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There was a game, a text based MS-DOS RPG where you had to type commands, like north, south, east, west. I think other commands were context based and you had to guess if you could use them or not given what was on the screen or what you had in the inventory. I was too young to really understand it at the time and would always die or get bored in the first few screens. My memory of it is purple and green, and had something to do with goblins. Also a cobbled road. I'm fairly sure it was made in the 80s, possibly early 1990s, but I think it was before 1992. Every so often I search the internet to see if I can work it out, and while I've worked out every other obscure game my Dad let me play in the 80s, this one still eludes me. I know the info I give is pretty broad and could apply to many games, but I'd really like to work this one out!
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Aug 20, 2018 23:15
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Konsek posted:There was a game, a text based MS-DOS RPG where you had to type commands, like north, south, east, west. I think other commands were context based and you had to guess if you could use them or not given what was on the screen or what you had in the inventory. I was too young to really understand it at the time and would always die or get bored in the first few screens. My memory of it is purple and green, and had something to do with goblins. Also a cobbled road. I'm fairly sure it was made in the 80s, possibly early 1990s, but I think it was before 1992. You’ve just described the entire genre of Interactive Fiction games. It’s probably Zork, but otherwise check out Infocom’s catalog and I’m sure it’s in there
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Aug 21, 2018 02:45
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Retro Futurist posted:You’ve just described the entire genre of Interactive Fiction games. It’s probably Zork, but otherwise check out Infocom’s catalog and I’m sure it’s in there Zork didn't have any graphics, let alone purple and green ones. I would have guessed one of the early AGI games like King's Quest or The Black Cauldron, or something similar of that era; those had CGA or EGA graphics in the top half of the screen showing what was going on, and a text interface for entering commands in the bottom half.
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Aug 21, 2018 14:32
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Konsek posted:There was a game, a text based MS-DOS RPG where you had to type commands, like north, south, east, west. I think other commands were context based and you had to guess if you could use them or not given what was on the screen or what you had in the inventory. I was too young to really understand it at the time and would always die or get bored in the first few screens. My memory of it is purple and green, and had something to do with goblins. Also a cobbled road. I'm fairly sure it was made in the 80s, possibly early 1990s, but I think it was before 1992. This might be Demon's Forge (very purple and green palette) or Knight Orc (orcs/goblin stuff, road trippy). Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 14:41 on Aug 21, 2018 |
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Aug 21, 2018 14:39
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I don't remember much about this game but here is the little I do know The first stage you are in is in France, your character is an edgelord if I remember correctly, and they use a spear. I remember one scene where you are hiding in the rafters of a church. There is also a set piece where you fight zombies in a tiny graveyard. I believe it was on PS1/2 or Dreamcast but I am not sure.
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Aug 21, 2018 16:49
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Hey guys, looking for help with what I think was a Japanese arcade title. This was a game that was similar in vein to Power Stone, but I think it may have had 6 players simultaneously. I also remember the perspective being pulled out further than Power Stone. I don't really remember much other than that. I believe it may have been a Naomi/Atomiswave era game, but maybe later than that, on a Taito Type X platform or something. I also believe the title was not natural english at all, just phoneticized japanese.
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Aug 21, 2018 17:16
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Senior Scarybagels posted:I don't remember much about this game but here is the little I do know Nightmare Creatures maybe? I think that took place in Europe.
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Aug 21, 2018 17:17
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Retro Futurist posted:You’ve just described the entire genre of Interactive Fiction games. It’s probably Zork, but otherwise check out Infocom’s catalog and I’m sure it’s in there I know, as I said, I realise I was painting a very broad picture and I realise my memory is very vague. Really the only text I remember is an early screen about going on a cobbled road. It isn't Zork but thank you for the suggestion to try out Infocom, also now knowing the specific name of the genre as Interactive Fiction may help me. I think with how little I remember this may well be lost to me. Neo Rasa posted:This might be Demon's Forge (very purple and green palette) or Knight Orc (orcs/goblin stuff, road trippy). ToxicFrog posted:Zork didn't have any graphics, let alone purple and green ones. Thank you for the replies. Either there were no graphics, or they were so minimal I don't remember them. I meant the UI was purple/green.
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Aug 21, 2018 18:20
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Konsek posted:I know, as I said, I realise I was painting a very broad picture and I realise my memory is very vague. Really the only text I remember is an early screen about going on a cobbled road. It isn't Zork but thank you for the suggestion to try out Infocom, also now knowing the specific name of the genre as Interactive Fiction may help me. I think with how little I remember this may well be lost to me. Oh, ok. In that case that broadens the field considerably, especially since a lot of IF games don't specify a colour scheme and will just adopt the default for whatever system you're playing on. That said, your mention of cobblestones makes me wonder something. I'd be surprised if it was this since it's really obvious, but just in case, does this look familiar? quote:At End Of Road If so, the game you're thinking of is Colossal Cave Adventure, often just Adventure or ADVENT, the original text adventure. It's had many variations over the years, and at least one of them (the UWaterloo 550-point version, developed in 79 and released more widely in 86) featured goblins as a hazard. At least some versions of it were ported to DOS.
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Aug 21, 2018 19:23
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Trying to remember an old 2D platformer where you played as, iirc, a mailman. The first stage was in an urban setting and you could step on electrical wiring above poles.
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Aug 21, 2018 20:17
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Senior Scarybagels posted:I don't remember much about this game but here is the little I do know Somehow this reminds me of Vagrant Story a little bit.
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Aug 22, 2018 04:05
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Senior Scarybagels posted:I don't remember much about this game but here is the little I do know Sounds like the dude with the staff you can play as in Nightmare Creatures.
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Aug 22, 2018 15:23
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Konsek posted:There was a game, a text based MS-DOS RPG where you had to type commands, like north, south, east, west. I think other commands were context based and you had to guess if you could use them or not given what was on the screen or what you had in the inventory. I was too young to really understand it at the time and would always die or get bored in the first few screens. My memory of it is purple and green, and had something to do with goblins. Also a cobbled road. I'm fairly sure it was made in the 80s, possibly early 1990s, but I think it was before 1992. This actually sounds super familiar to me. There was an 80s interactive fiction game called, I believe, "The Quest" or something super similar (and as such, impossible to Google for) but in it you always started on a cobbled road. It did have some minimal graphics and was notoriously hard to make it past the beginning.
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Aug 22, 2018 20:07
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precision posted:This actually sounds super familiar to me. There was an 80s interactive fiction game called, I believe, "The Quest" or something super similar (and as such, impossible to Google for) but in it you always started on a cobbled road. It did have some minimal graphics and was notoriously hard to make it past the beginning. It's not that hard to google for. And it did indeed get ported to DOS.
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Aug 22, 2018 20:41
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Max Coveri posted:Trying to remember an old 2D platformer where you played as, iirc, a mailman. The first stage was in an urban setting and you could step on electrical wiring above poles. What system/era?
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Aug 22, 2018 20:45
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Konsek posted:Thank you for the replies. Either there were no graphics, or they were so minimal I don't remember them. I meant the UI was purple/green. I know you said it was DOS, but composite colour fringing on the Apple 2 made UI elements have purple and green fringing (see the Mystery House screeshot at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors). Are you mis-remembering what system it was on?
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Aug 23, 2018 00:31
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Pablo Nergigante posted:What system/era? PC, and like my earlier request, I played it in the early 2000s. It might've had pixel art graphics.
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Aug 23, 2018 03:05
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A friend of mine is looking for a game he played and can't remember it:
Edit: It's a real-time/actiony game, not turn-based. Carbon dioxide fucked around with this message at 22:42 on Sep 12, 2018 |
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Sep 12, 2018 22:20
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Carbon dioxide posted:A friend of mine is looking for a game he played and can't remember it: Did it have both a dude with one sword and maybe a shield... and an edgier guy with 2 swords? If so I know the game, but I also forgot the name completely sadly :/
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Sep 12, 2018 23:15
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He found the game. It was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgOcApTo1Yw Yeah his memory was wrong on a couple points.
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Sep 14, 2018 17:21
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Wow, yeah, that's the game I was thinking of too! Though apparently the "edgy" guy didn't have two swords. You brought the game up, but I guess I should be thanking you.
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Sep 14, 2018 19:00
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NES game. It may or may not have come out in English, idk. I may be conflating two different games but I'll tell you what I remember: The most prominent thing I remember is the first scene takes place on a train. There's a woman trapped in the front of the train visible through a glass room and you're running across it fighting enemies to reach it. Now, I also remember this game shifting to a top-down RPG which leads me to think the sidescrolling sections were more Dragonslayer action-RPG sequences and then you had more traditional top down moments, idk. I think Toei may have had a hand in it because I vaguely remember puss in boots or a similar Toei style mascot.
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Sep 17, 2018 17:11
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al-azad posted:NES game. It may or may not have come out in English, idk. I may be conflating two different games but I'll tell you what I remember:
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Sep 18, 2018 00:04
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Pentaro posted:Challenger? Yep. What a weird game.
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Sep 18, 2018 00:11
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I remember renting an NES Mario game that was probably some kind of bootleg romhack. The only details I remember are that a level had a poison 1UP mushroom that killed you, and that the insert for the rental case was pink.
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Sep 19, 2018 18:19
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it wasnt The Lost Levels, the less famous SMB sequel?
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Sep 19, 2018 18:20
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It might have been, but I played the SNES version of that at some point and concluded it wasn’t the game I remembered. There was also no official NES release of it, but I don’t know about bootlegs.
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Sep 19, 2018 18:32
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IIRC poison mushrooms were also a thing in Great Gianna Sisters hacks to make them look even more like SMB1. Maybe look up youtubes of GGS & SMB-hacks for GGS?
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Sep 19, 2018 18:44
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I’m pretty sure it started life as a Mario game, it was spot-on in terms of look and feel. Watching an LP of TLL, it still doesn’t fit my recollection, but I’d be willing to chalk it up to the vagaries of memory if there was some way for me to have been playing it on an NES cartridge in that timeframe.
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Sep 19, 2018 19:57
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Lazyhound posted:I remember renting an NES Mario game that was probably some kind of bootleg romhack. The only details I remember are that a level had a poison 1UP mushroom that killed you, and that the insert for the rental case was pink. Maybe this one, Super Bros. 4? It's a bootleg of the Lost Levels on a cart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avPF2TwluiI
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Sep 19, 2018 20:05
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The mushrooms look super weird in that, though. It looks like there were pirate Famicom cartridges of TLL available, so I’m going to assume someone dumped it to an NES cart and it found its way into my hands in rural nowhere.
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Sep 20, 2018 01:32
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Trying to remember a PC game from the mid 90s. Pretty sure it was Windows 95 and DOS compatible. It was like Asteroids but full 3d movement in a big spherical arena, and there were other ships trying to kill you on most (all?) levels. Like Asteroids, the asteroids would break up into smaller and smaller pieces when you shot them, and you could collect money tokens from them when you blew them up. You could spend money between levels to upgrade your guns and shields etc. You could also eject from your ship if you were going to die (dying was a game over) but that'd mean having to spend money on a new ship. The soundtrack featured Pop Will Eat Itself and Sugar Ray. If I'm not mixing up memories, it also came with these special 3d glasses. They're not like modern polarised ones but they're not the old red/blue things either. The graphics weren't much better than Descent but the 3d effect was really impressive for the time.
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Sep 20, 2018 10:17
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https://www.mobygames.com/game/nihilist
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Sep 20, 2018 10:30
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Oh wow yeah that's much uglier than I remember. Thanks!
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Sep 20, 2018 10:52
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Ok a couple games trying to remember from when I was younger. Would be around the late 90s early 2000s for most of these. First game was about a kid, it was the sort of static-scene game with animated characters running around the frame a-la Another World, but much more kid focused. The enemies were a sort of shadow creature that would goop out of shadows and whatnot. Second game was another platformer that may have been earlier, I remember it being very similar in style and around the same time (or a little more modern) as the early Prince of Persia game but having scifi weapons and a spaceship/sci fi car that I think transports the protagonist back in time and you need to get back to it. Third game was an RTS that I can remember clearly the starting video but the name of the game is JUST out of my reach. Sci-fi RTS, with three factions but one was just a mix of the other two. The starting video was following two dog fighting fighters (one looks like sort of flying half circle) as they fly across a battlefield before blowing up a big laser/radar disc weapon that's pointing into space. Video ends with a bomb being dropped/fired at the planet from orbit that destroys the planet in a typical ring of fire explosion. It's driving me nuts.
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Spiteski posted:First game was about a kid, it was the sort of static-scene game with animated characters running around the frame a-la Another World, but much more kid focused. The enemies were a sort of shadow creature that would goop out of shadows and whatnot. heart of darkness is 100 million times more ruthless than another world
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Spiteski posted:First game was about a kid, it was the sort of static-scene game with animated characters running around the frame a-la Another World, but much more kid focused. The enemies were a sort of shadow creature that would goop out of shadows and whatnot.
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Sep 21, 2018 08:14
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The White Dragon posted:heart of darkness is 100 million times more ruthless than another world That's the one! Is it? I'm about to watch a complete playthrough now so I'll see, but I seem to remember it being a bit more... kid friendly?
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Sep 21, 2018 08:16
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Double post but: Holy poo poo I was wrong.
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Yeah it ain't named after the book Apocalypse Now was based on for nothing
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