Extremely Weird And Obscure Games

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

I love me a MaiMai Machine, but it's hard to find them in the UK tbh

Talking more obscure stuff, Carnevil or Thunder Hoop. Oh, and agree with whoever mentioned Silent Hill Arcade. It's goofy AF but it's a fun lightgun game.

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

Momoko 120%, it's Classic Elevator action, but backwards, going up instead than down and had more emphasis in platforming.

 

[groundbeef]

Sky Shark
Hat Trick
DJ Boy
Darius II dual screen
Osman

 

[PencoSucio]

Swat Police - plays like Cabal/Nam1975
Battle Circuit - Capcom not so knwon beat em up
Demon Front from IGS - Metal Slug 2d clone from the taiwanese developers. It's really good.
Silent Dragon - Good Final Fight clone, with a little bit more stuff
Denjin Makai II/ Guardians - Great Beat em up! with weird enemies and good combos, and some playable characters.

 

[Aisf]

My favorite arcade game ever. Fist Talks.

Also here's Pinocchio beating up a witch.

 

[Captain Murphy]

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Undercover Cops (1992)​

"GUCHI COPS!" I love this game lol. Amazingly detailed environments and the art design is just top tier. Cool soundtrack as well.

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Here's a few.

Blade Master - Irem 1991

Dead Connection - Taito 1992

Boogie Wings - Data East 1992 -

Great Mahou Daisakusen (Dimahoo) - Raizing/8ing 2000

 

[longestseason]

Jumping Groove looks so fun, too bad I never got to play it.

 

[dr grim]

 

[Captain Murphy]

'Riding Fight' (1992) is another arcade game I wanted to mention. It's kinda obscure but it's definitely a great game and very much worth playing. If you ever wanted to try a really nice beat em up where you are on a hoverboard pretty much the whole time... this game was made for you. Very cool!

Check it out! https://retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.com/2015/03/riding-fight-arcade.html

 

[Viviana Santos]

IDK if this game is obscure or not but SegaSonic The Hedgehog is a really cool game with a unique control scheme, the sprite work and animations are great too!

 

[cruelty_sponge]

My favorite is really Denjin Makai's sequel, Guardians.
Try out Zeldia.

 

[Jakkaraius]

Night Slashers. Loved that game!

 

[TamagotchiTamaHero24's icon TamagotchiTamaHero24 TamagotchiTamaHero24]

It’s really not THAT obscure, but I’m always shocked how many people don’t know about Dig Dug II. It’s, in my opinion, better than the original game, while being very different and fun.

 

[PencoSucio]

Night Slashers. Loved that game!

There is an openbor fan game that improves a lot the base game. Night Slashers X

 

[NotGodlike]

There is an openbor fan game that improves a lot the base game. Night Slashers X

And there's a remake, but I believe it's trash and ruins the style.
Didn't know it had an OpenBOR version though, thanks for noting

 

[GeoHikari]

These two are my favorite Arcade games. They are fun as hell, hope someone know it too
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Those less know Sega's Arcade railgun masterpieces.

Bot Let's Go Jungle and Let's Go Safari have machines existent here in Brazil. I played the two games and they are great with graphics, music and story. And the wind breathe function on Island are great too!

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My obscure favourite is a unknown Konami's horror railgun:

This is Crypt Killer, an game who scary me on my childhood, but when I grow with the time, Crypt Killer gave an place in my heart. Thanks Konami, to release this game on PS1 ^^

 

[PencoSucio]

Those less know Sega's Arcade railgun masterpieces.

Bot Let's Go Jungle and Let's Go Safari have machines existent here in Brazil. I played the two games and they are great with graphics, music and story. And the wind breathe function on Island are great too!

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My obscure favourite is a unknown Konami's horror railgun:

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This is Crypt Killer, an game who scary me on my childhood, but when I grow with the time, Crypt Killer gave an place in my heart. Thanks Konami, to release this game on PS1 ^^

Played ton of this in my childhood fat ps1 haha

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And there's a remake, but I believe it's trash and ruins the style.
Didn't know it had an OpenBOR version though, thanks for noting

Yeah the remake is crap.

 

[Pearly]

The "fighting mania" Fist of the north star machine was awesome!!

 

[NotGodlike]

As title says, I'm interested in seeing some very odd and less known Nintendo developed/published games that are not part of their respective IPs.
As an example, there's StarTropics which is their alternate take on Zelda but on an distant island with some platformer elements.

 

[Viviana Santos]

Doshin the Giant and Cubivore are by far the most bizarre games Nintendo has ever published/released.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

Startropics is definitely not what I'd call obscure. It's quite well known as a classic. Obscure is something like these imo

Halfway through saying this I completely forgot it said Nintendo games
I guess I got 2/6. Here's an actual list of those aside from Conquest of the Crystal Palace and Custom Robo. Would you believe me if I said Fashion Dreamer is part of the Style Savvy franchise?

 

[NotGodlike]

Startropics is definitely not what I'd call obscure. It's quite well known as a classic. Obscure is something like these imo

Yeah, but those aren't Nintendo titles aside from Custom Robo

 

[GeoHikari]

Played ton of this in my childhood fat ps1 haha

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Yeah the remake is crap.

Possibly Crypt Killer was one of the company's inspirations to develop the ok Cobra(board) game Evil Night, who is the Konami's answer of Sega's The House of The Dead series.

 

[UnDubious]

I would say Startropics was well-known to real NES-era kids but it's at least semi-obscure now. It was a little bit before my time and I didn't hear about it until I started digging later on; I figure people younger to me would probably never about it unless they were die-hard Nintendo fans or deep into retro gaming and hanging out in places like this.
I ended up playing both games when I was probably 20 or so (I think), they're pretty good.

 

[Evaccaneer Doom]

The rest of the Wars franchise I just remembered. Most people probably wouldn't know it's not just Advance Wars if it weren't for Smash. It is such a missed opportunity Battalion isn't named Gamecube Wars