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Domus posted:Congo bongo? Has logs and alligators. No, that’s not it either. I remember the min guy being quite big, seen from the back. I’m starting to think this might actually be a constructed memory combined from many different games.
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Tac Dibar posted:No, that’s not it either. I remember the min guy being quite big, seen from the back. I’m starting to think this might actually be a constructed memory combined from many different games. Mobygames has nine Atari 2600 action games with a from-behind view and none of them seem to match. (They don't have every game in the world, of course.)
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 10:40 |
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Looking for a game, either freeware or shareware, from either the late 90s or early 2000s. It was a, what I now understand to be, roguelike that actually worked like the original Rogue in that enemies only took actions when you did. It was sort of "cleanliness" themed in that you were shooting bubbles and stuff at evil germs or dirt or something, maybe it was actually full-on Innerspace themed? Quite bizzare. Pretty basic, 2D graphics, grid-based, I think you played as some sort of little tank. Thinking harder, it was actually more of a shooter, though, in that there were no invisible dice rolls: if you or an enemy got hit by a projectile, you got hit. I don't think there were really any RPG elements either, no levelling and all the pickups were just new weapons.
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# ? Feb 27, 2021 17:16 |
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I need to find out not a title, but the exact specific source of the System Shock quote "Look at you hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone..." IIRC it appears in the SS2 intro, but I'm 95% sure it originally came from the first game. What I don't know and I'm looking for is where/when in the first game it's said. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Mar 13, 2021 |
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Pierzak posted:I need to find out not a title, but the exact specific source of the System Shock quote "Look at you hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone..." Google is your friend. Using that exact phrase, second hit: quote:In the original game, this audio is used only during the sound configuration test (install.exe), not in the game itself.
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Pierzak posted:I need to find out not a title, but the exact specific source of the System Shock quote "Look at you hacker. A pathetic creature of meat and bone..." According to the System Shock wiki: In the original game, this audio is used only during the sound configuration test (install.exe), not in the game itself.
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# ? Mar 13, 2021 20:42 |
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Thanks, that explains why I couldn't find it in the game itself.Serephina posted:Google is your friend. Using that exact phrase, second hit:
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# ? Mar 13, 2021 20:56 |
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I think part of why System Shock 2 still holds up is because that bit of Shodan's dialogue is still terrifying 20+ years later, as we grow closer to an actual machine saying it to us
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Dr. Quarex posted:I think part of why System Shock 2 still holds up is because that bit of Shodan's dialogue is still terrifying 20+ years later, as we grow closer to an actual machine saying it to us It's definitely a very different experience playing it 15 years later with a different perspective. last time I definitely glossed over how SHODAN actually behaves like a newly emergent being that's experimenting with its identity with no knowledge/feeling of its own limits, and how the Many is actually way older than her. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Would've been around 2000-2004 but there was a game that took place in an isometric perspective, you had a little spaceship and were mining on a planet when a bunch of monsters showed up. You could mine crystals to upgrade your ship's guns/mining ability etc. I only played a little bit of it so I can't remember much more, but the ship looked a little like this?
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# ? Mar 16, 2021 13:41 |
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Is that not Viewpoint? That's the only spaceship game I can think of with that perspective but it also feels like too obvious an answer and I don't remember it having anything to do with mining. Also would have been out well before 2000. The level 1 theme on the Genesis is awesome and makes me sad that I'm not better at it so I could see/hear the rest of the game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_nEsiyl80
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# ? Mar 16, 2021 15:27 |
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Ah unfortunately it's more modern than that. I seemed like it could really scratch a progression based itch but I can't remember much and jamming anything to do with a mining game into google is a lost cause these days
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 15:48 |
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Dark Orbit, the name randomly came back to me today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78_5j5D8rEs
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# ? Apr 4, 2021 17:29 |
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Exactly the thread I was hoping for... I'm trying to find a game for the Sega Genesis - it was a side scroller with platforming. You're a kid I think and at the beginning your friend or sister or something gets kidnapped by an evil wizard. You basically walk from left to right, kill enemies with a little energy shot you can do (maybe you're a wizard too?) and do hard jumps because this guy really can't jump very well. You earn...money? that can be used at the end of the level to buy upgrades, which includes improved "spells" that are either more powerful or have different movement characteristics. I think two of those were called Sun and Moon? I remember the game being pretty hard and not all that good, and I think on the second or third level you are carried along by a giant eagle for a bit.
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Wardner? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGzjTALZNZs
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That's exactly it, thank you!
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Mordja posted:Looking for a game, either freeware or shareware, from either the late 90s or early 2000s. It was a, what I now understand to be, roguelike that actually worked like the original Rogue in that enemies only took actions when you did. It was sort of "cleanliness" themed in that you were shooting bubbles and stuff at evil germs or dirt or something, maybe it was actually full-on Innerspace themed? Quite bizzare. Pretty basic, 2D graphics, grid-based, I think you played as some sort of little tank. Thinking harder, it was actually more of a shooter, though, in that there were no invisible dice rolls: if you or an enemy got hit by a projectile, you got hit. I don't think there were really any RPG elements either, no levelling and all the pickups were just new weapons. I found it! Talkin' about Drain Storm
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 03:06 |
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So this would have been in the mid 90's - I played this game at a Sears department store on an unfamiliar platform. All of this might be misremembered, but it was probably on one of those CD-based FMV consoles as there was a lot of animated sequences and some voice over dialogue. I would have recognized the controller if it was a Sega CD or Nintendo so I think it was on another platform. The game's first level took place in a burned out post-apocalyptic cityscape. The main character is a young kid who is given a laser gun by an old man. You have to shoot evil looking robots. Maybe the robots have red eyes? First person lightgun style action but with a cursor controlled by your controller maybe? I remember doing really badly in that first training mission and the old man saying something along the lines of "good luck kid, you'll need it" as my character runs off to the next level.
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general chaos posted:So this would have been in the mid 90's - I played this game at a Sears department store on an unfamiliar platform. All of this might be misremembered, but it was probably on one of those CD-based FMV consoles as there was a lot of animated sequences and some voice over dialogue. I would have recognized the controller if it was a Sega CD or Nintendo so I think it was on another platform. Escape From CyberCity for the CD-i seems to fit the bill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO7ssF8Ivb8
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Wow, there was a home port of that insanely rare laserdisc game "Freedom Fighters," and it even played a little differently, considering "nice kid like you oughta be at a ball game!" never occurred in that opening scene, which was the most memorable part of the intro level for me.
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DariusLikewise posted:Here's a doozy, I remember I had an old DOS text adventure game as a kid where you started off in a courtyard and the only detail I remember is if you went east or west(one of the two) you would run into a wild boar for some reason that unless you found a rusty sword first he would just kill you immediately. Somehow while watching a LGR about a random Shareware disk collection he highlighted a text adventure game for a second and sure enough I was talking about that exact game, Sir Guy Gallant & The Deadly Warning.
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Bliss Authority posted:God, now I'm trying to remember the one Mac 4X game I had where the different species/empires terraformed the hex-map planets when they invaded or colonized, and each species had a different idea of a good planet. This is ancient, but was it Full Metal Planet? https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3667-full-metal-planet
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The shmup weapon thread reminded me of something I think I saw ages ago: I have vague memories of reading a preview for a shmup game in the early 2000s which was just fights against single boss-sized enemies. The gimmick was that it was two-player, but with one player controlling the “boss”, and roles switching each stage. Was this a real thing or am I hallucinating?
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Crazy Achmed posted:The shmup weapon thread reminded me of something I think I saw ages ago: I have vague memories of reading a preview for a shmup game in the early 2000s which was just fights against single boss-sized enemies. The gimmick was that it was two-player, but with one player controlling the “boss”, and roles switching each stage. Was this a real thing or am I hallucinating? Was it an arcade game? There's been free PC games that have done that.
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Does anyone remember a PlayStation game (first generation) that was bright and cartoon-y and involved walking first-person through a house and being killed (graphically) by a large pink person, possibly a worm? I may have played it back in '98-99. Also, I'm trying to find an old indie game that my cousin showed me on the old Apple Mac's (mid 90s) where you were a kid that tried to sneak out of your room and go get into trouble/drink before she caught you? It was a side scroller and may have been in Finnish or Swedish, for extra difficulty.
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duffmensch posted:Does anyone remember a PlayStation game (first generation) that was bright and cartoon-y and involved walking first-person through a house and being killed (graphically) by a large pink person, possibly a worm? I may have played it back in '98-99. Could it be Gregory Horror Show? It's a PS2 game, 3rd-person, and came out in 2003, but it's spot-on for being chased through a house by a large pink lizard lady, and the boxy, cartoonish style could have easily been remembered as PS1 era.
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duffmensch posted:Also, I'm trying to find an old indie game that my cousin showed me on the old Apple Mac's (mid 90s) where you were a kid that tried to sneak out of your room and go get into trouble/drink before she caught you? It was a side scroller and may have been in Finnish or Swedish, for extra difficulty. This was absolutely Dubbelmoral, readily available with a google search. Runs perfect in mini vMac.
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Flannelette posted:Was it an arcade game? There's been free PC games that have done that. It was for one of the major home consoles at the time, i think. Perhaps xbox or ps2?
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# ? May 29, 2021 03:03 |
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I'm looking for something I'm fairly sure I saw on SA being LP'd, space 4x ish game in an old Windows App ships / fleets were small triangles and there were circles? You design and upgraded ships ... yeah its all very vague in my head.
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# ? Jun 11, 2021 17:57 |
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Sonderval posted:I'm looking for something I'm fairly sure I saw on SA being LP'd, space 4x ish game in an old Windows App ships / fleets were small triangles and there were circles? You design and upgraded ships ... yeah its all very vague in my head. The game sounds like Stars!, but there's no LP of it on the master list.
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Sonderval posted:I'm looking for something I'm fairly sure I saw on SA being LP'd, space 4x ish game in an old Windows App ships / fleets were small triangles and there were circles? You design and upgraded ships ... yeah its all very vague in my head. Possibly Aurora4X? It's not an "old Windows App" but it absolutely looks like one.
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# ? Jun 15, 2021 15:37 |
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I played this game as a kid sometime during late 90s. I remember the loading screen was black and white at first and hd mosaic art style with boats and castles and as the game slowly loaded the black and white turned into color. The game itself was some sort of base builder but I don't remember much more
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# ? Jun 19, 2021 16:21 |
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My wife is trying to remember the name of a computer game she played in the late 80s or early 90s. I know it’s not much to go off of, but she thinks It involved dealing with merchants, and maybe the spice trade/silk road?
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Quarterroys posted:My wife is trying to remember the name of a computer game she played in the late 80s or early 90s. Absolute shot in the dark here, but Uncharted Waters: New Horizons?
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# ? Aug 7, 2021 03:22 |
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China Sea Trader?
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Quarterroys posted:My wife is trying to remember the name of a computer game she played in the late 80s or early 90s. Merchant Prince/Machievelli (same game, published under both names) has that:
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# ? Aug 7, 2021 15:12 |
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Trying to remember a late 90s/early 00s medieval strategy and city-building game that had a janky RTS battle system with a top-down view. Im pretty sure it was a sequel of some sort, and its not Knights & Merchants or Stronghold.
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Control Volume posted:Trying to remember a late 90s/early 00s medieval strategy and city-building game that had a janky RTS battle system with a top-down view. Im pretty sure it was a sequel of some sort, and its not Knights & Merchants or Stronghold. Lords of the Realm 2?
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Control Volume posted:Trying to remember a late 90s/early 00s medieval strategy and city-building game that had a janky RTS battle system with a top-down view. Im pretty sure it was a sequel of some sort, and its not Knights & Merchants or Stronghold. Knights of Honour or Castles II.
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Pierzak posted:Lords of the Realm 2? This is it, thanks!
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