Games you can't remember, but still miss - describe them.

[Kirk Sabre]

This game was for the ps1 you got like monsters in eggs and you tried to make different monsters and when you battles it was like on this grid system

Azure Dreams, by any chance?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure_Dreams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1Xo5C3f5tw

 

[Kirk Sabre]

Some kind of resident evil like game. Only it was in a space station or something. the zombies floated and if you got near them they would atatck you.

Possibly Galerians, or the sequel, Galerians: Ash?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerians:_Ash

 

[Kirk Sabre]

Please help me on this one.
I remember playing a turn based strategy game on the PC. The thing is, the gameplay for that game was EXACTLY like a Super Robot Wars game, but from what i have been searching its not a super robot wars.You had an overview map from where you selected what character to use, what attack to use and who to attack, then you saw an animation of that said attack, and the enemy counter attack.
This game had anime like characters and robots, you started the game by saving a village from an attack. You played as a guy with long hair and he piloted a robot that used two swords to attack. After the attack you save a blonde haired girl from the village. Later, this girl would also get robot to pilot. Along the way you find other characters that join your party and sometime you could make a decision that would change the story.
Interesting is, that while this game had robots I remember that the setting of the story looked medieval, you had to attack quite a few castles during the story.

Vanguard Bandits? Medieval + piloting mecha + TRPG? Sounds like it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanguard_Bandits

 

[putowtin]

I am beating myself up for forgetting this game! It was an arcade game, back in the 80's. It was a first-person shooter game where you had to shoot bad buys that would randomly pop up from behind bars and stuff. I think you had to shoot targets too? The graphics had a lot of brown color in them, like it was the old west or something. The arcade game had the little gun connected to it.

Wild Gunmen... maybe?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Gunman

 

[azureWyvern]

First was a space civ sim. You had your race and there were other races you could diplomacise with. I remember one of the other races looked a bit like a sandwich... I remember you could build ships, and you first decided the size of the ship, and filled up the ships slots with engines and weapons and shiz, so you could fill it full of engines and have it mega fast or have no engines and all weapons for a really slow gun platform style thing. Also the only way to travel between systems was by wormhole, but you could set up wormhole blocks or something...
EDIT: And it was turn based! I think. Well it might have been. Probably?

Well, if you're wrong about them being turn-based, then perhaps Star Control 2 or StarFlight?

It's Ascendancy, by The Logic Factory, famous for having the weirdest collection of races in any sci-fi game ever (and no humans at all). One of my old favorites! I forgot the name for an extended period of time once too. The Logic Factory actually still exists and they put out an iPhone release of the game a little while back (too bad that's the only thing they've released in like a decade or more).

EDIT: Oh, that original post is over a year old now. That's too bad. It was definitely Ascendancy, though.

I'll try to repost this one from a few months back. It really gets to me that I can't find the name, it was such an awesome game.

This is a PC game from the 90s.

A spaceship finds itself stranded in an unknown solar system. Because of this the player needs to start colonizing nearby planets for ressources. As the game moves on the plot thickens in various way, the stranded spaceship isn't quite alone in the system, and the player needs to adjust his goals as the story moves forwards.

The game is an economic building/management game, with a lot of focus on exploration and ressource management.

It has various views controlled from the spaceship:
Planet Management, top down sim city building view
Planet scouting, small arcade sequence where the player controls a recon craft. Top down view.
Science, player selects technology for research.
System navigation, player plots a course for the mother spaceship to fly.

The special twist of this game is that it combines management gameplay with a well paced storyline, that very directly influences the core game. The player is faced with various missions and tasks that needs to be accomplished, sometimes with a time limit. The game sometimes feels like one long tutorial although a very enjoyable one.

I don't remember the name and haven't been able to search for it.

Some of this sounds almost exactly like Star Control 2 (now available as freeware under the name The Ur-Quan Masters), except it couldn't be because there was no colony management in Star Control 2. It was in Star Control 3, but I didn't think SC3 retained the ability to send rovers down to explore hostile planets (I've never played that one, so I can't say for sure). Try looking into those. And then play Star Control 2 regardless of the outcome because it's fantastic.

Hi,

I've found this topic on google and it's something that i'm trying to find for years!
Congratulations for the creator of the topic.I will recommend this to all my friends.

Now, the game that i'm trying to find..i really dont remember exactly the time that i've played it..
It is a game that bases on you controlling a mothership(blue i think)..
From her you can create helicopters,tanks,radars,planes,etc..but all of them requires energy wich is the base resource that your mothership have..it also necessary to the ship's shield and to teleport to another place on the map..also in the map you can find energy factories that help your energy recovers more fast..

The gameplay have a 3D cenario(most of them are cities i think), and it is a "mix" of strategy and action, since you can control your units directly from the map, or moving them for yourself..entering in a first person shooting camera and walking with the vehicle..you can also do that to control fixed guns and the defenses of your mothership.

The objective of the game is to destroy enemy motherships and their armies..
I only played the demo version..so there was only 2 types of enemy motherships..
A red one wich is smaller than yours but have a heavly firepower..and a yellow who is like a flying square fortress.

Tried to detail as best as i can..anyone know the name of this game?

UGH!!!....I know the game your looking for but I can't remember the name >_<

This sounds very much like a game that came with a joystick I once owned called Urban Assault. Could that have been it?

 

[RadioactiveMicrobe]

Holy chopsticks guys, you might be able to finally help me.

Okay, it's a star wars game. And I think the title was just one of the movie titles, but I can't be sure. It's older I think, and it's a beat 'em up, mortal Kombat style game. I remember there was a chick with 2 jedi lightsabers in the game.

If anyone knows what this was called, you may have my first born.

And a hug, and a cookie.

 

[Watson767]

Holy chopsticks guys, you might be able to finally help me.

Okay, it's a star wars game. And I think the title was just one of the movie titles, but I can't be sure. It's older I think, and it's a beat 'em up, mortal Kombat style game. I remember there was a chick with 2 jedi lightsabers in the game.

If anyone knows what this was called, you may have my first born.

And a hug, and a cookie.

There was 2 I think. 'Starwars Masters of Teras Kasi; Is the only one that comes to mind though.

 

[Bostur]

Some of this sounds almost exactly like Star Control 2 (now available as freeware under the name The Ur-Quan Masters), except it couldn't be because there was no colony management in Star Control 2. It was in Star Control 3, but I didn't think SC3 retained the ability to send rovers down to explore hostile planets (I've never played that one, so I can't say for sure). Try looking into those. And then play Star Control 2 regardless of the outcome because it's fantastic.

No it's not Star Control, nice attempt though. I'll look into that it seems to have much of a similar gameplay. The graphics and UI seems quite similar in style.

The scouting section I mentioned had an aircraft that was controlled through a top down view of the whole planet, represented as a grid map. The aircraft could pick up alien relics and other ressources. A recon mission would last until the aircraft was out of fuel.


Edit: I finally found it, its called "Alien Legacy". Thanks to Azure Wyvern for the help.

 

[Drizzitdude]

Some kind of resident evil like game. Only it was in a space station or something. the zombies floated and if you got near them they would atatck you.

Possibly Galerians, or the sequel, Galerians: Ash?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerians:_Ash

Nah I found it, it was an old ps1 game. 'Martian Gothic'

 

[mediasavior]

Hey guys, I played a game in the mid 90's, first person point and click puzzle RPG. The game starts with you in your house in modern day and it's raining outside. You recieve a package at your front door and it's a computer game. You install the game (in game) and you get sucked into your computer into a fantasy world. Beyond that I don't remember what the plot is. I do remember the cover of the box had a dark haired big breasted woman in a red bikini type outfit at the front of a group of other inhabitants of the world you get sucked into.

For some reason the name Xanthia rings a bell but I could be thinking of something else. Thanks for the help guys.

 

[Jabbawocky1327]

I've spent a number of years trying to find this particular game but to no avail - maybe someone here can help. I remember the game was around in the 90s (possibly even as early as '89), either top-down or isometric (but definitely sprite artwork - akin to Blood Omen) RPG (maybe action hybrid. I seem to remember that it was real-time). There was quite a number of different character choices (selected via clicking on a smallish portrait located on the right of the screen) but no character customisation. Some of the choices included necromancer, vampire and possibly werewolf (there were multiple vampires characters from memory). The starting location for the vampire was a cemetery. Sadly, I can't remember any other details, apart from the fact that it was on a computer of some description (not sure if it was pc or mac though :S).

Thanks for your help!

 

[amishosh]

I used to play this game also mid 90's. I believe it was a DOS game.
You're this red "packman looking" guy who has to eat ALL these funny looking rings to finish each stage. You can "eat" these green boxes your way through and can push these silver balls around. The higer the level the more difficult the position of these rings were in relattion to the balls. there were like 100 levels if I'm not mistaken. Also I think if a ball fell on you, you "die" and need to start over. Sometimes you would block yourself or the rings and wouldn't be able to finish the stage.

Any one know what Im talking about?

 

[Jabbawocky1327]

Any one know what Im talking about?

Yes! I used to play it too. It's called Supaplex:

http://www.elmerproductions.com/sp/

 

[nana17]

I'm so glad to have found this thread. I'm looking for a really simple game I played between 1999 and 2001. It was on the PC (you could play it online or download it), a horizontal space shooting game where you have to kill swarms of insects, with a mini boss at the end of every 5-6 levels. It wasn't a fast paced game at all and had minimal power ups or fancy weapons. It's very similar to Space Invaders, but just with big colourful cartoon-y insects.
Can anyone please help me? It's driving me nuts lol.

 

[Vestros]

Hi I have been racking my brain for years and years trying to remember this game i think it is a ps1 game although it might have been an SNES game its a grid based game where you summon these golem like creatures to fight and there are three different types of them i think maybe more i rented it so i didnt get super far always wanted to play it again but the store closed and i have never run into it again i think there was like a spear type a sword type and some sort of ranged maybe that might be off

 

[targren]

This is a hard one...

Commodore 64
I think the game started with a digitized "Liberty Bell March" (Monty Python theme). It was a multi-room side-view platformy puzzle type game. Your character was a little horned viking type guy with an axe, I think, who could bounce across water. Several water rooms had giant neptune statues that could come up out of the water and kill you against the ceiling. When you died, your body disappeared and the horn floated down. I think the name had something to do with "Brain" (I thought it was "Brain Drain" but google doesn't seem to bear that out for me).

 

[targren]

Hey guys, I played a game in the mid 90's, first person point and click puzzle RPG. The game starts with you in your house in modern day and it's raining outside. You recieve a package at your front door and it's a computer game. You install the game (in game) and you get sucked into your computer into a fantasy world. Beyond that I don't remember what the plot is. I do remember the cover of the box had a dark haired big breasted woman in a red bikini type outfit at the front of a group of other inhabitants of the world you get sucked into.

For some reason the name Xanthia rings a bell but I could be thinking of something else. Thanks for the help guys.

"Companions of Xanth"

It's basically the same video game that sucks the guy in in the Xanth novel "Demons Don't Dream"

 

[jonc83]

Im looking for a old pc game i cant remember the name of, maybe someone can help.

Its a top-down space game where you control a ship and fly around doing missions. I remember the first thing you did was save up money for some sort of hyperdrive and fuel which you used to fly to the next system. You could get there by flying normally through open space but it would take forever. (The "hyperdrive" made you go faster, but still travel normally, and drained special fuel)

Other than that you could buy weapons etc, talk to people on nerby planets/ships etc. It was not a tactical game with lots of ships and it was story driven.

Could be Solar Winds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Winds

Do you have any more details?

 

[cassy0524]

I have been looking for this game everywhere and have no idea what it was called. The only thing I can remember is that it was kind of set up as Mario except you were a blonde girl and you had to avoid grubs and make it through the end of the maze, I really hope someone knows what I am talking about it would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[jatore]

I Remember this one game on the Dream cast where you played as these two kids and there butler. You started on a train and fought some people. Later in the game I remem be finding a girl with a gun for a hand. I think her namewas pepper.