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i'm looking for a 90s games compilation..
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Hi,as a child i remember having a 5 cd games compilation (around 1995-6) with 500 games total,spread across the cds.There were titles like duke nukem 1,2,3,halloween harry,sango fighter,doom 1,2,the classic haunted house 3d resident evil style game..i forgot its name,i think it had bio menace and a couple games with a squirrel,it was a platformer and each game had a different theme - wikd west,forest etc.it ran through the command prompt..it was something like "cd go" the menu screen was a grid with the games and you just select your title,it then boots and you're ready to go.if anyone can think of something that fits the description,please share;).
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Thanks again and take care,man;)
If anyone has a memory of such a compilation, please reply.
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The problem is that those cd compilations were as numerous as AOL CDs, so it's hard to determine specifically which one you had. The textfiles link about two posts above is a good example of how prolific they are. If it's just about identifying particular games, I can at least however immediately name which other games you're thinking of, because I played all that shit too - and I'm sure there's plenty of other people on the forums who also have. For example the haunted house one may be Nightmare 3D(though I need more to go on), and the games with the squirrel are the Skunny games.
Even more so when you realize that they went "Man we've got another 35mb to fill! Fuck it lets just toss on a bunch of textfiles to fill space"
If it was a demodisc like GodGames or something it would be pretty easy to narrow down but shovelware is going to vary by region, state, city, and day it was made.
I'll look through the sites you suggested.
As for @Donnicton's answer about the haunted house game, i can only find nitemare 3d which looks like a wolf 3d clone. The game i played was point and click, the house was mostly black,grey and dark shades of blue. and i remember that there was a metal file cabinet and when you opened one of the drawers a big monster head popped up, really creepy looking. Also it used my pc's integrated speaker that made those blip blop sounds;D (i don't know how else to describe it)
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@yoteca Last Half of Darkness?
I'm going to describe another game and hope someone can identify it... it was a 2d sidescrolling shoot em up i think. The graphics were really simple almost vector like but there was color. Mostly red,green,blue and the airplane was big. I think it was called jumbo jet but i can't find anything with that name.
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It wasn't Sopwith, was it? Description kind of fits except for the jet.
edit: Man, I fuckin' loved Sopwith. Mostly played it during "downtime" during computer classes in high school, although it was pretty old even back then in the 1990s.
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It was a bit like an early Geometry Wars, except you controlled (with a mouse) your 'ship' that looked more like a cross-hair of a circle with a + inside it, and you had to dodge these spinning crystals while you collected power-ups to open up the level's exit. And there was some speech synthesis that went "Far Out!" or "Bodacious!" when you did, I think? Sorry if the description is kind of vague.
I've tried crawling Archive.org and can't seem to find anything that matches how I remember it.
i might as well keep going ;D.
another one i remember, if only the main menu... it was some sort of village, the cursor was a green hand, like an orc's hand, and the buildings were huts. i think the menu buttons had stone textures..but i remember i couldnt start the game itself for some reason.
Not an exact match, but I played a similar game on my Mac in the 80s called Crystal Quest:
...huh, exiting the level sure does play a slightly suggestive sound effect, eh?
Apparently they remade it as Crystal Quest Classic on Steam, which I didn't know until just now. Looks like it has the same exact sound effects too.
Glad to hear I got that one right! Sorry, don't think I can help you with that village thing.
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That sounds like the original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans. Or Warcraft 2 which came out not too far after. These were out when shareware was big.
Look at those serious graphics. You might have to press the turbo button on your tower.
but they're listening to every word I say
but they're listening to every word I say
EDIT: I guess you should click and watch that video to see the main menu, since they chose a more gameplay screenshot as the cover.
Main menu:
+ It was some sort of village
- The cursor was a green hand, like an orc's hand (the hand is a red glove)
+ The buildings were huts.
+/- Menu buttons had stone textures
Timeframe: 1995-1996-ish. (Could be a bit older, but didn't play until then.)
Platform: MS-DOS (I remember having to fiddle with the sound card settings.)
Graphics: 2D, top down. Possible slight 3/4 perspective, not sure. Think it was still the good ol' 320x240.
Mood/Theme: Corporate Cyberpunk, but perhaps a little less 'punk'?
Gameplay: top down, action-ish shooter, robot/droid character. (Think a less personable Johnny 5)
You start the game by naming yourself and/or your corporation, and choosing a logo with [Ltd.] or [Inc.] or something like that on it.
Between missions there's a nighttime cityscape, and you can visit various corporations to shop for parts for your robot. Among these is a Black Market, which often has stuff a little outside the norm.
You can customize a number of slots on your robot, including a radio, a weapon, and threads. Perhaps one or two more.
I'm not entirely sure anymore what you actually do on a mission, but it's indoors, and you're on a timer. You have a gun, and pretty sure you used it, but not sure on what.
But basically, do mission, buy upgrades, repeat. Can't remember any story, but perhaps I skipped it.
Fun details:
You had some inertia, letting go of a direction meant you kept moving for a while. Acceleration, top speed and deceleration all depended on thread type.
I think bumping into walls carried a penalty of sorts.
Which is why I liked one of the Black Market 'threads' you could buy, a hover thing with full inertial dampeners. It was rather slow, though.
There was a similar hover 'thread' available, much more expense, but also much faster. But instead of coming to a complete stop after pressing a direction, it lacked brakes altogether. Que bumping around the walls until you died.
If you stood/moved near some terrain features, there was some static on the screen and audio. I believe a better radio would alleviate this.
From screenshots alone, Alien Breed comes close-ish:
But a little further zoomed out, and well, you're a robot, not a guy, and I don't think you were shooting at biological monstrosities, either.
Universal Warrior / The Machines?
Thanks!
Such a unique name, too.
Treads!
Right,
because somehow in my ~25 years of using English as a second language, I don't think I ever made that distinction. Huh. But yeah, "Tread carefully" 'n all - so, that makes sense. Yikes!
its a pleasure to discuss old games with other retro heads.
actually i remembered another game i'd love to find again.
it was some sort of music game.
the playfield was a stage with a band on it.
the graphics were 16bit-ish, very cartoonish and the band members were like caricatures, with sunglasses, hats, leather jackets, stuff like that.
the characters were really funky, and when you clicked each one they played their instrument.
i think the drummer did a backflip when you clicked him.
i remember i couldnt progress as i didnt understand the point of the game but i loved to click the band members in different order to make some sort of melody.
ideas anyone?
I've seen compilations like this sold in office supply stores. Check office depot/best buy in the non gaming software section, or walmart.