Obscure Video Games

Tsugunai: Atonement (Cattle Call - PS2 - 2001)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7909649...

Phix: The Adventure (Affect - PSX - 2003)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7817393...

Nayuta no Kiseki aka The Legend of Nayuta
(Falcom - PSP - 2012)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7811691...

"Short Warp" (ショートワープ) WARP, 1996
3DO minigame collection, includes free condom, has amazing array of content descriptors

Little Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ (Gammick - DS - 2008)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7795366...

Happy to see the #1 most researched title on Mobygames is Klan Cookout, a 1983 Apple II game about setting the Ku Klux Klan on fire www.mobygames.com/game/138166/...

Finally brought my long-slumbering 4K capture card back to life in my new PC since I wanna be able to capture retro games more regularly. Still much to tweak setup-wise, but in the meantime, enjoy some direct capture of one of the N64's most recognizable games (if you read import columns in 2000). 😌

Cover art for Hell's Temple on the Oric-1. A giant skull-headed demon with a mohawk throws a sword near a kneeling warrior.

Today's sick old computer game cover is Hell's Temple on the Oric-1.

Screenshot from the arcade game Jump Kids. Babies and freakish mutants in a chequerboard limbo.

Incomprehensible horrors from the arcade game Jump Kids.

Title screen from Brain Artifice on the Amiga. A normal-looking chap in a shirt and slacks plays a board game with a muscular man wearing naught but tiny underpants and a scimitar on his back. The title sure looks like it says "Groin Artifice"

Huh, "Groin Artifice" is a funny name for a game.

Evolution Worlds (Sting - GameCube - 2003)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7745669...

Ancient Roman (Nihon Systems - PSX - 1998)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7742045...

Dr. Slump (Bandai - PSX - 1999)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7733891...

Goemon: New Age Shutsudou (Konami - GBA - 2002)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7725662...

The Maze of the Kings (Sega - arcade - 2002)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7729286...

Squeeballs Party (Performance Designed Products - Wii - 2009)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7446665...

Rastan Saga II (Taito - PC Engine - 1990)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7682251...

Haunting Starring Polterguy (EA - Genesis - 1993)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7649523...

Qix Adventure (Taito - GBC - 2000)
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7555304...

China Gate, an uncommon tower-climbing beat-em-up from Technos starring the Journey to the West crew. Featured in our recent Arcade Cult Classics book! www.hardcoregaming101.net/china-gate/

Hit Back, wacky 3D Breakout-style hijinx for the Japanese PlayStation. www.hardcoregaming101.net/hit-back/

Panic! (Sega - Sega CD - 1994)  
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7480109...

Magical Vacation: From the spelltacular to the magically mundane The pixel art seen throughout Magical Vacation, Brownie Brown's 2001 GBA RPG, is never anything less than utterly stunning. Every location is bathed in comforting pastel colours and brimming with ast...

Magical Vacation, GBA

Deeply beautiful, yet disappointingly shallow too:

kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/01/30/f...

Dr. Slump (Bandai - PSX - 1999)  
obscurevideogames.tumblr.com/post/7346970...

Yellow T-shirt decorated with a game screenshot showing an anime-ish adventure guy holding and beholding a pile of treasure, accompanied by a small cat. Text box at the bottom of the screenshot reads: "WELL, I DID IT. I'M GREAT."

Gift from @mo-neek-a.bsky.social 🤩
(Image sourced from @obscurevgs.bsky.social Tumblr)

Tengai Makyou Ziria, the first major console RPG on a CD format, has been translated into English, some 24 years after its release. I hope people actually get to try this game now! stargood.org/trans/tenma....