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

[Kieran T. Diver]

For a whole decade I have been looking for a classic PS1 game which has proven very difficult for me to track down. I'm hoping that by describing it to the best of my ability on this thread then somebody might know what the game could be....

Basically you're in a haunted castle or mansion (I can't really remember which) and I remember playing a really strange looking character. You have to locate random objects in various parts of the castle; for example, on the rooftop and inside. As part of the game there was a fantastic twist. A spinning wheel was included (much like the wheel of fortune) and dependent on how well you did in the level; you would then land on a very good spot on the wheel succeed to the next level; if you had done good. If you proved unsuccessful, then you would either land on game over (if really awful) or you would end up boss battling with a little girl covered in gothic makeup and jet black hair.

I remember the way she looked exactly and she was quite pretty. She used to freak me out though. She had a horrible laugh and had real anger issues. I don't remember if it was true but the boss battle took place in a dark round room surrounded by loads of doors. Each of the doors opened and I can't remember if the girl kept appearing out of different doors or whether she sent slaves out to battle. I just remember boss battling with her and losing every time due to the difficulty of her strength. The spinning wheel was quite colourful but the entire game was dark and moody.

If anybody is aware of a game of this content and you know the title; it would mean a lot if you could let me know...

Hope you're all having a good start to a new week. Kindest of regards

 

[Doc Funky]

Hello all,

In the 90's, I remember playing an MS DOS fantasy game. You started out as a prince or a king who's family is kidnapped (I think) you start out in a house in the forest and you are given a talisman or something from a wizard. eventually you make your way through the forest to town where you can buy things at a bakery or a tailor (buying a cloak stands out for some reason along with searching and looting). I remember one scene early on, you talk to a talking tree by a pond/oasis. A bit further on, the landscape changes to the desert and you get attacked by a group of bandits.

Not much to go on, but hopefully someone can help.

Thank you!

That's gotta be King's Quest V.

 

[skarba]

Hello! I need help finding a game which i played LONG ago but don't remember the name of!

It was a PC game. RPG and (i believe) Third Person. As far as I remember, there was no character customization, so the character had black hair. You started the game in a scout tower. Whenever you got down, some wolves came and tried to kill you and you had no way to defend yourself (atleast I remember so). It was a big field and you had to run somewhere, but I don't remember where.

To launch the game, whenever you clicked on the EXE, a window would pop up with 3 buttons for 3 (i think) different campaigns(?). I played around with it a little bit, and since the first one was played by my big brother, he told me not to press it. The second and third ones were practically the same.

The description is pretty vague, i know... But if you could PLEASE help me find this game i would very much appreciate it! I looked for it EVERYWHERE and couldn't find it anywhere!

 

[nostalgia90s]

The game I've never been able to find the name of was played in/around 1994/1995 on a mac of pc.

I'm about 95% sure you were on another planet. There were alien cops and if you mouthed off to them, they would kill you and it would cut to an image of a brain in a jar and there would be an alien smoking a cigarette and the text would say something like "The aliens marveled at your small brain" or something along those lines.

You could walk into bars and get drunk. there was a robot that would serve you and ask if you wanted more, Basically the scene got blurry and I seem to remember that if you drank too much OR cussed at them, they would kick you out.

You had a free form text box to enter what you wanted to say. as the game progressed you moved about on what appeared to be a spaceship.

this was posted a while back by user bfperez, im looking for this game as well. any help appreciated.

 

[diablo rules]

Hi!

This game might be a bit too obscure, and my very faint memories of it aren't going to help any...

I remember playing to death a Windows 3.1 strategy game around 1995 or so that featured a basic layout of squares (maybe hexes?) on a light-colored grid, possibly with some sort of designation for water or impassible terrain here and there so that there were definite chokepoints on the map. One side's territory and pieces were colored red, and the other blue, if memory serves me right.

I believe it was kind of a war game, but it didn't have any real-world military icons or graphics to go with it, so it was more abstract than what war gamers are used to today. This game very likely came from a Windows 3.1 game collection disk (possibly shareware), because I don't know where else I would have gotten it from, as nearly all the games I bought during that era were fancier, more well-known DOS-based games. My faint memory recalls the gameplay being fairly similar to the later Slay, though with a more abstract presentation, and I don't remember it having the unit stacking behavior that Slay incorporated. Any ideas?

The addition of a ton of Windows 3.1 games to Archive.org made me think about this one a lot this week. Thanks!

perhaps

Pendulous (1995)

http://www.blackfalcongames.net/?p=225

 

[diablo rules]

The game I've never been able to find the name of was played in/around 1994/1995 on a mac of pc.

I'm about 95% sure you were on another planet. There were alien cops and if you mouthed off to them, they would kill you and it would cut to an image of a brain in a jar and there would be an alien smoking a cigarette and the text would say something like "The aliens marveled at your small brain" or something along those lines.

You could walk into bars and get drunk. there was a robot that would serve you and ask if you wanted more, Basically the scene got blurry and I seem to remember that if you drank too much OR cussed at them, they would kick you out.

You had a free form text box to enter what you wanted to say. as the game progressed you moved about on what appeared to be a spaceship.

this was posted a while back by user bfperez, im looking for this game as well. any help appreciated.

Spaceship Warlock (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu90XLQCvlg

 

[diablo rules]

Hello! I need help finding a game which i played LONG ago but don't remember the name of!

It was a PC game. RPG and (i believe) Third Person. As far as I remember, there was no character customization, so the character had black hair. You started the game in a scout tower. Whenever you got down, some wolves came and tried to kill you and you had no way to defend yourself (atleast I remember so). It was a big field and you had to run somewhere, but I don't remember where.

To launch the game, whenever you clicked on the EXE, a window would pop up with 3 buttons for 3 (i think) different campaigns(?). I played around with it a little bit, and since the first one was played by my big brother, he told me not to press it. The second and third ones were practically the same.

The description is pretty vague, i know... But if you could PLEASE help me find this game i would very much appreciate it! I looked for it EVERYWHERE and couldn't find it anywhere!

doesn't exactly matches the description, but could be

Gothic (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV2gY4MBKr4

there is no character customization there are wolves, etc..could be even Gothic II.

 

[Gerry Tierney]

I used to play a game on the Gameboy (original), you were a japanese style robot that had to battle monsters and other robots in a 1 on 1 beat em up style, you could transform into robotic animals, like a leopard and a hawk. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was. Any help?

 

[Gerry Tierney]

IT WAS RAIJINOW/RAIJIN OH!

 

[nostalgia90s]

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[nostalgia90s]

The game I've never been able to find the name of was played in/around 1994/1995 on a mac of pc.

I'm about 95% sure you were on another planet. There were alien cops and if you mouthed off to them, they would kill you and it would cut to an image of a brain in a jar and there would be an alien smoking a cigarette and the text would say something like "The aliens marveled at your small brain" or something along those lines.

You could walk into bars and get drunk. there was a robot that would serve you and ask if you wanted more, Basically the scene got blurry and I seem to remember that if you drank too much OR cussed at them, they would kick you out.

You had a free form text box to enter what you wanted to say. as the game progressed you moved about on what appeared to be a spaceship.

this was posted a while back by user bfperez, im looking for this game as well. any help appreciated.

Spaceship Warlock (1991)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu90XLQCvlg

Thank you so much I've spend so much time trying to figure it out. Very much appreciated.

 

[Agama]

perhaps

Pendulous (1995)

http://www.blackfalcongames.net/?p=225

Oh my gosh, that's it!! Thank you and your terrific memory so much! Sadly, it doesn't appear to be one of the games recently set up at https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_win3_games.

 

[diablo rules]

perhaps

Pendulous (1995)

http://www.blackfalcongames.net/?p=225

Oh my gosh, that's it!! Thank you and your terrific memory so much! Sadly, it doesn't appear to be one of the games recently set up at https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_win3_games.

check out

https://archive.org/details/Pendulous_1020

 

[kikikikida]

Hello! I could use some help finding an old game if anyone has time!

It was a game my dad would play on PC sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s. It was a sidescrolling platformer that largely took place in a castle or dungeon. The protagonist was male and wore a silver cape that would swish behind him when he jumped, and I recall an enemy like a squatting goblin wizard that shot fire/energy balls. The graphics looked pretty pixely, almost like old castlevania titles.

I know this isn't much to go off of, but I would appreciate any help! Thanks!

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

I think you mean Grow, http://www.eyezmaze.com/

YAAAAAS! Thank you, sir.

 

[Telawin]

alright here's one, an early 2000s one on one fighter starring very simply designed characters: they're all rayman-esque in the sense that they have no arms or legs but floating hands and feet. all the characters are very blobby. one in particular had a headband and a staff while another was smaller and had a beak-like face

also if I could get some help finding a later version of lode runner because I can't find the updated version that had better design, gold in walls, and dynamite (it might've had a different name than its predecessor) also I remember the title screen had the guard sleeping while our character snuck into the mine

thanks

 

[Vishonov]

Old game, 80s IMO - you play the role of a mecha/robot that can turn into a fighter jet and you fight the baddies. You can fire rockets if I'm not mistaken and can go in all directions (literally) either by foot or by transforming into a jet fighter.

Any idea?

Thexder.
It pops up in the thread from time to time, mostly because of the hard-to-remember name.


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Thanks, that's exactly it!

 

[HD_Davidson]

Ok guys, see if you can help me out
I am looking for a game i played in an emulator, its probably a SNES or Megadrive game because its old af
Its pretty mutch alike Heroes of Might and Magic i guess (never played too mutch)
Its a fantasy game, where you recruit and fight with magic creatures and can (or should) conquer castles.
You can recruit many units, but your cursor, the representation of your movements are a knight whit white horse and a banner of some kind

Basiclly you are abble to walk across all the map, all grass is green af, some forest u cant walk throught(i guess), and the sea you become a boat when get in it (not sure either)
Also remember fairy's as one type of units

Sorry, i really dont remember a lot, but I do wanna find out what is the name of this game, been searching for a coupple of hours and still nothing.

Thanks

 

[FoggDogg]

I remember playing this on PS1 as a child so my memory of it is patchy

It's a sidescrolling game, you can play as either a female or male character, it has a fantasy setting and one of the only parts I remember is jumping across rooftops and bouncing off things (maybe chimney smoke or washing?)

 

[Ogoid]

Ok guys, see if you can help me out
I am looking for a game i played in an emulator, its probably a SNES or Megadrive game because its old af
Its pretty mutch alike Heroes of Might and Magic i guess (never played too mutch)
Its a fantasy game, where you recruit and fight with magic creatures and can (or should) conquer castles.
You can recruit many units, but your cursor, the representation of your movements are a knight whit white horse and a banner of some kind

Basiclly you are abble to walk across all the map, all grass is green af, some forest u cant walk throught(i guess), and the sea you become a boat when get in it (not sure either)
Also remember fairy's as one type of units

Sorry, i really dont remember a lot, but I do wanna find out what is the name of this game, been searching for a coupple of hours and still nothing.

Thanks

Sounds like King's Bounty [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8sfYRD-Kcg] to me.