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

[shiniestqueen]

I've been scrolling through this thread and I can't find what I'm looking for-- I'm hoping one of you clever peeps will know.

When I was about 5-7 or so I played DOS games on my dad's computer. I remember playing Rogue, Caverns of Kroz, Yhatzee, and one more game that I just can't remember the title of.

It was ASCII, and you were in some kind of building/cave/temple/cathedral/labyrinth-- something to that effect. I believe the goal was to get to the center and retrieve... possibly an amulet of some kind? But I could never get past the outer rooms. There was little to no graphical depiction.

What I do remember is that the rooms would say things like "the color of this room is turquoise" and/or "you feel [emotion]". That would be at the top of the screen. I believe there was also text telling you what the paths looked like extending away-- simple descriptions. There was color in the text. The screen was either blue or black, but I think it was black.

I tried to build an ASCII rendition of the game but the preview showed it losing all formatting. As best I remember, it was a split screen. The top was an ASCII logo/title, I think, and the bottom was a rectangle in which there would be text describing the room and your available paths.

I remember that I was never able to solve it as a kid, although I don't explicitly remember any puzzles. I don't think there were any enemies, either-- at least, there was no mechanism for killing anything or something like that. The mechanics of the game were basically, as I recall, "move around and remember the rooms and try to get to the middle."

Then again, this was in 1990/1991 so.... I could be forgetting some things. This has been driving me crazy for months-- I've replayed all my other nostalgia games (except for Rise and Rule of Ancient Empires... getting that to run is turning into a serious endeavor), and not being able to figure this one out is frustrating.

 

[Luke Hxnter]

It was a 2D platfroming PS1 game where your primary attack was to pick up the enemies and slam they against teh floor with the electro gun you had, looked like the proton pack from Ghosterbusters. I remember the first mission looked like a factory or shipping yard. I only found out the day i give it back that you had to use the enemie bodies to walk over the spike pits. Remember the title of this thing has been bugging me for ages.

 

[Srecko Bozic Jackson]

hello,before more than 6-7 years i played a game on pc where u have to capture parts of city u had your gang,and had to beat other gangs,i dont remember much else of it,pls if eny can say what is name so that i can play it again?

 

[mike71415]

hey guys ! i wondered if you could help me with a game from 2000-2004 . it is about a tiny creature that looks like a raind drop that has been a project of 2 mad scientists on a space ship. the drop falls on earh and gets to someone's house and asks for help . you encounter monsters as enemyes and you shoot them with some cans by pressing spacebar .you have 3 costumes i think(one as a cactus , one a steel one and one as a robot ) . one last thing that i remember is that you hold down and then jump you jump way higher . if you could help me i would really apreciate it , ty in advance !

 

[Meximagician]

It was a 2D platfroming PS1 game where your primary attackattack (攻める, せめる, semeru)attackattack (攻める, せめる, semeru) (攻める, せめる, semeru) was to pick up the enemies and slam they against teh floor with the electro gun you had, looked like the proton pack from Ghosterbusters. I remember the first mission looked like a factory or shipping yard. I only found out the day i give it back that you had to use the enemie bodies to walk over the spike pits. Remember the title of this thing has been bugging me for ages.

That would be Wild 9 by shiny entertainment.

Unrelated note: Why must the post button be so close to the preview button! Why!

 

[Trioto]

Hi guys, I am new here ty in advance for help.... I was playing a game long time ago it was 2d/3d click and play adventure game it had something like a village and in midle was a ruby diamond on some kind of tree , you play with blonde hair guy you click and he moves you get a time when you are first person than you get a 2d option to solve some puzzle i remember on 1 scene i was starting in prison like made of dirt , after you manage to escape from that prison you go to another picture whre the guy apears and you need to solve the puzzle on the screen so the guy can pass trought the terrain it is in 2d .. on 1 moment i remember was on a cliff from the right side and a hole in the middle and another cliff on the left side with dog barking lie rotweiler or something idk ... if somebody can tell me the name i would be very gratefull .. pc game early 2000's ...

 

[TheLaa]

Bumping from back in 2015 :q

Anyone reconize this game..?


I still want to go back and beat it yet still am unable to remember the name of it.

I searched all the terms I could think of with site:escapistmagazine.com and quotes on any terms I could find, and I read 100 pages of this topic with no luck. I've put in 20 hours the past three weeks looking for it... so please know that I did try my best before posting here and as such I am __super grateful__ for any help.


It was first person on a computer, a semi-educational game in the mid 90's. You were on an island (or was it a jungle?) and there was a bunch of science involved, for example there is a science experiment with droppers where you determine the bloodtypes of a few slides.
Movement outside these educational "minigames" (which I think you found by clicking on items displayed in the current screen,) was done frame by frame by clicking ahead on a path or at the bottom, which a new image overlay would show the zone you're "walking" in then. I m fairly certain you were the only human on the island.

There was a nest in a rock cliff-side by one of the main paths, and when you traveled on the path from the right direction a yellow-crowned penguin would hop down from the nest and look at you before waddling off.

Graphics were still images for most things (especially during movement outside of the "minigames", where you'd travel between "screen" by clicking on the path) but some things were animated simply such as the penguin and those droppers for the blood.


...I think I remember an easter island statue head, but I am not sure about that detail. And a rickety plank rope bridge. hrm... I think there was also a toucan at one point, just flying by.


The blood type thing had the slide in the center with two droppers and two spots of blood (maybe four? doubt it though.) The droppers would drip a chemical from their vial from the closest spot of blood on the slide and depending on how the blood reacted with each chemical you tried to guess the blood type. I think there was a note book explaining basics about blood and the like for educational purposes. It wasn't very useful from what I remember...

This blood type thing is what I remember most clearly because I felt so clever after figuring it out as a kid. I want to go back and beat the game

This isn't a Dr. Brain series game is it?

No it is not

I do not recall seeing any human beings in any of it. Also it was a little bit more realistic graphically than that.



[HEADING=3]I am now offering a 10$ reward to whomever can get me the name of this game - Amazon or Steam giftcard, your choice!!! [/HEADING]

 

[Chase44564]

Hey guys I looked everywhere and I can't seem to find this game. I played it when I was really little. It was on my gba and it was a lot like final fantasy from what I'm seeing. It was a fun based strategy and you had a team that you could put together. The big things I remember was in the beginning you talked to a girl at a grave. I think it was something about dragons. Later in you and your team meet a dragon and I think he gives you a tear. Or something. That's all I really remember. Please help me.

 

[Trogus1]

Hey everyone this one here is probably gonna be a bit hard because I can't remember much of it but here goes.
I'm fairly certain it's a ps1 era game (maybe a bit older). It's an rpg and at the start you get to choose between a boy and a girl. If you choose the guy you start of in some kind of Military facility (I think) and after a few minutes you and everyone else in there gets transformed into monsters and you have to fight your way out. If you choose the chick I think you have to do some kind of block puzzle. Eventually they meet up later in the story and the party merges.
So, any ideas?

bumping this

I'm pretty sure this is wild arms 2

yes it is, thank you so much.

 

[KaiYLowell]

Bumping from back in 2015 :q

Anyone reconize this game..?


I still want to go back and beat it yet still am unable to remember the name of it.

I searched all the terms I could think of with site:escapistmagazine.com and quotes on any terms I could find, and I read 100 pages of this topic with no luck. I've put in 20 hours the past three weeks looking for it... so please know that I did try my best before posting here and as such I am __super grateful__ for any help.


It was first person on a computer, a semi-educational game in the mid 90's. You were on an island (or was it a jungle?) and there was a bunch of science involved, for example there is a science experiment with droppers where you determine the bloodtypes of a few slides.
Movement outside these educational "minigames" (which I think you found by clicking on items displayed in the current screen,) was done frame by frame by clicking ahead on a path or at the bottom, which a new image overlay would show the zone you're "walking" in then. I m fairly certain you were the only human on the island.

There was a nest in a rock cliff-side by one of the main paths, and when you traveled on the path from the right direction a yellow-crowned penguin would hop down from the nest and look at you before waddling off.

Graphics were still images for most things (especially during movement outside of the "minigames", where you'd travel between "screen" by clicking on the path) but some things were animated simply such as the penguin and those droppers for the blood.


...I think I remember an easter island statue head, but I am not sure about that detail. And a rickety plank rope bridge. hrm... I think there was also a toucan at one point, just flying by.


The blood type thing had the slide in the center with two droppers and two spots of blood (maybe four? doubt it though.) The droppers would drip a chemical from their vial from the closest spot of blood on the slide and depending on how the blood reacted with each chemical you tried to guess the blood type. I think there was a note book explaining basics about blood and the like for educational purposes. It wasn't very useful from what I remember...

This blood type thing is what I remember most clearly because I felt so clever after figuring it out as a kid. I want to go back and beat the game

This isn't a Dr. Brain series game is it?

No it is not

I do not recall seeing any human beings in any of it. Also it was a little bit more realistic graphically than that.



[HEADING=3]I am now offering a 10$ reward to whomever can get me the name of this game - Amazon or Steam giftcard, your choice!!! [/HEADING]

Okay, how about this? Physicus: Save the World with Science ( http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/physicus-save-the-world-with-science ). On an island, still frame movement similar to the Myst series. Look familiar?

 

[HamidTanhaei]

there are 2 hunched creatures, one of creatures is green (2 hunched in multiplayer and in singleplayer is 1 hunched)
animals attack to them and they most be run or kill animals by Hit the floor of animals then going to side of animal to kill them
this game is 2d and very old. like (2000 - 2005)

 

[rmzedward]

used to play a video game in elementary school(about 8-4years ago) where you re on teams, it s set in a large field, it s multiplayer and it s desktop... you go around with what i think are some sort of guns that shoot blobs? you can earn things like super jump or slow down time and you have to try to shoot the other team with your colored blob? i can also remember that you are timed when in the game...

 

[Tommy Fodnes]

Two car games for the (pc). One where you drove on the asphalt, but with desert sand/theme going around you(i think). And you could also drive as an object. For instance, a crate(not an mod, but you could select it in the menu?)... Other one being where only thing i could remember, were in the menu. Think there were an animated santa or something. I'll remember him starring at me with an angry mood or something lol... Loooong ass time... Its all i'll got lol..

 

[TamtenCzarny]

It's been haunting me for a long time. Old game, 3D, platform I think, I remember playing on friend's PC as a kid. You run around as a small devil/monster thing and fight enemies consisting of light/darkness by finding and flicking a...light switch. I know it's not much but it's been bugging me for so long. I think it was supposed to be funny kids game, but I could be wrong. Searched everywhere and I couldn't find it.

 

[SeveralButts]

My girlfriend and I were looking for a game she used to play when she was only about 4 or 5 years old, she remembers that the graphics were quite nice compared to other games at the time, and it was a late 90's to early 2000's game. The hubworld was in a tree, but not like in a treehouse, like the tree WAS the house and there were rooms inside, there was an element of time travel in the story and you needed to find pieces of a clock to do so. It was a point and click and all of the characters were anthropomorphic animals. Can anyone help us find out what this game is?

 

[SeveralButts]

Meanwhile I myself am looking for a different game that if anyone wants, can help me find it too, but the post above is much more important. I remember playing an early 2000's game that was 3-D and you played as this rectangular, almost french-fry like character, who was the color red if I remember right, and had black beady eyes, all of the characters were like this, including a pink rectangle that was kidnapped early on in the story by what I'm guessing was the big baddy, another rectangle, only black. That's all I remember about the story, but I also remember an element of the gameplay including a wolf chasing you around on this long path that faced the camera, and you could sometimes shoot balls at it or something, it's very vague because I was TERRIFIED of that thing for the LONGEST time, and only recently remembered it and wanted to see what the game was really like.

 

[Daddy]

Need to know the name of this game from 2000's. Think your character could have been a boy or girl. There was a book with stones in it, a bubble land, a land where you had to build stuff, and maybe a land with a maze. Sometimes the characters in the game would tell you stories, and I think in one of the stories something caught on fire. Not much to go off from, but I won't sleep until I remember the name of this game.

 

[Meximagician]

Need to know the name of this game from 2000's. Think your character could have been a boy or girl. There was a book with stones in it, a bubble land, a land where you had to build stuff, and maybe a land with a maze. Sometimes the characters in the game would tell you stories, and I think in one of the stories something caught on fire. Not much to go off from, but I won't sleep until I remember the name of this game.

Total shot in the dark here, but was it Dark Cloud 2?

 

[CinnamonToast]

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[scorvol]

There's an old ps2/ps1 game that I've played a while back and I can only vaguely remember a few things. You were in like this basic room and with each room I think or stage, you had to complete the puzzle or objective to be able to advance to the next one. I've been trying so long to remember this title but it never comes to mind and I can't find it. It's not Intelligent Cube or Portal because those are the suggestions most people give me. Thanks