SNEAKY NINJA KICKSTARTER PC
Written by lone coder Mervyn Estcourt (who also produced a PC remake almost 20 years later), this remarkably progressive 3D chase game gets the player to ride a futuristic motorbike through dense woodland, attempting to track down and shoot enemy riders. 3D Deathchase (Micromega, ZX Spectrum, 1983) What have I forgotten? What crimes against video game nostalgia have I committed? Add your own favourites in the comments section. Each one of these did something interesting with gaming, just not interesting enough to be endlessly recalled in misty-eyed retro articles or on otherwise pretty good Charlie Brooker documentaries. Here, we be remember 30 brilliant, idiosyncratic, challenging or just plain weird titles that have been erased from the gaming annals, or at least criminally overlooked. Alternatively, there are the offbeat outliers completely shunned during their own lifetimes, only to be quietly ransacked by later generations of designers. Titles once heralded as masterworks are often lost as console cycles turn. History is not always kind to great games. Table of Contents 3D Deathchase (Micromega, ZX Spectrum, 1983) Aliens: The Computer Game (Software Studios/Electric Dreams Software, C64/Spectrum, 1986) Alter Ego (Activision, C64/PC/Apple II, 1986) Astal (Sega, Sega Saturn, 1995) Bioforge (EA/Origin, PC, 1995) Bust A Groove (Enix/Metro Graphics, PlayStation, 1998) ChuChu Rocket (Sega/Sonic Team, Dreamcast, 1999) Devil Dice (Sony/Shift, PlayStation, 1998) Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Nntendo/Silicon Knights, GameCube, 2002) Freedom Fighters (EA/IO Interactive, GameCube/PS2/Xbox, 2003) FreQuency (Sony, PS2, 2001) Gitaroo Man (Koei/Inis, PS2/PSP, 2001) Hellfire (Toaplan, arcade/Mega Drive/PC Engine, 1989) Herzog Zwei (Sega/Technosoft, Mega Drive, 1989) Interstate 76 (Activision, PC, 1997) Little Big Adventure (EA, PC/PlayStation, 1994) Meridian 59 (The 3DO Company, PC, 1995) Mischief Makers (Nintendo/Treasure, N64, 1997) Nato Commander (Microprose, Apple II/Atari/C64, 1983) The Neverhood (Neverhood, Inc/Dreamworks, PC/PlayStation, 1996) Oids (FTL Games, Atari ST/Mac, 1987) Oni (Rockstar/Bungie, Mac/PC/PS3, 2001) Pyjamarama (Mikrogen, Amstrad/C64/Sectrum, 1984) Return Fire (Silent Software/Prolific, 3DO/PC/PlayStation, 1995) Runabout (ASCII/Climax Entertainment, PlayStation, 1997) Sacrifice (Shiny/Avalon, PC, 2000) Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (Acquire/Activision, PlayStation, 1998) Vib-Ribbon (Sony/NanaOn-Sha, PlayStation, 1999) The Warriors (Rockstar, PS2/Xbox, 2005) Zillion (Sega/Tatsunoko Production, Master System, 1987) FAQs Videos