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I'm in need of assistance on these two games! Back in the late 90's I had a disk with a bunch of sharewares and things like that on it. On of the games was a 100% top down, galleon styled naval combat game. You controlled a single ship and could fire cannons from either side of the boat, sinking enemy ships as you went. The map was finite, and if you went off the edge, you literally went over the edge, and you would see a little animation of you ship falling off of a flat Earth. I thought the game was called "Galleons" or something, but Googling isn't turning up anything! Game 2 was another game, but I think this one game on a demo disc from a magazine. It involved a hover tank of sorts (FPS POV) with two guns that you could see on either side of the window I believe. The level I remember was wintery. There were sprite based infantry on the ground, but I believe the environment and the vehicles were done in polygons. I don't remember anything else about the game. It was definitely futuristic or Sci-Fi. I want to say the tank was mostly white/grey? Edit: Wait! Another mystery game has popped up. I barely remember renting this from my childhood. It was a Genesis game. Top down perspective. I just remember running my character through what seemed to be like a long forest, running away from these dark "ninja" dudes. I remember being creeped out as a kid at the way the ninjas moved and chased me. I also didn't figure out how to play the game. They would catch me and kill me. The chasing seemed to be the very beginning. ToastyPotato fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Aug 7, 2012 |
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HoldYourFire posted:There's Overboard/Shipwreckers, for PSX, possibly. The game was completely sprite based. And the viewing angle was straight down. It probably predated the PSX, possibly.
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Aug 7, 2012 18:25
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Harold Ramis Drugs posted:I remember there was a strange and innovative PC game circa 98/99/2000 that was a hybrid between the RTS and tower defense genres. I only played it a few times, but I remember that certain towers could cancel out the effects of others, and there was a lot of strategic balance. Did it involve connecting the towers together via land strips? I feel like there was a big post somewhere about a game like that in Games at some point in the last 2 or 3 years if that is the case.
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Aug 11, 2012 04:04
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This reminds me of another ancient animal based computer game. You would choose an animal, and then have to navigate a screen (a grid layout?) with other animals on it. You had to avoid animals that were above you on the food chain, while moving over animals below you on the chain, unless you were on the bottom and then you were just avoiding everything. I don't think the game had any animations. Just your static little pictures moving left to right across the "board."
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Sep 21, 2012 06:04
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That's kind of vague, so here is a page with a list of vehicular combat games and the year they came out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicular_combat_game
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Nov 11, 2012 06:11
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Does anyone know which PS1 demo disc had Parrappa the Rappa and Jet Moto 2 on it? I'm more specifically interested in the main menu background music for nostalgia reasons.
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Nov 18, 2012 22:47
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dregan posted:Interactive CD Sampler 5 apparently, which sounds like it should be the name of a Chemical Brothers track. Yessss. Thank you! So many fond memories. I played the poo poo out of this disc. I think it had one or two hidden demos if you press a shoulder button and spun the squares? Sadly though, I would only go on to own only one game from this collection of demos. Cool Boarders 2. My fondest memory was a bit of emergent gameplay with the Jet Moto 2 demo. There is a part of the map with very tall rock walls that have just enough slope to them that they can be used as an extreme half-pipe. I spent hours doing tricks off of those walls.
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Nov 19, 2012 04:48
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This is neither a question nor an answer to a specific question. Rather, I thought I would just drop this here since this is a game I have often forgotten the name of and I figured that others may have too, since I have never seen people mention it. I think I actually asked about it in another one of these threads. It's Pushover, the domino puzzle game featuring an Ant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzHPbo_ZPX0 ToastyPotato fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Nov 19, 2012 |
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Nov 19, 2012 17:55
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Going to give this another shot since this thread is breathing again. Genesis game. I only had a few minutes with it as a little kid, so all I can remember is what seemed like a top down perspective. I remember my character being in some kind of forest, well grassy area with trees is more like it. All I can remember about the few minutes of game play that I had was that I just held Down on the D pad and ran away from poorly animated "ninjas". I use quotes because I don't really know if they were ninjas, or just dudes in black robes or something. But yeah, my only memory was just holding down on the d pad and running away for what felt like an eternity before eventually stopping and dying to the dudes.
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Nov 30, 2012 05:16
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Mister Snips posted:I remember playing a tetris knockoff type game - all of the details are hazy but there were falling gems of varying color and the play area size changed between levels? The backgrounds may have been bejewelled-style crazy cgi backgrounds but that might be me making poo poo up Hot Butter Popcorn was also used in the old computer game "Digger".
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It's been a while so I figure I'd repost this but in different words: Can anyone name some mid to late 90's POSSIBLY very early 00's (talking 2000-2001 here) first person hover tank based games? Obviously futuristic. One of the gaming magazines had a demo of the one I am looking for on CD (the levels took place in snow, I believe.) It was mostly 3D graphics, but I believe infantry units were sprite based. I am pretty sure you drove a hover tank. It certainly felt like it. Might as well also toss out this one again, but I admit it is rough because I remember close to no details: Top down Genesis game, possibly involving ninjas? I believe the game starts in a forest or wooded area, because my only memory of the game was renting, not knowing what to do since it had no manual, and just running almost endlessly away from poorly animated "ninja" sprites (me holding down on the pad.)
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Mar 4, 2013 19:58
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Sombrerotron posted:Since you mention snow and sprite-based infantry, I'm guessing that you're looking for Uprising: Join or Die or maybe its sequel. It was Uprising 2! THANK YOU. Holy crap, nostalgia flooding in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BVl9iQa1Xw
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Mar 4, 2013 20:09
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Discount Viscount posted:This sounds just a bit like Gain Ground. This wasn't it, but hell if this video didn't make me want to play this game for some reason...
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Mar 10, 2013 17:00
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This is a recent (I believe unfinished, as of the last time I saw it posted) game. It is a town builder that is I BELIEVE supposed to be very "simulation-ish", with regards to resources and such. It is not Towns or Gnomoria, I THINK it was meant to be more realistic. I hesitate to use medieval to describe it. It clearly wasn't meant to "modern". I feel like it was posted a couple of times through out the SimCity 13 threads for reasons.
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Aug 23, 2013 20:58
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That was it!
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Aug 23, 2013 21:59
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EightDeer posted:There's a 2D space MMO I can't remember the name of; it was like a cross between Asteroids and EVE. The only thing I remember about it is parking my ship on some planet's surface covered with other ships and then logging out forever. Was it subspace-continuum? http://www.subspace-continuum.com/screenshots.php Those screenshots might not be good enough, but that is the only 2D space MMO I can think of, and it was one that I think had a goon thread at one point.
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Mar 22, 2015 22:07
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There was an oldish PC RTS I got on a magazine demo disk that involved customizable humanoid giant mechs with normal sci fi RTS units as support. This would have been somewhere between 1999-2003.
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Aug 13, 2015 22:44
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With all these f2p games, it is kind of amazing there hasn't been a new Shattered Galaxy, or something nearly identical to it. I always wanted a WH40K version of Shattered Galaxy, since it would work almost perfectly in the format, but I suspect Games Workshop wouldn't want something that good pulling people away from the ridiculously expensive minis they already don't buy. 
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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.
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Jun 22, 2017 17:11
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Yeah I borrowed Legends of Legaia from a friend in HS and remember finding the combat system so interesting. It definitely appears to be one of those forgotten games. It's amazing how much those weird rear end early enemies stuck with me all these years.
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Jul 12, 2017 22:39
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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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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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I figured I'd go ahead and post some examples of games that seemed to have disappeared off the face of the Earth that I had encounters with as a kid, just in case anyone else was thinking about them: Galleons, a top down ship to ship (old timey ships) combat game for DOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS4X-BAqlFo Cyberdogs, a top down action game for DOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbcsTmcyq_w Laser Light, a laser based puzzle game for DOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idOQfCpD1Ms Terminal Velocity, polygonal sci-fi action flight game for DOS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew5x7Bhxl5U
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Wasn't there a very similar looking game that let you design the bosses? And another game similar to that one, but with more traditional graphics (and more part variety)?
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Wamdoodle posted:Hell yeah Cyberdogs! Holy crap. That's awesome!
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