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This one might be tough because it might be lost forever. It was a macromedia shockwave game on a coolmath4kids type website where you played a fat ugly guy named Skunk or something when robots invade, and you could hack the robots to control them to accomplish stuff since if they saw you they'd kill you. The robots were represented with white circles with a different color border telling you what type of robot it was.
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I remember playing an old shareware/freeware game, probably from one of those old 200-game CDs they'd sell at Staples or wherever, in which you were some kind of space knight venturing to "the red planet" for some reason. I vaguely remember it being an RPG with a turn based battle system, and I think it was a sequel. I think you fought with some kind of blaster. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of this game and I haven't been able to find anything resembling it on any lists of old shareware games from the late 90s/early 00s.
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Nov 10, 2020 02:48
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That Ultima that takes place on Mars?
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Nope, those graphics are more detailed than what I can recall. Also I remember the color scheme being more green/white.
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Nov 10, 2020 03:40
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Ultima II perhaps? 
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Why does the ending screen hype up Ultima 3-D and 4 [sic] -P?
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Dr. Quarex posted:Why does the ending screen hype up Ultima 3-D and 4 [sic] -P? Garriott was hoping that technology will have moved beyond mere dimensions at that point.
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AuroMarshmallow posted:I remember playing an old shareware/freeware game, probably from one of those old 200-game CDs they'd sell at Staples or wherever, in which you were some kind of space knight venturing to "the red planet" for some reason. I vaguely remember it being an RPG with a turn based battle system, and I think it was a sequel. I think you fought with some kind of blaster. I cannot for the life of me remember the name of this game and I haven't been able to find anything resembling it on any lists of old shareware games from the late 90s/early 00s. Not sure about the knight, but Space 1889 maybe?
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Last Visible Dog posted:Alright, this one might be a little vague? Holy crap I think I remember this. I had some kind of electronics...learning...toy thing, and that software went with it. It was like a cardboard box with springs poked through, and you’d connect wires to springs to make circuits using the resistors, caps, piezo speaker, etc. No idea what it was called. Definitely awesome though.
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I remember my dad had a game for the super nintendo that I always thought was extremely cool but I wasn't old enough to play yet. All I really remember is that you controlled a spaceship and could choose from multiple different planets to land on, you could even choose the sun but everytime I tried to go there it said I couldn't land. Not really a lot to go on but it's been bugging me for years what this game was.
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Nov 27, 2020 02:35
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Big Sky Trooper? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-XjLPHo4w
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No I definitely remember it being more serious in tone and appearance. Like, a serious sci-fi game. Edit:The plot may or may not have something to do with crystalline alien life forms. I'm really not sure. That idea seems to stick out to me for some reason. unknown butthole fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Nov 27, 2020 |
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Nov 27, 2020 04:51
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unknown butthole posted:I remember my dad had a game for the super nintendo that I always thought was extremely cool but I wasn't old enough to play yet. All I really remember is that you controlled a spaceship and could choose from multiple different planets to land on, you could even choose the sun but everytime I tried to go there it said I couldn't land. Not really a lot to go on but it's been bugging me for years what this game was. Could it have been the Star Trek: TNG game?
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Nov 27, 2020 05:30
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Could you be thinking of Starflight for Genesis/Mega Drive? The plot has you trying to destroy the Crystal Planet.
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Action Jacktion posted:Could you be thinking of Starflight for Genesis/Mega Drive? The plot has you trying to destroy the Crystal Planet.
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unknown butthole posted:I also remember a text box describing the crystalline aliens, it said that it was only recently discovered they were actually a form of life, as their metabolism was so slow that they lived for ages and ages. That sounds like the Horta from Star Trek.
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There was also a Sega version of Star Control. But Starflight did have a special message if you tried to land on a star:
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Action Jacktion posted:There was also a Sega version of Star Control. But Starflight did have a special message if you tried to land on a star: Honestly, this was probably it and I'm just getting memories muddled up because it was so long ago.
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Shibawanko posted:i think i tried this one before with no real luck: it was a dos action platform game that i had on a shareware cd, main character was a punk looking guy with rockets for legs, he had a strange walk animation and the controls were really slippery, you could propel yourself upward using his rocket legs, the game's most notable thing were the graphics, there was a lot of parallax scrolling and every platform was 3d or pseudo-3d although the game itself was just a normal 2d type of game Was this Rodge Rock in Retroactive? For my own thing - back when I was a kid I used to play this weird edutainment game on the school Apple IIe computers where you would choose an animal and go through a series of minigames with it. I remember a particular nonsense section where after choosing the Giraffe, you'd go down a straight hallway with a single block sticking down from the top of it which would make the giraffe scatter into a sliding block puzzle where you needed to reassemble it agian. I think there were other modes for the same game including a game where you needed to select a certain object ("green table", etc) which was naturally impossible to play on the monochrome output IIe screens that we had. Spades fucked around with this message at 10:25 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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Spades posted:Was this Rodge Rock in Retroactive? whoah, yeah thats it, finally, thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p64h3e8B1nA this looks and sounds DOS as gently caress, the game looks exactly like how i remembered
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God, now I'm trying to remember the one Mac 4X game I had where the different species/empires terraformed the hex-map planets when they invaded or colonized, and each species had a different idea of a good planet. It was a color game, and garish neon colors too. Short clip of electronic music on the main screen. Sorry that I can't add more detail, it's been years.
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This wasn't Spaceward Ho! was it? I don't think that had hexmaps, though.
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This is probably a long shot: when I was little, my cousins had a handheld game that I used to play. I don't think it was one of the Tiger ones. It was in a rectangular case that may have been a deep orange (?). I distinctly remember that the 'overworld' music was Fur Elise. I estimate that I was playing this game when I was about 7, 1991 or so. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Feb 6, 2021 |
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:This is probably a long shot: when I was little, my cousins had a handheld game that I used to play. I don't think it was one of the Tiger ones. It was in a rectangular case that may have been a deep orange (?). I distinctly remember that the 'overworld' music was Fur Elise. Any chance it was Ghost Catcher?  Googling handheld games featuring Fur Elise lead me to that and a soccer game.
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48 Hour Boner posted:Any chance it was Ghost Catcher? It might have been, actually. I was going to say that I thought the game had a spooky theme, but it's such a vague memory that I'm not sure. Thanks!
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Edilaic posted:This wasn't Spaceward Ho! was it? I don't think that had hexmaps, though. Nope. Spaceward Ho didn't have a planetary development submenu.
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Here's a doozy, I remember I had an old DOS text adventure game as a kid where you started off in a courtyard and the only detail I remember is if you went east or west(one of the two) you would run into a wild boar for some reason that unless you found a rusty sword first he would just kill you immediately.
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Looking for an RPG, on either Amiga or DOS VGA era, all I remember is that the title started with A and that it was set during an ice age. I thought it was Aarklash as it sounded similar, but that's another game altogether.
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Pierzak posted:Looking for an RPG, on either Amiga or DOS VGA era, all I remember is that the title started with A and that it was set during an ice age. I thought it was Aarklash as it sounded similar, but that's another game altogether. https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/aleshar-the-world-of-ice ?
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Aleshar: World of Ice? E; fb
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Martian posted:Aleshar: World of Ice? Yes this is it, thanks.
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Space Invaders -like game that was called possibly something like Revenge of the Space Invaders or Space Invaders Strike Back! or... not. I think it was shareware, and definitely didn't have the polish of a major release. I'm thinkin hi-res VGA or EGA but maybe it just used colour sparingly. I played it around the turn of the millennium - probably DOS but possibly Windows (it was a Windows XP machine). It had some gimmick gameplay-wise but I can't even remember the loving gimmick! It was really a lot of fun and smooth to play once you got the hang of it. It may have used  STOP PRESS! OK I just now remembered what it was called, it's Rescue from Space Invaders. I'm still leaving this post here because it's a fun game. https://www.facebook.com/RescueFromSpaceInvaders/
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I just tried to find an old Atari game I vaguely remember by googling “Atari game jumping across alligators” and google just returned a million fake sites. What’s up with that? Very annoying. So anyway, I have a vague memory of an Atari game where you play a quite blocky guy seen from behind who has to jump across crocodiles over some water, moving vertically across the screen Frogger style. Is my memory mixing up several games, or does something like this exist?
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Pitfall has you famously jumping on alligators, but it's a sidescroller. (Except the lack of scrolling but w/e).
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Wasn't there a Frogged clone where you're a chicken? Did that have alligators? I want to say it was called freeway or somesuch.
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Quiet Feet posted:Wasn't there a Frogged clone where you're a chicken? Did that have alligators? I want to say it was called freeway or somesuch. Some Goon posted:Pitfall has you famously jumping on alligators, but it's a sidescroller. (Except the lack of scrolling but w/e). Yeah, I’ve played some pitfall not long ago, but that’s not it. Maybe it was logs that you had to jump on. I remember that the main character was quite big and blocky, and possibly only one colour.
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Could it be Frostbite? I played so much of this as a kid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl1jGOu5No0 The Frogger reference made me think it may be
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This is a long shot, I'm not looking for the name of a game but info on an arcade machine. In 1993 or 94, I went to some sort of outdoor expo somewhere around the SF bay area and there were two (i think) arcade machines running Star Fox Weekend Competition inside full size, sit down, arwing replica cockpits. I'm pretty sure it was Star Fox Weekend because I remember being thrown off by the time limit and getting mad seeing Slippy's big dumb frog gently caress face on the game over screen. At this point I'm thinking they were built from scratch by the people running the competition booth because I can't find any photos or evidence that these arwing machines ever existed at all. Anyone know anything about this?
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I know that they did used to make machines for specific events, I did a load of artwork for Namco and a couple of other things for the cabinets, that was to coincide with a Space Invaders launch on a console, I think PS2. It may well have been a one off, it did happen frequently, stuff like this: 
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Tac Dibar posted:Yeah, I’ve played some pitfall not long ago, but that’s not it. Maybe it was logs that you had to jump on. I remember that the main character was quite big and blocky, and possibly only one colour. Congo bongo? Has logs and alligators.
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