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al-azad: May 28, 2009

This game looked like War Wind to the letter but I'm 100% positive it was sci-fi. There were ranged units that shot lasers.

# ? Apr 4, 2012 17:14

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Could it have been Outpost or Outpost 2?

# ? Apr 4, 2012 17:16

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Outpost 2 is 99% likely what it is but I feel it's something different. I remember there being space monsters and the standard infantry unit top down reminded me of bulky, blue space marine armor (no, it wasn't a W40K game). Memory is cruel.

# ? Apr 4, 2012 23:56

.DAT Azz: Jan 8, 2009; by Y Kant Ozma Post

Could be Dark Colony, it's got space marines but I don't remember crystals.

# ? Apr 5, 2012 00:18

Long John Power: Sep 11, 2001

Can anyone identify this game? http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=25742

# ? Apr 5, 2012 20:14

Pixotic: Jan 14, 2008; He could be in this very room!
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I could use some help remembering the names of a couple of old games - both were point-and-clickish and were on PC... Or perhaps amstrad or amiga (I was pretty small when I played them) but either way it was in the early 90's during the dos era for sure.

First game:- The story begins with the main character, a boy/young man, being teleported to another dimension/world by a witch while in the middle of a baseball game. I remember that part clearest, he disappeared off the field and came to in a strange new place. The only other thing I really remember about the game is there was an underwater area where you could only go once you found a fishbowl and put it on your head.

Second game:- I don't remember much about this one except that you start the game in a prison cell awaiting your execution and escape by means of bribing a kid outside the prison into telling you about a loose brick. There's a section of the game where it's kind of like pseudo first person and you're shooting... something at... something else (possibly while travelling from area to area). Most of the game is point and click style, and there's a section named something like trials and tribulations where you have to pass several challenges such as swinging pendulum blades and a set of eyes in the wall that will burn you up unless you rub onions under them to make them cry.

I hope somebody knows what I'm talking about, because this has niggling at me for years.

# ? Apr 6, 2012 18:40

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Pixotic posted:

First game:- The story begins with the main character, a boy/young man, being teleported to another dimension/world by a witch while in the middle of a baseball game. I remember that part clearest, he disappeared off the field and came to in a strange new place. The only other thing I really remember about the game is there was an underwater area where you could only go once you found a fishbowl and put it on your head.

I checked a walkthrough to confirm a hunch, and that's totally Curse of Enchantia.

# ? Apr 6, 2012 18:48

Pixotic: Jan 14, 2008; He could be in this very room!
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scamtank posted:

I checked a walkthrough to confirm a hunch, and that's totally Curse of Enchantia.

Oh my god, that's the one! I looked up a youtube video and within 4 seconds of the intro music I knew it was the one.

Thank you! I... I love you :blush:

# ? Apr 6, 2012 18:59

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Pixotic posted:

Second game:- I don't remember much about this one except that you start the game in a prison cell awaiting your execution and escape by means of bribing a kid outside the prison into telling you about a loose brick. There's a section of the game where it's kind of like pseudo first person and you're shooting... something at... something else (possibly while travelling from area to area). Most of the game is point and click style, and there's a section named something like trials and tribulations where you have to pass several challenges such as swinging pendulum blades and a set of eyes in the wall that will burn you up unless you rub onions under them to make them cry.

Is this Hewitt?

# ? Apr 7, 2012 02:33

Deakul: Apr 2, 2012; PAM PA RAM

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I'm thinking of an old highly interactive adventure game from the 90s for the PC.
It had a clay look and you controlled it from the first person.
I think you could drive vehicles, not entirely sure... but I'm positive that you could interact with pretty much everything.

It's not The Neverhood or Toonstruck.

I've been trying to remember this game for like 13 years now, it's just that I can barely remember it.

# ? Apr 7, 2012 05:07

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Deakul posted:

I'm thinking of an old highly interactive adventure game from the 90s for the PC.
It had a clay look and you controlled it from the first person.
I think you could drive vehicles, not entirely sure... but I'm positive that you could interact with pretty much everything.

It's not The Neverhood or Toonstruck.

I've been trying to remember this game for like 13 years now, it's just that I can barely remember it.

This is the only one I can think of that kinda fits your description:
http://www.mobygames.com/game/dark-eye

Oh wait, is it: http://www.mobygames.com/game/normality

# ? Apr 7, 2012 05:12

Deakul: Apr 2, 2012; PAM PA RAM

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It's not either of them.

Thanks for the try though.

# ? Apr 7, 2012 05:19

Pixotic: Jan 14, 2008; He could be in this very room!
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cmndstab posted:

Is this Hewitt?

Sorry, that's not the one. It was an old dos/win 3.1 game.

# ? Apr 7, 2012 08:25

duckfarts: Jul 2, 2010; ~ shameful ~; Soiled Meat

My friend's looking for a game that was (probably)for the C64:

It was in sub-saharan Africa or someplace similar
You were looking for something and when you lost or died, they said something along the lines of "You've evaded me this time"
There was a canteen at the bottom of the screen that you would fill up at oases. If you ran out, you died.
You had an onscreen display of your bullets of which you maybe only had like 10 of, and were scarce

Any ideas?

# ? Apr 8, 2012 08:23

Geographica: Jun 1, 2010

al-azad posted:

Outpost 2 is 99% likely what it is but I feel it's something different. I remember there being space monsters and the standard infantry unit top down reminded me of bulky, blue space marine armor (no, it wasn't a W40K game). Memory is cruel.

Could it be 7th Legion? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Legion

# ? Apr 8, 2012 10:37

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duckfarts posted:

My friend's looking for a game that was (probably)for the C64:

It was in sub-saharan Africa or someplace similar

You were looking for something and when you lost or died, they said something along the lines of "You've evaded me this time"

There was a canteen at the bottom of the screen that you would fill up at oases. If you ran out, you died.

You had an onscreen display of your bullets of which you maybe only had like 10 of, and were scarce

Any ideas?

Is it Heart of Africa?

# ? Apr 8, 2012 11:27

Prenton: Feb 17, 2011; Ner nerr-nerrr ner

duckfarts posted:

My friend's looking for a game that was (probably)for the C64:

It was in sub-saharan Africa or someplace similar

You were looking for something and when you lost or died, they said something along the lines of "You've evaded me this time"

There was a canteen at the bottom of the screen that you would fill up at oases. If you ran out, you died.

You had an onscreen display of your bullets of which you maybe only had like 10 of, and were scarce

Any ideas?

The hypnotically slow Total Eclipse, or its sequel?

# ? Apr 8, 2012 12:09

duckfarts: Jul 2, 2010; ~ shameful ~; Soiled Meat

Prenton posted:

The hypnotically slow Total Eclipse, or its sequel?

It's very similar, but the game apparently wasn't polygonal; it had a fairly top-downish interface, and he recalls walking off the edge of the screen onto a new screen in all four dimensions(directions). He says he might be mixing games up though(and drat, Total Eclipse is looking close-ish).

# ? Apr 9, 2012 04:51

Chamale: Jul 11, 2010; I'm helping!

My friend mentioned seeing a game that he described as a cross between Minecraft and Battlefield. Apparently it involves both digging up blocks, placing blocks, and shooting other players with rifles. He can't remember the game's name - does anyone know what he's talking about?

# ? Apr 10, 2012 04:03

Bondematt: Jan 26, 2007; Not too stupid

Chamale posted:

My friend mentioned seeing a game that he described as a cross between Minecraft and Battlefield. Apparently it involves both digging up blocks, placing blocks, and shooting other players with rifles. He can't remember the game's name - does anyone know what he's talking about?

http://www.ace-spades.com/

Sounds like this.

# ? Apr 10, 2012 04:09

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Been thinking about a game I played on the Atari ST as a kid. Scared the poo poo out of me. All I can remember is that the first level you were underwater and could get some air in a few upturned tanks in that level. In the next level you were walking around in what I presume was some under water station. The enemies looked alien. Not much to go on but I hope it's enough.

# ? Apr 11, 2012 00:33

Babunar: Sep 15, 2009

It's oddly fun just reading through this thread. I've got 2:

1. Racing game on the PS1, like Micro Machines (birds-eye view) but 3d. There were different cars to choose from and the circuits were quite small. If you fell off the edges your car exploded. I think the disk was red and said VROOM on it?

2. Educational(?) puzzle game on the PC. The characters were a brown and a black squirrel-thing, and you moved around in a little pod thing on a rollercoaster/train track... IN SPACE! You could go to different locations (and times, I think).

I know it's a bit vague, but if anyone could help me find these games I'd really appreciate it

# ? Apr 15, 2012 18:48

OSad: Feb 29, 2012

I've been looking at the PCSX2 emulation thread and I saw a screenshot that immediately sent me back to memory lane. In fact, I've been sent back to memory lane countless times because of this game but I've never been quite able to figure out what it was.

From a mental note, it was a real-time strategy game for the PC. It had an old Chinese setting where generals would have their land surrounded by forts and could build whatever they want in it.

This is the screenshot that sent me swooshing back, because in my memories, this looks EXACTLY like the gates from the game, down to camera angle and everything. Anyway, you could build inside your land whatever you needed for your RTS survival; buildings that allowed your workers to mine timber or iron or whatever, a building that allowed your workers to get farms going and, of course, farm the wheat, your standard recruitment building that got your foot soldiers, housing for peasants and so on and so forth.

After you had your army, you could take your little general dude you always started the map with (actually, I don't recall if you could start with one or two), and go lay siege to another enemy's fort. You actually had to travel across separate maps to get to his land: you needed to leave your map, get across the "world map" and only then enter the enemy's map with his town. You could use ladders to climb the walls (and garrison archers your own the walls to prevent the enemy from climbing them!). Or I believe you could bring some sort of unfathomable siege weapon and tear a hole in the walls from a distance, or just plain old knock down the gate with your foot soldiers.

It's worth mentioning that it was a demo. I believe the only map available was a domination style map and some other where you were escorting a princess in a carriage to a river escapade or something. I never managed to win because I was too dumb to figure out how to get over my enemy's wall, but I enjoyed just building and defending my town in skirmish mode. Such fun times.

# ? Apr 22, 2012 16:36

TroubledWaters: Aug 9, 2007; Some kind of...
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms! Is that 10?

What a good game, though I don't like the ones where you could only be a ruler. I like beating up random stuff as a Ronin or Officer.

Where can I buy this gem on PC? I gotta check that thread, I absolutely loved that game for PS2.

# ? Apr 22, 2012 16:38

OSad: Feb 29, 2012

Well, as a reminder, I don't believe the game was Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I just used the screenshot as a reference because it looks similar to what I'm thinking.

# ? Apr 22, 2012 16:56

HoldYourFire: Oct 16, 2006; What's the time? It's DEFCON 1!

OSad posted:

I've been looking at the PCSX2 emulation thread and I saw a screenshot that immediately sent me back to memory lane. In fact, I've been sent back to memory lane countless times because of this game but I've never been quite able to figure out what it was.

From a mental note, it was a real-time strategy game for the PC. It had an old Chinese setting where generals would have their land surrounded by forts and could build whatever they want in it.

This is the screenshot that sent me swooshing back, because in my memories, this looks EXACTLY like the gates from the game, down to camera angle and everything. Anyway, you could build inside your land whatever you needed for your RTS survival; buildings that allowed your workers to mine timber or iron or whatever, a building that allowed your workers to get farms going and, of course, farm the wheat, your standard recruitment building that got your foot soldiers, housing for peasants and so on and so forth.

After you had your army, you could take your little general dude you always started the map with (actually, I don't recall if you could start with one or two), and go lay siege to another enemy's fort. You actually had to travel across separate maps to get to his land: you needed to leave your map, get across the "world map" and only then enter the enemy's map with his town. You could use ladders to climb the walls (and garrison archers your own the walls to prevent the enemy from climbing them!). Or I believe you could bring some sort of unfathomable siege weapon and tear a hole in the walls from a distance, or just plain old knock down the gate with your foot soldiers.

It's worth mentioning that it was a demo. I believe the only map available was a domination style map and some other where you were escorting a princess in a carriage to a river escapade or something. I never managed to win because I was too dumb to figure out how to get over my enemy's wall, but I enjoyed just building and defending my town in skirmish mode. Such fun times.

Probably Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon.

# ? Apr 22, 2012 17:01

OSad: Feb 29, 2012

HoldYourFire posted:

Probably Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon.

Yes, this was it. Thank you!

As a side note; it doesn't looks quite as similar when I put them side by side, I guess.

# ? Apr 22, 2012 17:07

Genpei Turtle: Jul 20, 2007

Total long shot here, but I'm looking for an Apple II game they had on the computer labs in lower school, probably mid-late 80s. It was, as best as I can describe it, an ecology simulator where you set parameters of the various animals and let things run and try to make it so that no species go extinct, either by getting eaten by predators or over-reproducing to the point that they starve to death from lack of resources. I'm pretty sure the animals weren't actually real animals--they were either abstracted fake animals or the game took place on an alien planet or something.

# ? Apr 23, 2012 23:05

DebonaireD: May 7, 2007

I'm looking for help finding 2 games, one rather old and the other less so.
1. I asked about this one in the other thread a while ago, but despite some good guesses no one was able to come up with the goods. Sorry for the sketchy half-wrong details - I think it was from the late 80s, maybe contemporaneous with Test Drive 1 or 2, EGA graphics (if that) and mostly text driven. It had an international spy theme, and I remember a large map of North America? Europe? in dark blue. The map was only up for some part of the game, and it was on the right hand side, with the text parser on the left. I think the game came in a game/app pack that had the old CGA Digger game on it. The pack's main screen was an ugly orange-ish CGA image of an office, with tennis rackets and desk calendars. The game is not Covert Action, nor Hacker/Hacker 2.
2. This one might be easier - A party based swords and sorcery RPG with Ultima 6's pseudo isometric/top down viewpoint, it had the same weird dimetric perspective. I ordered the demo out of one of those catalogues that would send you a hundred floppy disks with game demos for $10 (Egghead maybe?). I mostly remember the screenshot in the catalogue, it was a group of guys in a tavern with barrels and tables, chairs, etc. It had what looked like a tile based engine, and most of the screen was taken up by party info and interface buttons, again, very reminiscent of Ultima 6. Nice, colorful VGA graphics.

# ? Apr 23, 2012 23:29

Zaodai: May 23, 2009; Death before dishonor?
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TroubledWaters posted:

Romance of the Three Kingdoms! Is that 10?

Looks like 9, actually. It was still fun making a unit of Marksmen and rolling around as in independent wrecking people's poo poo by joining battles in progress.

Marksmen were so overpowered it wasn't even funny. It was supposed to be balanced by the fact that only certain cities could upgrade units to Marksman units, and only with certain buildings. But as an independent you could just ride in, pay for the upgrade, and go wherever. Sure, you only got one unit of them, but 10k guys with guns in ancient China is still pretty nasty.

OSad, was Fate of the Dragon any good?

# ? Apr 23, 2012 23:36

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Genpei Turtle posted:

Total long shot here, but I'm looking for an Apple II game they had on the computer labs in lower school, probably mid-late 80s. It was, as best as I can describe it, an ecology simulator where you set parameters of the various animals and let things run and try to make it so that no species go extinct, either by getting eaten by predators or over-reproducing to the point that they starve to death from lack of resources. I'm pretty sure the animals weren't actually real animals--they were either abstracted fake animals or the game took place on an alien planet or something.

I don't know if this helps but I recall a game very similar to what you're describing being on terminals at a local zoo or aquarium or science center or something along those lines. I would have been playing it in the mid 90s, though.

# ? Apr 24, 2012 04:41

HoldYourFire: Oct 16, 2006; What's the time? It's DEFCON 1!

DebonaireD posted:

2. This one might be easier - A party based swords and sorcery RPG with Ultima 6's pseudo isometric/top down viewpoint, it had the same weird dimetric perspective. I ordered the demo out of one of those catalogues that would send you a hundred floppy disks with game demos for $10 (Egghead maybe?). I mostly remember the screenshot in the catalogue, it was a group of guys in a tavern with barrels and tables, chairs, etc. It had what looked like a tile based engine, and most of the screen was taken up by party info and interface buttons, again, very reminiscent of Ultima 6. Nice, colorful VGA graphics.

Something like Exile: Escape from the Pit?

# ? Apr 24, 2012 12:17

4 inch cut no femmes: May 31, 2011

Genpei Turtle posted:

Total long shot here, but I'm looking for an Apple II game they had on the computer labs in lower school, probably mid-late 80s. It was, as best as I can describe it, an ecology simulator where you set parameters of the various animals and let things run and try to make it so that no species go extinct, either by getting eaten by predators or over-reproducing to the point that they starve to death from lack of resources. I'm pretty sure the animals weren't actually real animals--they were either abstracted fake animals or the game took place on an alien planet or something.

Maybe Zoyon Patrol?

# ? Apr 24, 2012 12:50

shaitan: Mar 8, 2004; g.d.m.f.s.o.b.

Old School game that I played on my Mac Plus. Probably a late 80's RPG/Adventureish game, played from the first person perspective but it was more like a hypercard game. Took place in Transylvania (I think, may even be part of the title) and you started off going down a creepy path, it was mostly outdoors and around a cemetery, you wouldn't travel all that far throughout the entire game. You would encounter werewolves and vampires randomly.

I can't even remember the plot but jesus did I spend a lot of time in that game when I was like 8 or 9.

edit: Damnit, it was actually called Translyvania! Got it.

# ? Apr 24, 2012 14:20

DebonaireD: May 7, 2007

HoldYourFire posted:

Something like Exile: Escape from the Pit?

No, the game didn't have true isometric or completely flattened tile graphics. Like Ultima 6 or 7, all of the characters and walls and such would come up from the ground to the upper left, like at a 30 - 45 degree angle.

# ? Apr 24, 2012 23:12

4 inch cut no femmes: May 31, 2011

Like The Magic Candle?

# ? Apr 25, 2012 07:59

DebonaireD: May 7, 2007

Humphrey Vasel posted:

Like The Magic Candle?

Yes, like that, but a good three or four years more modern. Magic Candle has flattened characters and this game had its characters in perspective, too (or at least the same pseudo perspective that everything else was in).

Actually I can see now that Magic Candle III has the right perspective for everything, but I'm pretty sure I'm thinking of a different game. The one I'm looking for had larger and more detailed graphics for objects and people.

DebonaireD fucked around with this message at 15:43 on Apr 25, 2012

# ? Apr 25, 2012 15:41

jack.: Sep 1, 2001

DebonaireD posted:

2. This one might be easier - A party based swords and sorcery RPG with Ultima 6's pseudo isometric/top down viewpoint, it had the same weird dimetric perspective. I ordered the demo out of one of those catalogues that would send you a hundred floppy disks with game demos for $10 (Egghead maybe?). I mostly remember the screenshot in the catalogue, it was a group of guys in a tavern with barrels and tables, chairs, etc. It had what looked like a tile based engine, and most of the screen was taken up by party info and interface buttons, again, very reminiscent of Ultima 6. Nice, colorful VGA graphics.

Challenge of the Five Realms?

# ? Apr 25, 2012 15:43

DebonaireD: May 7, 2007

jack. posted:

Challenge of the Five Realms?

It's hard to tell from the screenshots of this game, but I don't think this is it. The interface doesn't look right and the NPCs are way too small. Thanks for the great effort so far everyone, you've pointed me to some cool looking oldass RPGs.

# ? Apr 25, 2012 18:42

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DebonaireD posted:

2. This one might be easier - A party based swords and sorcery RPG with Ultima 6's pseudo isometric/top down viewpoint, it had the same weird dimetric perspective. I ordered the demo out of one of those catalogues that would send you a hundred floppy disks with game demos for $10 (Egghead maybe?). I mostly remember the screenshot in the catalogue, it was a group of guys in a tavern with barrels and tables, chairs, etc. It had what looked like a tile based engine, and most of the screen was taken up by party info and interface buttons, again, very reminiscent of Ultima 6. Nice, colorful VGA graphics.

Yendorian Tales I (1994) kinda qualifies, except the interface isn't exactly large and the graphics aren't exactly nice :v:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/yendorian-tales-book-i/screenshots

# ? Apr 25, 2012 19:03

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