Obscure/Cult games you use to play

[Darloboy]

Chaos Engine (Y)

[DMN in the House]

The Adventures of Bayou Billy. AWESOME, awesome game.

[Evil Chase K]

The Adventures of Bayou Billy. AWESOME, awesome game.

Edited March 1, 2008 by Evil Chase K

[Redefine Sick]

Pinbot - best pinball game. EVER.

Biker Mice From Mars - best racing game for the SNES. "MAHVELOUS!"

[BleedMe]

Eternal Champions for the Megadrive, best fighting game ever. Bought 6 button controllers just to play it. R.A.X, Larcen and Shadow were the best characters. And having looked it up, I've just found out there was a Sega CD sequel with added characters! Fuck, I need to get this.

[brenchill]

I don't know if it was cult or obscure, I was too young at the time to realise, but did anyone else ever play PITFIGHTER? The graphics seemed pretty amazing at the time, I think it was the first game (Other than maybe Mortal Kombat?) to use real images over animation.

[BleedMe]

And...speaking of games i never owned but used to rent ALL the time, i present..

For a simple pool game, this was insanely fun!

[Laid_To_Waste]

Rock Star Ate My Hamster.

I win.

[Guest Mr. T]

And...speaking of games i never owned but used to rent ALL the time, i present..

For a simple pool game, this was insanely fun!

[Darloboy]

Anyone remember this? I used to rent this and Earthworm Jim practically every week.

[Toe]

Anyone remember this? I used to rent this and Earthworm Jim practically every week.

[brenchill]

That Boogerman reminded of this:

HAUNTING

You had to collect green snot to get more powerful haunts to scare the shit out of the people who had moved into your former house.

[PkmnTrainerJ]

Kula World, Evil Zone, Another World, Pandemonium just to name a few <3

[BleedMe]

While we're at it

Although i don't recognise this being the cover.

[Cadet Ember McLain]

HAUNTING

You had to collect green snot to get more powerful haunts to scare the shit out of the people who had moved into your former house.

[Sousa]

Y'all don't need to post enormous screen-stretching pictures of the boxes of every obscure game you played--we get the idea.

Now here's a tale for you: when I was young, I was Pentecostal like my parents, and they made every effort to keep us involved in church. One of those ways, of course, involved video games, and as those of us who were Christian children in the late 80's and early 90's will tell you, there was no better source of family-friendly Christian entertainment than Wisdom Tree.

Bible Adventures is probably the most well-known of these games, and it featured three games in one, all of which were... moderately entertaining. Noah's Ark had you gathering animals to put on the ark, literally holding them over your head, which led to really strange moments when Noah would drop a cow, a bull, and two horses because a monkey had chucked a coconut at him. The infamous Baby Moses game had you rescuing Baby Moses from the Egyptians... or, more often than not, chucking the little bastard into the Red Sea. And David & Goliath was a lie, because 95% of the game was spent gathering sheep until the very last level, where you spent two hours trying to kill Goliath's nigh-invincible shield-bearer before offing the champion of the Philistine army in one hit.

And then there was the more obscure Exodus. This game was on drugs. You played as Moses and were trying to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land. You did so by going through strange maze-like levels trying to collect giant manna jars while avoiding Pharaoh's sorcerers and soldiers who were out to fuck your shit up. You shot W's at your enemies that sometimes did things and sometimes didn't. There were also all kinds of little quirks. Even though you were moving from what looked like an overhead view, items would fall--anything from manna to golden calves to boulders. If they were "stacked" too high, they would fall. And if you were in the way, you would die. Weird shit would happen, too--you could drop exploding staffs (not in the Bible), you could shoot your W's at golden calves and blow them up (also not in the Bible), and weird bits of expanding mud would try to kill you along with expanding... straw, and if they combined they made bricks (semi-Biblical)... and if you blew up the bricks you got manna (what!?). The only thing really Biblical about it were the questions between the level, but by the time you played three times you had them all memorized.

And despite this game being a trip to Egypt with Moses, the music in the background? Father Abraham. Over and over and over and over and over...

[BleedMe]

Just remembered one of my favourite games for the mega drive.

Fantastic game. I remember purchasing that and Dizzy at the same time.

Edited March 3, 2008 by BleedMe

[The Chief]

JP, the angry video game nerd totally shits over your bible games

[Farmer Reil]

Alex Kidd, Pitfighter, the original Prince Of Persia, ELITE and Golden Axe (I think YI may have been trying to mention that, but he fails at hotlinking ¬_¬).

Also, Road Rash! And Carmageddon!

Edited March 4, 2008 by Farmer Reil

[MalaCloudy Black]

I missed a lot. >_> All I ever played as a kid was Goof Troop, LOZ: Link To The Past, Duck Hunt and the Mario series. Oh, and sometimes I rented Earthworm Jim. So that counts, sorta.