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[Vester]

Obscure.

No seriously, that's the name.

A weird Resident Evil type-game cast as a teen horror movie. Looks very up to date and shiny, yet I never heard or saw anything on the game until I found it online.

It was also incredibly close to the classic teen horror formula. It was fun. But also gross.

[neotemplar]

Obscure.

No seriously, that's the name.

A weird Resident Evil type-game cast as a teen horror movie. Looks very up to date and shiny, yet I never heard or saw anything on the game until I found it online.

I can top that with Obscure 2. Yep they made a second one!  I've played both.

[Typoman]

anyone heard of operation neptune?
the Mice Men? (a little more obscure)

I still have the operation Neptune floppies. That game is HARD for adult gamers, completely ignoring the fact that its intended for 5-8th graders.

Operation Neptune, hells yes...beat the pants off Treasure Mountain.  And yeah, it's hard, that last level on Expert was nasty.

KG

i never beat the last level, no matter what i tried i couldn't beat it. so i gave up assuming it was unwinnable XD

[beorn080]

And younger gamers wonder what we talk about when we say our games were evil.

[kg333]

anyone heard of operation neptune?
the Mice Men? (a little more obscure)

I still have the operation Neptune floppies. That game is HARD for adult gamers, completely ignoring the fact that its intended for 5-8th graders.

Operation Neptune, hells yes...beat the pants off Treasure Mountain.  And yeah, it's hard, that last level on Expert was nasty.

KG

i never beat the last level, no matter what i tried i couldn't beat it. so i gave up assuming it was unwinnable XD

If I remember correctly, the easiest/only way I remember to do it is to dive straight down the entire left side of the shark area in one go.

KG

[Akura]

Obscure.

No seriously, that's the name.

A weird Resident Evil type-game cast as a teen horror movie. Looks very up to date and shiny, yet I never heard or saw anything on the game until I found it online.

It was also incredibly close to the classic teen horror formula. It was fun. But also gross.

I think I saw a trailer of that, bundled in with my copy of Still Life. Now that was a f-cked up game. All the naked dead girls you ever want to see.

[Flaede]

BeerRun
It was a random platformer I played on an apple IIe. Beer cans fell from the sky, and you could catch them for points, while dodging security guard guys with guns (I think they had guns). If I remember right, the level end was always a beer keg.

Scratch that one. That one was stupid. How about LowG man?

You are 3 pixels tall. You can jump 3 screen heights. The level is evil. Your gun only freezes things.

[Cthulhu]

anyone heard of operation neptune?
the Mice Men? (a little more obscure)

I still have the operation Neptune floppies. That game is HARD for adult gamers, completely ignoring the fact that its intended for 5-8th graders.

Operation Neptune, hells yes...beat the pants off Treasure Mountain.  And yeah, it's hard, that last level on Expert was nasty.

KG

Maybe it did, but Treasure Mathstorm was bitchin'

You guys remember that math racing game, where you had to solve math problems to get money to buy race cars and race against the drag racer? (Oh nooo, oh nooo, oh noo OH NOOO!)

There was another game that was even better.  In first grade we used to fight to play Spelling Blizzard.  I just found it, and am about to play it.

[neotemplar]

And younger gamers wonder what we talk about when we say our games were evil.

Make them play RushNAttack, it's like contra only you don't have a gun, just a knife and poor jumping skills.

[Draco18s]

Oh here we go.  A game so obscure I can't find it anymore.

BloodFire War.

It is in fact so obscure I'm in it!  Or I should say, there's a reference to a project I did where I made Magic the Gathering cards for people on a forum of their characters.

The dev is still around, her other games include Desert Seed, Find Tealy, Teleporter Escape, Escape from the Black Box, and Hatchlings.  All of which can be found (under-appreciated) on Kongregate.

[Pathos]

The dev is still around, her other games include Desert Seed, Find Tealy, Teleporter Escape, Escape from the Black Box, and Hatchlings.  All of which can be found (under-appreciated) on Kongregate.

To be honest, Kongregate people seem to only highly rate the really terribad games that spawn tons of sequels. Or are heavily advertised by the site staff themselves.

(How the hell are we meant to know if games are obscure or not? Especially on THIS site?) Probably the most obscure games I've ever played are the War Wind games (Number two was the best). They were surprisingly epic in term of character design (like cyborg aliens with two heads and chainguns fighting against fat hippies who can use magic), gameplay and the campaign mode itself. (With a branching storyline in the second one at least.)

Oh, and don't forget being able to enter any building you've build. I really enjoyed being able to do that.

[Draco18s]

To be honest, Kongregate people seem to only highly rate the really terribad games that spawn tons of sequels. Or are heavily advertised by the site staff themselves.

Why make one game when you can make eight for a tiny fraction more work?

(Protector was never good, it has four of them now, and the fourth got badges after being on the site 3 days).

[Draco18s]

Oooh, here's a good oldie.

Operation Weather Disaster.

Only reason I remembered it was that Doctor Who just put a staircase under Stonehenge and its not the first time I've seen that.

[Vester]

The dev is still around, her other games include Desert Seed, Find Tealy, Teleporter Escape, Escape from the Black Box, and Hatchlings.  All of which can be found (under-appreciated) on Kongregate.

To be honest, Kongregate people seem to only highly rate the really terribad games that spawn tons of sequels. Or are heavily advertised by the site staff themselves.

But Amorphous+ was so awesome, and it's still one of the highest-rated games, or at least it was the last time I checked. 

[lordnincompoop]

I didn't know ObsCure was... well, obscure.