Mine is Hogs of War for the PS1. It's a really great worms style game (but way better in my opinion). You can upgrade your pigs with promotions, and that changes their inventory so not the whole team has one single inventory but every pig has his own. The whole thing is voiced by Rik Mayall a British (if I remember right) comedian, and he does a really great job. It parodies stereotypes a bit, for example half of the Russian's voices are drunk ("I think I have to press...... this button.") It has a PC version althought it's not as good. The PC version doesn't have music, cutscenes, and the AI plays in artillery style. Ironically when I was young and I had the game for PS1, I played it so much that the CD actually broke.

I wonder what gems can turn up in this thread.

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Kabuki Quantam Fighter - NES

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Worth it just for the stage 3 music. =)

Edit: speaking of music; Journey To Silius - NES is also worth playing through just for the soundtrack.

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Herzog Zwei (Mega Drive) - One of the few RTS games I enjoy, and it was damn great playing it with my father when I was younger. I've owned three different copies over the years and would love a version to be released on other systems.

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I actually have Hogs of War and usually play it on my PS1, fun game. PC version is crap though, as you said.

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If I wanted everyone to know about it, then it wouldn't be obscure anymore and I wouldn't feel like I'm special anymore.

Anyway, Kolibri for Sega 32X or Ai Cho Aniki for Turbo Duo would be my picks I guess. I have way too many old consoles and I can't really pick favourite games.

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I've heard of those Cho Aniki games. Both Wii Virtual Console and PSN PS1 Classics have a game from that series available.

And Kolibri is always something I've wanted to try out, but my mushroom broke.

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The Cho Aniki games on those platforms aren't exactly like Ai Cho Aniki. The one I'm talking about is totally unique in the fact that it is a horizontal shooter like R-Type or Gradius except for the fact that you do Street Fighter-style moves on the d-pad to pull off your attacks.

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I don't feel special about knowing an obscure fun game. I want to tell everyone how good it is so then maybe other will try out and have a good time with it. My other reason with Hogs of War is that I'd really like a sequel and maybe if enough people want it, it might happen. It was once in the works but it was cancelled sadly.

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Yeah I was mostly just kidding about the "special" comment.

I never liked Hogs of War but I only ever played the PC demo. I'm also not a huge strategy game fan either. I do enjoy some Worms though!

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Dragon Force on the Sega Saturn. I must have put a few hundred hours into that game when I was a teenager.

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Games I had the most fun playing are now all old and obscure. :(

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What about Mario and Zelda games? Those are not obscure IMO.

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Depends on who you are talking to. Nowadays, kids don't know of Age of Kings, Thief, Arcanum, Descent, Planescape: Torment, Blood, Earthworm Jim, Comix Zone, Bugerman, Myst, ... If 99% of gamers has no idea what we are talking about, those games are, by definition, obscure to them. We are old, and no one cares what we liked in the time of Atari, NES, Genesis and SNES, ...

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I'm 20 and you made me feel old >.>

Damn growing up with my own games and shows as well as older shows and games XD

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It's not shame to be experienced... even in gaming xD

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Here's an another: Bloody Roar 2 (PS1) or Bloody Roar 4 (PS2) It's a great fighter with the ability to transform into (usually) an animal-human thing. If you like fighters it's worth checking out.

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Uniracers kiakiakiakiakia

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Kabuki racing!!! Yai

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There's another game. Although it's not exactly old but if you check it out you'll know why I put it here. It's called dwarf fortress and it's F2P you can find it at http://bay12games.com/dwarves/ or a bit better version: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=59026.0

PS. I forgot how to make a link AGAIN :(

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X-Wing Arcade, only about $4,700.
Used to play it at Disneyland all the time.

Or... Jungle Hunt for the Vic-20 (annoying YouTube narrator). Hell yeah... loved that one back in the day. Swing on ropes, kill crocodiles (the YouTube vid guy is a pussy and just avoids them...), jump over rocks, avoid the cannibals, and get the girl.

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Rising Lands, a PC RTS game.

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It reminds of of the (I think) first Settlers game. I might check it out, it looks really interesting.

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Sadly, a lot of the old games I've played I don't even remember their names. Used to play a 2 player, sidescroller shooter with my brother which was fun.. it was sci-fi themed. (SNES)

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I wouldn't call Zombies Ate My Neighbours completely obscure, but that game is hella fun.

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Rise of Nations, Rise of Nations: Thrones of Patriots and Rise of Legends. Also Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.

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Hellfire (Mega Drive): Possibly one of the hardest/more-ish side-scrolling shooters, at least in the 16-bit era. Counterbalanced by one of the best soundtracks of the 16-bit era. :)

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Oh **** yes, this game was awesome.

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Definitely Plok, super awesome Platformer for the SNES, no idea why it's not so popular

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Mine isn't obscure at all, hell I don't even think of it as all that old. But god do I love theme hospital, the shortcut for it has been on my desktop for years.

Now for the obscure(ish) part: you can play a fixed up theme hospital on your fancy new operating system quite easily with http://code.google.com/p/corsix-th/ there is also an Android build that looks interesting, but don't know how stable that is yet. You need the original files, but those are easy enough to find. Even I had to "find" the files since young me had no concept of storing cd's properly.

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MC Kids, NES.
A platformer originally intended as little more then a glorified McDonalds advertisement. By some miraculous impossible miracle it turned into one of the best platformers of all time IMO.

If it had Mario in the title it would be justifiably famous.

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I played the hell out of the Atari ST version of MC Kids, known as McDonald Land.

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Well, this isn't really a retro game, not sure if it counts that way... It's a visual novel game, and it's for the DS. (999 if you were wondering)

I doubt that's actually a retro game... so I'll go with Hellfire. I loved that shit, but I didn't actually play it in my childhood >.< Had to.... buy... it later on.

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You pick awesome games. Love both of those.

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Dunno about obscure (seeing as the main series was fairly well-known), but Panzer Dragoon Saga on the Sega Saturn is probably my most fondly remembered "unknown" game from the days of yore :P .

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Zillion for the Sega Master System. Good music, fun gameplay, challenge, and no password or save feature. Loosely based on an anime from the mid-80's (didn't actually know that 'til over 10 years after I initially played and fell in love with the game). The Master System's light gun design is that of the Zillion Gun from the anime as well. Sega attempted a nice tie-in, but it never really went anywhere. There was a sequel called Zillion Tri-formation... don't play that one. It's awful. XD

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Fisherman's Bait 3: Big ol' Bass 2 for the PS1. For christ's sake, that is one of my favorite games ever!

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Thanks for all the great replies. For that I give you MUSIC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-sH53vXP2A&list=PL1C4ECC7E38737799&index=5&feature=plpp_video

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Master of Monsters for the Genesis. My brother and I spent absurd amounts of time playing it together, but I've only run into one person who I didn't share the cartridge with who had heard of it (someone on this board), and it turned out later that they were thinking of a completely different game. It was kind of a fantasy board game, with RPG components (units gained experience and leveled up, combat relied on dice rolls). It was also the first console game I can remember playing that allowed you to save your progress, with a small memory chip built into the cartridge.

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