Oddly popular games from your circles

FAST6191 · Sep 26, 2017

I occasionally get gifted with old consoles, computers and such by friends and family with lines like "you like games, have this" (it is a burden, I try to bear it as best I can).

Looking at the last NES I was given it too has a copy of Defender of the Crown and Shadowgate, both fairly well liked games of the era but few seem to remember the NES versions and they seldom come up in the top ?? NES games lists owing to there being far better versions out there.

It need not be as recent as the NES or as old as the Wii either. Just games you and yours always seemed to have despite nobody outside your circles really knowing much of them.

zoogie · Sep 26, 2017

I enjoyed shadowgate very much. I also remember it being notable for how expensive it was: $50 at a time when that kind of price for an nes game was unheard of.

bjaxx87 · Sep 26, 2017

Well, when I was a kid and didn't care for checking reviews or simply received random games as gifts, I enjoyed a bunch of unknown titles.

"The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril" and "The Pink Panther: Hokus Pokus Pink" introduced me to Point & Click adventures (well, those and "Day of the Tentacle"). Fun games, nice graphics and based on the "newer" Pink Panther tv series ("The Pink Panther", 1993) which I liked to watch as a child. They were not really targeted at adults but had some fun humor.

Long before "Halo" I enjoyed Bungie's real-time tactics game "Myth 2: Soulblighter". I never finished it but it was quite addictive, I'd like to give it another try someday. I think I bought that one for a few bucks just because I liked the cover when I found it in a store.

I received the Game Boy Color version of "Turok 2: Seeds of Evil" for christmas 1998 along with the handheld itself. It's a sidescroller and reminds me of a less difficult alternative to Contra.

I also own the Game Boy Color version of "Worms Armageddon" which I think is pretty rare. It has less weapons than the console versions but it's still pretty cool and was graphically impressive.

BORTZ · Sep 26, 2017

My friends like to shower me with multiplayer games. A few years ago when Borderlands 2 came out for Xbox 360, my friends all got a copy so I went along with the flow. I guess it is pretty popular in our circles. My one friend has played the campaign at least 10 times. Back then we all played through the end of the main game a few times. But recently we all re-bought it on PS4 once the Handsome Jack collection hit the no excuse price of $20 on the PSN Store and are all playing together again one last time. We only play when we can all 4 play at the same time and plan to play all the DLCs and then the pre-sequel afterwards.

In my younger years, I used to ride the school bus with a good friend. We would game together on our Gameboy Colors and eventually our GBA's. He and I would go back and forth finding new games to play together. But the best and my favorite to this day was Dragon Warrior Monsters. We put in some good hours for that game and even since then, I have played it (to completion mind you) a few times.

Another friend of mine is a Nintendo die hard. He saved up his money to buy an N64 in 4th grade. That would have been the year 2000. N64s would have been about $200 at the time and that's a lot of money for a 4th grader. We would play SM64, Smash, and other popular 64 games. Eventually he got a gamecube and that's where he kinda stuck. We would play hours of Melee every friday night. I still own a copy of Melee even though I don't have a Gamecube or Wii. But I refuse to get rid of it.
We also have a mutual love for Pokemon Silver and still play that together sometimes.

migles · Sep 26, 2017

FAST6191 said:
I occasionally get gifted with old consoles, computers and such by friends and family with lines like "you like games, have this" (it is a burden, I try to bear it as best I can).

you lucky bastard... usually this is what happens to me "hey you have this in your attic for years, don't use it anymore, can i buy it from you?"
friend answer: "no, it's my childhood console, it has sentimental value and i want to keep it, and it costed me hundreds back then, i can't sell it for less"
years later: "hey, what happened to that cool console\game you had in the attic?" "ho that old shit? dumped it in the trash long ago it was doing nothing in the attic"

as for oddly popular games in my circles.. heh usually it's the last "tempware" in mobile like crash of clans or wtf is called (by tempware i mean stuff like pokemon go, everyone is crazy about it for a short time then it quickly fades and is forgotten)
oddly games for "old" consoles like gameboy, nes, sega... well, it was games based of movies.. parents or relatives be like: "hey i bought you a game, you know i don't understand anything about video games, i hope you enjoy it"
lion king, Shrek, harry potter, looney tunes, the smurfs..
ho yeah. puzzle games all the time "video games makes your brain smaller, i hope at least this one is good for your brain"

FAST6191 · Sep 26, 2017

You say that but the 8 and 16 bit eras had some great tie in games. Many of the Disney ones, often made by Capcom, being out and out good games, not just good for tie in games -- things like Megadrive/Genesis Aladdin and NES Chip and Dale being among the sorts of things we point at when teaching people how to make such games.

I will go another. Throughout the 32 bit era we always had rally games among my friends and I (a few had them in the DOS era, though mainly PS1 and N64, though lingered into the PS2). Nobody really watched rally driving or otherwise followed it beyond being able to tolerate it on TV. Yet rally driving games were something of a staple and we used to play them a lot when we were bored with kart racers/micro machines, to the point we all knew the tracks, the cars, the mechanics and in our own little bubble were quite good at them.

Taleweaver · Sep 26, 2017

Hard to say. Me and my friends used to share shady copies of crazy bytes that evaporated into existence from nowhere. As a result, we all shared fallout 1, Abe's oddyssey and rollercoaster tycoon. Pretty classics right now, but at that time these were games that we felt nobody had heard of before.
On the SNES, it's even more shared: me, my brother and two closest friends shared our money together for one SNES (or just one friend, while the other provided the television and the couch). One of these games I remember from that day is super off road. We had seen it in an arcade hall, but despite it being an awesome game to play, it seemed to have fallen off the earth after that.

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