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[Marchizmo]

I need help figuring out this game from the Nintendo era. I remember you're a group of animals that are fighting some other type of alien/animal team, I don't remember. Could be wrong but I think you would have to play as different members of your team as you went to different levels. It was a space game and I think there was a bunny or something. That's all I can remember, it's been 24 years plz someone end my suffering

 

[funo]

I have been looking for 2 games for ages but I really cannot remember their names.

They must both be from around the same time, late Amiga or early Pentium 1 or 2 PC days.

1. I think this was one of those FMV games (might be wrong here) and you had to travel through time in some kind of capsule to solve riddles and puzzles at specific points in time. One of the dominant themes was finding things that were 'anachronistic" and I think this was because you were chasing some kind of criminal through time. I roughly remember the da Vinci era (you were in his house) and a castle of sorts. This game must have been a CD game and might have also been part of a series of games.

2. This one is even trickier. I played the demo of a game on PC where you had to travel an ocean (or labyrinth of sorts) and the only thing I remember was one of the 'bosses' that sang a stupid aong once you've solved his riddle. The lyrics were something like this "you got it, you got it, you got it, yeah, you have solved the riddle" and I am vaguely sure he sang it in a jamaican accent. That is all I remember

Anyone?

 

[Cthulhu_Steev]

I need help figuring out this game from the Nintendo era. I remember you're a group of animals that are fighting some other type of alien/animal team, I don't remember. Could be wrong but I think you would have to play as different members of your team as you went to different levels. It was a space game and I think there was a bunny or something. That's all I can remember, it's been 24 years plz someone end my suffering

It's got to be Bucky O' Hare, otherwise I have failed again ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWHPNnrTmKs

 

[N30RYU]

Ok.

It was an educational video game I played on the school computers in elementary school. All I remember is one minigame where you're in a helicopter dumping rain on a fire in the rain forest. I also remember little cheetah and jaguar sprites running around.

I think I found it

I have been looking for 2 games for ages but I really cannot remember their names.

They must both be from around the same time, late Amiga or early Pentium 1 or 2 PC days.

1. I think this was one of those FMV games (might be wrong here) and you had to travel through time in some kind of capsule to solve riddles and puzzles at specific points in time. One of the dominant themes was finding things that were 'anachronistic" and I think this was because you were chasing some kind of criminal through time. I roughly remember the da Vinci era (you were in his house) and a castle of sorts. This game must have been a CD game and might have also been part of a series of games.

2. This one is even trickier. I played the demo of a game on PC where you had to travel an ocean (or labyrinth of sorts) and the only thing I remember was one of the 'bosses' that sang a stupid aong once you've solved his riddle. The lyrics were something like this "you got it, you got it, you got it, yeah, you have solved the riddle" and I am vaguely sure he sang it in a jamaican accent. That is all I remember

Anyone?

The first one could be LUXOR Adventures?

 

[funo]

The first one could be LUXOR Adventures?

Hmm, it was not one of those hidden object games and it is older than the luxor series. (even though some of the screens certainly look like they might have been ripped off from the game I am looking for)

 

[KillySG10]

I have been looking for 2 games for ages but I really cannot remember their names.

They must both be from around the same time, late Amiga or early Pentium 1 or 2 PC days.

1. I think this was one of those FMV games (might be wrong here) and you had to travel through time in some kind of capsule to solve riddles and puzzles at specific points in time. One of the dominant themes was finding things that were 'anachronistic" and I think this was because you were chasing some kind of criminal through time. I roughly remember the da Vinci era (you were in his house) and a castle of sorts. This game must have been a CD game and might have also been part of a series of games.
Anyone?

2 Games spring to mind here, both might be wrong, but it could be Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego or Day of the Tentacle

 

[Jimnymebob]

I have been looking for 2 games for ages but I really cannot remember their names.

They must both be from around the same time, late Amiga or early Pentium 1 or 2 PC days.

1. I think this was one of those FMV games (might be wrong here) and you had to travel through time in some kind of capsule to solve riddles and puzzles at specific points in time. One of the dominant themes was finding things that were 'anachronistic" and I think this was because you were chasing some kind of criminal through time. I roughly remember the da Vinci era (you were in his house) and a castle of sorts. This game must have been a CD game and might have also been part of a series of games.
Anyone?

This is probably one of The Journeyman Project games. Can't remember which one it is though.

Edit: Just checked on Google and the 2nd one had Da Vinci and Richard the Lionheart's Castle.

 

[funo]

This is probably one of The Journeyman Project games. Can't remember which one it is though.

Edit: Just checked on Google and the 2nd one had Da Vinci and Richard the Lionheart's Castle.

THIS IS IT - "The Journeyman Project" - thank you oh so very much! wow, so many memories :/
Available on GOG, awesome!

 

[NeoFaff]

I'm trying to remember the name of this freeware/shareware game I played on Windows95/98. I remember backing it up to 4 floppies so it must be around 4mb. It also had a level editor.

It was a grid based puzzle game where you control a vehicle which shoots lasers and you needed to hit a certain tile by shooting triangles which would change the laser by 90 degrees.

 

[Jimnymebob]

THIS IS IT - "The Journeyman Project" - thank you oh so very much! wow, so many memories :/
Available on GOG, awesome!

I can't remember which ones I played. I definitely played the 3rd one, but I'm not sure if I played any of the earlier ones. I think I did though.

I have one for myself though; does anyone remember a sidescrolling helicopter game for the Amstrad CPC?

 

[ichtyander]

I have one for myself though; does anyone remember a sidescrolling helicopter game for the Amstrad CPC?

Check out Airwolf 1 & 2, Action Force, Fire!, Silkworm, Protector, Rig Attack, Mr. Heli, Helichopper.

 

[Marchizmo]

It's got to be Bucky O' Hare, otherwise I have failed again ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWHPNnrTmKs

Praise the Cthulhu, this is it. Finally some closure after all these years, thank you my sweet prince.

 

[Jimnymebob]

Check out Airwolf 1 & 2, Action Force, Fire!, Silkworm, Protector, Rig Attack, Mr. Heli, Helichopper.

Thanks. Silkworm seems the most like it, but I just had a look at Harrier Attack and that seems familiar as well. I remember that it had the HUD at the bottom of the screen, but I only played it on the black/blue and green monitor.

I'd guess it's either one of those two.

 

[ichtyander]

Thanks. Silkworm seems the most like it, but I just had a look at Harrier Attack and that seems familiar as well. I remember that it had the HUD at the bottom of the screen, but I only played it on the black/blue and green monitor.

I'd guess it's either one of those two.

A couple of other helicopter games come to mind, but I don't know if they were released on the CPC.

Krakatoa

Blue Thunder

 

[Who]

I think I found it

The first one could be LUXOR Adventures?

DUDE. Right on. Thank you so much.

 

[joecanada]

This was early 90s, I'm actually pretty sure it was called darklands an RPG, but it bugs me because I couldn't figure out wtf to do I'd just wander from area to area fighting and die
... Someone tell me if this RPG was darklands, what the premise was and story? Did it have bosses, save points, chapters? Could you progress character?
Was it good? I liked the premise but couldn't get anywhere, figure out what to do

 

[Cthulhu_Steev]

I'm trying to remember the name of this freeware/shareware game I played on Windows95/98. I remember backing it up to 4 floppies so it must be around 4mb. It also had a level editor.

It was a grid based puzzle game where you control a vehicle which shoots lasers and you needed to hit a certain tile by shooting triangles which would change the laser by 90 degrees.

The game sounds like the Spectrum game 'Deflektor' of which there have been many clones, but there is a remake from 1998 (That I didn't know about until now, I just looked up the Spectrum game to get me on the right track!) that has been updated since. It's possibly this:

http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/ignacio/dfli.htm

Edit: Just had a look at some screen grabs and it doesn't appear you shoot triangles, but I'll keep thinking about it.

 

[jimmyd]

Isometric shooter game on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Had quite a dark/sci-fi theme. I think it had co-op. You could pick up stacks of coins or money which I think just gave you points and they were either dropped from enemies or found within the levels. I remember an early boss being something you fought over a large pit, maybe it rose out of the pit or came up on a large elevator or something.

Another Genesis/Mega Drive game, a 2D scrolling shooter (in the style of Gradius). You had a choice of maybe 4 characters to play as and they all may have been alien/insect like in appearance, and I think enemies were also alien/insect like. Pretty sure it had co-op play. One of the earlier levels was in a forest.

 

[revolverjgw]

Isometric shooter game on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Had quite a dark/sci-fi theme. I think it had co-op. You could pick up stacks of coins or money which I think just gave you points and they were either dropped from enemies or found within the levels. I remember an early boss being something you fought over a large pit, maybe it rose out of the pit or came up on a large elevator or something.

Another Genesis/Mega Drive game, a 2D scrolling shooter (in the style of Gradius). You had a choice of maybe 4 characters to play as and they all may have been alien/insect like in appearance, and I think enemies were also alien/insect like. Pretty sure it had co-op play. One of the earlier levels was in a forest.

Second sounds like Bio Hazard Battle

 

[Cthulhu_Steev]

Isometric shooter game on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Had quite a dark/sci-fi theme. I think it had co-op. You could pick up stacks of coins or money which I think just gave you points and they were either dropped from enemies or found within the levels. I remember an early boss being something you fought over a large pit, maybe it rose out of the pit or came up on a large elevator or something.

This sounds a little like Smash TV, I thought I'd throw it in just in case.

Top-down rather than true iso/axonometric, but had money stacks, and co-op, and I'm going with a slightly-mis-remembered first boss entry just in case

 

[ichtyander]

Isometric shooter game on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Had quite a dark/sci-fi theme. I think it had co-op. You could pick up stacks of coins or money which I think just gave you points and they were either dropped from enemies or found within the levels. I remember an early boss being something you fought over a large pit, maybe it rose out of the pit or came up on a large elevator or something.

Another Genesis/Mega Drive game, a 2D scrolling shooter (in the style of Gradius). You had a choice of maybe 4 characters to play as and they all may have been alien/insect like in appearance, and I think enemies were also alien/insect like. Pretty sure it had co-op play. One of the earlier levels was in a forest.

The first game sounds like Skeleton Krew.

 

[jimmyd]

Second sounds like Bio Hazard Battle

The first game sounds like Skeleton Krew.

Perfect, thanks

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Wow, I never heard of Skeleton Krew before. Isometric shooter, by Core (!), on Genesis, 1995? What an odd combination.

 

[Cthulhu_Steev]

Wow, I never heard of Skeleton Krew before. Isometric shooter, by Core (!), on Genesis, 1995? What an odd combination.

Me neither! Looks great though, reminds me a little of Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters.

Looking at it, I would never have pegged it as an Amiga/Megadrive era Core Design game.

 

[jimmyd]

Wow, I never heard of Skeleton Krew before. Isometric shooter, by Core (!), on Genesis, 1995? What an odd combination.

It's good co-op, tough game though.

 

[eso76]

Wow, I never heard of Skeleton Krew before. Isometric shooter, by Core (!), on Genesis, 1995? What an odd combination.

Eh, back then the industry wasn't as predictable as it is now : \

 

[ryan13ts]

Well, I made my own thread without realizing this one existed, so I'll just repost my game/s I can't remember in here, since it's driving me nuts now that they've popped into my head again.

The first was a NES game I used to rent at a local video store all the time, partly because their selection sucked ass. All I can remember about it was that it had what I think was a witch on the front cover and I think she flew on a wand or something like that

The other is actually two things that go together. It was a golf game that I had on my first computer I ever got (A shitty AST), that was on Windows 95. The game itself wasn't special at all, but what I do remember was this program that came with the game or the computer itself, that was a online multiplayer program. I remember spending countless hours trying to get the thing to work on the internet properly to no luck (The thought of playing with someone across the country back this was super exciting). I want to say it was called Net or Play something. It drives me crazy that I can't think of the name of this program, and golf game by extension.

Anyone have any remote idea about these two?

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Well, I made my own thread without realizing this one existed, so I'll just repost my game/s I can't remember in here, since it's driving me nuts now that they've popped into my head again.

The first was a NES game I used to rent at a local video store all the time, partly because their selection sucked ass. All I can remember about it was that it had what I think was a witch on the front cover and I think she flew on a wand or something like that

The other is actually two things that go together. It was a golf game that I had on my first computer I ever got (A shitty AST), that was on Windows 95. The game itself wasn't special at all, but what I do remember was this program that came with the game or the computer itself, that was a online multiplayer program. I remember spending countless hours trying to get the thing to work on the internet properly to no luck (The thought of playing with someone across the country back this was super exciting). I want to say it was called Net or Play something. It drives me crazy that I can't think of the name of this program, and golf game by extension.

Anyone have any remote idea about these two?

Thinking the first one could be Krion Conquest. NES game starring a witch who uses a magic wand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI9EMvoyyis

 

[ichtyander]

Well, I made my own thread without realizing this one existed, so I'll just repost my game/s I can't remember in here, since it's driving me nuts now that they've popped into my head again.

The first was a NES game I used to rent at a local video store all the time, partly because their selection sucked ass. All I can remember about it was that it had what I think was a witch on the front cover and I think she flew on a wand or something like that

The other is actually two things that go together. It was a golf game that I had on my first computer I ever got (A shitty AST), that was on Windows 95. The game itself wasn't special at all, but what I do remember was this program that came with the game or the computer itself, that was a online multiplayer program. I remember spending countless hours trying to get the thing to work on the internet properly to no luck (The thought of playing with someone across the country back this was super exciting). I want to say it was called Net or Play something. It drives me crazy that I can't think of the name of this program, and golf game by extension.

Anyone have any remote idea about these two?

According to mobygames, these golf games were released on both the Atari ST and PC (among other platforms):
Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf
David Leadbetter's Greens
Greg Norman's Shark Attack! The Ultimate Golf Simulator
Hole-In-One Miniature Golf
Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf
Mean 18
Sporting Triangles
Will Harvey's Zany Golf
World Class Leader Board

However, most of these games are pretty old so I doubt they had any online multiplayer.

As for the online service, I didn't really play much multiplayer during the mid to late 90s but I did read about them in magazines and such, ogled at the logos etc. Even though I never really used services like Ten.net, Heat.net, Engage Games Online, Mplayer.com or Kali, there's just something about 90s multiplayer that gives me all of the nostalgic feels, alongside all of the edgy commercials and cool demo discs. Anyway, it could be one of those services, but there were probably more.

Heat.net always reminds of some advertisement pages in Computer Gaming World (I still have the issue and the demo disc, #156) about Blood.

 

[ryan13ts]

Thinking the first one could be Krion Conquest. NES game starring a witch who uses a magic wand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI9EMvoyyis

OMFG, That's it! This game has popped into my head periodically for years but could never remember much about it to figure out which NES game it was (Of which there are waaaay too many). Seeing that gameplay brings back so many nostalgic memories! Thank you dude, you've solved one of my long-time mysteries! Hard to believe it was in the next post too, lol

According to mobygames, these golf games were released on both the Atari ST and PC (among other platforms):
Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf
David Leadbetter's Greens
Greg Norman's Shark Attack! The Ultimate Golf Simulator
Hole-In-One Miniature Golf
Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf
Mean 18
Sporting Triangles
Will Harvey's Zany Golf
World Class Leader Board

However, most of these games are pretty old so I doubt they had any online multiplayer.

As for the online service, I didn't really play much multiplayer during the mid to late 90s but I did read about them in magazines and such, ogled at the logos etc. Even though I never really used services like Ten.net, Heat.net, Engage Games Online, Mplayer.com or Kali, there's just something about 90s multiplayer that gives me all of the nostalgic feels, alongside all of the edgy commercials and cool demo discs. Anyway, it could be one of those services, but there were probably more.

Heat.net always reminds of some advertisement pages in Computer Gaming World (I still have the issue and the demo disc, #156) about Blood.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't any of those golf games, if I remember correctly it had a very simple title, almost just like *blank* Golf or Golf *blank*, or some derivitive of that. And as far as the multiplayer program goes, I know it wasn't any of those listed. It might help to mention this was circa 1996, and that the program wasn't downloaded off a website or anything, but came with the computer and if I recall correctly, came on the disc with the golf game. I do remember using MPlayer and the such a few years down the road so I'm positive it wasn't those.

Thinking about it, it had to be some extremely obscure program now that I think about it.

 

[A Black Falcon]

OMFG, That's it! This game has popped into my head periodically for years but could never remember much about it to figure out which NES game it was (Of which there are waaaay too many). Seeing that gameplay brings back so many nostalgic memories! Thank you dude, you've solved one of my long-time mysteries! Hard to believe it was in the next post too, lol



I'm pretty sure it wasn't any of those golf games, if I remember correctly it had a very simple title, almost just like *blank* Golf or Golf *blank*, or some derivitive of that. And as far as the multiplayer program goes, I know it wasn't any of those listed. It might help to mention this was circa 1996, and that the program wasn't downloaded off a website or anything, but came with the computer and if I recall correctly, came on the disc with the golf game. I do remember using MPlayer and the such a few years down the road so I'm positive it wasn't those.

Thinking about it, it had to be some extremely obscure program now that I think about it.

It's likely something else, but maybe Sierra's ImagiNation Network? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImagiNation_Network

 

[ichtyander]

OMFG, That's it! This game has popped into my head periodically for years but could never remember much about it to figure out which NES game it was (Of which there are waaaay too many). Seeing that gameplay brings back so many nostalgic memories! Thank you dude, you've solved one of my long-time mysteries! Hard to believe it was in the next post too, lol



I'm pretty sure it wasn't any of those golf games, if I remember correctly it had a very simple title, almost just like *blank* Golf or Golf *blank*, or some derivitive of that. And as far as the multiplayer program goes, I know it wasn't any of those listed. It might help to mention this was circa 1996, and that the program wasn't downloaded off a website or anything, but came with the computer and if I recall correctly, came on the disc with the golf game. I do remember using MPlayer and the such a few years down the road so I'm positive it wasn't those.

Thinking about it, it had to be some extremely obscure program now that I think about it.

It might just be Microsoft Golf 2.0 (1995). Here's what the mobygames description says about multiplayer:

Microsoft's "PlayerNet" is used as the avenue for multiplayer golf. Each person must have PlayerNet and the game installed on their system to play.

 

[mclem]

According to mobygames, these golf games were released on both the Atari ST and PC (among other platforms):
Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf
David Leadbetter's Greens
Greg Norman's Shark Attack! The Ultimate Golf Simulator
Hole-In-One Miniature Golf
Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf
Mean 18
Sporting Triangles
Will Harvey's Zany Golf
World Class Leader Board

Either there's a reference I'm unaware of, here, or Mobygames have got very confused; Sporting Triangles was a short-lived British TV quiz show that had a couple of video game adaptations. It's pure quizzing.

 

[ichtyander]

Either there's a reference I'm unaware of, here, or Mobygames have got very confused; Sporting Triangles was a short-lived British TV quiz show that had a couple of video game adaptations. It's pure quizzing.

Whoops, I didn't even look at the game, my bad. Mobygames obviously has some problems with how the games are sometimes classified and this one's a good example of that. It's got pretty much all sports genres listed individually while the "theme" is something like game show.

 

[MindGamingMantis]

Fighting game on Sega Saturn that had a 100 stage arcade mode. Every 10 levels, the characters would get an upgrade of some sort. This goes on until the final stages.

 

[mclem]

Whoops, I didn't even look at the game, my bad. Mobygames obviously has some problems with how the games are sometimes classified and this one's a good example of that. It's got pretty much all sports genres listed individually while the "theme" is something like game show.

Ah, that makes some sense. Much as I like Mobygames as a resource, I really hate their taxonomy system; while I get their overall intent, I tend to find it completely inadequate.

 

[Sijil]

Nice thread, anyone remembers a PC RTS game where the main factions were warring trailerpark gangs/rednecks? Old RTS, played similar to Red Alert and StarCraft.

 

[protonion]

Fighting game on Sega Saturn that had a 100 stage arcade mode. Every 10 levels, the characters would get an upgrade of some sort. This goes on until the final stages.

Guardian Heroes?

 

[Stinkles]

Eighties arcade shooter, fancier than Galaga, had voice reminding you that FUEL STATUS CRITICAL, LASER TEMPERATURE CRITICAL and waves and waves of fairly varied aliens.

 

[Cthulhu_Steev]

Eighties arcade shooter, fancier than Galaga, had voice reminding you that FUEL STATUS CRITICAL, LASER TEMPERATURE CRITICAL and waves and waves of fairly varied aliens.

Sega's Astro Blaster, that had a fuel gauge, speech (yes, for laser temp critical )and enemy waves. There is a prequel - Astro Fighter, which was very similar but I can't remember if it had speech) but Astro Blaster was better known. I only ever saw one Astro Fighter at Butlin's in Filey.

Pretty good game, but bloody hard. The attract screen had some great speech, not as good as Berzerk (COIN DETECTED IN POCKET was pretty freaky as a 12 year old).

 

[NeoFaff]

The game sounds like the Spectrum game 'Deflektor' of which there have been many clones, but there is a remake from 1998 (That I didn't know about until now, I just looked up the Spectrum game to get me on the right track!) that has been updated since. It's possibly this:

http://retrospec.sgn.net/users/ignacio/dfli.htm

Edit: Just had a look at some screen grabs and it doesn't appear you shoot triangles, but I'll keep thinking about it.

I remembered that you control a tank and now feel really dumb. I was thinking of Laser Kombat which is a clone/offshoot of a game from 1995 called Laser Tank.

 

[ryan13ts]

It might just be Microsoft Golf 2.0 (1995). Here's what the mobygames description says about multiplayer:

Goddamit, that's it. You guys rock. I feel like a lost piece of my childhood was returned!

The funny part is that when I was researching trying to find out what game it was, I looked up Microsoft Golf but it didn't look like the version I remembered and there was no mention of any type of multiplayer service or PlayerNet, so I figured it wasn't the one and moved on. Hell, even typing in PlayerNet in any search engine brings up absolutely nothing at all on it so it must have been used by absolutely no one and died a quiet death. I wonder if Microsoft Golf was the only game that ever used it?

Boy, PlayerNet brings back so many memories, many of which where frustrating at the time since I could never get the damn thing to work, but still nostalgic none the less.

Thanks guys!

 

[N30RYU]

I'm looking for a very very old educational point and click PC game of Scrooge McDuck (or a clone) where you had to parachute from a plane crash and had to navigate trough some islands (clicking in a grid map like some sort of battleship) looking for plane pieces to repair it solvin math puzzles and maches puzzles.

I played it in 1995 or so...

some of the puzzles were this

 

[Venture]

Eighties arcade shooter, fancier than Galaga, had voice reminding you that FUEL STATUS CRITICAL, LASER TEMPERATURE CRITICAL and waves and waves of fairly varied aliens.

GORF maybe?

 

[Daria]

e: nvm I found it. U.N. Squadron by Capcom which is an all time favorite

 

[forgeforsaken]

Ok this is a tough one. Late 90s, there was some new game startup company made a splash with some screenshots, possibly trailers too. Had two games in the works, one a mech game, the other a fantasy action game where you played as some sort of monster I think. I believe neither game ever got finished or released. Pretty sure it was to be PC, in the sort of early days of 3d accelerator cards. Trying to find the name of the company and the two games.

 

[Hesemonni]

I'm looking for two games, both sort of park / forest ranger like:

a) Surviving in cold, fighting of wolves, looking for supplies. Quite recent. I believe it was kickstarter. FPS.

b) A bit similar setup. The gameplay I saw was during spring time and instead of horror / survival it's more of a adventure or mystery I think. In the gameplay video the player is asked to inspect a nearby smoke and you find two girls swimming in forest lake. More recent than the first game.

 

[Mahnmut]

I try to remember a game on PC during year 93-95, it was a platformer in 2D with a guy how look like a barbarian with a sword. I remember i was able to grind Max Hp (red round or square like gauge if i remember) by enemies drop or by killing endless enemies. I think the demo was in castle like background with wooden Bridges.

I play a demo on a shareware Demo disk with Doom, Beavest and Butt Head point and click to place the era of the release.

"Gods" maybe ?

 

[retroman]

I'm looking for the name of a simple early eighties shoot 'em up. I loved to play it in the arcade back then, and I was even able to find it on MAME about ten years ago, but alas I can't remember the name anymore.

You control an astronaut-like character who drifts in space. The gameplay consists of shooting down waves of enemies. Movement is rather limited (if I recall correctly you can only move up and down and turn (but not move) left and right).
After defeating a few waves, the message 'CAUTION!' pops up and two robots appear on the top and bottom of the screen and attack you. Defeat those, and it's on to the next wave.

As far as I know, there were no home computer/console ports.

 

[AppleSeason]

I have a hard time trying to find this one. I saw it years ago on (possibly) a PC on a mall. It was playing the intro (attract mode) in FMV, and it looked like an FMV game during the days of the cd / multimedia craze (I'm thinking 1992-1994).

The intro looked like an action movie, and there was a crosshair for shootting segments seen in some scenes. This crosshair was an horizontal rectangle, composed of two squares (unless my memory is starting to fail), while quotes like "It is not an interactive movie" appearing on the screen.

I'm checking a DB for FMV games, with no luck