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Pierzak posted:Not one specific game, but I remember playing adventure(?) games on the ZX Spectrum, there were quite a few of them in a very specific graphic style - linear (i.e. movement left offscreen, right offscreen, or by entering doors, no multiple Y/Z layers on the screen) and very big character sprite, they looked kinda like Maniac Mansion without the verb menu. tir na nog/dun darach/marsport? failing that, pyjamarama/everyone's a wally/three weeks in paradise/herbert's dummy run?
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wb posted:tir na nog/dun darach/marsport? quote:failing that, No, definitely not like these.
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Sep 9, 2022 16:38
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First-person tank game from the 90s. I can't remember whether it was late enough for proper texturing or if it was completely flat-shaded. In the first mission you start off right next to an enemy battleship that starts shooting you, and I played it once at a friends house where we spent the entire time trying to figure out how to go forward but for some reason it's stuck with me.
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Sep 9, 2022 16:52
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Pierzak posted:It looked similar, but I remember the character sprites being more stylized with bigger heads, a bit more Maniac Mansion-like. IIRC, that was a design that repeated in several games too. For what it's worth one of the games had a name in the title (yes I realize it doesn't narrow it much). gregory loses his clock/flunky? i don't think i know. maybe they weren't ported to my system. good luck finding them, i'm curious too now!
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Sep 9, 2022 17:15
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wb posted:gregory loses his clock/flunky? After skimming through various collection videos on youtube I reached the conclusion that I still have no loving idea what the game was, but that I most likely played it on Commodore 64 and not Spectrum as I posted, so sorry for any confusion I caused. ed: loving HELL! Literally a minute after posting this I found the game and it was on the Spectrum. The game was Andy Capp. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Sep 10, 2022 |
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Sep 10, 2022 00:28
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Pierzak posted:After skimming through various collection videos on youtube I reached the conclusion that I still have no loving idea what the game was, but that I most likely played it on Commodore 64 and not Spectrum as I posted, so sorry for any confusion I caused. hah, nice. i *did* actually have that game too! it wasn't the best of a pretty bad genre. grats on finding it!
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Sep 10, 2022 02:32
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some kinda jackal posted:OK this thread exists and maybe I can finally Id this game I've been trying to remember for the last twenty years. This really sounds like Snare by Thalamus, but that was only released for the C64.
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Nov 19, 2022 20:23
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I got a vague memory that's probably way too little and too obscure to go off of, but I'll try. I used to play a lot of qbasic games, they'd run on anything and all I had was a 486 (well after a 486 was relevant) years and years ago. I played a lot of this sorta-RTS, you didn't control large groups of troops like WC or something you'd just have a couple robots or something, maybe just one I don't remember. But yeah, that's what it was, an RTS made in QBasic where you controlled robots in space and had to do something. I don't think combat was a big part of it but I don't really remember what the point of it all was. Any idea? I don't know how many qbasic games like this were made, so maybe it's not too hard to find or maybe it's impossible but I don't really know where to go looking for qbasic games anymore in 2022 so I havent found it yet.
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I played a DOS game that IIRC used text characters as a UI, and it was kind of an endless runner but you’re descending into an increasingly narrow tunnel. I believe it was a one-word title. This was on a shareware comp in the late 80s that also had Digger, though I doubt that’s useful knowledge. Any idea what this was?
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Dec 29, 2022 16:45
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For a few years I have been trying to remember what game it was I played on Windows 3.1. It had kind-of lovely limited colour palette graphics and an unusual aesthetic and played like Myst / point and click. I put on a YouTube video of hundreds of Win3.1 games in the background and it actually managed to catch my eye. It was Dare to Dream! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nctuV4ib0tg
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Escape Goat posted:For a few years I have been trying to remember what game it was I played on Windows 3.1. It had kind-of lovely limited colour palette graphics and an unusual aesthetic and played like Myst / point and click. this was on every shareware disk
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Shibawanko posted:this was on every shareware disk Oh yeah? Is that so? Well it wasn't on the disk that had my shareware copy of Cyberdogs. Nope. That disk just had viruses on it.
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