Obscure 2 Pc-Game Compressed 370 MB
Julio Cesar Thap
"The Evil Days of Luckless John" was a mid 2000's adventure game about a guy trying to reclaim his uncles casino from a bunch of mobsters. I remember a time around 2009 or 2010 where Google had zero search results for this game, it was that obscure at the time! I never beat the game, I think I got past the sewer section, but I didn't get past the race section.
Not to be a let-down or what, but I feel like what constitutes "obscure" to OP is just, more often than not, all too abstract to me. Alien Shooter was by no way obscure to me, as I l'm aware of a bunch of other people who had it installed in their PC/laptop.
For some reason that specific game comes up a lot in discussions about obscure PC games. I pirated it from Reflexive many moons ago. There were several games in the series. I think part of what made it stand out was the fact that it was much more violent than the other casual games it was often featured alongside of.
I don't know a lot of obscure games, to be honest! Retro gaming pretty much sums up almost my entire gaming tastes, but I usually tend to play historically significant releases, rather than little known games. I think Gunman Chronicles might fit the bill, though, even if you'd probably be aware of it if you've got some experience with Half-Life mods.
Pariah is a sci-fi FPS game that was actually painfully average, which is nice compared to the rest of the shit they made at the time, the story is absolute nonsense and to this day I am baffled about it but it holds a special place in my heart as one of, if not the first, obscure jank FPS game I completed.
They are often considered the "European LJN", where they produced some of the worst licensed shovelware games ever made, based on then popular books, TV shows and movies, with each game having extremely lower budgets, bad graphics, unresponsive controls, crappy compressed video clips, no pre-release quality control and extremely poor grasp of the source material.
Same, I didn't realize that Alien Shooter was that obscure. I played the first one on a friend's PC when kids and downloaded the shareware versions of all Shooter franchise on Mom's PC lol
Now I have the almost entire series on Steam (was playing Zombie Shooter 1 yesterday lol), probably I'm one of the few (if not the only) Venezuelans to know about this game. The best Russian game I've played(?)
After I get back home from my folks' place, I Google the game...and nothing. A Gamespot review, a Moby Games page but nothing really concrete. Also, no gameplay videos on YouTube besides a really compressed trailer. Thankfully the WayBackMachine archived the publisher's website so we got some info like original retail price.
After having looked up some old games I played in my youth, I was struck by just how obscure some of them appeared to be. Games that I somehow came across despite them being pretty much invisible on the internet. As such I came to wonder what else might be out there that pretty much no one has heard of and what other games people have played and enjoyed that never got any attention.
Now to be clear, I am not talking about those kinds of games you find on every underrated classics lists and whatnot. I am talking about the really obscure stuff. Games whose most popular video on YouTube might have ten thousand views at most, maybe fifty thousand if they are lucky.
I play a ton of obscure indie games, and a bunch of my favorites are currently on sale. I don't think these games get the attention they deserve and they're all worth your time, so take a look if any of them catch your interest!
In recent times, ObsCure has received much higher reception by players, especially survival horror enthusiasts, with an 8.8 on Metacritic user rating. Many of these players consider the game an obscure cult classic. The game also received "overwhelmingly positive" reviews on Steam.
It must be noted that a collection of this nature is never complete, and the value of art is very personal and subjective. While we may love the familiar cover art of some classic favourites because we love the bands and the music, a critical look at the cover art can often be a disappointment. For the purposes of this cross-section of remarkable and obscure cd cover art we have chosen to ignore the musical genius of the albums in favor of showcasing brilliant cover art.
But Action Puzzlers are possibly my favorite genre of all time, and there are a LOT of them out there. During their height in the 90s, countless obscure ones slid out the door, often into arcades, but also on the home consoles of their day. And I love playing and finding these games, especially in a multiplayer setting. These are my Fighting Games. But then again, Action Puzzlers are basically fighting games, just you're fighting in a different way. Anyways, story time.
So, PS1 emulator Duck Station released a version that allows for rollback netcode netplay earlier this year. Me and the rest of the puzzle community popped the fuck off at this. In excitement, I began compiling a list. I spent like two days hunting for every single PS1 multiplayer action puzzler I could possibly find. And then, once I did, I played everyone of those games. Most are not good! Most are terrible Puyo Puyo clones, but some are GEMS, and I wanna talk about all the coolest most obscure ones today. This will be a special episode of this series, where I do little mini reviews of a bunch of games. If that seems up your alley, keep on readin'!
Tall Twins Tower - Also talked about this one before. A lot. This is my favorite puzzle game of all time, this is Tall Twins Tower. Spin blocks around and match colors to grow blocks. Combos cause more and more blocks to spawn across the level. Create ten whole layers of blocks, and you move onto the next level! It also has two characters with their own unique powers, slide and crane. And of course, there's multiplayer. It is hectic, requires a lot of focus, and LOADS of fun at high levels. This game is also hard as shit. The unfortuante thing is this game is so obscure, and I've played so much of it, that there's a single person I know who can play this close to my level, and that's @Ratttz. I want more friends to play this with ):
I used to do this series of posts on here where I talked about all my favorite obscure games I had discovered exploring the various retro libraries out there. I didn't run out of games, obviously, but my focus has been elsewhere recently. But one of the first posts on this I did was Ogre Battle 64, and I finally beat March of the Black Queen this week. And I want to talk about it.
From 2010 to 2014 Richard Cobbett wrote Crapshoot, a column about bringing random obscure games back into the light. This week, misogyny meets misandry in a battle of the sexes with only one redeeming feature... nobody's going to turn it into a first-person shooter any time soon.
Compressors, in terms of this framework, transform an input sequence (of bytes or characters) and write the result to an output. Each compressor is also required to implement a decompressor that can restore the original input losslessly from the compressed output. Apart from this, there are no strict rules as to what kind of transformation of the input occurs.
The ability of passing algorithms as command-line strings becomes most interesting when a Registry for algorithms gets added to the mix. Note how in the previous section's example, create_algo is called with fixed template types. A registry can be used to map string identifiers to actual types to obscure fixed typing.
Firstly, it scans the input - possibly multiple times - and stores information about how to compress the text (in this case by determining the alphabet bounds). Secondly, the input is encoded to a compressed output using that information (in this case by shrinking the character values to the minimally required interval).
Any box-like construction will resonate at one or more frequencies. In the case of a loudspeaker, such resonances are likely to be undesirable as they may obscure or interfere with the wanted sound from the drive units. As resonance also involves the storing and releaseing of energy over time, cabinet resonances can result in 'time smearing', causing a sharp impulsive sound like a 'thud' to be reproduced as a prolonged 'boom'. Cabinets are usually braced and damped internally to minimise resonances.
An encode-decode device typically employed to pass a wide dynamic range signal over a channel with a lower dynamic range capability. The source signal is compressed in the encoder to reduce the dynamic range, and subsequently expanded by the decoder to restore the original dynamics. The Dolby noise reduction codecs are examples of companders.
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