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Games you remember, names you don't
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So I have this memory of some PC game from my childhood I've never been able to figure out.
The main map was some sort of theme park or factory or chemical plant or something. I remember one of the modes took place on like a Stratego board and you had to get to the other side using tiles that you picked up doing minigames or something. I think another part played kind of like Hotel Mario with the elevators and shit.
Sorry all I have are really old and fragmented images
The main map was some sort of theme park or factory or chemical plant or something. I remember one of the modes took place on like a Stratego board and you had to get to the other side using tiles that you picked up doing minigames or something. I think another part played kind of like Hotel Mario with the elevators and shit.
Sorry all I have are really old and fragmented images
There was an old PC game. I don't know if it was learning or not. The cover had some guy that I guess was a superhero or a genie or something. He had that weird wisp tail that genies have
In the game, you played a kid going to bed. You could pick characters dressed as different things. One was a football player. After that you got into your bed and went off into a dream land or something. It was one of my earliest gaming memories and I can't remember the name, but I'm positive that it wasn't 40 Winks because I don't think that was even out at the time, and when it did come out I had it and I remember that one pretty well.
In the game, you played a kid going to bed. You could pick characters dressed as different things. One was a football player. After that you got into your bed and went off into a dream land or something. It was one of my earliest gaming memories and I can't remember the name, but I'm positive that it wasn't 40 Winks because I don't think that was even out at the time, and when it did come out I had it and I remember that one pretty well.
ShooterMcGavin
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Edit - Hmm, actually I don't think that was it. I finally found it through Google though; it was called Soul of the Samurai.
And oh man, does it look awful now lol. Soundtrack seems solid however.
there was this one sega game I can't remember at Innoventions West in the Disney Epcot park sometime between 94 and 96. It was some 8 player space shooter. The machine was next to the 8 player Virtua Racing cars. I cannot for the life of me find pics or a name of that space shooter.
I remember there were two attendants that would shuffle people in and out of it the space ship shaped cabinet that was on a hydraulic system.
The game itself in my mind didn't look much better than star fox but again, it's been about 20 years since I saw it last. You were on rails and had to shoot down enemies. The person who shot down the most got to try and land the ship back into the docking bay.
I remember there were two attendants that would shuffle people in and out of it the space ship shaped cabinet that was on a hydraulic system.
The game itself in my mind didn't look much better than star fox but again, it's been about 20 years since I saw it last. You were on rails and had to shoot down enemies. The person who shot down the most got to try and land the ship back into the docking bay.
Dr Zhivago
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I think that might be it actually, holy crap, nice! I guess that's why i couldn't find it. I was expecting it to be a sega game since it was at the sega event. Seems it was namco developed.
None of the pictures look like the set up I remember them having, and I definitely know we weren't in that ship with 28 or 16 other people, but the game video definitely looks like it.
edit: oh it does mention a 6 player version too. That's probably the setup innoventions had. Awesome!
None of the pictures look like the set up I remember them having, and I definitely know we weren't in that ship with 28 or 16 other people, but the game video definitely looks like it.
edit: oh it does mention a 6 player version too. That's probably the setup innoventions had. Awesome!
Aarglefarg
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I am trying to remember some examples of RPGs where a character dies when their MP reaches 0. I know I've encountered this (and didn't like it) but I can't remember the games.
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Star Ocean 3?
Aarglefarg
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Ah thank you, I did play this and I checked now and it does have this feature. Thanks.
Lightning Count
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I remember a truly ancient lightgun game on the Master System, the enemies were ghosts and I think the setting was some haunted castle.
Beyond that, can remember nothing.
Beyond that, can remember nothing.
Arcade game from mid 80s (at least that's when I played it). It was 2/3 down horizonal shooter.
At the begining small ship surfaced from underground base. For powerups you gathered parts of the robot (with your ship becoming robot's head) - torso, legs and some additional laser.
At the begining small ship surfaced from underground base. For powerups you gathered parts of the robot (with your ship becoming robot's head) - torso, legs and some additional laser.
Earthpainting
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Laser Ghost perhaps?
This game was on a U.S. PlayStation Magazine Demo Disc.
You played as a young boy with a glasses-wearing girl and his pale yellow animal companion who could also talk, and was also pretty sassy and gave you advice. He had a weapon to fight with, he could also equip these flat grey squares which he could either attack with or use as boomerangs. These squares could absorb a powers from these different colored fairies to gain an elemental power too. You can ride on your animal friend and he can eat those fairies I mentioned earlier. If he eats a black one he starts choking, saying "Can't breathe" until you kick it out of him. If not, he goes beserk and turns red, charging into you saying something like "BAKUBAKUBAKUBAKUBAKU" or something like that.
The name of the game was to jump into people's thoughts or dreams (I think) and complete the level. One level was a tutorial level in a white dreamy area where you just platformed to this large gold room and solved this puzzle while beating the boss.
The second level, I think you jumped into the girl's dream, where you end up in this large archaeologist pyramid, and she's with you, but she's lost her glasses. You fight your way through the pyramid, and end up in this huge black, long platforming space where you need to get across and into the floating boss tomb where you have your fight with the second boss.
You played as a young boy with a glasses-wearing girl and his pale yellow animal companion who could also talk, and was also pretty sassy and gave you advice. He had a weapon to fight with, he could also equip these flat grey squares which he could either attack with or use as boomerangs. These squares could absorb a powers from these different colored fairies to gain an elemental power too. You can ride on your animal friend and he can eat those fairies I mentioned earlier. If he eats a black one he starts choking, saying "Can't breathe" until you kick it out of him. If not, he goes beserk and turns red, charging into you saying something like "BAKUBAKUBAKUBAKUBAKU" or something like that.
The name of the game was to jump into people's thoughts or dreams (I think) and complete the level. One level was a tutorial level in a white dreamy area where you just platformed to this large gold room and solved this puzzle while beating the boss.
The second level, I think you jumped into the girl's dream, where you end up in this large archaeologist pyramid, and she's with you, but she's lost her glasses. You fight your way through the pyramid, and end up in this huge black, long platforming space where you need to get across and into the floating boss tomb where you have your fight with the second boss.
Alex Connolly
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Probably not, but the Pirates of Darkwater game?
Dr Zhivago
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eso76
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Cthulhu_Steev
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That game is Magmax. Stupid phone isn't letting me cut and paste to link a video though!
Quick edit: already answered!
I'm going to try again, since last year nobody recognized my game.
It's an arcade game I played 15 or more years ago. It featured different playable super heroes, one seemed like Spider-Man, but I'm thinking they were just ripoffs of popular ones. It was a sidescrolling beat 'em up. I remember an intro (to the game or to one particular stage) featuring a guy being transformed into a monster. Maybe a supervillain, it was so many years ago and here American superheroes didn't have the exposition they have now, didn't even know who Iron-Man or thor were back then.
Speaking of Thor, I think I also played one arcade game with Cap America (and maybe Spider-Man again or others super-heroes) where Thor made a cameo in one boss fight or something like that. Dunno if they were the same game, my memory is very muddy.
It's an arcade game I played 15 or more years ago. It featured different playable super heroes, one seemed like Spider-Man, but I'm thinking they were just ripoffs of popular ones. It was a sidescrolling beat 'em up. I remember an intro (to the game or to one particular stage) featuring a guy being transformed into a monster. Maybe a supervillain, it was so many years ago and here American superheroes didn't have the exposition they have now, didn't even know who Iron-Man or thor were back then.
Speaking of Thor, I think I also played one arcade game with Cap America (and maybe Spider-Man again or others super-heroes) where Thor made a cameo in one boss fight or something like that. Dunno if they were the same game, my memory is very muddy.
uncleslappy
nethack is my favorite dark souls clone
I remember there being a horror game where you played a small child - like two or three years old. First person. What was this called?
Among The Sleep
Elvin Atombender
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Cruise for a Corpse?
There was a demo disk that I got with my PS2 that included a fairly content beefy demo for a multiplayer tank game. I remember it having splitscreen and multiplayer options, although it supported bots. There was an arena set on a Mayan temple with lava in the bottom of the pyramid itself. You could pick up power-ups for your tank (like lasers and special weapons) placed around the map.
eso76
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There's the Spiderman beat em up by Sega
http://youtu.be/QVEH-i2qp8M?t=2m29s
the Captain America and the Avengers arcade game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UVpU83cNcM
the X-Men arcade game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgF_VMQ19aA
Also, The Punisher, but that is a bit of a stretch maybe ?
Wow! That first one is surely what I played long ago. It brings me back, thanks a lot!
Never played the Punisher stuff and I know the X-Men arcade, though it wasn't it. About the Avengers, not sure, but I think I played that as well in the past.
NotMyUsername
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Just making sure but are you thinking of Nidhogg? http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/10/14/nidhogg-out-today-on-ps4-vita-pstv/
It's for everything Sony but PS3.
whitemex88
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Azure Dreams
I'm thinking of a game, somewhat modern, where you fight in a coliseum type setting. This is only a small part of the game, but you go underground and get ready before heading up into the arena. I think you did this for extra money or something, it was not the primary focus of the game.
Elvin Atombender
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Sounds like Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion?
SpongeBob NoPants
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Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Kingdoms of Amalur?
LastOne2100
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OK, this one will be obscure.
It's an extremely old PC game that was a space fighter sim effectively, but every once in a while this giant alien ship thing (grey cube/sphere) would come and call you by the wrong name - "Bob" or something like that.
Can't really be any more specific because my memory is completely failing me, but I'd really love to know what this game was.
It's an extremely old PC game that was a space fighter sim effectively, but every once in a while this giant alien ship thing (grey cube/sphere) would come and call you by the wrong name - "Bob" or something like that.
Can't really be any more specific because my memory is completely failing me, but I'd really love to know what this game was.
ichtyander
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Sounds like IronSeed. The Phaedor Moch race you encounter keep calling you "Bob" for some inexplicable reason. Loved that game.
Nope. I'm pretty sure it was a PS2 game. It was on a PS2 demo disc.
Lumpy Onion
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Yes. Thanks so much, for whatever reason I could remember the basics but not what it was from.
uncleslappy
nethack is my favorite dark souls clone
How about this one:
Old PC educational game, sidescroller, where you were an explorer with a big santa ike bag on your back and little elves came running around and I think you had to bonk them or something to get letters to spell out a puzzle word or something? Maybe math numbers?
Old PC educational game, sidescroller, where you were an explorer with a big santa ike bag on your back and little elves came running around and I think you had to bonk them or something to get letters to spell out a puzzle word or something? Maybe math numbers?
crowphoenix
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Sounds like Treasure Mountain.
Word Rescue and Math Rescue!
There's some great suggestions already listed, it could well be one of those. But if it's not one of those, there's a possibility it's one of the Affair titles; The Sydney Affair or The Vera Cruz Affair.
Ignition365
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There was this game I played when I was a child for the Commodore 64.
All of the "art" was ASCII characters.
It was like a dungeon crawler.
You would go into different rooms and get items like keys and stuff.
Can't recall if it was a dungeon or a castle.
All of the "art" was ASCII characters.
It was like a dungeon crawler.
You would go into different rooms and get items like keys and stuff.
Can't recall if it was a dungeon or a castle.
PalaceBrother
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Could it have been Temple of Apshai (or perhaps Gateway to Apshai)?
It wasn't ASCII, but it was close.
If it was definitely ASCII then I agree with Pharaun.