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Hello gaf, please help me.

I'm looking for a VERY old game where you had to find cities in the world based on clues. You had to travel to the correct city faster than your computer opponent (there were 3 levels of difficulty i think). A bit like carmen sandiego but not quite.

It is probably 20+ years old, i think the graphics were purple/ blue / black / white (not sure what res this is! 4-bit maybe?) Lastly, the music was a famous classical song i think. via pc speaker of course. not sure which one though :/

Honeslty I have no idea how famous it was. Maybe it sold 20 copies. But, the game was pretty awesome. i'd love to replay it!!
 
RCSI said:
I remember a game where you would dig for gems and you could go up ladders and search for moneybags (or maybe chests). It was a 2D game, possibly in the exploration genre. There was no surface, so the game took place underground, if that helps. It was a game for Windows in the 90's, possibly before 1996.

Unfortunately I don't remember too much other than that. Even worse, it's a possibility I may thought of a game that might not have existed given my spotty memory of the game.
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Digger maybe?
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I remember a game for an Amstrad PC which was very similar to Lode Runner(but it wasn't LR)...but I can't figure out what was its real name.
 
MoGamesXNA said:
Thanks for the replies. It's very similar to the game over screen in Ninja Gaiden but it's medieval/fantasy based. I spent a day just dieing in random titles in MAME trying to find it a while back! It's been driving me crazy for years.
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I think I've ran into this game before, sounds very familiar but can't put my finger on it. Was the blade like a swinging pendulum? It's going to bug me all day now. :)

ronare said:
Hello gaf, please help me.

I'm looking for a VERY old game where you had to find cities in the world based on clues. You had to travel to the correct city faster than your computer opponent (there were 3 levels of difficulty i think). A bit like carmen sandiego but not quite.

It is probably 20+ years old, i think the graphics were purple/ blue / black / white (not sure what res this is! 4-bit maybe?) Lastly, the music was a famous classical song i think. via pc speaker of course. not sure which one though :/

Honeslty I have no idea how famous it was. Maybe it sold 20 copies. But, the game was pretty awesome. i'd love to replay it!!
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Try The Second Kids' World Almanac Adventure.
 
ronare said:
Thanks. Nice try but nope. I think my game is a few years older than that. But the concept seems very similar
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Hmm, you can try The Spy's Adventures in Europe/North America games, but as I understand you had the map of the whole world, not just one continent right?

Btw those were probably CGA graphics, probably looked something like Gumboots Australia.
 
you can try The Spy's Adventures in Europe/North America games
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omg so close!! it looks very similar. i just tried it, but i dont think there was multiplayer, and the game was more about racing an opponent to the correct city from clues you were given in some way. i remember the opponent taunting you if he got there first!
also it may have been only in europe, i'm not sure.. the europe map definitely rings a bell

and CGA, thanks... i should have known this! CGA, EGA, VGA, SVGA !! good times :)
 
ronare said:
Hello gaf, please help me.

I'm looking for a VERY old game where you had to find cities in the world based on clues. You had to travel to the correct city faster than your computer opponent (there were 3 levels of difficulty i think). A bit like carmen sandiego but not quite.

It is probably 20+ years old, i think the graphics were purple/ blue / black / white (not sure what res this is! 4-bit maybe?) Lastly, the music was a famous classical song i think. via pc speaker of course. not sure which one though :/

Honeslty I have no idea how famous it was. Maybe it sold 20 copies. But, the game was pretty awesome. i'd love to replay it!!
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Sounds to me like "Bushbuck Charms, Viking Ships and Dodo Eggs"? The classical tunes would play when you traveled from place to place. I got...pretty into it as a kid :)
 
Hey, what was that (I think) flash game online where you just walk to the right until you die. It's, like, supposed to be your entire life or something? There may have been a lady involved. Life Walk or something? I dunno. Graphics were terrible and I just remembered it.
 
i remember playing this fighting game, i believe it was on the sega saturn, that had 3 planes, kind of like the king of fighters games. i think it was a japanese import. i remember one of the characters threw out fish. please tell me i'm not making this up and that my memory isn't a fractured mess.
 
Zach said:
Hey, what was that (I think) flash game online where you just walk to the right until you die. It's, like, supposed to be your entire life or something? There may have been a lady involved. Life Walk or something? I dunno. Graphics were terrible and I just remembered it.
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The Passage
 
A PS2 game that was like a combination of Resident Evil and The Thing and I think your mission was to go investigate a lab or something in the Arctic
 
Forkball said:
Have you ever thought of a game, but don't know the title, or much about it at all? Maybe it was a game from your childhood, or some game that interested you when it was announced but fell off your radar. Post them in this thread and let's see if other GAF posters can help you out.
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Back in 1984 my father got a C64, and one of the very first games I played on it was a space game.

It was a short space game with 3 levels, and each level had different gameplay. I'm 100% certain that one level was when you was supposed to do some landing with the spacecraft.

I think the first level was flying horizontally and avoiding astroids and the last level was defending the planet/moon against enemies.

In 1987 my father sold the C64 to buy an Amiga 1000, so I never had the chance to return to the game, very annoying. And it must be a relatively unknown game, cause I've been going thru C64 space games on mobygames and whatnot and still not found it after years of searching.
 
Okay, my friend is trying to remember a PC game that she would've played probably no later than 1995. Here are the specifics:

- horror
- in a mansion
- used real people, like fmv with backgrounds that looked like photos. Not sure if that's renders or static images.
- the opening has you enter a house where a butler greets you, and stories you uncover are like pictures in a book.

It is likely not:
- 7th Guest/11th Hour
- Alone in the Dark 1 or 2
- The Dark Eye
- Puzz 3D Victorian Mansion

Any guesses? I don't even know of that many games that had live actors back then.
 
bjork said:
Okay, my friend is trying to remember a PC game that she would've played probably no later than 1995. Here are the specifics:

- horror
- in a mansion
- used real people, like fmv with backgrounds that looked like photos. Not sure if that's renders or static images.
- the opening has you enter a house where a butler greets you, and stories you uncover are like pictures in a book.

It is likely not:
- 7th Guest/11th Hour
- Alone in the Dark 1 or 2
- The Dark Eye
- Puzz 3D Victorian Mansion

Any guesses? I don't even know of that many games that had live actors back then.
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You sure it's not 7th Guest? It sure sounds like it.
 
Freddo said:
Back in 1984 my father got a C64, and one of the very first games I played on it was a space game.

It was a short space game with 3 levels, and each level had different gameplay. I'm 100% certain that one level was when you was supposed to do some landing with the spacecraft.

I think the first level was flying horizontally and avoiding astroids and the last level was defending the planet/moon against enemies.

In 1987 my father sold the C64 to buy an Amiga 1000, so I never had the chance to return to the game, very annoying. And it must be a relatively unknown game, cause I've been going thru C64 space games on mobygames and whatnot and still not found it after years of searching.
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Long shot-- Cosmic Tunnels?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlrPJdCVEZE
 
bjork said:
Okay, my friend is trying to remember a PC game that she would've played probably no later than 1995. Here are the specifics:

- horror
- in a mansion
- used real people, like fmv with backgrounds that looked like photos. Not sure if that's renders or static images.
- the opening has you enter a house where a butler greets you, and stories you uncover are like pictures in a book.

It is likely not:
- 7th Guest/11th Hour
- Alone in the Dark 1 or 2
- The Dark Eye
- Puzz 3D Victorian Mansion

Any guesses? I don't even know of that many games that had live actors back then.
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Maybe Realms of the Haunting (1996)? Not sure if there was a butler though.
 
bjork said:
Okay, my friend is trying to remember a PC game that she would've played probably no later than 1995. Here are the specifics:

- horror
- in a mansion
- used real people, like fmv with backgrounds that looked like photos. Not sure if that's renders or static images.
- the opening has you enter a house where a butler greets you, and stories you uncover are like pictures in a book.

It is likely not:
- 7th Guest/11th Hour
- Alone in the Dark 1 or 2
- The Dark Eye
- Puzz 3D Victorian Mansion

Any guesses? I don't even know of that many games that had live actors back then.
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Phantasmagoria?
 
I have just one single memory of a Ps1 game I'm sure I enjoyed for a while. All I remember is that it was set in the future (maybe), and the opening CGI had a girl looking out of a window of some sort of flying ship or even a train at the rain on a dark night.

That is literally all I remember and even that might be a false memory. I'd love to know what game it was, it's bugged me for years. Does anyone have any ideas? I can't even recall the gameplay. It was possibly like a noire setting. I'm not being much help I realise...
 
Grimløck;123563867 said:
i remember playing this fighting game, i believe it was on the sega saturn, that had 3 planes, kind of like the king of fighters games. i think it was a japanese import. i remember one of the characters threw out fish. please tell me i'm not making this up and that my memory isn't a fractured mess.
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Outlaws of the Lost Dynasty / Dark Legend?
 
Freddo said:
Back in 1984 my father got a C64, and one of the very first games I played on it was a space game.

It was a short space game with 3 levels, and each level had different gameplay. I'm 100% certain that one level was when you was supposed to do some landing with the spacecraft.

I think the first level was flying horizontally and avoiding astroids and the last level was defending the planet/moon against enemies.

In 1987 my father sold the C64 to buy an Amiga 1000, so I never had the chance to return to the game, very annoying. And it must be a relatively unknown game, cause I've been going thru C64 space games on mobygames and whatnot and still not found it after years of searching.
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It sounds a bit like 1985: The Day After and Starship Andromeda, but it's probably some other game. Lots of multigenre games back then, it's a bit tiresome to sift through hundreds of these space games. You can get gamebase64 with all of the screenshots and try to browse through the categories. Do you remember something about how it looked, dominant colors (I'm guessing black background throughout), graphics quality or similarity to other C64 games etc.
 
From my childhood I remember arcade cabinet with a space shooter game. I would like to know what was the name of that game. Hope Gaf will help, some details:

It's an arcade cabinet game with coins and stuff,
Released most likely in early/mid-1990's,
Pretty impressive 3D-graphics and sound for its time,
Game was "on rails" - you were supposed to be a turret operator,
In the beginning there were huge ships around you in space (kinda like during a big battle),
Later you were shooting many asteroids with crystals inside of them.

That's all I remember ;)

EDIT: Fuck, I found it after 3 minutes of using Google. It's a StarBlade by Namco released in 1991.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhBSEN2xBhI
 
There is this game that reminds me a lot of the Ghost in the Shell PS2 game. You play a woman that constantly moves her hip so you think the whole game through " Dat Ass". I forgot that games name though.
 
A friend of mine is seeking this thread's help but lacks a GAF account. Here is his description:

So for a while now, I've been trying to remember the name of old game we had on our school computers way back when I was in Kindergarten (1990). Unfortunately all my searches are turning up empty, so I'm wondering if anyone here playing in that era may have run across it. It's a long shot, but this has been driving me nuts.

Unfortunately I don't have much to go on. All I can remember is the following:

- It *may* have been an Apple IIe game or similar- We had a lot of those computers around back then. If not an Apple game, it would have been something for contemporary mid-80's-early 90's computer.

- I remember it being an adventure game of sorts. The part I remember was near the beginning of the game and consisted walking down a path to a gate. The gate was locked with a puzzle consisting of a random geometric design of lines. You had four colours and had to fill in each region of the puzzle with a colour in such a way that not two bordering sections had the same colour.

- I *thought* it may have been an old Apple classic Granny's Garden- Upon watching a Lets Play of that a few months ago though, it appears that I was mistaken. I'm fairly certain it's a game in that same vein though- Adventure aimed at a primary school audience, possibly educational. I also remember playing some zoo game on the same computer at around the same time (you walked around the exhibits and looked at animals.)

-Also seeing as I'm Australian it could just be a locally developed educational game hence why I'm having such a hard time finding it. But maybe some other Australians who went to school around the late 80's early 90's might have some memories of this game too.

Does this sound familiar to anyone at all?
 
It was some sidescroller platformer for the Famicom where the main character was a bald Buddhist monk with dots on his head.

It remember it being fun, but that's all I got. I don't think it was ever released outside of Japan.
 
stephen08 said:
A friend of mine is seeking this thread's help but lacks a GAF account. Here is his description:

So for a while now, I've been trying to remember the name of old game we had on our school computers way back when I was in Kindergarten (1990). Unfortunately all my searches are turning up empty, so I'm wondering if anyone here playing in that era may have run across it. It's a long shot, but this has been driving me nuts.

Unfortunately I don't have much to go on. All I can remember is the following:

- It *may* have been an Apple IIe game or similar- We had a lot of those computers around back then. If not an Apple game, it would have been something for contemporary mid-80's-early 90's computer.

- I remember it being an adventure game of sorts. The part I remember was near the beginning of the game and consisted walking down a path to a gate. The gate was locked with a puzzle consisting of a random geometric design of lines. You had four colours and had to fill in each region of the puzzle with a colour in such a way that not two bordering sections had the same colour.

- I *thought* it may have been an old Apple classic Granny's Garden- Upon watching a Lets Play of that a few months ago though, it appears that I was mistaken. I'm fairly certain it's a game in that same vein though- Adventure aimed at a primary school audience, possibly educational. I also remember playing some zoo game on the same computer at around the same time (you walked around the exhibits and looked at animals.)

-Also seeing as I'm Australian it could just be a locally developed educational game hence why I'm having such a hard time finding it. But maybe some other Australians who went to school around the late 80's early 90's might have some memories of this game too.

Does this sound familiar to anyone at all?
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Maybe The Playroom or try the Electric Crayon series.


Coldnoodle said:
It was an educational PC game featuring a purple skunk and his partner.
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Try the Lil' Howie pr the Reader Rabbit series.
 
Okay, I'm trying to remember the name of a PlayStation 1 game where you're stuck on a spaceship or space station that has activated a self-destruct mechanism, and you have X number of real-time hours to figure out how to get off before it blows up and game over. It was first-person 3D.
 
eyeball_kid said:
Okay, I'm trying to remember the name of a PlayStation 1 game where you're stuck on a spaceship or space station that has activated a self-destruct mechanism, and you have X number of real-time hours to figure out how to get off before it blows up and game over. It was first-person 3D.
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Sentient.
 
was a game on the ps1. you played as a dragon i believe, adventure type game. you started in a castle and every time you returned the receptionist's knitting was bigger. there was also an evil castle to the south east.

went looking for it on wikipedia a few weeks ago, went through the entire list of ps1 games but didn't find it. anyway any ideas?
 
ghostjoke said:
was a game on the ps1. you played as a dragon i believe, adventure type game. you started in a castle and every time you returned the receptionist's knitting was bigger. there was also an evil castle to the south east.

went looking for it on wikipedia a few weeks ago, went through the entire list of ps1 games but didn't find it. anyway any ideas?
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Blazing Dragons?
 
ghostjoke said:
was a game on the ps1. you played as a dragon i believe, adventure type game. you started in a castle and every time you returned the receptionist's knitting was bigger. there was also an evil castle to the south east.

went looking for it on wikipedia a few weeks ago, went through the entire list of ps1 games but didn't find it. anyway any ideas?
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Blazing Dragons?
 
I guess I'll try again:

- PC Game
- Horizontal scroll shooter.
- 15+ years old
- 2d sprites, pretty good looking for the time.
- Several ships to choose from: high speed, health, balanced, etc.
- The name had something to do with the sun.
- As you collected helpers, you could reorganized them in several ways for protection, increasing the area of damage, etc.
 
stephen08 said:
A friend of mine is seeking this thread's help but lacks a GAF account. Here is his description:

So for a while now, I've been trying to remember the name of old game we had on our school computers way back when I was in Kindergarten (1990). Unfortunately all my searches are turning up empty, so I'm wondering if anyone here playing in that era may have run across it. It's a long shot, but this has been driving me nuts.

Unfortunately I don't have much to go on. All I can remember is the following:

- It *may* have been an Apple IIe game or similar- We had a lot of those computers around back then. If not an Apple game, it would have been something for contemporary mid-80's-early 90's computer.

- I remember it being an adventure game of sorts. The part I remember was near the beginning of the game and consisted walking down a path to a gate. The gate was locked with a puzzle consisting of a random geometric design of lines. You had four colours and had to fill in each region of the puzzle with a colour in such a way that not two bordering sections had the same colour.

- I *thought* it may have been an old Apple classic Granny's Garden- Upon watching a Lets Play of that a few months ago though, it appears that I was mistaken. I'm fairly certain it's a game in that same vein though- Adventure aimed at a primary school audience, possibly educational. I also remember playing some zoo game on the same computer at around the same time (you walked around the exhibits and looked at animals.)

-Also seeing as I'm Australian it could just be a locally developed educational game hence why I'm having such a hard time finding it. But maybe some other Australians who went to school around the late 80's early 90's might have some memories of this game too.

Does this sound familiar to anyone at all?
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Now, this is a bit tricky. I'm wondering if stuff from the UK educational establishment might have filtered through to Australia, because in particular I'm remembering that there's a sequence in Dread Dragon Droom where you had to paint a robot using the four-colour map principle. Trouble is, implementations of the four-colour-map problem were quite common in educational games around that time (it'd encourage teamwork and planning amongst small groups, and it was something reasonably easy to implement on computers), so there's quite a lot it could be.

My gut is making me think it might be a Sherston product, wondering if their stuff made it to Australia. Zoo Rescue might well fit as the Zoo game you're recalling. Note that they've remade a lot of their stuff, so what you might see while looking for it may not look like the game as it was then.

Edit: I've mangled my Sherston memories; I was thinking of "Animal Rescue" there as the zoo game.
 
This is a game that I've never actually played or heard the name of, but I heard someone describe it on a podcast. There's a moment in the game where you press the button to bring up the map and instead of the map, a picture of an sacrificial animal or something like that comes up.
 
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