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someone awful. posted:Pretty sure that's Moraff's Ultra Blast Holy poo poo... I had Moraff's Entrap, and I always thought I was the only one who ever played it. Man, that game was both weird, and also kind of the type of game that would've shown up in a movie back then, like it was fake and just made for the movie.
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someone awful. posted:Pretty sure that's Moraff's Ultra Blast Yep, went digging on the internet archive and found it. https://archive.org/details/UBLAST The screen shot took me back.
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Maigius posted:Yep, went digging on the internet archive and found it. https://archive.org/details/UBLAST The screen shot took me back. Hell yeah, now that's the kind of extremely thoughtful and cohesive visual design I grew up with
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May 16, 2021 14:45
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ALFbrot posted:Hell yeah, now that's the kind of extremely thoughtful and cohesive visual design I grew up with Moraff's UltraBlast Features posted:3) Now includes 2 beautiful brick imagesets and exploding balls! Sure thing, game
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Wow, I had no idea Moraff's Super Blast got a revamped release! I have the original DOS version which I still occasionally load up nowadays for some nostalgia. https://dosgames.com/game/superblast/ cmndstab fucked around with this message at 17:10 on May 16, 2021 |
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May 16, 2021 17:00
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There are slightly newer versions if you pull up the Moraff site from a few years ago in the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20110103205447/http://www.softwarediversions.com/catalog/free_downloads.php Believe it or not the company is still around, but only doing mahjong stuff now.
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I've been trying to find this indie game that I was somewhat interested in a couple of years back. From what I remember, it was a 2D game, likely sprite-based and was about exploring planets that had numerous ruins from it. The goal was to write down what you thought what happened at the ruins, and could likely also look up what other people had written. It sounds like it was a bit of a boring concept, but I was somewhat intrigued about the concept and am interested in giving it a try.
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May 17, 2021 13:42
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Sounds like Elegy for a Dead World
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May 17, 2021 13:57
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Text game (new-ish, maybe last decade?), its gimmick was that you could take metaphors from descriptions and use them as literal objects, like if the game described stars in the sky looking like embers from a dying fire, you could take an ember and use it to light your cigarette.
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May 17, 2021 14:21
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Pierzak posted:Text game (new-ish, maybe last decade?), its gimmick was that you could take metaphors from descriptions and use them as literal objects, like if the game described stars in the sky looking like embers from a dying fire, you could take an ember and use it to light your cigarette. Sounds like PataNoir, there was a pure text adventure version of it too, here.
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Sounds like PataNoir, there was a pure text adventure version of it too, here. Yes it is, and a pure text version is even better! Thanks!
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May 17, 2021 20:25
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That just reminded me, if you like text adventures, you should play https://emshort.blog/2012/12/31/counterfeit-monkey
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ymgve posted:That just reminded me, if you like text adventures, you should play https://emshort.blog/2012/12/31/counterfeit-monkey Sounds delicious, will check.
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May 17, 2021 20:53
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I remember when, back when magazines came with CD-ROMs, I found this really fun combat game. You could choose to play as a tank or chopper (and maybe a buggy?) and had to blast an enemy base into smithereens. 2D, topdown perspective. It sounds almost exactly like Return Fire, but I distinctly remember the graphics being spritebased. It also included a level editor that I hosed around with, making long lines of exploding barrels and blowing them up. This must have been around 1998, since I distinctly remember the magazine covering upcoming games like Homeworld, Shadowman and Alien vs Predator. Also included a review for a bad shooter called Hell-Copter, demo's for System Shock 2 and Slave Zero and a kick rear end screensaver of the first Quake. I think the disk included the entire game, so it must have already been ancient at that time.
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Sobatchja Morda posted:I remember when, back when magazines came with CD-ROMs, I found this really fun combat game. You could choose to play as a tank or chopper (and maybe a buggy?) and had to blast an enemy base into smithereens. 2D, topdown perspective. It sounds almost exactly like Return Fire, but I distinctly remember the graphics being spritebased. It also included a level editor that I hosed around with, making long lines of exploding barrels and blowing them up. Probably Fire Power which Return Fire is basically a sequel to (same developer)
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Hi goons, for years I've been trying to remember a game i briefly played as a kid on my dads computer. It was a game in very early 3d where you had a tank/buggy which could transform into a spaceship, and you drove/flew around picking up little blue people to save then. In the end you flew them through a ring. The people looked a bit like lemmings and i think the tank had threads? I'm sure it wasn't a very good or well known game, but I'd just really like to know what it was.
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May 18, 2021 06:40
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Probably Fire Power which Return Fire is basically a sequel to (same developer) And in the rare case it's not, there's also SWIV 3D.
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Son of Rodney posted:Hi goons, for years I've been trying to remember a game i briefly played as a kid on my dads computer. It was a game in very early 3d where you had a tank/buggy which could transform into a spaceship, and you drove/flew around picking up little blue people to save then. In the end you flew them through a ring. The people looked a bit like lemmings and i think the tank had threads? I'm sure it wasn't a very good or well known game, but I'd just really like to know what it was. Sounds like Scorched Planet.
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Hakkesshu posted:Sounds like Scorched Planet. That's it! I am in awe, thanks a lot!
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Forgot this thread existed, there's quite a few old DOS games I had on my family's ancient computer that I'd like to revisit as an adult. I'll just start with the first one that comes to mind. Tried looking for this a little while back on Google and came up with nothing, but that's probably just because I'm so vague on the details I remember. It was a top-down 2D fantasy dungeon crawler game, one of those ones where everybody moves one square at a time. I remember fighting skeletons for sure, and maybe goblins and snakes. You were able to equip specific armor parts all over your body; helm, breastplate, gauntlets, bracelet, ring, etc. and I remember one of the few times I got deep enough into a dungeon to find a cool helm, I put it on and it was actually cursed and lowered my AC or something and I couldn't take it off. It was overall a pretty bright game. I remember a lot of light greys, and maybe the main character was blonde? It wasn't a dark, caverny dungeon-crawler. I think the first level was more like a castle. I'm afraid that's all I can really remember. Again, I played it in the mid to late 90's on DOS to help put a timeframe on it. I'm sure my description probably describes dozens of shovelware from that era but maybe somebody can help me find this specific one!
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timp posted:Forgot this thread existed, there's quite a few old DOS games I had on my family's ancient computer that I'd like to revisit as an adult. I'll just start with the first one that comes to mind. Tried looking for this a little while back on Google and came up with nothing, but that's probably just because I'm so vague on the details I remember. Sounds like pretty much every Gold Box D&D game.
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Medullah posted:Sounds like pretty much every Gold Box D&D game. I couldn't even tell you how I acquired the game either. It's like that plastic trey stacked full of floppy disks containing lovely games was always there, for as long as I could remember. Did my dad buy them? Did they come with something? Who the gently caress knows  EDIT: Looking through some images from Gold Box and they don't look familiar... https://www.google.com/search?q=gold+box+d%26d They actually look too high quality. The game I had was pretty low quality from a graphics standpoint (and probably a gameplay standpoint as well but that's what I'm looking to really test as a non-kid) timp fucked around with this message at 18:26 on May 20, 2021 |
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May 20, 2021 18:23
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You could always try digging through CRPG Addict and see if you recognize anything. That man has covered pretty much every computer RPG up to the early 90s.
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May 20, 2021 19:15
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Were there points in the game where it told you to refer to an Adventurer's Journal?
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timp posted:It was a top-down 2D fantasy dungeon crawler game, one of those ones where everybody moves one square at a time. I remember fighting skeletons for sure, and maybe goblins and snakes. This sounds almost exactly like thread favourite Castle of the Winds, but that was for Windows 3 rather than DOS.
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Quote-Unquote posted:This sounds almost exactly like thread favourite Castle of the Winds, but that was for Windows 3 rather than DOS. This does indeed look very, very familiar, but I'm not sure that's it. It could be but I'm not 100% (I definitely don't know the difference between Windows 3 and DOS so it could have been for a different ancient computer system) I did remember one more thing about my mystery game though: at one point I got some equipment made out of "cobalt", like armor or a bow or some arrows or something. It was the first time I ever heard that word and I remember going to look it up as a result. Searching "Castle of the Winds cobalt" doesn't return anything
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I can't pinpoint any game with cobalt in it, sorry, but just thinking generally about the genre - from that time, if it's not one of the Gold Box games (though they varied a lot in graphical quality, plus this was an era where games regularly supported several graphics modes from CGA to VGA), then some other more or less obvious guesses are one of the earlier Ultima games, or maybe the Magic Candle games. I assume it wasn't text-based, or we'd have to consider Rogue, Nethack etc.
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timp posted:This does indeed look very, very familiar, but I'm not sure that's it. It could be but I'm not 100% (I definitely don't know the difference between Windows 3 and DOS so it could have been for a different ancient computer system) If you clicked an icon to start the game it was windows. If it was a text ui it was dos
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titties posted:If you clicked an icon to start the game it was windows. If it was a text ui it was dos caveat: dosshell
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titties posted:If you clicked an icon to start the game it was windows. If it was a text ui it was dos You could launch some DOS games in Windows 
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Yeah, at the very least I remember being able to play Warcraft 2 in both DOS and Windows. You could only run the level editor in Windows though.
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I've got a stumper. It was some free to play mmo from either 2004 or 2005 that I played for like a summer. It was 2d, I think the perspective was top down, and I think it had some focus on gathering/crafting. I want to say the newbie area was maybe beach or meadow themed. If I recall correctly, the player sprites were not especially well defined, I remember them looking kind of like characters in puzzle pirates, but I may be wrong on that. It wasn't Maple Story, but probably a contemporary of that. It was definitely 2004 or 2005 though.
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No, the sprites were definitely mushier than Ragnarok Online. I don't think this was a very popular game, I had never heard of it at the time and haven't since
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There was this java browser game years ago. You'd make a hero and get a daily number of turns. On the main screen there was a stats and inventory window, a mail window, guild window, a general store and an adventure window. You'd click the bottom right adventure window and use a turn and have an encounter. In the encounter you could fight, talk or run. As you leveled up you could unlock different lands like the starting one was basic fantasy europe, one was japan and one was like a mountain you could fight dragons. The site it was on had an bbs but there was also an in game mail system where you bought in game letters from the store to send people and you could attach money and items. Also everything dropped Turnips.
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SoR Blaze posted:No, the sprites were definitely mushier than Ragnarok Online. I don't think this was a very popular game, I had never heard of it at the time and haven't since Around that time I remember making fun of my younger brother for playing a game like that. The one he played was called legend of mystra or mystera or something like that. Highly doubt it was the same game (I feel like it looked vaguely similar to the SNES Zelda game but that could be just really foggy memory) but that’s what it reminds me of
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HashtagGirlboss posted:Around that time I remember making fun of my younger brother for playing a game like that. The one he played was called legend of mystra or mystera or something like that. Highly doubt it was the same game (I feel like it looked vaguely similar to the SNES Zelda game but that could be just really foggy memory) but that’s what it reminds me of https://classic.graalonline.com/
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SoR Blaze posted:I've got a stumper. It was some free to play mmo from either 2004 or 2005 that I played for like a summer. It was 2d, I think the perspective was top down, and I think it had some focus on gathering/crafting. I want to say the newbie area was maybe beach or meadow themed. If I recall correctly, the player sprites were not especially well defined, I remember them looking kind of like characters in puzzle pirates, but I may be wrong on that. It wasn't Maple Story, but probably a contemporary of that. It was definitely 2004 or 2005 though. Ashen Empires? Haven and Hearth?
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timp posted:This does indeed look very, very familiar, but I'm not sure that's it. It could be but I'm not 100% (I definitely don't know the difference between Windows 3 and DOS so it could have been for a different ancient computer system) Unless you're thinking of the word 'kobold' I am not sure, then, sorry! Can't think of any RPGs with cobalt equipment.
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Quote-Unquote posted:Unless you're thinking of the word 'kobold' I am not sure, then, sorry! Can't think of any RPGs with cobalt equipment. Only one I can think of is IVAN, but that's not DOS era. First release is 2001, looks like. Possible mixup? Some of the other points look similar.
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