Obscure Console Games

[Magus]

Yeah, it's not obscure in the sense that people don't know about it, but not enough people have played OB or OB 64, or those Tactics Ogre games, either.

I think I've mentioned Gemfire in an older obscure gaming thread, so I'll talk about Pool of Radiance instead. Pool of Radiance was an NES game I played for hours as a kid. Unlike every other Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game up until some of the newer ones like Baldur's Gate and so forth, it was actually an RPG game. It seemed like everything else was either a bad action game (Heroes of the Lance) or a weird mish-mash amalgamation that was so random and expansive it was nigh unplayable (Hillsfar). Pool of Radiance was turn based battles and you moved your guys around on a grid. It was pretty great fun. There was an entire trilogy on the PC but the first one was the only one that went to console, I believe.

Another game I played all the time was Journey to Silius, a good action game that no one has played, apparently.