It's unlikely you'll play a game in the present day and feel as if you're the only person in the world playing it. Thanks to online gaming and social media, even the most obscure games have a community and a following. Well, unless you're the one person left playing Babylon's Fall. That wasn't the case years ago, and odds are if you're over the age of 25, there are a number of weird games from your childhood you probably think no one else has ever heard of.
ResetEra user brokenmachine has started a thread on the site, sharing a couple of obscure games they played years ago to get the ball rolling. They played an Activision game called Rodney's Funscreen, which looks like a very basic version of The Sims where you can only be Rodney, and a PC game from 1993 called Lenny's Music Toons.
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The post has inspired lots more people to cast their minds back in an attempt to remember some of the stranger, somewhat unique games from their own childhoods. Almost 200 people have replied at the time of typing this, and some of those to post have discovered they weren't the only ones playing certain games years ago. Quite a few people have posted about a little-known NES game called Little Nemo: The Dream Master, so perhaps not as obscure a pick after all.
A lot of the games people have been sharing are simple point and clicks made for PC, and quite a few educational games too, something you really don't see much of anymore. Games like Math Fun and Juilliard Music Adventure probably wouldn't sell all that well in today's climate. Tooth Invaders is ripe for the remake treatment, though. The forgotten 1982 Commodore 64 game appears to task you with protecting and
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