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Two games here: 1. DOS game where your uncle dies and leaves you a widget factory; your goal is to compete against several other widget companies and be the last man standing - the companies have different AI gimmicks (one company named 'Shadow' does everything exactly the same way you do, another spends all its budget on marketing, and so on), and you get to control how much you spend on marketing, new factories, factory upkeep, wages, and a host of other things to keep a business going, as well as a stock market you can play with. I *thought* this was Oligopoly but apparently that is a comparatively way more graphical boardgame and the game I'm thinking of is almost completely text-based with minimal ASCII graphics. I know I didn't imagine it but hell if I can find it without a name. 2. Probably Windows, but possibly DOS game where you play a dude with a cowboy hat just trying to make it through a bunch of real-time puzzleish screens that have maybe cacti that, when they kill him, turn him into a daisy. Maybe his name was Pete? It's been so long, I just want to turn the ghost in my head into a real experience again. I think there might have been bombs.
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Let's give this thread a try. I'm thinking of a 90's sidescroller starring an astronaut on Mars(?) with maybe a gun? The game was mostly red for sure. It used palette scrolling as the main eye candy and the sprites were rather large. I don't think it came from any shareware powerhouse. It also had lonely MIDI music if it helps.
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Oct 22, 2011 17:19
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I've been searching for a ninja game that I played as a kid: It's definitely 8-bit era, and I was pretty sure it was Shinobi. But when I played the NES version of Shinobi, it was nothing like the game I played. You were a ninja and threw shurikens like in Shinobi, you had to rescue hostages just like Shinobi, the game was formed around jumping up and down from 'layer to layer' of the background like Shinobi, the enemies fired from boxes just like in Shinobi, and I remember there being a street level just like in Shinobi. But Shinobi (at least on the NES and SMS) isn't it. Is there some alternate version of it, is it another game (I went through 'ninja' names and never found any matches), or am I just out of my mind?
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Oct 22, 2011 17:59
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Pointless Adornment posted:I've been searching for a ninja game that I played as a kid: It's definitely 8-bit era, and I was pretty sure it was Shinobi. But when I played the NES version of Shinobi, it was nothing like the game I played. You were a ninja and threw shurikens like in Shinobi, you had to rescue hostages just like Shinobi, the game was formed around jumping up and down from 'layer to layer' of the background like Shinobi, the enemies fired from boxes just like in Shinobi, and I remember there being a street level just like in Shinobi. But Shinobi (at least on the NES and SMS) isn't it. Sounds a lot like Wrath of the Black Manta
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Oct 22, 2011 18:03
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Pointless Adornment posted:I've been searching for a ninja game that I played as a kid: It's definitely 8-bit era, and I was pretty sure it was Shinobi. But when I played the NES version of Shinobi, it was nothing like the game I played. You were a ninja and threw shurikens like in Shinobi, you had to rescue hostages just like Shinobi, the game was formed around jumping up and down from 'layer to layer' of the background like Shinobi, the enemies fired from boxes just like in Shinobi, and I remember there being a street level just like in Shinobi. But Shinobi (at least on the NES and SMS) isn't it. Well there was a Game Gear version of Shinobi... Edit: And this might be the whole thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KlcleL8suw
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Oct 22, 2011 19:00
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Cidrick posted:Sounds a lot like Wrath of the Black Manta Awesome, this is definitely the game. Even the covers are like the same:  vs 
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Wrath of the Black Manta is one of the most hysterically funny bad games I've ever played. It's like playing a video game adaptation of a bad Saturday morning Shinobi cartoon.
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Oct 23, 2011 04:46
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I remember playing a late 90s quicktime-era adventure game (post-myst) where (in the demo, or first level or whatever) you wandered around an odd desert hellscape. One of the puzzles was definitely a kind of skull-and-chain Bop-it, where you had to move different bits in the right order to get it to say "The guilty must be punished." e: VVV Now that's what I call service! Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 18:26 on Oct 23, 2011 |
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Oct 23, 2011 06:39
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Doc Hawkins posted:I remember playing a late 90s quicktime-era adventure game (post-myst) where (in the demo, or first level or whatever) you wandered around an odd desert hellscape. One of the puzzles was definitely a kind of skull-and-chain Bop-it, where you had to move different bits in the right order to get it to say "The guilty must be punished." Basing my guess entirely on this walkthrough http://www.balmoralsoftware.com/skyborg/skyborg.htm
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Oct 23, 2011 09:25
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There was a game for the original NES where you were a ninja and could jump stupidly high and far. I remember the first level was a forest and you had to kill all the enemies in that level to progress and the second level was sewers. I think they made a remake for the DS? Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Thanks! edit: gently caress nevermind. Just found it. It is The Legend of Kage. AuntJemima fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Oct 23, 2011 |
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Oct 23, 2011 10:42
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I played a side scroller when I was a kid. I never got very far but from what I can recall it was set in a jungle. You started off hanging from a parachute and had to cut yourself loose. I think if you went left from the start, there was a girl tied up that you could cut free. A couple of screens right the was a squid-like thing in a tree that kept swiping at you with a tentacle if you tried to pass. That's about what I can remember since I never got past it. I think I played it somewhere between 1995-1998. This game has been haunting me for years.
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Oct 23, 2011 12:31
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MrOnBicycle posted:This game has been haunting me for years. Bermuda Syndrome. Checked it on YouTube, your description was flawless.
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Oct 23, 2011 12:44
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scamtank posted:Bermuda Syndrome. Checked it on YouTube, your description was flawless. Wow thanks. This really brings me back!
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Oct 23, 2011 16:19
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I remember playing an adventure game as a kid but I can't remember the title. The game starts off with you in a plane you crash in the jungle and quickly go into some tunnels or sewers or something in a ruin maybe. The time period was probably around the 40s or 50s but I'm not sure. I seem to remember a girl being with you in the plane. If someone figures this out I'd appreciate it!! Every now and then I feel like playing an adventure game and I try to find this one before giving up and playing something else.
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Oct 23, 2011 17:43
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MorbidYak posted:I remember playing an adventure game as a kid but I can't remember the title. The game starts off with you in a plane you crash in the jungle and quickly go into some tunnels or sewers or something in a ruin maybe. The time period was probably around the 40s or 50s but I'm not sure. I seem to remember a girl being with you in the plane. Flight of the Amazon Queen?
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Oct 23, 2011 17:54
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Pretty sure that's not it. If I remember correctly it wasn't a comedy. And I might have been playing a demo as a kid so I'm not even sure if the part I described was at the beginning.
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Oct 23, 2011 17:59
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Amazon: Guardians of Eden? It's got all the things you described in a pile of unwinnable dead ends, I think.
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Oct 23, 2011 18:18
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This one has been on my mind for a while. It was a PC game, mid ninties I think. It was a kind of free-for-all might-and-magic type game. You were able to chose from like 6 different nations: Order, Chaos, Water, Fire, Air, and Earth I believe. The opening intro showed you the 6 different nation's leaders, one particular line went something like "The circle of life. Choose your fate and create your own destiny". You made an army, had people research spells and the like. Chaos nation had stick throwers? That's all I can remember.
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Oct 23, 2011 23:40
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Could be one of the Lords of Magic games.
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Vex Thunder posted:This one has been on my mind for a while. That's Lords of Magic for sure. But there's 8 factions, you forgot Life and Death.
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Oct 23, 2011 23:58
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YES! Thank you very much kind sirs. Now I will relive the frustration of my childhood. This game was ballbustingly hard from what I remember.
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This is a really old DOS game, I only think I ever played it as a multiplayer (linked two computers together). The graphics were pretty much just green lines in the shapes of the terrain and vehicles. Think kind of like old Tron game, but less color. It was fully vehicle based, and you could pick from a few vehicles, Jet, Tank, HoverTank, I think maybe one or two more, but can't really remember. It was played as a sort of death match. The game was set in the far future, and basically there were two bases, you'd spawn your vehicle of choice (can't remember fully, but I think you had a limited amount of each vehicle per game) and then you'd run out and kill or be killed. This one is a long shot, and I barely remember it, but I really enjoyed it as a little kid. Pretty sure this game came out pre-1989, maybe around 87 even. I don't know because I only played it at my friends house.
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Oct 24, 2011 00:07
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Boba_Fettish posted:This is a really old DOS game, BattleZone?
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An old side scrolling DOS game... you controlled a guy in a black suit. I think it was prince of persia style. There were 2 daggers with a red jewel on one hilt and green on the other. It was medieval times maybe? I'm not sure. I think there were a lot of quick death traps as well and guards that would kill you if you werent careful.
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^^^^ Hmm.. Dragon's lair 3? I'm trying to remember a game for the PC. I think it's freeware. It was an FPS involving lots of old Team Fortress Classic era style movement. I think it involved the word "Air" in it's name.
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HoldYourFire posted:BattleZone? It looked similar to BattleZone, but There were actually bases, and more vehicles. I distinctly remember flying the jet (either fighter or bomber, not sure). Good shot though, I forgot about BattleZone too.
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Jamizzy99 posted:An old side scrolling DOS game... you controlled a guy in a black suit. I think it was prince of persia style. There were 2 daggers with a red jewel on one hilt and green on the other. It was medieval times maybe? I'm not sure. I think there were a lot of quick death traps as well and guards that would kill you if you werent careful. I think that's Shadows of Cairn. There was a beginning section where you walk around the city and could fight guards, and then a whole ton of instant death traps once you started making actual progress.
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Dilb posted:I think that's Shadows of Cairn. There was a beginning section where you walk around the city and could fight guards, and then a whole ton of instant death traps once you started making actual progress. Didn't the music also get all crazy when you brought out your weapons?
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Rollersnake posted:Wrath of the Black Manta is one of the most hysterically funny bad games I've ever played. It's like playing a video game adaptation of a bad Saturday morning Shinobi cartoon.
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Here's one that's doing my head in: It's a Saturn game, it's an RPG, it's in 3D but it's on rails... Nope vvvvvv DarthBlingBling fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Oct 26, 2011 |
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Oct 25, 2011 23:48
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DarthBlingBling posted:Here's one that's doing my head in: That's probably Shining the Holy Ark.
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DarthBlingBling posted:Here's one that's doing my head in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_Dragoon_Saga ?
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FelixMeOneMoreTime posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_Dragoon_Saga ? Not that either  All I can remember about the game was what is already stated, I think the first level was set in a town and you could go explore houses and poo poo.The game was also poo poo if I remember correctly. Just keen to remember what it was.
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DarthBlingBling posted:Not that either poo poo you say? Dark Saviour?
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baka kaba posted:poo poo you say? Dark Saviour? Not that either! Maybe this game was pretty obscure.
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I asked in a previous incarnation of the thread and nobody was able to turn anything up, so maybe we'll have more luck here. This is a game I never played, but saw screenshots of in a gaming magazine and was fairly excited about. It was an RTS game set in the stone age. One race controlled dinosaurs while another controlled mammals. Both races were cavemen and their units looked pretty much the same other than the mammal/reptile split as they advanced up their tech trees. There may have been other races as well but I don't know for sure. What I *do* know is that this game was not Paraworld, which is the only RTS I can find featuring dinosaurs, unless it was, perhaps, an extremely early variation on it. I'm fairly certain the title of the game in the article was Dawn of War, but if that is correct, it either never came out or somehow made such a little splash that it completely disappeared from the internet by the time the Warhammer 40k RTS of the same name was released.
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DarthBlingBling posted:The game was also poo poo Virtual Hydlide?
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jack. posted:Virtual Hydlide? Not that either
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Funkmaster General posted:I asked in a previous incarnation of the thread and nobody was able to turn anything up, so maybe we'll have more luck here.
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DarthBlingBling posted:Not that either Can you say more about what you mean by "on rails?" So it was a first-person thing? e: And for that matter, what makes you say it was an RPG? Were there stats or menu-battles? Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 23:18 on Oct 26, 2011 |
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