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

[diablo rules]

Alright, here's an old and seriously obscure one that I've registered just to throw at all of you lovely people.

I remember playing this PC game circa 1995 - most likely earlier. The main thing I remember about it is that it parodied Microsoft very strongly (I believe it called it "Microshaft") and there was a man and a woman, possibly employees. One level had something that, if you clicked on it, would play a sound clip of a woman's voice seductively saying "ooh baby" with some generic music in the background. Another involved something to do with a business and I remember a reference to the glass ceiling, which may have also been literal. It also had a feature which was VERY novel for the time - at least one level required you to be connected to the internet to get past it.

I'm not certain I would actually remember the name if I saw it, but I know I'd remember seeing images! I can still describe some of the levels a bit - the glass ceiling level was a large office, and I remember the back wall was not a wall at all but just one gigantic window looking out at a bright blue sky. The level with the sound clip had primarily purple tones - mostly light-ish, lavender I suppose. One level was also full of signs of some sort, though I do not remember what any of them said. The graphics were really quite decent for the time, no Duke Nukem red skin and jittery pixels.

Does this ring any bells, perhaps? I know it's pretty obscure.

(Edit: And now I've found it - good lord, it IS just as terrible as I remember. Microshaft Winblows 98.)

I had never heard of this...game?????...I googled it just for curiosity (curiosity killed the cat, I know)....seriously, I can't imagine any other similar bizarre thing like that (nor even Japanese stuff!)

Yeah, it's pretty awful. It was criticized heavily even back then and I am not at all surprised it's been mostly forgotten now. I was easily amused back then I suppose...

Okay, here's one where I do remember the game series, but not the exact game. It was a King's Quest game, late in the series, and I believe this is about halfway through the game. You start this portion of the game at a volcano that is about to erupt, and you've got to plug something into a control panel to prevent it from blowing its top. I think you play this section as Rosella, the princess. I remember being terribly irritated with this one because you couldn't clear the volcano bit without collecting items from earlier on, if you just started straight from that bit you wouldn't have the necessary items in your inventory. Which one was this?

should be

King's Quest VII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_Fe6ikr-Y

I haven't played it yet..I left these series after playing a couple of hours of King's Quest III because the parser is pretty frustrating.. typical from early Sierra games

 

[KaiYLowell]

should be

King's Quest VII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_Fe6ikr-Y

I haven't played it yet..I left these series after playing a couple of hours of King's Quest III because the parser is pretty frustrating.. typical from early Sierra games

That's the one! I recognized the title screen for that section right off; didn't even have to watch past it. Thanks mate - I think I actually have those games still, I'm going to go check my old games collection right now.

 

[Juan Camilo Faciolince]

This game used to be like a first player time of game. it was called like adventure something. The guy was able to buy new swords and buy HP potions after each like stage. there use to be like skeletons and bats. you would have to jump in order to kill bats and at the end we had to kill a dragon. i dont remember really the name. its a pc game.

 

[KaiYLowell]

Ach - and here's another one (possibly two) that just came to mind.

Very near the beginning, you take a plane to some Middle Eastern country (possibly Egypt?) The main character is a man, searching for something. Maybe treasure. Maybe a person. He talks to another man when he gets off the plane; they're in a room with what appears to be wooden crates. The other man is rotund and possibly balding, and I believe offers the main character a cigar. There's something I remember about a cobra too, and having to quickly kill it before it kills you. A woman is also involved at some point.

This part might be from a different game (or a sequel? I don't really recall.) You're in a maze and you're following a disembodied hand called Dirt. You can throw a rock at Dirt, but I remember the manual very clearly telling you not to throw the rock at Dirt, or Dirt will go away and you will get lost in the maze.

Any ideas?

 

[Kaamil Jasani]

Ok, I have been looking for this game for years and I feel like this thread holds the answers. It is a VERY vague description but hopefully someone can recognise it.

It had blue walls if I remember correctly, the trial version ended at some sort of tower (Wizard tower?) and the closest thing my memory relates to is pokemon because, again if memory serves me right, it had some sort of creatures that you used to battle with? Pretty sure it was top down, Played it on Win XP/98, but I am not sure if it was available before that or if it was a port or anything...

I also seem to remember it as sort of a maze, and it had a sort of outer path where the map ended (I think, not sure if I'm mixing two games at this point).

I really need the name of the game...

 

[diablo rules]

Ach - and here's another one (possibly two) that just came to mind.

Very near the beginning, you take a plane to some Middle Eastern country (possibly Egypt?) The main character is a man, searching for something. Maybe treasure. Maybe a person. He talks to another man when he gets off the plane; they're in a room with what appears to be wooden crates. The other man is rotund and possibly balding, and I believe offers the main character a cigar. There's something I remember about a cobra too, and having to quickly kill it before it kills you. A woman is also involved at some point.

This part might be from a different game (or a sequel? I don't really recall.) You're in a maze and you're following a disembodied hand called Dirt. You can throw a rock at Dirt, but I remember the manual very clearly telling you not to throw the rock at Dirt, or Dirt will go away and you will get lost in the maze.

Any ideas?

It's

Mummy - Tomb Of The Pharaoh (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOtpldCdHxg

very entertaining game starring Malcolm MacDowell as the antagonist.

I don't remember the hand in this game though..could be in the prequel

Frankenstein - Through The Eyes Of The Monster (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hubW1iY2Z-g

I have finished both games, but don't remember the hand neither in this game..but being Frankenstein there seems likely to be somewhere through the game.

Edit: Yep, checked the walkthrough and yes there is the hand Dirt in Frankenstein, now I recall that lazy hand!

 

[KaiYLowell]

Ach - and here's another one (possibly two) that just came to mind.

Very near the beginning, you take a plane to some Middle Eastern country (possibly Egypt?) The main character is a man, searching for something. Maybe treasure. Maybe a person. He talks to another man when he gets off the plane; they're in a room with what appears to be wooden crates. The other man is rotund and possibly balding, and I believe offers the main character a cigar. There's something I remember about a cobra too, and having to quickly kill it before it kills you. A woman is also involved at some point.

This part might be from a different game (or a sequel? I don't really recall.) You're in a maze and you're following a disembodied hand called Dirt. You can throw a rock at Dirt, but I remember the manual very clearly telling you not to throw the rock at Dirt, or Dirt will go away and you will get lost in the maze.

Any ideas?

It's

Mummy - Tomb Of The Pharaoh (1996)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOtpldCdHxg

very entertaining game starring Malcolm MacDowell as the antagonist.

I don't remember the hand in this game though..could be in the prequel

Frankenstein - Through The Eyes Of The Monster (1995)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hubW1iY2Z-g

I have finished both games, but don't remember the hand neither in this game..but being Frankenstein there seems likely to be somewhere through the game.

Edit: Yep, checked the walkthrough and yes there is the hand Dirt in Frankenestein, now I recall that lazy hand!

You, sir (or ma'am), are a gentle(wo)man and a scholar. Memories are flooding back now...

 

[diablo rules]

I've spent more than enough time searching now.. this is my last resort. (cut my life into pieces)

Alright, this was a game during the 90's on pc (windows 95?) The game/application looked basic.. I remember it having a party setup like the eye of the beholder/lands of lore, with similar combat but much simpler grahpics. It had an overworld with top down view, and once you entered a sewer maybe? it became first person dungeon crawling. i can't remember much else.. any help would be appreciated. I need to know i'm not crazy.

someone requested a similar game some time ago and found this

The Inside World (1995)

https://archive.org/details/TheInsideWorld_1020

it is hard to tell whether this is the right one, but check it out

 

[KaiYLowell]

Hey guys, I found this topic at Google, so I am kind of new here.
I am looking for a friend an old 2D good pixelated game of more than 10 years ago.
He told me the following details of the game thad he played 10 years ago:

- The main character was kind of a red weasel or fox like Sonic with a yellow belly.
- It was a 2D good pixelated! side scrolling PC cd game.
- It had a kind of blue sky background.
- There were colorful levels.
- There were kind of (exploding) barrels where you could jump in and at the right timing jumping out again or something.
- It was around the time of 2000.

He loved this game and would like to find it again. I hope there's someone that knows this game descriptions. Thank you in advance.

It's not a Crash Bandicoot game, is it? (Can't recall offhand if that franchise had any 2D games...)

 

[diablo rules]

Hey guys, I found this topic at Google, so I am kind of new here.
I am looking for a friend an old 2D good pixelated game of more than 10 years ago.
He told me the following details of the game thad he played 10 years ago:

- The main character was kind of a red weasel or fox like Sonic with a yellow belly.
- It was a 2D good pixelated! side scrolling PC cd game.
- It had a kind of blue sky background.
- There were colorful levels.
- There were kind of (exploding) barrels where you could jump in and at the right timing jumping out again or something.
- It was around the time of 2000.

He loved this game and would like to find it again. I hope there's someone that knows this game descriptions. Thank you in advance.

Could it have been a game from the Bubsy series?

I've asked him, but he said it's not a game from the Bubsy series. But it almost comes close.

maybe

Foxy Jumper 2 (2004)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZJ6lgmvObI

not a side-scrolling game but a platform one though

 

[dallian354]

The game i am searching is a ps1 game. i remember playing it between 2000-2005.
It is a racing game that looks a bit like wipeout but the world was more realistic, if i remember correctly the race track was made out of water or ice.
The vehicles looked futuristic as well. they had no wheels.
After every few racing levels there was a combat level where you could freely go around and had to destroy all other vehicles to win the round.

This could be a number of futuristic racing games. The most Wipeout-y non-wheeled vehicle racing game is Killer Loop

However, it doesn't have any water/ice racetracks. There was a terrible, obscure early PlayStation game called that had water (well, "landscape")-based tracks, but no way was it a better-looking game than Wipeout. Other futuristic racing sims (where the vehicles have no wheels) could be Hi-Octane [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOEozcuLm-U], MaxRacer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNi5q3rhqec] or Dodgem Arena [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tfrbwolsWk].

Thank you for your help, killer loop helped me find this game. The game i was looking for is called 360, seems like it was only released in europe.

 

[hazey410]

Hey all
I remember this game from at least 15 years ago. It was on the PC and involved a talking tiger, Monkey pig etc. who were explorers and travelled to various countries such as Peru, Norway, China where you heard a song from that country about its culture, played games. such as in China you dressed up a dragon and lunched fireworks from it. wrecking my head that I can't remember it, loved it when i was a kid.

Thanks for your help.

 

[diablo rules]

Help if you can.

When I was younger I had a old game. It came on a cd rom. I first played it win xp. The main point of the game was you played a talking frog I think and your nephews and nieces took a time machine and hid in different points in time. The times I remembers where during the maya's, Egypt, marko polo in the arctic, and during thanks giving with pilgrims. The game play was a point and click and you could talk to different people to get clues where to click to find the hiding kids. I tried to find it for hours and couldn't any help would be great thanks.

Jump Start - Explorers (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnKXexN2stw

 

[KaiYLowell]

I am looking for a game I used to play on the ps2.

I remember that it started with a guy on a hover board. Someone asked him to deliver a package or something like that. Then the city this guy was in was attacked. I remember lots of meteorites and taht the city was being evacuated.I think that at the moment the attack started, the delivery guy (can't remember his name) was looking at a big screen which showed some kind of princess or queen, giving a speech.

I think this guy then goes to try and save his friends/family and get them out of the city. That is about as far as i know this game since at the time I got stuck at some point at the beginning, and gave up.

I would really like to find out what game this was. I have a really strong feeling it said "final fantasy ..." on the box, but I have been looking through all the final fantasy's on the ps2 and can't seen to find the intro I remembered. If someone know what game this is, that would be awesome!

Thanks!

Reading back through the oooold posts - came across this.

Is it possible you're thinking of Phantasy Star Universe's story mode, mate? The main character, Ethan, is riding his hoverboard to meet his sister, Lumia (he's just got off work and is late) so they can watch a speech by the Divine Maiden. He's lightly hit by a hovercar; a girl gets out of this car and heals his wound and he continues on, finding out when he meets with his sister that the girl who healed him, Mirei, is in fact the Maiden herself. It's watching the speech that the colony is attacked by beings called SEED. While trying to run, Lumia is trapped behind some rubble and Ethan has to find a way to free her, which is where the gameplay actually starts if I remember correctly.

I adored that game. It also had an online mode, but the PC servers have long since shut down.

 

[diablo rules]

Good day to you all
I need help to find name of one old game i used to play as a kid long time ago
I play it in Arcade near my house.
Dont know is there a version for Comodore or Atari

There was one litle guy going thry levels.. He have magic wand and use him to create and destroy blocks. He must use that power to come to key and then to the door. There is a lot of opsticals, creatures that chase him... Very Logical and arcade game....

Solomon's Key (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNi6DQEX3xQ

 

[KaiYLowell]

if someone found this already, sorry. i tried to go through all the new pages but didnt find anything, so i'm reposting in hopes someone's memory-bells jingle.

i'm looking for what i think is an old-ish game. i know it came out before 2009. it's a "shape puzzle" type game. the basic plot was that an evil wizard had turned the village into stained glass images. to free the objects and people in the village, you had to complete the image by using the shapes that fell down on the left hand side of the screen to finish the picture. the basic shapes (so the shapes all the larger ones were formed from) were a square sitting on its corner and a small triangle. it was a brightly colored game, and the background music was fairly gentle and zen. you could "level up" sort of, which let you choose new shapes to use in the images, get more points and things like that. i rem that some of the earliest puzzles in the game you had to complete were a bridge and a lamp-post. i don't rem how big the game was installed, but i think it counted as a "minigame", of the type Popcap and the like make. any help would be appreciated, its been driving me crazy trying to find out what this game was called.

i have checked Popcap and Bigfish games and similar companies' catalogues and didn't manage to find it.

'nother old post, this, and this game IS fairly obscure.

This is Fresco Wizard! GameHouse released it through RealArcade and it had very high requirements for graphics usage at the time, so not too many computers could play it without lag. I loved this one - used to play it for hours on end. It's still available, costs $10.

 

[Blake Stitely]

Ok, so this one's been on my mind for a while. Never played it so no idea what console but I remember watching a walkthrough on youtube. It was old, probably around early 2000's maybe in 1990's... maybe. Anyway it was a zombie FPS with some horror aspects, but I don't think it was too based on horror, and there were multiple stories that I'm pretty sure intertwined. The only one I can really remember is the one where you're a soldier and you either landed or crashed a helicopter near a highschool and you had to make your way through or something similar and you had a M4 and some pistol as your weapons. All the cutscenes were in a comic book panel-to-panel style. Fairly certain another story had a couple that had to escape a town or maybe you had to get to the girl's house to rescue her? not certain on they're objective but there was a couple and you played as the guy im pretty sure but I could be wrong.

Sorry for super vague description but I hope you guys can help.

 

[Musou Tensei]

Ok, so this one's been on my mind for a while. Never played it so no idea what console but I remember watching a walkthrough on youtube. It was old, probably around early 2000's maybe in 1990's... maybe. Anyway it was a zombie FPS with some horror aspects, but I don't think it was too based on horror, and there were multiple stories that I'm pretty sure intertwined. The only one I can really remember is the one where you're a soldier and you either landed or crashed a helicopter near a highschool and you had to make your way through or something similar and you had a M4 and some pistol as your weapons. All the cutscenes were in a comic book panel-to-panel style. Fairly certain another story had a couple that had to escape a town or maybe you had to get to the girl's house to rescue her? not certain on they're objective but there was a couple and you played as the guy im pretty sure but I could be wrong.

Sorry for super vague description but I hope you guys can help.

Could that be Resident Evil Survivor?

 

[Blake Stitely]

Ok, so this one's been on my mind for a while. Never played it so no idea what console but I remember watching a walkthrough on youtube. It was old, probably around early 2000's maybe in 1990's... maybe. Anyway it was a zombie FPS with some horror aspects, but I don't think it was too based on horror, and there were multiple stories that I'm pretty sure intertwined. The only one I can really remember is the one where you're a soldier and you either landed or crashed a helicopter near a highschool and you had to make your way through or something similar and you had a M4 and some pistol as your weapons. All the cutscenes were in a comic book panel-to-panel style. Fairly certain another story had a couple that had to escape a town or maybe you had to get to the girl's house to rescue her? not certain on they're objective but there was a couple and you played as the guy im pretty sure but I could be wrong.

Sorry for super vague description but I hope you guys can help.

Could that be Resident Evil Survivor?

Definitely not Resident Evil series. I'm pretty sure it was a stand alone title

 

[Zaltys]

I've spent more than enough time searching now.. this is my last resort. (cut my life into pieces)

Alright, this was a game during the 90's on pc (windows 95?) The game/application looked basic.. I remember it having a party setup like the eye of the beholder/lands of lore, with similar combat but much simpler grahpics. It had an overworld with top down view, and once you entered a sewer maybe? it became first person dungeon crawling. i can't remember much else.. any help would be appreciated. I need to know i'm not crazy.

Most dungeon crawlers didn't have an overworld...
And it was fantasy, not scifi? Does Abandoned Places 2 sound familiar?