it has a great soundtrack (I know it was in some vgmusic contests and stuff but I think I nominated it - I dunno how many people have actually played it)

Paratroopa1 posted...

A more contemporary, non-PC option that probably some people HAVE played but:

Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution

This is a fantastic game, and considering it's a GC game I don't know how it flew so under the radar - it remains probably my favorite deck building game ever, and it has a great soundtrack (I know it was in some vgmusic contests and stuff but I think I nominated it - I dunno how many people have actually played it)

I have.

I enjoyed it but could never focus on it long enough to actually beat either story.
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Big Bob posted...

Riviera: The Promised Land

https://lparchive.org/Riviera-The-Promised-Land/

Another for C64:
Matterhorn Screamer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvxMkQ4iAbM

This was one of, possibly the, first platformers I ever played. I remember later going over to my friend's house and playing Super Mario Bros. 2, and thinking it was weird that when I walked up to the edge of a platform and pressed jump, it didn't automatically carry me to the next platform like this game.
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Kid Chameleon
Power Rangers Movie: The Video Game
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For the longest time I've been trying to hunt down a PC game my cousin used to play when I was a kid. It must've been in the mid 90s, and you played as an F-zero type looking car, moving forward in 3D space like Crash Bandicoot, jumping from platform to platform and dodging pitfalls. It had crazy techno/electric rock music. It seemed kind of pixelated. It was a speedrunners game for sure, you tried to get to the end of the level as fast as you could.

If anyone could help me find this game, I would die a happy man.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (GBA)

Amazing turn based strategy, though rough around the edges
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wg64Z posted...

For the longest time I've been trying to hunt down a PC game my cousin used to play when I was a kid. It must've been in the mid 90s, and you played as an F-zero type looking car, moving forward in 3D space like Crash Bandicoot, jumping from platform to platform and dodging pitfalls. It had crazy techno/electric rock music. It seemed kind of pixelated. It was a speedrunners game for sure, you tried to get to the end of the level as fast as you could.

If anyone could help me find this game, I would die a happy man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZqlPF8Opo

Would SkyRoads be what you're looking for?
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BowserCuffs posted...

wg64Z posted...

For the longest time I've been trying to hunt down a PC game my cousin used to play when I was a kid. It must've been in the mid 90s, and you played as an F-zero type looking car, moving forward in 3D space like Crash Bandicoot, jumping from platform to platform and dodging pitfalls. It had crazy techno/electric rock music. It seemed kind of pixelated. It was a speedrunners game for sure, you tried to get to the end of the level as fast as you could.

If anyone could help me find this game, I would die a happy man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJZqlPF8Opo

Would SkyRoads be what you're looking for?

Dear. God. I love you. This is 100% it.
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Gatarix posted...

So there was this math game on the school computer in kindergarten. You were an adventurer fighting your way through an evil castle. If you lost all your health, you would get captured and put in this tower in a slowly descending elevator; and you had to solve math problems as quickly as possible to get free before the elevator reached the bottom and you died.

Can't remember the name of it. It was on a big floppy disk though.

KingBartz posted...

Crystal Caves
Hocus Pocus

I played these!

Mega Mana posted...

Exile: Crystal Souls / Avernum

Exile II used to be easily a top 10 game for me. Probably still top 20. (Also it's kind of where my username comes from - I made it up for one of my party members)

:D

Exile II was amazing. I miss the six member team that Avernum doesn't implement.
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eaedwards6400 posted...

Power Rangers Movie: The Video Game

I had this one.
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Monster Bash for the DOS. Amazing game.

Altma15 posted...

Monster Bash for the DOS. Amazing game.

I *think* I remember that? Although what I remember wasn't so amazing, so maybe that was a different Monster Bash.
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http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/14982/910771-super_solvers___midnight_rescue_1.png

Super Solvers. The screenshot is from the first one in the series, but the one I specifically played when I was 5 was called OutNumbered!
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

anyone remember those freeware lenny loosejocks games you could play on shockwave.com? played those a lot as a kid.

"I'm your great great great great great great..."

5 minutes later

"great great great great grandson. LEROY Loosejocks!"

"You solved the puzzle of Pullyapantsup! You can do anything!"

The dog was, like so many dogs in video games, the best part about it.

In that vein, I have a lot of fond memories of Arcane and Steppenwolf, two flash point-click adventures by Sarbakan. Man, they were tough but so much fun. I also remember a kind-of point and click game online with the main character named Ryo or something and there were a ton of huge-breasted anime women. It might have been an H-game, but I don't think you ever actually saw anything nude. But man, I loved the music in that game.

Also Riviera was awesome.

ALSO Summon Night: Swordcraft Story. Pretty much the only dungeon crawler I love, and man do I love it to bits and pieces.
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+1 for Riviera

iirc it came out late in the GBA's life and not a lot of copies were made. Definitely enjoyed the hell out of it though. And it did end up being released on PSP as well. Honestly the system of navigating the areas and using points earned in battle to investigate things was soooooo much better than running around the entire edge of every screen spamming the "interact" button like you end up doing in most RPGs.

also my old gamefaqs account and first main in WoW share a name inspired from that game (Einrose)
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Riviera was amazing. It took risks and I've not seen anything else like it.

Anyways, my game is Rakugaki Showtime on the PS1. If anyone's played the less obscure Poy Poy 2, it's basically that game, except instead of running around and throwing stuff with realistic physics you're doing it in a far flashier anime version. Oh and every character is a literal hand-drawn scribble (that's what Rakugaki means: Graffiti), so its like it gives this Children's Drawing Fantasy aesthetic where all these cool and crazy characters are fighting each other. There's even a Master Hand in this game that draws the characters. And a Cloud lookalike.

Another often forgotten game is Sands of Destruction on the NDS. It is often overlooked by Radiant Historia, the *real* hidden gem of the handheld. Of course, SoD is not without its flaws such as its completely defective battle system and terrible pacing. But it's more of a game you play for the story. From the moment the story starts after the obligatory first dungeon, the game is already trying to be In Your Face by wiping out your hometown via YOUR own hands, including your benevolent mentor, your mom, and every friendly NPC in sight and it's hilariously played for laughs! It is also the only JRPG I know where every character you play is using unconventional weaponry.
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Wetrix.
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Huff n puff 20 posted...

Wetrix.

This game was pretty fun. I hated that a memory pack was required for records, though.

EDIT: For the N64 version, I mean. Just checked and saw that there were other versions of the game.
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DeathChicken posted...

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

I bought it, never played it, and made a bunch of money on eBay last year when I sold it.

Simoun posted...

Riviera was amazing. It took risks and I've not seen anything else like it.

I've got it. It's on my "to play" list... someday, like dozens of other games.

Another often forgotten game is Sands of Destruction on the NDS. It is often overlooked by Radiant Historia, the *real* hidden gem of the handheld. Of course, SoD is not without its flaws such as its completely defective battle system and terrible pacing. But it's more of a game you play for the story. From the moment the story starts after the obligatory first dungeon, the game is already trying to be In Your Face by wiping out your hometown via YOUR own hands, including your benevolent mentor, your mom, and every friendly NPC in sight and it's hilariously played for laughs! It is also the only JRPG I know where every character you play is using unconventional weaponry.

That, too, is on my "to play" list. Sitting on my shelf right now.

Esuriat posted...

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/14982/910771-super_solvers___midnight_rescue_1.png

Super Solvers. The screenshot is from the first one in the series, but the one I specifically played when I was 5 was called OutNumbered!

Played all those old Early Learning Company games. The weird one imo was Rocky's Boots. They were actually trying to teach kids electrical circuits?

As for Tetris games, I played all the official spin-off games -- Welltris, Faces, and Wordtris.
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That's actually pretty cool. And maybe not so unusual. I think it was part of the "gifted" program in my elementary school, but I remember learning the basics of electric circuits and logic gates and all of that.

I think I played some other Learning Company games, too, but I'd have to do some digging to find out exactly which ones.
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Oh yeah, another PC game that I loved as a kid but have never heard anyone mention was Star Wars Droidworks
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LordoftheMorons posted...

Oh yeah, another PC game that I loved as a kid but have never heard anyone mention was Star Wars Droidworks

I remember this game

I played outnumbered when I was a kid
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Anyone ever play Rise of the Dragon? I could never get anywhere in that game when I was a kid but the aesthetic was cool.
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Until this contest, I thought I was the only one that played The Guardian Legend. That game was so good, like a futuristic Zelda combined with shooting stages.

Also, a couple other NES game: Cobra Triangle and Tiger-Heli.

All you folks talking about Riviera do know there are more games in that series right? They all play extremely differently and the games have only a few story connections to each other, but just like Riviera they all do highly unique things.

Yggdra Union
Knights in the Nightmare
Gungnir

The developer Sting has a few other neat RPGs like Treasure Hunter G and Baroque.
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I should also add a couple of the first PC games that I played: Twinsen's Oddysey, and The Starship Titanic. From what I recall, they would probably be quite dull today. But this was me owning my first computer so they seemed to have awesome atmosphere. The latter was a complete point-and-click adventure on a ship that revolves around solving puzzles. No action at all.

I remember the former having cool music, but iffy controls.

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Yggdra Union

Going to poke at your "no one has heard of this" and go one step deeper with Blaze Union (Which to be fair never came out in English)
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Sim Copter
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azuarc posted...

Altma15 posted...

Monster Bash for the DOS. Amazing game.

I *think* I remember that? Although what I remember wasn't so amazing, so maybe that was a different Monster Bash.

You play a kid in pajamas with a slingshot and you go around killing monsters and saving kidnapped pets. It's just a fun 2D shooter type of game with cool levels and design. Though I guess I don't know if it's considered good or not because I've never known anyone who played it. But I find it quite fun.

SupremeZero posted...

WazzupGenius00 posted...

Yggdra Union

Going to poke at your "no one has heard of this" and go one step deeper with Blaze Union (Which to be fair never came out in English)

well I wasn't really listing those as "games you've never heard of" (though that's likely true for the majority) but just listing them for those Riviera fans above. And we can go even deeper than that with Gloria Union or Yggdra Unison!
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