Help us remember the name of a game!!!! Or perish!!

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HMS Beagle: Feb 13, 2009

DasNeonLicht posted:

I was hospitalized as a kid around 2000 for something, and I remember my mom buying me a copy of PC Gamer to cheer me up � I think it came with a CD full of demos the family computer couldn't run.

One of the games reviewed / advertised in the magazine was a sort of top-down, isometric gang simulator. It was not Gangsters: Organized Crime, but something set in the present day, with an "urban" setting, drugs with cR4Zy names you could take to boost your stats, and an overall aesthetic that would probably be considered slightly offensive today. I think there were prostitutes? Maybe it was a poor man's GTA for the time, more focused on turf management.

Thanks to anyone who can remember.

Could be Beatdown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivHnU-cvaM&ab_channel=FirstPlaysHD

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# ? May 9, 2024 06:13

DasNeonLicht: Dec 25, 2005; "...and the light is on and burning brightly for the masses."; Fallen Rib

HMS Beagle posted:

Could be Beatdown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eivHnU-cvaM&ab_channel=FirstPlaysHD

That was it! Thank you.

I love this thread.

# ? Jul 20, 2021 22:18

Zaphod42: Sep 13, 2012; If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

FFT posted:

This would have been mid-to-late '90s: arcade racer, futuristic style, red motorcycle-looking seat as part of the cabinet?

Namco Suzuka 8 hours maybe?

I definitely remember lots of red motorcycle arcade games in my youth...

E: Oh nm you already found it

# ? Jul 20, 2021 22:26

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Late 90s, early 2000s game made by an indie team (maybe one guy) using Klikteam or Gamemaker or one of those smaller engines of the time. I downloaded it from Home of the Underdogs around the turn of the century.

It was a 2D sidescrolling RPG with pixel art graphics. The human characters were distinctly big and detailed. You maneuvered on a flat two dimensional plane, no up/down movement. Battles would be sort of Paper Mario turn based style.

Stylistically it was sort of Steampunk. Lots of long dusters and chunky shotguns. I think the plot involved a land baroness. The title may have had "engine" in the name. There was a sequel released around the height of Tigsource like ~2010 around the time of Spelunky and La-Mulana.

There's another game made by the same person I played that's also a sidescroller with big chunky sprites. You're a girl in a white dress enslaved in a cave or mine and she can levitate and solve simple platforming challenges. I think the game had "princess" in the title idk but you find one of these games you find the others.

# ? Jul 22, 2021 16:22

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

al-azad posted:

Late 90s, early 2000s game made by an indie team (maybe one guy) using Klikteam or Gamemaker or one of those smaller engines of the time. I downloaded it from Home of the Underdogs around the turn of the century.

It was a 2D sidescrolling RPG with pixel art graphics. The human characters were distinctly big and detailed. You maneuvered on a flat two dimensional plane, no up/down movement. Battles would be sort of Paper Mario turn based style.

Stylistically it was sort of Steampunk. Lots of long dusters and chunky shotguns. I think the plot involved a land baroness. The title may have had "engine" in the name. There was a sequel released around the height of Tigsource like ~2010 around the time of Spelunky and La-Mulana.

There's another game made by the same person I played that's also a sidescroller with big chunky sprites. You're a girl in a white dress enslaved in a cave or mine and she can levitate and solve simple platforming challenges. I think the game had "princess" in the title idk but you find one of these games you find the others.

First one is definitely The Spirit Engine but not sure about the second one

# ? Jul 22, 2021 16:30

Pogonodon: Sep 10, 2010

al-azad posted:

Late 90s, early 2000s game made by an indie team (maybe one guy) using Klikteam or Gamemaker or one of those smaller engines of the time. I downloaded it from Home of the Underdogs around the turn of the century.

It was a 2D sidescrolling RPG with pixel art graphics. The human characters were distinctly big and detailed. You maneuvered on a flat two dimensional plane, no up/down movement. Battles would be sort of Paper Mario turn based style.

Stylistically it was sort of Steampunk. Lots of long dusters and chunky shotguns. I think the plot involved a land baroness. The title may have had "engine" in the name. There was a sequel released around the height of Tigsource like ~2010 around the time of Spelunky and La-Mulana.

The Spirit Engine?

edit: :argh:

how dare you beat me

# ? Jul 22, 2021 16:33

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Yep that's it. I see the princess-in-a-cave game isn't related. I would've played it around the same time as Knytt and Seiklus when everyone was doing pixel art games before the generic 8-bit style became popular but I remember so little about it. Just a blond haired girl in a white dress, basic platforming, and you had some levitation powers or something.

# ? Jul 22, 2021 16:38

KennyMan666: May 27, 2010; The Saga

al-azad posted:

There's another game made by the same person I played that's also a sidescroller with big chunky sprites. You're a girl in a white dress enslaved in a cave or mine and she can levitate and solve simple platforming challenges. I think the game had "princess" in the title idk but you find one of these games you find the others.

The colours are wrong, but might it be the 2002 Eternal Daughter you're actually thinking of? Large sprite style, and the story starts with the protagonist being a slave in a mine:

KennyMan666 fucked around with this message at 20:22 on Jul 22, 2021

# ? Jul 22, 2021 20:09

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Hooray that's the one. Getting Lisa vibes from that.

# ? Jul 22, 2021 20:16

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

I looked it up and it's actually by Derek Yu of Spelunky fame!

# ? Jul 22, 2021 20:17

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Makes sense. A lot of these old memories are buried on Tigsource and his old dusty pixel art tutorials.

# ? Jul 22, 2021 20:42

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

KennyMan666 posted:

Eternal Daughter

It's also available straight from Derek Yu's site.

# ? Jul 22, 2021 21:52

Custard Undies: Jan 7, 2006; #essereFerrari

I'm hoping this is an easy one.

Arcade game, side scrolling beat em up, one of the bosses is a half lady/half snake.

My friend just asked me if I remembered the name of it, I remember the game, but not the name. So anyone got any ideas?

Edit: Most likely an early 90s game.

Custard Undies fucked around with this message at 09:01 on Jul 27, 2021

# ? Jul 27, 2021 08:47

Tehan: Jan 19, 2011

Custard Undies posted:

I'm hoping this is an easy one.

Arcade game, side scrolling beat em up, one of the bosses is a half lady/half snake.

My friend just asked me if I remembered the name of it, I remember the game, but not the name. So anyone got any ideas?

Edit: Most likely an early 90s game.

Haunted Castle?

# ? Jul 27, 2021 09:50

Mierenneuker: Apr 28, 2010; We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

Custard Undies posted:

I'm hoping this is an easy one.

Arcade game, side scrolling beat em up, one of the bosses is a half lady/half snake.

My friend just asked me if I remembered the name of it, I remember the game, but not the name. So anyone got any ideas?

Edit: Most likely an early 90s game.

Does the game involve the main character using their fists or weapons? That helps narrow it down.

# ? Jul 27, 2021 10:29

Custard Undies: Jan 7, 2006; #essereFerrari

Mierenneuker posted:

Does the game involve the main character using their fists or weapons? That helps narrow it down.

He thinks weapons.

And no it wasn't Haunted Castle but that was a good suggestion to check out.

# ? Jul 27, 2021 11:16

Custard Undies: Jan 7, 2006; #essereFerrari

We figured it out. It is called Hippodrome

Edit: I dont think the description I was given was very helpful, as that is more of a 2d fighter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CzrBuSufYs

Custard Undies fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Jul 27, 2021

# ? Jul 27, 2021 11:28

beef express: Sep 7, 2005; The highest technique is to have no technique.

RabbitWizard posted:

Let's give another one a try:

Windows 3.11 or 95, I think it was from a Demo/Freeware/Shareware CD/Disk. It was black/cyan/magenta. On the first screen you only saw the silhouette of things in black, yourself - a knight with a sword - some bushes and a spider which attacked you. I remember some lights around, may have been stars in the background or fireflies in the bushes. I never killed the spider or whatever so I can't tell you about anything else.

Could this have been Blade Warrior?

# ? Jul 27, 2021 15:13

RabbitWizard: Oct 21, 2008; Muldoon

beef express posted:

Could this have been Blade Warrior?

That's it!!! Amazing, thanks so much!

# ? Jul 27, 2021 23:50

tenderjerk: Nov 6, 2008; Can't post for 387 days!

Trying to remember an old PC game that had some FMV elements but not all FMV. I think was a point and click. Mid to late 90s

You are a guy who likes this batman-type comic book, then you get sucked into that world and become the comic book character, and you fight that character's villains. I think you had a female sidekick but I don't recall

It was very dark (literally, I recall it all took place at night)

Looked up FMV game databases but couldn't find anything as it was more of a normal game with occasional FMV stuff and not like, Voyeur or Night Trap

# ? Jul 28, 2021 02:50

Hwurmp: May 20, 2005

tenderjerk posted:

Trying to remember an old PC game that had some FMV elements but not all FMV. I think was a point and click. Mid to late 90s

You are a guy who likes this batman-type comic book, then you get sucked into that world and become the comic book character, and you fight that character's villains. I think you had a female sidekick but I don't recall

It was very dark (literally, I recall it all took place at night)

Looked up FMV game databases but couldn't find anything as it was more of a normal game with occasional FMV stuff and not like, Voyeur or Night Trap

Noctropolis

# ? Jul 28, 2021 02:55

tenderjerk: Nov 6, 2008; Can't post for 387 days!

Hwurmp posted:

Noctropolis

That's it! And it's on steam too! thx

# ? Jul 28, 2021 02:59

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

OK, this one's recent, but I missed the name: a faux-retro adventure game that I can only describe as "X-Files in the visual style of Zak McKracken".

# ? Jul 28, 2021 20:01

Veib: Dec 10, 2007

Pierzak posted:

OK, this one's recent, but I missed the name: a faux-retro adventure game that I can only describe as "X-Files in the visual style of Zak McKracken".

Thimbleweed Park

Some of the people who made it are literally oldschool Lucasarts guys who worked on Zak McKracken

Veib fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Jul 28, 2021

# ? Jul 28, 2021 20:05

Pierzak: Oct 30, 2010

Veib posted:

Thimbleweed Park

It's literally made by oldschool Lucasarts guys who worked on Zak McKracken

Thanks!

# ? Jul 28, 2021 20:08

Custard Undies: Jan 7, 2006; #essereFerrari

Veib posted:

Thimbleweed Park

Some of the people who made it are literally oldschool Lucasarts guys who worked on Zak McKracken

The best thing about the game was one of the options they had for the kickstarter was to pay an extra $20 for pirating Maniac Mansion when you were younger :xd:

# ? Jul 29, 2021 02:32

Veib: Dec 10, 2007

How dare they, I never pirated Maniac Mansion

I pirated Day of the Tentacle (which... does include Maniac Mansion... well, poo poo)

# ? Jul 30, 2021 00:15

Dip Viscous: Sep 17, 2019

https://twitter.com/YachtClubGames/status/574265442111504384

# ? Jul 30, 2021 00:21

cmndstab: May 20, 2006; Huge Internet Celebrity!

I definitely pirated both. Well, my parents did, I guess. Not sure I can be blamed for it at nine years of age or whatever I was. I did buy the DOTT Remaster though! Sins forgiven?

# ? Jul 30, 2021 05:08

Medullah: Aug 14, 2003; FEAR MY SHARK ROCKET IT REALLY SUCKS AND BLOWS

cmndstab posted:

I definitely pirated both. Well, my parents did, I guess. Not sure I can be blamed for it at nine years of age or whatever I was. I did buy the DOTT Remaster though! Sins forgiven?

I pirated and played the poo poo out of DOTT. I've made up for it by buying it at least twice as the remaster (PC and PlayStation), and have yet to replay it.

# ? Jul 30, 2021 11:55

THE BAR: Oct 20, 2011; You know what might look better on your nose?

Medullah posted:

I pirated and played the poo poo out of DOTT. I've made up for it by buying it at least twice as the remaster (PC and PlayStation), and have yet to replay it.

I'm still waiting for a remastered Sam and Max. Not sure what's taking so long.. licensing issues, maybe?

# ? Jul 30, 2021 17:45

Hyper Crab Tank: Feb 10, 2014; The 16-bit retro-future of crustacean-based transportation

Doublefine did the other remasters, I guess since Schafer didn't work on Sam & Max they have less reason to push for it, and Disney alone aren't interested in remastering it? You can get the original on Steam though, should work fine since it's ScummVM-based.

# ? Jul 30, 2021 17:51

davidspackage: May 16, 2007; Nap Ghost

My finest videogame purchase was a two-disc set called "10 Lucasarts Adventures." It had Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 1 (though, the 16-color version) and 2, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Indiana Jones Raiders & Fate of Atlantis, and Zak McKracken (also 16 colors). And Indy desktop adventures. Nearly all of them were games I didn't even know existed.

# ? Jul 30, 2021 17:52

THE BAR: Oct 20, 2011; You know what might look better on your nose?

Hyper Crab Tank posted:

Doublefine did the other remasters, I guess since Schafer didn't work on Sam & Max they have less reason to push for it, and Disney alone aren't interested in remastering it? You can get the original on Steam though, should work fine since it's ScummVM-based.

Already have it on GOG, but yeah, that's a shame.

# ? Jul 30, 2021 17:53

stringless: Dec 28, 2005; keyboard ⌨️ cowboy

davidspackage posted:

My finest videogame purchase was a two-disc set called "10 Lucasarts Adventures." It had Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 1 (though, the 16-color version) and 2, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Indiana Jones Raiders & Fate of Atlantis, and Zak McKracken (also 16 colors). And Indy desktop adventures. Nearly all of them were games I didn't even know existed.

Yeah when I was a kid we had a CD with MI1&2 + Indiana Jones FoA. Very fond memories and a few talking-tos about charges on the phone bill.

# ? Jul 30, 2021 22:37

Light Gun Man: Oct 17, 2009; toEjaM iS oN
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Remaster Yoda Stories.

# ? Jul 30, 2021 23:54

DasNeonLicht: Dec 25, 2005; "...and the light is on and burning brightly for the masses."; Fallen Rib

Light Gun Man posted:

Remaster Yoda Stories.

oh man — I spent way too many hours playing this on our lovely family PC — one of the few things it could run

# ? Aug 1, 2021 19:42

Mierenneuker: Apr 28, 2010; We're all going to experience changes in our life but only the best of us will qualify for front row seats.

I also played Yoda Stories for hours, although there was one tile that could appear on the jungle/Endor maps that I could never figure out. It involved a crashed space ship surrounded by trees. If I got that tile on a randomly generated mission I was going to be stuck at some point so I was forced to restart.

I bet I could find a longplay on Youtube right now that features it and find out that the solution was something really easy.

# ? Aug 1, 2021 19:56

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

I also had Yoda Stories as a kid. I guess it technically counts as my first experience with roguelikes

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Quote-Unquote: Oct 22, 2002

I had Indiana Jones' Desktop Adventures and only a demo of Yoda Stories. Used the wav files from the games for all the windows system and a start up/shut down sounds.

# ? Aug 1, 2021 22:26

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