[General Discussion] Obscure games from your childhood.

Wow, I actually remember both Maelstrom and Transylvania. I still occasionally make reference to the room in Transylvania filled with "hundred of penguins feverishly baking cherry pies".

There's a ton of old games from the Commodore 64 that I want to go back and beat sometime, just out of stubbornness. 6 year old me wasn't really equipped to handle those old hardcore RPGs, but I ought to be able to make a showing of it now.

There's an old "humerous" text adventure game from the C64 called The Pawn (which wasn't actually that funny), that I keep meaning to go back and play now that I have some idea how the puzzles work. I got stuck at one part where a guru on the hill wants the secret to enlightenment or something. I'm pretty sure now that he means the "five leafed plant" found elsewhere in the game, but I didn't quite make that connection when I was younger.

The game that really took up all my time, though, was Legacy of the Ancients. You're some random peasant-turned-hero on a quest to destroy ye olde MacGuffin. This gets complicated by you having no idea HOW to destroy the evil leather scroll (made from human flesh?), and that bandits ambush you and steal the scroll shortly after you begin. This was back in the day when you got no in-game guidance whatsoever, but the exploration was still pretty fun.

I tried picking up the Phantasie games again too, another typical fantasy series, but in retrospect those games are kinda boring. It's probably just my emulator accurately simulating the load times; I had totally forgotten about these games taking five minutes to load from the floppy. Hooray for technology!

Jam it back in, in the dark.