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Games you remember, names you don't

Played this strange adventure game around mid-90's.

You play a clown in this gritty version of a big American city (Boston, Detroit, maybe some other). The only thing I remember is that I kept getting beaten up, ending up in the hospital only to go out and get beaten up again.
 
I don't have much hope for any of the following three, but here goes. There was a free PC game that was sort of a clone of Super Mario 64. You play as a guy wearing a white chefs hat. It was more of a demo than a complete game if anything.

There's also another game that I can't remember. It was a free PC game that was similar to Mega Man X, but without any of the X sprites. It had Maverick type characters (even one similar to Storm Eagle) and obtainable weapons. Not really much to go on, but it's all I can remember.

Finally, one last free PC game. It was kind of a 2d arena type game where you could choose between different characters and try to kill your opponents. You could play as a robot, a ninja, a Xenomorph, and some other characters. I have one of those "1000 Free PC Games" discs with the game on it, but I can't remember what it's called.
 
Wibblewozzer said:
I'm pretty certain we could end this thread by stating that every game is Incoming. I swear I've seen that be the answer much more than any other forgotten game. Kind of feel bad for the developers for making such a forgettable game.

Oh well, at least the mystery is over for yet another game. Onward!
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I think the reason it keeps coming up us that it was used a lot in bundles in the early days of 3d cards. Bundled games and shareware are two types of games it's very easy to end up owning without having made a conscious purchasing decision, which lends itself to forgetting the game down the line. That is, the game itself isn't all that forgettable, just that the circumstances in which people play it doesn't lead them towards remembering it.
 
Rather recent game(2012, maybe 2011) so it's hopefully a bit easier than my last request which went unanswered :D

The hope people had for the game was to present the varied nature of sex on a grand scale and it got a decent amount of press before release, especially by kotaku if I remember. Then it came out and was apparently a vile and homophobic work, with juviline and crude views on sexuality. Kotaku was the one who followed up with a review if I remember expressing this disappointments. Game used sprites.

Thanks for the help, just wanted to follow up on the game with other places but can't remember the name or even the actual premise.
 
This is an old post I'll resurrect in hopes of finding out the name of the game once and for all.

Mendoza said:
Old PC fantasy RPG around early to mid 1990's (definitely before 2000). 3D environment (2d sprites?), with 1st person gameplay. You start as some guy who works for either a blacksmith or a farmer who lives in a house in front of a lake. I believe the game had voice overs... not too sure. I remember that you can attack the NPC, and he'll grow hostile and kill you.

From what I recall, when you first walk out of the house, you stand in front of a lake, and the path to a cave or dungeon leads left in relation to where your looking when you exit the house. The first enemy encounter that I remember was a skeleton in a cave... I don't remember much else.
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ricochetguro said:
Rather recent game(2012, maybe 2011) so it's hopefully a bit easier than my last request which went unanswered :D

The hope people had for the game was to present the varied nature of sex on a grand scale and it got a decent amount of press before release, especially by kotaku if I remember. Then it came out and was apparently a vile and homophobic work, with juviline and crude views on sexuality. Kotaku was the one who followed up with a review if I remember expressing this disappointments. Game used sprites.

Thanks for the help, just wanted to follow up on the game with other places but can't remember the name or even the actual premise.
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Polymorphous Perversity?
 
does anyone remember this beat em up fighting game that was kinda anime style, it was manly played in schools about 5-10 years ago. i know some of the characters were like Karate style and some were DBZ style characters.
 
it wasnt mugen, it was a beat em up game not a fighting game. and the characters were dbz-styled, not the actual characters

like streets of rage. I remember you could have like 4 people play and like 8 total cpu

i remember one of the stages was a coliseum and i remeber a forest stage too.
 
Just getting this request again:

I hope somebody actually remembers this game:

It was an arcade shoot-them-up, from the 90's, where you controlled a beaver (or some sort of rodent) dressed as an old-time pilot (big goggles, scarf), which flied on a airplane where its legs (the rodent's legs) where hanging. And the other thing I remember is that the bullets where diamond shaped.

Does someone remembers that game?

I don't think I even want to play it, I just want to know what games was that.
 
jaz013 said:
Just getting this request again:

I hope somebody actually remembers this game:

It was an arcade shoot-them-up, from the 90's, where you controlled a beaver (or some sort of rodent) dressed as an old-time pilot (big goggles, scarf), which flied on a airplane where its legs (the rodent's legs) where hanging. And the other thing I remember is that the bullets where diamond shaped.

Does someone remembers that game?

I don't think I even want to play it, I just want to know what games was that.
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I know it's not an arcade game, but that sounds a lot like Sparkster/Rocket Knight Adventures
 
RoadDogg said:
I know it's not an arcade game, but that sounds a lot like Sparkster/Rocket Knight Adventures
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No, I remember that game (see a review on a magazine, never got the game itself). This was a straight-out shoot-them-up, with "realistic" explosions and diamond shaped bullet (quite a contrast).
 
jaz013 said:
No, I remember that game (see a review on a magazine, never got the game itself). This was a straight-out shoot-them-up, with "realistic" explosions and diamond shaped bullet (quite a contrast).
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Aero Fighters 2 has a dolphin character with goggles you can pick and each character has unique bullets I think, I'm sure one is a diamond.

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eyekantspele said:
it wasnt mugen, it was a beat em up game not a fighting game. and the characters were dbz-styled, not the actual characters

like streets of rage. I remember you could have like 4 people play and like 8 total cpu

i remember one of the stages was a coliseum and i remeber a forest stage too.
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figured it out, it was Little Fighter 2
 
jaz013 said:
Just getting this request again:

I hope somebody actually remembers this game:

It was an arcade shoot-them-up, from the 90's, where you controlled a beaver (or some sort of rodent) dressed as an old-time pilot (big goggles, scarf), which flied on a airplane where its legs (the rodent's legs) where hanging. And the other thing I remember is that the bullets where diamond shaped.

Does someone remembers that game?

I don't think I even want to play it, I just want to know what games was that.
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I know.

Now i know.

Since you first asked about it on neogaf, your dilemma has been haunting me too and for some reason today i just woke up and remembered.

The game you're looking for is,

Hacha Mecha Fighter

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Ijd86-umA

edit: better vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeIIoNFN6_o

no doubt.
 
This PC Strategy game, that was more similar to a Syndicate style game, than a traditional RTS. I remember some of the factions you could choose were Amazon women or even a group of dudes that drove around in a weird ice cream van. It was a really odd game, but I cannot for the life of me remember it. I distinctly remember the setting was a post apocalyptic one.
 
I love this thread! I've got a lot of games I'd like to try as a result of reading it.

One game I played as a kid I'd like to put a name to. I remember it was on arcade,a vertical shooter, which I played around 1988. You were on a motorbike, and you could call in a plane that dropped a bomb, as your "bomb" weapon. The bike had a nice, meaty sound to it, like a Harly (I remember it like that at least) but that's all I can remember about the game.

Thanks!
 
mrgreen said:
I love this thread! I've got a lot of games I'd like to try as a result of reading it.

One game I played as a kid I'd like to put a name to. I remember it was on arcade,a vertical shooter, which I played around 1988. You were on a motorbike, and you could call in a plane that dropped a bomb, as your "bomb" weapon. The bike had a nice, meaty sound to it, like a Harly (I remember it like that at least) but that's all I can remember about the game.

Thanks!
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I'm gonna guess Thundercade
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=10107
 
mrgreen said:
I love this thread! I've got a lot of games I'd like to try as a result of reading it.

One game I played as a kid I'd like to put a name to. I remember it was on arcade,a vertical shooter, which I played around 1988. You were on a motorbike, and you could call in a plane that dropped a bomb, as your "bomb" weapon. The bike had a nice, meaty sound to it, like a Harly (I remember it like that at least) but that's all I can remember about the game.

Thanks!
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yep, i remember that.
One of the power ups you could pick up was a sidecar thing doubling your firepower.

It's Seta's Twin Formation


EDIT: late. Thundercade and Twin Formation are in fact the same game with different titles.
 
I never played this game only saw the box art of it. It was for the Super Nintendo. It had a bunch of knights on the front cover. One guy had a full suit, a round helmet and a really short sword.

The back of the box had screens that looked like it was a top down game.
 
Many thanks Roaddogg and eso76 - that looks like the game for sure. It was a great game, and Taito have made so many of my favourite arcade games.

*it must have been the sound of the plane flying over that I remembered.
 
There was this game for Nes in which you played an aircraft flying above some green and blue (ground and earth) background getting powerups and shooting aliens a la space invaders.
and there was this one with airplanes some "missions" you battled military warcrafts. And if you touched the water your airplane would burst into flames
 
eso76 said:
I know.

Now i know.

Since you first asked about it on neogaf, your dilemma has been haunting me too and for some reason today i just woke up and remembered.

The game you're looking for is,

Hacha Mecha Fighter

hachamf.png


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Ijd86-umA

edit: better vid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeIIoNFN6_o

no doubt.
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Yes, that the one! Thank you! This game was in this old arcade place that got shutdown just a couple day after I saw someone playing it, so I never get to see the title screen.
 
I'm trying to remember the name of a fighting game i saw in about 1994.
It was a 2D fighter with up to 4 fighters on screen.
Some stages were single plain and others were multiplain i.e. you could hop from one plane to another to avoid energy blasts
One of the things i remember about it was that you could charge up an energy ball/blast and fire it off and depending how long you charged it it would be greater in size. If your opponent charged up their energy ball longer than yours the two would collide and the large ball would overpower the smaller one, though it would lose some of it's size depending on how large the smaller ball was, and carry on
The variety of characters seemed quite large and very anime inspired.
 
I'm looking for the title of an old LCD handheld game.

- The goal of the game was to rescue people from fire. I think there were 4 "squares/rooms" at the top of the screen and you had to move from the bottom to the top of the screen to get to those rooms. There was a ladder that moved under the rooms, so you had to wait until the ladder was under the room before you could go up and rescue the people. Under the rooms, things like flames and flaming logs appeared that you had to avoid.

- It is not any Game & Watch game from Nintendo.

- The game had music that concisted of 4 tones. I can still remember the music.

- The color of the game was red, that i know for sure. I believe there was one D-pad and one bigger button as controllers. Maybe the color of the buttons were blue, but i cant say that for sure.

- I'm pretty sure that the game was released before 1990.

- The size of the game was maybe around 14cm tall and 8cm wide.
 
test_account said:
I'm looking for the title of an old LCD handheld game.

- The goal of the game was to rescue people from fire. I think there were 4 "squares/rooms" at the top of the screen and you had to move from the bottom to the top of the screen to get to those rooms. There was a ladder that moved under the rooms, so you had to wait until the ladder was under the room before you could go up and rescue the people. Under the rooms, things like flames and flaming logs appeared that you had to avoid.

- It is not any Game & Watch game from Nintendo.

- The game had music that concisted of 4 tones. I can still remember the music.

- The color of the game was red, that i know for sure. I believe there was one D-pad and one bigger button as controllers. Maybe the color of the buttons were blue, but i cant say that for sure.

- I'm pretty sure that the game was released before 1990.

- The size of the game was maybe around 14cm tall and 8cm wide.
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Is this it?

http://www.handhelden.com/index.php?brand=morioka&game=morioka/GreatFireman

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