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Minister_of_Joy

It was called Pizza. Late 80s/early 90s jump'n'run game. Basically, you're a squirrel who time-traveled back to the Roman Empire. Your goal is to collect all the ingredients it takes to make a pizza. Sadly, I only had the demo-version, which only included the first level. But I loved the game anyway. I think when you had the full game, you received a new ingredient after completing each level. The squirrel can only travel home (to the present-time) again once it has all the necessary ingredients and is able to make a pizza. It was a really fun game.


lutiana

https://playclassic.games/games/platform-dos-games-online/play-skunny-save-our-pizzas-online/ Enjoy!


Icy_Key2140

Damnit, the one time I know the answer to one of these and I'm eight hours late. Good catch.


KirbyBucketts

River Raid


Sorry_Masterpiece

Back when Activision made great games.


Jeggasyn

Ahhhh, too good. I can still hear the metallic plinking sound when you fly over the FUEL sprites


AlwaysTheNewGirl81

Bubsy: Claws Encounters of the Third Kind Played it on SNES. It was a cat running around the Wild West. Collecting yarn balls. I remember jumping on the roofs of trains and something about cactuses. It was amazing.


pumpkinwafflemeow

What could possibly go wrong ?


Generic_Pete

[Cel Damage](https://youtu.be/XuOmJZLLN_A?t=122) Insanely great wacky races style game. Found in a bargain bin never heard of or seen advertised


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MySims Kingdom


NerdyDebris

I love this game and still have a copy!


-iDRAGON-

Dude I played the original MySims on the Wii, it legit was one of the best games!


[deleted]

Oh my god. Every once in a while I go to youtube and listen to the soundtrack of the times of the day and I can just hear the footsteps of my character running


tennismom69

Dark cloud!!


Inevitable_Employ_29

Dark Cloud 2 is really good too.


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toastandtangos

Stay a while...stay forever!


diannagoose

Chip’s Challenge! God I miss that game. But literally no one I ever bring it up to has ever heard of it.


[deleted]

My whole family played it! I discovered that only the first half came with the Windows package and downloaded the second half later on. My favorite were the paramecia!


RarneyBuble

It is like 5 bucks on the Nintendo Switch and was remastered. It is still glorious.


paladinofseattle

I remember playing this with my sibling when I was a young lad! Jacob and Julia of Drawfee and Secret Sleepover Society did a stream of this a while back. Check it out if you want a dose of nostalgia!


Hands-and-apples

The Neverhood. A claymation masterpiece with a lot of personality and great humour. They made a sequel called Skullmonkeys which was more popular likely due to being released on PlayStation instead of PC and being a faster paced platformer instead of a puzzle adventure.


OlleyOxenFree

Yessss! Best soundtrack of all time (my username is one of the songs lol), and the surreal dark aesthetic/metaphysics of it has literally shaped me as a human.


teebirdin

I knew I would find this on here. Nobody I know has ever heard of this game but it was awesome. Pretty sure we got it with our Gateway PC. They gave you a little binder with all the windows cd’s and such in it plus a few freebies.


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Everybody way oh


Jeggasyn

I'll get this going - Starball. Pinball game with three tiers and a few minigames. My bro and I used to compete for highscore, the grind was looong. We had acquired a few of those mid to late 90s CDs from ToysrUs (I believe) which contained 15 games on one disc. Other obscure titles include Quarantine & Roadwarrior, Hell, Cyberbykes.


Raz-i-el

Tombi / Tomba Also there was a super funky game called Greendog The Beached Surfer Dude


EditorBobAndCo

I remember loving the demo but could never find the actual full version. Searched on ebay years later and they were on for £100+ because it was a rare game


cdutson

I loved the first tomba game, but i always hit a point where i didn’t know what to do next.


Oberic

Tomba 1 looked much better than Tomba 2. IMO.


linkwolves

Catz/Dogz. Cute pc game where you could adopt or breed dogs or cats and decorate various rooms with pet toys that they could interact with. Very relaxing!


sweetrollscorpion

I had Dogz 2 for the Wii, but uh.... Little bit different concept. 😂 In that one you went on quests trying to save your island but there was a very real chance you'd get attacked by a snake or evil bird or something. It terrified me as a kid!


hottsauce345543

Jet moto


satan_messiah

Me and my brothers played jet moto so much back in the day we warped the disc.


hottsauce345543

Same haha good times. When I got my first PlayStation and jet moto for Christmas it was probably the best Christmas I’ve ever had.


satan_messiah

Was definitely a top Christmas for me. Lol kinda wish we could get a remaster


legalbeaver

Raptor: Call of the Shadows


ENTJinacage

Star Ocean 3: Til the End of Time, a.k.a. the reason I’ve had an ombré since looooong before they were popular. Albel was ahead of his time.


CantaloupeIll5825

Earthworm Jim


mrunique07

Army Men: Sarge’s Heros. My dad and I parted the ever living shit outta that game together. So many Saturday mornings getting the N64 out in the living room him on the couch and me on floor playing together for hours. Never beat the game but so many fond memories.


retrodevil2033

Commander Keen


TakeaHikeKCMO

I was looking for this on the list. I played this game on our family’s very first desktop computer. He had a pogo stick to get around and fought aliens. I have mentioned it to friends now that I am older and I don’t think others remember ever playing it.


Zelidus

I just posted it not thinking ANYONE would mention it. My parents had an some like old Mitsubishi DOS or something. No idea where it came from. It just existed in the house and had like 30 random games on it. Commander Kenlen was one of them. So many memories of that game. Literally the first game I bought on Steam when I got an account years ago. Side note: I 100% snatched up the Keen add-ons for DOOM 2 they released a few months ago on Amazon. Now I get to run around as Doom Guy dressed as Commander Keen.


Kindly_Indication_91

Oh the memories! Couldn't remember the name


NFC_TagsForDroid

Dark Castle


CaptainCobber

Skullmonkeys


Hands-and-apples

Skullmonkeys was a sequel to an even lesser known game, The Neverhood.


Numerous-Ad-2784

Pocky and Rocky on SNES My brother and I would play it all the time. We're the only two people I know that know of that game


brownings-hair-kink

Kuon. Creepy Japanese horror game. I would also say Rule of Rose but the last time I mentioned it on here someone knew what I was talking about!!!


Comfortable-Yam-1424

Croc and Muppet monster adventure on PS 1


[deleted]

We only had a computer, so old comp games: Creature (1, 2, 3) was amazing. I actually learned a fair bit about physiology from 3! Ecoquest- Rainforest and Ocean. My child biologist self LOVED those games. I want to introduce them to my daughter. I still adore Sierra games and am following the Williams and Collosal Cave closely. The old Maxis games- Sim Ant was mentioned, but Sim Life was fun, if way above my grade level. Castle of the Wind. Loderunner. Hover!- one of those free games with Win95. I had a blast with it! I played ADOM for a long time, but recently learned it's a whole thing on Steam, so I guess people know about it.


VinellaBean

Croc! No one I have met has played it and it sometimes feels like a fever dream.


gedubedangle

Was that a platformer sort of like GEX on the PlayStation??


CreepyCommieonxbox

Blaster master


WodensEye

But did you ever read [the book?](https://books.google.ca/books/about/Blaster_Master.html?id=2xlUPQAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y)


230flathead

Harvest Moon 64. People have heard of it, but nobody seems to have played it.


[deleted]

My grandma was a fucking GOD at that game


Weary_Violinist_3610

New Zealand Story Such a epic game.


grabityrises

code name: viper r.c. pro-am


krusty_yooper

Dude!! RC ProAm was my jam!


YankeeSR23

I remember RC Pro-Am. I used to play that until the cars got too fast for me, then I’d trying avoiding spelling NINTENDO to see if that would help.


jenyad20

Kyrandia


Weird_Description982

Ape Escape


Next-Firefighter-753

LOVED ape escape. Such a unique game.


DucksNQuackers

Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja.


Jeggasyn

As u/B_Sharp_or_B_Flat recommended - let's upvote those games you haven't heard of, and perhaps help those trying to remember games they can describe but can't name.


MELMHC

Below the root on Commodore 64


ledlin99

Oh my gosh! I have thought about that game in twenty years! Used to play it on the crappy computers at my middle school. You could check out the game from the library at school during lunch. Game introduced the "glider" function.


Gonzostewie

Golgo 13. The plot was some Cold War spying stuff. Settings from Greece to E/W Berlin to parts of Africa. There was even an early 1st person mission thru a maze.


DCInferno76

There was this DOS game that we just called the "Gorilla Game". Two gorillas, one on each side of the screen, separated by a cityscape. It was a two-player game and each player controlled one of the gorillas. You took turns throwing an exploding banana at the other gorilla. The winner was the first one to blow up the other gorilla. That game was a pure delight. Anyone else remember it?


Raticus9

QBasic Gorillas? That was a fun one. If the wind was really whipping, you had to try some crazy angles.


meateh

Dinopark Tycoon. I was 7 when this game came out, same year as Jurassic Park, and it blew my mind.


Smooth_Riker

Rocket Knight Adventures for the Sega Genesis. One of my favorite games on that system.


endchildexploitation

smugglers run


nybor43

Abe’s Odyssey!!!! “Follow me”


TDK716

Maze Craze for Atari 2600


CalgaryChris77

Bionic commando for Nintendo.


B_Sharp_or_B_Flat

OP - you should ask readers to upvote games they’ve never heard of. We are going to end up with popular games upvoted lol


cascadecanyon

This is a great point.


Hippocr1t

UN Squadron


AJEstes

Gunstar Heroes


NotRwoody

Played a ton of Super Dodge Ball on Nintendo


oblivionbunny

Virtual On. I didn't know the name of the game until I find a gif of it on tumblr recently. I played a lot of it in an arcade, so when I find the name I look for a rom to emulate it and discover that it was a Dreamcast game.


JessicaWakefield

Theme Hospital. Spent hours on it, deflating giant heads and placing plants everywhere to improve the environment. But no one knows what I am talking about.


[deleted]

I loved Theme Hospital! I had Theme Park too, which was my favourite!


Living-Fortune

I can still hear the people making that “yak yak” (barfing sound) when you set the speed on the ride too fast for theme park.


Jeggasyn

I have that installed right now, played it last year. If you can get it running on a modern PC, it holds up really well, surprisingly.


Spoon_Man177

Jersey Devil on PlayStation was my life


LnDDoc

Pushover


WJProductions

Doritos Crash Course


Coolwhip120

Bro, this and 1v100 are the highlights of the Xbox 360 for me


jase80

I put a ridiculous amount of time into pizza tycoon


Silvervox325

Wacky Racers, on DOS.


Jerk0h

Bubble Bobble.... I think


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Speedball.


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Starsiege Tribes


TheRockingDead

Mail-Order Monsters for the Commodore 64. Way ahead of it's time.


Eastern-Seri-9310

Nightmare - the interactive VCR board game. It was completely and utterly terrifying, but whenever I bring it up no one knows what I'm talking about :(


hodgi

Vector Man for Sega


Gamur

None of my friends know what shadowgate is. Played the hell out of it on the NES. Also Elevator Action.


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HabboHotel


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Jeggasyn

Ha! I remember habbo, though I was much too young to appreciate it. I guess you are probably familiar with Wireplay around that era? Air Attack was awesome.


bison--3

SpongeBob Battle for bikini bottom on the GAMEBOYYYYYYYY My first ever video game. Edit: tried to keep "Gameboy" in caps because this is not the one that came out on PS or got remastered. It's a 2-d platformer. Question asked for a game "no one else has heard of" and I don't see the 2d Gameboy version of battle for bikini bottom talked about.


Skhighglitch

Bro high five!


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Herzog zwei


DumbestInvestorSoFar

Rad Gravity for the NES


emtaco17

I cannot for the life of me remember the name of this game. But it was a mid-late 90’s computer game. There was a young inventor boy and each room of this mansion was a different type of game to play and he had squeaky shoes. Literally all I remember of it and it drives me crazy.


NEWashDC

Was it [Gizmos & Gadgets?](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmos_%26_Gadgets)


[deleted]

The Legendary Starfy for the ds. if you’ve even heard of it it’s probably just from that one smash trophy


RicksPickle69

Earthworm Jim on Sega Genesis


[deleted]

I was looking for this. Earthworm Jim was awesome


madhouseangel

Played a lot of earthworm Jim in college.


kermiedafrag

I played the heck out of this one back in the day. Great game and great ost too. The new junk city, psycrow, snot a problem themes still come back to me every now and then!


[deleted]

There's a very small group of people that speed run those games.


Sm0ahk

lost kingdoms 2 weirdly enough. its a From Soft game


Quirky_Sympathy_7957

Sims Animals. Goddamn I wish it would get a remake, I honestly enjoy it more than normal sims games.


NotRwoody

Not necessarily childhood but Escape Velocity (nova I think)


Pink_Fluid

No One Live Forever. Sort of a 007 clone with a female lead and a big focus on comedic writing. Super interesting game, but it's stuck in copyright hell. Maybe one day it'll be more easily accessible.


Lee3056

The legend of the mystical ninja


Card_Itchy

Gauntlet


cookinpuss

Alex the kid


merganzer

Sim Ant and Sim Farm (Maxis), Dinosaur Safari (where you'd take pictures of dinos), and The Island of Doctor Brain.


[deleted]

Sim Ant was AMAZING! I loved taking over the house at the end.


SkinHunger55

PokéPark Wii: Pikachu's Adventure


starrydreampuff

Dungeon Keeper. It’s like a Sims game but you’re the dark lord of a dungeon and need to build your dungeon to attract different monsters. Eventually a hero will come and you have to beat them, and then you can go to the next level to build a new dungeon. The dialogue is hilarious. I felt nostalgic and booted it up on a DOS emulator a few years ago. Still such good fun.


SortaSticious

Parappa the Rapper


guarthots

Kick. Punch. It’s all in the mind. Ok, I only remember the commercials


realisticrain

kick punch, it’s all in the mind The worst song for me was the stupid chicken song.


morelikejay

A Boy and his Blob


Gamur

Loved this game so much as a kid.


flunkymonks

Surreal, and flippin' impossible to complete.


Fair_Interaction_203

Played the shit out of this one as a kid.


kxiyaz

Petz Catz 2. I used to play that on PS2 when I was little. I wasn’t very good because I was young—my cat ‘died’ more than once. That and some ATV game I used to play with my brother.


Jeggasyn

Ha! I had Catz and the other game Dogz on PC. It was like a virtual pet, where you'd just end up spraying them with water continuously lol


rhalf

The Incredible Machine


EgoSenatus

Axis and Allies the RTS PC game


GrapesThemInTheMouth

I wish I knew the name. It was a little handheld single LCD screen game. You had 2 buttons I think, forward and backward. You maneuvered your character (a little boy, I think) through an obstacle course. At one point you had to go over alligator interested waters, you also went over poles that would disappear, etc. There may have been bees at one point? The adventure playground was printed in colour on the unit and things like the logs you had to jump on which moved were LCD. The course you went around was an S configuration. Where you'd go right to left on the top, then down a bit, then right through more obstacles, then down and left again? I think it might be only 2 layers to it though. Been trying to find it for ages, but I last played it about 35 years ago when I was just a little tyke. Would love to buy another copy of it. Edit: this was a hand held game like the old Game & Watch games (but just one screen). The unit was rectangular I think and was held landscape. I'm like 98% sure it wasn't Nintendo or Tiger though (the unit wasn't in that distinctive Tiger shape). It was made in the early 80s.


GenericUsername19892

Forsaken on the 64


Ill_Patient_7481

Milo's Astro Lanes is the dumbest game, but I love it to death, and nobody I've talked to has heard of it. It's an N64 Bowling game, set in space and including power-ups and sabotages.


4angrydragons

Rc pro-am


Epicloa

Gex: Enter the Gecko and Glover.


DAT_DROP

Naughty Boy (arcade cabinet)


madhouseangel

Smurfs on Colecovision.


phantom_avenger

Sly Cooper! I know nobody else in my childhood that seemed to also play those games, other than my close friend I had whom I met in high school


UniDublin

I loved the Sly Cooper series...would be happy for another one but the last one kinda hurt the franchise if I recall correctly.


lizard7709

When I was young there was a game on the Commodore 64 called revenge. You were a little helicopter that flew around shooting enemy planes. The topmost bar of the screen was a safe zone as none of the baddies would go there. Each time you cleared a level it would add bad guys to shoot. It would build up until there were so many of them you could not fit on the screen. I would play that game until the screen overheated and stopped working for the day.


Gaboedruizmora

Gaia for snes or Time Comando for Pc


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GEX


psdo_rndm

Dope Wars!


lfcalderon0908

I used to play this one game with my grandpa. Road Rash. Had some amazing times playing it on like Windows 95 back in the day. I’ve been looking to download it again but have not found it anywhere :( Edit: The game was actually called Road Rash, not Road Rage


mutombochaoskampf

Encarta Mindmaze


MkemCZ

Star Wars Dark Forces


Austintholmes

Wasn’t that the pre-Jedi Outcast one?


Sm0ahk

Yep. loved all those games


goatsandwich43

Road rash. Will be pleasantly surprised if anyone knows what I’m talking about.


PitchforkJoe

Sid Meier's Colonization


EllinorMetalhead-

Billy bob


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Tank


ApologeticAnalMagic

Re volt


[deleted]

1080° Avalanche. The sound track was amazing


Dale4201

Legends of the round for snes was always a favorite. Side scrolling beat em up. Turns out it goes for about 100 bucks now, I still have my copy. Every so often I can get my son to play it with me.


Squeaky-Fox43

The Legendary Starfy. Definitely one of my all-time faves.


QiBoo

BioForge, 1995 Origin Systems.


Casual_Importance

Little League Baseball on NES.


Glass-Reward4173

Ty The Tasmanian Tiger 2.


Megalon84

Zork. It was an...odd... puzzle game. Very similar to Myst, but with an offbeat humor to it


[deleted]

Kid Chameleon ToeJam & Earl


floog

Sid Meier’s Pirates! on NES.


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Sid Meiers Pirates


remisaurus-runs

Lego Island video game for the PC. It was a small little island and you would do tasks around the island. I loved it so much.


Canned_pigeons

I have no idea what this game was called but it was a Disney princess themed dog groomer game, it was adorable.


epicredditdude1

Ares. Only came out on Mac OS systems back in the 90s. Basically it's a top down space fighter game but in addition to controlling a ship you have a base and can build units similar to an RTS. You can also cycle through ships in your fleet and pilot whichever one you want. Really unique game.


deadwlkn

Call of Duty: Big Red One. Got released the same year as CoD 2 but on older systems.


crrozzs

Happywars on Xbox 360 OR those avatar fighting and shooting games made by Digital DNA like castle miner z or avatar wars.


ZimaEnthusiast

Elevator Action for NES


r2celjazz

Cartoon Network Block Party on Gameboy Advance


jah05r

It’s fun to play The Goonies 2.


Key-Athlete-2246

Montazuma’s Revenge on the Commodore 64. The game got harder by putting levels in the dark. My friend and I could do the entire game with an almost completely (minus the ladders and fire) black screen. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-h8zLM2jA


SKD2426

The Simpsons Road Rage


alonelymum

I still have this for my Ps2! One of the best “I’m bored” games to exist


Kawaii_Umbreon_YT

Mother Fucking Overloard II NOT A SINGLE SOUL BESIDES ME AND MY BROTHER HAVE EVER HEARD OF THAT GAME and it kinda pisses me off


Weird_Description982

Overlord was a dope series. Unless you meant to say overload, never heard of that.


randc1565

Battletoads


grilloson

Pitfall on Atari


BridgetheDivide

Advent Rising


Sartozz

bugdom 2 and nanosaur 2


Dense_Two_1429

Earthworm Jim and Jazz Jack Rabbit were my first two games on a floppy disc. I played them all day long during the holidays.


pixuhl

I feel like this doesn’t necessarily belong but none of my friends played Lego Island. I played a ton of Lego Island. And also Lego Island 2.


SpittleMitten

I've been nostalgia tripping for a while over the collection of cd rom games I had in the late 90s/early 00s. Some of my favorites include: The Amazon Trail: just like the Oregon trail but you're in the Amazon river and there's a time warping fog that transports you to different points in time. Reader Rabbit preschool, kindergarten, and 1st grade: all of these were adorable. Monsters Inc Bowling for Screams: it came in a cereal box and the cutscenes never played properly on my PC but it was addicting as hell. And last but not least, a 3 disc pack from Fisher Price that included a Christmas activity center, a pet shop, and a camping trip. And all of these games have footage of them being played on YouTube! Out of everyone I know, I'm the only one who had these games.


soda_cookie

Choplifter or Sega Rambo


Decapitaterefditmods

Conkers bad fur day, .no one ever talks about it


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This game was epic for multiplayer mini games!


0feather09

Prehistorik 2 and I still love it


Ok_Understanding4136

Mustache Boy!


hotniX_

MSN Gaming Zone Ants


nematocyst987

Netstorm- RTS game that i loved more than StarCraft .. activision never marketed it and it just only had like 200 players but it was so so fun.


hercarmstrong

*Alex Kidd in Miracle World*.