I'm a wealth of wisdom on obscure games. A while back someone asked if anyone in my local group could "Remember Infantry Online?" and I was the only person in the room who had even heard of it (other than him) and played it (albeit not very much, because I discovered it well past its glory days and was more interested on a theoretical level).
Sadly, my knowledge of more modern games is less expansive than that of the games that were around when I was a kid.
But that's cool, a lot of modern games aren't really that good as some people make them to be. I have a draft ready to give some love to old Tabletop RPG games. I admit I thought they were really boring until I actually played them.
I mean, the thing about modern games is that they need to iterate successfully over old ones to be worth playing for people who have had good experiences for old games. Some of it's taste, but there's also a lot of questions about whether or not people are really delivering quality. I think there are a lot of good modern games, and that maybe even games on average are better than they used to be, but they struggle to really break even with old classics.