Games you remember, names you don't

EDIT: Sorry forgot to mention they were IBM/PC.

I am trying to recall a few old educational games I remember playing when I was in the 6th grade, I am 33 now so it was quite a long time ago. The first was a columbus ship sailing find a new world type game where you had to buy food, water etc. before you set sail. If you did not have the correct amounts you would die at sea.

Another was a math detective game where you used math to solve puzzles and get clues.

Last was a Egypt tomb/pyramid exploring game where you had to purchase supplies and then go to the pyramid to explore it.
 
crpav said:
I am trying to recall a few old educational games I remember playing when I was in the 6th grade, I am 33 now so it was quite a long time ago. The first was a columbus ship sailing find a new world type game where you had to buy food, water etc. before you set sail. If you did not have the correct amounts you would die at sea.

Another was a math detective game where you used math to solve puzzles and get clues.

Last was a Egypt tomb/pyramid exploring game where you had to purchase supplies and then go to the pyramid to explore it.
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Was it a PS3 or Xbox 360 game?
 
LDawg said:
Was it a PS3 or Xbox 360 game?
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If you're trying to be funny your not. If you miss read, you need to actually read in future.

crpav said:
I am trying to recall a few old educational games I remember playing when I was in the 6th grade, I am 33 now so it was quite a long time ago. The first was a columbus ship sailing find a new world type game where you had to buy food, water etc. before you set sail. If you did not have the correct amounts you would die at sea.

Another was a math detective game where you used math to solve puzzles and get clues.

Last was a Egypt tomb/pyramid exploring game where you had to purchase supplies and then go to the pyramid to explore it.
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Might be too obvious but was it Math Detective?
http://www.criticalthinking.com/series/039/index_p.jsp
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it was a demo that came from pizza hut randomly with your game and i think it might had a parappa the rapper trailer on it or something of the sorts. I knew you were killing things with a weapon but thats all i can really remember.
 
bcote said:
it was a demo that came from pizza hut randomly with your game and i think it might had a parappa the rapper trailer on it or something of the sorts. I knew you were killing things with a weapon but thats all i can really remember.
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Of the two I can find online :

Pizza Hut Demo Disc One
Crash team racing, Final Fantasy VIII, Cool Borders 4, Tony Hawks Pro Skater and Ape Escape

Pizza Hut Demo Disc Two
Tetris, Sled Storm, Gran Turismo 2, Spyro Ripto's Rampage and Tomb Raider The Last Revelation

EDIT: You may be talking about Playstation Sampler Disc 4 which had: (bolded ones might be what you are describing)

The demos are:

Steel Reign Tank Shooter
Parappa the Rappa
Croc
Fighting Force (with code) Beat up people in a 'car aprk' third person
Cart World Series
Ace Combat 2
Armored Core Robot third person shooter
Raystorm Game where you are a space ship at the bottom scrolling shooting enimies.
Treasures of the Deep Underwater game first person with shooting
Intelligent Qube
Porsche Challenge

Videos are:
NFL Gameday 98' (didn't show you that one)
NHL Faceoff 98' (didn't show you that one)
Crash Bandicoot 2 (with code)
Blasto (with code)
PSU CD magazine (with code)
Exodus (with code) (CANCELLED GAME)
Cardinal Syn (with code)
Spawn the Enternal (with code)
Tomb Raider 2 (with code)
 
Mars said:
Gonna repost here what I posted yesterday as a thread, seeing as this is a more appropriate place for it:
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If those were full versions of X3 and EWJ I have some serious doubts about the legality of that disc, but it is worth noting that both of those games did have official PC ports. In fact, for Mega Man, all of the X games except for X2 had a PC port somewhere or other. I don't know of demos for either of those games though. The 3d Frogger games from Hasbro do also have PC versions.

Dr Zhivago said:
http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/slay.html
Fantastic game.
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Looks interesting, I might try it... a game I liked a lot back then was a somewhat similar strategy game called Pendulous. It's somewhat simpler than that game -- the grid is a square grid and not hexes, cities are only in preset locations on the map and cannot be built by the player, there is only one type of troop in your army, and you don't have to pay them each turn -- but it does have one key thing you mention there and that I really remember about Pendulous -- you had to keep zones of control between your soldiers and your cities, or the next turn they'd get disabled. Disabled troops become useless and will automatically lose if anyone attacks them, so you always had to try to save them (by connecting the soldiers to your cities by conquering back a corridor of land) the next turn or you'd lose them for sure; defenseless troops are easy targets, obviously. It was a pretty good game, and the last shareware version even had a full-featured map editor, and an AI editor too (though I never managed to make an AI good enough to pose a serious threat). The random map generator is also an interesting option. I just wish it had some tougher AI. :)

http://web.archive.org/web/20040123040546/http://mujweb.atlas.cz/zabava/titans/Pendulous.htm
 
Old First person RPG for windows. I can't remember much of it, only glimpses. You walk a screen at the time, you start the game outside. I think you can view everything in 2D as well as the 3D screen which is the main screen. Colors I seem to remember: Grey, green, brown. Might be wrong all of them.
 
A 2D side scrolling N64 game where you played a cartoony Ninja-type character and the first few levels (or perhaps the whole game) was based around sweets and cakes.
 
Nah, I'm pretty sure it was 2D and sprite based. I'm sure it didn't make much of a splash, because I only remember seeing it as a rental at Blockbuster.

Is there an N64 box art database anywhere? I'm sure I could spot it. Main character had a bandana, I think.
 
I am trying to remember a SEGA Genisis game , the game itself had two characters, I think they were Chinese girls who wore red and blue uniforms, you had to fight enemies so basically it's similar to Street Of Rage series.

Help!!
 
Lyphen said:
Nah, I'm pretty sure it was 2D and sprite based. I'm sure it didn't make much of a splash, because I only remember seeing it as a rental at Blockbuster.

Is there an N64 box art database anywhere? I'm sure I could spot it. Main character had a bandana, I think.
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Hmm, there were very few 2D platformers for the N64. Other than Yoshi's Story and Kirby 64, the only other one I can think of is Mischief Makers.
 
Yeah, so Im looking SNES game, JAP only afaik. It has characters Ultraman and Gundam and a few others, but I do not know their names. It is a game in the vein of Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, a brawler so to say, you catch my drift.

I think it was made by Banpresto and I think it has been released early in the Snes' life, like 1991 or something. Im almost sure it was an 8 MBit file, if you know what i mean :P

This is basically all I remember, do you guys know what Im looking for?
 
GZ! said:
Yeah, so Im looking SNES game, JAP only afaik. It has characters Ultraman and Gundam and a few others, but I do not know their names. It is a game in the vein of Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Double Dragon, a brawler so to say, you catch my drift.

I think it was made by Banpresto and I think it has been released early in the Snes' life, like 1991 or something. Im almost sure it was an 8 MBit file, if you know what i mean :P

This is basically all I remember, do you guys know what Im looking for?
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Sounds like one of the Great Battle games.
 
Kazerei said:
Hmm, there were very few 2D platformers for the N64. Other than Yoshi's Story and Kirby 64, the only other one I can think of is Mischief Makers.
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Messed up on the system. It was Zool, and I also owned a Genesis at the time too, so that explains my shitty mixup. Thanks guys.

Awesome game. I think.
 
Here's one:

It was about nightmares. I think it was a platformer. One part of the game was about Easter Island statues with feet, or something. If you died, you woke up on an operation and one of the nursed grinned at you. Early horror game.

I think it was an Amiga game, but I'm not 100.

I think it's a pretty well-known game, shouldn't be too hard for old schoolers.
 
Kjellson said:
Here's one:

It was about nightmares. I think it was a platformer. One part of the game was about Easter Island statues with feet, or something. If you died, you woke up on an operation and one of the nursed grinned at you. Early horror game.

I think it was an Amiga game, but I'm not 100.

I think it's a pretty well-known game, shouldn't be too hard for old schoolers.
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Weird Dreams.

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Video (with op stuff 0:25 onwards):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1rhvFW3Lbo
 
Kjellson said:
It was about nightmares. I think it was a platformer. One part of the game was about Easter Island statues with feet, or something. If you died, you woke up on an operation and one of the nursed grinned at you. Early horror game.
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Not sure I'd call it horror, really. Although it is unsettling! Footage from it was actually used on a Saturday morning kids TV show in the UK; get a question right, you'd see your guy pass the obstacle; get it wrong and he'd be devoured by the football / stung by the wasp / eaten by the giant roast chicken.

So, yes. It went out on kids telly. Not quite horror :-)
 
Nevermind, lol.

I found the game, it's called " Mystical Fighter "

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I don't know why I thought they were girls, and wearing Blue/Red uniforms, memories.
 
I need to enlist the help of our lovely GAF detectives. I used to play a (shareware?) PC platformer in the 90s but I can't find any evidence of its existence anywhere. It had a Carribbean/calypso setting and I believe you controlled a corpulent, bearded, semi-naked man called "Carlos". The game may well have been called Carlos too. You went around climbing ladders, collecting fruit and opening treasure chests. So, was this a real game or a particularly vivid nightmare?
 
Bucket Mouse said:
I need to enlist the help of our lovely GAF detectives. I used to play a (shareware?) PC platformer in the 90s but I can't find any evidence of its existence anywhere. It had a Carribbean/calypso setting and I believe you controlled a corpulent, bearded, semi-naked man called "Carlos". The game may well have been called Carlos too. You went around climbing ladders, collecting fruit and opening treasure chests. So, was this a real game or a particularly vivid nightmare?
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I am thinking of Carlos indeed:

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But I only know it from Amiga, not even sure if there is a PC version.
 
Yes. YES! Thank you sir, that is spot on. I definitely had it for PC on a floppy (never owned an Amiga), but searching for the Amiga version has instantly brought up results. Cheers!
 
Hey, everyone!
I remember, vaguely, a NES game:
- a sidescroller shoot´em up;
- you controlled an airplane, and I guess the main char was a bear or something;
- there was a haunted house level (oh well, which game didn´t ? hehe);
- There was a cartoon with the same theme as well: he had an air company, or something like that.

Any ideias? I remember liking the soundtrack.
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Got it!
TaleSpin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgwBnTdXRFE
 
Lemming said:
Hey, everyone!
I remember, vaguely, a NES game:
- a sidescroller shoot´em up;
- you controlled an airplane, and I guess the main char was a bear or something;
- there was a haunted house level (oh well, which game didn´t ? hehe);
- There was a cartoon with the same theme as well: he had an air company, or something like that.

Any ideias? I remember liking the soundtrack.
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Talespin?
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http://www.flyingomelette.com/reviews/nes/talespin.html
 
Lemming said:
Hey, everyone!
I remember, vaguely, a NES game:
- a sidescroller shoot´em up;
- you controlled an airplane, and I guess the main char was a bear or something;
- there was a haunted house level (oh well, which game didn´t ? hehe);
- There was a cartoon with the same theme as well: he had an air company, or something like that.

Any ideias? I remember liking the soundtrack.
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Tale Spin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ38HHQrRO0

//beaten...
 
man i cannot remember the name of this game:

-mid-90s PC game
-featured pre-rendered background FMVs over which a HUD was displayed and you shot stuff (kind of like microcosm)
-first-person perspective shooter, but you were piloting some kind of air/space craft
-game either took place in San Francisco or at the least the first stage/level/area featured flying low to the ground across a bridge that resembled golden gate
-want to say the word "Raven" was involved but i can't be sure
 
Alright, I would like to find the name to these 3 kids games. I could remember them a while back but now I completely draw a blank.

1st
This one had that frog that looks from Hello Kitty and you had to crop vegetables and make dishes like soup. There was also some other games on the disc including one where you make animations with Felix the Cat

2nd: This one is really vague, but I am sure it's an educational game. Once you did all the little tasks you went to a tower in the middle of the map and had to answer a whole bunch of questions concerning the human body.


3rd: This one is that you visit Japan with this bear, i can't remember the name but I keep thikning of Ozzy... The game had you learn about the culture and the food and the technology like th bullet trains.


These are all on PC and date from the mid 90's I would think.

Thanks GAF !
 
Alright, here we go. Dreamcast game about car combat, involving driving around areans picking up powerups. I remember it being fairly colorful in that kind of "industrial environment with neon" way. Anyone?
 
^^^Vigilante 8?
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Top down PC space shooter, probably mid 90s I remember playing it in school. Pretty sure it was freeware or maybe it was just a demo.

Anyway their were multiple different ships you could choose from, it controlled like asteroids, it was like multiplayer deathmatch flying through large mazes and what not.

Before I new what freespace was I thought it was freespace.

I did some google searching, and it looked like KOBO... but it's definitely not KOBO, that's way to old.
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EasyTGT said:
Top down PC space shooter, probably mid 90s I remember playing it in school. Pretty sure it was freeware or maybe it was just a demo.

Anyway their were multiple different ships you could choose from, it controlled like asteroids, it was like multiplayer deathmatch flying through large mazes and what not.

Before I new what freespace was I thought it was freespace.

I did some google searching, and it looked like KOBO... but it's definitely not KOBO, that's way to old.
BDRbU.jpg
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Are you thinking of Subspace? I remember playing that game a lot. The multiplayer was really fun.

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Yea, it was awesome! I was just coming back from google to answer my own question.

Graphic Arts class was the best. Teacher did not give a fuck and we played all manner of LAN games between us and Auto CAD across the hall. Subspace, GTA2 London, and Quake 2... I'm pretty sure quake was the one that got us shutdown for good.
 
I remember I used to play a game on the SNES where I believe it starred a Cat? I think he looked kinda like Ratchet (from ratchet and clank)? At least that was my memory at the time. I believe it was a platformer? please help.
 
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