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Hey guys. I making a web series called Adventures in Obscure Gaming

In it I’m going to be covering I was wondering if you guys had any recommendations for obscure adventure games that most people haven’t played before that deserve a second look?

Here are a couple of ones I’m thinking of covering:

1. Rise of the Dragon
2. Commander Blood
3. Alien Logic
4. The Gateway series

Nice idea! I’m not sure RotD or Gateway are very obscure, at least for seasoned adventurers but more people should definitely play them.

There are a few threads discussing this topic, you might find them useful:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/viewthread/1292/
http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/viewthread/2553/

Wow I wasn’t expecting a reply so fast! Thanks for the links. I browsed through them. I’m happy to see commander blood mentioned in both threads that’s definitely going to be a huge episode!

I’ll try to comb through the thread again tmrw. In the mean time is there a game you think deserves a second look for whatever reason?

I get what you are saying about Gateway and RoFD but I think the goal the series is going to be to get people who are not into obscure games to take a look at some of these games and for those people they probably haven’t heard of any of those.

Hey Karlok, haha I don’t hate Myst. I just needed a graphic for that section of the video! Thanks for watching the video.

And thanks for the link! It will be a great help. It reminded me I’ll probably cover this game as well.

Duckman: The Graphic Adventures of a Private Dick

Anyway I understand all these comments about RoFD being not obscure but keep in mind most people in the general public definitely have never heard of it.

The goal is to get those people interested in these obscure games because people like us will always be there for those games. Whether you agree or disagree that Sierra and Lucasarts and Myst were adventure games in the 90s. It’s definitely true for most people that their first exposure to adventure games were probably from one of those three sources. Myself include. So I started the video off with those things and segwayed into my obscure title by tying it into those popular things.

For the first episode I think the story is even though sierra came out with so many games and lucasarts came out with many blockbusters and were the rabbits at the time. The slow hare that was Pendulo studios won out in the end.

Again I would love it if anyone here had any suggestions for a game they would want covered in this series. Hopefully a game that you yourself played and had fond memories of that isn’t popular like Igor for whatever reason!

I’d love to see Cosmology of Kyoto covered. It really is a fabulous adventure game, but even Roger Ebert’s surprisingly enthusiastic review couldn’t save it from obscurity.

Some obscure and weird games from Playstation 1 that I can recall:

D:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zltU7oMpzwA
Juggernaut:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHWlFZaqEaI

Who is Bastich?? :o

Steven28 I have played the infamous Cosmology of Kyoto and I don’t know if I will cover it because it is weirdly well known for that random fact that Roger Ebert gave it a good review. But I will revisited the game again sometime probably and think about it.

Solitude thanks for the links. I have heard of “D” but not the second game. I love ps1 stuff so I’ll have to do some research on it!

Mikekelly - 22 February 2014 10:47 PM

Want a game nobody has heard about? Try “Snow Job” on the 3DO. No one knows about that game.

 

I remember someone posting in FMV thread or somehting, besides it was
heavily promnoted in Mags, was well known and D was even more popular.

PSX had many Obscure AG, one i mentioned earlier too is Kowloons Gate.

Mostly Jap games never made to west.

Also Suda51s Syndrome series

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndrome_(video_game_series)

Thanks Karlok I totally forgot about Touche and UFOs looks promising. The animation looks very ren and stimpy influenced I wonder what the deal with that is. Nice man! Including Duckman that’s three games I will seriously consider making into an episode thanks to you.

Actually I take that back. I will definitely make Duckman into an episode. The link to Seinfeld makes it perfect for the series. Unfortunately Jason Alexander didn’t voice Duckman for the game

Mikekelly and nomadsoul I’ve definitely never heard of any of those games mentioned. I want to try and focus on games that were released in English officially at some point on mainstream platforms but I did look at Snow Job and Syndrome.

I gave Syndrome a quick look it looks pretty tame for a Suda51 series but I just saw a quick gameplay video for about a couple of seconds I’m sure it’s weird in some way, there doesn’t seem to be a translation of the game though I’ll look at it more when I get a chance.

Snow Job on the other hand looks expectedly terrible.

Thanks for the suggestions! The one thing I can promise is I will look at all of them. If you take the time out to make a suggestion the least I can do is look at them. Plus I love obscure games and reading about them.