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

[SqueezetheFlab]

Pretty sure your first game is Kenseiden [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEp-eODfYcA]; as for the the second... probably a long shot, but maybe Dragon's Curse [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lQCgl01r4] (also known as Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap)?

Yup. Thanks so much! Holy crap, you sure know your games. Time to go hunting

 

[Juan Camilo Bustamante Hernandez]

I'm looking for a game but I'm not sure about the release date but I remember playing it on a PC with Windows XP so the top release year has to be like 2008 but probably it is from way earlier, I think I got the demo from a PC gaming magazine CD.

Here is a list of things I remember about it:

- You control a floating shadow, guess you are a wizard or something like that because you could use magic.
- The world is kinda open and is a cold valley (mostly covered in snow if I'm not wrong) with a lot of mountains.
- You could buy troops on little town and/or villages to fight wolves, bears and other fantasy monsters.
- To make money you had to accept quest from those towns.

Thanks a lot in advance!

 

[KaiYLowell]

I have a question. Do you remember an MS-DOS game from around 1990? It was more than just some ?action arcade? game. It was some sort of adventure puzzle solving game. You had to figure stuff out, and I only recall moving some man around. The graphics were good, but not 3D ?Doom? or whatever came to be later in the decade. Any clue what that game was? I remember it fit entirely on 1 floppy.

What else about the game? It was clearly an impressive game. Everyone felt it was "next gen" kind of a game. It was like you'd go into a room and have to solve some sort of cryptic clues. It was not an action game, BUT there were parts that did involve "arcade" style things like crossing a screen with moving obstacles. So, it was part adventure, part action. But, 80% puzzle solving. You were a guy and you'd walk around screens gathering clues. It was the kind of game you'd have to play for hours to solve.

It was a PC game. It was on a single floppy, which made it so impressive, since the game had depth. I recall the color blue when thinking of the man moving around the rooms/screens. The man would be like 1/4 the height of the screen, unlike a tiny PacMan, for example.

Probably an Apogee game. It's not Rise of the Triad, is it? Or maybe Mystic Towers? Maybe even Paganitzu... (heh, so different those games...)

 

[80sGamerThenNever]

I have a question. Do you remember an MS-DOS game from around 1990? It was more than just some ?action arcade? game. It was some sort of adventure puzzle solving game. You had to figure stuff out, and I only recall moving some man around. The graphics were good, but not 3D ?Doom? or whatever came to be later in the decade. Any clue what that game was? I remember it fit entirely on 1 floppy.

What else about the game? It was clearly an impressive game. Everyone felt it was "next gen" kind of a game. It was like you'd go into a room and have to solve some sort of cryptic clues. It was not an action game, BUT there were parts that did involve "arcade" style things like crossing a screen with moving obstacles. So, it was part adventure, part action. But, 80% puzzle solving. You were a guy and you'd walk around screens gathering clues. It was the kind of game you'd have to play for hours to solve.

It was a PC game. It was on a single floppy, which made it so impressive, since the game had depth. I recall the color blue when thinking of the man moving around the rooms/screens. The man would be like 1/4 the height of the screen, unlike a tiny PacMan, for example.

I think I got it.

Was it called "Out of this World?" (aka: Another World)
http://gamesnostalgia.com/en/game/out-of-this-world

Here is footage of the game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgkf6wooDmw

 

[akiru]

Hey Guys!

Sorry but this will be rough in a way because I can't recall the whole game series really well since it's Japanese (If I'm not mistaken). Use to play this game on Playstation 1 and it's main character is a kid or a teenager with his friends who fight their opponents in a robot suit. You could say it's like a mech battle. It's basically like a strategy game and also, I remember when you select your robot to move, it has a blue guideline to indicate which you can move. (OK that totally is not relevant because I think most strategy game back then has this.. lol) But yeah...

The main robot character is yellow and one of his arm is a machine gun.
I remember after you defeat the opponents and end the match, you can upgrade your robots and make them stronger and better.

I guess that's all I can remember since this was pretty old.. well not really. Like i played the game in the 90's era.. (Which should be or could also end up in the 2000 - 2005)
Can't remember that much. After I played this game I remember playing Spyro Ripto Rage. lol

 

[MichaelK91]

Hello guys, boy, it has been a while! I am indeed back to update and add to my initial post on this thread. Anyway, about a six months and also a year ago I posted this post below, and do not know how to check to see if my post was quoted or not, so, I suppose I will repost it:

There are now three games I do not recall, but remember bits and pieces of. One was solved, however They were both Playstation 1 games, with the new one being a old DOS/MacOS game. And I believe all were on demo discs at the time I played them. Those games were:

One is where you played as a robotic tank that was olive in color, with steel color claw arms, and tank tracks for legs. The character had an angled, slanted front, and it was an arena fighting game.

Not solved.

The second one was where you play as a flying futuristic car where police were chasing you, prompting you to shoot them where they explode. At one point you near a billboard where a beautiful woman on it before she changes into a skull and skeleton as there is a laugh of a woman which sounds disturbing. At the final point of the level, you go against some green ship, which I always died at.

This one was solved. The game was called R-Type Delta.


The third game I remember was a game where you had a shotgun and were killing bad guys in brown and green robes with their faces hidden. I also remember the howl of a wolf. I have been suggested that it was HeXen, but this not true. It was on Mac, I believe. It may have also been on the Duke3D Engine or DOOM Engine.

Solved.

Can anyone tell me the names of three games? Thank you very much if you can. Feel free to message me or post it on the forum.

This was also between the years of 1995 and 2001.

 

[[email protected]]

Hi, first game I played was at school, think it was on a pc or Mac, the game was a sidescrolles platform game but the maze or level fit all on one screen, your stick figure/outline character would start in one section ie the bottom corner and would have to make his way to the exit which was in another corner of the screen through a series of jumps mazes ladders etc, you were constantly chased by three other figures if they got you the level reset and you start over, your defence was to lay pits either behind or in front of you that would trap the figures or they would fall through platforms to the bottom and continue chasing. These figures if they died would spawn back in where they began the level so they were always chasing you, anybody know the name of this game

Time frame is around late 80's any help would be awesome, thanks

 

[Polaristherandom]

Bumping last week's thread since no replies

- About 10-15 years ago I remember playing a 3d space shooter games.

I think it was on windows 95.

It was arcade style - you looked behind your ship, moved it around the screen with your mouse and slowly waves of aliens would come and you had to shoot (mouse click) them while they moved around. If you couldn't hit them in time, they would fly towards you and if made contact with your ship you would die.

After a while you could get upgrades and then you would fight bosses. One of the upgrades is a bomb and when you right clicked it blew everything up on screen.

There was also this really rare powerup that I think I got once, which makes your ship spin round really quickly and send bullets everywhere for about 20 seconds, destroying everything.

The most striking search item I can think of is that after I few levels (I think level 2 but unsure) the game actually switches from being 3d to on it's side and the waves would come from the right in vertical lines.

There was no music from what I remember but the sound effects were quite eerie. The aliens would make all these strange sounds, and there was this computational style narrator who would say things if you got a powerup (Thing's like "power increased" but I don't remember exactly what he said).

I spent about an hour searching before I came here, and the closest picture to describe it is here - http://badgerheadgames.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tapinvasionl6.png

Although it was much better graphics (as it was 3d) and there was nothing at the bottom (except your ship)

The game did have a score system and was very difficult (probably due to the 3d aspect), I never beat it nor got close.

 

[momo1980]

Hi

After hours upon hours of looking for a favorite game of the 80's, this forum is (almost) my last resort ...

I am looking for the name of an arcade game, side scroller, where you had a spaceship that started with a meager canon and through the gameplay you could collect upgrades, like double- or triple-shot canon, bombs and lazers. I especially remember the very thick lazers (white) that burnt everything in their way. at the end of each "run" was a boss (if I'm not mistaken).

It's not Gradius (although it's similar in a way). I know it only as an arcade machine, and never saw it on any computer or game console

Help, please

 

[MrSopa]

Ok I'll try and for hope the best..

It's a Game that I used to play on Windows 95/98 About this Fantasy game was about a kind of Sorcerer with his Wife and a Dragon, Don't remember the plot but Suddenly the Dragon gets sick or struck by lightning and you need to find him a cure. You can throw yellow orbs and you needed to go to different places.
The main (male) character it looks bald with a pony tail, really old graphics btw, and at the start of the game you had to watch a cinematic about him and the Dragon flying together.

 

[Pixelhunter]

Ok I'll try and for hope the best..

It's a Game that I used to play on Windows 95/98 About this Fantasy game was about a kind of Sorcerer with his Wife and a Dragon, Don't remember the plot but Suddenly the Dragon gets sick or struck by lightning and you need to find him a cure. You can throw yellow orbs and you needed to go to different places.
The main (male) character it looks bald with a pony tail, really old graphics btw, and at the start of the game you had to watch a cinematic about him and the Dragon flying together.

This is the second game of the "Little Big Adventure" series, "Little Big Adventure 2: Twinsen's Odyssey" (1997)

https://www.gog.com/game/little_big_adventure_2

 

[KaiYLowell]

Hi, first game I played was at school, think it was on a pc or Mac, the game was a sidescrolles platform game but the maze or level fit all on one screen, your stick figure/outline character would start in one section ie the bottom corner and would have to make his way to the exit which was in another corner of the screen through a series of jumps mazes ladders etc, you were constantly chased by three other figures if they got you the level reset and you start over, your defence was to lay pits either behind or in front of you that would trap the figures or they would fall through platforms to the bottom and continue chasing. These figures if they died would spawn back in where they began the level so they were always chasing you, anybody know the name of this game

Time frame is around late 80's any help would be awesome, thanks

Pretty sure it's Lode Runner, as I've recently helped someone find that one and their description was very like yours is.

 

[Konjiki No Yami]

i played a game at school recess people would rush to the computers and there was this one game where its 3rd person if im not wrong and there is a female main character and it was a a fighting game if i can remember correctly please help me find this game its really stressing me out if someone has played this game before please tell me by the way the computer had typer shark in it too so i guess its around that time that it came out thank you guys and cheers

 

[Kenboshy]

I played a game for PS2 I believe where you were a male character in a big haunted mansion kinda setting and you had to fight zombies or skeletons or ghosts, I forget if it was one or all. It was animated to look kinda spooky but I think it was rated E or E10+ so it wasn't actually scary. I remember it was third person and the character at one point used a weapon that looked like a super soaker that shot purpleish fluid and killed the monsters. I wish I could give more details, but this was like 15 years ago I think.

 

[Zaltys]

Hi

After hours upon hours of looking for a favorite game of the 80's, this forum is (almost) my last resort ...

I am looking for the name of an arcade game, side scroller, where you had a spaceship that started with a meager canon and through the gameplay you could collect upgrades, like double- or triple-shot canon, bombs and lazers. I especially remember the very thick lazers (white) that burnt everything in their way. at the end of each "run" was a boss (if I'm not mistaken).

There weren't many back in 80s. If it was Darius, you'd probably remember the oddly shaped screen.
And R-Type was released on pretty much everything, would've been hard to miss on other platforms.

How about Life Force (aka Salamander)?

 

[Adresadini]

this may be the hardest one yet since i don't remember much,but i remember a trailer(or a cutscene) that was in the ps2 era games cartoony style(it could have been a pre rendered cutscene) with a guy that looked like he was captured and looked into a mirror or his reflection in the water and saw himself as a zombie or some other creature,i have absolutely no idea if it was exactly like that,but the creature part was it,i hope someone could help me,but i doubt it

 

[Tsumtsum15]

I used to play this computer game in elementary school from the library so this is from the 2000s but all I can vaguely remember is the front cover of the cd case. It had a bright pink pig with white gloves on its hands and in the background had some sort of factory thing I think. I have been trying to find it for days and I don't remember enough to find anything. Anyone else know what I'm talking about???

 

[Elracing]

Anybody help me with this one? I believe this one was a ps1 game, players (or player and ai) were placed in an arena, camera was slightly angled overhead(not really overhead but camera was up in the air, they would fight with different characters. There was a robot that shot rockets, one that looked like a rhinoserous that could charge at enemies, one that I think could shoot lasers that looked like a devil vampire of some sort, one that flied and shot lasers that looked infantry ish, one female i think made out of what looked like crystals, bunch of characters. There was a mode where the game would be played as a strategy game where one would buy characters (robot and rhinoserous were pretty expensive, for example, others were cheaper but weaker) to put them in the field and move them across the area they could cover (some had larger areas than others) in order to either go into the others player' character to fight him in a match, or capture his base. Overall it was an arena pvp were characters had some sort of stamina to use attacks. Vaguely remember it.

 

[MrGrimGrave]

I have two games from the ps2. 1: it starts off as you been a baby that was put a drift down a stream and then demons take your body parts. When your found by a man who gives you a puppets body you then hunt for your body parts. 2: top down view hack & slash game were i just remember too characters a prist with a cross hilted sword and a biker you start off in a subway and have too fight the undead and other monsters. I have been trying to find the first one for years now

 

[PrincessPulpitude]

Old PC top down puzzle game where you can control a green dinosaur thing?