Neither are obscure, but I played the shit out of Ace Combat Shattered Skies and Simpsons Hit and Run...

Core childhood memory. I remember getting this game for Christmas 2004 and playing it religiously until the sequel came out a year later.

The Legend of Dragoon. We need a reissue of it 🥲

Am grill but:

Shadow of the Colossus.... Man, way to put me in my feels

I played Evergrace at my cousin's house. I have such fond and vivid memories from that game. But when I went back to play it as an adult, I realized that it's kind of terrible.

Mister Mosquito

Hey don't make this about PS2. I still get a bit emotional thinking about:

• [Swarm Assault ](https://dzierzan.itch.io/opensa
• Red Ace Squadron
• GTA Vice City (not exactly niche, but it was the first violent game I played)

Thanks for this post, because otherwise I would never have found out that someone recreated Red Ace Squadron in Unreal Engine

A bit younger than ps2, and for PC, but still.

This is Freedom Fighters for me.

Onimusha for me, or maybe dark cloud if that counts.

gender-affirming lack of obscure ps2 game

coming back to this post later to find recommendations though...

Dark Cloud 🤘🤘🤘

That captain crunch game for the PC.

I started playing music around the time my friends moved on to PS2 from PS1 and I didn't have any bandwidth for anything else for years. Everyone my age has these memories and I have never played more than a couple of hours of PS2 in my life. I'm like Tony Hawk, AMIRITE?

"shovelware" movie/cartoon franchise tie-in games, my beloved

Asterix & Obelix: XXL 2, Ice Age 2 (the game), G-Force (the game)...

"Slop" used to be peak.

Battlefront II LAN parties...

My.memory is a little fuzzy and I'm sure it's nowhere near as good as I remember but was there a game called Ape escape? Something about catching monkeys and they had like flashing helmets or something and you would run around with a net catching them?

A very basic sounding premise but in my memory it was a really good game.

Enteral Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (GameCube)

Actually it was the GC game Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. It was a game about unraveling the mysteries of the murder of your uncle that devolves into fighting the old gods.

I love it and come back to it every so often, I even still have a GameCube squirreled away for it, but I'd rather play it on my Deck more often than not.

Um Jammer Lammy.

While I liked the Parappa games, I'll die on the hill that Lammy was better than either of them and should have continued as a series.

Goddamn. Nostalgia fest scrolling through the comments.

Here are my additions (I was primarily a PC Gamer as my folks didn't believe in consoles):

Cyberspeed

One Must Fall: 2097

EGA Trek

N64: Snowboard Kids

Ratchet and Clank. I dunno. It just clicked for me.

I was cursed with an xbox as a child and has Nightcaster: Defeat the Darkness. I dont think it was even particularly good but it remains a monolith of cobwebs

Alundra for me I think, for PS1.

I'm too old for it to be PS2, but "Mick and Mack: Global Gladiators". Spent at lot of time on that for a game that is an ad for McDonalds.

N64, but I was obsessed with the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics game. Picked it up recently. It is definitely shovelware.

God of War

Oni

It’s a PS1 game, but still. I loved this game. If I wasn’t playing Twisted Metal 2 then I was playing this.

I was gifted Alter Echo by my late Memere when I was a teenager. I'm early 30s now, and I still have it.

3xtreme

You race other bikers/rollerbladers/skateboarders/aliens and can punch them mid race.

Swiv 3d 4 life

Oddly enough I recently played obscure. It's niche but I enjoyed it. Multiplayer resident evil in a highschool.

Honestly online play has set co op games back 20 years.