Obscure PC games from your childhood

[agent817]

Okay, not exactly a PC game as it was a Mac game, but I still remember Power Pete and I never even played it. Here's how I remember it: Back when I was in elementary school, I used to stay a daycare and there was a Mac in the room I stayed in for daycare. It seemed lik an interesting game. Playing as an action figure and battling with other toys in a toy store. I regret not playing it.

Also, another Mac game called Pegleg. I actually DID play that game. It was cool but hard for me.

[BrianZane]

I remember a friend of mine had a game called Relentless, a point-and-click-and-sometimes-fight adventure/RPG game in 3D. I remember it being pretty awesome, I even looked for it on ebay years later and found it...alas, I couldn't figure out how to play a DOS game on my Windows 2000 computer.

[DZ: WF Legacy]

I'll just name 4, and I need help with the last one.

1) Spider-man Cartoon Maker. You could input your own voice and move animated characters around, recording their moves and sound fx. I had a ton of fun with that one. I once tried to do a wrestling show, but it...did not work. Remotely.

2) The Journeyman Project. I think this also came with my old Packard Bell computer. Basically, you walk around in 1st person view in this futuristic world, traveling through time. I don't remember getting very far in it.

3) Odell Down Under. You're a fish of your choosing (I was always the Squid who could spit out ink), and you have to figure out what you need to eat to survive. There's plankton, smaller fish, and crabs that most fish could eat. Then, you have to watch out for bigger fish, and the dreaded Great White Shark. One of those cool educational games I played early on in grade school. I still have the 4 floppy disks required for installation.

4) This is a tough one, because I don't know the title. I've searched extensively for it, and I would be thrilled if someone else knew what I was talking about. Okay, so you're this Eskimo. The game's perspective is sort of overhead like Zelda, but not directly overhead. And the screens are static, so you can see everything at once. The game has you traveling around on these snow-themed levels, and you have to do...something. I don't remember what it was. I do remember that there were three "trinkets" (wooden sculptures) you could find in each level. You'd have to solve some puzzles in the world, and not get hit by penguins and things like that. The game was a ton of fun, I really hope someone know's what I'm talking about. I want to say the word "Sierra" had something to do with it, but that's not definite. I know there was a company who produced games called Sierra, so maybe that's it. Or maybe I'm just confused. This game is no older than 1997. Anyone play this game before or know what it's called?

[shadowangel]

Jan 12, 2011 23:23:47 GMT -5 agent817 said:

Okay, not exactly a PC game as it was a Mac game

Mac had some good games back in the 90's. The best example (and freeware today) is the Marathon Trilogy from Bungie.
If you play Bungie you just have to wonder what happened to those guys as they later puked out the Halo crap. Marathon back then rivaled System Shock as the best "intelligent" First Person Shooter and still to this day is a awesome trilogy of games.

[Slingshot Suplay]

I once found Leisure Suit Larry and the Lounge Lizards on a computer that someone gave to us. I got past the age restriction questions once, too!

[The Rager (Cole Miner)]

Freddy mother f***ing Fish

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I forget the name, it was like PongMan or something like that.

It was kind of a Pac-Man rip off, but you could kick the walls to stun your enemies. This would have been like, 1990 or earlier this game was out.

[-Lithium-]

DUST: A Tale of The Wired West

Anyone!?

[Pervy Stone Cold]

Jan 12, 2011 22:18:42 GMT -5 Beast Army Ass said:

Neverhood, The 11th Hour (only with my dad around though), The Incredible Machine, Rainbow Six (the verrrrrrrrrry first one), and then there was this one DOS game in the engineering lab where you solved puzzles to put together a machine to beat this mad scientist guy in a race or something at the end of the level. It was pretty awesome.

Probably the game Gizmos and Gadgets

[Magnus the Magnificent]

Impossible Mission for the C64. I was never able to beat it, but I did beat IM2.
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[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Jan 12, 2011 23:32:12 GMT -5 DZ: WF Legacy said:

2) The Journeyman Project. I think this also came with my old Packard Bell computer. Basically, you walk around in 1st person view in this futuristic world, traveling through time. I don't remember getting very far in it.

Had this for the Mac. The second game actually, I never played the first.

[Bearer is God]

- The Microsoft Entertainment Pack that came with Win 95, inc. games like Chips Challenge, Rodents Revenge, Jezzball, SkiFree etc.
- Hover (Also with Win 95)
- Zoombinis
- Humongous Entertainment series, such as Spy Fox, Freddie Fish, Pajama Sam
- Midtown madness 1 + 2 (not really obscure I suppose)
- World Rally Fever, probably the most unknown game; some websites don't seem to think it came out here somehow, despite it being developed in the UK. It truly was a game which didn't even try to hide that it was screwing you over, as seen around 1:55 in this vid

[Classy Lady]

From the computer at school...



I still have nightmares about this game. :-\

[Back to being Cenanuff]

No love for Grim Fandango? Not exactly from my childhood, but my early 20s.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

Grim Fandago is fantastic, but I was trying to think of more obscure things. I think Fandago is generally recognized as the apex of that generation of point/click games.

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

The Gold Box D&D RPGs on the PC from the early 90's. My dad had the majority of them so I cut my teeth on them and Eye of the Beholder.

[Allie Kitsune]

Jan 13, 2011 10:23:55 GMT -5 Bearer is God said:

- The Microsoft Entertainment Pack that came with Win 95, inc. games like Chips Challenge, Rodents Revenge, Jezzball, SkiFree etc.
- Hover (Also with Win 95)
- Zoombinis
- Humongous Entertainment series, such as Spy Fox, Freddie Fish, Pajama Sam
- Midtown madness 1 + 2 (not really obscure I suppose)
- World Rally Fever, probably the most unknown game; some websites don't seem to think it came out here somehow, despite it being developed in the UK. It truly was a game which didn't even try to hide that it was screwing you over, as seen around 1:55 in this vid

I'd tried to get my hands on World Rally Fever forever, but it was pretty much impossible, as they weren't selling it in the US. Shameless Power Drift ripoff, but I always had wanted to play it.

I'll come up with my own list when I've got more time.

[slasher911]

I still haven't met anyone else that played Myst. Not even the sequels.

Same with Transport Tycoon, but not many other people enjoy arranging bus and train routes

[Pervy Stone Cold]

I don't know about others ever talking about Legoland, based off a real amusement park. I know people are familiar with Lego Island and Lego Island 2 though.

[Beast Army Ass]

Jan 13, 2011 9:51:48 GMT -5 Pervy Stone Cold said:

Jan 12, 2011 22:18:42 GMT -5 Beast Army Ass said:

Neverhood, The 11th Hour (only with my dad around though), The Incredible Machine, Rainbow Six (the verrrrrrrrrry first one), and then there was this one DOS game in the engineering lab where you solved puzzles to put together a machine to beat this mad scientist guy in a race or something at the end of the level. It was pretty awesome.

Probably the game Gizmos and Gadgets

Looked it up, and yep, that was it. Thanks a ton, figuring out the name of it had been bugging me for a while now. Speaking of that, my cousins pretty much had the whole "Super Solvers" series, so I played that a bunch too whenever I was over there. Oh, and Scorched Earth too. Nothing like dropping a nuke on a tiny little tank.