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Name That Game!

InfestedGnomeInfestedGnome Registered User regular
edited August 2007 in Games and Technology
Hey guys, Ive been thinking of a game that I used to play as a kid but I can't remember the name of it anymore.

It was an arcade game that eventually came to consoles I think. It was sort of an RPG where you chose a class and just spammed projectiles and enemies who spawned really fast as well.

There were also chests with special loot and Death woulld pop on screen sometimes and if you didnt kill him before he got to you you lose some life or something.

I also remember when you leveled up you character looked bigger and burlier with increased levels. Also, I believe there was some sort of naked cheat for the arcade version.

Anyone know which game Im talking about?

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  • KimFidlerKimFidler Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Gauntlet?

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  • AydrAydr Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Wow. Easiest name that game ever.

    Definitely Gauntlet.

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  • InfestedGnomeInfestedGnome Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Thats probably it but I cant find any images of the one I played
    hmmn

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  • AroducAroduc regular
    edited August 2007
    Aydr wrote: »
    Wow. Easiest name that game ever.

    Definitely Gauntlet.

    Nah. It still falls behind "What was that game with all the Namco and Capcom crossovers?"

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  • Local H JayLocal H Jay Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I got a one the other day that made my friend go o_o.
    He was like," I used to play this game for PS2 where you run around fighting people."
    "The Bouncer?"
    "What the FUCK man! That's it!"
    I was alittle amused I got it first guess...

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  • slash000slash000 Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Well, I mean, that was one of the few launch games that had you doing just that.

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  • SaddlerSaddler Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I was hoping it was Cadash until I read your post from the 4th line on. People should remember Cadash.

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  • CherrnCherrn Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Alright, I got one.

    It was an Amiga game. POSSIBLY made by Sega. POSSIBLY published by U.S. Gold. I'm not sure about either of those, but they sort of ring a bell.

    Now, it was a top-down game, and you controlled... ducks, I think. I seem to remember the intro having a cornfield, and the heroes were encased in bubbles for some reason and flew up to the sky. The characters possibly made huge anime eyes whenever they got hit. The first level was set in a city, and the first boss was a gigantic flame with eyes.

    That's about all I can recall right now.

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  • JustinChar99JustinChar99 Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    From the bits about character apearance changing, I think the Gauntlet game he's looking for is Legends or Dark Legacy.

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  • mattclemmattclem Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Cherrn wrote: »
    Alright, I got one.

    It was an Amiga game. POSSIBLY made by Sega. POSSIBLY published by U.S. Gold. I'm not sure about either of those, but they sort of ring a bell.

    Now, it was a top-down game, and you controlled... ducks, I think. I seem to remember the intro having a cornfield, and the heroes were encased in bubbles for some reason and flew up to the sky. The characters possibly made huge anime eyes whenever they got hit. The first level was set in a city, and the first boss was a gigantic flame with eyes.

    That's about all I can recall right now.

    Dynamite Dux.

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  • CherrnCherrn Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    mattclem wrote: »
    Cherrn wrote: »
    Alright, I got one.

    It was an Amiga game. POSSIBLY made by Sega. POSSIBLY published by U.S. Gold. I'm not sure about either of those, but they sort of ring a bell.

    Now, it was a top-down game, and you controlled... ducks, I think. I seem to remember the intro having a cornfield, and the heroes were encased in bubbles for some reason and flew up to the sky. The characters possibly made huge anime eyes whenever they got hit. The first level was set in a city, and the first boss was a gigantic flame with eyes.

    That's about all I can recall right now.

    Dynamite Dux.

    YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER

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  • PejPej Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I've got a fairly vague one. I remember playing this game back in 95 or early 96 when my best friend got his shiny new Windows 95 Packard Bell... WOOO! ;) I believe it came bundled with the system so it may have been a demo or shareware though I was under the impression at the time that it was a full game. Anyway, it was a fairly traditional point and click adventure game from what I remember, though I do think it may have been Windows native which certainly made it unique to me at the time. You were in a futuristic, possibly cyberpunky setting. The only parts of the game I remember were that you started off in a sleek, above ground apartment, probably your own, but quickly went down into a mine shaft and tooled around down there. I remember talking to some miners and there possibly being a murder mystery involved.

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  • Tw4winTw4win Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I have a REALLY hard one too.

    Early PC game - probably late 80s or early, early 90s. Primitive graphics. I remember that the main screen of a game was basically a hex map. The setting might have been the fertile crescent or some fictional land like that. Your job was to take a very new tribe and grow their Civilization. You could plant, farm, and fight.

    I remember playing it at my friend's house one day. He had just gotten a new PC (with awesome EGA graphics). His dad had gotten a copy of the game from a friend at work. The only other thing I remember is that it had an instruction book with it and I think the name of the game might have started with the letter "I." It was hard as hell or at least hard for 2 5th graders to figure out.

    It's not Civilization. I have a feeling this game was released way before then. I know other games we were playing at the time were Police Quest (original version) and Space Quest.

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  • LethardicusLethardicus Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    i remember this old dos game side scrollling platformer thingy, u were this miner dude, went around collecting gems and fighting stuff and other stuff, it was really cool, only game ive never been able to remember. and no, its not dig dug

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  • GageGage Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    i remember this old dos game side scrollling platformer thingy, u were this miner dude, went around collecting gems and fighting stuff and other stuff, it was really cool, only game ive never been able to remember. and no, its not dig dug

    Crystal Caves?

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  • mr weenismr weenis Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    i remember this old dos game side scrollling platformer thingy, u were this miner dude, went around collecting gems and fighting stuff and other stuff, it was really cool, only game ive never been able to remember. and no, its not dig dug

    was it mole something?

    was your character a mole?

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  • SisterRaySisterRay Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Tw4win wrote: »
    Early PC game - probably late 80s or early, early 90s. Primitive graphics. I remember that the main screen of a game was basically a hex map. The setting might have been the fertile crescent or some fictional land like that. Your job was to take a very new tribe and grow their Civilization. You could plant, farm, and fight.

    Populous?

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  • PanickdPanickd Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Tw4win wrote: »
    I have a REALLY hard one too.

    Early PC game - probably late 80s or early, early 90s. Primitive graphics. I remember that the main screen of a game was basically a hex map. The setting might have been the fertile crescent or some fictional land like that. Your job was to take a very new tribe and grow their Civilization. You could plant, farm, and fight.

    I remember playing it at my friend's house one day. He had just gotten a new PC (with awesome EGA graphics). His dad had gotten a copy of the game from a friend at work. The only other thing I remember is that it had an instruction book with it and I think the name of the game might have started with the letter "I." It was hard as hell or at least hard for 2 5th graders to figure out.

    It's not Civilization. I have a feeling this game was released way before then. I know other games we were playing at the time were Police Quest (original version) and Space Quest.

    This almost sounds like a game called Incunabula. It was released in 1986 or 87 which would be around the time you're talking about. I remember very little about it except that if you weren't super good at doing a lot of math on the fly it was really difficult to win. I remember playing it quite a bit before I got into whatever the latest Ultima game was at the time.

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  • bigwahbigwah Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Gage wrote: »
    i remember this old dos game side scrollling platformer thingy, u were this miner dude, went around collecting gems and fighting stuff and other stuff, it was really cool, only game ive never been able to remember. and no, its not dig dug

    Crystal Caves?

    Ah, i remember that game, good stuff. Along those lines, I've been trying to think of a game I played back then, was MS-DOS game and was kind of a puzzle game. You portrayed a Indiana Jones type of guy and had to try to figure you way thru the level, which was only one screen, no scrolling. I can see it in my head still, but have no clue about the name.

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  • Tw4winTw4win Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Panickd wrote: »
    Tw4win wrote: »
    I have a REALLY hard one too.

    Early PC game - probably late 80s or early, early 90s. Primitive graphics. I remember that the main screen of a game was basically a hex map. The setting might have been the fertile crescent or some fictional land like that. Your job was to take a very new tribe and grow their Civilization. You could plant, farm, and fight.

    I remember playing it at my friend's house one day. He had just gotten a new PC (with awesome EGA graphics). His dad had gotten a copy of the game from a friend at work. The only other thing I remember is that it had an instruction book with it and I think the name of the game might have started with the letter "I." It was hard as hell or at least hard for 2 5th graders to figure out.

    It's not Civilization. I have a feeling this game was released way before then. I know other games we were playing at the time were Police Quest (original version) and Space Quest.

    This almost sounds like a game called Incunabula. It was released in 1986 or 87 which would be around the time you're talking about. I remember very little about it except that if you weren't super good at doing a lot of math on the fly it was really difficult to win. I remember playing it quite a bit before I got into whatever the latest Ultima game was at the time.


    We have a winner. That's the game.

    As soon as read "Incunabula" I remembered the title.

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  • PanickdPanickd Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Pej wrote: »
    I've got a fairly vague one. I remember playing this game back in 95 or early 96 when my best friend got his shiny new Windows 95 Packard Bell... WOOO! ;) I believe it came bundled with the system so it may have been a demo or shareware though I was under the impression at the time that it was a full game. Anyway, it was a fairly traditional point and click adventure game from what I remember, though I do think it may have been Windows native which certainly made it unique to me at the time. You were in a futuristic, possibly cyberpunky setting. The only parts of the game I remember were that you started off in a sleek, above ground apartment, probably your own, but quickly went down into a mine shaft and tooled around down there. I remember talking to some miners and there possibly being a murder mystery involved.

    Beneath a Steel Sky?

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  • Iceman.USAFIceman.USAF Major East CoastRegistered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Alright, if you guys can figure this out....wow.

    Older game, working on Windows 3.1 or DoS here, May have been called "Homeworld" (Of no relation to current franchise).

    The interface looks like a modern flash thing, where you'd point and click to pan the camera, move around, etc, in a "First Person" view, though I don't think the game had any guns. It started you off in your apartment, and your world was being attacked or invaded or something. You had to gather some things from your apartment and get the crap out. I could never get further than the hallway before I got caught and the game ended.

    So, ideas?

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  • durandal4532durandal4532 Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    My friend just described a very cool sounding game to me. A turn based martial arts game where you "control all of the muscles and joints, relaxing and tensing them every round".

    Is he completely making this up?

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  • PanickdPanickd Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Tw4win wrote: »
    Panickd wrote: »
    Tw4win wrote: »
    I have a REALLY hard one too.

    Early PC game - probably late 80s or early, early 90s. Primitive graphics. I remember that the main screen of a game was basically a hex map. The setting might have been the fertile crescent or some fictional land like that. Your job was to take a very new tribe and grow their Civilization. You could plant, farm, and fight.

    I remember playing it at my friend's house one day. He had just gotten a new PC (with awesome EGA graphics). His dad had gotten a copy of the game from a friend at work. The only other thing I remember is that it had an instruction book with it and I think the name of the game might have started with the letter "I." It was hard as hell or at least hard for 2 5th graders to figure out.

    It's not Civilization. I have a feeling this game was released way before then. I know other games we were playing at the time were Police Quest (original version) and Space Quest.

    This almost sounds like a game called Incunabula. It was released in 1986 or 87 which would be around the time you're talking about. I remember very little about it except that if you weren't super good at doing a lot of math on the fly it was really difficult to win. I remember playing it quite a bit before I got into whatever the latest Ultima game was at the time.


    We have a winner. That's the game.

    As soon as read "Incunabula" I remembered the title.

    Man that is a truly obscure game! I've never even run into anyone else that's ever heard of it before. I found it on some abandonware site a couple years back and thought I'd go at it again for the nostalgia and learned that it's a really horrible game! :P

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  • schmadsschmads Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Panickd wrote: »
    Pej wrote: »
    I've got a fairly vague one. I remember playing this game back in 95 or early 96 when my best friend got his shiny new Windows 95 Packard Bell... WOOO! ;) I believe it came bundled with the system so it may have been a demo or shareware though I was under the impression at the time that it was a full game. Anyway, it was a fairly traditional point and click adventure game from what I remember, though I do think it may have been Windows native which certainly made it unique to me at the time. You were in a futuristic, possibly cyberpunky setting. The only parts of the game I remember were that you started off in a sleek, above ground apartment, probably your own, but quickly went down into a mine shaft and tooled around down there. I remember talking to some miners and there possibly being a murder mystery involved.

    Beneath a Steel Sky?

    I don't remember the game in particular, but I don't think it's BASS. In BASS, you start out in an upper part of a busted up old factory, rather than a nice apartment. It is futuristic, though, and if anyone can figure out what game he is talking about, I want to play it! I'm thinking it's not one of the Scumm games, though.

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  • PanickdPanickd Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    My friend just described a very cool sounding game to me. A turn based martial arts game where you "control all of the muscles and joints, relaxing and tensing them every round".

    Is he completely making this up?

    Sounds like Toribash.

    http://www.toribash.com/

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  • PanickdPanickd Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    schmads wrote: »
    Panickd wrote: »
    Pej wrote: »
    I've got a fairly vague one. I remember playing this game back in 95 or early 96 when my best friend got his shiny new Windows 95 Packard Bell... WOOO! ;) I believe it came bundled with the system so it may have been a demo or shareware though I was under the impression at the time that it was a full game. Anyway, it was a fairly traditional point and click adventure game from what I remember, though I do think it may have been Windows native which certainly made it unique to me at the time. You were in a futuristic, possibly cyberpunky setting. The only parts of the game I remember were that you started off in a sleek, above ground apartment, probably your own, but quickly went down into a mine shaft and tooled around down there. I remember talking to some miners and there possibly being a murder mystery involved.

    Beneath a Steel Sky?

    I don't remember the game in particular, but I don't think it's BASS. In BASS, you start out in an upper part of a busted up old factory, rather than a nice apartment. It is futuristic, though, and if anyone can figure out what game he is talking about, I want to play it! I'm thinking it's not one of the Scumm games, though.

    Right. I was thinking it was maybe Martian Memorandum or Mean Streets but those came out earlier than 95 or 96.

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  • schmadsschmads Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Panickd wrote: »
    schmads wrote: »
    Panickd wrote: »
    Pej wrote: »
    I've got a fairly vague one. I remember playing this game back in 95 or early 96 when my best friend got his shiny new Windows 95 Packard Bell... WOOO! ;) I believe it came bundled with the system so it may have been a demo or shareware though I was under the impression at the time that it was a full game. Anyway, it was a fairly traditional point and click adventure game from what I remember, though I do think it may have been Windows native which certainly made it unique to me at the time. You were in a futuristic, possibly cyberpunky setting. The only parts of the game I remember were that you started off in a sleek, above ground apartment, probably your own, but quickly went down into a mine shaft and tooled around down there. I remember talking to some miners and there possibly being a murder mystery involved.

    Beneath a Steel Sky?

    I don't remember the game in particular, but I don't think it's BASS. In BASS, you start out in an upper part of a busted up old factory, rather than a nice apartment. It is futuristic, though, and if anyone can figure out what game he is talking about, I want to play it! I'm thinking it's not one of the Scumm games, though.

    Right. I was thinking it was maybe Martian Memorandum or Mean Streets but those came out earlier than 95 or 96.

    Looking those up on Moby, I'm intrigued. I love me some good ol' point-and-click. It's possible that he could have meant Martian Memorandum (some of the screenshots look like fancy apartments and mines), but you're right that it seems unlikely considering it came out in 1991.

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  • PejPej Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    schmads wrote: »
    Panickd wrote: »
    schmads wrote: »
    Panickd wrote: »

    Beneath a Steel Sky?

    I don't remember the game in particular, but I don't think it's BASS. In BASS, you start out in an upper part of a busted up old factory, rather than a nice apartment. It is futuristic, though, and if anyone can figure out what game he is talking about, I want to play it! I'm thinking it's not one of the Scumm games, though.

    Right. I was thinking it was maybe Martian Memorandum or Mean Streets but those came out earlier than 95 or 96.

    Looking those up on Moby, I'm intrigued. I love me some good ol' point-and-click. It's possible that he could have meant Martian Memorandum (some of the screenshots look like fancy apartments and mines), but you're right that it seems unlikely considering it came out in 1991.

    Despite being an avid adventure gamer I've not played any of the Tex Murphy games yet so its certainly possibly but like I said, I distinctly remember it running in Windows 95 natively. At the time I was still running DOS and 3.11 so I was impressed to see a good looking game running in Windows.

    Oh, I have played through some of BASS (though I haven't ever completed it for some unknown reason) and am fairly certain it isn't the mystery game.

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  • PanickdPanickd Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    schmads wrote: »
    Panickd wrote: »

    Right. I was thinking it was maybe Martian Memorandum or Mean Streets but those came out earlier than 95 or 96.

    Looking those up on Moby, I'm intrigued. I love me some good ol' point-and-click. It's possible that he could have meant Martian Memorandum (some of the screenshots look like fancy apartments and mines), but you're right that it seems unlikely considering it came out in 1991.

    If you like the old school point and click adventure games you should give a look to Noctropolis. It came out in 1994 and it was my favorite game for a long time despite some of the puzzles where you had to hunt for the exact right pixel to click on.

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  • FantasyrogueFantasyrogue Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    The only cyberpunk adventure I've played that starts in an apartment is Rise of the Dragon, but I don't recall any miners or anything. (I did only play this game briefly and that was years ago, so..)

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  • PanickdPanickd Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    The only cyberpunk adventure I've played that starts in an apartment is Rise of the Dragon, but I don't recall any miners or anything. (I did only play this game briefly and that was years ago, so..)


    "As futuristic private eye and ex-cop Blade Hunter hired investigate the death of the mayor's daughter in Los Angeles circa 2004 AD, you soon find yourself embroiled in a wide-scale drug ring and an ancient Chinese prophecy." :P

    ROTD was a DOS game too. It did have a very non-linear story and was kinda cyberpunkish but I don't remember any miners in it either (but then maybe I just didn't choose that path).

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  • PejPej Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    It definitely is not Rise of the Dragon as I've played it myself many times...

    Hmph, I fear I simply might not know enough about the game to figure it out. After all from the early to mid 90s there was an absolutely insane amount of adventure games released and since this one apparently came with his PC I'd guess it wasn't a popular one either.

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  • FantasyrogueFantasyrogue Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    It could well have been shareware too. There's a bunch of shareware adventures that don't show up on most popular old game sites and are hell to find if you can't remember the name.. and so many shareware discs and stuff at the time..

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  • TofystedethTofystedeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    I was gonna guess Blade Runner on that one. Did it have like 4 discs and cinematics? A friend of mine had the Blade Runner game, and I only saw one part, but it did have the sleek highrise apartment. And flying cars i think...

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  • BlueDestinyBlueDestiny Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    My friend just described a very cool sounding game to me. A turn based martial arts game where you "control all of the muscles and joints, relaxing and tensing them every round".

    Is he completely making this up?

    He's talking about Toribash. It's a bit pricey for the full version but a blast in online play.

    EDIT: beat'd

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  • PanickdPanickd Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Pej wrote: »
    Hmph, I fear I simply might not know enough about the game to figure it out. After all from the early to mid 90s there was an absolutely insane amount of adventure games released and since this one apparently came with his PC I'd guess it wasn't a popular one either.

    If you really wan to know bad enough you could always roll over the the Adventure Gamers forums and ask them. Someone on those boards is bound to know what game it is.

    http://www.adventuregamers.com/forums/

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  • bigwahbigwah Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    bigwah wrote: »
    I've been trying to think of a game I played back then, was MS-DOS game and was kind of a puzzle game. You portrayed a Indiana Jones type of guy and had to try to figure you way thru the level, which was only one screen, no scrolling. I can see it in my head still, but have no clue about the name.

    Someone has to know what game this is. One cookie to the first correct response, I promise.

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  • WerewulfyWerewulfy Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    Lode Runner, maybe? I don't remember if it scrolled or not, but you ran around collecting gold and digging and stuff.

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  • FantasyrogueFantasyrogue Registered User regular
    edited August 2007
    bigwah wrote: »
    bigwah wrote: »
    I've been trying to think of a game I played back then, was MS-DOS game and was kind of a puzzle game. You portrayed a Indiana Jones type of guy and had to try to figure you way thru the level, which was only one screen, no scrolling. I can see it in my head still, but have no clue about the name.

    Someone has to know what game this is. One cookie to the first correct response, I promise.

    Pharaoh's Tomb?

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