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Hi, I've been bothering the old school pc rpg thread about an early 90s side-scrolling pc rpg that is most likely Zeliard. I remember playing Zeliard and it looks like it might be worth playing today. I am trying to remember another, similar game that I swear is not Zeliard, but is still a side scrolling or single screen rpg from that era, so not any of the Wonder Boy games, which are still fun to play on emu. I swear it was 'the only pc license of Zelda' even though I can't find any reference to it on Zelda sites, and Zelda apparently was never that sort of side-on game. It had storefronts and missions, so slightly more involved than Gods or Altered Beast or other more arcadey games.
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Trying to remember a game that was basically Total War: Rome except it came out long before Shogun, Rome and Medieval. The campaign map was around the Mediterranean coast, fighting barbarians and other Roman factions. Right now all I can find are TW and Caesar III etc.
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Oct 26, 2015 08:50
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Hakkesshu posted:Let's see, there's Finally checked all the above and I think this is it, thanks!
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Nov 6, 2015 11:41
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Could it be this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_(1992_video_game)
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Nov 7, 2015 16:43
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Bass Concert Hall posted:Same setup, different game (I think? It's probably been 20 years). Lightspeed or hyperspeed? Had the aliens and ship customisation except space sims.
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Aug 14, 2016 23:50
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Or Bitmap Brothers' Gods
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Mar 30, 2017 09:39
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Strikes a note in my head but the best I can think of is imagining its an animation leading into the Lucasarts logo
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Sep 14, 2017 11:55
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Was it http://www.adultswim.com/games/pc-console/kingsway/
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Oct 9, 2017 15:37
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Pulsarcat posted:
Thanks for reminding me of this. I always meant to track it down again. I had this from a mail order rental company when I was like 10 and sent them back a blank/dead 5 1/4 floppy after messing up the disk copy. That and Sabateur 2.
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Nov 11, 2017 18:44
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Could be anything? I remember a family restaurant in the 80s that had a sit-down Galaga table, with controllers and coin slots on both seated sides.
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Apr 30, 2018 12:30
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1) A game which I always thought was Wasteland 1 - EGA or early VGA, top down graphics, I think some kind of post apocalyptic mainly action/some rpg with guns and mutants. 2) Not a specific game but wondering if there are any arcadey driving games that a toddler could use an old usb steering wheel for - simple enough that turning all the way left will just end up on the left side of the road sort of thing.
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May 29, 2018 16:20
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For the first I don't think it was Fountain of Dreams, but thanks. And I'll check out the recommendations thread for drivey games (with any force feedback off) so thanks also.
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May 29, 2018 18:55
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I think that must be it, thanks! Wow its a Chris Roberts game, nice.
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May 29, 2018 19:28
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Freakazoid_ posted:Looking for an 80's DOS program that was either a lovely game or some sort of demo or screensaver. It's just a fish tank with saltwater or tropical fish in it. I recall being able to choose the number of fish or something but nothing else. I suspect it may have just been an early screensaver. Not just thinking of the fishbowls in Alley Cat? Fish were just a few pixels though I think.
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May 30, 2018 23:51
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I have never played it or even seen screen shots but wasn't Half Life's Natural Selection mod something like that?
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Sep 30, 2018 13:59
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Freakazoid_ posted:Long shot but maybe The Adventures of Willy Beamish on a lower graphics setting? Maybe ega Les Manley?
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Oct 15, 2018 06:07
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:
Speaking of, what was the EGA golf game that I chiefly remember for the sample of an extremely Leonard Nimoy voice exclaiming 'great shot Jim!' (I may be misremembering 'Jim' but the sample was so nimoy-ish its burnt into my head that way)
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Jun 21, 2019 11:18
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ALFbrot posted:Your "Jim" memory might be from Links: The Challenge of Golf, which had "Looks like I hit the tree, Jim." Definitely not EGA, and definitely not very Nimoy, so probably not what you're looking for. Thanks - this lead me back to World Class Leader Board which was apparently the 1988 precursor to 1990's Links, and used the exact same samples. Listening to it now, I kind of get where I got Nimoy from, as a dumb kid listening to samples being squeezed out the PC speaker.
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Jun 21, 2019 15:55
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Gynovore posted:This reminds me of an ooooold interactive fiction game from a long time ago. All I remember is that you have multiple lives, and you *need* to die several times to beat it. Also, at one point you flush yourself down a toilet. Any ideas? You're not scrambling up bits of Hitchhiker's Guide maybe? There's no toilet in it but (Above reminds me of how I wasted months convinced as a 10 year old that Mr Prosser was a real estate agent and needed to waive his fee, based on the Guide's listing for intelligence for the screen door puzzle) (The guide and encyclopaedia frobozzica were the best)
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Sep 9, 2019 06:25
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I had I think, dad had put me on to weekly reruns of the radio show. Zaphod's boat puzzle was the one other stumper I never got past until years later - I'd been relying on the local game-rentals-by-post service whose monthly newsletter meant at least a couple months turnaround on posting a question and someone else the answer.
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Sep 11, 2019 06:30
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I think I had the same PC Gamer/Zone.My memory of playing it puts the demo at 94 but wiki says it was released in 95. Darker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmV3QhcRQvg Chubby Henparty fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Nov 18, 2019 |
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Nov 18, 2019 15:30
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A 90s shareware-era xenon/1942 type shooter I think, the memorable bit was the sample in the intro: the last tree in the rainforest was cut down today. A spokesman for the Acme Toothpick Company said 'aww. That's too bad'
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Sep 18, 2020 20:31
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Shine posted:Galactix Thanks!
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Sep 19, 2020 08:30
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Bring back Laser Squad, or rather make a lo fi star wars xcom because that's what young me imagined it was with all the references and whatnot.
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Oct 17, 2022 18:42
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This is of no use to you but you reminded me of a Famous Grouse whiskey - branded shooting game that my ex gfs mum used to play in the 90s. She used to play that and Diablo, a cool mum.
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Dec 22, 2022 12:10
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Made me think of Ford Driving Simulator, where you could demo their early 80s range in glorious cga
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Apr 16, 2023 19:53
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That Which Sleeps, via @Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kingdinosaurgames/that-which-sleeps?ref=android_project_share I was really keen on that one
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Jul 17, 2023 19:25
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Crazy Achmed posted:The first one was a sidescrolling space-themed shooter, I'm pretty sure it had the cyan/magenta/white CGA palette and probably on a DOS system. I remember your ship could shoot a forward show or drop bombs to hit ground targets, and possibly also that the forward shot had a limited firing rate but the bombs didn't. I remember the graphics being pretty simple and clean - might have even been text-mode, come to think of it. Just going to guess Sopwith1 or 2, because it still rules.
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Nov 5, 2023 14:23
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that and barbarian (the duelling one)
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did you see UQM just got a steam release. No big changes but that's nice.
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