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Pierson posted:Here's only that probably isn't possible at all but worth a shot: This would have been around the early 90s, NES- or SNES-level technology. The console itself was probably entirely bootlegged and had a bunch of weird games on it. One was a 2D side-scroller where you played as a baby in some kind of candy-land-styled levels, but the main one I remember was very similar to Super Mario Brothers 3, except it had walljumps and the overworld had some kind of UFO on it you could fly around in to skip levels. I think both of them were weird Mario bootlegs because I remember them being very cheap-feeling and janky as hell. The baby one might be Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa.
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A C64 RPG or tactical combat game (both?), one of your characters had the portrait of an eagle. Movement I believe was just an abstract top-down corridor and maybe a symbol for your group. Maybe predominantly blue colors, the interface that is. Pretty vague, I know.
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May 23, 2020 22:05
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Alright there was this game that was basically: Like one of those top down tank games but it was hovercraft that could scoot around and float over water and stuff Based on some kind of medical rendering tech that they used for the terrain(?) The maps wrapped in each direction and you could go around and come back where you started from, like fighting on a little globe. IIRC the camera was locked onto your guy and the world moved under you. The shareware version only let you have one ship that had no special abilities beyond floating around and shot gun was this one mentioned before? SniperWoreConverse fucked around with this message at 22:21 on May 23, 2020 |
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May 23, 2020 22:18
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Educational DOS/Windows Game from the early to mid-1990s that I played in school. Player was journeying down a river looking for artifacts and rare animals or on some kind of safari. I remember having to find a rare scarlet macaw or rhesus monkey and bartering for medicines etc. Also, another similar game for the Mac (System 7 era) that had you SCUBA diving underwater shining a light to find treasures in shells and in shipwrecks.
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May 23, 2020 23:16
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Zogo posted:Educational DOS/Windows Game from the early to mid-1990s that I played in school. Player was journeying down a river looking for artifacts and rare animals or on some kind of safari. I remember having to find a rare scarlet macaw or rhesus monkey and bartering for medicines etc. The Amazon Trail? For the first one, that is.
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May 23, 2020 23:57
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AngryRobotsInc posted:The Amazon Trail? For the first one, that is. That's it. Thanks.
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May 24, 2020 05:28
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I found the other game. It's called Treasure Cove!
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May 24, 2020 23:23
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SniperWoreConverse posted:Alright there was this game that was basically: Do you possibly remember on what system were you playing this? Mac, MS-DOS, Windows 3.11/95/98? Or what year it was?
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May 25, 2020 00:28
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I need to find another old game I really wanted to play back in the day but never did: Made in the late 1980s(?). Had 3D graphics but very primitive. SF setting, you could fly around the planet and the solar system. I remember that it hand some overarching goals like stopping an asteroid from hitting an inhabited planet and rigging the presidential elections but it was very open-ended.
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mike12345 posted:A C64 RPG or tactical combat game (both?), one of your characters had the portrait of an eagle. Movement I believe was just an abstract top-down corridor and maybe a symbol for your group. Maybe predominantly blue colors, the interface that is. Pretty vague, I know. A while back, but this could be Shadowfire  Pierzak posted:I need to find another old game I really wanted to play back in the day but never did: And this sounds like Damocles for the Amiga.
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Catellite posted:And this sounds like Damocles for the Amiga.
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Catellite posted:A while back, but this could be Shadowfire Holy crap, that's it. Wild.
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laserghost posted:Do you possibly remember on what system were you playing this? Mac, MS-DOS, Windows 3.11/95/98? Or what year it was? It was windows I think, couldn't say what year but no chance it was older than 95. It could have been one of those dos games that ran decently on Windows but I don't remember. I'm pretty sure the version I had only gave you one map, too And the ships had little blurbs and the one that was unlocked and had no special weapon was something like "sometimes you gotta play it straight" ? SniperWoreConverse fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Jun 7, 2020 |
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AngryRobotsInc posted:The baby one might be Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa. I wonder how a dumb working-class kid in early-90s Britain got his hands on a Japanese NES.
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A sidescrolling platformer that came out in either very late 80s or early 90s, probably for the Amstrad but maybe C64. The game art was pretty basic, not as simple as the early pixel art but mostly monotone themes. I can't remember the aim or the gameplay but I know you had to run around collecting various items for various tasks, the only item I remember is asbestos gloves that were heat proof. The cover art had some scifi character (possibly a robot or cyborg, possibly on the back on the box) saying "Yowza! Mega briltoid!". I'm pretty sure that the game was from the UK. The main detail that I remember is that the soundtrack to the game was a midi version of 'Respectable' by Mel & Kim.
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Here's an extremely tricky one. • Hypercard game for the Macintosh, mid to late 90s • Black and white graphics • Looked like a point and click adventure game with a diorama view, like LucasArts/Sierra titles • Main character sprite was a dithered black-and-white rip of the "Bob" characters in Marathon (1994) • I want to say the title was something like "The Escape" or "The Prison", but I may be mistaken • The game was badly programmed and crashed when trying to redraw the player sprite walking from point A to point B
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Jun 19, 2020 15:14
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NAG posted:Here's an extremely tricky one. I do not think this is the game you're talking about based on some key qualifiers, but it makes me think of The Great Escape for DOS which inexplicably found it's way onto Steam a couple years ago.
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Classic Mac game, black and white. It was a platformer but you had to set bombs to dig through walls n such, but you couldn't get caught in the explosion. I want to say the main character had a huge cowboy hat and the enemies were little worm things that raced back and forth. We had it via a disk that was loaded with shareware but I don't remember if it was a demo or the whole game, and while archive.org hosts old BMUG disks, I'd never find the particular one as I have no idea when it was from.
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SniperWoreConverse posted:It was windows I think, couldn't say what year but no chance it was older than 95. It could have been one of those dos games that ran decently on Windows but I don't remember. Possibly Virus? https://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/virus__
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I'm so angry I didn't make the connection with the Virus! If Virus is too old, then look at it's "next-gen" sequel, V2000. If you're still not sure, compare with Zeewolf, but that was an Amiga exclusive.
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I was pointed to this thread! Cross-posting a request:goferchan posted:Just asking here because it's the de facto active PC gaming thread-- can anyone help me remember the name of the old early windows game (probably came out between 1995-2000?) top-down view driving game set in a futuristic city? You played as a female character, and I think it had the oldschool shareware episodic structure -- you drive around a futuristic doing overhead combat missions in hovercars, and I think the structure was a little bit like GTA 1 & 2 where you could just sort of gently caress around in the city between taking on missions at specific locations. Pretty sure there were illustrated character portraits that would pop up on the screen during dialogue, and that your "home base" was a bar for most of the game.
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azurite posted:I didn't see a definitive confirmation yet so I'm gonna guess Jump Raven. My dad got it for our first "multimedia PC" in like '94. You play in a dystopian post-Clinton (Hillary) future, and rescue endangered species I think? One of the main characters is a descendant of Rush Limbaugh. Wanted to post it because it's so bizarre, and I don't think I've ever seen it mentioned here. Lmao wow
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goferchan posted:I was pointed to this thread! Cross-posting a request: Sounds like Traffic Department 2192.
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That's the one👍 Wonder how it holds up! edit: It's really funny how much better graphics you remember from being a kid are than the real thing. Certainly didn't picture it looking anything close to that
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A DOS educational game from the late '80s. It was "set" outside, maybe with trees in the background. My dad bought it for me when we were still using an IBM PS/2. The object of this game was to place math symbols in a series to make a correct statement. For example: 8 ? 3 ? 5 = 6 would have an answer 8 + 3 - 5 = 6 as a solution. When you put in a right answer, there was a sequence where birds would either fly on the screen or away from it depending on whether you entered an addition or subtraction symbol (?). I thought it was a tough game as a kid because, frankly, I sucked at math. I'd like to find this game again, if I can. F_Shit_Fitzgerald fucked around with this message at 01:15 on Jul 10, 2020 |
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PsyClops posted:Possibly Virus? no, but sort of close, that mapview in the corner is tiled like the game i'm talking about was, but you were locked to a certain height, and it was more 1vs1 against another hovercraft I went through and through maybe the game i'm thinking of was like some kinda sequel but it looks like not
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In the mid-late 90s, my friend had a game for his computer that I remember nothing about other that when you died, there was a skull or skeleton that came on the screen and sang a song that went something like “evil triumphs, watch me decompose; evil triumphs, watch the flesh rot off of my bones.” Did I imagine this game? My google skills bring up nothing
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Arcade game early 90s. Planets being attacked by aliens, you went to "liberate" the planets being attacked. After clearing each planet/level you picked another one the aliens had attacked to go clear from a space/solar system view. Can't even remember what clearing the planets entailed. Something kind of moon-patrol ish iirc.
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LL_Ghoul_J posted:In the mid-late 90s, my friend had a game for his computer that I remember nothing about other that when you died, there was a skull or skeleton that came on the screen and sang a song that went something like “evil triumphs, watch me decompose; evil triumphs, watch the flesh rot off of my bones.” Did I imagine this game? My google skills bring up nothing Total long shot, shot in the dark, etc. but DEATH BY GUITAR WARRIOR.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:A DOS educational game from the late '80s. It was "set" outside, maybe with trees in the background. My dad bought it for me when we were still using an IBM PS/2. Is it Math in a Nutshell? https://www.mobygames.com/game/math-in-a-nutshell/
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Kurten posted:Arcade game early 90s. Planets being attacked by aliens, you went to "liberate" the planets being attacked. After clearing each planet/level you picked another one the aliens had attacked to go clear from a space/solar system view. Can't even remember what clearing the planets entailed. Something kind of moon-patrol ish iirc. This sounds like Star Raiders II to me.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Is it Math in a Nutshell? https://www.mobygames.com/game/math-in-a-nutshell/ Yes it is! Thank you!
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Kurten posted:Arcade game early 90s. Planets being attacked by aliens, you went to "liberate" the planets being attacked. After clearing each planet/level you picked another one the aliens had attacked to go clear from a space/solar system view. Can't even remember what clearing the planets entailed. Something kind of moon-patrol ish iirc. Could be Xain'd Sleena by Technos, also known as Solar Warrior in the US and Soldier of Light in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpGxYFT4zsA
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John Murdoch posted:Total long shot, shot in the dark, etc. but DEATH BY GUITAR WARRIOR. Unfortunately that’s not it, I only saw the game maybe once or twice but I remember the game having maybe a Shadowgate type of vibe? If this mystery isn’t solved in a few days I’ll try to upload what I think the melody was
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:A sidescrolling platformer that came out in either very late 80s or early 90s, probably for the Amstrad but maybe C64. The game art was pretty basic, not as simple as the early pixel art but mostly monotone themes. I can't remember the aim or the gameplay but I know you had to run around collecting various items for various tasks, the only item I remember is asbestos gloves that were heat proof. The cover art had some scifi character (possibly a robot or cyborg, possibly on the back on the box) saying "Yowza! Mega briltoid!". I'm pretty sure that the game was from the UK. Seems like it could be this, although it's a compilation of different games: https://www.giantbomb.com/power-plays/3030-48997/images/
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BlueHeron posted:Seems like it could be this, although it's a compilation of different games: How on Earth did you find that???
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BlueHeron is clearly also Brilltoid.
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This is a long shot: A mid to late 80s Apple 2 game where you run around as a dude in red (or maybe blue) robe. Kind of a side scrolling platformer where you climb ropes/ladders and avoid monsters to pickup keys. It’s NOT Lode Runner but it’s similar.
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Do you dig holes like Lode Runner? I just saw a game that immediately reminded me of Lode Runner in some retro computer video I watched the other day and I would go looking if so.
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No, I just remember climbing ropes and ladders to collect keys. I thought it might be Montezuma’s Revenge but nope.
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