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TooMuchAbstraction posted:The only thing that comes to mind is, I think it was called Chrysanthemum, which was a falling-block game where the gimmick was that flowers would fall in from any of the four edges and land on a central square, or by hitting another already-landed flower. You had to arrange the flowers into certain configurations according to what kind of flower it was, and the failure state involved insects swarming out to eat all of your flowers. If it's not Chrysanthemum, and it's something like Chrysanthemum, I want to play whatever this is too. That is my all-time favorite obscure puzzle game, and it should've been as a big as Tetris, or at least Columns.
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Bob Morlock posted:Tower of the Ancients, maybe? Thank you for answering the question I hadn't asked! That game looked really quite cool at the time, and I was addicted for a while in the very early 2000s
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Every once in awhile I remember an old game, and this time I remembered this thread. What I remember about the game was that it was a superhero action game. I'm pretty sure it was an arcade brawler. I'm just about confident that it featured Spiderman who could just kind of swing back and forth across the screen, pretty ridiculous mobility for your average brawler game. I'm also pretty sure that at points it would zoom way out and your sprites and moveset would be replaced by simpler things, like I think Spidey's webslinging got replaced by a web projectile that just killed enemies. Maybe those were platformer sections? Does that sound familiar to anyone?
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Jun 19, 2019 02:00
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Every once in awhile I remember an old game, and this time I remembered this thread. What I remember about the game was that it was a superhero action game. I'm pretty sure it was an arcade brawler. I'm just about confident that it featured Spiderman who could just kind of swing back and forth across the screen, pretty ridiculous mobility for your average brawler game. I'm also pretty sure that at points it would zoom way out and your sprites and moveset would be replaced by simpler things, like I think Spidey's webslinging got replaced by a web projectile that just killed enemies. Maybe those were platformer sections? Yeah that's the spiderman arcade game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_Y80vd0Qgk
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Jun 19, 2019 02:17
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Wow, that looks substantially less impressive than I remember it being. But yeah, that sure is it. Thank you!
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Jun 19, 2019 04:38
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What game is it where I think at the end of a battle or level, a male character yells "Success!" but the voice actor weirdly says it in two distinct syllables, like "Suck cess!" It's gotta be a Japanese game with English voice acting from the PS3 era or older, and I feel like it's probably not a fighting game for some reason, but I'm not sure of that.
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Jun 19, 2019 04:48
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Rollersnake posted:What game is it where I think at the end of a battle or level, a male character yells "Success!" but the voice actor weirdly says it in two distinct syllables, like "Suck cess!" Super Smash Bros Melee? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGoRYCbnVDg
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Jun 19, 2019 05:03
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Wow, that looks substantially less impressive than I remember it being. But yeah, that sure is it. Thank you! Most of the gpu was dedicated to rendering Naked Spock's package. https://youtu.be/LSzfWYGPXX4 Pneub fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Jun 19, 2019 |
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Jun 19, 2019 05:35
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Golbez posted:Super Smash Bros Melee? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGoRYCbnVDg Nah, but I figured it out. Searching around for games with bad voice acting led me to Audio Atrocities, a site I completely forgot existed, and is almost certainly where I heard this to begin with. It's some PS2 light gun game called Vampire Night.
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Jun 19, 2019 07:05
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JossiRossi posted:There was a game I played at a friend's house in the late 90s, it was a text adventure, first person walk aroundy hybrid. It was futuristic with aliens coexisting. All I recall is a taxi cab, and the driver would ask where to go. When you typed a wrong answer he'd go "Wut the hell!?" and we would crack up. Not sure if we got past that drat cabby. He may have been copy protection.
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Rollersnake posted:Nah, but I figured it out. Searching around for games with bad voice acting led me to Audio Atrocities, a site I completely forgot existed, and is almost certainly where I heard this to begin with. It's some PS2 light gun game called Vampire Night. Wouldn't a vampire want to call it a suckcess? Sounds like an intended feature.
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OK, this should be easy, but I can't seem to find it. It's a CGA golf game, you get to build your own courses, and you can put dinosaurs in it. I'm guessing it's from 1990 or thereabouts. EDIT: Ok, so NOW I try and can find it no problem. World Tour Golf -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tour_Golf Reading further: quote:World Tour Golf was EA's second sports title and its second sports hit, and it represents a link in the chain that led to the founding of EA Sports. Oh wow. drat 
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Jun 19, 2019 11:51
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An rpg of some sort that appeared as a shareware version on a MacFormat CD at some point in the nineties. Top down grid deal, looked a lot like Exile or Odyssey, but I can't for the life of me think of any distinguishing features other than this: You could... select you main characters sprite... somehow? And one of the options looked a lot like Batman. Which I think was incongruous. Maybe one of the enemies was a rabbit? I have found and made peace with most of my other nightmare memories of interminable shareware and demo games, but this one eludes me.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:OK, this should be easy, but I can't seem to find it. It's a CGA golf game, you get to build your own courses, and you can put dinosaurs in it. I'm guessing it's from 1990 or thereabouts. The one time I could have answered a dang question in the thread they go and answer it themselves. I remember this because it was one of like 30 games preloaded on this ancient computer my stepmom had and then gave to me that was apparently the first consumer grade computer with a cd drive. I actually went to the trouble of trying to figure out based on old memories what they all were earlier this year but could only find references to about 20 of them or so.
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Retroblique posted:I believe Spaceship Warlock is what you're looking for! It is! Thank you so much, drat how did I remember an alien taxi and not that crazy intro music
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Jun 19, 2019 18:55
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Third person action adventure game for Xbox 360. You're trapped on a sinking ship and have to navigate tight corridors as they sink. The game was kind of a tech demo for its water physics but it has basically been forgotten to history.
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Jun 20, 2019 13:15
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Jun 20, 2019 13:18
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lol what an apropos name that I would never think to look up.
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I can't remember a shareware DOS game I played a few times. It was a run 'n gun platformer-shooter, the main character was a generic Duke Nukem type guy who may also have been a cyborg. The thing that made it unique were the graphics, they were made up of what I think were tons of sprites scaling and moving around to create a parallax scrolling effect with a lot of layers. It was quite disorienting to look at, enemies also exploded into showers of tiny sprites and stuff. It wasn't a great game but it had a unique look and I'd like to remember what it was.
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Jun 21, 2019 10:28
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Shibawanko posted:I can't remember a shareware DOS game I played a few times. It was a run 'n gun platformer-shooter, the main character was a generic Duke Nukem type guy who may also have been a cyborg. The thing that made it unique were the graphics, they were made up of what I think were tons of sprites scaling and moving around to create a parallax scrolling effect with a lot of layers. It was quite disorienting to look at, enemies also exploded into showers of tiny sprites and stuff. It wasn't a great game but it had a unique look and I'd like to remember what it was. Was it Electro Man/Electro Body?
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THE BAR posted:Was it Electro Man/Electro Body? No, it looked way freakier and took place outdoors from what I recall, the main character's sprite was also tall and I vaguely recall that he could kind of hover by using his boots as mini jetpacks or something
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:
Speaking of, what was the EGA golf game that I chiefly remember for the sample of an extremely Leonard Nimoy voice exclaiming 'great shot Jim!' (I may be misremembering 'Jim' but the sample was so nimoy-ish its burnt into my head that way)
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Shibawanko posted:I can't remember a shareware DOS game I played a few times. It was a run 'n gun platformer-shooter, the main character was a generic Duke Nukem type guy who may also have been a cyborg. The thing that made it unique were the graphics, they were made up of what I think were tons of sprites scaling and moving around to create a parallax scrolling effect with a lot of layers. It was quite disorienting to look at, enemies also exploded into showers of tiny sprites and stuff. It wasn't a great game but it had a unique look and I'd like to remember what it was. BioMenace?
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Jun 21, 2019 11:59
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RabbitWizard posted:BioMenace? I have played that too but no, it has way more parallax scrolling, like if you take a single step everything moves in several layers, giving the illusion of 3D.
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Chubby Henparty posted:Speaking of, what was the EGA golf game that I chiefly remember for the sample of an extremely Leonard Nimoy voice exclaiming 'great shot Jim!' (I may be misremembering 'Jim' but the sample was so nimoy-ish its burnt into my head that way) Your "Jim" memory might be from Links: The Challenge of Golf, which had "Looks like I hit the tree, Jim." Definitely not EGA, and definitely not very Nimoy, so probably not what you're looking for.
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Shibawanko posted:I have played that too but no, it has way more parallax scrolling, like if you take a single step everything moves in several layers, giving the illusion of 3D. jim power had pretty ridiculous parallax, although i don't recall seeing rocket boots.
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ALFbrot posted:Your "Jim" memory might be from Links: The Challenge of Golf, which had "Looks like I hit the tree, Jim." Definitely not EGA, and definitely not very Nimoy, so probably not what you're looking for. Thanks - this lead me back to World Class Leader Board which was apparently the 1988 precursor to 1990's Links, and used the exact same samples. Listening to it now, I kind of get where I got Nimoy from, as a dumb kid listening to samples being squeezed out the PC speaker.
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wb posted:jim power had pretty ridiculous parallax, although i don't recall seeing rocket boots. drat, this is pretty close in tone but it's still not the game I'm looking for, the one I mean also makes you dizzy though. I don't think it even had music and it might have been a shareware-only game from Europe or something.
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Shibawanko posted:drat, this is pretty close in tone but it's still not the game I'm looking for, the one I mean also makes you dizzy though. I don't think it even had music and it might have been a shareware-only game from Europe or something. I don’t know why I’m thinking of Turrican but I am. Probably wrong though!
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I'm looking for an old adventure game. I'm going to say Mid 90's. I remember playing it on my cousin's computer around the same time that we were playing Rebel Assault II. This was on a windows PC, and the game came on a cd-rom. I think it was a pack-in. The game had prerendered 3d graphics, which I think were similar to Rebel Assault II. It took place on a space station, or in a space ship. I remember that the menu/intro screen was like a ship airlock, and to start a new game you clicked on an open/dismantled space suit (as if you were putting the suit on). I only vaguely remember a few rooms. I'm pretty sure that didn't see your character on the screen, the view was from your perspective. The only puzzle I remember is one where there was a terrarium, and you needed to balance the amount of water, plant life, and animals in the terrarium. We never managed to do this.
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Shibawanko posted:I can't remember a shareware DOS game I played a few times. It was a run 'n gun platformer-shooter, the main character was a generic Duke Nukem type guy who may also have been a cyborg. The thing that made it unique were the graphics, they were made up of what I think were tons of sprites scaling and moving around to create a parallax scrolling effect with a lot of layers. It was quite disorienting to look at, enemies also exploded into showers of tiny sprites and stuff. It wasn't a great game but it had a unique look and I'd like to remember what it was. Maybe Halloween Harry 1 or 2?
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Flannelette posted:Maybe Halloween Harry 1 or 2? No, sorry, these are all very similar in gameplay to the game I'm looking for, but the graphics were totally unique. You know how Ecstatica is made up of a bunch of spheres? It was kind of like that, except everything was made up of a ton of sprites parallax scrolling.
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JerikTelorian posted:I'm looking for an old adventure game. I'm going to say Mid 90's. I remember playing it on my cousin's computer around the same time that we were playing Rebel Assault II. This was on a windows PC, and the game came on a cd-rom. I think it was a pack-in. Any chance this is ASA: A Space Adventure?
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Shanty posted:An rpg of some sort that appeared as a shareware version on a MacFormat CD at some point in the nineties. Top down grid deal, looked a lot like Exile or Odyssey, but I can't for the life of me think of any distinguishing features other than this: Kind of a long shot, but could it be Castle of the Winds? Top down RPG, on a grid... Not sure about the sprite though
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Shibawanko posted:No, sorry, these are all very similar in gameplay to the game I'm looking for, but the graphics were totally unique. You know how Ecstatica is made up of a bunch of spheres? It was kind of like that, except everything was made up of a ton of sprites parallax scrolling. Platform Masters! 
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Shibawanko posted:No, it looked way freakier and took place outdoors from what I recall, the main character's sprite was also tall and I vaguely recall that he could kind of hover by using his boots as mini jetpacks or something https://youtu.be/FMX_jC38nAM
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Serperoth posted:Kind of a long shot, but could it be Castle of the Winds? Top down RPG, on a grid... Not sure about the sprite though Same sort of look, you're in the ball park. But no dice. Thanks though.
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Adventure game made in Sierra’s AGI engine. It’s basically John Carpenter’s The Thing with the aesthetic of original King’s Quest.
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al-azad posted:Adventure game made in Sierra’s AGI engine. It’s basically John Carpenter’s The Thing with the aesthetic of original King’s Quest. The Dig?
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al-azad posted:Adventure game made in Sierra’s AGI engine. It’s basically John Carpenter’s The Thing with the aesthetic of original King’s Quest. It was called Enclosure.
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