List an old, lesser known, retro game that's kind of bad but has charm.

[Ace McPlane]

Just for fun.

 

List something funny that no one has probably ever heard of.

 

I'll start with "down under dan".

 

It's kind of terrible, the accents are super stereotypical, it starts out with a horrible button mashing sequence, but once you get past all that.. it's actually really fun.

Sort of like an old sierra game like space quest but with some RPG elements.

 

 

[Changis]

Lost Eden (1995)

Available on GOG.com

• One of the first FMV games made.
• Hilariously bad voice acting at times,
• People with questionable clothing
• AWESOME soundtrack

"cheesy, but charming"

 

Edited August 22, 2017 by Changis
added link to game

[DnFx91]

G-Darius, PS1, fantastic game i rediscovered recently after playing with retropie

[intender]

phantasmagoria.  I loved that game when it came out but it was sooooo bad. 

[Kevo05s]

Skate or die on NES, played tons of hours in my childhood, loved it, but if you look at it, it's far from being that great, and it wasn't that popular

[Ace McPlane]

55 minutes ago, Changis said:

Lost Eden (1995)

 

• One of the first FMV games made.
• Hilariously bad voice acting at times,
• People with questionable clothing
• AWESOME soundtrack

"cheesy, but charming"

 

I might actually play this

[PlayStation 2]

Nicktoons Racing. I had it on the PlayStation when I was younger but it was available on Windows. It's a shitty Mario Kart clone but it's not a terrible game all things considered.

[Ace McPlane]

Oh, I thought of another one:

 

Rex Nebulator and the Cosmic Gender Bender

 

That one isn't that rare though. You can actually buy it on GOG.

[Misanthrope]

Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. A source 2 engine game that was so buggy even today you need a community patch to even get some of the quests and things to work. Seriously the tech issues here would push any other game not just to kinda bad but to dreadful.

 

However this is a proper RPG: Some of the role playing choices here have profound choices: The stealth character is so ugly you can't even get around the town map without aggro (you have to use the sewers to get in stores and such) The NPCs react to each type of character different and the crazy character literally changes every single line of player dialogue in the game to uniquely reflect how batshit insane you are.

 

Not only that but there's so much variety: One moment you're just doing regular combat missions for someone then you're uncovering a snuff film ring, then you get sent to a haunted mansion and the game puts on a sequence worthy of a full blown horror game, it just goes on and on. Might be the best computer RPG out there when it comes to mechanics and such but again: don't expect smooth sailing the bugs are extremely annoying and I wouldn't touch it without the community patch.

[Ace McPlane]

1 hour ago, Misanthrope said:

Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. A source 2 engine game that was so buggy even today you need a community patch to even get some of the quests and things to work. Seriously the tech issues here would push any other game not just to kinda bad but to dreadful.

 

However this is a proper RPG: Some of the role playing choices here have profound choices: The stealth character is so ugly you can't even get around the town map without aggro (you have to use the sewers to get in stores and such) The NPCs react to each type of character different and the crazy character literally changes every single line of player dialogue in the game to uniquely reflect how batshit insane you are.

 

Not only that but there's so much variety: One moment you're just doing regular combat missions for someone then you're uncovering a snuff film ring, then you get sent to a haunted mansion and the game puts on a sequence worthy of a full blown horror game, it just goes on and on. Might be the best computer RPG out there when it comes to mechanics and such but again: don't expect smooth sailing the bugs are extremely annoying and I wouldn't touch it without the community patch.

With a game at that level of buggyness

I usually install it in a virtual machine with whatever version of windows it was made for.

This almost always works except with some early 3d games where there's no real direct3d support in the VM for it like "The new adventures of the time machine".

Never got that one working. Might work with different hardware though. Could give it another go on some other computers I guess...

but even games that had this weird issue where the screen turns into a flat single line across your screen when you boot the game even in windows xp or windows 7, running the game in a windows 95 virtual machine made it run buttery smooth other than sometimes running a bit too fast with the game time in games.

[Ace McPlane]

Replying to a comment made me think of a really cool hidden gem:

 

Biosys 

 

 

 

Like, holy shit this game was different. 

You were in a series of biodomes trying to survive..

You actually had to control everything in the biodomes too. It was extremely technical and hard.

 

it was a survival game combined with a point and click adventure game...

which is starting to happen again now like with Kona so that kind of makes it way ahead of it's time.

 

I had to install it in windows 95 built into a virtual machine to get it to work though.

It's hit a miss whether or not it works without having to do that with your hardware.

The game time runs a bit fast on modern computers too it seems.

VM's don't fix that.

 

Still, I recommend finding a copy if you can because it was really neat.

 

 

[Not_Sean]

ThemeHospital:

Its not that buggy, its just DAMN Fing HARD.. man this game steps it up so much and with it so dead there is little to no info online from guys what worked and what didn't work for them. Love it though and the only reason I'll ever have origin installed on my PC. 

 

RollerCoaster Tycoon 1:

I havent got around to 2 yet, but am working through every single level and loving it, been playing it for years since I got the original CD's with expansions back in 2004 at a school fate sale thing. Got it on Steam and still love the Shit out of it. Although I now have all my saves in OneDrive a couple seconds before the level finishes so everytime I do a Format reinstall on windows I don't have to replay all the same levels again.