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Psycho Fox A Sega Master System side scroller. Played this a lot with my brother. We beat the game several times and that seemed like a big accomplishment at the time.  The music is nostalgic: http://youtu.be/VgJNaLo2uH4 ZZT MS-DOS ANSI based game maker sort of deal.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZT Steel Empire- Strategy side by side mech-combat thing(or something)  Archon Ultra- Hex grid turn based fantasy combat thing  Scorched Earth- I think it's rather well known maybe? It's the only game the computer came with and we had to run it from visual-basic compiler or some poo poo. It's like Worms but with tank things.  I also remember Dangerous Dave and Alley Cat was very popular here.
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Hellbeard posted:Scorched Earth-
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For me the game would have to be boogerman for the Sega Genesis. Mom brought it home with a bunch of other games after going to a church sale I think. She realized pretty quickly that it wasn't an appropriate game for me at my age but gently caress was it fascinating. you killed creatures by farting or spitting on them and basically all the levels were in the sewer. It was pretty gross but my little kid mind loved it.
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Suicide Sam E. posted:You didn't like Sanders' Poultry Eliminator? that only sounds vaguely familiar. is that a side quest where you have to kill chickens or something? i get the joke, either way Hellbeard posted:ZZT zzt had a pretty active community due to the game editor for a while on irc in the 2000's but i had absolutely nothing to do with it and never attempted to make any games for it so i dont know much about that at all
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Wicker Man posted:For content, I played some game on the NES that involved some doctor guy and moving pipes. There was an alternate game mode where he sleep walks and you gotta guide him to safety. I don't think this was answered, but the game is Gyromite. http://youtu.be/i9IOnosRPvU
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thanks a lot i've been wanting to find this game for a while god bless gbs
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i had one crappy shovelware cd with shareware and demos, sadly it was filled with some lame card games, but it had bio menace, jazz jackrabbit and blackthorne so it wasn't complete waste lost clown  it was weird rear end platform game, but the coding was so poor it was basically turn based, no smooth animation, the clown was just instantly changing it's position on the screen hurl  i remember it being described in launcher as "kiddy's doom". the characters in this one were creepy as all hell, they look like something made of clay, with weird shading and poo poo
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Hellbeard posted:I also remember Dangerous Dave and Alley Cat was very popular here. i dont think anyone actually made alley cat, it just appeared one day on a floppy disk and was passed around all over the world
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Hellbeard posted:Scorched Earth- We used to play this in University while pre drinking before going out to parties and stuff. It was an amazing game and back in that day one of the few multiplayer hot seat games going that would support like 8 players. There was no network in the dorm back then.The customizations available were amazing. For people of a certain vintage it's a huge game.
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Also, still pretty fun.
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BBC micro in the early 90s made me fall in love with gaming    Granny's Garden was our Majora's Mask
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Baldies Quenzar's Caverns (been looking for this game for years but I've only re-found the name of it now) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gRW5SF1mbg Stonemist 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk-PvYQ_C1Q Ancients 1: Deathwatch  Hero's Heart  There's also this weird game that's a trivia board game, where you have to get your ship from the start to the end before your opponents do, and by answering trivia you gain bonuses like more rations and stuff. I believe there is also some money management involved as you buy cannons and rations.
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Bregor posted:Hell yeah, I had that game. I actually went back and tried to play it a couple years ago and it was pretty loving hard. I was still learning how to read when I played this. I just loved how the archers would take down so many of the slow guys, and was confused when I didn't win each battle by choosing random options.
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I drank some milo and sent in a label and got this http://www.mobygames.com/game/milo-the-fuel-run
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr37djiO4HA Imogen was the mother loving poo poo
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Here's two obscure ones I repeatedly smashed my head against. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-KbUeGReq8 Demon's Forge. This guy is a bit obnoxious. This game was absolutely loving brutal. It was picky with what words it would accept under specific conditions and everything wanted to kill you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4O_38-tATM http://www.myabandonware.com/game/the-mist-4x The Mist. An old text adventure that was a ton of fun but, again, brutally difficult. The days before hint books!
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lonesomedwarf posted:i had a shareware copy of one game that had randomly generated dungeons which i played a lot, i can't remember the name but i keep thinking it was something like descent or depths, its probably not though. it was supposed to be scifi in the sense that you were exploring underground in some planet, but the thing that kept killing me was that you only had a limited amount of oxygen and when you ran out you died. there were mushrooms or something that you could use to get more oxygen, i think. i had a hex editor and went through changing certain values that were "01" to "00" until i found the one that modified the oxygen value and i got pretty far with it then. i thought that was pretty resourceful for a 10 year old but unfortunately ive never done anything as clever as that since. Both of these owned. The first one is called Reaping the Dungeon. About ten years go i went back and completed the registered version, but it was also disappointing--it advertised like 60 levels compared to the 15 in the shareware version, but it did not add anything close to 4x as much content, so it was just a boring slog. Sadly a lot of shareware games did that. FIVE THOUSAND NEW LEVELS (that are all slight variations on the same thing, or huge empty boxes with cute names, and maybe 2 that are the same quality as the shareware levels.)
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I am Toni Lippi posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_QqM7yiPIQ Have a look who did the sound design Dennis Dyack I was just scrubbing through the video and caught it like hepatitis from a toilet seat. For me it's c-12 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvH967MQ6ec I had to look up all the games listed on wikipedia until I found the description that matched it was so boring and forgettable. I think it scored 90% in a British gaming mag and considering it's a British company, maybe Gamergate was involved... Lonos Oboe fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Nov 1, 2014 |
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Claven666 posted:
Good lord, thank you for reminding me about this game. Edit: All the characters are named Microwave and Lunch Box and poo poo, totally didn't remember that being a thing. That music though. hellotoothpaste fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Nov 1, 2014 |
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Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure!  This came loaded on a computer that someone gave to my family when I was 8. It was amazing and I haven't found a single other person who's heard of it.
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Goosed it. posted:Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure!
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Gabriel Pope posted:Reaping the Dungeon yeah that was it. i searched and found a site where you can download that and some others, but i dont know if its  or not. some of these other ones brought back memoriesDigger, i loving loved this when i was like, i dont know 5  Aldo's Adventure  Stunts  God of Thunder  Hexxagon  Jetpack  i also remembered Street Rod which was loving amazing and i usually play it once every couple of years. i searched for it and someone released a version with extra cars or some poo poo this year. sounds a bit dodgy but im about to try it at 1:51 in the morning because i have no life i will report back
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Goosed it. posted:Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure! ha ha yeah i remember that. i am getting some serious nostalgia from this thread
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i played that, cool whimsical platdormer Not very obscure though
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this guy owns the copyright for street rod and street rod 2 since 2012 and is working on Street Rod Online or something i dont know, sounds cool if its true, anyway the game works and the cars are different. its called Street Rod SE if you're interested edit: theres a twitter thing with updates and its on facebook too apparently https://twitter.com/StreetRodOnline lonesomedwarf fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Nov 1, 2014 |
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Goosed it. posted:Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure!
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My favorite obscure Atari 800 games were Pharaoh's Curse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oezBzU6PpRg Fort Apocalypse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK7Nj-8BON0 and Necromancer, easily one of the weirdest games ever. In level 1 you grow trees, in level 2 you go into these catacombs where you use the trees to crush spider eggs, then in level 3 you collect headstones in a graveyard and fight the Necromancer. They really don't make them like this anymore. Unfortunately, the guy in this video has some decent strategies worked out. It's more fun to watch someone flail their way through this game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnc3vI0fgJA and the theme music for Necromancer is awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txu94t2DzHM
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Here is a spooky halloween game. I played the poo poo out of this as a kid, it was one of the better LCD games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDlKgneJ5Hk Then there was Merv the Merciless which sadly has no video on youtube.  I think it came free with a magazine. If you have an Amiga emulator, give it a try. Probably the most frustrating game ever. I often came close, but never quite beat it. You just have to stay on the screen, but it scrolls around randomly changing direction so you have to move around to keep up. There is Nosh (food) and Dosh (money) you need to not starve until the timer runs out, and when it does run out you need to have collected enough dosh to buy the chainsaw to beat the end boss. If you played it safe you survived the timer, but didn't have enough dosh, but if you went after the high risk Dosh, it was usually down a dead end, and the scroll direction change would kill you.
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lonesomedwarf posted:that only sounds vaguely familiar. is that a side quest where you have to kill chickens or something? i get the joke, either way i got pretty obsessively involved in the zzt community in the late 90s as a depressed teen. put out a few games..... and i made these comics that were PUBLISHED on zzt.org http://www.autofish.net/video_games/creation/zzt/nomad_comics.html     
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yesssss this was impossible for me and still extremely my jam when I was very young other games I haven't seen mentioned yet that I would cut a bitch to play again: - some weird castle-exploration game that came with one of the Encarta CD sets - this horrible Nerf game that I think was just a reskin of Doom with Nerf guns and psychedelic colors and poo poo - Elroy Goes Bugzerk. I thought I hallucinated this for a solid decade because no one, even my family members, recalled it - these educational-ish games called like... "The Backyard" and "The Playroom" I think? were these common? I just remember learning about quails in an alphabet series and rolling my eyes because they clearly couldn't come up with much for the letter Q, but apparently it worked because I still remember that to this day, so uh... good job, lovely educational game? I had extremely poor taste in games as a child, which is probably why I now have extremely poor taste in games as an adult!!
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 The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary  Uncomfortably creepy art design that probably jammed my subconscious up somehow as a child. Apparently it can be downloaded from that abandonia link, but I strongly recommend against that.
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Anyone else play this poo poo?
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a starwar betamax posted:i got pretty obsessively involved in the zzt community in the late 90s as a depressed teen. put out a few games..... and i made these comics that were PUBLISHED on zzt.org i knew all this crap was vaguely familiar until i found you also made seiklus you also have good taste in mod music
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FactsAreUseless posted:This is actually one of Apogee's better-known games other than Commander Keen and Duke Nukem. did anyone play apogee's hocus pocus, probably one of the first plfatformers i finished
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Phlegmish posted:did anyone play apogee's hocus pocus, probably one of the first plfatformers i finished 
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Twelve by Pies posted:I don't remember the game at all but I remember that gameplay screen so I must have played it at some point. I came here to post this. Me and my best friend played the hell out of all 3 games when we were small.
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