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Megabuttes posted:A SNES game. You were this dude and you had to enter this house, maybe it was spooky or something, I don't remember. I think you had to find the key in the yard somewhere to get in. Addams Family?
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Megabuttes posted:A SNES game. You were this dude and you had to enter this house, maybe it was spooky or something, I don't remember. I think you had to find the key in the yard somewhere to get in. This sounds like Maniac Mansion on the NES, assuming you're misremembering the SNES part. But it could very well be something else.
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Mar 23, 2011 10:03
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techknight posted:Technoclash? Was just looking at this - http://www.racketboy.com/retro/sega/genesis/2009/08/sega-genesis-megadrive-rpg-library-page-2.html Thanks, that's definately it.
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Mar 23, 2011 10:38
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Nautatrol Rx posted:Entirely unrelated P.S.: Has anyone done a The Magic Candle (original) Let's Play? I wonder how well that would go over if anyone were brave enough to do one. (I would be totally fascinated by that, actually; I tried to get into it about a half-dozen times to no avail, and my copy eventually became corrupted and crashed after the title screen, making me decide I had missed my chance)
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Mar 23, 2011 13:34
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I've got two games maybe you guys can help me remember. I played the first game on the Commodore 64 (actually the 128, but most of the games I had were for the 64... I only say 128 because it MIGHT be for that system.) It was an overhead view, and I think it was real-time, though it may have been turn based. You had one guy, and you were hired to defend a town from monsters who kept coming up from the dungeons beneath the city. You couldn't leave the town, because you were sworn to end the monsters or some such. You might have been able to choose a class, I'm pretty sure. (I played a LOT of RPGs on the Commodore so it might have bled together with another game, though.) Every night, the monsters would come up from below, and start tearing up the town. If you didn't stop them, what they tore up would not be usable the next day. So if they destroyed the weapon shop, you couldn't buy any weapons that day at least. There may have been weapon wear. You could take the fight down to the dungeons at night (if you had a key?) but I had a pirated copy so it glitched every time I tried to go down there so I can't tell you how that went down there. The other game was from the Windows 3.1/95 486 days. It was science fiction-y, came with a meat backstory in the manual, about some jungle/jovian planet, and you had a map where you could select a destination, only I never found any place interesting. It had some kind of side-scrolling element to it, and you had fireballs or something, kind of like in Faxanadu for NES. Since I could never figure out what to do I found a cheat which let me have all the powered up psy-powers or whatever you got and just sort of messed around. Oddly I never found a walkthrough despite the fact I found cheats. Thanks for any help you guys can provide! These games have been driving me crazy for a while.
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Mar 23, 2011 21:09
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Jenova Project posted:I've got two games maybe you guys can help me remember. The first one sounds an awful lot like The Horde... except that is a bit too new.
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Mar 23, 2011 21:14
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Jenova Project posted:The other game was from the Windows 3.1/95 486 days. It was science fiction-y, came with a meat backstory in the manual, about some jungle/jovian planet, and you had a map where you could select a destination, only I never found any place interesting. It had some kind of side-scrolling element to it, and you had fireballs or something, kind of like in Faxanadu for NES. Since I could never figure out what to do I found a cheat which let me have all the powered up psy-powers or whatever you got and just sort of messed around. Oddly I never found a walkthrough despite the fact I found cheats. Most likely Alien Logic: Skyrealms of Jorune.
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Mar 23, 2011 21:52
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/\/\/\ That's it! Thank you!Hal Incandenza posted:The first one sounds an awful lot like The Horde... except that is a bit too new. I gave up and searched every single C64 RPG at GameFAQs and found it. It's Keys to Maramon, which is in the same universe as Magic Candle. The screenshots at an abandonware site proved it to me. Thank you though! Jenova Project fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Mar 23, 2011 |
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Mar 23, 2011 21:56
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Discount Viscount posted:This sounds like Maniac Mansion on the NES, assuming you're misremembering the SNES part. But it could very well be something else. Could also be Uninvited, or perhaps even Shadowgate. Lack of English skills would be a real issue with those too. Hypothetically even Deja Vu, although that doesn't start with a scene trying to get into a house using a key outside, there is that one bungalow bit.
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Mar 23, 2011 22:17
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There was this game I used to play a LOOONG time ago. It was on an open-ended grid where you battled against another player or a computer to capture territory. Once you had three connected pieces of territory that divided the two sides, you win.
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Mar 24, 2011 00:37
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Discount Viscount posted:Alright, here are a couple of old arcade games I probably played around 1989 or so when I was 4 or 5. I can only remember the vaguest of details. The first was some sidescrolling run and gun with a Rambo-esque hero (yeah, that narrows it down.) The biggest details I can remember are the first stage took place at night, your shots had a red tail/trail on them with a white tip, and at some point in the first level you could climb into a stationary turret and gun guys down. I think there may have also been a driveable jeep-type vehicle. This wouldn't be Gunforce, would it? The first level's at night, and there are parts where you can get in both stationary turrets and jeeps with mounted guns.
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Mar 24, 2011 02:13
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Catellite posted:This wouldn't be Gunforce, would it? The first level's at night, and there are parts where you can get in both stationary turrets and jeeps with mounted guns. Nah, that doesn't look to be it, not a bad try though. It looks more similar to Midnight Resistance than to Probotector. But thanks for showing me another Irem game I'd like to play!
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Mar 24, 2011 03:30
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Not really a game but I figured this would be the best place to ask short of starting my own thread. When I was a kid, probably in the early to mid 90s, I used to read this PC magazine specifically targeted at kids. It featured some anthropomorphic alligator and had demo CDs, one of which I seem to remember featuring the game Normality. It had cartoon strips in it featuring the aforementioned croc and his mate and had various articles on how to do basic PC stuff and game reviews and poo poo like that. It's been bugging me for the longest time that I can't remember the name of the magazine.
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Mar 25, 2011 14:35
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I'm trying to remember the name of a scrolling beat em up game, probably released between 1990-1994. It came out after Double Dragon, maybe around the same time as Final Fight but the graphics were nowhere as good. It was a 4 player game which ran on the same cabinet that the arcade used for TMNT, and all I can remember is that one level (probably the first) involved you fighting in a subway. One of the enemies was a huge punk with a mohican, maybe even the boss.
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Mar 25, 2011 21:04
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Jim Bergerac posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a scrolling beat em up game, probably released between 1990-1994. Is it one of the games in Konami's Crime Fighters series?
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Mar 25, 2011 21:25
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Trying to remember another game I played on my Macintosh back in the 90s. It was a sort of point and click noir adventure, where you're trying to investigate someone's drug-related death (I think). Anyway, you can hold the drugs in your inventory screen, and apply them to your own body (think like a nicorette patch). Then on your screen you see your avatar overdose and die. Took place in the future, I believe.
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Mar 25, 2011 21:34
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Rollersnake posted:Is it one of the games in Konami's Crime Fighters series? That's the one, thanks! Reading through that page, it looks terrible, but I might fire up an emulator and play Violent Storm - I've never heard of it but it looks pretty good.
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Mar 25, 2011 21:37
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kaujot posted:Trying to remember another game I played on my Macintosh back in the 90s. It was a sort of point and click noir adventure, where you're trying to investigate someone's drug-related death (I think). Anyway, you can hold the drugs in your inventory screen, and apply them to your own body (think like a nicorette patch). Then on your screen you see your avatar overdose and die. Took place in the future, I believe. One of the Deja Vu games?
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kaujot posted:Trying to remember another game I played on my Macintosh back in the 90s. It was a sort of point and click noir adventure, where you're trying to investigate someone's drug-related death (I think). Anyway, you can hold the drugs in your inventory screen, and apply them to your own body (think like a nicorette patch). Then on your screen you see your avatar overdose and die. Took place in the future, I believe. Do any of the screenshots here jog your memory, because it really reminds me of Rise of the Dragon.
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I've been trying to remember the name of a PC game I played as a kid, probably sometimes between 1996 and 2000, but I'm not certain how old the game was when I played it. I'm pretty certain it was a DOS game since it came on a disk with a bunch of free demos and there was some Commander Keen demos on it too. It was a side-scrolling platformer where you played as a kid and had to save animals that had been kidnapped or some such thing, but it was either set during Halloween or just took place in spooky areas. I remember having to collect candy for extra points so I'm fairly certain it was Halloween themed. Not a great description but its all I can remember, I've been trying to remember what this game is for years, sound familiar to anyone?
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Ovo posted:I've been trying to remember the name of a PC game I played as a kid, probably sometimes between 1996 and 2000, but I'm not certain how old the game was when I played it. I'm pretty certain it was a DOS game since it came on a disk with a bunch of free demos and there was some Commander Keen demos on it too. It was a side-scrolling platformer where you played as a kid and had to save animals that had been kidnapped or some such thing, but it was either set during Halloween or just took place in spooky areas. I remember having to collect candy for extra points so I'm fairly certain it was Halloween themed. Alien Carnage/Halloween Harry?
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Mar 26, 2011 00:14
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Ovo posted:I've been trying to remember the name of a PC game I played as a kid, probably sometimes between 1996 and 2000, but I'm not certain how old the game was when I played it. I'm pretty certain it was a DOS game since it came on a disk with a bunch of free demos and there was some Commander Keen demos on it too. It was a side-scrolling platformer where you played as a kid and had to save animals that had been kidnapped or some such thing, but it was either set during Halloween or just took place in spooky areas. I remember having to collect candy for extra points so I'm fairly certain it was Halloween themed. That sounds totally like Apogee's Monster Bash.
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scamtank posted:That sounds totally like Apogee's Monster Bash. Yes thats it! I've been looking for this for ages, thanks a lot!
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Hey there guys. So I was playing Crime Fighters 2/Vendetta, and I picked up a shotgun (see the pic below). The pose/grin of the main character holding it instantly reminded me of another game's protagonist doing the same. It's not Metal Slug, pretty sure it's a PC game. For some reason, I wanna say it was included with something like Klik N' Play or The Games Factory, something along those lines. 
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alejandro posted:Hey there guys. So I was playing Crime Fighters 2/Vendetta, and I picked up a shotgun (see the pic below). The pose/grin of the main character holding it instantly reminded me of another game's protagonist doing the same. Blackthorne, maybe?
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alejandro posted:Hey there guys. So I was playing Crime Fighters 2/Vendetta, and I picked up a shotgun (see the pic below). The pose/grin of the main character holding it instantly reminded me of another game's protagonist doing the same. It might be Klik N' Play's demo game. I don't have a screen or link but you were this super-deformed soldier with a shotgun who hopped around in a Rayman-esque colorful forest killing dudes and dodging pools of acid or something. I'll see if I can find it because now I'm curious.
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I used to play a game on windows 95 (but it may have been a DOS game I believe), which I think was called simply "bugs". Does anyone know of this game and possibly any links relating to it? Googling "bugs game win 95" obviously brings up a billion unrelated hits. The game was sort of a platformer, but I can't even remember if it was 2d or 3d any more. And it was about bugs (insects).
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Flyndre posted:I used to play a game on windows 95 (but it may have been a DOS game I believe), which I think was called simply "bugs". Does anyone know of this game and possibly any links relating to it? Googling "bugs game win 95" obviously brings up a billion unrelated hits. Well, there is "Bug" for the Saturn, which I believe also had a Win 95 version.
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Mar 26, 2011 22:21
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Kammat posted:Do any of the screenshots here jog your memory, because it really reminds me of Rise of the Dragon. "Rise of the Dragon" is it! You guys are the best. 
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Mar 26, 2011 22:24
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Hakkesshu posted:Well, there is "Bug" for the Saturn, which I believe also had a Win 95 version. Oh yes that's it. Found it when including Saturn in my search. Thanks.
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Mar 26, 2011 22:28
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Two games. 1. SNES or Genesis(can't remember) side scrolling beat em up. All I remember from the cover art is that it had two dudes on it. The actual game featured bosses like a fat lumberjack looking guy with a big rear end 2x4 and a Native American dude at the end of a level centered around fighting goons on rollerskates. 2.Some math based educational game on pc that centered around monkeys.
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Diquebutt posted:1. SNES or Genesis(can't remember) side scrolling beat em up. All I remember from the cover art is that it had two dudes on it. The actual game featured bosses like a fat lumberjack looking guy with a big rear end 2x4 and a Native American dude at the end of a level centered around fighting goons on rollerskates. Combatribes
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Hakkesshu posted:Combatribes YOU ARE A GOD just found another repressed vidya memory on my own: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXluEYU2Snk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIMk6y8Kwc&feature=related
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Dunno if I've mentioned this one before, might have but I can't recall if I ever got an answer. Shareware game, platformer. You may or may not have been a dinosaur in a trenchcoat. Urban setting. What I distinctly remember of it is you ended up falling into the maw of some great beast and then the shareware portion ended on a cliffhanger. Or I'm mixing two different games since I played a LOT of platformers back then. It was kind of what shareware did.
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I'm gonna go ahead and post two others: one was a jurassic park videogame for PC where it was managed kind've like an RTS, but not quite. no specifics besides that. The other was an N64 FPS that was focused around killing these...bug enemies.
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Diquebutt posted:one was a jurassic park videogame for PC where it was managed kind've like an RTS, but not quite. no specifics besides that. I played the hell out of Jurassic Park: Chaos Island. It was kind of an RTS. Sort of.
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Diquebutt posted:I'm gonna go ahead and post two others: EDIT: The second could be one of the Turok games? Body Harvest wasn't first person but bugs were the main enemy Pablo Nergigante fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Mar 26, 2011 |
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evilmiera posted:Dunno if I've mentioned this one before, might have but I can't recall if I ever got an answer.
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Pablo Gigante posted:Dinosaurs for Hire for the Genesis has you playing as a dinosaur with guns, it opens with you fighting a giant beast who after about 30 seconds knocks you off a dam, and then the first level is in a city While that is incredibly cool, that is not the game I was looking for. This is a PC title only. But thanks for this tip because this looks awesome.
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Bieeardo posted:Blackthorne, maybe? Nope but I haven't played this and it looks pretty rad. al-azad posted:It might be Klik N' Play's demo game. I don't have a screen or link but you were this super-deformed soldier with a shotgun who hopped around in a Rayman-esque colorful forest killing dudes and dodging pools of acid or something. I'll see if I can find it because now I'm curious. Yeah, this definitely sounds like what I was thinking of - and even if it wasn't, it's a game I've played and forgotten the name of. I'm not sure how I encountered it though, I don't think I've ever had a copy of Klik N' Play.
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