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I played this game on a teacher's laptop in the early 90s. It was vaguely adventure RPG/hack and slash for the time. Black and white (though that may have just been the laptop's hardware limitations), top down, simple cartoony sprites, square grid tiles, and keyboard controls. The only thing I properly remember was that there was a castle near where you started the game with a treasure room that could be broken into and looted. This would pull all of the guards, but if you got away you'd have a poo poo ton of gold and (maybe?) some magic stuff. I think everything paused when you weren't moving the character, but combat was otherwise in real time in that old bump-to-use-attack fashion. I managed to find it some years after, but the game's speed was linked to clock speed so everything moved hilariously quickly. Pretty sure it was still in black and white. stringless fucked around with this message at 01:40 on May 11, 2016 |
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Nope. At the very least the castle wasn't randomized, and the world was completely tiled (albeit with simple graphics).
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Zanzibar Ham posted:One of the early Ultima games maybe?
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hot diggity drat i found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEA67hW2-Y8 now i just need to figure out how to emulate MacOS 6 on Windows 7~ stringless fucked around with this message at 00:33 on May 12, 2016 |
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al-azad posted:I'll help you get started and point out Mini vMac, an emulator. But you're on your own from there. Took me a whole afternoon setting up a Macintosh install which requires using esoteric programs to format a virtual hard drive and sadly I've forgotten all the steps it took getting there. it's still just as fun now trying to run out of the castle with the treasury as it was back then pretty sure there's some plot that's intended but, eh stringless fucked around with this message at 09:00 on May 12, 2016 |
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Stathol posted:This isn't much to go on, but:
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This would have been mid-to-late '90s: arcade racer, futuristic style, red motorcycle-looking seat as part of the cabinet?
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Pablo Nergigante posted:Motor Raid? Nope :/ Gameplay was kind of like Tempest but updated? I can barely remember it. /e: welp lmao I was a bit off from 1989 
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davidspackage posted:My finest videogame purchase was a two-disc set called "10 Lucasarts Adventures." It had Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 1 (though, the 16-color version) and 2, Sam & Max Hit the Road, Indiana Jones Raiders & Fate of Atlantis, and Zak McKracken (also 16 colors). And Indy desktop adventures. Nearly all of them were games I didn't even know existed.
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Play posted:Second is one based around ancient Egypt, there are different puzzles including a classic Tower of Hanoi puzzle and one where you need to pull out a mummy's brain through a needlessly complex nasal cavity without touching the sides. I think at this was on the family computer and also had simple 3d graphics so I would estimate early 2000s maybe. No idea how to find it, though. Pyramid: Challenge of the Pharaoh's Dream? stringless fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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I deliberately held off on suggesting Rayman until just now
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packetmantis posted:Journeyman Project? It brings up a question worth asking, though: was there any FMV involved, or any animated characters at all? stringless fucked around with this message at 07:02 on Aug 7, 2021 |
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could have sworn Cannon Fodder was an artillery game but apparently I was thinking of Scorched Earth
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It doesn't, but I definitely played this long, long ago lol (I've been going through old-rear end GameFAQs guides for the games that seem like they fit) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqWEJTod_hM
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Chinook posted:Jewels of the Oracle definitely had tower of Hanoi which is why I thought of it
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:Since we're talking about weird old game creation tools, here's one I only have vague memories about.
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Yeah, or like first person, third person, isometric, windows/mac/a particular console Could be Marathon though I'm not sure it counts as an RPG.
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Custard Undies posted:The competition (from memory), was that you had 1 life/go at completing the game. You had to fly into a mountain or volcano and blow up a base, and you only had 7 minutes (I think) to do it. I am not sure if you had to shoot down other planes/jets or not, but I imagine you did. 1992 Nintendo Campus Challenge had SMW, F-Zero, and Pilotwings minigames with 6 minute rounds. Those were held in the US/Canada, though. Competitions like that at the time (and still today for classics) were usually time limit-based or score was affected by how quickly you got to the end of a specific stage So, what's an arcade game featuring flying in 3D from around that time that has a mountain/volcano base that can be reached in 6 or so minutes? Probably After Burner or After Burner II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSvxN7nMNwo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65weTx0haog lmao this is probably it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTf-q57QYWc stringless fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Sep 23, 2021 |
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Custard Undies posted:Nah, def wasn't after burner, as I had played it before seeing this news item.
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A video game based around setting up ventilation in apartments/houses? Black wireframe for walls and such on a white background, maybe colors for the different bits and pieces you could place. Probably top down, maybe isometric. I played it in 2005ish? Probably a Flash game. Just got reminded of it today because it'd be totally up a buddy's alley, but searching has not been fruitful.
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Nox is on GOG so it should be able to run fine on modern systems. Fond memories of multiple attempts at the multiplayer with a buddy of mine that always got interrupted by chakram fights.
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Uh relating to permanent transformation, there is Kenshi.
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Used to play Cyborg Justice with my cousin when we were kids We could never figure out how to cross that first big gap without the jumper legs though
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There was also a sequel, Crusader: No Regret
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CYBEReris posted:is it Strategy Games of the World distributed by Edmark?
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Hyper Crab Tank posted:If it looked more like a game, Escape Velocity or one of its sequels (Escape Velocity Override and Escape Velocity Nova), maybe.  I'm guessing Ares: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s44qu5zgXE
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Not sure about the red hue, but could be Sentient (1997)?
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What did it look like? i.e. first person, top down, isometric?
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Swords & Serpents has "Iago" as a main character name Or it's one of the others on this list
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Guessing it's Monster Sanctuary, though I'm not sure if it has breeding.
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Golden Axe had an arcade release, but I can't remember any multiple-character ARPGs that did vertical scrolling Would be more helpful if you linked the actual tweet, probably! stringless fucked around with this message at 11:55 on May 31, 2022 |
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Well poo poo, you got it first. 
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It'd be funny if you're thinking of Voodoo Nightmare (1990)
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Amiga and Atari ST, though, but "PC" is a very broad category
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That was re: Big Red Racing
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moller posted:Sounds like Cyborg Justice for the Megadrive? Used to play it with my cousin on Sega Genesis, it was always a lot of fun but level 2 or so you couldn't get past without losing lives unless you had the jump legs or some trick we never figured out as kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HPRXv-e9IE ~5:19, but the player has the pneumatic legs stringless fucked around with this message at 13:52 on Jul 4, 2022 |
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It'd be pretty funny if you're thinking of Wizard (1984)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPMYlXvsaJM What was with all the games of that era (by which I mean like 1980-1995) using In the Hall of the Mountain King, anyway? Like sure, it was old enough to be free to use, but drat. A poo poo-ton of other music was too! stringless fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Aug 15, 2022 |
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Could it have been Lunatic Fringe, the After Dark screen saver? Don't remember if it had systems vs shields/hp /e: oh it's totally Lunatic Fringe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZglGbYGRtI stringless fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Aug 16, 2022 |
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I didn't like the linear nature of Transcendence but it was fun to play at least
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