# Videogames you think you're the only one who played **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 3, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493 "2019-03-03T18:31:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/1 "2019-03-03T18:31:49Z")
[Re-elect JFK](https://classicreload.com/win3x-reelect-jfk.html) (1994) You’ve survived the assasination attempt and must try and solve your own attempted murder. I put a lot of money in extra guards and did everything someone with a 1994 sensibility would think to do to throw the election. I shit on civil rights as much as I could and ramped up Vietnam as much as possible. No shocker now but…I won re-election. But never solved the assassination attempt. [Mission Critical](https://classicreload.com/dosx-mission-critical-demo.html) (1995) with Michael Dorn doing voice work. [Journeyman Project 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journeyman_Project_2:_Buried_in_Time) (1995) A really fun puzzle time travel game. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/2 "2019-03-03T19:27:18Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > [Re-elect JFK](https://classicreload.com/win3x-reelect-jfk.html) (1994) You’ve survived the assasination attempt and must try and solve your own attempted murder. > > I put a lot of money in extra guards and did everything someone with a 1994 sensibility would think to do to throw the election. I shit on civil rights as much as I could and ramped up Vietnam as much as possible. No shocker now but…I won re-election. But never solved the assassination attempt. > > [Mission Critical](https://classicreload.com/dosx-mission-critical-demo.html) (1995) with Michael Dorn doing voice work. > > [Journeyman Project 2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journeyman_Project_2:_Buried_in_Time) (1995) A really fun puzzle time travel game. You’re not the only one on Journeyman Project. I’ve played all three of them, and thanks to Gog, I can play them again. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/3 "2019-03-03T19:28:05Z")
I never did find the text adventure I described on here years ago. I wrote this in 2015: > [@Help me identify a text-based computer game](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-text-based-computer-game/720746/3): > > … I have been looking for a sci-fi themed text adventure as well. Mine was also on a space station, or a crashed ship perhaps. > > “Looks like a storm’s a brewin” was a phrase I remember from it. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/4 "2019-03-03T19:30:21Z")
Very few people seem to realize that there were two SimGolf games by Maxis. [One is the very common one by Sid Meier.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Sid_Meier%27s_SimGolf_Coverart.png) [I played the original one that did not sell well.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimGolf) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/5 "2019-03-03T19:50:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I never did find the text adventure I described on here years ago. I wrote this in 2015: You have your _Planetfall_ (1983) and your _Stationfall_ (1987). If it’s from the last 20 years, there are many games that might fit the description, since text adventures are considered cool again. Eg _Hadean Lands_ takes place on a crashed ship. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/6 "2019-03-03T19:59:01Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > You’re not the only one on Journeyman Project. I’ve played all three of them, and thanks to Gog, I can play them again. The losing of your AI buddy in the second one was touching and the revenge was sweet. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/7 "2019-03-03T20:23:27Z")
I bought and played [Deus Ex Machina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_Ex_Machina_(video_game))in 1984, the original ZX Spectrum release. it was…interesting and I’ve never met anyone else who ever played it. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/8 "2019-03-03T20:30:59Z")
I don’t know of anyone else who has played [Inca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_(video_game)). I may have also played the sequel but I don’t really remember. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/9 "2019-03-03T20:41:22Z")
> [@DPRK](#): > > You have your _Planetfall_ (1983) and your _Stationfall_ (1987). If it’s from the last 20 years, there are many games that might fit the description, since text adventures are considered cool again. Eg _Hadean Lands_ takes place on a crashed ship. [I wonder if those were ever on a Big Blue Disk, which is where I think I played the one I mentioned.](https://archive.org/serve/bbd54/bbd54_screenshot.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/10 "2019-03-03T21:28:07Z")
There are a good number of video games over the years that I was the only one who played them. Then again I created them and didn’t share them with anyone else, so I’m the only person who _could_ have played them… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/11 "2019-03-03T23:28:28Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > [I wonder if those were ever on a Big Blue Disk, which is where I think I played the one I mentioned.](https://archive.org/serve/bbd54/bbd54_screenshot.gif) [Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Softdisk_games) is a list of those compilation disk games; do you recognize any? But the sci-fi games I mentioned, and a couple more whose name I cannot immediately recall, do not seem to be there. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/12 "2019-03-04T00:25:18Z")
Ascendancy – a 4x space strategy game from the late 90s. The game play was just okay, from my memory, but the artistic elements of the game – most notably the design of the aliens, spaceships, and the music – were absolutely phenomenal. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/13 "2019-03-04T00:52:33Z")
Back in the 90s, there was a game called Harry the Handsome Executive. You scooted around a cubicle-farm office in a swivel chair (you could go faster in reverse than forward) shooting enemies with a stapler and throwing free AOL disks at them. But I never played much of it. Another one that I played the heck out of was a logic game called Sherlock. It was a computerized version of those puzzles like “The person who owns the cat lives next door to the blue house”, and could generate endless random puzzles. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/14 "2019-03-04T01:52:21Z")
I had that Sherlock one, so perhaps it was not that obscure. Speaking of puzzle games, I asked about _Return of the Obra Dinn_ on this forum and nobody replied, but it turns out there is an entire Steam discussion group devoted to it, so evidently I was not the only one to play it. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/15 "2019-03-04T02:06:17Z")
[Shadow President](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_President), a political simulation which starts in 1991, with the Iraqis invading Kuwait. You are the US President and your job is to get re-elected in 1992. I was in my “socially liberal, fiscally conservative” phase so I created Libertopia - slashed taxes, cut the hell out of govt spending, increased infrastructure spending\*. The economy started booming but people were pissed about losing their social security, so I usually ended up getting assassinated. I didn’t have much of an interest in playing the Iraqi storyline, so I kind of ignored it, which I’m sure didn’t help. 😉 \*Yeah, I know - not very Libertarian. But I had to do something with the money, so I did what I could. ---
**Author:** ![russian\_heel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@russian\_heel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/russian_heel)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/16 "2019-03-05T02:42:07Z")
“Rock the Rink” on PlayStation. Highly addictive pond hockey NHL game with hilarious PA announcer. Very bad graphics but incredible gameplay. “Deathrow” on XBox. Futuristic violent speedball type of sports game. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/18 "2019-03-05T05:44:31Z")
My sister and I used to play the crap out of _Rambo_ and _Penguin Land_ on the Master System. Loved those games so much. But it’s not like the Master System brought a lot of friends to our house, nawmean? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/19 "2019-03-05T06:02:18Z")
I had Rambo and played the Rambo 3 light gun game …. I miss the 3d glasses I for the master system had … it was the only time 3d worked because of my eye sight …… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/20 "2019-03-05T07:00:11Z")
My first thought was the old arcade games “Leprechaun” and “Make Trax”…but they have wiki pages, and I didn’t make them, so _someone_ else must have played them. 😃 Here’s a console one: _Secret of Evermore_, for the SNES. It’s a weird case, because I know lots of people must have played it–it was a SquareSoft release on a popular console, and it got good (though not stellar) ratings. I’ve just never _met_ anyone else who played it, or remembers it. Everyone just assumes I’m talking about _Secret of Mana_ when I mention it. (It has similar mechanics to _SoM_, but a much more oddball story, with a lot of quirky humor that appealed to me.) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/21 "2019-03-05T09:44:03Z")
My first thought is Strike Squad (1993). Doesn’t even get a Wikipedia page, though the prequel I’ve never played [gets one](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegel%27s_Mercenaries). I enjoyed it for a bit, then some computer upgrade or another made it so I could never get it running again. It’s not super rare, but Daggerfall isn’t as well known as its sequels as Skyrim especially was mega popular. So among that cohort it’s rare. I’ve played the Secret of Evermore. I don’t think I ever finished it though, got to the medieval world maybe. It got a bad rep for not being Secret of Mana, and it’s not as good, but I liked the uniqueness of the alchemy-based magic. I also enjoyed Seiken Densetsu 3/“Secret of Mana 2,” though my first attempt at a playthrough didn’t work as I neglected to get a healing character. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493.md?page=2)