This game called 101st Airborne: The Invasion Of Normandy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jfhru_TTKX4

and this old X-COM like World War 2 game that has you leading a squad of American soldiers. The game came out in the late 90s and I forgot it's name.

Did anyone here ever play Star Crusader (DOS, 1994)? I only ever played the demo, which contained the first 4 missions, that I got from a cover disk off a computer magazine, but it was pretty great, and I spent quite a lot of time on it. It's a space combat simulator á la TIE Fighter, and it had some nifty mechanics. There were only 2 or 3 ships to choose from in those early missions, but I found out that if I disabled an enemy ship and towed it back to base with my tractor beam, I could choose that ship for the next mission.

I've never seen the game mentioned in the press, and never heard anyone else talk about it, so I'd be interested to know whether anyone else has ever played it.

I played a racing game back in the day (between the early 90s and late 90s, can't pinpoint the exact year)... I don't know the name as I was a teenager with no money at the time and someone passed it to me on disk.

You could have a bunch of vehicles ranging from a race car to a truck.

You could build your own tracks and there were bridges, jumps and things that made your car go 360. In retrospective, it felt like the granddaddy of games like Trackmania.

Whenever I mention this game, nobody has the faintest idea of what I'm talking about...

That could have been a lot of games, including Re-Volt.

SHINE. The game that will never come to Gog.

More info here:
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/shine

I LOVE this game! I barely played it and at the time I hardly understood what the heck to do (I had never really played anything like an FMV adventure game). A friend had it as a "bundle" like you. I've always wanted to go back to it and try it again.

My two would be a couple of really obscure 4X type games. I used to love stuff like Ascendancy and Spaceward Ho, so I'd pick up 4X cames that were in a different vein from MOO. Added points if they were a little atypical (oddly enough, these sorts of games later morphed into the pseudo realtime stuff we have a couple of here on GoG).

So anyway

1) Maelstrom

2) Alien Legacy

Games like this got bonus points if they included characters that really contributed on a meaningful level (reason I loved Rebellion despite the game getting panned).

Oddly enough I've grown out of Space 4X despite liking the idea of them. Now I find them a bit too fiddly and cumbersome. I should pick one up at some point and see if I can get into them again.

Mind Grind could be the most obscure game I've ever played, not counting freeware or shareware. It is still astonishing they actually released a german language version, truth be told it is a pretty bad game.

Some may have heard about that game because Lazy Game Reviews actually made a video about it some time ago. Click

But I actually did meet one person who played that game, so I'm obviously not the only person of that dubious honour. Not even in germany.

I played Maelstrom. Not for very long, mind you, and I really wish I hadn't played it, but I did. Awful, awful game. It has the worst pathfinding AI I've seen in any RTS ever, and the half-assed, poorly implemented first person mechanic really didn't do anything for it either.

Sabre Team ?

Played it on the Amiga but seems to have reached MS-DOS later.

Conga Master

Looking at the SteamSpy stats it sold just about 1000 copies. I guess that most people just put it in their backlog (like always), so I'm probably the only person who bought and played the GOG version.

Lightspeed was by Microprose. It has a sequel called Hyperspeed that Retroism released on Steam. One of those random "let's just skip GOG" cases, I guess?

D/Generation is an old favorite of mine. Yeah, it's a sort of stealth/puzzle game with a cyberpunk theme. There's a remake on Steam that apparently sucks. Too bad.

When I was a kid I had this game called Demon's Forge, which was a graphics+text adventure. I learned years later that it was Brian Fargo's very first game; he later produced a game with a similar title (Hunted: The Demon's Forge), although it doesn't look like it has anything in common with the original.

Telarium was a company that used to make adventure games based on classic books. I had the one based on Rendezvous With Rama. I still remember the soundtrack from the intro.

I was actually thinking this one: Maelstrom

Sounds like it was an old Amiga game first. So we're fortunately STILL both the only people to have played our respective obscure games ;)

*EDIT* Forgot to end my bold!

I play a game with myself while driving, trying to find the shortest word of at least four letters (to prevent instant wins if the three letters already happen to spell out a word) that can be made using the three "random" letters, in order, on the license plates of the cars in front of me. Ties between words of the same length are broken by whichever would appear first in the dictionary.

For an extra layer of difficulty, Scrabble rules apply: the word can't be a proper noun (like a name), modern slang (like "blog"), an abbreviation (like LMAO), hyphenated, or foreign. I "win" when I'm able to confirm that no better word exists for a given letter combination. Since I never play against anyone else (it's boredom relief for when I'm driving alone, which is most of the time) I'll take what I can get.

Ah, no. I happen to know I'm not the only one here to have played the other Maelstrom.