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

[agentyang13]

Did anyone play a game that involved brick-shaped people (think Minecraft, but more pixelated detail in faces and clothing) and a town with a maze-like castle you had to go through, in first person. In the castle you'd fight bats or ravens, I'd just say bats but there was a raven involved somehow, either as one of the enemies or as a figure in the main menu, I can't really remember. There might have been knights attacking too but I can't remember. There was a tavern where the brick people were, you could basically do some interior decorating in it.
With the graphics style, I would think it's that old Windows screensaver except the walls were grey and there were windows looking out into what I can only guess was the town center.
Another one that I was wondering about was what I think was a slightly educational game involving anthropomorphic mice, focusing on an island. I think it was part of a series, there is a song from it that gets stuck in my head every so often and I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the game and I can't find it when I google the lyrics. The words I remember are "Give me a view of the water so blue, as far as the eye can see - something something something - this is the life for me. I want to sail all over the world to see what I can see, that's what's important to me." It was sung by some girl mouse and it gets stuck in my head ALL THE FREAKING TIME. HELP ME.
One more game, I promise this is the last one, is an old first-person shooter set in the wild west. My dad used to play this before my step-mom molded him into what she wanted and he declared video games one of the ultimate evils of the world (and now one of the kids grew up to be a huge gamer...whoopsie). I really don't remember much about it besides small moments that I can't quite describe beyond there was a dude shooting up baddies in a saloon and up and down the dusty road out of town. I figured I'd ask if anyone knows of any old western shooter games.
Sorry, that was long.
EDIT: these were all played on a PC.

 

[Cap'nPipsqueak]

We have a topic for this:http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.166417-Old-Games-you-remember-playing-but-cant-remember-the-name-of

 

[gdmcgill]

I know it's a pretty long shot but I have to try:
-Old game,probably late 90s or early 2000s.
-Played on Windows.
-Adventure in first-person view.
-The player didn't "move", you just go from one scene (background) to another by mouse-clicking and also interact with various items and doors in that background, the rest of which was inert.
-The general theme gives a "mystic" impression.
-The initial part of the game that I did play takes place in a remote Hawaii-like island but with absolutely no people at all as far as I can remember.
-There were futuristic-looking structures and houses (abandoned) that didn't seem to fit, as if I had just time-traveled.
-The game's size was relatively large for its time, I remember it was contained in roughly 3-5 CDs.
-The CD label looked similar to an enlarged Sierra logo, or a moon with horizontal markings all over it.

This sounds like Riven to me. If not, maybe a game from the Atlantis series?

 

[gdmcgill]

So, i have been searching for this game on the internet for a long time.

- It is a Sci-fi/futuristic game

- Its a War/base defense game, you control one soldier and have the other AI soldiers help you to fight an army of aliens.

- You see your soldier from a distance (top down view), like Zelda games.

- You could ask for reinforcements (soldiers) based on how many aliens you killed, and i remember they would come in a small spaceship in groups of 4-5, there where many tiers of reinforcements.

- You had to defend a base, there where usable turrets there and some interactable doors etc.

- I remember the game title having "war" and a year like "2031" or "3000" on it, but im not sure.

- And i remember playing it on a Cd ROM on PC, in one of those "1001 games" CD that came with a magazine.

Wow man! I think I've been looking for the same game for about 10 years!!

This is what I remember:
- The game title definitely had a year in the title (like you said), and I remember there being "Alien" or "Aliens" or maybe "War."

- I remember it being either shareware or freeware, because I used to play it with my cousin (local multiplayer on the same keyboard) and we would download the game from some long forgotten website. I'm pretty sure the website also had other games on it, such as Friendly Strike.

- I remember the enemies being human sized pink(ish) bugs, with larger ones (queens I guess) that would birth smaller ones during battle. The strategy was to kill the large queens first so as to minimize the number of smaller bugs to kill.

- You played as the human resistance, controlling one guy on the battlefield. You could give orders to your fellow humans, such as "attack," "defend," "follow," and I think there was a forth one, but I'm not sure.

- The missions took place in different environments, such as on grassy type ground, caves, and inside bases maybe?

- I think there were various gun power-ups that would change your gun into a flamer thrower or something like that.

Please help me! Maybe it'll come back to us if we discuss it more

EDIT: I used to play this around 2001-2004 I think.

 

[Yoda]

This sounds like Riven to me. If not, maybe a game from the Atlantis series?

I googled Riven and it was it! Thanks a lot, I owe you one. Turns out the CD label wasn't a Sierra logo after all, I had already rummaged through Sierra's games.

 

[Yoda]

One more game, an old first-person shooter set in the wild west. I really don't remember much about it, there was a dude shooting up baddies in a saloon and up and down the dusty road out of town. Also, I like Pizza.

The description probably fits too many games, but try these out:
1-Redneck Rampage (set in the south but not wild west, could give that impression non the less) (1997)
2-Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge (2006)
3-Outlaws (1997)
4-Dead Man's Hand (2004)

 

[BonkDaCarnivore]

I have 2 games for the group. Both 80's to very early 90's. I know the first one was on a computer (either a DOS game or else a C64 title). I'm pretty sure the 2nd one was, as well, though it might be an Atari game.

The first one is an educational type game. It's about driving a truck across country. You got to pick either oranges, mail or some other product, and then had to choose which of a few paths through the country you would take. You'd set your speed and would occasionally have to stop for petrol and figure out how much money to spend (by calculating your miles per gallon) and any time you went over, the remainder would spill out onto the ground and be lost, because you'd not turn off the pump.

The second one is an old stealther title. All I really remember about it was routinely having to break into houses and trying to sneak around without getting caught or bumping in to anything. You'd be put in an area that was either partially lit or not really lit at all and have to try and navigate the whole place looking for....something. I don't remember what. I think usually it was a key or something.

 

[Gspan]

I have three games that have been bugging me.

1 - A game I used to play all the time as a kid in the late 80's / early 90's at school, on the old Mac computers. It was similar to the other educational games at the time, like Number Munchers, Island of Dr. Quandary, and Oregon Trail. In this game you were a miner exploring caves, and you had to explore in the dark to find light switches and turn on lights. They would then flicker or break and you would have to go fix them. You had a pet bat that would be able to see in the dark and tell you what was around. As you explored, you would find certain items (a battery, a blender, fruit, etc), and at the end of each stage you would come across some sort of puzzle blocking the next area. For example, one I remember was some sort of monster (a dragon I think) that wouldn't move unless you made him a drink, so you had to figure out how to put your items together in the right configuration to get him to move.


2 - A game a played in the late 90's. It was a PC adventure game where you were a scientist on a research lab on Mars or something. There was a murder, and you had to try and figure it out. Turns out there was some alien parasite infestation, and if I remember correctly, you had to blow up the base at the end and escape.

3 - Another game from the mid-late 90's, I remember getting a CD with a bunch of demo games to play. My favorite was this on-rails game where you were in a spaceship and had to complete these track courses. They would get more difficult as you went further down the track, and you would have to be quick about moving to the next side and avoiding the gaps.

Edit:

I finally found #1 through Google. The key was searching for "electrician" instead of "miner". The game is Electrifying Adventures.

#3 was answered for me by RelativityMan. The game is SkyRoads.

Still looking for #2.

 

[gdmcgill]

So, i have been searching for this game on the internet for a long time.

- It is a Sci-fi/futuristic game

- Its a War/base defense game, you control one soldier and have the other AI soldiers help you to fight an army of aliens.

- You see your soldier from a distance (top down view), like Zelda games.

- You could ask for reinforcements (soldiers) based on how many aliens you killed, and i remember they would come in a small spaceship in groups of 4-5, there where many tiers of reinforcements.

- You had to defend a base, there where usable turrets there and some interactable doors etc.

- I remember the game title having "war" and a year like "2031" or "3000" on it, but im not sure.

- And i remember playing it on a Cd ROM on PC, in one of those "1001 games" CD that came with a magazine.

DUDE!!!!!! I FOUND IT!!!!

Triumph! War 2099

Yes!! I've been looking for this game for over 10 years

 

[MrGrimGrave]

YES that is the one thank you for the help been looking for the title for about 11 years or something so big thanks

 

[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

I think the first game you are looking for is "Blood Will Tell", realeased in 2004. Here is the wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Will_Tell

I hope its the correct one!

YES that is the one thank you for the help been looking for the title for about 11 years so big thank you

 

[Shelby Newton]

Hey guys! So there is a game I have been searching for the longest time to find. I'm not sure if it was on multiple systems, but I definitely know it was an Xbox game. It would have come out between 2001-2005 at the very latest. I also know you had the option to be single or multiplayer and that each person could customize their own character and you went to battle in 'dungeon' type settings and then when your weren't doing that, you were in a space station type set up and could buy upgrades for your characters and everything. I also remember there were a bunch of different classes, I don't remember what they were though :/. But if you have any idea, I appreciate it!

 

[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.

 

[Cadhelhere]

This is killing me.
I have been trying to find this forever.
A dos/windows game.
Very old blocky pixelated 3d adventure/puzzle game.
It is set at medevil times...you are some kind of a knight...no voice dialogue..point and click to solve puzzles...almost 3rd person. I think french developer. I can't remember anything else.

 

[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 something that looks like a floating shadow, guess it's a wizard or something like that because you could use magic.
- The world is kinda open and mainly consist of a cold valley (mostly covered in snow if I'm not wrong) with a lot of mountains.
- You could buy troops on little towns and/or villages to fight wolves, bears and other fantasy monsters, you could control this units in a Age of Empire way.
- To make money you had to accept quest from those towns.
- This one I vaguely remember, but if I'm not wrong, you lose mana (or something like that) if you get too far from safe places.

Thanks a lot in advance!

 

[Goatonaspork]

I think it's a PC game but I have no idea what year it could be from. I saw it probably 6 or 7 years ago, but it's probably older than that. Seemed like a dystopian setting. You get imprisoned in a city with your robot companion. I think you repair him using an old vacuum cleaner or something, I remember some of the dialog joking about him being a vacuum. I think you had to escape by avoiding guards. Any help is appreciated

 

[Goatonaspork]

I think it's a PC game but I have no idea what year it could be from. I saw it probably 6 or 7 years ago, but it's probably older than that. Seemed like a dystopian setting. You get imprisoned in a city with your robot companion. I think you repair him using an old vacuum cleaner or something, I remember some of the dialog joking about him being a vacuum. I think you had to escape by avoiding guards. Any help is appreciated

Nevermind, I figured it out. The game I was thinking of was "Beneath the Steel Sky".

 

[NyanSam]

Uhm.. I'm trying to find this game I played with my dad when I was younger I think it was to a PS2 or something like that. I really can't remember the name but I rememeber a lot of stuff.

I think you could choose like 4 colours Blue, Red, Yellow and Green. It was 4 boys and they were... Ninjas I guess?

You were fighting against zombies and when you were done you got to a new town on some kinda map it's a 2D game and is form the 70's 80's or 90's I guess

 

[Tye Gawthorne]

ok so I just remembered a game I believe to have been on an old PC I don't really know so it was a guy in a mine cart 2d like a bejeweled kinda game but in a mine instead so yeah that's all I got wait no the 2d was side facing no top down so any idea guys pls help

 

[Ogoid]

Uhm.. I'm trying to find this game I played with my dad when I was younger I think it was to a PS2 or something like that. I really can't remember the name but I rememeber a lot of stuff.

I think you could choose like 4 colours Blue, Red, Yellow and Green. It was 4 boys and they were... Ninjas I guess?

You were fighting against zombies and when you were done you got to a new town on some kinda map it's a 2D game and is form the 70's 80's or 90's I guess

My guess would be The Ninja Kids [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Iq8KeTF_9E]; it was originally an arcade game, but it was included in Taito Legends [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taito_Legends], which was also on PS2.