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Perspective was sideways, but it was tile-based, movement was confined to said tiles. Not really a platformer, more like a puzzle game, but there were enemies too. You were... Something, and tried to reach the exit. There were some tiles which were blue and you could eat them, but if you ate one directly below something explosive, the explosive crashed on to you and well exploded. You could also form stairs with the blue ones and roll explosives to destinations. On the PC. I really can't describe it any better. I'll try to paint a picture if possible. Also, this one is probably easier: XBox (original) game, kart racer, you had the usual weapons, as well as a baseball bat you could use at any time. Also taunts and stunts IIRC.
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Jimbo Jaggins posted:This could be any number of Boulderdash clones. I know, that's what makes it hard to find. The aesthetic was futuristic-ish, with blue red and green stuff on black backgrounds. And the kart game isn't Cel Damage. A quick google pins it as Furious Karting, and it's as good as I remembered it (pretty mediocre), according to the review I hit.
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Jimbo Jaggins posted:It was probably RoX from Sarosoft then.  That's exactly what it was. Thank you so much, I'd been trying to find what it is for ages.
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Jul 31, 2013 14:14
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mango sentinel posted:Darkwing Duck? I don't think you had arrows in Darkwing Duck. But Alligator's game sounds familiar, I just can't place it  VV Oh right. I seem to remember a game in which the arrows you can step on was a major mechanic, but no name for it. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Sep 20, 2013 |
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Sep 20, 2013 12:45
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:Here's a tough one for the thread. Were there different buttons to enable different "colours" like if you had Red you'd go on red floor, but not on any other?
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Deltasquid posted:Ah, no, it isn't. I've played HoMM and it definitely wasn't one of those (as it was real-time, not turn-based). Maybe Warlords Battlecry 2? You said it wasn't 3, but maybe?
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Deltasquid posted:It's not Rise of Legends (I have that installed Wait you're saying sprites... Battle of Wesnoth maybe?
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) and it doesn't seem to be Warlords Battlecry II. All of the units in the warlords series seem so... Plastic, I guess? When I remember detailed sprites.
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al-azad posted:It was kind of a sleeper hit and pretty popular among the hardcore crowd for about 5 minutes until Warcraft 3 came out. TimeGate Studios went on to make the critically acclaimed AAA blockbuster Colonial Marines and they filed for bankruptcy shortly after because Gearbox paid them too well for their year of work. Speaking of that era of strategy games, do you happen to recall the name of a tactical game in which you could use tanks and the like? I don't recall much, it just had a lot of customization, and the theme was guerilla/rebellion or the like. Also, there was a card-based TBS, which I can't recall the name of, but I really don't remember anything about it, except it was fantasy-themed, and part of a series (sequel I think).
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Jan 6, 2014 22:56
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al-azad posted:C&C Generals is the only Guerrila themed RTS of that era I can think of. The other game is likely Etherlords or its sequel. I'm not sure if it was RTS, from the screenshots it looked more like a tactical game, possibly turn-based, or maybe with a pause button? And yeah, pretty sure it was Etherlords, thanks.
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techknight posted:Trying to remember a game where the character's model or portrait in the creation screen would barf if you spun it's gaze around a bunch. No other information, but was just reminded of it when spinning a character around in an MMO creation screen. It could be Black And White? I know that the two faces would do weird things if you fiddled about, so maybe?
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Feb 8, 2014 18:13
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Famethrowa posted:There was a cartoony racing game for the ps2 that I read reviews for and always wanted to try. It was inspired by Wacky Races and I distinctly remember review sites mentioning how when you drove off a cliff, you would do that Tex Avery thing where you float for a moment before plunging to your death. Was it maybe Cel Damage? I know it had a cartoony style, but I'm not sure on the rest.
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Minrad posted:Trying to remember an old (probably about a decade or more) isometric MMO. It looked like a Diablo clone and I was reminded of it when I saw this picture Could it be Mu Online? That UI feels kind of vaguely familiar.
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circ dick soleil posted:A browser game where you had a map of things that happen during your lifetime and you could choose multiple choices from each of them and you'd grow up from a baby to an old person and then die. As a baby, a furry man with bad breath walks up to you and licks your face (actually a dog) and when you're a preteen you can choose to go to school wearing a dog collar and answer to the name 'Fido Rex'. There were a lot of other important dog-related life events too. As duckfarts said, it's Alter ego. http://www.playalterego.com/alterego I'm not sure if there's another version around but this the one I know.
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Just Offscreen posted:This has been driving me crazy! It was a windows 95 game- or something from about that era. It was a simulation game- but it was for an office environment, but it could also have manufacturing equipment and such in it. You hired workers and created and sold items. It had a one word name- something about business, or some kind of business lingo. It wasn't by maxis or any company I can remember. Capitalism, possibly? I've played Capitalism 2 and it's kind of similar, you make and sell and buy stuff. Don't think specific workers played a part though.
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I got it into my head to remember the names of two games I barely remember. One of them was an isometric game with similar perspective and UI to Fallout, or Silent Storm, but set I think during the Cold War? It was more tactical, and to my knowledge there were no party members. The first mission or the tutorial took place on a train, and I played the game in the mid 2000s, it came free with a Greek PC magazine (PC World I want to say, which I think was founded in 2005 if it narrows it down). I seem to recall a bolt-action rifle as a weapon, but I'm not 100% set on that. The other one I haven't managed to play, but I remember screenshots detailing a very customizable tank, and similarly very customizable units. I believe it took place during some sort of rebellion, or insurgency, and was possibly a tactical game, or a third person shooter? I don't recall any actual gameplay screenshots, just ones of the customization screens, with the tank having a whole bunch of slots for stuff, and similarly a human with a number of items to be carried/equipped, including a medikit.
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Humphrey Vasel posted:First one might be hammer & sickle? http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/hammer-sickle/screenshots No not Hammer and Sickle. The graphics looked better than that, and I don't think there was any character creation.
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A stranger was asking on my Facebook page about a game. Here's what I know: -PS2 -The graphics were good, she likened it to Tomb Raider in general look/gameplay -Protagonist was a brunette little girl (8-9), with some sort of monster/creature that was smaller than her, as a sidekick -Fairly kiddy, but again, with good/realistic graphics -Took place in a dark forest, with snow and all that, but also had some buildings (graveyard-ish?) -More exploration than outright horror -not one of the following: Jade Cocoon 2, Silent Hill, American McGee's Alice, Haunting Ground, Clock Tower, Lemony Snicket, Fatal Frame, Castleween, Siren. Does it ring any bells? I generally like "help us figure a game out" stuff but this has me outright stumped.
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Sakurazuka posted:I can think of a few things that fit most but none that fit everything. Primal or Rule of Rose? She says it's a bit like Rule of Rose, story-wise. Specifically, how the girl is suddenly in the forest. But the girl is different, and the graphics are a little older. VV: Yeah, very much so, I think it even was mentioned that it wasn't cartoony graphics. Serperoth fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Dec 10, 2017 |
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al-azad posted:Show her this video from Primal because all the points, except it involving a child, are on point. People were even comparing the main character to Lara. Yep, it was Primal, she was just looking at the wrong footage when I first mentioned it to her. Thanks  Says she loves ya
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Kaubocks posted:nope, none of these, sorry. I know it's not that, but for some reason you're reminding me of a Net Yaroze game called Between The Eyes, but if it was that you'd probably remember the headaches
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Shanty posted:An rpg of some sort that appeared as a shareware version on a MacFormat CD at some point in the nineties. Top down grid deal, looked a lot like Exile or Odyssey, but I can't for the life of me think of any distinguishing features other than this: Kind of a long shot, but could it be Castle of the Winds? Top down RPG, on a grid... Not sure about the sprite though
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Rookersh posted:Here's one I'm struggling to figure out. Almost certainly not it, but I distinctly remember falling into areas in Croc or Croc 2. There were Spyro ish gems around as well. I don't recall a mine cart but I've only ever played the demos of them Edit: Beaten by someone from the future
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The one game I recognize, and someone (awful.) beat me to the punch. I remember giving that a try, I couldn't figure it out. Seemed like you had to think outside of way too many boxes for my little teen brain.
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Tempura Wizard posted:I want to make sure I'm not losing my mind but the search engines give me nothing: I seem to recall some game that was sent to reviewers encased inside of meat, like ground beef or a steak or something, which the reviewers had to then extract from the pile of meat before they could play it. This seems like a very 00's thing to do, but it could have been earlier or later than that. Anyone got any ideas? That sounds a lot like something Acclaim would do. I was able to find Resident Evil 6 (not Acclaim, obviously) which had a promo event pretending to sell human meat, including sending meat labeled as human meat to reviewers? https://www.svg.com/146628/video-game-promotions-that-totally-backfired/
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I remember playing a game, I believe it was the demo, around 10-15 years ago (very rough timeframe). You were this little spaceship-looking shooter, and you could rotate within the edges of a round playfield. There was no depth to the playfield (not like that one shooter), but instead you shot what was like, germs or organisms inside basically a petri dish. Does that ring a bell to anyone? I tried a few keyword searches but I'm getting flash games and irrelevant results more than anything useful
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Pierzak posted:Like Tempest, but you didn't move the ship around but had a fixed gun and rotated the dish instead? That definitely wasn't a flash game. I think I still have it somewhere. Yeah vaguely like Tempest, view-wise, but there wasn't any depth to it. I'm pretty sure you rotated the ship around the dish itself, but I could be wrong, I think I only ever played the demo.
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Splicer posted:Oh and timeframe is badly off but P-3 Biotic P-3 Biotic is the closest, and it came up in my search, but it definitely wasn't as flashy (and it definitely was before 2016). I drew up a small mockup of sorts of what I remember:  Your ship (black triangle) would move around the perimeter (grey ring) and shoot inside the petri dish, to the germs or microbes (blue). I recall an upgrade that let you get a second shooter on the opposite end so they'd rotate together, and maybe the game has Doctor in the title? Definitely not Spheres of Chaos, you very specifically were attached to the rim of the petri dish. Well drat I found it, it was Dr. Blob's Organism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZNcul4DJiM Serperoth fucked around with this message at 14:18 on Nov 23, 2020 |
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Pierzak posted:Motherfucker, I specifically searched for blob and didn't found it. Great job! If it's any consolation, it's free now. A 600 MHz or better processor is recommended, and 32M of hard drive space: http://www.digital-eel.com/organism/
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FanaticalMilk posted:Trying to remember the name of a flash game: I think you may be thinking of Battle Cats (I think I have it on my old phone I'll check in the morning) Where you spawn minimal-animé style cats and fight an enemy base which also spawns similar cars? Can't check your link now to confirm if it's like they
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MonkeyforaHead posted:Got a real headscratcher from a friend. Platform is different (SNES), but detachable parts were a thing in Plok! for the SNES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWdJanRQwO8
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I've had a specific game stuck in my head for a while, might as well ask. An artillery game, two player (probably had a 1P vs computer mode), two cannons, a red and a green one, indicated just by flags, and what you could do is just set your angle with a number and your power, no mouse dragging and dropping. I remember the prompt looking like a basic Windows prompt. This would've been around Windows 98ish, so late 90s, but the game felt old even by then. I'm mostly curious on the name, as the game was incredibly simple, no weapons, just the shots. Terrain was randomly generated I want to say.
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Sounds like Bang! Bang! https://archive.org/details/win3_BANGBANG beef express posted:Bang Bang! Yep, it was Bang Bang! Release date of 1990 sounds about right, it was dated even when I played it, but thank you both for helping me satisfy that curiosity.
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Pierzak posted:
Timeframe is a bit off, but I think the devs of Hotline Miami put the game up on Pirate Bay themselves at some point? Edit: well, the first Hotline Miami game came out in 2012 so not too far off on the time
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Speaking of cool shmups, does anyone remember a browser shmup where the upgrades would include things like better graphics or audio, or even achievements and the like? VV: yep, don't even need to look it up, the name alone does it. Nice Serperoth fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Oct 27, 2021 |
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Manager Hoyden posted:I used to play an old hacking RPG and can't remember the name of it. It had a very Windows 3.1 interface to it and every hacking job had your avatar entering a random computer dungeon using programs like spells. The dungeon part felt a lot like Castle of the Winds. I was going to say Uplink but that has nothing to do with CotW
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chairface posted:The shelby cobra's not a convertible. It's open top. The Cobra was from Age of Empires 2 and had machine guns (I believe "howdoiturnthison" was the code), the convertible of non-specific make and model with the rocket launcher was "bigdaddy" from the first game 
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A 50S RAYGUN posted:trying to find a game i asked for previously Castle of the Winds
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Someone is posting about a game on twitter and its feeling awfully familiar Vertical cabinet arcade game, not a shmup, but an action RPG, you fight enemies on foot, spells and swords and stuff. Had multiple playable characters, from the 90s. Im sure I've read about it but the name is coming up blank
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Jack Trades posted:Gauntlet? No, skinnier cabinet, and it wasn't warfare themed they say. Also in 2D, so more sprite based I'd think? Edit: not Gate of Doom or Dark Seal either Serperoth fucked around with this message at 10:44 on May 31, 2022 |
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IYKK posted:Was it something like King of Dragons or one of the dungeon & dragons arcade games? Those were all sidescrollers right? I believe this was more vertical
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