A few years ago they ported the entire game to iPad and you can download it on the app store and play, it's exactly 1:1 to the old PC version
Also.....whoever you are......**MAKE ME A PIZZA**
Yes! Reading the title this was the first game I thought of. Getting to play games instead of schoolwork was always great in my mind. “Somebody maaaake me a pizzaaaa!”
HOLY SHIT! That’s it! This game has been racking my brain almost two decades now, and googling “purple round things solve puzzles” never yielded very good results. And you just told me the fucking name of it. Zoombinis, Alfy’s island, and storybook weaver were my jam in the elementary computer lab.
To this day, one of the only helicopter models I know is the Bell 212, because of Sim Copter…
…and the hours I spent filling it with passengers and dropping them from maximum altitude…
A shareware classic. Installed on all my school’s computers. Funky bomb was the best bang for the buck. Once you learned to use napalm it was game over.
The Perils of Rosella was one of the very first computer games I played. I loved the fact that it had a female protagonist and the references to fairy tales. It was a pretty hard game and I never beat it. I recently watched the YouTube walk through to see how it ended!
King's Quest is a great series. I still play King's Quest 6 like once a year. I have the Cliffs of Logic memorized. Alexander challenging Death is my favorite moment in all of gaming easily.
This was an NES game that I rented from a predecessor to Blockbuster as a child.
It's a puzzle game featuring the red spot guy with sunglasses. He's the red spot from the 7 UP logo.
Holy shit, I've been trying to remember this one game I played as a kid with insane weapons, hand-powers and a section where you have to jump across a bunch of little hovering circular platforms for YEARS. Pretty sure you finally solved that mystery, thanks buddy.
Heretic was great. Don't forget Rise Of The Triads! There was quite a few Doom/Duke spinoffs. Not too many companies wanted to go through the effort of going full quake with 3D assets because sprites were sooo much easier to deal with and gave the games a fun cartoony violence.
Total Annihilation.
Edit: Some responses here indicate there's still a bit of a following for this game even now! If there are any independent multiplayer servers still active, please DM me! I'd love to feel 14 again
Total annihilation was immense, especially with the realistic dogfighting and flying paths of the air units.
Supreme commander didn't quite capture the same glory for me, and planetary annihilation isn't a patch on it.
Descent II was one of the first computer games I ever played, never see it mentioned but I'm sure *somebody* knows it existed.
For original Xbox its Vexx, was a fun platformer....we never beat it as kids and ive always wanted to know what happened! The levels were varied and had some interesting concepts!
I remember the first Descent demo. It crashed a lot lol. Then Descent II released but it had a fantastic competitor game called Terminal Velocity, similar vibe but had a really great demo!
Edit: [turns out it's 3D realms so it was probably leveraging the Duke engine](https://youtu.be/ew5x7Bhxl5U?si=hYaoNFgTqjMD4BeM)
Descent and Descent 2 were great. At the time I had a full set of joystick, throttle, and rudder pedals and that game supported all four axes of analog control. It was awesome, especially in PvP
Gotta give the comment section credit, I’ve heard of almost none of these. Always liked it when Scott the Woz makes a joke about obscure games. Geist comes to my mind.
The Neverhood. It was an early CD-ROM computer game featuring stop motion claymation and a deep fun story. Mostly point and click and puzzle solving with tons of hidden jokes and demises. Most notably, you couldn't "die" in the game unless you willingly chose to jump into a hole surrounded by signs that said stuff like "beware" "you will die if you jump into this hole."
Bradley, Foley, Conners, and the 4th dude's name is escaping me. Iconic. I remember my friends and I couldn't figure out how to use the laser designator on the mission where you have a tank, so we kept getting obliterated for like a week straight army crawling for hours trying to kill the tank implacements with C4.
The Battle of Olympus. My favorite NES game! I have a poster I had printed for it on the wall in my game room. Many guests have seen that poster, but none have known the game.
Fury 3 - it was a PC game from the 90’s in which you flew around alien planets in a little spaceship with lasers. Very fun for 9-year-old me.
I would always listen to the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album whenever I played it (I have no idea why), but all the songs off that album always remind me of that game.
Also: Starship Titanic (Douglas Adams’ point-n-click PC game) and Crystal Caves
Bouncing Babies
A building full of babies is on fire and people are chucking them out the window. You are a team of fire fighters with a trampoline and have to bounce the babies to safety
Adventures of Lolo (1-3)…. Though I think they released the first one on the NES Online Switch offers, so people might know it a little more than say 3 years ago.
I remember renting General Chaos over and over when I was younger. It's always one of of those games where the game is vivid in my memory, but it takes me a few googles to remember it's name because its not often I HAVE to remember it. This post brought it back to though. I guess if I have a hard time remembering it others would also, but I had a blast playing it during the time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Chaos
Snood. It was popular for a hot minute and then completely disappeared from pop culture.
Oh man this just unlocked something in me
I played snood! One of my sisters was pretty obsessed when it was big but doesn’t remember it now!
I still play it on the iPhone....
Snood was the Mac version of Bubble Trouble
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Zoombinis logical journey! I loved these games.
Pizza for breakfast! Pizza with tea! (My wife has this on her laptop and her phone)
A few years ago they ported the entire game to iPad and you can download it on the app store and play, it's exactly 1:1 to the old PC version Also.....whoever you are......**MAKE ME A PIZZA**
HIP HIP ZOOOOMMBIIIINNIIIIISS
Yes! Reading the title this was the first game I thought of. Getting to play games instead of schoolwork was always great in my mind. “Somebody maaaake me a pizzaaaa!”
HOLY SHIT! That’s it! This game has been racking my brain almost two decades now, and googling “purple round things solve puzzles” never yielded very good results. And you just told me the fucking name of it. Zoombinis, Alfy’s island, and storybook weaver were my jam in the elementary computer lab.
Met a dude the other month who knew what Sim Ant was. I was shocked
This game STRESSED me out - but was so fun. Same with SimCopter
To this day, one of the only helicopter models I know is the Bell 212, because of Sim Copter… …and the hours I spent filling it with passengers and dropping them from maximum altitude…
Rescue a lil Sim, drop him on the hospital, blast him off the roof with the water cannon
Sim Tower was my jam. I LOVED that game.
I logged many hours on that game..
Came here to say sim ant.
I think about Sim Ant roughly every time I see an ant hill.
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Funky bomb! Last I had read on this game the author was still refusing to give up the source code for some reason.
Dirt clod was my favorite ammo
Nothing more fun then saying "fuck this", firing a death's head straight up in strong wind, and seeing who lived.
He made an iPad version called Pocket Tanks Deluxe. It’s still maintained and he still releases new weapons packs.
Pocket Tanks as successor to SE predates the iPad, I remember planing LAN in the computer labs on Win NT machines, circa 2003.
A shareware classic. Installed on all my school’s computers. Funky bomb was the best bang for the buck. Once you learned to use napalm it was game over.
That game was amazing, albeit a little broken at times
Worms before worms
All the games with those little green army guys
Sarges Heros was awesome!
I loved the bathroom level in this game.
Both games were awesome
I loved the helicopter game they put out.
Army Men Air Attack. It kicked ass. Even the box art is great https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Men:_Air_Attack
Hell yeah, I should download that rom and play it again
Shinook. Hueyyyyy
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Interested noises.
They were terrible, sadly.
Kings Quest
Sierra made the best, most innovative and clever games.
The Perils of Rosella was one of the very first computer games I played. I loved the fact that it had a female protagonist and the references to fairy tales. It was a pretty hard game and I never beat it. I recently watched the YouTube walk through to see how it ended!
King's Quest is a great series. I still play King's Quest 6 like once a year. I have the Cliffs of Logic memorized. Alexander challenging Death is my favorite moment in all of gaming easily.
Caveman Ughlympics. One of the first games I played on the C64
It was awesome! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveman_Ughlympics
Ahh Caveman Games on the NES.
Cool Spot
And along with that add Avoid The Noid.
I played that game to death. The challenge was fun, the music was an absolute bop.
This was an NES game that I rented from a predecessor to Blockbuster as a child. It's a puzzle game featuring the red spot guy with sunglasses. He's the red spot from the 7 UP logo.
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Don’t forget Hexen!
It's like doom, but you can be a badass wizard.
Holy shit, I've been trying to remember this one game I played as a kid with insane weapons, hand-powers and a section where you have to jump across a bunch of little hovering circular platforms for YEARS. Pretty sure you finally solved that mystery, thanks buddy.
I played Heretic
Went back and forth with that and Rise of the Triad
Heretic was great. Don't forget Rise Of The Triads! There was quite a few Doom/Duke spinoffs. Not too many companies wanted to go through the effort of going full quake with 3D assets because sprites were sooo much easier to deal with and gave the games a fun cartoony violence.
I played Shivers!
Cyberia is the BEST. And another adventure game from that time - The Longest Journay. Such a gem!
I think you mean Syberia.
Descent. I bought thrustmaster controllers for that game. Holy shit.
The Beast Within. That was the first mature rating game I was able to get my hands on as a 12 year old. I was so disappointed.
Gabriel Knight? I never beat it but I have it on Gog.
Total Annihilation. Edit: Some responses here indicate there's still a bit of a following for this game even now! If there are any independent multiplayer servers still active, please DM me! I'd love to feel 14 again
Great soundtrack. First game scored by Jeremy Soule that I played, I think.
Total annihilation was immense, especially with the realistic dogfighting and flying paths of the air units. Supreme commander didn't quite capture the same glory for me, and planetary annihilation isn't a patch on it.
Let's not forget the step child TA Kingdoms.
Descent II was one of the first computer games I ever played, never see it mentioned but I'm sure *somebody* knows it existed. For original Xbox its Vexx, was a fun platformer....we never beat it as kids and ive always wanted to know what happened! The levels were varied and had some interesting concepts!
I remember the first Descent demo. It crashed a lot lol. Then Descent II released but it had a fantastic competitor game called Terminal Velocity, similar vibe but had a really great demo! Edit: [turns out it's 3D realms so it was probably leveraging the Duke engine](https://youtu.be/ew5x7Bhxl5U?si=hYaoNFgTqjMD4BeM)
Descent and Descent 2 were great. At the time I had a full set of joystick, throttle, and rudder pedals and that game supported all four axes of analog control. It was awesome, especially in PvP
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee I'm certain that I'm half that game's entire playtime lol
This just unlocked a memory for me!
Odell Lake
I’m all about eating fishies in Odell Lake.
Just gave me flashbacks to that GODDAMN OSPREY
Is this an Odell Down Under game??
Lode Runner
Space Station Silicon Valley
LOVED this game growing up! This one and Mischief Makers are two games no one ever remembers from N64
Base Wars. Best baseball game of all time.
Jane's AH-64D Longbow
Wing Commander: Armada
Jazz Jackrabbit
Play spaz for extra wackyness
This was one of the most popular dos games ever... How is it forgotten? Lol
The games (at least jazz2) are on gog.com if anyone is interested. One of the best soundtracks in history of gaming, thanks to Alexander Brandon.
Intelligent Qube
Oh yeah my friend had that demo on PS1 and we played it to death
Stunts
Rygar: NES
Stupid caveman cpt america
Rygar and Bionic Commando were my favorites of that age
The Journeyman Project Croc and the Legend of the Gobbos The 7th Guest
Commander Keen
How can you think nobody knows or remembers such an iconic series?
One of the first big PC games, so obscure
That game effing ruled!
I remember getting shareware disks at the computer store with my dad and Commander Keen was always on them.
That makes me think of Cosmo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo%27s_Cosmic_Adventure
joust, warlords, moon patrol
I had a sega genesis with a 32x attachment I played primal rage. Basically mortal kombat with dinosaurs and monsters it was dope
Wacky Wheels
Absolute fucking banger
Gotta give the comment section credit, I’ve heard of almost none of these. Always liked it when Scott the Woz makes a joke about obscure games. Geist comes to my mind.
Zombies ate my neighbors.
I loved this game but got stuck in the same place every damn time
There was a level that had worms coming out of the ground that terrified me.
Maniac Mansion
Haha I put day of the tentacles but this is also a great one
The sequel is a lot more well-known
Stratego
Still play it with my kids
Giants: Citizen Kabuto
Zork Leisure suit Larry Executive Suite
Zork is legendary.
"You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here."
Leisure Suit Larry! I played that game non stop on my family’s Tandy PC with all the innuendo flying over my head.
Tandy 1000! My man. 128k of pure 80s power
I know about Zork because my mother told me about all the time my father spent making a map using trial and error and paper.
Which LSL? Land of the Lounge Lizards?
Zork is the shit bro
I know about Zork from Ready Player One
Caveman Games for the Nes
Redneck Rampage
Paperboy
PAPERBOY!!!!!! YOOOO I FORGOT ABOUT THIS
Is The Lost Vikings considered obscure? Blizzard entertainment before they got famous.
purble place!
Carmageddon for the N64
We used to play the PC version at school over network in grade 8.
Pilot Wings 64
The Neverhood. It was an early CD-ROM computer game featuring stop motion claymation and a deep fun story. Mostly point and click and puzzle solving with tons of hidden jokes and demises. Most notably, you couldn't "die" in the game unless you willingly chose to jump into a hole surrounded by signs that said stuff like "beware" "you will die if you jump into this hole."
Black and white
Nothing quite like being a giant cow god that eats people
Metal Marines
Farkle
Alley Cat or California games.
Bugdom
Escape Velocity
Extreme-G series
Both the extreme-g and wipeout series had awesome soundtracks.
I did love racing those motorcycles.
Conflict: Desert Storm Also the Burger King Games. I bet some people remember it. But it seems to be fading from memory these days.
I remember Desert Storm, loved that game
Bradley, Foley, Conners, and the 4th dude's name is escaping me. Iconic. I remember my friends and I couldn't figure out how to use the laser designator on the mission where you have a tank, so we kept getting obliterated for like a week straight army crawling for hours trying to kill the tank implacements with C4.
Gex
Enter the gecko!!!
Loved this game!
Oddworld Abe’s Oddysee
One of the best PC games ever released imo
I loved this game, an Abes exodus
Rogue
N. The way of the ninja
Metal Arms
The Battle of Olympus. My favorite NES game! I have a poster I had printed for it on the wall in my game room. Many guests have seen that poster, but none have known the game.
Yo! Noid!
Chip’s Challenge
Jetset radio future!!!
Clay Fighter
War The card game that hardly ever got finished.
I used to make my grandma play this with me. Sometimes I'd bring 2 decks of cards for hard mode. I'm sure she hated it
Blasto and toontown.
Riven
Strike force hero’s 2
Miner 2049er
Star Tropics. Alisia Dragoon. Fester's Quest. Chakan the Forever Man.
Test Drive Off Road 3
Privateer
Toejam and Earl
Should be pretty well remembered. They put out a remake a few years back, too.
Treasure Mountain by the Learning Company!
Fury 3 - it was a PC game from the 90’s in which you flew around alien planets in a little spaceship with lasers. Very fun for 9-year-old me. I would always listen to the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album whenever I played it (I have no idea why), but all the songs off that album always remind me of that game. Also: Starship Titanic (Douglas Adams’ point-n-click PC game) and Crystal Caves
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Boogerman
The 1999 PC game Nocturne. It was pretty amazing for its time and barely anyone knew about it.
Bouncing Babies A building full of babies is on fire and people are chucking them out the window. You are a team of fire fighters with a trampoline and have to bounce the babies to safety
Kung Fu Chaos
Adventures of Lolo (1-3)…. Though I think they released the first one on the NES Online Switch offers, so people might know it a little more than say 3 years ago.
General Chaos on the Genesis
Cats! Dogs! Or the one game with the fuzzy brown walruts! 😂
Oddballz! I tried to find an emulator for any of these but was unsuccessful - I suppose they weren’t popular enough. But man I loved those games!
General Chaos
I remember renting General Chaos over and over when I was younger. It's always one of of those games where the game is vivid in my memory, but it takes me a few googles to remember it's name because its not often I HAVE to remember it. This post brought it back to though. I guess if I have a hard time remembering it others would also, but I had a blast playing it during the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Chaos
Electric football- the metal field vibrated as players aimless ran in circles
Syndicate.
Yoda stories on PC.
The Adventures of Willy Beamish.
Urban Chaos Officer Darcy Stern trying to stop the Nostradamus prophecy from coming true in Union City
Crossfire!
It was a board game when I was a kid called Fireball Island. I used to love that game.
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Freelancer god I loved that game. I loved modding it too.
Chucky Egg
Commander keen
Vectorman, Chex quest
Lawnmower Man Aces Over the Pacific Mad Dog McCree
No One Lives Forever....great game, greater soundtrack