One of my favorite topics, unfortunately not a lot of titles want to come to mind right now despite that I love talking about obscure and forgotten games that deserve more attention.
But I will try my best and perhaps be able to add some more titles to my own entry.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Manhattan Missions:
Don't let the name of a licensed title scare you off, this is actually a pretty decent little game that should even entertain non TMNT fans (though being familiar with the franchise does help)
Though released during the franchise's largest public awareness moment in the late 80s/early 90s (when the old cartoon was still airing and the the market was overflowed with everything with a TMNT image on it), this title unlike most fo the other games such as on the NES, and ports of the Arcade game (which outside the NES version all sucked) was an original for PC release that took more inspiration of the original Mirage comic that was intended for older readers though it does have some elements from the cartoon and the first movie in it as well. (mostly characters)
It is a side scrolling platform-fighting game in which the player alone or together with a fellow player must visit a number of locations in order to deal with local gang members, the maffia, mutants, aliens, and members of the Foot Clan in order to prevent the ninja master and crime lord the Shredder from taking over Manhattan Island.
Perhaps controls may have been a bit complicated for its time (the jump mechanism can definitely be a bit frustrating but it is not used much) but with the coming of DOSbox and game controllers it can finally be played as it was intended.
Only issues I may have outside the jumping is that I find it a shame that I can not map the character selection button, the Pause button, and the Esc button to the controller.
I rediscovered this title a few months back. I knew the game from the advertisement of an old PC magazine but did not think much of it (at the time most action games on the PC were average).
But once I found out how to configure its sound and control properly this was actually quite a nice little game.
Highlight on the 'small', this game is actually not that big, despite having an ingame time limit in which it must be completed a game in general should be able to finish it within an hour.
But this is one of those titles you don't mind playing and finishing more than just once, perhaps you want to try to finish the game faster than the previous session or impose some kind of handicap on yourself like not training the characters to much to increase their strength and health.
I think it is excellent when you have an hour to kill or so and are not in the mood for something more complex.
Anyone here who has heard of Zombie Wars?
But I will try my best and perhaps be able to add some more titles to my own entry.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Manhattan Missions:
Don't let the name of a licensed title scare you off, this is actually a pretty decent little game that should even entertain non TMNT fans (though being familiar with the franchise does help)
Though released during the franchise's largest public awareness moment in the late 80s/early 90s (when the old cartoon was still airing and the the market was overflowed with everything with a TMNT image on it), this title unlike most fo the other games such as on the NES, and ports of the Arcade game (which outside the NES version all sucked) was an original for PC release that took more inspiration of the original Mirage comic that was intended for older readers though it does have some elements from the cartoon and the first movie in it as well. (mostly characters)
It is a side scrolling platform-fighting game in which the player alone or together with a fellow player must visit a number of locations in order to deal with local gang members, the maffia, mutants, aliens, and members of the Foot Clan in order to prevent the ninja master and crime lord the Shredder from taking over Manhattan Island.
Perhaps controls may have been a bit complicated for its time (the jump mechanism can definitely be a bit frustrating but it is not used much) but with the coming of DOSbox and game controllers it can finally be played as it was intended.
Only issues I may have outside the jumping is that I find it a shame that I can not map the character selection button, the Pause button, and the Esc button to the controller.
I rediscovered this title a few months back. I knew the game from the advertisement of an old PC magazine but did not think much of it (at the time most action games on the PC were average).
But once I found out how to configure its sound and control properly this was actually quite a nice little game.
Highlight on the 'small', this game is actually not that big, despite having an ingame time limit in which it must be completed a game in general should be able to finish it within an hour.
But this is one of those titles you don't mind playing and finishing more than just once, perhaps you want to try to finish the game faster than the previous session or impose some kind of handicap on yourself like not training the characters to much to increase their strength and health.
I think it is excellent when you have an hour to kill or so and are not in the mood for something more complex.
Anyone here who has heard of Zombie Wars?
