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Lawrence

I think it's safe to say that everyone here has a thing for retro computer games. Which one do you enjoy or remember playing as a kid that nobody seem to even know its existence?

I'll start with the Neophyte trilogy. They were three demos for an action RPG that sadly never came to fruition. It had nice anime style graphics and even some cool gameplay aspects like puzzle solving and such, Zelda-like.

The games ended on some shareware collections and I think the webpage still holds those but probably not for much longer.

So, what are your unknown gems?

David

I was with my children discussing old games we used to play when I mentioned "Jill of the Jungle" to which they all said "(in a sing song voice) JILL"

We moved on to Meridian 59, Ascheron's Call, Everquest...

Xarn

I know my Uncle had several pirated obscured games in the 90s. 2 I still have memories of but forgot there names.

I don't know what the genre is called, but one is a 1-2 player game where you controll a airplane in bird perspective (Example, Diablo) while the map auto moves in one direction. Enemies flies in most of the times while you (and player 2) dodge there attacks while you shoot them with simple bullets at first. But try grapping weapon upgrades to eather shoot more bullets in more angles or completely change the weapon into ligtning which was super cool. I never game past the second level, mission or whatever. There is a boss at the end of each level I assume.

The other game (or maby they were 2 I mixed together) is a FPS shooter and my god I have tried hunting it down for decades now. There was a training camp mission where you came in with a chopper, theer was a pound with an item in the middle of it. One of the first mission you had to blow up small bunkers with C4 or something. They were on small islands. There was a night mission where you walked down in a bunker, corridors. Then it gets more fuzzy. I only remember the start on the last mission had many boxes. Other than that I remember I loved the rocket launcher, it basically fired a white orb and looked like a falling meteor. You had a cheat for infinite ammo, and I think there was a defend the base type of bonus mission you could pick. I know it sounds soo vague but thats the memories I have on it. And no, it's not Delta Force Black Hawk Down. It looks simular but older.

Edited Feb 12, 2022

Kenaryk

The game that sticks out in my head the most is Martian Memorandum from the 90's because of how difficult it was. You played as a detective and if you used the wrong dialog options during certain parts of the game you could easily soft lock yourself and not find out until after you saved the file thinking you did it all correctly. The game wouldn't tell you whether or not you did the dialogs correctly either. You had to sleep in your bed and then try talking to the NPC the next day to "find out" if you did the dialogs correctly. Saving over the same game file often was typically to your detriment and would cause mutiple hours to be lost.

STEVIE

Late reply but I'm a big ElderScrolls fan and Daggerfall is something I can loose literal days into. If you haven't played it or only played back in the day, it was ported to Unity and runs much better than it did in DOS. Also there is a somewhat busy modding scene that can greatly improve the experience.

mrprmiller

My guilty pleasure is Stronghold (the 1993 version) which was based on the AD&D engine.

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