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My sister and I have been struggling to remember the name of a PC game for years now: it came on one of those shareware or demo discs, late 90s or very early 00s. I remember it having a VERY green overworld, with caves, dungeons, houses you could enter. It was a top-down Zelda-like RPG, medieval fantasy etc, and sorta Chinese in style. My sister vividly remembers a version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" playing, likely during the intro. The first boss was a gorilla... She even recalls that in the first dungeon, there was a skeleton chained to a sword stuck in the wall. If you tried to remove it, you received dialogue saying you weren't strong enough. The main character was a young or teen (?) boy with brown hair and I think the art was pretty anime-esque.
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May 10, 2020 20:35
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aquaero posted:My sister and I have been struggling to remember the name of a PC game for years now: it came on one of those shareware or demo discs, late 90s or very early 00s. I remember it having a VERY green overworld, with caves, dungeons, houses you could enter. It was a top-down Zelda-like RPG, medieval fantasy etc, and sorta Chinese in style. My sister vividly remembers a version of "In the Hall of the Mountain King" playing, likely during the intro. The first boss was a gorilla... She even recalls that in the first dungeon, there was a skeleton chained to a sword stuck in the wall. If you tried to remove it, you received dialogue saying you weren't strong enough. The main character was a young or teen (?) boy with brown hair and I think the art was pretty anime-esque. No Mountain King, but Neophyte?
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May 10, 2020 21:18
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biosterous posted:Okay this I don't have much to go on for this one, but there was this game i played in first grade: here is a mockup of what it looked like, based on memories from when i was like 7 years old 
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May 10, 2020 21:21
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biosterous posted:here is a mockup of what it looked like, based on memories from when i was like 7 years old  If so, it's called Game of Robot by Tom Productions.
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May 10, 2020 21:27
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No but thanks. The game was about as fancy as I drew, and the yellow gates were definitely just a yellow border between two game squares
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May 10, 2020 23:01
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biosterous posted:here is a mockup of what it looked like, based on memories from when i was like 7 years old Is it NumberMaze? http://worldofobscurity.blogspot.com/2015/04/numbermaze-at-last.html
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May 11, 2020 00:06
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There's two games from those old shareware CDs that I've never been able to track down. These would have been Windows 3.11 compatible, since we stopped getting those discs after upgrading to Win98 . The first one, I'm pretty sure was called Stellar Explorer, but that's so generic that I've found it almost completely unsearchable. It was a tile based sci-fi RPG, where all the characters were colored dots representing health. The other was a point-and-click adventure game with some sort of edgy 90s title. The only scene I really remember is that you have to get past a grounds keeper, and the (or a) solution was to simply chop off his head with an axe, which I remember as being shockingly gory at the time. If it helps, I'm 90% sure that at least one of these shared a disk with Zone66, Bandor, and Solar Winds.
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May 11, 2020 00:28
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Looks like the first one could be this? https://www.myabandonware.com/game/stellar-explorer-the-drosi-encounter-7qh
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May 11, 2020 01:05
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Is it NumberMaze? http://worldofobscurity.blogspot.com/2015/04/numbermaze-at-last.html It might not be his, but it's mine at least. Thanks!
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May 11, 2020 01:06
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Gnoman posted:There's two games from those old shareware CDs that I've never been able to track down. These would have been Windows 3.11 compatible, since we stopped getting those discs after upgrading to Win98 . I've only asked about a few games ITT, and Stellar Explorer was one of them. Rupert Buttermilk posted:Ok, this is a super long shot. Ancient DOS game, I think you were on a space station, it was top down, and while it wasn't ASCII, the graphics were extremely simple. You were a circle, other characters were circles, and I only remember dying really easily. I couldn't tell you if it was a roguelike or not, I just remember either getting shot with a laser from an enemy, or I think maybe running out of oxygen. 4 inch cut no femmes posted:Stellar explorer?
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May 11, 2020 01:07
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Is it NumberMaze? http://worldofobscurity.blogspot.com/2015/04/numbermaze-at-last.html nope, all the walls were made of squares, not lines
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May 11, 2020 01:25
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Gnoman posted:
I can't find this exact interaction, but I think this happens in Last Half of Darkness, and is at least mentioned in walkthroughs for the same. Does this look like the right game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sB_SO3QNWk
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May 11, 2020 01:30
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Shady Amish Terror posted:I can't find this exact interaction, but I think this happens in Last Half of Darkness, and is at least mentioned in walkthroughs for the same. Does this look like the right game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sB_SO3QNWk Even if it's not the right one, I had been trying to remember what this one was called anyway thanks.
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May 11, 2020 01:33
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But Rocks Hurt Head posted:Looking for an arcade game I played in the late 90s. It was a two-player air fighter combat game with a pretty decked-out seated cabinet. The unique thing about it was that it was on rails and the players traded who was shooting at who, i.e., it was fixed perspective from the back and you either were shooting or dodging. This sounds 100% like Wing War to me.  
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May 11, 2020 01:56
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I've only asked about a few games ITT, and Stellar Explorer was one of them. Thanks. Having the subtitle made finding it much easier. Shady Amish Terror posted:I can't find this exact interaction, but I think this happens in Last Half of Darkness, and is at least mentioned in walkthroughs for the same. Does this look like the right game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sB_SO3QNWk That is it. This was the sort of title that is really hard to differentiate.
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May 11, 2020 03:00
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Mischievous Mink posted:This sounds 100% like Wing War to me. Yessssss thank you, this is 100% it! And a SEGA game too!
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May 11, 2020 14:37
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Hakkesshu posted:No Mountain King, but Neophyte? This is a great shout but not it, unfortunately! It looked a lot more basic than Neophyte.
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May 11, 2020 19:02
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aquaero posted:This is a great shout but not it, unfortunately! It looked a lot more basic than Neophyte. I've gone on an insane quest to figure this out and I think I've found it. It's called Legend of Luwa, here's some gameplay footage (starts around 42:30) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ev5mU5LE8Q&t=2551s Apparently it's on this shareware ISO https://archive.org/details/Sharewares_Adventure_Games_2000_-_Windows_Eng
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May 12, 2020 05:25
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I've gone on an insane quest to figure this out and I think I've found it. It's called Legend of Luwa, here's some gameplay footage (starts around 42:30)
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May 12, 2020 09:44
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I've gone on an insane quest to figure this out and I think I've found it. It's called Legend of Luwa, here's some gameplay footage (starts around 42:30) Oh my GOD, that's the game. No wonder I couldn't find it during my own searches -- this is incredible. Thank you so much, this had been sitting in the back of my brain for so many years. God, and the background music from the Nutcracker... It was a lot less anime and a lot uglier than I remember, hahaha. Seriously man, thank you. I'll have to give it a play (and check out whatever else is on that shareware ISO, it'll probably open a Pandora's box of memories).
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May 12, 2020 15:15
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aquaero posted:Oh my GOD, that's the game. No wonder I couldn't find it during my own searches -- this is incredible. Thank you so much, this had been sitting in the back of my brain for so many years. God, and the background music from the Nutcracker... It was a lot less anime and a lot uglier than I remember, hahaha. Seriously man, thank you. I'll have to give it a play (and check out whatever else is on that shareware ISO, it'll probably open a Pandora's box of memories). No problem! I found another person's journey into madness trying to figure out the same game over multiple threads on different forums lol
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May 12, 2020 15:57
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Two games here Game 1: First person horror game that came out within the past few years, no older than 5 or so years. Very Amnesia-like (it’s not a Frictional game) where there’s a monster and the screen warps as you get closer to it. It wasn’t early access but I distinctly remember it being only one “episode”. Had a commercial release on Steam by a larger indie company, pretty good production quality and not like a cheap asset flip or something. You were some guy who ended up in an empty island town. You go house to house reading notes until you eventually fall into a mine where a monster that looks like a person in full mining garb (think My Bloody Valentine) stalks you. I think there’s physics so the puzzles and stuff are very Amnesia-like. Game 2: this one is much foggier. Played it in mid-to-late 90s, Windows 98 was new and the family got a new computer with a bunch of Humongous games and various other interactive media titles like the Jump Start adventure and those Brøderbund living books series. You’re a girl with blue hair, reminded me of Coraline which is what triggered the memory. She falls into a portal to another world and has to find a way out. It was kind of a non-interactive movie where you watch a cutscene then have to do a puzzle like a word scramble. The art style was like early Flash cartoons, flat shaded and angular like those Erin Esurance commercials.
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May 12, 2020 19:50
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Game 1 could possibly be The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, though the mine section is a fairly small part of the game.
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May 12, 2020 20:14
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SkeletonHero posted:Game 1 could possibly be The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, though the mine section is a fairly small part of the game. I don't know if Ethan Carter had a literal monster. I can tell you it's not Soma, Outlast, or Monstrum and it was very much in that Penumbra/Amnesia style. Unfortunately that genre was so hot between 2013-2019 that it could be one of a hundred games.
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May 12, 2020 20:50
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al-azad posted:I don't know if Ethan Carter had a literal monster. I can tell you it's not Soma, Outlast, or Monstrum and it was very much in that Penumbra/Amnesia style. Unfortunately that genre was so hot between 2013-2019 that it could be one of a hundred games.
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May 12, 2020 21:03
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Cardiovorax posted:It did. Check here for images, there's a number of them on the first page of results. Man I hated that section, I didn't expect it and it freaked me out.
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May 12, 2020 21:17
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Not Ethan Carter. Probably need to set aside a few hours to skim horror youtubers. The game was hot for 5 minutes then vanished and nothing really stood out except it was a true Amnesia-like in a flood of Slender clones.
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May 12, 2020 21:40
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Is it this one? https://store.steampowered.com/app/407780/Lethe__Episode_One/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jKrIhLDaZk
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May 12, 2020 22:12
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That's the one. The dev's twitter has posted like 5 times in 3 years so I think it's safe to assume Lethe has gone the way of Routine. Now I need to figure out what Erin Esurance game is 
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May 12, 2020 23:06
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Trying to remember the name of a freeware PC Virtual On clone where the mechs were based on operating systems or something like that
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May 13, 2020 00:19
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CYBEReris posted:Trying to remember the name of a freeware PC Virtual On clone where the mechs were based on operating systems or something like that Bootfighter Windom
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May 13, 2020 07:35
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kirbysuperstar posted:Bootfighter Windom that's it 100%, thanks!
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May 13, 2020 13:13
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A friend had this weird, possibly incomplete PC RPG from a bargain bin 10 CD-ROM collection back in the late 90s. It had pre-rendered environments and looked like a very drab version of Myst in a fantasy setting, but it had combat with animated models of skeletons etc. The game starts out with a video panning over a cabal of evil wizards standing around a ritual circle on a small island with a giant skull built into it. They all had different themes, ie the necromancer, the water guy, etc. You then explore the island and the crypts underneath. I've looked around a couple times and it seems like it's hopelessly obscure.
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May 18, 2020 22:42
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Language? What country was it bought in? Is the game entirely in first person like Myst? Was it Myst movement where it cross fades between scenes or grid-based like old Wizardry? Party based or solo?
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May 18, 2020 22:50
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i think of demons posted:A friend had this weird, possibly incomplete PC RPG from a bargain bin 10 CD-ROM collection back in the late 90s. It had pre-rendered environments and looked like a very drab version of Myst in a fantasy setting, but it had combat with animated models of skeletons etc. The game starts out with a video panning over a cabal of evil wizards standing around a ritual circle on a small island with a giant skull built into it. They all had different themes, ie the necromancer, the water guy, etc. You then explore the island and the crypts underneath. I've looked around a couple times and it seems like it's hopelessly obscure. https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/nemesis-the-wizardry-adventure or https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/world-of-aden-thunderscape
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May 18, 2020 22:58
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al-azad posted:Language? The Joe Man posted:Guessing either
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May 18, 2020 23:14
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Stonekeep?
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May 18, 2020 23:17
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Billy Gnosis posted:Stonekeep?
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May 18, 2020 23:35
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The description of the intro is straight out of Death Gate but could also be Shannara.
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May 18, 2020 23:51
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al-azad posted:The description of the intro is straight out of Death Gate but could also be Shannara.
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