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Can't remember the name of that game you played all those many years ago? No sweat! PA is here to help! Post your ridiculously vague description on what you remember of the game and watch how the PA mystics find that game.
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I'm spoilering these for sanity's sake. The thread would be far too long otherwise.
All right, here's something that should be interesting:
Old-school windows 3.0/95 pack-in game. You had a large squarey area that would have a series of walls in it with a number of retractable/extendable gates affixed about the place, with a ball that would be bouncing around, and I guess the goal was to use the shutters to manipulate the ball in certain directions to do...something.
The last one is an airplane-based vertical shmup for DOS that I played on our very first computer back in 1990 or 1991. I don't think there were any levels, so you just flew until you died. If you stayed alive for so long, a larger boss-type airplane would come out. If you killed it, you continued flying until it would show up again a few minutes later.
I'm pretty sure that the airplanes were inspired by WW1, or maybe even WW2. It looked similar to Capcom's 1942, but the graphics and gameplay were much more simple. Recently I wondered if it might have been a DOS port of 1942, but I don't think any of the games in that series were ever ported to DOS.
Spectral Swallow wrote:I've got one, it was some kinda dungeon game we used to play at school (along with number munchers), I don't remember a lot about it, but it was super simplistic graphics and there was a minotaur or something that nobody in class could ever get past. I was thinking you went around and collected items, but this was close to 15 years ago, so I may be having false memory syndrome. Oh, I'm pretty sure it was set in the minotaurs maze.
Funguy McAids wrote:One is called The Land. This doesn't help me much because I can't seem to find it anywhere and searching for 'The Land' gives me plenty of not-associated results. Maybe I'm even wrong about the name but I doubt it.
The Land was an RPG of sorts for Dos in the early 90's I believe that used a randomly generated world, but I could be wrong. I can't remember much else about it.
Funguy McAids wrote:The other game i'm after was also a Dos game from the same time, an RPG and very small. It definetely used random generation for everything. The game had you travel deeper into the earth, with each level getting much more difficult and scary than the last. I think it was in first person and I seem to recall some bright colours going on. Now I think but i'm not sure if it was this game or not, that sometimes you could find an exit from your dungeon into an outdoor mountain area that was drawn in front of your eyes randomly and looked cool as it was drawn in.
Campy wrote:Okay, so my vaguely remembered game... I'm pretty sure it was on the amiga/commodore. It was a cross between American football, football and killing lots of people. You had to play as humans and there were 3 leagues to play through: humans, lizards and rhinos. There were swords and shields two aid your killing potential, and maybe even some power ups? I think you could decapitate people and run around with their heads too, though I may have made that up. This was probably about 12 or so years ago?
PeregrineFalcon wrote:Arcade game around late 1980- early 1990 and played as a 2D side-scroller shooter. You were some sort of Generic Space Guy X, travelling to different planets in a solar system. I think it was supposed to be our solar system. You picked your planet from an overview screen, they gave you a little clip of your ship warping off to the planet in question, flying towards it, etc, then you landed and began eradicating the local flora and fauna.
Standard "Jump and shoot" control mechanics. I remember at least three of the planets - Mercury was, of course, really fucking hot and had desert/lava type terrain. Earth had weird man-eating plants that I'm pretty sure ate the guy during the demo loop every time. And Neptune/Pluto were low-gravity, barren, and full of flying critters.
For some reason the letters "F/X" come to mind when thinking of the title.
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I'm spoilering these for sanity's sake. The thread would be far too long otherwise.
Dark Cloud
Dink Smallwood
Dynamite Cop
Deadly Tide
Armorines
Elfland
Spitwad Willy
Aztec Adventure
Future Cop LAPD
Big Isy wrote:The game was released on PS2 and was adungeon crawler of sorts. You basically found stuff in the dungeons that would then appear in your main hub/town. Things like buildings and people. Very bright and Japanese-y
Dink Smallwood
It was an older game for the PC, and the begning goes kinda like this (gona spolier it as it kinda is)You start off in some village and you have to go outside of it for a bit, for picking apples or something. When you get back to the village it is on fire and eveyone is dead. Combat wise I have no idea, I know that alot of the enviroment was plainsy or grassland kind of stuff. At one point you meet a wizard who lives in some cabin.
Thats all I remember, I played it when I was ten or mabye even younger.
Dynamite Cop
thejazzman wrote: »It was for the dreamcast, I rented it a couple of times. I'm pretty sure it was CO-OP and I think that's why I like d it a lot (though there's a good chance it wasn't that great). It was a third person action game and you played some sort of navy seals or something. Levels including sneaking onto some island that had lots of bad guys on it and a boat level? I"m sorry this is so vague.
It was a bit like streets of rage and the like, linear beat em up level progression and you could pick up weapons off the bad guys and stuff.
Deadly Tide
Ok I got one. I remember a long time ago when we got our first computer and it had windows 95 on it. We also got some cd with some trailers for games on it and I remember always watching some trailer about some war underwater? It said something like. "The battle for Earth won't take place in the stars or on the land. It will take place in the ocean." or something corny like that.
Armorines
NerfThatMan wrote: »Oh, I actually have one that I was just thinking about the other day. My memory of this is pretty damn vague though, so.
Anyway, it was either for N64 or Playstation, and it was a game where you ran around shooting aliens in various environs. It was third-person, and I remember it being fairly difficult. Pretty dark as well.
It had co-op, which was the only reason I ever played it, and me and my friend (who owned the game) used to play it quite a bit, but I can't remember anything else about it.
Elfland
The second one was a 2D sidescroller. I think you played as an elf or a gnome or something similar. In the first few minutes of the game, you have to climb up a really tall tree and jump behind the sun in order to get out of the first area. I don't remember anything about the game beyond that.
Spitwad Willy
I have three that I've been trying to figure out for a long time. The first two are games I played in the mid 90s. They were probably for either DOS, Windows 3.1, or Windows 95.
The first one played and looked similar to that Double Bloob game that was supposed to come out on the DS. You were in a room that had balls bouncing around and you had to dodge them while shooting them down with spitballs. I think you could only shoot directly up and when you landed a hit on one of the balls, they would break up into smaller balls. The main character of the game was a kid might have been wearing a backwards baseball cap and sunglasses.
Aztec Adventure
Crotchless Gorilla Suit wrote:Does anyone remember a game for the... I believe... Sega Master System, that was kind of like Legend of Zelda on the NES but a little different. I'm pretty sure it used "Greensleeves" as the in game music.
But it was a top-down view, with monsters and bushes and whatnot.
Vague, huh?
Future Cop LAPD
Early 90s, I think. Probably Windows 95.
You played a cop, either a robot cop or some sort of futuristic cop car. The game was top-down 3d in a futuristic urban setting. Oh, and you had to shoot things. It might've had a 2-player mode.
Now that I think about it, there might have been between-missions cutscenes that were pre-rendered 3d.
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Seconded.
Actually, just the hub part. The rest doesn't really sound right.
Edit: Could you go inside people's dreams? If so, Alundra. You saved villagers in that game, if I remember correctly.
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It was an older game for the PC, and the begning goes kinda like this (gona spolier it as it kinda is)
Thats all I remember, I played it when I was ten or mabye even younger.
It was for the dreamcast, I rented it a couple of times. I'm pretty sure it was CO-OP and I think that's why I like d it a lot (though there's a good chance it wasn't that great). It was a third person action game and you played some sort of navy seals or something. Levels including sneaking onto some island that had lots of bad guys on it and a boat level? I"m sorry this is so vague.
It was a bit like streets of rage and the like, linear beat em up level progression and you could pick up weapons off the bad guys and stuff.
Dynamite Cop
In-Game Cover
It was at the arcades as well and you started on a boat, and there's a part where you fight a Giant Kraken, it's also got QTE's every now and again
How old are we talking about? Are we in the days of DOS? At a guess, I'm going to throw out Crusaders of Might and Magic.
Hmm, that might be it, ill look into it tonight. As for age, I relaly have no idea. Ill see if I can remember more and post it up for more info.
Did it involve submarines? I remember a game (I have it kicking around somehwere) that was entirelrly underwater and you had to drive submarines. I think it was newer than that though, so I doubt its what your talking about.
Some guesses:
Deadly Tide
Archimedean Dynasty, the precursor to Aquanox.
Subwar 2050
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You said you played it when you were 10 or younger. How long ago was that? Crusaders came out in late 1999, for reference.
Ohh, that was 6 and a half years ago, but now that I think about it I think I played it a bit before that. I know it was one of my first video games I ever played, so id say when I was 8 or 9, so about 7 to mabye 8 years ago. I know I was young, and I rememeber back then my oldest brother showed me all kinds of little games he would get for cheap, this only lasted for like 2 years though, so its somewhere in that timespam.
If its sooner than that, then my memory must be a little wonky. Which may very be the case.
Old-school windows 3.0/95 pack-in game. You had a large squarey area that would have a series of walls in it with a number of retractable/extendable gates affixed about the place, with a ball that would be bouncing around, and I guess the goal was to use the shutters to manipulate the ball in certain directions to do...something.
Does anyone remember a game for the... I believe... Sega Master System, that was kind of like Legend of Zelda on the NES but a little different. I'm pretty sure it used "Greensleeves" as the in game music.
But it was a top-down view, with monsters and bushes and whatnot.
Vague, huh?
Well that could be describing any number of RPG's, but for some reason Dink Smallwood comes to mind.
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Heh, Jezzball! I forgot about that game!
Came in the same pack as Chip's Challenge if I remember correctly.
Anyway, it was either for N64 or Playstation, and it was a game where you ran around shooting aliens in various environs. It was third-person, and I remember it being fairly difficult. Pretty dark as well.
It had co-op, which was the only reason I ever played it, and me and my friend (who owned the game) used to play it quite a bit, but I can't remember anything else about it.
Go!
Similar in art style to Jezzball but different gameplay. In Maxwell's Maniac you had blue and red balls bouncing around. The goal was to get the red balls in the red area and the blue balls in the blue area by controlling gates to simultaneously keep some balls out while letting others in.
Many a good times were had with that one (although I liked Jezzball more)
Armorines comes to mind but that's first person.
Just google'd it. You are absolutely correct. Not sure why I remember it as third-person.
Thanks!
Armorines was the exact same game I was thinking of. It was N64 and not playstation if I recall.
Did It have a 3rd person view mode? It was one of those 64 games were later on me and my friend were just like wtf is this weapon supposed to do now?
Yeah, and no there was no 3rd person view. It was also out on the pSone and didn't look too shabby there (that's where I played it!)
And god the weapons were insane.
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