Sometimes I'm surprised and confused when discover a game that I did not know existed, a sequel to something, like this:
Apparently it is a story-driven Ridge Racer game where you play as the woman on the cover. It sounds like something I should know about, I know about every other game in the series and have played most of them and it was released during the time when I might have been at the peak of my vidya interest. Found out about it last year.
Another game that might have gone under the radar for most people, at least at the time, is GameFreak's Drill Dozer. The pokemon people made a non-pokemon game for the GBA and it is great.
Abuse is a game that was developed by Crack Dot Com and distributed by nothing less than Bungie (of Halo fame) and Electronic Arts (back when their company-eating reputation was beginning). You play as Nick Vrenna, a wrongfully imprisoned inmate in a prison where the staff conducts absurdly inhumane experiments on the prisoners. "Abuse" is the codename for the mutation that affects the majority of subjects, turning them into violent killing machines. As Nick is one of the few inmates unaffected by Abuse, he decides to destroy all traces of these experiments and escape the facility. It's a platform-based shooter involving ridiculous numbers of enemies pouring in, and the only way out is through them.
Actually found out about this game waaay before the AVGN episode was made on it. This was also released on floppy (to be used on an unlicensed SFC floppy disk addon)
Didn't know, but now you know. It's from a personal perspective, something that you should have been aware of based on personal interests but completely missed at the time. A Bomberman fan might have missed RoboWarrior for example.
