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30 Jan 2010, 8:14 am

I want to hear of your favorite games you've played that never got the attention they deserved.

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30 Jan 2010, 8:59 am

Swing Kinker.

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30 Jan 2010, 10:14 am

Aquanox, a very interesting game. Like a lot of space fighter games, but underwater. Lots of dialogue, which I love.

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30 Jan 2010, 1:38 pm

KA-BALA, Transogram, 1967. Tilting glow-in-the-dark gameboard, complete with miniature Tarot cards, a built-in Ouija style alphanumeric divination mechanism. Big staring eyeball that followed you as you 'played'. Every kid should have one.

Ka-Bala

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30 Jan 2010, 1:52 pm

Rocket on the Nintendo 64 was one I quite liked though not very big.

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30 Jan 2010, 2:33 pm

Plague. A board game where each player has to travel around 16th century Weymouth (the town where I grew up!) and collect bodies from houses and take them to the graveyard. Every so often, rats would be added from the "rat bag", and you could move them instead of yourself on some turns, so there was strategy involved in trying to trap your opponent (you couldn't move past rats ).

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30 Jan 2010, 3:23 pm

Holy crap, I second Rocket: Robot on Wheels for N64. Fantastic game. I've got the cart on my shelf right now

I'll never forget throwing sheep against a thorn bush wall and using them as platforms for climbing (they stick like velcro).

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30 Jan 2010, 4:03 pm

Bradleigh wrote:

Rocket on the Nintendo 64 was one I quite liked though not very big.

I used to play that.

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30 Jan 2010, 4:03 pm

Plock for SNES

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30 Jan 2010, 4:36 pm

I liked Rocket too.

I also liked:

Bubsy
Iggy's Wreckin' Balls
Space Station Silicon Valley
Jade Cocoon
Eternal Eyes

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30 Jan 2010, 4:48 pm

Pandemic. A co-op board game where you try to save the world from deadly viruses. It's the most fun board game I've played in a while. I'm always searching for great board games and this was a big winner for me.

And now I want to seek out Plague that Aietra mentioned. Sounds awesome.

I'm sure there are many games I enjoy that nobody knows of, but my brain is tired right now. I'll come back later.

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30 Jan 2010, 5:17 pm

Faxanadu for Nintendo. Action-RPG type game, skill building, good attack system, catchy name.

If you go to Gamespot website & look at the score, users give it an 8. I'm just about near that score, although i sometimes replay old games & find their nostalgia feel makes me feel different than when I first played.

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30 Jan 2010, 5:21 pm

SamwiseGamgee wrote:

I LOVE Pandemic! Used to play it with my ex all the time! (And obsessively stack up the little cubes when I had a meltdown!). Right, when I come to Canada to seek out your crocheted Lord of the Rings army and own with my clay one, we shall play Pandemic and Plague!

When me and my ex first got Pandemic, I had swine flu, so I always started first!

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30 Jan 2010, 5:32 pm

Ooh, and another series of board games I used to play with my ex was these two-player strategy games. I've forgotten the name of the series, but there was Zertz and Yinsh and about three others. They were AWESOME!

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30 Jan 2010, 6:08 pm

Out of this World/ Another world

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30 Jan 2010, 10:34 pm

Shiznown, which system do you play OOTW on? I tried it on Super Nintendo (i think) & it was difficult to move. The PC version (Genesis?) is supposed to be easier to play. And thus, enjoy.

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