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Looking for a DOS game. You controlled a bouncing red ball, and you jumped on platforms. Some platforms had spikes and others were spinning. The levels were connected on a map, a little bit like Super Mario World.
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Jun 25, 2010 00:26
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I hate just jumping into this thing without being able to help anybody else out, but there's a game that's been driving me completely crazy for years. It was a super old-school (early- to mid-90s at the latest) PC adventure game, first-person, in trilogy form. It had a definite horror slant to it. The opening screen of the first game was an alleyway in the middle of a city, with the player looking out into the street. I think at some point you descended into some sort of twisted nightmare world -- I remember a white river with weird, disturbing plants growing on its banks, and I think somebody had drowned in it. (That might have been part of the second game.) In the third game, you had to go into a cave and solve a bunch of standard adventure game stuff to light up the eye sockets of an enormous skull. The skull might have been blue. There's really nothing to go on here, but it's easily been 15 years since I've even touched this game and I can't remember anything else. I'm not entirely convinced I didn't make it all up. If anyone has any idea what I'm talking about, it would be amazingly appreciated.
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Jun 25, 2010 06:13
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GammaShade posted:I hate just jumping into this thing without being able to help anybody else out, but there's a game that's been driving me completely crazy for years. It was a super old-school (early- to mid-90s at the latest) PC adventure game, first-person, in trilogy form. It had a definite horror slant to it. The opening screen of the first game was an alleyway in the middle of a city, with the player looking out into the street. I think at some point you descended into some sort of twisted nightmare world -- I remember a white river with weird, disturbing plants growing on its banks, and I think somebody had drowned in it. (That might have been part of the second game.) In the third game, you had to go into a cave and solve a bunch of standard adventure game stuff to light up the eye sockets of an enormous skull. The skull might have been blue. Guessing a bit here, but maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Comet Shadow of the Comet was about the right time and the setting seems at least close. If not, try here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_graphic_adventure_games as there's relatively few published in the 1992-1997 that even could be possible due to so many of the games being set in space/sci-fi or medieval/fantasy settings. Ninja Edit: Failing that, Gabriel Knight series, maybe?
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Jun 25, 2010 06:22
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chairface posted:Guessing a bit here, but maybe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_of_the_Comet Neither of those was it, but I'm looking through Wiki right now to see if anything jumps out at me. It's the kind of game where I would immediately know it if I saw a screenshot of it, which is probably the most frustrating part. Thanks for giving me a lead!
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Jun 25, 2010 06:28
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At the request of a friend, and since he stumped me, I thought I'd ask about an NES game he was asking me about. In his words, "I remember there being a bunch of different weapons and like animal abilities that went with the weapons i think but i dont remember if you picked them up on the level or was able to select them like a class.. i think you found them on the level or somethin." It was something to do with a ninja by his recollection. I guessed Wrath of the Black Manta, but he doesn't think that's it. Any ideas?
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Jun 25, 2010 06:42
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cucka posted:At the request of a friend, and since he stumped me, I thought I'd ask about an NES game he was asking me about. Ninja Crusaders perhaps? I've never played it, but look! That guy is turning into a scorpion and stuff! And he's a ninja!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8YJCAnOmLg
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Jun 25, 2010 06:48
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frogg posted:Ninja Crusaders perhaps? I've never played it, but look! That guy is turning into a scorpion and stuff! And he's a ninja! Ah jeez, good work sir. That'd be it.
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Jun 25, 2010 07:01
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GammaShade posted:I hate just jumping into this thing without being able to help anybody else out, but there's a game that's been driving me completely crazy for years. It was a super old-school (early- to mid-90s at the latest) PC adventure game, first-person, in trilogy form. It had a definite horror slant to it. The opening screen of the first game was an alleyway in the middle of a city, with the player looking out into the street. I think at some point you descended into some sort of twisted nightmare world -- I remember a white river with weird, disturbing plants growing on its banks, and I think somebody had drowned in it. (That might have been part of the second game.) In the third game, you had to go into a cave and solve a bunch of standard adventure game stuff to light up the eye sockets of an enormous skull. The skull might have been blue. It's not a trilogy, but Waxworks?
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Jun 25, 2010 11:27
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Satellit3 posted:hmm since no one got my first one, there's another that has been bothering me for a period of years now... While not strictly a PC game, I'm pretty sure you're referring to one of the After Burner games. Skip up to the 0:40 mark or so and see if that one fits the bill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkkQNDvKEdg If you're feeling like getting back into that, there's a new one that just came out on the XBLA/PSN called After Burner Climax. Bart Fargo fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jun 25, 2010 |
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Jun 25, 2010 13:54
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Hakkesshu posted:It's not a trilogy, but Waxworks? No, that's not it either. The graphics are too good. I looked through that list chairface posted and couldn't find it, then looked through a few pretty comprehensive lists of Sierra games and games built on SCUMM, and I got no hits. A whole lot of nostalgia, but nothing to bring me closer to finding the game. I thought I was coming close with After Dark, but. That's a screen saver, not a game. I have a bunch of old boxes in my basement that I'm going to start tearing through to see if I can find this thing. If nothing else, I'm getting some good suggestions for other adventure games to check out.
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Jun 25, 2010 17:48
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Try checking out the rest of the Horrorsoft games, then. They were the dudes who made Waxworks, and it seems they made a few games before that.
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Jun 25, 2010 19:25
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Hah! I did have it back in the recesses of my basement. It's called Dare to Dream, made by Epic Games in 1993. Now that I think of it, I don't think I ever played the second one—the first one was shareware and I could only find the box (and original floppy) for the third one. Thanks for the suggestions, guys. I might look into this Waxworks thing now.
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Jun 25, 2010 20:09
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I've stumped everybody else that I've asked about this so I may as well try here. PC game, one of those build your empire and expand your borders ones where you started at a stone age like tech level, and eventually got this crazy future era where you could build battle-mechs. The part that stumps everybody is the mechs part, but I clearly remember screenshots of roman legions fighting against a huge battletech-like mecha. Another game I can't seem to figure out what it was from / the name was a sidescrolling R-type like game, where before the level started you would select the elemental suit (  earth, water, fire, all that kind of thing) you would use as your "ship" for the stage. I think the first stage was some kind of blue sky background with clouds rushing past you, and I think it was around during the GEN-SNES-Saturn gaming timeframe. EDIT: Oh and the art was sprite based I think. Not 3D.
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Jun 25, 2010 21:33
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Zombie Defiler posted:PC game, one of those build your empire and expand your borders ones where you started at a stone age like tech level, and eventually got this crazy future era where you could build battle-mechs. Civilization: Call to Power had battlemechs close to the end of the tech tree, didn't it?
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Jun 25, 2010 21:39
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Bieeardo posted:Civilization: Call to Power had battlemechs close to the end of the tech tree, didn't it? I'm pretty sure it wasn't a turn based game though. I believe it was real-time. I probably should have said this earlier.
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Jun 25, 2010 21:49
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Zombie Defiler posted:Another game I can't seem to figure out what it was from / the name was a sidescrolling R-type like game, where before the level started you would select the elemental suit ( Bio Hazard Battle for the Genesis sort of fits this description. It's got the four different ships and the first level being the blue sky with clouds thing going on. Also I tried Googling the answer for the other one and I ended up with Rise of Nations, where you can advance to stealth fighters and poo poo. Maybe an expansion threw battle mechs into the mix 
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Jun 25, 2010 21:49
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Zombie Defiler posted:I've stumped everybody else that I've asked about this so I may as well try here. Empire Earth (II?) ?
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Jun 25, 2010 21:52
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Goofa posted:Empire Earth (II?) ? Dropping atom bombs on cave men was the best.
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Jun 25, 2010 22:28
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frogg posted:Bio Hazard Battle for the Genesis sort of fits this description. It's got the four different ships and the first level being the blue sky with clouds thing going on. Its not Bio Hazard Battle, The "ships" you used were humanoid, but came in four elemental flavors. Goofa posted:Empire Earth (II?) ? Thanks!
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Jun 25, 2010 22:30
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Zombie Defiler posted:Another game I can't seem to figure out what it was from / the name was a sidescrolling R-type like game, where before the level started you would select the elemental suit ( Surely this is Lords of Thunder from the Turbo CD and Sega CD? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGKRwr6HIf0 One of the most   games out there, plus it's on the Virtual Console now too!
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Jun 25, 2010 22:44
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Neo Rasa posted:Surely this is Lords of Thunder from the Turbo CD and Sega CD? YES! THANK YOU! This has been bugging me for AGES. I have no idea where I played this game for a brief time but I've wondered what the hell it was for so long.
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Jun 25, 2010 22:51
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Bart Fargo posted:While not strictly a PC game, I'm pretty sure you're referring to one of the After Burner games. Skip up to the 0:40 mark or so and see if that one fits the bill. Goddamn that game fits my description perfectly but it isn't it  The one I played had better graphics/sound and you always started out in the air, none of that taking off or landing business. Also I don't recall using an emulator, so I'm assuming it must have been released on the PC at some point.
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Jun 26, 2010 02:53
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Satellit3 posted:Goddamn that game fits my description perfectly but it isn't it Maybe a similar Sega arcade game called G-LOC? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztWkUCgKrWQ This was on PC via those Sega Smash Pack compilations that came out throughout the mid nineties~early 2000s.
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Jun 26, 2010 21:13
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Neo Rasa posted:Maybe a similar Sega arcade game called G-LOC?
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Jun 28, 2010 01:07
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It was on the playstation 1, all i remember are the wacky characters and cutscenes, i dont remember the gameplay at all. One cutscene involved a character making spaghetti, but the meat being used was human brains, and then it panned back and there were bodies hanging on meat hooks. There was something about a baby in a bunny suit but he was an overgrown manbaby or something ??? Wish someone could help me out here... its been driving me wild!!!
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Jun 28, 2010 07:36
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One I'm trying to remember, not much to go on: From the 90's, PC, it was a first person, Dungeon-featuring game, 2.5D like Doom. I think you hit monsters with a sword. At the start you choose companions from a room of guys in some sort of stasis pods. There was also a shop at one point where you had to swap one item for another, and if you stole from it this big guy would come chasing after you.
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Jun 28, 2010 08:22
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Forum Actuary posted:One I'm trying to remember, not much to go on: I'm very possibly wrong here, and I have no means of checking this, but I vaguely remember Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep as being like that.
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Jun 28, 2010 08:50
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BIGTIME posted:It was on the playstation 1, all i remember are the wacky characters and cutscenes, i dont remember the gameplay at all. One cutscene involved a character making spaghetti, but the meat being used was human brains, and then it panned back and there were bodies hanging on meat hooks. There was something about a baby in a bunny suit but he was an overgrown manbaby or something ??? Wish someone could help me out here... its been driving me wild!!! Loaded or Re-Loaded.
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Jun 28, 2010 12:29
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This is really out there but I thought I'd try anyway: Did anyone who used to download QBasic games remember a cyberpunk RPG by a "company" called Moretech or possibly Mortech? It was a text-based, menu driven game in QBasic, but I can't remember what it was called or if it's still kicking around the internet.
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Jun 28, 2010 21:02
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Rollersnake posted:I'm very possibly wrong here, and I have no means of checking this, but I vaguely remember Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep as being like that. Completely correct, thanks  Google imaging that bought up shots of the exact bits I was talking about.
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Jun 28, 2010 21:35
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So I'm looking for a game that looks almost exactly like Dungeon Master in every way, except that the graphics were better. Also, each character had a face next to their hands. I remember the art of these faces being very...what's the word...soft? There weren't any hard lines, it was very soft shading. I don't remember anything else, since I sucked at the game, unfortunately. Oh, the 'hand' icons were also colored in, not the line-art stuff in these screenshots I'm seeing.
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Jun 28, 2010 22:34
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Morpheus posted:So I'm looking for a game that looks almost exactly like Dungeon Master in every way, except that the graphics were better. Also, each character had a face next to their hands. I remember the art of these faces being very...what's the word...soft? There weren't any hard lines, it was very soft shading. I don't remember anything else, since I sucked at the game, unfortunately. Oh, the 'hand' icons were also colored in, not the line-art stuff in these screenshots I'm seeing. Eye of the Beholder? There are a lot of first person RPGs from the mid-90s so this will be pretty tough.
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Jun 28, 2010 22:41
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Morpheus posted:So I'm looking for a game that looks almost exactly like Dungeon Master in every way, except that the graphics were better. Also, each character had a face next to their hands. I remember the art of these faces being very...what's the word...soft? There weren't any hard lines, it was very soft shading. I don't remember anything else, since I sucked at the game, unfortunately. Oh, the 'hand' icons were also colored in, not the line-art stuff in these screenshots I'm seeing. Dungeon Hack?
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Jun 28, 2010 22:59
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Grabulon posted:Looking for a DOS game. You controlled a bouncing red ball, and you jumped on platforms. Some platforms had spikes and others were spinning. The levels were connected on a map, a little bit like Super Mario World. not dos, but was this cameltry? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2wPumdYy4c e: nevermind, missed a detail or two from your post.
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Jun 29, 2010 08:44
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Looking for a 3D fighting game, probably was on Dreamcast or Sony PS1. It had AWFUL 3D graphics, as it was probably one of the first 3D games - was super polygonal and blocky. Each character had a weapon a la Soul Calibur, the only two that I remember are a shortish guy with a long sword and a big dude with a club (that was hilariously blocky). I want to say that the first guy was named Eli and the big dude was Bruno, but I could be making stuff up as I only played it once and it was a a long time ago. Help me goons!
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Jun 29, 2010 16:07
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sc4rs posted:Looking for a 3D fighting game, probably was on Dreamcast or Sony PS1. It had AWFUL 3D graphics, as it was probably one of the first 3D games - was super polygonal and blocky. Each character had a weapon a la Soul Calibur, the only two that I remember are a shortish guy with a long sword and a big dude with a club (that was hilariously blocky). I want to say that the first guy was named Eli and the big dude was Bruno, but I could be making stuff up as I only played it once and it was a a long time ago. Help me goons! Not that I played it other than the demo but that sounds kinda like Toshinden. The wikipedia article mentions characters called Eiji and Rungo, which are kind of similar to the names you mentioned too.
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Jun 29, 2010 16:14
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wb posted:Not that I played it other than the demo but that sounds kinda like Toshinden. The wikipedia article mentions characters called Eiji and Rungo, which are kind of similar to the names you mentioned too. Oh holy poo poo yes! I was going to post "Eji" but I was like "what the gently caress kind of name is Eji it must have been Eli." Thanks! Here's a video of Rungo with the hilariously blocky club. Just as hilarious as I remember.
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Jun 29, 2010 16:35
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Fun fact: I own two different versions of Toshinden on the PC. One is bundled with Fatal Fury 3. It's a pretty lovely game, but at least it has an awesome cheesy-rear end 90s jazz/rock/synth soundtrack. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 17:21 on Jun 29, 2010 |
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Jun 29, 2010 17:06
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Hakkesshu posted:Fun fact: I own two different versions of Toshinden on the PC. One is bundled with Fatal Fury 3. Here it is some 14 years since I last played it and I still remember "Aurora revolution! Aurora revolution!" and that shrieking, farting old man. I know it's usually considered the definitive bad 3D fighter series, but I do remember it did one thing right—you could map special moves to the shoulder buttons. So it ended up being more accessible to beginners than almost any fighter.
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Jun 29, 2010 17:21
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Rollersnake posted:Here it is some 14 years since I last played it and I still remember "Aurora revolution! Aurora revolution!" and that shrieking, farting old man. It was also awesome when someone started a combo move that you side stepped and then slash them in their back after they had stepped past you. The back-grabbing pain animation was always awesome in that game. Lowen SoDium fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jun 29, 2010 |
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Jun 29, 2010 18:55
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