Hey Pandas, What’s A Video Game Or A TV Show You Love But Nobody Knows About?

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. Get it. Get it now.

First shown at 11pm on a Thursday night where it was never gonna get an audience. If this was shown at 9pm it would have been the next big thing. Channel 4 wasted it.

Fans of the IT Crowd may recognise one or two of the actors.....

"The Shield" was and still is an amazing TV-series
"Baa Baa Black Sheep" is a great series with an amazing cast (many might be put of by the WWII setting though)

"Cobra Triangle" for the NES was a great game an very underrated and under-appreciated.

"Lost Vikings" for PC and consoles remains to this day as a really fun and tricky puzzler.

The greatest video game ever known to mankind "Prototype" its hard to explain without spoiling but theres an accident with a government secret and it gives a guy crazy abillities but no memory and the story includes conspiricy, fraud and a nuke

"My Mother the Car". The great Jerry Van Dyke, playing a wimpy lawyer/family man, buys a 1928 Porter (a completely fictional car), then discovers it is the reincarnation of his mother. She speaks to him through the radio (voiced by Anne Southern), giving him sage advice and many stupid wisecracks. Avery Schreiber plays Captain Mancini, a fanatical and very hairy antique auto collector who will do anything to buy the car for his collection. "My Mother the Car" lasted one whole season (1965 - 1966), was spectacularly stupid and very unfunny. It is considered the worse show in TV history. I LOVE IT!!!!

Probably won't get noticed, but TV show Dead Like Me. Underrated, died too soon (no pun intended) and both humorous, morbid, surreal, and warm.

I’m not allowed to comment anymore and I’m too stupid to figure out how to edit my submission, but thank you so much for the love, guys! I really appreciate it and I’ll probably check some of these out!

"The Last Ship" (From Wikipedia):

At the helm of the USS Nathan James en route to the Arctic, Capt. Tom Chandler learns that the destroyer will be in the best possible place -- a circumstance his crew must utilize -- to save humanity from extinction. A virus has wiped out more than half the population since the ship embarked, and despite orders from the U.S. government to return, Chandler -- believing home is now a shadow of itself -- decides the safest place to develop a vaccine is at sea. That task falls mainly to virologist Dr. Rachel Scott, a civilian originally assigned to the Nathan James to study birds. "The Last Ship" is based on a novel by William Brinkley and is executive-produced by filmmaker Michael Bay

Used to be available on Crave but it "disappeared"... kinda like they stopped playing "New Orleans is Sinking" on the radio for a while after Katrina

Gumby and Pokey. Claymation cartoons. Kids love them, and adults. I still remember the theme song: He once was a little green ball of clay, Gumby. But you should see what Gumby can do today, Gumby. He can walk into any book with his pony pal Pokey, too. If you've got a heart than Gumby's a part of you.

One of the oldest games that I remember playing on PC was Shanghai: A Mahajongg game where you match the tiles to clear the board. From the music to tile types, it was so much fun. It longer works sadly for it was designed for Windows 98 😅 It's not traditional video game but hope my answer fits here!

Grimm for sure and the original Quantum Leap but also two maybe obscure shows nobody mentioned. One called Pushing Daisies I think. The other was a show called The Nine. It was about nine people held hostage during a bank robbery and was pulled off the air midway thru the season. Due to fan outcry the network put the last four episodes online for a limited time. Not available to Canadian viewers. Shoutout to AOL ( not in Canada at that time) so I was able to view them. Never did explain why the one woman came out with her hair chopped off though!

INVADER ZIM. One of the best Nickelodeon shows ever. I CANT BELIEVE THEY CANCELLED IT

VG : Unpacking. A game that's extremely chill and low-pressure, but with some of the best environmental storytelling around. If you just unpack it can seem simple. If you pay attention, it's still simple but also joyous and emotional.

I think I have one that's a bit of a cop out answer for why people don't know it, but Super Robot Wars.

The reason why the series is not really known is because most of the games were not released outside of Asian regions, like Japan, China, or Korea. The only ones I'm aware of that came out in North America were Endless Frontier on the DS (though incredibly rare, and will cost a lot on eBay), and the four most recent games, SRW V, T, X, and 30 (only on Steam). However, these games have been released in English for systems like the PS4, PS Vita, and Switch, though you will have to import a physical copy (and those systems are not region locked, so you can play it on there with no problem).

In gameplay, it's your standard grid based strategy RPG, where knowing where to put your characters is key. Where it stands out is with it's roster of characters, the attack animations, and the music.

Aside from an original protagonist, your teammates consist of a different roster of characters from various mech anime. While the cast is mostly different from game to game, there are characters from Gundam, Getter Robot, Mazinger Z (these first three being considered the "Big 3" franchises to appear in most of the games), Code Geass, Evangelion and Gurren Lagann featured in different games.

The attack animations in the game are references to the moves that these mechs perform in their respective shows, and their battle themes are the opening themes of their respective anime.

If not for a game called Project X Zone, I would not have discovered Super Robot Wars.

SIMSAFARI

that game was honestly amazing, it had great graphic (it was released in 98) and it was basically the sims in safari, what's not to like

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles is one of the most relaxing games in my opinion and has a killer soundtrack. The remake is basically the same game but with some new endgame content, DLC, and easier co-op play

I think project zomboid gets overlooked for its general appearance but it honestly is very fun, quite difficult at times and is one of those games, especially when you go in without prior info, that just repeatedly surprises you. It's the sort of game where everything can change in an instant and I like games that encourage new play styles. I like that too gain good characteristics you must take negative ones, I think that's a great mechanic. But anyway, yeah for an indie game, it's incredibly polished and fun.

Change is a video game that will always need more love, more attention. It was made by like 1 dude and is a very well made, heart breaking game that is honestly pretty realistic. It doesn't make fun of our make light of homelessness but instead makes an experience like no other. The main reason why I think it deserves even more love though is the fact that it has been out for like 10yrs and is still being worked on, it still gets updates and you can just tell how much passion the dev has for it. Unlike other games too, it doesn't have a tonne of paid dlcs (I'm looking at you dead cells), the game itself doesn't need the 1 dlc it has but it added a fair amount of content and new challenges that i think it makes it enhances the game.

I also like that they added additional 'stories' if what issues some people would face, it is inspiring and equal parts bleak... kind of This War of Mine misery vibes.

I have played it since like a very early release and it still gets me. Nothing is better than succeeding but this is not a game you usually win.

There's this video game (it's on Apple Arcade so not really) called Wylde Flowers, and I absolutely love it! It's made by a smaller studio, but the graphics are beautiful and the storyline is really good!

ActRaiser for the SNES! What a great game, combining side-scrolling platform action with top-down city building! Fantastic graphics, music, sound effects, controls, and very creative creatures and bosses. It got a bit overlooked due to other titles that came out at the same time, but I sure enjoyed it many times over!

Not really unknown but the She-Ra remake was/is awesome
Its on Netflix if you want to check it out.