Games you remember, names you don't

Hmm, interestingly enough, I never thought another RPG would get close to my description.

Thanks, but doesn't seem to be what I'm talking about.
 
Game for the Amiga (1200 I think)

It was a kind of point and click game where you played as one of those salty old men in westerns that say dagnabbit. Uh, there was a really good poker minigame in it and you could also die of starvation and thirst out in the wastes. Something about finding a lost mine I think. Man i wish i could remember.
 
BigDes said:
Game for the Amiga (1200 I think)

It was a kind of point and click game where you played as one of those salty old men in westerns that say dagnabbit. Uh, there was a really good poker minigame in it and you could also die of starvation and thirst out in the wastes. Something about finding a lost mine I think. Man i wish i could remember.
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Lost Dutchman Mine strikes me as the most likely.

Other western adventures: Gold Rush, Freddy Pharkas.
 
There was an air combat game I played on pc when I was younger. It was a really low-polygon count game, you flew as a black ship (I believe), fought alien looking crafts, and there was a boss fight against a giant snake in a basket.

I think we only had a demo version on our computer, because I don't remember anything after the snake fight. Any idea what game this was?
 
So I have another game. It's an NES game. It's a sidescrolling action/platformer that took place in modern times. Something about terrorists.

And I swear I remember Saddam Hussein or someone similar being on the title screen.
 
Ah, found mine. Or at least...I think I did.

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Had fun with it at a friend's house many years ago. Seeing it now is...underwhelming. lawl
 
It was a game on the psone. I remember you played as some weird looking dudes, and it was a 3rd person game, with 2 player coop, and you went around through these levels and just killed people basically. I know this isn't that good of a description,but does anyone know what i'm talking about?
 
There's this point and click PC game that my family got when we first got our PC in 95 or 96...It had static images on each screen and it was really easy to get lost. I vaguely remember everything being futuristic, and the main character may have been a robot or something as well.

Hopefully this isn't too vague...
 
Typographenia said:
There was an air combat game I played on pc when I was younger. It was a really low-polygon count game, you flew as a black ship (I believe), fought alien looking crafts, and there was a boss fight against a giant snake in a basket.

I think we only had a demo version on our computer, because I don't remember anything after the snake fight. Any idea what game this was?
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Found it: Fury 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_8tSpXLuK8

Man, that takes me back, haha.
 
Their is a SNES game with Lamborghini's in it. ( I believe). It's a racing game, and has day and night races. I remember racing through a desert. The best of the game was the music... Can't for the life of me remember the name of the game.
 
caliblue15 said:
Their is a SNES game with Lamborghini's in it. ( I believe). It's a racing game, and has day and night races. I remember racing through a desert. The best of the game was the music... Can't for the life of me remember the name of the game.
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Is this it? There can't be many Lambo games on the SNES...

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Let's make this harder...

There was a SNES game, where if you held the button it would make your ball bigger and bigger, then explode all over the screen. As it got bigger it changed what type of ball it was. Basketball, bowling ball, etc. I think it was a puzzle game too.
 
A 2D platformer for DOS from the late 80's/early 90's in which you played as a monkey. The title might have included the words "Monkey" or "Ape" (but it's definitely not Secret of Monkey Island). The main menu was built like a regular level where you could move and jump around, and the game's title and/or credits were spelled out with large blocks in the background. The first level had you starting in a tiny cave on the left side of the screen and then going to the right. I also remember palm trees and a waterfall in this level. I think the enemies were snakes and you could throw boomerangs (or maybe bananas?) at them. I played the game on an XT computer with CGA graphics (I distinctly remember the black/white/magenta/cyan colour palette). I don't remember anything about the sound or music. I've looked all over the internet for this game and never found anything so it must be pretty obscure.

I posted this over on Giant Bomb as well but no one's solved it yet. Someone suggested the game "Toki", which fits my description really well, but it's not it.
 
phantomsnake said:
A 2D platformer for DOS from the late 80's/early 90's in which you played as a monkey. The title might have included the words "Monkey" or "Ape" (but it's definitely not Secret of Monkey Island). The main menu was built like a regular level where you could move and jump around, and the game's title and/or credits were spelled out with large blocks in the background. The first level had you starting in a tiny cave on the left side of the screen and then going to the right. I also remember palm trees and a waterfall in this level. I think the enemies were snakes and you could throw boomerangs (or maybe bananas?) at them. I played the game on an XT computer with CGA graphics (I distinctly remember the black/white/magenta/cyan colour palette). I don't remember anything about the sound or music. I've looked all over the internet for this game and never found anything so it must be pretty obscure.

I posted this over on Giant Bomb as well but no one's solved it yet. Someone suggested the game "Toki", which fits my description really well, but it's not it.
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Doesn't fix your description entirely, but maybe this game?

Livingstone, I Presume?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovMmoVmrykQ
 
CoffeeJanitor said:
There's this point and click PC game that my family got when we first got our PC in 95 or 96...It had static images on each screen and it was really easy to get lost. I vaguely remember everything being futuristic, and the main character may have been a robot or something as well.

Hopefully this isn't too vague...
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It's pretty vague, but Iron Helix fits all your descriptors. Could it be that?
 
-Some PC game

-older (looked to be from the 90's-early 00's)

-first person

-had a bunch of medieval stuff. Jesters and all that kind of stuff.

-a lot of text i think

-i want to say there was a puzzle element to it, but i'm not sure

-might have been educational

Always bothered me. I never could remember what that game was. Don't even remember if I played it or watched someone play it.
 
I remember a lot of neat games on Sega Channel that I forget the names to... like umm.... there was this one with red vs blue soldiers running around on a single screen...
 
Super Nintendo game I played.... Was a platformer based in Jurassic times where you would advance on the right screen killing various monsters, with the odd dinosaur boss once in a while.

Only boss fight I remeber really well was a pterodactyl, I am not sure either but I think after you died you would go back to start of game. (I remeber replaying a lot of the earlier bosses, or could be just because I rented the game often)
 
phantomsnake said:
That's not it either, unfortunately. Looks pretty close though.
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I stumbled on a game I'd never noticed (and doesn't even appear to have an English name!), but it *seems* like it might fit the bill:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/super-kof

No CGA screenshots, but it may well have supported CGA given the era.

Izick said:
-Some PC game

-older (looked to be from the 90's-early 00's)

-first person

-had a bunch of medieval stuff. Jesters and all that kind of stuff.

-a lot of text i think

-i want to say there was a puzzle element to it, but i'm not sure

-might have been educational

Always bothered me. I never could remember what that game was. Don't even remember if I played it or watched someone play it.
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Could it be Mindmaze, the game in Encarta?

Dechaios said:
I remember a lot of neat games on Sega Channel that I forget the names to... like umm.... there was this one with red vs blue soldiers running around on a single screen...
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I kept thinking of Major Havoc - which I knew was wrong (that's an old vector game), but was sure the name was similar. Finally hit on it: General Chaos. That it?

Svafnir said:
Super Nintendo game I played.... Was a platformer based in Jurassic times where you would advance on the right screen killing various monsters, with the odd dinosaur boss once in a while.

Only boss fight I remeber really well was a pterodactyl, I am not sure either but I think after you died you would go back to start of game. (I remeber replaying a lot of the earlier bosses, or could be just because I rented the game often)
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Joe and Mac's the most obvious possibility here.
 
I have one of these of my own... I don't know if anyone will know this, but for a long time now I've been wondering what, exactly, a mid '90s Windows (3.1 or something, I'm pretty sure) shareware or freeware game I remember is. The graphics looked like they were Pac-Man inspired, with a Pac-Man like player character and a blue field. However, the field was a grid, and the character could only move on the grid; black areas were impassable. You had to either eat all the dots, or defeat the enemies, or something. Wondering what exactly this was has been bugging me for years...

There was also an little old DOS motorcycle game I forget the name of. It was freeware or shareware, and was a single-sceen game broken into two or three parts. You'd drive straight and then jump over some stuff at certain point(s) (I forget if there was one jump or several). Basically it's splitscreen, with horizontal splits, and once you hit the right edge of the screen of one window you would go down to the left edge of the next one down. I don't care about this game as much as the above one, but I do forget the name. I presume this was a CGA game.

Teppic said:
Terminal Velocity is another game just like it.
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Yeah, that is a trilogy of sorts from the studio Terminal Reality. While each game has an entirely different plot and setting, gameplay-wise they are very similar. Terminal Velocity is the first game, Fury3 and its expansion the second game, and Hellbender the third game. The first one's for DOS and was published by Apogee, the other two for Win9x and were published by Microsoft.

caliblue15 said:
After looking up this game, I found out it is Top Gear.

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Here is the music, that made this game amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC0hDzEyx98&feature=bf_next&list=PL5DD4362AE8E015DE&lf=plpp_play_all

and some gameplay:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvnYFrBfVNo
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Top Gear is a pretty fantastic game, yeah, and I love the soundtrack as well. The series was quite good on the SNES and N64, particularly; all three SNES games and all four N64 ones are good games. Top Gear 2000 has a fullscreen mode, instead of being split only, and 3000 is futuristic, has a bunch of added stuff, and even has a four player mode. I still love the original one though, amazing game. And yes, that soundtrack is incredible.

After the N64 titles the series faded though (the PS2 one's okay I guess, but the Xbox one an unrelated title just released under the Top Gear name in the US), and then Kemco died or something. There were also two on the GBC and one on GBA; they're okay. Those three are the only ones made in Japan, even though Kemco is a Japanese company... all of the console titles are Western-developed.

On that note, on consoles, the next closest thing to Top Gear for the SNES are the two previous games by that same developer, Gremlin Graphics -- the two Lotus games for the Genesis. Top Gear is better, but the Lotus games are decently fun.
 
A Black Falcon said:
There was also an little old DOS motorcycle game I forget the name of. It was freeware or shareware, and was a single-sceen game broken into two or three parts. You'd drive straight and then jump over some stuff at certain point(s) (I forget if there was one jump or several). Basically it's splitscreen, with horizontal splits, and once you hit the right edge of the screen of one window you would go down to the left edge of the next one down. I don't care about this game as much as the above one, but I do forget the name. I presume this was a CGA game.
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There was a BBC game named Dare Devil Denis which had precisely this structure. I have no idea if it appeared on other platforms (and even then... under that name?). My hunch is that your game is either a clone of it, or possibly they both are rip-offs of a single source.
 
I remember having a game for the Sega Genesis that I believe had two boys in the cover of the game, one black and one white, i remember they had guns that shot like green goo?
 
NubInaTub said:
It was a game on the psone. I remember you played as some weird looking dudes, and it was a 3rd person game, with 2 player coop, and you went around through these levels and just killed people basically. I know this isn't that good of a description,but does anyone know what i'm talking about?
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Loaded?

EDIT: I need to learn how to read. Someone already answered this.
 
CoffeeJanitor said:
There's this point and click PC game that my family got when we first got our PC in 95 or 96...It had static images on each screen and it was really easy to get lost. I vaguely remember everything being futuristic, and the main character may have been a robot or something as well.

Hopefully this isn't too vague...
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Maybe "Beneath A Steel Sky"?
 
I'm trying to remember this one PC game. It's a pretty old FPS that had to do with giant worms or something.
All I remember is the opening sequence, where you have to use your knife to shatter through a round window and learning how to shoot and drive tanks from some bland yelling officer.
 
I used to play on Gameboy (or Gameboy Color, I don't remember very good) a puzzle game which I think was similar to Bit Generations: Dialhex (GBA). I think it was included in one of those 32 -in- 1 cartridges. I loved the music of the game! but i don't remember its name :(
 
Tdog987 said:
Old game on an old Mac computer I played in elementary school

All I can remember is that it had a wizard in it.
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We don't know when you were in elementary school. Can you stick a year on it?

Also, was it in colour? Given it's a Mac, that's a very useful differentiator.

Also: Can you recall *anything* about a genre? Interface style?
 
shrapnelmagnet said:
I remember this one very vaguely and no amount of weak-ass search terms have ever resulted in me finding it. It was a sci-fi adventure game (likely DOS or very early Windows). You were the commander(?) of a ship and you could travel to different places. One puzzle involved giving perfume (purchased from a sort of mall) to a security robot. It didn't take itself very seriously.

Any ideas?
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The Kristal?

Tyeforce said:
For some reason I suddenly remembered this educational PC game I used to play in daycare when I was little, and it's driving me crazy that I can't remember what it was. It was under the sea, and I believe you played as a starfish...or something similar, I think. I can't really remember much else beyond that, though... But I used to play it all the time, lol.
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Odell Down Under?
 
I've just remembered a game I played a few times which was probably released roughly around 2003 - 2005 on PC. You were in a tank or tank like vehicle (possibly hovering) destroying other vehicles and probably also buildings. It was set on one or more alien planets and the environments were very barren, hilly and with little vegetation. I think they were often very dusty as well.

Any ideas?
 
Platform: Arcade
Year: 93-97 not sure
Genre: Fighting, beat em up, street fighter style but with weapons

Reminds me of samurai showdown and the last blade with heavy sprite zooming.
One of the characters had a pitchfork. Havent been able to find any
fighting game with pitchfork as a weapon.
The "big guy" character only had a knife.

Similar to this game

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brosbang said:
Platform: Arcade
Year: 93-97 not sure
Genre: Fighting, beat em up, street fighter style but with weapons

Reminds me of samurai showdown and the last blade with heavy sprite zooming.
One of the characters had a pitchfork. Havent been able to find any
fighting game with pitchfork as a weapon.
The "big guy" character only had a knife.

Similar to this game

lb2-2.png
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Don't remeber the pitchfork but have you checked Ninja Master's for Neo Geo ?
 
DeathIsTheEnd said:
I've just remembered a game I played a few times which was probably released roughly around 2003 - 2005. You were in a tank or tank like vehicle (possibly hovering) destroying other vehicles and probably also buildings. It was set on one or more alien planets and the environments were very barren, hilly and with little vegetation. I think they were often very dusty as well.

Any ideas?
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The platform would be handy to know ;)
 
Kokonoe said:
I just found out Sagaia was only released in Japan, how in the world did I obtain a Japanese game? Mind blown.
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Well, Japaan and Asia, it had a Chinese-box release too: http://www.gamefaqs.com/gameboy/569701-sagaia/images/box-99922 But yeah, no Western releases.

DeathIsTheEnd said:
I've just remembered a game I played a few times which was probably released roughly around 2003 - 2005. You were in a tank or tank like vehicle (possibly hovering) destroying other vehicles and probably also buildings. It was set on one or more alien planets and the environments were very barren, hilly and with little vegetation. I think they were often very dusty as well.

Any ideas?
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Any idea what platform it was on? There are quite a few games with tanks shooting things...

mclem said:
There was a BBC game named Dare Devil Denis which had precisely this structure. I have no idea if it appeared on other platforms (and even then... under that name?). My hunch is that your game is either a clone of it, or possibly they both are rip-offs of a single source.
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Looking at some screenshots of that game it's certainly the same concept, yes, but I'm pretty sure that this game had you jumping over busses or something, not houses, at least for the last jump... I doubt it was a clone of that game, just something similar (inspired by it maybe, if that Dare Devil Dennis game predates it as it likely does). I wonder if I can find this game...

iKhayal18 said:
I used to play on Gameboy (or Gameboy Color, I don't remember very good) a puzzle game which I think was similar to Bit Generations: Dialhex (GBA). I think it was included in one of those 32 -in- 1 cartridges. I loved the music of the game! but i don't remember its name :(
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Logical or Trouballs, perhaps? Or less likely, Hexcite?
 
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