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Can't remember the game...
tehgr8supa
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There is an old PC game I'm trying to remember the name of, but I can't for the life of me.
It was a Worms style game set in space on planets of various sizes. You had a ship with a variety of weapons and moving abilities, and you were trying to blow each other up. You could terraform and create copies of planets, you could launch yourself from your current resting point (and I think gravity from the planets affected you and your weapons). It was a lot of fun, and while I'm sure there isn't a good way to play it, it would be fun to reminisce.
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It was a Worms style game set in space on planets of various sizes. You had a ship with a variety of weapons and moving abilities, and you were trying to blow each other up. You could terraform and create copies of planets, you could launch yourself from your current resting point (and I think gravity from the planets affected you and your weapons). It was a lot of fun, and while I'm sure there isn't a good way to play it, it would be fun to reminisce.
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Do you remember the year the game is from?
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I'm also looking for a game, It's an old PC game (1996 +- 3 years) and I have some foggy memory about it so don't take my description to literal. I was rather young and hardly knew how to play it so...
It's some kind of real time strategy game, graphical style somewhat like Abe's Odyssee but without the machinery. All in all a quite "floaty", serene atmosphere. It was presented in side view and you had several "locations" that were one, horizontally scrolling map. Via portals you could get to other "locations" which could look wildly different (underwater, jungle lava).
You did not have (much?) direct control over your minions (floating critters) but you could influence what buildings you made and which portals to open to other worlds (I think). A bit like settlers, you don't control your minions but influence them indirectly by buildings and such. Resources were collected by your critters who would grab small, glowing balls and transport those to your main building.
Hope this is good enough.
In the game I'm talking about, your ships resting on the surface of the planets. The game was 2D, and after looking at screenshots of Star Reach, the graphics were quite better. I don't remember the year, but I think I was playing it on Windows 95. I've got another game I'm thinking about as well, but let's get this one first.
I've tried Google searches with different combinations of keywords but I haven't been able to figure it out yet.
Yeah I was kind of thinking scorched earth cept no one ever moved in that game cause it was usualy fatal/waste of parachutes. For the most part it does fit the description preaty well.
Here's a handy link to download the shareware version to see for yourself since that other link only has two lousy screenshots. Works just fine on Windows Vista's DOS thingy or whatever. I used to play this game/sw/demo whatever for hours and hours back in the day.
These sort of threads usually turn into them after a while.
It came out ages ago. Like, mid 90s possibly? I can't quite remember how old I was. Anyways, the point of the game from what I can remember, was to go through levels, spelling things. Or something. It was kind of a platforming/learning game. There were baddies to defeat. Possibly made of goo. Or something.
EDIT: Shit. I don't know if I ruined the game, or if Google is just way overpowered. But by searching "90s spelling PC games" and clicking on the first link, I found it. Fuck.
The thing is, there were like a billion and one Scorched Earth clones. The version I remember mainly playing didn't have movement (beyond what happened after deforming the ground), but I'm pretty sure there were others that did.
Even though you found it already, was it Word Rescue?
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