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Pentaro posted:Yes! This was it! I dunno what kusogrande is but judging by the name this game should be right at home. It's a tournament where
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Pentaro posted:Two famicom games: The second one is probably Flappy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4dJuCI_RSc
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Pablo Nergigante posted:The second one is probably Flappy
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Jun 15, 2020 18:40
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Woah Flappy is trippy as hell.
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Jun 15, 2020 19:11
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I figured it out in a roundabout way - I remembered that Jeremy Parish had covered a game like you described in Game Boy Works, so I went through his videos until I found Flappy Special, then looked up if it got a Famicom port and sure enough
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Jun 15, 2020 19:20
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Yeah that is an extremely "Game Boy One-Room Puzzle" game Which are honestly some of my favorites
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Artelier posted:Smaller, less detailed, everyone is unique Final Fight style makes me think of Little Fighter 2, but that's not arcade nor do you control many characters at once. Drawing a blank, sorry! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxwSd0EyCk That looks vaguely right. If a similar game was ever in an arcade, then that's what I'm looking for.
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I got two, both from the computer section of the daycare I spent time in ~5 y/o The first was a math based edutainment game, where you had to avoid sea creatures and solve a math problem using a combination lock The second, was a puzzle-y top down game, where you moved around trying to get through doors of a particular color. There were weird worm things that would chase you and eat you, and if they caught you, you would turn the same color. So, occasionally you had to get eaten, and avoid the wrong color worms. I just remember being super traumatized by it and found it frightening.
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Famethrowa posted:The first was a math based edutainment game, where you had to avoid sea creatures and solve a math problem using a combination lock Operation Neptune
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Jun 15, 2020 22:38
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Andorra posted:Operation Neptune that's it, and holy poo poo, by looking up the Learning Company publisher, I found my other game. https://www.myabandonware.com/game/think-quick-26e that was tickling my brain for years, so thank you! edit: i feel better about being scared of it, because it is actually very creepy! Famethrowa fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Jun 15, 2020 |
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Jun 15, 2020 22:46
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This one is a long shot probably as it’s really obscure. It’s a Commodore 64 game controlled entirely by a biofeedback headband I played as a kid at a friend’s house. There were multiple mini-games in it, but the one in particular that stands out to me was where you controlled a red balloon. The balloon game had you trying to grab pickups in the air that gave you points, but also there were tacks or knives or something that would kill you. You “controlled” the balloon by relaxing—the more relaxed you were the lower the balloon would go, and the pickups towards the bottom of the screen were worth more. Then if you had to avoid a tack you’d clench your jaw to become less relaxed and the balloon would shoot up in the air. I think it also had a color coded kaleidoscope game too and something else I forget. It was a really odd game.
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Genpei Turtle posted:This one is a long shot probably as it’s really obscure. It’s a Commodore 64 game controlled entirely by a biofeedback headband I played as a kid at a friend’s house. There were multiple mini-games in it, but the one in particular that stands out to me was where you controlled a red balloon. Appropriately enough it was called “Relax” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1EDKXwOx-M
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That... weirdly reminded me of a game I vaguely remember. It was a DOS game in like 1994/1996 where you controlled an orb like a balloon, and you had to move around the level refilling your balloon on air vents and avoiding sharp objects. The game itself was alright but it also included this massive screed by the developer about how aliens hacked his mind and used him to create the game and that the balloon was actually the aliens' true form and this game was made so humans would be familiar with them or something like that. I've always wondered what the gently caress
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Danaru posted:That... weirdly reminded me of a game I vaguely remember. It was a DOS game in like 1994/1996 where you controlled an orb like a balloon, and you had to move around the level refilling your balloon on air vents and avoiding sharp objects. The game itself was alright but it also included this massive screed by the developer about how aliens hacked his mind and used him to create the game and that the balloon was actually the aliens' true form and this game was made so humans would be familiar with them or something like that. I've always wondered what the gently caress Found it, it’s called Helious and that’s weird as gently caress lol https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Helious
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I remember playing that. It was a pretty fun game, honestly. A bit psychedelic, but not bad by any means. It reminded me a lot of games like Oxyd Magnum. I had no idea that the guy who made it was crazy, but just from playing it, you wouldn't be able to tell.
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Found it, it’s called Helious and that’s weird as gently caress lol https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Helious  Holy poo poo that's it, I was honestly half convinced I dreamt it. I was off on some parts of the story but I was surprisingly close considering it's been almost 30 years
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The guy who does freeman's mind on youtube showcased Helious several years back, if anyone's interested in what the gameplay looks like. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4hJf2RCEk
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A bit of google-fu reveals here's what Sean Puckett is up to now: https://twitter.com/photopuck Seems like all is well. He's actually got a recent game out on itch.io! Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Jun 16, 2020 |
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hello, i'm trying to remember the name of this abstract game that featured lots of gloved hands? iirc, it came out like 5 or 6 years ago and had a sequel about 2ish years ago? it was an indie PC game, and I want to say it had VGA-style graphics?
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A real shot in the dark here: Hylics?
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Baller Time posted:A real shot in the dark here: Hylics? yes! thank you!
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An old computer game, from the 90s, that had a "map" of the human body and you were either the body's immune system or the viruses and bacteria trying to make their way in. I remember almost nothing of the gameplay but I remember it was really hard. I thought it was maybe related to the Sim games (SimAnt, SimCity, SimEarth, etc) but I can't find anything on google about it.
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a fatguy baldspot posted:An old computer game, from the 90s, that had a "map" of the human body and you were either the body's immune system or the viruses and bacteria trying to make their way in. You're not thinking of Catch the Sperm 2, but that's what I'm thinking of now.
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a fatguy baldspot posted:An old computer game, from the 90s, that had a "map" of the human body and you were either the body's immune system or the viruses and bacteria trying to make their way in. I remember almost nothing of the gameplay but I remember it was really hard. I thought it was maybe related to the Sim games (SimAnt, SimCity, SimEarth, etc) but I can't find anything on google about it. Are you thinking about Microcosm? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxBYS_ahDG0
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ymgve posted:Are you thinking about Microcosm? No, it wasn’t first person at all, was entirely like a strategy game. Might’ve come on a disc with a bunch of educational games?
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https://www.macintoshrepository.org/4543-germicide oh drat, pretty sure this is it. I wonder if I can get it working on my laptop, wish it had more screenshots
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Cardiovorax posted:No, the one I remember was definitely a 2D side-scroller, but I don't remember if it was for PC. In one mode, you would play as a helicopter basically the way you describe it. In the other, you would instead play as this armored car or tank thing that also attacked upwards in a 3-spread so you were able to attack flying enemies. I have this really clear mental image of it, but I don't think I ever learned the name of the game. Yeah, this is almost certainly Silkworm.
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a fatguy baldspot posted:https://www.macintoshrepository.org/4543-germicide oh drat, pretty sure this is it. I wonder if I can get it working on my laptop, wish it had more screenshots That is in fact what you are talking about. Germicide is a weirdass strategy game that I never could figure out. It had a bunch of other games that were basically the same game just with different setting. Including WWII and the Civil War, with small little events that may have had little to no impact on you, or may have given buffs/debuffs. The world may never know.
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E-Tank posted:That is in fact what you are talking about. Germicide is a weirdass strategy game that I never could figure out. It had a bunch of other games that were basically the same game just with different setting. Including WWII and the Civil War, with small little events that may have had little to no impact on you, or may have given buffs/debuffs. The world may never know. Wasn't there also a punic war version where you played as hannibal? I think both came on a demo disc for my old mac - I remember the punic war game much better, you started as Hannibal in Spain and had to get to Rome. I think you could choose between walking - in which case the demo ended as you crossed the alps - or you could go by boat, which had some problems that I don't remember in order to encourage you to go the historical route, but if you could pull it off you could land right next to Rome and the demo ended there. I'll try to get the Germicide one working on my computer, but I'm bad at this sort of thing.
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a fatguy baldspot posted:Wasn't there also a punic war version where you played as hannibal? I think both came on a demo disc for my old mac - I remember the punic war game much better, you started as Hannibal in Spain and had to get to Rome. I think you could choose between walking - in which case the demo ended as you crossed the alps - or you could go by boat, which had some problems that I don't remember in order to encourage you to go the historical route, but if you could pull it off you could land right next to Rome and the demo ended there. I'll try to get the Germicide one working on my computer, but I'm bad at this sort of thing. Only demos I recall was the WWII one, the Civil War, and a british middle ages style strategy, which I remember mostly because one of the issues was due to a famine, and the solution was literally to ask for help, and it was heralded as a novel concept that succeeded. There were some interesting questions asked of you. But I never could figure out how much they affected anything.
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E-Tank posted:Only demos I recall was the WWII one, the Civil War, and a british middle ages style strategy, which I remember mostly because one of the issues was due to a famine, and the solution was literally to ask for help, and it was heralded as a novel concept that succeeded. Yeah, I remember some events involving the elephants. Many elephants died on the sea voyage
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Here's one that I have been wondering about for a while: this game was an open-world RTS back in the 90s - multiple maps, but you could pass between them freely, much like playing the multiplayer mode of Spellforce 2. It was in a space setting and there were four races. The graphics were sprite based. You could collect five different types of resources, one generic and one for each race. Your base unit was a 'Mothership' which looked like a silvery dome which could open to release little resource-collecting drones. One race was called the Optitrons or something like that and they liked building units in hexagonal shapes. It was a pretty great game that I have never seen anyone talk about anywhere else, ever. I have no idea why, it was incredibly unique and really fun.
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Conquest:frontier wars has the first part of that-each system was a map, games would take place across multiple systems and the jump gates linking them would serve as choke points from one map to the next. It only had three species though. https://store.steampowered.com/app/578670/Conquest_Frontier_Wars/
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Cardiovorax posted:Here's one that I have been wondering about for a while: this game was an open-world RTS back in the 90s - multiple maps, but you could pass between them freely, much like playing the multiplayer mode of Spellforce 2. It was in a space setting and there were four races. The graphics were sprite based. You could collect five different types of resources, one generic and one for each race. Your base unit was a 'Mothership' which looked like a silvery dome which could open to release little resource-collecting drones. One race was called the Optitrons or something like that and they liked building units in hexagonal shapes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Command:_Revolution ?
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No, sorry, it was definitely older than that. As I mentioned, the game was sprite-based. I'm fairly certain I played it around '96-ish or so. e: oh, I only saw your post now! Yes, that is exactly what it is! Star Command, that's the one. Triumverites were the geometric shape guys, I think. Thank you so much. Cardiovorax fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Jul 2, 2020 |
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after all these years.... i finally got one before somebody else.... now.... i can die....
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There was some sort of space strategy game on PC from the 90s that my dad used to play, I'd really like to find out what it was but unfortunately I don't remember much about it. What I do remember is: It was all in tiny 2d sprite graphics, kind of like Dune maybe. It had ground battles that played out in real time, but I'm not sure if you actually controlled the units or if it was just a visualization of the battle. I think it was the latter. It had a race of "space hippos" of some kind. I think they might have preferred planets with a lot of water. That's all I remember. Really not expecting anyone to know what I'm talking about.
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Could be Deadlock: Planetary Conquest or it's sequel
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Real time or turnbased? With that description it fits even Master of Orion 2.
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Baller Time posted:Could be Deadlock: Planetary Conquest or it's sequel Oh yeah, I think that's the game.
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