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Games you remember, names you don't
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Maybe someone knows this one:
PC game, 3D, back in the early 2000s it was sold in a dual pack, like Septerra Core/Shogo: MAD, it was a medieval gothic fantasy action adventure game. Could've been an RPG and early in the game you fight skeletons.
I seem to remember the main character being a brown haired white dude wearing a red vest and tan pants.
PC game, 3D, back in the early 2000s it was sold in a dual pack, like Septerra Core/Shogo: MAD, it was a medieval gothic fantasy action adventure game. Could've been an RPG and early in the game you fight skeletons.
I seem to remember the main character being a brown haired white dude wearing a red vest and tan pants.
I'm trying to remember this old PS1 arcade game collection where you walked around a 3D environment and there were models of the characters hanging out. I thought it was one of the Namco Museums but none of them seem to match up, and I seem to vividly remember Twinbee being there, which is Konami.
It had such a good aesthetic and I wanna watch some videos of it
It had such a good aesthetic and I wanna watch some videos of it
If it's Konami and PS1, it must be Konami Arcade Classics, right?
Gry Looking
http://www.retrotechy.co.uk/wordpre...collections-on-the-playstation-psx-ps1-psone/
Try looking here
http://www.retrotechy.co.uk/wordpre...collections-on-the-playstation-psx-ps1-psone/
Thanks, it was Namco Museum vol. 4 and in my head I just conflated Ordyne with Twinbee.... Somehow. Maybe there's another game with a CG Twinbee??
Either way this is still an aesthetic
So, I'm looking for a word that means "optimize" but isn't optimize. It's like a combination of optimize and scalability.
Unfortunately I won't know if you get the right answer.
Unfortunately I won't know if you get the right answer.
Might be better asking this in the question thread in the Etcetera Forum.
I think last time I posted here, I was looking for an old game that was probably Alfred Chicken.
But now I have another couple of old games I remember, but not their names. When I was in 3rd grade or so, our library had some old computers that I'm sure were old Mac computers. This was in 1999 or 2000. They were teaching us about computers and showed us some games. One of them was this rock-paper-scissors game that was nearly colorless, so mostly black and white. I remember the computer player would always win, so that was dumb.
Another game from that day was some electric light puzzle type of game. The main interface was this grid of windows on a building. Also mostly black and white. It was confusing, but one of the teachers said it was fun once you figured it out.
I thought they were MECC games because I recently saw Number Munchers and I remembered that from around the same time period, but I still haven't been able to find it. Does anyone else know which games I'm describing?
But now I have another couple of old games I remember, but not their names. When I was in 3rd grade or so, our library had some old computers that I'm sure were old Mac computers. This was in 1999 or 2000. They were teaching us about computers and showed us some games. One of them was this rock-paper-scissors game that was nearly colorless, so mostly black and white. I remember the computer player would always win, so that was dumb.
Another game from that day was some electric light puzzle type of game. The main interface was this grid of windows on a building. Also mostly black and white. It was confusing, but one of the teachers said it was fun once you figured it out.
I thought they were MECC games because I recently saw Number Munchers and I remembered that from around the same time period, but I still haven't been able to find it. Does anyone else know which games I'm describing?
That wasn't it, but the character in the screenshot fits the description, at least! The game I'm thinking of was more advanced graphically, somewhere between PS1 and Dreamcast era.Ecstatica ?
Edit: I remembered! It was called Soulbringer and it was packaged with Planescape: Torment in a "Dual Jewel" bundle for $10 at Walmart back in the day.
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Some I recently remembered their names.
Operation: Inner Space
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior
I still forget some game I played on PC that was a point and click adventure game, I think it was called Amazon. It was the old police quest days.
Operation: Inner Space
Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior
I still forget some game I played on PC that was a point and click adventure game, I think it was called Amazon. It was the old police quest days.
There's a cookie-cutter action game out on the PS2 that featured an anthropomorphic cat/tiger(?) in what I think was a quasi-Chinese setting. I'm half-certain the devs weren't Japanese.
I'm not sure why I keep thinking about this game, even though it wasn't special in any way. I'm also not sure how you people manage to figure out what these games are with vague descriptions like mine.
I'm not sure why I keep thinking about this game, even though it wasn't special in any way. I'm also not sure how you people manage to figure out what these games are with vague descriptions like mine.
That was fast.
And you're right, it is The Legend of Kay. Thanks for helping me find it. Have to admit, though, the footage I'm looking through seems more bland than I remember.
The video is from the remaster. I have the PS2 original, but I think you're right about it being kinda bland.
Good guess, but thats not it. The graphics was closer to how police quest looked. It's weird how I remember playing that game so much, when it's not even a genre I play today.
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ahh that looks much more like what he was looking for.. nice find.
Thats it!!!
I played the hell out of that game! Now I want to play it again . . .
This might be real a long shot.
there was a game i remember playing off an old PC Gamer UK demo disc, it recently popped into my head and for the life of me i cant think of the name.
any help would be appreciated, i've been driven crazy trying to remember.
there was a game i remember playing off an old PC Gamer UK demo disc, it recently popped into my head and for the life of me i cant think of the name.
- if i remember correctly it was the entire game on the disc so might have been considered more freeware than a demo
- it was a classic style point and click Adventure
- you played a detective in a Trenchcoat and a feel like his name was valentine or something similar (valentine might have been in the title)
- The whole game was black and white
- it was definitely a comedy (lots of funny comments and a wacky solution to puzzles)
- the game was on a 2D plane but all the assets and characters looked like they were in 3D, as if they had used 3D models to create sprites
- there was another game on a subsequent demo disc that was a semi sequel and that one was fully 2D assets.
- the time scale is were it gets tricky, i can only give a ball park figure based on my age at the time, somewhere between 2002 and 2008.
- Edit: fairly certain it was also voice acted
any help would be appreciated, i've been driven crazy trying to remember.
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thanks so much for the reply. surprisingly this meets nearly every criteria but unfortunately isnt the game.
you have sparked my memory though, i do think it had voice acting. ill update my original post
SNES title (maybe Megadrive/Genesis also) - 2D platformer - you're on a ship that is sinking, and you have to navigate the ship saving people (not sure if youre actually saving people or collecting things/people)
Have no clue what it is, but i remember playing at my cousins when i was young maybe once or twice.
Have no clue what it is, but i remember playing at my cousins when i was young maybe once or twice.
you're honestly a star. it was actually the next game they released was the one i played "The Goat In The Grey Fedora". but you nailed it. can i ask how you found it? did you happen to remember it or did you do some better googling than i was able to manage?
Thanks again
I actually just googled it.. (I am old though (turn 44 in a week), so I have been around the internet since search engines were invented).
Whilst that looks awesome - it was not that im afraid, was a lot more cartoonish (probably should have stated that), and involved a lot (i think) of those white and red floatable rings you chuck out when people are drowning (maybe they were a collectable)
Been on a search for a game I played during early childhood again, and I've had just as little luck as I have many times before. May as well mention it in here.
Floppy disk-era game, old even back when I first played it. Rudimentary 3D, likely with 2D sprites. The main thing I remember--and if I'm correct it was something of a subgame within a larger game--was a stone temple-like structure, and outside was dinosaurs. Dinosaurs, eggs, trees, maybe some bodies of water. A UI bar ran along the top or bottom. To my determination it was not 3-D Dinosaur Adventure, which always dominates my search results.
If I try to remember harder, I think I can picture things having a warmer color scheme to them. But that's the extent of what I can recall; I was probably about 3 or 4 when I played it.
Floppy disk-era game, old even back when I first played it. Rudimentary 3D, likely with 2D sprites. The main thing I remember--and if I'm correct it was something of a subgame within a larger game--was a stone temple-like structure, and outside was dinosaurs. Dinosaurs, eggs, trees, maybe some bodies of water. A UI bar ran along the top or bottom. To my determination it was not 3-D Dinosaur Adventure, which always dominates my search results.
If I try to remember harder, I think I can picture things having a warmer color scheme to them. But that's the extent of what I can recall; I was probably about 3 or 4 when I played it.
A top-down space bullet-hell-lite ship shooter that was on demo in stores during the windows 95 days, so I'm guessing it came pre-installed with HP or Gateway or something?
My memory is really hazy, I just remember playing it every time we went to the store. You got power ups (double lasers, shields, etc).
My memory is really hazy, I just remember playing it every time we went to the store. You got power ups (double lasers, shields, etc).
Hello .. to help you it would be very helpful to get some more info. Was it a PC game (you said floppy, but could be many older machines)? Was it top down? third person? isometric 3d? educational game? what year are we talking (I have no idea how old you are, so the 3 or 4 year age does not help)?
just something to help us search for it.
Would've been PC. It was a first-person perspective if I recall correctly, and I'd put it at a decent likelihood that it was supposed to be educational. You were more of a floating camera than an actual playable character.
And again, it was old even when I first played it. I can't approximately date it because of that. I'd figure it couldn't be any more recent than '94 or '95. This was a time period where old computer games were a tool to pacify me from asking for an N64. =p
OK, so this was a game that I was banned from playing as a child.
It was on the Amiga 500 and played kind of Like Tron or Nibles.
You had a metal snake type thing and you moved around a girid, drawing squares, when you completed a grid the square fell away from the metal speedball/turrican like arena.
You might have been a little red ball that you controlled.
It was on the Amiga 500 and played kind of Like Tron or Nibles.
You had a metal snake type thing and you moved around a girid, drawing squares, when you completed a grid the square fell away from the metal speedball/turrican like arena.
You might have been a little red ball that you controlled.
Could it be Terror liner II ? Warning this is an adult game with porn pictures.
Or the prequel.. but just go to lemon amiga and search for terror liner.. orsearch by genre arcade and then sub genre tron.
I've gone away and done some googling, I think it might have been Volfied or perhaps a clone of it?
I vaguely recall the name not really sticking in my head, so that kinda fits.
Volfied is a Qix clone though.
I think I know the game you're talking about but I don't remember the name right now..
It looked somewhat like Tech
http://hol.abime.net/1327
But the game I'm thinking of had no scrolling iirc
I'm sure the title was only one word and a short one at that..
Edit: from your description I initially thought your game was a Tron light cycles clone, but it could in fact be a Qix clone..
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