Gamers_MateWhat is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of?
It could even be a youtube video or movie that you don't think anyone reading this has heard of besides you.
The Illusion of Gaia for SNES. I don’t know anyone who has heard of it.
I don’t believe I played it, but I remember that box art. They probably had it on the shelves of my local blockbuster video. I think it might have also been a cover feature in Nintendo power.
That’s how I played originally was renting it. The box art was awesome.
My mind went straight to the SNES too, but with Chaos Seed, the feng shui dungeon building oddity. I have a feeling people might be familiar with SNESdrunk around here, though.
I replay that game every couple of years, one of my all time favorites. My brother still had the cartridge.
Now I’m gonna need to play when I get back home, thanks stranger!
Interesting in Pal regions it is called Illusion of Time.
I also found a fan remake on itch.io
I also found a fan remake on itch.io
I had it as a kid. I remember really liking it.
Wow. I watch YouTubers who talk about the SNES, and it gets brought up all the time in those circles!
Rented Illusion of Gaia so many times!
One of my cool older cousins was playing this one christmas when we went to his house! I was vaguely disappointed when we went back the next year and he was like “oh yeah that was fun but i beat it and don’t play it anymore.” Little kid brain assumed the game just went on for much longer than it does. Playing it together (ie: taking turns) is a fond childhood memory for me, though.
Yep, know about it. But I was more of a ‘Secret of Mana’ and ‘Secret of Evermore’ person myself.
I think I might’ve seen a copy of that at a retro used game store near me here recently.
Arx Fatalis for og Xbox. I have it and haven’t played it, but nobody I know has ever heard about it.
I just searched that game and found it is also on steam.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1700/Arx_Fatalis/
Reminds me of the old TES games before Oblivion.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1700/Arx_Fatalis/
Reminds me of the old TES games before Oblivion.
Steamで67% OFF：Arx Fatalis
世界中で高い評価を受けた『Arx Fatalis』は、Arkane Studiosによる一人称視点のRPGです。舞台となるのは「Arx（アークス）」という架空の世界。Arxは壮絶な戦争により、破滅寸前の混乱状態に陥っています。空からは太陽が消え、世界は永遠の闇に閉ざされ、人々は地下鉱山への移住を余儀なくされています。しかし食料や飲み物が底を尽き始めるにつれ、種族間の争いはさらに激しさを増していきます。トロール、ゴブリン、ネズミの獣人、そして人間… 誰もが生き残るのに必死なのです。そして今、太陽なき世界に邪悪な破壊神「Akbaa（アクバー）」が現れました。あなたの使命はAkbaaを倒し、Arxを恐怖の支配者から解放することです。
HubiI actually have both that and Arx Libertatis installed on my PC! I haven’t gotten around to playing it though.
It was a very cool spiritual successor to the older Ultima Underworld games, which are surprisingly interactive for their time. In many (many) ways they are the precursors to the immersive sim genre, and Arx is an interesting if isolated branch on that family tree.
I had it on pc at one point. I think I read about the spell casting system and really wanted to try it. I didn’t end up playing that much though.
Several years back I watched a Japanese film called Fish Story. It’s a pretty weird movie, and the first time I watched it, I hated it, and almost turned it off. It was just kind of boring, and it was really confusing because it kept jumping between different stories, and it was not in chronological order. Then, right at the very end, a short segment tied everything together so incredibly. It blew my mind and I immediately wanted to watch the movie again. I have never experienced anything like that before or since. I don’t know anyone else who’s ever heard of this movie.
MelonYellowJust looked it up. I like quirky movies and I like the sound of this - it’s going on my list to watch later. Thanks! :)
That seems interesting, you’ve probably already watched it, but in case you haven’t Memento is another movie that’s told in not-chronological order and ties together at the end.
When that movie came out on VHS I painfully duped the movie in chronologic as l order just to see what it would look like in chronological order. Not nearly as interesting a story.
The DVD included a chronological cut.
Is it bad I thought this was a Japanese version of finding Nemo before I searched it?
I really enjoyed Fish Story too! I sought out other films by the same director/writer, Yoshihiro Nakamura. I found a few others i really enjoyed. I can’t claim they’ll have the same wow factor or impact as Fish Story but i love these films for similar reasons i love Fish Story.
Golden Slumbers was crazy, weird, beautiful, and fun. Awesome ending! Highly recommend. Much different from Fish Story but with a similar sort of quirkiness. Another one i found around the same time was The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker. That’s a really weird one, but again with beautiful scenery and a sort of mysterious air. Another one i caught more recently and really enjoyed was called A Boy and his Samurai. I wasn’t initially that interested in watching it but gave it a chance and I’m really glad i did. Such a sweet and charming film.
The original Death Race 2000 starring Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine. It may have had a small comeback when the Death Race remake came out but this isn’t the kind of movie you’d see randomly on tv.
My parents loved this movie, I saw it many times growing up. Every time they drive past someone in a wheelchair that movie gets mentioned.
linearchaosI edited the nudity out of that so we could screen it at work. There’s a LOT of titties in that movie.
Fun story, my dad met a guy who talked about a movie he had seen once, where racers ran over people to score points, my dad thought this guy was taking the piss and never considered the movie might be real. Until one day he was watching TV randomly and stumbled on the movie. But as people from the era of cable TV might remember, it was hard to know the name of the movie you just caught midway through, unless the channel showed the name of the movie you were out of luck, so I grew up knowing that this movie existed, but never knew the name. When the remake came out the plot seemed familiar enough for me that I immediately went to check what it was based on and finally put the final nail in the coffin of a long family mistery.
What was the movie called?
Nevermind I’m high
Just saw the trailer. I thought 2000 was the year it came out but it came out in 1975.
The 1976 arcade game called Death Race (seemingly no relation) is one of the first to ever spark controversy over violence in video games. It’s not too well known today, being almost 50 years old and fairly primitive.
And fun movie fact, Death Race 2000 is Sylvester “Sly, The Italian Stallion” Stallone’s first non-pornographic film role.
Yes! This is a movie my parents let me watch when I was like ten or eleven and it definitely stuck with me.
“What’s that?” “A hand grenade” best pun in cinematic history, un-toppable. I’m a huge Death Race fan, and CarWars, and the Twisted Metal game. Gun cars are just cool
👍Maximum Derek👍Stars! is a turn based galactic trade/strategy game my friends and I used to play via email in high school.
DominusOfMegadeusChakkan the Forever Man on my Sega GameGear. I played it SO many times.
Straight up one of the most legitimately difficult games ever on that system too. Dark souls from a bygone era.
When I was a child I saw a stop motion animation called 3 Little Pigs Sing a Gig. It was this rather surreal, felt puppet musical of the aforementioned nursery rhyme.
The Farmers Daughter. It was a text-based video game for the C=64 similar to Zork.
The premise was that you are a traveling lightening salesman whose car breaks down. You stop at a farmhouse to use their phone, and the beautiful daughter answers the door.
Your mission is to try to bang her. If the farmer catches you, he shoots you with his shotgun. If her brothers catch you, they’ll analy rape you to death. You need condoms but they are stuck to the shelf.
The Farmers Daughter
The farmer's daughter is the eternal complement to the traveling salesman in American folklore and humour, practically Jungian archetypes licking their lips and circling each other warily while trying to figure out how to avoid the shotgun wedding neither party wants their hot-blooded fling to result in. Your car broken down near a farm in the middle of nowhere, now you are
guyrocketThe appeal of games like this is so odd to me. They're moronic on one hand but viscerally addictive on the other. A very interesting psychological dynamic going on with this whole genre.
It’s no mystery if you consider the world at the time and the target audience.
Home computers were only a couple of years past where you had to solder the chips on yourself and still in nerdy kid domain.
There was a big overlap with the Dungeons and Dragans crowd. Puzzles and imagining yourself as some character were a huge appeal.
Now factor in that the underwear section of the Sears catalog was still the closest thing to porn as most 12 year olds could get their hands on.
ivanafterallAny tips on how to avoid getting buttfucked until dawn?
norbertRelax and push back against it, your partner will be done long before sunrise.
Avoid? I must be playing a different game.
Back in the heyday of flash videos and before youtube, there was a clerks spoof featuring marvel comics heroes that I remember as being enjoyable, clever, and ultimately just a good tribute/ripoff of the source material. I have no idea how to find that again.
Heroes
You wrock, sir or madam
BjörnHow about Wally Gubbins? A series of silly skydiving videos. My father has a ton of them on VHS. I loved it as a kid. I just looked, you can even find them on YouTube. So maybe not that obscure.
In terms of software I remember having several ad games. So, games that are basically just an ad. I had a Bifi game. Some weird game about colours where I don’t remember what it was for. And a “game” about Chesterfield Cigarettes. I remember that I had to install QuickTime Player to run it. It was basically like Google Streetview when you walked into buildings with a few interactive elements put in. No idea where I got it. Might even still have the CD somewhere.
There was a door (plugin) for The text-based PBS game Legend of the Red Dragon called Violet’s Tavern.
You could sit at the bar and buy a drink that enhanced your stats, You could go upstairs and pay for a hooker to replenish your energy or you could try to seduce the barmaid / owner and actually have kind of a sweet encounter with her.
It had a betting mechanic I don’t remember if it was blackjack, dice or what but you could game it a little bit by throwing a shit ton of money at it a few times. The initial odds to win or somewhat higher than the extended odds to win so if you hit it and hit big you just walk away. Sometimes you ended up empty but more often than not it worked.
I hosted this on my BBS
That’s a fuckin deeeeeeeeeep cut
Necroville (2007) A hilarious B monster movie. Think Clerks meets Ghostbusters.
KinNectarA movie called Sir Henry at Rawlinson's End, extremely surreal British Althouse. Like an opium dream from the brain of a fox hunting aristo. Extremely over the top practical effects and gags. It's a gem, though not PC, you've been warned: https://youtu.be/N6W5RB50fXk?si=eYUlKqkTyyMvHz-Z
Sir Henry At Rawlinson End 1980
Naichhttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawlinson_End
There was also a radio series and LP. I've heard the radio version but never seen the movie before.
Eternal Champions. An old fighting game for Sega. I've never met anybody in real life who has heard of it. It was so awesome. Xavier was the shit.
I remember reading about that one in a video games magazine when I was a kid! I never played it. I kind of assumed it was a bigger deal because it had a lot of coverage in whatever magazine I was reading.
I had this!
For some reason I liked the noir detective guy.
Larcen! He was awesome too. Such a great cast of characters, and each stage had a stage death you could unlock similar to a fatality. My brother's and I sank so many hours into this game.
One of the proudest days of my youth gaming career was beating Eternal Champions. The environment-based fatalities were incredible.
Cyborg kickboxer dude and the weird cane-staff guy were both OP as fuck, but the future cop guy’s ranged stun was amazing for longevity.