Old Obscure PC Games

[xuur]

Just reading thru some old threads and Fallout came up. Loved that.

Well, it got me thinkin on all the games I've played over time...some more obscure than others...some I'm not sure anyone but me ever bought and played.

With that, what are some of the less popular games that were ever published that you remember? good or bad, I dont care...just obscure and quite probably short lived.


Anyone remember these?

Starseige (Not tribes...this was more like Mechwarrior. Was ok. some pretty unique weapons on the mechs there in MP...but quickly hacked to death and was rendered unplayable due to rampant cheats)

G-nome (another mechwarrior wannabe.....except it sucked beyond all levels of known suckage ever discovered)

Others I can barely recall the name, but still stink up my collection somewhere.

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[Spider]

Sim Isle (dear lord that sucked)

Lemmings!!!!!!

I still remember starsiege...!

Can't think of anything right now I'll be back with more

[Everay]

I remember this StarSeige you speak of, though i never played it, and Falout comes to mind, but you already said that one.

Conquest of the New world, i dunno if this was a widly known game, but it still deserves its props as prolly one of the best Turn base Stratagy games i ever played.

Secret of Evermore, a rare RPG, i think it sucks, but its made by SquareSoft

i remember this old RPG, not Kings Quest, but a game just like it, that i liked alot.

RBI base Ball, for the NES, great game

Warlords, like pong, but 4 way, and the objective is to get the ball behinds the enemys defenses, and hit a lil block to kill him. Atari...


gah ive been playing Games since i was five, but that was too long ago for me to remember any more games.

[JetRaiden]

Lemmings= greatest classic PC game of all time. I also liked Duke Nukem 3D and Wolfenstein 3D. and the Sims too i guess, if that counts as a classic yet. :D

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Never palyed Starsiege, but I've heard of it.


G-Nome is still one of my favorite games thanks to the fact that you can get out of your mech and fight on foot.


And Lemmings is still my all time favorite puzzle game.

LETS GO!

Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-dee-doo-doolde-doodle-doo!

[Zodiac]

Star Wars Chess :D

it rocked, i still have it but havent tried to play it in so long. when you capture a space, the two pieces fight each other. lot of funny fights. like when boba (black bishop) captures chewie (white knight) he fries chewie with his jetpack. hell, its got to be 10 years old.

:rock:

[Cease]

4D Boxing.

This game was so far ahead of its time. And even tho the graphics are crap now, its still my favorite boxing game.

[NecroChu]

Does anyone Remember Cyber Empires? I was addicted to it back in the day. It was kinda like a Turn Based Strategy/Action Game. You would use a turn based map to decide which territories you would capture for resources. After you made your decision you would go into real time combat mode fighting the defending forces. You would use mechs as your soldiers and there were different kinds with varying weights and loadouts.

[Jaged]

Anyone remember a game called Loderunner? Not the 3d one, the old loderunner (the 3d one sucked). You are this little guy running around that can blast the ground below you to make the bad guys (monks) fall in. You tried to collect various pieces of treasure. Me and my friends had a blast on the multiplayer mode.

This is a really old one, does anyone remember a game called Toxic the Groundhog? It was probably the first computer game I ever played a lot of. You are this little groundhog that tries to collect cans of toxic sludge while avoiding the monsters and the oozing sludge that got out of its can because you couldn't collect it fast enough. The game had about 4 colors, it was 2d, and the sound consisted of various beeps.

[X-113]

Lets see...

Bad Mojo! is probably one of the most unique adventure games I've ever played. You play as a roach who was once a human and get to look at some pretty sick stuff.

Buried in Time was another good adventure game too. Surprisingly edumacational too.

Space Empires IV. I don't know if this can be considered an "old" game per se, but if you look at the graphics you'll think it is. :D That said, its the single best 4x strategy game I've EVER played.

Ascendancy was another great 4x game. For its time, it had some incredible graphics. It's still the only 4x game I know that has a 3d system map.

Heavy Gear 2. Mechwarrior sucks. Starsiege was better, but sucked in some aspects. Heavy Gear 2 was the first (IMO) to get the giant mech fighting formula right. Good difficulty balance, mission variety, simple enough controls, and pretty decent AI make this my all time mech favorite. What other mech game lets you fight in space?

Flying Heroes. Think Unreal Tournament with people riding dragons and such.

[firecrackerNC]

Age of Empires,Civilation,Warcraft 1 and 2,few others but names dont come to mind right now,AOE rocked tho

[Happy lil Elf]

I remember Cyber Empires. If I remember right it was a little on the buggy side though.

Old games...heh

Tie Fighter
Full Throttle
X-Com
X-Com Terror from the deep
Dark Forces!
Duke Nukem 3D
Ascendancy
MoO!
Fantasy Generals
Master of Magic...god I loved that game :)
Command and Conquer
Dune 2
Warcraft
Terra Nova (Still trying to find this gem again lol)
Front Lines (Could have been great but way too buggy)
Twilight 2000 (nothing compared to the table top but still fun)


Bleh I dunno there are so god damned many. I got most of those just looking at the boxes we've collected. We used it keep every box from every computer game we ever bought, but tossed out about 6 large leaf bags worth a year ago or so.

[JetRaiden]

Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-dee-doo-doolde-doodle-doo

This is a mockery of what a great soundtrack Lemmings has. you should be ashamed of yourself. :mad:

[Everay]

HAHAHA raiden is so funny, BTW, what other mech game allows you to fight in space? Its called MechWarrior 2 Mercs, by far the best Mech game EVER!

thanks for all the reminders people, how could i forget Tie Fighter?
or Duke 3D or Wolfenstine, the good one and not this new POS version.

anyways, im gonna try out Cyber Empires. it sounds fun. and i played HeavyGear, and what i didnt like about it was the fixing up your mech part of it, it wasnt.....as straight foward, as Mechwarriors system, and ill admit, after MechWarrior 3, Mechwarrior sucks.

[Flammey]

What's cool about G-Nome is that that sort of gameplay could be resurrected by a gaming engine like Planetside, and it would rule man. It would be like PS, but with giant robots.

[Revenant]

I don't remember the name of it, I think it was a Win32 application though.

It could be played in like 30 mins. But was quite the game. It was in 3D, and was a space sim.

You basically were flying around this area of space, just before this invasion, I think. So it was just a few dog fights, and then a "destroy the capital" ship ending.

You could "warp" from sector to sector, when ever the scripted attacks began. Basically you pressed a key, then selected the area on a map, then flew through this green, winding tunnel thing for a few secs.
You could also "dock" at these stations, which were looked like a big donut. You had to fly up the centre to "dock", then get repairs and replenish ammo.

Me and my brother use to play it always way back. I used the game pad to pilot and shoot. And he was beside me with the key board as the "opperations officer". Switching weapons, warping in an outta systems, bringing up the map, setting docking sequences.

Good times, good times :D

[Everay]

hmm, sounds like Tie Fighter to me, you know, someone on the joystick, and someone else adjusting speed, and ship power and stuff....good times

[Zodiac]

Tie Figher was the shit, and it took quite awhile to finish. ohh i remember i almost messed myself when i got the TIE advanced ship. t'was sooooo coool!

die rebel scum! wooo concussion missles! :D

[Zatrais]

Can't belive no one has mentioned system shock 2... that game owns.

Nothing beats the fallout series tho, that absurd humor whit the 1950's optimistic feeling.

[Meyvon]

http://www.sdispace.com/content/is.htm

Operation Inner Space! man this game was fun....

you fly around inside your computer destroying corrupted files and stuff. you get weapons like a Bottle Rocket (which is actually a Beer Bottle), boomerang, grappling hook and stuff.

very old game, prolly not a lot of people know about it..but it is really fun. i used to play it when I was in high school and I could not afford a decent enough computer to play games on.

[Happy lil Elf]

Yup System Shock and System Shock 2 kicked ass :)

[Pilgrim]

For all you really old schoolers out there

Remember Dark Ages The germanic Role playing game. I swear it had it's suckiness but that stupid game moved computer RPG's forward about 10 years.

[Everay]

Tie Advanced!?! pfft, Tie Defender!

anyways, im not sure if this was mentioned, but does anyone Remember Commander Keen? That game was the SHIT!

[Ghryphen]

Not really published, but Scorched Earth: The Mother of All Games

BTW there is a Sierra sponsored Starsiege sequal that will be a TC of Tribes: Vengeance in the works, www.ss2845.com

[SERPUS]

Best Oldie Ever:

Dungeon Hack (by SSI)

[Happy lil Elf]

Oooo I just thought of another one: Wasteland

That damn mutant bunny....

[GonePostal]

favorite rpg is arcanum


l33t game

[Zodiac]

what happened to the "old and obscure" pc games, alot of these games being named were main stream, best sellers, not even 5 years old. :p

[GonePostal]

ye but why talk about stuff that sucked?

[TekDragon]

X-com
Outpost

These were two of the best games ever made. If anyone else here played Outpost, i'll give them massive props.

[Everay]

OUTPOST! i forgot about that game! i have it on disket somewhere around here, hahahaha my town always got diserted in 100 turns, boy i sucked at that game, i couldnt figure out how to build a damn colony, i couldnt get half the buildings down.

[dscytherulez]

w00t!

DUNGEON KEEPER! I LOVED THAT GAME! The second one wasnt as good as the first one. I still have it. It had extraordinary graphics for its time...neone remember that?

[Nimbus]

Miner VGA

[Hamma]

Chopper Commando, mad old DOS game :rofl:

[Squeeky]

Test Drive on the C64
another game called "Alien" that i played for hours on end.

Was a PC Game, very old but very well done. You we're a general in the marines and you would have to track down aliens. It was a FPS/RTS combo game where you would have to track him down in a ship and then have a gun battle. Was awesome :D

[Meyvon]

Originally posted by GonePostal
favorite rpg is arcanum


l33t game

I have that game I think...that's the one where you can make Dwarves with shotguns and stuff right?

I never did get around to playing it...for some reason I can't get it to work right...I upgraded my video card so I just may try it again.

[Happy lil Elf]

Anyone ever have Sopwith? I loved that game lol

And I remember Outpost. Never could get it to work for very long though :(

X-Com the original is by far superior to the sequels. The sequels were fun but they turned into time sinks from hell towards the end.

[Nimbus]

Originally posted by Happy lil' Elf
Anyone ever have Sopwith? I loved that game lol

And I remember Outpost. Never could get it to work for very long though :(

X-Com the original is by far superior to the sequels. The sequels were fun but they turned into time sinks from hell towards the end.

Sopwith rocked! I used to play that, Miner VGA and Gorilla all the time. Go creaky old games!

[Everay]

i want to find a copy of Aracnum, any one have a clue where i can?

[Squeeky]

Originally posted by Everay
i want to find a copy of Aracnum, any one have a clue where i can?

Someone made a thread awhile ago. They had to search pretty hard but eventually found it in a bargain bin

[GonePostal]

yes arcanum is that game with dwarves that shoot elephant rifles

yes it is l33t

sure ill sell you my copy including the manual for a 20$:D its worth it

[TekDragon]

Originally posted by dscytherulez
DUNGEON KEEPER! I LOVED THAT GAME! The second one wasnt as good as the first one. I still have it. It had extraordinary graphics for its time...neone remember that?
Dude, I totally loved both DK 1 and 2 :)

Originally posted by Hamma
Chopper Commando, mad old DOS game :rofl:
It rings a bell.. but I mainly remember playing a very old DOS jet fighting game. Blowing up pixels was t3h pwn!

Originally posted by Happy lil' Elf
X-Com the original is by far superior to the sequels. The sequels were fun but they turned into time sinks from hell towards the end.
Xcom: UFO Defence was, definately, the best of the series. God.. i used to have nightmared from that game. The game was so dark and shadowy and your sitting there late at night. You watch the bar move as the 'Alien Side' makes it's move (with the creepy music) then suddennly: BAM! Screen flashes back to in-game and some wicked alien with a fusion bomb launcher blows out the side of your landing craft, taking half your team out in one hit.

*curls up in bed shivering*

I do like Xcom: Apocolpyse. I love the way they let you do space ship battles.

Originally posted by Everay
OUTPOST! i forgot about that game! i have it on disket somewhere around here, hahahaha my town always got diserted in 100 turns, boy i sucked at that game, i couldnt figure out how to build a damn colony, i couldnt get half the buildings down.
Yeah, it was hard. You had to dig underground for most everything. One thing i noticed is you needed like 2 red light districts making "fuzzy dice" for ever 1 residential housing unit. wtf?

I just wish i could find some solid online documentation on this game. I'd love to find the old diskettes and give it a whirl.

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About Arcanum; is this game really worth getting? I heard SO much about it that i've been on the edge of buying it for a long time.

What about Fallout? I hear alot about that too.

I'm looking for an immersive experience, so hook me up. *wonders why everyone's passing him a blunt*

[Edit]: Everay, your sig is freaking huge. Like... Onizuka huge. Well, almost. Put that poem on a page w a cool background and link it, or something. Peace.

[Everay]

my sig is fine, and Fallout and Aracnum, if you can find the latter one, get it, and the former, you can get part 1 and 2 for ten bucks at best buy, but theyre really good.


oh, and i wouldnt say its a poem, its the sign that is on the gates to hell

[TekDragon]

Originally posted by Everay
my sig is fine, and Fallout and Aracnum, if you can find the latter one, get it, and the former, you can get part 1 and 2 for ten bucks at best buy, but theyre really good.


oh, and i wouldnt say its a poem, its the sign that is on the gates to hell
1. Don't be some jerk-off who thinks the word "poem" is insulting. Theirs plenty of tight-ass poems in the world. Poe? One sick puppy. Of course we're not talking about what some pale faced liberal arts philosphy/english double major nancy boy writes. Hell no. But what's on your sig is definately a poem. A cool one at that.
2. It's too big. Stfu. It is. Don't argue.
3. Wait, what did you mean by part 1 and 2? Was there an expancion? Or a sequel? If it's a sequel is the first one worth getting?

[Mtx]

Tie Fighter was a dope game. I'm sure a lot of you foosl already mentioned doom but X-wing and Tie Fighter werre badass! :D

[Everay]

there was a sequal. and if your gonna buy part two, youll have to buy part one, they come together now, for 10 bucks, at best buy, and ive heard of Edgar Allan Poe, but i dont really like his work too much

but this is about old games, let us not be derailed

[TekDragon]

Originally posted by Mtx
Tie Fighter was a dope game. I'm sure a lot of you foosl already mentioned doom but X-wing and Tie Fighter werre badass! :D

The 'Wing Commander' series rapes X-wing and Tie Fighter with a wooden spork.

[Everay]

whats the newest Wing commander game?

[1024]

not really old, or obscure, but the original C&C is IMO the best strat game ever.

[Happy lil Elf]

The 'Wing Commander' series rapes X-wing and Tie Fighter with a wooden spork.

Hahahahahaha, no.

Privateer was the shit though. Privateer 2 could have been, but why did they put actual video in it? Nothing ruins a good game like cheap sets, bad actors and worse dialouge :(

[EnorganiK]

a few weeks ago i found my disks for the original wolfenstein 3d :D game still rules :cool:

[simba]

Originally posted by Cease
4D Boxing.

This game was so far ahead of its time. And even tho the graphics are crap now, its still my favorite boxing game.
took at look at it, looked cool :)
distinctive software is great, they also made a cool game named stunts, dont know if it was or wasnt popular but it was far ahead of its time too.

[simba]

Originally posted by EnorganiK
a few weeks ago i found my disks for the original wolfenstein 3d :D game still rules :cool:
can I borrow it? :D Still fun killing nazis in that game, great, great game.

[Sputty]

Mac version of W3D owns. Same with Doom and Doom 2. The PC version is not as good
The SNES version of W3D is funny

[Happy lil Elf]

STUNTS! My god that game ruled.

[Zodiac]

Originally posted by Happy lil' Elf
STUNTS! My god that game ruled.

OMFG that game OWNED sooo much fun http://www.my-smileys.de/hammer_2.gif

[Everay]

Stunts? the one where you fly planes and stuff doing stunts? oh yea that game owned!

and Tie fighter owns wing commander any day, though i wish i played wing commander back in the day.

and your right 1024, the original C&C must have been the second best in the series, next to generals, but Red Alert was bad ass too

Wolfenstine 3d....hmmmm i love that game soo much. but the best level was the hidden level in Doom 2, level 31 i think it is. its the same as the last level in Wolfenstine 3d, exept, theres a cyberdemon after you!!!

[Everay]

well, i gotta add one last great old game to this thread, anyone remember One Must Fall? by far, my favoret fighter, EVER, over tekken, and DOA and Soul Caliber. and if you do remember, theyre releasing Part two this month! for a while there the project was scraped, but apparently they started it up again, i never thought it was gonna be released


http://www.gamespy.com/previews/july03/omfbattlegroundspc/index.shtml

[Vick]

Arcanum is great, everyone should play it.

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Marathon (OK, so its technically a Mac game)


Needs no description, if you know it you love it, if you don't you've lived in ignorance.

[xuur]

Arcanum is great, everyone should play it. - Vick

Oh wow...I'd forgotten about that one. Yeah, it got shit reviews from alot of folks but I always enjoyed that.

I thought I was the only one that had fun with that. Technology all the way!

[Everay]

noone has played One Must fall??

[GonePostal]

lol arcanum got great reviews

[Zodiac]

Originally posted by GonePostal
lol arcanum got great reviews

no, it got very mixed reviews. i will see if i can drum a couple up.

[GonePostal]

o well i only read one haha

that was pcgamers and it got editors choice

and a well deserved rating

[Zodiac]

Originally posted by GonePostal
o well i only read one haha

that was pcgamers and it got editors choice

and a well deserved rating

definatly, great game. i loved being a dumbass ogre and killing half the NPCs i found later in the game :lol:

[X-113]

Originally posted by Zodiac
definatly, great game. i loved being a dumbass ogre and killing half the NPCs i found later in the game :lol:

Gotta love the dumbass dialogue;

Sheriff- "Ain't no one in this town worht their salt."
Me- "Uhh, you want's me go get some salt?"

[Zodiac]

yea lol, damn those were awsome. im gonna go dig thru the closet and play it all over again.

[TekDragon]

I got nostalgic for a good 'ol hack and slash RPG.

I'm working my way through Wizardy 8 :)

[OmnipotentKiwi]

ZORK!

[TheRagingGerbil]

Zork was one of the first game sI had played, that and the original Kings Quest...You are facing west, there is a small stone on the ground.

[Everay]

kings quest....pfft Quest For Glory man, all the way

[GonePostal]

i still have arcanum

i still have alot of my old games, anybody wanna buy any used games?:D

[DraygoKorvan]

Anyone ever have Sopwith? I loved that game lol

Yes I loved that game too, to bad it was unplayable on a 486 ;)

Another great game I remember was Empire. (Not Empire Deluxe)

Railroad Tycoon ring a bell for everyone (not 2, the original dos game).

We had Tetris too. Mmmm.

And outpost, yes that game was fun. I did manage to beat it, after like failing 50x.

Now, these fit the old catagory. (I must be aging, damn).

[TekDragon]

And outpost, yes that game was fun. I did manage to beat it, after like failing 50x.
wtf? You beat it? What was the ending like?

[Lise]

Originally posted by Revenant
I don't remember the name of it, I think it was a Win32 application though.

It could be played in like 30 mins. But was quite the game. It was in 3D, and was a space sim.

You basically were flying around this area of space, just before this invasion, I think. So it was just a few dog fights, and then a "destroy the capital" ship ending.

You could "warp" from sector to sector, when ever the scripted attacks began. Basically you pressed a key, then selected the area on a map, then flew through this green, winding tunnel thing for a few secs.
You could also "dock" at these stations, which were looked like a big donut. You had to fly up the centre to "dock", then get repairs and replenish ammo.

Me and my brother use to play it always way back. I used the game pad to pilot and shoot. And he was beside me with the key board as the "opperations officer". Switching weapons, warping in an outta systems, bringing up the map, setting docking sequences.

Good times, good times :D

Sounds a bit like Star Ranger, but that wasn't Win32.

Anyway. Wing Commander and the X-Wing series are pretty neck-in-neck, I think. WC2 and 3 weren't that hot, but WC4's story was just awesome. The only weak point the XW games had were their plots - since you could choose your campaigns, they kinda had to be light on the storyline (but they were huge on the shit going boom, so who cares?) And yes, Tie Fighter was the best of the XW games (though WX:Alliance is a close second.)

As for games no one remembers: Fragile fucking Allegiance (http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=426), yo.It was hard, and it had a few problems, but that was the first game that really succeeded at keeping me up until dawn. Awesome graphics for the day, great ambient music, cool aliens, an interface so good and so efficient it was scary, and mechanisms that made either micro OR macro management easy caused that game to "just plain kick it in the junk." The ONLY problems it had were that it didn't stop for fleet combat (IMHO time should have paused while you watched your fleet duke it out over an asteroid or in space) and the fact that you could eventually run out of asteroids to mine without getting a "You are a winner!" kind of screen. Either it could never end or you could win somehow... in other words, a game that is just BEGGING for a remake. And it's actually legal to get off of Underdogs (link), since Gremlin has more or less surrendered rights to it to public domain.

And yes, I remember Sopwith. T3h pwn indeed. :p Commander Keen was good in the day too... most of the old Apogee/Epic Megagames titles were. (Yes, THAT Epic Megagames.) Anyone remember ZZT (http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=2230)? Sweeny's very first game, and I think it still holds up today. (Actually, ZZT was incredibly important, as it was the first PC game that came with a built-in level editor that allowed to you essentially create whole new games in the ZZT engine and then distribute them over what passed for the Internet back then... but that's practically a thread in and of itself. :p)

[Everay]

one game id like to mention but never played, BattleCruiser, its like from 98, but im gonna DL it from Fileplanet right now, free ware rocks

and im downloading what i think is the newest one, BattleCruiser200 v2.0 there releasing the new one soon

[TekDragon]

I think the game that got me into hardcore PC gaming was Warcraft, the first one. That game was so damn revolutionary for it's time.

[GonePostal]

lol the first one?

god that game was ghetto as hell

haha i cant believe i played some of those games

but they were so entertaining for there time

[Robot]

i'm apalled that no one (to my knowledge!) has mentioned jazz jackrabbit in this thread.