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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companions_of_xanth Edit: didn't realise that wiki article was so low content. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4y1tGqGqKE#t=150 Cubear fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Jul 30, 2010 |
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This is a game that has eluded me since the early 90's and I'd appreciate some help. I was too young to play text-based games like this at that stage in my life, so my only memories of this are of me watching my parents play it on their computer. This game came out sometime before 1995; I'm sorry that I can't get more specific than that. I think it was an old adventure game, but I'm not positive. I remember the graphics; they were detailed, but they had a limited color palette. I think this game ran on DOS. The upper half of the screen was an image while the lower half was white text on a black background. The only thing I remember of it was one death scene (or I assume it was a death scene). It was a scene where a character (your character?) rotted away, going from flesh-and-bone to just a skeleton in a dissolving transition. The image was focused on the character's head and shoulders and he was lying on the ground. I also think power plants were involved. I remember seeing them, anyway. Please tell me my young mind didn't just make this all up 
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Jul 31, 2010 17:19
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In the 90s me and my brother got a box of floppy discs from a friend of our mother's. These discs hid numerous obscure DOS games, and one in particular I played the poo poo out of when I started learning English and was able to understand what was going on in the game. The box of floppies is long lost, but the memory of that game has stayed relatively fresh in my mind. I've looked for it on and off on the internet for years, pretty much whenever I've happened to remember it, but scouring through every single DOS and text game database has netted me a healthy amount of absolutely nothing even close to similar to that drat game. Then I realized this thread exists. Here's what I can recall: - Entirely text-based (yellow text?) - Basic idea: you're an adventurer whose aim is to find wealth, weapons, raise an army, find the Amulet/Sword of _____ and finally defeat an evil wizard/overlord by assaulting his tower with your forces - Possibility to arm the band you'd gathered with found and bought equipment? - All events were taken from a pool of happenings and encounters, the game was essentially endless unless you decided to attack the tower or managed to get yourself killed - I think you might've had to have food to eat, otherwise you'd die of hunger - Some random events I dug up from the cobwebs of my brain: * Gypsy camp, you could play five-finger fillet and buy stuff * City where you could buy gear and horsies * Waterfall, could give you luck / change your gender / make you ugly / make you be attacked by trogdolytes * A "thicket in woods" which was randomly inhabited by an insane wizard * A mad king's castle where it was possible to find the essential magic item The game was pure heroin for the 10-year-old me, and Jesus gently caress it if I didn't spend every single minute of my allowed time at the computer playing and loving it to death with my supple and eager innocent child's fingers. If some golden forums saint is able to find this thang for me they will receive my eternal loving sweaty nerd man love. Forever.
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Jul 31, 2010 18:28
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I remember playing this FPS somewhere around fifteen years ago. You started walking around a base, you got your weapons and armor, then the rest of the game was going around apartments killing aliens, and you could also get into a tank if you went outside. Any ideas?
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Jul 31, 2010 19:34
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I've been looking for a game for the last ten years or so, and I've never managed to figure out what it was, in these threads or any other on other forums. Time to try my luck again... It was an sidescrolling action game; the environments and enemies were very alien and sci-fi, but I seem to recall that player 1 was a Goku lookalike with black hair and a red outfit, whereas player 2 had long blonde hair and a blue outfit, and at least one of your attacks was a Dragonball-esque projectile energy blast. It was a pretty dark game with a lot of gore - people and monsters exploding and the like. The humanoid enemies were female for the most part, I remember, and the first boss was a couple of mutants with shells on their backs in a three-tiered area, where you had to manoeuvre around to hit their weak spot. Apart from the basic levels there were also shmup-like levels where your character(s) were flying through space. The only reason I've got to believe this game even existed at this point is because my older brother played it with me at the time and he vaguely remembers it, just no more than I remember. EDIT: Somehow I failed to mention the platform - it was an arcade game. Zeerust fucked around with this message at 11:55 on Aug 1, 2010 |
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Jul 31, 2010 20:07
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Just a reminder, it helps a lot to mention the system, or at least the kind of system the game was on. Saying it was, for example, an arcade game helps narrow it down by removing thousands of possibilities.
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Aug 1, 2010 03:56
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McSlave posted:I remember playing this FPS somewhere around fifteen years ago. You started walking around a base, you got your weapons and armor, then the rest of the game was going around apartments killing aliens, and you could also get into a tank if you went outside. Any ideas? I never played much of it but was it Cyclones?
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Aug 1, 2010 04:04
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Mad Mage Era posted:This is a game that has eluded me since the early 90's and I'd appreciate some help. I was too young to play text-based games like this at that stage in my life, so my only memories of this are of me watching my parents play it on their computer. This sounds like Rise of the Dragon to me.
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Aug 1, 2010 04:05
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Mad Mage Era posted:The only thing I remember of it was one death scene (or I assume it was a death scene). It was a scene where a character (your character?) rotted away, going from flesh-and-bone to just a skeleton in a dissolving transition. The image was focused on the character's head and shoulders and he was lying on the ground. The death scene really, really sounds like westwood/cryo's Dune. Some of the rest of your description made me think of Wasteland.
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Aug 1, 2010 05:25
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I tried asking around for a fighting game on the PC around six months back and now trying it again with some crappy pictures I made. Facts: - released at least on PC around 92-95 - the art style was realistic but not digitalized photos like in Mortal Kombat - not as cartoony as Street Fighter though - I don't think the game was extra violent, more like normal level of blood spatter when you hit someone (if even that) - for some reason, I keep thinking the game was called something like Apocalypse, Armageddon or something starting with an A - one of the characters which I thought looked cool at the time was this sort of lizardy humanoid guy who who was just a naked muscular male with lizard-like skin and a predatorish head; he was really, really generic but maybe the yellowish stripes on his body made him stand out a bit:  Click here for the full 650x594 image. - I think all the other fighters were distinctly human and quite bland - I'm not sure if I've mixed the box art with another game but I think it was just sort of corroding metal or grey stone with red and yellow stains or something:  This is the only game I can't find anywhere even though I've browsed some entries about fighting games released within those years for PC. 
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Aug 1, 2010 09:33
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I believe you might be talking about Pray For Death. The lizard dude is actually Cthulhu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5wPeIKbuWE Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 10:40 on Aug 1, 2010 |
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Aug 1, 2010 10:37
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Hakkesshu posted:I believe you might be talking about Pray For Death. The lizard dude is actually Cthulhu. Sadly this wasn't it. I don't think that the characters were modeled and 3D and rendered but made pixel by pixel by hand.
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Aug 1, 2010 10:46
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In that case, I think your best bet is peering through all the PC games on this list Edit: Wait, here's something. Is it Savage Warriors? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrHAZunr2Y0 You can see the green guy with yellow lines on his body in the character select. Might be too recent, though, since it's voxel-based. Hakkesshu fucked around with this message at 11:28 on Aug 1, 2010 |
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Aug 1, 2010 11:13
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Hakkesshu posted:In that case, I think your best bet is peering through all the PC games on this list THIS WAS IT! Haha, I thought I'd never find this and even began to doubt if it ever existed! Thank you, thank you, thank you! 
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Aug 1, 2010 11:32
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Bieeardo posted:This sounds like Rise of the Dragon to me. moller posted:The death scene really, really sounds like westwood/cryo's Dune. Some of the rest of your description made me think of Wasteland. Seeing screenshots of Wasteland is bringing back some heavy deja-vu, though. I think that one's it - I'll play it to be sure. Thanks a million!
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Aug 1, 2010 13:12
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I'm looking for this PC RPG/strategy game. It came out in 199X,somewhat resemble Geneforge/Sacrifice,since you were a wizard who could summon creatures to fight for you as well as regular combat spells. It was completely realtime(unlike geneforge),isometric with sprite graphics(I think). What I remember is that your health was represented by your portrait(a dude with blonde hair) turning into a skull. It also had a bit of a gimmick where your character would age as you progressed into the game,so eventually the portrait would get wrinkles/white hair.
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Aug 1, 2010 15:15
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Erp, I just thought of a flash game that I can't remember the name of. Well, I guess it wasn't so much a game as it was a sandbox. It was just like an open room but you had different things you could draw into existence. You could draw in plants, oil, fire, water, wax, sand, and some other stuff to make odd contraptions. I remember it being in GBS a couple years ago, and it just popped up into my mind. Anyone else know what I'm talking about?
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Aug 1, 2010 15:59
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Jezrael posted:Erp, I just thought of a flash game that I can't remember the name of. Well, I guess it wasn't so much a game as it was a sandbox. It was just like an open room but you had different things you could draw into existence. You could draw in plants, oil, fire, water, wax, sand, and some other stuff to make odd contraptions. You're thinking of Hell of Sand Falling.
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Aug 1, 2010 16:18
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I'm looking for the name of an old space sim game that was playble on a PC, perhaps a Commodore. I'm thinking it was from the late 80's and you controlled a space ship. The graphics were fairly simple but I remember a huge Star Destroyer type ship that was basically a triangle. You could go from system to system and interact with various people. At first your ship was very weak but as the game progressed you could kill bigger ships, and eventually get strong enough to kill the "Star Destroyer". I think there were jump gates or something as I don't think it took place in one system and it came with a map in the box showing you the different systems you could go to. The background story that I remember is that you are a merchant or something and the "Empire" types had killed off a bunch of rebels in a big battles because of better weapons, etc. It wasn't a Star Wars game, my memory just seems to have some parallels. Hopefully someone else played this game. I remember having a ton of fun playing it and getting strong enough to kill the big ships. Edit: It looked quite a bit like Elite, but the story in my mind doesn't look the same. MrCrankypants fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Aug 2, 2010 |
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Aug 2, 2010 02:00
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Pope Guilty posted:You're thinking of Hell of Sand Falling. There's also a better game like this with way more poo poo like acid, lazers and soap to play around with: Dan-Ball's Powder Game
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Aug 2, 2010 09:53
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I remember playing a game around 1994 or 1995 that was a 2D fighting game, but had some pretty well hand-drawn character models. I'm having a really difficult time remembering details except for the following: - The game was exceptionally well animated. - It featured Robot Dogs, or bi-pedal cartoon dogs wearing armor - I think you could change into a cannon or a tank or whatever as a special move - One of the characters may have been colored blue with orange armor. - I think there were voice-overs for the characters. I know that's extremely vague, but I sort of want to dig this game up out of morbid curiosity just to see if it was even a good game at all.
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Aug 2, 2010 21:29
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Waku Waku 7 Edit: Oh wow was I really wrong, never even heard of Battle Beast before. Gwyrgyn Blood fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Aug 2, 2010 |
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Aug 2, 2010 21:33
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yanthrax posted:I remember playing a game around 1994 or 1995 that was a 2D fighting game, but had some pretty well hand-drawn character models. I'm having a really difficult time remembering details except for the following: Was it Battle Beast? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55_3aTJad4U&t=55s
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Aug 2, 2010 21:41
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Cubear posted:Was it Battle Beast? 
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Aug 2, 2010 21:43
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Cubear posted:Was it Battle Beast? Holy poo poo that was fast. That's exactly what it was. God this game looks as terrible as I remembered! Thanks guy!
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Aug 2, 2010 21:57
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I have two that have been evading me for more than a decade. Both games are for the original Nintendo: First one was a top-down shooty action game. I think the HUD had a lot of green to it. The only scene I remember from the game is you go onto this big boat, and a bomb is activated which forces you to try and quickly get off the boat before a timer runs out. I only remember this part because when I was a kid it gave me so much trouble. The second one was a shoot 'em up style game. In the game you were a dragon (or a number of different dragons, I particularly remember a bronze one) and the zones were really, really artsy. Again, this was also for the Nintendo. Every dragon game I look up for Nintendo doesn't seem to fit the bill unless I'm just totally remembering it wrong. Most of them are too bright from what I remember, the game's art was really muted and dark in my memory.
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Aug 2, 2010 21:58
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Blarfo posted:The second one was a shoot 'em up style game. In the game you were a dragon (or a number of different dragons, I particularly remember a bronze one) and the zones were really, really artsy. Again, this was also for the Nintendo. Every dragon game I look up for Nintendo doesn't seem to fit the bill unless I'm just totally remembering it wrong. Most of them are too bright from what I remember, the game's art was really muted and dark in my memory. Was this either AD&D: Dragon Strike or Dragon Spirit? It's probably Dragon Strike, as that actually does have a bronze dragon as a playable character. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Aug 2, 2010 |
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Aug 2, 2010 23:03
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There was a game I used to play at my library when I was young. I was basically a raptor that ran around shooting enemies with guns. It was a third person shooter.
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Aug 2, 2010 23:11
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PartSasquatch posted:There was a game I used to play at my library when I was young. I was basically a raptor that ran around shooting enemies with guns. It was a third person shooter. Nanosaur.
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Aug 2, 2010 23:14
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I've been trying for years to remember an old arcade game I used to love but remember few details about. It must have been out around the mid to late 80's and I think it may have been made by Taito. If you remember the side scrolling platform/shooter game Rolling Thunder, this was quite similar. The only other info I really remember was when you were inputting your high score you had crosshairs on the screen and shot a brick wall with a machinegun. Not a lot to go on but maybe the high score thing will trigger someones' memory as it was quite unique I think. Edit: Your character was a police officer. When you input your name you could draw whatever you liked within the time limit. I can't specifically remember penis' but if i'm remembering correctly there must have been a plethora of 'em. Edit again: Found it! AWESOME! Crime City by Taito, 1989. Was totally wrong about the high-score name thing. Must be confusing that with something else. arsebiscuits fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Aug 3, 2010 |
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Aug 2, 2010 23:15
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There was a game I saw on a radio shack floor model computer back in probably the early 90's that I am trying to find. It played like a choose your own adventure, and it was about controlling a submarine. All I remember for sure is at one point an enemy ship fired a torpedo at me and I was given a few options to do, one of being blowing bubbles from the ship. I picked that option and my sub was blown up. It was also done in a video style, as in the game progressed through video clips, it would play a video, give me options, and then play more video based on what I picked. I remember it being quite realistic looking for the time. Ring any bells with anyone? v v Thats it! Thanks! mybrownianmotion fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Aug 9, 2010 |
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Aug 8, 2010 18:25
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PraetorianUSMC posted:There was a game I saw on a radio shack floor model computer back in probably the early 90's that I am trying to find. It played like a choose your own adventure, and it was about controlling a submarine. Silent Steel probably.
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Aug 8, 2010 19:03
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I'll be really surprised if anyone can get this one; since it's old and pretty obscure... it was a platformer for the PC that came on one of those CDs full of game demos my brother and I bought for our 486 when we were kids you played as a brown hedgehog that resembled a turd with feet who jumped/walked around levels set in some kind of city overrun with monsters -- and you collected crumpets for some reason...I think it was his health. It's been driving me nuts because it was such a hilariously lovely game in all respects even for its time--especially the sound files for the character's voice. We would try so hard to beat that loving game but could never get past the final level because of some kind of bug with the map.
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Aug 19, 2010 18:54
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Datsun Honeybee posted:it was a platformer for the PC that came on one of those CDs full of game demos my brother and I bought for our 486 when we were kids If you could pick the name of the CD out of backbrain, this page might help: http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html
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Aug 19, 2010 19:19
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sfwarlock posted:If you could pick the name of the CD out of backbrain, this page might help: http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html This rules.
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So I have two games that I'd love if I could get identified: The first was an edutainment game on some sort of PC that I played in second grade, which would put the year as 1997/98ish. Basically, you answered a bunch of math questions and then played a game where you got bonuses depending on how well you did. I know that if you picked to do addition you got to play a car racing game, and if you picked subtraction you ran around in some maze and got chased by something. I know it also had multiplication and division options, but I was always to scared to try them since I didn't know those yet The second game was, if I recall correctly, originally released on the C64. I know that there was an unofficial remake of the game that ran on Windows that I played probably 4-5 years ago. You played as a wizard in a battle against other wizards, where you summoned monsters and cast spells on a rectangular grid. It was essentially a wizard-based turn-based tactics game.
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quiggy posted:The second game was, if I recall correctly, originally released on the C64. I know that there was an unofficial remake of the game that ran on Windows that I played probably 4-5 years ago. You played as a wizard in a battle against other wizards, where you summoned monsters and cast spells on a rectangular grid. It was essentially a wizard-based turn-based tactics game. Could have been Archon?
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Aug 20, 2010 04:04
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sfwarlock posted:Could have been Archon? Doesn't look like it. The remake of the game was free and had basically the same look as the original, just some slick animations and an improved UI. In fact, as I think of it, the original game had a really awful interface, very roguelike in that you had to memorize a long list of one-letter commands to do anything. The remake fixed that.
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Aug 20, 2010 04:24
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whats that game where you walk around a big castle and there is this weapon or something where you throw it and lines follow it and you get your weapons taken away or something
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Aug 20, 2010 04:37
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This one should be really obvious but I'm dumb and can't remember it's name at all. You were cops and the first level was a bank robbery with the next scene possibly taking place outside the building. It was the typical arcade lightgun shooter where you'd point away from the screen to reload and shoot items, like other guns or health, to grab them. I remember that the default weapon was a revolver and one of the bonus guns was a magnum or something, indicated by bulkier looking ammunition. I don't think there was too much movement, you would just stand there while enemies appeared and after a while you'd move on to the next level after checking out your accuracy/shots fired and all that. Also it had two player support. If this still sounds retardedly vague I could try and squeeze out a few more (possibly inaccurate) specifics. 
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