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What is your favorite obscure Retro Game?
from hmmm@sh.itjust.works to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 05:04
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Mine is Lady Sia for GBA. It’s just a platformer but I just love it played and completed more 20 times. Will probably speedrun it in future.

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Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jan 05:25 next collapse

I really like the old PSP Patapon games. They’re catchy. After playing, I find myself humming the beat. The original creators are making a spiritual successor called Ratatan. Still not out yet, but I’m looking forward to playing it.

wesker@lemmy.sdf.org on 22 Jan 05:36 next collapse

Nikls94@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 05:48 next collapse

One of my favorites was definitely Kororinpa (Wii) Yes, the Wii is now considered retro. It is now older than the NES was when the Wii first was released.

sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today on 22 Jan 05:48 next collapse

NFS Porsche Unleashed aka Porsche 2000 for PC. It had great physics and tons of realistic modifications you could purchase for every car. So many details in the game that made it truly great.

Brkdncr@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 06:19 next collapse

Whiplash!

missingno@fedia.io on 22 Jan 06:22 next collapse

Soldam immediately comes to mind as the deepest cut I can think of. You might not be too impressed the first time you put a quarter in, the singleplayer modes are nothing too special. But if you can get a second player, it has one of the most interesting versus modes I've seen in a puzzle game. Sadly, you do need a second player, there is no versus CPU.

This game got a modernized remake on Switch a while back, they added online play... but they still didn't add CPUs.

thistleboy@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 06:33 next collapse

hmmm@sh.itjust.works on 22 Jan 07:09 collapse

Hey, I have played it.

Albbi@lemmy.ca on 22 Jan 06:44 next collapse

Some ancient PC role playing games.

The Dark Heart of Uukrul I like this one because I think your party is restricted to having a character of each class: Fighter, Paladin, Cleric and Wizard. I learned what a Paladin was from this game and fell in love with the class. Lots of exploration and tactical battles that are on a map that is the same as where you are in the dungeon were all pretty awesome features of this game. Has permadeath but you can recruit a new person to replace the old one. Always hated doing that though.

Disciples of Steel Team of 8 characters going on an adventure to save the world. The endgame actually has you setting up armies in different parts of the world to help you when the final battle comes. Pretty neat game.

ethaver@kbin.earth on 22 Jan 06:49 next collapse

my niece thinks Morrowind is retro

Paradachshund@lemmy.today on 22 Jan 06:53 next collapse

I don’t know how obscure it actually is, but I played the hell out of Threads of Fate when I was a kid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_of_Fate?wprov=sfla1

MITM0@lemmy.world on 22 Jan 07:05 next collapse

Breath of Fire 2 for me

abbadon420@lemm.ee on 22 Jan 07:07 next collapse

I don’t know how obscure this is. I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong. illusion of gaia/illusion of time was one of my favourites growing up. It had a cool story, kind of a dystopia fantasy. I don’t think I ever actually finished it. Come to think of it, that might be a good idea to put on my list for this year.

HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org on 22 Jan 07:08 next collapse

I think the last game I bought for my 386 was Nomad. ISTR having to make space since it required like 9Mb of the 40Mb drive.

30-polygon-per-ship level 3-D space RPG with limited combat sequences. I think I played it wrong because I seemed to walk largely linearly through the story and defeat the Big Bad without seeing more than 1/10 of the galaxy

metaStatic@kbin.earth on 22 Jan 07:34 next collapse

Everything on this

llii@discuss.tchncs.de on 22 Jan 07:40 collapse

For me its screamer. It’s a pretty nice PC arcade racer with a great soundtrack. I still listen to it from time to time.