7 Video Games From Popular Franchises You’ve Never Heard Of

Like every business, video game developers are primarily driven by money. When a game is popular, sequels and spin-offs are bound to follow. Some game franchises span decades and have been passed around to any developer willing to create a new entry.

Unsurprisingly it's unlikely they will all be fondly remembered.

Believe it or not, there are some fates that even franchise recognisability can’t save a game from. Being a pre-smartphone mobile game, being released exclusively on a dead or dying console, having a limited release, or you know, just being so bad that nobody wants to play whatsoever.

Trying to play a lot of these weird games today is often incredibly expensive or sometimes even impossible. As online stores close, many of the weirder experiments get lost to time and are rarely ever re-released which is a shame.

Nowadays these games mostly only exist as a distant memory for those few people who played them, not sure whether the games actually exist or are just a nightmare they had one time.

That, and to annoy game preservationists and people who want to collect everything in a franchise.

There was a period of time where every video game character would be happy to teach you something. Mario Teaches Typing, Rayman Brain Games, and Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure - they were all harmless enough.

What's far from harmless though, is Sonic's Schoolhouse.

Sonic’s Schoolhouse feels like a creepypasta, when playing this game you are just waiting for the twist where it turns out you are in hell or something. In fact, this games only claim to fame is that it actually inspired a horror game, that being Baldi's Basics.

Sonic’s Schoolhouse stars you as an unnamed child navigating Sonic’s Schoolhouse. Sonic will educate you whether you... want him to or not.

The game is divided into three main segments: Answering questions in the schoolhouse that gives Silent Hill a run for its money, playing "fun" games with Sonic, and riding on Sonic’s school bus where he'll force you to listen to random trivia for 15 minutes.

The world would be a better place without Sonic’s Schoolhouse and it’s a good thing that nobody remembers this nightmare.