Wild 9 is pretty much forgotten today but was a really cool, weird, PS1 platformer where you could torture and kill your enemies with an energy hand type thing, and it was just really cool.
Skullmonkeys is remembered by a few people, but is a Claymation(!!) platformer for the PS1 that was pretty fun but more importantly had an incredible aesthetic with amazing music and a look that was only replicated by The Neverhood, another obscure but charming game in the same series (though an adventure game.) Armikrog is a recent game in the franchise, but is less obscure just because it's more recent.
Speaking of point and click adventures, a lot of people don't know that Douglas Adams, author of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, wrote an original video game called Starship Titanic. It's not a great game, suffering from all the adventure game issues, but it's very very funny.
I wouldn't call Voodoo Vince, which is a 3D platformer for original Xbox, obscure exactly, but it is sort of unjustly forgotten. After Rare Replay I was really hoping Microsoft would give some additional games from that era the same treatment that Grabbed by the Ghoulies (which is now sort of recognized as being underrated) got but it doesn't appear to be happening.
I'm old so I could do this basically all day. And that's not even taking into account games that are ACTUALLY obscure but aren't obscure on Giant Bomb because GB has done video on it, like Incredible Crisis.
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