Hello readers! I just had an idea to write this quick blog post and thought I would throw it up now for you guys to have a ponder over!
The title, of course, is an exaggeration – unless you wrote something yourself and never even let your mother play it so she could smile and tell you how great it is, I doubt there’s anything out there that has only been played by one person EVER. But still, there seem to be games around which are almost unheard of among our peers. I thought I would ask you all to name any examples of such games, be they hidden gems that deserved far greater fame, or terrible affronts to gaming that fully merit their lack of renown *coughcough*VersaillesagameofIntrigue*coughcough*!
I’ll kick off by highlighting a game called Marko’s Magic Football, released on the Mega Drive and made by Domark. It wasn’t an astounding game by any means, but I did have fun with it as a kid, and the gimmick – that you had to use said football (a spherical one, that is. Bloody colonials and their handegg!) to defeat enemies and get around the levels – was a nice change from the more standard platformers of the era.
More importantly for this post, of course, is the fact that in my life I have not met one other person who has played it.
Of course as soon as you mention a game “only I played” some wiseguy comes along and has also played it! Nonetheless I now open the comments to you folks
I haven’t found anyone who has played Penguin Land. I recall getting it in the early 90s at a Toys R Us along with the Sega Master Drive converter that you stuck on top of your Sega Genesis. Sadly, that game was the last one of that system and didn’t work right when I tried it (you couldn’t move in both directions, just one) and since it was discontinued (the Master Drive that is) there was no taking it back.
“The Creature That Ate Sheboygan” – Was an old cardboard counters desktop game involving a monster from Lake Michigan vs the Wisconsin National Guard. I know other people must have played it, but hardly anyone I know has even heard of the city Sheboygan.
Phantasmagoria…..the only other person I know who played was my bro-in-law. Who introduced it to me. >.<
I'm playing The Secret World and the puzzles/quests/missions are reminding me of it soo much. /happyface
I haven’t met anyone else who’s played Dark Omen, but I bet there’s at least one other, given that it has a wikipedia page I certainly didn’t write. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer:_Dark_Omen