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al-azad posted:If you think it's NES it's most likely Dungeon Magic. wow, yeah that's it. Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements. Thanks man  here's a mushmouth reviewing it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6JVD25l9vs
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I've got a couple, both edutainment games as far as I know, on PC or something to that effect - unfortunately I can't remember when I played them, other than "likely before 2000." The first one was a first-person game where you had to retrieve dinosaur eggs from the past with time travel, and you brought them back to your weird time travel base - there was a maze involved in one part, and there was an extremely terrifying encounter with a huge bug if you went the wrong way, I think? If you failed to retrieve all the eggs in time you got a similarly frightening cutscene with a huge meteor destroying everything. Now that I think about it, it seems a little too dark and scary to be marketed towards kids, but for some reason I do remember it being educational. The other one also involves dinosaurs, but this one was top-down and really cartoony. You played as a green t-rex through a bunch of different minigames, and I think you were rescuing siblings or something? Apples were also involved. This one is really vague, sorry!
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I'm stuck on one. This was an old freeware or shareware title I got off of AOL or compuserve back in 95 or so. It was a bog standard fantasy RPG with low fi sprite graphics and a tile-based overworld. The only specific thing I remember about it was that I found a note in the game referring to an npc named Jamall and the inventory referred to it as "Jamall note". This has been bugging me for years. If anybody knows it I figure this thread will.
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baka kaba posted:Ok I was trying to think of another game that matched your first description, and now it turns out a) you were thinking of something else and b) now I'm trying to remember this drat game! It's a long shot, but "wierd, French" immediately brings to mind something by Exxos. SWIV was great, its "one big level, loaded in on the fly" deal was pretty much unique as far as I know on the C64/Amiga.
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Prenton posted:It's a long shot, but "wierd, French" immediately brings to mind something by Exxos. I looked through a few on there and nothing rang a bell... then I noticed KULT, something clicked and basically you did it! (US title: Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess  )
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packetmantis posted:The first one was a first-person game where you had to retrieve dinosaur eggs from the past with time travel, and you brought them back to your weird time travel base - there was a maze involved in one part, and there was an extremely terrifying encounter with a huge bug if you went the wrong way, I think? If you failed to retrieve all the eggs in time you got a similarly frightening cutscene with a huge meteor destroying everything. Now that I think about it, it seems a little too dark and scary to be marketed towards kids, but for some reason I do remember it being educational.
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Pablo Gigante posted:This is the "Save the Dinosaur" minigame in 3-D Dinosaur Adventure, and yes it was terrifying when the meteor hit. It was totally marketed towards kids, and was packed in with my family's first computer, a Packard Bell way back in 1994! Oh my god, you are a lifesaver! This has been bothering me for years.
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I'm trying to remember an NES platformer where you can shoot arrows into walls and climb on them. I can't really remember much other than that but I'm pretty sure it was a licensed game.
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Alligator posted:I'm trying to remember an NES platformer where you can shoot arrows into walls and climb on them. I can't really remember much other than that but I'm pretty sure it was a licensed game. Darkwing Duck?
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mango sentinel posted:Darkwing Duck? I don't think you had arrows in Darkwing Duck. But Alligator's game sounds familiar, I just can't place it  VV Oh right. I seem to remember a game in which the arrows you can step on was a major mechanic, but no name for it. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Sep 20, 2013 |
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Sep 20, 2013 12:45
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I believe Darkwing Duck had a plunger gun you could use to stick plungers to the walls and climb on them, didn't it?
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Ok. This one will be easy as it may well be a classic nowadays... This was a space conquest game, with planets which granted titles to its rulers, like Duke, Baron, etc. I think it had an inheritance and dynasty system. It was for the PC and single player. It also has at least 15 years. Any clues? Thanks.
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Sep 20, 2013 12:56
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Alligator posted:I'm trying to remember an NES platformer where you can shoot arrows into walls and climb on them. I can't really remember much other than that but I'm pretty sure it was a licensed game. In the off chance you got the console wrong, try Quackshot on the Genesis.
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tinkerballz posted:Ok. This one will be easy as it may well be a classic nowadays... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVbEj_fpPdY Also Alligator's totally does sound like Quackshot. Even if it's not, yall should play it. 's great.
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Alligator posted:I'm trying to remember an NES platformer where you can shoot arrows into walls and climb on them. I can't really remember much other than that but I'm pretty sure it was a licensed game. (Darkwing Duck had Arrow Gas and Quackshot had plungers, get it right guys  )
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What was that retro 2d Sidescroller for PC within the past few years where it starts out all cute and gets terrifying and hellish as you progress?
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mango sentinel posted:What was that retro 2d Sidescroller for PC within the past few years where it starts out all cute and gets terrifying and hellish as you progress? Eversion.
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It was a flash game where you are looking at a isometric view of a town and you can look around the town and see the people who live there fight off a zombie epidemic. You can't control anything, just watch, and as the people die, they become zombies, and if they kill a zombie, they level up, eventually becoming superheroes. It's almost a kind of zombie simulator. It had cartoony graphics.
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Sep 25, 2013 18:31
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Two old edutainment games: One was you were a brother and sister traveling through time, and there were historical stories? It's not a lot to go on. Second was a math/science game, it was sort of point and click? I remember it was in a castle and you had to solve a question on the bridge on the way in, and then you had to slowly unlock a door in the main chamber?
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SUPER NEAT TOY posted:Second was a math/science game, it was sort of point and click? I remember it was in a castle and you had to solve a question on the bridge on the way in, and then you had to slowly unlock a door in the main chamber? This sounds a lot like The Castle of Dr Brain
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It's old, it was a kind of maze game. You could get a pistol and there was a dinosaur that you could run into. Maybe some other kind of monsters too. I have no idea, I was like seven when i played it.
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Oct 1, 2013 00:00
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Fake Plastic Trees posted:It's old, it was a kind of maze game. You could get a pistol and there was a dinosaur that you could run into. 1st person or top-down?
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I was about 8-12 years old last i played it (11-15 years ago), in this game you were a detective or investigator of some sort in a sci fi alien bar, you were chasing a murderer, and for some reason you had to go into peoples memories to set stuff right for them, sort of reminds me of FMV adventure games. The big twist was the murderer was also slowly catching on to you and starts to actively stalk you and finally murder you as well if you don't do certain things which i never figured out, probably because of kid dumbness.
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Koboje posted:I was about 8-12 years old last i played it (11-15 years ago), in this game you were a detective or investigator of some sort in a sci fi alien bar, you were chasing a murderer, and for some reason you had to go into peoples memories to set stuff right for them, sort of reminds me of FMV adventure games. The big twist was the murderer was also slowly catching on to you and starts to actively stalk you and finally murder you as well if you don't do certain things which i never figured out, probably because of kid dumbness. http://www.mobygames.com/game/space-bar
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There was an NES or SNES game, it was... I don't want to say "like Arkanoid", but it gets the gist of it. It was some weird fantasy game where you played bog-standard fantasy RPG archetypes and bounced a ball on energy around a field, trying your damndest to make it break blocks and open chests, or hit enemies. If it fell off the bottom of the screen you lost. Unlike Arkanoid or Breakout, you could move in two dimensions, not just left or right. I don't think my friend and I got past the first real boss, which I think was a Tiger. I don't remember the game controlling all that well.
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That's definitely Fire Striker on SNES.
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Forgedbow posted:Sounds like 'The Space Bar' to me. Thats it! Now i can track it down and actually beat it.
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There was a playstation game that where you controlled a mech. THe campaign was weird and you were like a cop mech or something, but it had a differnt mode against the ai where both you and an enemy mech had a base and you would make tanks and helicopters. your tanks would path towards the enemy base, and your helicopters would fly around your base and defend. it was perfect. i can't remember the name even a little
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barkeyrogers posted:There was a playstation game that where you controlled a mech. THe campaign was weird and you were like a cop mech or something, but it had a differnt mode against the ai where both you and an enemy mech had a base and you would make tanks and helicopters. your tanks would path towards the enemy base, and your helicopters would fly around your base and defend. it was perfect. i can't remember the name even a little Future Cop: LAPD.
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thanks duder
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Pneub posted:1st person or top-down? 1st person!
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This game was beyond cool, especially the base building skirmish! Not to mention its awesome videos. And this was back when EA actually made their own drat games, and did it proper!
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Fake Plastic Trees posted:1st person! 3D Monster Maze? No guns though e- I remember a dinosaur in one of the Eye Of The Beholder-y games, might have been Captive, but I can't find any pictures of it. baka kaba fucked around with this message at 19:24 on Oct 3, 2013 |
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this is all hazy, but there's this game for the pc, i think, in which you controlled anti-air cannons on a ship and shot down incoming enemy planes. there were two variants of the turret, a double barreled and a single. there also might've been another gamemode where you controlled a submarine. i can't remember if you were the one dropping bombs or the one dodging them. for some reason the name "seek and destroy" always comes in my mind when i think about the game, but i haven't found anything with that. also, the game was released before 2000.
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That's probably Incoming. It was a popular graphics card freebie.
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Glad I found this thread, there's a game I vaguely remember that's been bugging me for a while. It was on one of those old shareware bundle disks with like 300 games. It was a space combat type game, but it use a Frozen Synapse kind of turn-based system where you'd plan your move and everything would move forward about a second in realtime, then you'd pause again and do another move.
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that's not it, but thanks anyway. the game i was asking about looked much more primitive. also i think it was on one of those huge floppy disks.
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Necrololicon posted:that's not it, but thanks anyway. the game i was asking about looked much more primitive. also i think it was on one of those huge floppy disks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5UAgPq2faI Definitely released before 2000...
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Necrololicon posted:this is all hazy, but there's this game for the pc, i think, in which you controlled anti-air cannons on a ship and shot down incoming enemy planes. there were two variants of the turret, a double barreled and a single. there also might've been another gamemode where you controlled a submarine. i can't remember if you were the one dropping bombs or the one dodging them. for some reason the name "seek and destroy" always comes in my mind when i think about the game, but i haven't found anything with that. also, the game was released before 2000. This sound like Das Boot. http://www.mobygames.com/game/das-boot-german-u-boat-simulation
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The Cheshire Cat posted:Glad I found this thread, there's a game I vaguely remember that's been bugging me for a while. It was on one of those old shareware bundle disks with like 300 games. It was a space combat type game, but it use a Frozen Synapse kind of turn-based system where you'd plan your move and everything would move forward about a second in realtime, then you'd pause again and do another move. Space Rangers? I'm not too sure on the first game, but the second had turn based combat.
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