Author Topic: Obscure games that only YOU have played. (Read 36227 times)

Turbodude · « **Reply #90 on:** April 18, 2013, 03:34:11 PM »

I remember liking this a lot when I played it with a few friends.

*Alice · « **Reply #91 on:** April 18, 2013, 06:26:36 PM »

Meritous and Eternal Eclipse Taoyarin, both by the same person.
meritous is a bit strange. It is basically a randomly generated Zelda1-ish game with lots of more action and you can only use charged area-of-effect attacks. Tons of fun to be had, and it runs on Windows (precompiled), Linux (just run make) and most other platforms that have a C-compiler.
taoyarin is one of the most fascinatingly weird games I have ever played. But it is very very hard.

*Alice · « **Reply #92 on:** May 17, 2013, 12:13:01 AM »

Well, double post and bump but whatever.
See this as my take on how to review bad games.
I kind of want to show you the greatest example of SoBadItsGood on the SNES.

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So, this is Super Strike Gunner / Strike Gunner S.T.G. by Athena (Japanese game company, most famous for a series of game creation software), published by Activision (You know them).
I will just give you a quick translation of some things that are written on the background of the German version (the one I have) (only the box and manual are in German, not the actual game):
(lines that begin with # are sarcastic comments by me.)
- Based on the famous Arcade game this shoot-em-up has 4 different difficulty levels
# Question: Did anybody here ever even play the arcade version of Strike Gunner?
- Play 8 different stages that all have a different beautiful background each.
# Well ... I certainly hope so. An SNES game should not have 8 stages on the same background, right? (But is it really a unique feature? And don't most 16-bit shooters have multiple per stage?)
- You can choose from 15 different special weapons (choose carefully because some are more useful in specific stages).
- 10 different pieces of music and great sound effects (sound effects can be activated in the option menu)
# You need to activate them separately? That's weird (you do not, actually.)
- Unique 2-player mode where you can combine your planes.

All in all ... sounds not too confidence-inducing.
Well, the game sucks. The graphics are kind of okay-ish but dull (90% grey) and everything looks the same (but hey, different backgrounds! A dull forest, a dull desert, a generic starry night sky, an ocean and more!)
The weapons are mostly boring. The in-game music is the same guitar riff repeated every 10 seconds, more or less. Well, or a different one in the next stage.
It takes half a minute for the cursor to appear on the title screen (remember, SNES. Loading times = very very bad programming).
But hey, the intro has some amazing Mode7 and not-so-repetitive music.

Please tell me if you ever played this or the Arcade version, I am really curious.

Tengu · « **Reply #93 on:** May 17, 2013, 12:25:38 AM »

Oh hey I had a rom of that game back when I still had Windows XP! I loved it. I didn't know there was an arcade version. Man, I forgot about this game I'm gonna have to go check out the arcade version on MAME or something.

Dataman · « **Reply #94 on:** May 17, 2013, 12:30:04 AM »

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I wonder if anyone here has heard of this?

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I have

>Gets Cubix Movie
>Goes to Extras
>Sees Fideo Game Guide
>Thinks "Ohey A Game I bet this will be ttly awesome"
>Watches Video
>Finds out It's only on the GameCube
>Doesn't have a GameCube
>Cue Rage

*Alice · « **Reply #95 on:** June 04, 2013, 03:17:21 AM »

UNDEADLINE / Undead Line

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It is hard. Really hard. Incredibly hard.
But also fair. There are no cheap shots.

The only thing necessary is to learn how it works. The weapons are partly useless, the shield is hard to use effectively and you need to be able to analyze the situation and take decisions very very quickly.

So, that game is about a Knight names Leon killing undead things, I assume. I haven't really read too deep into the story.
It is a vertically scrolling shooter, more or less. But you are a knight walking through medieval places and you are actually affected by the terrain. Mud slows you down, the water in the "Drain" stage pushes you back and you can run into trees, for example.
It has awesome music, good graphics, really cool bosses and the level design is unmatched. No game I ever played had such a high difficulty without ever feeling cheap or unfair.

P.S. The Rensha option is your friend. It gives you much-needed rapidfire.

lol · « **Reply #96 on:** June 11, 2013, 12:37:14 AM »

Did anyone ever had/played this?

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It was more than what the box says; it had three games, and a music editor as far as I can remember

It became one of the weirdest "games" I have ever played as a child, and I got some nightmares from it.

Geno · « **Reply #97 on:** June 11, 2013, 01:55:37 AM »

I don't have a Game Boy Camera, but I WILL get one, because my local used game store seems to always have at least one.

Tfp BreakDown · « **Reply #98 on:** June 28, 2013, 03:08:44 AM »

So yeah I got this game a few weeks (or days) ago.

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It pretty fun and a bit difficult and it has some catchy music on there. (look it up on youtube.)
It was also released on the gamecube, xbox, playstation, and gameboy advance.

Galactan · « **Reply #99 on:** June 28, 2013, 07:29:16 AM »

Quote from: "Tfp BreakDown"

So yeah I got this game a few weeks (or days) ago.

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It pretty fun and a bit difficult and it has some catchy music on there. (look it up on youtube.)
It was also released on the gamecube, xbox, playstation, and gameboy advance.

Bah. That game was so frustrating.

MusashiAA · « **Reply #100 on:** June 28, 2013, 09:33:23 AM »

I went through most of my childhood playing PS1 games, so I don't know if I actually played really obscure games...at least I could try and post what seem to me as games only I know that exist and value a lot:

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