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I remembered a side scroller shooter ps1 where it was two kids who get sucked? into a book and they fly on a flying vacuum to kill monster version of fairy tale characters.

It was a japanese game and I remember the art being really cool.

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credburn: Jun 22, 2016; A tangled skein of bad opinions, the hottest takes, and the the world's most misinformed nonsense. Do not engage with me, it's useless, and better yet, put me on ignore.

Trying to recall a game from my childhood; it was from the old Atari age, but I'm thinking it was on the Coleco Vision? I don't really remember any of this game except that...I think you were a key, or you had to get a key. And if you waited too long, a monster would come and get you and it had scary music. I know this is super vague, but it's one of those things that I can't recall any of the details but if I see it or hear it, it'll fill in all the gaps.

# ? Aug 12, 2016 14:40

Rollersnake: May 9, 2005; Please, please don't let me end up in a threesome with the lunch lady and a gay pirate. That would hit a little too close to home.; Unlockable Ben

Venture? You're a smiley face with a bow, and I could understand a child interpreting that as some kind of key thing. The other details mostly fit.

# ? Aug 12, 2016 14:46

InevitableCheese: Jul 10, 2015; quite a pickle you've got there

I could also see it being "Adventure" for the regular Atari.

# ? Aug 12, 2016 15:39

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Adventure was my first thought, but no! It was Venture. Oh maaaan this video is pummeling me with nostalgia. One of the ROOMS is shaped like a key, agh, that I remember. Oh, the sounds! The music!

# ? Aug 12, 2016 15:52

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

Venture loving ruled. Still love that game.

# ? Aug 12, 2016 17:30

Zaodai: May 23, 2009; Death before dishonor?
Your terms are accepted.

BallisticClipboard posted:

One was on a demo disk. It was a racing game but everyone was on skates and skateboards. I think it was a 989 Studios but I might associate them with every sports game on the PS1.

The "Xtreme" series of games were made by 989, so you might be thinking of 2Xtreme or 3Xtreme.

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Donkringel: Apr 22, 2008

I am trying to remember the name of an old kid's horror game for the pc/mac. You were trapped in a mansion and had to find around 13 keys before the 13th hour (or something spooky to that effect). Each room of the house had a different minigame you could play for a key (or an item to later get a key) and monsters would randomly wander the mouse giving different effects. Like if you fed one, you got a key, if you found an angry one it would distort the scream and make you cry and hide under the bed. It was a pixel art game where there were still scenes that you would click on.

# ? Aug 13, 2016 00:58

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Donkringel posted:

I am trying to remember the name of an old kid's horror game for the pc/mac. You were trapped in a mansion and had to find around 13 keys before the 13th hour (or something spooky to that effect). Each room of the house had a different minigame you could play for a key (or an item to later get a key) and monsters would randomly wander the mouse giving different effects. Like if you fed one, you got a key, if you found an angry one it would distort the scream and make you cry and hide under the bed. It was a pixel art game where there were still scenes that you would click on.

I've never actually played, but I dug through the list of horror games on wikipedia for the right platforms and time period.

It could be Uninvited?

# ? Aug 13, 2016 01:09

Zaodai: May 23, 2009; Death before dishonor?
Your terms are accepted.

The 7th Guest? It fits about as well as Uninvited.

Maybe Hugo's House of Horrors, though I didn't actually play that I just remember the name and it being fairly popular.

# ? Aug 13, 2016 01:32

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I'm not the question-asker, but I can guarantee that it's not Uninvited or Hugo's House of Horrors, played the hell out of both of those.

I don't suppose it could be one of the Dare to Dream games, could it?

# ? Aug 13, 2016 01:35

Palette swap: Mar 29, 2010; "There is a professional misconduct hearing over here with your name on it"

I've been trying to remember a couple of games.
First one was from a PC demo disc from 96-97. It was a first person mech game. In one of the missions you had a demolition expert squad mate that you sent to blow tower on top of some hills. The rest of the missions were solo and I remember the enemy/buildings info showed on the HUD and the more damage you took, the less accurate it was.
Second one from the same disc was an FPS, you select from unique alien races that started with different loadouts and begin in an ancient looking city (that last part might be wrong).
Third one is a PSX fighting game, it's cartoony and there's a guy that fights using a vacuum cleaner and that all I remember.

# ? Aug 13, 2016 02:25

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

Palette swap posted:

I've been trying to remember a couple of games.
First one was from a PC demo disc from 96-97. It was a first person mech game. In one of the missions you had a demolition expert squad mate that you sent to blow tower on top of some hills. The rest of the missions were solo and I remember the enemy/buildings info showed on the HUD and the more damage you took, the less accurate it was.

MechWarrior 2? Or, if it was power armour and not mechs as such, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri?

# ? Aug 13, 2016 02:42

Brovstin: Nov 2, 2012

Donkringel posted:

I am trying to remember the name of an old kid's horror game for the pc/mac. You were trapped in a mansion and had to find around 13 keys before the 13th hour (or something spooky to that effect). Each room of the house had a different minigame you could play for a key (or an item to later get a key) and monsters would randomly wander the mouse giving different effects. Like if you fed one, you got a key, if you found an angry one it would distort the scream and make you cry and hide under the bed. It was a pixel art game where there were still scenes that you would click on.

The Ultimate Haunted House?

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al-azad: May 28, 2009

Palette swap posted:

I've been trying to remember a couple of games.
First one was from a PC demo disc from 96-97. It was a first person mech game. In one of the missions you had a demolition expert squad mate that you sent to blow tower on top of some hills. The rest of the missions were solo and I remember the enemy/buildings info showed on the HUD and the more damage you took, the less accurate it was.
Second one from the same disc was an FPS, you select from unique alien races that started with different loadouts and begin in an ancient looking city (that last part might be wrong).
Third one is a PSX fighting game, it's cartoony and there's a guy that fights using a vacuum cleaner and that all I remember.

Shogo and Shattered Steel fit the time frame and I think they had unique demos like Half-Life's Uplink.

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Hakkesshu: Nov 4, 2009

Palette swap posted:

Third one is a PSX fighting game, it's cartoony and there's a guy that fights using a vacuum cleaner and that all I remember.

That has to be Slap Happy Rhythm Busters. That character's name is Trash

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Palette swap: Mar 29, 2010; "There is a professional misconduct hearing over here with your name on it"

ToxicFrog posted:

MechWarrior 2? Or, if it was power armour and not mechs as such, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri?

It is Terra Nova, those were indeed power armors but otherwise it's exactly as I remember it.

Hakkesshu posted:

That has to be Slap Happy Rhythm Busters. That character's name is Trash

Yes, that's the one! Thank you both guys, now to get them.

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Donkringel: Apr 22, 2008

Brovstin posted:

The Ultimate Haunted House?

Thank you! Thats it!

# ? Aug 14, 2016 00:55

BallisticClipboard: Feb 18, 2013; Such a good worker!

duckfarts posted:

The only ps1 hover board games I can find are streak hover board racing and psybadek

Zaodai posted:

The "Xtreme" series of games were made by 989, so you might be thinking of 2Xtreme or 3Xtreme.

Thanks you two. It was Streak Hoverboard Racing and 3Xtreme.

# ? Aug 14, 2016 06:41

jng2058: Jul 17, 2010; We have the tools, we have the talent!

This one goes back a ways. It was an old Commodore 64 game, and in it you were a white asterisk looking spaceship. It was a top down 2d shooter, and you could move in any direction with momentum, so that you had to build up speed as you moved. In the single player mode you shot in whatever direction you were facing, while in two player the second player was the gunner and he could shoot in whatever direction he wanted while the pilot controlled movement. The objective was to wipe out four starforts which were just green line drawn boxes with some fixed guns pointing out. There were also some enemy fighters that would periodically try to ram you. When you shot all the guns, including one difficult one inside a fort that you had to go into very carefully, the level reset and it was the same thing all over again except the guns and enemy fighters were a little faster.

It was a pretty crappy game, all things considered, but it was the first game me and my brothers ever got on the C64, so we played it to death until we finally got newer and better games like Blue Max, Archon, and Mail Order Monsters. But this crappy shooter was my very first video game and it bugs me that I can't remember what it was called.

Anybody remember this one?

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

Survivor

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Bass Concert Hall: May 9, 2005; by Nyc_Tattoo

Strategy/adventure game, probably dating to the late 1990s.

The premise was that you were the captain of a starship that had been sent out from Earth to make alliances with other races, discover useful technologies, recover ancient artifacts, etcetera to try and build up Earth's ability to fend off an impending alien invasion. It was basically a game version of David Brin's Uplift series.

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

Bass Concert Hall posted:

Strategy/adventure game, probably dating to the late 1990s.

The premise was that you were the captain of a starship that had been sent out from Earth to make alliances with other races, discover useful technologies, recover ancient artifacts, etcetera to try and build up Earth's ability to fend off an impending alien invasion. It was basically a game version of David Brin's Uplift series.

Doesn't fit exactly, but Reunion?

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Hakkesshu: Nov 4, 2009

Bass Concert Hall posted:

Strategy/adventure game, probably dating to the late 1990s.

The premise was that you were the captain of a starship that had been sent out from Earth to make alliances with other races, discover useful technologies, recover ancient artifacts, etcetera to try and build up Earth's ability to fend off an impending alien invasion. It was basically a game version of David Brin's Uplift series.

I mean it's not late 90s but it sounds exactly like Star Control 2.

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jng2058: Jul 17, 2010; We have the tools, we have the talent!

pinacotheca posted:

Survivor

That's the one, thanks!

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Shibawanko: Feb 13, 2013

Adventure game from the 90's, graphics and gameplay similar to Fate of Atlantis, you play as a high school or college student guy, you have a love interest and you're kind of a dork. I remember in the shareware version one of the obstacles was that you had to argue with an arrogant jock in the school or something like that.

I clearly remember the first scene in the shareware version puts you in a park talking to your girlfriend about something, I think the title of the game was something like "Attack of the somethingsomething". It's not any Leisure Suit Larry game.

# ? Aug 14, 2016 20:28

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Shibawanko posted:

Adventure game from the 90's, graphics and gameplay similar to Fate of Atlantis, you play as a high school or college student guy, you have a love interest and you're kind of a dork. I remember in the shareware version one of the obstacles was that you had to argue with an arrogant jock in the school or something like that.

I clearly remember the first scene in the shareware version puts you in a park talking to your girlfriend about something, I think the title of the game was something like "Attack of the somethingsomething". It's not any Leisure Suit Larry game.

Day of the Tentacle?

# ? Aug 14, 2016 20:37

Shibawanko: Feb 13, 2013

Pneub posted:

Day of the Tentacle?

No, the concept sounds similar but that's not the one. The graphics were less cartoony and more pixelated, basically like Fate of Atlantis.

Honestly it was probably a crappy game but I remember playing it for a while and then never hearing anything about it ever again.

# ? Aug 14, 2016 20:43

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Not Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is it?

# ? Aug 14, 2016 21:08

Shibawanko: Feb 13, 2013

baka kaba posted:

Not Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders is it?

No, it was even more obscure. I imagesearched for scummvm games but nothing seems familiar, it's somewhere deep inside the rear end in a top hat of gaming history and I hate that I can't remember the name of this dumb game.

# ? Aug 14, 2016 21:10

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

Shibawanko posted:

No, it was even more obscure. I imagesearched for scummvm games but nothing seems familiar, it's somewhere deep inside the rear end in a top hat of gaming history and I hate that I can't remember the name of this dumb game.

It's not in a school, but maybe Flight of the Amazon Queen?

# ? Aug 14, 2016 21:16

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Shibawanko posted:

Adventure game from the 90's, graphics and gameplay similar to Fate of Atlantis, you play as a high school or college student guy, you have a love interest and you're kind of a dork. I remember in the shareware version one of the obstacles was that you had to argue with an arrogant jock in the school or something like that.

I clearly remember the first scene in the shareware version puts you in a park talking to your girlfriend about something, I think the title of the game was something like "Attack of the somethingsomething". It's not any Leisure Suit Larry game.

That's definitely Igor: Objective Uikokahonia.

If not then it has some similarities to Teenagent or Nippon Safes, Inc or The Big Red Adventure although the graphics are more cartoony than you're describing.

# ? Aug 14, 2016 22:05

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Shibawanko posted:

Adventure game from the 90's, graphics and gameplay similar to Fate of Atlantis, you play as a high school or college student guy, you have a love interest and you're kind of a dork. I remember in the shareware version one of the obstacles was that you had to argue with an arrogant jock in the school or something like that.

I clearly remember the first scene in the shareware version puts you in a park talking to your girlfriend about something, I think the title of the game was something like "Attack of the somethingsomething". It's not any Leisure Suit Larry game.

It wasn't Teenagent was it?

# ? Aug 14, 2016 22:08

Bass Concert Hall: May 9, 2005; by Nyc_Tattoo

Hakkesshu posted:

I mean it's not late 90s but it sounds exactly like Star Control 2.

Same setup, different game (I think? It's probably been 20 years).

# ? Aug 14, 2016 23:45

Chubby Henparty: Aug 13, 2007

Bass Concert Hall posted:

Same setup, different game (I think? It's probably been 20 years).

Lightspeed or hyperspeed? Had the aliens and ship customisation except space sims.

# ? Aug 14, 2016 23:50

ToxicFrog: Apr 26, 2008

Palette swap posted:

It is Terra Nova, those were indeed power armors but otherwise it's exactly as I remember it.

Yes, that's the one! Thank you both guys, now to get them.

Terra Nova is on GOG and works great in dosbox. It's probably Looking Glass's most obscure game, which is a shame, because it owns, terrible 90s FMVs and all.

Apparently their original plan was to combine the System Shock and Terra Nova engines to make something that could combine expansive, far-roaming outdoor power armour and vehicle sections with claustrophobic exploration of multi-level underground complexes, but somewhere along the way they got distracted and made Thief: The Dark Project instead. I can't really say that was a bad outcome, but I've always wondered what System Nova: Shock Force Centauri would have been like.