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

[MarchHatchet]

Hello everyone, I'm interested in an old Diablo-like game where the action occurs on a planet where the main enemies are some of alien species. Your objective, as I remember, was to destroy their big eggs. During the loading screens you can obverse a ship carrying those eggs, 8 to 10 in number.

You began in a human base, the weapons were pistols at first, elementals pistols. Afterwards, you will find rifles. The weapons I have used were based on laser. Just like in Diablo II, the NPCs were traders of specific items, like a smith, a healer, a quest giver etc. The atmosphere felt futuristic, the controls were point and click (I hope I remember correctly) and the graphics, old.

Even if it's a game or a Diablo II mod, I hope you can help me.

 

[Meximagician]

Hello everyone, I'm interested in an old Diablo-like game where the action occurs on a planet where the main enemies are some of alien species. Your objective, as I remember, was to destroy their big eggs. During the loading screens you can obverse a ship carrying those eggs, 8 to 10 in number.

You began in a human base, the weapons were pistols at first, elementals pistols. Afterwards, you will find rifles. The weapons I have used were based on laser. Just like in Diablo II, the NPCs were traders of specific items, like a smith, a healer, a quest giver etc. The atmosphere felt futuristic, the controls were point and click (I hope I remember correctly) and the graphics, old.

Even if it's a game or a Diablo II mod, I hope you can help me.

Was it one of these:

Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter 2 Conscription
Greed: Black Border
Imperatum
Space Siege

 

[Krista Hamilton]

Alright, so I'm thinking of a game that I used to play at school in the early to mid 2000's. It was a game similar to Kid Pix but it had a lot more to it I think. I think I remember it having some sort of menu system in a room inside of a treehouse and you clicked on various objects to take you to different parts of the game. I think there was one for reading and others for different subjects, but I didn't use those. I always went with the arts option where you were taken to a screen with an open blank journal that you could type whatever you wanted into it, but you could also put drawings in as well. The different drawing features played songs whenever you used them. For instance, whenever you clicked and held to erase, it played a certain song as you did so. When you let go of the mouse button, the song stopped. I also remember that there was a video that I think would play at the start of the game and maybe also at different parts where a live-action man dressed as a clown (who was also a bee for some reason) talked to you as he was flying. It was a really odd and obscure game as far as I knew, but I absolutely loved it and have been scouring the internet for it for hours now. Please help!

Wow, this was from ages ago. I forgot all about this. Still no ideas?

 

[Tonizerna]

This game was on those old pc demo cd game . Where you need to go inside houses to complete level.. if i remember correctly characters was potatoes or something vegetable . You can drive car and it was like red alert game camera angle. Very colorfully .. hope someone catch correct game. And there was bad peoples trying to get you. I think it was turn based game.

 

[falcon72]

Hi guys. I'm still trying to find a game that was something like this. I played it on a Windows 98 machine in the early 2000s. It was a 2D side-scrolling battleship game where you were in control of the ship on the top of the screen, you could move it only to the left or right. The one I'm looking for has a very bright blue sea (maybe I played it in 256 colors mode??). There was a small portion of the sky above the ship you were in control of too. You were standing on the sea level at the top of the screen. There were enemies (submarines most of the time) below the sea level to destroy with bombs (very wobbly when dropped) and missiles. These enemies, would eventually go up to your ship and if they hit you, you would lose a life (i think) or there was a health bar somewhere. The game was divided into at least 10 stages (that's the maximum I've reached back in the day) and every 3 or 5 stages, there was a "special" or "bonus" stage where you were be able to call air strike (they would appear on the small portion of sky I mentioned before) to destroy enemies and get loads of points. I remember if you saw enemies in a straight line and if you hit them they would explode progressively giving you a multiplier in points. And the music?? OMG it was good and catchy. For some reason, I remember "WIN" in the title. I would like to play it again today to see if I can go past the 10th stage. [/spoiler][/quote]

 

[Nina Zenti]

Hi everyone,

Im trying to find a game that I used to play in primary school, so early 2000's. The game was downloaded on our school computers and it was a role playing game where you would need to send and receive emails in order to solve some sort of mystery. It was set in a town and you could move around to different areas for clues and meet people who would help you. I really cant remember anything else about it but I would love to find it!!

 

[flap30]

trying to remember a pc game from 90s maybe early 00s. You were on the set of a crime mystery and you had to create a movie by picking clues that made the most sense. I remember one clue with a handkerchief that had the initials ff embroidered. I almost remember a man at a newsstand that gave you hints. any thoughts???

anyone??

Ok more clues that I remembered
-there was a redheaded woman who was one of the main characters and she says "i haven't touched a thing" as her clue
-you can get a clue from the guy at the newsstand
-a handkerchief with embroidered initials was a clue
-something about a fat man sleeping in a chair was important
-i believe you were trying to make a movie, but to do so you had to pick clues that made sense in the story and you couldn't progress or make your movie if you picked the wrong clues
help!!!!

 

[Vorlayn]

Here?s one I?ve been struggling with: late nineties game, probably on a shareware disk. There were rats running around, male and female. If they met they produced babies, puting more rats on the field. I remember really weird rat mating sounds. It was the player?s job to get rid of the rats. That was iirc the whole game. Really simple but i can?t for the life of me recall its name....

 

[shewitt]

I wonder if anyone knows what on earth I am talking about.....
I'm trying to remember a game that would have been played on a desktop PC in the 90's.

I don't remember there being much to it other than it being based around a dolphin like animal. I think a lot of the time you were just watching scenery like a pond or something and there were day and night phases to it. There were other animals that you'd spot as well, I think they were fantasy type creatures, atmospheric sounds etc.....
Gosh that's a bit thin but hope someone has a clue what I'm talking about! It is driving me mad not remembering the name of it.

So I made this post over 4 years ago but today got the answer. It was called Fin Fin on Teo the Magic Planet. I will sleep well tonight.

 

[Meximagician]

Here's one I've been struggling with: late nineties game, probably on a shareware disk. There were rats running around, male and female. If they met they produced babies, puting more rats on the field. I remember really weird rat mating sounds. It was the player's job to get rid of the rats. That was iirc the whole game. Really simple but i can't for the life of me recall its name....

That is probably Rats! which came out in 1994 but was later ported to iPhone in 2009.

 

[MarchHatchet]

Hello everyone, I'm interested in an old Diablo-like game where the action occurs on a planet where the main enemies are some of alien species. Your objective, as I remember, was to destroy their big eggs. During the loading screens you can obverse a ship carrying those eggs, 8 to 10 in number.

You began in a human base, the weapons were pistols at first, elementals pistols. Afterwards, you will find rifles. The weapons I have used were based on laser. Just like in Diablo II, the NPCs were traders of specific items, like a smith, a healer, a quest giver etc. The atmosphere felt futuristic, the controls were point and click (I hope I remember correctly) and the graphics, old.

Even if it's a game or a Diablo II mod, I hope you can help me.

Was it one of these:

Alien Shooter
Alien Shooter 2 Conscription
Greed: Black Border
Imperatum
Space Siege

Unfortunately, no. First of all, the game I've played was more like a point and click, just like Diablo II, mentioned above. Second, the game itself is old. I remember playing it around 2006-2007, so the game is older then that.

 

[notsofast]

Alright everyone, I have 1 other game I'd like help in (thanks again for being awesome!):

Key points:
-90s/early 2000s pc game
-top-down
-possible rts
- not specifically a shooter as each character had their strengths and weaknesses

This one is tricky because I only played a small part of the demo, but I remember it being a top-down sort or rts where you have a group of around 5ish survivors in what I think is an alien invasion. Each survor has it's own unique name and character design (I remember one having a lab coat?) You click on where you want them to go and who will be the first to explore a room or if you will lock a door. I remember a lab where you fight a few creatures, but it has some capsules to the left wall of the room where you can be safe in or maybe heal. One of the big standouts is that I could scroll away to see the whole map and what looked like an alien queen was on the far right corner of the map and it would spawn more and more creatures that would overtake the world very quickly. It always made me too scared to make progress...I'd hide in that lab forever and give up!

Closest game I found is Alien Shooters 2(similar atmosphere), but it doesn't look like the game play is the same.

I want redemption!!! XD
I was around 6 when I played this and it was the scariest game I had ever dared to play at the time, so my apologies for the terrible description(I also didn't speak English at the time which didn't help...)
Thanks!!

Is this an Enemy Infestation?

 

[hanslord53]

Well Let me try this again.

I remember playing a game and you can only move left to right. It revolves around a girl that tries to beat the light. But first you need be master in dark arts. It has weird vibe in it.

Help me identify this game so i can sleep peacefully again LOL

Bump

 

[Peter Mckain]

im looking for this game i remember i dont remember what the gameplay was like but i remember it had a big box with a black hole swallowing asteroids and meteorites.

 

[Lacutis]

So I've looked around trying to find this game with no success.
It was a shareware game, I believe I bought it off one of those little stands with the 3.5in floppies of shareware. It would have been around 95 or 96. The game was first person and essentially a roguelike. You started the game and it randomly generated your class, starting items, and the world. The entire world was rendered with what I remember as colored polygons. No textures at all. The gameplay was either completely turn based or psuedo turn based with a timer, I can't remember which.

You would wander around in this "3d" world and kill monsters for loot and just keep going until you died. I never played the full non shareware version of the game. The controls where completely keyboard, no mouse input.

I remember the game having a weird almost comical name something like barry's world or daves adventure or something like that.

Edit: One other thing I just remembered is that one of my favorite things to do in the game was to charm monsters and make them fight each other.

Thanks in advance!

 

[elb]

This one is a long shot...

This is a game that was on the school computer in the mid 1990s (I went to school in the UK). I only played it briefly, but I'm curious about seeing it again.

The game featured still images in colour; you could not see your character. It was one of those games in which a text box tells you something that's happened, and then it would give you a few options.

I believe the first part of the game involved moving through a castle, and finding a rope to escape. In another part of the game, you came across a pond where there were fairies. The game asked me if I wanted to take part in their fairy dance and I said "no." The game said that the fairies were offended that I didn't want to dance with them, and I was punished for it.

I remember some girls in my class were playing it one day, and they had a choice between three items to take on their journey. One of the items offered was gold.

A classmate told me that the secret word for completing the game was "book", but I never got to the end of the game so it didn't really make sense to me.

I would be really impressed if someone knows what game this is.

 

[Ners]

So, can't remember a game, it was some sort of action/shooter based. No close known timeframes but I used to play it on a WinXP machine around 2009 perhaps? +/- couple of years, likely older.
After a couple of clicks through the main menus (red-black themed, some pictures and an intro/cutscene I think) you show up as an armored person/soldier in some sort of a valley surrounded with another few soldiers, each having a different set of weapons I think. You could individually control each unit. The main theme color of the game overall was red, like red-orange-yellow(?) and any shades around those, it was literally all red-shaded. From the grounds and grass up to the skies as well, except soldier units, those were black and structures(?) those were more grayish.
The surroundings were kind of like steppes, low steppe-like grass, lots of tiny hills and valleys covered in grass and some larger mountains in the horizont, felt like a desert.
Moving some further you'd encounter some enemy units and some flags waving around, or was it some poles? Can't recall, but it definitely was something alike. Eventually you'd end up finding some kind of conctrete/metal structure/bridge(?) up on a huge hill and few trees around which were similar to those of GTA SA, huge&high, they were also scattered around the fields but nothing in large amounts.
This is the further I came and that's all I get to remember, guess there was some mission to be done but as a kid back then and with lack of english knowledge, it wasn't something I went after and likely the reason I can't remember what it was about, it's mostly visual memories.
Anyone got a clue what I'm talking about?

BUMP!



...anyone?

 

[Pixelhunter]

So, can't remember a game, it was some sort of action/shooter based. No close known timeframes but I used to play it on a WinXP machine around 2009 perhaps? +/- couple of years, likely older.
After a couple of clicks through the main menus (red-black themed, some pictures and an intro/cutscene I think) you show up as an armored person/soldier in some sort of a valley surrounded with another few soldiers, each having a different set of weapons I think. You could individually control each unit. The main theme color of the game overall was red, like red-orange-yellow(?) and any shades around those, it was literally all red-shaded. From the grounds and grass up to the skies as well, except soldier units, those were black and structures(?) those were more grayish.
The surroundings were kind of like steppes, low steppe-like grass, lots of tiny hills and valleys covered in grass and some larger mountains in the horizont, felt like a desert.
Moving some further you'd encounter some enemy units and some flags waving around, or was it some poles? Can't recall, but it definitely was something alike. Eventually you'd end up finding some kind of conctrete/metal structure/bridge(?) up on a huge hill and few trees around which were similar to those of GTA SA, huge&high, they were also scattered around the fields but nothing in large amounts.
This is the further I came and that's all I get to remember, guess there was some mission to be done but as a kid back then and with lack of english knowledge, it wasn't something I went after and likely the reason I can't remember what it was about, it's mostly visual memories.
Anyone got a clue what I'm talking about?

BUMP!



...anyone?

How old did the game look?
Like really old as eg. "Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri"(1996) or more modern like "Chrome: SpecForce" (2005)?
And could you really directly control each unit, or just give orders?

 

[cristyro]

So, can't remember a game, it was some sort of action/shooter based. No close known timeframes but I used to play it on a WinXP machine around 2009 perhaps? +/- couple of years, likely older.
After a couple of clicks through the main menus (red-black themed, some pictures and an intro/cutscene I think) you show up as an armored person/soldier in some sort of a valley surrounded with another few soldiers, each having a different set of weapons I think. You could individually control each unit. The main theme color of the game overall was red, like red-orange-yellow(?) and any shades around those, it was literally all red-shaded. From the grounds and grass up to the skies as well, except soldier units, those were black and structures(?) those were more grayish.
The surroundings were kind of like steppes, low steppe-like grass, lots of tiny hills and valleys covered in grass and some larger mountains in the horizont, felt like a desert.
Moving some further you'd encounter some enemy units and some flags waving around, or was it some poles? Can't recall, but it definitely was something alike. Eventually you'd end up finding some kind of conctrete/metal structure/bridge(?) up on a huge hill and few trees around which were similar to those of GTA SA, huge&high, they were also scattered around the fields but nothing in large amounts.
This is the further I came and that's all I get to remember, guess there was some mission to be done but as a kid back then and with lack of english knowledge, it wasn't something I went after and likely the reason I can't remember what it was about, it's mostly visual memories.
Anyone got a clue what I'm talking about?

BUMP!

...anyone?

Is it by any chance one of the games in the Commandos or Men of War series? Are you positive it's a shooter? If not there are so many names that come in mind even Command and Conquer and Company of Heroes and such.

 

[Ners]

So, can't remember a game, it was some sort of action/shooter based. No close known timeframes but I used to play it on a WinXP machine around 2009 perhaps? +/- couple of years, likely older.
After a couple of clicks through the main menus (red-black themed, some pictures and an intro/cutscene I think) you show up as an armored person/soldier in some sort of a valley surrounded with another few soldiers, each having a different set of weapons I think. You could individually control each unit. The main theme color of the game overall was red, like red-orange-yellow(?) and any shades around those, it was literally all red-shaded. From the grounds and grass up to the skies as well, except soldier units, those were black and structures(?) those were more grayish.
The surroundings were kind of like steppes, low steppe-like grass, lots of tiny hills and valleys covered in grass and some larger mountains in the horizont, felt like a desert.
Moving some further you'd encounter some enemy units and some flags waving around, or was it some poles? Can't recall, but it definitely was something alike. Eventually you'd end up finding some kind of conctrete/metal structure/bridge(?) up on a huge hill and few trees around which were similar to those of GTA SA, huge&high, they were also scattered around the fields but nothing in large amounts.
This is the further I came and that's all I get to remember, guess there was some mission to be done but as a kid back then and with lack of english knowledge, it wasn't something I went after and likely the reason I can't remember what it was about, it's mostly visual memories.
Anyone got a clue what I'm talking about?

BUMP!

...anyone?

Is it by any chance one of the games in the Commandos or Men of War series? Are you positive it's a shooter? If not there are so many names that come in mind even Command and Conquer and Company of Heroes and such.

Yeah, I suppose there was some sort of a mission/path needed to walk over, enemy units were located here and there which you had to take out, it never felt like a flashy fast-paced shooting game though, one thing I should've noted in the original post, it wasn't a WW2 themed game, it felt a bit more recent, though how much I can't recall.