Did anyone else play these?

The more time I spend on the internet the more I find that, as a kid, I played a ton of games nobody seemingly ever heard of. Just looking at the wiki pages on this site I'm very underwhelmed by the lack of information on some of the most -- I guess -- "obscure" games in the database. I figured I'd maybe try to fill them out a little more but I'd like to see if there's anyone else out there recognizing these games that, all things considered, played a pretty big part in my childhood.

The ones that come to mind right now:

Bio Menace

Hocus Pocus

Mystic Towers

Vinyl Goddess from Mars (yes I played that as a kid)

Earthsiege 2

Claw

Supaplex

You must be a old school gamer. But to answer your question I never played those games.

I've never even heard of any of those games.

I was gonna sarcastically say that "nobody else in this world has played those game". However... It may actually be true this time.

HOCUS.

POCUS.

YES.

HELL YES.

Man. I am nostalgia'ing so hard right now.

Edit: Also after looking at those pictures, I forgot how tiny my monitor was back in the 90s. I remember playing that game full screen, and it being ... roughly that big. Technology is a miracle.

I still have Hocus Pocus somewhere.

I loved me some Hocus Pocus as a kid.

I played a ton of BioMenace and Hocus Pocus as a kid. I remember BioMenace being super violent compared to most other games I owned at the time. My early childhood PC gaming consisted of mostly Apogee games. Other than those two I remember a lot of Halloween Harry, Jill of the Jungle, Crystal Caves, and Monster Bash among various others.

I'm mostly surprised Mystic Towers hasn't got more attention, I actually loved that game as a kid.

And yeah, Hocus Pocus was fun, I remember searching for those crystals too well.

Add Chopper Commando and Secret Agent to that list and you've got my childhood: good times, fun games.

Hocus Pocus bitches!

Hocus Pocus and Mystic Towers. Hell yes!

Anyone else here perhaps remember Blam! Machinehead? Also the Clockwork Knight games??

those are some obscure early 90s pc games you've got there

I remember enjoying BioMenace and Hocus Pocus. Mystic Towers is terrifying and confusing D: I can't remember if I've actually played Vinyl Goddess or not (I think I may be getting confused with Jill of the Jungle). I definitely haven't played the last 2 though.

Hocus Pocus, BioMenance and Mystic Towers are the ones I've played on that list. Even today Mystic Towers is actually a good looking game.

@Jrinswand said:

I've never even heard of any of those games.

Just remembered today that I also played a game called Supaplex

Which apparently is a clone of an older, presumably more well known game called Boulder Dash

I haven't played any of those games you listed, but I played a lot of Tunneler and Scorched Earth as a kid.

Those were the good times...

I can say for sure I've played Hocus Pocus, Mystic Towers and Earthsiege 2 out of those.

I think I remember the Bio Menace art from a cheat code book or something. I bought a shareware version of Mystic Towers, played Hocus Pocus at a friend's house and got a demo of Claw from a PC magazine.

What a blast from the past. I'm looking through my meager 3.5" floppy collection, a whole bunch of shareware. Wolfenstein 3D, Mystic Towers, Blake Stone 3D, Fuzzy's World, BC Racers.. oh man.

@Hizang said:

@Jrinswand said:

I've never even heard of any of those games.

@david1890: Bio Menace was the bomb and sheesh yeah I had Hocus Pocus! Is there anywhere to get these games anymore?

I recently picked up the Commander Keen pack on Steam and was hit with some serious nostalgia.

I looked and found my floppy of Hocus Pocus.

What about Mega Lo Mania?

Hocus Pocus and Supaplex are great.

@david1890 said:

Bio Menace

Hocus Pocus

Mystic Towers

Earthsiege 2

Claw

Played these! You know, I was actually thinking about Mystic Towers the other day when discussing a video game-themed Halloween party with some friends. We talked about how there's at least 5 people who'll dress up as Mario and that a few of us should dress up as characters from obscure shareware games. Baron Baldric from that game is what came to my mind.

I've played both Bio Menace and Supaplex but had totally forgotten about it until just now when I saw the screenshots.

God bless the old days of shareware.

Yes. A thousand times yes.

@GloriousDinosaur: Commander Keen 4 was my absolute favourite game as kid, I even play it today from time to time. Apogee is actually today's 3D Realms and Hocus Pocus and Mystic Tower (among others) is actually still available on their site http://www.3drealms.com/games.html

Cant say I agree with the prices they charge though.

@Barrabas said:

I played a ton of BioMenace and Hocus Pocus as a kid. I remember BioMenace being super violent compared to most other games I owned at the time. My early childhood PC gaming consisted of mostly Apogee games. Other than those two I remember a lot of Halloween Harry, Jill of the Jungle, Crystal Caves, and Monster Bash among various others.

Wow yeah I played a lot of that same stuff when I was a kid. I seem to remeber having a lot of Apogee stuff, along with the ID stuff I used to play like comander keen 1-4 and heretic, hexen, doom etc. The origional duke nukem's (pre 3D) were also some of my favorites. I had monkey island and day of the tenticle and that sort of stuff but I think I was too young to be into those.

Hearing games like hocus pocus and monster bash again has got me remebering this troll game I used to have on DOS that no one seems to have added to the site.

EDIT: Just added it

Such an assault on the ears and eyes

I can honestly say no and as a child i had an amiga and an amstrad with a bunch of games, i played some obscure titles but none of these ring a bell

@WildFloyd: Wait, is that the same game as this?

@david1890: Well, they're roughly the same price GOG would charge if they were available there...

@BeachThunder: I was wondering that, but unless the PC version was drastically different to the other versions, I think the screenshots on that page might be of the wrong game.

These are the kinds of videos that come up when looking for the treasure island one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEiget6Mza8

But the screenshots on that page seem to be of the one I used to play which is by a different developer as far as i can tell.

This is critical work, I cannot stress how important it is that we keep the DOS troll games in order!

@WildFloyd: Well, the page does list PC as one of the platforms.

I tried all of those games. As far as apogee went I mainly played monster bash and jill of the jungle though Oh I also played cosmos cosmic adventure, even though I was terrible at it.. I also played mechwarrior, not earthsiege. Also played raptor, which is my favorite game from those days even though it was a little easy. Basically I played all that older stuff since it all had shareware, but only bought(well, or copied) raptor, jill of the jungle, monster bash, and cosmos cosmic adventure.

It's the first time I ever heard of these games. :O

@david1890 said:

Just remembered today that I also played a game called Supaplex

Which apparently is a clone of an older, presumably more well known game called Boulder Dash

Now you're speaking my language.

Earthsiege 2 is awesome.

Yeah I played Bio Menace, Hocus Pocus and Claw. That Trolls game also. I actually looked up Claw fairly recently. That's still a really good looking game, I should play it again sometime.

Now my question is, did anyone else play Dig It?

I might have played Earthsiege 2. Sounds very familiar. Other than that I haven't played any of them or heard of most of them.

Oh yeah, I loved Hocus Pocus, and I played Mystic towers, but I was really bad at them cause I was a little kid.

Bio Menace was awesome!

Did anyone play Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure or Monster Bash?

EDIT: Also you can buy all the Commander Keen games in one package on Steam. I bought them during the sale for cheap.