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I remember a game from late EGA-early VGA age: a platformer where to activate switches/puzzles/platforms you had to answer history trivia etc. It had civilization-themed episodes (Egyptian, Asian, etc.). Anyone know the title?
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Can anyone point me to a certain old arcade Spiderman game? It alternated beat'em up and platformer levels and had 4 characters to choose from. IIRC the first boss was Venom.
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Jun 29, 2012 17:13
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That's the one, thanks!
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Jun 29, 2012 17:35
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Help me remember a game on PSP. It was a variant of that old arcade game where you had to draw lines to cut out/paint parts of an area, except you played as a squad of mechanics boarding giant enemy airships with saws and blowtorches to cut them into pieces. Another game, PC, Win98 era: a portal opens and fantasy armies with orcs and magic invade modern (Cold War) Earth and you get to fight them with tanks, machine guns and whatnot, and later research the fantasy stuff to make hybrid weapons like enchanted tank shells. Definitely a turn-based strategy. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 02:33 on Jan 29, 2020 |
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Jan 29, 2020 01:54
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Pulsarcat posted:The first one is probably Patchwork Heroes Gnoman posted:Pretty sure this one is Spellcross Both were what I was looking for, thank you! (also gently caress, how does one misspell PSP) The Joe Man posted:Going to guess this by narrowing down the year and searching for Qix variants on Mobygames: https://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/qix-neo
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Jan 29, 2020 02:30
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I'm looking for a DOS-era game. It was a top-down shooter with "tank movement" control scheme, buying weapons/ammo before each round and aliens. It had a weird graphics mode/resolution (320x400?), was designed for 3 players (as in, info bar space specifically divided into spaces for 3 players, not 2 not 4) and the devs were Finnish IIRC. Anyone have an idea?
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Mar 30, 2020 21:58
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Is it Threat? The dev names at the bottom of the page look extremely Finnish and it matches everything else That's it, thanks!
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Mar 31, 2020 10:18
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DOS game, SF strategy, the premise is that you return to the solar system after either some off-system scientific journey lasting hundreds of years and/or having spent said time in cryo-sleep (forgot which one) and you basically have to rediscover the solar system all over again and learn what the hell happened in the meantime. And no, it's NOT Star Control 2 aka Ur-Quan Masters. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Apr 9, 2020 |
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Apr 9, 2020 16:13
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Crisis averted, but thanks for reminding me to google poo poo, it was Millennium and literally the first result for "dos game return to solar system" 
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Apr 9, 2020 21:16
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Looking for a 00s adventure/horror(?) game, it was about 3 people stranded in some space station/ship where a deadly virus killed most of the crew. The gimmick was that all 3 had skills essential to success, but they could never meet because each carried a different strain of the virus which would kill them upon contact with the others.
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al-azad posted:Martian Gothic
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The Joe Man posted:is nuclear strike good? the pc version wouldn't run on anything except win95 or something so my copy was useless Loved it, it's either the second best or the best in the series, depending on whether you classify Future Cop as true Strike game.
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May 5, 2020 11:44
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Cardiovorax posted:Mhh... no, it was not block-based like that. The jungle actually looked like jungle, with plants and a background and everything. I'm talking about big, fully-animated sprites for the later remake and really old, blobs of color graphics for the classic version. I think it may have been a C64 game, even, not PC. The specific bit about the SVGA remake makes me think of Pitfall.
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Jun 4, 2020 11:33
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I remember playing a game (RTS most likely) with a biotech faction/unit(?) whose activation soundbite was "Whatever you need, we breed." I've got it stuck in my head and it bugs me. Anyone know what it might be? No, I don't remember any more details.
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Aug 3, 2020 11:58
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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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Aug 7, 2020 11:29
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Beezle posted:What up! Trying to find a game from the mid 90s, probably on the Amiga, which was a turn based top-down alien/monster footballesque sports game. Like mutant league games youd have different combos of monsters that were good or bad at certain things, like a frog that could move really far but couldn't hold the ball for poo poo. Also you could give your team performance enhancing drugs between matches. Any ideas? Complete guess but is it M.U.D.S. aka Mean Ugly Dirty Sport? Pierzak fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Sep 22, 2020 |
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Sep 22, 2020 19:00
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Serperoth posted:I remember playing a game, I believe it was the demo, around 10-15 years ago (very rough timeframe). You were this little spaceship-looking shooter, and you could rotate within the edges of a round playfield. There was no depth to the playfield (not like that one shooter), but instead you shot what was like, germs or organisms inside basically a petri dish. Does that ring a bell to anyone? I tried a few keyword searches but I'm getting flash games and irrelevant results more than anything useful Like Tempest, but you didn't move the ship around but had a fixed gun and rotated the dish instead? That definitely wasn't a flash game. I think I still have it somewhere.
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Nov 22, 2020 14:34
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Serperoth posted:Well drat I found it, it was Dr. Blob's Organism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZNcul4DJiM
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Nov 23, 2020 15:00
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Serperoth posted:If it's any consolation, it's free now. A 600 MHz or better processor is recommended, and 32M of hard drive space: http://www.digital-eel.com/organism/ Sorry, can't handle that. The rampant specs bloat is loving bullshit. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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Flash game, visually very much in the style of Binding of Isaac (made a few years earlier than BoI IIRC), to the point that I'm wondering if it wasn't made by the same guy. You played some kind of a dead bird (vulture?) fetus.
Pierzak fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Dec 4, 2020 |
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Dec 4, 2020 20:37
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Hwurmp posted:Carious Weltling
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Dec 4, 2020 21:03
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Early Windows (3.11 or early 95) era. Top-down shooter where the setting was inside your computer, i.e. the levels were pulled from your actual directory structure and you had to defend your files against viruses and other stuff. I remember it had a racing mode (or mod?) where you could pull tight turns using a grappling hook.
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Apr 1, 2021 19:08
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Definitely not this. It was top-down view and definitely not 3D.
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Apr 1, 2021 19:12
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MMAgCh posted:Maybe Operation: Inner Space? God, those were the days. Yes, this is it! It even has the racing mode and grapple in the screenshots!  I remember getting convinced as a kid that the game will delete your actual files if you destroy them in-game 
Pierzak fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Apr 1, 2021 |
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Apr 1, 2021 19:23
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Was it Ogre Battle 64? Different console, but right around that time and matched your description. There was a PSX version of Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen, IIRC very similar to the SNES one, and it sounds very much like it.
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May 5, 2021 13:46
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Text game (new-ish, maybe last decade?), its gimmick was that you could take metaphors from descriptions and use them as literal objects, like if the game described stars in the sky looking like embers from a dying fire, you could take an ember and use it to light your cigarette.
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May 17, 2021 14:21
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Sounds like PataNoir, there was a pure text adventure version of it too, here. Yes it is, and a pure text version is even better! Thanks!
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May 17, 2021 20:25
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ymgve posted:That just reminded me, if you like text adventures, you should play https://emshort.blog/2012/12/31/counterfeit-monkey Sounds delicious, will check.
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May 17, 2021 20:53
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KennyMan666 posted:Eternal Daughter
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Jul 22, 2021 21:52
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OK, this one's recent, but I missed the name: a faux-retro adventure game that I can only describe as "X-Files in the visual style of Zak McKracken".
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Veib posted:Thimbleweed Park
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Pablo Nergigante posted:I think this is Golden Light Dip Viscous posted:Copysoft accidentally made all of the full versions of their games viewable and downloadable Pierzak fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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Aug 6, 2021 02:14
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eonwe posted:I remember playing a game on...maybe Windows 95. It was sort of around the time I played Castle of the Winds. It was a lot like Advance Wars. You had a top down voew of a grid based map and had tanks and stuff. Something of the Battle Isle series?
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Aug 6, 2021 03:48
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Serperoth posted:I've had a specific game stuck in my head for a while, might as well ask. I'd like to latch on with a similar thing: DOS artillery game in 3D, the landscape was white-on-black wireframe while the explosions (nuke mushroom clouds and the like) were filled in. It was full 3D in that you could aim in 360 degrees around you. Two specific things I remember was that one of the maps was around a volcano with a crater full of lava, you could blow the side of the crater and the lava would flow out, and that one of the weapons was some kind of green toxic moss that would remain where it hit and grow with each subsequent turn. Another thing, since we had a piracy chat recently, I remember some game like 10(?) years ago where the dev, having learned about pirate copies of his work floating around, not only didn't get publicly pissed off but actually posted a "pirate edition" torrent of his game on Pirate Bay or similar site. Anyone remember what that was? Pierzak fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Aug 7, 2021 |
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Aug 7, 2021 08:25
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Zathril posted:It doesn't exactly fit, but is this Genocide? It fits exactly, including the map I was thinking of! It seems I remembered the landscape being filled wrong, or maybe I just played it on a lovely school computer and turned it off for faster gameplay? Either way, it's the game I was looking for, thanks!
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Aug 7, 2021 09:49
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I'm looking for an old experimental fighting game (boxing? wrestling? sumo?). It had very bare-bones graphics and its gimmick was turn-based mechanics where you control your fighter by setting the pull on specific muscles.
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Sep 8, 2021 15:43
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Mierenneuker posted:That is Toribash.
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Sep 8, 2021 15:55
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Fat Samurai posted:Looking for a PC game, you play as a normal guy who suddenly inherits a magic grimoire or apprentices to a wizard or something like that. There was a world map (modern Earth), and you would travel from place to place, either for clues to the main plot (big bad wizard wants to conquer Earth) or to gather ingredients to research spells or craft charges for them. Sometimes you'd go into isometric view to blast fantasy evil creatures. The mix of real world and magic was pretty cool. I haven't played it but the premise of gathering ingredients and crafting spells makes me thing of Spellcraft(?), you might wanna take a look.
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Oct 19, 2021 11:09
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Fat Samurai posted:People in this thread are wizards. That's exactly it. Thanks.  Hakkesshu posted:This sounds like Nox apart from the graphics. But thanks for reminding me about Nox, it was neat back in the old days, maybe I should see if it's still playable. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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Very old game, probably on Atari ST or Amiga, very likely pre-Wolfenstein 3D. It involved exploring a castle (not sure if it had actual freedom of movement or it was just snapshots of 3D environment), and I'm 90% sure the title had something with castle too, but can't remember it for the life of me. I know it was pretty notable at some point. What is it?
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