7 Forgotten Games We Still Think About at Night
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- Not every game has fans clamouring for an HD remake -- these are the all-but-forgotten titles that the Outside Xtra and Outside Xbox teams still think about all the time. What are your favourite games that nobody else seems to remember? Let us know in the comments!
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Does anyone else remember these forgotten games, or did we simply dream them?? Are there any games you're pretty sure only you remember? Let us know what they are in the comments! And hey, maybe you'll meet a fellow fan of that one game 🤯 Enjoy!
Drawn To Life and Drawn To Life: The Next Chapter for DS. Nobody remembers these games.
There are several, including classic-era Phantasy Star.
But if I had to pick one forgotten gem that I still fondly remember my play experience with, one that comes to mind is Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side on Sega CD. Some may be familiar with the original game on the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive. Now take that same game, tack on some additional characters, give it a better kick-ass soundtrack, and REALLY up the violence. How creative this game got with its fatality cinematics would have made Genesis-era Mortal Kombat swoon.
Second Sight cannot be mentioned without talking about Psi-Ops. And vice versa. Both of those games were so amazing at the time.
7th Guest, InuYasha(Ps1), the 7 Up game for Sega, Castle In The Wind!
Myst
Girl: "What's it like to die?"
Casper: "It's like being born, only backwards."
Honestly the thought of being dragged by my legs back into my mother, while crying backwards and having a tentacle attach itself to my bellybutton until there is only darkness, will haunt me forever... No wonder ghosts are crying and screaming all the time.
Well thanks I was actually planning to sleep tonight.
@@zanite8650 You are very welcome my friend :)
Outstanding
Wow that was hauntingly beautiful.
Thank you for the thought, it will be one of many things that will keep me awake in the middle of night, holding my sheet close and alone in bed.
"maybe I'm not old enough to understand this puzzle" is something I still say to myself as a 21 year old
Honestly, I feel like my late 20's is when I really started to be able to play games well... I've played them since I was a toddler but for a long time I would just play the first half and then give up in most of them lol
I had that terrible Dinosaurs GBA game that was a movie tie-in and had that exact thought a LOT. But I found out a few years ago that no, it’s just a terrible game with awful controls and is pretty broken and buggy. Lmao.
And at some point it turned into "maybe I'm too old to play this game"… ;-)
@ genuinely though. There's no golden age, either you feel to young because of a perceived lack of intelligence/understanding or you feel too old because your eyesight and reflexes are starting to dip. As well there's not a between zone, because it's a sliding scale for both that's unique to everyone. Puzzles in action games are probably a nightmare for designers due to this.
The perceived complexity of tasks dissipates as you get older ie more experienced, more intelligent, more jaded. I remember thinking DK64 was really big and complex, today I see it’s actually pretty simple.
I used to think Legendary difficulty on Halo was near-impossible, but as a patient, thoughtful, coordinated adult, it’s a relatively easy challenge, as far as Halo goes.
I like the idea of Barbie becoming a bitter old spinster because she showed up to play Tennis with Ken wearing classy eveningwear.
Update from 2021: Second Sight is now on Steam!
Haha not that Ellen finally got her Amalur remaster?
Could have always just played the crack/emulator of second sight this whole time
@@KaladinVegapunk Ellend did a review of the KoA remaster and it was deemed not great, so i both didn't feel calling attention to it was needed nor would be appredciated.
I played the emulator last year and it crashed everytime the screen did the warp and black n white screen, when you lose you powers/ get caught.
So glad it's on steam!
Ken: “Hey Barbie, wanna go to the prom?”
Barbie: “Sure, sounds like fun!”
Ken: “Great, see you in 1 hour.”
Yet more proof that Barbie leads to unrealistic expectations.
I was thinking the same thing. Ken is lucky she didn’t already have a date, you would think Barbie would have had 20 dudes ask her on day 1
I was thinking the whole time about the jontron episode where he played that same game. Dressed up and suddenly Ken wants to do something else, the whole time that 1 hour never comes and barbie is just eternally talking to nobody on the phone preparing for a date that will never come, repressing the memory of how he died in a car crash on the way to pick her up and now she drives herself instead. Or she killed him and took his car. Painted it in nail polish and what's left of him is inside her fridge that I don't think you ever see open. Google that.
@@seanromine3932 I'm pretty sure that was a joke. Not to be taken seriously
@@phantomnite but if taken seriously then the game becomes much more interesting
@@RiteshSingh-po7tm it definitely makes it darker
Man I love that Ellen brought in her PS1 discs, it's like SHOW AND TELL.😀
Andy walks in, "what are you doing?"
Ellen: "we're doing normal adult things, I'm a normal adult." 😂 Clutching copies of Casper and Rugrats.
lol ikr. I'd like to do this with my friends
@@rkbrillant5265 I'm pretty sure my old PS1 games are all still in the attic, really want to get them all down now.
My copies of Colin McRae Rally and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 were my pride and joy back in the day.
I love everything Ellen does
@@knowsgold2798 me too!
I still have my old copies of Final Fantasy VII, VIII, IX, and Chrono Cross
I remember watching my dad play Second Sight. I've been trying to remember the name of it so I could play it! So glad I watched this video so I can look it up now 😁
My childhood favorite game was "The Legend of Dragoon". Such a great story & combat system.
I remember that one. It was awesome.
Omgomgomgomgomg
*HARPOON*
That game was freaking amazing. I loved the story and addition system
I know that I still have it somewhere, I absolutely have to find it!
I love that both Jane and Ellen chose their games because they had fond memories playing with their sisters.
Nothing wrong with that. Some of the fondest memories I have regarding video games involve playing with my brother. I'm sure a major part of the fondness was because of it. Especially figuring things out or making decisions together (shout out : Kings Quest, Space Quest, Pools of Radiance, NES Zelda). I even bought a copy of the old Kings Quest games and my brother and I sat with his son and played it with him. :)
@@malstram oh no I agree. I wasn't being facetious. I genuinely do love that they both chose based on family memories.
@@tinatope1485 isn't the world a fucked up place where a genuine comment somehow gets taken as taking the piss. This is why everything is bland and samey now.
@@aelechko Lol well I don't mind the misunderstanding. Just as long as it can get cleared up easily. Which this was.
My sister and I used to play free to play games online but they were always in Japanese so we'd sit there and try everything and take notes together as we'd try and figure out how the games worked and this could go on for weeks of trial and error until we could actually play the game properly
When people tell me it's so cool that Red Dead Redemption is the first GTA style game set in the American Old West, I point at them and say "Nay! There was a beautiful game called 'Gun'!" Nobody seems to remember it, but I loved it.
I remember Gun, was an awesome game. If I remember correctly the first open worlder I played
Oh hell yeah that was great, the weapons got crazy! Dynamite arrows anyone? Couldn't you scalp people as well?
Gun had a hell of a voice acting cast too: Lance Henriksen, Ron Perlman, Brad Dourif (looks up the rest on Wikipedia) Kris Kristofferson, Tom Skerritt and Thomas Jane
YES
It was fun to kill with magruders prototype notch gun
I`m HOODOO BROWN
Second Sight still looks good! The motion capture and the facial expressions still fit the really good VO.
Tomba 2. When I was ten, I'd sit for hours playing this game. Even my mom remembers how I was obsessed with it. Just an amazing game.
I had a tomba 1 demo and had the most vivid memories of playing it but never saw or spoke about it again. Recently bought a ps1 and the cheapest copy I can find is 230 quid!!
Seeing how excited the presenters get talking about these games from their childhood warms my heart. You can see the joy.
I'm laughing way too hard at the cyborg beating the blue alien and yelling "I have no wish to harm you!" If I get nothing else done for the rest of the week, I blame you, Andy :P
Looking back at the segments of the video with nostalgia. Ah yes, the forgotten games: Casper, Project Eden, Second Sight, Barbie, Rugrats, BigForge and Andy Farrant
It's true, Andy Farrant was such an amazing game that I'm shocked it was forgotten
Metal arms, Glitch in the system.
This was my childhood. I remember laughing so hard when Krunk threatens to weld Glitches tail pipe to his ball bearings 😂 humour as a child was so delightfully simple
same, my guy. glad to know someone else remembers the game for the same reason. that boss battle with the two story robot was nuts, especially the two player. I intend to find it for the sheer joy
Jade Empire, they literally commissioned a linguist to write a language for it. Brute Force is also under appreciated.
I love Jade Empire to bits! It's my second favorite game of all time only after Shenmue.
I was gonna comment Jade Empire as well. God is that game under appreciated. Maybe with Mass Effect on hiatus Bioware will spare it another look?
I’ve got it on iOS. Great game
Yeah im replaying jade empire on android now!! And brute force was sick too!!
Republic commando
We all remember Kingdoms of Amalur for the sole reason Ellen won't let us forget
I remember it because I still have my original game lol
I wonder how that expanded universe worked.out for her and the 13 people who liked it...
Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen is one for me. It's a superb and unique strategy game on the snes where you command an army that's separated into a bunch of individual jrpg-like parties. It got a sequel on the n64 but after that they turned the franchise into yet another tile based strategy game and no one ever remembers Ogre Battle!
I think one of my favorites was the I Spy Treasure Hunt on Dos.
It was pretty chill, you’d explore this town with pirate history, find hidden objects to earn map pieces to lead you to treasure.
It was a lot harder than more recent hidden object games, not only were some objects tiny, but there were absolutely no hints.
Still loved it anyway and I recently managed to snap it up, lovely nostalgia trip
Yes! That was one of my favorites, along with Spooky mansion deluxe and the one with the castle, mermaid, and spaceship (can’t remember the name)
Irony that kingdoms of Amalur got remastered and is getting expanded dlc.
Ellen forever has the last laugh
That's mostly because of Ellen and Outsidextra...
@@shade8928 have they officially credited her in any way? That would be incredible.
It was a great game for it's time. The story was awesome, but the mechanics had some issues and quests became very very repetitive about 5hours in.
Is that out yet? I really want more K O A
My sister and I still talk about the Rugrats game all the time. Back when we were kids, we were playing Ice Cream Mountain and my dad was so tired of us playing video games all day that summer, he just said, "Screw it, you guys wanna go play actual mini golf? We can get ice cream after." Rugrats was the real MVP, man.
There's one game I never see mentioned anywhere - not on lists or 'games you've never heard of' or retro reviews or anything and that's Jet Force Gemini. It was an amazing sci-fi shooter. You had the option of playing between 3 characters (one of which was a dog in a tank that could also fly) and you had to save these aliens (who looked like Ewoks if Ewoks were koala bears) from this army of bug-aliens.
You could replay different levels because different characters could access different things due to each one having a unique ability (like the dog being able to fly), and there were multiple missions, and the boss fights really slapped. Plus it had a killer theme song. And I'm pretty sure it was made by Rare. Yet no one I ever speak to has ever heard of it or played it and if it wasn't for the fact that I still own the cartridge in it's the original box I'd start to think I imagined the whole thing -_-
Oh I remember Jet Force Gemini. I played it with my father and brother when I was a kid.
Quackshot was definitely a large part of my childhood! Another Megadrive favourite was ‘Haunting’ where you play as a poltergeist trying to scare a family out of several houses by possessing various objects in the rooms and there were entertaining animations when the family members encountered the haunted areas. But the two mid-90s games I never hear mentioned, yet long to be remade, are Little Big Adventure 1&2.
I love your unscripted videos! The whole team is hilarious when you’re yourselves ♥️
Michael Hall ya. Their scripted comedy leaves a lot to be desired.
200% agreed
*reads video title* I didn't know Kingdoms of Amalur existed seven times
oh god, called out by Ellen immediately
I'm forever in love with No One Lives Forever 2. Wish it gets revived.
Well, there's NOLFRevival, which is a fan community rereleasing the original duology and Contract J.A.C.K. It's not much, but it's worthwhile.
I use to love a game called “Bishi bashi special”, it was a series of random mini games and it was awesome.
The other one I loved was “legend of dragoon” which I haven’t come across anyone else who’s played it
YES! Legend of Dragoon I was just about to comment!! Always played rpgs as a kid and Legend of Dragoon to this day is my absolute favorite and I’ve never heard it talked about anywhere. Half tempted to pull out my old laptop and run it on the psx emulator
Hell yes!!! Legend of Dragoon and Legend of Legaia will always and forever be in the god tier of RPG games. The only thing they ever did wrong was enter into a marketplace where they had to compete with the likes of Final Fantasy and the Tales franchise when they were both shooting up in popularity
Yeah! I had the pleasure of being introduced to it on PS3 by a buddy of mine who saw it was on sale. He kept touting it as his favourite game growing up so I had to give it a try, and man, surprisingly unique mechanics for the time. I really expected another FF, Breath of Fire type JRPG (which I wouldn't have hated) but wow, so pleasantly surprised!
I remember Legend of Dragoon. I never got to finish it because I was playing it on my cousin's system and she threw a fit one day when she was grounded from playing video games and decided to break her console. 🙄 That obviously didn't work out well for anyone but I always wanted to finish that game. I wish they'd do a remaster for the new generation consoles. To this day, I don't know how Legend of Dragoon ends because I hope I'll get to play it again someday.
Oh, thank you so much. I have been wondering what that game with a lot of mini game call since nearly 2 decade ago. I have fond memories playing this with my brother and friend. I nearly destroy my controller trying to win. XD
For legend of dragoon. I did not have a chance to play it at all. I did not even play Zelda games except Twilight princess on my uni friend's Wii. None of my friend or brother did. We did play Pokemon though.
OH MY GOSH JANE, I LOVE YOU FOR BRINGING UP BARBIE!
We had a commodore growing up, and my siblings and I STILL say "Sounds like fun!" "GREAT! See you in an hour!"
*goes to the beach in a wedding dress*
We haven't forgotten, Jane. We haven't forgotten.
That's the only game on this list that I've actually played.
There's this one game I played on DOS called Rome: Pathway to Power. You startd as a slave, and won when you became Emperor. I adored that title. And no one remembers it.
That sounds really cool
That Rugrats game was amazing!! Me and my siblings played it all the time when we were kids.
The end, where you played as Reptar was my favourite!!
One that a not a lot of people know about is Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2 (Dark Chronicle). They had building towns and building up of weapons long before it became popular in other games. Dark Cloud 2 is my Favorite game of all time.
I never played the full dark cloud but I got a demo of it as a McDonald's happy meal toy and played it so much
The funniest part of Dark Cloud was the people telling you where to put their buildings. Like, "I guess if you're going to magically rebuild my business, just don't put it somewhere noisy." Their entire village was wiped off the map, and now that a hero's shown up to help recover it, all they care about is not being rebuilt next to annoying neighbors.
"The legend of dragoon" felt more like a childhood dream of mine. I still look ot up to make sure I wasn't.
That was a good game, I'd love to see a HD remake of it, if it ever happens
Loved that game.
Still have that game, never getting rid of it.
i wish for it to have an hd remake
Big fan of Wingly. Had a friend for years that went by that name cause his first name was Brad. Brad Wingly he called himself. I miss him.
For me it's "No One Lives Forever". It was a humorous take on British spy films complete with all the wacky spy gadgets and over the top villains. Also when you would sneak up on enemy henchmen, they'd be having random conversations like how they joined H.A.R.M. because it had the best dental plan.
NOLF is even older than Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell. NOLF2 actually released the same year it released and was a far better game. Such a lost treasure.
I've been saying it for years, NOLF and NOLF 2 have *the* best NPC dialogue, like winding up a co-worker by telling him the Superspy is a 14 year old in a bath-towel because he missed the morning briefing, the problems of hanging art on orange painted walls or why someone likes Edith Piaf, to the problems of making artificial lava either look realistic or cool, why a very minor criminal organisation gets so much press because they have a Sci-fi gothic castle as a lair or the difficulties of promotion when you've been turned into a cube by your boss. Plus the music was totally on point, the humour was great _and_ a strong female protagonist. Kate Archer deserves to be as well known as Lara Croft, but alas, 'tis not the case. Plus we never did find out what H.A.R. M. stood for...
Azure Dreams (1998, PSX) - a bizarre hodge-podge RPG in which Konami tried to fuse roguelike dungeon-exploration, monster training, city building, and dating sim.
The fandom is about five people, and I've met no-one IRL who knows this game exists, but I still replay it now and again.
I played it i wish there was a sequel
Yes! I played it for ages along with my brother and father as a kid! We used red and blue sands on a wooden sword and diamond shield to gradually boost them up and not worry about rust traps.
But what changed everything was when my Dad fused a bloom with a Garuda to create a Bloom that could make our sword infused with paralysis magic. We could use it to paralyse monsters to kill them or flee.
Literally a game changer. I soon discovered how to do it by fusing a Bloom and a Pulunpa then using a wind seed to turn it to wind with the paralysis magic. I fused to create two of them and kept making them stronger. It was those two and the gear upgrades that enabled me to reach the top of the tower and get the Hi Kewne.
Of course as soon as my brother and my father saw that I was getting much higher up the Tower than before, they hastened to create their own Paralysis pair even before I actually reached the top. And then within two weeks of my victory they both got to the top of the tower in their save files.
I’ve always been curious to know if other people played Azure Dreams and what method they used to reach the top of the Tower. I can’t actually think of any other way to do it. I suppose you could eventually make the sword and shield so strong you could kill everything or train your monsters to be strong enough but that would have taken ages.
SEEING SECOND SIGHT HERE MAKES ME SO HAPPY! I loved that game as kid and played it more often than I care to admit. The premise is great and the story is strangely compelling. Of all the games with Psychic powers, I think it's the best.
Sadly, I think it got overshadowed by Psi-Ops which came at almost the same exact time. I remember playing one of them, but I couldn't tell you which one. lol
What about Siphon Filter. Always thinking about that game. You could taser people till they burst into flames.
Hell yeah, my brother owned the first one, and I own Omega Strain.
Ah yes, many a day spent playing Siphon Filter on the demo PlayStation at my local WhereHouse Music. Good times.
Ironically, that same retail space is now a Men’s Wearhouse. I guess the landlord has a thing for wordplay.
I remember having tons of fun playing the Siphon Filter 2 multiplayer with my brother and cousin we always found funny ways of killing each others players on screen. lol
That was my favorite thing to do when I played it.
LEGEND OF DRAGOON on the PS! So many great hours spent with childhood friends trading the controller at either save points or after boss battles💚
Cousin had this and I'd play every time I visited him. It was one of the final games released for the PS1 which was the reason it fared so poorly. Allowing the user to strengthen their abilities by nailing timing of their ults was a new concept to me, and I never completed it but we did make it to the final disc.
@matt >:(
Still have my copy
Bushido blade, one of my favorite fighting games from my childhood on the ps1. You play as a disciple of this group before the character you picked realizes it's being lead by an evil and dishonorable figure. You battle the rest of your colleagues in honorable combat, trying first to convince them of the truth, before striking them down. You actually can't get to the real ending if you dont fight your compatriots honorably, which is really neat considering this was ps1. The hp was hidden and varied between the fighters limbs, so you could disarm your opponent, or force them to crawl by damaging them enough. Headshots were basically instant death but also usually dishonorable due to the fact that most of the weapons required your opponent to be prone in order to crush their skull. I always remember the one character later on with a gun because yes. Someone you fight later on has a gun. That fight is so tense even though it's over like, pretty quickly either way.
I played this at my friend's house, and really all I remember was in one stage you could cut down the bamboo trees. I was like, 6, but for some reason that sticks out in my memory
Nobody talks about Bushido blade. It's one of my favorite games of all time
Bushido blade was amazing and tense because most fights ended in one or two hits but I really enjoyed bushido blade 2. Would love to have a copy of it. The gameplay is basically just like hellish quart
That read like you were having “nam flashbacks”.
Mike might enjoy an old game almost nobody remembers called "Septerra Core", RPG set in a world in which a planet is shattered and has seven continent/shelfs orbiting the planetary core.
Ooh, this is a nice game. Even got a bunch of talents that eventually became Halo mainstays.
There should be a list of the weirdest powers characters in games "woke up with"
"X Weird Superpowers You Suddenly Woke Up To"
Corvo
1: Becoming a demon
SMT: Nocturne
I remember playing a lot this game called "Lego Island 2". It was basically the story of this Lego guy who lived on an island and worked at his parents' pizzeria. One day, some bad guy came and destroyed all the houses on the island, and spread all the bricks across different dimensions, and unleashed random robots. He also kidnapped the pizza guy's parents because,... why not? So the pizza guy has to go in these dimensions with dinosaurs and deserts and stuff to find the bricks. The final stage was on the planet Ogel, where there was the bad guy's lair and the parents were held prisoners. You defeated him, and then everything gets back to normal.
Saying it out loud sound even crazier that it was, but I remember it being a lot of fun. It had a good gameplay, some very entertaining sidequests (except the one where you had to fish at an oasis, that one was extremely tedious), and a lot of satisfying little details: for example, your could throw infinite pizzas at people and change some elements of the background just by pressing a button. The only big downside was that the loading times took absolutely AGES. But it was worth it.
i remember one of those. you traveled on your skateboard but could also drive a car and throw pizzas at bad guy. i remember a medieval level thatwe could never pass though . jousting against the black knight
Pretty sure I played that entire series. Lego games were sweet back in the day (I'm looking at you Lego Racers 2).
I loved the Lego Island series! And Lego Racers!!!
i too remember them...
i think i lent lego island 1 or 2 from our local library once and loved it, but weirdly never bought it...
and i remember lego racers...
maybe the online version or i played it at a friends home or something...
they were great games!
I remember Lego Island 1 I think it was, don't recall much of the plot but I remember if you let the bad guy out of the jail bad things happened.
Second Sight was amazing, and I would LOVE an HD remake or sequel.
Honestly, Project Eden sounds really fun! I love older games, and especially dystopian ones. Like Under a Steel Sky (I think that’s the name of the original one, not the new one?), HL1, and System Shock (GOD IT’S A FUN GAME, even if the original came out before FPS controls were sort of standardized, and as a result you have to really mess with the settings to get it right).
Beneath a Steel Sky, you mean.
Dino Crisis! That game was great, PS1 era puzzle solver, 3D models and fixed camera, Dinosaurs, very limited ammo, and they could chase you from room to room, smashing through furniture and breaking windows!
Those events were conditionally scripted, of course, but it was mind blowing for the time.
Fights were expensive on your precious ammo, so you tried to find clever ways to improvise, avoiding fights, crawling through ducts, making poison and sleep darts out of medical supplies.
It also had modable weapons with multiple ammo types.
You also didn't have a health bar, (I guess it was hidden) but if you were hurt your aim and running were affected and you could bleed, and if you couldn't find actual healing items you could use painkillers to temporarily cover up the wound effects.
A think a lot of it was cloned from Resident Evil, but I didn't have RE, I had Dino Crisis, and it was great.
It got a GreyStation sequel that was much more of a run and gun horde game, with a lot less puzzle solving. It was ok, but very different from what made the first game great.
It had another sequel on PS2 which unfortunately was terrible and killed the franchise.
Resident evil but with dinosaurs and aliens
Dude, _everyone_ remembers Dino Crisis.
So weird they haven't done any Remakes or Remasters yet.
Dino Crisis was Resident Evil with Dinosaurs.
I love listening to these guys talk about their own personal experiences.
This is why I love Luke, he comes up with games that I thought were just fever dreams. I loved Second Sight and the only person who ever talked about it was my buddy who watched me play it. Its such a good game.
Wait, did you just casual mention Nickelodeon movie maker? That was one of the 5 games that game with our first pc. Double love this guy now.
I'll throw my hat in the ring by saying that Darkwatch on PS2 will always hold a special place in my soul. It was this cowboy, horror, vampire action-adventure game that, to me, felt so unique and ahead of its time. A few features I remember off the top of my head are fun yet challenging bosses, variable endings depending on your morality throughout the story, co-op play, a plethora of unlockable skills which allowed for multiple playstyles, and an overall tone between story and settings that constantly had me on the edge of my seat. The only lasting downfall is that my brain is now forever coded to go into panic mode for a second every time I hear a train whistle...
The slightest mention of baby ducks by Mike and you hear it hit Ellen's heart strings in the background 💘 6:37
Does anyone else suddenly want to have Mike and another of the Oxbox crew make a Let's Play of Project Eden in slip-screen co-op ? I know I do.
That... actually sounds pretty cool! Retro-gaming let's play streams with the gang! Come on, Andy! Make it a thing! =)
"slip-screen"? Nope, don't think we'd be able to see this on TH-cam. ;-)
I remember (and am currently looking at) a fun little puzzle game for PS1 called No One Can Stop Mr. Domino. If you know all the wacky things that happen in Katamari Damacy, this little game about setting up a line of dominoes such that they activate events on the board to knock down further dominoes is actually rather difficult, but also hilarious in that distinctly Japanese way
I remember playing the crap out of the demo level on (I think) one of the Official Playstation Magazine disc sets!
Rugrats was a fun game.. Worth my weekend rental when I was 10. 5 stars.
I like how as soon as I thought about making a Kingdoms Of Amalur joke, Ellen said "I bet there will be a lot of comments saying that I'm going to pick Kingdoms Of Amalur"
The Legacy of Kain series was and still is a masterpiece.
That is one franchise I would love a rerelease of on all consoles.
Shouldn't be too hard considering it was on PlayStation and PC.
Yes awesome games!
My favorite was the legacy of kain soul reaver. It is a beautiful game, and I love it still.
''you are weak... you must feed!''
yeah, that was awesome! Impaling was absolutely nightmarish for the time...
... and widely remembered as such, which kind of disqualifies it for this list
Since Destroy All Humans got a remaster, Colliseum: Road to Freedom. That game was so fun and so intricate, I remember playing it for so many hours and I was terrible at it, but it was so fun 😂
I have a few forgotten games that I really loved:
Home Alone for DOS, where you had to set traps and lead the enemies into them.
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri, which was an awesome mech suit game.
Then there's Metal Fatigue, one of favourite RTS games back in the day. And now I just found out it's on steam.
Only ever played the Home Alone 2 tie in on NES, not the original alas.
Terra Nova was impressive for its time, I played a lot more of it than I did System Shock which was also from the same team. Also on Steam now thanks to Nightdive. It and Heavy Gear were definitely unfairly overshadowed by the competition since they did things no one else did. Shogo: Mobile Armor Division as well though, MW was king in the 90s.
Metal Fatigue took me way too long to get working when I first got hold of it.
Disney's Tarzan on PS1, that was stupendous. I was just a wee little lad, and it was my 1st ever game on PS1.
I always forget about it, but 2 levels seared into my brain - when you play as Terk and Level on the boat.
I had Disney's Hercules on PS1 as well as Tarzan, I found that much eaaier than Tarzan where i kept getting stuck and didn't even complete it :(
I always found Hercules more difficult. But I beat both of them. One Disney game I never beat - Atlantis Lost Empire.
@Platonis the warlock, NO WAY, Tarzan was one of my first games on the PS1 when I was a wee lad too.
Man that game was awesome, although I never completed it as I was terrible at games as a child and still am ☹️.
Ps1 Tarzan is awesome
But guys, Tarzan and Hercules aren't so forgotten, me and my gaming pals know those... And were awesome.
Ha. TH-cam was so confused by Jane saying 'Barbie' that I was shown an ad immediately.
Divine Death Same, actually! It was that credit card one where a pit team is helping the guy fill up his gas and manage his budget. Really weird.
Mine was an HBO ad and my first thought was "What? HBO made a Barbie game?" Then I saw the Video will resume after ad thing in the corner and my world was right again.
Lol for me it was andy talking about Donald Duck
I remember Quackshot. The game like this for me is Legend of Legaia on the Playstation. It was the game that got me into RPGs in general (and JRPGs specifically), and it feels like I was the only person who played it... which would make the fact that there is a sequel really wierd. It even popped into my head recently because an area in it is quite similar to one in Warframe.
I remember playing a demo of it and I loved it, I just never saw it in stores so I never played the full game. It's still on my to play list as from what I remember was I really liked the combat. I really miss turn based RPGs.
One game that is kind of forgotten that I really loved was Tomba (or Tombi).
Me and my kids replayed that Casper game not long ago. It was a game I loved as a kid and I needed my kids to witness it.
We also still play all the rugrats games...they're my hubbys fave games ever so I need them remastered lol
The Army Men: Sarge’s Heroes games were pretty great
They honestly need to put this game on the switch
I still have all of them :)
Get out of my head! I think the original is probably the one I played. If I remember right, it wasn't the first versus mode my brother and I played in, but it combined so many elements that we later experienced as standard, while being a 3rd person shooter/adventure game. Man, takes me back.
Yes! I used to play those and Worms Armageddon with my friend and his older brother all the time when I was little
Lol my dad and I always had fun on co-op and capture the flag
I still think about Creatures for the PS1. Did they love me back? Are they ok without me? Did they manage to find true love?
They couldn't find their way out of a room with one wall, I don't think they could find love.
@@GeneralNickles your sister is my icon
Pretty sure I remember that on the Acorn or possibly windows around '97? Weird litle furry things with huge eyes, you could teach them basic skills, there were Grendels and Ettins?
Hoooly carp, I had *completely* forgotten about Creatures, but my youngest two brothers and I used to play it together when we were kids! We had so much trouble with the Grendels. We tried to put them on the higher levels to keep them out of the way of our Norns, but they would just jump down again. Then we would start shouting "Death from above!" whenever that happened.
I remember being a kid and going to Blockbuster (yes, I am old enough to remember going to Blockbuster) and renting the Sega Genesis version of the game Clue. I remember being super impressed with the graphics and the renditions of the characters.
I think I OWNED that version of Clue...
For me, it's that barbie and the 12 dancing princesses gameboy platformer. It was a metroidvania where you collected your sisters(!) to get to the next area. The power-up I remember best was the stiltwalking sisters that let you get over bottomless pits... somehow...
The Legend of Dragoon comes to mind. I have actually managed to find a copy of the game recently.
Was an awesome game that got over shadowed by the Final Fantasy series. Definitely needs a HD remake big time!
I still have my original copy of it, and in good condition.
It's one of my favourite PSX games
In my opinion one of the best games of all time. Not the definite best, mind you, but up there. I agree that we need an hd remake
Haha i saw this game the other day in my box of old games
Yes amazing game!
You know Ellen wanted a _very specific_ response from Luke when she called him 'Lucas'. O_O
yeah like your mother saying your name .
Thelving the Wing 0:51
I didn't catch that Ellen called him Lucas, but thanks for pointing it out, it's absolutely adorable is what it is. xD
@@instantlybroken, interesting comment there... Hinawa's dead, you know.
Thank you so much, Luke! Second Sight was a forgotten game for me too, but I remember how freaking AWESOME it was back in the day.
I'm so glad I can remember its title now!
The Casper game was immense back in the day :D
Tbh so were the Rugrats games on PSX. Totally still have them all.
Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 1 & 2
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MySims Agents for the wii. Does anyone remember the MySims series? They were a subseries of the sims, except for kids, and not at all the sims. Every game had a different focus. MySims Racing (another good one(at least the wii version was great)) was a racing game, there was a planes one, there was a whole bunch of them. And every game has the same characters, which I liked for some reason. But anyways, MySims AGENTS. This one was about secret agents and detectives and stuff, which I LOVE. You got a whole bunch of gadgets and stuff to solve puzzles, there were little puzzle mini games that I didn’t like as much but were fun all the same, it was great. And you could decorate your secret agent headquarters with different wallpapers and different characters that would hang around on the different floors, and adding little things to interact with, unlocking the characters and items the more you played. You could also customize your character, although I mainly just made a character at the beginning and stuck with it the whole time I played anytime I started a new run. And there was an actually good story to it as well, like if I look back on it now it still holds up. As far as graphics go, it was early to late 2000s, so they weren’t the best, but since they were for kids they made the graphics blocky and cartoony on purpose, making that not as obviously bad. If you watch game grumps, I had a relationship with this game like Dan Avidan did with the Sierra games when he was a kid. It fucking ruled, and I think I still have my copy, so I’m gonna see if I am get that up and going, since talking about it made me want to. If I can’t, I will be sad and shall blame OXtra.
I had the DS version of the first one, and while I definitely remember really enjoying it (very Animal Crossing-esque), all I can remember in any detail is so. Much. Racquetball.
I absolutely loved that game. I'm also pretty sure that I still have it, and would probably have re-played it recently (those puzzles were great) if the TV weren't perpetually occupied by someone else
I had all the games in this series. My favorite one by far was My Sims: Kingdom. It was the first game I ever played for a whole night without going sleep too
i absolutely lovedd my sims agents. every week i would go with my parents to rent it out because i didnt have the money to buy it. i had an old crt tv setup in my room and i loved it. that yeti guy from the snow level was a beast, loved that guy, and im pretty sure the spooky house level gave me my first nightmare ever as a small boi
Is that you, PBG?
I have fond memories of the Rugrats game, especially the Reptar level at the end.
I also fondly remember the “-- Adventure Games” like the one in Egypt with Claptrap, the overbearing flying robot turtle(?).
Clue Finders!!!
I know this is an older video, but don't mind me - I just discovered this channel. I'm so glad someone else remembers Project Eden!
I remember second sight! I played it round my friend’s when I was younger, and since then, I’ve been wondering what the game actually was. Thanks for reminding me!
What about Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy? I always mix them up, both released in 2004, both have psychic powers, both never got a sequel. To be fair - I always prefer Psi-Ops.
Same. Was a really cool game for the time
Yet nobody will remember Geist.
@@davidmcgill1000 Geist came out very late in the GCs life, never even seen a copy in the wild myself.
@@Platonis-The-Warlock Holy hell yes Psi-Ops FTW always thought if someone would bring it back it would make a cool open world sandbox game like Just Cause but with badass psychic powers
The Saboteur.
I used to adore that game. It was essentially a GTA-style open world game, only it was set in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War 2. Your goal was to help liberate the city from them.
It had a beautifully atmospheric style to it, where the Nazi controlled parts of town were all in black and white, except for the harsh, bright red of the Nazi symbols. It felt moody and oppressive, and felt like you were in an old film-noir movie.
You had to disrupt the Nazis hold on each district by destroying their outposts, tanks and fortifications etc dotted all across town.
When you had done enough in that district to free it, all the colour would return to that part of the city, and it became a vibrant place again. As you progressed through the game, more and more of the city would become colour, where the still-oppressed areas would be in black and white. It was really cool and gave the city a really interesting vibe. I still remember passing through a Nazi checkpoint with fake papers to enter a Nazi-controlled area and it all suddenly going dark and bleak and smokey. Very atmospheric!
There were loads of other cool touches too like all the old cars and tanks you could collect and the period-correct music they played, old school circuit racing, free-running and climbing mechanics so you could take to the rooftops, hell, you could actually climb the Eiffel Tower and, if you were brave enough, you could jump off the top into a tiny lake below that would break your fall. You even got to drive to a small part of Germany (and possibly Holland too I think?)
Also, the edges of the map were "No Mans Land", where the 'actual' war was happening, so if you went too far outside the boundaries of the map you'd get mowed down by Spitfires or landmines. It was a cool way of not having invisible walls.
Sadly I think this game was rushed out the door as the developer behind it was going out of business, and in some ways, it showed. It seemed like they were going to put a lot more stuff in it, and probably DLCs too, but they couldn't as the company went under.
It was still an awesome game though, but sadly, one we might never see a sequel to.
It was made by Pandemic, and they didn’t go under, EA bought them and shut them down. Yet another reason to despise EA.
But yes, a very fun game with not nearly enough recognition.
Peter Badger
The Saboteur was a ton of fun! It was like GTA, but it cut out all the extra fluff in favor of bombastic action, beautiful environments, solid missions, etc.
If you Liked The Saboteur, you should try Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. It was made by the same company was like a predecessor The Saboteur. It takes place in North Korea and you play as one of three Mercenaries that are tasked with taking down the dictator’s war machine or “deck of 52”, which are 52 bounties starting from the bottom and working your way all the way up to the Ace of Spades himself.
There’s a plethora of weapons to choose from, vehicles like humvees, tanks, helicopters, but the best part of the whole game is ordering up an air strike from the Russian black market and raining artillery down on your enemies.
The game plays similar to the Saboteur and you get more money by taking in bounties alive and it’s backwards compatible on Xbox One and PS3 and probably dirt cheap these days, so check it out. I played it last summer and it’s still a crazy fun time!
The Sequel really expands on the first game, but it’s been a very long time since I’ve played it and I can’t tell you if it holds up today, but when I played it back in 2008, I thought it was the coolest game. There was DLC where you can play as Barack Obama and Sarah Palin.
I found that game to be super hard sometimes as well. Such a good game that no one talks about.
The topless add on, to reduce used purchases was a funny thing.
I heard about this being a hidden gem years ago so bought it and platinum trophied it. Great game.
For me, a game that I still remember but many seem to have forgot is The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse. Ever since I played that game, whenever I get into a spot where I keep loosing, dying, or failing, I make an angry squeak sound. The same sound I made to mock and mimic the sound Mickey Mouse kept making whenever I keep failing even the simplest of parts due to poor mechanics.
This game is a game that I recently discovered, but it's old and good. Sam and Max Hit The Road. It's a point and click adventure game in the style of Secret of Monkey Island. It was really zany like the show, but it was very slightly more mature. For example: There's a pool of blood in the streets. My favorite quotes from the game are: "Look at the cute kitty, Sam! Let's skin it and turn it into a tennis racket!" and "I'm going inside to see if anyone wants to off themselves for the greater good!". Also, they even referenced The Secret Of Monkey Island! There was a part where a guy corners you and one of the dialogue options was "Look behind you, a three headed monkey!".
When Luke says, “I’ve impressed James!” my automatic closed captions say, “Happy Breasts James!” instead. So, obviously, I must propose a new nickname for James.
Denied.
@@JayTohab hmm. Here I thought it was a combination of three pretty great things, like a Chocolate Bacon Cheeseburger. Everyone loves those.
That's some Steven Magnet stuff right there.
I love an old PS1 game called Legend of Dragoon. I wasted so many days on that game. Lol
Omg. Such a good game.
A forgotten gem. I still play it every so often.
BURNING RUSH!!! HARPOON!!!
Broooo my uncle and i used to play that
AMEN!!!
For me, I played a game called War of the Monster (on PS2) all the time with my dad as a kid. Nobody has ever heard of it because it basically is a game where you play as a monster you choose and they all have their different backstories. It is an open world fighting game where you can also use the buildings in the cities you visit as weapons. For me, I think it deserves to be remembered because it takes ideas from other monster games, but uses them to make it a thing of its own. It has elements of games like Godzilla and Rampage games, only in an open map idea.
“Gauntlet: Dark Legacy” and “Turok” are two that I still think about. My buddies and I used to play them for hours-probably still would 😂
20:32 Using a flashlight in a horror setting to make your enemies go away? Bam! Rugrats became Alan Wake.
I'm late, and this might be due to being a mostly Japan release. "Bloody Roar" It was like early Tekken, But each character was a "Zoomorph". Simply put, in power ranger-esque style. They would dress, act, and just faintly resemble the Anthropomorphic creature they could turn into to boost their combat abilities. It could easily be described as "I got this cheap fighting game and it seemed coo- *W? T? F?* "
Man, I loved the wolf so much
Bloody Roar and Bloody Roar 2:The New Breed were so awesome back in the day
I live in the US and I had bloody roar, I loved it.
I'm gonna be honest with all of you. One person other than me having it immediately proves I wasn't fully insane. I love each and everyone of you Girls, Guys, and any other preferred Pronouns.
@@kyleschomburg2527 ❤
This video made me remember Little Nemo, which I know some people remember, and Spiderman Cartoon Maker, which I have never heard anyone outside my family mention.
Spiderman Cartoon Maker was one of the only games installed on my grandparents' computer. The most memorable part for me is a lady who runs around waving her hands above her head while repeatedly yelling, "Help me, heIp! Help me, help!"
I also just learned I can download that game from a website that archives older games. The nostalgia is real.
Anyone here ever heard of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger? It was a PS1/PS2 game series and it was Australian and my family loved them. I know a couple people who remember it but there are not many Ty videos on TH-cam. It's apparently getting some love again for the PS5, but still, I've been watching this channel for years and never seen it mentioned, and as I said, there aren't many videos about it on TH-cam.
Basically you were a Tasmanian tiger named Ty (duh) who has to fight this evil cassowary guy and all your weapons are boomerangs with different effects and you break crates and stuff to collect opals, which are in-game currency, and there were a lot of little quests where you helped all your animal friends. For an Aussie kid, it was a pure delight.
Bloody Roar and the even more bonkers, yet predictably titled Bloody Roar 2. IIRC you could pit a giant cyborg mole against a werewolf character who was just different enough to Wolverine to avoid a lawsuit.
I only ever played Bloody Roar 3. But yes, amazing fighting games!
They made a third one?!
@Wilhelm Dafoe 6 games total. Two on PS1, two on PS2, one on Gamecube, and one on Xbox. 3's my personal favorite.
@@daniellepullman4074 There's also the one on the PSP. One on the Gameboy color,. 2 on the Advanced, few on the DS. And a mobile game as well.
The legend of dragoon. One of my all time favorites. If it wasn’t for final Fantasy it probably could have had a sequel or two.
I think the story itself is completed in one game. I can't picture a series unless it was a prequel
@@mariahham8961 there's enough material for a prequel and at least 2 sequels
I loved second sight, that game was so wild.
I have one I bet none of you have heard of: Final Lap Twin. It was a Racing JPRG. You walked in an overworld like Final Fantasy IV, visiting towns, talking to people, opening chests, all that. But the random battles were all one lap races, with the bosses being multi-lap races. Instead of gaining exp, you just get money to upgrade your car, from engine for speed and acceleration, to tires for handling.
To this game, there has yet to be another game that fused these genres. I'd love a remake or at least a spiritual successor.
HP: Quidditch world cup! It was so good! I always remember a) Smashing teams as the Nord & B) winning the WC as England & being absolutely freaking thrilled about it. Admittedly, the beginning/tutorial when you were at hogwarts was hilariously easy (and honestly a bit pants), but when you got to the actual WC, it was awesome!
Oh damn I did forget about that game... soo fun.
That was a truly brilliant game. But no team came near to Australia and their surfing techniques
Yes! I completely forgot about that game, but it was so weirdly good!
Yes!!!
Agreed. I put far too many hours into that game when I was 10
I won't forget about Amalur, Ellen! Never forget!!!!
truerockfan neverrrrrrrrrrr
I replayed it this Christmas, in less than a week I got to level 30 and ready to go to war. I do hope they bring back that universe, it is a chant that we child of dust should not forget
I picked that game up just because I was curious. And after reading about it and playing it, I love it to pieces.
One of my favorite games as a kid was called Bullfrog. You controlled a little frog that could turn, and hop a little bit, and the main goal was to catch all the bugs in the level. The bugs would all move differently or do different things, like the butterflies that flew away so you had to prioritize catching them first, or the mosquitos that would sit on your back and drain the timer down until you hopped away. It was great and I'd love to play it again but I don't remember who made it sadly :(
Yes! Second Sight! One of my favourite games growing up and the one I immediately thought of when I clicked on this! The other three were Phantasy Star Online: Episodes I & II, Simon the Sorcerer & Rogue Trooper.
How about Jade Empire - the Bioware game that time forgot.
Aside from being an epic story driven rpg in what is essentially ancient china with magic and a martial arts combat system. This is a game which had John Cleese in digital form (and made it work (sorry Fable 3)). It also allowed you to have same sex relationships AND a three-way before they made Dragon Age. And, best of all, it's on the backwards compatible list so you can all go and remember it now!
I really wanted to play that one on the PC when it came out. I had "Neverwinter Nights," but never got a copy of "Jade Empire." They released it for the XBox, but I never had one of those, either. Le sigh. =(
That's the first game I thought of when I saw this video!
I loved that there were lots of different styles that you could learn, and you could form really good friendships with your companions. And, like you said, the romance options which were ahead of their time.
Great game!
Jade Empire is my second favorite game of all time, second only to Shenmue!
It's such an underrated gem.
@@jamesanthony8438 - A special edition was later re released on steam but it was maybe released a bit too quietly more than a few years on. Neverwinter Nights is another great call as well, and to go onto a different topic: NWN2 - Obsidian had a real love-in with Bioware picking up sequels of their early games - ah, good times
@@pl2108 The really amazing thing for me with this game is I do a martial art - and the dojo I originally started learning at was Two Rivers - the same name as the dojo in game. Every year for about 3 years the club used to get together and play through the game, just us. Great memories
Final Fantasy Tactics. The most time consuming part of each replay is me hesitating before the mission that triggers the death of a certain side character.
Understood!
I actually went and bought the original FF it had been based on, and FFT was so much better
Don't know if anyone else remembers this one, but my friends and I used to like a game called General Chaos on Sega, I think it was. This was early to mid-90s, and as far as I know, it was one of the only games 4 friends could all play at once, as long as you had the adaptor required to plug in the extra controllers. It was sort of a strategy-shooting army game with different characters having different weapons, like a shooting guy, a dynamite throwing guy, etc.
Pandora Tower for the Wii is that game for me. I never met anyone who played it and I was obsessed with it. I wish they would release it for the Switch because it was such an amazing game. The story premise was simple but design and mechanics made it a masterpiece for me.
Also not enough people played Trials of Mana! Get on that, it's so good!
I still stay up at night thinking about the Sly series. There's few gaming related things that I would enjoy more than a remaster of the Sly trilogy like they did with Crash.
I remember playing one of those games! It was really fun and the style was cool, but I remember I wasn’t able to finish it because the disk got scratched 😖
I think that's the only classic ps platformer that isn't owned by like activision or some other greedy company.
They did remaster it on PS3 as the sky Cooper collection. I think it's on psNow as well
Luke, I agree with you. Second Sight was one of my favorite games when it came out. It's a shame no one talks about it. This game had one of the coolest plot twists at the end that completely baffled me at the time (though now I can look back and say it makes total sense).
Was so happy to see this game here. It was one of my favorite games that my brother watched me play and we quoted the mental patients for years and years.
One that has a special place in my heart is an old PS2 game called Jade Cocoon 2. Basically a pokemon-like game where you collect and raise monsters. Thing is, you had to collect eggs in the wild to get new monsters and in order to continue leveling/evolving them you had to infuse power from defeated evil monsters which would revert your tamed ones to eggs that you have re-raise now. The renewed monsters would be stronger now with new attacks belonging to one of four elements: wind, water, fire, and earth. Fire was often your direct damage attacks, wind inflicted ailments or harnessed lightning, water often healed or revived defeated monsters, and earth provided defensive abilities.
Monsters themselves also came with inherent elements depending on where they naturally inhabited. Though this mainly restricted them from using a polar opposite elements: fire vs water and earth vs wind. Combat was also much like pokemon but worked off the four elements to allow up to three monsters to fight your enemies at any given moment and you can rotate to a different elemental side to change the flow of battle. Plenty of strategy and tactics involved and i loved it.