FX Fighter came on a PC gaming demo CD that my dad had
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now that i’ve thought about it: a proper answer!
i think there’s probably some pc doujin games no-one else here has played. probably a ton of doujin stuff on x68000 too, while finding the ones worth writing about.
did anyone else ever play hometown story on 3ds? it was like recettear, if recettear was really boring. i think i still played it for like 15 hours or something though lol
i don’t know how often people go and try obscure games if i give them a good review on my blog. it’d be cool if that happened
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Sorry, I had this game and played it a lot as a kid!
But speaking of childrens’ games, here are some that maybe nobody else had?
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Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends for the SNES. I loved the minigame where you lay tracks for the trains and rotate them around.
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Jumpstart 1st Grade through 5th Grade. I played every one of these. They were surprisingly good educational point-and-click adventure games. Each one had a completely different aesthetic. The third grade one was a science-fictiony thing where you help out a friendly robot in a mad scientist’s lab. The 4th grade one was nuts, it took place in a Tim Burton styled world where you had to rescue a class full of mutant children from their witch teacher, and it went full children’s-horror. The 5th grade one was a weird film-noir thing where you played as a skateboarding detective girl and did too many crossword puzzles. I believe all of these were even fully voice acted too.
Here’s what Jumpstart 4th Grade looked like:
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Cats here are up on XEvil, right?
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I def. got the CD pictured at top in the mail, it was cardboard with a little plastic flap that clipped it shut, I think you maybe had to send away for it but it was free? and installed it, I kind of both remember Net Fighter itself working and not working or maybe some kind of extremely time limted demo that you had to pay up for right away, and none of the footage rings a bell except the character that is two little guys stacked on top of each other.
Also it was released in 98? Like, a year before the Dreamcast? Time is truly odd.
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Anyone else?
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nice, i never managed to finished, i played on a Snes emulator, i remember being stuck after getting fire nijust magic
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has anyone else here played Mickey’s Racing Adventure for the GBC? would be cool to hear about it if you did. that game is neat!
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Only for a few minutes so far, but I did buy it on your recommendation and my fascination with Rare’s output in general.
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So maybe no one else has actually played
The Ancient Art of War, or
This hideous Dr Brain ripoff adventure/edutainment game called The Secret Island of Dr Quandry
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It’s hard for me to say because any time I find something that no one would want to play I try to trick people into letting me gift it to them.
I think I lasted an hour. I was really pumped for it too.
I’ve told this story before, but one day my dad came home with this game (PSX version) and gave it to us as a present. A few days later he walked in on my brothers and I playing it and sternly told us he doesn’t like us playing games like that.
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As a War Gods fan, I was hyped for some Bio Freaks
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There was this sweet art installation game I once tried where you wander a creepy horror movie-like abandoned building and ballerinas showed up dancing to swan lake.
Edit:
https://gibsonmartelli.com/portfolio/swanquake/
Despite the name I swear it was on the UT engine.
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This is the fate of a Pac-Man-like I made in Jr. High called “Tankz”. I hosted it on some long-gone free web host and lost all backups of it too. My biggest regret! If only I knew about source control. I think the compiled version is on a CD that I also lost. And an email account I deleted.
I had so many chances!
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yooo i never played this but my friend requested i make a song in the style of this game’s title song
original:
my version:
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Also thinking about weird PC games I played, did anyone play the minigame-collection-slash-boardgame Hodj n Podj? My sister and I loved that game, it had a bunch of minigames and a booklet that you referred to for clues based on symbols revealed in the game. Weird stuff.
also has a 6 minute introductory movie
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I may (not entirely sure) be the only person here to have played this game:
(I think I shared it here when I heard it came out)
I am definitely the only person here to have played some other games that I could try and dig up names for. Basically ones that fall under the username “random game names” clause but I’m not sure they ever tried to publish on Steam.
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Have you tried Avatar Fighter Online? I remember loving that on XBLIG.
I’ve played the Ancient Art of War! Or, rather, watched my dad play it as a wee child and thenopen it and click aimlessly while pretending I knew what I was doing
classic game
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