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Games you remember, names you don't

AmyS said:
Great game. The arcade version from 1988 was Capcom's very first game on their then brand new CPS1 board. The same hardware that powered Daimakaimura (Ghouls 'N Ghosts), Strider, Final Fight, UN Squadron and Street Fighter II among others.
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Spent quite a few hours on that game when I was a kid which is why the stupid shop music haunted me.

We had a huge library of JP PCE games and great memories having parties with them, like 5 player bomberman (before Saturn 10 player came along) and the YS games. Back then those visuals with voice were mindblowing.
 
I listened to a podcast about PS1-RPGs and there was a short talk about a game in which the apocalypse is triggered because the devil's eMail-account is hacked. I believe it was a Shin Megami Tensei game but I'm not sure.
 
Schwarzbier said:
So I have one I've been trying to figure out for a very long time I believe it was on the C64, and it was like an asteroids clone, only more colorful, and as you flew around you could find portals that would warp you to to mazes you had to fly through.

I was very young when I played this and I don't have too much more to go on but I've never been able to figure this one out. Any ideas GAF?
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I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Zone Ranger. Maze is around 1:30 in this video.
 
Ashtar said:
This is an obscure First PErson shooter from late 90's -early 2000's You played as a three man fire team of army men fighting racists including KKK and neo nazi's I think. The team was made up of a black guy (Preacher I believe) white guy and a asian guy. It was on Mac. I think Force may have been in the name........
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Damage Incorporated seems to fit the bill, this video shows an enemy called the White Paladins and, at 4:35 onwards, the character select screen shows a black character named Preacher.


Damage Incorporated • 1997 PC Game: http://youtu.be/0HnY1VHeLSA
 
There was a game I played in early to mid 90s that was likely on Mac but might have been PC. I remember it was first person shooter type game and it was dark and possibly some outdoor areas, wooded, and might have used monsters as enemies. Also, there might have been grenades of some sort.

The thing I remember most clearly is this werewolf sound effect that is used. You can hear it hear at the beginning of this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY

Never been able to pinpoint exactly what game it was, I do know for sure its not Marathon.

Edit: Are you serious!? the post directly above mine is the game I've been looking for all this time, Damage Incorporated. That is amazing and i'm sorry for missing that post. Wow, what are the odds!
 
samsirus said:
There was a game I played in early to mid 90s that was likely on Mac but might have been PC. I remember it was first person shooter type game and it was dark and possibly some outdoor areas, wooded, and might have used monsters as enemies. Also, there might have been grenades of some sort.

The thing I remember most clearly is this werewolf sound effect that is used. You can hear it hear at the beginning of this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY

Never been able to pinpoint exactly what game it was, I do know for sure its not Marathon.

Edit: Are you serious!? the post directly above mine is the game I've been looking for all this time, Damage Incorporated. That is amazing and i'm sorry for missing that post. Wow, what are the odds!
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That is pretty freaky. :)

VisceralBowl said:
I remember this game from 10ish years ago from school where you played as a bug. Everything was huge. It ran on iMac G3s.

Any ideas?
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Not sure without more info like genre, point of view, 2D or 3D etc, but try Bugdom 1 and 2. Oh and also Bad Mojo.
 
samsirus said:
Edit: Are you serious!? the post directly above mine is the game I've been looking for all this time, Damage Incorporated. That is amazing and i'm sorry for missing that post. Wow, what are the odds!
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I'm not above taking the credit for that! Glad to (inadvertently) help ;)
 
Here's one for you GAF!

Back in the 90's I got a CD with 4 or 5 games for PC. I remember one of them fondly because of the characters. They were basically round hairballs with feet and big eyes. I want to remember that the game was called something along the lines of "Fuzzy Menace" or something like that. The characters all looked the same except their "hair" had all different colors.

Also, from what I remember of the gameplay you had a bird's eye perspective, it could also be a 2D platformer. Don't really remember that.
 
Arizato said:
Here's one for you GAF!

Back in the 90's I got a CD with 4 or 5 games for PC. I remember one of them fondly because of the characters. They were basically round hairballs with feet and big eyes. I want to remember that the game was called something along the lines of "Fuzzy Menace" or something like that. The characters all looked the same except their "hair" had all different colors.

Also, from what I remember of the gameplay you had a bird's eye perspective, it could also be a 2D platformer. Don't really remember that.
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Could it be Fury of the Furries?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_of_the_Furries
 
I may be completely misremembering this, but, I remember this game, it was for the SNES (maybe). It was 2D (like megaman), you used a sword and at the beginning you faced robots and you could cut them in half with just one attack. I can't remember anything else.

If this triggers anyone elses memories, let me know lol.
 
A game on the SNES/Megadrive it was an Adventure/RPG with sidescrolling around towns. You could fight people and throw coins at them and there was gambling. It was pretty Japanese from what I remember, I think the character had blue hair and there was lots of lucky cats doing that paw thing.
 
Mr. Luchador said:
A game on the SNES/Megadrive it was an Adventure/RPG with sidescrolling around towns. You could fight people and throw coins at them and there was gambling. It was pretty Japanese from what I remember, I think the character had blue hair and there was lots of lucky cats doing that paw thing.
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Mystical Ninja for SNES from Konami.
 
Dargor said:
I may be completely misremembering this, but, I remember this game, it was for the SNES (maybe). It was 2D (like megaman), you used a sword and at the beginning you faced robots and you could cut them in half with just one attack. I can't remember anything else.

If this triggers anyone elses memories, let me know lol.
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My first thought was Strider, but that's the Genesis. Maybe Run Saber?
 
I played this game at school on the Macs during breaks, but I can't remember the name. I played it in 2000, so it must predate that. I imagine it was much earlier. It was in all black-and-white, obviously. The computers only had games like that and Brick Attack.

The game was honestly very similar to Shadowgate, which is the only game I've ever found remotely similar while trying to find it. Very similar UI, but of course it was back then. It was first person and had point-and-click elements. It had a turn-based RPG combat system as well, I think. I might be misremembering that but I doubt it. You were able to fight a dragon.

The gameplay had you basically choosing to move in whatever compass directions to go down a series of hallways and find items that would allow you to solve puzzles point-and-click style. I honestly don't remember many puzzles. You could follow a progressively darker hallway where you would eventually fall into a pit and die if you didn't light it. At some point you got an enchanted javelin which I assumed would come back if you threw it but I'm pretty sure just had a limited number of uses in actuality.

I remember a very specific screen early on, where you were next to a window, and the game would caution you with something along the lines of "You better get a good look, because it may be the last time you see the sun for a long, long time." I always thought that was funny because you could walk back to the window whenever you wanted.

Now that I think on it further, it might have been the equivalent of an indie game, at the time. I remember when you started the game, it would say if you were stumped, you could mail the guy $10 in an envelope to get a map of the game. My friends and I always wanted to do that but were never sure it was worth it, or if it would just be bullshit.
 
Nobody in the Nostalgic Game Intros could help me out with this, and it has been making me crazy. Anyone got an idea?

Anyone that could help me with an intro? I loved this one game's intro, but can't remember the name of the game. All I remember is this:

- top down shooter
- you could fly around the level in all directions
- you pilot a futuristic fighter jet
- I think the first level was a set of islands
- played on PC during middle 90's

And for the intro:

- anime style
- main character is running and thinking about some girl
- city is nuked
- main character takes off on his fighter jet
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In Famicom.....I used to play a semi 2D RPG a hero is a knight his armor color is light blue.....he kills many snakes

I need the name.....

Regards
 
BluePigGanon said:
My first thought was Strider, but that's the Genesis. Maybe Run Saber?
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My man! It was Strider! Its like I said, I really didn't remember much. I was really young at the time. A friend of mine had a Genesis, I must have played it in his house. I had a SNES, thats why I thought it was for it.

Wow, feels really good knowing what that game's name was. Thank you very much!
 
Dargor said:
My man! It was Strider! Its like I said, I really didn't remember much. I was really young at the time. A friend of mine had a Genesis, I must have played it in his house. I had a SNES, thats why I thought it was for it.

Wow, feels really good knowing what that game's name was. Thank you very much!
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You bet! Strider is a classic, still holds up (arcade version anyway).
 
Sado0og said:
In Famicom.....I used to play a semi 2D RPG a hero is a knight his armor color is light blue.....he kills many snakes

I need the name.....

Regards
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Battle of Olympus? One of the Wizards & Warriors titles? (While the main character is in grey armour, on the title screen of III his helmet is depicted as light blue)
 
It was a either early-mid gen Third Person Shooter PS2 game where I remember you started in a snowy area. I think there was a cut scene of two dudes talking in a helicopter with shitty lip sync. I've been trying to figure out what game this is forever.
 
Hey all, trying to remember a freeware or demo PC game I played ages ago. It was some kind of 2D isometric strategy or city builder, but set in Heaven and Hell. I think the goal was to manage the souls of the afterlife of each plane. Anybody know what game I'm talking about?
 
Inumbris said:
Hey all, trying to remember a freeware or demo PC game I played ages ago. It was some kind of 2D isometric strategy or city builder, but set in Heaven and Hell. I think the goal was to manage the souls of the afterlife of each plane. Anybody know what game I'm talking about?
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This?

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