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I just came back to this thread to post about one I posted about years ago but only just encountered again this past weekend...only to find that I never actually posted about it. Whoops. It was Taito's Frontline, which I encountered in the back room of an ice cream joint in Newfoundland, PA in the early 90s, and for some reason I could swear it was by Atari, which meant I was using the wrong filter when I went looking for it in MAME. Welp, that's that solved.
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Ok, so this SNES era game (maybe not actually on the SNES) never left Japan, I think. It's kinda set in a swords and sorcery fantasy world. You got the hero, you got the devil king, you got the kidnapped princess. Except the game opens with the ending. They're all at the end of the last dungeon, the hero and the devil king are fighting in front of the captive princess. The two take each other out, and as the game begins you take control of the princess and have to escape the last dungeon in reverse. It has some combat, but it seemed to be more of a puzzle game.
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Tuxedo Ted posted:Ok, so this SNES era game (maybe not actually on the SNES) never left Japan, I think. It's kinda set in a swords and sorcery fantasy world. You got the hero, you got the devil king, you got the kidnapped princess. Except the game opens with the ending. They're all at the end of the last dungeon, the hero and the devil king are fighting in front of the captive princess. The two take each other out, and as the game begins you take control of the princess and have to escape the last dungeon in reverse. It has some combat, but it seemed to be more of a puzzle game. Götzendiener https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLez1I98Ql4
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Thank you. Now I can go to bed without the question keeping me up at night. Also I totally forgot it was Gainax that made the game. I vaguely remembered there being something odd about the studio that made it....
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Hello thread, I would like some help remembering the name of a game I last played at least 25 years ago. Here's hoping that I actually remember it well enough for anyone to recognize it from the description, lol. It's an old game, 2D sprites. The game itself is tile-based. You start off as a single ship somewhere close to the coast of an island/continent. You have a certain amount of resources and money you are granted by your nation and what you need to do is to find a good spot to plop down a new port town/colony. Once that is done, you need to make money by trading and you can send out expeditions in-land to help you do that. You control the little expedition man yourself and can walk him around the map wit h the arrow keys. I do not think there were any mouse inputs, but I might be wrong. It isn't Conquest of the New World, but it's very conceptually similar. The game I am thinking of was older than that, though.
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Colonization? https://www.gog.com/game/sid_meiers_colonization 4 inch cut no femmes fucked around with this message at 12:37 on Mar 12, 2020 |
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Mar 12, 2020 12:34
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I'm afraid not, but looking at screenshots that's already very close! It was more a trading sim than that kind of strategy game, though. You could only ever have one colony and only control that single unit you used for exploration. While you explored, the rest of the game was on hold as I remember it. The expedition lasted until you ran out of food, I think? Oh, and I think the map wasn't based on anything real-world like that, so that's another thing that might help.
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Mar 12, 2020 12:40
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Memory's real fuzzy, but could it be uncharted waters?
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I'm thinking of a lovely Doom clone, from right around the time Doom was first released. It was set underground, and mostly black except for glowy blue minerals in the rock walls. You got three weapons in the shareware episode: an energy pistol, an energy SMG, and a flame gun that worked just like the SMG except bigger and flamey. Aside from killing generic guards, you were supposed to find slave miners and teleport them to safety. There was no music or voice clips. The bad guys were called "Ri" and the slaves were called "Oras." What was this stupid game called, and why is it in my head all of a sudden? Is it just something my dad's friend made to put on his BBS?
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Friend of mine is trying to identify a game with really vague memories: - likely 00s era PC game - narrated by a creepy witch sort of voice - you follow the story of a young girl's 13th(?) birthday party alongside her disposable teen friends - there's a part where the elevator is dropping and you get a death if you don't choose to climb out of the elevator - seems to be a kind of visual novel thing, entirely dialogue driven, but its in 3D, with full cutscenes. Extremely janky 3D - She thinks there's a route where the boyfriend character gets turned into a zombie
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Hwurmp posted:I'm thinking of a lovely Doom clone, from right around the time Doom was first released. It was set underground, and mostly black except for glowy blue minerals in the rock walls. You got three weapons in the shareware episode: an energy pistol, an energy SMG, and a flame gun that worked just like the SMG except bigger and flamey. Aside from killing generic guards, you were supposed to find slave miners and teleport them to safety. There was no music or voice clips. The bad guys were called "Ri" and the slaves were called "Oras." What was this stupid game called, and why is it in my head all of a sudden? Is it just something my dad's friend made to put on his BBS? Depth Dwellers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cYekAShxRQ
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Mar 13, 2020 05:09
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Thank you for giving me closure
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Mar 13, 2020 05:16
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I'm trying to remember the name of an old text based computer game (circa 80s- early 90s). You're playing a guy trapped on a failing space station who has a set of robots who can help out, but they're not amazingly programmed -- the one can only see things, another can only hear things, another can only describe things in strange poetry... Sound familiar to any goons out there?
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Mar 14, 2020 04:35
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That's Infocom's Suspended.
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Mar 14, 2020 04:45
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Beaten, but I'll add that it had an amazing box. A 3D "mask" in the front of the cover art, so that the eyes would seem to follow you.
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Mar 14, 2020 04:47
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Yes, that's it! I'd been trying to find a copy for my partner, and she's going to be quite excited/terrified playing it. Thanks so much!
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Mar 14, 2020 05:43
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I was gonna guess Planetfall/Stationfall. It definitely sounded like an Infocom game. And yeah, Infocom games came with the absolute best physical items like that. They really put a lot of effort into it.
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Mar 14, 2020 06:18
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While we're talking about Suspended, I'll just mention that I've recently been reading an excellent blog that goes through the entire history of interactive fiction games (and related genres such as CRPGs, visual novels, really anything narrative driven), starting from the late 70s and all the way through to the 90s. It covers both the games themselves, and the companies and individuals who created them. I just recently got up to the entry on Suspended so was reminded of it. https://www.filfre.net/sitemap/ - the entire blog, still being updated a few times a month after nearly a decade. Skip the first three entries, they're unrelated. https://www.filfre.net/2013/03/suspended/ - the entry on Suspended cmndstab fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Mar 14, 2020 |
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Mar 14, 2020 07:42
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Dip Viscous posted:Beaten, but I'll add that it had an amazing box. A 3D "mask" in the front of the cover art, so that the eyes would seem to follow you. I'm sure there's better poo poo that I'm forgetting but I miss standard editions including what you have to pay like $100+ for now in a Kickstarter campaign tier.
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Mar 14, 2020 16:28
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The Joe Man posted:This is cool as poo poo. And I thought Origin made the best "feelies" (I fuckin' hate that word) with the rune bag in UW1 and the notepad & star map in Planet's Edge. I never got into or owned any Infocom games unfortunately. If memory serves, the word you hate is Infocom's fault in the first place. I'm not 100% sure if they pioneered it but it was definitely them who made it an expected part of fancy adventures.
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Mar 14, 2020 22:34
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Maybe they yoinked it from Brave New World
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Gnoman posted:Memory's real fuzzy, but could it be uncharted waters? Man, I had no idea that there were so many games of that type during that era. This is probably going to be harder than I thought.
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Cardiovorax posted:I don't think so, no. I don't remember any real plot or any of those opening cutscenes that I found on searching for that name, but I do admit, that also looks very close. The game didn't happened to be called Exploration did it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsHCu7VB87w
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Mar 14, 2020 22:58
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Trying to remember an old PC investigation? game. It was something old enough that it ran on a Macintosh Classic. I remember it being pretty point and click, and the start of it involved flying around and seeing physical descriptions and maybe alibis of suspects.
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Mar 21, 2020 06:40
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That's... vague as hell. The only thing I can think of that remotely resembles that is Deja Vu, but I don't think that's it.
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Mar 21, 2020 06:47
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Not on Macintosh, but Mean Streets had a private investigator with a flying car.
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Mar 21, 2020 06:55
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It kind of sounds like the original Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego for particular interpretations of flying around/etc. There was a version for the Macintosh.
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Zerilan posted:Trying to remember an old PC investigation? game. It was something old enough that it ran on a Macintosh Classic. I remember it being pretty point and click, and the start of it involved flying around and seeing physical descriptions and maybe alibis of suspects. Sounds like it could be Sid Meier's Covert Action. Immediate edit: ...But that wasn't on Mac and probably not old enough besides. Hrm. John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Mar 21, 2020 |
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Cardiovorax posted:Hello thread, I would like some help remembering the name of a game I last played at least 25 years ago. Here's hoping that I actually remember it well enough for anyone to recognize it from the description, lol. Could it be 7 Cities of Gold? (For better google hits try "7 cities of gold game")
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Think I figured it out. It was Moriarty's Revenge/Return. An apparently quickly recalled Mac game that didn't even merit a red link on the wikipedia list for game releases in its year.
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Mar 22, 2020 00:34
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not so much a game as an application but hopefully close enough an art program from around the mid 90s that had a stylized UI with drawers and such, lots of wood. IIRC it had a sort of time lapse feature, but I don't remember whether it was accessible to the user or just used for demonstrating example art. this would have been for the mac.
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CYBEReris posted:not so much a game as an application but hopefully close enough I had the program as well I can't remember though. It's on the tip of my tongue. Pretty sure it was on pc as well.
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Pulsarcat posted:The game didn't happened to be called Exploration did it? iSurrender posted:Could it be 7 Cities of Gold? (For better google hits try "7 cities of gold game")
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CYBEReris posted:not so much a game as an application but hopefully close enough I dont remember it very well, but any chance it was Flying Colors?
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cmndstab posted:While we're talking about Suspended, I'll just mention that I've recently been reading an excellent blog that goes through the entire history of interactive fiction games (and related genres such as CRPGs, visual novels, really anything narrative driven), starting from the late 70s and all the way through to the 90s. It covers both the games themselves, and the companies and individuals who created them. I just recently got up to the entry on Suspended so was reminded of it. This site has the best long form write up on the game Trinity by infocom as well as the history of the nuke development.
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Danaru posted:I dont remember it very well, but any chance it was Flying Colors? I remember that program and that definitely wasn't it. The animated gradients were hot poo poo at the time tho
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I'm trying to remember a space fighter game I played a little over a decade ago. It was pretty open-ended, so apart from the campaign, I could run around being a pirate or trader or do patrols for different factions. Pretty sure I installed some mod that expanded the universe/opportunities quite a bit. I know it's not one the X-series games, but beyond that I'm stumped.
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If it's got hefty mod support but isn't an X, could it be Freelancer or Wing Commander: Privateer? I know those would be pretty easy to remember.
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Oh hey thanks, I think it could have been Freelancer with something called the Crossfire mod. E: I spent like an hour last night researching the Freespace games and being extremely confused because they didn't resemble what I remembered at all. It was called Freelancer, go figure. That sure was confusing. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Mar 23, 2020 |
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So I'm trying to remember the name of a game where you play as an AI/Supercomputer and the entire objective of the game is to take over the world, but you can't be noticed because they'd just come physically shut you down. I think it may have been a flash game - anyone have any ideas on what it is, or any games like it?
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