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There needs to be a stickied thread for this stuff. Tracking down old games is great fun, but I think I've seen activity in three different threads for this kind of thing in the past week.West Ham Sandwich posted:This has been bugging me for a while and I don't think anyone will know the answer because I only have vague recollections. This is probably Congo's Caper. Gleng posted:I have one. It's a very early FPS on the PS1. It was set on Mars (I think). Some levels were inside a space station, and some were outside. One gun shot blue electric poo poo. It wasn't anything to do with Red Faction. That's all I've got. There's a chance that this one is PO'ed. Edit: My only other guess for this is Defcon 5. A FUCKIN CANARY!! fucked around with this message at 15:40 on Jun 11, 2008 |
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That's gotta be Underlight.
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Jun 11, 2008 15:21
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Calculon posted:This one has been bugging me for a long time. About fifteen years ago I went to a summer day camp and they had a computer lab. We played this game I remember being particularly fun - I'm not quite sure if this was a Mac lab or a PC lab but given the time frame I'll guess Mac. I can't remember the title, but I know exactly what you're talking about. I think it was a fairly popular game, and was mentioned in a previous thread.
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Jun 23, 2008 14:23
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Inside Outside posted:Anyway, it was a Dos with (I think) eight bit graphics. It was sort of like Grand Theft Auto before there was a Grand Theft Auto; it was an open-ended crime game where you formed a gang and did everything from robbing houses to kidnapping rich kids from playgrounds to hold them for ransom. My favorite part about the latter was sometimes gangs of machine gun-toting grannies would gang up on you for trying to kidnap kids. Sounds like Crime Fighter.
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Jun 24, 2008 20:38
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Green Puddin posted:This other game is a shooter, the english title being something like MASSIVE SHOOTER 64K or something. I've done searches for it but can't find it, probably because the game is in japanese or some poo poo so trying to find an english name to an asian game doesn't seem to work out. Cho Ren Sha 68K? Edit: The worm one might be LieroX, now superseded by OpenLieroX. A FUCKIN CANARY!! fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Jul 7, 2008 |
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Jul 7, 2008 03:54
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Lars posted:Looking for a typical sidescroller for the PC with some kind of space prince duck as the main-char. He might have been called Drake or similar. From what i can calculate, it might have come out in 96 or 97. Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow (1996) has ducks, jungles, haunted houses, platforming, and a level called Muddrake Mayhem. No space ducks, though.
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Lars posted:Nope, ain't the one - The main dork wasn't a known cartoon character - just a random. Wow, I've played that game tons and I just now realized that the main character is actually Donald Duck. Anyway, the game you're looking for is Crazy Drake, developed by Neurotech. 
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Oct 8, 2008 14:47
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little white dog posted:The second game is also a side scrolling shmup but you play as a green and red ship with angel wings, it's a cutesy character and level design, you can get upgrades for your ship like bigger wings and better guns by killing things, the bosses were great, their was a level which was in darkness except a circle around your ship so you couldn;t see what was coming. Fantasy Zone, hell yeah.
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Nov 7, 2008 12:17
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tazman posted:Something I played on my Atari loving years ago, you were this monster or something and the game was a platformer based in the sewers. You had to collect garbage and slowly make your way to the surface I think. I think it was called Trash but I can't find anything like that. Anyone remember it? The only game with a similar title I can find is called Oscar's Trash Race. I haven't actually played it, so this might be completely wrong.
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Nov 9, 2008 18:10
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Coffee Jones posted:Star Wars vector game The only possibility I can think of is Star Hawk.
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Jan 6, 2009 01:36
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LizardBeam posted:I've got one. It was an arcade game, I played it probably 6 or 7 years ago. Standard side-scrolling beat 'em up, mostly involving punching zombies. The characters were a girl, a dude with a trench coat who had a psychic crystal thing, and a big dude. There super moves were like full-screen summoning sequences. I think the crystal dude made ice everywhere? Night Slashers. Be sure to get the Japanese version, the rest are censored. 
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CyberSpeed Also, up, left, down, up, left, down, right, left, down, right, square, X, circle.
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PantsBandit posted:I used to love this game for the PC during the late 90's. I believe it took place entirely in some kid's nightmares and the menu screen was above his bed or something like that. Anyone have any ideas? Keen Dreams? (If it's Keen Dreams, don't play it. It's an awful game and will only destroy any fond memories you have of it.) Edit: Okay I really need to stop falling asleep on my keyboard.
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Encryptic posted:I seem to remember this game was called "Ghost Hunter" or had "Ghost" in the title, but Google doesn't turn up anything. At any rate, I remember it was some kind of single-screen platformer where you played this guy trying to get through a haunted mansion or something. I remember the guy falling through a crack and his body flashing a skeleton (like an old cartoon where someone gets electrocuted) and occasionally dropping into a pit where walls would start closing in on you. Ghost Hunters  \/ Real Lives 
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Mar 27, 2009 22:08
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mongoibur posted:What happened to that goon developed side scroller game that was talked a lot about on these forums a few years back? Facewound? It's here.
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May 16, 2009 23:21
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El Destructo posted:Need some help with an arcade title from either the late '80s or early '90s...you piloted a ship along a 3-D "track" in outer space, with an identical track floating overhead. The "tracks" were flat, straight, and moved very smoothly left/right and backwards/forwards, like the roads in Outrun, and looked like a high-level view of the Halo "ribbon". Beyond this "advanced" graphics gimmick, the gameplay was an ordinary third-person shooter. I can't find a pic of the cabinet, but this might be Thunder Ceptor.
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Jun 14, 2009 02:57
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Hunkty Krunkty posted:This one should be really hard. It was freeware, made with "Klik and Play" or whatever. It was a platformer, where you had to collect flags. When you collected all of them, you moved on to the next level. The graphics were pretty bad, like they were made in MS paint. You play as a small man with a yellow face. This game came on one of those stupid "303 game collection" disks and I'd like to play it again for nostalgia. I thought it was called "Flag Runner" or something but I can't find info on it with google. Flags of Doom, for 1 plater. A FUCKIN CANARY!! fucked around with this message at 00:02 on Jun 15, 2009 |
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Jun 14, 2009 23:59
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SUBLIME! posted:Ok, this one is an Arcade game I played whenever I went to Peter Piper's Pizza. It was basically this fighting game with giant robots. There was a regular generic anime story behind it, and you fought as a big blue(?) robot piloted by this spiky brown haired guy. There were these special powers and beams and poo poo but I'm not really remembering. Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness?
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Oct 27, 2009 14:01
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Quarantine, most likely. Great box art there.
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Nov 12, 2009 02:04
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M. Propagandalf posted:Not that one, although between it and Sunset Riders, those are the only two notable Western side-scrollers I've found released in MAME. Could be Heated Barrel or Charlie Ninja.
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Necc0 posted:There's a game that I played as a kid that kind of freaked me out and I'd love to see it again. I think it was for the original playstation, and the intro consisted of being in a car accident or something, being rushed through a hospital, than taken downstairs in this dingy basement where a bunch of other people are screaming in dentist's chairs. This robot thing comes down and sticks needles in your eyes and then the game starts. This sounds like Slamscape. I actually have it on a shelf right next to me and I can assure you that it's a poo poo game. E: Here's the intro. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mom-2ZadGFQ \/ I haven't actually played the game in like eight years, but the back of the case shows four different levels. The manual says you're supposed to free four "Orb-Ids" in each area, but contains no info on what gameplay actually consists of. I mostly remember the game being impossible to control and like thirty minutes long. A FUCKIN CANARY!! fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Dec 15, 2009 |
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Hakkesshu posted:No, I know which mod he's talking about. Really crudely drawn sprites, a kind of pencil/paper aesthetic and sound effects created by mouth. Damned if I can remember what it's called, though. Foreverhood E: Or maybe Pencil Whipped, but that wasn't a mod of anything. Orleans posted:One would be a very, very dark game online deathmatch game where you were either a human or on a team of aliens that looked like bugs. It was class based, and there were crazy things like a giant scorpion and breeder-style thing. It may have been a mod for Quake or something. This sounds like Gloom for Quake II. A FUCKIN CANARY!! fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Jan 3, 2010 |
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Sobatchja Morda posted:Okay, I,ve got a couple of hard ones. First of is a racing game, I think from the early 90's, since I remember playing a demo of it on our old computer with a 386 processor. You raced across various highways in America, and in the demo you controlled a red Lamborgini. It was 2.5D, the camera was behind the car. It had VGA colors, and all the drivers had these little, horribly pixelated portraits. Might have been from Apogee. I would like to remember the name of it, since it was the very first video game I ever played. 1. Lamborghini American Challenge 3. Wacky Wheels E: The second one might be Wing War by Sega. 
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Buckingham Palace also shows up in the Red Alert games.
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The game I'm looking for is a console RPG with turn based battles. One of your party members had a "pray" command that could make all sorts of randomized stuff happen, similar to Paula in Earthbound. There was a particular boss battle or something where using it wouldn't give you the usual random healing/status effects, but instead would just pop up a text box that said something to the effect of "In this place, there is nobody to hear your prayers." I remember it being kind of unsettling because it was so different in tone from the rest of the game. There's also a 60% chance I imagined this game completely because that seems to happen a lot.
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Pablo Gigante posted:That's exactly what happens in the final battle with Giygas. You need to use the pray command a whole bunch and you call on a bunch of different characters in the game, but sometimes it won't be answered. I actually read through a text dump of the game before posting and didn't find anything, but I guess you're probably right. I need to replay that game anyway.
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Pablo Gigante posted:Is that what you were thinking of? At this point I'm thinking that I had a dream about playing Earthbound that felt creepier than the real thing, because I can't find any other games that look even remotely right from screenshots.
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