Extremely Weird And Obscure Games

[ThatOneLum]

I know I already said one above but alt answer: Spanish masterpiece Thunder Hoop

 

[χKai]

Got too many to pick a favorite, so here's one I've enjoyed for a long time:
Nekketsu Street Basket - Ganbare Dunk Heroes!

I know it's on the Kunio-kun Collection, but before that, nobody I'd ever met had heard of the game before me introducing it to them.
It's still one of my favorites, and one of the most fun, obscure, older games that I've ever played.

 

[Sunnyside]

Summon Night: Swordcraft Story

Ahhhh I'm ashamed at myself for forgetting this one! It was such a good game and I'm sad they never brought the third entry overseas.

 

[ThatOneLum]

Ahhhh I'm ashamed at myself for forgetting this one! It was such a good game and I'm sad they never brought the third entry overseas.

I didn't even realise this was that obscure!! I stumbled across this on a GBA emulation kick and it's easily one of the most playable action RPGs of the era.

 

[hazys]

I know I already said one above but alt answer: Spanish masterpiece Thunder Hoop

Gaelco was such an interesting little studio. Left some unique arcade gems behind, like Biomechanical Toy and Alligator Hunt

 

[Mopeybloke]

In my teens, one of my favourite games was Pulseman. It was available in a collection of emulated MD games my brother brought from school. I had no idea it was only available digitally outside Japan, and had faded from public consciousness. Now it's been rediscovered, but for a while nobody knew.

 

[Jdan-S]

I very rarely hear anyone talk about AbalaBurn (PS1, Japan only).

It's from the same developers as Battle Arena Toshinden. It has 1-on-1 fighting segments, but the main story mode plays like a 3D platformer. You can play through it as different characters, though the stages are all the same for them. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's an okay game.

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

A Schm'up that a couple friends of mine really enjoyed on the SNES back in the day, was Firepower 2000 (a.k.a: Super SWIV in Europe)

It was short and sweet, but almost required 2-players if you wanted to make it to the end..

 

[χKai]

My two favorite obscure retro games are either Cyberjoueur Bomberman, an online late 90s-early 2000s version of Super Bomberman 1 or 2 that automatically sets everyone at the highest speed and removes skates from the powerups. It was fun, it's how I got good at the game.

Or Young Merlin, a game I can unfortunately find nothing about anymore, anywhere. Though I did find a similar game by another name, though I think they changed the name on the site I played it on. Nevertheless, it is a different game altogether than the Young Merlin games you can probably find anything about!

It wasn't a platformer, it was a top-down 2D style arcade shmup where you would have to collect things from the swarming hordes you're blasting with magic, and collect or buy powerups, I don't remember.

 

[Deleted member 258479]

Smuggler's Run 2

 

[FrootyLoopsSamurai]

It's all fun and games until Milano has to speak in English for one of her jobs.

 

[dejiko]

this does look really cute, nyo...i want it...NYO!!!

 

[Jvsouza11]

The other day I found this game randomly:

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I watched its Youtube video and it seems like Matrix meets Sims and having 1984 situation going on? I'll check its insanity properly when I have the time lol:

Now this is otherwoldly.

This is the type of game that i would find in the very bottom of the iceberg.

 

[SeventhSon]

Seaman - Dreamcast

 

[Roy U. OmOm]

Spoiler

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/psx-iso/chou-aniki-kyuukyoku-muteki-ginga-saikyou-otoko-jpn/

 

[skramz]

lostboy.exe? virus shenanigans aside, it was a pretty odd game that kinda left me feeling uncomfy...

 

[SlusheeWolf2]

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/snes-rom/g-o-d-mezameyo-to-yobu-koe-ga-kikoe-english-patched/

No one's said it yet but G.O.D. on the Super Famicom

It's an Earthbound clone that's very satisfying to play and is absolutely filled with its own quirks

 

[Metroid_Hybrid]

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/snes-rom/g-o-d-mezameyo-to-yobu-koe-ga-kikoe-english-patched/

No one's said it yet but G.O.D. on the Super Famicom

It's an Earthbound clone that's very satisfying to play and is absolutely filled with its own quirks

wow.. I vaguely remember coming across that game about 15~20 years ago, giggling at the name, lamenting the lack of a translation, and then moving on & never thinking of it again...
An all-too-common story for me back then, unfortunately...
I'm just glad that nowadays there's a lot more people working to make these translations a reality..

 

[χKai]

I'd rather be playing God than playing G.O.D.

 

[DorfleFlorp]

Juggernaut for ps1, great myst style game.

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[Raidou Kuzunoha]

I have yet to see anyone talk about Half Minute Hero: The Second Coming (or Yuusha 30 second, if you played the psp fan translation). The first game got a little bit attention I think, but the sequel was so much fun.

 

[SwaunyJones]

One of my favs as a kid growing up was the Ninja Gaiden Arcade Game, which was much different then the console version of the original games. My brothers and I would spend so much money trying to beat this game coop and eventually started working on doing it on 2 quarters LOL!! I still think about this game from time to time as a adult. I know it doesn't look like much, but back then this game was mindblowing for us until the Turbo Grafix 16 hit us with Bonk and the OG Street Fighter.

 

[TinRattler]

One of my favs as a kid growing up was the Ninja Gaiden Arcade Game, which was much different then the console version of the original games. My brothers and I would spend so much money trying to beat this game coop and eventually started working on doing it on 2 quarters LOL!! I still think about this game from time to time as a adult. I know it doesn't look like much, but back then this game was mindblowing for us until the Turbo Grafix 16 hit us with Bonk and the OG Street Fighter.

Great game it was called shadow warriors here

 

[SwaunyJones]

Great game it was called shadow warriors here

Dam I had no idea. The more you know man... Awesome