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Games you remember, names you don't

LGom09 said:
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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Any hints on the poadcast name, platform, date, etc? It is vague enough to be one of the hundreds of scary maze flash games that throw up a spooky image and loud noise when you get close to the end.

Edit: Could it be one of the many Sanity Effects from Eternal Darkness?
 
LGom09 said:
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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I've never played it, but that makes me think of
Pathologic, a game RPS did an in depth write up for a while back

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/04/10/butchering-pathologic-part-1-the-body/

Having read part three of that series, it's undoubtedly Pathologic
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Edit: decided to spoiler the answer as apparently it's a big moment in the game.
 
This is one that keeps coming back to me:

It's an NES game.

It was something like a strategy game.

You played as the captain of a submarine and you could do stuff like look through the periscope to find ships to attack. Also, you were in this war room of the sub where you could check where you were on a map and things of that sort.

It was all first-person/adventure game POV.

At first I thought it was Hunt for Red October, but that's an action game and I don't remember this game having those sequences.
 
GarbageBear said:
This is one that keeps coming back to me:

It's an NES game.

It was something like a strategy game.

You played as the captain of a submarine and you could do stuff like look through the periscope to find ships to attack. Also, you were in this war room of the sub where you could check where you were on a map and things of that sort.

It was all first-person/adventure game POV.

At first I thought it was Hunt for Red October, but that's an action game and I don't remember this game having those sequences.
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Silent Service?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lVsUgWNw_-k
 
tafer said:
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.
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Sounds like it could be Solaris 1.0.4. I remember it being a pretty good shmup.
 
jmdajr said:
I remember playing a Gladiator type game in the Arcades back in the day. You were just a Gladiator dude going 1 on 1 with tougher and tougher opponents. It wasn't as deep as a fighting game as I believe it was before SF2 but I can't remember the name of it.

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Found an image but still no name
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ichtyander said:
Hippodrome (US) aka Fighting Fantasy (JP).


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Super late on this but thank you!!!!!!!! Would never ever, ever have guessed.
 
It was some CD with like 30-50 games on it, and it had this one game. 8-bit looking game you could play as an archer, warrior, or mage. When you died, it showed some creepy petrified-looking skull.

Also, it had games (that I can remember) like: Atlantis, 3D Crackenoid (breakout clone), Bugz (invaders clone), etc.

The weird thing is, I can't find any record this game disk existed on the Internet, or any of the games whose titles I remember.
 
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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Perhaps it was Aliens?
 
A roommate of mine in the late 90's use to play a game where you would set traps for monsters/vampires? I remember spikes in the floor and cages.
 
Abhorsen said:
It was some CD with like 30-50 games on it, and it had this one game. 8-bit looking game you could play as an archer, warrior, or mage. When you died, it showed some creepy petrified-looking skull.

Also, it had games (that I can remember) like: Atlantis, 3D Crackenoid (breakout clone), Bugz (invaders clone), etc.

The weird thing is, I can't find any record this game disk existed on the Internet, or any of the games whose titles I remember.
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Is that Cryo's Atlantis? If so, the game might be from the mid 90's, right? From the 8-bit graphics comment I gather it was 2D? What was the genre, a sidescrolling beat'em up like Golden Axe (you can walk up and down the floor) or maybe more similar to Altered Beast, a platformer, an RPG etc? What was the perspective, sidescrolling, isometric, top view, first person?
 
ichtyander said:
Maybe The Playroom or try the Electric Crayon series.

Try the Lil' Howie pr the Reader Rabbit series.
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Don't think so, no. Already checked out The Playroom & Electric Crayon looks more like a colouring book type thing. This was definetly a game in it's own right.

mclem said:
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.
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Oh I'd say we had a lot of UK stuff here around that time. I remember our school computer room being chock full of Microbees. The presence of Granny's Garden on our Apple II's also led me down the British path. Unfortunately, clicking through lists of BBC Micro and Apple IIe games didn't ring any bells. I just wish I could remember exactly what the model computer was that we hadd in our actual classroom- I'm just assuming it was either the Apple or at least a contemporary of those other computers.

Thanks for the Sherston name, you've at least given me another rock to look under :P. For some reason the description for 'The Wizard's Revenge' is jumping out at me a little. But Google is not being forthcoming with any pictures.
Thanks for your help so far, let me know if you have any more thoughts on what game it could be :)
 
stephen08 said:
Thanks for the Sherston name, you've at least given me another rock to look under :P. For some reason the description for 'The Wizard's Revenge' is jumping out at me a little. But Google is not being forthcoming with any pictures.
Thanks for your help so far, let me know if you have any more thoughts on what game it could be :)
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The problem with Sherston is that they're still very much a contemporary business and so much of their website is focussed on what they have to offer *now* without dwelling on their history. Indeed, as a whole the UK educational software scene of the time isn't particularly well-documented beyond the likes of Granny's Garden; there's also 4Mation (Flowers of Crystal), HUMMEC (The aforementioned Dread Dragon Droom), Anita Straker's adventures...

... if I had more time, I'd smell a project coming on. I've got the resources, at least.
 
This one's kind of weird, and not entirely related to the topic, but just hear me out: there's a user here on GAF who has/had an icon with a human male with gray hair (or may have been bald, my memory is fuzzy), white skin, and I think an orange shirt. The art was 2D and in a sort of painterly style. I believe the character had a rather long face. I want to use the icon as an art reference since I remember liking it quite a bit but forgetting to save it. Again, I apologize for only slightly being related to the topic, but I hope someone can help out! Thanks!
 
LDAF said:
This one's kind of weird, and not entirely related to the topic, but just hear me out: there's a user here on GAF who has/had an icon with a human male with gray hair (or may have been bald, my memory is fuzzy), white skin, and I think an orange shirt. The art was 2D and in a sort of painterly style. I believe the character had a rather long face. I want to use the icon as an art reference since I remember liking it quite a bit but forgetting to save it. Again, I apologize for only slightly being related to the topic, but I hope someone can help out! Thanks!
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A bit of a stretch based on your description but perhaps check out art for Bastion? Is that similar in style to what you're thinking of?
 
Wibblewozzer said:
A bit of a stretch based on your description but perhaps check out art for Bastion? Is that similar in style to what you're thinking of?
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Thanks so much for your help, that was it! I did a quick google search, and this ended up being the image I had in mind:

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Thanks again!
 
a game like 12 years ago,it was with a red and a blue boat ( one a hovecraft and another one kinda looked like a hovercraft ) there was a map with ice mountains and you could just go "offroad" with the boats into nothing but wasteland
 
Okay, so this one falls to the earliest video game memory I have. The system was Atari 2600 (or similar one joystick one button system, but I swear it was the 2600) and I remember playing what was effectively a hot doggin' event. You ski down the hill, hit the jump, and then perform tricks for as many points as you can. I don't remember if it was an event of many in the game or if that was the sole purpose of the game. I've always thought it was called "Hot Doggin'," but no searches could yield any game called that. Any help, my fellow GAFfers, would be greatly appreciated!
 
DJ Lushious said:
Okay, so this one falls to the earliest video game memory I have. The system was Atari 2600 (or similar one joystick one button system, but I swear it was the 2600) and I remember playing what was effectively a hot doggin' event. You ski down the hill, hit the jump, and then perform tricks for as many points as you can. I don't remember if it was an event of many in the game or if that was the sole purpose of the game. I've always thought it was called "Hot Doggin'," but no searches could yield any game called that. Any help, my fellow GAFfers, would be greatly appreciated!
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Winter Games had an event called Hot Dog, maybe that's what you remember?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Hg2E5-fs0
 
OK, I need help with one more: is a NES racing game, run race a motorcycle across the US. I remember the Statue of Liberty saluting you when you got to New York.

Any idea?
 
Can't remember the name of a NES game where you were a little space ship. I remember the spaceship being red and it sorta looking like a lunar lander. The game had gravity physics I think so you had to constantly keep pressing A or B to stay flying. You fought space bugs and such.

I got it as a gift way back when and been trying to remember the name of it since.

It would be awesome if someone could suggest it.

Thanks!
 
r3d panda said:
Can't remember the name of a NES game where you were a little space ship. I remember the spaceship being red and it sorta looking like a lunar lander. The game had gravity physics I think so you had to constantly keep pressing A or B to stay flying. You fought space bugs and such.

I got it as a gift way back when and been trying to remember the name of it since.

It would be awesome if someone could suggest it.

Thanks!
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Maybe Solar Jetman.
 
1. A Master System side scrolling RPG with menus, magic (fireballs) set in Asia.

You wore a purple/blue outfit.

2. This game is not out yet: Indie, brutal Streets of Rage-like game (PC only for now). A bit pixelly.
 
Klart said:
1. A Master System side scrolling RPG with menus, magic (fireballs) set in Asia.

You wore a purple/blue outfit.

2. This game is not out yet: Indie, brutal Streets of Rage-like game (PC only for now). A bit pixelly.
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First one should be easy since there aren't many to pick from.

Heroes of the Lance or Lord of the Sword
 
Tx for the try, but that's not it.

Some extra info.


1. A Master System side scrolling RPG with menus & magic spells (fireballs) set in Asia (not knights/medieval).

You wore a purple/blue outfit. I remember stages in a forest (trees on a black background (night).



2. This game is not out yet: Indie, brutal Streets of Rage-like game (PC only for now). A bit pixelly. Dark & limited colour palette.
 
Klart said:
Tx for the try, but that's not it.

Some extra info.


1. A Master System side scrolling RPG with menus & magic spells (fireballs) set in Asia (not knights/medieval).

You wore a purple/blue outfit. I remember stages in a forest (trees on a black background (night).



2. This game is not out yet: Indie, brutal Streets of Rage-like game (PC only for now). A bit pixelly. Dark & limited colour palette.
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How about Golvellius. You wear blue in that, but you still have sword and it isn't really an rpg.

Edit: It has to be Spellcaster, but I'm not sure I would call that an RPG either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdosYk8L6KQ
 
Posted last year, still couldn't get a name for:
90's PC game for kids, top-view puzzle/maze kind of deal.
Main character was a blue little guy. He wore a hood as well.
Edit: Maybe he was red and the hood blue IDK

It's been 10+ years since I last played this game and I can't quite get the details in my head.
I do remember collecting flowers (maybe sunflowers), some keys to unlock doors inside the levels and also carnivorous plants being a hazard. Poisonous mushrooms are also a possibility, but I can't be sure about those.

It wasn't a great hit game or anything but I do have some nice memories playing it. Any help finding it again?
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If my memory doesn't fail me the main character should resemble q*bert a bit.

ALSO: I used to play it on a Windows 95 probably, I remember playing Dangerous Dave in that same age if that serves of any help.
I've tried to locate any similar looking games on dosgamesarchive but couldn't see anything useful.
 
There's an online text based game I'm trying to remember. It plays itself and you don't need to do anything. Can someone please tell me what it is?
 
Kreios said:
There's an online text based game I'm trying to remember. It plays itself and you don't need to do anything. Can someone please tell me what it is?
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Well, it depends on quite what you mean by 'plays itself'. You *could* mean Candy Box or Cookie Clicker or the like, where the basic resource generation is automated but you do make choices and simple interactions. You could mean Progress Quest, which I generally associate with being a download product but does exist in a browser form. Buried in the links are a bunch of "Related Technologies" too.
 
mclem said:
Well, it depends on quite what you mean by 'plays itself'. You *could* mean Candy Box or Cookie Clicker or the like, where the basic resource generation is automated but you do make choices and simple interactions. You could mean Progress Quest, which I generally associate with being a download product but does exist in a browser form. Buried in the links are a bunch of "Related Technologies" too.
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It's progress quest. Should have mentioned it was an RPG. Thanks mclem
 
Fattony12000
I've been meaning to bring this up in one of these threads for years now. I don't know why I didn't. Sooo...yeah. I am confident, however, that no one will be able to guess the name of this game from my shitty description...

I played it in the 1990s.
I played it in the UK.
I played it on a keyboard (with a mouse, maybe) plugged into a computer running MS-DOS/Windows 95.
A 2D point and click/direct movement puzzle/adventure game (think Full Throttle-ish, Broken Sword-ish). Maybe?
There were text boxes/dialogue choice. I think.
You could walk around as a bipedal mech, not much bigger than a human. But I want to say it kind of resembled ED-209.
I remember red brick walls, maybe rain, dirty streets. Think a Blade Runner-ish, RoboCop-ish setting. Maybe.
You talked to pedestrians whilst walking the streets, I think.
Maybe. I think?
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Vigorousjammer
Could it be the Robot City?

Released in 1995, it's a first-person point & click adventure game, and well... it's got polygons, so not exactly like Full Throttle or Broken Sword... but you do play as a robot, and there are dialogue trees, so maybe?
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Nope!

Ezakael
Sounds like Beneath a Steel Sky to me, which also happens to be free on gog.com by the way.
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Nope!

Hamst3r
A lot of your description sounds like Walker:
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Nope!

Source: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/gen...thread-v30-473880/?page=27#js-message-7386048
 
Kyūkon;124653671 said:
Posted last year, still couldn't get a name for:


If my memory doesn't fail me the main character should resemble q*bert a bit.

ALSO: I used to play it on a Windows 95 probably, I remember playing Dangerous Dave in that same age if that serves of any help.
I've tried to locate any similar looking games on dosgamesarchive but couldn't see anything useful.
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I think I searched for this one quite a bit back then but ended up with nothing. Searched for a bit again with no success, sorry.

Fattony12000 said:
Source: http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/gen...thread-v30-473880/?page=27#js-message-7386048
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I just remembered Bureau 13 had several characters to choose from, including a woman riding a mech.

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ichtyander said:
I just remembered Bureau 13 had several characters to choose from, including a woman riding a mech.

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Wow.

Just.

Wow.

Ⓗⓐⓟⓟⓨ❤ヾ(◍’౪`◍)ﾉﾞ

My long national nightmare is over!

I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
 
MoGamesXNA said:
It certainly was! I'm hanging to see that game over screen again. I had another search last weekend and still can't find it. Any chance that you remembered what it was called?
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Unfortunately not. Can't even remember any details about it but the swinging pendulum and the red screen seem extremely familiar to me.

You mentioned it had a medieval setting, how so? Do you remember something about the player character or the setting that leads you to believe it has a medieval/fantasy setting?

Not sure if I asked before but do you remember any other details about this game? The genre, colors, music/sound, point of view, maybe something specific about the arcade cabinet itself, any detail might help.
 
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