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Games you remember, names you don't

bjork said:
Oh wow, never even heard of that one. Good find. :)
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One of my first posts in this thread was me replying to someone linking to www.klov.com, I believe, and thanking them for the link because I finally found Thunderjaws, a game I had wanted to figure out for nearly twenty years. All I had to do was check out my posts in this thread and I found it pretty easily, heh. That game was one of my greatest lost mysteries of my childhood and nobody else ever knew what I was talking about when describing it.
 
I remember a game that mirrored a side-scroller in which you would control a boy through a forest and battle all sorts of animals and beasts. The character wore a white t-shirt and a baseball cap with blue jeans. At the end of each stage, there would be a small scene of him doing pushups and the score you achieved in that level.
 
Don't mean to pester but anyone got any idea at all about the game I posted about? Been racking my mind all day and done all kinds of Google search but still nothing
 
Wibblewozzer said:
One of my first posts in this thread was me replying to someone linking to www.klov.com, I believe, and thanking them for the link because I finally found Thunderjaws, a game I had wanted to figure out for nearly twenty years. All I had to do was check out my posts in this thread and I found it pretty easily, heh. That game was one of my greatest lost mysteries of my childhood and nobody else ever knew what I was talking about when describing it.
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Nice. My lost one was about a tugboat, and I'd only ever played it at a Chuck E Cheese. It was one of the first things I looked up when I got an internet connection. Big surprise, it's actually called Tugboat.

The only other "game" I can't recall the name of is a cartridge I had for C64 that was some kind of learning software, and I know Spinnaker made it and there was some character that looked like a cloud. But there's a short list of C64 carts from them, it's just a matter of sitting down and sorting it out. Lazy me.

AlteredForms said:
I remember a game that mirrored a side-scroller in which you would control a boy through a forest and battle all sorts of animals and beasts. The character wore a white t-shirt and a baseball cap with blue jeans. At the end of each stage, there would be a small scene of him doing pushups and the score you achieved in that level.
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System? Era?

Charlie0108 said:
Don't mean to pester but anyone got any idea at all about the game I posted about? Been racking my mind all day and done all kinds of Google search but still nothing
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The best I could do with the description would be way off. It's not going to be pre-3D Duke Nukem, and I doubt it's Xargon, so I've had no luck.

Actually, looking at a video, I think it is Xargon.
 
I am thinking of an adventure game that was released during the early years of the PS1 in the US. I can't remember much about it outside of it taking place on a space station (?) and it having some kind of revolutionary dialog or npc system or something similar. I think it was 3D and polygonal. I remember the gameplay being really clunky, which is what made me ditch the game early on. It also looked like the kind of game that originally had a PC release.
 
GrumpyAlien said:
I am thinking of an adventure game that was released during the early years of the PS1 in the US. I can't remember much about it outside of it taking place on a space station (?) and it having some kind of revolutionary dialog or npc system or something similar. I think it was 3D and polygonal. I remember the gameplay being really clunky, which is what made me ditch the game early on. It also looked like the kind of game that originally had a PC release.
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Overblood?
 
bjork said:
The best I could do with the description would be way off. It's not going to be pre-3D Duke Nukem, and I doubt it's Xargon, so I've had no luck.

Actually, looking at a video, I think it is Xargon.
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That's it! Thank you so much, I've been trying to find the name of this game for years! Wow, it looks a lot worse than I remember, guess my description wasn't actually that useful
 
GrumpyAlien said:
I am thinking of an adventure game that was released during the early years of the PS1 in the US. I can't remember much about it outside of it taking place on a space station (?) and it having some kind of revolutionary dialog or npc system or something similar. I think it was 3D and polygonal. I remember the gameplay being really clunky, which is what made me ditch the game early on. It also looked like the kind of game that originally had a PC release.
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Sentient Explore the Infinite?

http://www.allgame.com/game.php?id=26410

http://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/sentient/adblurbs

Innovative and unique delegation of tasks and responsibilities to 60+ other crew members - a first in role playing games! - Real individual characters with emotions and reactions that are driven by both the players actions and the gaming environment.
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Some first person castle adventure game I played on my PC. I remember a ham on a stick in a fireplace. Blocky graphics, was on a floppy.
 
GrumpyAlien said:
I am thinking of an adventure game that was released during the early years of the PS1 in the US. I can't remember much about it outside of it taking place on a space station (?) and it having some kind of revolutionary dialog or npc system or something similar. I think it was 3D and polygonal. I remember the gameplay being really clunky, which is what made me ditch the game early on. It also looked like the kind of game that originally had a PC release.
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Martian Gothic: Unification?

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I remember playing this point-and-click adventure as a kid. It was set in Ancient Egypt and you were playing as a guy trying to clear his father's name (I think his father had been accused of killing the pharaoh or something along those lines). I specifically remember having to go through a pitch-black tomb, having to take care not to fall into deep pits and using planks to cross them. I think that was the part I was stuck at because it was either too hard or too scary for me at the time (I was in first grade or sth then :p). Does anyone know the name of that game? I'm not sure when exactly I played it but it must've been the late 90s or early 2000s.
 
Harlequin said:
I remember playing this point-and-click adventure as a kid. It was set in Ancient Egypt and you were playing as a guy trying to clear his father's name (I think his father had been accused of killing the pharaoh or something along those lines). I specifically remember having to go through a pitch-black tomb, having to take care not to fall into deep pits and using planks to cross them. I think that was the part I was stuck at because it was either too hard or too scary for me at the time (I was in first grade or sth then :p). Does anyone know the name of that game? I'm not sure when exactly I played it but it must've been the late 90s or early 2000s.
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Sounds like it's Egypt 1156 B.C.: Tomb of the Pharaoh.

the head of the Madji (think ancient Egyptian police force) asks you, Ramose, to help him find those responsible for a break-in of one of the Pharaoh's tombs. However, you have another reason besides being a perennial do-gooder to help. In fact, it appears that your father is the prime suspect, and you have just three days, before a major religious festival starts, to prove your father's innocence.
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Mkay I have an old pc game I'm looking for.

It's a roller coaster building game. You have a set number of pieces you can set, but you can bypass that by clicking through the limit notification. After you finish your track, you're able to ride it. YoU have an accelerator and breaks as well. If you leave gaps in the track you see the coaster fly off from a side view. After riding you can check how guests felt about it.

Also, I may be wrong but I think it's icon was a Mickey Mouse head.

Any ideas?


Also, there is a game from like windows 95 that I can't remember. You place red and blue pixels on a board and make them attack each other.
 
Kyzon said:
Mkay I have an old pc game I'm looking for.

It's a roller coaster building game. You have a set number of pieces you can set, but you can bypass that by clicking through the limit notification. After you finish your track, you're able to ride it. YoU have an accelerator and breaks as well. If you leave gaps in the track you see the coaster fly off from a side view. After riding you can check how guests felt about it.

Also, I may be wrong but I think it's icon was a Mickey Mouse head.

Any ideas?


Also, there is a game from like windows 95 that I can't remember. You place red and blue pixels on a board and make them attack each other.
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Disney's Coaster?
 
AlteredForms said:
I remember a game that mirrored a side-scroller in which you would control a boy through a forest and battle all sorts of animals and beasts. The character wore a white t-shirt and a baseball cap with blue jeans. At the end of each stage, there would be a small scene of him doing pushups and the score you achieved in that level.
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Sounds like Monster Bash, especially the pushups bit, although I think you're mainly fighting zombies and other horror themed enemies.

bjork said:
The only other "game" I can't recall the name of is a cartridge I had for C64 that was some kind of learning software, and I know Spinnaker made it and there was some character that looked like a cloud. But there's a short list of C64 carts from them, it's just a matter of sitting down and sorting it out. Lazy me.
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Ah, the mention of Spinnaker just reminded me of Face Maker. I'd forgotten I even played that. As for the "cloud" game, could it be Aegean Voyage (you control a ship but it does kinda look like a floating cloud.
Btw, I was trying to remember Xargon for the better part of today. I know I played a game with that description but for the life of me I couldn't remember the name, thanks. :)
 
ichtyander said:
Sounds like Monster Bash, especially the pushups bit, although I think you're mainly fighting zombies and other horror themed enemies.
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After doing some research with the name you provided, I can safely say you were absolutely correct. Thanks for information. I once had a compilation of 250 arcade games, unfortunately the disc is lost to time.
 
I remember this game on the sega channel i played.

The reason I state that is because I played Donald Duck in Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow which came out on the SNES but not the Genesis which I thought was strange. Could be a Snes game that that put on the genesis.

Anyway

It was an action RPG.

It was a top down scrolled game. You had classes I believe. I can only remember one class and it was this guy he had a whip that would twirl in a circle and it what ever was in its field of radius. There was a also a magic user I believe. I don't remember that one too well.

Edit: I also remember going into a castle or something, one of the first parts of the game.

Other then that I don't know and i've been looking that game up for ages with no avail
 
This thread is a godsend!!! OK....this was an arcade soccer game in the 90s from Taito I think. It played like Mario Strikers. What I mean is you could do street fighter like specials to fire off at the goal. Graphics were sprites btw. Hope this helps, I really wanna see this game again....
 
sinseers said:
This thread is a godsend!!! OK....this was an arcade soccer game in the 90s from Taito I think. It played like Mario Strikers. What I mean is you could do street fighter like specials to fire off at the goal. Graphics were sprites btw. Hope this helps, I really wanna see this game again....
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Hat Trick Hero or Power Goal?
 
sinseers said:
This thread is a godsend!!! OK....this was an arcade soccer game in the 90s from Taito I think. It played like Mario Strikers. What I mean is you could do street fighter like specials to fire off at the goal. Graphics were sprites btw. Hope this helps, I really wanna see this game again....
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Taito Power Goal was the first result on Google for Taito soccer. Never heard of it, but it has to be that or a variant/sequel.
 
An Interplay game maybe?

Dude crashes something in to the woods and then gets lifted out via a chopper and breaks out. Hes bald and has sun glasses. the whole game is like, a weird hodgepodge of on rails shooting, weird computer sequences involving flying through an operating system and selecting files with a lovely computer lady narrating. Theres flying sequences, driving sequences, on foot sequences.

The more I try to explain the less sense I make.
 
fwpx said:
An Interplay game maybe?

Dude crashes something in to the woods and then gets lifted out via a chopper and breaks out. Hes bald and has sun glasses. the whole game is like, a weird hodgepodge of on rails shooting, weird computer sequences involving flying through an operating system and selecting files with a lovely computer lady narrating. Theres flying sequences, driving sequences, on foot sequences.

The more I try to explain the less sense I make.
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Sounds a bit like Cyberia or its sequel (Interplay was the publisher).
 
Laws00 said:
I remember this game on the sega channel i played.

The reason I state that is because I played Donald Duck in Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow which came out on the SNES but not the Genesis which I thought was strange. Could be a Snes game that that put on the genesis.

Anyway

It was an action RPG.

It was a top down scrolled game. You had classes I believe. I can only remember one class and it was this guy he had a whip that would twirl in a circle and it what ever was in its field of radius. There was a also a magic user I believe. I don't remember that one too well.

Edit: I also remember going into a castle or something, one of the first parts of the game.

Other then that I don't know and i've been looking that game up for ages with no avail
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I'm thinking Arcus Odyssey, but I never had Sega Channel so I'm not sure.
 
bjork said:
I'm thinking Arcus Odyssey, but I never had Sega Channel so I'm not sure.
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I swear to god, looked up youtube vids and I almost surely believe thats the game! Thank you so much lol

Im going to buy it off amazon right now!

Lets see if Valis is cheap too...
 
Jimnymebob said:
Taito Power Goal was the first result on Google for Taito soccer. Never heard of it, but it has to be that or a variant/sequel.
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I took a look, but I dont think any of those 2 are the one. Maybe the game was from SNK...but I do know this....when you did a special move, it would look alot like something out of Street Fighter Alpha or something along those lines...
 
sinseers said:
I took a look, but I dont think any of those 2 are the one. Maybe the game was from SNK...but I do know this....when you did a special move, it would look alot like something out of Street Fighter Alpha or something along those lines...
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Hmm, check out Football Champ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKTK2LxXh0

This is actually the first game in the Hat Trick Hero series by Taito (also called Euro Champ '92 and Taito Power Goal is actually Hat Trick Hero '95) and it has "Power Shoot" moves. Not sure if the Hat Trick Hero sequels have this special moves, maybe it's just the first game.
 
Two games I can't remember the names of.

First one was a Nintendo 64 game, I think, but I also think it later got an updated version on the PS2 or something, but I think I played the N64 version. It was a third-person shooter and I think you were like a spy and were working with a team to stop some terrorists or something.

Second game I think was a PC game, but it might not of been. This memory is a bit more vague. I know it was a FPS and I think the character you played as had blue hair, but that might be me mixing memories up. I'm pretty sure that this game was also freeware and didn't really have a story but it had a level editor. I think the game's name was like some German food for some reason. Like Sauerkraut or Liverwurst or something.
 
Aiko Heiwa said:
Two games I can't remember the names of.

First one was a Nintendo 64 game, I think, but I also think it later got an updated version on the PS2 or something, but I think I played the N64 version. It was a third-person shooter and I think you were like a spy and were working with a team to stop some terrorists or something.
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Winback?
 
I remember a game from the NES maybe SNES era. It was a side-scrolling cartoon platformer like Mario. Only you could through candies at the enemies. The candies looked like wrapped hard candies like jollyranchers.

I have no idea what it was called though. Been meaning to find it out.
 
old said:
I remember a game from the NES maybe SNES era. It was a side-scrolling cartoon platformer like Mario. Only you could through candies at the enemies. The candies looked like wrapped hard candies like jollyranchers.

I have no idea what it was called though. Been meaning to find it out.
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Little Nemo: The Dream Master?

Tough game.
 
Some demo for this 3d hockey-style game on the PC.

It was like a futuristic mash-up of hockey and blitzball from FFX.

I think the arena was a bowl shape... not sure...
 
Aiko Heiwa said:
Two games I can't remember the names of.

First one was a Nintendo 64 game, I think, but I also think it later got an updated version on the PS2 or something, but I think I played the N64 version. It was a third-person shooter and I think you were like a spy and were working with a team to stop some terrorists or something.

Second game I think was a PC game, but it might not of been. This memory is a bit more vague. I know it was a FPS and I think the character you played as had blue hair, but that might be me mixing memories up. I'm pretty sure that this game was also freeware and didn't really have a story but it had a level editor. I think the game's name was like some German food for some reason. Like Sauerkraut or Liverwurst or something.
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Any chance it could be .kkrieger? It was notable years ago for being so small in size coming out of the gaming demo scene or whatever it's called. I don't believe that had a character but I almost want to say continued efforts at expanding games in that same category of demo scene fps titles might have introduced characters, more enemies, etc. I recall playing one that had more content than kkrieger but I can't say I know the specific title. If anything this could lead you down the right path?
 
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