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TooMuchAbstraction: Oct 14, 2012; I spent four years making
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No Gravitas posted:

I'm not sure... but...

Civilization: The Board Game?

No; for one thing, it only took us two and a half hours to play (and it was a learning game, for me at least). For another, the four factions I listed were the only four factions (barring expansions I wouldn't know about). It's also strictly a "lay cards down on your tableau" kind of game, like Race for the Galaxy (so I guess calling it a "board game" was a bit of a misnomer). Lasts five rounds, at the end you add up all your VPs and the point values of the cards you've played to determine the winner.

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# ? May 9, 2024 11:36

Zanzibar Ham: Mar 17, 2009; You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.; Grimey Drawer

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

No; for one thing, it only took us two and a half hours to play (and it was a learning game, for me at least). For another, the four factions I listed were the only four factions (barring expansions I wouldn't know about). It's also strictly a "lay cards down on your tableau" kind of game, like Race for the Galaxy (so I guess calling it a "board game" was a bit of a misnomer). Lasts five rounds, at the end you add up all your VPs and the point values of the cards you've played to determine the winner.

You're more likely to find an answer if you ask this in the general boardgames thread in trad games.

# ? Aug 23, 2014 16:08

Sudsygoat: Jul 19, 2013

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

No; for one thing, it only took us two and a half hours to play (and it was a learning game, for me at least). For another, the four factions I listed were the only four factions (barring expansions I wouldn't know about). It's also strictly a "lay cards down on your tableau" kind of game, like Race for the Galaxy (so I guess calling it a "board game" was a bit of a misnomer). Lasts five rounds, at the end you add up all your VPs and the point values of the cards you've played to determine the winner.

Other than length, that sounds like it could be 7 Wonders, but that game is usually shorter than 2 and a half hours.

# ? Aug 23, 2014 17:56

Zanzibar Ham: Mar 17, 2009; You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.; Grimey Drawer

That doesn't sound like 7 Wonders to me at all.

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TooMuchAbstraction: Oct 14, 2012; I spent four years making
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I googled for "card game japan egypt rome barbarian" and found it: it's Imperial Settlers. Should've known Google would be able to figure that one out.

# ? Aug 23, 2014 19:36

PowerStreak: Jun 27, 2005; The day the snow turned to rain?

There was an Acorn Archimedes educational game that I used to play in primary school which seems lost to time, it was a text interface and you were talking to and directing a child around in a WW2-era English town, it did displays some pictures on one side of the screen as you played.

It was part of a series of games that played the same. I can only remember a victorian-era one and another set on Columbus' ship.

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Jimbo Jaggins: Jul 19, 2013

PowerStreak posted:

There was an Acorn Archimedes educational game that I used to play in primary school which seems lost to time, it was a text interface and you were talking to and directing a child around in a WW2-era English town, it did displays some pictures on one side of the screen as you played.

It was part of a series of games that played the same. I can only remember a victorian-era one and another set on Columbus' ship.

Timetraveller: Britain Since The 1930s, maybe? There was also a Timetraveller: The Victorians. I have no idea how they play though or what they look like.

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Pneub posted:

I swear I've seen the exact pose from that poster on the right on a title screen or cover art or something (the other one looks familiar to). Any ideas?

e: As in, they traced it from something.

When I saw this I thought, maybe Buck Rogers: Countdown to Doomsday?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/79/Countdown-to-doomsday-cover.jpg

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

Pneub posted:

I swear I've seen the exact pose from that poster on the right on a title screen or cover art or something (the other one looks familiar to). Any ideas?

e: As in, they traced it from something.

The clothes look like Winback or Metal Gear Solid, the overall look makes me think of Rolling Thunder.

# ? Sep 15, 2014 07:21

Neo Rasa: Mar 8, 2007; Everyone should play DUKE games.

cmndstab posted:

Entombed?

There's a Myst clone called Qing but it takes place in China with you exploring tombs and such. The beginning involves a harbor with lots of yellow though.

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circ dick soleil: Sep 27, 2012; by zen death robot

A browser game where you had a map of things that happen during your lifetime and you could choose multiple choices from each of them and you'd grow up from a baby to an old person and then die. As a baby, a furry man with bad breath walks up to you and licks your face (actually a dog) and when you're a preteen you can choose to go to school wearing a dog collar and answer to the name 'Fido Rex'. There were a lot of other important dog-related life events too.

# ? Sep 15, 2014 07:30

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

circ dick soleil posted:

A browser game where you had a map of things that happen during your lifetime and you could choose multiple choices from each of them and you'd grow up from a baby to an old person and then die. As a baby, a furry man with bad breath walks up to you and licks your face (actually a dog) and when you're a preteen you can choose to go to school wearing a dog collar and answer to the name 'Fido Rex'. There were a lot of other important dog-related life events too.

Alter Ego, which is an old, awesome game.

# ? Sep 15, 2014 07:41

Serperoth: Feb 21, 2013

circ dick soleil posted:

A browser game where you had a map of things that happen during your lifetime and you could choose multiple choices from each of them and you'd grow up from a baby to an old person and then die. As a baby, a furry man with bad breath walks up to you and licks your face (actually a dog) and when you're a preteen you can choose to go to school wearing a dog collar and answer to the name 'Fido Rex'. There were a lot of other important dog-related life events too.

As duckfarts said, it's Alter ego.

http://www.playalterego.com/alterego

I'm not sure if there's another version around but this the one I know.

# ? Sep 15, 2014 11:23

Puweyxil: Oct 19, 2001; I like to eat cheese.; Dinosaur Gum

Pneub posted:

I swear I've seen the exact pose from that poster on the right on a title screen or cover art or something (the other one looks familiar to). Any ideas?

e: As in, they traced it from something.

The first thing that came to mind was Impossible Mission 2, but I agree with duckfarts that it looks more like Rolling Thunder 2. But I couldn't find a matching piece of art from either.

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Genpei Turtle: Jul 20, 2007

Puweyxil posted:

The first thing that came to mind was Impossible Mission 2, but I agree with duckfarts that it looks more like Rolling Thunder 2. But I couldn't find a matching piece of art from either.

I seriously cannot get over that cover for Impossible Mission 2, it's the worst ever. Explosions! Guns! Women! *game is about an unarmed dude somersaulting through a tower and searching furniture for keys while dodging robots*

# ? Sep 15, 2014 16:42

Skunkrocker: Jan 14, 2012; Your favorite ~~furry~~ wrestler.

Genpei Turtle posted:

I seriously cannot get over that cover for Impossible Mission 2, it's the worst ever. Explosions! Guns! Women! *game is about an unarmed dude somersaulting through a tower and searching furniture for keys while dodging robots*

I know, right? I was so confused when I played IM2. Even worse, the CGA version makes it to where you can't tell what is what!

# ? Sep 15, 2014 17:02

PowerStreak: Jun 27, 2005; The day the snow turned to rain?

Jimbo Jaggins posted:

Timetraveller: Britain Since The 1930s, maybe? There was also a Timetraveller: The Victorians. I have no idea how they play though or what they look like.

That sounds right, thanks! I'll have to keep on my quest for them.

# ? Sep 15, 2014 17:04

juliuspringle: Jul 7, 2007

Serperoth posted:

As duckfarts said, it's Alter ego.

http://www.playalterego.com/alterego

I'm not sure if there's another version around but this the one I know.

I just tried that. I got killed by a child molester. :smith:

# ? Sep 15, 2014 20:41

No Gravitas: Jun 12, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

juliuspringle posted:

I just tried that. I got killed by a child molester.

drat common death too, I died that way too the one time I tried it.

Cannot say I like the game though.

# ? Sep 15, 2014 20:51

LordHippoman: May 30, 2013; I, frankly, want this smug Jagen to be my avatar on all forms of social media immediately.

So, I'm looking for a freeware game, I think it might have been goon-made?

It was a pretty obvious send-up to the Suikoden games, where you could recruit a lot of characters and had RPG battles. The art style was a lot more on the "realistic" end than the anime-ish Suikodens, though. I think it started with you as some kind of prince or noble or something who gets framed as a traitor while knocked out and waking up in some lovely village in the middle of nowhere? I remember having it on my old laptop, getting kinda into it, and then having that computer die on me.

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Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

LordHippoman posted:

So, I'm looking for a freeware game, I think it might have been goon-made?

It was a pretty obvious send-up to the Suikoden games, where you could recruit a lot of characters and had RPG battles. The art style was a lot more on the "realistic" end than the anime-ish Suikodens, though. I think it started with you as some kind of prince or noble or something who gets framed as a traitor while knocked out and waking up in some lovely village in the middle of nowhere? I remember having it on my old laptop, getting kinda into it, and then having that computer die on me.

This is Exit Fate, and yeah it's goon-made though I forget who the goon is. He made another more traditional RPG too called Last Scenario that was pretty decent too.

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Mondian: Apr 24, 2007

juliuspringle posted:

I just tried that. I got killed by a child molester.

Just tried it, same result. I just wanted to be helpful!

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Genpei Turtle: Jul 20, 2007

Mondian posted:

Just tried it, same result. I just wanted to be helpful!

That's one of the most bullshit choices in that game--help, don't help, run, you can get killed no matter what you do there.

# ? Sep 15, 2014 22:38

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Genpei Turtle posted:

I seriously cannot get over that cover for Impossible Mission 2, it's the worst ever. Explosions! Guns! Women! *game is about an unarmed dude somersaulting through a tower and searching furniture for keys while dodging robots*

Her bodysuit looks suspiciously coloured over because the original artist's vision was a little too raunchy, too. The guy is pretty much David Hasslehoff though, so you can't really fault the artist.

# ? Sep 15, 2014 23:37

nexus6: Sep 2, 2011; If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes

Long shot because my memory's a little hazy but what the heck.

I remember playing a demo for a PC fps, probably pre 2000. The setting was dark, outdoors by some large buildings. For some reason I want to say it had a Russian theme.

There weren't any enemies so I didn't know what I was supposed to do. In one part there was a kind of racetrack with cars going around in a loop. You could drive one of the cars. Also there was a plane/helicopter vehicle you could use to fly around.

I never remembered what that game was called and would be interested to see if it became anything. Hopefully these details sound familiar to someone but it could just be a fever dream.

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ditty bout my clitty: May 28, 2011; by FactsAreUseless; Fun Shoe

Tried this a few years back but with no luck.

Sidescroller, beat em up. C64. Seemed to be a one-opponent-at-a-time precursor to double dragon. You start out in a jungle, and as far as i remember, you enter a building with more baddies shortly after. Gloomy as hell music. Seem to remember one of them having a cap, that might or might not be green. Early era, most likely.

# ? Sep 16, 2014 00:16

circ dick soleil: Sep 27, 2012; by zen death robot

nexus6 posted:

Long shot because my memory's a little hazy but what the heck.

I remember playing a demo for a PC fps, probably pre 2000. The setting was dark, outdoors by some large buildings. For some reason I want to say it had a Russian theme.

There weren't any enemies so I didn't know what I was supposed to do. In one part there was a kind of racetrack with cars going around in a loop. You could drive one of the cars. Also there was a plane/helicopter vehicle you could use to fly around.

I never remembered what that game was called and would be interested to see if it became anything. Hopefully these details sound familiar to someone but it could just be a fever dream.

Lego Island: Clear Sky

# ? Sep 16, 2014 05:00

NObodyNOWHERE: Apr 24, 2007; Now we are all sons of bitches.; Hell Gem

Ilustforponydeath posted:

Tried this a few years back but with no luck.

Sidescroller, beat em up. C64. Seemed to be a one-opponent-at-a-time precursor to double dragon. You start out in a jungle, and as far as i remember, you enter a building with more baddies shortly after. Gloomy as hell music. Seem to remember one of them having a cap, that might or might not be green. Early era, most likely.

This sounds like Fist II, which was awesome for its time.

http://www.giantbomb.com/fist-ii-the-legend-continues/3030-20199/

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Ghost Head: Sep 16, 2008

This might be a bit obscure, but the game I'm thinking of was Japanese only and on the NES. It was a top down action RPG like the legend of Zelda but instead of one continuous world, there were distinct dungeons or levels and you could choose which order you did them in. I remember there being an underground cave dungeon and an abandoned town and the graphics were pretty awesome for its time. Sorry this is really vague.

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al-azad: May 28, 2009

Ghost Head posted:

This might be a bit obscure, but the game I'm thinking of was Japanese only and on the NES. It was a top down action RPG like the legend of Zelda but instead of one continuous world, there were distinct dungeons or levels and you could choose which order you did them in. I remember there being an underground cave dungeon and an abandoned town and the graphics were pretty awesome for its time. Sorry this is really vague.

Sounds like Grand Master.

# ? Sep 16, 2014 10:45

ditty bout my clitty: May 28, 2011; by FactsAreUseless; Fun Shoe

NObodyNOWHERE posted:

This sounds like Fist II, which was awesome for its time.

http://www.giantbomb.com/fist-ii-the-legend-continues/3030-20199/

YESS, you marvellous bastard!

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Ghost Head: Sep 16, 2008

al-azad posted:

Sounds like Grand Master.

holy poo poo you got it!

# ? Sep 16, 2014 15:44

Bluhman: Nov 7, 2009; Low morale causes the golems to dance in panic.

I've got several. I guarantee most of them are not actually quality games, so this should make it all the more challenging.

For Sega Genesis: You played as a leopard thing escaping from a circus. There was an elephant who would move around automatically, which you'd need to get through each level safely without getting caged.
For PC: Edutainment game. You explore the lab of a big-eared pre-rendered nerd named Howard, and could play games such as building a plane/car, creating conveyor belt things that move around mice, and manage power supply to something.
For PC: Young edutainment game. You explore a house owned by a girl, ape, and hyperactive bird thing. Includes jigsaw puzzles (that tell corny jokes upon completion), geometry puzzles, and a game where you cut, paste, and saw colored bars to put them together into time signatures to make MIDIs play.
For PC: A kids game where you direct a film noir. You go through several scenes, and give the different characters different actions and lines, alternating between 3 themes (straight noir, comedy, and halloween). Upon getting to the final scene, the ending is procedurally generated without any customization options.
For PC/Mac?: I saw someone play this over the shoulder. Isometric strategy game where little guys run around and get violently killed by things. Very brown/grey. At least one weapon was some sort of tesla coil/lightning strike thing.
For PC/Mac: Really silly 'puzzle' game where you take various random things and connect them with wires to make a working machine. Includes some practical things like logic switches, batteries, and so on, and some other weird final result things including a heart that switches the device on based on beats (and can be adjusted to beat as fast as a gerbil's heart), a very slowly swinging pendulum that does nothing, and a big question mark box that plays a really bad electric guitar riff when powered.
For Mac: I don't know why San Diego school computers would have this, but I'm not complaining. It's an FPS where you play as a Raptor with a cannon on their back and kill other dinosaurs with your guns, which usually shoot orange balls or something. Mid-late 90s 3D graphics.
PS2: You play as what basically can be summed up as Medieval Lara Croft. Fight with a sword, do backflips, and very slowly cast spells with awkward analog stick movements. You also have a talking, flying red dragon.

# ? Sep 16, 2014 16:43

THE BAR: Oct 20, 2011; You know what might look better on your nose?

Bluhman posted:

[*]PS2: You play as what basically can be summed up as Medieval Lara Croft. Fight with a sword, do backflips, and very slowly cast spells with awkward analog stick movements. You also have a talking, flying red dragon.
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That would be Drakan - Order of the Flame. Was on the PC, too.

# ? Sep 16, 2014 16:49

pinacotheca: Oct 19, 2012; Events cast shadows before them, but the huger shadows creep over us unseen.

Bluhman posted:

[*]For Sega Genesis: You played as a leopard thing escaping from a circus. There was an elephant who would move around automatically, which you'd need to get through each level safely without getting caged.

This is Marsupilami.

# ? Sep 16, 2014 16:55

TooMuchAbstraction: Oct 14, 2012; I spent four years making
Waves of Steel
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Bluhman posted:

[*]For Mac: I don't know why San Diego school computers would have this, but I'm not complaining. It's an FPS where you play as a Raptor with a cannon on their back and kill other dinosaurs with your guns, which usually shoot orange balls or something. Mid-late 90s 3D graphics.

Sounds like Nanosaur to me; it shipped on the first-gen iMacs, which is probably why it was on school systems. Though that was a third-person game, not first-person.

# ? Sep 16, 2014 16:58

djw175: Apr 23, 2012; by zen death robot

There's a PC game I vaguely remember as a kid. You were working in I think a garage to put stuff together with tools. I think three of the things were a bird house, a derby car, and a computer?

# ? Sep 16, 2014 17:06

Hemingway To Go!: Nov 10, 2008; im stupider then dog shit, i dont give a shit, and i dont give a fuck, and i will never shut the fuck up, and i'll always Respect my enemys.
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Bluhman posted:

I've got several. I guarantee most of them are not actually quality games, so this should make it all the more challenging.

For PC: Edutainment game. You explore the lab of a big-eared pre-rendered nerd named Howard, and could play games such as building a plane/car, creating conveyor belt things that move around mice, and manage power supply to something.

For PC: Young edutainment game. You explore a house owned by a girl, ape, and hyperactive bird thing. Includes jigsaw puzzles (that tell corny jokes upon completion), geometry puzzles, and a game where you cut, paste, and saw colored bars to put them together into time signatures to make MIDIs play.

For PC/Mac?: I saw someone play this over the shoulder. Isometric strategy game where little guys run around and get violently killed by things. Very brown/grey. At least one weapon was some sort of tesla coil/lightning strike thing.

For PC/Mac: Really silly 'puzzle' game where you take various random things and connect them with wires to make a working machine. Includes some practical things like logic switches, batteries, and so on, and some other weird final result things including a heart that switches the device on based on beats (and can be adjusted to beat as fast as a gerbil's heart), a very slowly swinging pendulum that does nothing, and a big question mark box that plays a really bad electric guitar riff when powered.

For Mac: I don't know why San Diego school computers would have this, but I'm not complaining. It's an FPS where you play as a Raptor with a cannon on their back and kill other dinosaurs with your guns, which usually shoot orange balls or something. Mid-late 90s 3D graphics.

invention studio
math workshop
probably Gruntz
widgit workshop
3d dinosaur adventure

My parents bought me edutainment games pretty much exclusively

# ? Sep 16, 2014 17:46

Bluhman: Nov 7, 2009; Low morale causes the golems to dance in panic.

Nice, thanks!

Rita Repulsa posted:

invention studio

math workshop

probably Gruntz

widgit workshop

3d dinosaur adventure

My parents bought me edutainment games pretty much exclusively

Can definitely say that my parents were very similar.

Gruntz wasn't it. The game had a distinctly realistic look to it.

THE BAR posted:

That would be Drakan - Order of the Flame. Was on the PC, too.

This one was KILLING me, because I kept seeing all these other games with similar names (Drakkhen, Drakkengard, etc) and was wondering why none of them were this game.

Bluhman fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Sep 16, 2014

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THE BAR: Oct 20, 2011; You know what might look better on your nose?

Bluhman posted:

This one was KILLING me, because I kept seeing all these other games with similar names (Drakkhen, Drakkengard, etc) and was wondering why none of them were this game.

I keep forgetting its name for the very same reason!

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