Does anybody know of an old arcade dirt bike racing game using scaling sprites for graphics? My brother reminded me of it when I was playing Power Drift because it looked kind of similar and now I'm trying to find some information about it. I think it was by Sega but I'm not sure; I can't find it in their list of arcade games (it's not Enduro Racer).
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I played a GWBasic game from a bbs, text adventure, that builds the text adventure as you play it. it was called like the Evergrowing adventure or something, but that's not it cause i can't find it. Starts you in a room and then asks you what the room you going into looks like, what's in it, etc, then would build that room.
Would LOVE to find it.
Would LOVE to find it.
Played this game back in first grade (1996-1997) in our computer lab at school. You were a kid running through this house solving little puzzles to get keys. Main character had a red baseball cap on. That's all i can remember from it haha. I'm not even sure it was educational, the following year that game and others were gone and we had to play the games that you know, taught you something.
Whenever someone mentions an educational game with the bolded, I instantly think that it's something from the Super Solvers series. Not sure what it might be *specifically*, though.
Thanks, I'll look into that. I also forgot to say that the view of the game was from behind the character, you were usually looking from behind him going down these hallways and would enter doors on each side to the left and right.
Felipe Simao
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There are 3 games I'm always searching for.
The first one is the one I remember the most. Very old. The game starts with a cgi cutscene of dude splitting an apple in the middle with an axe on one of those wooden things made to split down logs. The the game starts in a dungeon. You search skeletons for itens, gather rocks and search hay stacks. The enemies are goblins. It's kind like a procedural generated maze. Not quite sure tho. I dont even remember if you could walk. Maybe just click the arrow in the direction you wanted to go.
The second was a sci fi (kinda like blade runner) isometric point and click game. Only played a demo. You were some sort of detective. Could gather bateries and cables to make things like elevators work. The demo takes place in a street and then you walk in a bar or something.
The third one was also a demo. Isometric much like the first diablo. Demo started on top of a high tower. You would go down a spiraling stair arround the tower and walk into some sort of dungeon. The place was full of wall traps and such.
The first one is the one I remember the most. Very old. The game starts with a cgi cutscene of dude splitting an apple in the middle with an axe on one of those wooden things made to split down logs. The the game starts in a dungeon. You search skeletons for itens, gather rocks and search hay stacks. The enemies are goblins. It's kind like a procedural generated maze. Not quite sure tho. I dont even remember if you could walk. Maybe just click the arrow in the direction you wanted to go.
The second was a sci fi (kinda like blade runner) isometric point and click game. Only played a demo. You were some sort of detective. Could gather bateries and cables to make things like elevators work. The demo takes place in a street and then you walk in a bar or something.
The third one was also a demo. Isometric much like the first diablo. Demo started on top of a high tower. You would go down a spiraling stair arround the tower and walk into some sort of dungeon. The place was full of wall traps and such.
ichtyander
Member
Moto Frenzy or Stadium Cross?
Stadium Cross it is! Thank you!
There was this game I played in-browser (Flash?) maybe a decade ago. I believe it was entirely black and white and had pixel art. You would basically just float upwards as a little guy, see some weird stuff on various platforms as you went, and when you got high enough the game ended. Only took a few minutes to complete.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Bureau 13?
Candescence
Member
So there's another game I remember, but I can't remember what it was called - it was a PC game based around cartoony tanks using an isometric perspective, and also basically a puzzle game where you needed to use different type of tank parts to get through certain types of terrain and destroy certain obstacles. Anyone else know what it was called?
Notor!ousG
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A point-and-click game about a granny who's living with her son's or daughter's family, only to realise they all disappeared. It had a weird kind of humor and came with 4 to 5 install cd's. Pc only I think.
Boy Wander
Member
It's a long shot but the second one sounds a little bit like Heartland by Odin. You control some dude in a top hat, not a goat man. And the skull that draws as you get hit is at the top.
If not this game, is it something similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2cU7W1oRwg
Dammit, that's it,. shows you how memory decays over the years.
I thought heartland, but the goatman put me off!
mcz117chief
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So there was this game I heard about a long time ago. It was an isometric shooter with a lot of blood and gore. A little bit like Alien Breed: Tower Assault but the game is a lot newer, the camera was tilted and was a lot further away. I am not even 100% sure if it was 2d or 3d but I think it was very similar to the Alien Shooter series when it comes to aesthetics (lots of enemies and ton of blood). The monsters in the game were very grotesque and there were guts and blood EVERYWHERE. You were fighting on Earth basically fending off some alien invasion or something. I just saw pictures of it in a magazine but I totally forgot any finer details.
So unfortunately these weren't it
Anyone else have an idea? Again it has the view like the picture below with the kid in a red hat going down the halls and into each room at each side getting keys. Came out in or prior to 97 and was played on a Macintosh:
Dimitri LH
Member
Cruis' n' World - 64?
There's this old PC game I've been thinking about recently, had tons of fun with it during my childhood.
Unfortunately, I can't remember if it was browser-based or launched from a different kind of medium. All I remember is that it was a 2D sidescrolling game where you control a bunch of dwarves. They were drawn in a fairly cartoonish way (relatively big eyes).
I think (but I'm not sure of it) that each dwarf had unique abilities to progress through the environment. Anyone that can think of a game like this, it'd be much appreciated.
Unfortunately, I can't remember if it was browser-based or launched from a different kind of medium. All I remember is that it was a 2D sidescrolling game where you control a bunch of dwarves. They were drawn in a fairly cartoonish way (relatively big eyes).
I think (but I'm not sure of it) that each dwarf had unique abilities to progress through the environment. Anyone that can think of a game like this, it'd be much appreciated.
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Thanks a bunch, that's it!
No that wasn't it, thanks for trying to help though, looks cool as well.
Graphics Horse
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Oh neat, I thought that description rang a bell but I forgot the name too.
Felipe Simao
Member
Yup, that's it. Thanks bro!!!
NipplesAndToes23
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https://www.facebook.com/JYW.kikyuS/videos/1665050180473743/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
What game is this and is this shit possible?
What game is this and is this shit possible?
MissCauthon
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I remember pkaying on my 486 pc back in the days a game that was almost similar like Alone in the Dark. There were weird creatures and it was sort of fucked up. All i rememebr is that the name was something like Elastica?? But i know im wrong. You were in a town and yeah it was weird as fuck lol.
GrayFoxPL
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Ecstatica.
MissCauthon
Member
Wow thanks gona have to check that out.
Affeinvasion
Member
So there was an old PC adventure game that was part of some shareware disc. The main character i believe was native American and a P.I. The only thing i really remember was there was a scene where you were in a park using those quarter powered binoculars to gather evidence. You could peep on some lady, but only if you had the full version of course!
Just remembered playing this the other day and it bugged me thati can't find what it is. Anybody know this game?
Just remembered playing this the other day and it bugged me thati can't find what it is. Anybody know this game?
Long shot as my memory of it is hazy, but it sounds a little like Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder.
Affeinvasion
Member
No not that unfortunately. It had a hand drawn style like the old LucasArts games.
Ok my memory is very hazy so this could be a bit incorrect.
A PC game from the 90s, made for small children, there was a map with different tasks depending on where you clicked. One game had you switching a train track with a lever. There were voice samples, and I think some of the background music may have been Canon in D, or something similar.
It's pretty much the only game from my childhood that I can remember but have no idea what it is!
A PC game from the 90s, made for small children, there was a map with different tasks depending on where you clicked. One game had you switching a train track with a lever. There were voice samples, and I think some of the background music may have been Canon in D, or something similar.
It's pretty much the only game from my childhood that I can remember but have no idea what it is!
MooMilk2929
Junior Member
For the longest time there was this arcade game I remember that was really popular around here. Guys and girls used to like to play it. I couldn't remember it but I finally found out it's name. Psychic 5. Was a real relief when I finally found out what it was.
Affeinvasion
Member
I think i found it searching for that other game. Blackstar is what it is.
edit: removed link as it looks like it has a download link.
edit: removed link as it looks like it has a download link.
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
Does anyone remember that third person shooter that had gameplay styled after RE: Mercenaries? It was developed by the guys behind Project Gotham Racing and published by Sega during last generation? It was also on Steam as well the HD twins? Can't think of it.
NipplesAndToes23
Member
Looks like Taiko no Tatsujin Wii.
Is it fun. Can it work for NA systems?
RoombaDance
Member
I'm reminded of Elroy goes Bugzerk, a point and click puzzle game in which the red-hatted protagonist attempts to hunt down the legendary insect called the Technoloptera. But probably only matches the broad description of your game.
I've been trying to figure out the name of this game I found in an arcade in Japan in 2009. It featured a wii-remote and nuchuck style dual-handed motion control scheme. It supported 2-player coop and was structured similarly to a light-gun game. In it you played as a some sort of Western special cop force, which seemed like a bit of a spoofy take on the cliche. The game used the motion controls in a few different ways which were pretty fun. There were driving levels where you were riding a motorcycle and other levels in which you threw plates in a restaurant or ninja stars at enemies. Quite over the top. I also remember pandas either being thrown or hit.
Correctomundo
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If it doesn't, don't give up. There was a NA PS2 release.
2blackcats
Member
The Club.
Seemed really good apart from maybe the presentation. Didn't play it for more than a few hours.
Terrible name though, forgettable even.
I'm responding 3 years later, but thank you, this was it. I forgot the name of this game again and came back to ask, only to realize someone answered me the last time I asked 3 years ago.
crowphoenix
Banned
A long time ago I played a pc game (I think it was demo of a pc game). I remember playing it early 2000s around the time Icewind Dale was around.
The game was similar to the elder scrolls games in the sense that it was first person with that basic swing-a-sword combat, and I was exploring some very basic 3D ruins where a giant monster was walking around. It may have possibly been an early elder scrolls as I never bought Morrowind or the ones before it, but the demo was a colorful game with a lot of greenery. Any ideas?
The game was similar to the elder scrolls games in the sense that it was first person with that basic swing-a-sword combat, and I was exploring some very basic 3D ruins where a giant monster was walking around. It may have possibly been an early elder scrolls as I never bought Morrowind or the ones before it, but the demo was a colorful game with a lot of greenery. Any ideas?
Dr Zhivago
Member
Possibly Witchaven or its sequel.
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
There was a diablo like game made by Eidos that I saw advertisements for in the 90's in PC Gaming magazines
It was a warrior coming back from the dead and what not and the name started with an R.
I legit cannot think of it.
It was a warrior coming back from the dead and what not and the name started with an R.
I legit cannot think of it.