What are some obscure gems for the PS1?
>>332583557
kings field
I found this at a thrift store one day and I still don't know what the fuck even
Omega Boost
Alundra 1 & 2
Kings Field
BIO Freaks
Army Men Air Attack 2
Misadventures of Tron Gonna
Brigadine Legends of Fersona
Front Mission 3
When I was younger I used to play 40 Winks, it was pretty fun. Can't say if it has aged well because I haven't played it since
>>332583860
That game's great. Artdink's finest work. Open world game before the term existed.
wild 9
That weird dream game ... LSD Dream Simulator
>>332584006
Alundra is not obscure at all, just like the King Field games
>>332584006
>Omega Boost
aw shit yeah
this, OP
Heart of Darkness
That lizard game
>>332584616
Gex?
Moon: Fantasy Remix Adventure
>>332584668
No Croc 2
Irritating Stick
two player diablo original
>>332583557
final fantasy 7
>Tfw this is still the best GitS game and probably will be forever
No One Can Stop Mr. Domino
>>332583557
Silhouette Mirage
Skullmonkeys mang
This shit right here
Maybe not super obscure, especially in Japan, but intelligent qube is fantastic.
>>332584704
>english patch never
Truly saddening.
Rc car racing was the fucking bomb idk what the actual name was called though.
One summer I left my ps1 on at all times because I couldn't figure out how to save and almost beat it, but there was one race with turns so sharp I couldn't consistently do it. Raged so fucking hard and one day turned my ps1 off and lost all those hours....
>>137079136
Devil Dice
Unholy War
Silent Bomber
Future Cop
Rizing Zan Samurai Gunman
>>332583860
>>332584147
I remember reading about this game in EGM or Gamefan back in the day and salivating over being to explore around in a 3D world. This was before Super Mario 64 kicked that door wide open. I was able to rent it and it was kinda cool at the time but I was never able to build up my character enough to kill mammoths for their tusks to build my glorious tower to the sun.
Shadow Tower is my favorite dungeon crawler and one of my favorite games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWm3OnLj4ws
>>332583557
Evil Zone, really cool fighting game with a surprisingly entertaining story mode (if you loved 90's anime)
>>332585756
Evil Zone is corny as fuck and it's glorious
This fucking thread
>>332585706
looks like shit
I fucking loved this game. It's a very solid 2.5D platformer.
>>332583860
I THOUGHT IT WAS A DREAM THANK YOU. I had memories of playing an unga bunga game at a friends house years ago and could never figure out what it was.
dino crisis
>>332585259
I was really scared of this game, don't know why.
Almost all the games in this thread have gotten Greatest Hits versions. Obscure pls
>>332586429
I watched this show when I was a kid
I'll have to look into the game
the translation is something
>>332583557
Azure DreamsChocobo's Dungeon 2
Deception 2 & 3
Grandia
Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
Legend of Mana
Monster Rancher 1 & 2
R-Type Delta
>>332583557
SPEED POWER GUNBIKE
This shit has a better plot than Last Order because the ZOTT only lasts about 20 minutes instead of half the god damn series.
>>332585756
It's too bad they tried so much experimental shit with it. Even for fighters back then it plays like absolute shit.
Games with world dictionaries and design by AIC are hard to knock though. Plus it's got a god-tier soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQHYZy5aXw4
Literally nobody else played this game
I am the only one who has ever owned a copy.
Prove me wrong
Why is it that the PS1's entire library seems to be comprised of obscure 10/10 gems that everyone knows but only played a handful
>>332585259
Was going to post this. It's called Kurushi here.
>>332587041
>world dictionaries
Hell yeah. I loved much detail about the world the put in Evil Zone.
Also all the characters being given their own anime-like episode styling.
Also Duke Nukem and Campbell of course.
Incredible Crisis
You'll need a CRT though, it's an old-school rhythm game.
>>332586207
For a Fromsoft game it really doesn't.
The fact that none of the character models had faces weirded me out as a kid but I still enjoyed it
>>332585640
Rc de go, fucking awesome game for a kid
>>332587198
The games aren't 10/10.
But a good number of them were 8/10, which is certainly good enough to thoroughly enjoy. The problem is that most people stuck with the RPGs, fighting, and racing at the time so most of the rest are terribly obscure.
>>332588336
Oh I actually have this.
It look decent so I got it one day still haven't touched though.
Einhander
Tombi
Warhawk
Blasto
Jersey Devil
Akuji the Heartless
Treasures of the Deep
Die Hard Trilogy
Twisted Metal Small Brawl
Ehrgeiz
Small Soldiers
Kingsley's Adventure
RayStorm
Spot Goes to Hollywood
>>332585259
PERRRRRRRFECT
>>332587789
muh nigga
>>332585006
This
Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster
Just seconding Silent Bomber. You're part of a penal unit sent to sabotage a giant warship on its way to destroy a planet and your weapon is remote explosives which you plant at your feet or attach to enemies by locking on to them. You can stack bombs to increase the blast radius and use special bombs to paralyse enemies, set ground on fire or pull everything into a black hole.
It was really hard, fun and quite fast from what I remember, even without going for the high score and it managed to fit a lot of variety into each mission for level design and how they used different enemies. It also had a multiplayer mode where you could play as some of those enemies and bosses from the campaign, which gets crazier with each mission and action movie cliche twist.
>>332584006
Most of these are not obscure at all.
The only one I would call obscure is Kings Field.
Aka Overboard!
PEPSI MAN
>>332583557
>>332589403
T H I S
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efyDQ96Xvgk
>>332588656
If I didn't get PERRRRRRRRRRFECT I start the level over.
>>332584368
There's nothing wrong with Dream Simulator.I bought it from the Japan PSN so I can always have it forever. That and every eboot I tried kept crashing my PSP so I tried buying it from PSN as a last resort and it works just fine
>>332590045
The NeverSoft logo got a game?
>>332583557
My cousin & I played this game all the time!
>>332590137
>>332590125
This thing is the precursor to The action orientated Resident evil games. As well as shooting you can melee enemies and do dodges. The map tells you where to go next, first time I saw that substantially in a game.
>>332583557
Sanvein is pretty fun. Time attack arena shooter.
Intelligent Qube is JP only IIRC, but it's fucking great, 3D puzzle action game about clearing waves of cubes.
Psychic Force is a fun aerial-based fighting game by Taito, kind of feels like its format would be a perfect candidate for a DBZ fighting game.
Also, it's not obscure (sold pretty well back in the day), but no one fucking talks about Street Fighter EX2+. Managed to be a better SF4 than SF4 actually was.
>>332584006
Omega Boost is pretty much a 10/10 game, other than the first three levels being way too fucking easy for no reason. Once the fourth stage kicks in, shit gets fucking real, and it's great. So fucking good.
>>332589319
oh man, fucking THIS
Silent Bomber is definitely top PS1 material.
How about some obscure weebshit?
>>332595649
does this count
Dank thread guys, I'll recommend the Xena game, it's kinda neat
>>332595649
I want to like that game more. It's an okayish Guardian Heroes ripoff, but it's not nearly as well designed (and I've had the game just not let me progress several times because it wouldn't unlock the screen).
Doesn't look too bad, it's just okay.
>>332598021
It was made by a friend of the guy that made Guardian Heroes and Code of Princess.
They worked together on an earlier game called Mad Stalker for the Sharp X68000.
>>332589403
>obscure
No.
>>332585186
This game was hot garbage. As a 4 year old, I still had a shitload of fun with it.
Same with Ehrgeiz. Holy crap was it bad.
>>332583557
there's this game that i played on the ps1 can't remember the name but it was some kind of letter c shooting some polygons and stuffk. kinda trippy
Terracon
Kingsleys Adventures
Silent Bomber
Dragon Valor
Space Debris
Other six year olds played stuff like Mario, Zelda and Pokemon. I played some of the most obscure shit there ever was.
>>332599675
Kids played N64
Teens played Playstation
Adults played Saturn
I put so many hours into this
>>332599848
Nobody played Saturn, because Sega wouldn't localize over half the games on the system.
>>332583557
Came here to post this OP
>>332584006
>Bio freak
>>332599848
owning a Saturn in the US in the mid-90s must have been suffering, particularly early on
a good third of the Saturn games I own are JP only
almost all of the rest are Sega arcade ports (I think there's like, Burning Rangers (JP version, didn't feel like spending the cash for the US release) and Panzer Dragoon that I have that aren't ports, and that's it)
so, I had some damn fine games, but there's so much missing in the machine's library
>>332583557
Three extreme. I dare you niggas to try and name a better sports game.
Baroque
Linda Cube Againtranslations never
>>332601349
At least we have baroque on the wii right.....? Who cares if they ruined the art and overhauled the gameplay right?
>>332589586
Looked up gameplay of this and decided to get it. Just ordered from ebay for $20.
Thanks anon.
>>332601253
>generic as fuck racing game: rollerskates edition
Spider:The Video Game
>>332587789
Kinda weird game, thought by some as a sequel to terranigma but if I remember right the possible connections are pretty debatable.
>>332583557
This game right here.
>>332602930
Oh shit what game is this? Looks better then horror games that come out today.
>>332602930
Game?
>>332602845
It was made by the same team and had some of the same concepts, as I recall, which is why it's called a spiritual successor. I don't think there are any official connections, though.
>Thrill Kill
Try to find this game online. It's an ultra-violent 4-player fighting game. It was never released but an actual Wu-Tang game using the same engine and same style was actually released later (???).
>>332603251
>>332603352
It's Silent Hill 1
Play it if you haven't, it's great
Breath of Fire III
Maybe not as obscure, but pretty over-looked.
>>332601053
>he didn't have a Saturn and a shop that would sell imported games back in the '90s
Truly the patrician's choice of gaming in the fifth gen.
Why the fuck haven't you guys posted this amazing game yet?
>>332603878
I stopped playing halfway through on the psp.
Am I missing something? Everyone seems to love it, but the battle system isn't very fun, nor is the story engaging.
>ctrl f "MediEvil"
>Phrase not found
I can't fucking believe this shit
Fucking neo-/v/
>>332604560
>MediEvil
>obscure
>>332604560
Medievil is undoubtedly a great game, but I wouldn't call it obscure
>got two sequels and a spot in PS All-Stars
>>332604340
>obscure
The Internet has made this game a legend. Everyone has played it.
>>332586819
this
MONSTER RANCHER 2 IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES EVER MADE
If you wanna play obscure as shit RPGs, play Baroque.
>>332604532
Eh, if it's not your thing, it's not your thing.
I was a BoF fan growing up with 1 and 2 on the SNES.
>>332604532
Nah, you found most of the content in the game.
The biggest aspects of Breath of Fire is the world with different species/tribes, and being a "classic" turn-based RPG style. You turn into some cool dragons and kill off gods at the end of the games, but it isn't anything amazingly outstanding. If you don't like the world, then there probably isn't much there for you.
>>332605107
It's better on Sega Saturn
Are the Jumping Flash games considered obscure? Definitely underrated if anything as they still play very well. Never see them mentioned though, hell even the GITS game made by the same people got mentioned.
>>332602930
Since when is Silent Hill obscure you tard?
I wouldn't call it exactly obscure, but Jet Moto 2.
>>332605478
The PS version has a better framerate, more content, and more balanced gameplay though. Compared to the balls hard Saturn version and the easy 3rd person remake, it's well balanced. Plus the remake loses all of the atmosphere that makes it good. Even at the time, there were very few real-time first person ARPGs.
Now, if only it were translated; I saw somebody in /vr/ working on editing the PS version but no progress.
>>332603132
Does this game have anything in common with the game from Sega genesis, Urban strike?
>>332589649
Underrated
>mfw my dad saw one of my uncles playing this and called him gay
Wild Arms
>>332585706
>those half-eaten skulls that ambush you
>>332590137
>>332606280
>called him gay
but the cleavage
normalfags confuse me, the point is to sexualize the girls
Hellnight, literally one of the best horror games I've played.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellnight
>>332605686
How is it not?
>>332585006
>those tight as fuck controls
>that sliding
>perfectly paced missions
I can replay this game anytime.
>>332585176
what a fucking amazing game this was! i lend it to my bestfriend in elementary and he hated it the white cunt.
>>332606457
I remember he was in the middle of a fight and the contrast was too much since we usually saw him playing shit like RE and silent hill
>>332586620
not alone on this. I think this what started my nightmares having to fall down in a bottomless pit
>>332604210
The Saturn was the PC Engine of the 5th generation. So many great Japanese games.
>>332584609
Nightmare fuel
>>332606727
I still need to chip my damn JP Saturn. I want those games but I don't make 300k starting so I buy spare controllers instead.
Back when EA made good games. So much fucking fun especially the assault mode which was essentially a MOBA.
A remastered release with same gameplay but modern graphics and steam multiplayer would be amazing.
Not Playstation but this game is obscure as they get. A solid 10 out of 10 for its time though.
>>332607172
Oh man i played that mode so much
>>332607206
It has a PS1 port, but the N64 version is far superior.
>>332585259
The most unexpected game to have the most effective atmosphere ever. Really loved that game as a child.
Shadow Man, OP. i still dont know anyone who has even heard of it. which is surprising since its apparently kinda popular.
Would have to say Koudelka and Alone In The Dark.
The first for being an engaging horror-esque RPG that has a phenomenal soundtrack created by Hiroki Kikuta. The second for being a great horror game in general. I remember being terrified playing AITD more so than when I played any of the old RE games or even the OG Silent Hill.
I was 12 when I played this and the story and environment were very abstract and the whole game made you feel sort of out of place. Off putting voice acting and the graphics in its day were top notch making this a pretty obscure game to play but it was damn good as I recall.
Elemental Gearbolt
It was like an RPG that used a lightgun.
>>332607567
>>332607767
Get a room you two
Ape Escape isn't obscure but worth mentioning anyways.
>>332607917
We're men of refined taste. Soul Reaver was a game I also had around the same time and I found it equally entertaining for a lot of the same reasons. Beautiful game.
OP here.
That's a lot of games.
>>332602298
I'm mostly assblasted that they replaced the god-tier music with generic JRPG shit.
>>332608535
The Japs are masters of rediculousness
>>332608535
Games, huh?
>>332608535
We've only scratched the tip buddy
>>332583557
Dark Stone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwdS_petzXE
>>332608535
Metal... games?
>>332608535
The PS1 had an enormous library thanks to third party support.
>>332607567
>>332607767
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2002/mar/15/games.advertising
AHAHAHAHAHA
Was nightmare creatures mentioned? Cause nightmare creatures.
>>332583860
>>332583860
>>332583860
Game was too ahead of its time. Fukken crazy.
>>332600920
Pokemon for the PSX. Was awesome.I only rented it for a weekend, and never got to own it.
>>332607206
This game is a piece of shit. It was terrible then, I can't imagine age made it any better.
>>332607567
>>332607767
This shit was super popular. Good game, but I bet it aged like shit.
>>332608940
Cant believe I forgot about this
>>332607868
Was about to post "Game = 0 results" and call you all out but you sir are my exceptional nigger.
Some good ol' robot fightan
>>332608940
>http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2002/mar/15/games.advertising
damn where did you dig this shit from
I now want to play these games despite them looking shitty. I miss when vidya had balls.
>>332583860
10/10 Neanderthal simulator right here
>>332608940
>"Grave" concerns
>>332607567
Dreamcast is the best version.
>>332583557
that game starring bruce willis. and im not talking about die hard trilogy
>>332583557
Pinobee
HAS ANYONE ELSE IN THIS FUCKING THREAD EVER PLAYED THAT SHIT?
>>332610536
mah nigga. this game is truly underrated
>>332583557
I've heard that Klonoa: Door to Phantomile is good.
I actually played every other english-language Klonoa game (including the Wii remake) but not the original Door to Phantomile. I can't say for certain, but it should be like the others and quite good.
>>332606485
You should have been aborted.
>>332587374
>here
Where is here? Is your fucking weeb cave, faggot?
>>332585928
>mind if I barrow that big sword of yours for awhile?
>and I'm not talking about your sword... teehehee
I happen to be an expert in this topic.
>>332606485
A fuck load of sequels and spinoffs, a remake ported to everything, damned movies for starters.
>>332615165
>>332615310
Tobal No. 2
was jp only, but improved on the original by like a million times. Also had an rpg/dungeon crawler mode that was awesome.
>>332615449
Now, this one has 4 sequels, but it is still a "literally who?" series with 200-300k per game. Still a fantastic series.
to fill the void, Viv ribbon
https://youtu.be/1Zmmw4MMUWM?t=12m5s
>>332585145
This so much.
Skullmonkeys was the shit. Like a claymation Donkey Kong Country crossed with Earthworm Jim. So good.
The music was also quite nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngajEwTy2d4
Jet Moto 2 and Jet Moto 3
Thrasher: Skate and Destroy
Armored Core
Intelligent Cube was fucking great
Some one help me out here: it was a game where you control a spaceship and you have to defend a space station called The Midas. Really cool. First person. Came on one of the demo discs.
Also another where it was a beat-em-up and you could choose from 4 characters. One was a female named Mace and she was tall and you could kinda see her thong. Same demo disc. Sorry for vagueness.
>>332617692
>spaceship
>first person
>PS1
Probably Colony Wars, the Freespace of that console. Only other first person space game for PS1 I can think of is Blast Radius.
>>332617692
>Trasher skate & destroy.
https://youtu.be/rKTUAESacQM
>>332617692
Edit: Tiny Tank, that little yellow tank was a badass
No more games that played like these has been released ever since.
>>332618251
I loved vigilante 7. Miss that shit so much.BASS QUAKE
>>332618046
Yeah Colony Wars was fucking awesome, beer even knew it was on the demo disc until I pressed some of the triggers and it showed a little 3 button code, cryptic as fuck
>>332618310
Never even knew*
>>332584210
Was going to say this. Good game.
>>332618251
this game was THE SHIT
> ctrl + f 'Saga Frontier'
> no matches
Come on now, anons...
>>332617692
>Jet Moto 2
Had a cheat code to get every level from Jet Moto 1. Wish more games would do this.
I think Jet Moto 1 controls better though.
>>332616197
>worlds youngest billionaires
>>332617692
Fighting Force
>googled 'ps1 mace' and found it instantly
>>332618729
You're right, it's an obscure game.
Really fucking weird too. Probably the most surreal game Square's ever released.
>>332618884
Fuck, are you serious? I typed in "playstation mace" and all I got was fucking Mace Griffin Bounty Hunter. Damn you google
>>332618884
I also thought to myself "Maybe it's 'Final Fight'. Nope, totally different game." Close tho
>>332619190
>>332619347
Just a side note but there's a sequel
I played it
It's a third person action game and it sucks ass
>>332619662
(Same guy here) What was so bad about it?
I've never known anyone else who had or even played this
>>332618251
Vigilante 8 was fucking awesome
POWERSLAVE
>>332619832
I absolutely played the demo of that on one of those PS1 demo discs, it seemed like a weird yet entertaining game
>>332619748
Tank controls, unsatisfying combat due to enemies that stand around waiting to get killed, generic as hell story, clunky camera, generic as hell music
>>332583557
Vanguard Bandits
Soundtrack by The Crystal Method. Never played it myself but it sounds pretty cool.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/N2O:_Nitrous_Oxide
>>332620431
good game, but better on the saturn
That 3D transition
>>332620608
My fucking nigger. Loved that game.
>>332620431
>get bored halfway through the game
>look up cheat codes online out of curiosity
>skip to final boss with 99 lives and extra ammo/bombs
>it's some ugly fatass dressed in yellow
>literally takes millions of shots to kill
>cutscene of him melting into a puddle, fade to black and the credits roll
Hardest Psx game out there, no contest
Post games that no one beat
>>332583557
Ace combat 2 and 3
>>332599675
>>332585407
>>332589319
>>332592401
>silent bomber
Mah niggas. I haven't finished the chess level yet, it's been 15 years now.
Might play and get rektd again.
Play this if you haven't. It's fun as fuck.
>>332621348
I did beat, you get two Mem cards and two different new games and It's easy as shit clone cards
>>332621404
>obscure
LOL
Not even the JP version of AC3 is obscure. Hell, the original Air Combat is a better fit than those two.
Played the shit out of this on a jampack
>>332621348
>Fighting a sage.
>"I can do it!".
>Sage proceeds to fuse a fucking moth you can't beat without the right cards.
Seriously, till this day I still haven't managed to understand what are the rules of fusion for that game.
>>332621930
man oh man, that game was fun as balls, me and my brothers played the shit out of it
It was alright
Thanks for the thread , I got 3 games from here that I'm going to try. I would download more but nobody ever posts gameplay of the games they post.
>nobody ever posts gameplay of the games they post.
In my case that's because the games I posted areobscure, so there's no good gameplay footage on youtube.
Fuck that Atmospheric Reduction Center level though. Jumping puzzles and wonky platforming controls don't mix well, otherwise it's a solid game.
>>332622568
>>332618251
>>332585928
omg.. I played these games too!
https://youtu.be/LB0tpDeiYDk?t=26s
Saturn > PlayStation
>>332622703
Here you go you spoiled brat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF2G4mpDDnM
Though it doesn't really get the coolest thing about the game across.
>>332623772
I'm not clicking the link unless you post the game anon.
>>332623656
For obscure gems? Absolutely.
For 2d games? You betcha.
For 3d games? Never ever, not even once.
>>332623656
Yes.
>>332623656
YOU WILL PLAY THE SEGA SATURN
Not the greatest but has a spooky atmosphere.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxMvHMznmDg
>>332623946
Literally anything in the world looks better than PS1 3D
>>332623656
Only if you can read moonrunes to be honest fampai
>>332583557
Grandia
Overboard
>>332583557
Team Buddies, AKA Racist Pills: Genocide.
Maybe not *obscure*, but pretty pricey to pick up these days.
>>332625021
I just checked Amazon, wow. 200 bucks for it.
What's the pros/cons of this game?
>>332625425
Been a good decade since I played it, but it was a very stripped down pseudo-RTS with crafting-before-it-was-a-thing gameplay, grab boxes and stack them in set configurations to get better weapons and shit before the enemy does to win, great artstyle and voice acting, shit's offensive as fuck, but seem to recall it being a bit unbalanced. Had my copy stolen when my flat got robbed, probably the only reason it never got played again.