The most obscure game you own.

[Felstaff]

I remember spending quite a long time of my early MMOing playing A Tractor [http://www.gameislands.net/], which was Alot [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/S8TTPQCPA6I/AAAAAAAACwA/ZHZH-Bi8OmI/s1600/ALOT2.png] of fun. Virtually empty, however. A Tale in the Desert, too, but since I found out about that through Tobold, I'm guessing it's not as obscure as I thought.

I was going to say Samorost 2, but a.) someone's already mentioned that, and b.) since the guy did Machinarium, it's not particularly obscure no mo'. There's an awesome little flash game called... I forget, but it's some sort of pixellated wonder (edit: Small Worlds [http://www.gameshot.org/?id=4224]. Play it! It's wonderful! I'm not sure if it's obscure, because there are so many bajillions of Flash games out there, it's hard to tell what's popular and what's slipped under the radar. I hope this is a popular one; I really like it).

 

[JackyG]

Breakdown for the original xbox, I bloody love that game!

 

[GeneWard]

I own 2 copies of Ninjabread man, for some reason. It is one of the worst, most fundamentally broken games ever made.

 

[Erin Wright]

It would probably be one of these. Pirates: The Legend Of Black Kat, Eternal Ring, Orphen: Scion of Sorcery or Ephemeral Fantasia all for the PS2.

 

[Erin Wright]

It would probably be one of these. Pirates: The Legend Of Black Kat, Eternal Ring, Orphen: Scion of Sorcery or Ephemeral Fantasia all for the PS2.

 

[Fat4all]

Chameleon Twist 2 for the N64.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

I have "The Moment of Silence" on PC, bought many years ago after the constant adverts for it sponsoring the first season of Battlestar Galactica on UK TV convinced me I *had* to buy it. It's a point and click graphical adventure, good looking, interesting story and characters.

A long time after, I found out the controversy surrounding the game. The wikipedia page for its European publisher, Digital Jesters has some very scathing reports, painting a picture almost as bad as, if not worse than the Team Bondi/McNamara fiasco surrounding LA Noire (albeit much less well known).

 

[Feylynn]

Computer:
Blake Stone
Jill of the Jungle
One Must Fall

Snes:
Pushover
Zoop
StuntRace fx

({Edit
PSX:
Dragon Ball Z Ultimate Battle 22 ?})

Those are the only ones off the top of my head that might qualify as any level of obscure that I actually own, or in some cases owned before the sands of time buried them forever.

Edit again:
Nothing from a Humble Bundle counts as obscure. =/
Otherwise I have every game from those as well, which seems like cheating.

 

[mysecondlife]

Die by the Sword is my most obscure game

I got it as some sort of a goody bag when I attended my friend's birthday party. Apparently a local gameshop was closing and my friend got a lot of games for cheap price.

I don't remember much about it other than weird sword fighting controls

 

[Hijax]

Is hammerfight obscure?
Maybe Shadowgrounds?
Or Jack Claw?

 

[Arnuma]

Ha I laugh at your feeble attempts at obscurity (Ok so some of you do have really obscure games).
My most obscure game is Pink Panther in Hokus Pokus Pink a sequel to an almost as obscure game called Passport to Peril both "educational" adventure games for windows 95. Good luck trying to find anything about this game.

Most of pc collection is pretty rare as well, and I'm talking about physical disks. Some highlights would be:
Adventures in odyssey: Sword of the Spirit and Treasure of the Incas (Christian based educational games.
The Otter's Adventure (more of an activity centre type of thing)
Secret of the Castle (adventure game if I remember)
The Magical Movie Adventure (look like it should have been on the 3DO)
Midnight Nowhere
You Are Empty

PS2 games I'm not sure of but here's some I hadn't heard of till I bought them
Gift (puzzle platformer)
Dr Muto (platformer where you morph into useful creatures)
Klonoa 2 Lunatea's Veil (haven't played it yet)
Spy Fiction (metal gear like game)
Under the skin
Pitfall the Lost Expedition
Empire of Atlantis (oh god is it wonderfully terrible)
Freak Out

 

[FirebirdXR]

Shonen Jump Ultimate Stars for the DS, which saw only a limited release here in the states (and barely translated at that!)

Nothing but unbridled joy having the goofball Monkey D. Luffy beating the living tar out of pretentious, deux-ex machina characters like Ichigo or Naruto, by pummeling them using his Third Gear, or having Light [Kira] write their names on his Death Note.


I also had the Super Scope for the SNES. Now that's obscure!
I only had two games for it... Battle Clash (awesome!) and Yoshi Safari (meh...)

Though, I'll say this much about the actual peripheral. It ate batteries like a *****!

 

[Kanlic]

Holy Invasion of Privacy Badman: What did I do to deserve this?

Seriously the most difficult game I have ever played without feeling I was being screwed by the developers, and it's funny to boot.

 

[Haz88]

P.N. 03, one of the CAPCOM 5 for the Gamecube. I read a review of it in a Club Nintendo magazine and thought it looked cool, but at the time I couldn't find it anywhere. Then a couple of years ago I found it used in Gamestop for pretty much the value of the lint in my pockets, and for some reason I got Bomberman Generations, also for Gamecube, free of charge, because the cover and manual was missing.
The game, P.N. 03, is actually quite alright, shooting, combos, insane robots and all that, but I can see why it's unknown, with the constant loading between small rooms and nonsensical story.

 

[Fenix7]

A very dark indie game called Edmund. It's about a war vet and rape... it was the most disturbing game I've ever played, I found it through Anthony Burch.

 

[Torrasque]

Hmmm, my most obscure game...
Baten Kaitos for Gcube is pretty obscure, most people have no idea what it is.
Most people don't seem to know what Glory of Heracles (for DS) is.
Ogre Battle 64 is unfortunately very obscure. Unless you played alot of N64, or play mostly RPG/strategy games, you wouldn't know it either.
And Starcraft for the N64 is pretty damn obscure

 

[Mandalore_15]

Tell me the name of the most unrecognized game(s) you own and why you got it.
Mine would be "Shadow of Destiny" for the PS2. I walked by it at a bookstore and saw that it sold for only 2 dollars. The premise of a man going back in time trying to stop himself from being killed seemed interesting enough for the price. It was okay for it's time, mostly for the fact that it resolved problems through ways that wasn't just "Punch the thing" and "Shoot the thing". It was different so I would say it was worth the money. So how about you guys?

I picked up Gemini Rue a little while ago. It's a cyberpunk point-n-click adventure in the oldschool style, with all hand-drawn environments and animations (i.e. it looks DAMN NICE). I really recommend it to anyone, and it's pretty cheap online, only around $15 I think, although I can't remember exactly.

Link to PC Gamer's review: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/01/gemini-rue-review/

 

[Alduin Silas]

Open Transport Tycoon Deluxe, downloaded from the website because the old TT was a fun little timekiller, and the new version just allows so much more.

 

[piratejames]

Star Ixiom (PS1) Was a pretty fun game, basically you spent your time playing what seemed like a 3D version of Galaxian or running about hilariously in this space station.

CT Special Forces (PS1) I don't even know why in the hell I bought this one, it was a 2D side scrolling shooter, I remember it having a few good parts though.

Warzone 2100 (PS1) Probably not all that obscure, but I loved this game, I spent hours designing units, failing miserably at objectives and such, I only recently found out that it was on PC too and is now open source!