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

[gyamar]

Hello!

I played this game when I was a kid in the early '90s, but most of the memories are pretty detailed, although a bit chaotic. I probably didn't know english enough to know what the plot was about, however.

It was a DOS game with VGA graphics and a 2D top-down view, played in real time. The player was controlling a space ship, travelling through a galaxy on some kind of a quest - talking to people and doing missions. The view was always centered on the space ship. On the right side of the interface there was a panel with a minimap of the closest neighbourhood and info about the ship.

I don't remember if the ship could be controlled by mouse or keyboard only, but I played with keyboard. Left and right arrows were turning the ship, front arrow was accelerating, down arrow was decelerating (not sure if the ship could move backwards). The mouse could be used for other things (to adjust certain things for the ship in the right panel, choose dialog options, etc.).

Some areas (star systems?) were quite far away and you needed hours to get there with the "standard" propulsion or you could use some kind of hyperdrive to get there much, much faster. I am not sure if the hyperdrive was available from the beginning (probably not), but I am sure that it required some kind of fuel and the fuel must have been obtained in some way (by completing a mission probably). The fuel was limited, so you couldn't travel back and forth using hyperdrive forever.

There were also space fights, often with multiple enemies, but some of the fights could be avoided by choosing proper dialog options. I remember that my first enemies (I am not sure if I really needed to fight them, but well, I did ;-) ) had ships which shape and colour reminded me of carrots.

The player's ship was upgradeable (by collecting certain items IIRC). At some point you could get a cloacking device. I don't remember much about the weaponry - I don't remember if there was anything else than default "bullets" in particular. The ship had also some kind of energy-shields. The player could set how much power is redirected into: front, rear, left side and right side shields. The shields could be turned off or on, but I don't remember if they consumed power when they were on or not. When the shields were on, the ship had a glowing rim - white if the shields were very strong, light blue if the shields were strong, blue if the shields were average, dark blue when the shields were low and red (not completely sure about it) when the shields were very low. At the beginning all you could have was low or average shields, but later you could improve them (well, I am not sure if you could improve the shielding device directly or just the power generator, which could just put more power into the shielding). When the ship was hit, the shields were weakened, but their original strength was restored with time.

I think that is pretty much all I remember.

 

[Curious_Gamerr]

Hello people!
As I can see, this thread is still active and I'm glad because of that! I'm also looking for some games I've played a long time ago and I need your help. The info about game is listed down below:
- System: PC (maybe some other systems too, I'm not sure)
- Year: (Late) 2000s (I think around 2007-2008)
- Genre: "Space Invaders" genre (2D Space Arcade Shooting Single- and 2-player game)
- About (Note: I do not guarantee that all the informations below are 100% correct, there may be something wrong, hope you can still help me): The game had many different levels. On every 8 levels (I think) was a new stage with new enemies you're supposed to shoot (by the way most of the enemies look like some space bugs, worms). The enemies would drop some super powers, like speed, so the spaceship would go faster. There were some skulls with different colors around them and every color does different. Some were helpful but some weren't. I remember some power-up which, if you get it, will bring you into some "bonus level" where you need to avoid asteroids/meteorites and get to the end of it. There was also some thing which if you collect will inverse your controls. I also remember some letters to collect to get a word (e.g. Power) and get an extra life, speed etc.
- There is one more gamemode, pretty similar to the first/main one. You are supposed to shoot those enemies but they're much stronger (they appear in levels 15-20 or maybe even higher) in columns going from left to right, from bottom to top, from bottom left to top right etc. You have much stronger weapon, and I think it was time-limited.
- Additional (Necessary) Info: I'm pretty sure the name was "Warframe" or something like that, but I can't find it.
Well, that's all I could remember! I really hope someone knows what this game is, or where I can find it. Thanks in advance and have a nice day! P.S. Sorry for bad English.

 

[Leinfors]

Hello!

I played this game when I was a kid in the early '90s, but most of the memories are pretty detailed, although a bit chaotic. I probably didn't know english enough to know what the plot was about, however.

It was a DOS game with VGA graphics and a 2D top-down view, played in real time. The player was controlling a space ship, travelling through a galaxy on some kind of a quest - talking to people and doing missions. The view was always centered on the space ship. On the right side of the interface there was a panel with a minimap of the closest neighbourhood and info about the ship.

I don't remember if the ship could be controlled by mouse or keyboard only, but I played with keyboard. Left and right arrows were turning the ship, front arrow was accelerating, down arrow was decelerating (not sure if the ship could move backwards). The mouse could be used for other things (to adjust certain things for the ship in the right panel, choose dialog options, etc.).

Some areas (star systems?) were quite far away and you needed hours to get there with the "standard" propulsion or you could use some kind of hyperdrive to get there much, much faster. I am not sure if the hyperdrive was available from the beginning (probably not), but I am sure that it required some kind of fuel and the fuel must have been obtained in some way (by completing a mission probably). The fuel was limited, so you couldn't travel back and forth using hyperdrive forever.

There were also space fights, often with multiple enemies, but some of the fights could be avoided by choosing proper dialog options. I remember that my first enemies (I am not sure if I really needed to fight them, but well, I did ;-) ) had ships which shape and colour reminded me of carrots.

The player's ship was upgradeable (by collecting certain items IIRC). At some point you could get a cloacking device. I don't remember much about the weaponry - I don't remember if there was anything else than default "bullets" in particular. The ship had also some kind of energy-shields. The player could set how much power is redirected into: front, rear, left side and right side shields. The shields could be turned off or on, but I don't remember if they consumed power when they were on or not. When the shields were on, the ship had a glowing rim - white if the shields were very strong, light blue if the shields were strong, blue if the shields were average, dark blue when the shields were low and red (not completely sure about it) when the shields were very low. At the beginning all you could have was low or average shields, but later you could improve them (well, I am not sure if you could improve the shielding device directly or just the power generator, which could just put more power into the shielding). When the ship was hit, the shields were weakened, but their original strength was restored with time.

I think that is pretty much all I remember.

This sounds very much to me like the Escape Velocity series. I never played the first one, but I did play Escape Velocity: Override and Escape Velocity: Nova.

The only thing that sounds off to me is the shield-directional thing, there was nothing like that in EV:O or EV:N, but all of the other aspects sound very similar, especially the standard vs hyperdrive propulsion.

 

[TheJKPlays]

I remember a double dragon style beat 'em up with swords and street gangs. It was for the NES, no clue what the name of that game is though.

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maybe its the tmnt game idk it was just a long shot

 

[TheJKPlays]

ok so there is a computer game i played a few years ago where you had to collect gold and wood to upgrade a castle and go fight if anyone knows it would be awesome theres also another computergame i played where it looked like you where playing on one of those of those old tvs with the dials idk but if anyonecanhelp it would be awsome!

 

[gyamar]

Hello!

I played this game when I was a kid in the early '90s, but most of the memories are pretty detailed, although a bit chaotic. I probably didn't know english enough to know what the plot was about, however. (...)

This sounds very much to me like the Escape Velocity series. I never played the first one, but I did play Escape Velocity: Override and Escape Velocity: Nova.

The only thing that sounds off to me is the shield-directional thing, there was nothing like that in EV:O or EV:N, but all of the other aspects sound very similar, especially the standard vs hyperdrive propulsion.

Thanks for the quick response, but unforutnately it is not the game I am looking for. Thr original 'Escape Velocity' was released in 1996, and I played my game in about 1994, it was probably released a few years earlier. Also, our old PC had only 125 MB hard drive, only about 15 MB available to us, kids, so all our games were small size DOS ones.

I have watched a "Let's play Escape Velocity" video - the mechanics are similar indeed, but there are major differences - the right panel was grayish in "my game", the ship was bigger, the reosultion probably lower.

 

[gyamar]

There was this game I played as a kid, probably early to mid 90s on Windows or DOS. It was a platformer and you played as an animal of some sorts, collecting stuff. What really stuck with me was that after every level you had a certain amount of time where you could fly back and fourth through the level, crushing its building blocks and getting bonus points for doing so. Any idea?

There were probably dozens of those games... Maybe Jazz Jackrabbit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Jackrabbit_(1994_video_game)]?

 

[Aldy Wave]

hello im new here. i remember played this game using windows xp. sorry for bad english. its the worm vs bug game. we can control the worm and its army, each worm have different gun. i remember fighting ants, ant eggs, big ant (4 time the worm size) and some flying ant. this game even have a boss like enemy like ladybug. Anyone have the idea? everytime i search at google what i need is big worms game and its very different.

 

[ldfranks]

Hi All,

And thank you in advance for any assistance anyone can give me with this.

I am looking for the name of a console game, multiplayer dungeon crawler type in 3rd person looking down on the characters. The character choice screen is underground or indoors, and I think you can only choose from about 3 or 4 different characters, one of which is a male dwarf, no real customization, can't choose gender or anything. There is 1 female choice I think. I also think the heroes, the characters you played, were supposed to be ancient heroes that were brought back to life to help with a problem/crisis and you completed tasks/missions as you progressed through dungeons, but I'm not sure about all of these details.

I believe it was available on either Xbox (before the 360) or PS3, and we played it after 2004 (sorry I can't be more specific then that about those details).

I believe you could collect things found in the dungeon(s), sell them at various points you came upon as you progressed through the areas. I can't remember whether you could upgrade your character or armour but am fairly certain your weapon could be upgraded to some degree.

Thanks for any help that can be provided.

Laura

Bit of a random guess here, but maybe Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWLya893a0A] for the Xbox?

Thank you for the suggestion. I am pretty sure I played that one too, but it is not the one I am thinking about. The graphics on the one I'm looking for aren't quite that good.

Laura

 

[sake_v2]

Please, for the love of god, if anyone could help:

I remember it being a horror/suspense/escape kind of game, that you started on a manhole/sewer exit or something like that. Its a VERY old game, I remember by the graphics, I just don't know which platform. It was first person, you were in some kind of house. The starting point had kind of a medieval aspect of it, with like dungeon stones looking like a prison around that manhole. I remember a glimpse of a long shot in like a desert with someone walking or something like that, maybe you could take a look in a hole between the stones, and the thing I remember the most about the game is the books. There was a library or something, and I think I thought of that game as a kid as "the book game", I think the books played a huge part. Maybe you could examine them or something.

This is not much but I'm sure someone else here played it, because for me, in my country to be able to play that game at the time, probably it had some success, I'm guessing. I tried searching multiple times, "first person horror game" and a console, like Atari, Sega Saturn, etc. No success.

 

[Pixelhunter]

Hello!

I played this game when I was a kid in the early '90s, but most of the memories are pretty detailed, although a bit chaotic. I probably didn't know english enough to know what the plot was about, however. (...)

This sounds very much to me like the Escape Velocity series. I never played the first one, but I did play Escape Velocity: Override and Escape Velocity: Nova.

The only thing that sounds off to me is the shield-directional thing, there was nothing like that in EV:O or EV:N, but all of the other aspects sound very similar, especially the standard vs hyperdrive propulsion.

Thanks for the quick response, but unforutnately it is not the game I am looking for. Thr original 'Escape Velocity' was released in 1996, and I played my game in about 1994, it was probably released a few years earlier. Also, our old PC had only 125 MB hard drive, only about 15 MB available to us, kids, so all our games were small size DOS ones.

I have watched a "Let's play Escape Velocity" video - the mechanics are similar indeed, but there are major differences - the right panel was grayish in "my game", the ship was bigger, the reosultion probably lower.

That's "Solar Winds" (1993).

 

[gyamar]

Hello!

I played this game when I was a kid in the early '90s, but most of the memories are pretty detailed, although a bit chaotic. I probably didn't know english enough to know what the plot was about, however. (...)

This sounds very much to me like the Escape Velocity series. I never played the first one, but I did play Escape Velocity: Override and Escape Velocity: Nova.

The only thing that sounds off to me is the shield-directional thing, there was nothing like that in EV:O or EV:N, but all of the other aspects sound very similar, especially the standard vs hyperdrive propulsion.

Thanks for the quick response, but unforutnately it is not the game I am looking for. Thr original 'Escape Velocity' was released in 1996, and I played my game in about 1994, it was probably released a few years earlier. Also, our old PC had only 125 MB hard drive, only about 15 MB available to us, kids, so all our games were small size DOS ones.

I have watched a "Let's play Escape Velocity" video - the mechanics are similar indeed, but there are major differences - the right panel was grayish in "my game", the ship was bigger, the reosultion probably lower.

That's "Solar Winds" (1993).

That's it! Thanks a lot!

 

[potoroo]

Hello everyone, i've been looking for the name of an old PC game (late 90s). I can only remember the intro:

It starts off at night on a desert road. The main character (a dark skinned male with an afro wearing a grey suit and sunglasses)'s car is being chased by 2 cars, they fire shots and missiles to the main character's car, then a road end sign appears and the main character jumpps and crashes. He lays down heavily wounded. One of the two enemy cars (yellow w/black stripes) survives and is about to kill the MC but another car jumps and fires a missile at the yellow car. The driver turns out to be a woman. She walks to the main character, reaches her hand to the man, then takes him to her car with background music that sounds like an intro for an adult vid (if you know what i mean), talks with the man and drives away. That's all i can remember, it was a driving / shooting game.

If anyone can recall the name i'd greatly appreciate it. Sorry about the music description but it really is in the game...

Edit: actually found the disk, i'm dumb. It was Interstate '76 Nitro Pack. I'll leave the post if anyone was looking for it as well

 

[missalleenius]

Hello everyone. I really need help finding this game due to a friend of mine's current situation. He can't stop having nightmares about the game though it's old so he only remembers bits and pieces. Here are the things he remembers.

When he was 7 years old (now 18) he played this game on xbox. It was an FPS and the most he remembers is there was a part in the game where everything looked apocalyptic, grey and foggy, and on this hill was a cross with this bird like creature nailed to it similar to jesus, crows flying around the creature which then looks up at you while(?) its dead.

It could have just been a small part in a game rather than a big plotline but from the description it seems like a horror. He said he played it on Xbox. His therapist has been asking him to find out what the game is for a while now, trying to find the root of his night terrors.

Thank you and please let me know if you find anything out. If I don't see what's on here for whatever reason please email me at redacted.

 

[machtwerk]

There was this game I played as a kid, probably early to mid 90s on Windows or DOS. It was a platformer and you played as an animal of some sorts, collecting stuff. What really stuck with me was that after every level you had a certain amount of time where you could fly back and fourth through the level, crushing its building blocks and getting bonus points for doing so. Any idea?

There were probably dozens of those games... Maybe Jazz Jackrabbit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Jackrabbit_(1994_video_game)]?

There was this game I played as a kid, probably early to mid 90s on Windows or DOS. It was a platformer and you played as an animal of some sorts, collecting stuff. What really stuck with me was that after every level you had a certain amount of time where you could fly back and fourth through the level, crushing its building blocks and getting bonus points for doing so. Any idea?

There were probably dozens of those games... Maybe Jazz Jackrabbit [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Jackrabbit_(1994_video_game)]?

That might just be it, name definitely rings a bell. I?ll check it out as soon as I?m back home, thanks a lot!

 

[Lillyvanilly]

hello everyone.
So here are 2 games that I have been trying to remember by name.

1.
This game is about a teenage boy who gets picked out to be the next secret agent or some sort. It's an old school game mostly point and click with puzzles to solve. What I remember from the game is that you have to find a way out of a camp and trap this sergeant to proof yourself.

2.
This game is totally different but from the same time as the above. You play as female who needs to save the world or something? It plays in a steampunk kinda era and you are accompanied by a guy with sunglasses and a Mohawk and with your best pal the robot dog. It's also point and click but with combat and more 3d feeling.


Think you guys can help me out here?

 

[Midwoka]

Hello everyone. I really need help finding this game due to a friend of mine's current situation. He can't stop having nightmares about the game though it's old so he only remembers bits and pieces. Here are the things he remembers.

When he was 7 years old (now 18) he played this game on xbox. It was an FPS and the most he remembers is there was a part in the game where everything looked apocalyptic, grey and foggy, and on this hill was a cross with this bird like creature nailed to it similar to jesus, crows flying around the creature which then looks up at you while(?) its dead.

It could have just been a small part in a game rather than a big plotline but from the description it seems like a horror. He said he played it on Xbox. His therapist has been asking him to find out what the game is for a while now, trying to find the root of his night terrors.

Thank you and please let me know if you find anything out. If I don't see what's on here for whatever reason please email me at redacted

I think he's remembering Pestilence from The Darkness [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uthowHw5puQ] (he comes up around 1:34:35 in the video I linked, and there's some low-quality screenshots here [http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/720416/images/darkness_ch2_b01_070.jpg] and here [http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/720416/images/darkness_ch2_b01_071.jpg]). Hope this can help with the nightmares. :x

 

[Catlon]

So me and my mom are trying to remember this game which was for what I assume is the original Xbox
It was a multiplayer game and the characters had swords
For some reason I remember it being somewhat oriental?
And for the most part the atmosphere was really foggy, like this was a prominent characteristic in my head and I don't know why... this description is so vague, if I remember anything else I'll be back.

 

[Meximagician]

hello everyone.
So here are 2 games that I have been trying to remember by name.

1.
This game is about a teenage boy who gets picked out to be the next secret agent or some sort. It's an old school game mostly point and click with puzzles to solve. What I remember from the game is that you have to find a way out of a camp and trap this sergeant to proof yourself.

2.
This game is totally different but from the same time as the above. You play as female who needs to save the world or something? It plays in a steampunk kinda era and you are accompanied by a guy with sunglasses and a Mohawk and with your best pal the robot dog. It's also point and click but with combat and more 3d feeling.


Think you guys can help me out here?

Not sure about the first game, but the second is probably Septerra Core: Legacy of the Creator.

 

[Midwoka]

1.
This game is about a teenage boy who gets picked out to be the next secret agent or some sort. It's an old school game mostly point and click with puzzles to solve. What I remember from the game is that you have to find a way out of a camp and trap this sergeant to proof yourself.

Probably Teenagent [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58OaprnYeA8]. =)