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Gromit posted:Shame you didn't include all this information in your post then, and saved us all some time. Yeah I apologize for that, the memory is really vague since I was little at the time and I really can't remember all that much of it, and certain other details I find myself confusing with other things I played (or even watched on tv) at the time. I really wish I could remember more but unfortunately it's been way too long.
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An early 90's pc? amiga? political simulator. I remember that you could donate nuclear weapons to other countries. Every few months/years or so you would get voted on whether you could stay in office or not. The voting showed each country's flag, then a thumbs up or a thumbs down. It was definitely NOT shadow president. Sorry that's really all I can remember.
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Oct 18, 2008 05:29
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I've got two for you. The first is an old browser based game, and when I played it I believe it was hosted on some personal site, so it /might/ not exist anymore. It was an over-the-shoulder "3D" polygonal game where you controlled a weird little robot on two wheels; he had eyes, his wheels looked remarkably like donuts, and he tilted when you moved back or forth. It was some kind of puzzle platformer where you drove around collecting thingers(crystals or rings or somesuch). I remember the colors being very pastel, lots of oranges and yellows and light blues. I believe that when you finished a level the camera would pan out in a spin. I think the name involved "Jump" somewhere. I've been looking for this game for years. The second is probably easier to find, a point and click adventure game circa the early nineties. All I know about it is a few lines of dialog and a particular quest focus on a "sluggetti and peat moss" pun that I overheard as my cousin played it. Some hermit or something was hungry and had a PlotAdvancer that you needed. Very cartoony in nature, if I recall correctly.
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Oct 18, 2008 06:03
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I'm thinking of a castle game that came out back when I had a 486, so maybe like '96? You basically build up a castle, and eventually you get attacked and I would always get wrecked. When your castle was building you would see scaffolding and poo poo, and the "event" screen would be a picture of the king and an advisor, with a bunch of text. One of the events would be that you could take a ward for some money or something. It MAY have been a sequel. Thats all I can remember.
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Oct 18, 2008 06:50
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Evil Agita posted:I'm thinking of a castle game that came out back when I had a 486, so maybe like '96? You basically build up a castle, and eventually you get attacked and I would always get wrecked. When your castle was building you would see scaffolding and poo poo, and the "event" screen would be a picture of the king and an advisor, with a bunch of text. One of the events would be that you could take a ward for some money or something. It MAY have been a sequel. Castles or Castles II. Both by Interplay.
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Oct 18, 2008 07:03
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chairface posted:Castles or Castles II. Both by Interplay. Wow thats totally it. thanks.
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Oct 18, 2008 08:10
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Cholfo posted:The second is probably easier to find, a point and click adventure game circa the early nineties. All I know about it is a few lines of dialog and a particular quest focus on a "sluggetti and peat moss" pun that I overheard as my cousin played it. Some hermit or something was hungry and had a PlotAdvancer that you needed. Very cartoony in nature, if I recall correctly.
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Oct 18, 2008 13:05
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This one should hopefully be easy. Im trying to remember a PS2 3rd person shooter that Im pretty sure was the first game to use blind-fire from cover a ton. I thought it was Killzone, but I just got that from Gamefly, and it is actually an FPS.
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Oct 18, 2008 22:00
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Secret Ooze posted:This one should hopefully be easy. Sounds like kill.switch.
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Oct 18, 2008 22:11
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Saint Septimus posted:Sounds like kill.switch. THATS IT! Is it even worth checking out? I thought the cover system looked promising. On an unrelated note, Killzone is a pretty okay FPS.
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Oct 18, 2008 22:21
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Secret Ooze posted:Is it even worth checking out? I thought the cover system looked promising. I only played about 5 minutes of the demo, but it seemed like a decent cover and blindfire gimmick strapped on to a generic third person shooter. Go check out some reviews, I really don't know that much about it.
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Oct 18, 2008 22:36
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About 10 - 15 years ago, I remember my friend showing me a game not unlike Abe's Oddysee where the character interacted with environmental puzzles to progress. It also had rotoscoped graphics, and the first level was a jungle, I think. He was playing it on a computer running DOS... The only other thing I remember is that to get past one of the sections, you had to pick up a rock and drop it from above in between two guards, who, upon hearing the rock land, promptly turned and shot each other. It was delightful.
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Oct 18, 2008 22:40
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RagingBoner posted:About 10 - 15 years ago, I remember my friend showing me a game not unlike Abe's Oddysee where the character interacted with environmental puzzles to progress. It also had rotoscoped graphics, and the first level was a jungle, I think. That might have been Flashback.
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Oct 18, 2008 22:44
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Dodger_ posted:It is not Left4Dead. Has nothing to do with zombies. It was shown as one of those generic near future pseudo-military/mercenary shooters. Bit late to this but I didn't see that anyone else had answered. It's The Crossing. You probably remembered it by now anyway!
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Oct 18, 2008 23:35
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Well, it was for the N64. You played as a computer chip from a robot or something and you could attach yourself to animals(which were also robots I think) and gain control of them. Any idea? I really loved that game.
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Oct 19, 2008 00:54
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Cbouncerrun posted:Well, it was for the N64. You played as a computer chip from a robot or something and you could attach yourself to animals(which were also robots I think) and gain control of them. Any idea? I really loved that game.
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Oct 19, 2008 00:56
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Rock Tumbler posted:That might have been Flashback. I agree I think that's it.
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Oct 19, 2008 02:45
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Secondhand one, from a friend of mine:quote:It was the late 90s, on PC, the game was like Fallout, except you had commando guys who fought ninjas. I think the ninjas were the computer. Before you ask, I have no more insight onto this. I don't know if by "like Fallout" he means turn-based, isometric, that it was an RPG, all of the above, none of the above, etc. Nor does he. I have suggested it may've been a Jagged Alliance game in that you did have commandos in that, and it was "like Fallout" (Iso, turn-based, and had RPG-ish elements.) Any other similar suggestions would be appreciated. chairface fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Oct 19, 2008 |
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Oct 19, 2008 03:26
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chairface posted:Secondhand one, from a friend of mine: Well certainly not ninjas, but could it perhaps be Commandos? It was released in 1998.
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chairface posted:I don't know if by "like Fallout" he means turn-based, isometric, that it was an RPG, all of the above, none of the above, etc. Nor does he. I can't help, but how on earth can your friend remember it being like Fallout and then not know why?
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This is going to be really obscure because I'm not sure if it even got released, but I remember a portable game (DS or PSP) coming out with a pretty unique art style and a single screenshot showing the female main character finding money in a banana stand with text on screen saying "There's always money in the banana stand"
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THF13 posted:This is going to be really obscure because I'm not sure if it even got released, but I remember a portable game (DS or PSP) coming out with a pretty unique art style and a single screenshot showing the female main character finding money in a banana stand with text on screen saying "There's always money in the banana stand" Either that's referencing the TV show Arrested Development or the show was referencing that; either way that's a good route to investigate. Check articles about Arrested Development and search for that quote (George Sr. says it to Michael) see if anyone traces the reference in either direction.
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Oct 19, 2008 09:07
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Mystery solved! The game was Touch Detective, and it was definently referencing the TV show.
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Something like a year and a half ago, I saw a trailer for a game which may or may not have actually been released since. Best I can remember, it was all black silhouette with fairly colorful blurry backgrounds. I remember a guy walking through a forest and then jumping around on some gears in a factory. Here's a terrible reproduction of the latter. Anything? My guess is ten dollar indie PC game, but I've got nothing on the title.
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Oct 19, 2008 11:02
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guppy posted:Surprised no one has answered this yet, I believe you're thinking of Statbuilder. Hee hee! So it is. Thanks!  ... *click* *click* *click*
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Okay so I have this vague memory of a SNES (?) title approximately 10 years back, it was a platformer and basically you played a little caveman kid and ran and jumped all over dinosaurs and whatnot. I'm fairly sure the name of the caveman you played began with a G. The reason I want to play this is because the last time I ever played it at a friends house we got to the last level and I died and we stopped playing (this has haunted me ever since). Sorry for being so vague, there's probably 30 games on SNES that fit that description. EDIT: Found it! Joe And Mac: Caveman Ninja. Sally Sprodgkin fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Oct 19, 2008 |
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Oct 19, 2008 11:26
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It was an FPS for the PC, around 2000-2002 or so. You got an inventory screen like Deus Ex, except there're different components for different stuff (I think) The rocket launcher was the box-shaped variety, the kind that holds 4 shots. And there is this one cutscene where you are in an alley and you see one guy toss a bag of trash out his back door. Pretty strange facts to remember, huh? I do remember it being seemingly fun, though.
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Reallycoolname posted:It was an FPS for the PC, around 2000-2002 or so. That sounds a fair bit like Soldier Of Fortune.
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senator stvee posted:Something like a year and a half ago, I saw a trailer for a game which may or may not have actually been released since. Best I can remember, it was all black silhouette with fairly colorful blurry backgrounds. I remember a guy walking through a forest and then jumping around on some gears in a factory. Here's a terrible reproduction of the latter. That's Limbo, the website for which is still around but hasn't been updated for years. I don't think it's ever coming out 
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Rock Tumbler posted:That's Limbo, the website for which is still around but hasn't been updated for years. I don't think it's ever coming out
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My friend remembers a fighting arcade game sometime around '98-'99ish, maybe a few years earlier. It was 2-D, and the characters included a knight, a guy with a rapier and a green monster who was probably a ripoff of Blanka. He remembers it being "very Japanese" and when you picked or won with a certain character, the Japanese flag would rise in the background. He doesn't remember it being ported to a system but it might've been. Anyone know?
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dstyle posted:Samurai Showdown? Ugh, I can't believe that not only is that it, but that I didn't think of it first. Thanks!
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guppy posted:A Google search for "sluggetti and peat moss" suggests that it's Torin's Passage, which fits with what I remember of that game. Yep, that's it. You're the best. I must be dumb to have somehow missed that in my many google searches. That first game's the real money though, if it can be located. Had fun playing that for hours on end when I was small. Cholfo fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Dec 10, 2019 |
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I'm looking for the name of a NES game, might only have been released in Japan. When I was a kid, my brother bought an imported game from someone who claimed it was Super Mario Bros. 4. It had Super Mario 3's Mario sprite as the main character, but whenever you got special pick-ups or during story screens, you'd be a little guy in a hat. Only when I got the internet and learned about rom hacks, I realized that it was probably a completely different game with Mario sprites put in. Now I'm curious if someone can tell me what actual game it was by this description: You're a short guy in a hat, pressing B rolls you up in a ball, so you can bounce around. By holding down A, you gradually bounce higher. You can kill enemies by hitting them as a ball, not by jumping on them in your regular state. There's a number of "suits" you can find by bouncing into bricks: kangaroo suit, fish suit, "tiny" suit (you become tiny, and can enter small passages), and -I think- a bird suit. Picking up a specific potion turns your sprite neon green and purple for a while, and you'll actually be vulnerable in your rolled-up state, but can kill enemies by running into them. Picking up a tube or bottle turns you invulnerable for a short while. When you first put the game in, you'd get music over a blue screen with rising clouds. All through the game you'd find doors, and if you entered them, you'd be in a bar with a goat bartender with a stripe for an eye, who said something in Japanese (probably a game hint). You'd progress through overhead worlds with paths to levels exactly like Mario 3. I remember one was a casino-themed world with cards, dice and pinball machines. Every world has an end boss that is fought in a similar setting - the casion world had a pig in a suit who shot bullets at you. Some worlds also had a speedboat on the overworld map that let you get to other levels.
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Ok, old DOS game, i think i played it in 1993 or 1994. It's isometric, and you play as a delivery guy supposed to deliver a package(!) to someone in the top of a huge office building. The security system has gone crazy, though, and you have to get through areas with turrets (that look like green bent pipes), bouncing red balls (that kill you) and other traps i can't remember. Trapped office workers are scattered around the building and you have to help them (mostly by escorting them safely to the floor's exit) to get stuff like bombs that can blow up the pipe-turrets. You control it with the numpad, to allow for diagonal movement, and that's about all i can remember. I THINK the name might have a Z in it, and the password for one of the computers quite early in the game is 'ostrich'. I remember the game as having a pretty scary atmosphere, but that might just be little me.
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Kung Pung posted:Ok, old DOS game, i think i played it in 1993 or 1994. It's isometric, and you play as a delivery guy supposed to deliver a package(!) to someone in the top of a huge office building. The security system has gone crazy, though, and you have to get through areas with turrets (that look like green bent pipes), bouncing red balls (that kill you) and other traps i can't remember. It is called D/Generation: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dgeneration
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davidspackage posted:I'm looking for the name of a NES game, might only have been released in Japan. When I was a kid, my brother bought an imported game from someone who claimed it was Super Mario Bros. 4. It had Super Mario 3's Mario sprite as the main character, but whenever you got special pick-ups or during story screens, you'd be a little guy in a hat. Only when I got the internet and learned about rom hacks, I realized that it was probably a completely different game with Mario sprites put in. Now I'm curious if someone can tell me what actual game it was by this description: I think this is Armadillo, which was in fact released only in Japan.
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I'm trying to remember the name of an old side scroller from the Dos era. It was a 2d beat-em-up that had 2 playable characters. I think one was a black-clad skull-faced guy, the other one I can't remember. For it's time it was very violent with lots of cheesy violence and gore. I thought the title was something like Executioners, but some searches haven't turned up much.
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Vexation posted:I'm trying to remember the name of an old side scroller from the Dos era. Splatterhouse maybe? Though I don't remember if it had 2 selectable characters, but the main character definitely fits your description.
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