Obscure & old online videogames - Nostalgic relics

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Nanovor is an old turn-based creature battling game I loved when I was a kid. You'd put together your team of microscopic immortal bug aliens and fight against 1-3 other people. The fights were fairly straight forward (or I was a dumb kid who didn't know what he was doing, I just unga bunga'd with Tank Striker and Giga Wing) with only 4 stats; HP, Strength, Armor, and Speed, but what sticks out in my memory is all the gory ways your bugs can kill each other.
Some of this stuff was wild. If your guy was killed by fire, he'd run round screaming and then explode into a pile of ash. Or another death had your guy's eyes pop out of it's head, spraying green/blue/yellow goo everywhere.
Shit video quality is because it's the v-pet. This is the best I could find.

The game was shut down sometime in 2010, but I did find a fan made battle sim
 
When I was a kid I used to play a shitload of Tactics Arena Online. it's kinda like chess mixed with a tactics-style RPG. I loved it tbh but it was very simplistic...not sure if it is still available for play on the internet nowadays.

Oh yeah and Dungeon Fighter Online. I loved that game so much. But when WoW came out it basically ate up 100% of my gaming time.
 
Tibia is a German developed fantasy MMO that came out over 25 years ago. I remember wasting a lot of time with this one during middle school into high school.

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Good that this thread was made, I can sperg about my childhood
I dont know if these count since Popcap is well known but I feel like chuzzle and dynomite are games only I remember


Alawar put up some bangers back in the day like the web version of snowy the bear, Farm Frenzy, Lunch Rush, Treasures of Montezuma, Fishdom 360 H20 Odyssey, Alex Gordon among so many other stuff. I spent way too much time trying to pirate stuff from Big Fish games in 2010. Most of these dont run on 64 bit operating systems sadly


There were two mmorpgs called pokemon indigo and volcano. I dont know if archives exist but I remember playing the shit out of them in 2009.

Youda is another classic developer, I loved safari and survivor a lot. I would play anything time management on the web cause before 2010, before mobile gaming, time management as a niche had so many good games which werent too grindy or frustrating.


My first and only proper mmorpg with voice and text chat, this shit called Webosaurs which my parents were very against signing up for when I was 9. Thankfully I didnt play it long enough to encounter pedophiles.


These are just games which are not there on flashpoint, if flashpoint were included Id put cactus mccoy, mimelet, burrito bison, pebble rush, rhino rush, caveman, fireboy watergirl and a ton of flash games on the list as well.

There was a lot of this junk which looks like shovelware nowadays which I used to adore. A whole subgenre of "mobile games before mobile games" which were genuinely great to play and cannot run on modern windows. I would do almost anything to get them back cause theyre just frankly better than slop.
 
there was this old pc game i used to play where you played as a wizard. lot of clicking, think it was first person, you could make potions or some shit?

iunno. don't expect anyone to know it since that really ain't anything to go on, just thought i'd toss it out. i played it like, iunno, 25 or 26 years ago.
 
JimiHendrix said:
there was this old pc game i used to play where you played as a wizard. lot of clicking, think it was first person, you could make potions or some shit?

iunno. don't expect anyone to know it since that really ain't anything to go on, just thought i'd toss it out. i played it like, iunno, 25 or 26 years ago.
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Catacomb 3D?

My other guess is a flash/shockwave game called "Merlin's Revenge"

Sorry for the poor second video, literally the only thing I could find with gameplay.
 
For me, it’s WildTangent. They made a series of Arkanoid clones called Blasterball, along with this really good bowling game with a polar bear in a water tube that I don’t remember the name of. Their games could only be purchased through their site with a credit card, no physical copies to my knowledge, and I think only some of them were preserved. I didn’t have the full Blasterball 2, but I played the demo over and over as a kid.
Georgio Cocklord said:
Good that this thread was made, I can sperg about my childhood
I dont know if these count since Popcap is well known but I feel like chuzzle and dynomite are games only I remember
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Funny you mention that. Just yesterday, I was looking for PopCap games that are still on the iOS App Store (most of them were never updated to 64-bit and aren’t playable on modern devices) and found Chuzzle 2. It’s not published by PopCap or EA, so I guess the original dev retained the rights and made a sequel.
I always liked PopCap before EA bought them out though. Bookworm, Feeding Frenzy, Insaniquarium, Astro Pop, Heavy Weapons, and of course all the well-known ones like Plants vs. Zombies, Peggle, and Bejeweled.
 
Two Dollars said:
polar bear in a water tube that I don’t remember the name of
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Polar Bowler. There is a DS version, no idea if it's close to the PC original.
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I remember playing a lot of games on Bonus.com including a semi-turn based tank game called "Battlefield" (yes, really) now playable as "Tankpit".

There's still a lot of games I don't remember from Bonus.com, I do remember playing there and postopia because those sites weren't blocked by the schools firewall twenty years ago. God I miss just endlessly trying dumb online games. Now everything is on the phone and blasts ads every 2 seconds or is a Roblox/Fortnite Copy n Paste game.
 
Dick Mason said:
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~15 years ago there was a multiplayer online game called Graal. It reused Zelda: A Link To The Past Assets. It was alright. For those with a love of that old Zelda game, it tickled the nostalgia well. I see it still around, but apparently only a Facebook or mobile game?
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I'm pretty sure my younger brother played some kind of off-shoot or variation of this. I can only vaguely recall it's name as Graal/Era or just Era but it was attached to Graal in some way. The game had a more modern setting with guns and I think even cars.
Two Dollars said:
WildTangent, Blasterball
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My nigga. I remember my grandpa had a computer with WildTangent installed with a whole bunch of demos. It had Blasterball on there as well as this space combat game called Sabre Wings 2 and Dark Orbit which had these black alien things that scared the shit out of a younger me.
 
Warlords II
A old fantasy 4x game. Used to play this by email; do your turn, save the game, send the other guy your savefile, wait to recieve email with savefile. Used to have a pretty big community, a lot of maps, you could make your own factions/units, etc. The game is dead now and it's all lost to time; the maps, the forums, the mods... Warlords III still has some stuff, but warlords 2 is gone forever.

Platform Racer
Anyone remember this one? A flash multiplayer game where 4 players race to the finish. Mario Kart meets Commander Keen.

Atomic Bomberman
I didn't grow with the pansy japanese Bomberman, so these are the bombermen to me. A 8 player multiplayer fast paced game that was fun to play during computer class when the teacher didn't care.
 
D.Angus said:
Catacomb 3D?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nej9F6jj_rA
My other guess is a flash/shockwave game called "Merlin's Revenge"

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nWs_YdwVg08Sorry for the poor second video, literally the only thing I could find with gameplay.
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nope. no idea what the game was, but I'll know it when I see it. pretty sure it was played in a browser?

edit: you get points for Merlins revenge, I believe I have actually played that, but that's not what I'm talking about right now.
 
This was a weird one from the computer labs, an RTS TPS hybrid thing. Apparently this company went on to make Heroes of Newerth?

Georgio Cocklord said:
I dont know if these count since Popcap is well known but I feel like chuzzle and dynomite are games only I remember
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Bookworm was one I still remember fondly. It's interesting playing it now that so many words I think of didn't even exist in the 2000s. It also accepts "FAG" and "RAPE" as words lmao.
 
Two Dollars said:
Funny you mention that. Just yesterday, I was looking for PopCap games that are still on the iOS App Store (most of them were never updated to 64-bit and aren’t playable on modern devices) and found Chuzzle 2. It’s not published by PopCap or EA, so I guess the original dev retained the rights and made a sequel.
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Oh my god. I never knew about this sequel - and it's still getting updates.
 
Hours were spent playing this game on Shockwave, it was stupid funny as a kid
 
I've recently found out my old account on Warmerise, & it's still active.
It still plays well on browser but is essentially stranded as a game.

Another childhood classic of mine is Sanctioned Renegades.
You can still play it too.
WhoBusTank69 said:
Hours were spent playing this game on Shockwave, it was stupid funny as a kid
https://youtube.com/watch?v=w2n8o4YConI
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That "Stahp Eet" never gets old.
 
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