Old Games you remember playing but can't remember the name of.

[CaulUinTur]

I have a challenge for the people who read this! The name has been eluding me and my brother for a good while. It's an old game.

SYSTEM
First problem, I'm not really sure about the system. It may have been PC, but it could have been Atari 500/800XL, the Atari ST or even ST-E or ST-F. Definitely one of those systems. The game was a maze game, not listed on wikipedia list of maze games as far as I can tell.

EDITOR
It had an editor. The levels were composed of a dot raster inside the editor. It had atleast one if not more premade ones as well as the option to create custom ones. The person editing the maze could select a color for the wall segment and place it anywhere by clicking between two dots in the level map. Depending on the selected position the wall would place horizontally or vertically in the editor.

PLAYERS
Two players could play with a split screen function.

GAME MODE 1
There was a game mode for TAG, where one player would be 'it' and run away from the second player in whatever maze was selected from the maze files. A timer would run as long as someone was 'it', accumulating points for the period of time they player was not tagged. Tagging happened by moving your player into the position of the other player. The players were represented by rectangles. The rectangles flashed white periodically if i remember correctly, possibly only when being 'it' or when being hit.

GAME MODE 2
That brings me to the second, (more boring) game mode. Players can shoot at eachother and the hits are represented by a number.

SOUND
While playing, there was classical music on the background. I can still humm the music

CONTROLS
Not sure about the controls, may have been with joysticks, may have been editable, may have been keyboard or mouse. My first guess would be joysticks, on an atari system, but my memories of the controls are so vague I can hardly be sure.


I hope these details spark somebody's memories because as far as search engines are concerned the game seems to have been sucked into a black hole....

Anyone?

 

[Nakasuki Juzaku]

Im looking for a gem collecting game that came out maybe around 2000-2006. It is kind like a 3D platform. you play as a girl adventurer who is trying to get gems and when time runs out a phantom appears and beings floating after you. It is for the PC and I think it was one of those download arcade games.

 

[Cingolia Hokes]

There was a game I played about 1998-2001 that was like a spaceship like shooting game. I remember the spaceship game was on a pc mega pack full of a lot of games. I don't remember the name of the cd but what I remember the most that got me hooked was the BGM. What I remember is before you hit to start the game the BGM played a song using what sounded like a piano. It was a nice song and I loved it. But when you hit to start the game itself all you hear is the same rythem like the piano but instead it was remixed with a guitar instead. It had a real feel and upbeat to it. And if I remember right most of all the levels had played this same song..or at least the first level. If I could at least get that game I would download the song and learn on my guitar from ear. If anyone knows this game please let me know. The game play through did have powerups but I don't remember what they did. I have ADHD so my memory is blurry but I really remember that BGM better than anything else out the game.

 

[justforshow]

I remember my sister showing me this web based game in the early 2000s that I've been trying to find on and off ever since. I never got a name for it, and my sister has forgotten everything about it.

It was a plain, simple online game where you would edit or create a moving object by adding and connecting lines to dots that served as joints. You could then click a button and watch how it moved and people could upload their designs on the website for other people to see. The objects would move from the middle of the screen towards one side of the screen, then change direction when it reached the edge. I remember seeing some large, faster ones that would roll to the edge of the screen and actually travel up it a bit before falling, squishing and bouncing, and rolling to the other side. My sister made one that could sort of walk on four pointy triangle legs like a dog.

The creations would look a little something like this http://www.mathpuzzle.com/MAA/10-Cubic%20Symmetric%20Graphs/Dotconnecting.gif
and didn't have to be symmetrical. I think the game was to help teach about shapes and symmetry or on motion, but that's just a theory.

I may be wrong, but I think the url was something short and weird, maybe not a whole word or just a word a little kid wouldn't be familiar with. I also don't think it was a .com website, but I can't be sure.

 

[Miro0161]

Platform(s)C

Genreoint and Click, Puzzle, Mystery, Kids Game

Estimated year of releaseossibly late 90s Early 00s

Graphics/art style:Simple graphics flat graphics(if it makes sense) but probably not 8 bit/16 bit, not 1st or 3rd person but probably top down

Notable characters: Different types of classic Monsters(I think they were friendly): Dracula/Vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein's Monster etc. With a sort of neutral character as the main character.

Notable gameplay mechanics: Point to go to different parts of a castle/manor type place and solve a single mystery throughout the area

Other details: I played it at a computer in my elementary school library, the school was a part of the LAUSD school district if it helps. Though it probably sounds similar it is not related to the Hotel Transylvania movies as they did not exist at the time. The game had a bit of a creepy feel for a kids game.

 

[zyler95]

I feel the need to quote myself since there is no answers.

Hey guys, came here for your help.

So I was playing a game in early 2000's. The game was dark, grim. First person. It was set in somewhat fantasy medieval. Mostly you fight blue or purple (can't remember which) big spiders. From weapon inventory I remember sorta like Arabian sword, with which you can slash enemies and spiders, and also a unique weapon - whip/lasso, which you also can use to transport yourself by hooking it up on small rings (something similar was in Half-Life Opposing Force with barnacle weapon).
That is all I remember unfortunately. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Roman78]

The game I am trying to remember was from around 15 yrs.ago. It had a large game board and you could change the spaces to square, diamond, or hexagon shaped. You got colors to play and the squares around you would change to that color if they were not blocked and then the opponent went next with every color except the one you just played. The winner was the one who played the most spaces. Does anyone remember it or know of another game like it? I tried Reversi. It is similar but not quite the same.Thanks!

Sounds a little like Hexxagon

http://www.giantbomb.com/hexxagon-2/3030-19556/images/

 

[Epic Destroyer]

Going to try again.

1st game
Platform: PC
Keywords: 2D, Pacman, Robot Snake, Insects, Bugs, Underground, Pac-dots
Release Date: 1998-2005?
Multiplayer: Don't know
Info: This was a snake game. It was different type of snake game. It was probably in Big Fish Games but I couldn't find it. It was a Pacman style game where you are the robot snake and you are from the pyramid which is on the ground. Then theres a view of the underground in 2D and theres white pac-dots. The robot snake gets in the underground and then you can control it with the arrow keys. When collecting the pac-dots then there would be insects and bugs coming from the right and left side of the underground.

The robot snake stretches when going deeper underground and you would need to avoid the bugs and insects from biting you. Collect all the pac dots and you would win the level. There is also power-ups like Freeze and Invisibility that I remember. Some of the levels wound take place in an underground desert or snow.

2nd game
Platform: PC
Keywords: Topview, 2D, Japanese RPG game, JRPG, Story, Battle
Releaste Date: 1998-2005?
Multiplayer: No
Info: It started off by the main character that went to a wagon. Near that wagon was a guy with a purple bandana on his head. Then next there was a scene showing off a vehicle going to the forest with adventure music. When the scene finished, I was able to control my main character. The forest looked dark and there was a campfire with loads of characters around it. Away from the campfire there was a floating crystal which I couldn't get to. Then I went to the other part of the forest and no one was there.

I was wondering around and then a battle commenced with enemy hornets. I killed them off and I commenced more battles with the enemies. This battle system is a little bit similar to Pokemon but not quite. When I finished killing off the enemies, I went back to the campfire. I was speaking to a specific character that said something but I don't remember what it was. That character went to the crystal and did something. I was then able to go to the crystal, which allowed to save my game.

I went to the place where I killed enemies again and then a battle commenced with a boss who looked like a bear as long as I remember. It took a long time to kill them and so I finished them off. I went back to the campfire and then I recognized that I had to go to the camp leader. When I spoke to him then the whole screen went black and white and then a menu came up of 4 characters that you could play as next. The same one, 2nd girl, 3rd girl and a guy with a purple bandana.

3rd game
Platform: PC
Keywords: Jet planes, Rockets, Special Abilites, Shooting, 2D, Laser
Released Date: 1998-2005?
Multiplayer: Yes. Can have 2 players.
Info: In this game you can control an orange jet plane which allows you to shoot with spacebar. The music was adventurous and I don't remember what the enemies looked like at all. The plane was on the left side of the screen while the enemies would come from the right side of the screen. You can control the jet plane to go up or down. There would be special abilities like rapid fire and rockets that you can pick up throughout the game. When playing multiplayer, the second jet plane would look red. I remember that the first boss looked like a train and if you were to go at the front of it then it would have a cannon attached to it which you will need to destroy.

The cannon will shoot the bombs at you and you have to avoid them. There was also a level where you are in the sky and the enemies were spike balls with balloons attached to them. The boss then was a mothership with loads of laser guns.

4th game
Platform: PC
Keywords: Ship, Scuba divers, Treasure, Underwater, 2D, Fish
Released Date: 1998-2005?
Multiplayer: Don't know.
Info: I have very dull memory on this game so I don't remember much. It was 2D view. You would see the underwater and the outside. The ship was on the water and then a character in a scuba suit jumped from the ship into the water. I was then able to control the scuba diver. The objective was to collect some kind of treasure. When the treasure was collected then you would see the scuba diver carrying a fish net.

You would need to carry the treasure back to the ship to win the level. There were enemies like fish of some sort and you had to avoid them. At the beggining of every level you would hear the noise of the ship bells.

 

[p.cassie1991]

This is killing me!... I don't know if any one else would remember playing this...
Basically the little people you had to save would only walk back and forth on your screen, as time passed the room they were in started to fill up with water. These little people could not swim, and as the room slowly filled with water you had tetris like pieces falling from above them and you could put a staircase together for them to escape drowning thorugh a door that was tipically above them? I think the tittle screen had a pyramid? I am not entirely sure but I loved the game and now cannot remember the name ? it was for PC I think

 

[p.cassie1991]

This is killing me!... I don't know if any one else would remember playing this...
Basically the little people you had to save would only walk back and forth on your screen, as time passed the room they were in started to fill up with water. These little people could not swim, and as the room slowly filled with water you had tetris like pieces falling from above them and you could put a staircase together for them to escape drowning thorugh a door that was tipically above them? I think the tittle screen had a pyramid? I am not entirely sure but I loved the game and now cannot remember the name ? it was for PC I think

 

[Julian Wirth]

Hi.

Im searching a game so... let's begin.

I've played it around early 2000's 2001-2003? This game maybe came earlier out i guess.
played it on my dad's old Pc with Windows XP.
Was an 3D Adventure/Fantasy Game, with a Kid, that turned into a Demon sometimes.
The Game was played in a 'Fantasy' World with Bridges and Tree's, you know...this fantasy stuff.
Was a really nice Game searching it now!

 

[Arag Lam]

Hey guys ,
I really need help too . I remember a game I used to play in the late 90's or 2000's beginning . So it's a 2d pc game in which you play as a red head (or a red bal with eyes and a mouth) in an environment composed of green squares . I'm pretty sure there are scissors there , which can run after you and kill you . There was a large number of levels. And the main collectible in the game has a strange shape , I really can't describe it . I know it's a big vague , but I'd really like to play it again. It's the game I played the most during my childhood. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Karunamon]

Sorry if its already been done just went to the end of 500 it was like a windows 2000 game where you free roam a area as a space ship on a planet with a radar telling you where to go and once you had destroyed all the enemies you could fly into a mini room to get to the boss can someone help me?

That sounds suspiciously like Terminal Velocity. I think it had a Windows release.

 

[FappinToFatties]

Hey guys! I'm trying to figure out a game that I played when I was really young. This is what I can remember about it:

- Late 90's early '00's pc game.

-Point and click style adventure/puzzle

-Kind of a cartoon animation.

-You had little stones that would turn you into animals to get you out of certain situations or to solve a puzzle.

-There was a part where you're walking through a labyrinth or a garden maze and then you get attacked by a minotaur.

-I think that there was a dragonfly on the box cover.

-I think there was a Mayan calendar puzzle in the beginning.

That's really all I can remember. If I can remember anything else, I will update it. I can't find the title of this thing anywhere.

 

[younes]

can somoene help me i am searchi,g for 2 games
the first is a sega ps1 (also genesis is a possibility) rpg game where ou could play 3 different characters you could choose a boy with a rat and is story starts in a cave and he has to get out. then yoou get cased by a rolling stone begind you and you have to use our rat to get out you second character is a farmer and your thirt was a girl in a castle and propably a princess you had to fight monsters turn based and i gues the farmer boy started in a village and had red hair but not sure.

my second game is a 3d game on the pc where you play a guy that is going to be decapitated by a troll ore something and sudenly you get saved by a lightning strike you have tou get a sword from the barn and get in to the castle and i guess you had to save a princes the game was on pc and had fixed camera angles you could save everywere and in the barn was a spider you had to kill and in the water in the castle where phirranas
i hope you could fid out at least witch one of the titels is i had realy good memories with them thank you

 

[Zaltys]

can somoene help me i am searchi,g for 2 games
the first is a sega ps1 (also genesis is a possibility) rpg game where ou could play 3 different characters you could choose a boy with a rat and is story starts in a cave and he has to get out. then yoou get cased by a rolling stone begind you and you have to use our rat to get out you second character is a farmer and your thirt was a girl in a castle and propably a princess you had to fight monsters turn based and i gues the farmer boy started in a village and had red hair but not sure.

Sounds like Wilds Arms (three protagonists, pet rat, etc), though some of the details don't match.

Maybe check the intro to see if it seems familiar:

 

[Razgriz383]

Hmmm none of those a striking a chord. Thanks for the good suggestions though. This game might have been around/post 2000 since it had non sprite trees IIRC, wish I knew how old I was when I was messing around with it. The player mechs were more akin to this Like I said in my initial post I could be losing my mind and taking bits from 3 different games and confusing them together. Perhaps there is a soul out there that knows what I'm going on about.

I looked at Mechwarrior 3 again and thats the only one that seems remotely close though I remember no laser/beam weaponry and the missions didn't seem familiar. I DO believe there were squadmates now that I really rack my thoughts.

One last I can tell you is heavy gear 2. BTW your Image link is broken.

Sorry for the late post, haven't checked back in a while. Holy crap though...that game is the closest yet. I'm not sure if thats the one but that is definitely the style of play it had. The Mechs are definitely of the type I remember. I'll watch a playthrough and see if that mission I played sticks out somewhere. Internet delivers.

I'm still sorta on the fence in my head with this one but I'm pretty sure you nailed it. http://www.localditch.com/heavygear/hgii/islide2.gif That picture alone is just about right. Wonder why I can't find the scenario I played.

 

[Cingolia Hokes]

There was a game I played about 1998-2001 that was like a spaceship like shooting game. I remember the spaceship game was on a pc mega pack full of a lot of games. I don't remember the name of the cd but what I remember the most that got me hooked was the BGM. What I remember is before you hit to start the game the BGM played a song using what sounded like a piano. It was a nice song and I loved it. But when you hit to start the game itself all you hear is the same rythem like the piano but instead it was remixed with a guitar instead. It had a real feel and upbeat to it. And if I remember right most of all the levels had played this same song..or at least the first level. If I could at least get that game I would download the song and learn on my guitar from ear. If anyone knows this game please let me know. The game play through did have powerups but I don't remember what they did. I have ADHD so my memory is blurry but I really remember that BGM better than anything else out the game.

I forgot to mention this spaceship like game was similar to galaga but instead it had more graphics pluss the ship was on the left side of the screen shootin to the right an you had to use the keyboard to move up an down to shoot objects an avoid being hit. The background picture I think did move but your ship could move all around the screen however it still felt stationary as well so you never really got the chance to explore. More like everything moved around you. I think I kinda remember everything was coming at you from the right side of the screen an some powerups gave you like extra lazers are missles to shoot out from your spaceship or shoot faster projectiles. It does start u off with 1 gun or lazer but I think it go up to shooting 3 at a time or shoot really fast!

 

[Terubby]

Sorry if its already been done just went to the end of 500 it was like a windows 2000 game where you free roam a area as a space ship on a planet with a radar telling you where to go and once you had destroyed all the enemies you could fly into a mini room to get to the boss can someone help me?

That sounds suspiciously like Terminal Velocity. I think it had a Windows release.

That was it thanks

 

[Cristina Runceanu]

Hei! I want to find an old game. You start off in a village that is destroyed/attacked by a meteor and after this you should build another village for them. I don't know the year or another things, but i know that when they make children, the hearts are getting out from the tent. I'm not good to explain things.