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

[RobbyTheSheath]

Hello, I'm sorry if this has already been asked and answered but I couldn't find it anywhere.

So it was a PC game that I think would have been Windows 95 or 98. It is all from an aerial view at a little bit of an angle. Your character wakes up after having crashed on an alien planet. I'm pretty sure all the dialogue and instructions of the game appear in a box at the bottom of the screen. You find that your ship has been broken into many pieces scattered across the planet. You have to make your way through the different areas of the planet to find each piece and return it to the ship. I remember there being different puzzle like tasks to open up laser gates at many points in the game. I also think I remember the enemies being killer plants. Your character can also plant seeds (I think) and grow different things that pop up in little square sections on the ground (I do not remember why).

I've been trying to find this game for years, any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[StatusNil]

@StatusNil

Hi im pretty new and i was wondering how long should you let your unanswered post go before you bump it?

Hello and welcome to the site. I'm actually not in any position of authority here, just a regular member trying to correct someone's erroneous impression of why they hadn't received a helpful reply. For rules, you should consult http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/codeofconduct , or talk to a moderator (I think the currently active ones are Basement Cat, JoJo, Fappy and tippy2k2).

Generally, I think bumping your own posts is frowned upon elsewhere on these forums, but on this thread no one seems to mind, at least to my knowledge. Having said that, you might want to give it a few days between bumps, just out of courtesy for other people's questions.

 

[Peter Low]

Hi everyone,

I've been searching this old game for a very long time. I only remember before the game start there's a trailer about a frog jump in to a river and get into experiment about the genetic and transform the frog into a army. So the game start with selecting a few character (but i cant remember what character) and once u ready you'll send down to a planet and the character will need to build some building and get some resources and in the planet there's some random monster where we can trap them or kill them to get the dna to evolve our army. It's kinda old game from 90's.
Please help!!

 

[webbervitamin]

I don't believe anyone will know what I'm talking about, but let's give it a try.

I remember this being a browser based game with 3D graphics, pretty old, I think this was the mid 2000s
it doesnt provide much explanation for what you're doing, it's very atmospheric
don't remember the name and crossing my fingers someone here does!

- you're a little dragon, you fly the entire game, you only ever see the back of this dragon
- similar to shadow of the colossus, you go around defeating big colossal bosses
- there's about 10-15 minutes of just silent travel between bosses
- each time you kill a boss the armor on your back gets thicker and bigger
- the environment changes gradually as you fly, from craggy canyons, rainy plains, desert, a sea, cliffside forests, mountains etc
- theres about 7 of these bosses, no grinding in between them, of the ones i can remember:
-big green tyrannosaurus rex, the environment is very rainy, you kill them by making its babies (running along side it) bite it to death
-very end boss is a big red dragon stylized after an ant or an alien, looked weird
-instecoid-like boss (possibly a spider or centipede) that tosses bombs your way i think, tosses something your way, i think you knock these things back at it to kill it
-there is a centipede/worm type boss at some point, covered in eyes, that you destroy by picking up bombs
-at one point you fly through a ton of green hoops to increase your speed

when you finish killing the final boss theres some corny text like "you have now become a legend", something to that effect, and you go on flying into the sunset.

i remember really adoring this game (and other games like it) because of how atmospheric it was. i was about 6-7 at the time.

i posted about this before more than a year ago but got no bites! thanks

 

[mittermak]

Two goofy terrible kids games I had for mac in the late 90s:

One was about a zoo run by a panda, very much in the style of a Humongous Entertainment game but it definitely wasn't them that made it. All I can clearly remember is a minigame where a bunch of animals stood in a line and each sang a note if you clicked on them, and another minigame where a walrus asked for a specific number of fish for dinner ("Fish for dinner, please! X fish, PLEEEASE!") and then you had to catch that many fish and bring them to him.

The second was a connect 4 game but there are two things that made it particularly interesting. The first is that rather than having a difficulty setting you could choose to play against a variety of AI opponents each with their own strategy and avatar. The only one I remember was Copycat, the easiest, who always put his piece directly on top of yours. Also, after the game the loser's avatar would run a little animation showing their defeat. If the player lost your avatar got beat up and bloody. The really weird thing about this game is that I'm absolutely certain it started with the valve logo even though I can't find any record of them ever releasing a connect 4 game. I definitely didn't have any other valve games as a kid and yet I clearly remember seeing the valve logo and thinking it was really creepy whenever I started up that game.

 

[eagle85]

I'll try my luck.
I remember playing a game. The presentation style was similar to Conqueror AD 1086, but it had no strategy and competition parts (as far as I remember), you were always alone, during a fight your character was visible from right-behind and the enemy appropriately as digitized sprites for visual feedback on the fight. The maps were not random, it was basically just a castle with multiple towers. You could talk to NPC's (there were bars etc) and you also could find chests (due to maps not being random, always in the same spots )
Looking for it for quite a while now xD

I still have hope, been bugging me for years now but as they say: hope dies last xD

What I also remember, it had a year in the name (maybe even the year was similar to 1086 - it's maybe even just a light ripoff of Conqueror lol as the models are basically the same)

Also what I remember that fights weren't necessary. You could just bribe the guards or avoid them alltogether. Fighting them was pretty hard though (no magic, just sword skills basically, you can swing the sword depending on your mouse movement or parry their hits)

Still hopeful as I imagine there aren't too many games like this ^^

For more info this game is from the 90s. I had it on my PC.
There also was no magic, you basically just had your sword (according to my memory)

 

[Christian Delia]

I used to play this game on the PS1. You're defending against an alien invasion.
I remember it's 1 or 2 players, you have 4 guns which you can find upgrades for.
There were a couple of levels where you're on a bike driving away from the screen, one of them being a boss and the final boss of the game was a giant worm with a ring of eyes around it which you have to shoot to beat it.

 

[Melih Caan]

Guys please help me I was played this game on PC..this game's goal is capture the areas by painting the wall..This game have chapters and waves..Platform game I think..

 

[Melih Caan]

Guys please help me I was played this game on PC..this game's goal is capture the areas by painting the wall..This game have chapters and waves..Platform game I think..

 

[JaromK]

Hi,
I like this forum, 814 pages of people like me that are trying to recall an old game they once were addicted to.
The game I'm looking for is ~30 years old.
You had to jump from rope to rope, each rope had a different length and each rope was swinging in a different rhythm.
If it was possible, I would add an audio file with the game music as I remember it.
I'll be very thankful for the one that can assist with remembering the game.
Many thanks in advance.

 

[Stormtempter]

I have one that has bugged me for years.

Arcade cabinet game in the late 90s. Top down vertical shooter with helicopter. You had a button for air to air weapon and a button for air to ground weapon. You started over a city and could destroy skyscrapers with your ATG weapon. Lots of pilot commentary such as the one I remember the most when using both weapons at once and destroying the scenery: "Its rain'n man!"

I think it was out around the same time as In the Hunt, as I played that one right next to it.

 

[Jacajac]

Well I remember all my games mostly because I still have them so I can look on that rack right behind me and see what I forgot.

I can not for the life of me remember this one japanese movie though, it was about these kids who had to kill eachother on an island so that they could survive.

Battle Royale?

 

[Jacajac]

I remember an old N64 game a long time ago where you had these futuristic motorcycles. Now, you didn't just race. You had guns. You always had a default autocannon type weapon, which fired a basic blaster round, and then there were various missiles and such. Three weapons I remember were the yellow rocket, which was direct fire only and had zero lock on and went in a straight line through the air. The red rocket was more of a guided missile that would lock on to any visible target and it would fly at it without following the track, so it could crash into hills in the track and such. The final one was a purple missile which would follow the course without fail and hit the nearest person ahead.

Extreme - g

 

[Peytonmac]

Hey everyone, I'm new to this website but I am looking for a game I used to play maybe 10 years ago. I believe it was on PlayStation 2 but it may have been 1 or even Xbox as I only played it at a friends house. In the game you have these little monster things that you can evolve and train. Similar to Pok?mon almost but with very different graphics. Also I distictly remember a tree with a face that could talk. I do hope someone knows what I'm talking about because I have been looking for the game for years it always was so much fun when I was a kid. Thanks!

 

[subwaysurfer]

subway surfers [https://subway-surfer.soft32.com/] I thought it was train run LOL!

 

[menecfrdd]

I would really, really appreciate if anyone could tell me the name of this game. I don't remember if it was ps1 or ps2 but it was a game of a small yellow character that was jumping around in a movie theater and he went on top of like a soda machine he fell inside a movie film or was sucked in i dont remember well, the movie film was playing the yellow character fell on top of a treadmill and a skeleton head talked to him from up he then fell from from the treadmill trying to hold his own an fell on a pirateship. that is all i can remember anyone know what this game was called?.

 

[samscud]

Hi,
I like this forum, 814 pages of people like me that are trying to recall an old game they once were addicted to.
The game I'm looking for is ~30 years old.
You had to jump from rope to rope, each rope had a different length and each rope was swinging in a different rhythm.
If it was possible, I would add an audio file with the game music as I remember it.
I'll be very thankful for the one that can assist with remembering the game.
Many thanks in advance.

Is this Jungle Hunt?

 

[samscud]

And my game... I have been trying to find anything about it for ages... I played it in an arcade Brazil in the late 80's... 86 or 87, I guess... same time frame as Sega's Choplifter arcade game. It was similar to Xevious, but with better (for the time) graphics. Vertical scrolling, with "ground" and "air" targets. AFAIR The goal was to destroy crystal balls embedded in scaffolding. What stood out for me was the very realistic glyphs of the crystal balls. Must have spent a ton of money on this, but can't remember the name (it was probably changed in Brazil anyhow - "Xevious" was called "Columbia" here for some reason).

Adding some more info, there were power ups and the screen was vertically (portrait) oriented.

Appreciate any help!

 

[roarez]

I remember playing an old pc 2d game as a kid, it used a green hue/tone for colors and i remember you were a man going back and forth from either a sewer or a mineshaft. Could have been some kind of puzzle game. I also know i played it on windows 98. I didnt get to play the game much as it was accidentally deleted.
Here is an image i found that is really close to the game i remember playing:
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aL8LXXW_700b.jpg

I have been looking for this game for ages, so any help would be very apreciated!

 

[roarez]

Accidentally posted two times so this is an edit
Thanks in advance!