I think it was late 90s, it was 3d, a bit like alone in the dark.
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I think it was late 90s, it was 3d, a bit like alone in the dark.
Lumpy Onion
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One of the Ecstatica games maybe? They scared the heck out of me.
Bingo that's the game! I was around 10 at the time and it was really scary, had creepy music and atmosphere.
LowlySmokeGuy
Banned
I looked up some videos for those, and they give the right vibe for what I remember. Not really sure which game it was though. Thanks for the help.
ScottSullivan
Member
This one is kind of a longshot but im asking for my wife. She remembers playing a game on the snes with her brother as a kid.. Where you were a pirate or boat captain of some kind and you could sail around the world or something. Sorry thats all i have to go on
Uncharted Waters?
Sid Meier's Pirates was on NES and Genesis, could be it.
Apparently there's a SNES game called Uncharted Waters that is heavily based on Pirates?
Edit: beaten by Phediuk
MM i think that might have been it. I always wondered if it was a decent game.
NotMyUsername
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I tried to at least play a little bit of all the character action games during that generation and I found it largely unremarkable from the hour or so I played. I'm sure you could find it online for $1 or something so if you really want to give it a shot go for it but I think they tried to sell off of the wacky concept more than good game design.
Graphics Horse
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Haha, I just finally found this out myself, sorry I missed your reply in 2009.
edit: I was just about to ask about another ancient racing game but it turned up in a youtube link from a Chequered Flag video, Konami GT.
I think I've brought this up on other forums in the past, as there are two games like this for me. One, I eventually tracked down to being Sentient - the other, I'm still not sure:
It's a haunted house-type game, from about 1993/4/5 - unfortunately I remember more specifically than that as I had a fairly crap PC at the time so I often used to play outdated games. It was definitely first person, but I can't remember if it was a pre-rendered slideshow or a proper 3D FPS. It was mostly puzzle based.
Not sure on any more than that off the top of my head, other than I seem to remember playing a demo of this on a gaming magazine CD-ROM.
That's a very vague description I know - perhaps that's why I've never tracked it down! Anyway, I'd be interested in any ideas you guys have.
It's a haunted house-type game, from about 1993/4/5 - unfortunately I remember more specifically than that as I had a fairly crap PC at the time so I often used to play outdated games. It was definitely first person, but I can't remember if it was a pre-rendered slideshow or a proper 3D FPS. It was mostly puzzle based.
Not sure on any more than that off the top of my head, other than I seem to remember playing a demo of this on a gaming magazine CD-ROM.
That's a very vague description I know - perhaps that's why I've never tracked it down! Anyway, I'd be interested in any ideas you guys have.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
It's not 7th Guest, is it?
An online flash game in the late 90s/early 2000s. It was like Pole Position but you were driving this hang glider looking thing (no flying though) and flags marked the road bounds. It had bright colors. The game got faster and faster and there was a leader board next to it for who could get the farthest. I belive there was a prize too.
A Black Falcon
Member
Realms of the Haunting?
Graphics Horse
Member
I think it is! Thanks Uncle Rupee
There's also the 11th hour from 1995 which was a sequel to that.
Ok so after asking my family I'll try again:
Ps1 game japanese
Do what the enemy does, dancing , beat etc (rythem?)
You are a boy and you see from you bedroom windows some sort of metorite or a star fall and you go check it and you transform into a jungle boy of some sort.
Everyone seems to move sides ways
You battle a fish , a bee and many other animals
There is a club that is closed at first but then opens
You have a fly or some sort and it might be blue
In your house is your sick grandpa and your mother or a woman
After battling lots of foes in the club a girl will come on the club stage and sing in a FMV scene.
Then there is someone who teach you the drum then you are in the stage with him battling
I alaways lose to him because I don't know what to do.
Please help me, I'll give anyone who finds it before 10 August my gold nintendo club reward.
Ps1 game japanese
Do what the enemy does, dancing , beat etc (rythem?)
You are a boy and you see from you bedroom windows some sort of metorite or a star fall and you go check it and you transform into a jungle boy of some sort.
Everyone seems to move sides ways
You battle a fish , a bee and many other animals
There is a club that is closed at first but then opens
You have a fly or some sort and it might be blue
In your house is your sick grandpa and your mother or a woman
After battling lots of foes in the club a girl will come on the club stage and sing in a FMV scene.
Then there is someone who teach you the drum then you are in the stage with him battling
I alaways lose to him because I don't know what to do.
Please help me, I'll give anyone who finds it before 10 August my gold nintendo club reward.
Trojita
Rapid Response Threadmaker
Hmmm, those seem like all different games lol.
First off, it doesn't have Rhythm type gameplay, but Adventures of Ralph has a guy turned into a boy with a blue sylph like thing following him.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
How about telling us the genre, the graphic style (is it all 3d? is it 3d backgrounds with 2d characters? is all 2D?), the year roughly you played it, etc
No it's not it
but thanks for trying It not like you fight, it just you talk to them and suddenly you are in light blue word and you copy what they do, some dance some have an instrment and some make sounds and you just copy when to press the button at the right time.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
No it's not it
It not like you fight, it just you talk to them and suddenly you are in light blue word and you copy what they do, some dance some have an instrment and some make sounds and you just copy when to press the button at the right time.
Jungle Boy... copying moves... sounds like Endonesia. It's a PS2 game though, which threw me off. Made by some of the same folks who made Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland (my avatar).
I could be wrong but it was pre rendered backround and the characters were kinda like paper and mive sideways,I can't remember the year sorry and the style is the sorta like rythem haven I suppose.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
No but thank you very much for trying, I think I'll upload a sketch of what he did look like.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
Ok... last guess for me for this one:
Utauta-Uh Seirei-Songs?
Utauta-Uh Seirei-Songs?
aGuyInaBearSuit
Member
There was this 2D game for the Genesis that I never really knew the name of, because I got it at a garage sale for $2 and the label was scratched off. The main character looked like Indiana Jones, and I remember the first level being some kind of temple, and a later level that involved jumping on cars.
It might have even been an Indiana Jones game, but all of the Indy games (huehuehue) I've seen for the Genesis I've seen weren't it.
It might have even been an Indiana Jones game, but all of the Indy games (huehuehue) I've seen for the Genesis I've seen weren't it.
http://postimg.org/image/dd2xasmgt/
Ok so this is what he sorta looks like (his skin is the same color as the outline not white and the leafs are green, This is what he looks like after he go checks the metorite or star and fall unconcious and wakes up in his room)
Ok so this is what he sorta looks like (his skin is the same color as the outline not white and the leafs are green, This is what he looks like after he go checks the metorite or star and fall unconcious and wakes up in his room)
OMG YES YES YES!!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU HAVE NO CLUE YOU MADE ME SOO HAPPY TODAY :,)
HOW DID YOU FIND IT???
ANYWAY SEND ME A PRIVTE MESSAGE OF WHAT GAME YOU WANT AND I'LL SEND YOU THE CODE.
Two games left to uncover and I can die in peace, those are another day.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
Awesome!
It's ok, keep the code and use it on something you don't have. I actually had that game earmarked as something to import if I ever saw a copy on ebay because it looked interesting and was in the "rhythm" genre on my personal collecting list. As for the other games I guessed on the previous page: Tales of Eternia and Jet Moto?
Earnest Evans?
aGuyInaBearSuit
Member
Fuckin' bingo.
No the first game was 2d i think and when you battle it is like super mario rpg on the snes, i could be wrong so don't trouble yourself
Another excuse to remember childhood games that i forgot the names of X3 *wish i was good at names*
anyway. there is a n64 driving game where you drive in landmarks of some state. I remember a few aspects of some tracks such as a rollercoaster part, a mall part, some part where you go through a train tunnel...and i remember all the tracks lasting forever.
anyway. there is a n64 driving game where you drive in landmarks of some state. I remember a few aspects of some tracks such as a rollercoaster part, a mall part, some part where you go through a train tunnel...and i remember all the tracks lasting forever.
I played the shit out of this NES game when I was a kid, still don't know its name:
- top down run n' gun millitary style shooter, playing as a green Jeep armed with machine gun and grenades
- Machine gun always points upward regardless where the vehicle is pointing at.
- Grenades can be upgraded to rocket luncher by rescuing POWs and evac them at Hele pad.
- coop avaliable and can be played simultaneously. 2P uses a red jeep
- general enemy types are: infantry, tanks and staionary defenese.
- memorable bosses: WW2 battleship, Mi-24 attack hele and an over-sized A1 Abraham
- players arrive at / depart from battlefield via a giant Chinook.
- Mission 2 (I think) features giant statue heads shooting missle from their mouth that look like Beethoven.
- top down run n' gun millitary style shooter, playing as a green Jeep armed with machine gun and grenades
- Machine gun always points upward regardless where the vehicle is pointing at.
- Grenades can be upgraded to rocket luncher by rescuing POWs and evac them at Hele pad.
- coop avaliable and can be played simultaneously. 2P uses a red jeep
- general enemy types are: infantry, tanks and staionary defenese.
- memorable bosses: WW2 battleship, Mi-24 attack hele and an over-sized A1 Abraham
- players arrive at / depart from battlefield via a giant Chinook.
- Mission 2 (I think) features giant statue heads shooting missle from their mouth that look like Beethoven.
Jackal?
Ahh so that's the english name of this game! I was one of the lucky kid that owns a NES back in Beijing. The cartridge stated the name of this game was "Crimson Fortress", which I could not find through google search. Now I can finally pay it on my NES emulator after all these years. Thanks!
SpongeBob NoPants
Member
Jackal?
Sounds very much like Jackal / Top Gunner to me too. I had no idea that there was an NES version but, the thing's burned in to my memory because it was the only arcade game that I ever beat on a single credit.
Edit: Bugger. Too late.
california speed or san francisco rush?
RoryDropkick
Member
Which is correct, in Japan, the name of the game is "Final Commando - Akai Yousai", and it was released on Famicom Disk System.
It probably was California Speed. I think it was the one with the mall....anyway. I can't remember it if was good or not, but my memory was that tracks that lasted for 4 or 3 minutes.
*was it a good game? I can't recall*
Yes this is the game!!!!! Thank you!!! You brought back memories for me my friend...
Now a question on why I liked the game? I don't know why but it was like a driving game slash zelda game mixed up in one.. Loved it
Firmus_Anguis
Banned
It's like this thread was made for me...
This was a late 80's or early 90's arcade game -
I haven't been able to find it anywhere, all I remember is it starting at the edge of a waterfall or a river of some sort which was situated near a cave. It was a 2d ninja game and you could choose between a blue or a red ninja IIRC (and yes, a 2-player option was available).
That's it... I got nothing else, and I desperately want to find it. And no, I have no one else to ask when it comes to details, this is unfortunately all I got.
Any help would be much appreciated!
This was a late 80's or early 90's arcade game -
I haven't been able to find it anywhere, all I remember is it starting at the edge of a waterfall or a river of some sort which was situated near a cave. It was a 2d ninja game and you could choose between a blue or a red ninja IIRC (and yes, a 2-player option was available).
That's it... I got nothing else, and I desperately want to find it. And no, I have no one else to ask when it comes to details, this is unfortunately all I got.
Any help would be much appreciated!
HF2014
Member
Firmus_Anguis
Banned
I'd considered Shadow Warrior before actually... And it might've been it, since I haven't been able to find anything else.
But I distinctly remember a river of some sort; maybe it's just my memory playing tricks on me - I was about 4 or 5, so it's possible..
But still, a part of me can't help but at least try until I've exhausted all my options, before I finally accept what is the likeliest to be true.
Thanks for your input though!
It was on that purple PS1 Sony demo disk. It was a mech game, and it had a whole bunch of cool in depth ways to customize your robot. It had a dark green and black color pallete if I recall correctly? Cool electronic tunes? Jetpacks? Does any of this ring a bell with anybody? Is it something awfully obvious? Should I totally be really really embarrassed for now knowing or remembering what it is? Help me?
[Edit: Shit! Figured it out. It was Armored Core 1... Duh. I feel ultra dumb now. Please disregard this altogether. ): ]
[Edit: Shit! Figured it out. It was Armored Core 1... Duh. I feel ultra dumb now. Please disregard this altogether. ): ]
ichtyander
Member
Try Ninja Combat, The Ninja Warriors, Ken-Go, Blue's Journey, Mega Twins, Rad Action. Do you remember maybe if it was more of a platformer or a sidescrolling brawler, what was the point of view (top down, side view, single screen etc.). Also, if it's none of the games I've mentioned, does it maybe resemble some of them, gameplay-wise or at least in graphics quality?
