*Nostalgia Alert* Forgotten PC Games From Your Childhood

[Drakmeire]

I remember this company, I think it was called Humongous Studios, that made point-&-click puzzle games for kids (Pajama Sam, Putt-Putt, spy fox, Freddie fish)
I have fond memories of those games.

 

[altobizzaro]

Captain comic and Kingdom O magic....

 

[Jaebird]

While I cannot remember the name of the game for the life of me, I do remember spending a lot of my early computer time playing a simple point-and-click distraction, with kooky cartoon animations taking place in a hotel, or something.

Then, some time around that little oddity, I played the first Lego Island game. And it kicked ass...at the time. It probably hasn't aged well.

 

[temporalcrux]

Life or Death, 1 and 2 (because I liked cutting people up)
Prince of Persia games
the Ultima games
Bard's Tale series

 

[sivloc]

ahhh Crazyoid how I miss you... why couldn't you be compatible with windows 7? By the way Crazyoid was an old game (for windows 95 I think) where you had a space ship which you could upgrade with money you got from fighting gelatinous blobs of aliens while listening to awesome repetitive electronic music.

 

[aPod]

Torin's Passage.

I literally had forgotten about it until my sister brought it up. Took me a few days to remember the little dog thing moogle and soon as i had the name I had the game.

Lot less challenging as an adult.

 

[teh_Canape]

let's see

-Sonic 3 and Knuckles Collection
-Doom
-Doom 2
-Ultimate Doom
-Jazz Jackrabbit
-Jazz Jackrabbit 2
-Halloween Harry
-Megaman X and Megaman X 3
-Virtua Cop, Virtua Cop 2
-Formula Karts
-In the Hunt
-Garfield: Caught in the Act
-Tyrian
-Tyrian 2000
-Hercules
-*something something* Bloopy (an incredibly cheesy RTS about green yellow looking men*
-Loose your Marbles
-Holiday Island
-Quake
-Quake 2
-a little bit of Quake 3
-Unreal
-Wolfenstein 3D
-Duke Nukem 3D
-a bit of Blood
-Shadow Warrior
-Crystal Mines
-Daytona USA
-Street Fighter 2
-a bit of Half Life
-WORMS ARMAGEDDON
-WORMS WORLD PARTY
-Fire Fight (an unknown SHMUP for PC, that should have been more popular than it actually was, shame, really, because it was glorious, and it had a demo on the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 disc)
-Day of the Tentacle
-Mortal Kombat 3
-Mortal Kombat Trilogy
-Mortal Kombat 4
-Doom 2: TNT Evilution
-Doom 2: The Plutonia Experiment
-a bit of Full Throttle

and those are all the ones I can think off the top of my head

 

[Karthesios]

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure. Played the hell out of it when I was 10 though never could get episode 2 or 3.

 

[ckam]

I remember this one space war, flight simulator, game thing that had this cutscene where all of these spies/infiltrators got brutally slaughtered by giant mechanical spider bots. That scene scared the hell out of me.

 

[Balls Mandingo]

Doom
Doom 2
Dungeon Keeper
Vampire The Masquerade Redemption
Black & White
Hexen
Nam
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Tomb Raider
Duke Nukem 3D

I remember Black & White was one of the first games I got really into when I was little. So many memories

 

[Feralcentaur]

Croc and Croc 2 which was about a bipedal Crocodile who was raised by a village of umm...things and has to go through the levels to rescue them from umm...something and it was a platformer.

 

[Retardinator]

It's funny how when people talk about nostalgia or childhood and PC games, I instantly think UT2004. That, BF1942 or GTA3.

 

[Sacman]

Total Distortion is the first game I remember playing because it scared me as a kid...<.<

 

[mindlesspuppet]

Isle of the Dead was a Doom clone, but set on a tropical island, so it kind of stood out.

Side note: doesn't seem that many people are actually naming "forgotten" games, just nostalgic ones. I mean hell, more than half the games listed in this thread are still having sequels made these days.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

Elf Bowling and...tank..thing. It was puzzle gam with a tank....or something

 

[Snotnarok]

Sokoban
Silpheed
Bouncing Babies
X-Wing, Tie Fighter
Wolfenstein 3D
Blake Stone
Sky Roads


Don't pretend like you've heard of half of them, because I know you haven't.
That's the trouble, most of the games I played, people have never heard of them and that cuts down on my ability to talk about them effectively. And now that half of them have been cloned/rehashed/reimplemented into various games it makes it EVEN HARDER to talk about because of how they are.

 

[bloodrayne626]

*GASP* *SHOCK*
All of a sudden!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAqgYxJSPxw&feature=related

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU REMEMBERS THIS.