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Fun fact: media at the time unironically praising NARC for its "anti-drug message" made Eugene Jarvis consider not designing games anymore.
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Dip Viscous posted:Fun fact: media at the time unironically praising NARC for its "anti-drug message" made Eugene Jarvis consider not designing games anymore. ROBOCOP promotes acceptance of police in children, good for family values, say boosters!
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Nov 22, 2020 04:53
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I remember playing a game, I believe it was the demo, around 10-15 years ago (very rough timeframe). You were this little spaceship-looking shooter, and you could rotate within the edges of a round playfield. There was no depth to the playfield (not like that one shooter), but instead you shot what was like, germs or organisms inside basically a petri dish. Does that ring a bell to anyone? I tried a few keyword searches but I'm getting flash games and irrelevant results more than anything useful
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Nov 22, 2020 10:04
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Sounds like an Asteroids clone of some sort, maybe that might help?
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Nov 22, 2020 14:23
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Serperoth posted:I remember playing a game, I believe it was the demo, around 10-15 years ago (very rough timeframe). You were this little spaceship-looking shooter, and you could rotate within the edges of a round playfield. There was no depth to the playfield (not like that one shooter), but instead you shot what was like, germs or organisms inside basically a petri dish. Does that ring a bell to anyone? I tried a few keyword searches but I'm getting flash games and irrelevant results more than anything useful Like Tempest, but you didn't move the ship around but had a fixed gun and rotated the dish instead? That definitely wasn't a flash game. I think I still have it somewhere.
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Nov 22, 2020 14:34
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Pierzak posted:Like Tempest, but you didn't move the ship around but had a fixed gun and rotated the dish instead? That definitely wasn't a flash game. I think I still have it somewhere. Yeah vaguely like Tempest, view-wise, but there wasn't any depth to it. I'm pretty sure you rotated the ship around the dish itself, but I could be wrong, I think I only ever played the demo.
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Nov 22, 2020 15:22
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Serperoth posted:I remember playing a game, I believe it was the demo, around 10-15 years ago (very rough timeframe). You were this little spaceship-looking shooter, and you could rotate within the edges of a round playfield. There was no depth to the playfield (not like that one shooter), but instead you shot what was like, germs or organisms inside basically a petri dish. Does that ring a bell to anyone? I tried a few keyword searches but I'm getting flash games and irrelevant results more than anything useful I don't know about the germ thing, but this is basically the gameplay of Gyruss. Edit: you probably meant Gyruss by your mention of "that one shooter", sorry. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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Nov 23, 2020 04:40
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Dip Viscous posted:Fun fact: media at the time unironically praising NARC for its "anti-drug message" made Eugene Jarvis consider not designing games anymore. When you beat NARC, it says "Contact your local DEA recruiter!!!" in a sort of Last Starfighter-ish way. Wonder if anyone actually did 
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Nov 23, 2020 04:47
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Gynovore posted:When you beat NARC, it says "Contact your local DEA recruiter!!!" in a sort of Last Starfighter-ish way. Wonder if anyone actually did Beat NARC or ring up the DEA? 
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Nov 23, 2020 11:25
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Serperoth posted:I remember playing a game, I believe it was the demo, around 10-15 years ago (very rough timeframe). You were this little spaceship-looking shooter, and you could rotate within the edges of a round playfield. There was no depth to the playfield (not like that one shooter), but instead you shot what was like, germs or organisms inside basically a petri dish. Does that ring a bell to anyone? I tried a few keyword searches but I'm getting flash games and irrelevant results more than anything useful
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Nov 23, 2020 11:38
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Splicer posted:Long shot but Spheres of Chaos?
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Nov 23, 2020 11:41
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Oh and timeframe is badly off but P-3 Biotic
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Nov 23, 2020 11:52
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Splicer posted:Oh and timeframe is badly off but P-3 Biotic P-3 Biotic is the closest, and it came up in my search, but it definitely wasn't as flashy (and it definitely was before 2016). I drew up a small mockup of sorts of what I remember:  Your ship (black triangle) would move around the perimeter (grey ring) and shoot inside the petri dish, to the germs or microbes (blue). I recall an upgrade that let you get a second shooter on the opposite end so they'd rotate together, and maybe the game has Doctor in the title? Definitely not Spheres of Chaos, you very specifically were attached to the rim of the petri dish. Well drat I found it, it was Dr. Blob's Organism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZNcul4DJiM Serperoth fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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Nov 23, 2020 13:29
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Serperoth posted:Well drat I found it, it was Dr. Blob's Organism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZNcul4DJiM
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Nov 23, 2020 15:00
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Pierzak posted:Motherfucker, I specifically searched for blob and didn't found it. Great job! If it's any consolation, it's free now. A 600 MHz or better processor is recommended, and 32M of hard drive space: http://www.digital-eel.com/organism/
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Nov 23, 2020 15:04
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Serperoth posted:If it's any consolation, it's free now. A 600 MHz or better processor is recommended, and 32M of hard drive space: http://www.digital-eel.com/organism/ Sorry, can't handle that. The rampant specs bloat is loving bullshit. Pierzak fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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Nov 23, 2020 15:35
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Gynovore posted:Sounds somewhat like NARC, although not exactly.
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Nov 23, 2020 20:14
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Posting this in the event that you're mixing up two different games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgB-7HEly4
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Nov 23, 2020 23:05
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The Joe Man posted:Posting this in the event that you're mixing up two different games: Man, I loved this game so much.
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Nov 24, 2020 00:09
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A game full of robots where all the robots are immortal because they're backed up to a central server, and a single human shows up. Suddenly robots start dying with their backups being deleted and the human is blamed. I recall that one of the gameplay mechanics was that you could take over another robot's body.
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Nov 26, 2020 19:20
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khy posted:A game full of robots where all the robots are immortal because they're backed up to a central server, and a single human shows up. Suddenly robots start dying with their backups being deleted and the human is blamed. I recall that one of the gameplay mechanics was that you could take over another robot's body. Sounds like Scrapland to me.
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Nov 26, 2020 19:39
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Ok, let's try this: Point&Click Adventure which was branded from a Sparkasse or maybe Volksbank from Germany. I remember it was definitely from a bank. You were some dude (with a red cape? maybe you were some super hero) who went into a computer and had to collect bits or bytes which were little round creatures. I played it around 1996. I searched every archive about old adventure games I could find and a lot of lists, but it never came up. My only hope is that the game wasn't made by the bank and just some advertisement thing that banks could slap their logo onto, giving it a chance to have appeared in the Americas.
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Nov 30, 2020 18:21
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RabbitWizard posted:Ok, let's try this:
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Nov 30, 2020 19:21
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Definitely Captain Zins, yes. It was a free advertisement game, which is something that was weirdly popular for a while during the nineties. The Bifi game that had you go through movie sets and investigate something or other was also good.
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Nov 30, 2020 19:38
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MMAgCh posted:This might be Captain Zins. Cardiovorax posted:Definitely Captain Zins, yes. It was a free advertisement game, which is something that was weirdly popular for a while during the nineties. The Bifi game that had you go through movie sets and investigate something or other was also good.  Yes. My god, this was bothering me for months and I thought no one here would know about it. This loving thread.
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Nov 30, 2020 21:52
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Cardiovorax posted:It was a free advertisement game, which is something that was weirdly popular for a while during the nineties. Gonna post this in case any 90s kids missed it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/804270/Chex_Quest_HD/
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Dec 1, 2020 04:39
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Chex Quest was so good. I was too young to ever get into Doom but the Win95 computer I inherited for my bedroom could run Chex Quest and it somehow held my attention for a couple dozen hours?
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Dec 1, 2020 19:53
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Flash game, visually very much in the style of Binding of Isaac (made a few years earlier than BoI IIRC), to the point that I'm wondering if it wasn't made by the same guy. You played some kind of a dead bird (vulture?) fetus.
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Dec 4, 2020 20:37
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Pierzak posted:Flash game, visually very much in the style of Binding of Isaac (made a few years earlier than BoI IIRC), to the point that I'm wondering if it wasn't made by the same guy. You played some kind of a dead bird (vulture?) fetus. Carious Weltling it is the same guy if that's the right one
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Hwurmp posted:Carious Weltling
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Not quite a game, but I'm not sure where else to ask. In the early 90s, we had a disk with a program presenting information on planets and stars, called either orbit.exe or orbits.exe. We ran it on a Windows 3.1 machine, but I think it was a pure DOS application. Visually I think it used 256 colors, but I might be remembering it as more vibrant than it actually was. It had a lot of animations for various phenomena, including: solar eclipse, lunar eclipse, how big the sun will get in its red giant stage, etc. There were also animated (by color cycling) background images in the menus - I particulary remember a cross-section of the sun with some rotating circles inside. The main menu for every subject had an option called "Solar shuffle", which would scramble the background image and let you put it back together (I donæt think it was a sliding block puzzle, you just swapped pieces with each other).
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Dec 19, 2020 23:36
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Maybe this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdYTt3fWsMs There was a lot of stuff like that, but I remember that one showing up more than once on the 90s shovelware CD-ROMs I got as a kid where 40% of it was outright warez.
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Dec 19, 2020 23:43
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I hate that I'm gonna have to ask about this, and I hate that it's extremely vague. In fact, I may be combining multiple games, or dreaming or hallucinating some of it. Nevertheless, here we go: A game that had some kind of enemy faction, possibly a cult, holed up in a foundry. It was a large, plain white building, with rubble strewn around it. There was a boss fight or something similar on a circular metal walkway around an open thing of molten whatever. Possibly (probably?) a fallout or borderlands game. PC. part of my brain that is being unhelpful is insisting it's actually world of warcraft, but I doubt it.
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Dec 20, 2020 02:08
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That sounds like the Forged from Fallout 4. They're a weird cult that lives in the Saugus Ironworks.
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Dec 20, 2020 02:46
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packetmantis posted:That sounds like the Forged from Fallout 4. They're a weird cult that lives in the Saugus Ironworks. That's totally it, thanks.
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Dip Viscous posted:Maybe this? Yup, that's the one. Thanks.
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Trying to remember the name of a flash game: Remember it was black and white, had cats, and was as sidescroller. Also, I don't think it was American in origin and I played it on Newgrounds, I think. The only thing I've been able to find is a similar post on reddit that's 4 years old with no replies: https://www.reddit.com/r/FlashGames/comments/4xfpc2/catmouse_gangster_side_scroller/
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Nostalgamus posted:Yup, that's the one. Thanks. This was literally the very first thing I ever 'played' on my own PC (second thing was Wolfenstein 3D). I especially loved how you could drop eggs on the various planets to test gravity.
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FanaticalMilk posted:Trying to remember the name of a flash game: I think you may be thinking of Battle Cats (I think I have it on my old phone I'll check in the morning) Where you spawn minimal-animé style cats and fight an enemy base which also spawns similar cars? Can't check your link now to confirm if it's like they
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Driving game, fairly recent I think. I only saw a video of it, there's no real road just a whole bunch of loops and ramps and things floating in space. I don't have the video anymore sadly
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