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There was this mid/late-90s platformer that I got as a demo with something else that I don't remember. It may have had a duck as the main character, and I think the demo level was a mansion or temple. A large building, I think. There may have been acid pits involved.
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Trench Foot posted:There was this mid/late-90s platformer that I got as a demo with something else that I don't remember. It may have had a duck as the main character, and I think the demo level was a mansion or temple. A large building, I think. There may have been acid pits involved. This is kind of funny, I hope you know.
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Jun 11, 2008 18:13
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kitkat_skye posted:Oh man. There was a CD my dad got us kids when we were younger, came with a bunch of game demos. One of my favorites was some sort of 3D pilot game where you flew a blocky ship slowly through a desert and destroyed poo poo. There were other ships and tanks trying to shoot you down, and you could find different weapons, like lasers and missiles. There is a slight chance you're talking about Scarab, but it differs in a couple of aspects. You're a robot thing rather than a ship, and I only remember playing it in a deathmatch type setting. But it was definitely very blocky and set in Egypt.
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Jun 11, 2008 18:28
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kitkat_skye posted:Oh man. There was a CD my dad got us kids when we were younger, came with a bunch of game demos. One of my favorites was some sort of 3D pilot game where you flew a blocky ship slowly through a desert and destroyed poo poo. There were other ships and tanks trying to shoot you down, and you could find different weapons, like lasers and missiles. I don't know about the Sphinx part, but the first thing that came to mind was Terminal Velocity
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Jun 11, 2008 18:52
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Gleng posted:Sounds like Sapiens but that was way earlier than the 90s. Whoa poo poo, that's it. But they're still charging 10 dollars for it  Guess I'll play the shareware version! Which is probably what I played before anyways.
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Jun 11, 2008 19:06
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Bieeardo posted:Battlefield 2142, maybe? It's got an ice age and East vs. West going on. Oh man, now I got a hankering for Hellbender! I played the crap out of that game. I mean, what other shareware can boast about having Gillian Anderson as your ships computer's voice?? I remember it being stupidly hard... Anyone remember a DOS game that would play out various WWII naval battles? It was totally black & white with ASCII art for the ships, you could play as different countries too. Wipe the British out with the Japanese and such.
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Jun 11, 2008 19:22
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There was a game for the NES that had something to do with collecting blue orbs and you play as a space rabbit. I remember the gameplay being kinda like Metroid. That's about all I remember about it, but it was fun as hell when I was 7.
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Jun 11, 2008 19:33
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I have one - there was this game for the Amiga or possibly Atari ST where you flew some kind of pointy-ish aircraft around an outdoor arena, trying to shoot down an enemy craft. It was in 3D with a landscape made of square tiles (but with a lot of topography, not just a flat space) and at the edge of the arena was a line of tiles to designate the boundary. It was presented like it was some kind of TV show, and the theme music was some famous classical piece - I'm tempted to say Beethoven's 5th, but I'm not sure. Maybe something like that.
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Jun 11, 2008 20:09
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ok, I remember this one game I played in the 3rd grade. It was an old game, basically you answered math problems at the start to get bullets, missiles and bombs and the like and you went on a bombing raid against a base, and you had to destroy the flag at the end. I had a blast with it, and I can't even remember the name.
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Jun 11, 2008 20:12
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Zo posted:Whoa poo poo, that's it. But they're still charging 10 dollars for it Cool. I had the Amstrad CPC version. God, was I crap at that game. I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to do. I'd end up just walking around until I got eaten by a lion or some poo poo.
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Jun 11, 2008 20:13
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baka kaba posted:I have one - there was this game for the Amiga or possibly Atari ST where you flew some kind of pointy-ish aircraft around an outdoor arena, trying to shoot down an enemy craft. It was in 3D with a landscape made of square tiles (but with a lot of topography, not just a flat space) and at the edge of the arena was a line of tiles to designate the boundary. It was presented like it was some kind of TV show, and the theme music was some famous classical piece - I'm tempted to say Beethoven's 5th, but I'm not sure. Maybe something like that. Virus? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus_(video_game) Not sure about the Tv show bit though
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Jun 11, 2008 20:18
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baka kaba posted:I have one - there was this game for the Amiga or possibly Atari ST where you flew some kind of pointy-ish aircraft around an outdoor arena, trying to shoot down an enemy craft. It was in 3D with a landscape made of square tiles (but with a lot of topography, not just a flat space) and at the edge of the arena was a line of tiles to designate the boundary. It was presented like it was some kind of TV show, and the theme music was some famous classical piece - I'm tempted to say Beethoven's 5th, but I'm not sure. Maybe something like that. Possibly ATF 2, or Airstrike USA if you're in the US?
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Jun 11, 2008 20:20
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Shameless posted:Virus? Nah, the view was in much closer and as far as I remember it controlled much more normally. It was just you and the enemy guy out there I think, and it was set during the day too. EDIT Gleng posted:Possibly ATF 2, or Airstrike USA if you're in the US? Wasn't those either, but I dug around on that site and found out it was Thunderstrike  And apparently it wasn't as cool as I remembered!
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Jun 11, 2008 20:21
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Played an NES RPG when I was young, it was party-based, I believe, and involved a top-down view with your party represented as an arrow. There were random battles, during which you were sent to a typical battle scene. You couldn't leave the city because there was snow or a gate or something blocking the entrance, and there was a tower with eyeball monsters. The arrow-party is the most distinctive detail, I guess. Honestly, I can't even remember if it was in English or not, and I haven't been able to find it in any list of NES RPGS. Anyone have any idea?
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Jun 11, 2008 20:38
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I think it's a PS1 game, all I remember is it was a RTS or similar to an RTS, it was set in the future and you controlled a mech, you were the blue team or red team, and you could also capture turrets and build tanks and such. Another game that I believe was on the PS1, you were in a mech-suit and you went around a dungeon like maze and it was scary.
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Jun 11, 2008 20:43
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Auriga posted:A PSX horror SRPG game where you were trapped inside a mansion that wouldn't let you out and you fought things that had giant baby heads and stuff like that. Not sure since I never played it, but sounds like Koudelka.
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Jun 11, 2008 22:55
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RiceCows posted:Not sure since I never played it, but sounds like Koudelka. That's it! I loving love you man, thanks. Never finished this because it was a bit much for my 11 year old head to wrap around. I'm going to order this off amazon this instant.
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Jun 11, 2008 23:07
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The Shortest Hobbit posted:I think it's a PS1 game, all I remember is it was a RTS or similar to an RTS, it was set in the future and you controlled a mech, you were the blue team or red team, and you could also capture turrets and build tanks and such. It's probably not it but is the second game Amok? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amok_(video_game)
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The Shortest Hobbit posted:Another game that I believe was on the PS1, you were in a mech-suit and you went around a dungeon like maze and it was scary. Kileak, maybe?
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Jun 11, 2008 23:32
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Trench Foot posted:There was this mid/late-90s platformer that I got as a demo with something else that I don't remember. It may have had a duck as the main character, and I think the demo level was a mansion or temple. A large building, I think. There may have been acid pits involved. Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow? A game where you play as Donald Duck as a ninja. The demo came with the Toy Story tie-in game. The first level was indeed a mansion.
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Jun 11, 2008 23:39
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The Shortest Hobbit posted:I think it's a PS1 game, all I remember is it was a RTS or similar to an RTS, it was set in the future and you controlled a mech, you were the blue team or red team, and you could also capture turrets and build tanks and such. Future Cop: LAPD! This game was awesome, I had it for PC. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Cop
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Bieeardo posted:Battlefield 2142, maybe? It's got an ice age and East vs. West going on. loving thank you, I knew it was a popular series.
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Jun 12, 2008 03:41
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Bazanga posted:There was a game for the NES that had something to do with collecting blue orbs and you play as a space rabbit. I remember the gameplay being kinda like Metroid. That's about all I remember about it, but it was fun as hell when I was 7. That's gotta be Bucky O'Hare. The Shortest Hobbit posted:Another game that I believe was on the PS1, you were in a mech-suit and you went around a dungeon like maze and it was scary. BRAHMA Force, possibly?
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There was a RTS or sim-type game that took place in a space station, and had some humor elements to it. I had a demo, but I never found the full title to buy it. This was probably around the 1997-1999 time frame. Now that google exists, I'd like to see if I could find it to play it, as I enjoyed the demo and it reminded me of a kind of Dungeon Keeper in space (and god I wish someone would do another Dungeon Keeper.)
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KodaK posted:There was a RTS or sim-type game that took place in a space station, and had some humor elements to it.
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KodaK posted:There was a RTS or sim-type game that took place in a space station, and had some humor elements to it. Googling 'Dungeon Keeper in Space' brings me to this, which I'm pretty sure has been called exactly that in one of these threads before.
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There was a 2D game for PC that I played in the 90s, it was all online and multiplayer. It was a space shooter where you started out in a dinky ship and had to build up points to upgrade various parts or to a better ship. There were three different sides you could choose from the beginning and depending on which side you got was which team you were on in various map. What was cool about it was that there was a bunch of different scenarios like collecting "ore" or just kill for most points.
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Social Animal posted:There was this old Chinese warez cd back in the day (95 or 96 maybe?) that had this game where you rode around in futuristic motorcycles around a huge arena shooting other cycles. I remember the arena being huge with all sorts of obstacles and flips. The graphics were in 3d as well and I think it was playable online. Any ideas? Sounds like DeathDrome to me. That was another of my favorite demo CD games. Bieeardo posted:I really want to say this is Fury3 or Hellbender, because I remember flying down tunnels and avoiding shifting walls and stuff, but I don't remember sphinxes. After looking up Fury3 on Wikipedia, I can say it's the one. Thanks!
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kitkat_skye posted:Sounds like DeathDrome to me. That was another of my favorite demo CD games. Unfortunately I don't think that is it. I remember the graphics being more flat shaded and the cycles actually looking more like a futurist cycle than a tank. It may never be found. 
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I recall this little space fighter game. The basic premise was four different colors fighting each other. I think you played... blue? Anyway, what you needed to do was go around, and land on planets. Then wait for your home planet to automatically send out a transport to create a base at it, then defend it while preventing the three other colors from taking it. The objective of the game was to eliminate all the other colors. I also recall that it had a random temporary upgrade thing. Like, rockets, shields, more powerful guns, whatnot. Edit: Ah, I can answer my own question. Game in question was called Gravity Well. I found it on a reaaaallly old CD I burned a long, long time ago. Now, if only I could find the non-shareware version without going into piracy... Edwhirl fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Jun 13, 2008 |
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Jun 12, 2008 11:49
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Dr. Not A Doctor posted:I recall this little space fighter game. The basic premise was four different colors fighting each other. I think you played... blue? The only game I can think of for this one is Hyperspeed http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/hyperspeed/screenshots I don't think thats it, but its still an awesome game.
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MajorB posted:Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow? Holy poo poo. That's definitely it. Thanks a lot, man.
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Auriga posted:Edit: And a PC game I played, way back in 1999 where the first level had you as a turret shooting down UFOs and then had you escorting tanks as a helicopter. And the next level had you as a turret shooting alien uboats. It was a very simple game. Incoming (sorry for the poo poo video, it's the first one that popped up on Youtube) I got that game with a brand spanking new Pentium 333. I thought it was the best looking game I'd ever seen, and it ran silky smooth. Fell fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Jun 12, 2008 |
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I'm hoping this post will help a lot of people in advance hopefully sparking their memory. And to star the list: Commander Keen! Tyrian Skunny Kart Battle Toads Jazz the Jackrabbit Duke Nukem Jill of the Jungle Raiden Little Big Adventure And I can't think of many more "epic" really old games..
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I can remember a game for the PS1 where you played a buff blue ninja guy. I only remember playing it on a demo disc, but cant remember the name of it for the life of me. It was a top down/isometric action game where you fought other ninjas using a sword and ninja stars, maybe some kind of ninja-magic too, and in the demo I recall there being a sequence of trees that fell down while you tried to run through them
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One Over Zero posted:Played an NES RPG when I was young, it was party-based, I believe, and involved a top-down view with your party represented as an arrow. There were random battles, during which you were sent to a typical battle scene. You couldn't leave the city because there was snow or a gate or something blocking the entrance, and there was a tower with eyeball monsters. The arrow-party is the most distinctive detail, I guess. Honestly, I can't even remember if it was in English or not, and I haven't been able to find it in any list of NES RPGS. Anyone have any idea? Could you be thinking of Bard's Tale? It fits all your criteria, although I'm surprised you couldn't find it since it's a pretty famous game (at least in its computer incarnations). There's a game that I rented years ago and don't remember the name of. It was a platformer for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. You played as some kind of wizard with a staff, and you could collect skulls which you used to power your special attacks. The only other thing that I remember about it is that one of the bosses was a giant mask, and it spat little dragons out of its mouth or something. Does this game actually exist or is it a figment of my twisted imagination? Thuryl fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Jun 12, 2008 |
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PS2 RPG, might not have been released in the states, I'm not sure, but it looked like Tron or something. Had very bright colors, distinct shapes - I think you even fought against shapes as enemies. Maybe you were in some kind of digital world? Sorry this is so vague, I think I'm hallucinating this game. edit: Knew it was Square, found it on their website - Code Age Commanders. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Age_Commanders NicelyNice fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Jun 12, 2008 |
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Secret Ooze posted:I can remember a game for the PS1 where you played a buff blue ninja guy. I only remember playing it on a demo disc, but cant remember the name of it for the life of me. I believe that's Ninja: Shadow of Darkness.
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Panic Restaurant posted:I believe that's Ninja: Shadow of Darkness. Before I go buying this for nostalgia, is it as fun as my mind is tricking me into thinking it was?
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