Games you discovered on accident/should have found sooner

[koenigmj94]

I saw someone post recently they discovered the GBA port of clocktower recently and it reminded me of my own recent reactions to something similar. I didn't know Nightmare Creatures had a sequel until I was doomscrolling the repository here, despite the fact I dumped HOURS into the first game on N64 when I was a kid; and I didn't know Blinx the Timesweeper had a sequel until I saw NitroRad cover it.

So I figured other people probably had fun stories about shit they found when they felt like they should've known for years. I wanna hear that.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

As for me I I was searching for the english patched rom of SRW 3 for the SNES when I stumbled upon ᏟDᏒ way back when I discovered that there’s also an english patched for SRW J for the GBA and since then this is my premiere source of roms and isos.

 

[bjork]

I've found so many by just opening sets of roms and scrolling through to fire stuff up. Tons specifically on the Commodore 64, but a lot of weird but cool licensed stuff on Game Boy Color and GBA as well.

 

[Theriise]

Holy Heck, I found Contact DS game in the reject shop. (Discount variety store) Picked it up because it was cheap and played it. I did not expect to find a game with potential hidden among the space invader alikes.

 

[TauriBasilisk]

The Gallop Racer line of games, I was playing Ridge Racer one day with Bluegrass on the background and one of my friends said man you could replace the cars with horses, and another friend popped in, said "I mean there is one" and the next 2 months it was us just breeding horses to compete against each other, also Prey(2006) because Bethesda did their best to scrub it off the face of the Earth

 

[Randy Butternubs]

I saw someone post recently they discovered the GBA port of clocktower recently and it reminded me of my own recent reactions to something similar. I didn't know Nightmare Creatures had a sequel until I was doomscrolling the repository here, despite the fact I dumped HOURS into the first game on N64 when I was a kid; and I didn't know Blinx the Timesweeper had a sequel until I saw NitroRad cover it.

So I figured other people probably had fun stories about shit they found when they felt like they should've known for years. I wanna hear that.

Gladly. Star Cruiser on the Sega Genesis. I've always been obsessed with games that push their systems so far, you could swear you could smell smoke coming from them. This game is the epitome of that. It was made in 1990 which was pretty early in the Genesis's life span. It's a fully 3D polygonal space flight sim that plays similar to Wing Commander in an open world solar system. When exploring planets, it becomes a first person shooter, still using polygons for just about everything except for the UI. All of this and WITHOUT the help of the CD or 32X. I just love wandering around the towns and admiring the geometry of the park benches, trees, and fountains with triangle droplets spouting from them. The fact that this never got a release outside of Japan is an absolute crime. And I can only imagine how good a CD or 32X port would've been.

-Star Cruiser

 

[χKai]

I'm still discovering things about Mario 3, Megaman 7, Link to the Past, and other games I've been playing for decades. I simply could not list them all, but I'm trying to master a few in particular: one of them is the Link to the Past Sword Skip. I wanted to try doing a swordless run like I did in the original Zelda, a couple times.
Another Link to the Past one is the great fairy (dark world) warp, where you can get to the great fairy early. This, in tandem with the early blacksmith glitch could get me the Lv. 4 sword and Silver Arrows as early as before the palace at Death Mountain.
One other thing is I want to have the White Mushroom houses in SMB3 memorized.

There are so many things I've been learning about games that I've played for decades and didn't know about. I just last month discovered going to the Stats menu in FF6 and going to Gogo let you set different abilities. I'd heard about it before but never had the time to discover it and always thought his moveset was just broken and janky.

Oh, the early airship glitch and bringing back General Leo is on my to-do list. You can also switch Relm and Strago with Ghosts!

 

[qw90700]

Mine is a funny story.

One day I went to me favorite pirate video game shop and bought Metal Gear Solid 3's new version. Good thing about this shop was the game they sold was "seemed like" legit games, but I only cared about they having decent covers for disc preservation.

Anyway, I bought the game and took it me home. I opened the case to play the game and WTF is this shit?:

"Who is this motherfucker?"

I showed this BS to my friend, "who the fuck is this?". He laughed and said "it's Sam Fisher yo" and I was like "Sam who?". Then he bought me his pirated Splinter Cell Double Agent PS2 game and said "he is the guy from this game". And I was like "so it's a stealth game? Then why I never knew this before!!!". Since I love stealth games I borrowed the game from him and honestly the game is amazing. Sadly other versions of the game is different and therefore bad but PS2 version is just right lol. Thanks for the pirate shop's mistake for introducing me to a great series lolol.

 

[Rocket2049]

Phantom crash on XBOX, stupidly hidden gem of a game if you like building robots and destroying other robots in large arenas, it was my favorite game for a LONG time and still in top list for me now.
the sequel is on PS2, steel lancer arena international, strange and annoying it wasn't on xbox also

Bahamut lagoon on SNES, just like strategy RPG with dragons, it's pretty cool and why do all the cool games never leave JAPAN!? (english translated versions are available)