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10 Games you should have played, but probably didn’t [10-6]
September 12, 2008 on 3:22 pm | In Uncategorized | | Jeremy Read10. Metal Slug 3
Unless you’ve spent some time in the arcades you probably haven’t even seen or heard of this game, because it’s home platform is the Neogeo. Simple sidescrolling run and gun. The pinnacle of the series, the final mission can only be described as epic, involving defeating a country, fighting aliens, assaulting an alien mothership in space, blowing it up and fighting the alien brain while you plummet back to earth. Arriving back just in time for lunch. Unless you want to spend a day or two wrestling with a Neogeo emulator your best bet now would be to grab it for the Wii or Xbox360.
9. Netstorm: Islands at War.
Netstorm suffered from being pretty much online only and being released in 1997. Though to be fair it was playable on 24.4K. Titanic Entertainment was responsible for this title and you probably haven’t heard about it because you could convert the demo into the full retail version, hence sales weren’t exactly strong. You can download it here at Netstorm HQ. It still has an active community even now, a quirky little RTS that’s kind of like Tetris in the sky.
8. Quest for Glory 3
Sierra hybrid RPG/Adventure game. The most user friendly of the Quest for Glory series, it doesn’t have a text parser like the first two and isn’t plagued by bugs like the fourth. Insanely expensive to get nowadays, the QfG collection depending on the day could set you back nearly 140USD on Ebay so it might be easier to source it from elsewhere.
7. Eternal Daughter
Free platform game from Blackeye software. Reasonably difficult but well worth the effort to finish. If you want to play it you can get it here off Derek Yu’s site.
6. Traffic Department 2192
Top down shooter that was rarely known even when it was released. The game is a bit mundane, but makes up for it with the most random story line ever. Includes such bizzare lines as “you duranium dildo”.
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From memory, Traffic Department was awesome, with a separate adult and non-adult version involving some really random insults. Good times. Stiletto is a good name for a vehicle.
Comment by DarkSentinel — 4:35 pm — September 12, 2008 #
Ah, Quest for Glory - The fondness!
Although I did think the 3rd was the weakest in the series - It was too short, and I had wanted it for so long after 1 and 2, guess I was just setting myself up for something that wasn’t as great as it turned out to be.
As a historical note, I originally played Quest for Glory I, back when it was called ‘Heroes Quest’ and came on 9x 5.25″ floppys.
Comment by joshuasmyth — 1:13 am — September 20, 2008 #