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Elijah. posted:I have quite a weird one. This is one of the first games I remember playing on a PC. Hugo's House of Horrors? Endorph posted:I remember seeing some trailers for a game 2-4 years ago. I can't remember anything about it, other than the visual style: It was in a celshaded black and white style, sort of like the Sin City movie. If it's older than the wii game metioned, perhaps it's XIII. bluegoon posted:Used to be a coin-op game I that really sticks to my mind, all I can remember is a little ninja, shooting a Scorpion like hook, and big giant red enemy ninja heads in a dungeon, anyone care to give it a shot? Ninja Spirit has the grappling hook and was a coin-op. moller fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Aug 28, 2010 |
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ToxicFrog posted:Ok, it's entirely possible that this game exists only in my fevered imagination and garbled memories of childhood, but here goes. Bioforge was about a cyborg and I remember it being really melee heavy. Although if that was the answer I figure you'd have mentioned beating people with a severed arm.
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Sonance posted:Arcade game from the early/mid-90s. It was an "on rails" space combat game with shaded (but probably not textured) 3D graphics. The version I played had a sit-down cabinet. Gameplay consisted of flying over and around huge capital ships, fending off enemy fighters, knocking out gun emplacements, etc. You'd loop back round for several passes of the same ships. Frame rates were nice and smooth and the game generally felt very slick, if a little short-lived. May have even been a laserdisc-based game, but it didn't contain any hokey "live action" nonsense, just well-rendered Tron-esque 3D graphics. I don't suppose this would be StarBlade or Galaxian3?
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Freakazoid_ posted:The first game is, I believe, an arcade game made in the 90's. It's kind of like a rail beat em up with the camera behind the character. You're this super buff crocodile dundee type guy out to rescue your girlfriend from these hordes of animals and beasts. It's kind of gory and high-impact. I never played it, I saw a youtube video of it a few years ago and thought it was awesome. I can't seem to find the clip anymore after an hour of using various keywords. The First Funky Fighter? 
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Zaphod42 posted:
Don't ask just download. You play with the num pad because the original was literally a conversion of whack-a-mole.
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Baldbeard posted:Haha yep. Thanks. Now to figure out if this game is truly hard or if my child self just didn't have the coordination. It's really, really hard.
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delirious pancake posted:I watched a friend play a game around the mid-90s (probably 1998 at the latest), may have been SNES but he had all the systems - even the unpopular ones. I remember watching him explore sand dunes from a far out POV, and he had a team of 4 or 5 members. I think the battle screen had a setup sort of like Earthbound with the player names and stats on a rectangle at the bottom of the screen. The characters looked more like a Western comic book than the JRPGS I was used to. I'd be shocked if this was it, but everything that you've said seems to apply to Wasteland. Exploration:   Combat:  
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al-azad posted:PC driving game from late 80s/early 90s. The objective was to drive across the states although I don't remember from which end to the other. I can't remember if it was first person or third but I'm leaning on first considering the crappy CGA graphics (I remember lots of blues and reds) and it's a DOS game that I owned on my Windows 3.1 computer. If you drove over the speed limit too long you would be ticketed by invisible police? One of the first three Test Drive games, perhaps? Or Ford Simulator?
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kaschei posted:There was a game that was vaguely Worms-like that was very popular in 2003-2005 or so. It was one of the first big free-to-play with microtransactions you could use to spruce up your little tank or tank driver. It was basically cartoony and I think developed in Korea. Gunbound
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The Interloper posted:An Amiga action game where you fought through a Nazi fortress or similar from a top-down view, as in only head and shoulders are visible most of the time. I think the player character was green. Not sure of any other details because I never played it, but always wanted to. Castle Wolfenstein was on the Amiga, although I think the player sprite was more purple than green.
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KittyEmpress posted:Arcade game: You drive a jeep in... Africa? I think? And catch various animals. Gotta play with a little stick shift thing and shift it to the right zone to catch them, or they get away. Sega's Jambo! Safari.
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The Postman posted:This is from my early memories so bear with me. The game was a sidescroller for the NES where I believe you played as someone sneaking around a dark city in the first level. Thats all I played of it but I can still remember the tune that played. It could be Rescue: The Embassy Mission if you never got past the moving the snipers into position part. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i93e_DcCQc That part had bitchin' music. moller fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Sep 29, 2014 |
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Anatharon posted:I vaguely recall a game that was a 2D fighter (not smash bros) that had large fighting areas with some kind of platforming involved. I think there was enviromental weapons maybe? It was pretty old and I think it was pretty bad, too. Perhaps The Outfoxies?
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JPrime posted:Another longshot. Sometime in the 1986-1990 timeframe, I remember playing an arcade game that had an anime/akira-looking style to it, I think. It was sort of sci-fi/futuristic, I think? And I think the gameplay style was very similar to dragon's lair/space ace. Time Gal? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Gal
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Hakkesshu posted:Heart of China? Seems like you would remember the Chinese theme, but it is a very pulpy first person adventure game where you hijack a tank at one point. Heart of China also had a pier/dock as its very first screen. RotD was cyberpunk though, no tanks or nazis. Also the action bits were side scrolling. moller fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Mar 20, 2015 |
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Kulkasha posted:Need help remembering a game from my early childhood. Probably NES, platformer where you play as a Conan-looking dude. The only gameplay I remember is going through a beige-colored forest and entering in doors in the trees and getting keys Mario 2-style. The doorways were shaped like gothic arches. Wizards and Warriors? (or Wizards and Warriors 2: Iron Sword)  Admittedly, you're a non-descript twit in armor rather than a conan looking dude, but the beige forests and gothic arch doors check out. Also, the cover of the second game had Fabio on it. Edit for bitchin' Rare music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGWiNiLAy94 moller fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Apr 10, 2015 |
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Wing War looks amazing. I suppose it had a spiritual sequel in the AM2 developed Propeller Arena for the dreamcast. Which was never released.
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No Gravitas posted:A very long shot, but what the hell. http://www.arcadequartermaster.com/ddsom_bosses.html#stage106 The final stage of Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow Over Mystara called Inner Heart, Dark Heart? Edit: Rats.
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murphyslaw posted:Someone on the forums (I think - could easily have dreamt it) talked somewhere about a new(ish?) game that was reminiscent of Shadow of the Colossus in that it had something to do with crawling all over big monsters or -something-. I loved that game and am up for anything like it, please tell me I didn't just hallucinate something like a stupid bastard. Tia Dragon's Dogma has climbing on monsters. There's also Titan Souls on steam which is a puzzle-boss rush. And, obligatory  mention.vvv Edit: Yeah, I included Dark Souls under the "or -something-" clause. It doesn't have boss climbing but it does have puzzle bosses and an obfuscated narrative and made up languages and a seamless explorable world and moral ambiguity and a sense of overwhelming odds and a bunch of other stuff that's SotC-y. Or perhaps both DS1 and SotC are different takes on grimdark zelda. I can't think of another game with a horse buddy though. Agro! moller fucked around with this message at 21:36 on May 6, 2015 |
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Cheez posted:It doesn't match nearly anything of what you said, but if the artist is Bill Plympton and the game was called Take Your Best Shot, it would. Huh, his description of "boxed collection of minigames + screensavers based on a famous property" made me think of Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time, which was also by 7th Level. Edit: Also, the hair and builds of "Joe" and "The Boss" kind of seem like they could be evocative of regan and gorby. Kinda. Sorta. moller fucked around with this message at 03:58 on May 11, 2015 |
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Skunkrocker posted:Holy poo poo the ending of this game is amazing. 
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ThisIsNoZaku posted:No, it's not. I never had a Spectrum and I remember the graphics were almost entirely green, grey and brown, but the design looks so similar that the game I played may have been a clone. Morkin 2? Magic and Mayhem?
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SevenSocks posted:The second one I have low hopes for, but I'm pretty sure it was an early 2000's partial FMV exploration horror game, the kind of FMV where pictures or stills of real people are transposed on the world for the characters, or something similar. I only picked up the box, but the front cover was some old dilapidated barn, and on the back there were screens of the area around it and some old west town. I want to say the implication was some plot about limited time travel to certain places, and the whole aesthetic was washed out. Tagline was something along "There's something more beyond the barnyard."  ?
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Fans posted:A game I played on Playstation 1 and PC, about a future where Police drive robots with a surprising amount of guns. It could transform between a fast transport mode and a walker mode. Future Cop: LAPD?
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Neo Rasa posted:I wonder if this was finally cancelled because they started working in earnest on that official Cyberpunk 2020 game or what. The devs of Yakuza did a cyberpunk TPS around the same time - Binary Domain.
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Suffer like G did. Also I feel bad for you since the version where you use a keyboard and all the agents have Dreamcasts on their back is clearly the canonical one.
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If it's PSX it could also be the concisely named Irritating Stick.
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Fortuitous Bumble posted:Does anyone remember a World War 2 airplane shmup where you end up flying to the moon? I thought it was 1940-something but there were about 10 different 194_'s Strikers 1945   Giant Enemy Crab  Edit: Bonus Aerofighters 2 Screenie:  Oliester posted:I'm looking for some sort of robocop type game, dark and you can upgrade to get a drone and poo poo. It's not actually robocop, just something like that. SNES or DOS Total shot in the dark here but Shatterhand was a NES game with a dark palette where you were part robot and punched dudes. The main upgrade mechanic was a drone that flew over your shoulder and got different weapons. IIRC the ultimate upgrade gave you a full suit of robotic armor.  moller fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Feb 13, 2017 |
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Artelier posted:Help please! Old 3D game for the PC (DOS I guess?). Like, really old. al-azad posted:"Hello, this is IT. Have you tried Ecstatica, Castle of the Winds, or Return Fire?" baka kaba posted:It's Ecstatica and I bet without looking that it's in the op! Sloober posted:Alone in the Dark comes to mind, nothing had textures but the backgrounds, all models were largely flat, altho there was some mottled ones. It's almost certainly Ecstatica, but I did notice that everything he said other than "begins with E" applies equally to Alone in the Dark - PC/DOS, barely textured ballmonsters, surprise demons, got a sequel, male/female character selection, fixed cameras. Although researching how both Ecstatica and AitD did their "backgrounds" it seems Ecstatica used, ehr, "sets" made of environmental objects also rendered in ellipsoids, as opposed to simply flat pre-rendered or drawn backgrounds.
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  And yeah, he did lead with "balls" which is generally a 100% Ecstatica ID (unless it's Ballz, I guess.) I'm pretty sure the monsters in AitD also exploded into a cloud of balls when they died. Balls.
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That's the Game of Life, but Conway, not Parker Bros. AKA Life. Edit: I didn't know he originally developed it on a Go board and it later moved to computers. That's neat. moller fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Rollersnake posted:I was thinking about changing my avatar, and I have a vague, possibly invented memory of a cute snake enemy who rolls at you ouroboros-fashion, from some sprite-based game. I want to say it was red, and maybe from an obscure-ish NES game like Ufouria or Utusurun Desu. At the very least, that's the sort of art style I'm picturing. I think that is utsurun desu or maybe kendo rage? EDIT: Scrubbed through an utsurun desu speedrun and ole' otterman seems to only fight humans, books, ghosts, and pairs of shoes. I swear I've seen the sprite you're describing in the last year or so. moller fucked around with this message at 09:57 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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Karanas posted:Jesus Christ I love this thread so, so much.
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Sakurazuka posted:Master System Castlevania clone where you have a sword and fight Jack the Ripper (maybe??) anyone? I feel like this is too easy but Vampire: Master of Darkness?
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Spiteski posted:Double post but: I haven't actually played it but I know it by reputation as "that game with a cute kid and dog on the cover that is actually about graphic dismemberment."
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Is this not the Paradox 4x Stellaris?
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The Sengoku trilogy are SNK beat-em-ups with a character switching gimmick. I don't think any of them let you play as a Sumo, but the transformations are sometimes unlocked by defeating bosses.
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It adds a nice emphasis.
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Drunk in Space posted:Trying to find a futuristic flight sim I played a demo of back in the 90's. From what I recall you flew some kind of VTOL vehicle around an industrial city at night time. I remember the city had these big bright circular lights everywhere, as well as lots of factories. It was a 3D game with simple but quite nice-looking polygonal graphics, and a kind of purple/black colour scheme, I think? 1997's G-Police? moller fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Nov 18, 2019 |
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MonkeyforaHead posted:engage in solo battle with other units in what feels like a weird action-strategy spinoff of chess or something This part sounds like Archon but the rest of the details don't really fit since that's "a literal chessboard" rather than "move screen to screen"
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