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

[theblackronpaul]

Been trying to find this game for weeks with no luck... even after going through nearly every list of PC RPGs I could find, including Wikipedia's. So here goes nothing:

I played this game only a few times, well over a decade ago at my neighbor's (with whom I've since lost contact). His dad had a very large collection of pirated games back in the day, some more obscure than others (for example, he was the reason my friends and I spent our Jr High years playing the Russian-made RPG, Rage of Mages 2). So, it's likely this is a relatively unknown game.

Anyway, what I remember from the game is that it was a (?1997-2001?) third-person futuristic RPG. When you weren't on a map, you could visit various areas in the city to buy weapons/armor even mech assault suits, as well as upgrade biotech that gave enhancement to your abilities (like dexterity, for example). You didn't control your character when in the city, you just clicked on the areas, as I recall, since it wasn't a part of the live game. After you were geared up you could join a map (possibly isometric?) where you attacked enemies and discovered loot to gain wealth. The game was multiplayer via lan, though it might have been IPX-only. The graphics were probably on-par with at least the first diablo (animated sprites, detailed art, etc). All the game text was in English, so if it wasn't originally in English, it was at least properly translated.

A lot of the game mechanics remind me a bit of a simplified shadowrun, but I don't think the game had things like astral or matrix planes. I can't remember whether the combat was turn-based or real-time, but I'm pretty sure it was real-time (action-rpg style). I kind of recall the name being short, maybe an acronym, possibly with numbers in the title.

That's all I can think of. If it sounds somewhat familiar, please throw out a name. I'm dying to find it again.

EDIT: I think the game might be "Paradise Cracked" based on some screen shots I found. Going to check it out and see.

 

[KingDarthrog]

Please help me, my sister and used to play these old point and click games. One had this grey character and I think his name was Bubic or Bubbic. Another was about a king who was bald and and you had to go around your kingdom talking to your civilians who were animals with varying personalities e.g a bird who was a painter. They all had the style of "Saftey Monkey" but they were not from Moby games. Please help, my sister and I have been searching every now and again for 20 odd years. Thank you.

 

[raeior]

Hello peolpe,

I Remember a game, Where you play as robotics, Both the enemy and you, When you destory or lose an robot it drops like an Arm or a legg, Everytime it does that you can send out some sort of unit. And with that you can create a new robot from Random parts of an enemy or ally. Or upgrade an existing one ( i think ) And this is for PC :=) Please help, i don't remember the name of the game :/ kinda annoying really, Also it consists on building bases also, so i don't think its a flash game :S

Someone knows anything? :O

Was it an RTS? Then it could be Metal Fatigue. Otherwise it might be Robo Rumble.

The first one is one of those asteroid games where you had to shoot all asteroids to complete the level.
They started big and everytime you shot them, they seperated into smaller ones... In each level the asteroids
changed. I remember that there was a level where the asteroids where big eyeballs.

This sounds like Comet Buster.

 

[MarchHatchet]

I'm looking for an action role-playing, hack and slash, Diablo-like game. I don't know exactly if the game appeared before or after 2000, but the graphics were like in Diablo 2, so it could be after. The game take place on a planet where humans and aliens are fighting and your objective is to destroye the 8, 10 or 12 alien eggs. During the loading screen you can see a space ship carrying the alien eggs. From how I remember your weapons were some laser, plasma and other fire guns and melee weapons (both kind of weapons fire and melee can be either one-handed or two-handed). You can use potions, you can level up (hope so), you can collect many items in your inventory, there were some kind of portals and if you use them you will access new areas and I'm very sure that in the camp you begin the game is a scientist which is testing the teleportation system. I hope someone know something.

 

[Phantomias]

Hello peolpe,

The first one is one of those asteroid games where you had to shoot all asteroids to complete the level.
They started big and everytime you shot them, they seperated into smaller ones... In each level the asteroids
changed. I remember that there was a level where the asteroids where big eyeballs.

This sounds like Comet Buster.

Thanks a lot, thats the game I was looking for the whole time!

Now I just need to find the other game I mentioned...

(The second one was a game where you tried to kill each other... You played a soldier on a fixed 2D map (Some kind
of forest for example) and you where able to walk in all 4 directions. You had weapons (As far as I remember you had to pick them up) and the strongest was a rocket launcher. Then you just tried to kill the other player
(So it was a 2-Player game at least, I don't remember if it was up to 4 players) I'm not sure but I think that the game had "Trigger" in it's name...)

Thanks again

 

[meerkat95]

Hi,
This is an awesome message board.
I'm looking for an old 3D space game - I'm pretty sure it came pre-loaded with windows 95 or 98. You flew a spaceship over a 3d landscape of jagged rocks / cliffs / the occasional lake. Every so often you would come across a little camp of stranded people and have to land and rescue them - I think that was the main aim, finding all the stranded people on each planet. You would get attacked by flying aliens that looked like pterodactyls. That's all I can remember!
Anyone know what it's called? Thanks a lot.

 

[Mike501]

Hi guys, I'm desperately looking for a game I was playing around year 2000, it was an RTS game, in which there were heroes, and they had different powers I think. I remember that the map had forests and there were bears and bee's nests hanging. One other aspect was that there were portals on the ground map, and if you reached that, you would encounter a wizard or something like that. The units were me ancient, they had swords, pikes, etc nothing modern. It is not Age of Empires, as I was playing that game at the same time.

Anyone have a clue?Thanks a lot.

 

[AshieTheConfused]

I remember this game so clearly, but I was also very little, it was an rpg styled game i think it was meant for the PlayStation 1, And it was about these two boys were able to transform into these dragon-esque forms one was blue and the other one was red, i think the game started off with the blue on first and he had like a wolf companion that petrified itself.

I'm not sure, vut I hope someone can help me out >.< I loved it.

Might it be Legend of Dragoon ?

I just looked up a video for it, It's not it, The blue character is a girl,

The boys in the game weren't in any armor, one was Dark short hair and he had like little dragon details in red(not fully transformed into dragons) And the other boys had slightly longer white hair and his dragon parts were blue. and when they transformed they had this little cutscene pic and it had the sound of their voices yelling, sorta like a dragon ball kinda thing when they transform into super sayans XD

I hope it kinda helps >.<

 

[darkyena1]

I remember playing this game on my dads old apple computer the one with floppy disks. You control this guy and you go through different stages like there is one where you have to cross a bridge with a giant swinging a club. And there are times gypsies steal from you. And there is a part where you have to decide if you want to take high road or low road. And i think the final battle is against a black knight and you have to jump on platforms to get to him.

 

[ZarasRage2]

3rd person view. The main character is a girl, with short black hair, an black clothes. Quite old. I just know at some point you have to enter to a tunel/castle, lighted by shiny cristals. I got a screenshot of the game. I need to know the name of this game!

 

[theblackronpaul]

I remember playing this game on my dads old apple computer the one with floppy disks. You control this guy and you go through different stages like there is one where you have to cross a bridge with a giant swinging a club. And there are times gypsies steal from you. And there is a part where you have to decide if you want to take high road or low road. And i think the final battle is against a black knight and you have to jump on platforms to get to him.

This sounds like it might be Dragon's Lair, which has recently been remade.

 

[dbrown546]

I have one for ya. I can only remember a few facts about the game. You were a wizard. You started with a cat. If the cat died somehow it 'angered the gods'. There was permadeath and randomly generated rooms for the dungeon.

Thats it.

Any ideas?

 

[dbrown546]

Here is a tough one in the early to mid 91s I bought a cd game and I think it was doom or Duke nukem. The thing about it was it had a ton of other games on it it was for pc what I'm trying to get is the name of the game and a list of all the other games on the disk I think one of the games on it was called magic carpet.

There were lots of different game bundles put together. Are you looking for a specific game in that collection?

There was a freeware game/demo disk called "Way Cool" from around then. Thats the only one I can think of. Thats where I was first introduced to games like Castle of the Winds which I see someone else was looking for Great game. haha.

 

[saddog5523]

I know I'm probably not going to get anything conclusive on this, since I was so young. It was one of the few games I never finished, because our house was broken into and they took all of the PC games. I'm guessing it was for 95 and beyond since it was on CD. The most I can remember of it was that you started out in a village as a man in (I think) a green shirt, it was an adventure game somewhat. There was an injured dragon (or something similar) that you needed to help. There was a part of it where there were lots of crows that would attack you. The faces were round. Forgive me for lack of detail, I just can't remember much more than that. It has been really bothering me as of late, and all of my searches have turned up nothing. I'd appreciate any help in finding this game! If anyone can come up with anything concrete on this, I wouldn't mind donating a few beers via PayPal for your effort!

Also, just another one that was from around the same time. My parents had a bundle of games on the computer. One was a brain game where there were multiple strings hanging vertically that were crossed over one another. You had to untangle the strings to where they were hanging straight.

 

[graziano]

i try again.

hello, i have an hard game to remember. it was an ms-dos game, i remember i was playing it together with Electro Body (Electro Man), so it could be in the '90 (about) ?
i'm not sure if it was a shareware game. i remeber it like a 2D side-scrolling game, opening with a short animation that showed a guy with a kind of jetpack crushing on the desert... this guy is the protagonist btw.

random things i remember:

-you are armed with a sort of gun (unlimited) and a sort of grenade launcher (limited)
-in the first level, you find yourself in a tunnel and you have to proceed among this tunnel moving to the right.
you see a kind of blue pattern on the ground, and mountains on the background above the tunnel.
there is a point where the blue pattern is interrupted and you are not able to proceed; you have to shoot the mountains to provoke a kind of collapse, then the blue pattern is restored and you can pass over.
the enemies on this level are a kind of green/blue floating things.
-on the 2nd level, you move by walking (no jetpack)and you find walking/shoooting enemies with human resemblance.
you can perform short jumps, but to climb platforms you must use a sort of climbing hook.
i remeber explosive barrels on this level...cameras/torrets armed with guns in the upper platforms... kind of flying demons that you could release by shooting and hard to get rid off... a kind of floppy disk that you could collect, and it was falling on the floor every time you werehitten (never discovered what was his function).
once i got at the top of this level, and there was a kind of parked navicel (dunno about it!)

never reached level 3 (if it existed lol),
if someone has a memory of this game's name please help me! i want to re-play it and finish it xD

 

[commandersmalls]

Okay so in elementary school we used to play this game and it had colorful aliens that you sorted into different bins based on size and color and sometimes even what facial features they had and there were other mini games on it too like this marble one where you carved a little track in it and you could put oil on it to make it go faster and there was one where you could arrange a marching band and some football players and cheerleaders on a field and they'd march or whatever and then there was one where you could basically 'edit' pictures with these little dudes that could curl the picture corners or track dirt all over the picture or light it on fire or melt it or swirl it or spray paint it. I have no idea what this game is called and it is literally bothering the crap out of me. It's from early to mid 2000s but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me

 

[Doomgriever]

I remember this game so clearly, but I was also very little, it was an rpg styled game i think it was meant for the PlayStation 1, And it was about these two boys were able to transform into these dragon-esque forms one was blue and the other one was red, i think the game started off with the blue on first and he had like a wolf companion that petrified itself.

I'm not sure, vut I hope someone can help me out >.< I loved it.

Might it be Legend of Dragoon ?

I just looked up a video for it, It's not it, The blue character is a girl,

The boys in the game weren't in any armor, one was Dark short hair and he had like little dragon details in red(not fully transformed into dragons) And the other boys had slightly longer white hair and his dragon parts were blue. and when they transformed they had this little cutscene pic and it had the sound of their voices yelling, sorta like a dragon ball kinda thing when they transform into super sayans XD

I hope it kinda helps >.<

Breath Of Fire 4? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPuBZ78vWbg&t=33s )

 

[randalliceman]

Alright!! I have been struggling to find this childhood game. I believe its for the SEGA , its a plat former with different a few animal characters that you can find and turn into. I think there was some kind of rat, and a flying squirrel that you can find up in a tree, super fast paced, I cant quite remember the details but I know it was super fun, any help would be awesome, thanks you guys!!!

 

[Max 10]

When I was a kid, I had installed a game that I think was called 'Belario' or something like that, it was basically a Mario knock off for PC. It looked like Mario Bros. 2 from what I remember and I'd really like to find it again so that I can play it.

 

[Max 10]

When I was a kid, I had installed a game that I think was called 'Belario' or something like that, it was basically a Mario knock off for PC. It looked like Mario Bros. 2 from what I remember and I'd really like to find it again so that I can play it.