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Do you know some obscure 1990's PC games?

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2 minutes ago, Doom64guy said:

"Operation Logic Bomb: The Ultimate Search and Destroy"

 

A short, difficult, but descent game.

 

Also, the first SNES game I have.

Uh, the title says "90's Obscure PC Games".

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11 minutes ago, taufan99 said:

Uh, the title says "90's Obscure PC Games".

Oops, forgot that. Sorry.

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On 12/6/2023 at 5:23 AM, ETTiNGRiNDER said:

Weird proto-FPS that's very akin to Catacomb Abyss/Armageddon/Apocalypse in the vibe it has, but in VGA, you have a gun instead of fireballs (excuse me, Magick Missiles), and the engine has a weird quirk where, although you have free movement instead of being tile-locked like in a Dungeon Master style game, you can only rotate at 90-degree angles.  I suspect the devs just couldn't figure out how to program the renderer to handle arbitrary player angles, threw their hands up and said "good enough".

I played this recently (a bit) and I'm pretty sure that the movement is still grid-locked, but the grid is very fine so you don't notice it a lot.

 

The Windows port supposedly changes this to full Wolfenstein 3-D / The Catacomb Abyss thing, but I couldn't make it run so I cannot tell for sure.

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On 2/2/2021 at 10:50 PM, MrFlibble said:

I guess you won't get a lot more obscure than this:

https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/dead-of-night/

Turns out that it does get more obscure after all (YMMV). I'll just repost my message from VOGONS:

 

Here's a really obscure game that went open source. It's was originally called Super Pooh, an unlicensed DOS action platform game based on Winnie the Pooh characters (but with a few twists, being mostly inspired by the Soviet version).

 

It was sold commercially in the 90s, then the author was able to negotiate an international release on consoles, but all Pooh references had to be removed for copyright reasons, so the game became Super Plusha. Actual gameplay and levels remained the same.

 

The DOS game was rediscovered by enthusiasts in 2010, and the author was happy to provide the full version and the source code. Based on this, an updated DOS version and a Windows port was created by CTPAX-CHEATER, which is available here along with an interview with the author (all in Russian though):
https://ctpax-cheater.losthost.org/htmldocs/pooh.htm

 

The source code is released under the Apache 2.0 license and available here:
https://github.com/D0NM/Vinnie

 

The author gave full permission to do anything with the game data as well.

 

You can download it and play in the browser (via JS-DOS) at DOS Games Archive:

https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/super-pooh

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