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

[Stephen Rude]

This is an old Iphone game I remember seeing back in fifth grade, i swear it was called pocket tribe, but it's not (or its not here anymore.) anyways, the way it worked was, you could pick them up and fling them. sometimes they would interact with the background, and if you did things right, you could do things in the foreground as well. thats about all i remember about it though

 

[CallMeShark]

Played this one in the 90's MAYBE early 2000's on PC. It was an old RPG style game with swords and monsters and the like. Bird's eye view, very basic graphics, no character animations, one arrow key would move you one space and every time you moved a space the monsters around the map would also move. I think you could choose to play as either a man or woman and I think you could also get new weapons/armor. I know it's a long shot but that's about all I remember. Any ideas?

 

[Matt Doube]

I have a game (for the Amiga 500) i cant remember the name of. Fantasy setting, where you have to run around a "garden" for want of a better word collecting spell components to create spells with. After you get enough of what you need, you then go back to your cauldron to craft your spell before setting off again to look for (and defeat) your evil twin, (who also happens to be wondering the same garden also collecting spell components to do the same to you).

 

[CWalois]

Hi guys. Apologies for the vagueness of this, but as a kid I was fascinated by a game that I played a few times on a friend's PC somewhere between '92 and '96. It was in the space trading/combat genre, though I don't remember combat per se. The one thing I do remember clearly about it was that traveling between locations took ***extraordinarily long***, like 15-20 minutes. We would get the ship going on its way and then go watch TV while it traveled. I thought it was intriguing that a game would be so insistent on realism that it would make you wait that long to reach your destination. Or perhaps we simply didn't know how to go faster!

Now, I've been doing a lot of Googling, and I see that the Frontier games could take a long time to get from place to place, but Frontier and the other contemporary games for which I'm finding gameplay footage are all 3D and have the first-person cockpit viewpoint, and the game I remember used 2D sprites of ships, viewed from the top-down perspective in the manner of Escape Velocity. This would have been a DOS or Windows game. Thanks.

 

[IFlip92]

Hi,
I seldom used to play a game between 1999-2005 at my mums workplace PCs but I think the game was much older, as old as Dyna probably (the old bomberman game). It was based on you having a ball running around the outside edge of the screen with the arrow keys and a boss would roam the middle. With the Space bar you would proceed to leave the screen edge and "eat" away chunks of the screen space without the boss catching you. If you got caught you died. The game bosses got more elaborate and complex as you progress. It was only a small game, probably 50mb-100mb. Can anyone tell me the name of the game please?

 

[diablo rules]

I have a game (for the Amiga 500) i cant remember the name of. Fantasy setting, where you have to run around a "garden" for want of a better word collecting spell components to create spells with. After you get enough of what you need, you then go back to your cauldron to craft your spell before setting off again to look for (and defeat) your evil twin, (who also happens to be wondering the same garden also collecting spell components to do the same to you).

Feud (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lTV7aNIA8k

 

[Matt Doube]

I have a game (for the Amiga 500) i cant remember the name of. Fantasy setting, where you have to run around a "garden" for want of a better word collecting spell components to create spells with. After you get enough of what you need, you then go back to your cauldron to craft your spell before setting off again to look for (and defeat) your evil twin, (who also happens to be wondering the same garden also collecting spell components to do the same to you).

Feud (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lTV7aNIA8k

Legend. Cheers dude

 

[diablo rules]

Hi,
I seldom used to play a game between 1999-2005 at my mums workplace PCs but I think the game was much older, as old as Dyna probably (the old bomberman game). It was based on you having a ball running around the outside edge of the screen with the arrow keys and a boss would roam the middle. With the Space bar you would proceed to leave the screen edge and "eat" away chunks of the screen space without the boss catching you. If you got caught you died. The game bosses got more elaborate and complex as you progress. It was only a small game, probably 50mb-100mb. Can anyone tell me the name of the game please?

Volfied (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxuMVqkLD7o

 

[diablo rules]

Hi guys. Apologies for the vagueness of this, but as a kid I was fascinated by a game that I played a few times on a friend's PC somewhere between '92 and '96. It was in the space trading/combat genre, though I don't remember combat per se. The one thing I do remember clearly about it was that traveling between locations took ***extraordinarily long***, like 15-20 minutes. We would get the ship going on its way and then go watch TV while it traveled. I thought it was intriguing that a game would be so insistent on realism that it would make you wait that long to reach your destination. Or perhaps we simply didn't know how to go faster!

Now, I've been doing a lot of Googling, and I see that the Frontier games could take a long time to get from place to place, but Frontier and the other contemporary games for which I'm finding gameplay footage are all 3D and have the first-person cockpit viewpoint, and the game I remember used 2D sprites of ships, viewed from the top-down perspective in the manner of Escape Velocity. This would have been a DOS or Windows game. Thanks.

Try

Star Reach (1994) (aka Space Federation)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwQaGyR6Pc8

 

[charlise]

Hi guys,

I have a game that keeps niggling at the back of my head. It's a PC game from around the year 1998-2003. It's in 3D and we walk around the forest in a maze-like fashion. The game started with us going into a forest and are introduced to a talking tree by a talking rabbit. We then have to solve different puzzles/minigames in the forest, such as becoming small and have to do a mushroom math sudoku thing, saving animals that have turned to stone by a dragon, and being a spy in an ant colony. The game ends when we solve all of the mini-games in the forest and the animals will celebrate together in a wooden shed. I keep recalling the name of the game as Fantasia, but whenever i search for it, it doesn't exist.

Thanks in advance

 

[TekVila]

Hi guys,

I have a game that keeps niggling at the back of my head. It's a PC game from around the year 1998-2003. It's in 3D and we walk around the forest in a maze-like fashion. The game started with us going into a forest and are introduced to a talking tree by a talking rabbit. We then have to solve different puzzles/minigames in the forest, such as becoming small and have to do a mushroom math sudoku thing, saving animals that have turned to stone by a dragon, and being a spy in an ant colony. The game ends when we solve all of the mini-games in the forest and the animals will celebrate together in a wooden shed. I keep recalling the name of the game as Fantasia, but whenever i search for it, it doesn't exist.

Thanks in advance

Forestia (1998)

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/forestia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTnXllXFOiE

 

[CWalois]

Try

Star Reach (1994) (aka Space Federation)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwQaGyR6Pc8

Hmm, thanks for the suggestion. This is an interesting game that I didn't come across in my searches, but I don't remember the game being so action-oriented or so RTS-like. The graphics were in this style, though I think they were sharper than this (so maybe a game from '95 or '96). The main reason I don't think it's Star Reach is that, as I watch the YouTube video, I don't see that super-long travel time that I remember clearly.

Basically, in the game I'm looking for, once you set out for another planet, the ship would just keep flying in that direction (maybe with streaking stars in the background) for lengthy amounts of time. No input was required from the player, so that's why we were able to walk away from the computer and watch TV while it flew, simply looking over our shoulders at the PC monitor to see if the ship had arrived at its destination yet.

 

[Maciek Cymerys]

Hi guys, please help me find a game i used to play in my childhood. It was a game for windows 98 that i played back in like 2000s. It was a bit of a commander game where you were a tank and the objective was to defend your base and find others, you could also play as the tower and change in mid game, i believe the game was something on W and had these hard, grey letters on the box, looked warfare like. 3D game btw with decent graphics at the time. THANKS

bump this again, just to add on you did have an army, there were planes if i remember too,

and if not that, another one, you were a guy walking around in some sort of factory or something. i remember shooting vending machines to get energy drinks restore health

thanks peeps

 

[Sigrid Rokne]

There was this game that I used to play online, but I do not remember the name of it
It is about animals living on an island which is really a turtle and there is a really big talking tree there as well. Vague.. I know...
But anyhow, I would really apreciate it if someone could help me figure it out

 

[Shiina Abf]

Hey there guys, there's this game I played a long long long ass time ago, what I describe might be a mix of like two or three games though.
Here goes.

The first thing I remember about this game is that it has a turn based strategy system, similar to Final Fantasy Tactics or Disgaea. The next thing I remember is that one of the beginning levels was a snowball fight between children to introduce you into the game and the mechanics.
This is where my memory might be placing another game into this slot of good game times; Next I remember being placed in like a top down perspective of a sort of cave as a character sprite, your character progresses through the cave and I remember there being a chest with a scroll with some sort of usable magick and a fountain to restore health on the other side, the area is filled with random encounters until you reach the end area where you are faced by a large monster, using the scroll the monster is easily dealt with. Then something happens with some dialogue about Light. Either collecting the Light or being keepers of the Light, something along those lines. Keep in mind this might be an entirely different game than the first.
Next thing I remember is there being an interesting combat system like Disgaea where the player is given characters and monsters that can be spawned through use of a crystal, I don't remember much except for there being an air-ground-XXX combat system and some other things. This also might be an entirely different game.
Another thing I remember is that early game the player meets an old friend of his that joins his party and then they can proceed, there is an optional cave along the path with enemies at a far higher level than the player should be able to face. I believe it was skeletons.

I don't know if I described one game or four, what I know is that this made up my childhood and I wanna play them again fully.

I'm fairly sure that the snowball fight was from "Final Fantasy Tactics Advance".

Nice, one game down, 2 or 3 more to go.

 

[Hadur]

I think one of you guys will for sure figure this game

1- PC game. I played it in windows 98, maybe it was 2002 or 2005, i cant remember.
2- It's a topdown perspective game, like BomBerman for example.
3- It's Battle arena; you move with keyboard and shoot with mouse, and your vehicle always turns to the direction of your pointer.
4- The Graphics ARE NOT cartoon type (Mario, Sonic, bomberman...these are cartoons, my game isn't.)
5- The gameplay is a bit similar to the PC game BaboViolent (but not so 3D like).

It has scifi sounds, and sometimes, when you do a good kill, you could hear applauses and crowd noises like in a real stadium.



All i remember is...

I got this game in a old magazine, one of these magazines that contained many games, sually most of them were not good games.

In this game you choose your vehicle, map, amount of players and game mode... in same screen. (maybe there was a multiplayer option)
Then a loading screen appears, with a picture of some kind of stadium, outside the stadium at night, with lights.

The vehicles are looked like scifi drones, or shuttles, of different designs.

You were always in the center of the screen.

While ingame, you could find different weapons and also healing items; to pickup them you just need to pass throug it. When you die(explode) you would respawn in a random area.

Pressing left-click you fires the main weapon of your vehicle in the direction of your mouse pointer. I remember one of them had a sticky red granade, it would stick to your vehicle if it hit you.

I found a very very very similar game. Armor Critical. But the game i'm looking for has not such poor design. The ships(vehicles) where well made, and walls too; also the ground had a good texture...


Omg how i want to play this game again...

 

[Shiina Abf]

Now that I got one game figured out, time to figure out the next.

Quite a while back I played this game that is similar to Disgaea or Final Fantasy Tactics in which I believe it was turn based with a grid, the maps however seemed much larger then the ones in the early Disgaea or FFT games. This may or may not actually be true. The next thing I remember about this game was that it had scenes similar to Visual Novels where a rendered drawing of the character would appear and text would too, though it may have been just a portrait. There may or may not have been dialogue. I also remember there being something to do with crystals where you can summon monster units to aide your main units. You capture crystals as you progress through each level and there was also a mechanic where there were like three main unit types, air, ground and something else and one was weak to the other, etc.

There was also something I remember about a level that involved a spaceship.

 

[Abdullah Syed]

So I made an account just to try to find this game no one I know remembers. All I remember about it is that it was a 2d side scroller for the most part. You could go in some doors, when you did it became 1st person. I think you search around and can find monsters. If I remember correctly they chase you around, but one of them will even chase you out of the door back into the 2d area. I think it was on NES, but after trying to remember it for so long with no success, im not sure about any of it lol..

 

[Mikhail Opulencia]

Heya!

wonderin if any of you can help me out in figurin out this game me and my dad used to play back in 99 i think.
its a 3d shooting game in PS1 .. anime themed .. i remember a cinematic where a carriage or some type of ride explodes and a woman is seen burning ... game can be played 2 player and you fly around shoot things in the screen...i dont remember if you can control the flying but i think you cant im not sure ... it goes around reall fast flying over oceans, mountains etc.. japanese game i assume .. hope you can help me out .

 

[charlise]

Hi guys,

I have a game that keeps niggling at the back of my head. It's a PC game from around the year 1998-2003. It's in 3D and we walk around the forest in a maze-like fashion. The game started with us going into a forest and are introduced to a talking tree by a talking rabbit. We then have to solve different puzzles/minigames in the forest, such as becoming small and have to do a mushroom math sudoku thing, saving animals that have turned to stone by a dragon, and being a spy in an ant colony. The game ends when we solve all of the mini-games in the forest and the animals will celebrate together in a wooden shed. I keep recalling the name of the game as Fantasia, but whenever i search for it, it doesn't exist.

Thanks in advance

Forestia (1998)

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/forestia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTnXllXFOiE

This is it! Thank you so much TekVila, you're a lifesaver