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CRANKWHORE posted:This is an old one, and based off a very bleary grade school memory. http://www.mobygames.com/game/pc-booter/alley-cat
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CRANKWHORE posted:This is an old one, and based off a very bleary grade school memory. e;fb  e2: how did my browser not load that last post
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Kugyou no Tenshi posted:Bingo. I have no idea how I never found it in the Mobygames search.
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DiscoJ posted:If the controllers looked like guns, it's 'Gunmen Wars' 
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There was some old PC game starring an astronaut, I think his spacesuit was yellow. The first level consisted of him flying through a tunnel in a space..chair (the kind real astonauts use). The second level had him walking on foot with a gun, shooting some humanoind things (I think they were grey/green). There were a bunch of platforms that were too high to jump to, and the astronaut had some sort of upward firing grappling hook that refused to attach to any of them, except one on the far side of the level. On the platform above that one there was a alien egg which hatched the moment I got close, spawning som pterodactyl-like monster that instantly killed me. I think there was a close-up cutscene of the spacesuit tearing bloodily when you died.
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There's one game and one fairly popular addon for Half Life 1 I can't remember the name of. I can't remember much of the game, but I believe it was released before 2000. I remember it featuring graphics not unlike Fallout 1, although a bit more cartoony and a UI similiar to the modern Dragon Age Origins, especially with the top left portraits of a character(maybe characters?) with a golden circle around it. I can't even remember the gameplay, but something tells me that it was a fantasy RPG-ish game where you controlled some kind of giant who beat up people. I remember the mod for Half Life better. It was a zombie mod,multiplayer, and you had several characters you could play as such as a mime with a beret. The maps were overrun with zombies, but you had objectives on some of the maps such as an escape or plant a bomb. It featured a levelling-up system with the weapons(or some kind of money gain), in which you were able to make your weapons do more damage and eventually being able to dual wield shotguns and such. One map I remember clearly was a small sized mall formed as a triangle. There was no way of moving around properly and the whole place was packed with zombies, except for the small safe zone you spawned in and could resupply in. I also remember that, upon death, you would come back as a zombie and a teammate would have to kill you so that you could be human again.
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Right, I don't hold out much hope, but... back in the mid-90s there was an anti-virus package called ThunderByte SWAT. The AV software we had at the time was fine and we never needed Thunderbyte, but it came with a really cool DOS game that played a bit like Qix. You controlled an anti-virus defender and had to clear sections of a computer by tracing squares around them with your character. Certain sections had special abilities - entering the spinning hard drive would fling you to a random part of the maze, and you had to dodge viruses during the game. Also, there were bonus levels where you had to answer questions about computer viruses for bonus lives/points. Does anyone remember this game, or know where I can find it? Zero Star fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Jun 15, 2012 |
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Jun 15, 2012 18:53
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King Zog posted:I remember the mod for Half Life better Brainbread.
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I remember a shareware game where you were a kid who had to pick up (I think letters) while playing a platformer. One level was a haunted house. It was educational and I played it at school circa 1994, but the graphics looked dated even for then. I remember I had Gizmos and Gadgets around the same time, which had much better graphics. There was also a different game, a top-down RPG with graphics kind of like the old Gold Box games, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't one of those. It had character generation and your starting characters died really easily, but you could hire mercenaries. I think one mercenary looked like either a chick or a dude with long hair and had a spell called Dragon's Breath that absolutely wrecked everything. Also, I remember if you got poisoned then rested in an Inn, you died.
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MiltonSlavemasta posted:I remember a shareware game where you were a kid who had to pick up (I think letters) while playing a platformer. One level was a haunted house. It was educational and I played it at school circa 1994, but the graphics looked dated even for then. I remember I had Gizmos and Gadgets around the same time, which had much better graphics. Is this Word Rescue?
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Jun 16, 2012 01:24
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Something that has been bothering me for a while. Genesis game set in prehistoric time. You're a caveman that has to collect other cavemen. It's a 2d sidescrolling puzzle game similar to Lost Vikings or something. You can use cavemen to act as human towers to reach tall heights. I've gone through majority of the Genesis library on Mobygames but it has eluded me. I know I didn't make it up but maybe I'm misremembering the setting. The graphics were pretty crude.
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al-azad posted:Something that has been bothering me for a while. Genesis game set in prehistoric time. You're a caveman that has to collect other cavemen. It's a 2d sidescrolling puzzle game similar to Lost Vikings or something. You can use cavemen to act as human towers to reach tall heights. I think you're talking about The Humans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeUonNq_-KY
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MiltonSlavemasta posted:I remember a shareware game where you were a kid who had to pick up (I think letters) while playing a platformer. One level was a haunted house. It was educational and I played it at school circa 1994, but the graphics looked dated even for then. I remember I had Gizmos and Gadgets around the same time, which had much better graphics.
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Juc66 posted:I think you're talking about The Humans I don't know how I missed this with the generic name. This video brings up terrible memories.
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MiltonSlavemasta posted:There was also a different game, a top-down RPG with graphics kind of like the old Gold Box games, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't one of those. It had character generation and your starting characters died really easily, but you could hire mercenaries. I think one mercenary looked like either a chick or a dude with long hair and had a spell called Dragon's Breath that absolutely wrecked everything. Also, I remember if you got poisoned then rested in an Inn, you died. Never played them but maybe The Magic Candle series? This could be a ton of different games; the more descriptive the better.
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Mine is an an oldschool platformer on PC in the likes of jazz jackrabbit and bio menace. The character could pick up powerups. One of the powerups was a cup or a skull or a cup in the shape of a skull that would flip the level upside down. there were many bosses. It was on DOS I believe. No one i've asked remembers it. I think it was similar to Duke Nukem 2 the most now that I think of it actually. One level was a cave I believe and another was some kind of haunted forest or cemetary I think.
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Odddzy posted:Mine is an an oldschool platformer on PC in the likes of jazz jackrabbit and bio menace. The character could pick up powerups. One of the powerups was a cup or a skull or a cup in the shape of a skull that would flip the level upside down. there were many bosses. It was on DOS I believe. No one i've asked remembers it. I think it was similar to Duke Nukem 2 the most now that I think of it actually. Edit: "Alien Carnage" apparently, for whatever reason. I remember LOVING Halloween Harry, but I would never have given a game called something as dumb as "Alien Carnage" a second look. And since this is still 1993 and we are still getting our games based off vague descriptions on a BBS, that is important.
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Quarex posted:This has to be Halloween Harry, though the game name was changed to something entirely different years later, I seem to recall hearing. it looks like alien carnage a little bit graphically but it's not that game. I still remember playing it a lot (Alien Carnage I mean).
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Odddzy posted:it looks like alien carnage a little bit graphically but it's not that game. I still remember playing it a lot (Alien Carnage I mean). Try looking at Monster Bash, Xargon, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, or maybe Jill of the Jungle. I've got two games im trying to remember. Both on pc around, released sometime between 1994-2000. One is a sidescrolling platformer, I think there were multiple characters you could choose from, one was a barbarian dude with a sword. The first level was a dark forest area. The most notable thing I can remember about this game was on a higher difficulty setting, the game would become auto scrolling. The other is an adventure game, I don't really remember too much from this one. It was a point and click interface. I think whenever you left a location, you'd get put onto a map screen of the world to choose where you wanted to go. I remember one of the locations being a small cave that you'd enter from the left hand side of the screen, there was a skeleton inside, and a shiny object on the right, past the skeleton. Im not sure if this is even from the same game, but I remember a part where you're navigating through like a labyrinth, but it has a very regal design, and the overall color scheme was bright. During this, there's like a trial going on and the whole thing was timed. I've played through King's Quest 1, most of 2, 3-7, and Quest for Glory 1 and 2. So im mostly positive its none of those.
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Kamer Kamer Cola posted:Try looking at Monster Bash, Xargon, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, or maybe Jill of the Jungle. None of those either. I passe Monster bash, Jill of the jungle and cosmo (the first episoed of 'em at least), I'm positive it isn't an apogee game but it does look like them a bit. I think you can have multiple weapons in the game (straight upgrades perhaps? One of them is a pickaxe that spins straight ahead when you shoot it I believe.
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Kamer Kamer Cola posted:The other is an adventure game, I don't really remember too much from this one. It was a point and click interface. I think whenever you left a location, you'd get put onto a map screen of the world to choose where you wanted to go. I remember one of the locations being a small cave that you'd enter from the left hand side of the screen, there was a skeleton inside, and a shiny object on the right, past the skeleton. Maybe you're thinking of Legends of Kyrandia? It's point and click, and has a notoriously horrible cave level that made the babel fish puzzle look like child's play. thrakkorzog fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Jun 16, 2012 |
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Kamer Kamer Cola posted:The other is an adventure game, I don't really remember too much from this one. It was a point and click interface. I think whenever you left a location, you'd get put onto a map screen of the world to choose where you wanted to go. I remember one of the locations being a small cave that you'd enter from the left hand side of the screen, there was a skeleton inside, and a shiny object on the right, past the skeleton. http://www.mobygames.com/game/wrath-of-the-gods
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The map was fairly different from that. I dont think any of the locations were named, or had a picture of them like that, instead I think they were marked with a small icon. The color scheme was also brighter, lots of bright green for land and blue for water.
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Point-and-click adventure game, began with a kid getting a message on his computer to come to a museum in the middle of the night. He meets a robot there who takes him around the museum where he has to correct museum exhibits after they came to life and didn't know what to do or somesuch nonsense. Like there was one exhibit of the Wright brothers' glider and you had to help them build the engine and show them how to shape the wings because they couldn't figure it out or something.
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cmndstab posted:Is this Word Rescue? This is correct. It looks way different than I remembered. I can't believe it's still actually for sale. duckfarts posted:Dragon's Breath is a Quest for Glory I drink, though the rest doesn't really match your description. Yeah, it's not Quest for Glory I, I know that game well. The Joe Man posted:Never played them but maybe The Magic Candle series? This could be a ton of different games; the more descriptive the better. I'm looking at screenshots and I'm pretty sure it's not this series. The graphics were a little better than the old Gold Box games and I remember the portraits of your party members showed up when walking around town, not just their names. It was sort of an open world game where you could go to different towns and get quests and possibly go to the wrong dungeon and get completely destroyed, not linear at all. I also played it around 1994-1995. I'm pretty sure I actually only had a shareware or demo version that I downloaded from Download.com.
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Got two weird ones...again. One was a game where you build floating ship-like islands that battle each other. You could put spikes on them and cannons, think there were other weapons too. I got a demo of this in a demo CD pack. You had catapults too. This guy is looking for the same game: http://ask.metafilter.com/105126/Name-these-strange-older-PC-games And another: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110326051932AAV4WfN Edit: I missed the answer on the first link  StratosphereAnother was a game where you start out on a space station, and you were supposed to be a captain of a ship or something. There was a shop that sold weapons and I think you could recruit crew mates. I could never figure out how to actually start a mission. I think this came from the same, or another demo pack. I remember it looking kinda cartoony. Edit: Command Adventures: Starship! Whelp...ignore this post. Bondematt fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Jun 16, 2012 |
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Bondematt posted:Got two weird ones...again. The second could be a number of spiritually similar games. Starflight, Star Command, Star Control, or Star Control 2, perhaps? E: nevermind, saw your E:
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Kamer Kamer Cola posted:One is a sidescrolling platformer, I think there were multiple characters you could choose from, one was a barbarian dude with a sword. The first level was a dark forest area. The most notable thing I can remember about this game was on a higher difficulty setting, the game would become auto scrolling. This is almost certainly Realms of Chaos, one of the Apogee platformers. - start in a dark forest, proceed through a dungeon to a palace - two characters, barbarian and mage, which you switch between at will - autoscrolls on the highest difficulty - slaughter hundreds of cat-people Quarex posted:This has to be Halloween Harry, though the game name was changed to something entirely different years later, I seem to recall hearing. It was changed because people kept thinking that Halloween Harry was a short one-off holiday joke game like Jazz Jackrabbit: Holiday Hare, rather than a full-length platformer.
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thehumandignity posted:Point-and-click adventure game, began with a kid getting a message on his computer to come to a museum in the middle of the night. He meets a robot there who takes him around the museum where he has to correct museum exhibits after they came to life and didn't know what to do or somesuch nonsense. Like there was one exhibit of the Wright brothers' glider and you had to help them build the engine and show them how to shape the wings because they couldn't figure it out or something. Museum Madness.
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RiffRaff1138 posted:Museum Madness. Yussss thank you.
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ToxicFrog posted:This is almost certainly Realms of Chaos, one of the Apogee platformers. e:looks like it is after watching more of it on youtube. Thanks. Kamer Kamer Cola fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Jun 16, 2012 |
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I'm looking for a shareware game, late 90's perhaps. It was a gliding game set on the moon, you all lined up at the start line and saw how far you could go against AI. I think I got it on the cover of a PC Gamer CD (UK).
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This came to me as I tried to sleep which means it's probably made up but here goes: Arcade game I remember seeing (but not playing) in a restaurant circa 1999 or so. It was a 2D side-scrolling beat 'em up. The main character was something stereotypically 90s like a black-kid-on-a-skateboard but I definitely remember hoverboards or maybe flying bicycles playing a role. It had a really "punk" style with mohawk enemies in skinny jeans, punkish music, and I think the first boss threw CDs at you. I know this was real in some form but the details are fuzzy.
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Best bet is Two Crude Dudes/Crude Buster. Probably not right, but maybe we can narrow it down.
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Definitely not that. You could move vertically like in a typical brawler and the levels (in the demo at least) took place in a normal looking city. One of the levels was a scrolling area kind of like the sewer level in TMNT but it took place on a highway and I know this is where your flying vehicle came in to play. I recall the sprites having large, distorted heads like they were bobble figures. It was a very distinct art style and I could identify it immediately if I saw it. Is there a database for arcade games that's as robust as mobygames? They're pretty much console and PC stuff.
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al-azad posted:This came to me as I tried to sleep which means it's probably made up but here goes: It's not B Rap Boys, is it? That has big-headed characters, vehicle stages (no hoverboards, though), and the playable characters include a black kid wearing rollerblades and a Hispanic-looking kid who rides a skateboard. Doesn't really fit most of your other criteria though. Rollersnake fucked around with this message at 08:47 on Jun 18, 2012 |
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Rollersnake posted:It's not B Rap Boys, is it? That has big-headed characters, vehicle stages (no hoverboards, though), and the playable characters include a black kid wearing rollerblades and a Hispanic-looking kid who rides a skateboard. Doesn't really fit most of your other criteria though. Nice, it was actually DJ Boy. I recognize the punk-rock boss who spews fire and the psuedo-realistic sprites. I think I played B Rap Boys at some point so the two styles kind of merged together.
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I remember a C64 game where you played a character on some sort of skateboard and the screen was scrolling to the right. The perspective was sort of like in games like double dragon and the style was somewhat futuristic. Bit of a vague description but I have not seen it for atleast 20 years.
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HKBGUTT posted:I remember a C64 game where you played a character on some sort of skateboard and the screen was scrolling to the right. The perspective was sort of like in games like double dragon and the style was somewhat futuristic. Could be the Back to the Future 2 game? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au6QL9DEolE
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al-azad posted:Is there a database for arcade games that's as robust as mobygames? They're pretty much console and PC stuff. Give http://www.arcade-museum.com/ a run.
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