Sharing is caring so what are your picks of underrated or obscure titles that you enjoy or have enjoyed in the past.
Here's mine:
Barbarian by Melbourne House
Soldier of Fortune
Draconus
Samurai Warrior - Battle of Usagi Yojimbo
Batty
Empire - Firebird
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Pheenix by Megadodo
Psycho-City
Rocman
Nuclear Bowls
and these covertape games:
S.O.S.
Indiana Jones y el Idolo de Oro
Wargame
Braxx Bluff was also underrated I thought:
How do you play it? I've tried it and I can't work it out.
Once of the last games I stuck on my blog.
Peking
Eric And The Floaters
Five On A Treasure Island
The Valley
Played these and enjoyed a lot!
Think!, a one or two player strategy/board game, also very good:
Brian Bloodaxe, a platform/arcade adventure, with some nice touches, such as being able to kill enemies with the horns on your helmet, by jumping up into the enemy, drink lager to regain health, objects you drop stay where they are (even in mid-air) so you can use them as platforms to jump on, etc. It's not exactly unknown, but no one evers seems to mention it, even though it's great.
Mined-Out, a really good game that probably was overlooked due to it looking rubbish and being written in BASIC.
Fearless Frank...super addictive
Dictator
Handicap Golf..a little gem of a golf game I always thought.
It's a great board game, but frankly it works better with an hexagonal board, where it's called Hexxagon.
Hard but very addicting game
Knot in 3D is one of the all-time greats.
I always ended up being killed on a planet due to civil war breaking out.
That's very impressive but what are you supposed to do ?
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Remember Snake on the old Nokias? It’s like that, except you’re moving in three dimensions rather than two on a plane. And you have a cockpit view from the front of your ‘snake’. Your snake leaves a cyan / yello trail; but there’s another one in play as well leaving a red / blue trail.
When I was younger I gave this game way more attention than it deserved, I'm curious if anybody ever managed to successfully fend off the pirates in a manual space battle? It was borderline impossible.
The only way to win was to just buy lots of lasers, and have more ammo than them so you could overpower them without trying, or just make sure you had enough stuff to give them so they wouldn't kill you :))
It was a decent little puzzle game.
Yeah, you could beat them in combat by buying a sh*t load of lasers and ammo. In the end I stopped doing it because it seemed cheaper to just pay them whenever you got attacked - because half the time you would get to your planet without incident.
It did come well before Elite though so I have fond memories of it. Loved the way that you could overpower muggers if you'd eaten some massive dinners too.
Star Trader
A simple, repetitive yet very moreish Joust clone. The Death Bird thing gives me the chills.
Thrusta
Another quick loader, this is a satisfying shoot/squash-em-up. Nice chunky graphics but the frantic, continuous sound may grate for some.