I remember playing this game until you get to the part where the murderer chases you with that giant bat or whatever. I was 10 years old and was too scared to finish it
First gory game I ever played. Proboably traumatized me pretty hard when i was young.
You can still download the demo, but I cannot get it working in DOS. I'd be able to play it, but my dad put an axe through our old Compaq laptop that i used to play it on.
Fuckin XP...
Oh hell, I've never played it. But I do see it at the computer store I go to and I half assed tempted to buy it. But I don't think it runs on XP.
Dear god, it needs to be XBLA. or a modern remake. CHRIST IT LOOKS AWESOME.
Do the games have to ancient AND obscure, or just one? Cause under the ancient category (well old, not quite ancient) I'd have to give a nod to Shogo: Mobile Armour Division.
DAMN YOU!
Another game I see at the computer shop I go to. I might get it. Is there any Fan Patches for this game so it can run on XP?
I've been addicted lately to hard-to-find PC games. Please post your old favorites! Most of mine are from when I was a kid or things that I found in the discount bin at CompUSA five years ago. The best part is that now you can download most of them for free. They're stupid, they have crappy graphics, and I love them. Castle of the Winds (Windows ?)
This game is my memory of the first time I found out that other people thought RPGs were way nerdy. Ahh, 1995. It's a very graphically challenged RPG with bonus points for being one of the first games I ever played where I got to choose to play a female. Link
Published in '89, it was basically the grandfather of it's much prettier offspring Diablo.
Also, I have many a fond memory of the Commander Keen series. All hail the Dopefish.
There were also some pretty cool secrets in OMF2097. There was a code to unlock a menu to fiddle with certain settings. There was also a code to cause way more shrapnel to fall upon hits that really made the game incredible when maxed out (I think it involved holding down R+A+I+N+a number from 1-0, with 0 being the highest, if I remember correctly). There were also 2 hidden levels and bosses, Fire and Ice. I only ever could get Fire to appear. Not to mention all of the hidden challengers. Really a great game. I may have to give it another spin.
The best secret was probably the alternate combo system, where instead of the hardcoded combos you could combo someone as long as your move
a) connected and
b) you hadn't hit them with that move yet.
I loved that game, even if I sucked at it horrible.
I... I also loved the 3d spiritual successor, despite its many flaws.
I remember playing this game until you get to the part where the murderer chases you with that giant bat or whatever. I was 10 years old and was too scared to finish it
I managed to finish it, but got frustrated when the game punished me for using the usual Sierra tactics (examine and pick up everything) and gave me the worst ending for my tampering.
I should go back and try to be a good investigator.
I recently replayed Simon the Sorcerer, it's so slow and not half as amusing as I remembered. Having Chris Barrie (sp?) voice Simon was fun though, and the main reason I bought it (for CD32 no less!). Other games:
Goblins, Gobliins 2
Creatures 2 (ok, it was C64 but DAMN IT, IT'S MY FAVOURITE GAME EVER!)
Dreamweb (I just liked it as a kid because it had gore and sex)
Moonstone
4d Sports Racing (I think that was the title, the track editor on it was superb!...for the time. Actually I think this got called just "Stunts" earlier on in the thread.)
FX Fighter (I probably remember this being better than it was)
Fatal Racing, unlocking the extra set of tracks felt great! ANd then there was the super weird set of tracks you could switch to with a cheat.
Screamer, Screamer 2 and Screamer Rally - I always feel compelled to dig out my CD's and go back to these but the lack of a gamepad stops me. The original was made to rival ridge racer and then the other two really really improved things.
Life and Death - I think that was the title. Very fun.
Stunt Driver, or maybe Stunt Car Racer - I had it on pc, you drove on a very narrow track high up in the air. Great 3d graphics for the time.
Syndicate (and syndicate wars) - Again, played on the amiga but still cool.
Wing Commander 1 and 2 - Not obscure but fun.
Lost Vikings - Dunno if this hit PC but it was definitely out on Amiga
Not sure if this counts as old and obscure, but I pumped so many hours into the first Discworld game! I remember buying my first copy at pc world, getting it home, installing it, and the text was all in german. I took it back, exchanged the copy, and the same problem. German Discworld.
I can't remember how I eventually got a proper copy, but once I did, there was no stopping me.
Again, hardly obscure, but the first Settlers game ^_^
I got into the board game and then 40K because of this game. A fairly accurate real-time adaptation of the (version 1) board game rules. Freaking hard. Sometimes you come up with a perfect plan and have everyone in exactly the right place, but Genestealers still manage to rush through a hail of storm bolter fire and eat all your Space Marines. Great atmosphere, too, probably the only one to have the brooding, pre-commercial success era vibe. The sequel sucked, though.
Holy crap, yes! I totally forgot about Space Hulk.
Not all obscure or classics and lots of them have been mentioned already. They were so fun as a kid though : )
jazz jackrabbit II
kens labyrinth
Dogs or Dogs of War? co-op was awesome
hocus pocus
Lamborghini American Challenge
Zorro
lost vikings
Thor: God of Thunder
Duke Numkem II
Blackthorne
Bio Menace
Blake Stone
Halloween Harry
Sky Roads
Raptor
Chex Quest
Hugo's House of Horrors 1-3
Terminal Velocity
Rise of the Triad
Out of this World
Sango Fighter
Slipstream 5000
Screamer
Alien Trilogy
All the quest for glory and kings quest games.
Aces over Europe
and why hasn't anyone remade Tie Fighter? Only the freespace games came close to tie fighters awesomeness.
I don't understand why the space sim genre is so dead : (
and why hasn't anyone remade Tie Fighter? Only the freespace games came close to tie fighters awesomeness.
I don't understand why the space sim genre is so dead : (
Space sims are dead because Freespace 2 was the perfect space sim. And it didn't sell for shit.
Oh yes, Super Solvers kicked ass back in the day ;]
FUCK YES!
I sucked at the games when I was a kid but I loved them!
oooooo.....
Hugo's Adventures... Jill of the Jungle... Thor: God of Thunder... Halloween Harry... Decent... 3D Movie Maker (kinda was a game if you went around finding tickets...
I was coming in here to suggest 3D Movie Maker, so consider it seconded. BTW, there was also a Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker, but unless you could do perfect impresonations of the characters, the included audio clips were useless.
I had friends sleep over often. When they would, we'd pair off in two-man movie-making crews. While the others were playing Nintendo 64 (just launched), the first two would create a movie and later "premier" it to the others. Then it'd be time for the next two participants and we'd start the cycle over. It became an attempt one-up the last two in humor or vulgarity. Good times!
I remember when we figured out that text box "censor bars" could help us make it more vulgar than the dancing animations alone allowed.
and why hasn't anyone remade Tie Fighter? Only the freespace games came close to tie fighters awesomeness.
I don't understand why the space sim genre is so dead : (
Space sims are dead because Freespace 2 was the perfect space sim. And it didn't sell for shit.
PC games that require a joystick (i.e., space action games and mecha games) are all kind of moribund, since the number of people with gaming-capable computers has shot way, way past the subset with joysticks since the days of DOS. There have been kind of a lot of second or third rate space games released in the last few years, though. Nothing on the scale of Freespace, X-Wing, Independence War or Wing Commander, but quite a few along the lines of Tachyon or Starlancer.
Well, I guess X3 was pretty ambitious.
Space combat games that came out in the last half year:
DIRK SMALLWOOD was one of the funniest and more engaging rpgs I have ever played. And it was free! Or sherware... either way it was really cheap. And Fun!
Yeah, they're the same crew that LORD. Oh, and it's 'Dink Smallwood'. I've got a signed copy of Dink around here somewhere. You can get it free at www.rtsoft.com I think.
People have mentioned so many great games I've played in the past... Wasteland was probably my all time favorite. Here's one I didn't see mentioned yet.
I absolutely loved this game, but I'll be damned if I can get it running now at any acceptable speed under DosBox.
It runs great in .70. Are you using the newest version of DOSbox?
Apparently I wasn't. So now it runs at a decent speed, but another problem has cropped up: my joystick isn't working. I can configure it when I first run the game, but afterwards I can't use it for anything. And if I try to use the mouse, it's constantly dragging the cursor towards the top-left corner of the screen.
Catacomb Abyss: Sort of a predecessor to Doom (I think, I can't remember which came out first).
Continuum (also known as Alpha Waves): It's...well, I'm not really sure how to describe it. I think you'd have to play it for yourself.
I'm still waiting for the final part Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy.
Obsidian: A point-and-click adventure game that was a total mindfuck and showed some truly brilliant artists and game designers. It's like playing an Escher painting. Difficult to get running in XP, if you can even find it, but a total trip if you can.
So... nobody can hook me up with any Spaceward Ho!?
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Ancient, yes they are now. Obscure, maybe not so much. But these are games that I've played and have that warm fuzzy feeling for.
Indycar Racing by Papyrus (1993)
The followup to their Indy 500 sim, Papyrus' ICR was my first racing sim. I spent many hours behind the wheel of these open wheel beasts, racing the likes of Mario Andretti. It was amazing. I wish I still had it.
Grand Prix 2 (1996)
My second racing sim, and honestly my first exposure to Formula One. Growing up in NASCAR country I didn't know much about F1. I learned fast. GP2 remains to this day one of the best F1 games made, and I wisely kept my copy. I currently have it installed and running on my XP machine through the wonders of QEmu and FreeDOS.
NASCAR Racing 2 by Papyrus (1996)
I missed out on the original NASCAR racing, but I managed to pick up NR2. I spent many hours turning left, 'nuff said there. The addition of an in-game paintshop allowed me to create as many cars as my mind could dream up.
Fatal Racing (aka Whiplash) (1995)
Insane stunt racing, exploding cars, LAN support and it only required one CD on the host machine for 16 players in the computer lab at my college to rev it up! What more do I need to say here?
Grand Prix Legends (1998)
1998 really isn't that ancient, not even ten years. The game was obscure early on though, as sales figures were horrible. Now, though, the game is universally recognized as one of the finest racing simulations ever made, period. I still have my copy, and I never was able to master the technique of driving in this game. I still love it though. Fanmade mods keep the game alive even to this day.
Tek War
Lousy first person shooter based on the novels, which I read. I loved the game though, because at the time I didn't know any better. I never beat the game, by the way.
Subspace, now Continuum. Specifically Trench Wars. Nothing like dogfighting in a ship that takes thirty seconds to 180 and can only shoot every 5 seconds. (Leviathans 4 life).
Aw man, Raptor was awesome. The best part was that there were a large number of configuration options for loading out your jet. Once you started rolling in the cash it got pretty crazy.
Still one of the best games I have ever played. It is a point and click adventure with amazing setting (same as the movie but with different characters, locations although there are plenty that appear in both), excellent storyline which has similar themes to the movie yet different, branching paths and multiple endings which are genuinely different based on your actions (not just a good and bad ending), great voice acting, I could probably go on for a while.....
Oh and remember the Voigt-Kampff test and the image analyzing from the movie...... you get to do both.
........ except for the fact all my oxen would die, or some dumb bitch would get poisoned, or drown in the river
im trying to remember one game i used to really enjoy as a kid, all i remember is it was a shitty (by todays standards) FMV type adventure game, with dinosaurs i think, and i remember at the end you fight some boss that shoots fire balls at you and you drop down and go around the platform and grab this cube... thats all i really remember from that game
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I remember playing this game until you get to the part where the murderer chases you with that giant bat or whatever. I was 10 years old and was too scared to finish it
Oh hell, I've never played it. But I do see it at the computer store I go to and I half assed tempted to buy it. But I don't think it runs on XP.
Dear god, it needs to be XBLA. or a modern remake. CHRIST IT LOOKS AWESOME.
DAMN YOU!
Another game I see at the computer shop I go to. I might get it. Is there any Fan Patches for this game so it can run on XP?
Too bad this game was overshadowed by HALF-LIFE.
Crusader: No Regret should run pretty nice in DOSBox now.
Published in '89, it was basically the grandfather of it's much prettier offspring Diablo.
Also, I have many a fond memory of the Commander Keen series. All hail the Dopefish.
a) connected and
b) you hadn't hit them with that move yet.
I loved that game, even if I sucked at it horrible.
I... I also loved the 3d spiritual successor, despite its many flaws.
I should go back and try to be a good investigator.
I recently replayed Simon the Sorcerer, it's so slow and not half as amusing as I remembered. Having Chris Barrie (sp?) voice Simon was fun though, and the main reason I bought it (for CD32 no less!). Other games:
Goblins, Gobliins 2
Creatures 2 (ok, it was C64 but DAMN IT, IT'S MY FAVOURITE GAME EVER!)
Dreamweb (I just liked it as a kid because it had gore and sex)
Moonstone
4d Sports Racing (I think that was the title, the track editor on it was superb!...for the time. Actually I think this got called just "Stunts" earlier on in the thread.)
FX Fighter (I probably remember this being better than it was)
Fatal Racing, unlocking the extra set of tracks felt great! ANd then there was the super weird set of tracks you could switch to with a cheat.
Screamer, Screamer 2 and Screamer Rally - I always feel compelled to dig out my CD's and go back to these but the lack of a gamepad stops me. The original was made to rival ridge racer and then the other two really really improved things.
Life and Death - I think that was the title. Very fun.
Stunt Driver, or maybe Stunt Car Racer - I had it on pc, you drove on a very narrow track high up in the air. Great 3d graphics for the time.
Syndicate (and syndicate wars) - Again, played on the amiga but still cool.
Wing Commander 1 and 2 - Not obscure but fun.
Lost Vikings - Dunno if this hit PC but it was definitely out on Amiga
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Oculus Rift: Sir_Grinch
I can't remember how I eventually got a proper copy, but once I did, there was no stopping me.
Again, hardly obscure, but the first Settlers game ^_^
I had the demo, and eventually the full game. I had a ball, even though I sucked.
I used to play pretend Outwars in the playground during early primary school. Jumping around and pretending to pew pew tanks and stuff. :P
Old PA forum lookalike style for the new forums | My ko-fi donation thing.
Holy crap, yes! I totally forgot about Space Hulk.
I'm off to play Syndicate ;-)
I absolutely loved this game, but I'll be damned if I can get it running now at any acceptable speed under DosBox.
jazz jackrabbit II
kens labyrinth
Dogs or Dogs of War? co-op was awesome
hocus pocus
Lamborghini American Challenge
Zorro
lost vikings
Thor: God of Thunder
Duke Numkem II
Blackthorne
Bio Menace
Blake Stone
Halloween Harry
Sky Roads
Raptor
Chex Quest
Hugo's House of Horrors 1-3
Terminal Velocity
Rise of the Triad
Out of this World
Sango Fighter
Slipstream 5000
Screamer
Alien Trilogy
All the quest for glory and kings quest games.
Aces over Europe
and why hasn't anyone remade Tie Fighter? Only the freespace games came close to tie fighters awesomeness.
I don't understand why the space sim genre is so dead : (
Space sims are dead because Freespace 2 was the perfect space sim. And it didn't sell for shit.
I am a freaking nerd.
I was coming in here to suggest 3D Movie Maker, so consider it seconded. BTW, there was also a Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker, but unless you could do perfect impresonations of the characters, the included audio clips were useless.
I had friends sleep over often. When they would, we'd pair off in two-man movie-making crews. While the others were playing Nintendo 64 (just launched), the first two would create a movie and later "premier" it to the others. Then it'd be time for the next two participants and we'd start the cycle over. It became an attempt one-up the last two in humor or vulgarity. Good times!
I remember when we figured out that text box "censor bars" could help us make it more vulgar than the dancing animations alone allowed.
Well, I guess X3 was pretty ambitious.
Space combat games that came out in the last half year:
Arvoch Conflict
Evochron Alliance
Starshatter: The Gathering Storm
Darkstar One
Romanians in Space (Really; only if you live in Romania, though)
Gunship Apocalypse (Don't know if this actually released)
And a few upcoming:
Space Force 2
Tarr Chronicles
The Divine (looks so bad...)
I don't think there are any PC mecha games on the horizon.
And now we'll never know just what was going on with the Shivans...
I wonder if the game they based it on ever got out of the "spawning gigantic cargo haulers in front of you as you're heading into dock" phase.
http://www.answers.com/topic/psi-5-trading-company-game
I'm an old man...
Yeah, they're the same crew that LORD. Oh, and it's 'Dink Smallwood'. I've got a signed copy of Dink around here somewhere. You can get it free at www.rtsoft.com I think.
Yes, it is fun as hell. Beware the chickens.
The Magic Candle
Noob Gamer Shirts
Sin's Oblivion Expanded Light Armor Kit 3.0
Link plz.
Magic Carpet
xenon 2:
edit: ok so not really obscure. still great ancient pc games.
Also: Whacky Wheels! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Wheels
Apparently I wasn't. So now it runs at a decent speed, but another problem has cropped up: my joystick isn't working. I can configure it when I first run the game, but afterwards I can't use it for anything. And if I try to use the mouse, it's constantly dragging the cursor towards the top-left corner of the screen.
Oh well, I'll figure it out.
Continuum (also known as Alpha Waves): It's...well, I'm not really sure how to describe it. I think you'd have to play it for yourself.
I'm still waiting for the final part Commander Keen: Goodbye Galaxy.
Obsidian: A point-and-click adventure game that was a total mindfuck and showed some truly brilliant artists and game designers. It's like playing an Escher painting. Difficult to get running in XP, if you can even find it, but a total trip if you can.
Indycar Racing by Papyrus (1993)
The followup to their Indy 500 sim, Papyrus' ICR was my first racing sim. I spent many hours behind the wheel of these open wheel beasts, racing the likes of Mario Andretti. It was amazing. I wish I still had it.
Grand Prix 2 (1996)
My second racing sim, and honestly my first exposure to Formula One. Growing up in NASCAR country I didn't know much about F1. I learned fast. GP2 remains to this day one of the best F1 games made, and I wisely kept my copy. I currently have it installed and running on my XP machine through the wonders of QEmu and FreeDOS.
NASCAR Racing 2 by Papyrus (1996)
I missed out on the original NASCAR racing, but I managed to pick up NR2. I spent many hours turning left, 'nuff said there. The addition of an in-game paintshop allowed me to create as many cars as my mind could dream up.
Fatal Racing (aka Whiplash) (1995)
Insane stunt racing, exploding cars, LAN support and it only required one CD on the host machine for 16 players in the computer lab at my college to rev it up! What more do I need to say here?
Grand Prix Legends (1998)
1998 really isn't that ancient, not even ten years. The game was obscure early on though, as sales figures were horrible. Now, though, the game is universally recognized as one of the finest racing simulations ever made, period. I still have my copy, and I never was able to master the technique of driving in this game. I still love it though. Fanmade mods keep the game alive even to this day.
Tek War
Lousy first person shooter based on the novels, which I read. I loved the game though, because at the time I didn't know any better. I never beat the game, by the way.
I hope you didn't think it was free or something, but there you go.
Aw man, Raptor was awesome. The best part was that there were a large number of configuration options for loading out your jet. Once you started rolling in the cash it got pretty crazy.
I am a freaking nerd.
Still one of the best games I have ever played. It is a point and click adventure with amazing setting (same as the movie but with different characters, locations although there are plenty that appear in both), excellent storyline which has similar themes to the movie yet different, branching paths and multiple endings which are genuinely different based on your actions (not just a good and bad ending), great voice acting, I could probably go on for a while.....
Oh and remember the Voigt-Kampff test and the image analyzing from the movie...... you get to do both.
Conquests of the Longbow: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Police Quest: In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Zac McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
Themepark
Populous: The Beginning
Time Commando
........ except for the fact all my oxen would die, or some dumb bitch would get poisoned, or drown in the river
im trying to remember one game i used to really enjoy as a kid, all i remember is it was a shitty (by todays standards) FMV type adventure game, with dinosaurs i think, and i remember at the end you fight some boss that shoots fire balls at you and you drop down and go around the platform and grab this cube... thats all i really remember from that game
I hope it'll run in XP.
I reinstalled it last week, and after running it in compatibility mode, it runs pretty flawlessly.