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KoldPT posted:The questions may or may not have been piratical in nature I had no idea this was a word, but it makes so much sense that it is.
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KoldPT posted:I once played a windows 95/98 era game that was a trivia game themed around caribbean pirates. The questions may or may not have been piratical in nature, but there definitely was some collecting of pieces of eight involved. Oh, I remember this one! You're definitely talking about Redhook's Revenge
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Apr 11, 2019 15:40
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Bob Morlock posted:Oh, I remember this one! You're definitely talking about Redhook's Revenge Got it in one! Thanks!
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Apr 11, 2019 15:42
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A game that's been on the back of my head for a while now: Early 2000s PC shareware game with a fuzzball main character who starts at one point in a grid and has to walk to an exit, kinda like Chu Chu Rocket's puzzle mode, but instead of arrows there were different objects you placed, I remember laser beams and mirrors in particular, but there were many such tools
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Apr 16, 2019 03:25
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A browser game(?) where you played as a monster attacking people in a pitch black pit, relying only on the sound design.
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No hopes for this one, but in the early nineties I briefly played some shareware rpg, probably inspired by Wizardry or Bard's Tale. The only thing I remember clearly were some of the encounters: "You are attacked by 6 hobbits." "You are attacked by 9 gollums." That plural of Gollum really stuck with me.
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Apr 17, 2019 06:24
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elf help book posted:A game that's been on the back of my head for a while now: Dweep?
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Apr 17, 2019 07:30
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This is totally it, thank you. Wow
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Apr 17, 2019 07:44
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freeipods posted:A browser game(?) where you played as a monster attacking people in a pitch black pit, relying only on the sound design. I assume this is most likely "In the Pit": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcD3vC3Bfn8 It was formerly (circa 2008) available as an Xbox Live Indie Game, and later (~2012) popped up on Steam Greenlight, but now that both of those have been shut down I'm not sure where to get the game, if anywhere. According to that Studio Hunty page the game is a revised version of something they made for a game jam back in 2006, but I haven't had any luck digging that up, either. The dev's on Twitter, though, so if this is the one you're thinking of I imagine it might be worth asking about. In the course of googling that, I also came across Be The Wumpus, a Linux game from the same era (and I mean full-on check out the code from Sourceforge with CVS, install extra development libraries, configure/make/make install) that was inspired by ItP. This is probably not the one most of us remembered based on your description, but if anybody's itching to play something like this and doesn't mind jumping through hoops, the code's still available. I also have to say I'm disappointed this one's "screenshots" section only has one image; if you're going to make the joke, make the joke, man.
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Apr 17, 2019 20:58
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Was thinking of something a sibling played once that in my memory resembles something I know exists. Was there ever a clone/port of Monkey King: Master of the Clouds/Cloud Master that ran in B&W mode on Macintosh? I strongly recall them playing a character riding that exact sort of goku cloud.
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Apr 19, 2019 18:25
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Rohan Kishibe posted:There was a game I used to play a couple of years back, probably on android or maybe PC (though I doubt it). I think it was recommended to me here on something awful, so I hope someone recognises my description. I believe it was a Facebook game called The Company, but I can't find it atm
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Apr 22, 2019 17:47
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Weird Japanese only PS1 game. Third person RPG with pre-rendered backgrounds not unlike Final Fantasy. The game starred anthro animals in a sort of Disney's Robin Hood style. It was set in space on a weird alien planet. Can't remember anything else about it.
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May 10, 2019 14:32
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Okay, got some tough ones. Mid-to-late 90s, possibly very early Aughts. This was on a CD-ROM collection of dated Windows games like you might find in an office supply store that doesn't otherwise sell games. It was a pretty generic, easy, side-scrolling SHMUP with 3D-rendered sprite graphics. You wouldn't know it from the gameplay, but the manual or readme file gave it the most edgelord backstory ever. All of the world's terrorists band together and overthrow the world's governement and set up a new tyrannical worldwide government where the strong prey on the week. They discover an alien civilization minding its own business and basically invent interstellar travel out of sheer horniness at the idea of spreading tyranny across the stars. You, an up-an-coming vicious killer, lead the vanguard invasion. And that's were the generic SHMUP action starts. None of that was in-game I think until the end where you defeat some giant Grey alien cyborg boss, get a recall order, and decide to push ahead to win more glory. Also I think the generic screen-clearing smart bomb sent them to some void of eternal torment. Next, a much older top-down SHMUP on DOS. I don't think this could have been later than '92 and was probably much older. Each level would have you approach a big flat capital ship, often brightly colored, and fly over it, with the boss being the bridge or power core. Power ups had some kind of voiceover that sounded almost like a kid. Similarly ancient side-scrolling turn-based game involving tanks and destructible terrain. You chose the angle you fired at to arc shots. In between levels you'd buy various types of ammo, fuel for movement, and possibly different chassis. The best ammo were the "Death's Head" missiles, which just took a big circular chunk out out of the terrain. Probably-even-more-ancient turn-based game based on arcing projectiles. Players were little green gorillas on top of skyscrapers who threw exploding bananas at each other, and you actually typed in some kind of numerical instructions about the arc and power. As an Easter egg, you could hit the sun and break it. Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 20:11 on May 10, 2019 |
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May 10, 2019 20:07
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Dr Christmas posted:
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May 10, 2019 20:12
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Second to last is almost certainly Scorched Earth, though it wasn't side-scrolling, it was single-screen. The last one is Gorilla.bas, an ancient game included with MS-DOS 5.
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Golbez posted:Second to last is almost certainly Scorched Earth, though it wasn't side-scrolling, it was single-screen. My childhood 
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May 10, 2019 20:27
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Yep, those are it! Scorched Earth immediately set off memory alarms. When I was younger my video game knowledge had to trickle down from my friends whose parents knew computers. I definitely remember playing those before Commander Keen, but apparently they came out at about the same time. I entered kindergarten in '91 while my first best friend, the son of my mom's best friend since high school, started first grade, which was a full day and prevented our scheduled morning play dates. All of the games, except that weird newer first one, where at his house. Oh god, the nostalgia  Also, the first entry for the Scorched Earth game on YouTube is ProJared lol Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 02:59 on May 11, 2019 |
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May 10, 2019 21:09
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Scorched Earth was one of the most mimicked/reverse-engineered/ripped-off game concepts of its time, and I'm pretty sure that Scorched Earth itself wasn't the first iteration of the idea either. I owned a copy of an extremely similar (albeit simpler) game on the 2600, and I've played it on an arcade cabinet. So if you remember your copy having scrolling, it may very well have had scrolling.
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May 10, 2019 23:57
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al-azad posted:Weird Japanese only PS1 game. Third person RPG with pre-rendered backgrounds not unlike Final Fantasy. The game starred anthro animals in a sort of Disney's Robin Hood style. It was set in space on a weird alien planet. Can't remember anything else about it. Planet Laika maybe?
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Genpei Turtle posted:Planet Laika maybe? I can always count on you for this stuff. A quintet game, too.
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Dr Christmas posted:Okay, got some tough ones. Is it this one? https://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/solaris-104
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OK, here's one: It's a PC DOS adventure game where you're some kind of detective/investigator in a cyberpunk setting. It is NOT one of the Tex Murphy games, but it probably came out around the same time as the 1st one, so late 80s or maybe early 90s at the latest.
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May 14, 2019 19:42
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sean10mm posted:OK, here's one: Rise of the Dragon?
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May 14, 2019 19:55
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Rise of the Dragon? Yes!
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May 14, 2019 19:59
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sean10mm posted:OK, here's one: Any more info? Were the graphics CG like Tex Murphy or sprite art? First person, third person? Any combat? First things that come to mind from that era are Neuromancer, Circuit's Edge, and Rise of the Dragon.
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i randomly think of a game that i’m pretty sure existed but can’t remember what it was called and google brings me nothing 90s PC game; probably DOS? it was a racing game. futuristic. pretty sure it was a tube racer. i think you could also shoot like laser balls ahead of you. the only vehicle i remember from the back looked like a blue circle with wings and red stripes on it. i remember nothing else about this game sorry
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Kaubocks posted:i randomly think of a game that i’m pretty sure existed but can’t remember what it was called and google brings me nothing Wild guess: Slipstream 5000?
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IYKK posted:Wild guess: Slipstream 5000? nah the vehicles here are too plane-like, i’m looking for something more f-zero esque i believe. i know i don’t have a lot of detail to go on but this was a while ago lol. going to do some more searching when i can and see if i can come up with anything
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Was it that one with simple 3d shapes and no textures and it had a trail of marks on the ground or wall you could follow for more points or speed or something?
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I feel like he might be referring to the arcade game STUN RUNNER and his brain mixed the memories, maybe?
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Zanzibar Ham posted:
Chairchucker posted:Not Wipeout? al-azad posted:Rollcage? dads_work_files posted:Tunnel B1? Jinkeez posted:Spectre / Spectre VR? nope, none of these, sorry. Flannelette posted:Was it that one with simple 3d shapes and no textures and it had a trail of marks on the ground or wall you could follow for more points or speed or something? Megaman's Jockstrap posted:I feel like he might be referring to the arcade game STUN RUNNER and his brain mixed the memories, maybe? seems like you two are talking about the same game? in which case, this is definitely warmer on the hot/cold spectrum. from what my memory serves it was a tube-style racing game where turning wasn't really up to you and you just had to loop around the screen to avoid obstacles. i really only remember one vehicle, which was blue falcon f-zero esque but more rounded i guess, and it believe the vehicles flew rather than being close to the ground. i also don't remember the framerate being too great but i mean who knows it wasn't stun runner, though; and it was definitely a PC game. i didn't really have access to arcades as a kid and i remember having to boot it up through either a command prompt or through DOS. fwiw, and this is almost entirely unhelpful, i remember getting the game at the same time as an al unser jr racing game; so the future racing game i'm thinking of may have come out around the same time?
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Mega Race?
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Kaubocks posted:nope, none of these, sorry. I know it's not that, but for some reason you're reminding me of a Net Yaroze game called Between The Eyes, but if it was that you'd probably remember the headaches
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Is it CyberSpeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDanfDIBhbo
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CrazySalamander posted:Mega Race? nah, too car-like Pablo Nergigante posted:Is it CyberSpeed no, i didn't have a playstation as a kid; but this is DEFINITELY the closest thing so far, this general style of gameplay. EDIT: Serperoth posted:I know it's not that, but for some reason you're reminding me of a Net Yaroze game called Between The Eyes, but if it was that you'd probably remember the headaches 
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