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I remember some weird old games, like Circa 7000 which was basically WH40K without the license. I think only the shareware version exists anymore. Then there was Tower of Myraglen on the Apple IIgs were I can find records of it existing but barely and I seem to be the only person to remember it. What weird old games trip your memory?
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# ? May 5, 2023 20:03 |
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 03:48 |
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I always thought Ken's Labyrinth was a little weird - basically a fever dream of Wolfenstein 3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkazXciBHm0
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# ? May 6, 2023 04:58 |
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I played a whole lot of goofy 90s Mac shareware games. The first that comes to mind is Bill the Demon, a platformer where you ate human souls to replenish your health bar and screamed to destroy obstacles or stun enemies. There were lots of poorly animated gory deaths, like a really cut-price Prince of Persia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml6bO8Ro8Y8 I also remember it getting a reskin at some point as "Bob the Demon". I don't know if the rework was done by the original dev or by someone else messing around with the assets, but I do remember it having a bunch of tiresome Church of the Subgenius references shoehorned in. Remember those guys? What ever happened to them? Why were they a thing in the first place? I am looking on Wikipedia now for answers and kind of wishing I hadn't. Anyway, apparently the original author of the game remembered it and ported it to Newgrounds so it's still playable if you don't have a pre-OS X Mac sitting around or the inclination to emulate one. in other news OP what on earth is your avatar. i mean i see who it is but who drew that and why. i'm impressed but confused
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# ? May 6, 2023 13:06 |
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My favorite DOS puzzle game from the ole times was Brix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEuf3MlekgQ More than a decade later I learned it was just a complete clone of Taito's Puzznic and not the super creative puzzle game I believed it to be for years
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# ? May 6, 2023 19:52 |
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Oh, now you've gone and reminded me of Infotron, which was a Boulder Dash clone but with cute graphics and some pretty clever level designs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c24YTkn7K1w I also put a lot of time into Dark Castle, an old platformer where you attacked by throwing rocks in a parabolic arc with very awkward mouse control: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCkbp4wurW0 ...which in turn clearly inspired Quagmire, a shareware game where you played a robot with similar mechanics and had to get from point A to point B in each level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gXbtx9Kpcc
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# ? May 7, 2023 04:56 |
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Thuryl posted:
Toyonaka Ozaki, the lead character designer for PSIII posted it on his personal website a long time ago.
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 03:48 |
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yeah that tracks, it looked on-model enough to be official art but i wasn't sure why it would be. if the answer is "just because" then that explains everything Also I just remembered Spin Doctor, a puzzle game where you control a constantly rotating wand and have to move it to the destination on each level while avoiding various hazards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h4ss5mrEG0 It's apparently been ported to iOS and now I'm trying to imagine how it would work with touchscreen controls.
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