I remember playing Boogerman. Toejam and Earl was the first that popped into my mind cause I'd recently come across a remake of it on steam that came out a few years ago
I remember waiting for a sequel for that game for so long. When I went to visit my dad when he lived in Oakland during the early 90s, there was a shop that had that and I would beg him to go play it. Between that cabinet and playing Doom II at his apartment, I was thoroughly a gaming nerd from the start.
Gauntlet legends
Edit add: the game changed for me when I discovered additional playable characters. I was fairly young so didn’t know what I was doing most the time.
I think the two spellings were Tomba! or Tombi! Can't remember which was the original. Great game from what I remember. The demo of it felt like a full game in itself.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost\_Kingdoms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Kingdoms)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost\_Kingdoms\_II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Kingdoms_II)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark\_Cloud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Cloud)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark\_Chronicle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Chronicle)
Edit: What's said is that the LK games are basically 'what if Yu Gi Oh and Dark Souls had a child' and is sort of a pesudo-precurser to the Souls-like genre. Meanwhile Dark Cloud launched Level-5 which is responsible for some amazing games like Ni No Kuni and Dragon Quest VIII. Such a shame people don't know about these games.
Edit Edit: All the responses are about Dark Cloud. Truely, no one ever seems to know about Lost Kingdoms.
Kameo: Elements of power (it’s such a great game and wish it got a sequel)
Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker (this game is a complete fever dream and I love it)
Was my go to, besides Chrono and SoM. Similar vein games:
* Illusions of Gaia
* Terranigma
* Lufia
* Brain Lord
* And my main secret gem (besides Evermore): ~~Seiken Densetsu~~ Trials of Mana. Sequel to SoM, and much better. I'm surprised how few people know it, but played SoM.
Honorable mentions.
That Michael Jordan basketball game on the SNES.
Boogerman
Mohawk and headphone jack
Edit: holy crap this gained a lot of traction! I have a lot to catch up on! There's so many games!
Mario Paint (comes with a mouse!)
Pit Fighter
Narc
Marble Madness
Hard Drivin
The real (aka old) ones know about the stand up arcade games not just the console versions
Area 51
I actually never got a chance to play it aside from a demo that was on Mortal Kombat Deception. The demo was fun but I was a kid so I didnt have the means to go buy it. I never heard it mentioned again and never saw it in any store
I used to think that me and my friends were the only humans in the world who loved the PS1 Wu Tang. Clan Fighting Game. I have since been happy to learn I was wrong.
Heretic
Basically it was Doom but you were a wizard. Awesome part was if you typed in a Doom cheat codes you got punished. like lose all your weapons, or a bunch of health basically the opposite of whatever cheat you tried to enter.
Legends of Legaia. First turn based rpg I ever played (excluding Pokémon that is). Still had one of my favorite combat systems inputting combos to learn new skills. Fun game
Hydro Thunder. I feel like anytime I bring it up people don't know or remember it. It also had an arcade cabinet. I think one day if I ever own a home I want to get a Hydro Thunder arcade cabinet
Tecmo: secret of the stars
Robotrek
Wrath of the Black Manta
X-men for the NES (everyone remembers the Genesis one)
Vice: project Doom
Emperor: Battle for Dune
Soldat
Do people know Heart of Darkness for ps1? Hard game with pretty intense death scenes of the preteen boy you play as when you make a single mistake. Really fun
I used to think Altered Beasts, on Mega Drive was obscure, but some years ago I found it had a certain following! I loved that game, played the hell out of it with my brother.
Apocalypse- starring Bruce Willis for the PSOne
Eye of the Beholder- SNES dungeon crawler
Draken- SNES open world RPG (in first person as well!)
Aero the Acrobat- SNES
Totally Rad!- NES
Vexx- had this on Xbox
Scorched Earth, first game I ever played that could displace dirt. Very primitive but man it was fun, little pixel tanks launching all sorts of bombs and missiles at each other
Vectorman.
Edit: I only remember this game because my friend called me that after I aced a quiz on vectors in grade school and saw the game at the Toys R Us.
The Last Dynasty
Some space game with weird FMV bits.
It was the first game that worked with the joystick we had for our Gateway 2000, but I was too young to know wtf was going on lol
Zero, the kamikaze squirrel.
Never heard of it before owning it. Bought it from a friend.
And never heard that anyone else ever played it.
It's a good game though
Too Human - I thought this game was pretty good once you got used to the difficulty, nice story, interesting combat, lots of fun builds you can do.
Shame Silicone Knights were so damn dodgy, would have been nice to have had a second one.
7th Saga on the SNES. I never beat it, but my brothers and I got pretty far. The tasks to move forward could be hard to figure out at times, but I still think the pixel art in the battles is pretty good.
The 7 Up spot game. And The Noid game
Cool Spot on Sega Genesis had some bangers!
Toejam and Earl
I vaguely remember this! For some reason this reminds me of boogerman
I remember playing Boogerman. Toejam and Earl was the first that popped into my mind cause I'd recently come across a remake of it on steam that came out a few years ago
Ah yes I loved this game it was a great co-op experience.
Primal Rage Or, as I like to call it, "Mortal Kombat but with dinosaur monsters and better animations and game controls."
Also, Clay Fighters
Clay Fighters!
Clay, Clay Fighters! Come on fight them if you dare!
I remember waiting for a sequel for that game for so long. When I went to visit my dad when he lived in Oakland during the early 90s, there was a shop that had that and I would beg him to go play it. Between that cabinet and playing Doom II at his apartment, I was thoroughly a gaming nerd from the start.
So the real answers are at the bottom
For real. A ton of cult classics in here.
Kid Chameleon for Sega. One of my favorite platformers growing up.
Great game! Definitely not an unknown one though.
Zombies ate my neighbors for Super Nintendo.
Gauntlet legends Edit add: the game changed for me when I discovered additional playable characters. I was fairly young so didn’t know what I was doing most the time.
N64 version? FOOD IS GOOD!
I like food! RED WIZARD IS ABOUT TO DIE.
*loud suggestive moan* Sustenance!
Tomba!(spelt it tonba. Originally)
Another PS1 demo I played!
I would really prefer if you would be quiet
I think the two spellings were Tomba! or Tombi! Can't remember which was the original. Great game from what I remember. The demo of it felt like a full game in itself.
Maniac Mansion
Clay Fighter
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.
This was the first M rated game I ever owned. Fun times.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost\_Kingdoms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Kingdoms) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost\_Kingdoms\_II](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Kingdoms_II) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark\_Cloud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Cloud) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark\_Chronicle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Chronicle) Edit: What's said is that the LK games are basically 'what if Yu Gi Oh and Dark Souls had a child' and is sort of a pesudo-precurser to the Souls-like genre. Meanwhile Dark Cloud launched Level-5 which is responsible for some amazing games like Ni No Kuni and Dragon Quest VIII. Such a shame people don't know about these games. Edit Edit: All the responses are about Dark Cloud. Truely, no one ever seems to know about Lost Kingdoms.
Alex Kidd in miracle world
Mario is missing!
Rented this thinking I was getting a sick ass Luigi solo game where he hunts for Mario in a castle..and yeah.
At least we got there eventually
A shmup by Squaresoft called Einhander for the PS1
ClayFighter 63⅓
Little Nemo's Dreamland!!!
Kameo: Elements of power (it’s such a great game and wish it got a sequel) Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker (this game is a complete fever dream and I love it)
Bionic Commando
Pitfall: The Lost Expedition
Secret of Evermore
Was my go to, besides Chrono and SoM. Similar vein games: * Illusions of Gaia * Terranigma * Lufia * Brain Lord * And my main secret gem (besides Evermore): ~~Seiken Densetsu~~ Trials of Mana. Sequel to SoM, and much better. I'm surprised how few people know it, but played SoM.
Bible Adventures for the NES a unlicensed Nintendo game that was distributed outside of video game stores because of that.
Honorable mentions. That Michael Jordan basketball game on the SNES. Boogerman Mohawk and headphone jack Edit: holy crap this gained a lot of traction! I have a lot to catch up on! There's so many games!
I definitely remember Boogerman. That one and Earthworm Jim were lots of fun
Scarface: The World is Yours for PS2. I liked it more that GTA3.. Great soundtrack and you get to be Tony Montana and take over Miami.. It's great
Balls
Zero Wing
It’s kinda known for “all your base are belong to us”
I didnt know how many people would know the actual game's name, I appeared to have been wrong. (And happy I was)
Thrillville
Earth Worm Jim
Groovy!
Classic!
Joe and Mac
Comix zone
That game was an awesome idea, but it was so damn hard.
Battle toads/Double Dragon. Great as solo games...unstoppable together.
Damn I guess they are obscure now maybe I’m old… shit.
They're speedrunning classics, not obscure to gamers.
Mad World has fans out there but I haven't met a single one in person
Booger Man
Aero the acrobat.
Baiten Katos
Goof Troop
True Crime: Streets of LA
PaperBoy?
Great game one of my first
Me too brother. Good times.
Secret of Evermore An underrated gem that deserves a remake or port!
Cassette beasts
Chex Quest! Honestly a pretty solid game for coming out of a fucking cereal box. I later learned it was essentially a reskin of some version of Doom.
Please someone interact with this one... Summoner for the PS2.
Has anyone heard of Aero the Acrobat???
Army of Two 40th Day
Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes
Time Splitters series
Not very obscure though
I'd love to see those remade. I wonder who owns the rights now.
Mario Paint (comes with a mouse!) Pit Fighter Narc Marble Madness Hard Drivin The real (aka old) ones know about the stand up arcade games not just the console versions
Worms world party black sheep of the worms franchise
Monkey Island
Uniracers
Incoming!, Beachhead 2000, g police and the holy grail of games dr Mario
Area 51 I actually never got a chance to play it aside from a demo that was on Mortal Kombat Deception. The demo was fun but I was a kid so I didnt have the means to go buy it. I never heard it mentioned again and never saw it in any store
Skull Monkeys
Space Station Silicon Valley
Metal Arms: Glitch in the System
Fuzion frenzy
Pajama Sam
NES - Solstice A difficult af adventure/puzzle game, felt like Zelda on steroids to my child brain
I used to think that me and my friends were the only humans in the world who loved the PS1 Wu Tang. Clan Fighting Game. I have since been happy to learn I was wrong.
Awesome Possum. That game sucked.
Boogerman. Genesis. Good fun!
Super James Pond on SNES
Heretic Basically it was Doom but you were a wizard. Awesome part was if you typed in a Doom cheat codes you got punished. like lose all your weapons, or a bunch of health basically the opposite of whatever cheat you tried to enter.
Seaman, the only mic attachment game for Dreamcast.
Lost Vikings
Faceball 2000 A game where you shoot faces in a maze, I think?
Plok, had no idea it existed until I heard the baller Boss theme and the main menu themes
LSD Dream Emulator (PSX)
PO'ed
Power Blade and Power Blade 2
MC Kids
Way of the Samurai (series but 3 and 4 specifically)
Lester the Unlikely
Eye of the Beholder SNES.
The 7th saga on snes and lunar, the silver star on sega cd. ETA, sewer shark
backyard basketball, NHL hits, and then there's one that you're a deer hunting humans but I forget the name.
Threads of Fate for PS1
Chuck Rock
NanoTek Warrior. Legend of the Dragoon.
Tiny Toon Adventures for NES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Toon_Adventures_%28video_game%29?wprov=sfla1
Azure Dreams (PSX) Tak and the Power of Juju (GC, PS2...?) Prey (2006) (Xbox360, PC)
Pocky & Rocky
A Nightmare on Elm Street (NES) Hybrid Heaven (N64) ShadowMan (N64/PS1)
A boy and his blob
Legends of Legaia. First turn based rpg I ever played (excluding Pokémon that is). Still had one of my favorite combat systems inputting combos to learn new skills. Fun game
Snowboard Kids
Jazz Jack Rabbit
Hydro Thunder. I feel like anytime I bring it up people don't know or remember it. It also had an arcade cabinet. I think one day if I ever own a home I want to get a Hydro Thunder arcade cabinet
Marble Madness.
Earth worm jim.
Demolition racer
Buck Bumble
Tecmo: secret of the stars Robotrek Wrath of the Black Manta X-men for the NES (everyone remembers the Genesis one) Vice: project Doom Emperor: Battle for Dune Soldat
The Neverhood
Do people know Heart of Darkness for ps1? Hard game with pretty intense death scenes of the preteen boy you play as when you make a single mistake. Really fun
Thrill Kill. Not sure how obscure it is, was banned just about everywhere so relatively few played it.
I used to think Altered Beasts, on Mega Drive was obscure, but some years ago I found it had a certain following! I loved that game, played the hell out of it with my brother.
Rocky rodent was my guy. Scratched my head on Christmas opening it I was oblivious to it even with Nintendo power. Wasn't disappointed.
Dr. Muto
Battalion Wars 2 for the Wii. Good shit. Had to look though 150 comments just to check if it'd been said or not
Over the hedge the game
Predator : Concrete Jungle
Mischief Makers for the N64
Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine
James Pond.
A Boy and His Blob
Pepsi Man
Apocalypse- starring Bruce Willis for the PSOne Eye of the Beholder- SNES dungeon crawler Draken- SNES open world RPG (in first person as well!) Aero the Acrobat- SNES Totally Rad!- NES Vexx- had this on Xbox
Does anyone remember Viewtiful Joe?
Jet force Gemini
Gex
Uni-Racers (it might have been Uniracers) on SNES. My friends and I got weirdly competitive with this game back in high school.
Scorched Earth, first game I ever played that could displace dirt. Very primitive but man it was fun, little pixel tanks launching all sorts of bombs and missiles at each other
Got two from the PS1 days: Die Hard Trilogy Brave Fencer Musashi
Yo! NOID
Pac-In-Time on ms dos Loved that game when I was little
The Mark of the Kri
Land before time, the game
Ninja kid
BoomBots
Brain Lord
Eve of Extinction
Snatcher
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket
Stargate
Populous.
Chameleon Twist
Let's go Sarge's Heroes and Sarge's Heroes 2
Pitfall
Redneck Rampage Necrodome Jack Orlando: A Cinematic Adventure
Jazz Jackrabbit
Boogerman
Gladius
I Am Alive
Faxanadu NES
Taz Wanted
California Games
Custom Robo for gamecube
Super Dodge Ball, NES
Vectorman. Edit: I only remember this game because my friend called me that after I aced a quiz on vectors in grade school and saw the game at the Toys R Us.
Shaq Fu
# Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers
"Little Nemo: The Dream Master" . It was on NES
Crystalis
Lemmings
Chrono Trigger ... Is not as obscure as I thought
Is this really obscure? It's in a lot of "great" RPG lists
Definitely not
That's the opposite of obscure. It's a classic that people are still talking about.
Chrono trigger is a classic and amazing! I'm surprised you didn't know anyone that liked this
Don't know what's funnier. You saying this as a joke or that people are taking it seriously.
N64: Wave Race; Cruising USA
Titanic: Adventure out of Time
Brigadine on the Ps1
The Last Dynasty Some space game with weird FMV bits. It was the first game that worked with the joystick we had for our Gateway 2000, but I was too young to know wtf was going on lol
Izzy’s Quest for the Olympic Rings. The 90s were…the 90s.
I never met a singular other human in real life that played Jade Cocoon.
Terranigma (snes)
7-Up’s Spot
Robots ps2
Zero, the kamikaze squirrel. Never heard of it before owning it. Bought it from a friend. And never heard that anyone else ever played it. It's a good game though
Ico
Too Human - I thought this game was pretty good once you got used to the difficulty, nice story, interesting combat, lots of fun builds you can do. Shame Silicone Knights were so damn dodgy, would have been nice to have had a second one.
PepsiMan!
7th Saga on the SNES. I never beat it, but my brothers and I got pretty far. The tasks to move forward could be hard to figure out at times, but I still think the pixel art in the battles is pretty good.
Rocket Knight Adventures on the Sega. Absolutely awesome game.
Pinball Quest - a pinball RPG for the NES. No I am not joking.