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martz wrote:
Sacrifice

Interestingly, I've never played it, but was just this morning reading about it in a magazine and recognised it.

NB. Apparently, you'll be able to get it (and a number of other titles) for around £3 on Good Old Games

Yes. It's a pretty unique strategy game and an absolute steal at that price.
The real selling point is its wonderfully demented sense of humor.

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Okay...

This was not a commercial success, but I found it very enjoyable:



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Hybrid Heaven?

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Snacko wrote:
Hybrid Heaven?

Nope.

Here's another screenshot, plus some more information...

This was released in 2001 (I believe PC only), and it uses a modified Quake 2 engine (which, to be honest, meant it didn't look great even when it was released )



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Anachronox?

I found it on my stack of "bought-but-unsure-if-I-want-to-play-it" games. Is it good?

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Tim wrote:
Anachronox?

I found it on my stack of "bought-but-unsure-if-I-want-to-play-it" games. Is it good?

Correct!

I would recommend it. The years have not been kind to the graphics, but it's not too difficult and the story is probably the strongest thing about the game imo.

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I usually don't do obscure games, but for once I'll make an exception.

From my "bought-and-played-only-a-few-levels" stack:



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Crazy Machines.

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And I thought it was obscure.

Well, it's also described on this month's Illumination.

Perhaps that helped.

Anyway, your turn.

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Well, I got nothing. Someone else can have a go.


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Here's one...(I have no idea if it's obscure or fairly well-known.) I own it and am slightly ashamed to admit that my seven-year-old daughter was briefly addicted to this game before I became suddenly parental again and pulled the plug. Please pardon me if this game has been used before recently in the thread.

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Never heard of the game, but would you please not linking to other sites pictures? It just makes it easy to guess.

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Of course. I apologize. I'll fix it soon. (That wasn't too bright of me.) I'm not certain how it's done properly, so I should have sent someone a PM.


Edit: Fixed.

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Is it Lugaru?

I have played it but wasn't particularly taken by it.

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Yes! (Please give me a day or so to mod you up.)

Your turn...

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This one just popped into my head:



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Okay, here's another picture (not that it will be amazingly useful given it's similarity to the previous one)



Some information...

I had this game on Spectrum, but it was also published for Amstrad and C64. It was one of the first games I experienced with synthetic speech. For those of you who missed out on the halycon years of gaming, I would describe the sound as like a dalek going through a shredder

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I must say you really have a knack on obscure games.

I, Ball

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Correct!

I wouldn't say obscure - more showing my age

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Let's just say that the following screenshot may or may not show my age.

Note: The "screen"shot is intentionally resized, and some of the text have been obscured for obvious reasons.



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I actually owned a few of these things...
A Nintendo Game & Watch Fire (firemen juggling jumping rescued persons, etc.) hand-held thingamabob?

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Yep, looks like Tricotronic Game & Watch "Fire" game...

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No.

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Now I'm wondering what other Nintendo Game & Watch hand-held featured a burning building with an ambulance.
This ought to be good...

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Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

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You've got it. It was Brawl.

And I thought I could put out a second screenshot... Well...

It's your turn.

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I've been playing it recently

Ok, here is a super cool game that I haven't been playing recently:

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Some version of Choplifter...
(Okay, that was vague.)

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No.

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Well, I guess it depends on how broad a definition of 'version' you have. :/ You do fly about in a helicopter.

The trouble with games like this is that if you've seen one screenshot, you've pretty much seen them all.



I played this originally on the apple IIe. Apparently there was a remake for the GBA.

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