The best out of print games?

[wafflebrain]

My fiancé and I have been getting into 90s fmv games recently and I wanted to revisit this one called The Dark Eye but discovered it's nowhere to be found in any format outside of something like ebay. It was more interactive narrative then a traditional point and click adventure game. It didn't have a standard inventory system iirc, but it had a very unique aesthetic and atmosphere compared to its contemporaries. It used stop motion animated puppets with these hollow sunken eyes that gave off a pretty creepy vibe. There was a hub area in the form of a decrepit house where you had to essentially find the next trigger point to access a new story. The stories were adaptations of classic Poe works such as The Telltale Heart. The execution was a bit disjointed but it still managed to be one of the more unsettling games of its time.

What are your examples of the best out of print games, Era?

 

[oni-link]

Does stuff like Lufia 2 and Terranigma count?

If so I suppose almost every game from more than a few generations ago

Nintendo alone are sitting on a few dozen classics from NES to Wii they've not bothered to release anywhere else/again

Just look at their GCN output for example. We're only seen Sunshine, which is soon to be out of print again, and Twilight Princess HD/Wind Waker HD, which you can still get on Wii U eShop, all the rest are out of print

I'm still waiting on F-Zero GX HD

 

[Redcrayon]

Feels like almost all portable games prior to the 3DS/Vita are pretty much this at the moment, and it's unlikely very many of those will be carried forward either.

 

[Phantom Head Shaver]

Lots of obscure PC adventure games from the mid-90s fall into this category. My pick for the best one would be Azrael's Tear, which is a first-person adventure game unlike any other I've played - if I had to descibe it, I'd say it resembles something like a mix between the Tex Murphy games and the first System Shock. Like in System Shock, you're slowly unraveling the secrets of a sprawling, multilayered dungeon, but instead of a derelict space station filled with cyborgs and an insane and power-hungry AI, you're exploring an underground facility filled with ghosts, dinosaurs and insane 1000-year-old templar knights. The writing, atmosphere and level-design are all top-notch, which is why it's such a shame the game is virtually forgotten these days. Night Dive Studios were reportedly trying to rerelease it a few years back, but it's likely they've ran into some trouble since there hasn't been any news on the project lately.

 

[Jegriva]

The best arcade racing game of its decade.