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I've been searching for an hour and I can't find it. The game was released around the time of Jazz Jackrabbit (So about 1994/95). It was a top-down shooter and you flew a hovering ship of doom. It wasn't an on-the-rails shooter where the screen scrolled automatically, but the camera followed you as you banked around 360 degrees. At first I thought it was raptor, but no, that's a standard scrolling shmup. I'm sorry I can't give more details, if I could I'd probably be able to find it myself. Unreal fucked around with this message at 21:33 on May 17, 2009 |
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Unreal posted:I've been searching for an hour and I can't find it. The game was released around the time of Jazz Jackrabbit (So about 1994/95). It was a top-down shooter and you flew a hovering ship of doom. It wasn't an on-the-rails shooter where the screen scrolled automatically, but the camera followed you as you banked around 360 degrees. At first I thought it was raptor, but no, that's a standard scrolling shmup. Zone 66, maybe?
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May 17, 2009 21:34
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That's very close in terms of gameplay, so we're on the right track now. The graphics in the game I'm thinking of were tighter, crisper. Probably more CGI-ish pre-rendered looking, if that makes sense.
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May 17, 2009 21:37
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Crash Fistfight posted:There was this PC game i used to play at my mate's house in the mid- to late nineties. It was a first person adventure game, set in an oblivion-like world (i think), that started out with you working on your family's farm. Any chance this was Dragon Lore? I remember it as less adventure and more RPG, but I never got that far in it: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dragon-lore-the-legend-begins
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May 17, 2009 21:41
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Unreal posted:That's very close in terms of gameplay, so we're on the right track now. The graphics in the game I'm thinking of were tighter, crisper. Probably more CGI-ish pre-rendered looking, if that makes sense. Fire Fight?
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May 17, 2009 22:14
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roushimsx posted:Fire Fight? YESSSSSSS. Thank you! 
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May 17, 2009 23:02
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Looking for 2D space themed RTS for the PC. You would deploy ships that would spawn lots of humanoid robot drones that would float toward the enemy side typically meeting up at a sort of skirmish line halfway across the field of battle. You directly control a hero character in a sort of Gundam super robot suit that had special attacks like swarms of missiles or a huge fuckoff giant laser blast. Also I think it was badly translated from or actually mostly in Japanese. I remember a thread about it either here or in GBS like 5 years ago.
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May 18, 2009 00:51
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Maybe it's Liberation Army. Click here to go to a post in GBS about it, with screenshots and a download link.
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May 18, 2009 02:27
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Saint Septimus posted:Maybe it's Liberation Army. Click here to go to a post in GBS about it, with screenshots and a download link. Yeah thats it. Thanks!
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May 18, 2009 02:41
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I have asked this before, I *think* in a Post Your Request thread like this, but I don't have Archives and I stupidly forgot the game. I probably asked in '06. Got an answer pretty quick amazingly. Don't know if Search works at the moment, or how easy it would to post history. It starts out in First Person view in your apartment, you have some sort of VR thing on your eye, and you have to go to work. You grab your keycard and leave your apartment. 1995ish is around when I played it. I'm amazed someone knew what I was talking about considering how little I remember/know about the game. I couldn't even figure out how to get to work in the game. 
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May 18, 2009 03:07
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That's probably one of the Journeyman Project series. I've only played the Turbo version, but it starts in the same way you described.
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May 18, 2009 03:13
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Saint Septimus posted:That's probably one of the Journeyman Project series. I've only played the Turbo version, but it starts in the same way you described. Wow that was quick, you rock. Both times I've asked this, I figured noway in hell someone can figure it out from my crappy explanation. Pretty awesome.  Thanks!
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May 18, 2009 03:19
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Here's two more I can't figure out for the life of me. First up: It's a side-scrolling platformer from around 92-94. You're a wizard/mage, and you have a wand that you can use to zap tiles while you go around collecting treasure. It's not Hocus Pocus. Second: It's an obsure FPS, based around the Build engine (or very similar). You can chose from a few different "classes", one of which his a big mutant guy. One of the weapons includes a fletchet rifle. It's not Rise of the Triad. It's more Sci-fi-ish.
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May 18, 2009 03:34
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Unreal posted:Second: It's an obsure FPS, based around the Build engine (or very similar). You can chose from a few different "classes", one of which his a big mutant guy. One of the weapons includes a fletchet rifle. It's not Rise of the Triad. It's more Sci-fi-ish.
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May 18, 2009 03:58
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Two things that are a big help in figuring out a game are the year you played it and the kind of system you played it on. Obviously, the more specific the better, but saying something as vague as "the early 90s" or "an arcade game" can still help narrow things down quite a bit.
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roushimsx posted:Are you thinking of Eradicator? You're an encyclopedia of classic gaming. I thank you again.  My apologies for not specifying a system. The Hocus Pocus-esque game is for PC. EDIT: I found it purely by chance. 5 hours later (hurray lazy sundays) I came across it by chance. Clyde's Adventure and its sequel, Clyde's Revenge. Unreal fucked around with this message at 04:34 on May 18, 2009 |
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May 18, 2009 04:18
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Bob Loblaw posted:Any chance this was Dragon Lore? I remember it as less adventure and more RPG, but I never got that far in it: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dragon-lore-the-legend-begins Haha, wow that's the one! Thanks! Hard to believe how lovely it looks compared to how impressed i was at the time
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May 18, 2009 15:09
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A game that ive been trying to remember the name of for years i think it was a dos game. You would have pieces to build a base with on mars i think then you could place like a laser in the rooms that you build. Aliens would come and attack your base and when they destroy a piece of the base your guys would be sucked out into space.
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It's been driving me nuts trying to remember the name of a game from my youth. It was a mech action game for the SNES. My memory is a bit fuzzy, but I seem to remember it like this: It was essentially a platformer, with some space shooter aspects. You could select to be a red mech, a blue mech, or a yellow mech that resembled a cat. The red and blue mechs could fly, and the cat couldn't, but the cat could go down narrow passageways. You could switch between them during the game, and I think it was two-player. There was another mech that could be unlocked later on, but I could never get that far. I think it had a sword. Am I just completely nuts or does this game sound at all familiar to anybody?
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May 18, 2009 23:18
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Metal Warriors?
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The Stupid Hat posted:It's been driving me nuts trying to remember the name of a game from my youth. Xardion.
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Thanks so much, I remember this being a pretty fun game and I've been wanting to try it out again.
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I think it came out around 01-03 on the PC. Something around there. It was a fantasy-based game, kind of like an RPG. You could be a warrior, a mage, and something else (probably a hybrid). The game was not continuous like most RPGs. Instead each level was a mission, and you just went into the mission, fought a boss and left. I don't recall any lead-ups to the bosses. It was basically an arena-type game. In between each mission you used money / exp to buy upgrades / spells / weapons for the next mission, and so on. That's really all I can remember, but it's killing me trying to figure out what it is. Also it's third person, if that helps at all. Like, the camera follows the person from behind. It isn't Golden Axe. Colon B fucked around with this message at 18:36 on May 26, 2009 |
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This isn't really a game I know of, but someone might recognise this. My friend found a cool picture and we'd both like to know where it's from. He can't remember where he found it. Any help would be appreciated. To me it looks like concept art, maybe for a random enemy in a game, or perhaps some player class. Could also be someone's elaborate rendition of their WoW character but looks too um, restrained.  Click here for the full 580x750 image.
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This game was a Scorched Earth/Tank-style game, except it was in outer space and you were satellites or ships or something. There were planets scattered across the playing field, and you could fire shots and carefully aim them so as to take advantage of the planets' gravity. There was the usual variety of crazy-rear end weapons to take advantage of, of course. VV Yep. Thanks. VV Zames fucked around with this message at 21:11 on May 26, 2009 |
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May 26, 2009 20:52
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That's Warheads SE most likely.
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Corridor posted:This isn't really a game I know of, but someone might recognise this. My friend found a cool picture and we'd both like to know where it's from. He can't remember where he found it. Any help would be appreciated.
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Alright, there was this demo that came with my ps1 which was a fairly generic side-scrolling shooter. I think you flew through space shooting purple lasers. Probably came out between '96 and '97. I know that's quite vague, but its really all I can recall. Another easier title: I think you played Goofy and you were in some haunted mansion. I remember it being particularly difficult for my young self.
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There was this amazing, simple PC game that I played several years ago. I distinctly remember the game having character sprites from Wolfenstein/Doom. The game was for two players, one playing the hunted and the other playing the hunter. The hunter had a 1 shot pistol, and his goal was to locate the hunted among a huge crowd of the sprites mentioned above. The hunter would have to use a sonar-like device to home in on the target. If you've played this game, then the above is more than enough information to identify it, and you are already thinking 'drat, I've got to play this game again.'
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Unreal posted:Here's two more I can't figure out for the life of me. Probably too old, but the tile-zapping wand makes me think of Solomon's Key.
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I remember playing some game where a male character says "That's beaucoups bucks too many!" in what I believe is a Texan-sounding voice, possibly when you're trying to buy something you can't afford. That one quote is echoing repeatedly in my head, and I can't place it. Might be a point-and-click adventure game, might even be Full Throttle—does anyone know offhand?
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Rollersnake posted:I remember playing some game where a male character says Pimp's Quest
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Polsy posted:Pimp's Quest Hahaha, right, figures it would be a Newgrounds game I played like five years ago and completely forgot about.
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Alright, here's one that's been bothering me for, I think, years now. I think it was on the SNES, I remember it having those kind of graphics. The characters were cavemen, it was dinosaur-themed, but it WASN'T that one called Joe and Something or whatever, I've tried it. Basically it was a run-from-left-to-right type of game, and you had a club that shot out different things when you swung it. You'd pick up different weapons to shoot out, I remember some being a boomerang and a wheel. The game was two player, and I think the cavemen had blue and green hair. I think the ending might've been you beating the boss, then credits roll while you watch the cavemen run from all the caveladies they saved (including a beastly looking one). As much as I remember all those details I can't remember the drat name! Help me out here.
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Heres a fucker of an obscure one for you lot, foggily remembered from my five year old self in a British bedroom in 1987. Can still remember picking it out randomly at WH Smiths. On the Sinclar ZX.... a game where you have to rob things from houses, and if you're caught you go to a red-brick (I think) jail and have to break out.
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SUBLIME! posted:Alright, here's one that's been bothering me for, I think, years now. I don't know why you said it isn't Joe and Mac because this is exactly Joe and Mac.
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GrandpaPants posted:I don't know why you said it isn't Joe and Mac because this is exactly Joe and Mac. Either that or "Prehistorik". I think there's a sequel as well, Prehistorik 2 
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Simiain posted:Heres a fucker of an obscure one for you lot, foggily remembered from my five year old self in a British bedroom in 1987. Can still remember picking it out randomly at WH Smiths. Saboteur? 
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Racing game from around 97 or 98. 3D graphics in glorious 256 color VGA. You can choose different drivers and they all have their own vehicles. There's one guy named Tank and I think he drives a bus. Another called Nail drives a hummer or something. I think you race across volcanic and urban hellscapes. Another is this fighting game in a cartoonish SVGA style from the same period. I think you controlled anthropomorphic rats and mice in robot suits. Or something. Anyway you could not just punch and kick and use special moves but also fire machine guns. I remember there was an ammo counter. Another! Mid-90s Edutainment game in VGA. I think it was French since you can choose between French and English in the menu. Third person, you control this little boy who walks around a castle. There are many different areas for you to engage in various educational activities. You can water plants in the garden, play with colors in the studio, watch the stars in the planetarium etc. Funnyologism fucked around with this message at 14:33 on Jun 2, 2009 |
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Simiain posted:Heres a fucker of an obscure one for you lot, foggily remembered from my five year old self in a British bedroom in 1987. Can still remember picking it out randomly at WH Smiths. This is definitely Crimebusters.
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