Help us remember the name of a game!!!! Or perish!!

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Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

Kewpuh posted:

Theres a web based game that I've seen some people playing where there's basically images that represent a movie and you have to guess what the movie is. For example, The Rocker is represented by an image of a rocking chair and so forth. Anybody know what this is and where I can find it?

I believe you're looking for 50 Comedies. I'd forgotten how obnoxious the interface is (I recommend the image-only version), but now that I've found the game again I have to drop what I'm doing and play.

# ¿ Oct 12, 2010 18:06

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 13:02

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

Dinosaur Satan posted:

The first is a flash game with a foreign word name. You play as the daughter in a family and you're treated badly. At one point the family dies in a murder-suicide and you have to put their personalities back into their bodies with a computer.

Can't say I'm familiar with the second, but this one sounds like Oiche Mhaith.

# ¿ May 24, 2013 06:50

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

naM sdrawkcaB posted:

Here's one.
An early PS1 game with dodgy graphics.
You're a guy, you run forward and shoot everything that comes at you.
Sorry, that's all I have.

If it's 3D, but not Syphon Filter, maybe the Bruce Willis gem "Apocalypse"? It's featured in one of my favorite retsupuraes, and is the best videogame embodiment of "run forward and shoot everything" I've ever seen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkpKaFOgyoc

# ¿ Nov 2, 2013 22:59

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

Twobirds posted:

A couple years ago I saw a trailer for a game where you play an alien blob that escapes containment at a research base. You took over people's brains and could control then to get past checkpoints and stuff, but also sneak through air vents as the blob. It was a side scroller, definitely indie. Anyone remember the name?

Maybe too recent, but is this Carrion?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM_IO4bv76g

The lead developer posts regular updates on Twitter, lots of juicy gifs: https://twitter.com/kroskiewicz

# ¿ Oct 22, 2018 19:49

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

freeipods posted:

A browser game(?) where you played as a monster attacking people in a pitch black pit, relying only on the sound design.

I assume this is most likely "In the Pit":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcD3vC3Bfn8

It was formerly (circa 2008) available as an Xbox Live Indie Game, and later (~2012) popped up on Steam Greenlight, but now that both of those have been shut down I'm not sure where to get the game, if anywhere. According to that Studio Hunty page the game is a revised version of something they made for a game jam back in 2006, but I haven't had any luck digging that up, either.

The dev's on Twitter, though, so if this is the one you're thinking of I imagine it might be worth asking about.

In the course of googling that, I also came across Be The Wumpus, a Linux game from the same era (and I mean full-on check out the code from Sourceforge with CVS, install extra development libraries, configure/make/make install) that was inspired by ItP. This is probably not the one most of us remembered based on your description, but if anybody's itching to play something like this and doesn't mind jumping through hoops, the code's still available.

I also have to say I'm disappointed this one's "screenshots" section only has one image; if you're going to make the joke, make the joke, man.

# ¿ Apr 17, 2019 20:58

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

Maybe MirrorMoon EP? Not free, but there's a gun/tool you carry, and a variety of translucent light beam things I could sort of see described as "lasers".

If push comes to shove, and you're sure the game was on Steam at some point, this Reddit thread suggests a couple lists of titles removed from the service, e.g. https://steam-tracker.com/

# ¿ Jun 9, 2019 19:49

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

t-.-t posted:

Alright, gonna try this out even though it's a long shot.

First, all I saw was a trailer and the game was indie, so I'm not sure if it was even released. I first saw the trailer for it on these forums maybe three or four years ago but gently caress if I can remember what thread.

It seemed to be some weird puzzle-ish platformer, forward facing and with pixel graphics. The general color scheme was red and black and the main character was (I'm pretty sure) a lady. The trailer was bog standard but there was one bit that stood out; at one point your character generates about ten models on themselves at once; all the sprites get pushed outward and one of them gets pushed through a wall, landing on a door below. The trailer itself had kind of a dark, almost horror theme? Or at least unsettling. I think about it every so often and try googling but never had any luck.

It might be too old, and I can't remember if the game has the "ten models" thing, but the description of indie, two-color red/black, 8-bit pixel art, lady player character, unsettling horrorish game makes me think Au Sable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDO1tm9yZAw

If not that, maybe one of Amon26's other games, like All Of Our Friends Are Dead or Gyossait which have a similar look/feel?

# ¿ Feb 24, 2020 21:31

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

Lifeless Planet, I think. I've never gotten around to actually playing it, but I bought it after seeing the same Quick Look, and I don't think many other games fit that description (though I'd love to play any that do).

# ¿ May 5, 2020 12:37

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

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.

# ¿ Aug 30, 2020 23:38

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

Alterian posted:

I'm trying to find a surrealist / abstract game that came out maybe in the mid to late aughts? Its NOT Yume Nikki, but I remember looking at that game around the same time. This one is even more abstract. Its a top down pixel art game. I think the title screen was black with white pixel or line art on it that might have looked sort of like a pinwheel or windmill? You walk around and interact with a very abstract world. I think the "player" might be just black pixels that vaguely look humanoid. I think you pick up black (or white) abstract looking flowers. At one point you can get into a UFO looking thing and the music changes and you can fly over some water.

Neftelia?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fc1ct_hb4D4

The author's site moved to http://etgmz14.g1.xrea.com/ at some point in the past few years, and they've apparently made some other stuff, including a sequel I haven't played. Their older work is here in case you can't translate the main page; that only now reminds me, I vaguely remember there being some sort of patch one needed to apply to get the game to work in non-Japanese locales in Windows? Not sure if it's still necessary, so don't quote me on that.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2021 22:38

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

Princey posted:

Something I never played but remember seeing discussed, and thought the concept was cool - some FPS that got a bunch of fanmade map packs, and one creator made a whole bunch of maps that were perfectly normal arenas on the surface but turned out to have ridiculously huge secret complexes built underneath the main map. I don't remember which FPS and I don't remember what the maps were and my google skills are not up to the task. Ring a bell to anyone? I feel like one of them involved a giant clock, although I may be getting things muddled up with a creepypasta.

Overwatch Porn posted:

those are the infamous Hondo maps for Action Half-Life; the one with the clock is called 5am

Organza Quiz posted:

I just looked up a video walkthrough of this and it's a really fascinating bit of games history!

At least a couple video walkthroughs out there were done by goons! Hondo's stuff periodically comes up in the video game hoaxes/urban legends thread. The thread search feature should get you plenty of hits, if you're not inclined to read the entire thread. And if I may toot my own horn, my most recent post over there links a collection of the maps, since his "Johnny the Midget" site seems to be down permanently, should anyone feel like actually playing them firsthand. Finally, people with archives would do well to take a look at Nemesis of Moles' spinoff thread from a few years back, Strange maps, weird levels, and easter eggs. Lots more cool secret stuff touched on there.

Sorry to skew off topic for this thread, but I love this subject and would be remiss not to point curious people toward further discussions.

# ¿ Feb 28, 2021 22:58

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

Blood Nightmaster posted:

I'm trying to remember the title of some weird RPGmaker-style game, the only detail I can really remember is that you're exploring a house in one part and Mario comes out of nowhere, like springs out of a closet or something, and starts hunting you down? And if he gets to you then it's an instant game over. He follows you through the house in a variety of what are supposed to be jumpscares, I think eventually you're mobbed by a ton of Mario sprites at once in one of the rooms. I swear it sounds like a poo poo post but I saw some streamers do a video on it at some point within the past few years or so. I don't think this was the bulk of the game either, just a very small random part

Toilet in Wonderland? I'm sure the Evil Mario trope shows up in a lot of shitpost/creepypasta fangames, but this is the first one that came to mind based on that description.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRUunBcpDaQ&t=3668s

# ¿ Jan 11, 2022 04:22

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 13:02

Crackmaster: Feb 6, 2004

davidspackage posted:

Doesn't seem to quite be it, the keyboard it had was more of a plain keyboard. I think it had clear plastic caps that could be pulled off, I remember some of them had colored pieces of paper slipped under them.

Don't know if it helps, but it had a few colors to the games, wasn't black & white only. I think the games were like 3 colors. I recall the Ghost Hunter game having a blue background and red sprites.

Maybe the Philips P2000T? I'm no retro computer expert, but when my brain decided to work and I finally realized your earlier reference to answering machine tapes meant mini-cassettes (I'm a dinosaur and tend to remember machines that used the full size ones) I searched for home systems that used them and that popped up. Looks like it has those clear key caps, with a couple color ones, and there's a game called Ghosthunt that I can't seem to find actual gameplay of. Somebody on Youtube has the title screen, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZT9ZJfZ2SE&t=33s

Ring any bells?

# ¿ Apr 24, 2022 00:27

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