Great But Forgotten/Unknown Games
 

Did you ever have a game you thought was great when you played it but no one else seems to have even heard of it?
This is a thread to talk about them, spread the word and show what makes them so good.

It can be any system but, ideally, anything previous to the current gen for the sake of reawakening any memories people have about the games.
Try not to focus on games like Chrono Trigger or Sonic 3 because everyone knows those games.
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I had a game on the PS1 called "Tomba!" in the US or "Tombi!" in the UK.

It was a great game. It was a Platformer RPG-like game with fully animated and voiced anime style FMV.

It was bright, colourfull and unique. You would do quests like clearing the fog or finding a 1,000 year old man and gain points for doing it. You would upgrade your clothes and weapons to make fighting enemies easier and gain new platforming abilities like dashing or sneaking.
The game played with a side scroll view, mostly, but sometimes you had top down sections.

I was slightly creeped out, when I was younger, at the "Mushroom Forest" area of the game. There were these giant flowers everywhere with creepy (to a kid) clown faces on them and you had these mushrooms you could find around the area and eat. If you eat a certain type of mushroom, they'd go into hysterics and just start smiling and laughing but if you got the other type of mushroom, they'd look sad and start crying and whining. It was just really creepy to me.

I'd really like to play it again but it costs upwards of £60 ($98) for it on eBay (It's £39.99 for a modern day game) with one guy wanting £149 ($240) for it. So it'll be a long time before I ever play it again.

Intro:
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Gameplay:
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Hogs of War on PS1

I just remember renting this like 10 years ago and it being a lot of fun. It was an RTS sort of a cross between Worms and Final Fantasy Tactics. And you played as pigs.

Street Rod, Wings of Fury, Battlechess, Fire Power (amiga).

I had Hogs if War on the PS1. It was actually a lot of fun. I remember ther being rumours of a new one coming out last gen. I don't think it ever happened though.

They should update the graphics, maybe throw in some new content and definitly put in an online mode and put HoW on XBLA/PSN.

Yeah, loved this game.

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Don't know how unknown this is but I feel like it is fairly underrated. Easily one of the best games for the Gamecube. The story was great as was the gameplay.

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Silicon Valley was fun in the small amount of time I played it on the N64. I think that's another game that goes for a high price on eBay.

Eternal Darkness was great to. I've no idea why they haven't made a sequel. One of the Wii U might work (Pretty sure Nintendo are involved in it).

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Loved this game. I would play it for hours and hours. I heard they are bringing it to XBLA this year

I also remember two other games that I only ever played on a Demo Disk.

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North & South on the Amiga, fucking loved that game as a kid.

Yessssss

Also awesome. Nintendo own the trademark, Silicon Knights did the game. They apparently have no interest in doing a Nintendo only game right now though.

Best one here and yes, it's coming to XBLA :heart:

But:

Deadly Premonition, ActRaiser, Superfrog, Arabian Nights and Skool Daze off the top of my head.

The Suffering

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The best story for a video game Ive seen. It would even be an outstanding story for a legit horror movie. The creatures are very disturbing and actually tie into the story as to why they are what they are. The story goes through the history of the prison and the island its on and the connection it has to the main character you play as. Also the game has three different endings based on the choices you make in a game and the game also plays a little different if you are taking the psychotic route.

ActRaiser! Fantasic.

I played Skool Daze on some Spectrum site. Was cool.

Two more games I really liked are Stunt Race FX, my first 3D racer:
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and Vortex:
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Vortex had levels where you walked on land too so it wasn't all flying in space.

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Mutant League anything
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Zombies Ate my neighbors
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And of course toejam and earl
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I loved this game.

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This game was a good one also.

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Same company who in the future made the Grand Theft Auto series and yet their first console sandbox game ends up being on a Nintendo console of all places. Story has it the reason why a Nintendo console never got any port of a GTA game is due to Rockstar hating how much demands and changes Nintendo wanted instead of leaving them alone.

I'd put Psychonauts and Okami under the category of forgotten games when it comes to actually buying them even though both games got rave reviews from critics and gamers.

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Happens to be one of Blizzard's earlier games. Used to love this. Got re-released on the GBA.

Would this even fall into this category?

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Full Throttle (LucasArts), Sam and Max Hit The Road, Star Wars Rebel Assault II, Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis, The Dig (another LucasArts game), Heretic, Hexen series.

Loved this game. I remember when my SNES started dying and for whatever reason it stopped playing every single game but this one. Must have spent hours perfecting my motorcycle technique.

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Like, the first party game for video games.

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No contest... X-COM!!!

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lol I remember that. Couldn't figure it out.

Downhill Domination for the PS2 is one of the greatest racing games I've ever played. Spiritual successor to Road Rash with BMX instead of motorcycles and crazy tracks.

By that same token, the original Sled Storm was amazing.

Maniac Mansion NES, you could microwave a hamster! Worms ps1, bust a move ps2. And on the sega Eternal Champions

Two of my favourite examples are already listed:

Also, my first thought usually goes to....

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Skies of Arcadia, though I never owned a Dreamcast and instead played the GCN port, SOA Legends. Despite a borderline Mary Sue protagonist and a villain that almost makes Sepiroth look deep by comparison, it's one of the most memorable RPGs I've ever played. And it's unfortunately nearly completely forgotten.

Loved Skies of Arcadia.

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Crazy I searched for Maniac Mansion, and someone made a Deluxe version for the PC, never knew this existed.

I have that one :D

Using this thread to my advantage FTW

I was trying to remember this old computer game my 4th grade (99-00, I seem to recall the Bush-Gore election happening during that time) teacher let me play. It was obviously a kids game. The concept was to guide these little fuzzy shits through puzzles based on their features (eyes, hair, nose, mouth, etc.) If anyone can put a name to a memory, massive rep.

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Frequency and Amplitude on PS2 were freakin' epic! Think of them both as spiritual predecessors/ancestors to Rock Band and Guitar Hero, if you don't know about them already.

Not forgotten and not great. It is a good game up until the very, VERY end, after you kill the final boss. The final task afterwards nearly ruins the game. It is one of the worst sequence of events in video game history. Not talking about the Chrysler Building either.

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Yeah whoever's heard of Final Fight or Excitebike.

Several of my underrated faves have already been listed here:
X-Com (SO F'ING PISSED THAT THE NEW ONE'S GONNA BE A FPS! F'ING HATE FPSES!)
Moster Rancher
Smash TV

Here's a few to add to the discussion:
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I see your barn storming and raise you

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This game is a fucking monster. I don't know..maybe because I played an emulator version but it was pretty fucking hard. Pretty good tho.

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Especially for the Road Rash clone, the slide level and the tomato throwing level.

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Genesis version > SNES version

Logical Journey of the Zoombinis

Spunky's Dangerous Day is bullshit, fuck that game. And Bill Laimbeer's Combat Basketball sucks shit but it's so hilarious.

several great Sega Genesis RPGs

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Only non-kart racing game I've ever managed to like enough to keep in the collection.


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That one along with its sequel and the Mother/Earthbound series are games Nintendo has no interest of ever making again for certain reasons.


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Would also have mentioned Luigi's Mansion, Kid Icarus, and Pilotwings but all 3 got sequels announced this E3.

not so much a game but who can forget Sega Channel

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Since jamesdiesel started it, I've been trying to remember a game that was I think on PS1, but might have been early PS2 - it's a RPG where you play music to cast spells - I think the name is something like Shadow Hearts, but I know that's not right.

I'll see your Sega Channel and raise you a Sega Nomad.

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LOL at the "Low Battery" light being on, because that was ALWAYS the case - You could buy brand new batteries and within 5 minutes that light was on, and this was before rechargeables were really out there.

Game gear drained batteries too

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Insanely fun game for the PS1

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Gameplay :
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The game is about the sun being blocked out by a big block, then the big block rains down little blocks which the buddies use to build weapons and whatnot.
Best multiplayer game ever IMO

LOL yeah. I rarely used the batteries. Usually it'd be plugged in a wall or in the car.

I still have the system, but the battery pack is long gone, lol.

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And all the other Dizzy games.

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i dunno why but when i see snes and nes game boxes/cases posted up here a part of me gets all retro-excited. like the kid in me is all SWEET, SNES GAMES. like nowadays i just go buy games and don't give a shit and go home and get on with playing it but back then it would be all "WE NEED TO DO THE REST OF THE SHOPPING NOW" and i would stare at the bastard case and instructions all day, dying of anticipation. they even smelled different/awesome.

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This one too, wasted so much time with it lol.

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I had these games for the ZX Spectrum +2.

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Fucking loved Cool Spot.

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This was amazing. It was the only point and click game that I ever got into. Got it through the Scholastic book store. Lost it and bought it again I loved it so much.

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what about this game? , i used to have it

For some reason this topic makes people think that other people will not know what they are talking about unless visuals are involved.

Chip 'N Dales Rescue Rangers, Tin Star and The Flintstones: The Treasure of Sierra Madrock.

Plus many that's already been list like Bubsy, Shining Force 1&2, all The Simpsons Games and Clayfighter

tinstar yeah

flood of tinstar songs just came rushing back

Loved this game, completely forgot about it though. Will have to dig it up on eBay now...

I just found Bushido Blade like two weeks ago,

I sold my Nomad on eBay for £102 last October - £40 more than I brought it for jut over 2 years ago.