There was also a JP exclusive sequel to Dragon Force which I think got a fan patch.
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Games you remember, names you don't
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Yeah flies and you couldn't see the maze just corridor at a time.
The second screenshot seems to be an early build of Blazing Legion: Ignition by Ethan Redd (Kidd Radd).
The first screenshot seems to also be from the same person, maybe it's an even earlier build of the same game or some other project of his.
The first screenshot seems to also be from the same person, maybe it's an even earlier build of the same game or some other project of his.
I'm thinking of an NES game I played as a child, but never owned. Late '80s or early '90s. It was a 2D sidescroller. Not particularly challenging. About the only thing I remember about it is one of the later bosses being made of clouds, possibly similar to Kracko (Kirby series).
Cross posting a YT comment under a video:
Looks like this topic brought older members of PC gamers and I'd like to take the opportunity by asking the community to solve my 25 year old mystery. My parents got me a CD-ROM drive for my 486 back in 1994. It came with a demo disc for various DOS games. There was two that caught my eye which was Doom clone with a theme of horror. I think it was called Nightmare something. And also a upcoming game in a form of trailer. It was fully rendered 3D. It looked like an adventure game. It involved teleportation and time travel I believe. And the character resembled one of an Ancient Egyptian God Anubis. The background music was techno. To this day, I do not know the title of these games. I have no idea if t were released and sold. I've never heard anyone talk about on Youtube either. Can anyone shed some light into this?
Anyone? :D
Looks like this topic brought older members of PC gamers and I'd like to take the opportunity by asking the community to solve my 25 year old mystery. My parents got me a CD-ROM drive for my 486 back in 1994. It came with a demo disc for various DOS games. There was two that caught my eye which was Doom clone with a theme of horror. I think it was called Nightmare something. And also a upcoming game in a form of trailer. It was fully rendered 3D. It looked like an adventure game. It involved teleportation and time travel I believe. And the character resembled one of an Ancient Egyptian God Anubis. The background music was techno. To this day, I do not know the title of these games. I have no idea if t were released and sold. I've never heard anyone talk about on Youtube either. Can anyone shed some light into this?
Anyone? :D
The horror themed Doom clone might be Nitemare 3D, which was a part of the Hugo franchise.
Pre-rendered graphics with an Egyptian theme in a mid-nineties DOS game makes me think of Powerslave, but that was a couple years after Nitemare 3D, so I'm not sure if the time frame matches up exactly. That was a first person shooter as well, but the pre-rendered intro might be misleading to people who never saw anything else of the game.
I know its a ps1 game it had a guy dressed as a clown it was a top down shooter and had a cool techno soundtrack.
Dunno if it even has a name, but there was a game I played on Commodore 64 at daycare as a kid. It had ASCII graphics (or PETSCII, I guess) on a blue background, so I'm pretty certain it was just a simple type-in program.
You were a vehicle (represented by an arrow or something) flying down a canyon made out of squares in a sine-wavy pattern that got increasingly narrower and narrower the longer you played. The objective was to simply try and not hit the walls for as long as possible. Though there was a trick to it... at a certain point, there would be a small gap in the canyon wall that you could escape from, which would put you on easy street.
It's crude enough that I suppose I could just try to recreate it for myself if I really wanted to, but it'd still be cool to find nonetheless.
You were a vehicle (represented by an arrow or something) flying down a canyon made out of squares in a sine-wavy pattern that got increasingly narrower and narrower the longer you played. The objective was to simply try and not hit the walls for as long as possible. Though there was a trick to it... at a certain point, there would be a small gap in the canyon wall that you could escape from, which would put you on easy street.
It's crude enough that I suppose I could just try to recreate it for myself if I really wanted to, but it'd still be cool to find nonetheless.
You could look here..
http://www.c64music.co.uk/mags/
A list of old type it yourself games from old magazines..
The second game sounds familiar or maybe I saw the same demo.
This should solvable as I doubt too many Demo discs were released with CD drives.
Nice, thanks. Looks like the gameplay I described is an entire genre... trying to find the specific version I played might be like trying to find a needle in a haystack, but it's a start.
I was kinda thinking the second one could've been one of The Journeyman Project games but not sure. Also check out Isis: Earth, Wind & Fire.
Gamebase64 lists this genre as "Racing - Stay on Track", so you can check out their list of all games under the genre.
The only thing that comes to mind is Solar Jetman (in terms of visiting planets and collecting things), but that has a pretty different backstory. I'll be curious what it is if this game does exist.
If he's certain it's for the NES then the only one I can think of is Overlord, which is a planetary strategy game where you have to get resources to colonise and protect planets, but that's a bit of a stretch tbh.
Well I was at my folks place and it look what game my dad owns!
Pretty sure you two hit the nail on the head!
There was a game in the mid 90s, a cartoonish point and click adventure that had a rhino guy guarding a rope bridge who I think threw dynamite. I remember one screen had a wood stump that may have been used as a table. Main guy may have been a monkey.
are you sure you are not thinking about Monkey Islands?
Or Simon the Sorcerer?
I thought of that too... but that is a Troll.. it even looks so.. it is also a Troll in Secret.. but it could be mistaken for a Rhino.. and there are monkeys in the game..Or Simon the Sorcerer?
I can't really think of an exact scenario, but could that've been one of the Gobliiins, or Woodruff?
Good shout, I'm definitely getting hazy memories of bridges and dynamite from the Gobliiins games.
100% not Monkey Island. Similar scenario I guess but when you tried to cross the Rhino would throw TNT at you.are you sure you are not thinking about Monkey Islands?
Neither of these unfortunately. I remembered the Monkey wore red. It may have been a spin on Monkey Magic. I remember there was also a gong.
I'm struggling to think of point and clicks where you control something that looks like a monkey. Coktel Visions' Gobliiins (Gobliins 2, Goblins 3) titles could fit the bill, perhaps. There's also Inherit The Earth: quest for the orb, which is a fox rather than a monkey, but does have heavy animal theming.
I played this game on a PS2, but I think it was a PS1 game. It was about robots fighting in an arena. 3D plane (i.e. not a side view like in Tekken). I think you could customize their parts. The robots looked very goofy and angular, not necessarily humanoid either. Tried looking it up many times but couldn't ever find it.
Oh my god, that's it! Thank you so much. I had a lot of fun playing this. And I'm seeing there's a sequel too.
There's a game that I can't find any screenshots of, but it was an educational game on I think an old Acorn computer. Basically it was a top down maze where you had to solve maths problems, and the character was green and square and wore sunglasses. He said "Thank You Very Kindly" whenever you solved a problem.
If anyone knows anything about this game I'd appreciate it very much! I loved it when I was a child.
If anyone knows anything about this game I'd appreciate it very much! I loved it when I was a child.
Oh man, I remember this game. Played it in elementary school. Good times.
Unfortunately not, from what I remember the layout was a similar colour scheme to minesweeper.
could it have been part of the "Fun School" games pack..? those existed on Acorn computers. But it is impossible to find pics and descriptions of the games from the first pack. I can only find Fun School 2 and upwards on the net.
Fun school 1 was made in 1984, and had a collection of educational games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_School
or you could try this site
http://www.everygamegoing.com/egg/l...chine_folder/electron/thing_type/educationals
it (supposedly) lists every Acorn Electron educational game..
Long shot that anyone can figure this out with the little information I have but: This is a Commodore 128 (64) game which I played from cassette IIRC. It was top down but you may have seen the entire character sprite rather than his top-down image (i.e. you saw a sprite like in a side scroller rather than just the shoulders and head from above). I don't remember what the combat was actually like but it was probably less hectic and combat-focused than Gauntlet and a bit more adventure/RPG. You may have played a knight (could be mage) and his sprite may have been yellow/golden or white. The main screen background color was probably black. You may have been able to cast magic/shoot. The world was probably built like Zelda 1's where you go from one screen to another rather than an interconnected world but I'm not completely sure.
It's probably NOT Sword of Fargoal but it's as good an excuse as any for some useless trivia!
The 1982 game developed by Jeff McCord was actually the first roguelike in the history of videogames !
Thanks, guys. I'll try to do a bit of research via those links. I had forgotten about Druid, it was awesome. That one belonged in "Games You Had Forgotten… Completely!" rather than this thread for me though, haha. It's not that one and I'm pretty sure you were walking on plain black with no textures rather than something like the grass of Druid.
