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captain n posted:I have one, played it as a kid on my PC maybe 10 to 12 years ago. seemed to have pretty decent 3d at the time. You are in space on other planets, and you basically drive around space tanks blowing up other people and completing missions. You can get out of your vehicle and snipe. Had a neat online multiplayer where you fought other players. I remember playing it with a dial up connection, which was interesting. Battlezone 1 or 2, I've only played BZ2 but I'm pretty sure BZ1 allowed you to get out and snipe as well. BZ2 was one of those games that looked completely amazing at the time and then you come back and are amazed are how ordinary it looks now.
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Emo Businessman posted:I remember downloading a freeware/shareware game way back in the Windows 3.1/95 days that played a lot like a poor man's Civilization (this was before I knew what Civilization was). It was top-down and you had bases and could build units and move those units X number of spaces per turn, but maps were only as large as the screen and I don't remember anything along the lines of technology/diplomacy/whatever. Jog anyone's memory?
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MyronGognitti posted:I remember some first person adventure game with real actors, you started out in a hotel where some guy with a baseball bat gives you your hotel room key. This is Shivers 2: Harvest Of souls and its one of my favorite sierra adventure games. The soundtrack was phenomenal. When you were in the trailer of one of the main NPCs, the fridge had a Bee hive in it, if I recall.
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Okay this might be a very different kind of game i've forgotten the name to, as most in the thread are old. This game is a flash game, and probably made in Japan. You start out as a mecha soldier, you have a jetpack for jumping, and the first level includes tanks only as enemies, which you are supposed to destroy. It's a side scrolling game, and when you completed the level, you earn money and can buy new weapons (I remember the Sniper, and a sword that was next to useless), new suits, or upgrade your current suit (upgrade goes in jumping efficiency, armor quality, etc). I remember I played the poo poo of the game, and had tons of fun, but I seriously cannot remember the name, so I can't play it anymore. I've tried numerous searches, but to no avail. Anyone else played this Japanese mecha-soldier side-scrolling flash-based game?
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This one has been bugging me for a long time. About fifteen years ago I went to a summer day camp and they had a computer lab. We played this game I remember being particularly fun - I'm not quite sure if this was a Mac lab or a PC lab but given the time frame I'll guess Mac. Basically it was a LAN game that featured an over the top view of a Dungeon. You were a wizard or something and walked around the dungeon, casting spells and such at your opponents. You could pick up new spells and maybe weapons. I know this is pretty vague but this was fifteen years ago when I was 7 so I don't have the most detailed memory of the gameplay. Anyone have the slightest idea of what this could be?
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Mathemagician posted:Is this Robotica? Where the government used death-row inmates to remotely operate mechs in dangerous combat zones and rebel sites because the problem with the link-up was if the connection was severed (i.e. mech destroyed) the person would die? I'm not sure this was even for the PS1, as I played it on the Saturn, but I remember some games were cross-platform. I'm trying to remember a game that seems like this. I remember it being either a PS1 or 2 game, and seems very similar to this. I want to say you were a mech and you fought indoors and it was usually dark. It was a hard as poo poo game, and I remember it being pretty creepy as well. Story had something to do with aliens or a virus or something? Anyone? I know this is a really lovely description but I remember having a lot of fun with this game and really want to pick it up again. *edit* Ah did some more searching around after taking a break and realized that someone had come up with the answer already. The game I was looking for was "Kileak - The DNA Imperative". Was this game as fun as I remember it? USMC_Karl fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Jun 22, 2008 |
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Auriga posted:Edit: And a PC game I played, way back in 1999 where the first level had you as a turret shooting down UFOs and then had you escorting tanks as a helicopter. And the next level had you as a turret shooting alien uboats. It was a very simple game. Incoming? Edit: So beaten, didn't realise I was replying to the 1st page. I'll put one up though: It was a space duel game, very similar to kspaceduel for anyone who runs KDE. There were plenty of ship types on offer, with very individual weaponary. I can remember one that had some kind of whirly shield blocks protecting it for example. Fairly sure there was some sort of gravity/momentum incorporated into the game, it could be played by two people at the keyboard and was a DOS game. Prince John fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Jun 22, 2008 |
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First generation playstation game. It was a racer, not dissimilar to wipeout, but with weapons, and you were tied to the track somehow. The opening sequence was cool (at the time) pre-rendered cgi of two racers fighting each other.
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I remember several years ago, maybe in the mid-late 90's, I played an arcade game that was a painfully generic platformer--almost a metal slug clone--except you played as a couple of kids and the weapons were things like yo-yo's and boomerangs and such childishness. It sounds boring written down like that but it was pretty fast-paced and had a decent replay value until I got stuck in the obligatory "riding a mine cart" level. Also I remember mummy's in one of the levels.
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captain n posted:I have one, played it as a kid on my PC maybe 10 to 12 years ago. seemed to have pretty decent 3d at the time. You are in space on other planets, and you basically drive around space tanks blowing up other people and completing missions. You can get out of your vehicle and snipe. Had a neat online multiplayer where you fought other players. I remember playing it with a dial up connection, which was interesting. Battlezone, 1998 remake? I have that installed right now, it's awesome.
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Serephina posted:Battlezone, 1998 remake? That is it! Thanks a lot, I lost the cd some time ago and could never remember the name. That was one of the first computer games I got into =)
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Calculon posted:This one has been bugging me for a long time. About fifteen years ago I went to a summer day camp and they had a computer lab. We played this game I remember being particularly fun - I'm not quite sure if this was a Mac lab or a PC lab but given the time frame I'll guess Mac. I can't remember the title, but I know exactly what you're talking about. I think it was a fairly popular game, and was mentioned in a previous thread.
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Dr. Video Games 0135 posted:Baseball game for the NES. It was kind of silly; I'm pretty sure one of the stadiums was on the moon. I think you could break windows when you hit homeruns. That was Baseball Simulator 1.000.
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There was a windows sidescroller/platformer where you played an "assassin with a heart of gold", all I remember is there was a hedge-maze level - You were trying to assassinate some wizard or something. Also there was a sewer with annoying green blobs that would swing psuedopods at you.
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nuiker posted:There was a 2D game for PC that I played in the 90s, it was all online and multiplayer. It was a space shooter where you started out in a dinky ship and had to build up points to upgrade various parts or to a better ship. There were three different sides you could choose from the beginning and depending on which side you got was which team you were on in various map. What was cool about it was that there was a bunch of different scenarios like collecting "ore" or just kill for most points. Was it Subspace?
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There was this Sega Genesis game where you were in a haunted house or castle full of monsters. At one point in the game you encounter a kid(woman?), you tell him you'll be back for him, and later on there is a cut scene where he is either captured or killed. One of the bosses was a huge guy with lots of women's corpses around him. I remember it not being very kid friendly and scaring me.
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Here's a tough one. I remember playing this game in '93 or '94. It was a very simple Windows game where you controlled an icon at the bottom of a blue screen. Your job was to catch random icons falling from the top of the screen. There were different rounds, each with a different icon and a faster speed. Some of the icons included shopping carts and 'Dad's Old Green Chair'. I loved it when I was 7-years old. Any idea? I'd be really surprised if anybody knew what I was talking about.
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Private Snowball posted:There was this Sega Genesis game where you were in a haunted house or castle full of monsters. At one point in the game you encounter a kid(woman?), you tell him you'll be back for him, and later on there is a cut scene where he is either captured or killed. One of the bosses was a huge guy with lots of women's corpses around him. I remember it not being very kid friendly and scaring me. I've not played them, but I'm reasonably sure this is Splatterhouse 2 or 3. Probably 3 because it's more story-oriented.
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Rollersnake posted:I've not played them, but I'm reasonably sure this is Splatterhouse 2 or 3. Probably 3 because it's more story-oriented. It is Splatterhouse 3. Thanks.
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I can't exactly remember when it was, probably mid-late 90's, but there was this 2d space shooter (top down I think)where it would start with you looking at a computer going "Good morning dave..." and I think it said something about there being something wrong with the computer and you had to go in and fix it and this involved piloting a really cool spaceship. If I remember right there were other kinds of spaceships too.
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Mr_Person posted:I can't remember the title, but I know exactly what you're talking about. I think it was a fairly popular game, and was mentioned in a previous thread.
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SheepThrowinBoy posted:I remember several years ago, maybe in the mid-late 90's, I played an arcade game that was a painfully generic platformer--almost a metal slug clone--except you played as a couple of kids and the weapons were things like yo-yo's and boomerangs and such childishness. It sounds boring written down like that but it was pretty fast-paced and had a decent replay value until I got stuck in the obligatory "riding a mine cart" level. Also I remember mummy's in one of the levels. I think this is Blue's Journey.
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Ok, another one... I remember it used the NES power pad-or something very similar to it. It would have been for a console from the early 90's, possibly even stand-alone. The one thing i remember is that it was very brightly colored-the power pad pics on google don't quite match up to what i remember. The games were very girly and kid-oriented, (I remember a vaguely strawberry-shortcake looking person, and it was a series of minigames) and the mat was different colors. of course, it may have just been a standard power pad, as this is going back about 14 years, but I figured it was worth a shot.
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I had this in white whales, but I can't remember the name - which isn't doing me any favors in actually playing it. An arcade game from at least a decade ago: An air combat simulator; the cabinet I played had 2 positions. You sat in a chair and the controls were a stick and a throttle/collective, and you could be a plane, a helicopter, or a Harrier. It was head to head and you could play a human or against the computer. Playing against the computer had 2 modes. On easy mode you alternated chasing the computer for ~45 seconds, then they did the same; hard mode you could fly around a 3-D arena. Against a human was in the arena. Helicopters could shoot tons of rockets but were slow; planes could shoot only a few missiles but were much faster. The Harrier behaved as you would expect it to (could hover or fly depending on how you set the throttle). I think it was called "Air Combat" and I only ever saw it once. Maybe published by Sega?
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I stumbled upon a free browser game in 2006ish, and I can't for the life of me find it again. I know it sounds really gay, but it revolved around raising a red dragonling. You'd get some points per day, and you could plug them into different abilities or stats to make it evolve quicker. You fought other dragons to raise your rank. I remember the page had a dark green background. They weren't 3-D models, but jpgs. The drawings were so cool. 
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Midjack posted:I think it was called "Air Combat" and I only ever saw it once. Maybe published by Sega? Was the 3D arena, and the cabinet itself, mostly red and yellow? I think I've played this.
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I played a game in middle school (1999-2002 ish) that was set in a haunted house. It was a platformer style game, the protagonist fought through level after level using soccer balls as a weapon. It was, as far as I know, PC only. I want to say the name of the game is "Haunted House" but I don't think that's right, and google turns up nothing. 20$ via paypal or plat or whatever to anyone who can find this game 
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Serephina posted:I played a game a year or so ago and uninstalled it from lack of time, it was a modern freeware (I think) TBS that compared itself to Master of Magic. Decent oldschool gfx. This sounds just like Age of Wonders and its assorted sequels. It's not free, but it sounds exactly the same. I'll throw in a question, while I'm here: there was an FPS on Macs that I played as a kid. It had pretty pixellated graphics, and you shot monsters, a la Doom. What I remember that was really interesting is that you would find dead people and communicate with them somehow - like, there was one corpse who would keep saying, "Cold...so cold...", as I recall. It wasn't Marathon, and I have no idea what other Mac FPS games there were. Google suggests it was Pathways Into Darkness, but I can't find any screenshots or something like that to confirm. edit: Further searching of old Bungie games suggests that top-down competitive wizard game might have been Minotaur. Calculon, does that look familiar? Bleu fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Jun 24, 2008 |
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I feel slightly embarrassed asking this because not only did someone tell me the name of the game I was looking for in an earlier thread, they also gave me the link to download it on Home of the Underdogs. The problem is that I couldn't get DosBox to work and I wound up forgetting what it was called all over again. Anyway, it was a Dos with (I think) eight bit graphics. It was sort of like Grand Theft Auto before there was a Grand Theft Auto; it was an open-ended crime game where you formed a gang and did everything from robbing houses to kidnapping rich kids from playgrounds to hold them for ransom. My favorite part about the latter was sometimes gangs of machine gun-toting grannies would gang up on you for trying to kidnap kids.
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Bleu posted:This sounds just like Age of Wonders and its assorted sequels. It's not free, but it sounds exactly the same. That's definitely Pathways into Darkness. The "cold...so cold..." was one of the dead Nazis that you talk to at the beginning of the game. That was a great game.
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Genpei Turtle posted:That's definitely Pathways into Darkness. The "cold...so cold..." was one of the dead Nazis that you talk to at the beginning of the game. That was a great game. Awesome, thanks.
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Inside Outside posted:Anyway, it was a Dos with (I think) eight bit graphics. It was sort of like Grand Theft Auto before there was a Grand Theft Auto; it was an open-ended crime game where you formed a gang and did everything from robbing houses to kidnapping rich kids from playgrounds to hold them for ransom. My favorite part about the latter was sometimes gangs of machine gun-toting grannies would gang up on you for trying to kidnap kids. Sounds like Crime Fighter.
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Bleu posted:edit: Further searching of old Bungie games suggests that top-down competitive wizard game might have been Minotaur. Calculon, does that look familiar? 
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Mr_Person posted:Sounds like Crime Fighter. I just checked on Google and it is indeed Crime Fighter. Thanks.
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Gleng posted:Was the 3D arena, and the cabinet itself, mostly red and yellow? I think I've played this. The cabinet was, I'm pretty sure. I think the arena was a city with a bunch of gray skyscrapers and brown and green land - but there may have been more than one arena. I only ever played it once.
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Midjack posted:The cabinet was, I'm pretty sure. I think the arena was a city with a bunch of gray skyscrapers and brown and green land - but there may have been more than one arena. I only ever played it once. Yeah, you're right. I'm pretty sure that I know the game you mean. I only played it once too. Oh balls. This is going to be like a thorn in my brain until I think of it.
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Gleng posted:Was the 3D arena, and the cabinet itself, mostly red and yellow? I think I've played this. Sky Target was by Sega and had a mainly red and yellow cabinet, at least in my old local arcade, but I never really played it and I'm not sure if the vehicle selection matches what Midjack was talking about.
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Gleng posted:Yeah, you're right. I'm pretty sure that I know the game you mean. I only played it once too. Oh balls. This is going to be like a thorn in my brain until I think of it. pud posted:Sky Target was by Sega and had a mainly red and yellow cabinet, at least in my old local arcade, but I never really played it and I'm not sure if the vehicle selection matches what Midjack was talking about. That's not quite it but thanks for thinking about it! The perspective is right, and the HUD is kind of like what I remember, but Sky Target looks like a 1-player rail shooter with jets only and no helicopters. The one I'm thinking of had polygonal graphics (looked like Star Fox, and was from around that time).
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Midjack posted:That's not quite it but thanks for thinking about it! The perspective is right, and the HUD is kind of like what I remember, but Sky Target looks like a 1-player rail shooter with jets only and no helicopters. This might not be right either and I haven't seen any vids of it so the perspective may be off, but Sega had another flight/combat game called Wing War that included a bunch of different jets and helicopters.
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there was this game for the mac back in the 90s where you went back in time to take pictures of dinosaurs. you had tools like dinosaur calls and lures etc to get the dinosaurs to come out for you to take pictures of them. you had crystals or something that restricted how much you could move once you went back in time. i think your goal was to fill out an evolutionary chart of dinosaurs, im not sure. it was an edu-tainment game. i think the narrator/your boss was some kind of alien dinosaur guy with a really nerdy voice. it had bad 3-d graphics. i was obsessed with this when i was a kid though.
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