Extremely Weird And Obscure Games

[RageBurner]

I think I mentioned Lucky & Wild before, I think it qualifies. Think Chase HQ + Time Crisis, but two player! incredible concept.

 

[PhrawzT]

I always find it hard to pass by this game without playing it.

When I was in college, there was an arcade near my house that had one of these, and I can't tell you how much money I spent playing it, but the one I played had the turntable on the left side and the buttons on the right.

 

[Megazao]

Police 911 or The Keisatsukan is the one that comes to mind. It's a on-rails shooter, but it tracks your body movements so you need to phisically take cover from shots or duck to reload the gun. The game is incredibly fun, but I only saw it once in a mall arcade and never again. Here's one of the few videos I could find of it

 

[bjork]

I was once at a Chuck E Cheese and the line for Super Mario was long, so I found myself playing an old game called Tugboat, which is just a vertically scrolling game where you guide a tugboat through sections of a river. Even at the time, everything about it felt dated, but man did I sit there until all of my quarters were gone.

 

[PrismRed]

2 Spicy.

 

[rollobobo]

I always liked the G.I Joe Arcade as well as Bucky O'Hare (awesome beat'em up style game) and a TOTALLY obscure gem....Cowboys of Moo Mesa. (Think Sunset Riders with Bulls/Cows)

 

[Viviana Santos]

Undercover Cops (1992)​

 

[bjork]

I always liked the G.I Joe Arcade as well as Bucky O'Hare (awesome beat'em up style game) and a TOTALLY obscure gem....Cowboys of Moo Mesa. (Think Sunset Riders with Bulls/Cows)

For years I thought CoMM was just the Sunsetriders with different sprites, but that isn't the case at all. Both games are really great.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

About fifteen years ago, my local arcade in Springfield, Oregon had one of these whackass beetle fighting games made by Sega:

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NGL, I really liked it! Totally had the card it would spit out, so I could play with the same beetle each time and help it grow stronger. I only played the game a few times before it got swapped out for something else, unfortunately

I grew up a "bug kid," and loved collecting bugs from the yard and putting them in a little wood and mesh holder that I had built. Only found a few Stag Beetles over the years, but I was always so fascinated by them - though I never made them fight. But at least I had this arcade game to help give me an idea of how that may have played out...

Thought this was Mushihimesama for a bit

 

[NeonKnights]

Gundam Pod is one of my bucket list arcade games. Hologram Time Traveler; I played this in the early 90s at Neptune's Kingdom just after the release of Mortal Kombat II (Arcade).

Police 911 or The Keisatsukan is the one that comes to mind. It's a on-rails shooter, but it tracks your body movements so you need to phisically take cover from shots or duck to reload the gun. The game is incredibly fun, but I only saw it once in a mall arcade and never again. Here's one of the few videos I could find of it

I beat this game or it's sequel at a mini golf place in the early 2000s, I remember it had yakuza guys with swords and hostage situations in it and my legs were shot the next day lol.

 

[Megazao]

I beat this game or it's sequel at a mini golf place in the early 2000s, I remember it had yakuza guys with swords and hostage situations in it and my legs were shot the next day lol.

I wasn't able to beat it but it was indeed quite a workout lol

 

[silent253]

I would say a lot of the Sega Model 2 and Model 3 games. I only saw a few cabinets back in the day. Heck I own Virtua fighter 2 and Virtua fighter 3 arcade pcbs and those were hard to find in a good working state.

 

[Moreno909]

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Undercover Cops (1992)​

Peak, made by the same developers of Metal Slug

 

[Deleted member 1816]

Peak, made by the same developers of Metal Slug

Speaking of Metal Slug, I've actually been playing Metal Slug X when you made this post!

 

[nattybohman]

A favorite of mine to watch was called Assault! by Namco/Atari. You'd drive around a tank with a top down view. The screen would rotate so that your tank was always facing the top of the screen. It had cool zooming in and out effects and tank joysticks like Battlezone. I don't remember if I actually played it or just watched older kids play it, but it looked impressive.

 

[Moreno909]

Speaking of Metal Slug, I've actually been playing Metal Slug X when you made this post!

I going to finish Metal Slug XX

 

[Deleted member 1816]

I going to finish Metal Slug XX

That's the next game on my list, actually!
After I finish X, obviously.

 

[Moreno909]

That's the next game on my list, actually!
After I finish X, obviously.

It's actually the seventh and final traditional Metal Slug game, unfornately never went on the arcades. I reccomend playing the PSP version, I didn't quite like the PC Steam port. I finished almost all mainline Metal Slug games bar to 6 and seven. Play Metal Slug Advance too, it's great.

 

[Deleted member 1816]

It's actually the seventh and final traditional Metal Slug game, unfornately never went on the arcades. I reccomend playing the PSP version, I didn't quite like the PC Steam port. I finished almost all mainline Metal Slug games bar to 6 and seven. Play Metal Slug Advance too, it's great.

The PSP version is the one I'm planning to play next.
And I already have Metal Slug Advance installed!

 

[Moreno909]

The PSP version is the one I'm planning to play next.
And I already have Metal Slug Advance installed!

Then play In the Hunt or Gunforce II (Basically Metal Slug 0), haha
They should do a Metal Slug Remake in the style of Streets of Rage Remake

 

[GingerBwC]

Dance Maniax (1st and 2nd mix), Initial D. Versions 2 and 3, and DDR Extreme were the glory days of my teenage years.
I miss those days, and still spontaneously start doing DDR step patterns for shits and giggles, even nowadays.

 

[Zerthyam]

Sound Voltex! My favorite rhythm game of all time.

 

[nattybohman]

If you guys like Metal Slug, you should try out Dolphin Blue and "In the Hunt"! They look a lot like Metal Slug and Dolphin Blue seems like a pretty similar type of game. I like both.

 

[Deleted member 257420]

Does Chunithm or Pop’n Music count? If so, that.

 

[NotGodlike]

Vertexer, it's so obscure that it was deemed a failure and only 20 units were known to exist, and it remains undumped to Mame. But man, that game has absolutely stunning visuals from Taito, the music courtesy of Zuntata, playing like an F-Zero with Taito's dose of abstract, and the fact that you use it like a semi-VR headset that tilts depending on the action. I seriously wish it was dumped someday, so everyone could try it out at least once