Games you've played but feel don't exist

[Deleted member 171852]

I have played many random obscure games i found in my life, many of them being flash games, and many of them gave this weird feeling in my head that they were so mysterious, so obscure and so impactful to me that i have only dreamed about their existence, even though i know i played them. It's a kinda of a weird fever dream ethereal feeling and i like discussing about these proto-supernatural/uncanny/emotional attachment stuff involving games.
One of those games was Tower Of Heaven. It really stays in my head to this day, feels like a treasure in my memories that accompanies many others of that time i played it. I listen to this absurdly good OST frequently

What are some games that make you feel similarly? If you don't have some type of footage of it or it became lost media, you can just describe it and your experience too.

 

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[Graw]

The emogame series from newgrounds originally I think.

Emo Game Flash Games - Play Online on Flash Museum 🕹️

flashmuseum.org

They were weird trippy platforming flash games from the early 2000's. Every once in a while I remember them and how fucked up they were.

 

[Deleted member 171852]

This game has no reason being this hardcore, super cool.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Also this one

 

[Iguana-0]

The Pico games on Newgrounds.

 

[Deleted member 171852]

Also this one

I love seeing this cute little games no one knows about, very cool

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The Pico games on Newgrounds.

Pico is not exactly obscure or ethereal but it was my jam as a edgy kid

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Do romhacks count?

 

[TheVenomThing]

I hear absolutely nothing about this game and it's really good.

 

[SBLAST91]

Road trip adventure was an utter fever dream of a game, an open world car racing/rpg game where you play as a car and talk to other cars.

 

[Tbest25]

For me it's the short game i've played called Nothing Else. It was a 2d horror game with no dialogue, just you interacting with the environment and the events happening. It had a mysterious and ethereal vibe, full of symbolisms which i can only compare to Silent Hill. Like you've said on the post, i've felt like this game was a fever dream that too. Remembering about it all the sudden, i decided to search for it and then i've found it again.
I also found out that it was made by the same creator of Imscared, so that explains the amazing atmosphere of the game.

 

[Stare best girl]

I remember a flash card game that had KI, SF and MK characters(I don't remember if KOF too) even there's a Goku summon

I don't remember the name...

 

[Frickinfrik]

I’ve played Mario Sports Superstars. Yes I bought it, I didn’t know it was going to be horrible. But, the game does not feel like a Mario game at all. This game is so bad that it’s dull and depressing to look at. I sometimes forget that it exists because it’s so damn boring to play. Mario Sports Superstars is a game I regret buying and I’m so glad I sold my copy.

 

[Pinballbuzzbro]

I'm convinced JJ Squawkers isn't a real game and it's just some twilight zone bio-entity parasitically feasting on my brainwaves

 

[Konatalzumi]

 

[Fray Guillermo]

I don't know how tf I got my hands on this game when I was a kid, but despite its lame generic name it's such a weird game in which you have to drive in 4 hours real time from Nagoya to Tokyo. The thing is you can get out of the car, steal other vehicles and get chased by the police. The whole thing feels delirious.

The game mysteriously disappeared from my collection the same way it appeared and I totally forgot about its existence until one day it just popped in my head.

 

[snes9x]

A ton of Flash games on Nickelodeon's website circa 2002

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

There's one that I played on a demo CD when I was little and that I could never find again: it was about a punk with rocket shoes blasting away at monsters. Pretty good, too... I was hooked.

I'm fairly sure it was called "Rockman" or something like that, too... which makes finding it into an absolute Greek tragedy, because MegaMan.

The CD is broken, too.

Another one was Dynamite Joe, a game so obscure I actually wrote the first review EVER for it back in 2014:

 

[Deleted member 171852]

There's one that I played on a demo CD when I was little and that I could never find again: it was about a punk with rocket shoes blasting away at monsters. Pretty good, too... I was hooked.

I'm fairly sure it was called "Rockman" or something like that, too... which makes finding it into an absolute Greek tragedy, because MegaMan.

The CD is broken, too.

Another one was Dynamite Joe, a game so obscure I actually wrote the first review EVER for it back in 2014:

Holy shit, i either played this as kid and don't remember or i saw Vargskelethor Joel playing in one of those "shareware madness" streams, this feels nostalgic for some reason

I don't know how tf I got my hands on this game when I was a kid, but despite its lame generic name it's such a weird game in which you have to drive in 4 hours real time from Nagoya to Tokyo. The thing is you can get out of the car, steal other vehicles and get chased by the police. The whole thing feels delirious.

The game mysteriously disappeared from my collection the same way it appeared and I totally forgot about its existence until one day it just popped in my head.

ngl, i like this concept, it seems like a nice blend of fast paced chaos and do-nothing relaxation

 

[Fray Guillermo]

ngl, i like this concept, it seems like a nice blend of fast paced chaos and do-nothing relaxation

Yeah, even if its cheap I remember liking it as a kid, it was the closest thing I remember having to GTA before I got my hands on San Andreas lmao

 

[Gavin_McShooter]

"What could PAW-ssibly go wrong?"

well....

 

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[Deleted member 171852]

I really wanted to play something like this as a kid since i loved thumb wrestling in MTV and i didn't know it existed. Damn, if only i knew this sooner lmao

 

[CardcaptorEd2019]

Ah, Bloxorz. That was one of the games that I used to play on coolmathgames whenever my class would have computer time back in middle school/ high school.

I also played the Bloons Tower defense games, firegirl and waterboy, some coffee shop game, a pizza game, and they also had the worlds hardest game on there.

 

[Xdqwerty Xdqwerty]

Might upload this to the repo