Digger T Rock only had eight levels. And the most memorable thing about that game wasn't mentioned - the fact that on each level you had to push down a pillar hidden somewhere in the level then make it to the exit in sixty seconds.
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Games you remember, names you don't
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Digger T Rock only had eight levels. And the most memorable thing about that game wasn't mentioned - the fact that on each level you had to push down a pillar hidden somewhere in the level then make it to the exit in sixty seconds.
Fat hero? that's pretty uncommon.
Could it be ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth?
basic_text
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Yeah, I wasn't sure of the level count as I haven't played it in years, I was just thinking of variations on the theme of Boulderdash.
The only other thing that comes to mind is Obelix from the Asterix games? There were a couple on the PS2.
TheSpoiler
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Nope!
The only other thing that comes to mind is Obelix from the Asterix games? There were a couple on the PS2.
Not this either!
basic_text
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Can you remember what kind of game it looked like? RPG? Platformer? I'm trying to rattle my brain now!
TheSpoiler
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It was using 3D graphics. I think he was a knight, and something about presents given to the queen.
Man I wish I could find that gaming mag now!
Trade Wars? Or Solar Realms Elite?
sorijealut
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Remembered the game ^!
It's Asterix (1999) of Playstation haha. I'm so happy to remember the game completely now.
It was such a good game!
I learned that they're not Vikings but some dudes from Gaul?
Here's a video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0lnVpHY_6Ia
It's a PAL game and apparently lesser known in the U.S. and Japan. I didn't know there were games all the way up until 2009 - it seemed to have bit the dust now. There was so many comics, TV shows, movies, and games @_@ I had no idea.
basic_text
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Remembered the game ^!
It's Asterix (1999) of Playstation haha. I'm so happy to remember the game completely now.
It was such a good game!
I learned that they're not Vikings but some dudes from Gaul?
Here's a video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0lnVpHY_6Ia
It's a PAL game and apparently lesser known in the U.S. and Japan. I didn't know there were games all the way up until 2009 - it seemed to have bit the dust now. There was so many comics, TV shows, movies, and games @_@ I had no idea.
haha I may not have answered this, but but I did mention Asterisk!
Asterix is *huge* in Europe. Similar to Tintin in level of exposure. Has a theme park just outside Paris. That is, earlier than that *other* theme park just outside Paris.
There is this game Im trying to remember for about 12 years now, is a side scroller, teh powerups are a star a moon, and so on, the moon powerup gives you teh ability of throwing fire exactly like the "F" powerup of Contra, another one gives you an angel at teh character shoulder, then you can have 2 and then 3, the character can wear a cape.
Thats all I got.
I played this maybe around 1990 in the arcades.
Thats all I got.
I played this maybe around 1990 in the arcades.
Nope but thanks
I'll add that there was no base building.
You chose your force from points before the battle and placed them (like Total War/Shogun)
Supermanisdead
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2 old PC sidescrollers I used to play the hell out of:
One that you are a rat pirate with blue jacket and hat.
One that you are a green rabbit with a gun.
I need to know this. I dream of these games and the hours I spent playing them.
One that you are a rat pirate with blue jacket and hat.
One that you are a green rabbit with a gun.
I need to know this. I dream of these games and the hours I spent playing them.
Jazz Jackrabbit
ChimpBottle
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Playstation 1. Exploring a cave. I thought it might've been Tomb Raider but I specifically remember you get animals to accompany you (I remember very well a spider companion) and Tomb Raider does not apparently have that element. I only played it at my dad's friends house once or twice.
OMG!!
Yes, this is the one, Pyros.
Such great memories, couldn't ever beat the last boss second form.
Thank you man, you are awesome!
terrisus
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Nope, doesn't look like either of those.
It was a primarily graphics-based game from what I recall, not so much a text-based one. And, I'm pretty sure it wasn't based around a space-like theme - don't recall too much about a specific theme, probably just land/earth, but don't really remember that in detail.
Thanks for the suggestions though.
sorijealut
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Haha nice, high five.
Haha really?! that's crazy lol, and here I was thinking it was obscure.
Bucky o hare? I'm not even sure if they made that for pc though.
Doom Troppers
DKC feelings on that jungle
a friend asked the same question last month xD
Trivia : it is based on the Mutant Chronicles rpgs and has a (bad) movie about it
Ages ago I played a JRPG on Super Nintendo. In Japanese, no idea if it was ever translated. What I remember: it started out in a pretty primitive (jungle) setting. I think the dad of the protagonist looked like a Tarzan-clone. At a certain point in the storyline you get picked up for some tournament in a boxing ring. Though a good part of the game was situated in the wilderness, there was also some totally developed island somewhere with skyscrapers, roads, cars, etc. Ring a bell for someone? 
LightofRohan
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I can't remember my first PC game I played. IF you could help me, I'd love you!
OK (this will be vague as shit)
It was really old early 90's (maybe 80's). It was a medieval-ish game, I think had something about dragons in the title. It was first person, kind of like Elder Scrolls. The graphics were complete shit (even w/ my memories of it). I remember there being lots of fog. To play it I had to run like DOS and type in some command like, "RUN GAME" I always had trouble (being young) getting it to run.
That's all I remember of it.
Also another PC early 90's game. It was Side Scrolling, magic/sword type of game. I think you played a tiny boy(?) in blue(?). The graphics weren't THAT shit and I think I played a demo of it (over and over again). I think you collected blue things and it started in a castle that had windows or something to the outside.
Haha, if anyone can figure these ones out I'd be amazed.
OK (this will be vague as shit)
It was really old early 90's (maybe 80's). It was a medieval-ish game, I think had something about dragons in the title. It was first person, kind of like Elder Scrolls. The graphics were complete shit (even w/ my memories of it). I remember there being lots of fog. To play it I had to run like DOS and type in some command like, "RUN GAME" I always had trouble (being young) getting it to run.
That's all I remember of it.
Also another PC early 90's game. It was Side Scrolling, magic/sword type of game. I think you played a tiny boy(?) in blue(?). The graphics weren't THAT shit and I think I played a demo of it (over and over again). I think you collected blue things and it started in a castle that had windows or something to the outside.
Haha, if anyone can figure these ones out I'd be amazed.
Ages ago I played a JRPG on Super Nintendo. In Japanese, no idea if it was ever translated. What I remember: it started out in a pretty primitive (jungle) setting. I think the dad of the protagonist looked like a Tarzan-clone. At a certain point in the storyline you get picked up for some tournament in a boxing ring. Though a good part of the game was situated in the wilderness, there was also some totally developed island somewhere with skyscrapers, roads, cars, etc. Ring a bell for someone?
Is it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVTzjsSPEqQ
Apparently it's a sequel to a Game Boy game.
Yup, this is it. Thanks! It was pretty bad but we had fun with it since my older brother was in his second year of studying Japan and was translating on the fly as we were playing it.
Hocus Pocus?
Drakkhen?
John Rabbit
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OH MY GOD.
my first post in this thread was about this game!
nobody knew it, thank you!
nostalgiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa (cyberbykes video)
LightofRohan
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Lmao. Yes! Haha nice job! Thanks
My bro also had a nostalgia trip.
Sadly no. It looked/sorta played like Thief 1 -- but with worse graphics. I dunno, maybe I dreamed it
No I didnt dream it! My brother remembers it. He said you could go into peoples houses
Yup that's it
someguyinahat
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Are you sure it WASN'T the Elder Scrolls: Arena? It fits the timeline, it was first person, it had lots of fog.
A Black Falcon
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Yeah, TES Arena is my first thought as well. I mean, there are other DOS first-person (FPS-style, not tile based) dungeon crawlers, like Ultima Underworld (1 and 2), Descent to Undermountain, or TES Battlespire, but I don't know if they have the houses and such that Arena does...
Alternatively... hmm, what about Strife? That's an FPS, but it's fantasy themed, and has some significant RPG elements. Very interesting game too, I think, though I haven't played it as much as I'd like. That game's mid '90s though of course, like most of these titles.
LightofRohan
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Hmm sort of looked like that, but no I don't think it was! Even w/ my bad memory, I still think the graphics were a little bit better -- I'm pretty sure there were 3D modeled characters not sprites.
I'll show my bro tho, see what he thinks. Thanks a lot!
Descent to Undermountain seems a little closer. But I don't think it was! And I'm not sure if it had RPG elements, I don't even remember a hud really. Maybe I'll never know! And I'm pretty sure there was Dragon something in the title! Ahh
John Rabbit
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Turnstyle
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Ok, I feel really dense about this one...
I remember playing a FPS PC game somewhere between 1999 and 2001 at a friends house. I also used to play Counter Strike around the same time, so in my head I was convinced that this was what it was, BUT it now occurs to me that Counter Strike is a multiplayer game only (right?), and I'm sure this was a single player campaign.
I don't remember much about it, except being really impressed by the graphics and how smooth it was (at the time I was mainly a console gamer, so...). The level I mainly remember playing took place in a subway. It was a straight modern day shooter, no sci-fi theme or anything.
Vague I know, but I only played it a couple of times, and it's stuck in my head ever since.
Am I wrong? Was it a Counter Strike level? I truly believe it was a single player story, but maybe my memory is playing up.
I remember playing a FPS PC game somewhere between 1999 and 2001 at a friends house. I also used to play Counter Strike around the same time, so in my head I was convinced that this was what it was, BUT it now occurs to me that Counter Strike is a multiplayer game only (right?), and I'm sure this was a single player campaign.
I don't remember much about it, except being really impressed by the graphics and how smooth it was (at the time I was mainly a console gamer, so...). The level I mainly remember playing took place in a subway. It was a straight modern day shooter, no sci-fi theme or anything.
Vague I know, but I only played it a couple of times, and it's stuck in my head ever since.
Am I wrong? Was it a Counter Strike level? I truly believe it was a single player story, but maybe my memory is playing up.
A Black Falcon
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Rainbow Six? Ghost Recon? Delta Force? There are plenty of modern military shooters from that era. I don't know which ones have subway levels though.
MyAbsolution
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This game was for the SNES....
It was like a contra style game 2 player game: side scrolling, 2 players move around shooting things across a level. The players were inside spartan-esque suits. I think you could sometimes fly or control a vehicle, and most bosses involved a static machine that fired from multiple directions that you had to dodge and fire back at.
My gut says the game was "GunCom" or something but i dunno.
It was like a contra style game 2 player game: side scrolling, 2 players move around shooting things across a level. The players were inside spartan-esque suits. I think you could sometimes fly or control a vehicle, and most bosses involved a static machine that fired from multiple directions that you had to dodge and fire back at.
My gut says the game was "GunCom" or something but i dunno.
Counter Strike had a retail release called Condition Zero. It contained a series of single player levels called "Deleted Scenes" that were supposed to be the main content of the game but the focus was changed back to multiplayer at the last minute. There was a subway level in there, search for a video walk through and see if it is what you are thinking of.
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9AMxmncU3s
Was it just the PAL version of Contra III? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUoWdBzKNnc
EDIT: vvvOr what this guy saysvvv
A Black Falcon
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GunForce for sure. Most people don't seem to like it, but I do... fun game. Kind of easy, but fun. It's actually the first run & gun game by the team that would go on to make Metal Slug. Look closely and you can see some Metal Slug elements, like the weapon system and weapon selection, some of the enemies, that you can control vehicles, and such.
Turnstyle
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I did wonder if it could have been this, but the release date is an issue. CS:CZ was released in 2004, and this was definitely a year or two before that.
I watched the YT vid, and it's the sort of thing I'm thinking of. I'm starting to wonder if it was just a CS mod, and that I'm wrong in thinking it was single player.
ThatStupidLion
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Hey guys,
I forgot the names of the educational computer games back in the early 90s.
you have a character who goes in a loop of maybe 5-7 screens, solving riddles and math problems and what not. after building up your levels you end up getting a prize for your trophy room and get to start the whole process over!
one game is setting is a blizzard/snow mountain, one is a school with robot bandits( i think has the words super sleuth in title), and another is underwater in an ocean snorkeling.
i know these are that obscure games but I cant think of hte names for the life of me right now.
I forgot the names of the educational computer games back in the early 90s.
you have a character who goes in a loop of maybe 5-7 screens, solving riddles and math problems and what not. after building up your levels you end up getting a prize for your trophy room and get to start the whole process over!
one game is setting is a blizzard/snow mountain, one is a school with robot bandits( i think has the words super sleuth in title), and another is underwater in an ocean snorkeling.
i know these are that obscure games but I cant think of hte names for the life of me right now.
ThatStupidLion
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perfect thanks man.
I remember getting nightmares about Midnight Rescue. Threatening to paint the school invisible was scary, man!