The most obscure I can think of is this one game where you built a skeleton of a t-rex. When you did it it like grew flesh and started stomping around. I think it only came in cereal boxes here in Sweden around the year 2003.No idea what it was called. There Is also Trazan och Banarne but that isn't "obscure", at least not here in Sweden. I think? It came with the ice cream truck and I loved playing it. Also look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgW9toWbbsI

I think the first vidya I've ever played was some kinda black-and-white Excite Bike clone on something like a C64 (keyboard-lookin' thing hooked up to a TV.) Any bells being rung?

I spent a lot of time playing a game called Hovertank in the very early 90s. It wasn't very good and the levels were repetitive, confusing mazes, but it was entrancing as a young child. The main thing I remember about it are the sound effects, which were all some guy making mouth sounds like the bit out of Spaceballs. Decades later I found out the Tom Hall, John Romero and John Carmack all worked on Hovertank prior to Wolfenstein, you could consider it a prototype of sorts.

>>1083584 IBM maybe? Can't say I ever play something like that anon, I mostly played Breakout clones.

Anyone else played this? Its based on the characters "Pettson and Findus" a pair of children's book characters from Sweden that is quite popular in Sweden and the surrounding countries, unsure about other countries outside of Scandinavia. It's a minigame collection where you would get golden feathers for each minigame you completed, if you got ten golden feathers it could be traded in for a 10 coin. I remember getting 10x10 coins and trying to trade it in but nothing happened afterwards, I lost interest shortly afterwards.

>>1083707 I haven't played that one no. Pretty much every Swede has played pic related though.

I know that The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix/Flåklypa is somewhat known outside of Norway, however it did get a video game. Never actually played it myself, but I did barely see it visiting a friend back in the day. From what i remember the main race was kinda like the old micro machines video games with small cars from an overhead point of view. Other than that, it seemed to be mainly mini-games.

>>1083674 >IBM maybe? No, I don't think so. It might've been an Acorn BBC Micro (heh). I just found an archive of every game ever made for the thing, ready to download or emulate in-browser. There's a bajillion Text Adventures and pacman-/breakout-/spaceinvaders clones. And there's still games being developed/published for this thing, as recent as 2025. https://www.bbcmicro.co.uk/ Might be worth a thread in & of itself

One of the most obscure ones that I can think of is Designasaurus. My dad got it for me shortly after getting our 386, and it was alright. There were better PC games back then, but I still dumped a good 20-30 hours into it. It was mostly an "edutainment" title that allowed you to build your own dinosaurs from mix-matched parts, or print out fact sheets about various types of dinosaurs, but it also had a game mode where you could play as various types of dinosaurs and you survive through several era of history by finding areas where you could find enough food without being eaten by a predator, or killed by a herbivore that knew how to fight back like Triceratops or Stegosaurus. Probably not all THAT obscure, but I've never met anyone else who played it.

>>1083707 >>1083710 Look more like kid book covers than vidya covers, that's fucking great.

There's one game that I very vaguely remember. It was some edutainment game, I believe one that taught math, that involved dinosaurs. Any time you would correctly solve an equation, a yellow(?) dinosaur would say "Good... Job" with absolutely zero effort to lip sync. I have no idea what the title of the game was, nor have I been interested enough to actually research it. But that probably one of my earliest conscious gaming memories.

>>1083827 This?

>>1083707 >Pettson and Findus Didn't play their games, but I did watch the animated show. A cat is fine too.

>>1083908 >I consent Truly horrid. Hilarious, it reminds me of a post I saw about how the wolves in Narnia can consent.

>>1083908 Jag trodde Findus va en snubbe? There is something fundamentally wrong with people who lewd Findus.

>>1083922 Does it really matter with cats?

>>1083924 I wouldn't know, I have never tried fucking a cat.

>>1083925 You live a sheltered life

>>1083927 You know, in this instance, I think it is good to be sheltered.

>>1083928 Yeah I guess cat fucking is like surströmming. It's not everyone's cup of tea.

The direction this thread has taken reminds me of "I paws'd and then masturbated x3"

>>1083922 >Jag trodde Findus va en snubbe? Believe it or not, there is a scene in the finnish dub of one of the movies that seems to be tongue in cheek about that very thing, see the first webm, subtitled by yours truly. I don't know how similar the scene is in other languages. It seems that they were going for a kid voice for the cat in the swedish, german, and danish dubs, while the finnish and english dubs had a more feminine woman's voice. >There is something fundamentally wrong with people who lewd Findus. I know. Findus aka Viiru is not for sexual. It just so happens those are the only two decent r34 images of the cat that seem to exist, so I was compelled to post them. After posting them I looked for their source and imagine my surprise when I saw the nationality of the person who drew them Consider this a form of cultural exchange. To that end, have this mediocre YTP of the mongolian variety in addition. No, I will not subtitle it.

>>1084095 >No LASY FUGGERx--D

I loved playing several Buzzy the Knowledge Bug games, Living Books games, and Amazon Trail 3rd edition as a kid. My grandmother had this old computer for these to be played on which was nestled in a gigantic wooden office desk, and I fondly remember the computer would always show the Energy Star logo on startup. Those were great times, gave my granny a call yesterday because I love her alot and worry about her health these days.