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[Kazerei]

Argh, the educational games thread made me remember a computer game from my childhood that I played at school.

It's a short point-and-click adventure. You're alone inside a circular prison with three ring-shaped hallways. You start in the innermost ring, solve some puzzles, find a key to unlock the middle ring, then the outer ring, etc. There's a moat with a drawbridge somewhere. And the puzzles are based on the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci. There was also a separate game where you control a flying machine and avoid hitting stuff.

I tried googling it, and it is not The Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript.

Please help

 

[show me your skeleton]

this one'll be really easy i'm sure. an jrpg for the playstation that featured a randomised dungeon where you found creatures you could tame. you also had a town that you rebuilt and added to as the game went on. a big feature of the game was that you could indulge romantically with one of the various girls in the town.
bugging me right now as bastion is giving me similar vibes.

 

[Night_Trekker]

this one'll be really easy i'm sure. an jrpg for the playstation that featured a randomised dungeon where you found creatures you could tame. you also had a town that you rebuilt and added to as the game went on. a big feature of the game was that you could indulge romantically with one of the various girls in the town.
bugging me right now as bastion is giving me similar vibes.

Gotta be Azure Dreams. I never played it, but I remember reading about it.

 

[show me your skeleton]

Gotta be Azure Dreams. I never played it, but I remember reading about it.

that's the one, thank you. i wonder if there's any indie games with that kind of idea... hmmm.

 

[A Black Falcon]

Ungaahhhh, of course. My bad.

Yeah, 3.1. Or maybe 3.0, I'm not certain... I know the DOS floppy version of KQV released in 1990, but the CD version may have been 1992? Win 3.0 was early 1990, 3.1 early '92. Either way though, as both a Windows and CD title, it was somewhat uncommon for a PC game even in 1992... most games then were DOS-only floppy titles.

 

[VGChampion]

I think this game was an educational game as well. I remember it having a "hub world" where you could choose what little game you wanted to play. I remember a xylophone game with what I think a stork or some other type of bird hanging around. I sort of remember being able to go up to Saturn or some other planets.

This would have been early to mid 90's and possibly on the Macintosh II or Classic.

 

[Pizza Luigi]

So this is going to be hard. Not in the least because it may or may not have been a Dutch game.

So in this game, there were different stories (that sometimes overlapped) and you could play it. It was somewhat of a point 'n click where the most happened from the side. I remember a scene where you saw a castle, and you could click on stuff and it would do something. There was also a forest where you could warp to places and a bedroom or something with the king in it.

As you notice, my memory is VERY foggy indeed. I also believe that there was some customization going on, but I'm not sure if that was actually there.

It's not much to go on, but apart from having a medieval theme with different characters (this may or may not have been one of many different scenario's) I cannot remember anything. Please GAF, help!

 

[Kazerei]

I think this game was an educational game as well. I remember it having a "hub world" where you could choose what little game you wanted to play. I remember a xylophone game with what I think a stork or some other type of bird hanging around. I sort of remember being able to go up to Saturn or some other planets.

This would have been early to mid 90's and possibly on the Macintosh II or Classic.

Thinkin Things?

 

[antonlev]

I remember like 15 years ago watching a video on my computer which I believe was a trailer for a game.

It mostly took place in some jungly ruins, and possibly some lava areas, with lots of puzzles. You seemed to control this robotic arm that interacted with the puzzles, and this strange robotic fellow would periodically show up and drop some sort of token or emblem.

There were also FMV elements, including people and lots of sky/cloud imagery.

The music in the trailer was some sort of dub/jungle music and a good portion of the lyrics were just the names of nationalities - "brazilian, jamaican" something like that.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? I swear this is real. The video I watched was on the computer, but I never actually played it. I'm not sure if it's a PC or console game.

EDIT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkki5ejmbEA

 

[Darkenmal]

PS1 game where I remember a chamber with a big muscular guy killing a boss..

There were pillars in the room.

Any help would be welcome.

 

[larvi]

So this is going to be hard. Not in the least because it may or may not have been a Dutch game.

So in this game, there were different stories (that sometimes overlapped) and you could play it. It was somewhat of a point 'n click where the most happened from the side. I remember a scene where you saw a castle, and you could click on stuff and it would do something. There was also a forest where you could warp to places and a bedroom or something with the king in it.

As you notice, my memory is VERY foggy indeed. I also believe that there was some customization going on, but I'm not sure if that was actually there.

It's not much to go on, but apart from having a medieval theme with different characters (this may or may not have been one of many different scenario's) I cannot remember anything. Please GAF, help!

Imagination Express Destination Castle possibly?

http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/ndedm9.htm

 

[larvi]

I think this game was an educational game as well. I remember it having a "hub world" where you could choose what little game you wanted to play. I remember a xylophone game with what I think a stork or some other type of bird hanging around. I sort of remember being able to go up to Saturn or some other planets.

This would have been early to mid 90's and possibly on the Macintosh II or Classic.

Lenny's Music Toons maybe?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/lennys-music-toons/screenshots

 

[djtiesto]

An old freeware game classified as a Dragon Quest clone I downloaded off of the old emulation site, Dave's Videogame Classics circa 1999. It wasn't really anything like Dragon Quest though. I only remember one of the tougher enemies being a Chromatic Dragon. Yeah, I don't think any of this really helps either.

Could it be this game, Incunabula? I think I remember playing this a while ago:

http://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Incunabula:_The_Unspoken_Secrets.html

 

[Flame Lord]

There's a few I've been wondering about for awhile. They were games I use to play on the computer at school in 1st-3rd grade. Our school only used Macs if that helps narrow it down.

The first game was a first person shooter. I don't really know much more about it except for the fact that you fought dinosaurs in some kind of forest or something. Our teacher would let us walk around but he had a rule that we couldn't shoot the gun so that pretty much made it pretty boring...

The second game was a game where you played as a bug, I want to say a lady bug but I'm not sure. The whole point of the game seemed to be rescuing other lady bugs being held captive from other bugs from grass cages.

And the third game was an educational game. I can't really remember much about it like the other games but I do remember there was one mini game where you had to find sea creatures with a spotlight. I remember one of the sea creatures was an eel.

I understand if no one know. I barely remember the games at all since it was back when I was like 8 (18 now).

 

[Pizza Luigi]

Imagination Express Destination Castle possibly?

http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/ndedm9.htm

No unfortunately that's not it. Could've been it though, so great find, thanks!

It was somewhat humoristic as well if I'm not mistaken. God if only my memory wasn't this hazy.

 

[larvi]

No unfortunately that's not it. Could've been it though, so great find, thanks!

It was somewhat humoristic as well if I'm not mistaken. God if only my memory wasn't this hazy.

Any general idea of the age group it was targeted at?

 

[Neuromancer]

OK help me out here guys.

I played an RPG demo a while back on the 360. You were a dude starting off in a town, and had to go around talking to people. Some of them were orcs, maybe? But mostly humans. I think there was a love interest and you wanted to marry her, but her dad didn't like you or something. Naturally you had to leave town for a while to kill a bunch of things, and in order to get out someone gave you a key to the gate. The game had a distinctly B-quality to it, possible it was an Eastern European type deal.

I know that's not much to go on but I'm jonesing for an RPG and I'd buy it if I could just remember the name!

Edit: Never mind, I think it was Gothic 4.

 

[faceless007]

Someone convince me I didn't make this up in a dream or something:

A DOS-era game based on the Halloween movies. First-person, Doom-like engine, you play as Michael Myers. In the demo I downloaded, you start out on a street at night with rows of houses around you, and you could walk around the houses and...not much else. There's a button to swing a knife so I guess the object is to kill people, but I couldn't find a way to get into any of the houses and didn't see any NPCs. There was a timer and a HUD, but no options or menu that I could find. Maybe it wasn't even a full game, like a fan project or something, but I'm sure it existed. I don't think it was just a Doom mod, because the engine was somewhat different. I probably downloaded it around 98-2000.

 

[Correctomundo]

PS1 game where I remember a chamber with a big muscular guy killing a boss..

There were pillars in the room.

Any help would be welcome.

Probably not, but is it Herc's Adventures?

 

[NarcissisticJay]

Old NES game that was co-op with an old Asian setting.. basically you would start at the bottom of the screen and you would fight/work your way to the top of the screen where there was a double door (I think it was Red). You'd go through the door and move on to the next 'stage'

Any ideas? This one has been killing me for YEARS !

 

[DTJAAAAM]

Old NES game that was co-op with an old Asian setting.. basically you would start at the bottom of the screen and you would fight/work your way to the top of the screen where there was a double door (I think it was Red). You'd go through the door and move on to the next 'stage'

Any ideas? This one has been killing me for YEARS !

Kung Fu Heroes?

 

[VGChampion]

Thinkin Things?

Woah, that's it! I never would have guessed in a million years I'd ever find this game again. I had stacks upon stacks of old software that I donated about 10 years ago and this is one of the only ones I can remember. Thanks for the link!

 

[Roto13]

What is this?

 

[mclem]

What is this?

http://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/nazo-no-murasamejou

 

[$200]

Ok here's a weird question.

I've had this password book since forever but never know what game it is for. If there's one place I can get the answer it is probably here.

 

[Son1x]

Ok so I'm looking for a PS1 game. I played it in US (so it was released at least there, dunno about Europe). The game had some sorts of vehicles, robots and even some people (in suits and stuff I think) battling each other. It was pretty futuristic, and most had some ranged weapons (bombs, lasers, guns and stuff like that). There were quite a lot of... lets just say characters (they were probably in those things) and you get either choose a Red team, Blue team (not the names, just the colors on selection) or all of them. You couldn't pick yourself (or I didn't know how). You got put on this big field (3D, dunno if you could choose) and the characters fought 1 by 1. When one died, the next one spawned (untill you killed them all). It supported multiplayer as well.

I remember there being some flying vehicle that dropped bomb but you could run out of them and that was its only weapon (maybe I didn't know how to use other). I think there were some characters that were melee and you couldn't fight against air. It was a pretty weird game. I played it in around 2001-2003.

 

[Houston3000]

Since it was at school I'm going to assume these games:

The first game was a first person shooter. I don't really know much more about it except for the fact that you fought dinosaurs in some kind of forest or something. Our teacher would let us walk around but he had a rule that we couldn't shoot the gun so that pretty much made it pretty boring...

Sure you're not thinking of Nanosaur? It was a 3rd person game where you played as a Dinosaur and you could shoot stuff. It came free on iMacs and was pretty popular back around 1998, 1999... at least in my 8th grade typing class.

The second game was a game where you played as a bug, I want to say a lady bug but I'm not sure. The whole point of the game seemed to be rescuing other lady bugs being held captive from other bugs from grass cages.

Probably Bugdom - it used to also come free on iMacs back in like 1999.

And the third game was an educational game. I can't really remember much about it like the other games but I do remember there was one mini game where you had to find sea creatures with a spotlight. I remember one of the sea creatures was an eel.

No idea on this one.

 

[eso76]

Ok here's a weird question.

I've had this password book since forever but never know what game it is for. If there's one place I can get the answer it is probably here.

damn, i remember something like this
i think it was Jet Set Willy, or maybe some other Mastertronic game ?

 

[Roto13]

http://www.mobygames.com/game/nes/nazo-no-murasamejou

I didn't realize anyone had replied to this thread since I posted that screenshot. Nice. That actually looks like a cool game.

So how about this one!

 

[Son1x]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganbare_Goemon!_Karakuri_Douchuu

 

[Roto13]

I should have known it was a Mystical Ninja game.

 

[ramsus]

Need help GAF.

I was watching a Thunderhoop youtube clip and then I remembered an arcade Arabian-Persian themed scrolling game (not Prince of Persia lol) I played when I was a kid, good graphics and such (~1992 iirc). Can someone enlighten me? Thx!

 

[protonion]

^


Arabian Nights maybe? My favorite Amiga platform game with awesome soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXxLv5pQW5I

 

[mclem]

damn, i remember something like this
i think it was Jet Set Willy, or maybe some other Mastertronic game ?

I thought JSW too, but I recall the Willy codecard distinctly and it didn't look like that.

 

[Andrew.]

There was a stand up arcade game where you played as characters that resembled morrigan and a vamp and like a juiced up mummy. It was a beat em up...and just like ninja turtles or x-men it was a platforming style of play? anyone remember?

 

[ramsus]

^


Arabian Nights maybe? My favorite Amiga platform game with awesome soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXxLv5pQW5I

No I remember characters graphics were stylized and not cartoonish.

It's neither Arabian Magic (beat 'em up).

 

[Zeliard]

Isometric-style dark puzzlish (?) dungeon-crawler PC game (DOS probably)? Don't think it could have been released later than like '93, but most likely quite a bit earlier (I also haven't played or seen it since around then).

You navigated the environment via square tiles, which was one of its most distinctive elements. Almost certain it featured traps since I remember it being pretty treacherous to go through. Also featured magic, maybe? The atmosphere stood out a lot though - it was dark, brooding, dangerous.

God I have these games I have these vague images of in my head but if I saw them, I'd recognize them instantly. And I know my description probably sounds like I'm relating some fever dream I had.

 

[DeadTrees]

No I remember characters graphics were stylized and not cartoonish.

It's neither Arabian Magic (beat 'em up).

Is this a beat em up, or a sidescroller?

How about Arabian Fight?

 

[ramsus]

Is this a beat em up, or a sidescroller?

How about Arabian Fight?

It was a sidescroller. Had shops, pyramids and scorpions.

Now I realized that I mentioned Thunder Hoop above (from Gaelco, Spain) maybe it's not a so commonly game after all :/. Damn, I know I'm close!

Thanks anyways.

 

[Taco_Human]

I need the name of a PS1 game. It was in first person, and everything looked sorta purple. You could sorta jump onto trampolines and it was just a flat plane that you would platform around.

Don't really remember other than that.

 

[mclem]

Isometric-style dark puzzlish (?) dungeon-crawler PC game (DOS probably)? Don't think it could have been released later than like '93, but most likely quite a bit earlier (I also haven't played or seen it since around then).

You navigated the environment via square tiles, which was one of its most distinctive elements. Almost certain it featured traps since I remember it being pretty treacherous to go through. Also featured magic, maybe? The atmosphere stood out a lot though - it was dark, brooding, dangerous.

God I have these games I have these vague images of in my head but if I saw them, I'd recognize them instantly. And I know my description probably sounds like I'm relating some fever dream I had.

What exactly do you mean by 'you navigated the environment via square tiles'? Do you mean that it played out on a grid, or do you mean that the tiles were (in some way) how you moved (I'm thinking something along the lines of how Populous's interface was presented).

Anyhow, PC isometric dungeony games from that era which could fit that bill:

Legend (AKA "The Four Crystals of Trazere")
Hero Quest (Based on the MB boardgame, not the original name for Quest for Glory)
Heimdall (or 2)
The Immortal
Mystic Towers (probably too lighthearted, going against the broodingness you describe)

Legend matches up with what I interpreted you as meaning by that tiles line

 

[Mature]

This is an odd, muddled memory that might end up being something more prolific than I realize.

I don't remember much of it, but it was a SNES game that I think I rented a few times. You're a kid who gets shrunk and has to run and jump around everyday household stuff. I believe it was a 2D platformer....

Any ideas?

 

[$200]

damn, i remember something like this
i think it was Jet Set Willy, or maybe some other Mastertronic game ?

I thought JSW too, but I recall the Willy codecard distinctly and it didn't look like that.

Guess that's not it. Wikipedia actually has an image of JSW's password book.

 

[mclem]

This is an odd, muddled memory that might end up being something more prolific than I realize.

I don't remember much of it, but it was a SNES game that I think I rented a few times. You're a kid who gets shrunk and has to run and jump around everyday household stuff. I believe it was a 2D platformer....

Any ideas?

Harley's Humongous Adventure?

Guess that's not it. Wikipedia actually has an image of JSW's password book.

Exactly what I remember!

Actually, the colours on the mystery codecard confuse me further - but could offer a further clue, perhaps. Willy used the first four colours from the Spectrum's palette - understandable, given it wanted to display them onscreen as you input them. Looking at the mystery codecard, though, it uses quite a lot of varied colours, and I struggle to think of an 8-bit era system that had such colours in its palette; in other words, that probably tips us off that we're looking at a 16-bit system.

 

[Ulchie]

Have you ever thought of a game, but don't know the title, or much about it at all? Maybe it was a game from your childhood, or some game that interested you when it was announced but fell off your radar. Post them in this thread and let's see if other GAF posters can help you out.

Anyways, I saw someone mention Battlezone on here and started to think about this tank combat game for the arcade. I think it was from Japan or had some Japanese name. I don't remember much about it except that it was two player and you could fight each other's tanks. One of the tanks was also white I think. Any ideas?

Ya there was this alien invasion type of game. I remember building factories and stuff on some planets and there was an outlined layout when placing them. Also had to build ships. I never got very far with it. It's kind of a vague memory from my childhood, so we're talking something from early 90's to mid 90s.

 

[Anilusion]

A SNES 2d action game with a very japanese feel to it. There were big fish-looking things that you could ride on land.

 

[theycallmeryan]

This might sound a little weird, but I played this a a kid and don't remember it. It was an N64 game with multiplayer and I think I remember a mode where you flew eggs into a nest or something like that? Its VERY hazy.

 

[jluedtke]

Okay, I'm going to give this a shot. I apologize in advance for having next to nothing as far as details.

I remember as a kid playing this game in a local bar my dad used to hang out in. (Four star daycare, that guy). You played as a pudgy little ninja dude. The entire level was on one screen and you'd progress left-to-right, jump up one floor, go right-to-left, etc., kicking ass along the way until you reached the top, where I presume you'd exit to the next level.

And...that's all I've got.

Good luck, and thanks!

 

[Polydeuces]

There was this PS1 game me and my friend had played. Gameplay was like there would be these characters on a board and by selecting these cards they were given, they would either move, shoot, or dodge or something like that. Colors corresponded with what the action was.
It was like playing final fantasy tactics but with cards.

 

[mclem]

This might sound a little weird, but I played this a a kid and don't remember it. It was an N64 game with multiplayer and I think I remember a mode where you flew eggs into a nest or something like that? Its VERY hazy.

Diddy Kong Racing had a multiplayer mode that fits that bill.