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al-azad: May 28, 2009

The Postman posted:

This is from my early memories so bear with me. The game was a sidescroller for the NES where I believe you played as someone sneaking around a dark city in the first level. Thats all I played of it but I can still remember the tune that played.

Nightshade?

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No Gravitas: Jun 12, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Should be easy.

A educational platformer DOS game, about spelling or vocabulary.

You could call upon a monster? to pour goo? on other monsters. (I think you used spacebar for that).

One of the levels was called "pueblo" and had a yellow theme. Another level, close to the end of the game was a slime factory.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 05:00

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

No Gravitas posted:

Should be easy.

A educational platformer DOS game, about spelling or vocabulary.

You could call upon a monster? to pour goo? on other monsters. (I think you used spacebar for that).

One of the levels was called "pueblo" and had a yellow theme. Another level, close to the end of the game was a slime factory.

Sounds like Word Rescue to me.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 05:04

No Gravitas: Jun 12, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

Neddy Seagoon posted:

Sounds like Word Rescue to me.

It is! Thanks.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 05:08

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

The prequel to Math Rescue.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 05:25

moller: Jan 10, 2007; Swan stole my music and framed me!

The Postman posted:

This is from my early memories so bear with me. The game was a sidescroller for the NES where I believe you played as someone sneaking around a dark city in the first level. Thats all I played of it but I can still remember the tune that played.

It could be Rescue: The Embassy Mission if you never got past the moving the snipers into position part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i93e_DcCQc

That part had bitchin' music.

moller fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Sep 29, 2014

# ? Sep 29, 2014 06:57

evilmiera: Dec 14, 2009; Status: Ravenously Rambunctious

!Klams posted:

Sounds like bedlam?

I tried looking it up on google but could not find any actual pictures, with lots of jumbled in new games with the same name. Some of the descriptions sound familiar, but I honestly can't tell.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 07:23

rednecked_crake: Mar 17, 2012; srsly who wants to play this lamer?

I remember really liking a Mega Drive game as a kid. It as from a top-down perspective and I think you were free to roam around the map at will. I also seem to remember some sort of RPG elements, like upgrading weapons or stats maybe? You also played as one guy, not a plane or ship or anything else.

I've not had luck finding it because there were apparently a lot of games like that for the console.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 16:59

al-azad: May 28, 2009

HoboWithAShotgun posted:

I remember really liking a Mega Drive game as a kid. It as from a top-down perspective and I think you were free to roam around the map at will. I also seem to remember some sort of RPG elements, like upgrading weapons or stats maybe? You also played as one guy, not a plane or ship or anything else.

I've not had luck finding it because there were apparently a lot of games like that for the console.

Shadowrun I guess.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 18:02

Zaodai: May 23, 2009; Death before dishonor?
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al-azad posted:

Shadowrun I guess.

If it's not this (which you should play anyway), it might be Soldier of Fortune/Chaos Engine.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 18:07

Deakul: Apr 2, 2012; PAM PA RAM

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Alright, the god game thing was a bust so here's another request.

I'm trying to remember an old adventure game on the PC from the mid-90s, it was first person and you could see your hand... it was like a generic grey alien hand with clubbed fingers and stuff but it was really colorful.

I THINK it may have been claymation but likely not.
You could interact with just about everything in the world and it controlled like an FPS, you could enter houses, open mailboxes, etc.

It was very colorful and I'm pretty sure it was a children's game.

God, I can remember it so vividly but I can't pinpoint anything enough to put into words but I've been dying to play it again.

Deakul fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Sep 29, 2014

# ? Sep 29, 2014 18:08

President Ark: May 16, 2010

Super Nintendo game my brother rented once. Sidescrolling platformer, the main character was some genius inventor kid who accidentally shrunk himself and was going through his house to get the parts to his machine or something. Early on there was a boss level where you fought a rat in a bathtub or a sink or something.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 18:13

Pablo Nergigante: Apr 16, 2002

President Ark posted:

Super Nintendo game my brother rented once. Sidescrolling platformer, the main character was some genius inventor kid who accidentally shrunk himself and was going through his house to get the parts to his machine or something. Early on there was a boss level where you fought a rat in a bathtub or a sink or something.

Harley's Humongous Adventure

# ? Sep 29, 2014 18:15

Neo Rasa: Mar 8, 2007; Everyone should play DUKE games.

Zaodai posted:

If it's not this (which you should play anyway), it might be Soldier of Fortune/Chaos Engine.

It could also be the stylistically similar Skeleton Krew or Techno Clash.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 18:19

djw175: Apr 23, 2012; by zen death robot

Deakul posted:

Alright, the god game thing was a bust so here's another request.

I'm trying to remember an old adventure game on the PC from the mid-90s, it was first person and you could see your hand... it was like a generic grey alien hand with clubbed fingers and stuff but it was really colorful.

I THINK it may have been claymation but likely not.
You could interact with just about everything in the world and it controlled like an FPS, you could enter houses, open mailboxes, etc.

It was very colorful and I'm pretty sure it was a children's game.

God, I can remember it so vividly but I can't pinpoint anything enough to put into words but I've been dying to play it again.

This is going entirely by the hand thing, but was it Jurassic Park: Trespasser? Not exactly the most kiddie game and it's more late 90's but I can't think of anything else like that.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 19:45

rednecked_crake: Mar 17, 2012; srsly who wants to play this lamer?

Neo Rasa posted:

It could also be the stylistically similar Skeleton Krew or Techno Clash.

That TechnoClash game looked very similar to the one I remember. Same mix of collecting items and different weapons. Can't really remember much else, just that it was a really fun Mega Drive game and a bit more complicated than what usually came out.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 19:55

circ dick soleil: Sep 27, 2012; by zen death robot

Deakul posted:

Alright, the god game thing was a bust so here's another request.

I'm trying to remember an old adventure game on the PC from the mid-90s, it was first person and you could see your hand... it was like a generic grey alien hand with clubbed fingers and stuff but it was really colorful.

I THINK it may have been claymation but likely not.
You could interact with just about everything in the world and it controlled like an FPS, you could enter houses, open mailboxes, etc.

It was very colorful and I'm pretty sure it was a children's game.

God, I can remember it so vividly but I can't pinpoint anything enough to put into words but I've been dying to play it again.

Spelunx

# ? Sep 29, 2014 21:00

Deakul: Apr 2, 2012; PAM PA RAM

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djw175 posted:

This is going entirely by the hand thing, but was it Jurassic Park: Trespasser? Not exactly the most kiddie game and it's more late 90's but I can't think of anything else like that.

Nope, not even close.
I didn't really mean that you could control the hand movement and stuff, it's just that that's what your view mainly consisted of.
And it was really cartoony.

circ dick soleil posted:

Spelunx

Nope, it was definitely more akin to something Bethesda would make but it's for children and has a very cartoony aesthetic.

Thanks for the tries though.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 21:09

circ dick soleil: Sep 27, 2012; by zen death robot

Normality

# ? Sep 29, 2014 21:09

Deakul: Apr 2, 2012; PAM PA RAM

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circ dick soleil posted:

Normality

Feels like you're in the right direction but that's not it either. :negative:

# ? Sep 29, 2014 21:13

RadicalR: Jan 20, 2008; "Businessmen are the symbol of a free society
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Mzbundifund posted:

This is a strange one. It was an I think early CD-era PC game, first-person point-and-click adventure game with prerendered graphics and live actors like Myst. You were some sort of time traveller and you go back to some sort of Aztec(?) city looking for an artifact or a piece of a time machine or something. You can scan other people and use your future suit to look like them, which you use to fool a fat guy who wants to go to a festival into thinking you're his sister who will watch his shop for him while he's gone. You have a sassy male AI that talks to you sometimes. I only ever had the demo and I've no idea what it was called at all.

This is The Journeyman Project 3.

# ? Sep 29, 2014 21:34

Discendo Vox: Mar 21, 2013; This does not make sense when, again, aggregate indicia also indicate improvements. The belief that things are worse is false. It remains false.

Deakul posted:

I'm trying to remember an old adventure game on the PC from the mid-90s, it was first person and you could see your hand... it was like a generic grey alien hand with clubbed fingers and stuff but it was really colorful.
I THINK it may have been claymation but likely not.
You could interact with just about everything in the world and it controlled like an FPS, you could enter houses, open mailboxes, etc.
It was very colorful and I'm pretty sure it was a children's game.
God, I can remember it so vividly but I can't pinpoint anything enough to put into words but I've been dying to play it again.

The Neverhood?

# ? Sep 30, 2014 00:44

al-azad: May 28, 2009

PSP game. I believe it's a VN where you're a teacher trying to resolve your student's problems. When you're ready you enter a blue-ish landscape and literally battle your students in Bloody Roar 3D fighting style. The main character's special move is summoning a tiger or something and there was a demo of the game where you fight a photography student.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 01:33

Capsaicin: Nov 17, 2004; broof roof roof

al-azad posted:

PSP game. I believe it's a VN where you're a teacher trying to resolve your student's problems. When you're ready you enter a blue-ish landscape and literally battle your students in Bloody Roar 3D fighting style. The main character's special move is summoning a tiger or something and there was a demo of the game where you fight a photography student.

Kenka Bansho: Badass Rumble?

# ? Sep 30, 2014 02:25

Deakul: Apr 2, 2012; PAM PA RAM

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Discendo Vox posted:

The Neverhood?

Amazing game but nope.

Thanks though.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 02:34

Emuticus: Jan 23, 2013

There was a game for the NES (or maybe SNES) that had the cover image of a guy punching something or someone, and the skin of his fist flying off to reveal a metal hand. It played like a combination of Contra and Double Dragon, I think...

# ? Sep 30, 2014 03:41

The Postman: May 12, 2007

moller posted:

It could be Rescue: The Embassy Mission if you never got past the moving the snipers into position part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4i93e_DcCQc

That part had bitchin' music.

This is it man! Amazing how well the music from the first level stayed in my head after all these years.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 03:54

circ dick soleil: Sep 27, 2012; by zen death robot

Emuticus posted:

There was a game for the NES (or maybe SNES) that had the cover image of a guy punching something or someone, and the skin of his fist flying off to reveal a metal hand. It played like a combination of Contra and Double Dragon, I think...

bionic commando

# ? Sep 30, 2014 04:11

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Emuticus posted:

There was a game for the NES (or maybe SNES) that had the cover image of a guy punching something or someone, and the skin of his fist flying off to reveal a metal hand. It played like a combination of Contra and Double Dragon, I think...

Shatterhand

Capsaicin posted:

Kenka Bansho: Badass Rumble?

No. Very similar in aesthetic but this game is Japan only.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 04:11

Emuticus: Jan 23, 2013

al-azad posted:

Shatterhand

You might be the best person ever.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 04:16

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HoboWithAShotgun posted:

I remember really liking a Mega Drive game as a kid. It as from a top-down perspective and I think you were free to roam around the map at will. I also seem to remember some sort of RPG elements, like upgrading weapons or stats maybe? You also played as one guy, not a plane or ship or anything else.

I've not had luck finding it because there were apparently a lot of games like that for the console.

Was it Zelda-y?

# ? Sep 30, 2014 14:34

Caitlin: Aug 18, 2006; When I die, if there is a heaven, I will spend eternity rolling around with a pile of kittens.

Super Hydlide :v:

# ? Sep 30, 2014 15:33

Neddy Seagoon: Oct 12, 2012; "Hi Everybody!"

Beyond Oasis?

# ? Sep 30, 2014 15:37

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

al-azad posted:

PSP game. I believe it's a VN where you're a teacher trying to resolve your student's problems. When you're ready you enter a blue-ish landscape and literally battle your students in Bloody Roar 3D fighting style. The main character's special move is summoning a tiger or something and there was a demo of the game where you fight a photography student.

Gachitora?

# ? Sep 30, 2014 15:39

al-azad: May 28, 2009

Hyper Crab Tank posted:

Gachitora?

Bingo.

# ? Sep 30, 2014 22:29

Kenzo: Jun 29, 2004; Tekseta!

Pretty sure it was an old Apple II e game. First person game set on what I believe was a space ship or station. Couldn't tell you what game play was like but I remember a part where an alien would kill you and this female voice would come up and say "ohhhhh god". Pretty sure the sound clip was taken straight out of this scene.

http://youtu.be/tRX2ntm2rXQ

# ? Oct 1, 2014 06:40

Hollenhammer: Dec 6, 2005

There was this PC game i got off a demo disk in the late 90s or early 2000s cant quite remember when though.
it was like orks or orcs or something where you have these big green orks which do different jobs or something
they look like early 3d or like they're made out of clay or something.
IIRC it was a puzzle game and i cant remember if you're playing on a board or what. pretty sure the camera was like isometric or like hovering at 3rd person height, like looking down on a boardgame
I've tried looking for games with orks etc in the name but ive come up with nothing

# ? Oct 1, 2014 07:18

duckfarts: Jul 2, 2010; ~ shameful ~; Soiled Meat

Hollenhammer posted:

There was this PC game i got off a demo disk in the late 90s or early 2000s cant quite remember when though.
it was like orks or orcs or something where you have these big green orks which do different jobs or something
they look like early 3d or like they're made out of clay or something.
IIRC it was a puzzle game and i cant remember if you're playing on a board or what. pretty sure the camera was like isometric or like hovering at 3rd person height, like looking down on a boardgame
I've tried looking for games with orks etc in the name but ive come up with nothing

Gobliiins maybe?

# ? Oct 1, 2014 07:44