Have you ever played Alter Echo or Enchanted Arms on the OG Xbox? #Gaming #ObscureGames
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Curiosity: Are You Alone?
Have you ever stumbled upon a game that you’re convinced no one else has ever heard of? Maybe Alter Echo or Enchanted Arms on the OG Xbox ring a bell for you?
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Sharing Your Experience
I pretty much think I’m the only person to play Alter Echo and Enchanted Arms on the OG Xbox. None of my friends have any idea what those are.
What about you? Do you have any hidden gems in your gaming library that you feel like you discovered all on your own? Share your experiences with us! #HiddenGems #OGXboxGames
*Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_Fencer_Musashi
Brave Fencer Musashi for the PS1. One of the first playstation games I ever owned. Everyone had silly food puns for names but the gameplay was a lot of fun!
Remember Me. Ironically I have a hard time remembering details other than it was a solid fun game.
Hybrid Heaven on N64, such a fever dream of a game
Monsters Inc Scream Team. I loved that game as a kid. Nobody I’ve talked to has ever heard of it
Anybody remember playing [Liero](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liero)?
Nobunaga’s Ambition for the NES. It seems líke it was a pretty popular computer game, but I think I was a rare 10 year old who got hooked on a turn based strategy game about feudal Japan on the NES.
Outward. Only 3.2% of players have beat it and it never had more than a few thousand players. It’s getting a sequel soon, and as much as I liked it I don’t know how.
Dark Star One.
I don’t even know if this was available outside of Germany (cause that was pre digital download era)
General chaos
There was a PC strategy game called krush kill n destroy. My brother and I played it for years when we were kids. Never heard of it again from anyone.
Tetrisphere on N64.
Blasto on PS1
Obscure
Nox
Afterlife by LucasArts. We got it in a pack of computer games. It was so fun to play. Never met anyone else who knows it. I still have the disc!
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.
Trap Gunner, on the PS1. Random buy when it was brand new, and nobody I know has heard of it. Unique game, where you try to lure opponents into traps. Anime graphics and such.
Bust a Move 1+2, also known as Bust a Groove in the US. Rhythm game where you do battle with friends and NPCs. My friend group and I played hundreds of matches, nobody else I know has ever heard of them. Helped cement my love for music games, after Parappa the Rapper planted the seed!
Gitaroo Man on PS2 is another music game that’s relatively obscure. It’s like a WTF acid trip blended with a music game. 😅
Magi Nation for Gameboy Color
Chuck Rock
Changing forms in Alter Echo at will was a game changer back in the day
Heavy Barrel
Was a run and gun from the 80s. I remember sinking tons of quarters into that machine and no one at school had even heard of it. You could collect pieces of the big gun and then the machine would announce, “Heavy Barrel!” and then you could one shot all the big enemies. Good times.
Naughty bear…… why
Gladius for the original xbox.
Damn that game was good.
I have a few:
Crash n the boys street challenge: it was a multiplayer nes game that was like nfl blitz meets the Olympics. It was so fun. Compete in events, buy power ups, pummel your opponents.
Zero tolerance: basically a genesis fps. Sort of like doom but much simpler, you’d walk around each level shooting aliens then getting into an elevator to go up to the next one.
I don’t remember the name, but it was an old pc/Mac game where you were a detective trying to solve a murder in a school or something, and the suspects were robots. It was on floppy disks, and you had to swap discs to go into different areas, ask questions, and eventually make an accusation.
Last, but not least, dome wars on Mac. It was so simple. 2D multiplayer. Everyone has a dome, you take turns firing at the other domes on a 2D plane of randomly generated dirt. Points for hits and kills, power ups bought between rounds.
Ristar for the Genesis. Played it on Sega channel and loved it. Never seen a mention of it online.
Forever ago I played a Samurai Jack game on the GBA. My mother got it for me and I hadn’t read about it on any of the review websites, so it felt like something that didn’t really exist on shelves ever.
Jason and the Argonauts for xbox 360. Decent little hack and slash rpg adventure, with some cool takes on Greek mythological lore.
Or maybe just nobody I knew played it…
Ballz snes
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System on OG Xbox….super enjoyable third person shooter that I loved as a kid.
Nanaca Crash. A very ridiculous anime flash game that was highly addictive. You run a bike into a guy who goes flying and you have to keep bouncing him into people (who have special powers like accelerating him, changing the angle, or ending the run) to see how far you can send him.
It’s available to play still here: https://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/
I remember playing the Japanese exclusive Pepsiman on PlayStation many many years ago. I’ve yet to have even one person ever heard of it.
For me it’s Flashback. I don’t know if it is because the game is so old or if it wasn’t that popular, but I haven’t heard of anyone else that played it. It was an early 90s Prince of Persia type game but set in the future. I think I had it for the Genesis.
Onimusha. I feel like it had a decently sized fanbase but when ever i bring it up literally only me and my brother know about it
The Neverhood. It’s a point & click game with puzzles, but the entire game was made with stop motion clay models.
Lost Odyssey. I’m not really a fan of JRPGs, but the story, for me, was just beautifully done, so I kept playing and loved it.
Dave Mirra BMX 2. My brother and I rented this game almost every weekend.
We almost exclusively played the wipeout competitions.
This pc game in the 90’s. A platformer game, the main character is the 7-Up mascot.
Nanosaur.
Playing as a velociraptor with a jetpack and laser gun during school lunches was awesome.
I don’t know why that game was on all the school computers, but none of the teachers/staff seemed to know it was there, so lunch and typing class were actually just Nanosaur and N-Game sessions.
Anyone ever heard of Poy Poy or Poy Poy 2?
*crickets chirping*
Freedom Fighters
Magic Carpet (1994)
Murdered: Soul Suspect. Kind of a ghost game where you have to avoid bad spirits but can take over good ones to hop around while trying to solve a murder. It’s a bit slow, which is probably why it wasn’t popular. Got it free with an AMD GPU 7-8 years ago or so.
Full Throttle. It was my favorite game as a kid. Who doesn’t love wacking other bikers with a 2×4? Anytime I mention this game to people, they have no idea what I’m talking about.
Anyone ever play Kameo: Elements of Power? That was one of my favorite games as a kid.
Advent Rising for me.
(Enchanted Arms is an Xbox 360 game)
Legend of Legaia on Playstation. To this day, one of the coolest combat systems in any jrpg that I’ve ever played.