Neither are obscure, but I played the shit out of Ace Combat Shattered Skies and Simpsons Hit and Run…
Ace Combat 4 was one of the most legit games of all time.
Of the holy trilogy, I still like AC4 more because of the anime picture cut scenes.
I feel like the anime styled cut scenes delivered a more nuanced story than the other games. The story is told through the eyes of a boy who lost his family to war. Your silent protagonist slowly achieves fame. By the end, it’s revealed that his story is a letter to you, the pilot. There’s more plot, so any retro gamers reading this, it’s super recommended for story and music. I love the gameplay, but obscure childhood game symptom.
Dude simpsons hit and run is a banger. I use to get that game from the video club store and play it for hours. Tbh all kid’s movies and tv series on games were bangers, Kung fu panda, toy story, rattatouille etc
Playing as Mobius One felt incredible when enemy comma started referring to you as the Grim Reaper and whatnot.
What a game.
You’re not going to believe this Jean-Louis! All of them have ribbon insignias!
The Legend of Dragoon. We need a reissue of it 🥲
Bro I had that for ps1. I had no idea how to play it but would waste hours on it just killing stuff
I’ll just leave this here
GitHub - Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains: Legend of Dragoon decompiled, reverse engineered, and ported to PC/Mac/Linux/Steam Deck · GitHub https://github.com/Legend-of-Dragoon-Modding/Severed-Chains
I thought that was ps1?
I would so fuck with that. It would be nice to see some of those cutscenes and dialogue with better translation and animation.
The proto expedition 33
Mister Mosquito
Wow someone else that played this gem lol
oh god. when i was a kid i bought one of those game magazine when ps2 launches. the first ps2 game they covered was mister mosquito and i remember thinking. wow, ps2 is so cool
What is the gameplay like, the screenshots make it look like a mosquito simulator 😄
That’s exactly what it is!
You’re a mosquito that gets into a house and you have to suck as much blood as you can from the family as you can without getting squished.
You fly around, waiting for the right moment to land and start sucking blood, being careful not to be seen. Each level has a certain amount of blood to collect before you can move on, and the family gets increasingly more vigilant about killing you as they talk to each other about getting bit.
gender-affirming lack of obscure ps2 game
coming back to this post later to find recommendations though…
There’s plenty of girls that bonded with an obscure ps2 game in their youth. Xenosaga was the shit.
Enteral Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (GameCube)
Shadow of the Colossus… Man, way to put me in my feels
I’ve revisited this game more than any other.
It still gets me.
N64, but I was obsessed with the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics game. Picked it up recently. It is definitely shovelware.
I was obsessed with bobsledding as a kid and played so much of this game. I think my parents still have the n64 in their basement, I should see if it works.
My friend and I duct taped skateboards together and pretended to luge down this dinky hill in our neighborhood because of this game.
Only now 28 years later did I learn how to actually land the aerial freestyle jump.
I’m too old for it to be PS2, but “Mick and Mack: Global Gladiators”. Spent at lot of time on that for a game that is an ad for McDonalds.
that’s how i feel about yo noid
This, though I did also become obsessed with katamari damacy in college
“shovelware” movie/cartoon franchise tie-in games, my beloved
Asterix & Obelix: XXL 2, Ice Age 2 (the game), G-Force (the game)…
“Slop” used to be peak.
What about random tie in games from non-game products? It’s not exactly shovelware, but I have fond memories of the Doom-clone Chex Quest
That sounds cool too
A bit younger than ps2, and for PC, but still.
What? Is this the Original kungfu panda?
It’s his Japanese cousin ig lmao
That captain crunch game for the PC.
N64: Snowboard Kids
I had a mad crush on Linda
Core childhood memory. I remember getting this game for Christmas 2004 and playing it religiously until the sequel came out a year later.
My.memory is a little fuzzy and I’m sure it’s nowhere near as good as I remember but was there a game called Ape escape? Something about catching monkeys and they had like flashing helmets or something and you would run around with a net catching them?
A very basic sounding premise but in my memory it was a really good game.
Ape escape was one of the first games to require dual stick controls! One controlled the character and the other his catching net!
3xtreme
You race other bikers/rollerbladers/skateboarders/aliens and can punch them mid race.
That game (and its predecessor 2xtreme) were not nearly as fun as the premise sounds on paper, but I loved every second of them.
I don’t even want to guess how much my parents spent on rental fees for those two titles alone. It had to have been cheaper to just buy them.
