Old Games you remember playing but can't remember the name of.
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I've been looking for something for years that falls into your second description pretty perfectly. Any way you've figured it out after three years??Voulan said:I posted this in a similar thread but have had no luck, so I'll re-post it in here:
I have two games for you guys to discover. Unfortunately, what I remember from them is very vague.
1) This game was on an old DOS computer. It was set in Ancient Greece, though the story I haven't got any clue of. You play as an (old?) upper-class man, and begin the game waking up in bed, then making your way to a nearby bar. The game is highly reminiscent of Hugo's House of Horrors (same type-command gameplay), which was also on that computer.
2) This game I have no idea what it was originally on, other than some form of computer. The game featured some sort of male adventurer, who had to make his way from the left side of the screen to the right (or vice versa), all the while avoiding large monsters that patrol up and down the length of the screen. The idea was to dash across when they had their back turned on him. There may have been gemstone collecting and boulder pushing, but that might be me merging two games together.
Good luck, because I've been trying to find them for ages.
Hello,
I'm re-posting this with few updates here and there.
Another game the bothers me from time to time:
It's economy RTS played somewhere after 1997 most probably on Win 98.
You have lots of resources to take care of like gold of course, stone, metal, coal, wood, food and most probably other suff.
You have to build appropriate mines to gather the resources. I remember the armies you build where quite massive and don't really remember having unit limit. You can build sea transport to conquer other lands as well as battle ships.
I remember well one specific war machine that is like a big roulette of gun barrels. It was kind of many cannons mounted in a circle. This thing could do great damage to infantry like killing 10-20 units with one shot. The war machines consume resources: mentioned cannon would consume metal and coal with each shot thus having too many war machines in battle would exhaust the resources and make them useless.
I believe the game world was in the middle ages or something like that.
Also if it's of any help the executable was named war.exe not really sure why I remember this but there it is.
And Lets also try this one again:
Old arcade game. I remember playing it in the early to mid 90's on coin-op machine.
It was a side scroller where character walks and can jump and hit boxes with his head for bonuses very similar to Mario but it's not it. He could fight the enemies by shooting them and trapping them in bubbles. You have to jump on the bubbles to finish them or to reach higher places in the level.
I remember that in the very first level you had to trap several enemies and jump on the bubbles forming kind of bubble "ladder", in order to climb kind of pyramid with boxes in order to reach some reward on top. The reward may have been a star of some sort but I'm not sure. Probably giving extra life or weapon I don't remember.
I remember that the first boss was huge compared to the character you control.
The graphics was kind of smooth not like the most 8-bit stuf. The graphics is comparable with Contra, "Captain Commando" and "Cadillac and dinosaurs" and these three games I played about the same time as the one I seek or few years later.
The game mechanic is quire similar to Mario but it is not Marion. And although the guy shoots bubbles it is not Bubble Bobble.
Thank you.
I'm re-posting this with few updates here and there.
Another game the bothers me from time to time:
It's economy RTS played somewhere after 1997 most probably on Win 98.
You have lots of resources to take care of like gold of course, stone, metal, coal, wood, food and most probably other suff.
You have to build appropriate mines to gather the resources. I remember the armies you build where quite massive and don't really remember having unit limit. You can build sea transport to conquer other lands as well as battle ships.
I remember well one specific war machine that is like a big roulette of gun barrels. It was kind of many cannons mounted in a circle. This thing could do great damage to infantry like killing 10-20 units with one shot. The war machines consume resources: mentioned cannon would consume metal and coal with each shot thus having too many war machines in battle would exhaust the resources and make them useless.
I believe the game world was in the middle ages or something like that.
Also if it's of any help the executable was named war.exe not really sure why I remember this but there it is.
And Lets also try this one again:
Old arcade game. I remember playing it in the early to mid 90's on coin-op machine.
It was a side scroller where character walks and can jump and hit boxes with his head for bonuses very similar to Mario but it's not it. He could fight the enemies by shooting them and trapping them in bubbles. You have to jump on the bubbles to finish them or to reach higher places in the level.
I remember that in the very first level you had to trap several enemies and jump on the bubbles forming kind of bubble "ladder", in order to climb kind of pyramid with boxes in order to reach some reward on top. The reward may have been a star of some sort but I'm not sure. Probably giving extra life or weapon I don't remember.
I remember that the first boss was huge compared to the character you control.
The graphics was kind of smooth not like the most 8-bit stuf. The graphics is comparable with Contra, "Captain Commando" and "Cadillac and dinosaurs" and these three games I played about the same time as the one I seek or few years later.
The game mechanic is quire similar to Mario but it is not Marion. And although the guy shoots bubbles it is not Bubble Bobble.
Thank you.
Ok, I'm looking for an old DOS/ Windows 3.1 game. You're controlling a boy who can jump and climb ladders. The boy is throwing apples (really, apple cores,the apples he has already chewed on) and there's infinite amount of them. He can hit enemies with those apples for some damage and I think that he can jump on the enemies as well. There are all sorts of enemies in the game, but I remember a boss battle with a giant fly.
At some parts of the game you can pass through teleports that take you to the other part of the level and back, as well as secret parts. You collect different candy as points (cakes, bombons). There are also bombs you can collect but you have limited amount of them and when they blow up they kill all enemies on the screen. On some parts, you can pick up wood and the boy then throws wood instead of apples. The wood is used to build bridges to the other parts of the game.
The games from that time period I remember are Golden Axe, Commander Keen and Dina Little Bomber. Thanks for your help.
At some parts of the game you can pass through teleports that take you to the other part of the level and back, as well as secret parts. You collect different candy as points (cakes, bombons). There are also bombs you can collect but you have limited amount of them and when they blow up they kill all enemies on the screen. On some parts, you can pick up wood and the boy then throws wood instead of apples. The wood is used to build bridges to the other parts of the game.
The games from that time period I remember are Golden Axe, Commander Keen and Dina Little Bomber. Thanks for your help.
Going to bump this. I know it's probably not a well known game, but somebody out there has to know!Cipher The Noble said:
I've been looking for a specific arkanoid/breakout game for quite some time. The graphics of this game are pretty top notch. It had many different power ups including a phantom paddle power up. If I remember correctly there may have been secret levels too. There was also a boss level I remember. It was some kind of worm/robot creature. I know the game isn't ricochet. It was most likely a game on shockwave.com. The music was sort of like techno as well. It was kind of 3-d but from a front view if that makes sense. I played it on my pc when I was a child. If anyone knows what game I'm talking about please get back to me. [email protected]
..Dragons Lair? no?OREayda said:I've been looking for something for years that falls into your second description pretty perfectly. Any way you've figured it out after three years??Voulan said:I posted this in a similar thread but have had no luck, so I'll re-post it in here:
2) This game I have no idea what it was originally on, other than some form of computer. The game featured some sort of male adventurer, who had to make his way from the left side of the screen to the right (or vice versa), all the while avoiding large monsters that patrol up and down the length of the screen. The idea was to dash across when they had their back turned on him. There may have been gemstone collecting and boulder pushing, but that might be me merging two games together.
Good luck, because I've been trying to find them for ages.
It should be:Brittany Gale said:
Nightlong - Union City Conspiracy (1998)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su7gilVYOQs
but it is third person..I bet it was this game. I didn't tell you before because I was thinking that it was first person like Hell Cab...check it out!
Not it either but that looks pretty familiar. I did end up finding out what it was after searching for 3 hours straight (I have no life lol). It's called The Journeyman Project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akv_sp-iMX8 The only part I really got right was having to go to work haha. Thanks so much for trying to help, it was driving me nuts trying to figure it out!diablo rules said:
So I'm 18 now, and back when I was 5 or 6, I remember playing a game at my brother's place. I don't remember a whole lot about it, but here's what I do remember:
I believe it had RPG elements, but I could be wrong
It was a top down view, perhaps angled a bit
I remember going through hallways of a castle or ruins
If your character is killed, you become a skeleton. You can continue to play, but you're more vulnerable, and I don't remember if you're able to become alive again. If you die as a skeleton, I believe it was game over.
Unfortunately that's all I really remember, I know it's extremely vague, and I apologize for that. It was quite long ago. Also, please let me say, the game I'm looking for is ABSOLUTELY without any bit of doubt NOT MEDIEVIL. Everytime I bring up playing as a skeleton, people suggest this game, and I'm completely certain that this is *NOT* the game I'm looking for. Just wanted to make this as clear as I could. I believe the game I'm looking for is on the PS1, but it could also be on the N64.
(Also I hope I posted this in the right place, never posted to this site before!)
I believe it had RPG elements, but I could be wrong
It was a top down view, perhaps angled a bit
I remember going through hallways of a castle or ruins
If your character is killed, you become a skeleton. You can continue to play, but you're more vulnerable, and I don't remember if you're able to become alive again. If you die as a skeleton, I believe it was game over.
Unfortunately that's all I really remember, I know it's extremely vague, and I apologize for that. It was quite long ago. Also, please let me say, the game I'm looking for is ABSOLUTELY without any bit of doubt NOT MEDIEVIL. Everytime I bring up playing as a skeleton, people suggest this game, and I'm completely certain that this is *NOT* the game I'm looking for. Just wanted to make this as clear as I could. I believe the game I'm looking for is on the PS1, but it could also be on the N64.
(Also I hope I posted this in the right place, never posted to this site before!)
That's the one! Thank you very much, it was driving me crazy.diablo rules said:
The odd thing is this: If I google it as dos game+ boy+ throwing apple cores I don't get that game, not anywhere near it. If I exchange "boy" for "Nicky" all the results go for that game. Weird
Maybe "Dune II" then? That game was too big to fit on a floppy, though. Sure it was RTS and not TBS?nikche said: