Post by Evie ❤✿ on May 5, 2023 10:46:14 GMT -5
So following an earlier thread about forgotten service/exhibit/vehicle/not-for-sale games etc., these are mediums widely (or were once) available but are no longer due to software obsolescence, or might fortunately still run, or might run with a few bugs. However, I've also mentioned the Rollercoaster Tycoon games which were rereleased (and there have been both new games in the series like Rollercoaster Tycoon Adventures, console release versions).
There are countless PC games, but video game platforms have often overshadowed them. If you lived during a certain time period, or your country isn't the reader's native country (in my case I live in Britain), you may have also played PC games considered 'obscure' by some. Additionally, certain games required DOS, or an old version of Windows/Mac. Many PC games were also bundled as shareware on discs.
I've only mentioned a few I've had experience with, as I get a tendency to get carried away. ^^;
As for things like Flash and Java games, that might be for another thread.
Here are some of the PC games I liked:
Rollercoaster Tycoon series:
By Chris Sawyer following games like Transport Tycoon, Elite Plus. The originals were very popular with added attraction packs, sequels Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (though my friend and I both didn't like RCT3 quite as much personally) and has been re-released on Steam. The aim is to overlook a theme park, add rides, rollercoaster, scenery, staff to look after your park, adjust finance, parameters, meet an objective and get awards and so on. There are set scenario maps with specific goals like a certain number of guests by a deadline.
Apparently it was originally written in assembly, so runtime was relatively efficient.
Speedy Blupi/Eggbert (featuring Epsitec's old Smaky mascot Blupi but renamed Eggbert for the eGames release)
Lexicon (also rereleased by eGames and a nice word game):
(Two other games rereleased for eGames include:)
Blast Thru:
Crazy Drake:
FX Fighter for DOS:
Developed by Argonaut Software (Argonaut Games) (who created X/SNES Glider before working with Nintendo and formed the foundations of Star Fox). Apparently this game was planned for a SNES release, but cancelled.
Kai's Super Goo:
More of a (apparently revolutionary for the time) photo editing software than a game, but I had a lot of fun skewing faces like the sample Abraham Lincoln photo. Kai is the German computer scientist Kai Krause known for graphical user interface work.
Also there are exclusive Japanese PC games like To-Gen-Kiko, though it's more a divination/fortune-telling software; the theme of Japanese fortune telling games is interesting, because it might receive backlash from the West (for fears of venturing into the occult).
(Speaking of Rodik, they have another game not part of the To-Gen-Kiko series, but because videos of it keep getting taken down including one of mine, I won't mention it)
Ah and a few more final ones ^^
3D Space Cadet:
If you had Windows 95-Windows XP, you likely heard of it as a game which came with the operating system ported by Microsoft. It was actually a version of the Space Cadet table from Cinematronics/Maxis's game Full Tilt! Pinball.
Pingus series:
For Macintosh
Crazy Chicken/Moorhuhn series:
(I've noticed some of these have later been released for Switch. I played one of the kart games on Switch as my memories of the game from PC had faded. It was a really short game and perhaps a bit buggy, but nice for what it was).
There was also Safari Kongo, and I think Frogger/Pac-Man clones I forgot the name of. There was also a shooter game demo published by eGames I enjoyed but forgot what was called:
Cookie's Quiz Carnival and Quiz Carnival 2 -Meguriai Version- for Macintosh (original IP by Jupiter published by Shinsei):
There are countless PC games, but video game platforms have often overshadowed them. If you lived during a certain time period, or your country isn't the reader's native country (in my case I live in Britain), you may have also played PC games considered 'obscure' by some. Additionally, certain games required DOS, or an old version of Windows/Mac. Many PC games were also bundled as shareware on discs.
I've only mentioned a few I've had experience with, as I get a tendency to get carried away. ^^;
As for things like Flash and Java games, that might be for another thread.
Here are some of the PC games I liked:
Rollercoaster Tycoon series:
By Chris Sawyer following games like Transport Tycoon, Elite Plus. The originals were very popular with added attraction packs, sequels Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 and Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 (though my friend and I both didn't like RCT3 quite as much personally) and has been re-released on Steam. The aim is to overlook a theme park, add rides, rollercoaster, scenery, staff to look after your park, adjust finance, parameters, meet an objective and get awards and so on. There are set scenario maps with specific goals like a certain number of guests by a deadline.
Apparently it was originally written in assembly, so runtime was relatively efficient.
Speedy Blupi/Eggbert (featuring Epsitec's old Smaky mascot Blupi but renamed Eggbert for the eGames release)
Lexicon (also rereleased by eGames and a nice word game):
(Two other games rereleased for eGames include:)
Blast Thru:
Crazy Drake:
FX Fighter for DOS:
Developed by Argonaut Software (Argonaut Games) (who created X/SNES Glider before working with Nintendo and formed the foundations of Star Fox). Apparently this game was planned for a SNES release, but cancelled.
Kai's Super Goo:
More of a (apparently revolutionary for the time) photo editing software than a game, but I had a lot of fun skewing faces like the sample Abraham Lincoln photo. Kai is the German computer scientist Kai Krause known for graphical user interface work.
Also there are exclusive Japanese PC games like To-Gen-Kiko, though it's more a divination/fortune-telling software; the theme of Japanese fortune telling games is interesting, because it might receive backlash from the West (for fears of venturing into the occult).
(Speaking of Rodik, they have another game not part of the To-Gen-Kiko series, but because videos of it keep getting taken down including one of mine, I won't mention it)
Ah and a few more final ones ^^
3D Space Cadet:
If you had Windows 95-Windows XP, you likely heard of it as a game which came with the operating system ported by Microsoft. It was actually a version of the Space Cadet table from Cinematronics/Maxis's game Full Tilt! Pinball.
Pingus series:
For Macintosh
Crazy Chicken/Moorhuhn series:
(I've noticed some of these have later been released for Switch. I played one of the kart games on Switch as my memories of the game from PC had faded. It was a really short game and perhaps a bit buggy, but nice for what it was).
There was also Safari Kongo, and I think Frogger/Pac-Man clones I forgot the name of. There was also a shooter game demo published by eGames I enjoyed but forgot what was called:
Cookie's Quiz Carnival and Quiz Carnival 2 -Meguriai Version- for Macintosh (original IP by Jupiter published by Shinsei):