What are some weird and obscure games that you own?

[DanVzare]

Whenever I'm out and about, I like to look in secondhand shops and pawn shops to see what used games they have on sale. More often than not, you'll see endless swarms of once-popular AAA games being sold for a pittance. But sometimes you'll find something that's clearly had some effort put into it, but is also something you've never heard of, and for some reason it's those games that always grab my attention. Sure, these games are usually very janky. But I love picking them up, because you have no idea what you're getting.

Two such games I've managed to find are N3 Ninety-Nine Nights for the Xbox 360, and Anima Gate of Memories for the PS4. The first is a musou game and the other is a character-action game.
Honestly, they're not that bad. I just need to find some time to play them properly.

 

[psvitaforever]

I wanted to play "Anima" on Switch, it seems good!

Now let's see if these titles are "obscure" enough to be ok in the list! All games I've owned in physical copies before re-selling them.

PSP Titles:
"Riviera The Promised Land", I bought it because I wanted to have it after playing it on GBA emulator on pc
"Gungnir" (strategy rpg), "Knights in the Nightmare" (shooter rpg?) and "Yggdra Union" (strategy rpg), along with "Riviera" they belong to the series "Dept Heaven" or something like that
"Coded Arms" and "Coded Arms Contagion", first-person-shooter, first one random generated levels (if I remember correct), second one with a plot
"Shadow of Destiny", loved it on pc and I had to buy it again on psp, time travel involved and multiple endings
"Pangya Fantasy Golf", best golf game ever played!
"Xyanide Resurrection", 2d space shooter I think it's the right way to define it

DS Titles
"Another Code Two Memory", after years I played the sequel on wii but I didn't enjoyed like the first title

PC
"The Longest Journey", point-and-click in a futuristic yet realistic American city and in a fantasy world
"Hundred Swords", real-time troops managing, found in a news kiosk years ago when they were still selling pc games

 

[PhrawzT]

Two such games I've managed to find are N3 Ninety-Nine Nights for the Xbox 360, and Anima Gate of Memories for the PS4. The first is a musou game and the other is a character-action game.
Honestly, they're not that bad. I just need to find some time to play them properly.

N3 Ninety-Nine Nights was a great game that I spent hours playing and was confused that I only had one friend who had ever even heard of the game.

"Pangya Fantasy Golf", best golf game ever played!

Pangya Fantasy Golf is one of the best golf games I have ever played. It's just as good as Hot Shots or Mario Golf. My wife and I used to play that together all the time.

Aqua Aqua deserves a lot more attention. Amazing puzzle game that came out right at the beginning of the PS2 era and I spent countless hours playing that with friends.

 

[TheREALBLUEdragon]

Trying to think what games of mine would be considered “obscure”. Hmm…

Senko No Ronde is an early Xbox 360 release that I would describe as a “VS bullet hell shooter”. It’s neat!

Gekka Mugentan Torico is an FMV game for the Sega Saturn with a batshit story and a creepy, almost dreamlike vibe to its presentation. I’m kind of obsessed with it. It was released in the US under the name “Lunacy”.

 

[Punkcat]

the weird port of nfs undercover for the ds

(ps its still better than whatever the ps3/xbox360 version was for me)

 

[Karaswinglet]

I often went with friend by shops that selled used games back in the day. It was so fun to bring at home weird, quirky games without going broke. Here's some games that I can look at now from my collection:

• Gba: Drill Dozer, Sigma Star Saga, Gunstar Super Heroes.
• Gamecube: Gladius, both Lost Kingdom games, Geist, P.N. 03
• Ps2: Sword of Etheria, Spy Fiction, Hard Knock High
• Wii: Both the Endless Ocean games, Opoona, Fragile Dreams, Spyborgs

 

[TheREALBLUEdragon]

the weird port of nfs undercover for the ds

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(ps its still better than whatever the ps3/xbox360 version was for me)

Speaking of weirdly good DS driving games. Did anyone play C.O.P. The Recruit? It’s an open world police sim (like a reverse GTA) with a large map, surprising level of environmental detail and it targets 60 frames per second… on the DS.

It’s not amazing gameplay-wise but from a technical standpoint it’s an incredible achievement and a real showpiece of the DS’s capabilities. It’s cheap too! Nobody ever talks about it so you can pick up a second hand copy for not very much.

 

[Karaswinglet]

This looks quite fantastic for a DS and the concept seems nice too! Never had a DS, sadly, but I would have bought this game at first glance if I had the console!

 

[Punkcat]

Speaking of weirdly good DS driving games. Did anyone play C.O.P. The Recruit? It’s an open world police sim (like a reverse GTA) with a large map, surprising level of environmental detail and it targets 60 frames per second… on the DS.

It’s not amazing gameplay-wise but from a technical standpoint it’s an incredible achievement and a real showpiece of the DS’s capabilities. It’s cheap too! Nobody ever talks about it so you can pick up a second hand copy for not very much.

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ngl it looks pretty good, third person view reminds me of the third birthday/re4. Might give it a shot soon

 

[rollobobo]

N3 Ninety-Nine Nights was a great game that I spent hours playing and was confused that I only had one friend who had ever even heard of the game.


Pangya Fantasy Golf is one of the best golf games I have ever played. It's just as good as Hot Shots or Mario Golf. My wife and I used to play that together all the time.

Aqua Aqua deserves a lot more attention. Amazing puzzle game that came out right at the beginning of the PS2 era and I spent countless hours playing that with friends.

I also very much enjoyed Pangya Fantasy Golf. Huge Hot Shots Golf fan, and you are right, may as well be anime version of Hot Shots.

Some obscure ones I enjoyed were: Incredible Crisis, Rising Zan: The Samurai Gunman, Samurai Western, Einhander, and Ape Escape series. (Ape Escape maybe not so "obscure" but it hasn't been rebooted (save for the awesome Astrobot level) and more people need to check it out)

 

[Moreno909]

Gun Road. An obscure light gun, gorey, anime visual, japanese windows freeware game.

 

[What's His Face]

 

[Cu-Neo]

On 360:
Transformers War for Cybertron
Transformers Fall of Cybertron
Transformers Dark of the moon
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
N3 "1"
Sonic 06

PS3:
Saint Seiya sanctuary battle
Tears to tiara 2 (with the artbook)
Ar nosurge
Disgaea 4
Valkyria Chronicles 1
Persona 5

3DS:
Soul hackers

PS2
A sealed box of GTA 3

Those are the most rare that I own. on 360 I also have things like Green lantern rise of the manhunters. And of course the most important xbox 360 game:

"It's Oblivion on steroids"
- Hardcore Gamer

 

[CaptainToad]

I have the full Steel Battalion controller and game (Japanese) that I bought when Surugu-ya did that week of free shipping before they cancelled it and it's probably the game I wanted the most. Need to beat it but as cool as it is, it takes up too much damn space.

 

[stealthRUSH]

I held on to many of my childhood collection which had its share of 'weird and obscure' titles these games I had since their NA release either bought new or used complete in box :

• Sega Saturn- Robo Pit, Blast Chamber
• PlayStation- Silhouette Mirage, Trap Gunner, One Piece Mansion, Team Buddies, Spin Jam, Destrega, BoomBots, Evil Zone, Micro Maniacs Racing, No One Can Stop Mr. Domino, Galerians
• Dreamcast- Cannon Spike, Tech Romancer, Death Crimson OX, Psychic Force 2012
  PlayStation 2- The Adventures of Cookie & Cream, Stretch Panic, Bombastic, Heavenly Guardian, Bujingai, Iridium Runners, Robot Alchemic Drive, S.L.A.I, Yanya Caballista, Spy Fiction, Galerians:ASH
• GameCube- Gotcha Force, Cubivore, Ultimate Muscle
• Xbox 360- WarTech, Otomedius Excellent
• Nintendo DS- Bangai-O Spirits, Deep Labyrinth
• Wii- Domino Rally

A few imports on Saturn years later were Tama, Groove on Fight, Vatlva, and Noon. The past decade I picked up Fray CD: Xak Gaiden and Mr. Helo no Daiboken on PC Engine Duo. And more recently Guardian War on 3DO.

 

[Dyne]

 

[Brichye]

King of Dragon Pass. Only 8000 boxed copies made. Bought it sometime in the early 2000s.

 

[Doomstruck]

Speaking of weirdly good DS driving games. Did anyone play C.O.P. The Recruit? It’s an open world police sim (like a reverse GTA) with a large map, surprising level of environmental detail and it targets 60 frames per second… on the DS.

It’s not amazing gameplay-wise but from a technical standpoint it’s an incredible achievement and a real showpiece of the DS’s capabilities. It’s cheap too! Nobody ever talks about it so you can pick up a second hand copy for not very much.

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oh yeah I played a bit of this back in the day, though as far as 3D driving on the DS goes I don't think anything can top Sideswiped, that game's a masterpiece

 

[Skeetos]

I have a pristine copy of Sonic's Schoolhouse I found at a Goodwill for like 2 bucks. I also have the color variant disc of Crash Team Racing with the Trophy Girls on it. I have Big Bumpin' and Sneak King, the Burger King 360 games, I don't have the third one though. I bought the Postal XX box set that came with every game up to Postal 2: Paradise Lost that one of the devs signed. The signature says "Leave it in my Backdoor" with whoever signed it's signature. It's a reference to when I ordered it I put under the special instructions to put it at the backdoor because my front door is a slider we don't use lol.

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I have a pristine copy of Sonic's Schoolhouse I found at a Goodwill for like 2 bucks. I also have the color variant disc of Crash Team Racing with the Trophy Girls on it. I have Big Bumpin' and Sneak King, the Burger King 360 games, I don't have the third one though. I bought the Postal XX box set that came with every game up to Postal 2: Paradise Lost that one of the devs signed. The signature says "Leave it in my Backdoor" with whoever signed it's signature. It's a reference to when I ordered it I put under the special instructions to put it at the backdoor because my front door is a slider we don't use lol.

Also remembered this from another post I just commented on. I have this box set of these PC games based on a character called Snowy the Bear. The box set was like 10 bucks and it has Snowy: Treasure Hunter 1 and 2, Lunch Rush, and Fish Frenzy. This was an obscure yet big series in the budget market for pc. There was a particular one I really liked as a kid called Space Trip where you had to guide these aliens to safety from robots. Really weird thing I'm in to.