Games you remember, names you don't

OK GAF, I posted this last summer and no one got it. I'm still similarly stumped. Anyone?

Keikaku said:
Alright, let's see if the GAF wizards can figure this out, because I'm stumped.

I played this game at a friend's house back in 1997. It came on one of those demo CD's from gaming magazines and it was for the Mac.

It had green and black, wireframe-esque graphics and it was a space exploration game. As I recall it was all done from a top down zoomed out view and you controlled one ship only. We didn't play it for very long, but there was combat with other single ships and you could travel from star system to star system.

Again, it was almost all green and black as I recall. No other colors.
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mclem said:
I'll poll my Mac-experienced friend when I get an opportunity, but in the meantime:
Pax Imperia?
Master of Orion (2?)
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Not Master of Orion or Pax Imperia. Thanks for the attempt though.

It's also not:
- Escape Velocity
- Escape Velocity Nova
 
So I've been trying to remember this PC game I played back when I was a kid (late 90s) for a long time. The graphics were like the 3D first person perspective in Doom but it was an RPG with enemies similar to the ones in the Diablo games. The HUD was also similar to those two. I didn't get really far but I remember fighting demons, sorcerers, and skeleton knights. Also, I can only remember two areas. One was a garden maze with enemies all over the place, and another was like hell. Sorry if this doesn't really help. I played and the game a few times and liked it a lot but I just stopped playing for some reason.
 
Gambit61 said:
So I've been trying to remember this PC game I played back when I was a kid (late 90s) for a long time. The graphics were like the 3D first person perspective in Doom but it was an RPG with enemies similar to the ones in the Diablo games. The HUD was also similar to those two. I didn't get really far but I remember fighting demons, sorcerers, and skeleton knights. Also, I can only remember two areas. One was a garden maze with enemies all over the place, and another was like hell. Sorry if this doesn't really help. I played and the game a few times and liked it a lot but I just stopped playing for some reason.
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You sure it isn't one of the Eye of the Beholder or Ultima Underworld games?
 
Gambit61 said:
So I've been trying to remember this PC game I played back when I was a kid (late 90s) for a long time. The graphics were like the 3D first person perspective in Doom but it was an RPG with enemies similar to the ones in the Diablo games. The HUD was also similar to those two. I didn't get really far but I remember fighting demons, sorcerers, and skeleton knights. Also, I can only remember two areas. One was a garden maze with enemies all over the place, and another was like hell. Sorry if this doesn't really help. I played and the game a few times and liked it a lot but I just stopped playing for some reason.
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ShadowCaster?
 
I'm skimming through videos of Heretic and some things feel very familiar. I think this might be the game I played. There's no other games similar to this one right?
 
This one has been plaguing me for years, since I was...maybe ten. Okay, it was a modern-era first-person adventure game for Windows 3.11, looked like it was made in Paint. I'm not sure if it was the full version or shareware, but I can only recall certain areas. It was set at night, with the locales (if memory serves correctly) in a dingy - yet kinda comical - urban environment. There was a sewer screen, an alley screen, a wharf/dock screen...

...I can recall one detail. There was a silhouette in the window of an apartment block of a woman, and when you clicked it, some pithy line would appear.

Totally running on fumes here in terms of detail, but if ever there was a thread, this would be it for the answer.
 
Gambit61 said:
I'm skimming through videos of Heretic and some things feel very familiar. I think this might be the game I played. There's no other games similar to this one right?
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I wouldn't doubt that there's clones of it, and well, Hexen and Hexen 2 are its sequels, but I'm pretty sure that if you think it's Heretic, it's likely to have been; it was published by id, uses the Doom engine, and the areas you described did ring a bell in my memory of it. I wouldn't know any bigger-name published/developed games of that kind around the time Heretic and Hexen 1 were published.

However, I don't remember it being RPG-esque in any kind, it only used items and weapons.
 
Pylon_Trooper said:
This one has been plaguing me for years, since I was...maybe ten. Okay, it was a modern-era first-person adventure game for Windows 3.11, looked like it was made in Paint. I'm not sure if it was the full version or shareware, but I can only recall certain areas. It was set at night, with the locales (if memory serves correctly) in a dingy - yet kinda comical - urban environment. There was a sewer screen, an alley screen, a wharf/dock screen...

...I can recall one detail. There was a silhouette in the window of an apartment block of a woman, and when you clicked it, some pithy line would appear.

Totally running on fumes here in terms of detail, but if ever there was a thread, this would be it for the answer.
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Sounds vaguely like Deja Vu, but I'm not sure. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PbiI-Gl-NE
 
Red Arremer said:
I wouldn't doubt that there's clones of it, and well, Hexen and Hexen 2 are its sequels, but I'm pretty sure that if you think it's Heretic, it's likely to have been; it was published by id, uses the Doom engine, and the areas you described did ring a bell in my memory of it. I wouldn't know any bigger-name published/developed games of that kind around the time Heretic and Hexen 1 were published.

However, I don't remember it being RPG-esque in any kind, it only used items and weapons.
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Yeah, maybe I just forgot it was a straight up shooter lol. This has to be the game I played back then. Thanks for the suggestions everyone!
 
Pylon_Trooper said:
This one has been plaguing me for years, since I was...maybe ten. Okay, it was a modern-era first-person adventure game for Windows 3.11, looked like it was made in Paint. I'm not sure if it was the full version or shareware, but I can only recall certain areas. It was set at night, with the locales (if memory serves correctly) in a dingy - yet kinda comical - urban environment. There was a sewer screen, an alley screen, a wharf/dock screen...

...I can recall one detail. There was a silhouette in the window of an apartment block of a woman, and when you clicked it, some pithy line would appear.

Totally running on fumes here in terms of detail, but if ever there was a thread, this would be it for the answer.
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Dare to Dream.

By some random dude named Bleszinsky. Wonder what the heck happened to him.
 
there was this skate boarding game. i dont know if it was NES or SNES, probably NES.

you could do tricks on a half pipe and if you messed up your characters would have limbs fly off or you could even break in half if you fell the right way. there was a sort of adventure mode where you could ride on the street shooting something i think and you could fight enemies in the sewers and stuff. sorry for vague description.
 
mesmerMAN said:
there was this skate boarding game. i dont know if it was NES or SNES, probably NES.

you could do tricks on a half pipe and if you messed up your characters would have limbs fly off or you could even break in half if you fell the right way. there was a sort of adventure mode where you could ride on the street shooting something i think and you could fight enemies in the sewers and stuff. sorry for vague description.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s2i4Ql0Jlc
 
I can't seem to remember the title of one game I played on the sega genesis. It was a 3d space game (one of the first maybe for consoles?) with 360degree flying freedom. I remember you could even land on planets and walk on them via first person. You had to manage fuel when flying and could get lost if you wandered out too far. Lastly it was pure japanese lol. Must be why I can't remember the name
 
I'm looking for a game on the PS2.

It's a kind of a competition, a race, with lots of mini-games and bosses that you have to win to score points.
Each game was different, there were puzzle ones, some shooter ones, but I remember there was one recurring feature, or theme rather.
The game was about ghosts. You were a ghost, you had to shoots ghosts, it was set in a "scary" mansion etc etc.
It was aimed for young kids (8-12) so it wasn't scary. It had a kind of cell faded look, kind of like a comic book look. It was not made to look real but rather cartoony.

I have no idea what this game was called and I need help to find it again!
 
georaldc said:
I can't seem to remember the title of one game I played on the sega genesis. It was a 3d space game (one of the first maybe for consoles?) with 360degree flying freedom. I remember you could even land on planets and walk on them via first person. You had to manage fuel when flying and could get lost if you wandered out too far. Lastly it was pure japanese lol. Must be why I can't remember the name
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yND5V85iPHc
 
Looking for a game on the Amiga, possibly Atari ST, possibly both.

It was a driving game where you played as some sort of cop. As you're driving along, there were enemy vehicles that you had to shoot (I think).

After driving for a while, you'd get a shout on your radio to tell you to go to a destination and pull over when you got there. You'd reach your destination and get out, then the game turned into a side scrolling shooter with you controlling the guy, shooting baddies etc.

One thing I remember was that your gun had 2 different firing modes - one was standard fire, the other mode shot a net out that would trap the baddies. Iirc, when you shot people, it was pretty violent for the time, blood and stuff everywhere. I think the character you played was dressed in red and black, too.

*Edit*

nvm, found it -

TechnoCop
 
I'm looking for a game for either SNES or Genesis; I honestly don't remember which one of these 2 it was.

It was an RPG with top-down view, and it was not with any specific battle screens, but rather an action-RPG style. I remember that the graphics were really minimalistic - nothing as polished as, say, Illusion of Gaia, but hinted rather towards being one of the earlier games of the respective console's library.
I remember having health depicted as red dots, I believe, and one of the first dungeons was a cave in a mountain. And I believe the starting town had a church. You also took quests from some sort of local guild, if I remember correctly.

I believe it also had a specific world map you could walk across.
 
Pylon_Trooper said:
This one has been plaguing me for years, since I was...maybe ten. Okay, it was a modern-era first-person adventure game for Windows 3.11, looked like it was made in Paint. I'm not sure if it was the full version or shareware, but I can only recall certain areas. It was set at night, with the locales (if memory serves correctly) in a dingy - yet kinda comical - urban environment. There was a sewer screen, an alley screen, a wharf/dock screen...

...I can recall one detail. There was a silhouette in the window of an apartment block of a woman, and when you clicked it, some pithy line would appear.

Totally running on fumes here in terms of detail, but if ever there was a thread, this would be it for the answer.
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I know exactly what this is: Dare to Dream.

I wanted so badly to play the full version of this at the time, but I couldn't afford it.

EDIT: BAH! Beaten.

But I'm glad someone else played and enjoyed this.

Red Arremer said:
I'm looking for a game for either SNES or Genesis; I honestly don't remember which one of these 2 it was.

It was an RPG with top-down view, and it was not with any specific battle screens, but rather an action-RPG style. I remember that the graphics were really minimalistic - nothing as polished as, say, Illusion of Gaia, but hinted rather towards being one of the earlier games of the respective console's library.
I remember having health depicted as red dots, I believe, and one of the first dungeons was a cave in a mountain. And I believe the starting town had a church. You also took quests from some sort of local guild, if I remember correctly.

I believe it also had a specific world map you could walk across.
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Sword of Vermilion, maybe? It has a 3/4ths isometric perspective, but the rest sorta fits from what I remember.

EDIT: Maybe not... in SoV you fight battles in an action style, but you do switch to a specific battle screen to do it upon encountering random enemies on the overworld map.

Guess number two: Super Hydlide (Genesis)? Sounds very similar.
 
Night_Trekker said:
Sword of Vermilion, maybe? I has a 3/4ths isometric perspective, but the rest sorta fits from what I remember.
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I was thinking of that too, but it's definitely not it; it was mostly top-down, not that odd FPS view.

I also remember the worldmap's ground being kinda yellow-ish.

Edit to your edit: Nah, it's not Hydlide. If I remember correctly, the HUD was on the bottom of the screen.
 
Night_Trekker said:
I know exactly what this is: Dare to Dream.

I wanted so badly to play the full version of this at the time, but I couldn't afford it.

EDIT: BAH! Beaten.

But I'm glad someone else played and enjoyed this.
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Oh man, it remains the strangest, most intangible memory until mclem came along. What a curious little game. I wonder what Cliffy B would say about it these days...
 
berg ark said:
I'm looking for a game on the PS2.

It's a kind of a competition, a race, with lots of mini-games and bosses that you have to win to score points.
Each game was different, there were puzzle ones, some shooter ones, but I remember there was one recurring feature, or theme rather.
The game was about ghosts. You were a ghost, you had to shoots ghosts, it was set in a "scary" mansion etc etc.
It was aimed for young kids (8-12) so it wasn't scary. It had a kind of cell faded look, kind of like a comic book look. It was not made to look real but rather cartoony.

I have no idea what this game was called and I need help to find it again!
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It doesn't match your description completely but could you be thinking of Gregory Horror Show? http://ps2.ign.com/articles/433/433530p1.html
 
Celine said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s2i4Ql0Jlc
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I love you!

i didn;t know english back then so all NES games i enjoyed are nothing but pure unadulterated nostalgia bombs with little to discern them with!

EDIT:

Ok last request. i remember this space game. i don't know if it was NES or something earlier. it was the first time i saw a videogame period! the spaceship went in circular motion around the outer edge screen instead of side scrolling. i think during bossfights it only allowed half the screen to move around or just let you go left and right.
 
Red Arremer said:
I was thinking of that too, but it's definitely not it; it was mostly top-down, not that odd FPS view.

I also remember the worldmap's ground being kinda yellow-ish.

Edit to your edit: Nah, it's not Hydlide. If I remember correctly, the HUD was on the bottom of the screen.
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Maybe Light Crusader ?
It was released quite late in MD lifespan but graphic isn't anything really that great.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Ep2p39XvI

Maybe Brain Lord ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4OreVjtkNU

Was it in english ?
 
There's this NES game I've been trying to remember the name. It's like a flight-sim, action game. The levels are divided into two parts. In the first part you're traveling to your destination in a first-person cockpit view, and in the second part you're bombing bases from a third-person perspective.

Any help would be appreciated.
 
Not sure if this will be difficult for GAF or not, but I can't remember a game I used to play on PC probably in the 1999-2002 era. I'm pretty sure it was a free game to download. The game played from a top down birds eye view and was based in a futuristic space setting where you manned a simple tank spaceship. The game was played entirely in teams online and the game objective was simply capture the flag. I remember the teams were red, yellow, blue and green at least, and I think something like up to even 20 people would be playing at a time (which seems odd considering back in 2000).
 
This is a game that, as a kid, I would watch my sister play:

Commodore 64
I don't recall any combat
A tree-like gameworld navigable by ladders & vines(?)
She spent most of her time talking to people & looking for things

& that's all I seem to remember. Any idea? I would love to see it again.
 
DeaconKnowledge said:
There was this game I played for the Commodore 64 over 20 years ago. You entered ruins and such and went looking for treasure, and monsters tried to kill you along the way. I think it was made by either Accolade or Activision, and i've been trying to remember the name for literal years now.
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Sounds like Montezumas Revenge
 
I remember playing this one special game as a five year old on an Atari 2600, but I can't remember its name for the life of me. It was all about a dude on a roof throwing blocks at some bugs climbing on that building. After each wave the bugs turned their color and became faster. Well, that's all i can remember...
 
Some arcade game I only have the faintest memory of. I can't remember what kind of game it was or anything. But the intro video was something like the mother and her son on the front porch, and I think as the kid goes to get on a schoolbus a big blue demon swoops down, grabs him and carries him off?
 
kingkaiser said:
I remember playing this one special game as a five year old on an Atari 2600, but I can't remember its name for the life of me. It was all about a dude on a roof throwing blocks at some bugs climbing on that building. After each wave the bugs turned their color and became faster. Well, that's all i can remember...
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Crackpots?
 
Keikaku said:
Alright, let's see if the GAF wizards can figure this out, because I'm stumped.

I played this game at a friend's house back in 1997. It came on one of those demo CD's from gaming magazines and it was for the Mac.

It had green and black, wireframe-esque graphics and it was a space exploration game. As I recall it was all done from a top down zoomed out view and you controlled one ship only. We didn't play it for very long, but there was combat with other single ships and you could travel from star system to star system.

Again, it was almost all green and black as I recall. No other colors.
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Keikaku said:
OK GAF, I posted this last summer and no one got it. I'm still similarly stumped. Anyone?

Not Master of Orion or Pax Imperia. Thanks for the attempt though.

It's also not:
- Escape Velocity
- Escape Velocity Nova
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Took me a while to go through my old Mac games. Out of all the space exploration games the only one that comes close while ignoring those you've knocked out is Ares.
http://youtu.be/9aBdD2Nfyz0

Nothing else even comes close for Mac in that period from all the searching I've done with my collection or the internet.
 
It was a flash based web adventure game i think, in which, where you can make choices. Main characters are your wife, your wife's boss, his secretary, etc, i think. Sorry for the shitty description.
 
This is probably going to be the vaguest description in this entire thread, so apologies in advance.

I suddenly thought of an old game the other day, which I think was probably on the Playstation. I remember a long corridor, outside, and at the end was a sniper (or maybe two?). You basically had to work your way stealthily along this corridor without being shot to shit.

I think it could be a MGS game, or maybe Syphon Filter?

Christ, that's not much to go on. I may as well have said 'It was a game where you shot guys?'
 
Turnstyle said:
This is probably going to be the vaguest description in this entire thread, so apologies in advance.

I suddenly thought of an old game the other day, which I think was probably on the Playstation. I remember a long corridor, outside, and at the end was a sniper (or maybe two?). You basically had to work your way stealthily along this corridor without being shot to shit.

I think it could be a MGS game, or maybe Syphon Filter?

Christ, that's not much to go on. I may as well have said 'It was a game where you shot guys?'
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUCkRYoGPcI Check 2.30

yyyyyyy Check 9.35

That's what came to my mind after i saw your description.
 
Pulgo1 said:
There's this NES game I've been trying to remember the name. It's like a flight-sim, action game. The levels are divided into two parts. In the first part you're traveling to your destination in a first-person cockpit view, and in the second part you're bombing bases from a third-person perspective.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Captian Skyhawk?
 
Turnstyle said:
This is probably going to be the vaguest description in this entire thread, so apologies in advance.

I suddenly thought of an old game the other day, which I think was probably on the Playstation. I remember a long corridor, outside, and at the end was a sniper (or maybe two?). You basically had to work your way stealthily along this corridor without being shot to shit.

I think it could be a MGS game, or maybe Syphon Filter?

Christ, that's not much to go on. I may as well have said 'It was a game where you shot guys?'
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Yeah, sounds like maybe the sniper wolf section from MGS.
 
Pulgo1 said:
There's this NES game I've been trying to remember the name. It's like a flight-sim, action game. The levels are divided into two parts. In the first part you're traveling to your destination in a first-person cockpit view, and in the second part you're bombing bases from a third-person perspective.

Any help would be appreciated.
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It's not a NES game, but Super Strike Eagle for the SNES sort of works like that... is there anything similar on the NES?
 
I'll make a try with a game from my childhood :)

- Snes game anime fighting like Yu yu Hakusho

- I remember a blonde guy with an armored arm

- Some guy like Seiya

- A power: rocks falling from the heaven

- A colosseum stage
 
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