Not so great games you have wonderful nostalgia for?

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Originally Posted by Mega Drive Bowlsey

I absolutely loved Colony Wars (and it's sequels) and played the hell out of Rival Schools back in the day. Colony Wars in particular deserved to do so much better than it did in terms of sales. It looked and sounded beautiful and had a truly great story. I remember it came out in '97 around the same time as another Psygnosis game on the PS1, G-Police, and I remember wondering why the hell G-Police did so much better than Colony Wars in terms of reviews and sales. Don't get me wrong, G-Police is a good game but in my opinion it isn't in the same class as Colony Wars.

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I love Colony Wars. The Jame Earl Jones impersonator that did the narrative really set the tone for the game.

Ah Croc, I remember playing that on PC, certainly enjoyed it a lot.

Another game I really enjoyed was Frogger 2, somehow it worked.

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Originally Posted by Eep386

Actually, there's a patch for the first ver of PC Croc that will liberate you from the requirement of a Glide-capable 3dfx card for the game, patching it to run on any reasonably capable DirectX card. Patch is here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8vlvrwj6pc...Patch.exe?dl=0
I tried it on my S3 Savage4 and Croc played like a champ. Of course it does cause some slight oddities (mostly minor sound-related stuff as the Glide API is no longer used) but they're nothing major.
I don't imagine it will break 3dfx cards either, as long as an available DirectX driver is available.

For the record, I 2nd Croc as a game I very much enjoy, that doesn't have the best rep. I don't think Croc really likes being played in anything other than Win9x though.

Heads up: The patch may overwrite your keybinds. You might want to back up your key.txt file before applying the patch.

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I forgot about this patch! IIRC it is from Rex’s old forums.

The patch is based on a revision of Croc for modern systems that supports DefectX completely that came out around Croc 2. This revision runs 100% even on modern systems. Sound issues are unrelated to the patch. I have a copy of this revision.

What sound issues do you experience?

There is another patch that restores the full soundtrack from the PSX version to the PC. I think I still have it somewhere.

Happy to hear someone else liked Croc.

Voodoo note: for people running Croc v1.0 on original hardware with a Voodoo3 3000 PCI (and possibly others) and Windows 95/98 the Voodoo DLLs in the game directory have to be deleted or the game will just print a black screen. This note is from the original Croc web page before it was taken down.

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Originally Posted by ComradeOj

Sonic R. I originally had the PC version as a kid. Cheesy music, bad character balance, and clunky controls, but I loved playing it and still sometimes do.
https://media.sonicscanf.org//galler...c-us-cover.jpg

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Have to second this. I actually had no idea how disliked it was until a few years ago. I played my PC version nonstop in the early 2000s. It felt good to learn the tracks and be able to run through and beat it in under an hour when I was 10. Still have the disc, though for the life of me I can't get it working on a modern computer, so I have to settle for playing it through the Sonic Gems Collection in a Gamecube emulator.

Yeah, I really liked Croc. :D IIRC, it was mostly cutscene sounds that were affected by the patch; some cuts were silent after the patch. (Again nothing major - I usually skip cutscenes in games anyway.)

Here is the music patch for Croc I was talking about. This replaces the shortened PC music with the full tracks from the PSX version.

I remember I once got Croc running on a 486 PC with a Pentium Overdrive 83MHz and S3 ViRGE/GX PCI video card. It was running at slideshow framerates at 320x240, but it was still funny as hell. XD

Bubsy (the first one, anyway). I get that it's derivative, and the controls sorta suck, but I dug it well enough as a young teen.

I see Sonic R was mentioned above... yeah! I always liked it. Again, kinda wonky controls, but I played it a lot.

Sonic R was okay, but I think I ended up trading it in towards reserving a Dreamcast. I think my biggest beef with the game was the loose controls.

some games that come to mind for me:


SNES:
speedy gonzales in los gatos bandidos

GEN:
Krusty's Super Fun House
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
Taz-Mania
Spiderman/X-men

I personally don't think these games are bad, but the general consensus seems to be that they are, especially T2.