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Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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Two ancient ones:

1) This one should be easy, a guy where you're cleaning windows in a skyscraper. Probably for Colecovision.

2) This one may be harder. I remember some kind of SimCity-like game for the Coleco; all I remember is you could build bridges and casinos. Any ideas?

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Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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Rollersnake posted:

1. Probably Memory Manor.
2. This is almost definitely Fortune Builder.

Haven't played either, but I found them both via Digital Press's rarity guide.

Edit: As a warning, if you're planning on hunting down a Colecovision to play these games again, it really isn't worth it. The systems, power supplies, and controllers all weren't built to last, and obtaining a working is system is difficult and potentially quite expensive.

Heh, no, I would never do that. That's what emulators are for.

And thanks, those seem to be it, though I still think there's another window washing game out there... hm.

Now a new one: A PC game that I *thought* was called Railroad Tycoon, but it doesn't resemble any version of Railroad Tycoon that I'm familiar with. Single screen, rails went in a circle around the screen, you had to pick up coal (I think) from one place and deliver it to another etc. You didn't lay the track, you just moved stuff back and forth. I think. Any ideas?

# ¿ Feb 11, 2010 00:31

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davidspackage posted:

I used to have a game, a 16 colors platformer where you played a guy in red shirt and blue pants (...I think) who held a little wand, and if you held down Alt while walking, certain blocks would disolve beneath his feet. You could solve puzzles this way, but after a while the blocks would return. I can't remember if occupying the same space at that time caused your character to die, or just get stuck or pushed out of the way...

It might've been called someone's Castle? No enemies I think, just platforming and puzzle solving, and possibly the collecting of scrolls. It's been like 18 years since I played this game, but it bugs me that it's the only game I can remember playing and have no clue what the name is.

Good god, I was just thinking about this game yesterday. It sounds like Clyde's Adventure.

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# ¿ Jul 5, 2011 15:01

Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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John Mirra posted:

There was a DOS game I played as a kid where you were a vampire and you had to continually suck peoples blood to stay alive and you could transform into a bat and werewolf, I think? It was sidescrolling as well.

Til you got to sidescrolling I was going to say Legacy of Kain, which did have a PC version, though not for DOS.

# ¿ Sep 6, 2011 15:10

Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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Hanks Lust Cafe posted:

I remember there was this one FPS with maybe Tremulous or RtCW level graphics, but I guess I could be misremembering how good it actually looked. It's a pretty vague memory but I felt like it could have been a Counter-Strike mod?

In any case the one detail that really stands out to me was this one weapon which was basically an alien insect or Metroid looking thing that the player character would hold in one hand while the thing struggled and snapped its teeth or claws or whatever, which could then be thrown as a weapon against others.

There may have also been pools of acid. I just don't remember. It's a bizarre and enticing memory.

That sounds like Half-Life's Snark weapon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltK0ZOGeAxg

# ¿ Sep 6, 2011 17:52

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Vault Zero posted:

I never played this game but watched a friend play it on their DOS/Windows 95 PC. It was a strategy fantasy game where you assembled an army and did battle with other armies. I remember the person playing selected a necromancer type character/race/class. I think he had an army of skeletons, and cast some kind of death poison mist that killed the other army (I think the attack was called pestilence or something like that). It had to have been out no later than 1997.

When you entered a battle I think it would zoom in and you'd see each individual units.

As I research this it looks like one of the Heroes of Might and Magic games, HOWEVER those look like they attacks/battles are from left to right, this game attacked from from bottom to top. Maybe some kind of HoMM rip off?

Master of Magic?

# ¿ Sep 16, 2011 19:38

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edit: game boy, not genesis :downs:

# ¿ Sep 20, 2011 16:07

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al-azad posted:

I'm thinking of a PC game that I know very little of. It's a WWII strategy game, don't know if it's real time or turn based. I haven't seen a single screenshot but I do know the defining feature is that every soldier is individually named and at the end of a mission you're given a detailed report of the battle. It will say stuff like "Pvt. Smith valiantly fought off 6 Nazis before succumbing to a panzerfaust, etc." It had to have been late 90s, early 2000s.

Could it have been Close Combat?

# ¿ Nov 10, 2011 16:03

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Ledneh posted:

Here's one I'm struggling to remember. It was an NES shootemup, where your character was a disembodied orange flying head. Probably bald too. Your shots were various body parts (eyeball, jaw, maybe?), and the first level had you moving through a high rise city destroying buildings and helicopters and eating people. I think you had a life bar instead of actual lives, that would restore itself by aforementioned people eating.

Does anyone have any idea what the gently caress because that reads like a drug-addled four year old's nightmare

Sounds like Zombie Nation.

Edit: hah there was another page :downs:

# ¿ Nov 16, 2011 15:34

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Perplexed Stoat posted:

I saw a trailer over a year ago for a game that was set in a city that had been hit by an earthquake. From what I remember the city was reduced to rubble and it was hot as hell, sandy and very dry so I'm thinking Las Vegas type location. The main character was a guy who is trying to just survive. Anyone know what game I am talking about, I'm not actually sure if it was ever released.

Already answered as "I Am Alive" (which took place in Chicago), but they've changed the plot to make the city more generic and to change it from a single earthquake to some world-changing cataclysm.

I was looking forward to a game based in Chicago. :colbert:

# ¿ Dec 28, 2011 15:52

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Neito posted:

Genesis game. Hex grid. Set in space, was pre-FFT but played very similarly. I feel like you started with four characters and there was one girl in the party who was like, a healer or had some weird special ability, but that part may be (probably is) wrong.

Sounds like Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday (I'd link Wikipedia but it's blacked out at the moment)

# ¿ Jan 18, 2012 06:31

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Nostalgamus posted:

I have some vague memories of a really old game.

CGA graphics, isometric perspective.
You controlled some sort of plane/spaceship flying over a cyan trail (occasonally the trail disappeared and you seemed to be fying in space. You could move the ship forward/backward, to the sides and adjust the fying height. The trail areas started and ended with a huge magenta brick wall with only a little bit of room to pass through at the top. There were also some of those brick walls throughout the trail which had a bigger gap, but had electricity/forcefields/zigzag lines that you had to avoid.

I remember rockets being fired grom the ground, missiles flying towrds you, som sort of sattelite-like thing in the space areas, and a boss that looked like a control booth with a missile attached. I never understood that one beyond 'shoot at it a lot before it shoots back' which I think worked occasionally.

Zaxxon.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2012 18:40

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Polaron posted:

Two different NES games. Both side scrollers. In the first one, you played as some sort of power armored type with a rocket pack. Pressing B made you shoot to the left, A made you shoot to the right. There were teleporters that moved you between levels.

This sounds vaguely like Section Z.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2012 18:00

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Sir Azrael posted:

I'm becoming increasingly certain that it was some sort of point and click adventure. This one doesn't match up.

Edit: Theoretically it could have been an SNES title with relatively crummy graphics as I did own one at the time...

Drakkhen?

Golbez fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Mar 12, 2012

# ¿ Mar 12, 2012 19:48

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First thing that comes to mind for me is Cyber Sled.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2012 04:42

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JustJeff88 posted:

Okay, I have one that's been brewing for a long time...

I believe that it is a SNES game, but at the worst it is definitely a console game because the mate whom I used to watch play it did not have a computer.

It was a somewhat traditional RPG that I recall being very dungeon-crawl based using a first-person, Might & Magic-type perspective with what I think were 6 characters in your party, but this part is vague. It had something to do with cards - I vaguely remember every character and monster being portrayed as such and this system might have had something to do with spells as well. The only other thing that I remember is my friend casting some sort of Earth-based spells and a bunch of small rocks pounding his enemies.

Not much to go on, but there you are. Much obliged for any insight.

Arcana. Never played but I vividly remember the playing card motif. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcana_%28video_game%29

Golbez fucked around with this message at 05:36 on May 29, 2012

# ¿ May 29, 2012 05:29

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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:

Deakul's post reminded me of an arcade game I played back in 2001 (hey, a definite year!). It was a top-down shooter with (I believe) 3-D objects. Your character was some sort of Gundam-like robot which could either fire its gun or use a sword to attack enemies.

It was in a JAMMA cabinet, if that helps.

Brave Blade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i74RwyteyGA

# ¿ Jun 29, 2012 21:13

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lazer_chicken posted:

I'm trying to remember the name of an arcade game I used to play back in the early/mid 90's. It was similar to Spy Hunter in that you drove a car and blew up other cars and poo poo, but the graphics were more like Outrun. The game had a mechanic kind of like the F-Zero games where you had a fuel gauge and at the end of each stage you drove through a glowing stretch of road that would refill some of the gauge. I thought this would be easy to google but I'm not getting anything. I hope I didn't make the whole thing up in my head.

Roadblasters?

# ¿ Jul 19, 2012 15:16

Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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Oh man, the Doom novels. The first one was okayish, but the next three were horrible horrible poo poo.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2012 14:49

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Tiggum posted:

I've never understood why those novels went in the direction they did. The coolest and most iconic thing about Doom is that you're fighting actual literal demons, in space. So of course book two reveals that the demons are really aliens and moves the action to Earth. What the gently caress?

Earth. Heh. If it had stayed on Earth that might have been better. But the bulk of the next two novels is spent far, far away from Earth and Mars.

# ¿ Aug 10, 2012 15:58

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Pablo Gigante posted:

Doom II takes place on Earth

But does Doom 3 take place in a 2 mile long spaceship where you fight aliens named "Freds"? :gonk:

# ¿ Aug 10, 2012 16:42

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Cidrick posted:

The Freds were the manila gorilla alien twins that helped Fly and Arleen, god

Nah uh! The Freds were the bad guys, the actual Doom monsters were all varieties of Freds. Sears and Roebuck were members of the Klave.

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/The_Freds

How do I remember these things :suicide:

# ¿ Aug 10, 2012 16:52

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Thors Bitch! posted:

Im looking for a SNES title, it had an odd sort of gameplay in that you could 'build' a town, which could catch on fire and have other things happen to it, but the important part is that is also had a 2d side scroller/adventure type game where you controlled a sword-wielding knight, and this somehow helped or founded the town itself.

You also had an advisor that was a little cherub angel.

Any help with this? I remember playing it quite a bit over at a friends house..

Actraiser. One of the greats.

# ¿ Sep 26, 2012 16:00

Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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Loanarn posted:

I'm trying to remember the name of two old BBS/BBX games.

The first was a coliseum/arena game where you started off as a slave with bare fists as your weapons and chest hair as your armor and you could only die a certain number of times per day. As you beat more monsters and leveled up your title would change and eventually you could become a king and then emperor.

The second was a ship battle game that may be pirate themed. You would fight another ship and could either fire your cannons or ram the opponent's ship. You could repair your boat, buy bigger ships that held more cannons or buy more cannons or a better ram.

As said, the first sounds like Usurper; until you got to the king part I thought it would be The Pit.

The second sounds like TradeWars 2002.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2012 06:05

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Fortuitous Bumble posted:

Does anyone remember an old PC flight/space combat sim type of game where you flew around in these sort of futuristic VTOL craft? It had pretty decent looking 3D graphics and the combat was in atmosphere but it played kind of like a space sim. Also it wasn't Hardwar which I know sort of fits that description.

I remember playing a demo of it back when it came out but never played the full version. Since I can't find anything that matches that description on space sim lists it probably sucked but I still want to look it up again.

Sounds like it could be G-Police.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2013 15:17

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Genpei Turtle posted:

From a couple pages back--anyone know this? I don't think anyone did.

Also, another one--I vaguely remember this game from a LONG time ago, and I'm not sure I'm remembering it correctly, but it was a 2.5D FPS. The one thing I remember about it is that I'm pretty sure it took place in the Capitol and had you fighting security guards and pistol-packing congressmen. Or maybe it was lobbyists. Someone tell me I'm not just imagining this game from a fever dream or something.

Duke It Out In DC, a retail expansion pack to Duke Nukem 3D?

# ¿ Oct 10, 2013 05:58

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Pneub posted:

I swear I've seen the exact pose from that poster on the right on a title screen or cover art or something (the other one looks familiar to). Any ideas?

e: As in, they traced it from something.

When I saw this I thought, maybe Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Countdown-to-doomsday-cover.jpg

# ¿ Sep 15, 2014 07:15

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david... posted:

I spent an evening trying to find any trace of this, it was a mech/walker game with very low polygons, each mech had two legs, the polygons were so low that i remember them just having points for feet, the joints for the legs were backwards so they ran like chickens, there were also a bunch of different types, light medium and heavy i believe and when you moved the mouse the 'head' would move wherever you looked and the legs would compensate, you'd fight other mechs in arenas and i believe it was just a versus game.

I played it in the mid 90s with a Mac at my dads office on a LAN.

Again, very minimal graphics, basically just a body and legs for each mech and just boxes for the levels.

Drew a quick mech from memory, all flat polygons.

My incorrect guess was going to be Stellar 7, but I just wanted to thank you for going above and beyond and making a really good drawing of what you were looking for.

# ¿ Oct 24, 2014 18:57

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Freakazoid_ posted:

Arcade game, either very late 90's or early 00's, 3rd person arena shooter. Each cabinet could be linked up to other cabinets like a LAN. You could choose from a few (maybe four?) characters that had varying strengths, but most people at the arcade picked the biggest guy with the biggest gun, probably because the game wasn't balanced at all.

Virtual On?

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 21:57

Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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This is maybe too obscure; it's a Doom 2 wad. I think it had one, maybe two levels, but what I remember is that the first level was HUGE. It took place on this gigantic spaceship, and at one point, you see that the spaceship has crashed into some kind of gaping maw of hell. I loved that wad but have had no luck finding it. I'm pretty sure it would have dated from the 90s, I don't think I played much Doom since then.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2016 23:09

Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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This is one I've been batting around for a while. Mid-90s, fully polygonal 3D game - I think it may have predated accelerator cards, because I don't remember it looking all smooth/blurry like a Voodoo would have done. It was ... not quite a driving game, but you were in some kind of vehicle, moving around a level that was kind of floating in space. I don't recall if there was any combat, I just remember that I played a demo of this.

Not too much to go on, unfortunately. I'll browse through releases of the day and see if anything leaps out at me.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 16:32

Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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No, much more open-3D engine, like Quake or Descent.

I think it might have been Zone Raiders... I do remember a Z being in the name, so this seems like the closest possibility.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 16:38

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IYKK posted:

Maybe Terminal Velocity? But probably not.

No, it was not flying, it was driving/hovercrafting. Zone Raiders so far seems to be the closest, but I'm still not 100% sure.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 19:46

Golbez: Oct 9, 2002; 1 2 3!
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No, definitely textured and mid-90s. And there was a track, not a flat plane. Except, the reason I'm iffy on Zone Raiders is I thought the track was a big 3D labyrinth...

# ¿ Nov 9, 2018 23:32

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Golbez posted:

This is one I've been batting around for a while. Mid-90s, fully polygonal 3D game - I think it may have predated accelerator cards, because I don't remember it looking all smooth/blurry like a Voodoo would have done. It was ... not quite a driving game, but you were in some kind of vehicle, moving around a level that was kind of floating in space. I don't recall if there was any combat, I just remember that I played a demo of this.

Not too much to go on, unfortunately. I'll browse through releases of the day and see if anything leaps out at me.

Just to bring this back, but remember how I was 90% sure it was Zone Raiders, but it didn't seem quite right? I remembered it being a non-linear track floating in space, rather than whatever I was finding screenshots of?

It occurred to me that maybe the demo was different. It was. Here's a video of the demo I just found, and it's exactly what I was describing.

Thought y'all might like to know why I was so sure yet so waffly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmPhWivZKg0

# ¿ Dec 17, 2018 16:49

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And for a new request, I feel like I've asked this before but:

When I was a kid, I remember a game that I thought was called A-Train, but far more primitive than that. There was a loop of railroad, with a few places on it to stop to pick up goods and drop them off at another spot on the loop. It was probably for kids, I seem to remember playing it in the early 90s but it could also be late 80s. This would have been for PC or even potentially C64.

Fake edit: holy poo poo, realizing it could have been on C64 was the clue that unlocked this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXOWOROBiT8 yay

# ¿ Dec 17, 2018 16:54

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I don't know about the gameplay, but one game released by them around that time is Infantry Online - could that have been it?

# ¿ Feb 18, 2019 18:16

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Second to last is almost certainly Scorched Earth, though it wasn't side-scrolling, it was single-screen.

The last one is Gorilla.bas, an ancient game included with MS-DOS 5.

# ¿ May 10, 2019 20:13

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Pneub posted:

It's one of the few beatable arcade games that's literally impossible to beat in one credit too.

What's the explanation behind this? What keeps you from winning in one credit?

# ¿ Jun 3, 2019 18:29

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 10:32

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Rollersnake posted:

What game is it where I think at the end of a battle or level, a male character yells "Success!" but the voice actor weirdly says it in two distinct syllables, like "Suck cess!"

It's gotta be a Japanese game with English voice acting from the PS3 era or older, and I feel like it's probably not a fighting game for some reason, but I'm not sure of that.

Super Smash Bros Melee? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGoRYCbnVDg

# ¿ Jun 19, 2019 05:03

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