Games you remember, names you don't

Zuhzuhzombie!! said:
It was a very Civ like game, but this was around the time Civ I was out.

However, it was not Civ I.

There were either one large land mass or multiple islands. No scrolling so it was all on one screen. It was also multiplayer. You explored around, tried to take over other islands.

Civ I "Lite" kinda. There wasn't much to actually manage, more or less exploration/build a city/kill.
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Possibly Empire Deluxe:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/empire-deluxe

or Battles of Destiny?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/battles-of-destiny
 
I had some tune in my head last week from a video game but could not remember the name of it. The only game I could think of was Bally Sente's Gimme A Break and apparently I was correct.

That was a weird name for a billiards video game. With that name, I thought it was based on that T.V. show with Nell Carter and Joey Lawrence.

Back in '84, there was this racing game where you're on futuristic motorcycles. You're up against 4 other racers and they all had descriptions. You had to win the race against them to continue on. At one point on the track, Sinistar shows up in the sky. I don't know the name of this game but it's clearly a Williams title if Sinistar appears.
 
I posted here earlier but didn't get any answers. It's driving me crazy... been searching for 2 hours today trying to find it.


Basically, it's a Playstation 1 (war?) strategy game where you had direct control of (only) a single unit at a time from a third person view. From what I remember, you always started a mission controlling a bike until you could create stronger units at a garage somewhere on the map. Here's some stuff that are stuck in my memory about the game;

  1. There was one mission based in London next to Big Ben.
  2. On Mission 8, you had to fight some alien-like technology for the first time (never got past this mission).
  3. There was a part of a mission where you were on the bike in a maze with lazers (random, I know, but for some reason that's one of the parts I remember about the game)

Help me please! Someone hinted Uprising X, but that's not it.
 
There was this PC game I played in elementary school. I remember you were an alien and the first level, you started off in a farm, I tbelieve hink, and I you made it to a town. I don't remember if you had a weapon or not, but there were farmers, cheerleaders, and other generic people types who you'd have to either touch or shoot and then a little UFO would come and abduct them. Then at the end of each level, it'd show the main UFO and the people you'd captured walking in a line with a machine and being turned into the alien species you're controlling.

If anyone can identify that game, that'd be great. It's been bugging me for years.
 
Caesar III said:
Last year a new indie game was shown. IIRC it was from a former gaming journalist (pc gamer?). There was a thread on gaf as well.

It was 2D pixelart
You were an agent in a trenchcoat
There were stunning phyics effects with breaking windows and such
To keep on going you had to solve puzzles with wires and electricy
You could use stealth to get across enemies

I can't remember the name and just wanted to know if it is out already.

HALP!
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protonion said:
Trilby: The Art of Theft?
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Pylon_Trooper said:
It's not Gemini Rue is it?
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A friend of mine could remember eventually. Before this I asked a collegue and he had the same mind bending problem of not remembering the name lol :D He was fucked the whole afternoon :D

Anyway, it's GunPoint I was thinking about. Too bad it's still not out and he did change the ETA to When it's done :(
 
Really old, don't remember much:

PC, strategy game, probably RTS. Isometric perspective (i think) (that is: so-called "2.5D" if case that's more familiar term, think Tiberian Sun or Rollercoaster Tycoon). Grid. Had bases or some buildings, missile racks, and missiles were used at least as one weapon (maybe?).
Shareware probably, had this on a shareware collection dics, with "1995" in the name but the collection might have been from 1996...

I really don't care about the game, it's just that i have a few images of the game stuck in my mind.
 
Trying to recall a recent game... the lame thing is it's only a trailer that I remember, and I don't even know if the game actually came out. It's a sidescrolling adventure with some platforming elements, something to do with a "hidden road" (an underground society living off the grid) and it had an oddly charming prerendered look. And a bird swoops down a couple of times. Does anybody know what I'm talking about?
 
zinder said:
I posted here earlier but didn't get any answers. It's driving me crazy... been searching for 2 hours today trying to find it.


Basically, it's a Playstation 1 (war?) strategy game where you had direct control of (only) a single unit at a time from a third person view. From what I remember, you always started a mission controlling a bike until you could create stronger units at a garage somewhere on the map. Here's some stuff that are stuck in my memory about the game;

  1. There was one mission based in London next to Big Ben.
  2. On Mission 8, you had to fight some alien-like technology for the first time (never got past this mission).
  3. There was a part of a mission where you were on the bike in a maze with lazers (random, I know, but for some reason that's one of the parts I remember about the game)

Help me please! Someone hinted Uprising X, but that's not it.
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I'm probably wrong, but Future Cop L.A.P.D?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrI-AoBcr9o
 
Woorloog said:
Really old, don't remember much:

PC, strategy game, probably RTS. Isometric perspective (i think) (that is: so-called "2.5D" if case that's more familiar term, think Tiberian Sun or Rollercoaster Tycoon). Grid. Had bases or some buildings, missile racks, and missiles were used at least as one weapon (maybe?).
Shareware probably, had this on a shareware collection dics, with "1995" in the name but the collection might have been from 1996...

I really don't care about the game, it's just that i have a few images of the game stuck in my mind.
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"Return Fire"? It wasn't shareware, but there was a demo which was fairly widely distributed and could concievably have made it onto a shareware disc; often those weren't 'shareware discs' as much as they were 'the entire download section of a given BBS' discs.
 
Also, there's another game that's been bugging me. It was on all the old iMacs in elementary school. It was a puzzle game, 3D, and you controlled a marble and had to avoid falling off the sides to get a portal or something that was the exit to the level.

It was probably called something simple like Marble Adventures or something, I bet.
 
mclem said:
"Return Fire"? It wasn't shareware, but there was a demo which was fairly widely distributed and could concievably have made it onto a shareware disc; often those weren't 'shareware discs' as much as they were 'the entire download section of a given BBS' discs.
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Ah, no, i don't think that was it. Though the images of Return Fire also familiar, i'm pretty sure i've played it too. Possibly from the same shareware/demo disc.

Hmm, i wonder if i still have the disc somewhere...

EDIT also, i'm starting to question my belief it was on the shareware disc, it might have been on our computer for some reason. But where i got the game from is not really that relevant...
 
Woorloog said:
Ah, no, i don't think that was it. Though the images of Return Fire also familiar, i'm pretty sure i've played it too. Possibly from the same shareware/demo disc.

Hmm, i wonder if i still have the disc somewhere...

EDIT also, i'm starting to question my belief it was on the shareware disc, it might have been on our computer for some reason. But where i got the game from is not really that relevant...
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The only thing I can think of is Deadlock?? Its turn based grid. You shot missiles at the other civilizations. Not real sure it is what you are looking for. What you described sounds really familiar but that may because your description was a little vague.

I hate forgetting names of games, lol.
 
1) Sega Megadrive
2) EA
3) Bright colours
4) I remember a candy themed level
5) 2D ...

Can't promise I havn't merged two (or three) games, it's all so blurry.
 
NaturalHigh said:
The only thing I can think of is Deadlock?? Its turn based grid. You shot missiles at the other civilizations. Not real sure it is what you are looking for. What you described sounds really familiar but that may because your description was a little vague.

I hate forgetting names of games, lol.
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Looks... familiar? Might be this one. Probably is, unless someone has yet another suggestion.
My desricption is vague becaues all i have are some vague images and memories of the game. Not to mention memories degrading and changing as time goes.

EDIT it seems that Deadlock is from '96... though i did say the shareware disc might from '96 despite its name, so probably not a big deal. Also i might be simply misremembering the years.
 
What is the name of the side-scrolling shooter that takes place in some sort of body (human or alien, I forget). You control a spacecraft.

I may be unintentionally making this up, but I was under the impression that the spacecraft had been shrunk and put into something's body to kill a virus.

Levels often had organs in them during the final boss sequences, heart, lung, brain etc.

My memory is not 100% on this.

It came out in the early 90s and was for the Mega Drive (Genesis) console.
 
Blue Lou said:
What is the name of the side-scrolling shooter that takes place in some sort of body (human or alien, I forget). You control a spacecraft.

I may be unintentionally making this up, but I was under the impression that the spacecraft had been shrunk and put into something's body to kill a virus.

Levels often had organs in them during the final boss sequences, heart, lung, brain etc.

My memory is not 100% on this.

It came out in the early 90s and was for the Mega Drive (Genesis) console.
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I know this game, I played back in the ninties at a store. But man I'm having difficulty finding the title.

Could it be this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcosm_(video_game)

Edit: Seeing gameplay of this seems to look like a game where you move in "3D" inwards in the screen, I remember playing something 2D and side-scrolling.
 
Great Topic!
Yes on PS1, I did rent a game. You played like a boy (short blond hair) he had supernatural power injected in him.
But his sister (I think) was abducted and you needed to rescue her. It was a freaky horror game I think.
 
Blue Lou said:
What is the name of the side-scrolling shooter that takes place in some sort of body (human or alien, I forget). You control a spacecraft.

I may be unintentionally making this up, but I was under the impression that the spacecraft had been shrunk and put into something's body to kill a virus.

Levels often had organs in them during the final boss sequences, heart, lung, brain etc.

My memory is not 100% on this.

It came out in the early 90s and was for the Mega Drive (Genesis) console.
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Lifeforce?
 
There was an old online game I use to play.

It was 2-d Isometric view and you could pick three to four characters

1. Special Ops guy that threw nuclear shurikens
2. Guy with a machine gun
3. guy who only threw bundles of TNT

The engine was like infantry online.
 
Blue Lou said:
What is the name of the side-scrolling shooter that takes place in some sort of body (human or alien, I forget). You control a spacecraft.

I may be unintentionally making this up, but I was under the impression that the spacecraft had been shrunk and put into something's body to kill a virus.

Levels often had organs in them during the final boss sequences, heart, lung, brain etc.

My memory is not 100% on this.

It came out in the early 90s and was for the Mega Drive (Genesis) console.
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That has to be "LifeForce: Salamander". I still have it on Snes!

Ed. Beaten.
 
I've just had a look on Youtube and I think it was LifeForce. Thanks!

I didn't realise it was on the NES though, I could have sworn it was Mega Drive. I feel old.
 
Ok, old game and probably a pretty obscure one at that - I seem to recall it was part of a £5 bargain set from wholesale VAT-duckers Makro.

I played it on the Atari ST. You were a tube/worm creature that moved across the screen end-to-end like a slinky somehow able to cross a horizontal surface. The game didn't scroll - each screen was separate, flipping from one to the next as you reached the edge. There were various monsters on each screen that you had to avoid or kill - I think that when you weren't curled over as part of the movement animation, you could shoot straight up. You could also jump when straightened, possibly by holding down on the joystick to build up the jump.

The whole thing had a bit of a mad fantasy tinge to it, and I remember that from the title screen you were able to flick across every screen in the game, all the way to the end. And the title screen music was awesome (to my 13 year old ears)

Gaf, halp!
 
FryHole said:
Ok, old game and probably a pretty obscure one at that - I seem to recall it was part of a £5 bargain set from wholesale VAT-duckers Makro.

I played it on the Atari ST. You were a tube/worm creature that moved across the screen end-to-end like a slinky somehow able to cross a horizontal surface. The game didn't scroll - each screen was separate, flipping from one to the next as you reached the edge. There were various monsters on each screen that you had to avoid or kill - I think that when you weren't curled over as part of the movement animation, you could shoot straight up. You could also jump when straightened, possibly by holding down on the joystick to build up the jump.

The whole thing had a bit of a mad fantasy tinge to it, and I remember that from the title screen you were able to flick across every screen in the game, all the way to the end. And the title screen music was awesome (to my 13 year old ears)

Gaf, halp!
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There was a Spectrum game called Frost Byte that sounds similar to your description, and a cursory search suggests that there may well have been an ST one. Could that be it?

Edit: Found some pics of the packaging and the game:

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Looking for a PC game, 3D, late 90s, early 2000 maybe.

You could fly a helicopter in the future, with the first level in some green-ish hills zone. You had a suck-tube to grab a tank at one point.

I also remember a mission where you play a turret in the same game in a Nuclear power plant area (I remember the cooling tower) and you needed to defend it

That's all I can remember...
 
UnluckyKate said:
Looking for a PC game, 3D, late 90s, early 2000 maybe.

You could fly a helicopter in the future, with the first level in some green-ish hills zone. You had a suck-tube to grab a tank at one point.

I also remember a mission where you play a turret in the same game in a Nuclear power plant area (I remember the cooling tower) and you needed to defend it

That's all I can remember...
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Incoming?
 
mclem said:
There was a Spectrum game called Frost Byte that sounds similar to your description, and a cursory search suggests that there may well have been an ST one. Could that be it?

Edit: Found some pics of the packaging and the game:

cRdmel.jpg

icM9M.gif

1Yud4.png
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Oh my actual days, that's the one. Mclem you are a true gent, thanks so much! It's been bugging me for absolutely ages, and it turns out all I needed was account approval on Gaf.

Edit: you tell me that title music isn't awesome! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHx2Qde4WWI
 
Hello, maybe someone can help me:

I remember a pc jump n run in the (late?) 90s.
The main character was blonde and the levels progressed with some kind of worldmap, i think. The character had wore a red shirt or something
 
^Unfortunatly I can't help you mate, there is a game wich I don't remember the name of aswel.

It was a top down ninja game for the SNES, I remember I had a lot of fun with it back in the day.
 
Windows PC
Offroad open world vehicle racing game
had ?monster? trucks
early late 90's early 00's
had damage physics that affected car performance
 
Damon Bennet said:
Hello, maybe someone can help me:

I remember a pc jump n run in the (late?) 90s.
The main character was blonde and the levels progressed with some kind of worldmap, i think. The character had wore a red shirt or something
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If 'or something' stretches as far as 'or maybe it was white', I think it could be Xargon.

Late 90's makes me assume VGA, but it's just crossed my mind that if it's a little earlier, it could be something in EGA; perhaps Secret Agent (more commonly known as either SAM or "The Hunt For Red Rock Rover", the name of the shareware episode)
 
mclem said:
If 'or something' stretches as far as 'or maybe it was white', I think it could be Xargon.

Late 90's makes me assume VGA, but it's just crossed my mind that if it's a little earlier, it could be something in EGA; perhaps Secret Agent (more commonly known as either SAM or "The Hunt For Red Rock Rover", the name of the shareware episode)
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yeeeah its secret Agent! Thx a lot, mate
 
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