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SHMUP in space, vertical, demo level ended with empty space with color-changing bubbles. This will probably be enough to identify it? If not: The upgrade mechanic was quite neat, you could collect upgrades and decide how much to save up. Depending on the amount of upgrade points, you got different addons to your ship. Usually the more you collected, the better the upgrade. If you collected enough in the demo, you were able to upgrade the whole ship to a bigger version which only made the demo harder as it didn't bring any new weapons with it but made your hitbox bigger. I think. This may have been on a demo disc with Raptor - Call of the Shadows.
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Pogonodon posted:Let's see if we can start narrowing it down. I didn't remember the game having scoped rifles, but it is absolutely Trophy Buck. The sound and interface was instantly familiar. Thanks for that, this was bugging me for literal years.
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RabbitWizard posted:SHMUP in space, vertical, demo level ended with empty space with color-changing bubbles. This will probably be enough to identify it? It might be way too early, but the only one I can think of is Overkill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzx59Km9ywo
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:It might be way too early, but the only one I can think of is Overkill: That's the one, thanks! 
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Rujo King posted:Here's one:  )
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Another deer hunting game, windows 95, all I remember is when it was time to shoot, you were stationary and your guy had voice clips, like when you shot a deer right he'd say "hmm not too bad" or "Right in the kill zone", or say poo poo like "Why don't I let them know I'm here?" when he missed. you definitely moved around the map but it only went first person when you choose to shoot
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I'm almost positive that's one of the Deer Hunter games. Possibly even the first one.
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Danaru posted:or say poo poo like "Why don't I let them know I'm here?" when he missed. Gnoman posted:If you fired your weapon for no reason, the game would taunt you with phrases like "you're scaring the deer" and "you're wasting time and ammunition". I didn't realize so many deer hunting games talked poo poo about the player
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The natural extension of the Duck Hunt dog.
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Pogonodon posted:I'm almost positive that's one of the Deer Hunter games. Possibly even the first one. Yeah that's 100% it 
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:I didn't realize so many deer hunting games talked poo poo about the player Part of the genuine hunting experience is friends and fellow hunters drinking and talking poo poo
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Commander Keene posted:The natural extension of the Duck Hunt dog. This just reminded me of a shareware game I had around the same era as Deer Hunter. It involved hunting ducks...? Doves...? Some sort of bird. It was completely possible to shoot your dog when it ran out to retrieve things, and the player character would go "Oooooops." The same company released a very similar game that I also don't remember the title of that was about hunting pigeons in a public park.
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Bird Hunter: Upland Edition? Looks like there were several but that's the only one i remember offhand in that time period that has a dog.
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just posting to jump to an old post e; funny that the second game i mention in that post is the one i just got reminded of. it was Thinkin' Things: Zap! The Colonel fucked around with this message at 07:36 on Jan 9, 2023 |
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More potential-answers to old-rear end questions as I work my way through the thread:Dopefish Lives! posted:4. Puzzle/strategy game, probably C64/early DOS era judging by the very blocky pixellated graphics. You're shipwrecked on an island and you have to build a shelter, make food, etc. If you took too long, a hurricane hits the island and it's game over. I never was able to avoid the hurricane. Veev posted:There was this game where you start out as this dark skinned demon dude who everyone shits on because he didn't have wings or something? He had a girlfriend that could fly and was a party member, and then halfway through the dude becomes king and that's as far as I ever got. It was grid based combat JRPG, but it was all in 3d. I think it was for the ps2, but maybe for the Gamecube?
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Looking for a game I saw a trailer for some years ago and now can't remember the name of. - 6-degrees-of-freedom, zero-gravity FPS, not sure if it also had a third person chase cam mode or if that was just something they did for the trailer - grungy asteroid-base setting; graphics similar to Miner Wars 2081, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't MW2081 - piloting a small drone with a boxy, utilitarian aesthetic with weapons bolted to the sides - limited number of weapon slots, I think - pleasingly chunky kinetic weapons and explosives (contrast e.g. the lasers in Descent or Zerograve) - not Zerograve, Miner Wars, any of the Descent games, NeonXSZ, Sublevel Zero, Overload, or Retrovirus E: I think I found it while looking up the names of more games it isn't -- BLAST-AXIS: PHOBEAN TERROR ToxicFrog fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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PC game, probably came out 10-ish years ago. 2D gameplay, 3D presentation; genre was precision platformer. You played as a little kid with a baseball cap, who was trying to take the bus home or something, but got roped into some planetary rebellion scheme, I think. Also something about stars? I remember you'd flip your baseball cap backwards for boss fights.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:PC game, probably came out 10-ish years ago. 2D gameplay, 3D presentation; genre was precision platformer. You played as a little kid with a baseball cap, who was trying to take the bus home or something, but got roped into some planetary rebellion scheme, I think. Also something about stars? I remember you'd flip your baseball cap backwards for boss fights. Is this Heart of Darkness?
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ToxicFrog posted:Looking for a game I saw a trailer for some years ago and now can't remember the name of. Yeah I was gonna suggest Forsaken, never heard of this one!
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moller posted:Is this Heart of Darkness? No, it was a 2D precision platformer. I want to say it used a lot of ambient occlusion in its rendering, so lots of "soft" lighting. In general not a very threatening-looking aesthetic, but quite difficult to play. A goon did a Let's Play of it; I want to say it was voiceofdog, but I can't find a playlist on their YouTube channel. EDIT: I dug through my Steam library and found it. The game's name is Pid. TooMuchAbstraction fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Jan 11, 2023 |
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Pogonodon posted:Bird Hunter: Upland Edition? Looks like there were several but that's the only one i remember offhand in that time period that has a dog. It's not this, but the game I'm thinking of had a very similar graphics style. Almost to the point that I wonder if it just ripped assets from this.
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Then maybe the Wild Wings edition?
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The Colonel posted:just posting to jump to an old post
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Why am I not surprised in the least to learn that Ted Nugent has a hunting game?
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Splicer posted:You can type username:"the colonel" in the search bar on the top left to find all your posts in a thread. i am pretty sure this doesn’t work from the in-thread search bar actually e: wait it’s working now, i…think I see what happened
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Dip Viscous posted:The same company released a very similar game that I also don't remember the title of that was about hunting pigeons in a public park. Just found this one I hope, is it Sportsman's Paradise? Jump to about 3 minutes for the park.
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Yes! That's both of them. I thought they were from a big shovelware compilation CD, but I definitely remember that main menu now.
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I seem to remember some walking simulator (maybe horror) game where you walked in a cluttered 3D scanned apartment - I don't think it was The Signifier, as I don't own that, and I seem to remember playing it, not watching someone else play. Anyone remember something like that? (It wasn't just realistic looking textures, it was that "point cloud-ish" look where parts of the environment were just missing due to not being scanned) edit: Actually looking at a video, it seems to be the second section of The Signifier. Now I wonder where I watched that... ymgve fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Jan 13, 2023 |
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I’m trying to remember a game I played around ~2000. I am pretty sure it was a bowser based game, since you could play it on public computers. It was an aerial combat game with a 3D world you’d fly around in and shoot enemies. You’d then progress through levels. I remember them basically looking more or less like triangles. I know this is not a ton to go on, but figured I’d see if anyone had ideas.
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tildes posted:it was a bowser based game, We can narrow this down to being one of the Mario games, then. 
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tildes posted:I’m trying to remember a game I played around ~2000. I am pretty sure it was a bowser based game, since you could play it on public computers. It was an aerial combat game with a 3D world you’d fly around in and shoot enemies. You’d then progress through levels. I remember them basically looking more or less like triangles. I know this is not a ton to go on, but figured I’d see if anyone had ideas. This sounds like Area Flat 2 to me; the page is still online but I can't get the game to load for me though.
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aniviron posted:This sounds like Area Flat 2 to me; the page is still online but I can't get the game to load for me though. Hm, this fits the description but from looking at pictures I think the one I’m thinking of was more flying around in 3D space, not 2D like that one seems to be?/had a lighter background.
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tildes posted:I’m trying to remember a game I played around ~2000. I am pretty sure it was a bowser based game, since you could play it on public computers. It was an aerial combat game with a 3D world you’d fly around in and shoot enemies. You’d then progress through levels. I remember them basically looking more or less like triangles. I know this is not a ton to go on, but figured I’d see if anyone had ideas. Radical Aces? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWAFBgoAp8c
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Yeah I think that’s it! Amazing, thank you! Have been wondering on and off what this was for forever.
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Alright, so here's a few games that have been bugging me on and off for a long time now.quote:So game #1: Met a kind of light brown cymbal-headed alien(?) with two eyes quote:Game #2: Another alien, this time with a normal-ish head. was orange, with darker orange sideburns and a grey/white robe quote:Game #3: A mech-(j)RPG (think regular rpg with a mech theme) Maybe someone else will remember any of these better than I do.  E: Retracting #2, apparently needed to google better: It was Thinkin' Things: Sky Island Mysteries. Theater might've been in a different Thinkin' Things, but it looks about right. Definitely came out earlier than I thought Arcanuse fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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First one smacks of the Journeyman Project series
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FFT posted:First one smacks of the Journeyman Project series It did to me too at first, but they said edutainment, and those games are pretty hard. I don't remember a jester either
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Makes me think of the Connections adventure game moreso, but there's no way that's it unless James Burke is an alien.
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Arcanuse posted:Alright, so here's a few games that have been bugging me on and off for a long time now. The mention of a cymbal headed alien makes me think of My First Amazing History Explorer but I can't recall anything else about the game.
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Pogonodon posted:The mention of a cymbal headed alien makes me think of My First Amazing History Explorer but I can't recall anything else about the game. Ahh, thanks. So that is the alien, but it looks like I had that games memory mixed with Castle Explorer, another DK Media game. Cheers for that.
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