A special game from your childhood that no one else seems to have played

[Llil]

I remembered another one. Ski or die.

Spoiler

I loved that game. I don't think it would hold up as well if I tried it again (unlike Alley Cat or Wings), but at the time it was a ton of fun.

Flashback. (Sometimes called Quest for Identity). It was like the original 2D Prince of Persia, but with guns. In retrospect it was kind of meh, but I loved it at the time.

I really liked Flashback. It's not nearly as good as Prince of Persia, not even close, but it's still fun enough. Except for that running jump move that used a weird key combination, and was only needed once at the start of the second level. That was really frustrating.

BTW, to any Yahtzee fans, he did a let's play of the game.

Broken Sword 1&2

Solidly built point'n'click adventure game with great story and atmosphere, witty and well written dialogue, likable and memorable characters plus a beautiful soundtrack

Those are great games. I only played them for the first time a couple of years ago, but they're really good if you're into adventure games. (I still like the old Sierra adventures the best, though.)

 

[Rastien]

rocket knight man i loved this game spent so many hours on it.

Only sega/snes generation game i ever completed.

 

[Desert Warrior]

Mort the Chicken. I loved that game when I was little and nobody else seems to have heard of it.

 

[Death Carr]

For me, its Seek & Destroy for the PS2.
You controlled a tank and you blew up other tanks, and ships, and flying tanks, and giant spider tanks.
It was amazingly fun and I would still play it had I not lost the disc some time ago.

 

[LtFerret]

BattleTanx: Global Assault and Turok: Rage Wars are the two must obscure games from my childhood that I played that shit out of

 

[Skin]

Hyperblade.

Futuristic sports game that included decapitation.

 

[WaReloaded]

Jurassic Park for the SNES, that game was incredibly fun and the first person sequences in the facilities/bunkers were quite "scary" for the time.

 

[Palademon]

Pajama Sam 3.

The first PC game I ever played.

That game had some really nice looking environments, catchy music and was set on an island where every one and everything is food and there is a war going on between the sweets/sugars and healthy food, complete with political parties and diplomacy.

I could never beat the third one. It hurt my childish brain too much...
First two were good.

bubsy....

no one can see it for the work of brilliance it is

 

[Evilpigeon]

Seek and Destroy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjffimJrMmw

Talking tanks and an awful campaign. However the game had amazing customisation and a split screen skirmish mode, played this for years with friends just because of how much variety there was in the tank combinations - from utterly unkillable juggernauts to tanks so fast that their opponent's turrets can't turn fast enough to hit them, oh and flying tanks and swimming tanks. Imagine a Maus tank with wings and you get the idea of why this was awesome.

 

[necromanzer52]

Power Rangers: Time Force on the Playstation 1. Absolutely terrible game, but I definitely wasn't going to notice.

I played that. I only remember the level that takes place in the wild west though.

I also played Power Rangers: Lightspeed rescue, which was essentially the same thing.

 

[roushutsu]

One of my favorite Sega Saturn games back in the day was Mystaria: Realms of Lore. It was a standard tactical fantasy RPG, but it was so much fun, and it introduced me to the "as you use specific skills, you learn more of those specific skills" mechanic that I would see in other RPGs years later like Grandia. But what I think I loved most about it was the music. It had a very kickass soundtrack and I managed to find it under its original Japanese title (Riglord Saga), so I still listen to it occasionally on my computer. Sadly I didn't know many people who even had a Sega Saturn, let alone Mystaria, so I never got the chance to really geek out over it with other people. Hell, you can barely find any gameplay footage and any LPs of it that I've found were never finished.

Here's the game intro [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQdQXGLHJRM]
Sample gameplay [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF9mgOXOpz4]

 

[Last Hugh Alive]

A turn-based strategy game called Monsterseed on the Playstation. Sadly no one I knew had ever heard of the game and it was my own obscure version of Pokemon.

FUCK I wish it was on XBLA so I can play it again now that I'm smarter and nostalgia and everything.

 

[Patathatapon]

You know, I remember playing a JRPG, where all the protagonists get horribly killed at the end in a somewhat tragi-comic white-screen text conversation by the evil overlord you were supposed to be stopping, but I could never find out what it was in later years.

Great way to end the game, over the years it sank in how rare it was for a game to end that way.

Play Heavy Rain and purposely fuck everything up, then you can get a similar ending.

 

[Patathatapon]

Lets just say 12 counts as childhood, despite me being 15.

Everyone I seem to talk to (in real life, not internet) Doesn't know what Earthbound is. One of my friends wants to play it, but I no one else has heard of it, or played it. I can see why but they're missing out on quite a bit.

 

[pipsiscool]

Definitely any monster rancher game. Those games had such good ideas, but where kind of let down in the execution of the ideas. Also aside from me and my friend, i've never met another soul who has played any of these games.

 

[Amondren]

The only game I can think of that's proper obscure is Glover, and Glover was shit.

HELL YEA GLOVER THAT GAME IS AWESOME.

 

[Nyaliva]

Golden Sun and Golden Sun: The Lost Age were probably my two favourite games as a kid but people do actually know about it here, but no-one else played it that I knew as a kid. Another series no-one seems to know is Advance Wars. Awesome strategy series which I happened upon when my grandmother got the first one for me from a pawn shop. Other than that I mostly just played pokemon.

EDIT: Actually, now that I remember my Playstation games we had quite a few obscure titles. The first game we ever got was Destruction Derby which was a racing game where one of the levels was a giant stadium where you crash into the other cars until there's only one that's not destroyed. But for an obscure title that really defined my childhood, I'd say Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. Please tell me someone else has played this because it's probably one of the best games on the Playstation, but no-one seems to know it.

 

[ultrapowerpie]

Journeyman Project Series. Best future adventure game ever, but no one recognises it and it's awesomeness ;-;

 

[217not237]

The only game I can think of that's proper obscure is Glover, and Glover was shit.
Maybe Trace Memory? But a small number of people (about 3) have voiced that they enjoyed it in the past, so that's out.

Wait... I got it! Way back, in the distant past, Lego Bionicle released a flash based point and click adventure game on their website. It was riddled with bugs but the story was just interesting and fun enough to keep seven or eight year old me interested.
Later, they made a sequel. This time from the more common side view rather than the first person perspective of the first one. I played the hell out of both those games, but the puzzles and lore from the original will always be with me.

Oh, but only the PS1 version of Glover was shit! The N64 version ruled!

OT: Glover