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Squidslinger Gilder:
Ok so this thread is about classic games or games which were just lost to obscurity. Games you played as a kid or big kid which just stood out and now you can imagine yourself as an old fogie sitting around in a rocking chair talking about what was. You can post as many times as you want.

I'll start with NHL: Rock the Rink: http://youtu.be/ARJKWy4z2Hw
Gameplay here: http://youtu.be/9gO7GbwszDU

It was an obscure title at the time because it was coming off the NFL Blitz buzz which was dying out. They released it during the fall of that era and it just never got much press either. Its basically an off the wall arcade hockey game with over the top moves and an emphasis on violence. All to rock music and zany announcers "He puts the cake in the oven! The oven heated to a toasty 350deg!" To handle the extra effects, they cut it down to 3on3 hockey. But the engine was basically the same one EA used for the regular NHL series.

Honestly at the time, I liked regular NHL games better but for some reason I never really forgot this title. I'd still pull it out and play it for laughs now and then.

It was also somewhat iconic because it marked a shift in EA's policy towards NHL games which started in 94. In 93 the NHLPA game they ran had blood in it. When you'd beat someone senseless or whack them, they'd fall on the ice and a pool of blood would form. 94 they removed that after parental complaints about violence. Rock the Rink would have been impossible during that era and it signaled a shift back towards more bloody realism in hockey games.

HamsterIV:
Durring a game jam I tried to use Desert Strike as a jumping off point to a game idea to my team mates. Only to realize in horror that I was a decade older than half of the them and they had no idea what I was talking about.



Desert strike was an isometric attack helicopter game for the SNES and Sega Genesis. The player could roam the entirety of the map but missions objectives would appear at certain points in the map in a certain order. It was successful enough in its day to spawn 4 sequels across the SNES to PS1 console generation.

What saddens me is that the game development tools have progressed to the point that the games of my youth are fairly easy to make. Yet the want to be game developers who are just graduating college have not played them. Many of them think "video games" are the massive AAA affairs of their youth. I have seen people consider a "Shadow of the Colossus" clone is a reasonable goal for a first video game project.

Indreams:
Well, you guys are a decade and a half older than me.

But I also have a game I used to play that is lost to the past.
Inuyasha Demon Tournament


Inuyasha Demon Tournament was a flash game based on the anime Inuyasha. It featured a unique turns-based combat; instead of choosing a move every turn, you selected three moves to be played against your enemies three moves. So there is quite a lot of strategy involved.

I played it when I was in elementary school and I loved it. I believe adult swim is hosting the game now. If you want to check it out, you can find it at http://games.adultswim.com/demon-tournament-action-online-game.html

Squidslinger Gilder:
Oh the strike series...how they are missed. Though honestly, I think Desert Strike is the only one of the series I didn't beat. Some of the missions were down to the wire on fuel and ammo needed.

The original theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz46eUIDUtI

They reworked the series for the Playstation later with Soviet Strike and Nuclear Strike. Sadly the series just dropped off the radar again.

shaelyn:
wow, I remember Desert Strike.  but that game, like most of the other NES and SNES games in my household, belonged to my older brother.

not anymore though, I have the whole collection >:D

I'm gonna poke at Air Warrior for the PC (and its two sequels.)  for me, it was oldschool GoIO with a WW2 theme.  you could pilot a fighter plane or a bomber, and other players can crew your bombers too.  and there were squadrons; I was a part of the Knights Who Say "Ni!"  awesome bunch of fellas.  miss them very much.

man, I could make a P-38 turn on a dime.  and I loved being a tail gunner on a B-17.

sadly, they took down the servers and closed the game shortly after 9-11.

not many videos or anything of this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFmJUhUI5KI

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