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Games you remember, names you don't

There's a PC game I played many years back where you are venturing through a castle (or mansion), but the only "Obstacles" you have are quiz questions.

I thought the idea was rather silly, but it too came with an eeriness as you ran across room-from-room with random residents of the castle/mansion staring at you while proposing multiple-choice quiz questions.
 
B.K. said:
There are a few that I used to play back in elementary school. I think they were old Apple games.

In one game, you had to put together different pieces on a rocket and try to get it into orbit.

Another game had a similar concept, except that you were putting together a drag race car to see how far you could go.

A third was a game that took place on the moon. You controlled a rover and had to shoot enemies.
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Sure it has been answered already, but.....

Jetpac
Tranz Am
Lunar Jetman

All by "Ultimate Play The Game"
 
Ultimadrago said:
There's a PC game I played many years back where you are venturing through a castle (or mansion), but the only "Obstacles" you have are quiz questions.

I thought the idea was rather silly, but it too came with an eeriness as you ran across room-from-room with random residents of the castle/mansion staring at you while proposing multiple-choice quiz questions.
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I suspect that's a game that's cropped up in here before: Mindmaze, the game portion of Microsoft Encarta encyclopaedia.
 
There was this PS1 title that was a 2D sidescroller/platformer with I believe to be electric powers or a gun. The character was some white guy, I think.
 
At early 90's if im not mistaken, me and my sister loved to play a 2D platform adventure game on PC, where you could control a boy or a girl. I havent much more of this game on my mind, and that makes it so hard to discover what that was! T-T
 
It was a PC game, had gamepad support, was 3D, third person, and I remember going around a city at night while it was raining doing stuff. It reminds me of GTA. The year was sometime between 2002 and 2005 but I think the game was older.
 
I'm going to quote myself from another thread since this game has occasionally popped back up in my mind now and again. And it bothers me because I simply cannot remember any more about it, nor can I find it through searching on Google.

Necromanti said:
I can't seem to find it through Google.

I believe it was only a demo, but it was a Mac game that had you play as a contestant in some weird reality TV game show that involved beating up other contestants, or something like that. It had a comedic element to it, and was in 3D. There was also narration by a host.
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There's not much for me to go off of:

This was a (probably isometric) third person shooter where you played a Duke Nukem'esque badass on another planet, somtime in the mid-late 90s. I want to say the environment was mostly desert like, with squat little gray buildings that looked like generic stone. I feel like you fought aliens and maybe zombies. There were lots of cool weapons, and at least one babe character for the main guy to be corny around. I think there might have been two player with a similarly dudebro guy, though maybe not.

I really don't have a lot to go on, but the memory of this game has bugged me for years and years and apparently never asked in this thread (though I did find Deathdrome by Zipper Interactive on here in 09, very cool).

Edit: doh it's a PC title.
 
I remember very little of this one, but I do know it was a game found on a Games For Windows-type demo cd which also had Doom 95 and Fury3 on it. The demo disk played out like you were in a space station and you went up and activated whichever game you wanted to play. Anyway, the game itself was some sort of driving game where you essentially drove around a wasteland in a weaponized car and destroyed other cars and tanks and whatnot. I can't for the life of me figure out what the game actually was, but I would spend hours playing the same demo stage over and over as a kid.
 
VisceralBowl said:
It was a PC game, had gamepad support, was 3D, third person, and I remember going around a city at night while it was raining doing stuff. It reminds me of GTA. The year was sometime between 2002 and 2005 but I think the game was older.
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Could be Urban Chaos.

Necromanti said:
I can't seem to find it through Google.

I believe it was only a demo, but it was a Mac game that had you play as a contestant in some weird reality TV game show that involved beating up other contestants, or something like that. It had a comedic element to it, and was in 3D. There was also narration by a host.
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The Devil Inside? Although I'm not sure it was released for Mac.

TheCthultist said:
I remember very little of this one, but I do know it was a game found on a Games For Windows-type demo cd which also had Doom 95 and Fury3 on it. The demo disk played out like you were in a space station and you went up and activated whichever game you wanted to play. Anyway, the game itself was some sort of driving game where you essentially drove around a wasteland in a weaponized car and destroyed other cars and tanks and whatnot. I can't for the life of me figure out what the game actually was, but I would spend hours playing the same demo stage over and over as a kid.
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It's probably the Games for Windows 95 disc (Manhattan Space Station). The game you're describing sounds like Havoc. I looked for this game for a long while myself.
 
I vaguely remember a kids game that I played on my friend's imac back in like '99 or something, The character you talked to or mascot of the game was a white bird and you were up in a treehouse, I think it let you build the treehouse by placing the pieces of wood down and hammering the nails. It was like a point and click game that just let you do different activities.

There was a plant you could water I think, anyone have any idea what game I'm talking about? I imagine it was one of those 99 cent bargain bin games shortly after release.
 
It was an edutainment game. Played it in middle school, so was somewhere between 2007 and 2009. All I really remember is that it was a first person shooter and you had to solve math problems to progress and higher levels meant harder problems or something like that.
 
There is one particular Game which I would love to know the Name. I've played it on my Atari ST Mega 1, some 26 years ago.

The Game was placed in a postapocalyptic World and you were driving with a 4-wheeled Tank through a destroyed City and had to collect supplies in warehouses and supermarkets, and there you were attacked by zombies/radiated People.
When you had collected enough supplies you could drive to an Arena and fight against other survivors in a smaller Tank/Car.

That's all I can remember of that Game. The only other thing is that it was absolutely amazing to play back then.

Edit: It was a top down perspective game
 
I very vaguely remember an RTS for the PC that I watched my 11 year older brother play, probably before the year 2000, and even then it looked like it wasn't a newly released game. We must've had Windows 98 on that PC if that could narrow it down a bit.

- The game was a "modern day" RTS, and I only remember it having a mission in a desert town area, with some dried up sandy dirt hills around. It might have been early on in the game.
- The perspective was top down, and the movement was totally free, no "diagonal grid" stuff going on, and the sprites looked quite good with, like, high color depth I guess you could say?
- It basically played like the Red Alert games.
- I remember there being tanks and infantry in desert camouflage.
 
Trying to think of a Gauntlet clone for the PC from I'm guessing mid to late nineties to early 2000's, and I can't for the life of me think what it was called.
I'm sure the warrior class was called Barbarian, and it may have been more violent/gory than Gauntlet Legends. It was top down and I'm not sure if it was 3D or similar to DK Country visuals.
 
MBR said:
I very vaguely remember an RTS for the PC that I watched my 11 year older brother play, probably before the year 2000, and even then it looked like it wasn't a newly released game. We must've had Windows 98 on that PC if that could narrow it down a bit.

- The game was a "modern day" RTS, and I only remember it having a mission in a desert town area, with some dried up sandy dirt hills around. It might have been early on in the game.
- The perspective was top down, and the movement was totally free, no "diagonal grid" stuff going on, and the sprites looked quite good with, like, high color depth I guess you could say?
- It basically played like the Red Alert games.
- I remember there being tanks and infantry in desert camouflage.
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Warzone 2100?
KKND?
 
sunofsam said:
Warzone 2100?
KKND?
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None of those, but thanks!
KKND looks most like it, but my game was more "realistic". I'm thinking US army style tanks and desert infantry. The landscape (From the first mission) actually looks close to what I remember though.
 
Jimnymebob said:
Trying to think of a Gauntlet clone for the PC from I'm guessing mid to late nineties to early 2000's, and I can't for the life of me think what it was called.
I'm sure the warrior class was called Barbarian, and it may have been more violent/gory than Gauntlet Legends. It was top down and I'm not sure if it was 3D or similar to DK Country visuals.
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It's more Diablo than Gauntlet but I'll throw in a guess for Darkstone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkstone
 
Jimnymebob said:
Trying to think of a Gauntlet clone for the PC from I'm guessing mid to late nineties to early 2000's, and I can't for the life of me think what it was called.
I'm sure the warrior class was called Barbarian, and it may have been more violent/gory than Gauntlet Legends. It was top down and I'm not sure if it was 3D or similar to DK Country visuals.
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Get Medieval?
 
MistaPropella said:
There is one particular Game which I would love to know the Name. I've played it on my Atari ST Mega 1, some 26 years ago.

The Game was placed in a postapocalyptic World and you were driving with a 4-wheeled Tank through a destroyed City and had to collect supplies in warehouses and supermarkets, and there you were attacked by zombies/radiated People.
When you had collected enough supplies you could drive to an Arena and fight against other survivors in a smaller Tank/Car.

That's all I can remember of that Game. The only other thing is that it was absolutely amazing to play back then.

Edit: It was a top down perspective game
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Either Autoduel or Road Raider.
 
I have been trying to find this game for a while, I can't find the cartridge of the game anymore. It was some kind of 2D hack 'n slash on the Gameboy advance. The story went something like: your sister/brother/father was killed/abducted by a demon(?) or something and when you progressed through the game you got better swords. I think it was set in some kind of fantasy setting.
 
been trying to remember this game i played on the PC, i'm thinking around 1995~1996. it was a sci-fi/cyberpunk action/adventure/rpg thing that featured a female lead character (maybe male selectable also). the game used pre-rendered backgrounds and fixed camera angles.

it started with you crashing your spaceship somewhere outside of a futuristic city, and the plot was along the lines of the planet being about to explode so you had to find a way to get off it. there was a central hub of the city with terminals where you could pick up missions and buy ammo and such, and iirc you had to fight some kind of doomsday cult and so forth. i remember using submachineguns and maybe flamethrowers. or maybe the enemies just had them. visually it was sort of like syndicate only with a much closer camera and you only controlled one character.

i'm usually pretty good at remembering names of games so it's driving me crazy i can't remember this one. i'm pretty sure i even finished it at least once.
 
MBR said:
Thanks. I'll get back if I find something. So far nothing though from 1995-2000. Maybe it has been so long that I'm filling in stuff that isn't there, as I didn't have much more than "desert and desert troops" to begin with :/
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Dune 2000 was kinda big.
 
MBR said:
I very vaguely remember an RTS for the PC that I watched my 11 year older brother play, probably before the year 2000, and even then it looked like it wasn't a newly released game. We must've had Windows 98 on that PC if that could narrow it down a bit.

- The game was a "modern day" RTS, and I only remember it having a mission in a desert town area, with some dried up sandy dirt hills around. It might have been early on in the game.
- The perspective was top down, and the movement was totally free, no "diagonal grid" stuff going on, and the sprites looked quite good with, like, high color depth I guess you could say?
- It basically played like the Red Alert games.
- I remember there being tanks and infantry in desert camouflage.
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The year's out but otherwise it sounds a lot like C&C: Generals.
 
There was this game I played on PC as a kid. It involved you being a spy who had to stop an evil clone (or something like that). You had a white lab coat, his was black. You gathered allies like the chemist, meat stick man, and something with some guy who resembled a monkey. It's been bugging me forever and if anyone can name it I'll love them forever. Mind you I played this in the late 90s, early 2000s.
 
There was this local multiplayer PC game I liked a lot but can't remember the name:

-We ran it on MS-DOS
-It was either freeware or shareware. I remember reading those words in some screen of the game
-Not in English if I remember correctly. Probably in German, at least I thought it was in German but my German has never been very good
-The primary color in menus was yellow instead of white
-Each player controlled a dot on the screen. When the game started the dots would advance automatically drawing a line and everyone had to turn left or right to control how it was drawn, losing if they crashed into another line. I think going through a border teleported you to the other side, so you could only lose by hitting another line
-Each player only needed two buttons, one player could use the right and left click on the mouse to control his dot

While playing it looked something like this (don't remember the exact colors, sorry about the 5-minutes-in-paint quality):

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We really liked this game at the time, but I've lost contact with the people that might know its name (although it's been like 10 years so I doubt they remember either)
 
Mr_Appleby said:
been trying to remember this game i played on the PC, i'm thinking around 1995~1996. it was a sci-fi/cyberpunk action/adventure/rpg thing that featured a female lead character (maybe male selectable also). the game used pre-rendered backgrounds and fixed camera angles.

it started with you crashing your spaceship somewhere outside of a futuristic city, and the plot was along the lines of the planet being about to explode so you had to find a way to get off it. there was a central hub of the city with terminals where you could pick up missions and buy ammo and such, and iirc you had to fight some kind of doomsday cult and so forth. i remember using submachineguns and maybe flamethrowers. or maybe the enemies just had them. visually it was sort of like syndicate only with a much closer camera and you only controlled one character.

i'm usually pretty good at remembering names of games so it's driving me crazy i can't remember this one. i'm pretty sure i even finished it at least once.
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Septerra Core?

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I can't remember the name of 90's or early 2000's PC third person hack'n'slash / action-adventure game. I remember it was insanely violent and had dismemberment for at least head and limbs. I think there was different character classes or races you could pick. Weapons were swords, axes etc.
 
Thretau said:
I can't remember the name of 90's or early 2000's PC third person hack'n'slash / action-adventure game. I remember it was insanely violent and had dismemberment for at least head and limbs. I think there was different character classes or races you could pick. Weapons were swords, axes etc.
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Severance Blade of Darkness

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I've been searching for the name of an early-90s PC game for years.

It's a strange adventure game that takes place in a kind of "theme park". You're welcome by a woman that is shocked each time you die (and since the game like sometimes Dragon's Lair, it can happen a lot).

The first area is a medieval one, where you can wander around a castle in a very bad 3D firing lasers, and visit the castle itself. There's a dog at the entrance that gets a beating, but the game explains that it's actually an actor who is really well paid.

You visit different areas after that, including the Apollo 11 Moon landing so that you can steal the US Flag (I don't remember how you use it afterwards, though). IIRC, you kill the villain by dropping a cruise boat on him.

Yes, I know, this sounds strange. In fact, it's so strange that it's quite difficult to make google queries for this one. Any idea?
 
Mr_Appleby said:
been trying to remember this game i played on the PC, i'm thinking around 1995~1996. it was a sci-fi/cyberpunk action/adventure/rpg thing that featured a female lead character (maybe male selectable also). the game used pre-rendered backgrounds and fixed camera angles.

it started with you crashing your spaceship somewhere outside of a futuristic city, and the plot was along the lines of the planet being about to explode so you had to find a way to get off it. there was a central hub of the city with terminals where you could pick up missions and buy ammo and such, and iirc you had to fight some kind of doomsday cult and so forth. i remember using submachineguns and maybe flamethrowers. or maybe the enemies just had them. visually it was sort of like syndicate only with a much closer camera and you only controlled one character.

i'm usually pretty good at remembering names of games so it's driving me crazy i can't remember this one. i'm pretty sure i even finished it at least once.
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That sounds bad ass. Was it any good?
 
sunofsam said:
SNAFU?
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Almost, SNAFU is very similar to the one I'm looking for but limits the movement to 4 directions, while the one we played didn't have that limitation, it kept turning left/right while advancing as long as we pressed the button. Also, from what I read SNAFU is limited to 2 players, while the one we played supported 4 players (maybe more, my memory is foggy on that)

Thanks for that name, anyway, that was really helpful. At least now I can narrow down my search to PC SNAFU clones
 
nmanma said:
Almost, SNAFU is very similar to the one I'm looking for but limits the movement to 4 directions, while the one we played didn't have that limitation, it kept turning left/right while advancing as long as we pressed the button. Also, from what I read SNAFU is limited to 2 players, while the one we played supported 4 players (maybe more, my memory is foggy on that)

Thanks for that name, anyway, that was really helpful. At least now I can narrow down my search to PC SNAFU clones
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Zatacka?
 
Alric said:
Septerra Core?

Septerra_Core_-_Legacy_of_the_Creator_Coverart.png
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nah definitely wasn't that. was a western game with "cool 90's chick" art. combat was realtime. but thanks! that looks quite interesting anyway.

Acrylic7 said:
That sounds bad ass. Was it any good?
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it may have been a bit buggy, and the controls were a somewhat awkward from memory - moving off the edge of the screen could change the camera angle so you'd appear on the next screen running sideways or something stupid. but i enjoyed it at the time and had a sudden an urge to play it again for some reason.
 
When I was a kid, a friend of mine let me play a game on his NES, and I've always wanted to try it again, but I've never been able to remember what it was to try and hunt down a copy.

It was an isometric (like Marble Madness) game where you played a sorceror dude in purple clothes. The game was based in in static rooms that you had to try and escape or solve puzzles in, and there was platforming with power-ups (like speed boots).

Any ideas? Preferably with screenshots, because I don't think I ever really knew what it was called.
 
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