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Games you remember, names you don't

jiggles said:
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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Solstice, I'd say

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScW77tAMOgE
 
Early 90s I believe. Played this either on DOS or Win95

It was a side scroller but you were like a transformer kind of thing. Mech fighter would transform into a futuristic Jet.

The Jet/Mech may have had red coloring.
 
Saw this on minus and got interested. Anyone know what it is?

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Aw fuck, aight thanks guys. There goes that interest :/
 
one game I can't remember the name of is a PS2 game and on the front cover was a fox or squirrel of some kind. The game a 3rd person shooter with really cartoony graphics and there were multiple characters you could choose from ( that were other animals ) and I believe it was 4 player split screen.

that's really all I can remember. Any help would be appreciated
 
TheBowen said:
one game I can't remember the name of is a PS2 game and on the front cover was a fox or squirrel of some kind. The game a 3rd person shooter with really cartoony graphics and there were multiple characters you could choose from ( that were other animals ) and I believe it was 4 player split screen.

that's really all I can remember. Any help would be appreciated
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I'll guess Fur Fighters: Viggo's Revenge: http://us.playstation.com/games/fur-fighters-viggo-s-revenge-ps2.html
 
This will probably be a long shot, but I remember playing a game on my cousins PC circa late 80s/early 90s. I remember installing it via a 5 inch floppy disk. Anyway... The game was an isometric beat-up/brawler type game. You could pick up chains and I think knives and use them as weapons. I remember there were certain buildings you could enter - I remember vividly that one of them was a sort of strip club like place.

If it helps, the color palette on the game was super limited. Anyone have any ideas? It wasn't necessarily a good game, but I remember going thru the hassle to get it installed and could never go farther than a few screens before I died.
 
ruxtpin said:
This will probably be a long shot, but I remember playing a game on my cousins PC circa late 80s/early 90s. I remember installing it via a 5 inch floppy disk. Anyway... The game was an isometric beat-up/brawler type game. You could pick up chains and I think knives and use them as weapons. I remember there were certain buildings you could enter - I remember vividly that one of them was a sort of strip club like place.

If it helps, the color palette on the game was super limited. Anyone have any ideas? It wasn't necessarily a good game, but I remember going thru the hassle to get it installed and could never go farther than a few screens before I died.
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Truly isometric, or do you mean you could traverse horizontally and vertically, Double Dragon style?
 
ruxtpin said:
This will probably be a long shot, but I remember playing a game on my cousins PC circa late 80s/early 90s. I remember installing it via a 5 inch floppy disk. Anyway... The game was an isometric beat-up/brawler type game. You could pick up chains and I think knives and use them as weapons. I remember there were certain buildings you could enter - I remember vividly that one of them was a sort of strip club like place.

If it helps, the color palette on the game was super limited. Anyone have any ideas? It wasn't necessarily a good game, but I remember going thru the hassle to get it installed and could never go farther than a few screens before I died.
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Street Fighting Man? Never played it myself, but this article seems to hit the points you mention.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/06/30/saturday-crapshoot-street-fighting-man/
 
scoobidoo112 said:
Been looking for this for a while:

- Shareware game
- I played a demo version with just 1 level
- Snake-like gameplay, where you go through levels collecting mini-you's to form a long chain of creatures
- I remember the creatures being stuck in cages
- Top down perspective


It's not much, but it's been so long :P
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scoobidoo112 said:
Yes PC and it ran in windows. I played it around 98/99 but I assume the game itself was a little bit older. I remember playing it alongside shareware games like Wacky Wheels and the like...
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Still hoping someone can identify this for me.
 
We'll. it was a kind of boat/hover vehicles racing game on the psx, a mix of wipeout and Mario kart, where you could pick up power ups and such. I played it a lot, but the name it's totally gone from my mind, hopefully someone in here can help me find it again.

Ps: there's a sand map, where you can see the Statue of Liberty fallen down and some big skeletons from a monster... Damn.
 
Anyone recall that fighting game for PC where you have these dogs and cats and other animals that turned into robots or something?
 
ruxtpin said:
This will probably be a long shot, but I remember playing a game on my cousins PC circa late 80s/early 90s. I remember installing it via a 5 inch floppy disk. Anyway... The game was an isometric beat-up/brawler type game. You could pick up chains and I think knives and use them as weapons. I remember there were certain buildings you could enter - I remember vividly that one of them was a sort of strip club like place.

If it helps, the color palette on the game was super limited. Anyone have any ideas? It wasn't necessarily a good game, but I remember going thru the hassle to get it installed and could never go farther than a few screens before I died.
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That sounds like it's a member of the Last Ninja series.
 
It's a Sega Master system game. It is set in the future (possibly outer space). It is a side scroller where your character starts as a walking man, and he can turn into a motorcycle, and eventually into a flying machine (mech?).
 
Carnby said:
It's a Sega Master system game. It is set in the future (possibly outer space). It is a side scroller where your character starts as a walking man, and he can turn into a motorcycle, and eventually into a flying machine (mech?).
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Might be Zillion II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJETT4HN3FA

Competa said:
We'll. it was a kind of boat/hover vehicles racing game on the psx, a mix of wipeout and Mario kart, where you could pick up power ups and such. I played it a lot, but the name it's totally gone from my mind, hopefully someone in here can help me find it again.

Ps: there's a sand map, where you can see the Statue of Liberty fallen down and some big skeletons from a monster... Damn.
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Don't know it myself, but it's worth you checking the PS1 section of this thread.

http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=348433
 
scoobidoo112 said:
Nope, sorry. The creatures were specifically in cages and the movement was smooth, not choppy like in the video. My game was more modern too, graphically more in the Wacky Wheels era of shareware games.
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Not sure if I asked before, but do you remember something about the creatures, the colors, looks, what they resembled etc? You were one of the creatures, right? Were they animated in some peculiar way while standing still or moving "alongside" your snake line? I was searching for this game for a few days the first time you mentioned it but found nothing so I'm thinking if there are some other details or angles I can search for.
 
It's an old PC game(possibly from the 90's or even 80's no clue). It had pixel graphics and the game was this weird 2d game where you blew up shit with bombs, the bombs had various sizes and characteristics. It's 2d akin to a mario game, not overhead like say the Super Bomberman games.

I remember playing it as a kid... But I can't for the life of me think of anything to track it down. All I have is vague memories and vague images of it in my mind.
 
ichtyander said:
Not sure if I asked before, but do you remember something about the creatures, the colors, looks, what they resembled etc? You were one of the creatures, right? Were they animated in some peculiar way while standing still or moving "alongside" your snake line? I was searching for this game for a few days the first time you mentioned it but found nothing so I'm thinking if there are some other details or angles I can search for.
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Aside from what I've already mentioned I don't remember much more. After the level was complete the game would show screenshots of other levels, with an ad for the full version alongside it. I think the creatures were round, and your main character was bigger than the ones stuck in cages. I think there were enemies, but I can't remember how you died.

I'm not remembering much about the colours. It looked more like a 16 bit game than an 8 bit game. I think the game made use of foregrounds that your chain could move underneath.I'm not sure if the game had 4d or 8d movement.

I remember getting this demo in a collection of shareware games in like a zip or rar file, which included Wacky Wheels.
 
C64: Text based that required reading and cross referencing a giant book. I think the book may have been a story and you played the games as sort of a choose your own adventure supplement. I was super young so that last part might be wishful thinking.


Only things I remember are something about a rainbow and an island (no not rainbow islands)
 
Competa said:
We'll. it was a kind of boat/hover vehicles racing game on the psx, a mix of wipeout and Mario kart, where you could pick up power ups and such. I played it a lot, but the name it's totally gone from my mind, hopefully someone in here can help me find it again.

Ps: there's a sand map, where you can see the Statue of Liberty fallen down and some big skeletons from a monster... Damn.
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Dead in the Water?
 
Holykael1 said:
It's an old PC game(possibly from the 90's or even 80's no clue). It had pixel graphics and the game was this weird 2d game where you blew up shit with bombs, the bombs had various sizes and characteristics. It's 2d akin to a mario game, not overhead like say the Super Bomberman games.

I remember playing it as a kid... But I can't for the life of me think of anything to track it down. All I have is vague memories and vague images of it in my mind.
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Maybe it's Larax & Zaco (aka Lezac).

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P33KAJ3W said:
C64: Text based that required reading and cross referencing a giant book. I think the book may have been a story and you played the games as sort of a choose your own adventure supplement. I was super young so that last part might be wishful thinking.


Only things I remember are something about a rainbow and an island (no not rainbow islands)
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I haven't played a lot of text adventures so I'm not very familiar with this genre. Infocom used to make InvisiClues booklets as hints for their adventure games and they looked like this:

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There were also video game conversions from real gamebooks (choose your own adventure stuff), mostly the Fighting Fantasy series (by the co-founders of Games Workshop). Wikipedia gives a short list of the games:

-The Warlock of Firetop Mountain
-The Citadel of Chaos
-The Forest of Doom
-Temple of Terror
-Seas of Blood
-Appointment with F.E.A.R.
-Rebel Planet

Check out this page and see if some of those screenshots look familiar.
 
First videogame I ever played; not sure if it was an arcade cabinet or something like an ATARI 2600 with a coinslot of some sort, but the game was black and white, very simple. You are this dude, you have to make it from the left side of the screen to the right side on various screens/levels which involve (IIRC) things like jumping and grabbing ropes to cross chasms to reach a castle with a princess at the window in the last level. When you finished it, it unceremoniously restarted. I would be very happy if anyone remembers.

There are a couple more I wish I could remember,

One is an ATARI 800XL game, a weird maze/puzzle kind of game; I don't even remember what the sprite you control was like, it's a maze on the screen kind of like PACMAN but instead of going in the tunnels between the lines you navigate ON THE lines, trying not to get caught by some.. things.. the only one of which I remember is a stack of jagged lines randomly travelling the screen kind of like a cloud/fog. As the levels progressed the line colors changed and IIRC you travelled faster on some of the lines.

Another is a PC action racing game from the glide era. I got it on a Demo CD of PC Gamer, what I got was one level, and one car. You drove from behind the car, the level was night, the mechanics were really fun, racing was really fast, the lighting made my head spin when I had first gotten my Voodoo 2. I remember that the demo level was set at night and that you went through a tunnel or under a bridge at some point. I vaguely remember the car you drove was.. green.. or purple..

Good luck :)
 
hooijdonk17 said:
First videogame I ever played; not sure if it was an arcade cabinet or something like an ATARI 2600 with a coinslot of some sort, but the game was black and white, very simple. You are this dude, you have to make it from the left side of the screen to the right side on various screens/levels which involve (IIRC) things like jumping and grabbing ropes to cross chasms to reach a castle with a princess at the window in the last level. When you finished it, it unceremoniously restarted. I would be very happy if anyone remembers.
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Some iteration of Hunchback, it sounds like, although that was colour. Could be a port or clone, I guess.

One is an ATARI 800XL game, a weird maze/puzzle kind of game; I don't even remember what the sprite you control was like, it's a maze on the screen kind of like PACMAN but instead of going in the tunnels between the lines you navigate ON THE lines, trying not to get caught by some.. things.. the only one of which I remember is a stack of jagged lines randomly travelling the screen kind of like a cloud/fog. As the levels progressed the line colors changed and IIRC you travelled faster on some of the lines.
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Some iteration of Qix:

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I suspect the bit you're misremembering there is that the objective was to draw more lines to fill in a percentage of the screen (I think 80% or so), and you had two drawing speeds, with more points if you use the slower draw.
 
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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Result! It was The Creed.

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Intro on youtube

Can't find an actual gameplay image that isn't a blown up, compressed to shit thumbnail unfortunately, but damn the intro is totally radical.

So I found it after searching the home of the underdogs, wikipedia and a bunch of other stuff by genre and release year and blah blah over the last couple nights, without any joy. tried again tonight, and was trawling through google image search on the phrase "dos cyberpunk cd-rom 3rd person" (specific, right?) and after 500 odd images or so, suddenly i see it. the holy grail. the cover of the game.

I'll give you one guess where the image linked to.

Now the question is, do my parents still have the disc in a box somewhere? it's possible, they've got all our old C64 games going back to cassette even.
 
mclem said:
Some iteration of Hunchback, it sounds like, although that was colour. Could be a port or clone, I guess.


Some iteration of Qix:

WatcVL2.png


I suspect the bit you're misremembering there is that the objective was to draw more lines to fill in a percentage of the screen (I think 80% or so), and you had two drawing speeds, with more points if you use the slower draw.
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Hunchback is correct! The version I played was black and white, but that could be because the monitor was not colour, but this is the game for sure!

Qix unfortunately is not; the objective was not to draw lines to fill space, but I believe it was to travel across all the lines that were already on the screen.. I'm trying to find it on google, but no luck so far :(
 
hooijdonk17 said:
Qix unfortunately is not; the objective was not to draw lines to fill space, but I believe it was to travel across all the lines that were already on the screen.. I'm trying to find it on google, but no luck so far :(
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Might be Amidar or Crush Roller, then, but those don't have the (fairly iconic) 'cloud of lines' enemy - that's what led me to Qix in the first place.
 
mclem said:
Might be Amidar or Crush Roller, then, but those don't have the (fairly iconic) 'cloud of lines' enemy - that's what led me to Qix in the first place.
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Neither. It looks like Crush Roller, except that the paths you travel are much thinner, and it certainly does have the cloud thing from Qix, I'm 100% sure my memory is not wrong, I played it for hours and hours..
 
So I want to preface this by saying: I swear I'm not crazy.

The game I have in mind has stuck in my head for years. Thing is, I don't know if it even actually exists or if it was some crazy dream as a child.

Pretty sure it was on the N64. You play as a chicken going through maze-like levels. Lots of bright colors; I think there was a lot of orange. Pretty sure it was part collect-a-thon, but that wasnt the MAIN focus. At the end of each level there is a reporter chicken who would say something before you proceeded to the next. And... Well, that's about it. Like I said, I don't know if this thing even exists... But it's been in my mind for more than half my life!
 
There was the PS2 game I used to play at my friends house all the time. It was kind of like a Mario Party game but you could be like a knight, mage, burgler, and something else. It was really fun I wish I could find it.
 
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