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Ledneh posted:Here's one I'm struggling to remember. It was an NES shootemup, where your character was a disembodied orange flying head. Probably bald too. Your shots were various body parts (eyeball, jaw, maybe?), and the first level had you moving through a high rise city destroying buildings and helicopters and eating people. I think you had a life bar instead of actual lives, that would restore itself by aforementioned people eating. Zombie Nation
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Well I'll be god damned, I WASN'T making it up! How about that! 
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Ledneh posted:Here's one I'm struggling to remember. It was an NES shootemup, where your character was a disembodied orange flying head. Probably bald too. Your shots were various body parts (eyeball, jaw, maybe?), and the first level had you moving through a high rise city destroying buildings and helicopters and eating people. I think you had a life bar instead of actual lives, that would restore itself by aforementioned people eating. Sounds like Zombie Nation. Edit: hah there was another page 
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Nov 16, 2011 15:34
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Zombie Nation actually got a ROM Pit review back in the day.
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Sloober posted:Some details are wrong but being from memory it could be Dungeon Master 2. Gems were a higher form of currency and there was an overhead/front view. Wasn't very modern though although there was a cryostasis area where you chose your party members. Nope, though bits of it look similar like how the viewpoint is and the like.
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Dec 12, 2011 13:58
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Does anyone remember an old point and click adventure game where you played as a (green?) dragon? I seem to remember your sister being involved, either following you around through the whole game or just some of it. I think she was a pink dragon. I can remember a fairy ring being part of one of the first screens, and then I think there was something about a magic wand that played a big part in the game? Sorry there's not much to go on.
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Dec 12, 2011 16:54
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Blazing Dragons.
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Dec 12, 2011 16:59
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No, that wasn't it  I'm pretty sure it was a kids game, but a fully featured point and click adventure game. I played it when I was about 10 or so, so it likely came out sometime in the 90s. The dragon you played as had a really annoying 'adult-pretending-to-be-10' voice acting.
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Dec 12, 2011 17:11
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I played this game back in the early 2000's. You played as a wizard kid, or something, and you tried to collect pieces of a sword to kill a evil dark sorcerer. You started in a town called "Tutorial" with a few people, but it was the only town in the game. You could collect spell books to get more spells, but it was optional. You could also skip getting sword pieces. There are four areas in the game. The first is the town and the surrounding area. The second is a forest. THe third is the first part of the sorcerers castle. I never made it to the fourth. The boss of the first area is a giant spider that broke into smaller spiders when hit. You fought it on a bridge. PLEASE HELP ME. The friend I lended it to says he doesn't remember this game existing.
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Dec 12, 2011 17:15
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Tufty posted:No, that wasn't it Darby the Dragon.
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Magikoopa189 posted:I played this game back in the early 2000's. I've only read the review, but could it be Nox?
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Dec 12, 2011 17:20
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FelixMeOneMoreTime posted:Darby the Dragon. Haha, holy poo poo that's the one. You goons are crazy. How did you know that one? Did you play it yourself and remembered it or did you manage to google it with the meagre details I gave?
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Tufty posted:Haha, holy poo poo that's the one. You goons are crazy. How did you know that one? Did you play it yourself and remembered it or did you manage to google it with the meagre details I gave? A few weeks ago I was up in the loft to see if I had any good old games, and Darby the Dragon was one of my childhood favourites that I found, so it's fresh in my memory.
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scamtank posted:I've only read the review, but could it be Nox? No. You definitely played as a kid. The game was top down, and somewhat 3-D. Thanks, though.
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Magikoopa189 posted:I played this game back in the early 2000's. Neophyte, maybe? I know that had four areas.
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Scravo posted:2) An educational puzzle game starring a jungle/safari explorer who has to collect letter tiles in the correct order to spell a given word. The educational value was aimed pretty low, but the gameplay itself was pretty fun, and reminded me a lot of something like The Adventures of LoLo. I remember there being multiple animal types that reacted differently, as well as some kind of arrow shooting things. This came from way back on page 24 but I wanted to contribute something before asking for the powers that be to help me with my search. I'm 99% sure this game is Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks, aka Spelling Jungle. Scravo was right, spelling was never all that difficult, usually 4-7 letter words, but the gameplay was awesome. http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/spelling-jungle And here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX3xuo02gSQ Now onto my question: My brother and I have been trying come up with the name of old Windows game, I would place it somewhere between '94 and '97, but it may have been as late as '99. It was an educational title, but the memories are so sparse, I can't remember what it was teaching. I have a good feeling it was not a math game, but more language/history. Here are the details of our memories: 1. The artwork was dark themed in most levels. Kind of had a spooky theme to it. I'm pretty sure the game was set in a house or mansion, or at least there were many levels there. I feel like there were a lot of pre-rendered backgrounds with 2D stuff happening in the foreground like in Oddworld. 2. My brother seems to remember that between levels you would travel on a spaceship that was on some kind of track 3. Vague recollections of a cutscene where your ship approaches an entry way that is all boarded up, and instead of stopping, you crash through it. 4. The game starts in some sort of library 5. There is a level that takes place in an attic (could I be any more generic?) 6. We both remember a specific scene where some character is being lowered into a vat of lava, or acid, or poison, or something bad, and you have to answer questions to pull the chain that's holding them back up in the air. 7. I don't recall you playing as a character, but all the characters in the game talking through the screen to you personally 8. At the end of the game, you could print out a certificate to put on the fridge so that your mommy could tell you that you were special. That's all I really have. I had a dream about the game involving some sort of bear or teddy bear being the main conduit between you (the player) and the rest of the game. Saying things like "Hurry! We have to save so-and-so", but this may be a distortion of reality. My research on Moby Games has concluded that it is not any of the Jumpstart, SuperSolvers, or MathBlasters series. It's also not Gahan Wilson's Ultimate Haunted House, though I did have that game, and it was cool. If anyone can name this game I will be indebted to you for life. Edit: I've read through about 50 pages of this thread and seen nothing like what I'm describing, but sorry if this has already been resolved! MrRebound22 fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Dec 17, 2011 |
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There's an old SNES rpg where you built and programmed robots and then battled with them. The art was really cartoony and it resembled a final fantasy game.
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Erdos posted:There's an old SNES rpg where you built and programmed robots and then battled with them. The art was really cartoony and it resembled a final fantasy game. Robotrek.
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Dec 18, 2011 20:03
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SHMUP where you could choose between four or five ships, each with different stats and attack type. The first level you were flying over trees and maybe a river, and it seemed relatively intense in terms of the number of bullets - not as many as Ikaruga or Touhou, I think it was comparable to Jamestown possibly. The graphics were really nice sprites, like the quality of 2D sprites on the PS1. If it helps at all in identifying it, it was in the big arcade on the Las Vegas strip.
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An N64 game, I think, where you ran around in an arena as a vehicle fighting other vehicles. I remember weapon powerups, and one level that was Wild West themed and had a train.
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Here's a difficult one: It was during the late 80ies in some arcade hall. That game was a right-left scrolling beat'em up where you played as some kind of cyborg ninja thing. All the powerups you got went into your character's fist, which first started glowing faintly and became  when you got enough powerups. Also the game was hard as hell.I know this is a vague description, but I was a small kid back then and was mostly impressed by the pew-pew and the good graphics.
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Farecoal posted:An N64 game, I think, where you ran around in an arena as a vehicle fighting other vehicles. I remember weapon powerups, and one level that was Wild West themed and had a train. Vigilante 8 or Vigilante 8: 2nd Offensive?
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ponzicar posted:Vigilante 8 or Vigilante 8: 2nd Offensive? Hurray 
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Hammerstein posted:Here's a difficult one: 80s cyborg ninja scrolling beat'em up immediately makes me think The Ninja Warriors, but I don't remember that game having powerups at all. It's not that, is it?
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Hammerstein posted:Here's a difficult one: Are you sure they were ninja? This sounds like Robo Army or Eight Man: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAQIGemeJG0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDgR9FX5898
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What was the name of that game where you played a game design studio? You hired hackers and suits to help the game get made and they leveled up I think. There was a big thread about it in Games, I just can't find it. It might be in the archives.
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Wideshanks posted:What was the name of that game where you played a game design studio? You hired hackers and suits to help the game get made and they leveled up I think. Game Dev Story.
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Funkmaster General posted:Game Dev Story. Yes, thank you.
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I've been thinking about a game that I played as a kid that was a cartoony DOS platform game. You had to save either math or english (can't remember which) from a group of aliens or something like that. There were 3 or 4 in the series and I can't remember the name to save my life.
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PSWII60 posted:I've been thinking about a game that I played as a kid that was a cartoony DOS platform game. You had to save either math or english (can't remember which) from a group of aliens or something like that. There were 3 or 4 in the series and I can't remember the name to save my life. Total random guess: Commander Keen?
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PSWII60 posted:I've been thinking about a game that I played as a kid that was a cartoony DOS platform game. You had to save either math or english (can't remember which) from a group of aliens or something like that. There were 3 or 4 in the series and I can't remember the name to save my life. Are you sure they were edutainment games? I'm going to have to suggest the usual Super Solvers trainwreck in that case.
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I have been looking for this game for years.. it was a graphic adventure game with text commands in French, on a tandy computer (I think it was more advanced than a TRS 80 but didn't run windows 3.1. There might have been an English version too. I think the first screen was a crossroads or just a path with a sign and a moss covered trunk. I remember there having a swamp with a turtle (typing "kill turtle" right away would not achieve the desired effect) and there being a desert, a waterfall and a cave behind the waterfall. Any thoughts?
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I've been trying to remember an old PC game I used to play, this was probably early 90s. It was a space strategy simulator thing where you'd fight for control of a solar system against another enemy race. The only real aspect of it I remember is equipping ground troops- they would start out crappy then you could get metal armor and better guns for them and then you could get this awesome laser shield thing that covered their whole bodies. This is pretty vague but if it triggers any memories let me know.
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PUNCHITCHEWIE posted:I've been trying to remember an old PC game I used to play, this was probably early 90s. It was a space strategy simulator thing where you'd fight for control of a solar system against another enemy race. The only real aspect of it I remember is equipping ground troops- they would start out crappy then you could get metal armor and better guns for them and then you could get this awesome laser shield thing that covered their whole bodies. X-Com sounds similar.... Does this look familiar at all?
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PUNCHITCHEWIE posted:I've been trying to remember an old PC game I used to play, this was probably early 90s. It was a space strategy simulator thing where you'd fight for control of a solar system against another enemy race. The only real aspect of it I remember is equipping ground troops- they would start out crappy then you could get metal armor and better guns for them and then you could get this awesome laser shield thing that covered their whole bodies. It triggered something in me, that bit about the shield armour thing - I was thinking Deuteros but looking through it's not that from what I can see. I remember a thing with basic Rambo-y marines, then some with some armour, and then the fully upgraded guys had a kind of squared opaque bubble over their head and probably chest area EDIT Oh hello http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VmfMFGBnQEE#t=134s
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PSWII60 posted:I've been thinking about a game that I played as a kid that was a cartoony DOS platform game. You had to save either math or english (can't remember which) from a group of aliens or something like that. There were 3 or 4 in the series and I can't remember the name to save my life. It could be Word Rescue or Math Rescue.
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baka kaba posted:It triggered something in me, that bit about the shield armour thing - I was thinking Deuteros but looking through it's not that from what I can see. I remember a thing with basic Rambo-y marines, then some with some armour, and then the fully upgraded guys had a kind of squared opaque bubble over their head and probably chest area YES. It was called Overlord over here in America. Thanks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlord_%281990_video_game%29
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Fuoco posted:It could be Word Rescue or Math Rescue. This is definitely it. They were great games too 
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A point-and-click adventure game for MS-DOS, probably from the late 80s / early 90s. I've looked through the Sierra games of the era but couldn't find it from there, so most likely it's not a Sierra game. Anyhow, you played as a little kid and the game took place in a house. I remember the upmost floor having a a working model train that you could play with. Also, if you failed in the game, you were sent to a military school. Any ideas?
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Smol posted:A point-and-click adventure game for MS-DOS, probably from the late 80s / early 90s. I've looked through the Sierra games of the era but couldn't find it from there, so most likely it's not a Sierra game. Anyhow, you played as a little kid and the game took place in a house. I remember the upmost floor having a a working model train that you could play with. Also, if you failed in the game, you were sent to a military school. The military school thing was in Willy Beamish. Not sure why you wouldn't find it in the Sierra catalog, though. Could your memory be blending games together?
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