Help us remember the name of a game!!!! Or perish!!

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Pocket Billiards: Aug 29, 2007; .

I've got a vague one. I'm fairly certain it was on an Amstrad PC and had a single word title. You were a guy in space suit with a helmet that looked similar to the Marines in Warhammer 40k, and you explored what I think was a large abandoned space ship. Kind of like Metroid, but much slower paced and not really any shooting I could recall.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2008 16:28

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 10:14

Pocket Billiards: Aug 29, 2007; .

Jostiband posted:

Since you didn't answer to the last suggestion, I'm going to assume that wasn't what you were looking for. When people go around talking about Space Marines in large abandoned spaceships they're generally referring to one of the Space Hulk games.

Was never released on the Amstrad though, so that's probably not it. However a different 40K boardgame did get Amstraded. Not very Metroidy at all, and two-word title, but could it have been Space Crusade?

The only thing that resembled WH40K, was the guys helmet which looked like the Spacemarines one. It predated that Space Crusade game by about 6 years I'd say. Definitely not an isometric squad game, but a 2D scrolling game.

# ¿ Sep 1, 2008 04:55

Pocket Billiards: Aug 29, 2007; .

Chedranian Girl posted:

Back in the olde days of Windows, I had a small game or demo of a game I'd got off a CD or something. It was first person, Doom-esque, were you walked around a haunted castle type place, with bookshelves and passageways. There were zombies and skeletons and such to attack you. It was really simple, simple graphics, but it had awesome music and I loved playing it. Any ideas at all? Sorry my description isn't particularly helpful. It certainly wasn't a "big" game by any big companies, though.

Catacomb Abyss maybe

# ¿ Jan 3, 2012 16:02

Pocket Billiards: Aug 29, 2007; .

Malorie posted:

This might have an obvious answer, but I'd like at least some kind of confirmation of the title of something I vaguely remember from my childhood...

It was a DOS comic creator, that ran in EGA graphics mode... it might have been CGA, but I think EGA is more likely. Low resolution, lots of black, white, and dithered colours. You could set a background, choose characters to put in the panels, write speech bubbles, and then print off your comic page on your printer. If I were to guess a date of when it was made, I'd say anywhere from mid-80s to early-90s. That's all I can really remember from it!

I remember it just being called something generic like 'Comic Creator', but I can't find a single trace of it online, and I'm not completely sure I'm even googling for the correct title. It's not technically a game, which is probably why it's not on anything like MobyGames, but... hey, it was a game to me at least! I'd love to just find even a screenshot of it again for the sake of nostalgia.

There was a licensed Disney comic creator like this, I don't know if it was the same program or part of bundle but it had a crossword puzzle creator too.

# ¿ Feb 12, 2013 08:54

Pocket Billiards: Aug 29, 2007; .

Hakkesshu posted:

Clash at Demonhead?

Sounds like it to me.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2013 16:29

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 10:14

Pocket Billiards: Aug 29, 2007; .

Zaphod42 posted:

Sounds like maybe Little Ninja Brothers (NES) or Super Ninja Boy (SNES) ?

Here's an odd one:

I remember a game almost exactly like Jill of the Jungle by Epic for DOS, it was another DOS game, a platformer kinda in the prince of persia style, really simple DOS graphics, set in some kind of a ruins or a jungle. But I'm pretty sure its not actually Jill of the Jungle. Know of other games in the same style? I googled and found a couple, but its not them. I feel like the graphics were just a tiny bit better, but maybe its just nostalgia. Its not Vinyl Goddess from Mars... Maybe it was just Jill of the Jungle.

Was the player character female?

# ¿ Nov 2, 2013 16:30

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