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

[heffyhoof]

I have two games I've been trying to remember for the past couple of days. They're both for the computer and were from around the year 2000; played them all the time as a kid. I'm also pretty sure they used some gimmicky magnifying glass accessory.

1) You were in a museum and had to go around looking for different clues to solve a mystery or something like that. You went to bunch of different themed exhibits and every new game changed which exhibits had the clues.

2) I can barely remember this game at all, the only thing I can think of was that it was an underwater game where you helped different fish and things like that.

If anyone can even tell me the name of the gimmicky accessory so I can use that to find the games myself, it'd be appreciated.

Now that I'm thinking about games, there was another old computer game that I remember (No magnifying glass). It was a really corny game that had you looking for gold that had disappeared at the beginning of the game. It was point and click and you picked up different items to use to solve puzzles. One thing I distinctly remember was some guy hiding in a oil barrel with a hole in it. You could poke his eye through the hole and he'd jump out.

Number 1 is almost certainly Museum Madness.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Madness_%28video_game%29

Number 2, not really enough to go on, but the best guess I can give you is James Pond.

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

EDIT:
Oh and I'm pretty sure the last one is Teen Agent, which has lost its copyright and is free via GOG.com (and yes it's legal).

Yeah, I'm sorry, I can't remember much about those two games, it's been over 12 years since I played those first two games. It wasn't Museum Madness or James Pond. The games I'm thinking of were about the year 2k and had more advanced graphics. The best thing I remember about them was that magnifying glass accessory that you plugged into the computer to play the games with. Thanks for trying though, didn't give you much to go on.

The third one was absolutely Teen Agent though so thanks a lot for that. DLd it and have beaten it twice already.

 

[Ben Raiche]

i remember this one game i used to play with my cousin, but i cant find it.. In the game you would buy troops to attack a 2d castle that would slowly shoot arrows and drop blobs of water on troops that got close enough, I also remember that if you lost it would show a screen where the game swore and me and my cousin were always surprised at this.

 

[Oxanna Aejiou]

This was a 3D quest set in Wild West town which I played in 98. You were trying to discover some mystery treasure or so and (probably) at one point become sheriff of the town. Once you completed your task for certain part time of the day would change and city would become morning/day/night. There was a saloon with 3 girls on top floor who you could talk with and give a ring to one of them. If you gave ring to a wrong girl you could also ask it back =) There was a pharmacist (?) with whom you could play checkers to get advice, harder mode better advice. You had to play cards to win a certain object (a Mayan mask?) and then certain bad guy would come into town and you had to shoot him in realtime. And that is where I got stuck.

 

[Prashanth Reddy]

There's this gameboy game I remember playing which was kinda like pokemon except that you don't catch monsters but you call them using a mobile phone or something. I clearly remember that the protagonist falls through a tree hole in the beginning.

 

[sayairon]

ok here i go :

late 80 (maybe 90) dos game
the game elapsed in a house
the different rooms where the different levels
each room has ant enter and a way out
you have to sort flaying objects, jump, go around and eventually get out of the room
there where two rooms i remember , the first one was the kids bedrooms, there where toys trying to stop you, always in a fixed patterns. The other room was the basement, where you have one bat flaying in a fixed pat also.

Anyone???

Regards

 

[darkoperator]

I remember playing this adventure/rpg on psx i believe.
You start in a town and have to kill some giant rat in it.
The second town i remember it was some kind of industrial look,
There was a mine in it and i remember a quest where you had to put some
Kind of potatoes in pipe leaks that where located in the town.

THe game was 2d from bird view like secrets of mana and alike.
The graphics were modest so i believe its ps1 but im not sure. Either psx or ps2.
You could only play one caracter, no multiple groups.
Was on english

PLease help me you guys and girls, this game is on my mind for weeks.
Darn nostalgia realy would like the name of the game.

 

[rajiin]

played this game back on the super nes , was pretty much a qix clone but it was not named qix. anyone happen to remember the name of it?

 

[Doomgriever]

played this game back on the super nes , was pretty much a qix clone but it was not named qix. anyone happen to remember the name of it?

There are probably alot of Qix clones on SNES. But Cacoma Knight In Bizyland is one ( http://www.giantbomb.com/cacoma-knight-in-bizyland/3030-13972/images/ )

 

[Planeforger]

Hi there!
There were 3 games I used to play around 96 - 2000 when I was a kid that I've forgot how they're called.
First one is a submarine game. You controller a cartoonish yellow submarine with the arrow keys ( I think ) and you had to go from point a to b. The enemies were mostly fish but sometises enemy submarines ( colored blue) would appear. One thing I remember is that if you pressed space you could send a smaller submarine ( also yellow ) to pass through narrow spots.
Second one is a Dizzy game. It was a 16 bit looking sidescroller. I don't remember much about it, all I know is that you had a spray that could build a bridge and there was an overhead level in a mine involving minecarts and orcs.
The last one was a Timon and Pumbaa game ( more like a collection of minigames). I remember that one of the games was pinball and there was a game where you'd catch bugs.
If anyone knows how these games were called, please tell me.
Thank you!

The third one is definitely Timon and Pumbaa: Jungle Games. I played the hell out of that pinball game.

 

[szopen_hauer]

Hi there!

When I was a kid (I guess it was around 1997) I played demo of an FPS game and I can't find it since. The game was taking place in some dark castle or smth like that and was really scary (at least for a little kid ). I dont even remember if there were any guns or just a sword, but I do remember spells and drinking from a chalice.
The main event that I remembered from the demo was a pair of red eyes under the stairs that jumpscared making me die inside a little bit
I know that the info I gave may not be sufficient, but this is literally all I can remember and describe.

Please help

 

[AllenFromMars]

Hey guys, I'm doing something rather ambitious.

There is a late 90's "100 demos" CD that had a bunch of cool demos on it (Blades of Exile, Tiger's Bane, Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries, ect). I don't remember the name of the CD, though, and there were a couple of games that I'm still looking for. Please help me out.

1) This game is a 3D game where you are playing as a hovering (spaceship?). There is a missile weapon and a gun weapon, iirc. You can either play first or third person. As you progress through the demo, there is a narrator/trainer over the radio giving you advice and directions. The demo is set in a training facility (lots of tunnels and boxy rooms), with the main enemies being turrets, iirc. However, as you progress the narrator gives the impression that there is a much darker threat outside. At the end of the training, you approach the narrator who is behind an elevated glass window, a creature breaks into his office and kills him. Then a giant, flesh colored flying monster breaks through the wall of the tunnel and attacks you. My memory is hazy but it had an inverse delta-wing (kinda like a flying manta ray). Then you had to run to a bunch of different terminals while being attacked by the monsters, and the demo ended when you entered a sewer. It was very scary (but cool).

2) Another game on the disk, was a turn-based 4x game. The game was 2d, top down, with tile sprites for each unit, resources, and land/water tiles. There was only one playable race (humans;with bulldozers as resource collectors and builders, infantry, planes, tanks, warships), but you could have up to 8 different players on a map (I always played each player myself, I'd roleplay to make it interesting playing myself; there was no AI). You started with one city, but there were a bunch of different cities on the map that you could capture with infantry. You collected resources by building on mine tiles with a bulldozer, and as you advanced you could build more advanced units. You could also edit the maps and then play on those.

3) An old-school Capture the Flag game, where there were different terrains and you played against a computer to capture a flag and return it to base with different players on your team vs. the AI team.

Thank you!

 

[AllenFromMars]

Hey guys, I'm doing something rather ambitious.

There is a late 90's "100 demos" CD that had a bunch of cool demos on it (Blades of Exile, Tiger's Bane, Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries, ect). I don't remember the name of the CD, though, and there were a couple of games that I'm still looking for. Please help me out.

1) This game is a 3D game where you are playing as a hovering (spaceship?). There is a missile weapon and a gun weapon, iirc. You can either play first or third person. As you progress through the demo, there is a narrator/trainer over the radio giving you advice and directions. The demo is set in a training facility (lots of tunnels and boxy rooms), with the main enemies being turrets, iirc. However, as you progress the narrator gives the impression that there is a much darker threat outside. At the end of the training, you approach the narrator who is behind an elevated glass window, a creature breaks into his office and kills him. Then a giant, flesh colored flying monster breaks through the wall of the tunnel and attacks you. My memory is hazy but it had an inverse delta-wing (kinda like a flying manta ray). Then you had to run to a bunch of different terminals while being attacked by the monsters, and the demo ended when you entered a sewer. It was very scary (but cool).

2) Another game on the disk, was a turn-based 4x game. The game was 2d, top down, with tile sprites for each unit, resources, and land/water tiles. There was only one playable race (humans;with bulldozers as resource collectors and builders, infantry, planes, tanks, warships), but you could have up to 8 different players on a map (I always played each player myself, I'd roleplay to make it interesting playing myself; there was no AI). You started with one city, but there were a bunch of different cities on the map that you could capture with infantry. You collected resources by building on mine tiles with a bulldozer, and as you advanced you could build more advanced units. You could also edit the maps and then play on those.

3) An old-school Capture the Flag game, where there were different terrains and you played against a computer to capture a flag and return it to base with different players on your team vs. the AI team.

Thank you!

 

[FantasticPhoenix]

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[FantasticPhoenix]

Okay, i dearly loved this game and i desperately wish to know the name of it, that is why i made an account. I will make my description as detailed as memory suits. So around 8 years ago (I'm 15), my dad brought home a CD-Rom tote of 100 discs from staples, each with an educational game on it. Each disc was powder blue... doesn't really matter... Anyway, the main game i played was called something along the lines of "Kiki's adventure", or Mimi's, or something like that. Mimi, as I'll henceforth call her, was a little blue talking bird, on a mission to unlock a safe in her treehouse. There were 5 slots or so, and each slot had a series of stones on it. It needed to turned until the correct order of stones was there. I recall Mimi saying "Lapis lazuli", and "opal". She found a bit of the code in various areas, i believe. there was a cave area, where she would teach about stalagmites and stalagtites, and i think there were gnomes as well. I also recall an arctic area with penguins, but that's about it for areas. When she stepped out of her treehouse i think it led to the overworld, where you could click on things for a cute circumstantial animation. This is all i can remember about the game... however, there was another game in the set I would be interested in finding the name of. It was a math game. There was a professor or a mad scientist or something who wanted you to save these little technicolored, polka-dotted... blobs. They were on a conveyor belt with a hungry monster at the end and once you saved them the monster would say "I can feel my stomach sticking to itself!" and then sulk away. PLEASE, i would really appreciate help on this.

bump because desperation

 

[DaVinci31]

I played this one game around my early childhood, it could have been ps1 or dreamcast and even pc . . . (leaning towards ps1, though, it had solid graphics for its time, which also could have been pc I guess . . .)

Anyways . . .

-it was definitely an adventure/puzzle type of game
-it was 1st person pov
-I believe it was a point and click type of game

-there was one situation I vaguely remember in which I believe you are shopping or collecting some items around some type of circular room (which might or might not have been near water)

-it had a very fun yet creepy vibe (thinking back to it now anyway)
-I'm pretty sure I played it at school . . . I remember it being educational, or at least it felt like it (as I remember it)
-I think it involved following some other character (who may not have been human)

Any help is appreciated, I really want to get my hands on this game again.

EDIT: The situation I remembered involved some type of cart I believe, if that helps.

 

[jrod908]

there's a game where you fly the fighter jet or rocket ship and you get weapons, colors red yellow blue and green i believe and throughout the level you can also upgrade your weapons level....like the fire weapon would shoot out further and at the end of the level you would fight the boss, ive been trying to remember what this game was called for months now hopefully someone can help me out

 

[mijce]

Hi there! and please Help!
So.. I played this game when I was young, before 13 years i think. I had it on floppy disk, I played it on my Atari computer. and I had joystick ( like this one http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--xDZgjayW0w/TV7hB6ouU0I/AAAAAAAAAFM/rqtX1OMkcOA/s320/spectravideo_quick_shot_318-102.jpg)

Game was about little boy and girl (i think one of them had sky blue hair and the other one (girl?) red long hair) they fighting and killing some creatures, i dont remember where but it was like wall of some castle but I'm not shure, they where jumping up and everytime they jump on new wall some creatures where there and they had to shoot them. on my floppy disk was written ''roland'' but that wasn't helpful for me

anyone?

 

[GrungeMonkey]

I remember an old game that could have been on the 360, but I'm not sure. You get like infected or something with alien DNA, and throughout the game you can use guns and suppress it, or you can use your alien weapons and encourage until it eventually like takes over your whole body and you grow this weird armour over you, I just got reminded of it and have to remember what it was called, it had a really cheesy name, with like X in it or something. From my memory it was pretty bad, the colour green was quite common in the game and on the front cover, I remember some of the alien weapons being similar to the ones in games like prototype, like the claws.

Please help, It's driving me crazy.

 

[DaVinci31]

I remember an old game that could have been on the 360, but I'm not sure. You get like infected or something with alien DNA, and throughout the game you can use guns and suppress it, or you can use your alien weapons and encourage until it eventually like takes over your whole body and you grow this weird armour over you, I just got reminded of it and have to remember what it was called, it had a really cheesy name, with like X in it or something. From my memory it was pretty bad, the colour green was quite common in the game and on the front cover, I remember some of the alien weapons being similar to the ones in games like prototype, like the claws.

Please help, It's driving me crazy.

That sounds a lot like The Darkness 1 and/or 2.

 

[Felestin]

If someone could tell me what is this game called, i'll be forever grateful.
I remember playing it when i was 4-5 years old (i'm 18 now), maybe even earlier. I played it on this console: http://www.consolegames.ro/forum/attachments/f16-console-retro/26154d1245189730-poate-stiti-voi-consolepirate_terminator8.jpg
And the only thing i can remember about the game is that it's side-scroller/action (you don't have to defeat all enemies to move forward) and you can shoot (not from a gun or anything like that, more like shooting balls of some kind). I'm not sure about melee, but i think you can jump on enemies. I don't remember the first level, but the second one is that you are in some kind of a boat or a submarine (it doesn't look much like real boats or submarines, there are some fantasy characteristics), weather is nice, blue sky... And you keep going forward killing enemies etc. Then, at one point of the level (i think after a checkpoint), it starts raining, everything gets so dark, you can hear the thunder, waves are bigger as well (i think), more enemies... If i remember correctly, there are checkpoints in levels.
i know this isn't much to go on, but that's all i can remember...