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[San Dan Glokta]

 

[FewRope]

Folklore is rightfully forgotten tho...

 

[San Dan Glokta]

Folklore is rightfully forgotten tho...

it was unique. imo a part2 fixing its issues would have done wonderfully.

 

[alalei]

There was once a PC game where you had to clear bricks, and it was incredibly fun. I was completely obsessed with it at the time and played it for a long time, competing with friends to see who could get the highest score. It was similar to the game shown below, but I can't find the original game anymore, and I don't remember its name.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

There was once a PC game where you had to clear bricks, and it was incredibly fun. I was completely obsessed with it at the time and played it for a long time, competing with friends to see who could get the highest score. It was similar to the game shown below, but I can't find the original game anymore, and I don't remember its name.

Checkout Shatter if you've never heard of it

Coolest Breakout/Arkanoid clone ever made, with an awesome soundtrack. It's a steal for $2

Avoid the remaster. It's based on the mobile port, unfortunately.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Remembered another one. This game was actually fucking amazing and have such good memories of it. It’s basically dodgeball but sometimes you get chainsaws, bombs for balls and it was brutally violent for the time. So good.

 

[enjoyed bell woods]

The Maximo series on the PS2. Thought these were legitimately great games and think a new one would do well.

 

[jshackles]

There was once a PC game where you had to clear bricks, and it was incredibly fun. I was completely obsessed with it at the time and played it for a long time, competing with friends to see who could get the highest score. It was similar to the game shown below, but I can't find the original game anymore, and I don't remember its name.

Was it DX-Ball 2? That was my jam back in the late 90s. It even got a 20th anniversary edition on Steam

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Urban Chaos on PS1.

 

[Baemono]

 

[The_hunter]

Is this popular now? I remember liking it back in the day. Plays like Kirby and the forgotten land.

 

[Archaic101]

I used to play Digger on the Tandy 1000EX. Also remember playing Thexder, Popcorn and Sopwith.

Had all of those except Popcorn. Digger had a really catchy little song, as I recall.

 

[-Minsc-]

It's safe to say Popcorn was the only French game (aside from a French educational game played in school in the 80's) that I've played.

I'll say one thing about Digger, my mom played the shit out of that game.

 

[Banjo64]

Mashed on PS2. Top down racer with Mario Kart style power ups but they’re all slick weapons like heat seeking missiles instead. Was very fun.

 

[Sabejita]

My favorite game on the OG XBox, a real-time tactical action game.
You commanded 2 squads of 4 soldiers and it was the only war game I played that felt really close to reality (ads at the time said it was developed from a US Army simulator).

 

[Boneless]

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

One of my favorite games on my OG PS2, before my parents agreed to sell it because it couldn't read certain DVDs

One of the best games I've ever played. I don't know what it is, but there's just something magical about this one. Its camera and character movement are excellent, and though the melee combat is fairly simple, it was still strangely satisfying. Shame the same can't be said for ranged "combat." I remember how enemies would just stand there in place while you pumped them full of arrows.

In a just world, it would have gotten a sequel.

 

[Sooner]

My favorite game on the OG XBox, a real-time tactical action game.
You commanded 2 squads of 4 soldiers and it was the only war game I played that felt really close to reality (ads at the time said it was developed from a US Army simulator).

Those hand selected reviews and their sources. Some things never change.

 

[6502]

 

[AZRoboto]

One of the best games I've ever played. I don't know what it is, but there's just something magical about this one. Its camera and character movement are excellent, and though the melee combat is fairly simple, it was still strangely satisfying. Shame the same can't be said for ranged "combat." I remember how enemies would just stand there in place while you pumped them full of arrows.

In a just world, it would have gotten a sequel.

Did you play the first or remember that this was a sequel?

I remembered years after playing that it was, somehow, but couldn't remember the full name - "Draken something..." And it took another few years to actually find this game again online.

Drakan. Not Draken and 100% not Drakengard lol

 

[RCX]

Alien Storm on the MD

Didn't have much money for games when I was a kid so I played this to death.

Always enjoyed the robot character using a move that looked uncannily like he was shooting electric piss out of the top of his head.

 

[SpiceRacz]

 

[Superkid93]

First game I ever played. This wins the thread.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

For me, the first that comes to mind is "Crusade of the Century" on the Sega Genesis. It was sort of like Link to the Past, but actually involved a tiny bit of time-travel. The cool mechanic, though, was you could unlock all these animal companions, all of which augmented your attacks in some way, letting you "equip" two at any given time, combining them into some crazy effects. There were even "secret" companions as I recall.

Another is "Alundra" for the Playstation 1. It was also fairly Zelda-like, a top-down perspective though considerably different. It had such a unique "vibe", though, and the story was generally quite dark, dealt with a lot of themes of mortality, loss, and even how religion could be twisted. The main schtick is that your character could enter the dreams of others, usually in response to some tragic event, and those served as your "dungeons". They were fucking *terrifying* as I recall.

Another I only vaguely remember was something line... "A Knight's Tale" or something also on PS1? Turn-based RPG where you play a young, silent knight who eventually comes across a "creature" (I feel like it was a cross between Kirby with a vaguely dragon-like form?). I actually don't remember hardly anything about it, other than *really* enjoying it, before my cousins destroyed the game.

What about you guys? What are some games that we should prevent from getting lost to the sands of time?

Alundra absolutely kicked my fucking ass a few years back. I always wanted to play it and just never got around to it.

It's like ALttP on Fuck You crack. It looks and sounds deceptive lol. It's so good but I still can't tell if I just suck or if the game was as big of a ball breaker as I experienced. Never finished it becauae I can't get myself to look shit up lol.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

This game. It seemed really important at the time, all my friends were amazed by the car damage, I'd gawk at it in the store window tv.

Kinda forgot it even exists until I just tried to think of examples.

 

[lughnasadh123]

The Guardian Legend for the NES was a shockingly fun time for a game that I stumbled upon confused by the cover art. It was a blend of top-down shooter mixed with Zelda-esque gameplay sections. Simple but fun. Still love the music today too.

 

[Crayon]

I don't know why, but i can play this game any time. It's particularly good in any way. Total mystery to me. Maybe my childhood memories of s3/mospeda are affecting it more than i realize?

 

[Crayon]

This game. It seemed really important at the time, all my friends were amazed by the car damage, I'd gawk at it in the store window tv.

Kinda forgot it even exists until I just tried to think of examples.

I had it day 1 and recently i put it in. This game still kicks ass. The structure is barebones but the gameplay is amazing. The graphics hold up well for early ps1, too.

 

[El Muerto]

 

[The Lunch Legend]

Wachenroder for the Sega Saturn

 

[PlayStaytion]

Many pc games from the 90's as well as Sega and PlayStation games, they were special to me but decades later, they're no longer relevant to me, I don't miss them and I don't get emotional about them and it sucks to feel this way.

 

[pnutboy]

 

[adamsapple]

Resident Evil + Under Siege

 

[StreetsofBeige]

 

[Walliwallipaloo]

Did you play the first or remember that this was a sequel?

I remembered years after playing that it was, somehow, but couldn't remember the full name - "Draken something..." And it took another few years to actually find this game again online.

Drakan. Not Draken and 100% not Drakengard lol

Order of the Flame? I've watched some playthroughs and it seems the sequel really does improve the game by almost every metric (except for the omission of dismemberment - shame, that). It's really old, and I'll bet it's not so easy to get running on modern hardware.

Probably still worth a try if it's possible.

Here's an esoteric game that probably no one remembers: King Arthur's World on the SNES. Quaint by anyone's reasonable standards, honestly, but as a kid, the game seemed so clever and reactive. The little gunpowder sapper guys would get blown up by enemy archers and the fire would burn the thatch rooftops of the buildings in the background. I guess the game was basically "Lemmings, but what if we can shoot stuff with arrows?"

 

[Variahunter]

This one is a hidden gem on SNES.
It’s like a perfect mix between Mario and Sonic, with great gameplay ideas associated with the haircuts, a killer soundtrack, and great graphics.
Mascot character is a bit of an idiot who just wants to eat… so he has to rescue a girl from the mafia to get unlimited and free food from a restaurant!

 

[Variahunter]

Really liked this one as a kid.

Pure ninja stealth.

This one is my favorite Ninja stealth game on PS2. It never really gets talked a lot because I think it was only released in Japan and Europe.
A true gem with great use of havok.
I also remember those potions that would make you run and fly all over the map in only one jump lol

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Tenchu series
Tourist Trophy
MDK series
Star Tropics
Starsiege series
Blood series
Shatterhand
Black & White
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Messiah
Wild 9
Little Samson
Sacrifice
Omikron the Nomad Soul
Nox
Lufia 2
Homeworld Cataclysm
Ground Control
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
Axis & Allies
Mind Rover
Heretic series
Sin series
Shogo mobile armor division
Little Nemo the dream master

I could go on forever. I'm not saying they are all the best, but I have fond memories playing these and many are 85 meta scores and up and almost all have been forgotten to time.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Used to be a Reversai game built into windows that could be played online.

 

[kremiso]

a lot of C64 stuff i grew up with
Fire Ant, Firequest, Pijamarama, Forbidden Forest... a ton more

Loved and completed the first Alundra, same for Crusader of Centy that sadly i haven't reached to complete, i remember i remained stuck a lot further in the story, i just didn't knew how to proceed

and yes quite a bunch of games from the PS1 era, Colony Wars the first coming to mind atm

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

Ring Of Red was an enjoyable game, it really captured the dirty, smoke belching vibe of the mechs and as you say the risk/reward gameplay was a 'test of nerves' as you faced off your opponent and waited for your swaying gun barrel to steady.

I loved these kind of games you would only discover looking at the shelf in a shop before internet was a thing and game companies made lots of these smaller games that didn't need to sell a million.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Really enjoyed Freedom Fighters and Enter the Matrix back in the day.

I had unbelievable amounts of fun with Enter the Matrix, just killing endless enemies while in bullet time. And the command line hacking mini game as well.

 

[Chuck Berry]

For me, the first that comes to mind is "Crusade of the Century" on the Sega Genesis. It was sort of like Link to the Past, but actually involved a tiny bit of time-travel. The cool mechanic, though, was you could unlock all these animal companions, all of which augmented your attacks in some way, letting you "equip" two at any given time, combining them into some crazy effects. There were even "secret" companions as I recall.

Another is "Alundra" for the Playstation 1. It was also fairly Zelda-like, a top-down perspective though considerably different. It had such a unique "vibe", though, and the story was generally quite dark, dealt with a lot of themes of mortality, loss, and even how religion could be twisted. The main schtick is that your character could enter the dreams of others, usually in response to some tragic event, and those served as your "dungeons". They were fucking *terrifying* as I recall.

Another I only vaguely remember was something line... "A Knight's Tale" or something also on PS1? Turn-based RPG where you play a young, silent knight who eventually comes across a "creature" (I feel like it was a cross between Kirby with a vaguely dragon-like form?). I actually don't remember hardly anything about it, other than *really* enjoying it, before my cousins destroyed the game.

What about you guys? What are some games that we should prevent from getting lost to the sands of time?

Crusader of Centy you mean

Crusade of the Century

 

[HenryJr]

I had completely forgotten about this game, but I used to love this as a kid, pretty sure I never made it past the second stage, I think it was inside a building.
I'm gonna play this tonight to see if it holds up.