Old Obscure PC Games

xuur · 2003-09-23, 04:28 PM

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 · 2003-09-23, 04:30 PM

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 · 2003-09-23, 05:08 PM

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 · 2003-09-23, 05:17 PM

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.

ObnoxiousFrog · 2003-09-23, 05:19 PM

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 · 2003-09-23, 06:03 PM

Star Wars Chess

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.

Cease · 2003-09-23, 06:52 PM

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 · 2003-09-23, 07:12 PM

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 · 2003-09-23, 07:39 PM

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 · 2003-09-23, 08:20 PM

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.

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 · 2003-09-23, 09:43 PM

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

Happy lil Elf · 2003-09-23, 09:54 PM

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 · 2003-09-23, 09:59 PM

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.

Everay · 2003-09-23, 10:21 PM

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 · 2003-09-23, 10:43 PM

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.