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Lprsti99 posted:I vaguely remember a retro-style game (want to say it was a shmup kinda deal). The gimmick was that everything was procgen, and you could basically "invade" an enemy, so they became the new level, and your actions in them could affect the behavior of that enemy when you left them. Or, you could invade one of the enemies inside of the first enemy, and just keep going deeper. I don't recall whether it was all that good, but I can't get it out of my head. It's definitely not what you're looking for, but do check out Warning Forever.
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Shine posted:Moto Racer 2 is so loving good. I don't know how they did it, but the colours in both games are so nice and crisp, just puts a huge grin on my face every time.
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Lprsti99 posted:Nailed it, looks like it was more a cool idea than a good game. Ah well, thanks! Extremely on brand for Jason Rohrer, and I say this as someone who loved Sleep is Death.
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Aug 7, 2020 13:21
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Pierzak posted:It's definitely not what you're looking for, but do check out Warning Forever. Pretty fun, and I like how you can change the firing angle and direction, but it can only play in a tiny window (fullscreen causes a crash) and the lack of weapon variety kills my interest somewhat. I do love the idea of a constant boss rush that adapts to the player, though!
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Aug 7, 2020 13:23
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Motor Racer 3 is the game I'm thinking of, thanks goons.
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Crumps Brother posted:I went on a bike ride today and the map I rode ended up looking like a really specific either video game or cartoon character. I can see the character in my head, but I just can't place it. Anyone recognize this?
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Aug 8, 2020 20:31
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Number Muncher or related characters.
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Aug 8, 2020 20:36
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Possibly the Adventure
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Aug 8, 2020 21:08
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Looks like the Atari 2600 ET sprite to me
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Aug 8, 2020 21:21
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Looks like the Atari 2600 ET sprite to me Whoops, fell in a hole. Whoops, fell into another hole. Dang, always with the holes, this forest.
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Aug 8, 2020 23:15
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Looks like the Atari 2600 ET sprite to me
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Aug 8, 2020 23:42
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Shine posted:Whoops, fell in a hole. Much like real life the real threat in ET is the FBI.
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Splicer posted:Nice pixel dong They gave him as realistic a dick as they could
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Aug 9, 2020 01:12
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I also think it’s gotta be Number Muncher.
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Aug 9, 2020 02:42
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My first thought was E.T., but also maybe M.U.L.E.?
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There was a driving game in an arcade cabinet with a steering wheel (not sure about pedals) that I played, maybe around 1995-2000 but I’m not sure anymore cause I was a kid. It was single player and you drove a car that you could pick up upgrades like guns and lasers and shoot other cars with them. I remember there also being a flying drop ship that gave you upgrades occasionally I think. I remember the art style being pixelated/“retro” with 2D sprites instead of 3D. Does anyone know what game I’m talking about?
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Boris Galerkin posted:There was a driving game in an arcade cabinet with a steering wheel (not sure about pedals) that I played, maybe around 1995-2000 but I’m not sure anymore cause I was a kid. It was single player and you drove a car that you could pick up upgrades like guns and lasers and shoot other cars with them. I remember there also being a flying drop ship that gave you upgrades occasionally I think. I remember the art style being pixelated/“retro” with 2D sprites instead of 3D. Spy Hunter? I think that might have come in a stand-up cabinet with a wheel and pedals You get upgrades from a semi truck titties fucked around with this message at 08:55 on Aug 9, 2020 |
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Lazyhound posted:[...] but also maybe M.U.L.E.? I use that theme song as my alarm tone. 
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Boris Galerkin posted:There was a driving game in an arcade cabinet with a steering wheel (not sure about pedals) that I played, maybe around 1995-2000 but I’m not sure anymore cause I was a kid. It was single player and you drove a car that you could pick up upgrades like guns and lasers and shoot other cars with them. I remember there also being a flying drop ship that gave you upgrades occasionally I think. I remember the art style being pixelated/“retro” with 2D sprites instead of 3D. Roadblasters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2AegHtFar4&t=11s
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You could get a free t-shirt if you beat the arcade version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1hALb-KO8s
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Crumps Brother posted:I went on a bike ride today and the map I rode ended up looking like a really specific either video game or cartoon character. I can see the character in my head, but I just can't place it. Super duper longshot, but maybe it's Super Arabian on NES? The pink guys, maybe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0g0pMZl0tU Edit: jesus, the fact that the original question asker posted that in another thread kind of screwed me up there for a bit. Welp. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Aug 10, 2020 |
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Aug 9, 2020 23:59
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Holy poo poo that's the game. Problem solved. Thanks.
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Platform: original Xbox Genre: third person action Setting: sci-fi Gameplay: You played a character that could switch between 3 forms. I think the first was human, the second a beast that was agile and stealthy, the third a ranged tank. When I try to recall the name I keep thinking Dark Sector, but it definitely wasn't Dark Sector because that came a generation later.
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I can't remember the name of what I'm ~95% sure is actually a gamebook, not a computer game. Whatever it was, I played it in the 1980s. If it's the latter, it's probably a text-parser adventure, since one of the things I remember about it is there's a lot of text to read; and it cannot be anything remotely well-known -- I know every Infocom and Sierra title well enough that it can't be any of those. If a gamebook, I'm ~95% sure it's not any of Choose Your Own Adventure; or Lone Wolf or Grey Star the Wizard; or Fighting Fantasy or Sorcery!. I can't remember if there's actually any kind of formal combat system, and I can't even remember if it's fantasy or sci-fi or whatever. But there is an early, drawn-out combat against some monster that will likely poison your character, and then you must labor to recover from the poisoning. And then, towards the end of the game(book), it so happens that this brutal early poisoning is somehow essential to victory. Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, I guess? If you either evaded the monster, or avoided getting poisoned, you could make it almost to the end and then fail your quest. And it definitely is some kind of poisoning or disease; so it's not, for instance, the mandatory near-death in Enchanter, which is a stabbing. What is this game(book)?
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Mierenneuker posted:Platform: original Xbox Sounds like Alter Echo? Sakurazuka fucked around with this message at 13:24 on Aug 14, 2020 |
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Aug 14, 2020 13:18
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Sakurazuka posted:Sounds like Alter Echo? Aw yes, that was it! Thank you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgAuffC9-IM
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Okay, long shot, but here goes. I remember playing a first person shooter around the mid nineties that had cartoony black and white graphics, like a comic book. I think it was set in some sort of jail, and the emphasis was more on navigating the maze like levels than combat. I also think that most combat wasn't done with weapons, but by punching and melee. 2.5D, can't have been much more advanced than Ken's Labyrinth. I played it on a Pentium 1 running Windows 95, as part of one of those European CD-ROMs filled with demos. I remember this disk had a cover that depicted a knight riding a motorcycle, an image which I'm pretty sure they stole from the poster of George Romero's Knight Riders. The worst part is that I love (obscure) 2.5D shooters, but this one has always escaped me. Does anyone here know?
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Okay, long shot, but here goes. Bad Toys, maybe?
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Okay, long shot, but here goes. Maybe Zero Population Count? Definitely fits the aesthetics and timeframe you describe. And it has fisty attacks.
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Mischievous Mink posted:Maybe Zero Population Count? Definitely fits the aesthetics and timeframe you describe. And it has fisty attacks. this was gonna be my suggestion as well - not black and white strictly, but the style does have a cartoony aesthetic
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CYBEReris posted:Bad Toys, maybe? Holy poo poo, I think you nailed it! At first I wasn't sure because Google gave me Bad Toys 3D, but then I saw the original black and white version and I think this must be it! I really like the chunky weapon sprites, the have hold up far better than I feared. Thank you so much! EDIT: I mean, look at this. Yes, this is primitive compared to Doom and Duke (both of which were readily available by 1995, which is just a year before Quake) but the sharp contrast and style is really pleasing. It reminds me of GunGodz and I could totally see this style being used intentionally today. A Worrying Warlock fucked around with this message at 02:21 on Aug 18, 2020 |
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I'm trying to remember a game I played in approximately 1993 - something Turrican-ish on an early Mac or Apple II-E or similar. I played it in black and white although I don't know if that was the game itself or the computer.
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My wife has a game in mind that was probably for the Sega Genesis, but she is not sure. All she remembers is that at the end of the game a spirit gives you a choice of three rewards: immortality, unlimited wealth, and true freedom. Immortality turns you into a cloning machine, wealth creates a gemstone planet that you cannot reach, and true freedom kills you. Any ideas? That's actually all she remembers.
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Funktor posted:I'm trying to remember a game I played in approximately 1993 - something Turrican-ish on an early Mac or Apple II-E or similar. I played it in black and white although I don't know if that was the game itself or the computer. Wild guess, but maybe Thexder? 
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Yep, definitely Thexder. Thanks!
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There's this rail shooter with really, really awful graphics where you're shooting robots in a big skyscraper. Dave Fennoy voiced the bad guy and did a way better job than the game deserved. What was it called?
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Hwurmp posted:There's this rail shooter with really, really awful graphics where you're shooting robots in a big skyscraper. Dave Fennoy voiced the bad guy and did a way better job than the game deserved. What was it called? Is it not in IMDb?
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Holy poo poo, I think you nailed it! At first I wasn't sure because Google gave me Bad Toys 3D, but then I saw the original black and white version and I think this must be it!
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Hwurmp posted:There's this rail shooter with really, really awful graphics where you're shooting robots in a big skyscraper. Dave Fennoy voiced the bad guy and did a way better job than the game deserved. What was it called? I'm not familiar with the game, but poking around Dave Fennoy's credits on MobyGames I stumbled across Assassin 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK6zqr3H0rc It's not on rails, as far as I can tell, but it's got the actor in question, it's set in a building full of robots, and those cutscenes have quite a...distinctive look to them, especially the character models.
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