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[mclem]

Game #2 - This was a SNES sport game. It was sort of a "over top view" sport game that I can't remember if it was soccer or volleyball or dodgeball, but whatever it was, since it was an "over top view" game it reminded me of table hockey. A player watching the goal and a few others in the playing field. Sometimes you'd power up and you can hit the ball hard and fast as shit!

It's an outside chance - since it's dependent on you getting an aspect wrong (as far as I'm aware, it didn't appear on SNES) - but the first thing I thought of when I read this was the Neo Geo's Soccer Brawl.

Edit: Well, that was unexpected. Right about it being Neo Geo, not SNES, but the wrong game.

Isn't Windjammers more of a tennis-y style game?

 

[mclem]

This is a long shot, but there is an older (early 90's if I had to guess) platformer that came out on PC. It had a relatively bland 2d animated art style. I believe you controlled the main character (an adult man?) doing puzzles like find the right key for the right door, etc. I don't even particularly remember it being great, just that I played it a bunch on my grandma's computer.

Do you recall anything more distinctive? That's basically the standard M.O. for any arcade adventure for the time. At the very least, did it have inventory-based puzzles (So a bit more complicated than 'use key on door' - the Dizzy sort of design), or was it largely maze-based with the keys gating progression through areas (Somewhat akin to, say, Gods)

 

[Trejik]

I can't remember two PSOne fighting game. I've looked on lists and everything but I can't seem to find them.

One of them had these crazy fighters and like a spider queen final boss. They all attacked with crazy abilities and with a lot of ranged moves, but they were easy to pull off. The main attack button was triangle, which I remember because it was confusing in the beginning that square, circle and x weren't the buttons to pull off the flashy main moves. Really colorful.

The other one was a more generic Tekken-style fighter with a bunch of unlockable characters in the story mode and the final boss was always fought in this office room. It had a running minigame where you chose a character and had to run a course, which I thought was really crazy and/or stupid.

Help Me!

 

[Gabe3208]

It's an outside chance - since it's dependent on you getting an aspect wrong (as far as I'm aware, it didn't appear on SNES) - but the first thing I thought of when I read this was the Neo Geo's Soccer Brawl.

Edit: Well, that was unexpected. Right about it being Neo Geo, not SNES, but the wrong game.

Isn't Windjammers more of a tennis-y style game?

Yea, it is a tennis-type of ultimate frisbee kind of game. I was wrong on many aspects because this was a game I played over 15 years ago when I was a teenager. But thank goodness someone reminded me of it, definitely going to be playing it this weekend between Mario Kart 8, Tomodachi Life, and Disney Magical World (yes I play quite a few kiddy games, lol)

 

[DTJAAAAM]

The other one was a more generic Tekken-style fighter with a bunch of unlockable characters in the story mode and the final boss was always fought in this office room. It had a running minigame where you chose a character and had to run a course, which I thought was really crazy and/or stupid.

Kensei: Sacred Fist?

 

[Trejik]

Kensei: Sacred Fist?

YEP! Totally! Thanks a million!

 

[Iggins]

There's this game that I can't remember, its a PC game from the 90's where you played as an ant (not sure) and the whole game took place under the ground and everything was dark so you had to discover the map, fight other bugs and gather food, improve the colony, etc. It was like a strategy game.

 

[basic_text]

There's this game that I can't remember, its a PC game from the 90's where you played as an ant (not sure) and the whole game took place under the ground and everything was dark so you had to discover the map, fight other bugs and gather food, improve the colony, etc. It was like a strategy game.

Battle Bugs?

Ooops didn't notice the underground bit! Any of these?

 

[mclem]

There's this game that I can't remember, its a PC game from the 90's where you played as an ant (not sure) and the whole game took place under the ground and everything was dark so you had to discover the map, fight other bugs and gather food, improve the colony, etc. It was like a strategy game.

Sim Ant?

 

[soepje]

Hey guys, i have one that i find a little bit difficult to explain so excuse my paint work. I believe it's a mid nineties PC game and it looks a little bit like this:

What you do is you select a character from the upper row (i made them into circles) and you put it in one of the lower rows. If you get three of them in one of the lower rows you create a new little animal. The animals in the top row are not right, as in they have an arm or leg or whatever that doesn't fit with the rest of the body. The goal of the game is to breed 'perfect' animals with all the right body parts.

Anyone?

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Okay this isn't for me but for my friend who's trying to remember a game he played long ago. Here are what he remembers (but he could be getting some details wrong... xD):

- PS1 game (he seems very sure of that);
- 3D game, not 2D. Possibly isometric rather than third person;
- Hack-and-slash, real time combat;
- Main character wielded a spear or perhaps a polearm (PS1 graphics may have made it hard to distinguish... xD), with an overhead swing;
- Main character might have been wearing brown or orange;
- Setting and art style was historic and Asian, such as feudal Japan or maybe China (not Anime style);
- He doesn't remember it having magic or many (if any) fantasy elements;
- He remembers the game being really hard, and not having much exposition at the beginning (being thrown into the game right away);

I've been trying to figure out but I couldn't so I'm turning to GAF for help. Thanks!

 

[ichtyander]

Okay this isn't for me but for my friend who's trying to remember a game he played long ago. Here are what he remembers (but he could be getting some details wrong... xD):

- PS1 game (he seems very sure of that);
- 3D game, not 2D. Possibly isometric rather than third person;
- Hack-and-slash, real time combat;
- Main character wielded a spear or perhaps a polearm (PS1 graphics may have made it hard to distinguish... xD), with an overhead swing;
- Main character might have been wearing brown or orange;
- Setting and art style was historic and Asian, such as feudal Japan or maybe China (not Anime style);
- He doesn't remember it having magic or many (if any) fantasy elements;
- He remembers the game being really hard, and not having much exposition at the beginning (being thrown into the game right away);

I've been trying to figure out but I couldn't so I'm turning to GAF for help. Thanks!

Monkey Hero maybe?

 

[Cesky]

Ok, i'm officially desperate.

You probably know that feeling abouta a game you played years ago. Your mind forgot kind of everything UNTIL a sudden moment of a random day in which you remember the gameplay clear as water but clearly the title is out of your grasp.

Well, that was yesterday for me

So, informations:

- PC game
- 2002 - 2010
- isometric(i remember the view from above the character) single player RPG
- Start zone was a Dwarf town which get burned down in the first minutes of the game
- Playable Classes: i only remember the druid which was INCREDIBLY similar to WoW druid (shapeshifting into cat & bear, with energy and rage equivalent)
- Also the skill trees look pretty ripped of (if not genuinely copied) by WoW (3 branches for classes,lots of skills etc)


I know it's hard.
I know you rock.

Halp!

 

[spats]

So this one game has been driving me crazy for ages.

I must've played it circa 1993-1994... it was a top-down driving game where you drove a jeep around rough terrain. Really crusty ega/cga graphics. May have had super annoying pc speaker music. It could've been an actual Jeep license game, but I've had absolutely no luck googling it.

 

[Wiktor]

Ok, i'm officially desperate.

You probably know that feeling abouta a game you played years ago. Your mind forgot kind of everything UNTIL a sudden moment of a random day in which you remember the gameplay clear as water but clearly the title is out of your grasp.

Well, that was yesterday for me

So, informations:

- PC game
- 2002 - 2010
- isometric(i remember the view from above the character) single player RPG
- Start zone was a Dwarf town which get burned down in the first minutes of the game
- Playable Classes: i only remember the druid which was INCREDIBLY similar to WoW druid (shapeshifting into cat & bear, with energy and rage equivalent)
- Also the skill trees look pretty ripped of (if not genuinely copied) by WoW (3 branches for classes,lots of skills etc)


I know it's hard.
I know you rock.

Halp!

Were the graphics 3D or 2D? Real-time or turn-based combat?

 

[Ashtrax]

Awesome thread, as there were quite a few titles back in the day I've love to revisit. Only recently did I finally work out an arcade title I spent heaps of 20 cent coins on which was a side scrolling beat em up with heaps of animals and the main characters looked like uber ripped Indiana Jones clones. Turned out it was called Growl!

There is another title I used to play either on my Dad's Windows 3.11 PC or my own Windows 95 notebook when I was in High School. It was a basic dungeon crawler (tile and turned based movement RPG) with no fancy graphics whatsoever. Pretty much a black and white Windows game and your character looked like a barbarian. You get potions and weapons and that, and I'm pretty sure the starting point (town) was in colour now that I think about it...

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Cesky]

Were the graphics 3D or 2D? Real-time or turn-based combat?

3d & real-time

 

[tafer]

Ok guys, I'm looking for a 10+ years PC Game, an horizontal scroll shooter game, at the beginning you can choose between several ships with different strengths and weaknesses (high speed/low armor, high armor/low speed, etc.). I think there were 4 choices.

The game was fairly easy, or at least I remember it was. The final weapon was a straight permanent laser that pretty much cleaned maps with easy, there were options and you could recover most of your upgrades on death since they stayed on the map.

I think there was a small system where you could reorganize your helpers in a way where you could used them as armor.

If I recall correctly the name had something to do with the sun. Any ideas?

 

[Mistwalker]

Ok, i'm officially desperate.

You probably know that feeling abouta a game you played years ago. Your mind forgot kind of everything UNTIL a sudden moment of a random day in which you remember the gameplay clear as water but clearly the title is out of your grasp.

Well, that was yesterday for me

So, informations:

- PC game
- 2002 - 2010
- isometric(i remember the view from above the character) single player RPG
- Start zone was a Dwarf town which get burned down in the first minutes of the game
- Playable Classes: i only remember the druid which was INCREDIBLY similar to WoW druid (shapeshifting into cat & bear, with energy and rage equivalent)
- Also the skill trees look pretty ripped of (if not genuinely copied) by WoW (3 branches for classes,lots of skills etc)


I know it's hard.
I know you rock.

Halp!

Just to get the obvious out of the way, it's NOT Neverwinter Nights 2, is it?

It's a 2006 PC RPG, isometric, 3D, realtime combat (if not set to turn-based), the starting village is burned down during the intro chapter to the game, Druids are a playable class with shapeshifting powers, lots of skills and class options...

...of course, there are no WoW-esque skill trees, and Neverwinter Nights is hardly obscure, but thought I'd check.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Monkey Hero maybe?

Nope. Turns out he figured it out: it was the "quest mode" of... Erhgeiz. LOL. He picked an Asian-looking character and confused that with the setting, apparently, and he forgot about the obvious fantasy RPG tropes for some reason.

 

[Cesky]

Just to get the obvious out of the way, it's NOT Neverwinter Nights 2, is it?

It's a 2006 PC RPG, isometric, 3D, realtime combat (if not set to turn-based), the starting village is burned down during the intro chapter to the game, Druids are a playable class with shapeshifting powers, lots of skills and class options...

...of course, there are no WoW-esque skill trees, and Neverwinter Nights is hardly obscure, but thought I'd check.

Ahahha no it's not NWN, my brain is flawed when it comes to PC titles but not that flawed
If you have any other idea do not refrain yourself from asking, i know it's hard and you have my sincere thanks.

 

[Korten]

I know no one will be able to help me, since I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist...

But it was a... 90s to early 2000 platformer for the PC. It had a horror-like vibe to it, and possible tim burton-esque art style?

You had to save your family after they had gone missing when you got home from school...

I think one of the levels took place in a bathroom/shower area?

 

[Alrus]

So I've had this game on my mind for a while and at some point even had the name of it because someone on gaf posted about it but then I forgot about it all over again :

-It's (I think) a mid to late 90s PC game.
-It plays on some kind of chess board
-You put wind-up toys like bulldozer, chickens and stuff like that on it, they have different effect and are stronger against certain other type of toys (I think), the goal is the beat the opposite side (or just reach it, I'm not entirely sure anymore)
-It might be 3D or isometric, I'm not entirely sure anymore.
-It had a rather cartoony, non serious style.

 

[A Black Falcon]

Awesome thread, as there were quite a few titles back in the day I've love to revisit. Only recently did I finally work out an arcade title I spent heaps of 20 cent coins on which was a side scrolling beat em up with heaps of animals and the main characters looked like uber ripped Indiana Jones clones. Turned out it was called Growl!

There is another title I used to play either on my Dad's Windows 3.11 PC or my own Windows 95 notebook when I was in High School. It was a basic dungeon crawler (tile and turned based movement RPG) with no fancy graphics whatsoever. Pretty much a black and white Windows game and your character looked like a barbarian. You get potions and weapons and that, and I'm pretty sure the starting point (town) was in colour now that I think about it...

Anyone have any ideas?

Castle of the Winds? Great game...

 

[Gangxxter]

I know no one will be able to help me, since I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist...

But it was a... 90s to early 2000 platformer for the PC. It had a horror-like vibe to it, and possible tim burton-esque art style?

You had to save your family after they had gone missing when you got home from school...

I think one of the levels took place in a bathroom/shower area?

Maybe Evil Twin? Although the story is is not about saving your family. Released in 2002 in PAL territories only.

 

[jimmyd]

Well I was about to ask for help in this thread about a game I played 20 years ago when I was 4 or 5 years old. I remembered it was on Commodore 64, was a platformer and came bundled with Klax and a soccer game. A simple Youtube search of "Klax Commodore 64" and I see a boot-up screen for the game selection, with Klax etc... and apparently the game is Flimbo's Quest. I looked up a LP on youtube and my brain almost melted with nostalgia.
Why am I writing this here? Well, this thread simply spurred me into action. I have tried searching before with the few details I remember but could never find out the name of this game. The only thing that doesn't seem right is the character sprite looks too large, but memory isn't perfect is it?

For curiosities sake, does anyone here know Flimbo's Quest and would have been able to help me with the few details I remembered?

 

[haigyman]

deleted.

 

[mclem]

For curiosities sake, does anyone here know Flimbo's Quest and would have been able to help me with the few details I remembered?

I *think* I've guessed - incorrectly - Flimbo's Quest for a previous mystery game, although it's not a game I'd played myself (hence I was dependent on the features that matched what I recalled of the promotion of it).

 

[jimmyd]

I played Flimbo's Quest quite a lot back in the day, I would have fancied my chances.

I *think* I've guessed - incorrectly - Flimbo's Quest for a previous mystery game, although it's not a game I'd played myself (hence I was dependent on the features that matched what I recalled of the promotion of it).

Amazing, thanks for replying.

 

[mclem]

I should also add that despite the two games being absolutely nothing alike, I do somehow occasionally confuse Flimbo's Quest and Puffy's Saga!

 

[jimmyd]

I should also add that despite the two games being absolutely nothing alike, I do somehow occasionally confuse Flimbo's Quest and Puffy's Saga!

I guess it's because of the name: [insert odd name] + [adventure/quest/saga]

 

[Korten]

Maybe Evil Twin? Although the story is is not about saving your family. Released in 2002 in PAL territories only.

No. But thanks for trying.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

So I've had this game on my mind for a while and at some point even had the name of it because someone on gaf posted about it but then I forgot about it all over again :

-It's (I think) a mid to late 90s PC game.
-It plays on some kind of chess board
-You put wind-up toys like bulldozer, chickens and stuff like that on it, they have different effect and are stronger against certain other type of toys (I think), the goal is the beat the opposite side (or just reach it, I'm not entirely sure anymore)
-It might be 3D or isometric, I'm not entirely sure anymore.
-It had a rather cartoony, non serious style.

Gearheads

 

[Jackpot]

Not a game exactly, but an intro fmv for one I can't remember. It was some 4X game along the lines of Galactic Civilisations. It had a really impressive, action-filled space battle of two fleets going at it. Actual game might not even have had 3D assets.

 

[Pharaun]

Not a game exactly, but an intro fmv for one I can't remember. It was some 4X game along the lines of Galactic Civilisations. It had a really impressive, action-filled space battle of two fleets going at it. Actual game might not even have had 3D assets.

Master of Orion series or Homeworld series maybe? 4X game would make me say Master of Orion.

 

[Jackpot]

Master of Orion series or Homeworld series maybe? 4X game would make me say Master of Orion.

None of those. I remember being pretty darned impressed with the CG. Almost on par with EVE trailers.

 

[pinkurocket]

Monkey Hero maybe?

Oh my. The other day I was trying to think of the name of this game, and just as I was considering posting in this thread I see your reply and I remembered the game. Well, thank you for that haha.

 

[hooijdonk17]

Not a game exactly, but an intro fmv for one I can't remember. It was some 4X game along the lines of Galactic Civilisations. It had a really impressive, action-filled space battle of two fleets going at it. Actual game might not even have had 3D assets.

Sins of a Solar Empire maybe, if it's new-ish? Care to mention an era for the game?

 

[Shoujax]

Remember playing a side scrolling platformer/shooter (semi-similar to contra maybe?) on the SMS as a kid. All I remember is that it forced you to the right, and there was some sort of aztec/jungle level. You wore this robot/power ranger style armor I think

There was also an R-Type style game, where you chose alien/bug things instead of a ship. Was pretty enjoyable from memory.

 

[Xinkwi-Xkuk]

So many Commadore 64 games. And to be honest the gameplay in many of the games were decades ahead of their time.

One I can't remember the name, but you battled "The Fuzz" . You would a take a train to new areas, plant seeds and slowly turn the fuzz back into normal people.

Also a GI joe game on C64 was amazing... Name? Hard to relate to new school people how good the C64 was, many nameless games, so ahead of its time.

 

[Wiktor]

Sins of a Solar Empire maybe, if it's new-ish? Care to mention an era for the game?

Yeah, some details would be good(timeframe at least), because pretty much every 4X game has space battle intro

 

[stufte]

So many Commadore 64 games. And to be honest the gameplay in many of the games were decades ahead of their time.

One I can't remember the name, but you battled "The Fuzz" . You would a take a train to new areas, plant seeds and slowly turn the fuzz back into normal people.

Also a GI joe game on C64 was amazing... Name? Hard to relate to new school people how good the C64 was, many nameless games, so ahead of its time.

Agent U.S.A.

The GI Joe game was meh.

 

[Wiktor]

No. But thanks for trying.

2D or 3D? Both in terms of graphics as well as gameplay?
Also, you played as a kid, right?

 

[Phreak47]

This dates me, but I remember this game when I was a tiny kid...

Starship One

I remember sucking so bad, all I wanted to do score ONE hit.

This game seemed to quickly disappear from everyone's memory and for years I couldn't even remember the title of it. I was reminded finally again at some point after MAME came along. .. but for some reason MAME didn't emulate this game properly for years and years. No sound. I totally remember the sounds though.

Prolly one of the very first video games to introduce a 3d-like look.

Also, name ONE OTHER game that ever so effectively stole Boston's first album cover. NAME ONE.

 

[Ashtrax]

Castle of the Winds? Great game...

So hard to keep up with all the threads! (New to GAF haha).

That's the one, cheers!! So awesome. Shame it doesn't work on later OS versions without the need for VMware.

 

[NotMyUsername]

Remember playing a side scrolling platformer/shooter (semi-similar to contra maybe?) on the SMS as a kid. All I remember is that it forced you to the right, and there was some sort of aztec/jungle level. You wore this robot/power ranger style armor I think

There was also an R-Type style game, where you chose alien/bug things instead of a ship. Was pretty enjoyable from memory.

Any chance you're thinking of Probotector for the first game? It's the PAL naming for Contra and replaced the two main characters with blue and red robots. Never was on the SMS but could just be a mixed memory.

 

[Jackpot]

Yeah, some details would be good(timeframe at least), because pretty much every 4X game has space battle intro

last 3 years? I caught the intro on youtube. Definitely one of the niche PC conquer-the-galaxy games. Not SoSE or Homeworld, I play games with strong 3D combat elements.

 

[Shoujax]

Any chance you're thinking of Probotector for the first game? It's the PAL naming for Contra and replaced the two main characters with blue and red robots. Never was on the SMS but could just be a mixed memory.

Interesting, never realized they renamed it for PAL audiences (and I am from a country that used PAL). But that's not it sadly, never had a NES and I definitely remember renting it and playing it at home.

 

[NotMyUsername]

last 3 years? I caught the intro on youtube. Definitely one of the niche PC conquer-the-galaxy games. Not SoSE or Homeworld, I play games with strong 3D combat elements.

I'll throw my hat in and suggest Endless Space.

 

[LGom09]

Not a game, but does anyone have a link to that joke video about the evolution of the Battlefield theme that ends in something like this (turn down your volume)?