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

[dread_k2002]

Hi,

I hope someone knows that name of this game I played on Windows 98.

I think it was a 2D isometric Mars colony simulation game/Simcity on Mars between 1998 and 2002.

When the game starts, you are located on a colony ship above Mars and there is a menu prompting you to launch/eject the escape/colony pods. If you launch too soon, the pods will fire retroburners too soon and crash, and if you launch too late, the pods fire retroburners too late and crash or the ship in space explodes/runs out of oxygen.

The pods looked like this, but in top down isometric view: http://www.chthulhu.com/models/hab/100_0652a.jpg
If you were launched the pods at the right moment, all 4 pods survive landing, otherwise 1 or more would crash and leave a tile of rubble.

I think the in-game GUI and terrain looked similar to Life on Mars?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vajYpGgv3qM
However, the buildings were different.

To begin building, you would have to build a corridor from one of the pods. The corridors looked like this the + shaped buildings in Moonbase: http://www.emuparadise.me/GameBase%20Amiga/Screenshots/M/Moonbase_-_Lunar_Colony_Simulator_1.png
or the x shaped buildings in Outpost: http://s.uvlist.net/l/y2011/11/89809.jpg
The buildings must be constructed next to a corridor or another building similar to Moonbase and Outpost.

I think the greenhouse sprites looked like this: http://www.outofthecradle.net/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/pole_colony.jpg
or this: http://www.creativecrash.com/system/photos/000/095/261/95261/big/greenhouse3.jpg?1275254426

There were other buildings, but I can't remember what they looked like. All the buildings had the same sized footprint (occupied a tile) and all the tiles were the same size.

I think in the game, you could also build rovers that looked like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Sojourner_on_Mars_PIA01122.jpg/220px-Sojourner_on_Mars_PIA01122.jpg
The rovers were built from the pods and you used them to explore the planet. I think there was a day/night cycle, so that the rovers could only move during the day.

The game might also have been single player turn-based.

I'm sorry I don't remember much more.

The first thing that comes to mind is Outpost.

Thanks, but it wasn't Outpost. The game didn't have the star system map or let you choose what to take on the ship and didn't have videos. The game starts when the colony ship is already in orbit around Mars and the player must decided when to launch the colony pods.

I'm figuratively dying to know the name of this game.

The closest thing i could find was Hungry Red Planet, but it's an old educational game and there's no videos, no screenshots, no nothing, so i can't really check anything...

Thanks, but it wasn't Hungry Red Planet. The game didn't have any aliens or other non-human creatures.

I've recreated a picture of how I remember the screen if the four colony pods landed successfully.

The terrain tiles are from Mars, Land of No Mercy and the colony pods are from Marc Salotti's Mars game, both have been ruled out.

2 years later... did you find the game? I'm looking for something similar. I don't know if it's the same game, but I remember something about some kind of plague that came at the colony at night that could be stopped with some kind of walls. You had increasingly difficult missions and in the end you had to have a number of colonists to evacuate(I think into space with a rocket).

 

[dread_k2002]

I am going insane looking for a game I played in the late 90s....it's on pc, I remember it was definitely a disc game..... it's quest something or something quest... what I can remember is the marketplace had centaurs and other mtypical creatures...in the market place you were safe....then outside you fought bad guys....then there is a magic meadow that had a big tree with fruit on it and you could rest there in safety....that's what I got! I am sure it's a shot in the dark!!!

Quest for glory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Glory:_So_You_Want_to_Be_a_Hero

 

[Plaguestorm172301]

there was this one game... i dont know if it had a english version, but in school (mid 2000s) we had this french game, where you had this little TV faced diver, and you played minigames on a submarine, that the minigames were ussauly about math, and you were able to collect fish, and make an aquarium, i wanna know the name just for closure sake, was such a fun game as a kid

ive been looking and i remember abit more, you litterally were inside the subamrine, and it allmost had like... donkey kong country type graphics... and these math games were multiplication, addition, etc, mostly very younge kid stuff...

bit bots math voyage thanks man

 

[VoodooFX]

there was this one game... i dont know if it had a english version, but in school (mid 2000s) we had this french game, where you had this little TV faced diver, and you played minigames on a submarine, that the minigames were ussauly about math, and you were able to collect fish, and make an aquarium, i wanna know the name just for closure sake, was such a fun game as a kid

ive been looking and i remember abit more, you litterally were inside the subamrine, and it allmost had like... donkey kong country type graphics... and these math games were multiplication, addition, etc, mostly very younge kid stuff...

Bit-Bot's Math Voyage [http://www.cdaccess.com/gifs/shared/front/large/bitbot.gif]?

 

[Penny Ell Ostergard]

I used to play a game years ago... you start off in your house. Your mom is in the kitchen and asks you to get something. You go to a village, and I believe you can buy potions and stuff. I think there was a castle. And there were no words, everything was captions you had to read... and it was rated 'everyone'. Do you know which game I am talking about? For PlayStation.

 

[Theaquallama]

so there was this weird older game, i wanna say it was on N64 or maybe even SNES. It was a puzzle solving adventure game I think and it had adult-ish themes (pretty sure I remember bondage being mentioned?) and it had "Toon" in the title. Heeeeeelp

I could be wrong here, but I somehow doubt Nintendo, with their strict policies and everything, would allow such a game on their consoles.

FIGURED IT OUT!!!! It was called Toonstruck! And it was on the pc

 

[Theaquallama]

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[Theaquallama]

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[VoodooFX]

so there was this weird older game, i wanna say it was on N64 or maybe even SNES. It was a puzzle solving adventure game I think and it had adult-ish themes (pretty sure I remember bondage being mentioned?) and it had "Toon" in the title. Heeeeeelp

I could be wrong here, but I somehow doubt Nintendo, with their strict policies and everything, would allow such a game on their consoles.

FIGURED IT OUT!!!! It was called Toonstruck! And it was on the pc

Congrats.
I've actually played that game, yet I somehow don't remember anything adult-ish in it.
But it's been ages since I've played it, maybe my memory just isn't what it used to be.

 

[VoodooFX]

Hey, all!!!! I'm looking for a game that I used to play in the 90's/2000 It was an Asian game where you had a general and you owned your own village (it's not any of the age of empire games.) any way you had your own kingdom where your villagers would build stuff. you could also train them in barracks and you had an inn where heroes were made. You could click on your town hall and raise taxes on your villagers. You also had really tall ladders so your troops could climb into other kingdoms and attack them. there were also lanterns that lit up dark areas on the map. There are story modes where you start off with an army of 10 guys and then a messenger tells you that an enemy ship has landed and you have to protect yourself and you eventually run into more guys who help defend you. I've been looking for this game for such a long time... If you could help me out I'd be eternally grateful THANKS in advance!!!

Fate of the Dragon [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_SNDug9yUk]?

 

[Plaguestorm172301]

there was this one game... i dont know if it had a english version, but in school (mid 2000s) we had this french game, where you had this little TV faced diver, and you played minigames on a submarine, that the minigames were ussauly about math, and you were able to collect fish, and make an aquarium, i wanna know the name just for closure sake, was such a fun game as a kid

ive been looking and i remember abit more, you litterally were inside the subamrine, and it allmost had like... donkey kong country type graphics... and these math games were multiplication, addition, etc, mostly very younge kid stuff...

Bit-Bot's Math Voyage [http://www.cdaccess.com/gifs/shared/front/large/bitbot.gif]?

oh... my god.. thank you i gotta check it out, thanks man
danm it wont run on windows 10, i found a download for it but : /

 

[Theaquallama]

so there was this weird older game, i wanna say it was on N64 or maybe even SNES. It was a puzzle solving adventure game I think and it had adult-ish themes (pretty sure I remember bondage being mentioned?) and it had "Toon" in the title. Heeeeeelp

I could be wrong here, but I somehow doubt Nintendo, with their strict policies and everything, would allow such a game on their consoles.

FIGURED IT OUT!!!! It was called Toonstruck! And it was on the pc

Congrats.
I've actually played that game, yet I somehow don't remember anything adult-ish in it.
But it's been ages since I've played it, maybe my memory just isn't what it used to be.

This could also be the case for me lol

 

[Zaltys]

FIGURED IT OUT!!!! It was called Toonstruck! And it was on the pc

Congrats.
I've actually played that game, yet I somehow don't remember anything adult-ish in it.
But it's been ages since I've played it, maybe my memory just isn't what it used to be.

Toonstruck? It definitely had some adult themes.

 

[otsharry]

I am looking for a N64 game. It's a side-scrolling game, and this is a drive robot battle game. I remembered the game should be a 4 players game. When the battle process you can leave the robot and drive another robot. And I remembered the robot should be able to break and build block. Any help is appreciated thank you very much.

 

[Yoda]

I am looking for a N64 game. It's a side-scrolling game, and this is a drive robot battle game. I remembered the game should be a 4 players game. When the battle process you can leave the robot and drive another robot. And I remembered the robot should be able to break and build block. Any help is appreciated thank you very much.

Maybe "Cyborg Justice" (1993)? Although it was for Sega Genesis, if you had played it on PC, you could make a wrong assumption since you're playing on an emulator anyway.

 

[otsharry]

I am looking for a N64 game. It's a side-scrolling game, and this is a drive robot battle game. I remembered the game should be a 4 players game. When the battle process you can leave the robot and drive another robot. And I remembered the robot should be able to break and build block. Any help is appreciated thank you very much.

Maybe "Cyborg Justice" (1993)? Although it was for Sega Genesis, if you had played it on PC, you could make a wrong assumption since you're playing on an emulator anyway.

No, it isn't. But thanks for trying. It was a N64 game, and the game scenes structure is similar to Contra.

 

[Rafaellos]

I used to play a game many times per day.. I remember the game contained 2 robots. 1 red robot and 1 blue robot who both had their own base with turrets and corridors or something like power ups. Also that robots could go somewhere and train tanks or helicopters or something like that and could attack the enemy base and destroy the turrets, the enemy army(if he trained too) or even the base and the enemy robot and then they win the game. The bases, the turrets capture, the "army" that the robots was going somewhere to train was on 2 colours and if think well it was blue and red. The bases had turrets who belong from the start to the robot who was there and nothing could change it. Outside of the base there where also other turrets who both robots could capture them by fighting or by passing next to them etc. The game i played it around 2005 but i don't remember if it was too older or not.

Anyone can help me?

 

[Midwoka]

I used to play a game many times per day.. I remember the game contained 2 robots. 1 red robot and 1 blue robot who both had their own base with turrets and corridors or something like power ups. Also that robots could go somewhere and train tanks or helicopters or something like that and could attack the enemy base and destroy the turrets, the enemy army(if he trained too) or even the base and the enemy robot and then they win the game. The bases, the turrets capture, the "army" that the robots was going somewhere to train was on 2 colours and if think well it was blue and red. The bases had turrets who belong from the start to the robot who was there and nothing could change it. Outside of the base there where also other turrets who both robots could capture them by fighting or by passing next to them etc. The game i played it around 2005 but i don't remember if it was too older or not.

Anyone can help me?

Future Cop: LAPD?

 

[Rafaellos]

I used to play a game many times per day.. I remember the game contained 2 robots. 1 red robot and 1 blue robot who both had their own base with turrets and corridors or something like power ups. Also that robots could go somewhere and train tanks or helicopters or something like that and could attack the enemy base and destroy the turrets, the enemy army(if he trained too) or even the base and the enemy robot and then they win the game. The bases, the turrets capture, the "army" that the robots was going somewhere to train was on 2 colours and if think well it was blue and red. The bases had turrets who belong from the start to the robot who was there and nothing could change it. Outside of the base there where also other turrets who both robots could capture them by fighting or by passing next to them etc. The game i played it around 2005 but i don't remember if it was too older or not.

Anyone can help me?

Future Cop: LAPD?

yes!! thank you

 

[VoodooFX]

there was this one game... i dont know if it had a english version, but in school (mid 2000s) we had this french game, where you had this little TV faced diver, and you played minigames on a submarine, that the minigames were ussauly about math, and you were able to collect fish, and make an aquarium, i wanna know the name just for closure sake, was such a fun game as a kid

ive been looking and i remember abit more, you litterally were inside the subamrine, and it allmost had like... donkey kong country type graphics... and these math games were multiplication, addition, etc, mostly very younge kid stuff...

Bit-Bot's Math Voyage [http://www.cdaccess.com/gifs/shared/front/large/bitbot.gif]?

oh... my god.. thank you i gotta check it out, thanks man
danm it wont run on windows 10, i found a download for it but : /

Install Windows XP in VirtualBox or VMPlayer and play it from there.