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Babunar posted: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? Circuit Breakers? http://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/circuit-breakers
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InternetBully posted:I'm thinking of an interactive fiction / choose your own adventure type game (black screen, still graphic above, white text below) from about the Apple II and DOS era, maybe a little later. This sounds a little like something I played at school back in the mid-80s. The only thing I can specifically remember about it is a note frozen in a block of ice. One of the choices was to melt it on the stove, but the note catches on fire that way.
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Quarex posted:I remember Dracula in London playing a little bit like that, though honestly it is kind of hard to tell whether this is what you remember (certainly the limited interactivity is there, I forgot if there were action sequences though). Thanks, that's not it but I wasn't aware of it so at least it's another off the list. I wish I could remember more about it. This one was a simpler style overall, less going on, usually just question and answers with a corresponding graphic. How many drat Transylvania / vampire themed (mostly) text based DOS games were there? I know there were other supernatural creatures and general murderous villains in it as well, mostly or entirely unseen. You'd think you shouldn't trust the stranger in the dark alley but by running away instead of approaching, the game would tell you that you were killed by wolves or whatever. It had that horror text plus occasional minor actual game play aspect to it, so you're on the right track there. Some of the mini-games that the story would bring you to were side-to-side in addition to the top-down ones I think. The parachute one I remember, if you fell into the lake instead of onto the raft below you'd get eaten by alligators and start over. But I think the basic story was something like your car broke down while you were alone in Transylvania (or at least some dark town with monsters all around) and pressing a number one through four either advanced the story or killed you. stubblyhead posted:This sounds a little like something I played at school back in the mid-80s. The only thing I can specifically remember about it is a note frozen in a block of ice. One of the choices was to melt it on the stove, but the note catches on fire that way. Funny you should say that, this was a DOS executable file that I played on old PCs in keyboarding class during the late nineties. Not sure if that's the same game or not but it's definitely the type of thing that would happen.
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That could be it, I never actually had the box, just the disc, but some of the cars look familiar. Thanks.
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Someone help me out with this, came up in conversation tonight: 80's sidescroller beat em up fantasy cabinet coin-op. All I remember is that the main character had blue armor and a rounded cylindrical headband style helmet. Edit: Large well defined characters Final Fight style. Follow up Edit: It was Gladiator. I love my Axe nailed it. Sharks Dont Sleep fucked around with this message at 05:40 on Mar 15, 2013 |
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Sharks Dont Sleep posted:Someone help me out with this, came up in conversation tonight: 80's sidescroller beat em up fantasy cabinet coin-op. All I remember is that the main character had blue armor and a rounded cylindrical headband style helmet. There's a couple it could be that come close to that description. There's some that are fantasy with a dude in blue armour but no helmet The DND games (cleric has blue armor, brown hair, no helmet) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qDVWdQNMno Warriors of Fate has another dude in blue armor, no helmet again though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQp8dNAUCFE Magic Sword has a guy in blue armor and a helmet, but he's a helper character and not the main character https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JwuYT4HTVQ and a handful of others, some with guys with headbands and blue armour (mostly ninja games) and so forth, if one of those aren't it, can you remember anything else?
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Gladiator? http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7950
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There's also Knights of the Round.
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Basketball arcade game. I'm not sure when it came out, but I remember playing it in the very late 80s/early 90s. You started with only like 30 seconds or so on the clock and down a certain amount of points. You never played defense - you just inbound the ball again after you scored.
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I suspect I might be conflating multiple games, but here goes... As I recall, it was DOS-based, early 1990s perhaps late 1980s, and very text heavy. If it were released today, I imagine it'd be classified a Visual Novel, although I think this game predates that term. The story goes, you are a astronaut who returns from a long trip to find Earth has been abandoned. The computers are still working, so hack into them with the help with AI's or something, to find out what happened. I remember the story being a lengthy sci-fi yarn, by my pre-teen standards. Occasionally I remember snippets like, how there's a whole society of people who genetically-engineered themselves to be able to survive and actually live in the ice and waters of Antartica. They've been setup as the evil boogey-men by "modern" society. There's a colony seed ship a bazillion miles away from Earth, but a kid on Earth can psychically talk with a girl on the ship. The boy ends up going on the run from the government, but I can remember why. I might be able to remember more later. Any ideas? [EDIT] I remember you played the game by selecting from multiple boxes with different icons. Each box would have a list of text entries, and as you read all the entries more would appear in the different boxes. I'm pretty sure that was all there was to the gameplay. I was strongly reminded of this game when I played a recent indie title, Analogue: A Hate Story. Forgedbow fucked around with this message at 06:52 on Oct 1, 2012 |
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I'm currently reading the thread for clues, but by page 7 I still have nothing so I figured I'd post and then keep looking. I don't have a lot of specifics, but y'all are pretty on point. I'm trying to find an old DOS based game. It was a turn based strategy game, set in a sci-fi feudal type of society. It was kind of like Dune, in that it had a number of noble houses vying for control, but it wasn't a Dune game. It was very dark, and had hex based movement on planets- I don't remember if there was space combat too. One of the factions was a sort of religious order along the lines of inquisitors, and you might have been able to take control of them somehow- like by becoming the Emperor's guardian or something? I wanna say you could massacre villages and use biological weapons too, but I'm not 100% on that. It just seemed dark. It also had DRM, and limited the number of turns you could take, so I was never able to get too deep into it.  I seem to recall robust diplomacy, too. Anyhow, that's my bad recollection. Ring any bells?EDIT: Never mind. My google-fu eventually won out. It was called "Emperor of the Fading Suns." Nut to Butt fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Oct 1, 2012 |
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Forgedbow posted:I suspect I might be conflating multiple games, but here goes... I do remember this... can't recall the name.
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Forgedbow posted:I suspect I might be conflating multiple games, but here goes... I remember some elements of the story differently, but this is definitely an Activision game from 1986 called Portal, of all things. http://www.lemon64.com/?game_id=3773 It was good, but could hardly be called a "game."
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It was a first person beat em up game that started out with really lovely FPS elements before you got to the good stuff. All I remember is that the main character kept tripping and seeing crazy rear end things for no reason.
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Dyz posted:It was a first person beat em up game that started out with really lovely FPS elements before you got to the good stuff. All I remember is that the main character kept tripping and seeing crazy rear end things for no reason. Zeno Clash, probably.
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Dyz posted:It was a first person beat em up game that started out with really lovely FPS elements before you got to the good stuff. All I remember is that the main character kept tripping and seeing crazy rear end things for no reason.
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Zeno Clash is the first thing that came to mind for me too, but it could also be Breakdown.
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NObodyNOWHERE posted:I remember some elements of the story differently, but this is definitely an Activision game from 1986 called Portal, of all things. ...man the pc version was an eyesore. How did we ever survive the CGA age?
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Forgedbow posted:Yup, this is it exactly. Thank you.
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NObodyNOWHERE posted:Zeno Clash is the first thing that came to mind for me too, but it could also be Breakdown. I was thinking this, breakdown certainly takes some time to get rolling.
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Quarex posted:Rod Swigart launched two Kickstarters this year to try to make a sequel. He cancelled both when they were not making a dent in his big budget goals. But he vowed to soldier on, so you may someday get a 1986 Portal experience again that looks good to modern eyes! Yeah that was a really sweet Kickstarter. Too bad even crowdfunding can't make something as niche as that happen.
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I played a game a few years back on the PC, where you ran a building demolition company. It wasn't Demolition City or a flash game, which is all I can find online that matches the description. It was very detailed, there were multiple kinds of explosives you could buy, you had to protect neighboring buildings with sandbags and stuff, and you had to pay wages for the time it took to clean up after the demolition. You could set timers for all the different charges accurate down to at least the 10th of a second, meaning on large buildings you could set it up so there was a wave of explosions, or so that you could collapse one part and then have secondary explosives go off a couple of seconds later. You even had to pay for the wire by the foot. Anybody know what I'm talking about?
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:I played a game a few years back on the PC, where you ran a building demolition company. Operation Cleaner 1 or 2?
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I think it was on the xbox live arcade, but going through my played games list I couldn't find it. It was this very stylistic first person - beat em up? The setting was an ancient tribal/caveman landscape place and you walked along some cliffs and got into hand to hand combat with other caveman tribal dudes. AnimalChin fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Oct 4, 2012 |
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AnimalChin posted:I think it was on the xbox live arcade, but going through my played games list I couldn't find it. Sounds like Zeno Clash.
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Thanks, that's it!
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Sharks Dont Sleep posted:Someone help me out with this, came up in conversation tonight: 80's sidescroller beat em up fantasy cabinet coin-op. All I remember is that the main character had blue armor and a rounded cylindrical headband style helmet. This sounds like Gladiator to me. http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7950 [EDIT] Didn't see that Love My Axe already posted this. But I agree with his assumption. hedorah fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Oct 5, 2012 |
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I'm looking for an obscure Gameboy Advance game. Probably from circa 2004. From what I remember, it looks like an isometric game with a field track layout. There are these rabbit like creatures that have to race across the track. I think it was turn based racing though and you had to move them using a golf club.
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Help me with these two games of the PS1 era, still lingering in my memory. The first one was set in a space colony, came in two discs. You could fly in some sort of "space-apache" also in a mech. In the beginning you start as some sort of police agency, never finished the game. The other you played as an alien, the first level it was in Roswell after that you traveled through time.
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benzine posted:The first one was set in a space colony, came in two discs. You could fly in some sort of "space-apache" also in a mech. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTEIh0sLlc0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrI-AoBcr9o
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Forgedbow posted:G-Police and Future Cop LAPD come to mind.
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Thanks Forgedbow and duckfarts. Althought it seems I was playing G-Police sequel, G-Police: Weapons of Justice, that answers the mystery thanks a lot guys!
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benzine posted:
Broken Helix? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Helix
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I can't remember the name of an iOS game. It was an RPG, a PSP port, there may have been some kind of inn management involved and there was an SA thread about it. Thanks!
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it was for genesis and a platformer. you wore a Hawaiian shirt and could be killed by clams and it was fukkin awesome
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John Romero posted:it was for genesis and a platformer. you wore a Hawaiian shirt and could be killed by clams and it was fukkin awesome He didn't wear a shirt but it sounds like Greendog: The Beached Surfer Dude!, a game where everything in nature was out to kill you.
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You controlled a tank and drove around shooting things on a red planet. You had to collect some color canister things. There was a flying enemy who would steal the canisters back from you. Shooting an oil derelict would make it explode. On one level, there were these tall black cannon turret things that constantly shot at you, but if you got behind them they couldn't shoot you anymore. It worked on Windows 98 if that helps.
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John Romero posted:it was for genesis and a platformer. you wore a Hawaiian shirt and could be killed by clams and it was fukkin awesome Were you a nerdy guy with rotoscoped animation and your character's animations evolved to become less nerdy as you advanced in the game? If so, I know what you are thinking about but I can't remember the name either.
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ClearAirTurbulence posted:Were you a nerdy guy with rotoscoped animation and your character's animations evolved to become less nerdy as you advanced in the game? If so, I know what you are thinking about but I can't remember the name either. Lester the Unlikely?
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John Romero posted:it was for genesis and a platformer. you wore a Hawaiian shirt and could be killed by clams and it was fukkin awesome Normy's Beach Babe-o-Rama? http://www.mobygames.com/game/genesis/normys-beach-babe-o-rama/screenshots
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