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Any kind of game

EDIT: changed from suggested to mentioned and made the title more clear

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 13 points 8 months ago

No One Lives Forever

To this day I have no idea why I bought it. And I bought it close to its release date. I would only do that if I had been absolutely obsessed for months with previews and stuff. But I remember none of that.

And still it ended up becoming one of my all time favourites.

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Game of the year! Is it just you or is it hot in here?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 8 months ago

Either way I think you need a cold shower!

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 12 points 8 months ago

This is a hard one because I generally try to play good games these days, and good games either get popularized through word of mouth or Youtubers make video essays about how they were misunderstood at the time. For me, this question is really asking "Hey what weird trash did you find back when you were 10 years old digging through the bargain bin for whatever you could trade two games you finished for."

I think my big picks from the weird trash are The Urbz, which comes from back when they made Sims spinoff games instead of endless DLC, and Ty the Tasmanian Devil, which was a 3D platformer metroidvania that revolved around collecting increasingly elaborate boom-a-rangs. I definitely sunk the most hours into the Urbz, because nothing was more fun to a 10 year old than going around a virtual town flipping people off.

[-] transscribe7891@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

nooo I was gonna say Urbz!

[-] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Two very niche board games from the 70s: "Snit's Revenge" "Lie, Cheat, and Steal"

And an old Avalon Hill wargame: "Wooden Ships and Iron Men"

[-] ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Lie, Cheat, and Steal!!! We used to play that as kids! Excellent call.

Did you play the Mad magazine game where the objective was to lose all your money?

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Idk, I remember hide-and-go-seek being pretty sick as a kid. I don't often see it mentioned.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

Hero’s Quest by Sierra (Later renamed to Quest for Glory)

[-] picnicolas@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

So, you want to be a hero?

Probably my most replayed game, along with Betrayal at Krondor.

Have you checked out the excellent remake of QfG2?

[-] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Commander Keen might be one of the few old enough not to have been mentioned to me since the internet became well-known.

Also, Squarez.

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[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago

There was this officially licensed Star Trek tabletop starship battle game that I got to play a couple times in the eighties and no one seems to remember it but me. Wish I could find a copy. I remember it being a blast.

I could rattle off a whole list of TRS-80 Model I/III or Apple ][ games that no one has ever heard of, but I'll spare you.

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[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Shallow Thought Of The Day: Any game mentioned in this thread twice is automatically someone who didn't read all the comments before posting.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago

Or they did read all the comments, but someone posted their game during the time they were reading, so they never actually saw it. Then they posted their game and looked a stinky non-reader even though they weren't.

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 5 points 8 months ago

Sid Meiers' Pirets of the Carribean

Lode Runner

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[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 months ago

All time biggest time sinks are probably Civilization 2 and Factorio.

Biggest time sink you’ve never heard of is Ancient Dungeons of Mystery, a one-man Roguelike dungeon delving passion project.

[-] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Civ II was peak of the series imho... Immersive gameplay trumps graphics

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[-] Famko@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Board game: Sheriff of Nottingham, i just love social deception games.

Video game: BETON BRUTAL, 3D platformer with similar parkour like Minecraft, but more polished. Overall pretty chill to sink some time into.

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago
[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

Descent 2 earthshaker multiplayer was my jam. Went through so many joystick hats!

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Super dodgeball for the NES.

Deceptively simple, but much deeper than it seems on first glance. Each character has 2 different special abilities that change the way you throw. Especially if you can get a few buddies to huddle around the tv with you, will keep you all entertained for hours.

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

The boardgame Heat is one of my all time favorites. Thunder Road Vendetta is right up there too, and I am waiting to put them together for an all road race/rage saturday with my boardgame peeps.

[-] Shizrak@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Banana Nababa - like an old 8 bit action platformer, but it's just the bosses

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago
[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I had this as a kid. From a shareware compilation CD.

For the Gen-Z kids in the audience, that's like a little snapshot of the internet that you bought at a computer show or flea market for $2, and was worse than the internet because it didn't have any boobies on it, except it was better than the internet because your parents wouldn't gripe at you constantly for always tying up the house's telephone line and you barely had to wait to play anything on it.

Where was I again?

Oh yeah. I got my ass kicked by that game. It was also cool that you could set any Windows .ico file as your player character, though. You could run around as Captain Notepad or Sir Calculator the Algebraic if you wanted to.

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Jade cocoon 2 for the PS2.

A brilliant mix of tactics and Pokemon. You have a box composed of 8 slots surrounding you, 4 edges of different coolers, and 4 corners that combine 2 colors, you get to pick of 6 monsters to fill those 8 slots, each edge is a different style of move, red is attack, blue is defend, green is heal, yellow is cast, some monsters only have 1 color affiliated with them, some have 3, you select which side/color of box you want to attack your opponent with, if you don't have a monster in the middle of that color they can attach your hit point pool directly.

I rarely see it mentioned, and I think that's a shame, it was very creative for being in a very popular genre

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Bounty Bob on the C64 was goood.

[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I really like backgammon but no one ever wants to play with me

[-] weeeeum@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Probably havent player it in ten years but Kirby super star ultra. There is just SO MUCH content. I swear there are like a dozen minigamss and multiple "main games". All on the DS, it's crazy.

Other than that, megaman zero. Great music, tight controls and great story. Its fucking hard of course but super fun.

[-] Imhotep@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Escape Velocity Nova

[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Favorites come and go with the seasons, but objectively, the one game that we have played more than anything in my house is Silver.

We've bought all the expansions and created our own variation of playing with ALL the cards.

[-] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 8 months ago

Star Control 2: The Ur-Quan Masters

[-] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Double Dare the videogame for the Nintendo Entertainment System

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

If its out of non-mentions it has to be Space Station 13. I hope 14 on Steam catches up soon, been thinking of lending a hand.

[-] ExhaleSmile@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Herzog Zwei on the Sega Genesis was one of my favorites back in the day!

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 2 points 8 months ago

Labyrinth!

Each turn you first move one column or row of the gameboard over by one, then move as far as you like along any unobstructed path as you race against other players to collect magiffins in the ever-changing maze.

It's a game that rewards both creative thinking and sabotage. It helps develop strategy and spatial reasoning. It's simple enough for a kindergartner to learn but engaging enough for adults to enjoy even after dozens of games.

[-] Beacon@fedia.io 2 points 8 months ago

Reminds me ever so slightly of the Genesis game Fatal Labyrinth. It's a terrible video game, but if you're curious...

https://archive.org/details/Fatal_Labyrinth_JU_o1

[-] Daze@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Two gamecube games that I never see discussed anywhere, and no equal sequel has ever released for:

Cubivore & Frolf

I am still so sad to not be an owner of either in a physical capacity :’(

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 8 months ago

Does making a list of all games not on any list count as a game? Also, what happens since that game is now on a list making the original list incorrect?

My actual answer would probably be the old SSI games on Amiga specifically for Death Knights of Krynn or similar, though I don't think they hold up super well (it's 1st ed D&D specifically in Dragonlance and adapted to PCs of the time).

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 points 8 months ago

Dark Souls 1. The only game I bothered getting all achievements for.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Action Quake 2 - AQ2

An online 90s FPS

--//--

Innovation

Card game - Simplicity and depth, exceptional gameplay. Best at 2P.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Dungeon Keeper

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