Gaming Obscura: Pulseman
Companies like Game Freak are often widely known for their single greatest achievement. After all, players often associate a successful game franchise to a singular developer; Elder Scrolls by…
December 3, 2019 | 01:00 EST
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Gaming Obscura: Goosebumps: Escape from Horrorland
Goosebumps was an incredible thing for ‘90s kids. Now, 25 years later, the children’s horror anthology is still growing. While the original series ended in 1997, the Goosebumps franchise has expanded…
October 15, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Trespasser
The Jurassic Park franchise has a love/hate relationship with its video game tie-ins. From fantastic park builders and arcade shooters to the lesser known barcode collector and DVD board game,…
July 12, 2018 | 01:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Koala Lumpur: Journey to the Edge
It’s 1998. My uncle has just handed me a wrapped package roughly the size of an encyclopedia. Beneath the shiny red paper is a cardboard box depicting a roadkill koala. Inside the box is Koala Lumpur…
May 22, 2018 | 02:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura - SOS
In 1997, the movie Titanic was a cultural phenomenon, raking in massive box office numbers, record breaking award nominations, and shedding light on one of the more tragic moments in world history,…
September 1, 2017 | 09:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Warlocked
A real-time strategy game is usually a genre that thrived only on the PC. Console versions of RTS titles, from Command and Conquer to Halo Wars always struggled to maintain an audience. The PC showed…
March 2, 2017 | 01:00 EST
Gaming Obscura: Binary Domain
When it comes to obscure games, it is rare to discuss a title that is a recent hidden gem. In the past we have discussed some recent titles, such as Stranglehold and Deadly Creatures, but today's…
February 16, 2017 | 09:00 EST
Gaming Obscura: Mr. Gimmick
Mr. Gimmick is a game as impressive as it is rare. It was only released in Japan and Scandinavia for some reason, in very limited quantities. There was originally a U.S. release planned but it never…
December 1, 2016 | 09:00 EST
Horror Gaming Obscura - Siren: Blood Curse
What game comes to mind when you hear "things go from bad to worse when you hear the sound of a siren"? If you said Siren, then congratulations! You cheated and looked at the title of this article!…
October 26, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Horror Gaming Obscura: The Path
When a video game takes us to an imaginative world, it is often a selling point of the experience. Countless games do this with epic space battles, spell-slinging wizards dueling, and powerful…
October 24, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Freedom Fighters
Alternative history is often a fun way to create a new world with little effort, proposing a butterfly effect to historical events that in turn provide a new perspective of our world view as well.…
October 12, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Alien Breed
The movie Alien is a major touchstone in popular cultureùa landmark horror movie with a sci-fi aesthetic. It brought to us the horrors of space in a way never shown before, the claustrophobia, the…
October 3, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura - Berserk: Millennium Falcon
In case you couldn't tell, a good chunk of us at TechRaptor is rather ecstatic for Koei Tecmo's upcoming Berserk Musou, a hack and slash in the vein of Dynasty Warriors set in the grimdark fantasy…
July 7, 2016 | 01:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura - Splatterhouse
The 90s and hyperviolent media go together like peanutbutter and jelly. From Frank Miller’s absurdly bloody comic books to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s continued box office domination, everywhere you’d…
May 13, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Ninja Baseball Bat Man
Just imagine, if you will, that you are a baseball bat wielding Ninja fighting hordes of living baseballs, catcher's mitts, mafia dogs, and playing cards across the United States to collect golden…
May 3, 2016 | 11:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: MorphX
You ever wonder why some games become obscure? Maybe we can blame lack of promotion or visibility at times, or simply not having iconic characters to help in sales or publicity. Of course, it’s…
April 23, 2016 | 09:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: MonsterMMORPG
With the announcement of Pokémon Sun and Moon, I figure we should treat ourselves to a game that similar in style and presentation, albeit tangentially for this article. Over the years there have…
March 11, 2016 | 01:00 EST
Gaming Obscura: John Woo's Stranglehold
Those who are fans of Hong Kong action cinema likely know director John Woo. Famous for his “gun-ballet” movies filled with tons of action, Mexican standoffs, and slow motion cinematography, many…
February 12, 2016 | 01:00 EST
Gaming Obscura: The Punisher
Frank Castle has not had an easy life. He fought in 'Nam, and his reward upon returning home was the death of his wife and children at the hands of the mob. On that fateful day in Central Park, Frank…
January 30, 2016 | 09:00 EST
Gaming Obscura: Omikron: The Nomad Soul
Man, cancer sucks lately. The recent deaths of many beloved celebrities and rock musicians has been devastating for fans all over the world. Last month, we mourned the loss of Lemmy with the…
January 22, 2016 | 01:00 EST
Gaming Obscura: Motörhead
For those who may not know, the front man for the Heavy Metal band Motörhead, Lemmy Kilmister, passed away on December 28th after being stricken with cancer. Lemmy, for all intents and purposes, is…
December 31, 2015 | 01:00 EST
Horror Gaming Obscura: Sweet Home
Any discussion about survival horror as a genre of course pays homage to some of the first horror games ever made. Titles such as Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and the granddaddy of them all, Alone in…
October 31, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Horror Gaming Obscura: Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is a psychological horror game that messes with you on a whole different level. This game was developed by Silicon Knights, a game dev studio founded in 1992 that …
October 27, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Horror Gaming Obscura: Nosferatu
When it comes to stereotypical horror icons, vampires seem to be a major staple. From movies to television, we see vampires portrayed as tragic, devilish, childish or even sparkly, depending on the…
October 24, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Horror Gaming Obscura: The Dark Eye
When it comes to the masters of Horror in literature, there is perhaps no name that stands out better than Edgar Allen Poe. The quintessential choice for early gothic horror and the father of the…
October 20, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Herzog Zwei
One of the sad truths about video games is that it is hard for some games to just simply be noticed. A lot of factors play into this, from their date of release, the genre they are categorized into,…
September 24, 2015 | 11:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Backbreaker
With football season almost upon us, now is the time a large population of gamers decide to come out of their caves to plop $60.00 down for the latest version of Madden. The ever popular sports sim…
August 27, 2015 | 10:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Teleroboxer
When a game is released on a failed console system, it is destined to become obscure no matter what you do. As we saw with Doshin the Giant, there is a chance that a game can break through to a wider…
August 14, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Crusader of Centy
Man, do I love role-playing games. RPGs tend to be the marquee games for pretty much any system, fetching quality prices five, ten, even twenty years down the line in most cases on the secondary…
July 30, 2015 | 12:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Stacked with Daniel Negreanu
For those who may not know, the World Series of Poker just wrapped up its six week summer of poker action. Every summer the WSOP provides some of the most exciting action for poker players around the…
July 16, 2015 | 12:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Heart of the Alien
Many of you are possibly familiar with Another World, also known as Out of This World. A cinematic platforming game from the creative mind of Éric Chahi, the game was a smash hit, known for its…
July 2, 2015 | 01:00 EDT
Gaming Obscura: Nightmare Busters
In 1997, the video game Frogger was released on multiple platforms for the day for the first time since 1981. While high end graphical versions, at the time at least, were given a lukewarm…
June 19, 2015 | 01:00 EDT