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Alberto Basalm: Nov 14, 2005

Discount Viscount posted:

Got a platform for this? That may help. I assume PC.

yeah, it was a computer game. It was a kids' game, and had some cartoony animation. There was a secret one time where this guy came up and talked to you, and he was a cartoon man so he had a caricature-like face, but his cheekbones were really elongated to the side and his skin was stretched taut. It was pretty scary looking to kid me.

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Neo Rasa posted:

This sounds very much like Goldfields.

Awesome, this is exactly it :3:

I found a screenshot and the map is exactly how I remember it. Thanks Neo Rasa!!

# ? Aug 8, 2011 16:32

LordAndrew: Jul 13, 2009; Walking death machine equipped with the knowledge of Nuclear.

I'm trying to recall an action-adventure game of sorts for the PS1. My memories are faint but I think you played as a cat? I remember there also being a pirate-themed level and like, a bar or something? Not really much to go off of, sorry. :smith:

Been like a decade since I played it.

Actually it may have been a fox. Hrm.

LordAndrew fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Aug 12, 2011

# ? Aug 12, 2011 19:44

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LordAndrew posted:

I'm trying to recall an action-adventure game of sorts for the PS1. My memories are faint but I think you played as a cat? I remember there also being a pirate-themed level and like, a bar or something? Not really much to go off of, sorry. Been like a decade since I played it.

Actually it may have been a fox. Hrm.

Was it Claw?

# ? Aug 12, 2011 20:01

dregan: Jan 16, 2005; I could transport you all into space if I wanted.

LordAndrew posted:

I'm trying to recall an action-adventure game of sorts for the PS1. My memories are faint but I think you played as a cat? I remember there also being a pirate-themed level and like, a bar or something? Not really much to go off of, sorry. Been like a decade since I played it.

Actually it may have been a fox. Hrm.

Sly Cooper? I always hesitate to suggest reasonably well-known games, but Sly 3 had a pirate level (though was on PS2).

# ? Aug 12, 2011 20:13

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

LordAndrew posted:

I'm trying to recall an action-adventure game of sorts for the PS1. My memories are faint but I think you played as a cat? I remember there also being a pirate-themed level and like, a bar or something? Not really much to go off of, sorry. Been like a decade since I played it.

Actually it may have been a fox. Hrm.

Kingsley's Adventure?

# ? Aug 12, 2011 20:24

LordAndrew: Jul 13, 2009; Walking death machine equipped with the knowledge of Nuclear.

Pablo Gigante posted:

Kingsley's Adventure?

Aha, Kingsley's Adventure. That's definitely it! Thank you.

# ? Aug 12, 2011 20:26

Baka Ronnie: Jun 20, 2009; Mazurek Dabrowskiego

Hey friends. I'm trying to remember a game from about ~10 years ago that I -think- was for the computer. It was a sidescroller/platformer of sorts, you played as a young boy whose Girlfriend (or sister. I don't really remember) was kidnapped and you go through a castle to save her, having to get obstacles and stuff by transforming into different animals like, iirc, a frog. It also had, if I remember right, a rather sinister art direction to it. One of the things that come to mind was a jump that had some sort of creepy eye thing at the bottom and it would try to kill you! It's only a hazy description but it's really all I can remember, any help is appreciated. Thanks!

# ? Aug 13, 2011 13:45

Micr0chiP: Mar 17, 2007

Im trying to remember the name of a game that i played on a friends computer not to long ago (2/3 years) were you have some turrets and you have to build a energy grid to power them and blast "water".
You could lift the turrets and you had a city named Odin from were the energy came from.
This is getting me crazy because its not that long ago, anyone knows what im talking about ?

# ? Aug 14, 2011 09:47

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

I remember a game from late EGA-early VGA age: a platformer where to activate switches/puzzles/platforms you had to answer history trivia etc. It had civilization-themed episodes (Egyptian, Asian, etc.). Anyone know the title?

Pierzak fucked around with this message at 09:53 on Aug 14, 2011

# ? Aug 14, 2011 09:49

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Micr0chiP posted:

Im trying to remember the name of a game that i played on a friends computer not to long ago (2/3 years) were you have some turrets and you have to build a energy grid to power them and blast "water".
You could lift the turrets and you had a city named Odin from were the energy came from.
This is getting me crazy because its not that long ago, anyone knows what im talking about ?

Was it 3D and did it have deformable terrain? I think it even had a sequel I just can't think of it off the top of my head.

# ? Aug 14, 2011 12:16

Micr0chiP: Mar 17, 2007

al-azad posted:

Was it 3D and did it have deformable terrain? I think it even had a sequel I just can't think of it off the top of my head.

It is a top down simple graphics game almost flash like ... now that i think of it i think that it was made in flash, but not played in flash player or in a browser.
You had normal turrets, mortars and some that made bombers (called drones).

EDIT: Found it after some searching, its Creeper world.

Micr0chiP fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Aug 14, 2011

# ? Aug 14, 2011 13:53

aliasedman: Aug 14, 2011

I'm looking for a game I played at school in 3rd grade around 1995, although I'm sure it was made quite a few years before that. It was for the Apple II (or some variant, I don't remember what exact models we had in the computer labs). I could have sworn it was published by MECC, but I can't find it on any lists of games they made.

In this game, you'd start out each time at the bottom of a dark cave. The objective was to string a working electrical circuit of lights up to the exit. If you tried putting too many lights on one battery, or mixed parallel/series circuits, sections would dim or go out completely. After you made it to the exit, it would show you a screen where you were looking out into another cavern and there was items you could pickup, some of it being useful for later levels like a boombox to scare away bats (I think?) or a skateboard. That's about all I can remember.

# ? Aug 14, 2011 15:22

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aliasedman posted:

I'm looking for a game I played at school in 3rd grade around 1995, although I'm sure it was made quite a few years before that. It was for the Apple II (or some variant, I don't remember what exact models we had in the computer labs). I could have sworn it was published by MECC, but I can't find it on any lists of games they made.

In this game, you'd start out each time at the bottom of a dark cave. The objective was to string a working electrical circuit of lights up to the exit. If you tried putting too many lights on one battery, or mixed parallel/series circuits, sections would dim or go out completely. After you made it to the exit, it would show you a screen where you were looking out into another cavern and there was items you could pickup, some of it being useful for later levels like a boombox to scare away bats (I think?) or a skateboard. That's about all I can remember.

Are you thinking of Rocky's Boots? I used to play that on the Apple ][ as a kid.

# ? Aug 14, 2011 17:53

Comrade Blyatlov: Aug 4, 2007; should have picked four fingers

I remember hearing a game described as the successor to System Shock 2. It was not Bioshock nor Portal, I believe it was an older game.
Anyone know what it might be? I want to think Marathon Infinity but I'm positive that isn't it.

# ? Aug 14, 2011 23:36

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Two Finger posted:

I remember hearing a game described as the successor to System Shock 2. It was not Bioshock nor Portal, I believe it was an older game.
Anyone know what it might be? I want to think Marathon Infinity but I'm positive that isn't it.

Thief or Deus Ex? Strife was an older title that utilized many of the hub world adventure aspects shared by Deus Ex.

# ? Aug 14, 2011 23:59

Catgirl Al Capone: Dec 15, 2007

Pierzak posted:

I remember a game from late EGA-early VGA age: a platformer where to activate switches/puzzles/platforms you had to answer history trivia etc. It had civilization-themed episodes (Egyptian, Asian, etc.). Anyone know the title?

Sounds like it could be that proto-Super Solvers game. Challenge of the Ancient Empires, I think it was called.

# ? Aug 15, 2011 01:05

These Loving Eyes: Jun 6, 2009

Trying to help a friend out so here are the details:

- an over-the-top hunting game for PC
- FPS and in 3D
- he played it somewhere around 2000 or so
- you had a ridiculous arsenal (e.g. a minigun)
- the game consisted of deer, bears and maybe rabbits
- distinctive feature: you collected the blood of the animals
- could've been shareware, probably not a big title

Anyone have any idea what this could be?

And here's my own which I've posted two times before with no luck at all:

- a really early PS1 futuristic racing game
- the cover art had a red lamborghinish car that either had mounted laser or machine guns
- in the game, you raced across roads in space
- you could fire rockets and lasers at the other racers
- I think the view was locked to the bonnet of the car so that you couldn't actually see your own vehicle, steering wheel or anything
- distinctive feature: you couldn't reverse nor drive the track the wrong way - if you did a 180 degree turn, the game would automatically turn you the right way again
- the game was total crap but I still want to know what the hell it was.

# ? Aug 15, 2011 15:26

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These Loving Eyes posted:

Trying to help a friend out so here are the details:

- an over-the-top hunting game for PC
- FPS and in 3D
- he played it somewhere around 2000 or so
- you had a ridiculous arsenal (e.g. a minigun)
- the game consisted of deer, bears and maybe rabbits
- distinctive feature: you collected the blood of the animals
- could've been shareware, probably not a big title

Anyone have any idea what this could be?

Carnivores 2.?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivores_2
I remember it from the first issue if PCG I bought

e. ARGH it's not that, but I know exactly which game you are talking about. This is killing me.

boner meter fucked around with this message at 15:41 on Aug 15, 2011

# ? Aug 15, 2011 15:38

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These Loving Eyes posted:

Trying to help a friend out so here are the details:

- an over-the-top hunting game for PC
- FPS and in 3D
- he played it somewhere around 2000 or so
- you had a ridiculous arsenal (e.g. a minigun)
- the game consisted of deer, bears and maybe rabbits
- distinctive feature: you collected the blood of the animals
- could've been shareware, probably not a big title

Anyone have any idea what this could be?

And here's my own which I've posted two times before with no luck at all:

- a really early PS1 futuristic racing game
- the cover art had a red lamborghinish car that either had mounted laser or machine guns
- in the game, you raced across roads in space
- you could fire rockets and lasers at the other racers
- I think the view was locked to the bonnet of the car so that you couldn't actually see your own vehicle, steering wheel or anything
- distinctive feature: you couldn't reverse nor drive the track the wrong way - if you did a 180 degree turn, the game would automatically turn you the right way again
- the game was total crap but I still want to know what the hell it was.

This wasn't Crime Killer from before?

# ? Aug 15, 2011 15:42

These Loving Eyes: Jun 6, 2009

duckfarts posted:

This wasn't Crime Killer from before?

Nope, the game I'm talking about is a lot shittier. It's just dull racing on space roads without any specific purpose.

# ? Aug 15, 2011 16:06

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

Two Finger posted:

I remember hearing a game described as the successor to System Shock 2. It was not Bioshock nor Portal, I believe it was an older game.
Anyone know what it might be? I want to think Marathon Infinity but I'm positive that isn't it.

It's definitely not Strife, Marathon Infinity, or Thief, as all of those came out before System Shock 2.

It might be Deus Ex. Knowing more about the actual game would help.

# ? Aug 15, 2011 16:33

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

These Loving Eyes posted:

- a really early PS1 futuristic racing game
- the cover art had a red lamborghinish car that either had mounted laser or machine guns
- in the game, you raced across roads in space
- you could fire rockets and lasers at the other racers
- I think the view was locked to the bonnet of the car so that you couldn't actually see your own vehicle, steering wheel or anything
- distinctive feature: you couldn't reverse nor drive the track the wrong way - if you did a 180 degree turn, the game would automatically turn you the right way again
- the game was total crap but I still want to know what the hell it was.

Red Asphalt aka Rock 'n' Roll Racing II?

# ? Aug 15, 2011 16:44

These Loving Eyes: Jun 6, 2009

Pablo Gigante posted:

Red Asphalt aka Rock 'n' Roll Racing II?

It wasn't this either. I bought it along with Project Overkill so it could've been a near-launch title. I've tried looking at some game listings from the early years of the PS1 with no luck so far. Space roads and the inablity to drive the track backwards are probably the strongest leads.

These Loving Eyes fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Aug 15, 2011

# ? Aug 15, 2011 19:55

The Entity: Apr 16, 2009; I still see the X

These Loving Eyes posted:

- a really early PS1 futuristic racing game
- the cover art had a red lamborghinish car that either had mounted laser or machine guns
- in the game, you raced across roads in space
- you could fire rockets and lasers at the other racers
- I think the view was locked to the bonnet of the car so that you couldn't actually see your own vehicle, steering wheel or anything
- distinctive feature: you couldn't reverse nor drive the track the wrong way - if you did a 180 degree turn, the game would automatically turn you the right way again
- the game was total crap but I still want to know what the hell it was.

Cyberspeed?

# ? Aug 15, 2011 20:07

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organburner posted:

Might as well try this again.

PC game from quake1-quake2 era (at least graphics wise), might have been a demo, may have been nothing but a dream but still, this is what I remember (I think the one I played was a demo though) The game was a futuristic, maybe even post apocalyptic FPS with vehicles.
You start in a city that looks almost completely abandoned, and more or less the first thing I noticed was that you didn't use the arrow keys to move, which confused the hell out of me. WASD was a foreign concept for me at the time. Anyway, the first thing you see is a car of some sort, I think it was like a futuristic 4x4 vehicle with some cannon on the front. I don't remember you having any other weapons except the vehicles.
So you get into this car and blow up enemy cars I think, while driving around the city for some reason (I didn't know any English or at least not enough to understand what I was doing in most games) and if you try to drive too far out of the city there's some big-rear end robots/mechs that will blow you up. Also around the city are similar looking robots/mechs hanging upside down (These are dead/destroyed, by the way), presumably from another faction than the ones that kill you.
I don't know if you could actually use a mech yourself, I never found a empty one and it seemed to be impossible to kill them as well. I do remember finding a strange helicopter-like VTOL thing though, and you could fly around in that.

As I said this game might not actually exist and be something I made up entirely, but the images in my head were so real I don't even know anymore. I specifically remember the upside down mechs/robots hanging from the poles.

I think you might be mixing poo poo up but my best guesses are either:

1. Redline: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/redline

2. Wild Metal Country: http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/wild-metal-country

# ? Aug 16, 2011 07:15

Mechanigma: Apr 17, 2007; ur already ded

Colour posted:

I'm trying to remember the name of a mid to late 90s point-and-click PC game. As far as I remember, it took place in your dreams in a really dark looking town. Among the places you could go in the town were a bar with a rough looking pig bartender, a harbor, an alley in front of a flower shop (where you had to break the window to get some item), and a sewer. I think after you exited the sewer you entered a new world that was brightly colored, unlike the previous one. Within this new world, I also remember having to interact with a petrified bat inside of a church, for some reason. I'd be surprised if anyone remembers this game.

Wow, I can't believe I know the answer to one of these... The game is called Dare to Dream!

# ? Aug 16, 2011 07:41

These Loving Eyes: Jun 6, 2009

The Entity posted:

Cyberspeed?

Sadly, it isn't this either.

# ? Aug 16, 2011 14:26

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

Ok, it's entirely possible that this game exists only in my fevered imagination and garbled memories of childhood, but here goes.

I'm looking for a game involving cybernetic implants. It's not Deus Ex, either System Shock, or Iji. I want to say that it's a brawler or 2d sidescroller, with a heavy melee component; my main memory is leg upgrades to run wicked fast.

Is this an actual game that exists, or am I just crazy?

# ? Aug 24, 2011 04:30

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ToxicFrog posted:

Ok, it's entirely possible that this game exists only in my fevered imagination and garbled memories of childhood, but here goes.

I'm looking for a game involving cybernetic implants. It's not Deus Ex, either System Shock, or Iji. I want to say that it's a brawler or 2d sidescroller, with a heavy melee component; my main memory is leg upgrades to run wicked fast.

Is this an actual game that exists, or am I just crazy?

Shadowrun? It was top down, but you could get cybernetic implants.

# ? Aug 24, 2011 04:40

dregan: Jan 16, 2005; I could transport you all into space if I wanted.

ToxicFrog posted:

Ok, it's entirely possible that this game exists only in my fevered imagination and garbled memories of childhood, but here goes.

I'm looking for a game involving cybernetic implants. It's not Deus Ex, either System Shock, or Iji. I want to say that it's a brawler or 2d sidescroller, with a heavy melee component; my main memory is leg upgrades to run wicked fast.

Is this an actual game that exists, or am I just crazy?

It's neither a brawler or a 2D sidescroller, but Syndicate had gradual cybernetic upgrades. With Legs L3 and full adrenaline you could almost outrun a bullet*.

*note: you couldn't outrun a bullet. But you could get beside someone and Persuadertron them before they even knew you were there.

dregan fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Aug 24, 2011

# ? Aug 24, 2011 05:58

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ToxicFrog posted:

I'm looking for a game involving cybernetic implants. It's not Deus Ex, either System Shock, or Iji. I want to say that it's a brawler or 2d sidescroller, with a heavy melee component; my main memory is leg upgrades to run wicked fast.

Is this an actual game that exists, or am I just crazy?

No melee here, but Abuse? Crazyfast cyberlegs featured at ~1:20.

# ? Aug 24, 2011 07:45

Satanos: Feb 5, 2010

ToxicFrog posted:

Ok, it's entirely possible that this game exists only in my fevered imagination and garbled memories of childhood, but here goes.

I'm looking for a game involving cybernetic implants. It's not Deus Ex, either System Shock, or Iji. I want to say that it's a brawler or 2d sidescroller, with a heavy melee component; my main memory is leg upgrades to run wicked fast.

Is this an actual game that exists, or am I just crazy?

Hybrid Heaven for the N64?

# ? Aug 24, 2011 07:52

Jesto: Dec 22, 2004; Balls.

Nevermind.

Jesto fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Sep 12, 2014

# ? Aug 24, 2011 09:54

Hakkesshu: Nov 4, 2009

That's Rygar

# ? Aug 24, 2011 09:55

Jesto: Dec 22, 2004; Balls.

Nevermind.

Jesto fucked around with this message at 06:41 on Sep 12, 2014

# ? Aug 24, 2011 10:22

Rue: Apr 12, 2007

I've got two oldie arcade games I can't identify.

First was from mid 90's, used two joysticks and you played a pair of disembodied hands that went into people's houses and were an exterminator. You would splat/smack bugs with your hands or occasionally shoot lasers I believe from your fingers.

Second was from late 80's or early 90's and was from Capcom I believe. All I can really remember was it was a side-scrolling fantasy platforming game, and it wasn't Ghosts and Goblins. I never got to play it, but I would watch the demo play over and over at our local Pizza Hut before they traded it for a jukebox.

# ? Aug 24, 2011 10:46

Hakkesshu: Nov 4, 2009

Rue posted:

Second was from late 80's or early 90's and was from Capcom I believe. All I can really remember was it was a side-scrolling fantasy platforming game, and it wasn't Ghosts and Goblins. I never got to play it, but I would watch the demo play over and over at our local Pizza Hut before they traded it for a jukebox.

Magic Sword, maybe?

# ? Aug 24, 2011 10:54

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Rue posted:

I've got two oldie arcade games I can't identify.

First was from mid 90's, used two joysticks and you played a pair of disembodied hands that went into people's houses and were an exterminator. You would splat/smack bugs with your hands or occasionally shoot lasers I believe from your fingers.

That was called Exterminator, appropriately enough. I can only find a video of the Spectrum conversion, but it should be enough to confirm that it is what you are looking for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VtwDaVybEU

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al-azad: May 28, 2009

Hakkesshu posted:

Magic Sword, maybe?

If not Magic Sword than Black Tiger, one of Capcom's most metal games.

# ? Aug 24, 2011 11:43

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