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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Rocket Roger? Doesn't fit any of the "minigame" stuff but it does have jetpacks and fuel and three-tiered compressed-looking levels. I don't think so, but at this point I'm willing to chalk it up to being a fever dream. Maybe I crossed one of these games with Fort Apokalypse or something. 
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I went looking through the old C64 game databases under the "Various Action" moniker, and I found Agent X II and The Cosmic Tunnels. Other than that, I'm tapped out.
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superh posted:Got one from my wife: a game from a random demo disk in the windows 98 era. There was a Barbie game similar to that description called "Adventure Detective Barbie: In the Mystery of the Carnival Caper!" no murder though as far as I am aware.
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Chinook posted:This is my favorite thread. I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Did I miss something?
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Oct 12, 2018 13:24
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not. Did I miss something? No, I just love trying to figure out these old mysteries and I love when it succeeds. I'm always excited when I see an odd numbered amount of new replies 
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Oct 12, 2018 14:08
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Chinook posted:No, I just love trying to figure out these old mysteries and I love when it succeeds. I'm always excited when I see an odd numbered amount of new replies Ah ok, sorry about that  I was going through old posts, wondering 'was I the 3rd or 4th person to suggest Teen Agent?  '
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Trying to remember an old C64 side-scroller: It was a fantasy setting where you played two characters (who you could switch between). One of the characters was a barbarian-type dude (no, the game itself is not Barbarian, before anyone suggests it), but I remember nothing about the other one, other than they might of been female, possibly. I think one (or maybe both) of the characters started underground in some kind of cave system, but eventually you moved above ground; I think the first level outside of the caves was a jungle of some sort. In some ways the game was kind of like a very primitive Golden Axe, but nowhere near as good, as it was quite a slow and sluggish game to play. I think I played it sometime around '89, but the game itself was probably some years older than that.
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Oct 12, 2018 17:36
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Sounded like Realms of Chaos, but that's way too modern.
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The only C64 game I can remember where changing characters was a thing was Goonies and all the characters are little kids cuz it's Goonies.
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Oct 12, 2018 22:45
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I wish I could remember more about it. I do recall that it had a bluish colour scheme to it (in the underground segment anyway), and I think the UI may have had a bit of a gargoyle motif going on.
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Oct 13, 2018 08:24
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I searched through Lemon64's game info database for this (basically looked for reasonable-looking screenshots after setting the genre to "platform, scrolling screen" and "platform, multi screen", and then found longplay videos of it to see the gameplay). Nothing immediately jumped out as being the game you remembered, but three came close. "Black Tiger" and "Deadly Evil" didn't come out until the 1990s, though, so they're out. The closest match I found was The Sacred Armor of Antiriad, which was released in the US as "Rad Warrior". The main thing missing here is the gargoyle motif, and it seems to be less "switching characters" and more "you have very very different abilities when wearing armor". I also found Draconus, a game from my youth I wouldn't have remembered enough about to ask about, Finding stuff like that is an fun fringe benefit for searching for things like this.
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Oct 13, 2018 20:28
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i played a game when i was super young about going into a weird amusement park about getting sick? you had to make choices to mitigate how sick you got and there would be these weird battles inside of your body where you had to assign medicine and antibodies to fight off the sicknesses? god i hope i didn't make all of this up in a fever dream
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Overwatch Porn posted:i played a game when i was super young about going into a weird amusement park about getting sick? you had to make choices to mitigate how sick you got and there would be these weird battles inside of your body where you had to assign medicine and antibodies to fight off the sicknesses? Can you give us a little more to go on? What year was it when you were "super young"? What systems could this game possibly be on?
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Oct 13, 2018 21:55
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Ha, yeah - it would be tough to actually pose a meaningful question with less information. I mean, that sounds like a very unusual game mechanic that might stand out to someone, but reading through this thread makes you realise how unreliable memory can be and people often end up conflating 2 or 3 games.
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it’s cd-rom monopoly i think
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i remember extremely little about it! sorry, i should have given a timeframe; this would have been early 90s. the graphics were minimal and incredibly crude, it played out primarily in text when it wasn't in the 'battles'. it might have been more edutainment than proper game? it definitely spent a lot of time detailing how someone could get sick and ways to mitigate it definitely was pre win95, so dos probably? probably.
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ManxomeBromide posted:I searched through Lemon64's game info database for this (basically looked for reasonable-looking screenshots after setting the genre to "platform, scrolling screen" and "platform, multi screen", and then found longplay videos of it to see the gameplay). Nothing immediately jumped out as being the game you remembered, but three came close. "Black Tiger" and "Deadly Evil" didn't come out until the 1990s, though, so they're out. Yeah, it's none of those games, although graphically I'd say it was closer to Black Tiger in terms of how small the characters appear on screen. It had much simpler animations, though. For instance, I do remember that when you used the barbarian guy's sword, it was just like a little black line stuck out from him. Funny thing is I vaguely remember the game having quite a big manual where it talked up how significant the game was, and maybe even that it was a continuation of a major series, or based on some famous fantasy work or some such. But these are 30 year old memories from a time when I was a little kid so who knows. Seems like the game is pretty obscure now whatever the case. I should note as well that I was living in Germany at the time, so it might not have even been a British/US game. I'm currently searching through germanc64.de, and you can tell there's a bunch of stuff there that's clearly in the "you can probably count the number of people who have played this on one hand" camp. Drunk in Space fucked around with this message at 02:30 on Oct 14, 2018 |
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superh posted:I ran it by her, no luck. She seems to remember a kid or teen protagonist - but not an educational game. Long shot but maybe The Adventures of Willy Beamish on a lower graphics setting?
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Hey guys whats the name of that little Japanese bullethell game from like 2005?ish. It timed how long you could survive which often lasted only seconds. It would describe your performance afterwards in Japanese by saying weird things like "the generals fan holder" and such. It is very simple and the screen is static with no BG, just more and more bullets flying everywhere. You can easily die in about 4 seconds. My record was 48 seconds. I wish I could explain this better but i found out about the game from the forums so maybe someone can figure it out
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Evil Agita posted:Hey guys whats the name of that little Japanese bullethell game from like 2005?ish. It timed how long you could survive which often lasted only seconds. It would describe your performance afterwards in Japanese by saying weird things like "the generals fan holder" and such. It is very simple and the screen is static with no BG, just more and more bullets flying everywhere. You can easily die in about 4 seconds. My record was 48 seconds. I wish I could explain this better but i found out about the game from the forums so maybe someone can figure it out Warning Forever. Everyone's favorite boss rush game http://www.hikware.com/Prod/dlcount.cgi?product=wf e: wait no that's not it. good game tho. dis astranagant fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Oct 14, 2018 |
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Unfortunately it's not that one. Theres no enemies and you dont shoot. You just avoid bullets until you die
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Hell this game could be from the 90s or something I just played it in like 05 :-[
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Oct 14, 2018 23:56
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Was it a browser game?
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Pneub posted:Was it a browser game? No it was a really small download. like less than 10 MB iirc
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Oct 15, 2018 02:21
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Was it Siroi Danmakukun?
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welcome posted:Was it Siroi Danmakukun? Oh man this isn't it but this is totally in the ballpark. Instead of a green dot its a tiny spaceship pixel and there is no writing on the screen until you die and the game judges you.
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Oct 15, 2018 02:54
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is it rRootage? phone posting so can't search properly yet
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Artelier posted:is it rRootage? phone posting so can't search properly yet I thought you shot dudes in that. Kenta Cho's site does have a ton of random shmupy poo poo from 2005ish that might be worth looking through, though. rRootage also doesn't taunt you when you lose. dis astranagant fucked around with this message at 05:31 on Oct 15, 2018 |
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Oct 15, 2018 05:23
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Freakazoid_ posted:Long shot but maybe The Adventures of Willy Beamish on a lower graphics setting? Maybe ega Les Manley?
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Not rootage and I can't see anything in kenta Cho's games. If it helps I think I got the link back in the day in gbs. Goons would often mention this game when discussing the hardest games (at the time, anyway). I didn't realize there were so many Japanese bullet hell games so perhaps this is a lost cause.
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Evil Agita posted:Hey guys whats the name of that little Japanese bullethell game from like 2005?ish. It timed how long you could survive which often lasted only seconds. It would describe your performance afterwards in Japanese by saying weird things like "the generals fan holder" and such. It is very simple and the screen is static with no BG, just more and more bullets flying everywhere. You can easily die in about 4 seconds. My record was 48 seconds. I wish I could explain this better but i found out about the game from the forums so maybe someone can figure it out Crazygame.exe?
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Oct 15, 2018 08:02
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Yesssssssss
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Thanks man. I missed this game. The perfect thing to play while talking on the phone
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Oct 15, 2018 08:31
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All this shmup stuff has me thinking of one I had on a shareware cd as a kid. It was a vertical shmup where you were some kind of vaguely futuristic car and had to stay on the winding road while doing the usual vertical shmup bit. It was a later DOS or maybe Windows 95 title.
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dis astranagant posted:All this shmup stuff has me thinking of one I had on a shareware cd as a kid. It was a vertical shmup where you were some kind of vaguely futuristic car and had to stay on the winding road while doing the usual vertical shmup bit. It was a later DOS or maybe Windows 95 title. Highway Hunter? There's also Traffic Department 2192, but that's free-scrolling rather than vertically-scrolling.
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Looking for an old, maybe DOS game? It was on a floppy, I played it in the 90's. ASCII art, you could pick up bombs, hearts, and I want to say money. The thing I remember most is that it had a fairly intuitive map maker that elementary school me could use to make like an ice rink you payed to enter.
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Unreal_One posted:Looking for an old, maybe DOS game? It was on a floppy, I played it in the 90's. ASCII art, you could pick up bombs, hearts, and I want to say money. The thing I remember most is that it had a fairly intuitive map maker that elementary school me could use to make like an ice rink you payed to enter. Gotta be ZZT or one of it's successors (SuperZZT and MegaZeux). I was extremely into ZZT as a kid
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ToxicFrog posted:Highway Hunter? That'd be the one. Figured it'd turn out to be kinda crap and I'm not at all disappointed.
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sinepost posted:Crazygame.exe?
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Unreal_One posted:. The thing I remember most is that it had a fairly intuitive map maker that elementary school me could use to make like an ice rink you payed to enter. This sounds incredible.
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