Rockin' Kats (NES, 1991)
Top Gear 3000 (SNES, 1995)
Top Gear Rally (N64, 1997)
Free Enterprise (Windows, 1996)
SimIsle (Windows, 1995)
-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
Old games you've never seen anyone discuss or acknowledge?
- Thread starter Lant_War
- Start date
Rockin' Kats (NES, 1991)
Top Gear 3000 (SNES, 1995)
Top Gear Rally (N64, 1997)
Free Enterprise (Windows, 1996)
SimIsle (Windows, 1995)
It's pretty pricey. Not sure if Fire 'N Ice ever got put up on any digital stores, but if you like Solomon's Key you'll love Fire 'N Ice. Lucky that I got it before the price boom hit NES games for about $10 loose cart.
Well, I was around 25 when I played it. And I have never experienced that game with loading times that bad before. Not sure I have since. At any rate, I remember it being so frustrating that I gave up after about an hour and traded in the game. It left an impression on me, but not a good one.
If you try out Fire 'n Ice and like it, there is a similar free Japanese indie game that expands on the concept called Glass Keeper Glabis
http://mojazou.garyoutensei.com/game.html
Freedom Force
This was a kind of real time strategy game with pause functions revolving around superheroes and heavily inspired by the silver age, with onomatopeias, panels and more to enforce the old comic book feel.
It left us with a charming and fun game that i dearly wish had gotten more attention, also, this is from the guys behind Bioshock...yep, not kidding about that.
This was a kind of real time strategy game with pause functions revolving around superheroes and heavily inspired by the silver age, with onomatopeias, panels and more to enforce the old comic book feel.
It left us with a charming and fun game that i dearly wish had gotten more attention, also, this is from the guys behind Bioshock...yep, not kidding about that.
Thanks man!
I hope they eventually launch this game on the Switch "VC".
I love Robot Alchemic Drive so much, and I wish sandlot would revisit the idea on modern hardware. The story in particular is awful in the best ways. My favourite story moment is when you can choose to intentionally destroy a supermarket to help your girlfriend's part time job at a small shop nearby. Meanwhile the love interest cant afford food while the player character has control of a gigantic family fortune.R.A.D. was a fun mech-centered arena fighter where each analogue stick controlled an arm. I've only played it a few times and I think it was one of latter titles I remember with the Enix name before they merged with Squaresoft. It's worth a quick playthrough. That being said I've never met anyone who has even heard of it.
Culture Brain trio of Super Chinese/Ninja Brothers/Ninja Boys, Flying Warriors and Magic of Scheherazade:
Games that were big on hybrid gameplay. Super Chinese games were traditional RPGs ...
... where you battles are fought beat 'em up styled arena, ...
... while some boss battles are fought classic turn based.
Flying Warriors are side-scroller action games with some platforming, ...
... where boss battles are fought semi-fighting game style, ...
... and some are fought like turn-based RPG battles.
Magic of Scheherazade is a top down adventure game similar to LoZ, where you battle enemies on the screen, ...
... and other times, through turn-based battles (Dragon Quest-esque).
That kinda hybrid shit tripped me out back in the day.
Games that were big on hybrid gameplay. Super Chinese games were traditional RPGs ...
... where you battles are fought beat 'em up styled arena, ...
... while some boss battles are fought classic turn based.
Flying Warriors are side-scroller action games with some platforming, ...
... where boss battles are fought semi-fighting game style, ...
... and some are fought like turn-based RPG battles.
Magic of Scheherazade is a top down adventure game similar to LoZ, where you battle enemies on the screen, ...
... and other times, through turn-based battles (Dragon Quest-esque).
That kinda hybrid shit tripped me out back in the day.
That was Nomura's "bad era", IMO. When a lot of his characters were their most angular, sharp and spiky. When he wanted to make characters that looked like anthropomorphic tribal tattoos. I hated that era of Square Enix/Nomura games.People talk a lot about his hair though.
Last edited:
Without fail I think of Mischief Makers every time l listen to Basement Jaxx's Red Alert.
I can't recall if it was actually a "good" platformer, but I rented multiple times and beat it multiple times. A property I'd love to see return, honestly.
"The way you shake, shake, shake shake!"
Wasn't there a DF Retro on this game? I just remember talking about it in that thread, and being surprised on how expensive it's been lately.
Is Turrican II any good? I just know it's on the Super NT (or maybe it was the DC of Turrican 1... I can't rightly remember now). I remember Cannon Fodder from back when I was in middle school. I barely played it, but I remember my friends being way into if for some reason.
The only time I've seen Hero's Quest/ Quest for Glory mentioned here was when I brought it up. I loved this game as a kid, and even though I played it a lot I never beat it until I had to go spend a month in a hospital back in 2013.
Also, another game I played a lot as a kid was Wizardry 7. I see Wizardry 8 brought up every now and then, but never 7. I didn't like 8 that much the brief time I spent with it...
Culture Brain trio of Super Chinese/Ninja Brothers/Ninja Boys, Flying Warriors and Magic of Scheherazade:
Games that were big on hybrid gameplay. Super Chinese games were traditional RPGs ...
... where you battles are fought beat 'em up styled arena, ...
... while some boss battles are fought classic turn based.
Flying Warriors are side-scroller action games with some platforming, ...
... where boss battles are fought semi-fighting game style, ...
... and some are fought like turn-based RPG battles.
Magic of Scheherazade is a top down adventure game similar to LoZ, where you battle enemies on the screen, ...
... and other times, through turn-based battles (Dragon Quest-esque).
That kinda hybrid shit tripped me out back in the day.
That was Nomura's "bad era", IMO. When a lot of his characters were their most angular, sharp and spiky. When he wanted to make characters that looked like anthropomorphic tribal tattoos. I hated that era of Square Enix/Nomura games.
Those games and Kung-Fu Heroes were great.
Last edited:
Steambot Chronicles.
I'm still waiting for a spiritiual successor or similar game to it.
The cancelled sequel still hurts
Dragoon was like a rip off of FF7 aesthetically, the story kept on though. Legaia was fleshed out better than it's art direction let on
Last edited:
Two things: Yes, there is always room for more robot-forming action in video games. Why there isn't is completely beyond me.
Secondly, totally agreed on Magical Racing Tour. My best friend's wife has her original copy and we play it whenever we get a chance. We're the only ones we know who remember it but it was definitely better than its peers.
All of this makes me unbelievably happy for some reason. I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets this game stuck in their head occasionally. Especially "Shake! Shake!"
Eh, fair enough. Maybe I don't get out enough I've just never met anyone beyond the friends I had who've witnessed the game tell me they know of the game. Of course, I don't consume a ton of video-game related media online so that could be the problem.
How about this one then?
I can't even seem to find a properly maintained copy of this game online- not even in the various abandonware repositories out there.
I rarely see someone mentions it at the very least.
Even when I see people make their "favorite EAD Tokyo games", "favorite DK games" or even "favorite GC games" lists, it's always forgotten somehow :p
Oh yeah, I remember the atrocious loading times now too for Herdy Gerdy! It was the only game I've seen where getting to the end of the loading process bar simply loads a second loading screen and another bar.
Culture Brain trio of Super Chinese/Ninja Brothers/Ninja Boys, Flying Warriors and Magic of Scheherazade:
Games that were big on hybrid gameplay. Super Chinese games were traditional RPGs ...
... where you battles are fought beat 'em up styled arena, ...
... while some boss battles are fought classic turn based.
Flying Warriors are side-scroller action games with some platforming, ...
... where boss battles are fought semi-fighting game style, ...
... and some are fought like turn-based RPG battles.
Magic of Scheherazade is a top down adventure game similar to LoZ, where you battle enemies on the screen, ...
... and other times, through turn-based battles (Dragon Quest-esque).
That kinda hybrid shit tripped me out back in the day.
That was Nomura's "bad era", IMO. When a lot of his characters were their most angular, sharp and spiky. When he wanted to make characters that looked like anthropomorphic tribal tattoos. I hated that era of Square Enix/Nomura games.
I whole heartedly agree with this post!
The Super Chinese games were fantastic as was Magic of Scheherazade :D
I miss Culture Brain ;-;
I love these two games so much, I never see people talk about them.
Never played the sequel, but Bugs Bunny Lost in Time was some heat. It's really fun and great if you are a Looney Tunes fan.
Speaking of which, there's another Looney Tunes game that, while not as obscure as some others, get more overlooked than it should:
Legitimately a good puzzle-stealth game with some fire music.
Crusaders of Centy. Amazing RPG for its time, cheesy but in a strangely nice way.
Drakan : Order of the flame. I'm actually playing this one right now and it's suprisingly good. Goofy cinematics but the combat is interesting and the map design not at all bad. Trying to get the hang of the dragon.
For me, it was whoever could land the laser sword or laser gun first since they were basically an auto win.
I played it on the C64 and yes, it was fucking incredible. Manfred ftw.
On topic: Galleon, which if I recall correctly was touted as Toby Gard's "Tomb Raider-beater" and made Edge's front cover, and then released later to absolutely no fanfare whatsoever.
I used to play this game on NES all of the time and never see it mentioned. It's been so long that I don't even remember if it's any good, just that it was fast and floaty. Hell, I don't even know why I thought of it all of the sudden.
Talk about a misleading North American cover, too. Dude looks like Conan compared to your character sprite and the Japanese art.
Last edited:
Obsidian is one of the best Myst clones made in the 90s. In fact, I think it's better than Myst in that it's much more focused and gives you better direction. I know it wasn't a very popular game, but I have never seen anyone on the internet talk about it.
I used to play this game on NES all of the time and never see it mentioned. It's been so long that I don't even remember if it's any good. Hell, I don't even know why I thought of it all of the sudden.
It's a Taito game. It's good.
OZone, it was published by EA back in 1997, developed iirc by an Israeli company, an air combat game where you play as aliens who went to earth to bring a gift of peace, but their messages were misinterpreted by the humans, who nuke their mother ship, and the remaining aliens have to fight each other to get back home. I was actually blown away to have found this video, for years there was almost nothing regarding the game online, save for a few references on forums.
Last edited:
Mighty Final Fight for the NES, a great beat'em up with SD versions of the Final Fight characters, everything is fun, cute and just plain awesome but it isn't mentioned as much as the Double Dragon games or Battletoads, and yet i still think of Mighty Final Fight as better than them:
And a great version more fun than the SNES port of the first game as well.
And a great version more fun than the SNES port of the first game as well.
Theres a tank game based on the same world as this, can't remember the name but it was also considered a cult fave. Meant to pick it up on ebay and forgot all about it a few months back.Road Trip Adventure on PS2.
Man I loved this game. I think it was the first game I 100%ed
I got this game for Christmas one year. It.....was not a merry christmas.I love this game and hate this game.
The Magic of Scheherazade
It was like a cross between Legend of Zelda and Chrono Trigger. Every once in awhile I'll hear somebody talk about this game but not often. Personally, I think it's the best NES game made.
Scheherezade is probably in my personal top five NES games of all time. I love this game so much and wish it had a higher profile.
I used to see that game on the shelves of the video rental store at the IGA corner store. Always wondered what it was like. Seeing it right now takes me back.
Anyway. I've never seen anyone talk about Mr. Nutz