i don’t know if this really counts, as they were super-popular in their day, but I like re-playing several PC games from the 90s that most people today wouldn’t know of or, perhaps, remember.
the Myst series
The Ultima series, including Ultima Underworld I & II
I think it was extremely touchy to get running for a pretty long time, along with, I think, people not “getting it” especially if you encountered it while you were younger
i remember that, at the time, it was considered extremely graphic for its depiction of certain themes and story elements. parents made an issue about it, and I had to buy the original game with my parent’s consent from behind a counter at my local computer store. If you’ve ever played the game or read the book, you’ll understand why. I can’t really explain it without major spoilers. It’s a really dark and fucked-up game.
but, that’s why I don’t know if these counted since they’re only unpopular now due to them being somewhat obscure and old. they were all pretty popular back in the day.
Holy crap, The Journeyman Project. I haven’t thought about that name in probably 30 years, but I think we had a demo of it or something on our family computer when I was a kid. I was too young to understand what to do or what was going on, but I played the beginning of that game or demo like 100 times. Think I’ll go to youtube and relive some memories.
yeah, many people got the demo bundled with another game, but never got the actual game because the game ran so very terribly (even the ‘Turbo’ version), that you needed a computer from the future (literally) to run it well. It came out in '93 or '94, but it wasn’t until '99 o so that I could build a computer capable of running it without constant lags and crashes.
by the time I got through it, I found out that, while the game art was stunning and the premise was cool, the actual game itself wasn’t very engaging. The devs had spent so much time just making it look cool and making the awesome music for the game, they didn’t really focus much on making it a good game. it was only “okay”.
if you can, it’s worth playing now, just to scratch that nostalgic itch. it’s not a bad game, but it never lived up to the hype it built for itself.
i don’t know if this really counts, as they were super-popular in their day, but I like re-playing several PC games from the 90s that most people today wouldn’t know of or, perhaps, remember.
a few others
Do people really not like I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream? I’ve only heard and seen good things about the game.
I think it was extremely touchy to get running for a pretty long time, along with, I think, people not “getting it” especially if you encountered it while you were younger
i remember that, at the time, it was considered extremely graphic for its depiction of certain themes and story elements. parents made an issue about it, and I had to buy the original game with my parent’s consent from behind a counter at my local computer store. If you’ve ever played the game or read the book, you’ll understand why. I can’t really explain it without major spoilers. It’s a really dark and fucked-up game.
but, that’s why I don’t know if these counted since they’re only unpopular now due to them being somewhat obscure and old. they were all pretty popular back in the day.
Holy crap, The Journeyman Project. I haven’t thought about that name in probably 30 years, but I think we had a demo of it or something on our family computer when I was a kid. I was too young to understand what to do or what was going on, but I played the beginning of that game or demo like 100 times. Think I’ll go to youtube and relive some memories.
yeah, many people got the demo bundled with another game, but never got the actual game because the game ran so very terribly (even the ‘Turbo’ version), that you needed a computer from the future (literally) to run it well. It came out in '93 or '94, but it wasn’t until '99 o so that I could build a computer capable of running it without constant lags and crashes.
by the time I got through it, I found out that, while the game art was stunning and the premise was cool, the actual game itself wasn’t very engaging. The devs had spent so much time just making it look cool and making the awesome music for the game, they didn’t really focus much on making it a good game. it was only “okay”.
if you can, it’s worth playing now, just to scratch that nostalgic itch. it’s not a bad game, but it never lived up to the hype it built for itself.