Sentences with phrase «obscure games on»

The earliest ones were playing some really obscure games on NES, Puss in Boots and Three Stooges.

Shulk: Only useful in a port of his obscure game on a new model of a system.

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That was proved last season when the upstart A's, last - place finishers three of the previous four years, battled for the wild - card spot until the final week, winning 87 games with a $ 25 million roster dependent on unwanted retreads (DH John Jaha), obscure rookies (righty starter Tim Hudson) and supposed has - beens (reliever Doug Jones), and with all the stoicism and anxiety of a Cocoa Puffs taste - athon.

A lights - out season from Alexis Sanchez — 24 goals on 124 shots, 10 assists — obscured many of the team's fundamental issues that were clear from Game 1.

From international cricket matches through to the most obscure games of football from far flung corners of the earth, you will nearly always be able to find the market you are interested in on this site.

The race was in jeopardy because of an obscure state law banning charitable games of chance on state property.

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Scouring FAQs has also provided some much - needed information shedding light on some of the game's more obscure elements, as well.

However, you really don't see these kind of games until you get down to more obscure games, AAA games that didn't meet expectations, or post-mortem AAA releases (because let's be honest, even though we continued to see a few releases for the Wii, Donkey Kong Country Returns was the last release before the system was put on «life support» and the momentum died).

It's hard not to look rather wistfully back on the abundance of riches Capcom bestowed on players with the Anniversary Collection on PS2 and Gamecube, which included Mega Man 1 - 8, in - game hints for the first six, a remixed soundtrack for the NES titles in the PS2 version, plus the two obscure Mega Man arcade titles and interviews with developers.

Chris Jarrard likes playing games, crankin'tunes, and looking for fights on obscure online message boards.

Chihayafuru — Chihaya Ayase is a frank and ebullient girl who becomes fascinated by the obscure world of competitive karuta, a card game based on Japanese poetry.

The S2 may be more suited for gaming than the S1 with its dual screens, allowing the game to be played on the first screen and on screen controls on the second screen which prevents the user's fingers from obscuring gameplay.

Developers are also free to build on the USB support to add compatibility with additional devices for applications — great for more obscure USB devices, or support for specific types of devices (such as a game controller with proprietary buttons).

Sure, touchscreens are helpful for some things, but as often as not they're horribly imprecise (and I click the wrong link on a web page or miss a tiny button), your fingers obscure some important screen element, or I miss the tactile feedback of a good old - fashioned control pad on games.

Hot on the heals of Sony's official announcement Playlogic has announced that another version of their game Obscure: The Aftermath will be available for download at launch this fall.

But with obscure games that are hard to find, a re-release is like a nice service to allow people that missed it the first time to pick it up (if you want DKCR you can buy it today and play it on your Wii U).

SC5 SE marks a time when you can now get every obscure adventure - packed music game on the same system, as well as say that you have every Space Channel 5 game, dinky keitai apps excluded.

Neill Corlett and his team began work on translating the game in April 1998, following the success of other groups on games like Final Fantasy II and V. Translating Seiken Densetsu 3 proved a little more challenging, since the game «obscures its text behind numerous layers of compression, putting it well out of reach of the casual hex editor,» according to Corlett.

So, there are retro games that everyone remembers, and there are obscure retro games on obscure consoles that (almost) no - one's ever heard of.

Act 4 begins to bend in on itself, swapping the immediate appeal of Act 3's celestial musical number and self - referential adventure game - within - a-game for obscure experiments in poetry, cinematography, and the (deep breath) very act of seeing itself.

Most painful was navigating around the environments; much like the two previous games, FFIX uses pre-rendered backgrounds, but here the way forward is sometimes obscured by the amount of low resolution clutter on the screen.

The puzzles here follow a logic that makes sense in the world of Deponia and rarely ever stumbles over the line into more obscure solutions that don't make much sense within the game world's own logic, leaving you just mindlessly clicking on things until something happens.

This means that every object in the game is completely transparent and you can see the lines on the side of the object that should be obscured.

Chris Tolworthy - Interview - Adventure Classic Gaming Quite obscure, but sounds interesting: «a series of adventure games based on classic literature that are interconnected to form a larger game.»

On Nintendo's part though, it's obviously only the high - profile stuff that still gets pushed through on DS — Pokémon, Dragon Quest, Kirby and... a sequel to an obscure game that never got a UK releasOn Nintendo's part though, it's obviously only the high - profile stuff that still gets pushed through on DS — Pokémon, Dragon Quest, Kirby and... a sequel to an obscure game that never got a UK releason DS — Pokémon, Dragon Quest, Kirby and... a sequel to an obscure game that never got a UK release?

Initially, Super Smash Bros. focused on its most popular characters such as Mario, Link, and Pikachu, but as time progressed, started adding in more obscure characters like R.O.B., Ice Climbers, and Mr. Game & Watch.

As each played, the title screen of the corresponding game appeared on the overhead monitor, obscured by a pixilated mosaic.

Aside from the games that everyone knows them for, they've also worked on some very obscure projects, like tech demos for the PlayStation 2 and part of the XMB interface on the PlayStation 3.

This somewhat obscure and totally weird NES game may best be described as «Metroid on LSD».

My job on this site is to review fighting games, and for those of you that know this genre a little better than most you know that there are a lot of great games in here but there is also a load of weird and obscure ones that sometimes makes your brain hurt.

This retro gaming classic is a rather obscure fighting game here in the West but much better known in Japan with releases on the Sega Saturn and 3D0 Hardware.

So, there are retro games that everyone remembers, and there are obscure retro games on obscure consoles...

From characters to stages to nods to even the most obscure of titles, this made for a great gaming experience, and easily the best game on the Wii this year.

As mentioned above, Obscure is the only other game that I can think of that really touches on the teen horror genre.

JRPG titles aren't normally the highest on my «to - play» list, certain games like Final Fantasy will always be worth a play through but other more obscure titles I often let slip away from me.

It's a well known fact that American and European box art for games have differed quite significantly over the years, with American box art having a more masculine edge to them, with action being the focus of the art, whereas European art tends to reflect a more creative aspect, focusing on a more obscure and contemplative angle of the design.

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Factor 5's Julian Eggebrecht has also gone on record stating that the obscure arcade game Psycho - Nics Oscar was also an influence, mostly for its visual design.

Sure, studios will do «HD remakes» (I can't make a one - on - one comparison to Ted Turner's «colorization» of black - and - white movies, but there are some parallels) of beloved, well - remembered games, but they'll let the obscure, difficult - to - port titles fall through the net.

NiGHTS's charm and playability created an amazing feeling of freedom and atmosphere (and I hope you agree if you're a big enough SEGA fan to be reading about obscure 32X games on a SEGA fansite).

Of course, when Googling for information on the game, the very first result is a page about the game from TSR, aka GSW's very own Kevin «Mag Weasel» Gifford - showing that we know a scarily large amount of people with extremely obscure knowledge, perhaps.

GSW and Gamasutra editor FrankC is a man of obscure game KNOWLEDGE, since he founded Lost Levels and is often to be seen drooling over a particularly obscure prototype - so we squealed when he pointed out a copy of «Miss Peach World» for Famicom / NES, created by Hacker International, on Yahoo! Japan Auctions.

Outside of our bubble, there are currently three mainstream «recognized» strains of lore: the main line games (with Skyrim representing another, visible soft reboot of the setting), The Elder Scrolls Online (taking place more than seven centuries earlier), and Cosmic TES (secret lore, based either on obscure meanings behind mundane or religious occurences or focused on the post-Nirn world depicted in c0da and set in the post-Landfall 5th era and later).

As the original game pak becomes more and more obscure (and expensive) and with it's non-arrival on the Wii's Virtual Console, what's an EarthBound enthusiast to do?

Tangram is a fairly obscure puzzle game for the CD - i that also appeared on many other platforms including the PC, Atari ST and Amiga...

Sacrifice (an obscure real time strategy game) and Descent (a pretty good FPS) have definite potential too, and most of the other IPs on sale were at least decent when they were originally released.

2 delves deep into the vaults of Sega's most obscure titles, running from the late 70s and their discrete logic boards, though the games released on the 2D powerhouse System 32 arcade board.

Sure, it's a bit on the obscure side but we fell in love with this game almost immediately for its fun gameplay, challenging platforming, and vivid graphics.

Fun Factory, sometimes called Fun Project on the title screens of their games, is about as obscure as Japanese games...