# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![sohvan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@sohvan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sohvan)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/102 "2019-03-08T15:49:12Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > There is a case to be made for lemmings being up there with the very greatest games ever made. Certainly a massive seller and I wasn’t aware that people wouldn’t admit to playing it. Certainly I did, across many platforms. I played a lot of Lemmings when I was 8 years old, and it permanently changed my brain in a Tetris effect like way. I kept seeing ways to build stairways in walls and furniture for years. I imagine a lot of people haven’t played. [Imperium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_(1990_video_game)). It was a space themed strategy game that mostly took place in a spreadsheet style interface. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/103 "2019-03-08T16:36:10Z")
> [@MadTheSwine](#): > > Coin-op game from the 80’s Mr. Do I’ve played it. It was all around the arcades growing up. I still occasionally see it in retro arcades and I think I’ve seen it at take out restaurants. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/104 "2019-03-08T16:42:07Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > I was going to play it, but I died of dysentery. > > Anyone else play the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text game? That was fun, particularly as you could store everything in that thing your aunt gave you which you didn’t know what it was but was apparently made in Ibiza. The game came with assorted goodies including a “Don’t Panic” badge (which I may still have) and some pocket fluff. I’ve played it. A friend I had growing up owned it. Douglas Adams might have been a great author, but he wasn’t the best game creator. There were many ways to get that game in an unwinnable state without knowing it. (Then again, many Infocom games were like that.) ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/105 "2019-03-08T17:03:47Z")
Incidientally, HHGTTG is apparently available online [here](https://downloads.bbc.co.uk/interactive/embed/container.html?url=//downloads.bbc.co.uk/interactive/h2g2/main.js&height=577px&width=944px&path=//downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio/games/h2g2/). It’s the BBC, so it might be country-restricted. ---
**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 8, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/106 "2019-03-08T17:07:38Z")
> [@sohvan](#): > > I played a lot of Lemmings when I was 8 years old, and it permanently changed my brain in a Tetris effect like way. I kept seeing ways to build stairways in walls and furniture for years. > > I imagine a lot of people haven’t played. [Imperium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_(1990_video_game)). It was a space themed strategy game that mostly took place in a spreadsheet style interface. Kind of like one of my favorite games, _Spreadsheets In Space!_, aka [Stars!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!). ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/107 "2019-03-08T18:04:13Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > When Two Worlds War. A interplanetary war game released in 1993. Perhaps some have tried it, but I played this for hours and never heard of anyone else who have heard about it. I played WTWW a lot, too. Eventually I discovered a virtually unbeatable strategy: send a shuttle to the other planet as soon as you are capable and surround it with space stations. Then they would be unable to ever leave and attack you. It was by Impressions Games, and I was a fan of a lot of their games. Another one of their games that I played a lot of, but don’t recall anyone else playing, was Detroit. That was a business management game where you were in charge of a car company starting in 1908, IIRC. ---
**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 8, 2019, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/108 "2019-03-08T19:04:25Z")
> [@sohvan](#): > > I imagine a lot of people haven’t played. [Imperium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_(1990_video_game)). It was a space themed strategy game that mostly took place in a spreadsheet style interface. I saw that name and mistook it for [Imperium Galactica](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperium_Galactica) which is another game that not many people played. ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/109 "2019-03-08T20:00:40Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Well, yeah - take _everything_…including > > no tea. In fact, at one point in the game you can drop the “no tea” and pick up “tea” and then pick up “no tea” at the same time. I can’t remember what goal this paradox achieves but it’s important and pretty nifty. Especially the toothbrush - it’s one of the items Marvin might need to open the exit hatch, and when he asks you for it and you realize you left it back on Earth, you also realize that you’ve played most of the game for nothing as any saves you made after you left Earth all have the same problem As for the question in your spoiler, IIRC, it’s… to get a computer to let you into the room with either the final piece of lint you need or the pot to put the lint into ---
**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 8, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/110 "2019-03-08T20:20:31Z")
> [@Hoopy\_Frood](#): > > Douglas Adams might have been a great author, but he wasn’t the best game creator. There were many ways to get that game in an unwinnable state without knowing it. (Then again, many Infocom games were like that.) That depends on your perspective. I’m sure that wasn’t by accident, those situations were deliberate (again, see Bureaucracy as a game built around such things). Of course if you hate those situations (which is understandable) then you can conclude that it’s bad design and he’s a bad designer. But it’s not because he didn’t know what he was doing. Also, he wasn’t the sole author, it was a collaborative effort (at least in part because he wasn’t timely with the game development and needed another person to take up the slack) and you’d presume another designer would “fix” such mistakes. I detest battle royale games so to me every such game is garbage. I could conclude that the designer of the best BR game ever is terrible because I hate their product. But that’s a matter of personal taste. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/111 "2019-03-08T22:31:33Z")
> [@Jet\_Jaguar](#): > > I played WTWW a lot, too. Eventually I discovered a virtually unbeatable strategy: send a shuttle to the other planet as soon as you are capable and surround it with space stations. Then they would be unable to ever leave and attack you. > > It was by Impressions Games, and I was a fan of a lot of their games. Another one of their games that I played a lot of, but don’t recall anyone else playing, was Detroit. That was a business management game where you were in charge of a car company starting in 1908, IIRC. I tried playing that via HOTD and couldn’t do much …… ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/112 "2019-03-08T22:38:00Z")
> [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser](#): > > I tried to play Another World a couple times. I remember I couldn’t make it past the third screen or so no matter how hard I tried. Same here. I rented it once and then never again. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/113 "2019-03-08T22:55:32Z")
[Sentinel Worlds: Future Magic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Worlds_I:_Future_Magic) [Twilight 2000](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight:_2000_(video_game)) [Omega](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega_(video_game)) I liked/loved them all and never finished a single one. /hangs head in shame/ I’m not sure anyone aside from wiki and the developers even remember they exist. Maybe not even the developers. ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/114 "2019-03-09T16:33:58Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > Especially > > As for the question in your spoiler, IIRC, it’s… > > to get a computer to let you into the room with either the final piece of lint you need or the pot to put the lint into [spoiler]More than that, getting through that door is the only way to get Marvin to do the favor of opening the hatch for you. The entire point of the game is to get Marvin to open the hatch. Pretty much every single puzzle is just a reason to get a tool Marvin will need, to find out which of the twelve he’s going to ask for, and to get him to actually open it. (As an added difficulty, unless you solve the fluff puzzle, you will never bring the correct tool to the hatch access corridor. You can only bring one item with you, and you don’t even have a 1/12 chance of getting it right. You will always have the wrong one if you haven’t seen the future where he asks you for a tool.)[/spoiler] ---
**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 9, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/115 "2019-03-09T16:36:43Z")
I never played the original _Myth_, but I did _Myth II_, and I loved, loved, loved everything about that game. Literally my only criticism of it was that the way they implemented full-screen, it was still sensitive to hot-corners, so you had to either disable them manually or end up seeing “All windows” or “Desktop” or whatever whenever you moved your mouse to a corner. Everything else, they got right, and did well. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/116 "2019-03-09T20:06:59Z")
[Quarantine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine_(video_game)) is another fun one nobody seems to remember these days. It’s a first person combat/driving game where your character is a cab driver in a city where much of the population has been driven homicidally insane. You pick up fares and drive them across the city to make money to buy upgrades for your cab like armor and missiles, then do missions to advance to plot. Culminating in you nuking the headquarters of the main bad guys using a bomb with a big smiley face painted on it. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/117 "2019-03-09T21:06:55Z")
I had that for the 3do I was horrible at it …… you know they made a sequel for it ? I don’t remeber the name tho ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/118 "2019-03-09T21:24:36Z")
Found the Civil War game I was thinking of - it was [Decisive Battles of the American Civil War](https://www.mobygames.com/game/decisive-battles-of-the-american-civil-war-volume-one), except the Macintosh port, which this page doesn’t seem to know about. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2019, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/119 "2019-03-09T22:04:24Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > I had that for the 3do I was horrible at it …… you know they made a sequel for it ? I don’t remeber the name tho _Quarantine II: Road Warrior_ according to Wikipedia. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/120 "2019-03-10T11:32:37Z")
Ufouria. Me and my cousin used to play it, but apart from him I’ve never met anyone else who’s heard about it. You play as four characters (after you beat three of them in battle) with different strengths in a metroidish platforming game. The ghost with sunglasses was most memorable to me, his special attack was hitting the back of his head with a mallet, shooting his eyes out of his head at enemies. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2019, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493/121 "2019-03-11T16:38:40Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Hurrah! I suspect your ears immediately pricked up when you heard about the Black Mirror “Bandersnatch” episode as well. I think Charlie Brooker is of our vintage. I’ve still not seen it and don’t have netflix so not bothered. Charlie Brooker did do a top 40 games or something in a TV series format, I think it was “How Videogames Changed The World”. However, the lack of anything I liked including no mention of Portal, meant I barely turned it off especially with the number one being: Twitter [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/videogames-you-think-youre-the-only-one-who-played/830493.md?page=7)