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Sagebrush posted:that'll be cross-country canada. or perhaps the inferior knockoff, cross-country usa. it was indeed the usa version. copyright 1985 lol
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Made me think of Ford Driving Simulator, where you could demo their early 80s range in glorious cga
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Now I'm thinking about Test Drive and Test Drive 2, which let my dad live out his dream of being a rich CGA white guy.
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chairface posted:in school in the early-90s, 90% sure this was apple ii but maybe I'm off and it was dos, but the "game" was a truck driving sim, but you don't actually drive the truck, just select on a map like I'll pick up this load here and take it there via these roads and I'll speed or not doing it and then there'd be a little animation of how that went. Speeding could get you pulled over and ticketed but despite this being an education thing for schools was still sometimes worthwhile. I think you were specifically doing LTL and had to load/unload things in "order" within the trailer? IIRC most of the "educational value" is poo poo like can you figure out with a map that it's gonna take x hours to go from point a to point b and only accept jobs that are possible Hey cool thanks for unlocking a buried memory. Not that it was traumatic or anything, I had just totally forgotten this one even though I remembered other Apple II stuff.
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I'm pretty sure I played it on 5.25s in the early 90s. The whole trading aspect definitely was a foundation when I eventually got into Escape Velocity
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I remember, in grade 4, mentioning that I had cross county canada at home and my teacher being VERY interested in hearing more. And then what feels like a few months later in my mind there were about 4-5 compaq pc's in a bunch of our classrooms, with CCC, except they didn't include the guide for what products can be picked up where. For a while, I was convinced that I was the reason computers were brought into our school. That is, until logic and reason set in and I realized that the computers were very likely already on the way, and maybe, MAYBE, they decided to go with CCC out of the catalog of available edutainment software because one of the teachers heard from one of their students (me) about it.
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Trying to remember the name of a game. Sort of a 2.5D thing about building a solar sail racer and racing across the desert. I don't think it's Far: Lone Sails, this one had much more speed involved. 99% sure I read about it on Rock Paper Shotgun but I'm blanking on the name so I can't find it.
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Browser based game, around the windows 98 or XP era. Very generic name like "dragon something". Had a stamina mechanic where you could only do so much per day, and I remember the first zone being rather green/forest. You could bypass one of the early grinds by choosing a nobility background. Pretty sure it was all turn based, choose actions from a menu style gameplay.
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Vadun posted:Browser based game, around the windows 98 or XP era. Very generic name like "dragon something". Dragon Court? Looks like it stopped running some years ago. You may be able to get a similar feel from Legend of the Green Dragon.
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Yeah that looks right, thanks
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magic cactus posted:Trying to remember the name of a game. Sort of a 2.5D thing about building a solar sail racer and racing across the desert. I don't think it's Far: Lone Sails, this one had much more speed involved. 99% sure I read about it on Rock Paper Shotgun but I'm blanking on the name so I can't find it. Kind of a longshot but...Sable? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jqWpEHt8lI And here's the RPS page for it: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/desert-roaming-adventure-sable-comes-out-this-september
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magic cactus posted:Trying to remember the name of a game. Sort of a 2.5D thing about building a solar sail racer and racing across the desert. I don't think it's Far: Lone Sails, this one had much more speed involved. 99% sure I read about it on Rock Paper Shotgun but I'm blanking on the name so I can't find it. My first thought was Race the Sun but that's not 2.5D.
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Kind of a longshot but...Sable? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jqWpEHt8lI It's not Sable, love that game though ToxicFrog posted:My first thought was Race the Sun but that's not 2.5D. Nah, this was a side-view/sidescroller kind of thing. Thanks though!
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magic cactus posted:Trying to remember the name of a game. Sort of a 2.5D thing about building a solar sail racer and racing across the desert. I don't think it's Far: Lone Sails, this one had much more speed involved. 99% sure I read about it on Rock Paper Shotgun but I'm blanking on the name so I can't find it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/844050/Desert_Child/ isn't a "solar sail" game but seems like it could match your other descriptors?
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Any idea what this game is? RuneScape? GMod? 
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The dude appears to be a Mobile Task Force goon from the SCP universe, I'm trying to track down any leads on the throne room but uh, coming up empty so far  
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I mean at this point it's probably trivial to say "put the mtf goons on a throne from RuneScape" in mid journey or similar.
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jiffypop45 posted:Any idea what this game is? pretty sure that's a screenshot from Doctor Who
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From an acquaintance:quote:there was this game console my dad and I used to hook up to the tv and play games on when I was like, 5. This was in 2005ish if that helps.
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pokchu posted:From an acquaintance: First one sounds like Bosconian? Second one is almost definitely Rush’n Attack
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How boxy was it? the sega saturn was pretty drat boxy, but if it was a straight up cube then that's not it. Any idea what the graphics were like? Pixels or early 3d? edit: were the multipack bootleg systems A Thing then? my memory is pretty spotty through that era.
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pokchu posted:From an acquaintance: the Ouya, A Space Shooter For 2 Bucks, and ???
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"it was arcade games. there were a bunch of them on there but those are the 2 i remember" Confirmed that Rush'N Attack is the second one. No on Bosconian. quote:you flew your spaceship around the green alien thing, but you were always facing it and you basically just had to keep mag dumping it while dodging its attacks or it and as you damaged the orbs they turned from green to red pokchu fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Apr 24, 2023 |
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Pogonodon posted:edit: were the multipack bootleg systems A Thing then? my memory is pretty spotty through that era. That'd be around the time I got mine, yeah.
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Managed to dig up an answer: https://plugplaytvgames.fandom.com/wiki/Konami_Collector%27s_Series:_Arcade_Advanced which included the first game, Gyruss
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A PC game from the 00s, turn based combat. Alternate WW2 setting. Ran like poo poo on computers of the time. Super janky. The gimmick was mech suits that were really powerful.
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bone emulator posted:A PC game from the 00s, turn based combat. Alternate WW2 setting. Ran like poo poo on computers of the time. Super janky. The gimmick was mech suits that were really powerful. Silent storm
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All 3 Silent Storm games loving ruled. It was the only one doing the "bounce a bullet through a wall, off a nazi's helmet into the face of another nazi" technology until Sniper Elite came along a decade later.
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Unrivaled demolition physics, too. To this day, I believe.
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Billy Gnosis posted:Silent storm Of course it had the most generic title. I played the poo poo out of the demo back then.
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Jack Trades posted:All 3 Silent Storm games loving ruled. SS, SS Sentinels, and Hammer & Sickle? Or am I missing anything?
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Pierzak posted:SS, SS Sentinels, and Hammer & Sickle? Or am I missing anything? Yes, I meant those 3. There was also Day Watch and Night Watch. Two games using the same engine, based on a series of Russian urban fantasy novels, but those games weren't that great and IIRC didn't even have the environmental destruction.
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Jack Trades posted:didn't even have the environmental destruction. Welp. The environmental destruction was half the fun of SS, opening up with a MG on someone trying to ambush you behind a wall, or even flat our leveling half the building with your demo man.
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Early 2000's I believe Donald Duck inspired point and click adventure made by a random guy, except all the characters and backgrounds were drawn in crayon in a super creepy and hosed up style and animated weirdly or not at all. I recall it being pretty grim and maybe violent but it was mostly just real fuckin weird. I think Hewie Dewie and Louie were either playable or Donald was
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Songbearer posted:Early 2000's I believe Donald Duck inspired point and click adventure made by a random guy, except all the characters and backgrounds were drawn in crayon in a super creepy and hosed up style and animated weirdly or not at all. I recall it being pretty grim and maybe violent but it was mostly just real fuckin weird. I think Hewie Dewie and Louie were either playable or Donald was God I remember this. Your description is very accurate. Seems unsearchable, though, sadly. I think it was Scandinavian in origin? E: ah, here is it: https://www.bjornarb.com/dduck2.html E2: as nightmarish as I remember: https://youtu.be/mgtWipCDZbU Shanty fucked around with this message at 19:08 on May 20, 2023 |
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It's been some years, but I remember Life of D. Duck being a surprisingly competent (and hilarious) point & click game.
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For the life of me I thought Bjørnar B was a lowtax creation. Is he a real guy who ended up having stuff hosted on SA?
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Shanty posted:God I remember this. Your description is very accurate. Seems unsearchable, though, sadly. I think it was Scandinavian in origin? Glorious!! Yeah as you can imagine it's drat hard to search for. Well done, what a trip
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