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Circa 1993, I remember going over to a neighbor's house to play a black and white game on a Macintosh computer with a mouse. It was a tricky platform-style game set in an older time wherein you played a young adventurer trying to collect a series of orbs for a purpose I can't remember. Distinguishing Features: -The main menu theme was Bach's Tocata and Fugue in D-minor. -As a weapon, your character threw rocks. You used the mouse to aim, wheeling your character's arm like a clock dial, and clicked to throw. The rock would continue in a straight line -- no Newtonian motion. I remember one level where you could find a wizard to upgrade your rocks to flaming rocks. -You had limited ammunition, but bags of rocks were plentiful -Levels included a labyrinth filled with rats, an anteroom where you kept the orbs, and the Black Forest, where you ride a helicopter-backpack (wtf) above the woods and fend off bats. I was little, so I don't remember many other details, but I'd love to know what this game actually was.
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Rollersnake posted:Even better, there was a third one just a few years ago, from the original creator. My Powerbook unfortunately died around this time, and I've never gotten to play it. And I have to laugh, because I found it on an emulator, and I was really excited to play it, but god, it is actually really frustrating.
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Long shot here... I was a kid in Germany ca. 1991 and my dad took me to an outdoor festival with a cabinet-style arcade game. Here's what I remember: -It was a platformer -You played a space-man astronaut-type person -There was a planet selection screen -It was in color Any ideas? So strange the memories that stay with us. Here's another that should be a bit more familiar since it is more recent. I would troll Game Hippo endlessly in high school instead of doing my homework. This was a free, downloadable puzzle game where you had to destroy demons on a grid-like board using other demons (?) that would shoot out flames in set patterns. The idea was to set off chain reactions to eventually clear the board.
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Light Gun Man posted:Unlikely stab here but maybe.... Hm... close, but not quite. I remember gravity was a factor. The demo had the player losing his life by falling through a hole in the ground.
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Gromit posted:Xain'd Sleena? Starts with a planet selection screen. You know, this fits my description so perfectly, this must be it. The gameplay definitely seems familiar. This thread is incredible.
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