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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: April 24, 2009 (12:55 PM)
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There was a time, back before I let other people come up with odd colour-coded tourneys and review writing contest about not writing a review, when you had simply one month, one unbreakable criteria your keyboard and a videogame. We’re going back to those simple days. But with an EmP twist.

It’s bloody May (almost). You’ve forgotten what May is, and you’re all twits for doing so. But I’m here to save the day. May, then, is the Month of the Obscure.

Welcome to MOTO2.

Here, we give thanks to the games you’ve never heard of, from the PSX Tunguska to pretty much everything released on the N64DD. Here, the 32X holds masterful power over the PS2, the wonderswan sits on a throne of chibi anime statuettes and that Brazil-only Master System brawler demands your attention. You, the overall populace, have ignored their tiny pleading voices and now I make you take note.

You are to write a review. A review for a game no one has ever heard of.

And game choice is vital. Vital! Not only will our judge panel be marking your writing out of 100 as usual, but they have 10 extra points to distribute or destroy as they please! Go for a Turbo CD Japan import that’s only had three physical versions released? Score up to 110. Go with Sonic III instead? Ten points off, you slave to commercialism!

Careful, now -- here comes another twist.

The world of the obscure is a slippery slope, greased with regret and linger disappointment. Government heath warnings suggest you do not partake such a dangerous path alone, so you will do battle in a bonded team of two. You and partner’s completed scores will be combined and the highest coupling walk away smug and victorious.

NEEDED: Judges.

DARED: Combatants

Dare you open Pandora’s box? Do you sense the power of the unknown?!

Judges:
Overdrive
Bloomer

Teams:

WQ'S DREAM HAREM!
WQ: Kouryuu Densetsu Villgust Gaiden
EmP: Osomatsu-kun: Hachamecha Gekijou

Cardboard Boxes
Turducken: Sheep
Will: Sword of the Stars

Imperial Scarscalps
Sashanan: Hoosier City -- Assault of the Orcs
Aschultz: Super Black Onyx

TEAM SPOILER
Zigfried: Dark Spire
Janus: A Fading Melody

Team Complaining
Felix: Aquarium
Ofisal: Mario Kart 64

Team Makeshift
Suskie: Insurgency
DarkEternal: Dreamweb


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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: April 24, 2009 (01:47 PM)
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I, Overdrive, am a noted reviewer of obscure games. I have a certain knowledge of stuff about them.

I therefore am a qualified judge of people's attempts to review games they......think are obscure.

Overdrive shall judge!


I'm not afraid to die because I am invincible
Viva la muerte, that's my goddamn principle

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Author: dragoon_of_infinity
Posted: April 25, 2009 (10:54 AM)
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Sign me up. It's about time I get back to work around here.


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Author: Suskie
Posted: April 25, 2009 (09:33 PM)
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I... wait, what?


You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it.

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Author: espiga
Posted: April 26, 2009 (03:39 AM)
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I'm both intruigued and willing to participate. I'm sure I can find some random Japanese title that hasn't been covered.


Your girlfriend's name ends in .jpg

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Author: sashanan
Posted: April 26, 2009 (03:50 AM)
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You shall know my fury. Count me in.


"Deep in the earth I faced a fight that I could never win. The blameless and the base destroyed, and all that might have been. -- GK"

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Author: darketernal
Posted: April 26, 2009 (01:38 PM)
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Being forced to join this via threats of endless bitching.


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Author: jerec
Posted: April 26, 2009 (05:58 PM)
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The game I was thinking of reviewing is on a system so obscure that it's not even on this site! Yes, I still have a working VECTREX!

I may dust it off and review a game for it.


I can avoid death by not having a life.

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Author: sashanan
Posted: April 27, 2009 (01:35 AM)
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Now that you mention it, I was just going to pick a Commodore 64 review off my stack but why not be more interesting and hook up my Sega Master, which I bought 4 years ago at a flea market and never even tried?

Or...ooh, I have an even better idea. You'll see, if it works out.


"Deep in the earth I faced a fight that I could never win. The blameless and the base destroyed, and all that might have been. -- GK"

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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: April 27, 2009 (01:44 AM)
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I used to love my Vectrex.


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Author: jerec
Posted: April 27, 2009 (04:39 AM)
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EmP, put the Vectrex on the site please. I ask you because this doesn't seem to concern HGWars, so Venter isn't the one to ask. I think you're more capable. :)


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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: April 27, 2009 (05:52 AM)
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Jason doesn't trust me enough to give that much access to the website. Frankly, I don't blame him.

If I see him before he reads this, I'll give him a nudge.


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Author: Suskie
Posted: April 27, 2009 (06:51 AM)
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Oh by the way, I am participating in this and so on and so forth.


You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it.

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Author: Genj
Posted: April 28, 2009 (12:54 PM)
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I'm going to find a game for this and play it and then either review it or get lazy and do nothing.


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Author: zippdementia
Posted: April 28, 2009 (06:28 PM)
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Without a stable emulator, the most obscure title in my collection is probably Neon Genesis Evangelion for the N64. And this site already has a review for it. The only other things that leap to mind are some old PC games... and incedentally, my PC doesn't like me.

I wouldn't mind judging, though!


Note to gamers: when someone shoots you in the face, they aren't "gay." They are "psychopathic."

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Author: zippdementia
Posted: April 28, 2009 (06:36 PM)
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Actually... wait a minute... I COULD review Knarf's House. I bet no-one here has ever heard of Knarf's House. That's because I'm one of maybe six people who actually played the game back when it was released on floppy with old school pixel graphics.

I could probably also review Think Quick. But I'd have to play it again. It wasn't near as memorable as the loveable Knarf's House.


Note to gamers: when someone shoots you in the face, they aren't "gay." They are "psychopathic."

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Author: wolfqueen001
Posted: May 08, 2009 (11:20 AM)
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Guess I'll throw my name in here, too. Though I just reviewed the most obscure game in my collection that I can do anything decent with, so.... yeah.

...if this even goes anywhere that is. So far turnout looks kind of miserable. =/ Which is really quite sad.


[Eating EmP's brain] probably isn't a good idea. I mean... He's British, which means his brain's wired for PAL and your eyes are NTSC. - Will

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Author: EmP (Mod)
Posted: May 09, 2009 (04:36 AM)
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You people are making WQ sad, and this is unacceptable.

Stop being slackers! Signed, EmP


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Author: e-dvdcopyAA
Posted: May 09, 2009 (05:23 AM)
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Even though I originaly came to spam videos of boy-on-boy handjobs, I, too agree that you're all slackers.


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