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There was a game I saw an article on years ago. It was a sidescrolling flight game. It had an intense sense of speed to it. I think the video had the plane flying right above some clouds. There may have been enemies to shoot, but the main visual focus of the game was just an insanely fast sense of speed. There may have been stunts involved? I vaguely remember being able to blast the plane forward to ram as an attack or something, but that might be my dumb brain making stuff up. It lived somewhere around the PS2 to PS3 eras. demota fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Dec 7, 2017 |
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demota posted:There was a game I saw an article on years ago. It was a sidescrolling flight game. It had an intense sense of speed to it. I think the video had the plane flying right above some clouds. There may have been enemies to shoot, but the main visual focus of the game was just an insanely fast sense of speed. There may have been stunts involved? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tb4tByHAo8E&t=124s
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Dec 7, 2017 01:35
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I'm trying to remember the name of a puzzle game that mainly consisted in filling spaces with water. I can't remember anything about it except that. It was in 3D. Possibly for PSX/Saturn/Dreamcast?
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Dec 7, 2017 03:52
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Mystic Stylez posted:I'm trying to remember the name of a puzzle game that mainly consisted in filling spaces with water. I can't remember anything about it except that. It was in 3D. Possibly for PSX/Saturn/Dreamcast? Wetrix? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W67r94cMRYE&t=59s
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Dec 7, 2017 03:55
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That's it, wow. Thanks!
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Dec 7, 2017 04:01
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al-azad posted:If it's not Crime Fighters then it sounds like Vendetta (Crime Fighters 2). I don't think either of these are it. It definitely didn't have anyone you could kill in one hit. Chinook posted:I can't imagine it's Final Fight but it does have a few normal thugs early on. baka kaba posted:I'm gonna say Renegade just because, even though it could be almost anything I'm afraid it's not these either. I wish I could remember more but I think it was just extremely generic.
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Dec 9, 2017 01:38
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Copying from the other game-search thread: Vagabond's Quest? https://web.archive.org/web/20010124104800/http://www.netdragons.com/games/vq1/
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Dec 9, 2017 01:58
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This is a hell of a deep cut, but it's been bugging me for months and I've never managed to sniff out even the slightest clue, I remember watching my dad play this when I was a kid. Late 80s or early 90s PC game (Reasonably confident it was for DOS) Top down perspective. The setting was on a moon/the moons of... Saturn? Moons of one of the gas giants anyway. The characters were all robots, but the manual gave them names and personalities. I think there were maybe eight to ten of them, but I have no idea if they actually had gameplay differences. I vaguely recall puzzles and movement being more important than combat. If there actually was combat rather than dodging enemies.
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Dec 9, 2017 02:17
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Mister Adequate posted:This is a hell of a deep cut, but it's been bugging me for months and I've never managed to sniff out even the slightest clue, I remember watching my dad play this when I was a kid. Quadralien?
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Dec 9, 2017 03:01
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Pablo Gigante posted:Quadralien? Holy poo poo that's the one! I can see some of my details were off too, I'm impressed as hell you got there. Thank you goon sir you have scratched an itch in the back of my mind!
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Dec 9, 2017 04:31
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Dr_Amazing posted:This is probably hopeless because everything I remember is really vague. I played Street Smart in a laundromat by my house in like 1990, and even though it's only one thug at a time (I think), it also fits the description somewhat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzh1y6UuCu4
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Dec 9, 2017 07:05
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Chinook posted:I played Street Smart in a laundromat by my house in like 1990, and even though it's only one thug at a time (I think), it also fits the description somewhat. I think this is actually pretty close in visual style, but it was a more traditional brawler with multiple enemies.
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Dec 9, 2017 19:02
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I was going to suggest the Rushing Beat series (Rival Turf, Brawl Brothers, and whatever the third one was) but apparently those were SNES exclusive and never released in arcades.
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Dec 10, 2017 01:10
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I am looking for an old DOS-game, I think late 80's or early 90's. Top-down perspective. You played as a red guy, and I think you only started out with a knife. I remember that you could collect several different weapons. Finding two of the same weapons upgraded that weapon to a better version, so finding two pistols gave you a handgun, that fired faster and further. And finding a second knife gave you a sword (i think). There was also a flamethrower, a machine gun and a crossbow (I think). I also remember that one of the first things you did was finding (or building?) a boat to cross a lake, but I have no clue what the story was about. e: also, while the perspective of the world was top-down, you saw your character from the side. Kind of like the first Zelda. Martian fucked around with this message at 11:56 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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Dec 10, 2017 11:45
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Does anyone remember an old arcade game from the late 70's where you controlled a fighter in ww2, you had a cross hair in the middle of the screen and you had to guide the targets in. It was in black&white from what I can remember & played more like you were in a turret, the consoles were a stand up affair with a joystick, I do remember once finding what must have been the holy grail version that had a motorised seat that you sat in.. 8 year old me was most impressed  This was in the UK & I'm sure someone must remember it.
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Dec 26, 2017 23:46
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The only thing I could find was Atari's "Anti-Aircraft" from 1975. But that doesn't have a crosshair, and none the cabinets I've seen had a sit down model, though Atari definitely had sit down cabs for other games at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOyH_D_XLWU
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Dec 27, 2017 01:20
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Trainee PornStar posted:Does anyone remember an old arcade game from the late 70's where you controlled a fighter in ww2, you had a cross hair in the middle of the screen and you had to guide the targets in. It was in black&white from what I can remember & played more like you were in a turret, the consoles were a stand up affair with a joystick, I do remember once finding what must have been the holy grail version that had a motorised seat that you sat in.. 8 year old me was most impressed Pursuit? https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9160
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Cheers mate, just google'd a bit & I think that's it Shall have to try & find a ROM.
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Hey I need help finding a game that was on the forums a long time ago. It was an 8 bit style, independent, experimental, platformer with a catch. Each player had a different experience because the code was changed for each players unique id. So some players would experence shorter jumps, god mod, more enemies, longer jumps, less enemies, and such and such. I remember it was in purple and black style with a title for each screen at the bottom. You would move from screen to screen left to right. The game was offered for free as a game jam game or something. Please help.
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This one is for a friend, he has tried to remember what this game is since we were both kids but has always come up blank. So it's supposedly a PS1 game where you play as an orphan or some kids or something and someone is trying to catch you with traps or something. Super vague but i'm trying to relay half remembered info from third grade him.
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Jan 28, 2018 08:44
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here's one that bothered me for a while. my brother either rented or bought and then quickly returned an og xbox game that seemed to take place in some underwater colony. Characters ran through these transparent glass tubes beating up large mobs of enemies. I guess it was an action game like GoW or DmC but the mobs were big enough that Dynasty Warriors gameplay might have been more appropriate? The character designs were pretty colorful/over-the-top, reminded me of Legend of Dragoon, and I'm pretty sure it was a Japanese game. Does this ring any bells for anyone
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So there's one game I've wanted to find again for a while now; I think I only played the demo version. It was a space strategy game, probably from the late nineties. I recall pre-rendered 3d graphics, real-time battles on a 2D plane and being able to equip ships with stuff(like lasers). More interestingly, you could colonize a wide variety of planets, including the standard jungle, desert, magma etc., but also brown dwarves. Each planet type produced a few kinds of resources, like jungle planets producing aluminum and gallium(I think) while brown dwarves and magma planets produced diamonds and suchlike. These resources could be bought and sold on some kind of market, and I think there must've been some multiplayer component too, possibly even being the main focus of the game, so it may well be depreciated by now. The closest I've found to that game was Pax Imperia 2, but that game seems a fair bit more primitive than I remember, and doesn't have some of the features I remember being in it.
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Boksi posted:So there's one game I've wanted to find again for a while now; I think I only played the demo version. It was a space strategy game, probably from the late nineties. I recall pre-rendered 3d graphics, real-time battles on a 2D plane and being able to equip ships with stuff(like lasers). More interestingly, you could colonize a wide variety of planets, including the standard jungle, desert, magma etc., but also brown dwarves. Each planet type produced a few kinds of resources, like jungle planets producing aluminum and gallium(I think) while brown dwarves and magma planets produced diamonds and suchlike. These resources could be bought and sold on some kind of market, and I think there must've been some multiplayer component too, possibly even being the main focus of the game, so it may well be depreciated by now. Imperium Galactica 2, maybe?
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ToxicFrog posted:Imperium Galactica 2, maybe? Nope, that has actual 3d graphics, not prerendered sprites.
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Boksi posted:Nope, that has actual 3d graphics, not prerendered sprites. You couldn't actually control your ships, but it sounds a bit like Fragile Allegiance.
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The pre-rendered 3D and ship design sounds like Ascendancy although that game didn't care about resource minutia. I know Emperor of the Fading Suns did, and specifically had a resource for diamonds, but that's not pre-rendered graphics. Space Empires 1-3 were pre-rendered but I don't think it specifically named resources.
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Metroixer posted:here's one that bothered me for a while. my brother either rented or bought and then quickly returned an og xbox game that seemed to take place in some underwater colony. Characters ran through these transparent glass tubes beating up large mobs of enemies. I guess it was an action game like GoW or DmC but the mobs were big enough that Dynasty Warriors gameplay might have been more appropriate? The character designs were pretty colorful/over-the-top, reminded me of Legend of Dragoon, and I'm pretty sure it was a Japanese game. Does this ring any bells for anyone The only thing that comes to my mind is Crimson Sea but I don't think it's what you're talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTHqOVIj_0Y
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Gaius Marius posted:This one is for a friend, he has tried to remember what this game is since we were both kids but has always come up blank. So it's supposedly a PS1 game where you play as an orphan or some kids or something and someone is trying to catch you with traps or something. Super vague but i'm trying to relay half remembered info from third grade him. Heart of Darkness?
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Wamdoodle posted:The only thing that comes to my mind is Crimson Sea but I don't think it's what you're talking about I hate to say it but i'm pretty sure this is it. the cover art that Youtube shows is definitely ringing some bells. Looks a lot more boring/generic than I remembered, oh well
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A friend of mine recalls playing a game on PC when she was a kid in the mid to late 90s which was some sort of educational game set on a spaceship. One of the puzzles was trying to make life in a terrarium by getting the right levels of oxygen etc. It had pretty decent graphics and was first person, and there weren’t any other people on the ship. She thinks part of the point of the game may have been uncovering the mystery of why the ship was empty of people. We're trying to find out because her other main memory of the game is when she finally won, the spaceship exploded and she died, and that’s just loving weird. It's possible it was some kind of SE Asian knockoff game because she was living in Indonesia at the time.
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Organza Quiz posted:A friend of mine recalls playing a game on PC when she was a kid in the mid to late 90s which was some sort of educational game set on a spaceship. One of the puzzles was trying to make life in a terrarium by getting the right levels of oxygen etc. It had pretty decent graphics and was first person, and there weren’t any other people on the ship. She thinks part of the point of the game may have been uncovering the mystery of why the ship was empty of people. Sounds like Mission Critical, which isn’t an educational game and there’s a bomb on the ship so she probably just got a bad end.
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al-azad posted:Sounds like Mission Critical, which isn’t an educational game and there’s a bomb on the ship so she probably just got a bad end. She had a look at Mission Critical and said there was too much writing on screen for it to be that. She would have been about 12 or 13 when she played it so we figure there's less chance that she misunderstood a bad end than if she was much younger.
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Organza Quiz posted:A friend of mine recalls playing a game on PC when she was a kid in the mid to late 90s which was some sort of educational game set on a spaceship. One of the puzzles was trying to make life in a terrarium by getting the right levels of oxygen etc. It had pretty decent graphics and was first person, and there weren’t any other people on the ship. She thinks part of the point of the game may have been uncovering the mystery of why the ship was empty of people. Organza Quiz posted:She had a look at Mission Critical and said there was too much writing on screen for it to be that. She would have been about 12 or 13 when she played it so we figure there's less chance that she misunderstood a bad end than if she was much younger. It's not a perfect fit for what you're describing, but perhaps it's Rama? It's a mid-late 90's first-person puzzle game that takes place on a mysterious spaceship (mostly) devoid of life and there are also bombs on the ship.
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Organza Quiz posted:She had a look at Mission Critical and said there was too much writing on screen for it to be that. She would have been about 12 or 13 when she played it so we figure there's less chance that she misunderstood a bad end than if she was much younger. I had to dig deep into memory's past on this one, but is it Astronomica? The actual ending where you rescue your dad cuts from this happy moment to the universe imploding while not-Carl Sagan tells you that in 50 billion years time the universe will contract into a black hole and that you are insignificant (good night kids).
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I thought the universe's expansion was accelerating.
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Phlegmish posted:I thought the universe's expansion was accelerating. Yeah I think new(ish) observational evidence suggests that gravity is accelerating expansion but if the universe's density reaches a critical point it'll collapse in on itself which is just... I can't mentally wrap my mind around it. You wouldn't even be able to observe it assuming you could live for billions of years. What exists outside the visible universe kids? Ponder the insignificance of your life as your dad tucks you in to sleep.
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al-azad posted:Yeah I think new(ish) observational evidence suggests that gravity is accelerating expansion but if the universe's density reaches a critical point it'll collapse in on itself which is just... I can't mentally wrap my mind around it. You wouldn't even be able to observe it assuming you could live for billions of years. What exists outside the visible universe kids? Ponder the insignificance of your life as your dad tucks you in to sleep. The "what's outside of the universe" question is one that both blows my mind and also frustrates me, because I'm pretty sure I'm never going to find out.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:The "what's outside of the universe" question is one that both blows my mind and also frustrates me, because I'm pretty sure I'm never going to find out. Nothing. Because if there was anything outside the universe, it would be inside the universe.
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Mystic Mongol posted:Nothing. Because if there was anything outside the universe, it would be inside the universe. What if there are multiple universes?
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