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 Bethesda, Resident Evil by Capcom, and so on.
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, Jurassic Park games have been pretty hit or miss. Among the lesser known titles, one very special game stands out above all the others.
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: Journey to the Edge, a game that would grab my interest and has refused to let go for the past 20 years.
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.
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 came, although it has seen the light of day. A rare prototype of the NTSC release was found and the ROM ripped and distributed.