Was it Rome: Pathway to Power? Might be something else, do you have a year when you played the game?
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Was it Rome: Pathway to Power? Might be something else, do you have a year when you played the game?
So this has been killing me for weeks now.
I was an early teen when this game came out (I think; I know I was when it got really popular at least).
It was an early Sony PSX (1) game. The entire thing was like a movie, almost -- it had a lot of parts you couldn't interact with. I remember being bored to tears when it went into "movie mode" because the characters never looked the same in any two videos.
It came on a couple few DVDs in a bigger box than normal. We never got far enough so I don't know why it was so many. It may have been "making of" stuff.
It was REALLY Japanese, everyone looked like they were from Dragonball or Naroto or Robotech. Especially Dragonball, the lead guy in this game had hair like when the dudes whose names I don't even know turned their hair blonde and got swole.
As a GAME it was really weird, like I say more of a movie. You'd move your guy around and the whole world looked like it was made of shiny plastic, I don't think it was 3-D in the same way, like, Ruined Metal was.
It was very weird when the story that wasn't the movies happened, everyone would sort of merge out of your guy and all walk back into him when it was over. If that makes any sense whatsoever.
My cousin and I hated it because there was no action but we kept playing anyway, but all we really had on PSX at the time was this game and a baseball game. There were enemies but you couldn't see them; it was like fighting a bunch of ghosts except there was no action. Instead you would pick what your guy would do from a list and he'd just do it.
As far as the world, it was set all at night kinda feeling like Bladerunner by Tony Scott (Deckert was NOT a robocant by the way so just stop that argument forever please). The characters I remember are the Dragonball guy, a black guy that was just a straight-up ripoff of Jax from Killer Instinct, and a girl. Actually there were two girls. One was white and the other Japanese or Korean or something, she did karate stuff (but nothing you could do yourself!! You had to pick it from a LIST.)
I don't even know why I want to know what this moviegame was, but it's just been eating away at me. If anyone has any idea what I'm talking about, please tell me!! Thank you in advance.
Edit: Some other things I remembered. It had big TV commercials on all the time that were total false advertising, nothing in the game looked as good as them.
It had a menu you could go to, which was blue. My cousin and I never figured out what all the stuff was for. I know you could put pieces that for real looked like little candy pieces in holes or slots of stuff.
The bad guy was a perverted possibly gay or bi fat man who actually seduced your main guy in drag. I am not even kidding.
I was an early teen when this game came out (I think; I know I was when it got really popular at least).
It was an early Sony PSX (1) game. The entire thing was like a movie, almost -- it had a lot of parts you couldn't interact with. I remember being bored to tears when it went into "movie mode" because the characters never looked the same in any two videos.
It came on a couple few DVDs in a bigger box than normal. We never got far enough so I don't know why it was so many. It may have been "making of" stuff.
It was REALLY Japanese, everyone looked like they were from Dragonball or Naroto or Robotech. Especially Dragonball, the lead guy in this game had hair like when the dudes whose names I don't even know turned their hair blonde and got swole.
As a GAME it was really weird, like I say more of a movie. You'd move your guy around and the whole world looked like it was made of shiny plastic, I don't think it was 3-D in the same way, like, Ruined Metal was.
It was very weird when the story that wasn't the movies happened, everyone would sort of merge out of your guy and all walk back into him when it was over. If that makes any sense whatsoever.
My cousin and I hated it because there was no action but we kept playing anyway, but all we really had on PSX at the time was this game and a baseball game. There were enemies but you couldn't see them; it was like fighting a bunch of ghosts except there was no action. Instead you would pick what your guy would do from a list and he'd just do it.
As far as the world, it was set all at night kinda feeling like Bladerunner by Tony Scott (Deckert was NOT a robocant by the way so just stop that argument forever please). The characters I remember are the Dragonball guy, a black guy that was just a straight-up ripoff of Jax from Killer Instinct, and a girl. Actually there were two girls. One was white and the other Japanese or Korean or something, she did karate stuff (but nothing you could do yourself!! You had to pick it from a LIST.)
I don't even know why I want to know what this moviegame was, but it's just been eating away at me. If anyone has any idea what I'm talking about, please tell me!! Thank you in advance.
Edit: Some other things I remembered. It had big TV commercials on all the time that were total false advertising, nothing in the game looked as good as them.
It had a menu you could go to, which was blue. My cousin and I never figured out what all the stuff was for. I know you could put pieces that for real looked like little candy pieces in holes or slots of stuff.
The bad guy was a perverted possibly gay or bi fat man who actually seduced your main guy in drag. I am not even kidding.
Quite sure not serious. Tony Scott? Ruined Metal? Robocant?
If it wasn't this, this might be another appearance of the lesser-spotted Arcventure.
I really apologize. I'd just answered someone's rather tough one (was a JP-only GameBoy shooter by obscure third party) and was gripped by a mania to parody some of the sillier posts in this thread.
Please look at my avatar/icon.
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Akiyama_AE
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Ok I'll try this out it was a game on the Genesis and you played as a guy who was turned into a green puddle monster and it was hard as shit I could never beat it back then,Now I'm really interested in replaying it
The Ooze.
Akiyama_AE
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Thank you I'll see if I can find a copy, Lets see if I can beat it as an adult lol
I really apologize. I'd just answered someone's rather tough one (was a JP-only GameBoy shooter by obscure third party) and was gripped by a mania to parody some of the sillier posts in this thread.
Please look at my avatar/icon.
Nah, I liked it. The creeping realisation as the post went on was brilliant!
PC point and click adventure game. set in a steampunk-ish (maybe) looking world. you played as a guy, some sort of soldier or guard who later on got acid? or something thrown in his face and you turned into some freaky feral type guy.... while it was point and click in the same vein as broken sword, it did have sword fighting and maybe even shooting? you had an inventory, and ate meat and bread to heal. i got it in the 90's i think, cardboard box packaging etc. visually it was early polygonal with pre-rendered backgrounds?
toddhunter
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Hell a cyberpunk thriller?
nope, it was weird. a kind of brassy, stone kinda world. cog based machinery maybe...with scimitar like swords and MAYBE guns, but they were pretty primitive if they were in there at all.
at the very start of the game you woke up next to some half naked woman...
Morrigan Stark
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lol, nice try Nick Rox
Yup that's the game. Thanks!
Trojita
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My question is how you would determine Aeris is white but Tifa was Asian.
Dark Earth
black hair, simple
Northeastmonk
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This one is for PS1 Japanese import:
It plays a bit like Dynasty Warriors, but you're a character who can fly around the map. It looks like DW in a way, but you can use magic. I remember one of the first levels has a lot of grass and your outfit is white and blue iirc. It's in 3rd person perspective. He has a spear/sword/magical staff.
There's also a PS2 Japanese import I'm looking for:
You are a samurai IIRC, but the view is birds eye view on the map. You can swing your sword around and take out enemies and it looks like you're viewing an action game from the air. I believe both games count combos. In this PS2 game there is a big counter on the right (I want to say it's white) and it counts the combos.
It plays a bit like Dynasty Warriors, but you're a character who can fly around the map. It looks like DW in a way, but you can use magic. I remember one of the first levels has a lot of grass and your outfit is white and blue iirc. It's in 3rd person perspective. He has a spear/sword/magical staff.
There's also a PS2 Japanese import I'm looking for:
You are a samurai IIRC, but the view is birds eye view on the map. You can swing your sword around and take out enemies and it looks like you're viewing an action game from the air. I believe both games count combos. In this PS2 game there is a big counter on the right (I want to say it's white) and it counts the combos.
Castef
Banned
Fatal Fury?
Castef
Banned
Dread Dragon Droom?
Ok, here is this arcade game I've spent at least fifteen years trying to remembert but couldn't. Hope someone can help.
It's a Japanese shoot'em up game in the 90's. 2D side-scroll with bright, cutesy, cartoonish, pixel graphics. Some early bosses are animals. Bullets are fruits ( not sure). Any ideas?
It's a Japanese shoot'em up game in the 90's. 2D side-scroll with bright, cutesy, cartoonish, pixel graphics. Some early bosses are animals. Bullets are fruits ( not sure). Any ideas?
Dr Zhivago
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Have a look at Rabio Lepus, or Chariot (part of Three Wonders by Capcom).
Thanks for reply, but that's not it. The game I am thinking had better graphics, more sprites on screen, mid-later 90's tech, probably at CPS-2 level.
ichtyander
Member
Some cutesy sidescrolling shmups you can check out:
Parodius DA!
Fantastic Journey
Mystic Riders
Hacha Mecha Fighter
Cotton 1 & 2
Insector X
Ordyne
basic_text
Member
Maaaaan, that was a school favourite next to Geordie Racer!
I'm very familiar with Dread Dragon Droom - my parents were teachers, my dad specialised in IT, I saw an awful lot of edutainment - and I've absolutely no idea what part of the game this is referring to.
My best guess is it's the climax to the story (where Little Bit reveals he's Super Bit and cannot die, so they send him out to try to get to Droom's ears to squirt water in them. Ah, convoluted edutainment storylines!
Fun secret: Edutainment games of that era tended to come with Teacher's Notes, detailing information the teacher might need to help guide the players. Since my parents were teachers, I also saw the teachers' notes for the game. And since this was the only luck-based part of the game... it was hard-coded that your seventh (I think) try was guaranteed to be successful.
(When the various schools moved on, my Dad rescued a bunch of the software that was thrown out; I own a copy of this, too!)
That's Ugh!, fun times.
I have two
First one is a side scroller shoot em up, your spaceship could have been somewhat similar to a space shuttle, the background used parallax scrolling and it was similar to the ones in Sonic (mountains, water, grass)
The second one was a golf game where before every shot the terrain was redrawn and you could actually see this as the game showed this process by slowly drawing the wireframe and then coloring it.
I played both on my Atari 130xe
First one is a side scroller shoot em up, your spaceship could have been somewhat similar to a space shuttle, the background used parallax scrolling and it was similar to the ones in Sonic (mountains, water, grass)
The second one was a golf game where before every shot the terrain was redrawn and you could actually see this as the game showed this process by slowly drawing the wireframe and then coloring it.
I played both on my Atari 130xe
Graphics Horse
Member
I think this is Leaderboard golf but I only played the Atari ST version.
ichtyander
Member
Not really familiar with the Atari 8-bit systems, but you can check out Sky Blazer, River Rescue, The Extirpator!, James Bond 007, Planet Attack. Also look at this list (not sure if it's complete) of sidescrolling shmups:
http://www.atarimania.com/list_game...p_total-page-step-genre_93-1-200-114_8_G.html
Graphics Horse
Member
I had a look there too, The extirpator seems like a good bet.
I love you both, Leaderboard Golf was spot on.
And The Extirpator was the other one, i remembered it being named to something like "The Eliminator" or similar, my 4 year old self didn't knew that much english. I also remember it having a cool main menu music.
Thanks!
Man Geordie Racer and Through the dragons eye were the games at school!
JaseMath
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There was this motorcycle racing game that came with our Compaq Pentium III (333 MHz) back in '97-'98. I can't remember the name, but the graphics at the time were really great.
Another game that came with it was a game where you play as a gunner, taking down alien ships. The lighting effects were stellar (for the time) and the music was really good, too.
Any help?
Another game that came with it was a game where you play as a gunner, taking down alien ships. The lighting effects were stellar (for the time) and the music was really good, too.
Any help?
Moto Racer, or one of its sequels? They're on GoG.
Chances are that's Incoming, it's cropped up here a few times. Also on GoG
Both of them were quite frequently bundled as OEM software (which I suspect is a reason we see Incoming here so frequently - given you don't generally actively plan to purchase OEM software, the name's less likely to stick in your head)
Edit: It just struck me, the motorcycling game could also be Redline Racer. That's not on GoG, but here's a screenshot (borrowed from an old A Black Falcon thread!)
Graphics Horse
Member
Not sure I was exposed to those, only remember Granny's Garden. May have repressed memories of Dragon's Eye tv show, looks terrifying.
It was part of the Look and Read strand (as, for that matter, was Geordie Racer). I was a little too old to actually be taught it at the time but my Mum was looking into it for her school and I watched about half the series as a result.
It was... surreal. I recall a song from a quagmire focussing on qu-sound words (Something like "Hear me, the quagmire, abandon your quest, or I will quell you, and have you for dinner")
And three people, Boris, Morris and Doris. Boris was red, went around with the 'good guys', and had a magic cricket bat which could grow with a cry of "Length, bat, length". Which for a teenager automatically took on a somewhat smutty connotation.
Interestingly, since I tended to see a lot of educational software through my parents, I didn't actually see Granny's Garden, although I'm well aware how ubiquitous it was. I saw a lot of more obscure things, 4Mation software, Anita Straker's adventures, MicroSMILE, Martello Tower, tons of stuff from HUMMEC (Who were behind Dread Dragon Droom, IIRC) and Sherston. It's an interesting era, and really could do with being better-documented on the web these days.
runnin_blue
Banned
Ok, so this one has been bugging me for awhile. Back in primary school, we used to play a game in computer class. It was an educational game, like a space shooter, but you had to work out number problems in order to shoot the weapon. So, say you add up 5+7=12, you'd type 12 in, press Enter and the laser would fire at an enemy. I can't remember if the enemies were aliens or asteroids, but I'm leaning towards asteroids. I think it was on an Apple computer, maybe an Apple II, as I remember the green/monochrome monitor. We also played Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego and a game which, after some research, I think may have been called Raft-Away River on the same computers.
So, can anyone solve this almost 30 year old mystery for me lol? Thanks!
So, can anyone solve this almost 30 year old mystery for me lol? Thanks!
Ok I'm desprate here, this game was japanese and was an rpg on the ps1, it was 2d and you were three people I think, two guys and one girl, one of the boys is taller and I think the other guy had blue hair, the battle system is like super mario rpg and I rememeber one of the enemies was a fat guy on a couch with a tv and his attack was farting, one of the bosses was a fly sawting game ( no it's not mario paint)
All of this could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the opening citscene was a cartoon and the tall guy was on a tree and he stood up and hit his head on a branch.
Please help me :'(
All of this could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the opening citscene was a cartoon and the tall guy was on a tree and he stood up and hit his head on a branch.
Please help me :'(
Morrigan Stark
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Well there's a very similar game to that on the BBC micro called Numeric Invaders, but I doubt it was an official port in any regard. My best guess is an early iteration of Math Blaster. Note that that series has been going for a while with very similarly-titled products (Math Blaster!, Math Blaster Plus!, New Math Blaster Plus!, Mega Math Blaster) - so make sure you're looking at the right one when comparing it with your memory.
Yeah I think I confused two games XD
So I think the other half is the game I want, thanks.
Anyone??? :'(
Morrigan Stark
Arrogant Smirk
Sorry the rest doesn't sound familiar at all. Fat guy on couch that farts, fly swatting, dude hits his head on a branch, all that seems pretty goofy/comedic in tone, something like Earthbound maybe (I haven't played it)? That's not on the PS1 though. But I don't know many such RPGs on the PS1.
Btw here's the Wild ARMs intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrDV6VksSRU
Edit: and Wild ARMs 2, if it helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04cm8X95c5g
Btw here's the Wild ARMs intro:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrDV6VksSRU
Edit: and Wild ARMs 2, if it helps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04cm8X95c5g