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What is an obscure piece of media or videogame that you think nobody else here has heard of? (kbin.social)

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It could even be a youtube video or movie that you don't think anyone reading this has heard of besides you.

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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 15 points 10 months ago

Alright let's go, I love niche things:

Movies:

Bubba Ho-Tep
Joe's Apartment
Six String Samurai
Krull
The Greasy Strangler
A Boy and His Dog
Fido
Within the Woods
Undead or Alive
Cemetery Man

Tabletop:

Car Wars (maybe, depends on crowd)
The worlds worst diagram of ship controls included as an insert in a Paranoia box
All Flesh Must be Eaten
Fairy Meat
Cult of Ecstacy (for Mage the Ascension)
Did you know that according to Dragon Magazine players can participate in orgying for a number of days equal to their con SCORE?
Castles and Crusades
Tunnels and Trolls
Remember Car Wars? They did a crossover with GURPS, called GURPS Autoduel, and it is amazing.
HOL (Human Occupied Landfill)
The second publication of the HOL supplement, Buttey Wholesomeness, where the cover is printed BUTTery HOLsomeness. That one was just a pita to find I started wondering if it was just a PDF concept cover. Only took me like 8 years to find a physical copy.
Mars Attacks board game

Games:

Sim Tower
Redneck Rampage
The Diablo 1 expansion, Hellfire, that Blizzard said not to make but a division of Sierra of all companies yolod it into existence anyway.
The Neverhood
Toy Story for Gameboy
Battlezone, back in the day when you were fighting green triangles
Descent
I wasn't going to at first but I want to throw in some of my favorite Magic the Gathering cards: Nature's Wrath (haha, holy shit mono green, go home you're drunk), the art of the Pride secret vault thing for Bearscape, the art for Spy Network looks like Friend Computer from Paranoia, Kudzu, Stunted Growth

My music taste is so underground you guys I'm very cool like that. There's a surprising number of trans folk punk musicians from the Pacific Northwest. I'm getting sleepy but if anyone wants me to bombard them with folk punk artists (trans or otherwise) lmk I'll totally hook you up

[-] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Car Wars! Man that one could certainly test one's patience! Not as exciting as the picture on the box. 3-4 hours of dice rolls to negotiate a u-turn...

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

I've been collecting rulebooks for that game for the last ten or so years. Maybe my favorite tabletop. It flows pretty smoothly if everyone is familiar with the rules but for sure even if you've been playing it for a decade you'll always hit something that's like "I have no clue how to resolve this". And the learning cliff is for real so actually getting people interested in it enough to become that familiar with the rules is as hard as the game lol

[-] slingstone@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I used to love the lore of Steve Jackson Games a lot more than the actual games for this very reason.

[-] indigomirage@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

It's like trying to code a driving/racing simulator while playing it in real time. On paper...

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