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Plunki posted:Ah, missed this suggestion for a minute! Do you remember if it had any fantasy elements? EDIT: Maybe someone can answer this for me as well: a long time ago I played a game (bought from a bargain bin, I think), that I thought was quite fun. It was basically a rip-off of Warcraft II. It was 2d isometric, had three races (humans, orcs, elves). The main change was that every unit had individually tracked experience, and had an inventory into which they can pick up items that were basically passive buffs. And you can bring high level units from one map to the next in a campaign for a fee in gold. Also, the elves had centaurs for cavalry. Any ideas? Fangz fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Mar 29, 2011 |
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Fangz posted:Do you remember if it had any fantasy elements? !!! I just got a call from my friend who has also been trying to remember this game for the last several days and they finally FOUND IT: Ultimate Domain (also known as Genesia) from 1992: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Domain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7BYtlYJ2ec There is not much information out there on it. My memory had been warped a decent amount by time, but it feels right with the snow and such. I may have been misleading you with the RTS part, i guess it may be more turn based. Now to download a copy and try it out. Plunki fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Mar 29, 2011 |
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Mar 29, 2011 19:11
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Fangz posted:Maybe someone can answer this for me as well: a long time ago I played a game (bought from a bargain bin, I think), that I thought was quite fun. It was basically a rip-off of Warcraft II. It was 2d isometric, had three races (humans, orcs, elves). The main change was that every unit had individually tracked experience, and had an inventory into which they can pick up items that were basically passive buffs. And you can bring high level units from one map to the next in a campaign for a fee in gold. Also, the elves had centaurs for cavalry. There's not even a wiki page for this game but this sounds like Rival Realms.
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Mar 29, 2011 19:43
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Ah ha! That's indeed it.
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Gleng posted:That's one hell of a list. Thanks. Please post if you find it, I'm curious!
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zombieman posted:Please post if you find it, I'm curious! I'm actually considering digging out my huge box of Spectrum tapes and going through them.
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Gleng posted:I'm actually considering digging out my huge box of Spectrum tapes and going through them. I've been racking my brains for what it could be, and I'm coming up with nothing that fits that exact criteria!
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A game from the late nineties (well, definitely not younger than 2001, I think). It was hell-devils-inferno themed logical-puzzlish game. The game was played on a board divided into a number of squares. The gameplay consisted of alternately you placing a shooting/exploding gimmick on one square and the game spawning a number of monsters on other squares. You had to align your various shooty/explody bits to create chain reactions, clear out as many fields as possible and survive as long as possible. At least that's how I vaguely remember it, rings a bell anyone?
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Mecharasputin posted:A game from the late nineties (well, definitely not younger than 2001, I think). It was hell-devils-inferno themed logical-puzzlish game. The game was played on a board divided into a number of squares. The gameplay consisted of alternately you placing a shooting/exploding gimmick on one square and the game spawning a number of monsters on other squares. You had to align your various shooty/explody bits to create chain reactions, clear out as many fields as possible and survive as long as possible. At least that's how I vaguely remember it, rings a bell anyone? Sounds like Derek Yu's Diabolika II
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A Classy Ghost posted:Sounds like Derek Yu's Diabolika II Actually I was thinking of Diabolika I, but the sequel's even better. Thanks! 
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I remember a game I played way back on Windows 95, maybe 98 I dont remember. Either way you were a criminal and you could do criminal things. You could go to the park and pick pocket grannies. Sometimes it would work, sometimes you would fight a bunch of grandmas with shotguns. Or you could kidnap a kid. Again it would either work or you would fight a pack of kids with machine guns. The battles were turn based like the old final fantasy games and you could build up a gang. You could rob stores which included stealth sections where you avoid guards and stuff. You could sell the kids you kidnapped into child labor or ransom them. If you get caught by the cops there's a minigame where you run around a maze while cops chase you and try to catch you, like pac man but with alternate mazes and you're going against a time limit instead of getting anything. I really want to play this game again, does anyone know what it is?
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Placebo posted:I remember a game I played way back on Windows 95, maybe 98 I dont remember. Either way you were a criminal and you could do criminal things. You could go to the park and pick pocket grannies. Sometimes it would work, sometimes you would fight a bunch of grandmas with shotg I didn't need to go any further than this. Crime Fighter.
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Placebo posted:I remember a game I played way back on Windows 95, maybe 98 I dont remember. Either way you were a criminal and you could do criminal things. You could go to the park and pick pocket grannies. Sometimes it would work, sometimes you would fight a bunch of grandmas with shotguns. Or you could kidnap a kid. Again it would either work or you would fight a pack of kids with machine guns. The battles were turn based like the old final fantasy games and you could build up a gang. You could rob stores which included stealth sections where you avoid guards and stuff. You could sell the kids you kidnapped into child labor or ransom them. If you get caught by the cops there's a minigame where you run around a maze while cops chase you and try to catch you, like pac man but with alternate mazes and you're going against a time limit instead of getting anything. You're German, aren't you? Bet you are. Apparently Crime Fighter is also available in English, but i couldn't for the life of me imagine how you could have gotten your hands on it back in the darken days of late MS-DOS / Win95. But i don't know much about shareware distribution back in the stone age, either way. Played the shareware to death back then with my brother. Apparently it's freeware now, so full version for everyone, yay! Though i remember the benefits only were grenades as an additional weapon and some else equally useless. fakeedit: aaand beaten already
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Okay this is an old one. Very late 90's game, RTS, PC. You obtained resources in an odd way: you planted some kind of plant that would spread over a field and grant you periodic resource points, and your units were customizable alien warriors of some sort. You obtained new parts for them by sucking up the DNA of rival aliens after you killed them. Anybody know?
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I've been stuck on a game for years and would appreciate any thoughts anyone has. I remember this so distinctly because I purchased the game with my allowance on a trip to visit my aunt in Boston. I couldn't play the game itself so I must have read the manual a hundred times. The game itself was late 90s/early 2000s RTS for the PC. You started as a colony ship that landed on an unknown planet and from there you had to gather resources and build a base. The colony ship seemed very large compared to the rest of your buildings and units. I remember having to mine iron (it was orange) and coal I think as well as other specific resources. You had to tech up to build new vehicles and I never think I got very far because I don't remember any combat. I want to say it was on a grid, oriented diagonally but I wouldn't swear to that. In my mind I want to say the title was Shattered Earth but after much Googling, it doesn't seem anything like the mediocre flash game of the same name. SteveMcQueen fucked around with this message at 23:50 on Mar 31, 2011 |
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Speedball posted:Okay this is an old one. Very late 90's game, RTS, PC. You obtained resources in an odd way: you planted some kind of plant that would spread over a field and grant you periodic resource points, and your units were customizable alien warriors of some sort. You obtained new parts for them by sucking up the DNA of rival aliens after you killed them. Anybody know? Sounds kind of like Impossible Creatures, but I'm not sure about the plants part...
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SteveMcQueen posted:I've been stuck on a game for years and would appreciate any thoughts anyone has. This is a total stab in the dark, but I think it could be Thandor: The Invasion.
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Speedball posted:Okay this is an old one. Very late 90's game, RTS, PC. You obtained resources in an odd way: you planted some kind of plant that would spread over a field and grant you periodic resource points, and your units were customizable alien warriors of some sort. You obtained new parts for them by sucking up the DNA of rival aliens after you killed them. Anybody know? Sounds like Warbreeds.
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SteveMcQueen posted:I've been stuck on a game for years and would appreciate any thoughts anyone has. This is probably Enemy Nations.
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Psychorider posted:This is probably Enemy Nations. Holy poo poo thank you! This is totally it.
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I remember some hilarious Lets Play videos of a really lovely game where you go to a couple's apartment and you have to try and save their marriage. It was basically a gimmick game to showcase a supposedly revolutionary AI where they respond to anything you type with a real conversion. As you might imagine if was insanely broken.Bieeardo posted:Facade Thank you! Shimrra Jamaane fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Apr 1, 2011 |
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:I remember some hilarious Lets Play videos of a really lovely game where you go to a couple's apartment and you have to try and save their marriage. It was basically a gimmick game to showcase a supposedly revolutionary AI where they respond to anything you type with a real conversion. As you might imagine if was insanely broken. Facade
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Goddamn thank you both of you. I've wanted to play this again for so long. Also I am german but have lived in the US my entire life. No idea how we got it, my brother got it for me
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Speedball posted:Okay this is an old one. Very late 90's game, RTS, PC. You obtained resources in an odd way: you planted some kind of plant that would spread over a field and grant you periodic resource points, and your units were customizable alien warriors of some sort. You obtained new parts for them by sucking up the DNA of rival aliens after you killed them. Anybody know? was it 3D? And I think the campaign race/faction was red? If so I think I know what game it is but the name escapes me for the moment, thankfully I still own it so I'll see if I can't find it. e: Apparently I meant blue, I can't find my copy but I remembered the name, is it Dominant Species? Luminaflare fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Apr 1, 2011 |
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Turns out it was Warbreeds. Thanks, guys! ...I have no idea what I'll do with this information, turns out I have nothing that can play it. Still!
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Trying to remember the name of a game from a long long time ago. It was a side scrolling adventure game, I think it featured a ninja/karate/action type character, and you went through various levels. Most were inside this lair type dungeon, and I distinctively remember one of the later levels having these bolts of electricity that lit up the floor that you had to jump over. I do not remember this character using any type of guns or shooting weapons. I don't remember the system that it was on, it looked too graphically enhanced to be on the Atari 2600, but I definitely know it wasn't on a PC, because my friend at the time didn't have one, or would even know how to hook one up onto his TV. I can safely date this as being in the 1988-1990 era. trunkwontopen fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Apr 1, 2011 |
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trunkwontopen posted:Trying to remember the name of a game from a long long time ago. It was a side scrolling adventure game, I think it featured a ninja/karate type character, and you went through various levels. Most were inside this lair type dungeon, and I distinctively remember one of the later levels having these bolts of electricity that lit up the floor that you had to jump over. The electrified floor makes me suspect that it might be Bruce Lee on the C-64, though that's definitely earlier than '88-90.
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Trying to remember the name of a game that I got free with a printer back in the 90s. It was the Epson Stylus Color 600 and the game was a racing game. The only things I can remember from it was that you got to race in different vehicles (cars, bikes, planes) and on one track there was a secret area in which if you went off road you could run over some sheep. I remember it being surprisingly fun.
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Bieeardo posted:The electrified floor makes me suspect that it might be Bruce Lee on the C-64, though that's definitely earlier than '88-90. That might have been it... i looked at some images, and I'm not sure. I would have to see a screen shot of the one electric floor level. I remember the level was vertical; you started at the top, and you had to run off the one floor to get to the next, in an alternating pattern. I do remember that I never seen them pass this level. EDIT: After taking that information, i found a video for "ultimate bruce lee" and that is indeed the game. Thanks! trunkwontopen fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Apr 1, 2011 |
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DarthBlingBling posted:Trying to remember the name of a game that I got free with a printer back in the 90s. It was the Epson Stylus Color 600 and the game was a racing game. The only things I can remember from it was that you got to race in different vehicles (cars, bikes, planes) and on one track there was a secret area in which if you went off road you could run over some sheep. I don't recall the sheep, but could it have been Big Red Racing?
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scamtank posted:I don't recall the sheep, but could it have been Big Red Racing? Actually found out 2 mins after posting but thought I'd let you guys have fun figuring out. Yeah you're right tho. The sheep were in an off road bit and you could squish them.
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Gleng posted:I'm actually considering digging out my huge box of Spectrum tapes and going through them. Did you manage to find it? The suspense is killing me!
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There was this game based on a train, it was a point and click, it had an amazing trailer, the art of the game was very... hmm... art-like. Like, kind of a painting, I would say cel-shaded, but I don't think that's what it is. The game gave me vibes of Agatha Christie's Murder in the Orient Express, and I distinctively remember a Clock being part of the gameplay in some way or another. I got the demo for that game, and now I want to check it out.
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SGRaaize posted:There was this game based on a train, it was a point and click, it had an amazing trailer, the art of the game was very... hmm... art-like. Like, kind of a painting, I would say cel-shaded, but I don't think that's what it is. You are looking for "The Last Express". Edit: It can be yours for 6 bucks.
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Ah, that's exactly it. Thank you.
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I played this one maybe 5 or 6 years ago, it was an RTS, but it was completely underwater... that's about the only way I can describe it, if anyone can help I'd be most thankful
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Brace posted:I played this one maybe 5 or 6 years ago, it was an RTS, but it was completely underwater... that's about the only way I can describe it, if anyone can help I'd be most thankful
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zombieman posted:Did you manage to find it? The suspense is killing me! I shall go and have a look when I finish my breakfast.  Just looked through what I could find. No joy! Gleng fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Apr 4, 2011 |
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When I was a kid there was this one joystick for the PC that pretty much everyone had. From research I'm pretty sure it was the Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro. I don't know if it was a limited release thing, or regional or whatever but most people I know had it come bundled with this space combat sim type game. It's on the tip of my tongue but for the life of me I can't remember what that game was called. Edit: And it definately wasn't a Mechwarrior. Bat Ham fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Apr 4, 2011 |
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Bat Ham posted:When I was a kid there was this one joystick for the PC that pretty much everyone had. From research I'm pretty sure it was the Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro. I don't know if it was a limited release thing, or regional or whatever but most people I know had it come bundled with this space combat sim type game. It's on the tip of my tongue but for the life of me I can't remember what that game was called. I think I got one of the Freespace games with a joystick. What year, roughly?
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