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Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

luxury handset posted:

i'm having trouble remembering the name of this game:

-PC game
-indie developer
-freeware
-japanese
-it takes place in space
-top down RTS
-isometric 2D graphics, pretty homebrew and not fancy sprites
-gundams or some kind of space robots
-big swarms of them
-no resource collection, just ordering your robots around sim ant style
-you, the PC, have access to these superlaser weapons that tear big holes in the enemy swarm
-otherwise the gundams just square off in lines and shoot lasers at each other civil war style
-came out in the mid to late aughts i think

Liberation Army?

Zathril fucked around with this message at 13:39 on May 9, 2020

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 10:28

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Kite Pride Worldwide posted:

What was that 90s PC game (it was on tons of those 100-in-1 discs) where you were like, an intergalactic trucker or supplier or something? You had to buy/sell resources between all these ugly alien civilizations to make a profit.

Gazillionaire?

# ¿ Jun 13, 2020 08:18

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

FanaticalMilk posted:

No, this was a lot edgier looking than that, also the cats stood up on their hind legs like a human, also I remember the cats being all black. I'm pretty sure I played it on Newgrounds. So if there were a phone version it would've probably been pre-smartphone.

Also I know I said side scroller earlier, but I believe it was somewhat reminiscent of Metal Slug, but I remember playing it after Alien Hominid existed.

It's not black and white, but what about This?

# ¿ Dec 27, 2020 12:39

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Alien Deathmatch? or the sequel?

# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 13:58

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

The Moon Monster posted:

I'm looking for a game I'm pretty sure is called The Cleaner but I can't find due to SEO. Or maybe I'm misremembering the name. It was a mid 00s freeware indie game, a 2D sidescroller where you play as a floating wizard with page of various spells you could enhance by investing exp into. It had stuff like big beams, seekers, summons and the like and was pretty impressive for an indie game of the era, in my opinion anyway. I think the plot was something like "your girlfriend was kidnapped and taken to another dimension, travel across various dimensions to rescue her", although it was very story-light in general. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

Here?

# ¿ Feb 2, 2021 20:26

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

al-azad posted:

A series of adventure/hidden object Flash games from mid-aughts to early teens. Very Amanita Design like with no dialog and abstract puzzles. Hand drawn graphics, pen and ink, a dark scratchy style like Edward Gorey.

Name may have started with an N. Nightmare City or Nocturne or something like that.

Daymare Town?

# ¿ Feb 17, 2021 23:53

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Jeza posted:

Can anybody help me identify this game from these random loving bits and pieces?

- It came out in the early 2000s
- It was top down, but still 3D, so like Neverwinter Nights style or something
- It was set in a dystopian future/society
- The male protagonist had like...really short blond hair and round sunglasses that were orange maybe? Pretty sure his face was on the cover of the game or marketing materials.
- The game was themed around psychic abilities and combat
- There was definitely a set piece in which you are held captive in some Running Man-esque game show where the contestants answer questions and die if they get them wrong on broadcast.
- It is not a well-known or remembered game

I feel like the game title had something to do with Inferno/Infernal maybe? Certainly there was some pyrokinetic based powers. Maybe it just began with the letter I? Google is singularly unhelpful.

Sanity: Aiken's Artifact?

# ¿ Mar 27, 2021 19:40

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

PostNouveau posted:

The first game I can remember being like a roguelike was this fantasy game that I swear came on Windows 95 or in a very common games package for it. You'd move around on a grid (10x10 maybe?) and pick up equipment from killing monsters, and the aim was to accomplish like 3 or 4 objectives leading to the end boss. I remember it being extremely difficult, like I'd played it a good amount and only beaten it once or twice.

Not ASCII though, had graphics and poo poo.

Castle of the Winds?.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2021 18:31

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Dip Viscous posted:

If it's not CotW, the demo of Mordor was on tons of shareware CDs.

God, I played the demo of this for hours as a kid.

# ¿ Apr 16, 2021 19:18

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Danaru posted:

This is going to be a tough one, it's a Newgrounds flash game from 2006 or earlier, top down shooter scrolling from bottom to top. The first level starts with your space fleet being ambushed and your fighter ship starts inside a carrier, and two enemy ships blow up the other fighters on your pad. When you reach open space, a big rear end enemy ship flies down like it's going to attack you, but a friendly ship tells you to leave it to them and they ram it.

I also remember the third level was a sand planet called Arrakis (I get it!). Honestly I mainly want to know because the song used in the first level is also made by a newgrounds dude, and it slaps and I've been trying to remember the name of it for so drat long

This is Starfire

# ¿ Jun 18, 2021 16:46

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Golbez posted:

This probably isn't it, but it led me to another question. There was a BBS door game with a graphical client around this time, I remember it being somewhat similar to Civilization, and I thought the name had Iron or Steel or Metal or something in it, but I'm having trouble finding it.

Metal Knights?

Zathril fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Aug 6, 2021

# ¿ Aug 6, 2021 20:13

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Pierzak posted:

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?

It doesn't exactly fit, but is this Genocide?

# ¿ Aug 7, 2021 09:07

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

hexwren posted:

� A piece of edutainment software about the study of dinosaurs. Played on an Apple IIe in 1989. Every key on the keyboard corresponded to an individual dinosaur, and the software came with an overlay (really, just a floppy sheet of plastic) that you laid on top of the keyboard.

Dinosaur Dig?

# ¿ Aug 10, 2021 22:55

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Antivehicular posted:

I think I may have posted about this game before, and the details I have are very slight, but I'll try again:

I have a memory from early childhood, in 1990 or so, of watching someone play a computer game in my school's informal early "computer lab," which was mostly Apple IIs but may have had other machines of that vintage. (I can't remember the exact models; I was like 6.) The game was some sort of maze game and, iirc, mouse-themed. The one detail that really sticks with me is that there was a stage or difficulty selection list where the options were all cheese names -- Cheddar (maybe?) as the first one, then Havarti, then Brie. Neither of those were words I'd seen before, which is what makes me assume this actually happened and isn't some weird kid dream.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Googling has revealed that there were a number of mouse-themed maze games (not surprising), but I haven't found anything more concrete than that. This has been lurking at the back of my mind for way, way too long.

This looks to be Mazes Of Rodentia from MECC Mind Puzzles.

# ¿ Aug 11, 2021 01:00

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Golbez posted:

Back in the mid/late 80s, maybe 86-89? Somewhere in there. I remember a program for whatever computer my school was using with a skeleton, and you had to drag where all the bones belong. I think it played a bad speaker version of "the hip bone's connected to the .." etc. Long shot but any ideas?

The Body Transparent?

# ¿ Aug 11, 2021 22:39

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Cidrick posted:

I keep trying to find this game in the hopes that someday, someone will confirm that I didn't make this game up during a fever game.

There was a demo I played in the 90s that was on a CD with other demos and shareware (probably from the USA version of PC Gamer) that was a puzzle game. The premise was that a mad scientist had, in fact, gone mad, but there was some critical knowledge trapped inside of his brain that needed to be retrieved. The player, as the protagonist, had to delve inside of the scientist's brain to recover that information, whatever it was.

Navigating the brain was a click-and-point slide show (think Myst) with vivid colors in a surrealistic setting. I very vividly remember the main or final puzzle in the demo coming up to a wall where a relief of a talking head spoke backwards nonsense to you. However, if you turned around, the inverse of the talking head appeared, and announced "WHY DONT YOU T-T-T-TRY PORK CHOP?" The solution to the puzzle involved turning around and typing in the word "porkchop" backwards - i.e. POHCKROP. I believe the demo ended at this point.

I don't remember the title but I would have sworn that it had the mad scientist's name in it, although I might be conflating it with the Lost Mind of Dr Brain (which this game is not.)

Looks like it's Necrobius?

# ¿ Aug 16, 2021 20:12

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Haystack posted:

Ok, so there was a black and white kids game I played on the Mac IIci. It was a chill point and click game where you explored around some sort of... comfy science mountain, I want to say? You moved around rooms and did educational activities. The only one I remember clearly was a room where you dropped pebbles into a well and time how long it took for you to hear the pebble hitting the water. You could adjust the level of the well and such.

Any ideas?

Spelunx and the Caves of Mr. Seudo? It's also on steam, surprisingly.

# ¿ Sep 7, 2021 13:28

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Banemaster posted:

I am thinking of PS1 demo disc fighting game, where two selectable characters were woman using ice and man using fire. They fought at large grass covered arena. The camera was isometric and movement in all directions was possible...

Is it Destrega?

# ¿ Sep 7, 2021 20:30

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Sleeper354 posted:

One was a science learning game involving little blob aliens. To head off the question, it's not zoombinis as far as I remember. The aliens crash into the house of a girl in a wheelchair who helps them traverse the house doing different science style puzzles. In particular, I remember that after building their ship you had to build a Rube Goldberg machine to launch it and one of the perils/threats was the little aliens getting stuck in a pie and using rubber bands of different elasticity to bungee them out.

Is this Big Science Comics by Theatrix? I couldn't find anything on youtube for it but heres some of the similar Bumptz Science Carnival

# ¿ Sep 8, 2021 18:22

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

dstyle posted:

Probably one of the first "dating sim" type games ever made, it was an old-timey DOS text adventure from back in the days when Jesus and dinosaurs roamed the earth. Almost like a Leisuresuit Larry game in text adventure form. Your character was a high school guy who was trying to meet a girl and presumably get laid. You could choose to hang out with the "preppy" kids and go play tennis or something, or hang out with the "bad" kids and drink and party at the "rager" as it was referred to in the game. I remember at one point you had the option to buy breath mints from a kid at school, and if you didn't, later on whenever you went to where you were going, the girl you tried to talk to would complain about your bad breath. There was another option at the rager, where you could either play drinking games and get trashed, or play it cool, and if you chose to get drunk you'd end up puking all over the place and ruining your chance at romance.

I think I might have found this one, it's Virtua School.

Zathril fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Sep 14, 2021

# ¿ Sep 14, 2021 20:11

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Captain Swing posted:

I've been looking for this 3d third person action game (something like Drakan. I think it might've come out around the same time even)
I might be misremembering things, but it had 3 playable characters and - this is the part that's been stuck in my head - one of them was this guy with bandaged head. He was a magic user.

Dark Vengeance?

# ¿ Sep 17, 2021 15:08

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

The Chad Jihad posted:

Trying again: Ancient 3D flying thing with big blocky polygons, like starfox or LHX attack helicopter. The player flew a wedge-shaped ship around and shot at other wedge--shaped ships. There were pyramid-looking bases on the map, and if an enemy ship hovered above the pyramid for a bit it would capture it and you would lose if enough of them got captured. Not terminal velocity

Netwars, perhaps?

# ¿ Sep 20, 2021 17:44

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Manager Hoyden posted:

I used to play an old hacking RPG and can't remember the name of it. It had a very Windows 3.1 interface to it and every hacking job had your avatar entering a random computer dungeon using programs like spells. The dungeon part felt a lot like Castle of the Winds.

What am I thinking of?

Is it Decker?

# ¿ Nov 15, 2021 23:13

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

boof posted:

Okay thread, hopefully someone can help me here because this has been driving me nuts all day.

I woke up this morning with a piece of game music in my head. It's a short loop that I recall playing over and over.

If I were to guess the era and type of game, it would have been mid-90s (Commodore 64 probably?) and probably a platformer.

I found a random website that would let me recreate the song as it sounds in my head. Hopefully this link works and there should be a play button on the page that loads.

It reminds me of James Pond 2: Robocod

EDIT: Commodore version

Zathril fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Nov 24, 2021

# ¿ Nov 24, 2021 11:14

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Mierenneuker posted:

Here is a game that suddenly popped in my head:
Platform: PC
Genre: racing/action
Era: 1997-2002

You basically played a trucker on colonized planets. It had an open world structure where you could pick what kind of mission you would want: deliveries, racing or retrieving cargo from certain locations. You had weapons and they'd show up, cartoonishly large, hovering on the sides of your wheeled vehicle. The whole game was rather cartoonish, I guess it was still rather early 3D so they went for a exeggerated look where the people driving the vehicles where nowhere to be seen. One of the roving gangs of vehicles in the first area were cars with big sombreros, to really highlight that they were bandits going for your cargo. You had multiple planets to truck on, but I took me a while before I went to the second planet. I guess you either had to complete a certain amount of missions or I waited until had certain upgrades to my truck.

I think this game was made by European/Russian devs and it wasn't published by a big name.

Is it Trucks?

# ¿ Nov 26, 2021 11:27

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Killingyouguy! posted:

Windows 95/98 era PC game. I think it was called 'Crazy Cards' or something generically unsearchable like that?
It was a collection of playing card games, where you played against a cartoon dog, parrot, and probably other animals. I remember it being fairly well animated and fully voice acted.
There was a klondike solitaire where if you tried to make an invalid move the parrot would say "You can't do that!"
I think the main menu was all of them sitting around a card table.
No idea if the target audience was children but I only have vague memories because I was indeed a child.
Might have been shareware?

I think its Corel Wild Cards?

# ¿ Nov 28, 2021 23:07

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Lysandus posted:

I'm trying to remember this game but I don't have much to go on. Its a top down, pixel art style game. I think I remember hacking being part of the gameplay. It might be action rpg-ish.

Not sure either quite fit your description but Heat Signature and Crosscode come to mind.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2021 15:58

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

GyverMac posted:

I suddenly wanted to play this game from my early teens. I got it for free in some magazine around 2003-04. It was a 2D top down shooter where you played an armoured spacemarine fending off waves of aliens. I also remember the menus had a cool news ticker that spouted propaganda about the war. It also had a kickass metal soundtrack. I remember it being hard as nails. One of the levels had you defending a wall with big guns you could use, but they had limited ammo. The aliens would gnaw through the wall to get to you.

It was very similar to crimsonland.

Phobia III: Edge of Humanity?

# ¿ Jan 3, 2022 21:25

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Kobal2 posted:

I swear this game exists (and has been at least partially LP'd on this forum years and years ago) but my Google fu sucks apparently. Or possibly Google sucks now.

It was a Russian squad-based tactics game, either turn-based or RTWP. Typical russian hard-as-balls one-bullet-cripples-you stuff. Probably not officially translated but there was a fan translation I think. Based on some Russian survivalist novels I believe, the setting is your usual post-Soviet post-apocalypse minus the apocalypse - no nuclear war or alien catastrophe � la Metro ; just your ordinary complete societal collapse, AK bullets used as currency, bandits and marauders everywhere, the Red Army still holding a couple cities but most of the country is a wild west free for all.

You start controlling just the one person, who's an ex-army guy turned survivalist, he's claimed an appartment building for himself (and maybe his wife as well ? I'm not too sure) and goes around scavenging, gets into scrapes with bandits and so on. I remember that at some point you have to defend your building from a big horde of barely armed locals because you're hoarding all the food and they're starving. Then you get to know and train a young rookie who may or may not be an army deserter, and at some point you're contacted by the military to do Something, explore an abandonned mine or something like that. The details escape me at this point and I think that's where the LP died out.

ETA : oh, it was probably released somewhere in the 2000s - 3D graphics, I think full 3D but might have been isometric, pretty sure the models were 3D rather than sprites ; so clearly later than Jagged Alliance 2 ; around the Silent Storm era I would say.

From looking through the lets play archive is it Marauder: Man of Prey?

# ¿ Jan 14, 2022 21:24

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

The Chad Jihad posted:

Relatively primitive 3D game, you played a helicopter (cockpit view) and had a mobile base (it was immobile in the missions) with a long winding path leading to the enemy base. The enemy would send tanks down the path to your base to eventually kill it, you could send your own tanks as well, and to take out the enemy base you had to get a defenseless explosive truck all the way to the end where it would drive into the enemy base and blow it up. So the gameplay was flying around blasting tanks and etc and escorting your own units, you had no control other than telling the base what to build

It doesn't exactly fit, but could this be Urban Assault?

# ¿ Jan 15, 2022 02:23

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

External Organs posted:

I remember seeing footage of some open world game without a map where you like....shot arrows to move around in a neat fashion? Or some kind of strange travel system. It was by an indie developer I believe.

Edit: this is a modern game, not like a ten year old thing

Are you thinking of The Pathless?

# ¿ Mar 2, 2022 20:32

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Xander77 posted:

A SNES game, I think. The description makes it sound a bit like Dungeon Keeper, but it doesn't appear on any lists of "games similar to DK".

You're an evil lord, and your castle is under attack by a bunch of different races. You place various monsters to battle them - on the river banks, castle walls, castle proper, until they fight their way to your throne room where you have to confront them. Or you could order your flying chariot to any threatened area, where your evil lord (dark horned helmet, mace) could help your forces out. The perspective - not necessarily the graphical style, just perspective - was a bit like Ultima 7 (I'm sure there's a proper name for it). Some of the enemy forces were vaguely buddhist monks and bat-monsters that shot sonic projectiles?

It's not a SNES game but is it Dominus?

# ¿ Mar 4, 2022 16:40

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Heran Bago posted:

There's an indie game that came out within the last year, or isn't out yet. It's about weird perspective or something. The field of view is maybe circular. I think it's a puzzle game. I can't remember the name or the name of this effect.

It is not MC Escher inspired as far as I remember. It is not Superluminal.

Hyperbolica? Looks like it came out last month.

# ¿ Apr 22, 2022 16:59

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Hey man, I think it might be Decker

# ¿ May 27, 2022 23:15

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Serperoth posted:

Someone is posting about a game on twitter and its feeling awfully familiar

Vertical cabinet arcade game, not a shmup, but an action RPG, you fight enemies on foot, spells and swords and stuff. Had multiple playable characters, from the 90s.

Im sure I've read about it but the name is coming up blank

I have also done some googling and I think it could be Gaiapolis, it has 3 selectable characters, one of which is a fairy.

Zathril fucked around with this message at 14:50 on May 31, 2022

# ¿ May 31, 2022 14:06

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

hexwren posted:

futzing around with this electron app someone put together that dumps you straight into a working win95 environment and I'm trying to remember a game I played on my own 95 machine way back when

it's a very basic dungeoncrawler, ran specifically in windows (not dos), very limited graphics (but not rogue or a roguelike or anything else that makes you a @), mostly involved clicking on a square grid of rooms (that I think would be numbered minesweeper style to indicate how many rooms nearby had traps in them) and clicking on the attack button and reading the text "you hit the blah for 3 HP, the blah hit you for 2 HP" and the like. I could swear it was named zoltar's dungeon or xaltor's tower or some such stereotypical thing but I can't find anything like it googling around.

Quenzar's Caverns?

# ¿ Jun 5, 2022 13:19

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

life_source posted:

I don't know where else I could find help with this but

Was there a site back in the 90's and maybe 2000's called kickassgames or something close and it was filled with game demos, even big name stuff? Logo was a donkey silhouette, possibly a gif and it was kicking? I'm trying to look it up and finding nothing.

There's kickass.com which might be it. It also makes me want to go replay Hypnospace Outlaw.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2022 18:08

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

sirtommygunn posted:

Trying to remember a game on steam that was like a puzzle dungeon crawler with meta progression. From what little I remember: the graphics were awful, each level took hours to finish, every enemy killed gave you some stats, you could undo as many moves as you wanted, which was helpful because you would make thousands of them before you got to the end of any level. I'm not sure if it was free with a bunch of levels you had to buy or just had a generous demo.

Tactical Nexus?

# ¿ Jun 24, 2022 01:08

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Street Legal Racing: Redline?

# ¿ Jun 24, 2022 19:50

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 10:28

Zathril: Nov 12, 2011

Onean posted:

I just recently remembered this older (late 2000s, maybe early 2010s) 2D indie horror game and wanted to see if the devs ever did anything after it. I'm not sure it was really that good, but I do remember enjoying it at the time. It was mostly atmospheric and based around puzzles and didn't constantly have monsters chasing you, though there were occasionally some to run away from, just not much combat at all.

It was set on a space station. You played a cartoon/anime woman with amnesia, and had to put together what happened to the station and crew. Eventually you discover it had something to do with this artifact/obelisk that was on the station, though I can't remember the specifics. It ends by blowing up the station and has an ending screen of the MC on the nearby planet's surface, maybe watching the station burning up on reentry?

Some other vague memories: a normal hallway that eventually started repeating and turned into meat that grew eyes and I think had a stoplight at one point, a dismembered body you had to find pieces of and put back together, and a bunch of unique deaths.

Anybody have any recollection of this game?

This is almost certainly The White Chamber. Looks like they never released anything else.

Zathril fucked around with this message at 10:47 on Jul 6, 2022

# ¿ Jul 6, 2022 10:44

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