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I remember this old NES game I had when I was a kid where you were a scientist running around maze like levels manipulating pipes etc to get out. It had really good two player and I think it also was one of the games that also used the little robot thing for the NES. Can't for the life of me remember the name though, it was tons of fun and I played the poo poo out of it.
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Execu-speak posted:I remember this old NES game I had when I was a kid where you were a scientist running around maze like levels manipulating pipes etc to get out. It had really good two player and I think it also was one of the games that also used the little robot thing for the NES. This has to be Gyromite.
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Jun 2, 2011 13:19
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Dr_Amazing posted:This was a commadore 64 game. The first level was a 2D cut away of a building allowing you to see the different rooms. You started near the top and there was another character running around at the bottom trying to catch you. There was a copier or something on the 2nd floor that could drop papers out of the window causing the second character to run over and gather them up. I could never figure out a way to dump the papers and get downstairs before the badguy came after me. Is this it? http://www.mobygames.com/game/cpc/goonies_/screenshots/gameShotId,227396/ That's Datasoft's The Goonies, based on the movie and not to be confused with Konami's various games that were also based on the movie. (The copier was supposed to be a printing press churning out counterfeit money.)
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Jun 2, 2011 13:44
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duckfarts posted:That first one's gotta be Big Red Racing, because it's ringing a bell for me too. Apparently there's a lot of other vehicles you can use if you actually bought the game instead of playing the poo poo out of the demo like everybody. Sombrerotron posted:Sounds like Plane Crazy. Holy crap I love you guys, that's it! It's been bugging me for YEARS. Ahaha haha now to regress to being 8yrs old.
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Jun 2, 2011 22:15
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Funkmaster General posted:Out to Lunch Yes, thank you very much. Now I just have to figure out why on Earth my parents bought that for me.
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Jun 2, 2011 23:03
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Erasmus Darwin posted:Is this it? http://www.mobygames.com/game/cpc/goonies_/screenshots/gameShotId,227396/ This is definitely it. I can't believe anyone got it from that description so fast.
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Jun 3, 2011 09:24
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Dr_Amazing posted:This was a commadore 64 game. The first level was a 2D cut away of a building allowing you to see the different rooms. You started near the top and there was another character running around at the bottom trying to catch you. There was a copier or something on the 2nd floor that could drop papers out of the window causing the second character to run over and gather them up. I could never figure out a way to dump the papers and get downstairs before the badguy came after me. This sounds remarkably like the 1st level of the Goonies game on C64. The copier in the attic is actually a machine making counterfeit money, and the character on the bottom is one of the crooks from the Goonies, chasing your character, one of the children, and you can use that copier to thus distract him, allowing you to complete the level. Later levels similarly revolved around such gimmicks in a pretty fun platformer for the era, and of notable quality to be a licensed product back in the era when that was still a kiss of death. e.f.b. whatever.
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Jun 4, 2011 04:45
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Can't believe I found this thread, I knew it existed so I didn't want to start my own topic for this. For years I've been trying to remember the name of a game I played as a kid on I believe the genisis, could have been nes, not sure. Everyone I've described the game to says it's strider, but I've watched some vids on youtube and although very similar it's totally not it. The game is very strider like, in plot, graphics, and gameplay. All I can remember is a brief cutscene at the start about some ancient demon or alien overlord or something coming (back?) to earth and conquering it, and now it's up to you. The first level was on a big cargo ship or something, there are parts where the level goes up and down as if the ship was in a storm. You could wall jump, had a sword, had throwing-star type things as well. The last level was a big huge elevator going up, at the end of which you fought the LAST BOSS. I've asked about this game a few times on the internet and never gotten a good answer. Can anyone help me out?
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Jun 7, 2011 23:41
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Baronjutter posted:Can't believe I found this thread, I knew it existed so I didn't want to start my own topic for this. Sounds like Shadow of the Ninja for the nes.
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Jun 7, 2011 23:51
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THANK YOU!! I knew it was something with ninja in it and not ninja gaiden. Awesome thanks
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Jun 8, 2011 00:13
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Someone was talking to me today about random PC games from the past and we got stuck on one he mentioned... Here are the things he remembered: - RTS, probably from the mid to late 90s (he said he played it around the same time as Lords of the Realm II) - fantasy/medieval in setting - units were all human but were poorly made and they were all super muscular and disproportionately huge - there were like science/tech towers - priests that could convert other units. - he believes it had an isometric POV Any ideas?
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Jun 8, 2011 01:34
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Ok, A really old Mac rpg - I played it sometime around 1998 and I think it was at least a few years old even then. It was top-down 2d with animated sprites for monsters (though graphics showed front profile rather than directly overhead for everything but landscape, like the shining force games). Every movement caused time to advance one turn for everything - so all monsters moved exactly one space only when you moved one space. There was no attack button - you had to stand right next to a monster and press the move key towards it. I believe it starts with a shipwreck (or at least the demo started with a shipwreck), leaving you at the northwest of a big island. Nearby, there were two blobby red monsters that may have been called goblins (the graphics were not the best). There may have been a temple of wind somewhere on the island with a portal that ended the demo. Any ideas?
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Jun 8, 2011 02:14
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orf posted:Someone was talking to me today about random PC games from the past and we got stuck on one he mentioned... Sounds pretty much like Age of Empires. quote:- priests that could convert other units.
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Jun 8, 2011 02:19
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orf posted:Someone was talking to me today about random PC games from the past and we got stuck on one he mentioned... Another good guess would be Populous: The Beginning. See if he recalls whether it was 2D or 3D.
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Jun 8, 2011 12:49
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It's not AoE or Populous -- seems to be much more obscure. He says that there are no different races, per say -- just palette swapped humans. He also states that it was 2D & isometric EDIT: Actually we just figured it out, thanks to a bit of digging through Mobygames. It was Seven Kingdoms Ancient Adversaries. orf fucked around with this message at 18:00 on Jun 8, 2011 |
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Jun 8, 2011 17:23
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Rollersnake posted:Mysterium? Yes, thats it! Thank you!
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Jun 8, 2011 19:42
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Forever_Peace posted:Ok, I'd say that it was almost definitely Odyssey: Legend of Nemesis, except that game definitely had an attack button and the monsters at the beginning of the game aren't red and blobby, they were green. But other than that it sounds really close--top down 2d, animated sprites, starts with a shipwreck and leaves you at the northwest corner of a big island.
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Jun 9, 2011 16:31
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Looking for the name of an old Mac game. It was a tank battle game with some different game modes, like capture the flag. It was all black screen with white geometric lines serving as a faux 3D game.
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Jun 10, 2011 19:51
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Loving Life Partner posted:Looking for the name of an old Mac game. Spectre or one of it's sequels? If it was running on older/slower hardware it would not fill in the shapes and you'd have battle-zone style outlines. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEH4QoS4Z2g http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(video_game)
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Jun 11, 2011 10:31
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I've been thinking about this all day and I can't for the life of me remember the name of the game, or even the gameplay. It was either a PS2 or PSX game (probably PSX). And the only thing I remember is that one of the friendly characters gets frozen/turned to stone while trying to escape from a forest or something like that. Maybe I'm making stuff up but that's all I remember.
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Jun 17, 2011 10:24
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msinclair posted:I've been thinking about this all day and I can't for the life of me remember the name of the game, or even the gameplay. It was either a PS2 or PSX game (probably PSX). And the only thing I remember is that one of the friendly characters gets frozen/turned to stone while trying to escape from a forest or something like that. Final Fantasy 9? This video has a forest escape and a guy being turned to stone.
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Jun 17, 2011 10:36
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Does anyone remember a Heroes of Might and Magic clone that was set in Viking times?
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Jun 17, 2011 22:08
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I sincerely doubt this will be answered. I'm convinced it was some sort of fever dream, but. . . Vaguely MMO-ish Vaguely Tribes-ish You were able to build a personal base (you had robots of various sorts to build it in an RTS perspective) Hoverboards? You could gather a group of players and go raid other peoples bases/PVP, FPS-style. Sierra may have been involved, perhaps? No earthly idea of a name, or year. Probably sometime in the late 90's/early 2000 range. Again, I've utterly given up hope of anyone else remembering this, but maybe, just maybe.
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Jun 18, 2011 00:09
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Orv posted:I sincerely doubt this will be answered. I'm convinced it was some sort of fever dream, but. . . Was it Battlezone? Battlezone was a hover-tank FPS-RTS space game with a multiplayer mode.
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Jun 18, 2011 00:27
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HoldYourFire posted:Does anyone remember a Heroes of Might and Magic clone that was set in Viking times? There's Hammer of the Gods, which inspired the creation of Heroes of Might and Magic according to Wikipedia.
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Jun 18, 2011 01:07
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Fortuitous Bumble posted:Was it Battlezone? Battlezone was a hover-tank FPS-RTS space game with a multiplayer mode. No, it wasn't. I loved Battlezone, though. This had a patch-launcher and a login/account and everything.
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Jun 18, 2011 03:19
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dregan posted:Final Fantasy 9? This video has a forest escape and a guy being turned to stone. Haha yes that's it, thanks.
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Jun 18, 2011 09:37
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Orv posted:I sincerely doubt this will be answered. I'm convinced it was some sort of fever dream, but. . . Edit: found the name; is your game 10six? duckfarts fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Jun 18, 2011 |
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Jun 18, 2011 09:44
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duckfarts posted:I can't search right now, but i think it was like 4^10 or four-ten or some weird number thing for the name(supposed to represent the number of players that could play or something), and was a very early MMOish game where you run around on the hoverboards fighting for territory for one of 4 factions/companies. Its advertising hook was that fighting would be happening 24/7, even when you're offline, so you need to team up to hold territory. Good god, that's it! Wow. . .thanks for that, it's just a shame it's no use.  Man, it's good to know I'm not completely insane. Thanks!
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Jun 18, 2011 18:55
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Psychorider posted:There's Hammer of the Gods, which inspired the creation of Heroes of Might and Magic according to Wikipedia. Yep, that's the one, thanks!
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Jun 19, 2011 20:59
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I'm looking for a PS2 game that I remembered out of nowhere last night. I don't remember the story but for the gameplay, it was a third person hack and slash game where you could summon monsters to fight for you. You'd pick 2 of them before the mission I think, then you could use them on that one. There was archers, swordsmen, bombs...I don't remember the others but there was one called Thanatos I think that you were looking for the pieces of throughout the game. I think your guy had red hair.
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Jun 28, 2011 18:33
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Ok guys I've got a tough one, well maybe tough. I remember way back in maybe the 90's or early 2000's I had a PC gamer demo CD. On it was some interesting game where you built and controlled huge floating castles that did battle with each other. There was a designer where you'd build your sky-castle-airship thingy, and then you'd fly around shooting or ramming others. It was just a demo but I remember really enjoying it back in the day and would love to find the full version. Anyone have any ideas?
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Jun 28, 2011 20:01
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Baronjutter posted:Ok guys I've got a tough one, well maybe tough. This seems to come up almost as often as Return Fire. 
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Jun 28, 2011 20:02
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Thievery posted:I'm looking for a PS2 game that I remembered out of nowhere last night. I don't remember the story but for the gameplay, it was a third person hack and slash game where you could summon monsters to fight for you. You'd pick 2 of them before the mission I think, then you could use them on that one. There was archers, swordsmen, bombs...I don't remember the others but there was one called Thanatos I think that you were looking for the pieces of throughout the game. Chaos Legion. The link is to an LP.
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Jun 28, 2011 21:38
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MMAgCh posted:Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies. Could the OP stand to have an FAQ, or is that crazy?
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Jun 29, 2011 00:35
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MMAgCh posted:Stratosphere: Conquest of the Skies. Sorry to re-ask like that. drat, it's not on GOG and all the old reviews of the game aren't so good. Probably not worth trying to find...
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Jun 29, 2011 03:40
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Doc Hawkins posted:Could the OP stand to have an FAQ, or is that crazy? Aren't there usually 2+ such threads active at any time anyway? Kinda defeats the point unless you get all the OPs to do so.
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Jun 29, 2011 03:46
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This one is kind of obscure - there is a freeware adventure game that was released in the mid 2000s that featured classic lucasarts style artwork and interface, it was text only for speech. All i can remember was that the first part of the game was set in the arctic and you played a scientist that had been dropped off at an outpost that had come across some alien artifacts. In the second act of the game, using some sort of alien mask your character is transported to another world. The game was quite difficult and was criticised for having an overly complex story for the length of the game.
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Jun 29, 2011 20:33
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Barrelfox posted:This one is kind of obscure - there is a freeware adventure game that was released in the mid 2000s that featured classic lucasarts style artwork and interface, it was text only for speech. Was this standalone or a ScummVM (the engine for a lot of those old LucasArts games) game? http://www.scummvm.org/ sounds like something you'd like, either way.
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chairface posted:Was this standalone or a ScummVM (the engine for a lot of those old LucasArts games) game? http://www.scummvm.org/ sounds like something you'd like, either way. I'm pretty sure it was a standalone game - the ScummVM library is awesome though, I've been playing through The Dig today, I'll do Full Throttle on Sunday (when I bought these two in the first place years back they came together as a double pack.) I have a feeling the game I'm looking for may have been natively in German and then released in English at the same time. It was certainly freeware.
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