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Bioforge (EAOrigin, PC, 1995) The interactive movie genre of the mid-90s brought us plenty of nightmarishly unplayable dross as game developers fell in love with the idea of using full-motion-video to create, ugh, cinematic experiences.

This cyberpunk brawler features one of the great female video game protagonists.

Photo: Bungie Oni: a near-forgotten classic from Bungie, the creator of Halo.

Photo: Bungie Keith Stuart keefstuart Wed 22 Jan 2014 12.07 GMT History is not always kind to great games.

Titles once heralded as masterworks are often lost as console cycles turn.

Alternatively, there are the offbeat outliers completely shunned during their own lifetimes, only to be quietly ransacked by later generations of designers.

Here, we be remember 30 brilliant, idiosyncratic, challenging or just plain weird titles that have been erased from the gaming annals, or at least criminally overlooked.

Each one of these did something interesting with gaming, just not interesting enough to be endlessly recalled in misty-eyed retro articles or on otherwise pretty good Charlie Brooker documentaries.

What have I forgotten What crimes against video game nostalgia have I committed Add your own favourites in the comments section.

D Deathchase (Micromega, ZX Spectrum, 1983) Written by lone coder Mervyn Estcourt (who also produced a PC remake almost 20 years later), this remarkably progressive 3D chase game gets the player to ride a futuristic motorbike through dense woodland, attempting to track down and shoot enemy riders.

The first-person view and smooth sensation of movement were astonishing at the time (especially considering it ran on the older 16k Spectrum), and it no doubt prepared the way for future variations on the free-roaming driving game.

Aliens: The Computer Game (Software StudiosElectric Dreams Software, C64Spectrum, 1986) Activision developed a higher profile tie-in with the movie, but this version is far superior and has lasting significance in game design terms.

Its essentially a prototype first-person shooter, complete with moveable targeting reticule.

Players have to guide six of the films characters through the colony base, toward the queens lair.

Although movement is essentially limited to left and right (firing at doors lets you pass through them), the action is tense, and the importance of quick accurate aiming hints at the FPS genre to come.

Alter Ego (Activision, C64PCApple II, 1986) Designed by psychologist Peter Favaro and released by Activision, this fascinating life simulation gave players control over either a male of female character as they progressed from childhood to grave.

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Designed around a series of key decision points, the mostly text-led experience was based on hundreds of interviews conducted by Favaro, and was hugely critically acclaimed at the time.

Alongside David Cranes Little Computer People it laid the groundwork for modern era virtual soap opera The Sims.

Alas, the sparse presentation and offbeat concept meant that the sim sold poorly and a proposed sequel, based around rearing a child, was scrapped.

Plenty of Segas classic side-scrolling beat-em-ups have gone on to become legends of the genre.

But somehow this beautiful early Saturn release has been over-looked, perhaps thanks to the consoles untimely demise.

Banished from Earth by an angry goddess, the eponymous hero must return to rescue the girl he loves.

Okay, forget the horribly trite story and revel in the gorgeous hand-drawn artwork and interesting attacks, which allow Astal to blow his enemies over or wrench trees out of the ground to chuck at them.

Theres also an innovative but tricky co-op mode which puts player two into the role of Astals bird sidekick.

Watch this playthrough for a taste of the wonderful character and landscape designs.

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