Quote-Unquote posted:

Trying to remember two racing games from the very early 90s, must've been 91 or 92 at the latest.

2) More of a simulation racer - 3d, driver's-eye view. Flat, textureless polygons for everything - a bit like Stunts/4D Driving but with more colours and more polygons. Not sure if there were any opponents, might have just been time trials. The controls were really complicated - there were multiple buttons for turning depending on how far you wanted to turn the steering wheel. All the cars were high-end luxury sports cars like Ferarri, Porsche, Lamborghini and Lotus. I remember being absolutely blown away by this game.

wb posted:

cisco heat?

SkeletonHero posted:

This is almost definitely one of the early Test Drives. Probably 3 going by the time frame.

Quote-Unquote posted:

That's the one, thanks!

Looks really similar visually to what I remember but I don't think it was this. Pretty sure there were more cars than this - I'm 99% sure there was a Lotus you could drive.

Pablo Nergigante posted:

I think this is Car and Driver. It’s got a Lotus Esprit and the mobygames reviews mention the bizarre controls

Tehan posted:

There was a CD era game, I think a point and click adventure game, with that Blade Runner style of pixely pseudo-live action graphics which started with you on a passenger spaceship and the space stewardess gives you a brochure and then when you arrived the space customs agent executes the stewardess for smuggling space drugs, and the brochure secretly had the space drugs recipe and you needed to scan it with this pen-shaped handheld scanner before the space customs person takes it for a later puzzle because you needed the space drugs recipe for... reasons? I think it was set on a mining planet or asteroid or something.

Tehan posted:

There was a CD era game, I think a point and click adventure game, with that Blade Runner style of pixely pseudo-live action graphics which started with you on a passenger spaceship and the space stewardess gives you a brochure and then when you arrived the space customs agent executes the stewardess for smuggling space drugs, and the brochure secretly had the space drugs recipe and you needed to scan it with this pen-shaped handheld scanner before the space customs person takes it for a later puzzle because you needed the space drugs recipe for... reasons? I think it was set on a mining planet or asteroid or something.

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Dark Side of the Moon: A Sci-Fi Adventure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvGGeVWS3-w

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Dark Side of the Moon: A Sci-Fi Adventure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvGGeVWS3-w

Pablo Nergigante posted:

Dark Side of the Moon: A Sci-Fi Adventure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvGGeVWS3-w

THE BAR posted:

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

Play posted:

Didn't the remaster of Sam and Max with all the episodes put together just come out?

Hyper Crab Tank posted:

Presumably they mean Sam & Max Hit the Road, the OG Lucasarts adventure game.

Your first game might be Castle of Dr. Brain or Gizmos & Gadgets?

Serperoth posted:

I've had a specific game stuck in my head for a while, might as well ask.

An artillery game, two player (probably had a 1P vs computer mode), two cannons, a red and a green one, indicated just by flags, and what you could do is just set your angle with a number and your power, no mouse dragging and dropping. I remember the prompt looking like a basic Windows prompt. This would've been around Windows 98ish, so late 90s, but the game felt old even by then. I'm mostly curious on the name, as the game was incredibly simple, no weapons, just the shots. Terrain was randomly generated I want to say.

Serperoth posted:

I've had a specific game stuck in my head for a while, might as well ask.

An artillery game, two player (probably had a 1P vs computer mode), two cannons, a red and a green one, indicated just by flags, and what you could do is just set your angle with a number and your power, no mouse dragging and dropping. I remember the prompt looking like a basic Windows prompt. This would've been around Windows 98ish, so late 90s, but the game felt old even by then. I'm mostly curious on the name, as the game was incredibly simple, no weapons, just the shots. Terrain was randomly generated I want to say.

Serperoth posted:

I've had a specific game stuck in my head for a while, might as well ask.

An artillery game, two player (probably had a 1P vs computer mode), two cannons, a red and a green one, indicated just by flags, and what you could do is just set your angle with a number and your power, no mouse dragging and dropping. I remember the prompt looking like a basic Windows prompt. This would've been around Windows 98ish, so late 90s, but the game felt old even by then. I'm mostly curious on the name, as the game was incredibly simple, no weapons, just the shots. Terrain was randomly generated I want to say.

b_d posted:

how do you know all these random games dude... did you get a genie wish and use it on that

Hyper Crab Tank posted:

Sounds like Bang! Bang! https://archive.org/details/win3_BANGBANG

beef express posted:

Bang Bang!

edit: beaten !

eonwe posted:

I remember playing a game on...maybe Windows 95. It was sort of around the time I played Castle of the Winds. It was a lot like Advance Wars. You had a top down voew of a grid based map and had tanks and stuff.

Anyone know wtf this was

Play posted:

First one is for PC, and is focused on math and science. It's got a young character and an old character who I think was some kind of mad scientist, then a bunch of minigames. I was super young when I played it at a friend's house so this must've been mid to late 90s. I remember a blimp driving minigame and some kind of energy equalization minigame explaining kinetic and potential energy.

Golbez posted:

This probably isn't it, but it led me to another question. There was a BBS door game with a graphical client around this time, I remember it being somewhat similar to Civilization, and I thought the name had Iron or Steel or Metal or something in it, but I'm having trouble finding it.

Play posted:

Second is one based around ancient Egypt, there are different puzzles including a classic Tower of Hanoi puzzle and one where you need to pull out a mummy's brain through a needlessly complex nasal cavity without touching the sides. I think at this was on the family computer and also had simple 3d graphics so I would estimate early 2000s maybe.

FFT posted:

Pyramid: Challenge of the Pharaoh's Dream?

archduke.iago posted:

-a 3d, third person platformer shooter where the camera was fixed behind the player character, and the visual design was very sci - fi with chrome and metal.

Billy Gnosis posted:

Entombed? I remember thats early 3d and bad puzzles?(entombed enhanced maybe)

archduke.iago posted:

-a game where you are defending a city from a bunch of giant bees, pixely, flat 3d graphics

Ben Nerevarine posted:

My first thought was also Decap Attack, but here's some wild rear end guesses:

Charly the Clown

Rolling Ronny

Nicky Boom

Hammerhead

KennyMan666 posted:

To help narrow it down a bit further, about when does he remember this game from?

Play posted:

Nice guess, but no I don't think so. Although the graphics look a bit similar or maybe slightly older, this was much more explicitly an educational game.

I'm starting to think that maybe it wasn't ENTIRELY focused on Egypt. Not quite sure, it might have been, but I also seem to remember that the Tower of Hanoi puzzle had statues that looked more Greek than Egyptian.

But without a doubt there was a mummy dressing section, one part of which involved carefully navigating a twisty nasal canal with the mouse to bring the brain out. If you hit the sides it would go UGGHH (which doesn't make much sense as this person is supposed to be dead) and you'd have to start over.

I don't care all that much though so don't strain your brains over it, it just came to mind really as a good puzzle.

packetmantis posted:

Journeyman Project?

Play posted:

Serperoth posted:

I've had a specific game stuck in my head for a while, might as well ask.

An artillery game, two player (probably had a 1P vs computer mode), two cannons, a red and a green one, indicated just by flags, and what you could do is just set your angle with a number and your power, no mouse dragging and dropping. I remember the prompt looking like a basic Windows prompt. This would've been around Windows 98ish, so late 90s, but the game felt old even by then. I'm mostly curious on the name, as the game was incredibly simple, no weapons, just the shots. Terrain was randomly generated I want to say.

Pierzak posted:

I'd like to latch on with a similar thing:

DOS artillery game in 3D, the landscape was white-on-black wireframe while the explosions (nuke mushroom clouds and the like) were filled in. It was full 3D in that you could aim in 360 degrees around you. Two specific things I remember was that one of the maps was around a volcano with a crater full of lava, you could blow the side of the crater and the lava would flow out, and that one of the weapons was some kind of green toxic moss that would remain where it hit and grow with each subsequent turn.


Another thing, since we had a piracy chat recently, I remember some game like 10(?) years ago where the dev, having learned about pirate copies of his work floating around, not only didn't get publicly pissed off but actually posted a "pirate edition" torrent of his game on Pirate Bay or similar site. Anyone remember what that was?

Zathril posted:

It doesn't exactly fit, but is this Genocide?

Pierzak posted:

Another thing, since we had a piracy chat recently, I remember some game like 10(?) years ago where the dev, having learned about pirate copies of his work floating around, not only didn't get publicly pissed off but actually posted a "pirate edition" torrent of his game on Pirate Bay or similar site. Anyone remember what that was?

Chinook posted:

Super vague memory here. There was a mini golf place in about.. 1987-1989, I would guess. It had a couple of arcade cabinets and one of them is just on the edge of my memory.

I think it involved shooting in windows at criminals (or targets of some kind), like Golgo 13 meets Hogan's Alley. But - I don't seem to recall it using an actual gun or anything (like Operation Wolf). Heck, maybe it did, but I think I'd remember that part. That's all I got. Maybe the buildings were made of brick, and I remember it taking up much of the screen. (it wasn't scrolling past lots of small buildings.. definitely seem to recall it taking up much of the view, like Crazy Climber.)