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

[The monk]

How did you find it?

 

[BerlinRain]

I've had to sign up to ask this; it's driving me mad.

Two games I'm dying to find the names of.

1st one is a megadrive game, in which you control either a helicopter or a futuristic tank looking thing. It's a topdown shooter in a similar vein to Mercs. I seem to remember you could pick up a bubble shield that had 3 or 4 rotating bubbles around you. That's all I remember about it really.

2nd one is a pc game, a third person tank shooter. Silly cartoon graphics from what I remember, where you would play in different ears. So a stoneage tank that shot boulders, progressing up to modern day. You could shoot the sheep and they'd explode in cotton wool or something like that. I thought it was called Tiny Tank, but a search turned up nothing for me.

Hope someone knows these games!

Bumpitybump!

 

[Cindy Vaskova]

Heya guys. I seek your infinite knowledge of games lost and forgotten. This one I presumably played around 2001. Details are blurry, info is low, but bear with me.

So, what I remember from this PC game is that it was 3d, main character kinda looked like Batman, black cape and all, objective in the beginning was going, actually running through some tunnels, and being able to glide, to shift weapons and then going out in the open to a map where aliens shoot at you and you have to dodge their attacks and also return fire by hitting the correct target. No idea if this small info is of any help, but fingers crossed someone remembers playing this.

Cheers!

 

[diablo rules]

Heya guys. I seek your infinite knowledge of games lost and forgotten. This one I presumably played around 2001. Details are blurry, info is low, but bear with me.

So, what I remember from this PC game is that it was 3d, main character kinda looked like Batman, black cape and all, objective in the beginning was going, actually running through some tunnels, and being able to glide, to shift weapons and then going out in the open to a map where aliens shoot at you and you have to dodge their attacks and also return fire by hitting the correct target. No idea if this small info is of any help, but fingers crossed someone remembers playing this.

Cheers!

sounds "almost" like

MDK (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWrjeOHgjY

but the character doesn't wear a cape..don't remember any another game where the character could glide except Soul Reaver, of course, there are no aliens at all in it.

 

[Cindy Vaskova]

Heya guys. I seek your infinite knowledge of games lost and forgotten. This one I presumably played around 2001. Details are blurry, info is low, but bear with me.

So, what I remember from this PC game is that it was 3d, main character kinda looked like Batman, black cape and all, objective in the beginning was going, actually running through some tunnels, and being able to glide, to shift weapons and then going out in the open to a map where aliens shoot at you and you have to dodge their attacks and also return fire by hitting the correct target. No idea if this small info is of any help, but fingers crossed someone remembers playing this.

Cheers!

sounds "almost" like

MDK (1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWrjeOHgjY

but the character doesn't wear a cape..don't remember any another game where the character could glide except Soul Reaver, of course, there are no aliens at all in it.

That's the one! Ha, so it was the 90's then! I knew my memories were jumbled up, but there was something there. That or you are a genius and my savior! Thanks!

 

[Merrik Waters]

Been driving me crazy. WW2 rts/RPGish
Units have unique names and backgrounds. They are persistent from level to level. Can loot pretty much everything off enemy soldiers, allowing you to customize pretty much every unit. I know it isnt much to go off of.

 

[Jenn Landers]

There is a game I am looking for. It was a CD ROM game on a Windows computer in the 90's....want to say 1995 on. I believe I purchased it as a single CD probably at Wal-Mart and it was most likely one those "cheap" under $10 games. First person, camera angle was, to my recollection, behind and a bit above your character. I want to say it is also RPG, but I'm not entirely familiar with RPG as it is, so I could be wrong. It was a one player game with a single character, male..white...I think he had blonde hair...and looked a bit like that white guy in the Disney Pocahontas movie. Genre was kind of action, adventure...maybe even sci-fi or ....horror (although I doubt it is horror)....most likely for a more mature audience.
The graphics were very nice for that time, and the creators tried to mimic realism mixed with fantasy...so the character you play looks human...doesn't resemble anything anime, btw. The game would transition from day to night as "normally" as possible (although much quicker than ours).

There was a village that your character wanders into and you can talk to some of the villagers and you had an option or two as to how you could respond. You could also trade a few items with at least one of them. There was a tavern and an inn and the villagers would tell him that he needs to find a place to stay for the night because it isn't safe outside after dark. There was also a band of gypsies , if I remember right...and a lake...or lagoon, with a very...seductive mermaid who you...I believe, could converse with and she would try to lure you into the lake with her (and you'd die). Your character was a traveler...you are in the woods some...I think you actually have to fight things here and there.
Now...if my memory serves me right and I'm not mixing another game in with this...there are vampires in this game and a castle where a young boy...who is also a vampire, lives.

Those are about all the details I remember. Any idea?

 

[Merrik Waters]

Hi, I need help to remember a game I played as a kid, I have like fuzzy pictures in my head of it and cannot remember the name. I know that its supposed to be a kid game, but its really dark and weird. Here is what I remember:

I think its about something that happen into someone head, like a dream or some sort of hallucination. It start with a UFO and your character is falling from it, you need to stay in the middle of the ray. I think it can be two players with different color character and the two must stay in the ray. If you get out of the ray when falling you will be on a specific level and if you succeeded to stay in the ray and touch the ground you will be in another level. I know that each direction is a different level, I remember that most of the background was black or just pitch black, that each characters are kind of weird animal. The level I remember are:

-A pirate ship where you need to push the bad pirate to the other side of the ship and he will fall into the water

-There is a level where you control a little character into some sort of jar and everything is super heated (hot) in it, you must not touch the surface and things in the level cause it burn your character, he makes a noise of hurt when he is burned.

The game must be super old and probably on DOS, cause I'm sure it was on PC

Almost sounds like Heart of Darkness for the PS1. Prolly wrong though since you said pc :S

 

[Merrik Waters]

There is a game I am looking for. It was a CD ROM game on a Windows computer in the 90's....want to say 1995 on. I believe I purchased it as a single CD probably at Wal-Mart and it was most likely one those "cheap" under $10 games. First person, camera angle was, to my recollection, behind and a bit above your character. I want to say it is also RPG, but I'm not entirely familiar with RPG as it is, so I could be wrong. It was a one player game with a single character, male..white...I think he had blonde hair...and looked a bit like that white guy in the Disney Pocahontas movie. Genre was kind of action, adventure...maybe even sci-fi or ....horror (although I doubt it is horror)....most likely for a more mature audience.
The graphics were very nice for that time, and the creators tried to mimic realism mixed with fantasy...so the character you play looks human...doesn't resemble anything anime, btw. The game would transition from day to night as "normally" as possible (although much quicker than ours).

There was a village that your character wanders into and you can talk to some of the villagers and you had an option or two as to how you could respond. You could also trade a few items with at least one of them. There was a tavern and an inn and the villagers would tell him that he needs to find a place to stay for the night because it isn't safe outside after dark. There was also a band of gypsies , if I remember right...and a lake...or lagoon, with a very...seductive mermaid who you...I believe, could converse with and she would try to lure you into the lake with her (and you'd die). Your character was a traveler...you are in the woods some...I think you actually have to fight things here and there.
Now...if my memory serves me right and I'm not mixing another game in with this...there are vampires in this game and a castle where a young boy...who is also a vampire, lives.

Those are about all the details I remember. Any idea?

Any chance that was Castlevania II: Simon's quest? A little older than 1995 though.

 

[Jenn Landers]

There is a game I am looking for. It was a CD ROM game on a Windows computer in the 90's....want to say 1995 on. I believe I purchased it as a single CD probably at Wal-Mart and it was most likely one those "cheap" under $10 games. First person, camera angle was, to my recollection, behind and a bit above your character. I want to say it is also RPG, but I'm not entirely familiar with RPG as it is, so I could be wrong. It was a one player game with a single character, male..white...I think he had blonde hair...and looked a bit like that white guy in the Disney Pocahontas movie. Genre was kind of action, adventure...maybe even sci-fi or ....horror (although I doubt it is horror)....most likely for a more mature audience.
The graphics were very nice for that time, and the creators tried to mimic realism mixed with fantasy...so the character you play looks human...doesn't resemble anything anime, btw. The game would transition from day to night as "normally" as possible (although much quicker than ours).

There was a village that your character wanders into and you can talk to some of the villagers and you had an option or two as to how you could respond. You could also trade a few items with at least one of them. There was a tavern and an inn and the villagers would tell him that he needs to find a place to stay for the night because it isn't safe outside after dark. There was also a band of gypsies , if I remember right...and a lake...or lagoon, with a very...seductive mermaid who you...I believe, could converse with and she would try to lure you into the lake with her (and you'd die). Your character was a traveler...you are in the woods some...I think you actually have to fight things here and there.
Now...if my memory serves me right and I'm not mixing another game in with this...there are vampires in this game and a castle where a young boy...who is also a vampire, lives.

Those are about all the details I remember. Any idea?

Any chance that was Castlevania II: Simon's quest? A little older than 1995 though.

No...(but ty!). The graphics and game type was kind of like Tomb Raider, perhaps...and the village was almost like Scandinavian or renaissance period.

 

[diablo rules]

There is a game I am looking for. It was a CD ROM game on a Windows computer in the 90's....want to say 1995 on. I believe I purchased it as a single CD probably at Wal-Mart and it was most likely one those "cheap" under $10 games. First person, camera angle was, to my recollection, behind and a bit above your character. I want to say it is also RPG, but I'm not entirely familiar with RPG as it is, so I could be wrong. It was a one player game with a single character, male..white...I think he had blonde hair...and looked a bit like that white guy in the Disney Pocahontas movie. Genre was kind of action, adventure...maybe even sci-fi or ....horror (although I doubt it is horror)....most likely for a more mature audience.
The graphics were very nice for that time, and the creators tried to mimic realism mixed with fantasy...so the character you play looks human...doesn't resemble anything anime, btw. The game would transition from day to night as "normally" as possible (although much quicker than ours).

There was a village that your character wanders into and you can talk to some of the villagers and you had an option or two as to how you could respond. You could also trade a few items with at least one of them. There was a tavern and an inn and the villagers would tell him that he needs to find a place to stay for the night because it isn't safe outside after dark. There was also a band of gypsies , if I remember right...and a lake...or lagoon, with a very...seductive mermaid who you...I believe, could converse with and she would try to lure you into the lake with her (and you'd die). Your character was a traveler...you are in the woods some...I think you actually have to fight things here and there.
Now...if my memory serves me right and I'm not mixing another game in with this...there are vampires in this game and a castle where a young boy...who is also a vampire, lives.

Those are about all the details I remember. Any idea?

I think you're talking about

Quest For Glory - Shadows Of Darkness (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uQz8CeiZ5Q

although many of your points do not fit...you said it was a first person but you describe the camera as it was a third person game! maybe I'm wrong but check it out anyway.

 

[p3rdix]

Just discovered this thread through Google. Reposting one of the posts from here because it never got answered and the name of the game is driving me crazy...

"I have been trying to remember the name of this game for years, I'm hoping someone can help me out. It was a PC game, either for Windows 95 or 98, more than likely 98. It was a game about music and the main character was a Penguin who guided you through many little games that all involved learning the melody to a song or the words (to something like There Saints go Marching In and other sort of well known folk songs). It all took place in his apartment. The one part that really sticks out to me is one game where you essentially made your own techno song. You had many different backing beats to choose from varying in tempo etc, then could pick from many samples of instruments and what not, and a few vocal samples, one of which was "I know you gunna dig dis". And then loop it over and over."

 

[diablo rules]

Just discovered this thread through Google. Reposting one of the posts from here because it never got answered and the name of the game is driving me crazy...

"I have been trying to remember the name of this game for years, I'm hoping someone can help me out. It was a PC game, either for Windows 95 or 98, more than likely 98. It was a game about music and the main character was a Penguin who guided you through many little games that all involved learning the melody to a song or the words (to something like There Saints go Marching In and other sort of well known folk songs). It all took place in his apartment. The one part that really sticks out to me is one game where you essentially made your own techno song. You had many different backing beats to choose from varying in tempo etc, then could pick from many samples of instruments and what not, and a few vocal samples, one of which was "I know you gunna dig dis". And then loop it over and over."

Lenny's Music Toons (1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5_X8YL7HNA

 

[Loopish]

I have a game that I am desperately trying to remember. Here it goes.
It's a strategy game like Zatikon where you mix and match an army and then fought on a board. The background as I remember was blue and so was the beginning screen. It had a medieval feel. 2D chess game that you played online on a web browser and it was most definitely multiplayer cause I got my ass kicked. I think the interface was simple yet effective ... Please help. I've spend a total of five hours searching any ideas? Thnks.

 

[diablo rules]

Hi, I need help to remember a game I played as a kid, I have like fuzzy pictures in my head of it and cannot remember the name. I know that its supposed to be a kid game, but its really dark and weird. Here is what I remember:

I think its about something that happen into someone head, like a dream or some sort of hallucination. It start with a UFO and your character is falling from it, you need to stay in the middle of the ray. I think it can be two players with different color character and the two must stay in the ray. If you get out of the ray when falling you will be on a specific level and if you succeeded to stay in the ray and touch the ground you will be in another level. I know that each direction is a different level, I remember that most of the background was black or just pitch black, that each characters are kind of weird animal. The level I remember are:

-A pirate ship where you need to push the bad pirate to the other side of the ship and he will fall into the water

-There is a level where you control a little character into some sort of jar and everything is super heated (hot) in it, you must not touch the surface and things in the level cause it burn your character, he makes a noise of hurt when he is burned.

The game must be super old and probably on DOS, cause I'm sure it was on PC

SpaceKids (1994)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBsBI_PjdLM

 

[diablo rules]

Hey guys,
Looking for a CD rom game from the late 90's or very early 00's. Haunted mansion type of deal. It's one of those point and click affairs if i remember correctly. Game starts with you trapped in a mansion with a big painting in front of you of your unlce(?) who is supposedly dead and his ghost speaks to you. You explore the mansion with ghosts popping in and out of the game. Further in the game there is some kind of sidekick who narrates and informs you of all kinds of saints and what they died for. All i can remember is that the game ends in a basement of sorts?
Sorry this is all the info i have and i know it's kinda vague but any help would be hot.

Check out

John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles - An Adventure In Terror (1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkl0ZGPSAfE

 

[diablo rules]

I remember playing a really old RTS, graphics looking early 1990's. The game was almost purely based on sea warfare with different kinds of battleships, sailboats only tough so it was based on old ships. You could capture ships from the other player. recource gathering and research was done with buildings on land. U were limited to the recources on your land i think. I remember something wit conquer or conquest in the name... Not sure tough..

Try

Ancient Conquest - Quest For The Golden Fleece (1999)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2q6F2QezY

 

[AnonymousCrow]

I'm looking for an old pc game, no idea what time it was made in, i remember playing somewhere between 2000 and 2008 ish.
It was set in space on some kind of planet/moon, and you played as a ship and had to shoot and kill these floating things (either aliens or ships). The style had good graphics, and was like a 2d side-scroller that looped.
The main feature I can clearly remember is that you could see the next level/area of terrain and aliens/ships in the background, and when you had killed enough on the level you were on you could move back into the background, which would become the current level, to kill those there too.
There may have been a mini map that gave a basic view of the terrain and little dots where all the things you had to kill where at in comparison to yourself.

 

[Pixelhunter]

How did you find it?

Heh, it was a mix of memory and browsing.

Back in the days, when printed video game magazines were still of significance, I used to read the copies of
the mag of my choice over and over. So a lot of reviews and screenshots were shoved into long-term memory.
(Instead of school stuff.)

So, mainly PC games, between 1993 and 2001, often bring back memories. And while I do not know each game by name,
of course, I generally "feel" the time frame where to start searching (and you were pretty accurate in describing too).

Then I found the game while cross-checking on www.mobygames.com.

 

[Mutant1988]

Been driving me crazy. WW2 rts/RPGish
Units have unique names and backgrounds. They are persistent from level to level. Can loot pretty much everything off enemy soldiers, allowing you to customize pretty much every unit. I know it isnt much to go off of.

Soldiers: Heroes of World War 2?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUn9wf2AXnI

Could be one of the Men of War Games as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVZGsjA-BCE

Or Faces of War (Video from second game):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h7mQMny6cg

Really, the only way to figure out which it is is by you recognizing the GUI elements.

The reason why they are so similar is pretty obvious - Same developer for all of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Way