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This is coming from my girlfriend's mom. Circa 1985 or so, PC game. You wash up on an island and can't remember who you are. You have to solve puzzles, and at one point, you get a bottle. A ship comes by, and I believe you trade your bottle to be allowed onto the ship. She never ended up playing beyond that. She thinks the title to the game was "Who Am I?", but Google gives me nothing.
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Fists Up posted:I'm looking for a top down scrolling shooting game (think Raptor: Call of the shadows) from about 15 years ago. Overkill? 
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I'm remembering being at my friends house when I was 5 (this would be around 1987-88), and his big brother had a VHS tape and some sort of spaceship+gun thing he was holding in front of the tv. I guess it was some sort of interactive game, though I have no idea how that was supposed to have worked. Was it even a game? Am I in the wrong thread? Can anyone help me? I saw clips of Mark Hamill in Wing Commander years later, and it made me think of this (I've never played anything Wing Commander-related). Was there some sort of VHS + toy playalong thing released? EDIT: On a whim, I just asked a friend (who I didn't think would know, but figured it was a longshot), and he told me it was Captain Power.  
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Jan 29, 2014 15:21
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Is it Antichamber? Edit: Crap, you said browser based.
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Jul 15, 2014 03:31
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ColoradoCleric posted:I'm trying to find the name of a game that's like age of empires but was more focused on city building and had you managing resources for things like paying for your military, there was definitely a trade aspect to this game as you could make offers with the other players. There was also an auto resolve feature for its basic RTS matches Was this one of the Caesar games?
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Oct 25, 2014 12:40
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I remember that game being rentable at Microplay. Yes, renting pc games was a thing during that small time frame in the late 90s/early 2000's between when cd burners were introduced to the consumer, and when they stopped being $600+. I always wanted to check it out, but never did. I tried to play Redguard, but that was broken as well.
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Nov 24, 2014 23:00
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Hakkesshu posted:Rolling Thunder And why people say this game is better than Code Name: Viper is beyond me.
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Nov 30, 2014 11:55
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...! posted:The Uninvited? The 7th Guest? The 11th Hour? There's no worm in Uninvited, I don't think. There is that little dancing monster though.
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Dec 4, 2014 12:11
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Quick one: Old DOS game, in space, sidescroller, blonde guy in a space suit, not fun at all. Death animation, I think, made it look like a bunch of colourful worms were coming up from the neck of your spacesuit, in place of your head.
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Dec 23, 2014 01:38
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Shine posted:Gateworld. Mom used to let my brother and I pick out shareware games. He got Gateworld, I got One Must Fall 2097. Poor kid. Yes! Thank you! Gateworld sucks.
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Dec 23, 2014 01:47
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cmndstab posted:That is the worst music I've ever heard in a game. I never played with music. Rocked the PC speaker. Edit: so, that got me thinking back to an old Windows game that I couldn't remember the name of. The only thing I remember is that in the 'about' section, there was a button that had a REAL, DIGITIZED VOICE say "My name is Curran, James Curran." The game is Lucas' Problem and is discussed here: https://tmft.wordpress.com/category/years/1990/ Thanks, Google! Edit 2: The Internet and technology are weird and crazy things. I just sent a lengthy email to the owner of the first digitally-recorded voice I ever heard through my (first) computer, letting him know that the 6 words he recorded and programmed into his game over 20 years ago have stuck in my head ever since. I hope he writes back. Rupert Buttermilk fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Dec 23, 2014 |
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Dec 23, 2014 04:17
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Hakkesshu posted:Nah, it's none of these. Robocod is pretty close actually, but it's missing the chess pieces and the colours are too psychedelic. Either way thanks a lot, I'm not sure this even exists or if it's just an amalgamation of a bunch of stuff that looks similar. Speaking of looking similar, you said it was a bonus stage with a green background? Is it possible that part of your memory is basing itself off of the bonus stage in the SNES/Genesis Cool Spot game?
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Jan 8, 2015 15:35
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Mehuyael posted:Much better suggestion! Do you know if the game's good? I might give it a try on Android. Honestly, I played it for a while last year, and I didn't enjoy it. It's like FTL, only it's all scripted. If you enjoy FTL and how you have to adapt to pretty much everything, this isn't it.
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Jan 29, 2015 15:39
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Mehuyael posted:Welp, that's too bad. Better to find out this way than first hand after giving them my Yeah, I was thankful to be able to try it on a friend's phone, and he buys anything the moment he hears about it, like the Ouya. That being said, I think I have more money than he does, and my ratio to games bought vs played is MUCH higher than his. Like someone else said, if you've played FTL, Star Command, while it looks MUCH nicer, is definitely a step-back, only because it feels like they were trying to be FTL.
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Jan 29, 2015 16:39
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Some pause music just popped into my head, and I have no idea what it's from. It's not super old, and the best way I can describe it is a 'brawler march'. The only thing I can offer it that the last bar before it loops, for anyone musical reading this, is, in 4/4 time (and played with quarter notes), snare, kick, kick, snare. Around 140 bpm or so. It's not Battletoads (edit: or Crazy Taxi) btw.
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Mar 9, 2015 00:35
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impulse 7 effect posted:This is going to be lots of super long shots and trickier given your profile pic I left out a very key detail: there's no melody, it's only drums.
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Mar 9, 2015 13:32
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Truman Sticks posted:It's not exactly how you describe it, but Scott Pilgrim vs The World had pause music that was just a basic repeating drum track. Thank you!!! This is it!  Also, all Super Mario Bros 2 did, while neat, is turn off all of the audio channels other than the triangle and noise waves.
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Mar 12, 2015 13:53
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ALFbrot posted:Yesss, thank you! You might be interested to know that Nitemare 3D is a weird, first-person remake of the adventure game Hugo's House of Horrors, which went on to spawn two sequels (Hugo 2 best Hugo). http://www.dgray.com/hwpage.htm And now, David Gray makes digital jigsaw puzzles 
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Aug 11, 2015 18:38
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Cidrick posted:Photography by I miss this 
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Rollersnake posted:If we're thinking about the same game, there was an LP of this a couple years ago. The main character is Native American, in love with a prostitute who lives in his building, and he kills the main villain at the end by injecting him with rabies virus while he's sleeping. It was absolutely batshit, and I wish I could remember the title. Is it this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdT5QCQim9Y
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Jan 28, 2016 21:31
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Lutha Mahtin posted:Yeah, it was a sequel (or remake?) of the old Shadowgate game. Sequel. The remake was released on Steam in 2014 and is awesome.
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Aug 8, 2016 13:28
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Coldstone Cream-my-pants posted:It was Folk Tale. For a second there, I was reminded of "A Fork In the Tale.
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Dec 26, 2016 13:58
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Shine posted:This game had as much Rob Schneider Derpy Derp as you'd expect. What a shitshow. I never had the displeasure of experiencing it; I remember almost installing the demo from a PC Gamer disc, but I saw the demo for Daggerfall instead, and that was that.
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Shine posted:Hahaha I remember that Daggerfall demo. It was basically the entire sandbox element of the game, minus storyline poo poo. I played it for like 5 years and never bothered buying the full game. My battlemage could fly around shooting fireballs like Vegeta or some poo poo. I loved Daggerfall (demo) so much. It was an entire island (Isle of Betony) and it was awesome. The full game was just as great.
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Meyers-Briggs Testicle posted:I remember this lovely pc platformer from the early/mid 90's (not any 3ds realms/apogee games) where you had a jetpack and a lasergun and it controlled like rear end and had a name like "Scotts World", am I going nuts or does this exist Gateworld?
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ToastyPotato posted:I feel like Gearheads was one of those games that I seemed to see everywhere. Demo discs, the discounted software area, etc. I remember being intrigued by it as a kid simply because of the fact that I kept seeing it. To this day, I have never seen more than screenshots of it. This is me, but with Intelligent Cube for the PS1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqRrTZA5bfE
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Cidrick posted:To this day I can't help but yell PEERRRRFECT! the way that Intelligent Qube did when you ace a stage. I literally only learned how to play it as I searched for it to make my post. I never had a ps1, all my friends did, and they never explained the rules.
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Nice! Thanks!
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Dr_Amazing posted:This is probably hopeless because everything I remember is really vague. Double Dragon 2? Or maybe the first one?
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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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