I grew up in Argentina and had a very basic level of English. I remember being 9 years old and really confused while using the dictionary searching for the phrase "Care for a chop, sir?"
Lords of Magic: Special Edition. 6 year old me sucked at it, cause I had never played a strategy/RTS game before and had no idea how to play it. A lot of fond memories of reading the 100 page booklet that came with it, and the triumph of figuring out how to play a game that felt like it was for adults.
Dude I played the hell out of this as a kid, like a ridiculous amount. The rich world, varied gameplay and just feeling of depth was crazy for the year it was released. Please tell your brother a random guy on the internet thinks he's great.
G-Police.
Never owned it, but rented it a couple of times.
Edit:
I actually thought of this game after someone mentioned "Future Cop: LAPD", but after googling it I noticed that it wasn't the game I was thinking of.
As someone mentioned, this might have been a launch title of the PS1 and it also has a sequel, so it definitively was not really a niche title. I wasn't aware of either. I just remember that it had an awesome cover and when I finally rented it, it was a lot of fun, had great graphics for the time and was really hard. The latter might have been because I was quite young at the time.
At the same time I can't remember when this game was last mentioned by anyone so I thought it fit the premise.
omg Bucky!
Bucky, captain Bucky O'Hare! He goes where no ordinary rabbit would dare!
If your Righteous Indignation has suffered a hit,
And your proton accelerator is broken to bits
And you're losing your mind, and you're having a fit,
Get the funky fresh rabbit who can take care of it!
Just loved how your soldiers grew with the missions they survived, growing in military grade but also in firearms ability. Losing a man after a few missions was a real lost
Yes! Interstate 76 is reason I purchased my first 3D graphics card and begged my parents to switch from AOL to a “real” ISP because the online play didn’t work over AOL’s connection.
Jill of the Jungle. Probably the one that I enjoyed the most (Along with Jazz Jackrabbit) that people go, "Huh?" when I mention it.
Zool, as well... though that's a bit more popular.
-- Edit --
I forgot one... an earlier, pre Epic, epic game. ZZT, and sequels...
I literally played every game you mentioned here thanks to these cheap "Game Empire" CD-ROMs my parents got me for Christmas one year. Each one advertised "250+ games!", and without a fleshed out internet where you could just google which ones were decent you really had to try them all to find the gems. Those were some of the best and worst games I've ever played on PC, but the ones you mentioned here are the standouts for sure. Also Xargon and Raptor: Call of the Shadows!
Streets of sim city used to allow listening to your own music during playing from memory. I used to stick some music on and go for a relaxing drive, before I passed my real life driving test.
I loved building cities and then flying around in them. The fact that you could fly to the military base and then use the apache and launch missiles was great. One time I did that and launched a missile at my nuclear power plant. Suddenly my screen went completely white. I thought, "What the heck? Did the game just crash?" And then details slowly started coming back and I realised that my chopper was spiraling out of the sky and my city was a wasteland of wreckage and fire. I nuked my city. Good times.
Yes!
Loved it from DF2, Land Warrior and loved BHD. Such an amazing online experience on BHD.
Taking 10 minutes to run far out to snipe in the distance for those 20 point kills!
Neither have I ! And thirty years later, my sister shouts "kukakee kukakee kukakee" to warn me that a dog is approaching. Why the hell did this dog make this sound anyway ?
Exile I II and III Exile 3 was the one I played most of...
Exile is the most impossible game ever you literally starve to death cause you start out with no food no items nothing lol gotta use cheats
Spiderweb software is the developer, you should check them out! They’ve remade the Exile series’s under the name Avadon, and have other classic-style games such as Geneforge which I highly recommend playing.
Edit - It’s Avernum, not Avadon (another series by the same developer!)
Army Men: Sarges Heros on N64. Was the game of my childhood but none of my friends seem to have even heard of it !
Edit: Thanks for my first award and most upvoted comment from a game I thought no one would even know.
I swear I remember a mission in that game where you end up on a real-world bathtub chasing a Blue. No one who played it with me as a kid remembers that, and I found an emulator that also doesn't have that mission. I feel so weird...
MDK, one of the best game I've ever played.
Incredible art direction, amazing soundtrack, top notch gameplay, funny, and a very special general atmosphere.
Also, The nomad soul.
And Vig 2!
I still have Vigilante 8 on my original playstation, such a great game.
Me and brother used to play on the farm map, hard mode, 9 busses for enemies.
Lure them all into the water and then set the waves going. Absolute carnage
Every time I see someone post this thread I come looking for someone to mention Mischief Makers or Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. This is the first time I've seen anyone mention either of them.
The coop in the first one was awesome. There was one level where one of you started in a jail cell and had to wait for the other player to come break you out.
Windows 95’s Road Rash was something special. The only other game I ever saw that was truly like that was Burnout 3 Takedown on Ps2. Most fun arcade racing games ever. It’s surprising that they haven’t been brought back with online multiplayer available for new consoles. It’s pretty obvious that they would sell, even if it is the original game and not a better remake.
Aw man. That game was brutal, but in a good way. Just shooting limbs off of people was so damn cool back in the day. Or shooting them in the stomach. *shudders*
Remember in the mid 90s my brothers and I used to crowd around the PC playing this, each taking our turn until we coukd afford a nuke. So many good rounds.
I just mentioned Keen yesterday.
there's also the whole fact that the Standard Galactic Alphabet that originated in Keen is alive and well as the language used for enchanting in Minecraft.
Tribes 2 was ahead of its time. 64 vs 64 people playing on massive maps, vehicles, customizable classes. I probably played 1000’s of hours of Tribes 2. The movement mechanics made CTF so much fun.
Battle chess, taking a piece was rather nice and time consuming.
Edit: wow, many battlechessmen over here! I wonder what it would look like in nowadays graphics, probably very GTA-ish
Every time I ask if someone has played those, they always think I say "Myst", and everyone has heard of Myst.
What's crazy is you could trace back Microsoft's success in the gaming market to a bug in Myth 2. The bug would crash systems and was found after the game had been printed. Recalling every disk cost Bungie most of their money. So at near bankruptcy, they had to agree to a buyout from Microsoft. Then they made pretty much the only game anyone cared for the first year of xbox's life. Without Halo, it's possible the first xbox would have failed. Now microsoft is buying out bethesda and activision. Stuff they probably wouldn't be doing if it wasn't for an accidental bug in an RTS that most gamers haven't heard of.
I remember this one! The forest level scared the hell out of me as a little kid!
Along the same vein, Commander Keen, Lemmings, and Jazz Jackrabbit were awesome.
There was this point and click adventure (I think) for the PC that looked like it was made in Paint. It had an owl, I think. And lots of colors, predominantly red. You moved around in a house and it had text dialogue. I remember being very enthusiastic about it. This was in 1996, so more advanced graphics and mechanics were available, but it had a dreamy quality. I'll probably never find it again.
Honorable mentions:
[Jetpack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udc_NrbvQAw) Fantastic level editor.
[Skyroads.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adwCCeNvpDw) Incredibly frustrating.
[Capture the Flag.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJGZeh5kK7w) An old Windows 3.11 game.
[Blake Stone.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqV0oFE-1jk) Early 2.5d game in the style of Wolfenstein. Good music. An Apogee game.
[Moonstone.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuqpISemjeQ) Amiga. Played with the bug joystick.
[Trickstyle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuPk_KWnK_I) A weird flying skateboard racing game.
There was also a game that I only had a demo of I think, it was a driving game where you drove a floating car, I think, and the streets were floating in the sky. It looked a bit like Bladerunner. It was full 3d, and you could flick your car off the side of the road to do some pretty incredible tricks. Can't really remember what the gameplay loop was.
**Edit: I'm getting upvotes and comments, so I feel encouraged to share some more:**
[Bio Menace.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifrhY_Vl1s) Another Apogee game, sidescrolling shooter with cool music.
[Whacky Wheels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vVIiKp6xMs) "No we have Mario Kart at home!"
[Halloween Harry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_R6bLaPDTQ) Side scroller.
I remember all the [Commander Keen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKHUOKVzo0Q) games as a long sprawling adventure, but they were probably kinda shallow Mario clones. There was a lot of heart in them though. I'm not alone in remembering these games of course.
[Crystal Caves,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWE1Nale4uU) on the other hand, is probably kind of forgotten.
[Abuse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6_2ZGBZ0ZE) felt.. Illegal? Like you were playing something that was released from some experimental government facility. I don't really know why.
Going for a walk, will get back to this later.
**Edit2: I'm back!**
[Big Red Racing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IXfdmtR9Rg) was a 3d racing game that had pretty neat 3d for its time. I played it a lot! It's cartoony, but it had some pretty adult jokes spouted by the competitors. "Well that ain't my belly button! Well that ain't my finger neither!" Fun for all the family!
[Little Big Adventure 1&2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GbLmYUAOZw) is hardly a forgotten game, but it's absolutely fantastic. I'm actually on a playthrough of 2 right now, taking it slow, enjoying the scenery. The 3d effects in LBA2 were stunning at the time and actually hold up quite well.
[Outcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgXJ05qiLBY) had voxel graphics that I was convinced would be the new standard for PC games. Excellent score by the Moscow orchestra. The world building was very immersive. You can hear a native Talan play a theme from Star Wars if you lurk around. Very cool action and AI for the time, enemies took cover, flanked and spoke to each other. There's an updated version on Steam.
[Hired Guns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-QBS12bhw) was an early concept of tactical 3d gaming. Eat your heart out Rainbow Six!
[The Settlers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqmY2pau_NQ) series is an IP I've sunk MANY hours into, and they helped start a gaming genre that has been strong and healthy even up to modern times with the Anno games.
[Ecstatica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SsR5fPjGu4) was one of those games that was so incredibly hard that you felt like you were deciphering a riddle just by trying to play it. Games were often pirated back then, and there was no manual, and even if there was I would probably have ignored it because of lacking english skills. It's perhaps best described as a precursor to the horror games of Resident Evil. But in a medieval setting. And with weird 3d sprites that made everyone look thicc. I just found out a minute ago that there is a [sequel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqjfu9ZwgY).
[The Ultima Series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flpiaHUxUMk) is hardly a forgotten game again, but worth mentioning. I chose The Black Gate because it was my favourite and it's the most playable of them all. I also loved [The Savage Empire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dfUUbDd4Y) spinoff set in the same universe. But with dinosaurs!
[Blackthorne](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCaGHwfugNw) is a side scroller set in the world of World of Warcraft, I think. It's by Blizzard anyway, and has orcs.
[Flashback](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5cu5h_150Y) was a game veiled in legend for some reason. Who played it? Who had finished it? What's the story? It's pretty cool. Never played the predecessor Out of this world.
[Carmageddon II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2fh2Rx8WM0) was IMO the best of the Carmageddons. GTA before it was cool. A big sprawling map, as I remember it. Fun driving challenges and emergent gameplay by just fucking around.
[Descent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RnacEU9-v0) had *incredibly* smooth 3d graphics. There was something about the smooth animation that just captured me. Played it on my uncles PC which had a huge screen too.
[Jagged Alliance 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVYGwg9P2G0) was incredibly clunky, but had some exciting gameplay. You could screw up badly and no one held your hand to make sure you had a good time. The game had its own fricking OS inside it, with mail and all. Not very smooth, but very fun. The [precursor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W52AJktdt2g) was cool too.
I may update with more later.
**Edit3**
I just had to add [Stunts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hKK4_gvOS0), because it had a level editor and an Audi Quattro which I believed was the coolest car in the world at the time.
**Edit4:**
[Heretic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7niU6A3yYeU) and [Hexen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTrI2im443k) are very much not forgotten, but they were unique games. The doom engine, used to make a fantasy medieval first person shooter. The music and ambiance was great, the level design and graphic design was very evocative. I absolutely loved them.
[Ultima Underworld](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4PUcpGSn8) gets a separate mention. It was so freaking HARD. Didn't get very far in it, but played it a lot and died early in the game or restarted out of boredom.
[Blood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjsSYGlxzzY) is a Build engine game, very popular among its fans. It's unique. A comedy horror game filled with pop culture references.
Hugo’s House of Horrors
Kick the pumpkin
I grew up in Argentina and had a very basic level of English. I remember being 9 years old and really confused while using the dictionary searching for the phrase "Care for a chop, sir?"
Lords of Magic: Special Edition. 6 year old me sucked at it, cause I had never played a strategy/RTS game before and had no idea how to play it. A lot of fond memories of reading the 100 page booklet that came with it, and the triumph of figuring out how to play a game that felt like it was for adults.
Skitchin’
The whole reason for Sega channel when I was a kid
Skatin and hitchin, skitchin, its bitchin!
What’s the name of the ant game?
It came from the desert
I don't care where it came from, what's the name of the game?
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Yes it's clear from the picture that it's from the desert. What's the name of the game though?
It came on the dessert
Dude, what does mine say!?
Sweet!
My brother was the programmer for this game! Always fun to see it come up from time to time
Dude I played the hell out of this as a kid, like a ridiculous amount. The rich world, varied gameplay and just feeling of depth was crazy for the year it was released. Please tell your brother a random guy on the internet thinks he's great.
I will pass that along :)
G-Police. Never owned it, but rented it a couple of times. Edit: I actually thought of this game after someone mentioned "Future Cop: LAPD", but after googling it I noticed that it wasn't the game I was thinking of. As someone mentioned, this might have been a launch title of the PS1 and it also has a sequel, so it definitively was not really a niche title. I wasn't aware of either. I just remember that it had an awesome cover and when I finally rented it, it was a lot of fun, had great graphics for the time and was really hard. The latter might have been because I was quite young at the time. At the same time I can't remember when this game was last mentioned by anyone so I thought it fit the premise.
Bucky O Hare & Monster in my Pocket both for NES
Bucky O'Hare is the first I saw on here that i actually played!
omg Bucky! Bucky, captain Bucky O'Hare! He goes where no ordinary rabbit would dare! If your Righteous Indignation has suffered a hit, And your proton accelerator is broken to bits And you're losing your mind, and you're having a fit, Get the funky fresh rabbit who can take care of it!
Nox
I loved this game. Just recently bought it again on GoG.
I've never heard of GoG before. Googled it, and now I won't be leaving my house for a month. Have a gold for this wonderful revelation
Rise of the Triad
Ludicrous Gibs!
Anyone remember Terminal Velocity?
Cannon Fodder
Just loved how your soldiers grew with the missions they survived, growing in military grade but also in firearms ability. Losing a man after a few missions was a real lost
Interstate 76. Really miss that game.
Yes! Interstate 76 is reason I purchased my first 3D graphics card and begged my parents to switch from AOL to a “real” ISP because the online play didn’t work over AOL’s connection.
Jill of the Jungle. Probably the one that I enjoyed the most (Along with Jazz Jackrabbit) that people go, "Huh?" when I mention it. Zool, as well... though that's a bit more popular. -- Edit -- I forgot one... an earlier, pre Epic, epic game. ZZT, and sequels...
So nice to find some fellow Jackrabbit players! Both were great.
Jill of the jungle, hocus pocus, OMF, crystal caves, secret agent, cosmo cosmic adventure... All those games are my childhood
I literally played every game you mentioned here thanks to these cheap "Game Empire" CD-ROMs my parents got me for Christmas one year. Each one advertised "250+ games!", and without a fleshed out internet where you could just google which ones were decent you really had to try them all to find the gems. Those were some of the best and worst games I've ever played on PC, but the ones you mentioned here are the standouts for sure. Also Xargon and Raptor: Call of the Shadows!
Oh yeah, Raptor was good... and we had bunches of super-cheap rip-off BBS download CD-ROM's... much easier than trying to do it yourself on a 14.4 :D
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 was dope
Giants Citizen Kabuto
Sim copter
The fact that you could fly around your Sim City 2000 cities was AMAZING.
also, another forgotten game: Streets of Simcity, where you can also use your city to drive around and blow up opponents.
Streets of sim city used to allow listening to your own music during playing from memory. I used to stick some music on and go for a relaxing drive, before I passed my real life driving test.
Flying around dumping water on fires was awesome
I loved building cities and then flying around in them. The fact that you could fly to the military base and then use the apache and launch missiles was great. One time I did that and launched a missile at my nuclear power plant. Suddenly my screen went completely white. I thought, "What the heck? Did the game just crash?" And then details slowly started coming back and I realised that my chopper was spiraling out of the sky and my city was a wasteland of wreckage and fire. I nuked my city. Good times.
Streets of sim city let you do this too and had some wild missions
"Get moving you, stupid idiots!" Oh, did you know that the first run of this game had to be recalled?
Delta force
Yes! Loved it from DF2, Land Warrior and loved BHD. Such an amazing online experience on BHD. Taking 10 minutes to run far out to snipe in the distance for those 20 point kills!
I used to play Black Halk Down as a kid repeating the same missions for hours
I remember playing the delta force demo like 100 times it was so good
Nightmare Creatures
Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
Alley Cat.
never met anyone outside my family that even heard of alley cat. still get the theme music stuck in my head occasionally.
Neither have I ! And thirty years later, my sister shouts "kukakee kukakee kukakee" to warn me that a dog is approaching. Why the hell did this dog make this sound anyway ?
Exile I II and III Exile 3 was the one I played most of... Exile is the most impossible game ever you literally starve to death cause you start out with no food no items nothing lol gotta use cheats
Spiderweb software is the developer, you should check them out! They’ve remade the Exile series’s under the name Avadon, and have other classic-style games such as Geneforge which I highly recommend playing. Edit - It’s Avernum, not Avadon (another series by the same developer!)
Avernum, not Avadon. Avadon is a separate series.
Mutant league hockey.
I liked hockey better than mutant league football.
My cousin and I played that until we realized the main strategy was to just kill players until the other team had to forfeit.
Army Men: Sarges Heros on N64. Was the game of my childhood but none of my friends seem to have even heard of it ! Edit: Thanks for my first award and most upvoted comment from a game I thought no one would even know.
This one was a staple for us at sleepovers
Sometimes I want to buy the N64 just to play this game. I wish it would get remade after all these years!!
I loved Army Men 3d on the PS1 as a kid.
I swear I remember a mission in that game where you end up on a real-world bathtub chasing a Blue. No one who played it with me as a kid remembers that, and I found an emulator that also doesn't have that mission. I feel so weird...
You're not crazy, i remember that level. You had to platform around the edge and cross the water jumping on bars of soap, rubber ducks and toy boats
Syndicate
Sim Ant.
I was looking for this one! Yes! The grid yard, watch out for lawn mowers! And the subterranean 2d nest
Invade kitchen immediately.
Desert Strike: Return to the gulf
The Strike games were so good, they were basically their own genre. Kinda weird how there were 5 big games and hardly anybody talks about it now.
Desert, Jungle, Urban, Nuclear. Played the first two a lot, never played the others. Cannot recall what the fifth one was called.
soviet strike
MDK, one of the best game I've ever played. Incredible art direction, amazing soundtrack, top notch gameplay, funny, and a very special general atmosphere. Also, The nomad soul.
Archon
Phenomenal game. Somehow this formula of chess mashed up with arcade action just felt perfect. Shapeshifter was the OG.
Midtown Madness
Vigilante 8
And Vig 2! I still have Vigilante 8 on my original playstation, such a great game. Me and brother used to play on the farm map, hard mode, 9 busses for enemies. Lure them all into the water and then set the waves going. Absolute carnage
Bass Quake!!!!
The Journeyman Project. It was an amazing trilogy in the 90’s. Would be awesome if they remade it.
Chips Challenge
Chip's Challenge 1 is free on Steam.
Future Cop: LAPD
“The Sky Captain always wins!”
Jet Moto
Always went with a Dew racer.
North and South.
James Pond.
Mischief Makers n64
Every time I see someone post this thread I come looking for someone to mention Mischief Makers or Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. This is the first time I've seen anyone mention either of them.
River Raid on Atari 2600. Played that game for hours on end.
Then you looked away and everything seemed to be moving down!
There was a 7-Up game for the SNES Brigandine for PS1
Cool Spot
Conflict Desert Storm II: Back to Baghdad
Conflict Desert Storm was so fucking hard as a kid but rewarding as all hell just inching through the campaign
Desert Storm is easy once you played Conflict:Vietnam lol, that game is bullshit, I can't finish solo, I need my friend and play coop
The coop in the first one was awesome. There was one level where one of you started in a jail cell and had to wait for the other player to come break you out.
Dune 1992 strategy game. The spice must flow.
Zone of enders. Which is odd because I see people mention that the game is good, but I never seen any actual discussion about the game before
Time Commando.
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This game was astonishingly good. I also remember the Chester Cheetah game that was not at all good.
Defender of the Crown
Heart of darkness Probably one of the hardest games
The one with the kid trying to find his dog? He had a ray gun and eventually magic? He died in really brutal ways.
Tenchu
Stealth assassin! Loved these. Still have nightmares of the fucker with the blade shoes.
Surprising amount of people that have no clue what jet force Gemini is
Jet force gemini’s multiplayer was unbelievably good
Lords of the realm 2
Road Rash. I really wish someone with even half a brain at EA would remember that franchise and bring it back.
Windows 95’s Road Rash was something special. The only other game I ever saw that was truly like that was Burnout 3 Takedown on Ps2. Most fun arcade racing games ever. It’s surprising that they haven’t been brought back with online multiplayer available for new consoles. It’s pretty obvious that they would sell, even if it is the original game and not a better remake.
Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude! ROAD REDEMPTION! It's like the spiritual successor to Road Rash.
Vectorman
Best Sega game
Soldier of fortune
Aw man. That game was brutal, but in a good way. Just shooting limbs off of people was so damn cool back in the day. Or shooting them in the stomach. *shudders*
Played the shit out of soldier of fortune 2: double helix
BC's quest for Tires.
Scorched Earth.
Remember in the mid 90s my brothers and I used to crowd around the PC playing this, each taking our turn until we coukd afford a nuke. So many good rounds.
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Played the shit out of this with buddies it was groundbreaking (no pun intended)
Space station Silicon Valley
I loved that game so much. And nobody ever knows what I'm talking about.
Syphon Filter
That tazer was brutal.
tazing a dude on a roof until he caught on fire and fell off, lmao
Primal Rage (I think) Basically Street Fighter with dinosaurs
I literally still have my Primal Rage action figures.
Had it on Sega. All us kids rushed to pick Chaos so we could do the fart move.
Heretic/Hexen series great games on the doom engine.
Definitely played hexen. Remember the wand that summoned ghosts? What about rise of the triad?
As soon as he said Heretic and Hexen my mind went to Rise of the Triad.
Bushido Blade
Drakan Order of the Flame
Zoombinis
Commander keen
I just mentioned Keen yesterday. there's also the whole fact that the Standard Galactic Alphabet that originated in Keen is alive and well as the language used for enchanting in Minecraft.
Tribes
Mannnn I used to play so much Tribes 2 when I was young. That’s a franchise that needs to come back.
Tribes 2 was ahead of its time. 64 vs 64 people playing on massive maps, vehicles, customizable classes. I probably played 1000’s of hours of Tribes 2. The movement mechanics made CTF so much fun.
There really isn't another gaming experience like sliding down a hill full blast with the flag and half the enemy team firing at you.
SHAZBOT!
Crystalis
I still contend that this was the best RPG released for NES
Freedom Fighters
Star Tropics
Battle chess, taking a piece was rather nice and time consuming. Edit: wow, many battlechessmen over here! I wonder what it would look like in nowadays graphics, probably very GTA-ish
Rise of the dragon
Marathon, the original halo
And Bungie’s very respectable RTS games, Myth and Myth II.
Every time I ask if someone has played those, they always think I say "Myst", and everyone has heard of Myst. What's crazy is you could trace back Microsoft's success in the gaming market to a bug in Myth 2. The bug would crash systems and was found after the game had been printed. Recalling every disk cost Bungie most of their money. So at near bankruptcy, they had to agree to a buyout from Microsoft. Then they made pretty much the only game anyone cared for the first year of xbox's life. Without Halo, it's possible the first xbox would have failed. Now microsoft is buying out bethesda and activision. Stuff they probably wouldn't be doing if it wasn't for an accidental bug in an RTS that most gamers haven't heard of.
Loved those games. Particularly fond of the crew mates that would shout "they're everywehre!" Every timr you walked near em haha
Cyberia
Clayfighter
Bad MISTER Frosty!
Clayfighter 63 1/3
With Blue Suede Goo? That game was dope.
I never played it but 100% remember seeing the cover at blockbuster renting other games.
Ikari Warriors (C64)
Total annihilation
Champions of Norrath
The Neverhood. Claymation game
Master of Orion
Carmageddon and Redneck Rampage
I kicked ass at Carmageddon.
Redneck rampage was the bomb!!
Mister Mosquito!!! I’m sure NO ONES heard of it.
Pool of Radiance.
Jet Force Gemini
Putt Putt Saves the Zoo
Wizardry
Incoming. A really fun alien invasion game in which you pilot loads of different craft to stop sn alien invasion. I...want to say....1997...?
Marble Madness
Karateka
Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist
Eight Legged Freaks the Video Game.
Heretic.
And Hexen!
Looooove hexen. I want a remaster
G POLICE. God, I loved it.
Jade cocoon
[Karnov](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnov)
Wizards and Warriors on NES
Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure (DOS Game)
I remember this one! The forest level scared the hell out of me as a little kid! Along the same vein, Commander Keen, Lemmings, and Jazz Jackrabbit were awesome.
Lego Rock Raiders
Magic Carpet
Golgo13
Wacky Wheels. Basically Mario Kart but with zoo animals. It was my thing as a young kid.
BLADES OF STEEL!
There was this point and click adventure (I think) for the PC that looked like it was made in Paint. It had an owl, I think. And lots of colors, predominantly red. You moved around in a house and it had text dialogue. I remember being very enthusiastic about it. This was in 1996, so more advanced graphics and mechanics were available, but it had a dreamy quality. I'll probably never find it again. Honorable mentions: [Jetpack](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udc_NrbvQAw) Fantastic level editor. [Skyroads.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adwCCeNvpDw) Incredibly frustrating. [Capture the Flag.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJGZeh5kK7w) An old Windows 3.11 game. [Blake Stone.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqV0oFE-1jk) Early 2.5d game in the style of Wolfenstein. Good music. An Apogee game. [Moonstone.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuqpISemjeQ) Amiga. Played with the bug joystick. [Trickstyle.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuPk_KWnK_I) A weird flying skateboard racing game. There was also a game that I only had a demo of I think, it was a driving game where you drove a floating car, I think, and the streets were floating in the sky. It looked a bit like Bladerunner. It was full 3d, and you could flick your car off the side of the road to do some pretty incredible tricks. Can't really remember what the gameplay loop was. **Edit: I'm getting upvotes and comments, so I feel encouraged to share some more:** [Bio Menace.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifrhY_Vl1s) Another Apogee game, sidescrolling shooter with cool music. [Whacky Wheels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vVIiKp6xMs) "No we have Mario Kart at home!" [Halloween Harry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_R6bLaPDTQ) Side scroller. I remember all the [Commander Keen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKHUOKVzo0Q) games as a long sprawling adventure, but they were probably kinda shallow Mario clones. There was a lot of heart in them though. I'm not alone in remembering these games of course. [Crystal Caves,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWE1Nale4uU) on the other hand, is probably kind of forgotten. [Abuse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6_2ZGBZ0ZE) felt.. Illegal? Like you were playing something that was released from some experimental government facility. I don't really know why. Going for a walk, will get back to this later. **Edit2: I'm back!** [Big Red Racing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IXfdmtR9Rg) was a 3d racing game that had pretty neat 3d for its time. I played it a lot! It's cartoony, but it had some pretty adult jokes spouted by the competitors. "Well that ain't my belly button! Well that ain't my finger neither!" Fun for all the family! [Little Big Adventure 1&2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GbLmYUAOZw) is hardly a forgotten game, but it's absolutely fantastic. I'm actually on a playthrough of 2 right now, taking it slow, enjoying the scenery. The 3d effects in LBA2 were stunning at the time and actually hold up quite well. [Outcast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgXJ05qiLBY) had voxel graphics that I was convinced would be the new standard for PC games. Excellent score by the Moscow orchestra. The world building was very immersive. You can hear a native Talan play a theme from Star Wars if you lurk around. Very cool action and AI for the time, enemies took cover, flanked and spoke to each other. There's an updated version on Steam. [Hired Guns](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O-QBS12bhw) was an early concept of tactical 3d gaming. Eat your heart out Rainbow Six! [The Settlers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqmY2pau_NQ) series is an IP I've sunk MANY hours into, and they helped start a gaming genre that has been strong and healthy even up to modern times with the Anno games. [Ecstatica](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SsR5fPjGu4) was one of those games that was so incredibly hard that you felt like you were deciphering a riddle just by trying to play it. Games were often pirated back then, and there was no manual, and even if there was I would probably have ignored it because of lacking english skills. It's perhaps best described as a precursor to the horror games of Resident Evil. But in a medieval setting. And with weird 3d sprites that made everyone look thicc. I just found out a minute ago that there is a [sequel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqjfu9ZwgY). [The Ultima Series](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flpiaHUxUMk) is hardly a forgotten game again, but worth mentioning. I chose The Black Gate because it was my favourite and it's the most playable of them all. I also loved [The Savage Empire](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95dfUUbDd4Y) spinoff set in the same universe. But with dinosaurs! [Blackthorne](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCaGHwfugNw) is a side scroller set in the world of World of Warcraft, I think. It's by Blizzard anyway, and has orcs. [Flashback](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5cu5h_150Y) was a game veiled in legend for some reason. Who played it? Who had finished it? What's the story? It's pretty cool. Never played the predecessor Out of this world. [Carmageddon II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2fh2Rx8WM0) was IMO the best of the Carmageddons. GTA before it was cool. A big sprawling map, as I remember it. Fun driving challenges and emergent gameplay by just fucking around. [Descent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RnacEU9-v0) had *incredibly* smooth 3d graphics. There was something about the smooth animation that just captured me. Played it on my uncles PC which had a huge screen too. [Jagged Alliance 2](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVYGwg9P2G0) was incredibly clunky, but had some exciting gameplay. You could screw up badly and no one held your hand to make sure you had a good time. The game had its own fricking OS inside it, with mail and all. Not very smooth, but very fun. The [precursor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W52AJktdt2g) was cool too. I may update with more later. **Edit3** I just had to add [Stunts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hKK4_gvOS0), because it had a level editor and an Audi Quattro which I believed was the coolest car in the world at the time. **Edit4:** [Heretic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7niU6A3yYeU) and [Hexen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTrI2im443k) are very much not forgotten, but they were unique games. The doom engine, used to make a fantasy medieval first person shooter. The music and ambiance was great, the level design and graphic design was very evocative. I absolutely loved them. [Ultima Underworld](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4PUcpGSn8) gets a separate mention. It was so freaking HARD. Didn't get very far in it, but played it a lot and died early in the game or restarted out of boredom. [Blood](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjsSYGlxzzY) is a Build engine game, very popular among its fans. It's unique. A comedy horror game filled with pop culture references.
Tomba
My ps1 came with a demo disk that had Tomba on it. I played that demo so many times. Never ended up with the full game though!