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I've been thinking recently about the first ever Gameboy game I bought.

It was a side scrolling shooter, with four characters who you controlled at the same time, and I am pretty sure you could change the formation, and each one had a magic attack? The setting was mythical China/Japan as far as I remember...

I bought it in the early 90's from WH Smith, so I doubt it's anything too obscure.
 
Turnstyle said:
I've been thinking recently about the first ever Gameboy game I bought.

It was a side scrolling shooter, with four characters who you controlled at the same time, and I am pretty sure you could change the formation, and each one had a magic attack? The setting was mythical China/Japan as far as I remember...

I bought it in the early 90's from WH Smith, so I doubt it's anything too obscure.
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Mercenary Force

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WOW! I can't believe the fact that my membership approved at last :) I was waiting for this for a loong time :)

I am trying to remember the name of a coin arcade racing game.
It has to be released between early to mid 90s but I am not sure.

The game was very similar to Great 1000 Miles Rally but it had much more realistic cars and environmet. And it also had recent models car(s) compared to Great 1000 Miles rally. Screen view was very similar to Great 1000 Miles Rally as well.

Some details that I could remember.

- there was rain in the game !
- whenever we enter a tunnel, it was almost impossible to see any other thing than the light cone of our car.
- the arcade machine had a driving wheel but it didn't had a seat.
- the game was HARD :)
- it had very beatiful, realistic but gloomy graphics. But I was not a 3d game graphics artist at that time, so I might be slightly mistaken.

I am pretty sure this game exists even I couldn't find any trace of it now... It just seems to dissapear from existance.

I will be relieved if anyone can help me to remember the name of that game.
 
I'm looking for a game that was on the Apple II. I used to play it back in '96 or so when I was in kindergarten.

If I remember correctly. you were a robot or something in space and you were on a blue bridge-looking thing. There was a gap in the middle of the screen that you couldn't get across and another blue bridge on the other side of the screen.
 
You've really got to help me out with this one:

I had a Dreamcast game that centered around two brothers. I think it took place in their backyard and in the end you ended up doing special for the other brother's birthday.

And another Dreamcast game that was a point and click adventure where you played as a group of aliens. I remember there was one factory where cows stuck their rears out a window and defecated over everything (and there was a big chicken). I also remember a scene where a guy wanted to have sex with one of the aliens.

If you could give me the name of the second game that would be appreciated. I've looked all over for that game but can't find squat. I'm starting to think it was just a freaky dream. :lol
 
Vipershark said:
I'm looking for a game that was on the Apple II. I used to play it back in '96 or so when I was in kindergarten.

If I remember correctly. you were a robot or something in space and you were on a blue bridge-looking thing. There was a gap in the middle of the screen that you couldn't get across and another blue bridge on the other side of the screen.
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Google: game Apple II robot space

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Stars Raiders
 
Bentendo said:
You've really got to help me out with this one:

I had a Dreamcast game that centered around two brothers. I think it took place in their backyard and in the end you ended up doing special for the other brother's birthday.

And another Dreamcast game that was a point and click adventure where you played as a group of aliens. I remember there was one factory where cows stuck their rears out a window and defecated over everything (and there was a big chicken). I also remember a scene where a guy wanted to have sex with one of the aliens.

If you could give me the name of the second game that would be appreciated. I've looked all over for that game but can't find squat. I'm starting to think it was just a freaky dream. :lol
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First game: Floigan Bros.

Second Game: Stupid Invaders
 
There's one game in my mind that I wanted to know its name since there was internet, here it goes:

Platform: MSX
Description: A teenager in a jungle who tries to overcome obstacles. such as: jumping and holding on ropes to pass a lake that is filled with crocodiles (kinda similar to pitfal). It is a side scroller from left to right. Jumping is your only method. If you pass an obstacle, you go to the end of the screen and start a new screen with a harder obstacle. One of the main differences compared to pitfall is that the charecter looks larger (zoomed in), and he has a bigger face with details.... Also it is much more fun that pitfall :)

Thanks for the nice thread.
 
I remember playing an RPG years ago, I can't remember if it was on PS2 or not, probably was. I remember this being the very beginning of the game. You started out young in a village, kind of on a slope, and I vaguely remember talking to an old man, or I had to talk to one. It was sunny out, and the one hill in the village had a big windmill to the left on it. Wish I remembered more.

It might be something obvious, but I could never figure it out since I only remember playing such a small fragment. Especially since I haven't played any older RPG's in a long time.
 
cantona222 said:
There's one game in my mind that I wanted to know its name since there was internet, here it goes:

Platform: MSX
Description: A teenager in a jungle who tries to overcome obstacles. such as: jumping and holding on ropes to pass a lake that is filled with crocodiles (kinda similar to pitfal). It is a side scroller from left to right. Jumping is your only method. If you pass an obstacle, you go to the end of the screen and start a new screen with a harder obstacle. One of the main differences compared to pitfall is that the charecter looks larger (zoomed in), and he has a bigger face with details.... Also it is much more fun that pitfall :)

Thanks for the nice thread.
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Athletic Land?
 
cantona222 said:
There's one game in my mind that I wanted to know its name since there was internet, here it goes:

Platform: MSX
Description: A teenager in a jungle who tries to overcome obstacles. such as: jumping and holding on ropes to pass a lake that is filled with crocodiles (kinda similar to pitfal). It is a side scroller from left to right. Jumping is your only method. If you pass an obstacle, you go to the end of the screen and start a new screen with a harder obstacle. One of the main differences compared to pitfall is that the charecter looks larger (zoomed in), and he has a bigger face with details.... Also it is much more fun that pitfall :)

Thanks for the nice thread.
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Jungle Hunt
 
cantona222 said:
Dude, you made my day. Thanks a million. How did you know it? have you played this game before?
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I haven't played it, but recalled seeing a screen that matched your description one day while I was researching MSX games.
 
Vipershark said:
I'm looking for a game that was on the Apple II. I used to play it back in '96 or so when I was in kindergarten.

If I remember correctly. you were a robot or something in space and you were on a blue bridge-looking thing. There was a gap in the middle of the screen that you couldn't get across and another blue bridge on the other side of the screen.
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A bit of a wild guess, in that it's a game I've only really heard about: Robot Odyssey?
 
Rainier said:
Google: game Apple II robot space

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Stars Raiders
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If it's the same Star Raiders that I'm familiar with from the Spectrum, that's a crosshair, not a pair of platforms with a gap in the middle.
 
Devil Theory said:
I remember playing an RPG years ago, I can't remember if it was on PS2 or not, probably was. I remember this being the very beginning of the game. You started out young in a village, kind of on a slope, and I vaguely remember talking to an old man, or I had to talk to one. It was sunny out, and the one hill in the village had a big windmill to the left on it. Wish I remembered more.

It might be something obvious, but I could never figure it out since I only remember playing such a small fragment. Especially since I haven't played any older RPG's in a long time.
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Xenogears?
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If you guys could help me name this game I'd so be in your debt. In fact i'll send someone a steam gift for the first to find it with some proof. It's been on my brain forever and I searched klov and the internets and couldn't find anything.

Okay so this game came out probably around 1990-92. Its an arcade game. Its much like bomberman except you play a bunch of knights that use bombs and can stun the other players or make the bombs explode by whipping them with chains. Gameplay was on a grid just like bomberman. Action was faster than bomberman. And the "blocks" to blow up looked more like treasure chests, which contained powerups inside. I have no idea who made it. And the fuzzy memories of the name of the game was like Lancelot or something.

The only place I ever saw it was at the Cyberstation in Southland mall in Hayward back in 1992 when I was visiting relatives that summer. I was 13 so I wasn't like 5 and dreaming this.

Any help would be appreciated.


Bonus help!:

There was a game my friend had on the Atari 16 bit computer (uh dunno XL and XE which I think were 8 bit the amiga like one whatever) that was a post apocalyptic game where it was top down, you shot green mutants that bled green and you had to find foodstuff inside crates that was green and um... soylent. More than just an action game you had to conserve fuel for your apocalypsemobile and the action sections were for searching warehouses. I played it once in 1990 on my friends Atari computer, game totally escapes me.
 
Turbografix 16 game..

Side-scrolling game..your this kid with some saber thing..there are shops you can buy from, flying cats, moles, whatever they could throw at you I think lol..and um..at the end a rainbow casts you off into another part and your in this mech suit thingy which was pretty awesome..I can't but my finger on it :/
 
I used to play this Arcade game in the 80 (or 70?s). Basically it was a shooter in the style of Galaxians but with slightly better graphics. The only real "special" thing I remembered about it that you could shoot a big fat bomb (just like a WW2 bomb) up the the middle of the screen to blast all enemies. The bad guys also came flying down just like Galaxians, but with different patterns. Obviously it was a SF game. I think Moon Buggy was out at the same time and maybe Tempest.

Oh yeah.. it was not a scroller and was vertical (like Galaxians).
 
Agate said:
Turbografix 16 game..

Side-scrolling game..your this kid with some saber thing..there are shops you can buy from, flying cats, moles, whatever they could throw at you I think lol..and um..at the end a rainbow casts you off into another part and your in this mech suit thingy which was pretty awesome..I can't but my finger on it :/
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Keith Courage in Alpha Zones, aka Mashin Eiyuuden Wataru in Japan, also the pack in for the TG-16 :)
 
I remember a GameBoy game I played when I was a kid. I remember it as Double Dragon but it's not that. It was a kind of beat em up and the second level was in a factory, and you had to walk on treadmills. It may be a hack.
 
Not exactly the same topic, but I was hoping someone could help me out.

I used to play a lot of Columns in the arcade when I was a teenager. I loved the music. Years later, I go back to play Columns through various means, ports, arcades, and virtual consoles and whatnot, and they all have the wrong music! I have scoured the internet and have found no mention of the music I remember or why it might have been different.

The music that seems to be what everyone else played is very laid back and simplistic. What I remember, and what was much more appropriate to the game as I remember it, was a driving synth tune, with drums and pretty heavy bass.

It would help my sanity if someone else remembered this music. It would really help me out if somebody had a link to some info about it, or (dare I hope?) a recording of it.
 
it was a game where at one point your were in a mine cart going up mountains and i think it was maybe for the genesis but im not sure.
 
Akihabara said:
I remember a GameBoy game I played when I was a kid. I remember it as Double Dragon but it's not that. It was a kind of beat em up and the second level was in a factory, and you had to walk on treadmills. It may be a hack.
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It was probably Kunio-Kun for Gameboy. Japanese/Asian version of Kunio-Kun was Double Dragon II for US gameboy. Sprite Hax!

To see the difference go here
Its the second entry to see the changed sprites.

NemesisPrime said:
I used to play this Arcade game in the 80 (or 70?s). Basically it was a shooter in the style of Galaxians but with slightly better graphics. The only real "special" thing I remembered about it that you could shoot a big fat bomb (just like a WW2 bomb) up the the middle of the screen to blast all enemies. The bad guys also came flying down just like Galaxians, but with different patterns. Obviously it was a SF game. I think Moon Buggy was out at the same time and maybe Tempest.

Oh yeah.. it was not a scroller and was vertical (like Galaxians).
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Maybe GORF or Phoenix. Both were static screen galaxian like games with multiple stages both featuring a "boss" of sorts.


Gorf Boss:

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Phoenix Boss:

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I'll be very surprised if anyone gets this. I don't remember much at all.

It's for the NES. You play as some sort of red dude. I think it was a sidescroller, but the levels might have been segmented by some kind of select screen that was mostly black and white? Anyway I mostly just remember the reddish dude on the cover.

I hope I'm not making this up.
 
PolarBearsClub said:
I'll be very surprised if anyone gets this. I don't remember much at all.

It's for the NES. You play as some sort of red dude. I think it was a sidescroller, but the levels might have been segmented by some kind of select screen that was mostly black and white? Anyway I mostly just remember the reddish dude on the cover.

I hope I'm not making this up.
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Thats pretty vague

Could be:

Legend of Kage
Adventures of Rad Gravity
Day Dreamin Davey
Crystalis
Clash at Demonhead
Defenders of Dynatron City
Boulder Dash
Bucky O'Hare
Whomp 'Em
 
Chojin said:
Thats pretty vague

Could be:

Legend of Kage
Adventures of Rad Gravity
Day Dreamin Davey
Crystalis
Clash at Demonhead
Defenders of Dynatron City
Boulder Dash
Bucky O'Hare
Whomp 'Em
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No, it's none of those. Thanks though.

It's a sort of futuristic setting, and you definitely play as a human. He looked kind of like captain planet. The art was sort of similar to the kind on the old Megaman cartridges.
 
PolarBearsClub said:
No, it's none of those. Thanks though.

It's a sort of futuristic setting, and you definitely play as a human. He looked kind of like captain planet. The art was sort of similar to the kind on the old Megaman cartridges.
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Now I must find.

And play!

::dig dig::
 
PolarBearsClub said:
No, it's none of those. Thanks though.

It's a sort of futuristic setting, and you definitely play as a human. He looked kind of like captain planet. The art was sort of similar to the kind on the old Megaman cartridges.
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Impossible Mission II?
 
PolarBearsClub said:
I'll be very surprised if anyone gets this. I don't remember much at all.

It's for the NES. You play as some sort of red dude. I think it was a sidescroller, but the levels might have been segmented by some kind of select screen that was mostly black and white? Anyway I mostly just remember the reddish dude on the cover.

I hope I'm not making this up.
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8 Eyes, perhaps?

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Robot fighting game for PS1 I think around the 2nd year or so. I rented it a couple times. It was all robots, some of them were fairly large and you could sidestep. 3d graphics.
 
PolarBearsClub said:
No, it's none of those. Thanks though.

It's a sort of futuristic setting, and you definitely play as a human. He looked kind of like captain planet. The art was sort of similar to the kind on the old Megaman cartridges.
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Section Z?

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I remember renting a PS1 FMV adventure game about spies as a kid. Here's a list of the few select things I remember about it.

- Main character was kind of a nerd. I think I clicked on a taco once and he commented on it being "hard as a rock".
- I think the boxart had someone skiing down a hill. Or the intro had someone skiing down a hill.
- I could never get past a part at the start where some dude with a gun comes into your apartment. You can move the camera around to face different parts of the house or him.
- If you click on the dude he shoots you and you die. If you click on a window you jump out of it and die.


Good thread idea BTW. This has been on my mind for years.
 
Kholdstare101 said:
I remember renting a PS1 FMV adventure game about spies as a kid. Here's a list of the few select things I remember about it.

- Main character was kind of a nerd. I think I clicked on a taco once and he commented on it being "hard as a rock".
- I think the boxart had someone skiing down a hill. Or the intro had someone skiing down a hill.
- I could never get past a part at the start where some dude with a gun comes into your apartment. You can move the camera around to face different parts of the house or him.
- If you click on the dude he shoots you and you die. If you click on a window you jump out of it and die.


Good thread idea BTW. This has been on my mind for years.
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Fox Hunt maybe.

Anyway, sorry for being incredibly vague but all I remember about this game is that it was on the SNES. Might have been a sort of darkish fantasy setting, and you play as like a knight or something and start in a castle or a church... pretty sure the background had big windows. Friend accidently gave it me instead of returning my copy of Mystic Quest Legend so I dunno if the title might have any similaritys.
 
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