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Games Time Forgot EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Games Time Forgot: Zombie Revenge 46 As you well ought to know, this week marks the ten year anniversary of the Dreamcast, Sega's last (and some say best) videogame console. We'll be celebrating the little underdog's birthday all we... Why Catrap is the coolest puzzle game you've never played 25 Every Wednesday, we profile a forgotten or underappreciated game for our "Games Time Forgot" series.Time travel. Not only does it make for an interesting plot device in games, but it's ... Games Time Forgot: Thayer's Quest 14 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.Even though the format has long been defunct, a few Laserdisc games have transce... Why 2 Spicy is the coolest arcade game you've never played 32 Every Wednesday, we profile a forgotten or underappreciated game for our "Games Time Forgot" series.The last time I wrote a Games Time Forgot article, I highlighted Rambo, the most beau... Games Time Forgot: Super Ninja Boy 19 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.Super Ninja Boy was part of a series known as Super Chinese in Japan. Culture Br... Why Rambo Arcade is the dumbest, most brilliant shooter ever 52 Every Wednesday, Destructoid highlights an overlooked game that shouldn't have been.Rambo, the relatively recent SEGA arcade game, is the dumbest game I have ever played in my adult life.I mean t... Games Time Forgot: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 46 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.If you are as big a Harry Potter fan as I am (impossible!), you already know by ... Games Time Forgot: Pulseman 21 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.As an American, I feel a little weird writing this week's Games Time Forgot colu... Games time forgot: Rogue Trooper 25 I only ever got to read a single issue of 2000AD, and I understood the stories within it about as well as one can understand four different narratives halfway through their story arcs, without an... Games Time Forgot: The Journeyman Project Trilogy 50 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.I was never much of a PC gamer. I missed out on many of the games considered to ... Games Time Forgot: Sky Odyssey 23 Wait.This game is not as boring as you think. Yes, it is a game about flying planes; no, it is not a World War II fighter. Yes, it is realistic, but no, it is not needlessly complicated and borin... Games Time Forgot: Chulip 21 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.It's always been a hobby of mine to visit videogame stores, without the intent o... Games Time Forgot: Chulip 21 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.It's always been a hobby of mine to visit videogame stores, without the intent o... Games Time Forgot: Chameleon Twist 25 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.Anthony Burch, whom I share this weekly article with, often tells me how he beli... Games Time Forgot: Deja Vu 24 Anyone who's ever listened to me wax poetic on RetroforceGo! about Shadowgate, the third title in the MacVenture series, already knows I have a hardcore love for anything with a point and click i... Games time forgot: Heart of Darkness 58 Just to get it out of the way, I have no idea why this game is called Heart of Darkness. It has absolutely nothing to do with the Joseph Conrad novella of the same name, does not take place in Vi... Games Time Forgot: Apidya 13 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.Shooters, whether they scroll horizontally, vertically, or both, seem to be one ... Games Time Forgot: Apidya 13 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series.Shooters, whether they scroll horizontally, vertically, or both, seem to be one ... Games time forgot: Panic! 14 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series. As much as most current gamers seem to adore the quirky games from Japan that s... Games time forgot: Panic! 14 Every Wednesday, we highlight rarely-remembered but interesting games for our "Games Time Forgot" series. As much as most current gamers seem to adore the quirky games from Japan that s... Games time forgot: Monster Rancher 1 and 2 55 Last week, I discussed a game that was a prime example of how a product made only to capitalize on a fad can fail and be forgotten. This week, I would like to discuss the first two games of a ser... Games time forgot: Monster Rancher 1 and 2 55 Last week, I discussed a game that was a prime example of how a product made only to capitalize on a fad can fail and be forgotten. This week, I would like to discuss the first two games of a ser... Games time forgot: Socket: Time Dominator 11 Fads and trends are an inevitable part of human life. Throughout time, these pieces of pop culture have been forgotten almost as quickly as they appeared, leaving only traces of themselves deep i... Games time forgot: Snowboard Kids 66 Have you ever had a game from your past that you still absolutely adore, but no one else ever seems to talk about or even acknowledge its existence? I'm sure you do. There are some seemingly obsc... Games time forgot: Tachyon: The Fringe 21 Here is everything you need to know about Tachyon: The Fringe:The main character is voiced by Bruce Campbell, and he pilots what essentially amounts to a Battlestar Galactica Viper ship.I.E., ner... Games time forgot: Rolo to the Rescue 15 Many times, videogames are forgotten for fairly logical reasons. Among those are the games of the past that are left behind due to their intentionally childish content. As the main demographic of... Games time forgot: Xiao Xiao 38 There was a time -- some might call it 2001 -- where flash animations were truly the bee's knees. Neither indie games nor viral videos had become the powerhouses they are today, and thus it was u... Games time forgot: Croc: Legend of the Gobbos 49 Platformers that used item collecting as goals became all the rage in the mid-to-late 1990s. The trend grew even more rapidly after the advent of 3D graphics for home consoles. Some of them, such... Games time forgot: Comix Zone 55 Welcome once again to Games Time Forgot, wherein I attempt to highlight a game too old or obscure to remember, but fail, and am subsequently mocked for it.I never got to play Comix Zone as a chil... Games time forgot: Snail Maze 14 Back in the 1980s, my mother chose to purchase a Nintendo Entertainment System for her very first home console. Meanwhile, her sister took the road less traveled and bought a Sega Master System. ... Games time forgot: Star Wars Trilogy Arcade 38 Wait.Before you start happily typing in "nobody forgot this game, dumbass," let me admit something: I made a mistake, naming this series "games time forgot." Instead of "... Games time forgot: Star Wars (the 1983 arcade game) 46 Gamers today really take Star Wars for granted. Everytime we turn around, we trip over a new game taking place in George Lucas' cash cow universe: "Hey," we're told. "This is sort ... Games time forgot: Kirby's Dream Land 3 21 Kirby is perhaps one of the most recognizable video game characters that has ever been created. There is no mistaking the little pink guy for anyone else, and even though most of his games do not... Games time forgot: Mendel Palace 22 Game Freak is a developer that is most widely known for making the gigantic contribution of Pokémon to gaming, but they had very humble beginnings in a little game called Mendel Palace. T... Games time forgot: Arm Wrestling 20 Everyone remembers and loves Punch-Out!!, but what about its weirder, more physically exhausting spinoff? Arm Wrestling is remarkable not only in that it was the arcade-only followup to Punch-Out... Games time forgot: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am 28 Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Zombie Ninja Pro Am is none of the following things:- Attractive- Funny- Even remotely worth your time and/or moneyIt is, however, very interesting. Not interesting in its... Games time forgot: Jazz Jackrabbit 40 So, you've played Gears of War 2, and you've heard the phrase "bigger, better, more badass" enough times to make you want to pop your eardrums with a knitting needle. But can you rememb... Games time forgot: Mission: Impossible 52 I have to be completely honest: this week's forgotten game is not good (or, as any number of you will be happy to point out, "was forgotten for a reason"). It sticks out in my mind not ... Games time forgot: Hybrid Heaven 42 I remember back when I was too stupid to realize the truth behind Nintendo Power. I read preview after preview, writeup after writeup on forthcoming Nintendo 64 games and was totally won over by ... Games time forgot: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie 52 Like any child of the 90's, I watched the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers a lot. Like, a lot. I shuddered with fear and amazement as the saga of the mysterious Green Ranger unfolded. I sighed with r... Games time forgot: Blue Shift 28 A few weeks back, I talked about Opposing Force, the awesome mod for the original Half-Life which told the events of Black Mesa through the perspective of a marine named Adrian Shephard. While Ad... Games time forgot: Virtual Boy Wario Land 17 Wario Land: Shake It! came out last week and though I haven't played it, from our review it sounds like something that would make me long for the days of the Virtual Boy.And I don't often say tha... Games time forgot: Blast Corps 48 I have no idea what's going on in the above commercial.If you owned an N64 in the 90's, then this meant two things: you probably didn't own any of the other third-generation consoles, and you tri... Games time forgot: Half-Life: Opposing Force 47 I remember a simpler time in the Half-Life universe. When Gordon Freeman was just a lowly physicist. When "Barney" referred to an entire class of security guards rather than a particula... Games time forgot: The Punisher (3rd person shooter) 37 Last week, I highlighted the 2D beatemup. This week, due to the few comments asking about it and my own laziness, I'll talk about the more recent 3rd-person shooter.Though Manhunt 2 immediately c... Games time forgot: The Punisher 33 What with Castle Crashers coming out tomorrow morning, I thought it might be fun to look back on a game which, while not the deepest beatemup ever made, or even one of the best, holds a special p... Games time forgot: The Ship 30 The Ship was, unfortunately, destined to obscurity from the very moment it was devised. Despite being a murder-based, multiplayer Half-Life mod, The Ship took something as cliche and recognizable... Games time forgot: Space Ace 15 I woke up this morning with an inexplicable desire to play Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp. Since I lost my CD copy of the Don Bluth laserdisc trilogy, however, and since I actually played Space Ace,... Games time forgot: Tron 2.0 40 With all this hubbub about the teaser trailer for Tr2n, the official sequel to Tron and winner of the "insert a number in the most random place ever just to show it's a sequel" award, I... Games time forgot: the rest of the demo disc 28 A few weeks back, I talked about the beauty of the Metal Gear Solid demo on an official PlayStation demo disc I had.Today, I'll try my best to remember playing the other demos on that disc.Thoug... Games time forgot: the Metal Gear Solid demo 68 This may be the second weirdest forgotten game I ever talk about. The demo for Metal Gear Solid on the PS1 is not really a game in and of itself, and the full title it demoes is nowhere near forg... Games Time Forgot: Earth Defense Force 2017 53  Before I begin here, I have to preface this Games Time Forgot with a warning -- if you go pick this game up thinking that you are going to find a diamond in the rough when it comes to quali... Games time forgot: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream 32 If you've never read the short story "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison, do so. It's one of the best short stories ever, and not in an O. Henry "oh life is kinda... Games time forgot: Timon and Pumbaa's Jungle Games 49 Does anyone, apart from Chad Concelmo, remember Timon and Pumbaa? Does anyone remember the hijinx of Simba's fun-loving meerkat and warthog companions, who added much-needed levity to what was ba... Games time forgot: Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose 61 Now, I know you're thinking one of two things: either "oh, awesome; this is one of those neat Tiny Toons games Treasure did for the Game Boy Advance," or "oh, great; another crappy... Games time forgot: Lock n' Chase 34   Hey kids! Let's all gather around uncle Niero and shut the f*ck up about Grand Theft Auto IV!  In the absense of the honorable Reverend Burch you're stuck with a bitter old man w... Games time forgot: Metal Gear: Ghost Babel 43 I briefly talked about it on this week's RetroforceGO!, but it bears repeating: Metal Gear Solid for the Game Boy Color, originally known as Metal Gear: Ghost Babel, is probably the best Metal Ge... Games time forgot: Bangai-O 28 While I know you pirates of less-than-stellar moral uprighteousness have probably already NOT pirated the hell out of the Japanese version of this game's DS remake, it's important to remember whe... Games time forgot: The Adventures of Cookie and Cream 28 It's cute, it's friendly, and it's got a cooperative campaign that can be played with two, four, or even one player(s). It's The Adventures of Cookie and Cream, and it is as certifiably badass as... Games time forgot: Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb 40 Nearly two months ago, I talked about Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures, a way-too-hard SNES title which sought to recreate the feel of all three original Indiana Jones movies. The game was pre... « NEXT « next - expanded blog view		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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