It makes me feel so warm and fuzzy inside how many of the mentioned games I have already. At some point in my life I was browsing all the bargain bins and Ebays for a bit more obscure PC games that got recognition somewhere. But there are lots in these lists that I don't have. I like lists like these.

I wasn't surprised that another Finn would mention this game. For some odd reason this game originally became a big hit in Finland, possibly because the biggest local gaming magazine (Pelit) happened to give a glowing review for it back in the day. Maybe it went quite unnoticed in rest of the world. I remember reading somewhere that quite a big portion of their sales originally came from Finland.

Baldies

Wishlist

I like the idea, but not the format. Would much prefer to hear something specific about the game, why it is great, by the people that bring it forward rather than just a link to wikipedia. It's turning into a long list and I don't real feel like clicking through just to learn about the game.

Show your enthusiasm! Tell me why you feel it's an important addition.

Wheel of Time.

http://www.gamespot.com/the-wheel-of-time-1999/reviews/the-wheel-of-time-review-2531896/

The games from big action strategy hybrid boom of '98 could be here. Uprising 1/2, , [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Assault]Urban Assault ... although I barely remember them, maybe they're not as good as my memories indicate, but still. :)

I'd buy it, if they were able to get the stupid Quicktime FMV videos to work on modern Windows versions. Why not, they seemed get videos working on many other problematic PC games too (e.g. Return to Krondor, I think).

I think I have problems with the QT videos in both XP and Win7 (with Wheel of Time). First I didn't even know I had any problem, I felt I was just missing something because I didn't have any idea why I had ended up in some new place.

Turned out that the game simply skipped all the videos because it couldn't play them. Too bad the videos usually explained quite a bit what happened with the story etc.

In Win7 64bit I was able to get them work, sorta, by installing the latest "Quicktime" (iTunes). Audio is fine, but video is shown as a slideshow, apparently showing every 10th frame or something. You understand the story that way, but still quite irritating.

If you play the videos from the Quicktime/iTunes player, they play fine though.

I'm not quite sure if there are any other problems with the game. For example, I don't know why some areas that seem like they should be accessible, are not (containing extra weapons, spells, even enemies). Some scripting problems, like has happened with some other Win9x games when run on XP or 7?

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http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/d_d_d_no_shokutaku

Ignition

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/ignition

Lost Planet: Extreme Condition - Colonies Edition

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/lost_planet_extreme_condition_colonies_edition

Shadow of Memories (Shadow of Destiny)

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/shadow_of_memories_shadow_of_destiny

RAIDEN III

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/raiden_iii_1

When I was but a lad I had a game called Phantasie. It was turn based group combat like what you expected from Final Fantasy, but Final Fantasy 1 was still a few years away.

There was no main character, which is something I would love to see in more games. You start the game in a town and have to go to the Inn to recruit a party. You had the normal Human, Elf and Dwarf races but you could also get Orcs, Pixies, Elementals, Kobolds and a few other races to choose from. Then you picked your typical Thief, Fighter and Wizard classes, though I seem to remember there also being classes like Priest and Ranger. Your party could be up to 6 characters and if some of them died you brought the remaining party back to an inn and recruit more members. This created an imbalance in the party where some characters would be several levels higher than others. No problem! You could also pay for training in towns, basically buying XP, so that you could raise your characters levels. You also had to be in town to level up, I believe you had to pay an oracle to read your fortune and tell you if you have advanced or need more experience. When choosing a character they had important stats like Strength and Endurance, but sometimes more importantly they had ages. As you played the characters would age and become older. I had a very powerful human wizard once that I lost because he died of old age!

Enemies used row formations in combat, that is if you happen upon a group of 12 orcs there could be 4 in the first row, 5 in the second and 3 in the third. Only the orcs in the first 2 rows could attack you and most of your fighters could only attack the first row. When issuing attack commands you had choices like Slash, Thrust and Parry. There were some fighter classes that could thrust enemies in the second row. Wizards could cast fireballs and other spells on any row.

Gameplay was moving your party across the map and having random encounters. There were other towns to be discovered as well as dungeons to be explored. Here is where I get to why I want this game from GOG. The main quest of the game was delivered to you by finding scrolls in the dungeons. Your party had to be strong enough to fully explore each dungeon and gather the scrolls to tell you what was happening in the land that needed to be stopped by a brave group of adventurers. Before entering a dungeon you had to make sure you had a well rounded and experienced party as well as the game manual because it would ask you to enter the third word in the second paragraph on page 6 to continue. Well one day my mom heard from her sewing circle of friends that you shouldn't let your kids watch certain cartoons or play games like Dungeons & Dragons or else the kids would become devil worshipers who would then kill their parents in the middle of the night. (because, you know, that was happening all the time back then) Shortly afterwards my Phantasie game box disappeared with the manual inside. My mom said it was an "accident", she must have mistaken it for junk mail when she threw away all the old paperwork laying on the desk. (in fairness to her I guess a game box does look exactly like a flyer advertising dish soap) So while I did still have the disk, it was safely left in the drive, I was never able to enter any dungeons ever again and thus was never able to discover what the quest was and what I was supposed to be doing. My party could take on a group of Dark Knights with no problem, but avoided the cave full of orcs for no reason other than they couldn't answer an arbitrary question.

So please, fellow gamers, vote for this game. It is a long lost gem that I once held and would love to share it with you all.

Unless something changed since i sent them an email about it (years ago) they have no plans for this. We recently even discussed it on the forums here. Apparently technicalities prevent them from doing so. Perhaps because the game wasn't designed to be installed whatsoever.

I for one would like to see some of the old SSI RPGs from before the Gold Box Games. I think it would make a good three pack to have:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard%27s_Crown
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shard_of_Spring
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon%27s_Winter

They're somewhat clunky now, but are some of the earliest tactical rpgs released and can be a lot of fun once you're into them. Although Demon's Winter is the only one I've replayed anytime recently. They don't have the nasty D&D licensing problems of the Gold Box games, and are pretty similar if slightly less advanced.

The other early SSI RPG series I'd love to see would be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasie

I've never played any of the phantasie games, and it looks like 2 and 4 never got PC releases, but I would love to try them out.

wishlist links:

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/wizards_crown
http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/shard_of_spring
http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/demons_winter
http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/phantasie_1_and_3_ssi

The Neverhood

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/the_neverhood

To name a few...

Chasm: The Rift, Strife, Powerslave, KKND, Metal Fatigue, Battle Realms, Dangerous Dave, Catacombs 3D, Bio Menace, Overkill, Cybermage, Last Rites, Gender Wars, Harbinger, Alien Rampage, Vivisector, SiN, Ripper, Black Dahlia, Attack of the Saucerman!, The Geekwad, Wacky Funsters, Dark Colony, Zombie Wars, Jill of the Jungle, Jazz Jackrabbit, Vinyl Goddess from Mars, BioForge, Fountain of Dreams...

Lots and lots of games out there :O

Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth (or The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Schnibble in the US)

http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/games/the_bizarre_adventures_of_woodruff_and_the_schnibble

http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/bizarre-adventures-of-woodruff-and-the-schnibble

Ya that was/is quite irritating. But GOG could get around that... its their job after all.

The Multiplayer is also awesome, and when I had XP I played it for a little bit and I had a blast. There is only at most six people online at any given time, so a GOG release could give it the awareness and the shot in the arm it needs.

I just want to play it dammit!

Good thread idea. I know I had some favorites hidden away that I thought others might not find. (This is all my childhood here; nostalgia is a heck of drug)



Pajama Sam, Putt-Putt, Spy Fox, Freddi Fish, and other Humongous Entertainment titles now owned by Atari) - charming, humorous p'n'c adventure games for kids

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humongous_%28game_developer%29#Published_Titles



Speedy Eggbert (or Blupi) - charming little relatively-unknown platformer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Eggbert



Frogger (1997), Frogger 2 (2000), Pac-Man Adventures in Time (2000) and other Hasbro Interactive titles:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger_%281997_video_game%29
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger_2:_Swampy%27s_Revenge]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger_2:_Swampy%27s_Revenge[/url]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man:_Adventures_in_Time]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man:_Adventures_in_Time[/url]

(Probably pretty tough because of requiring Konami and Namco licenses, but still wanted to mention them...)