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

[kt14]

Hi guys. I'm having a problem remembering a name of a specific game, so I've resorted to this forum.
This description is probably going to be vague, but i'll try to make it as detailed as possible.
I played this game probably sometime in the early 2000s, I'm not positive what game console it was on, but I think it was playstation 2. In this game, you play as a little boy, who I believed had dark hair and wore darker clothing. He lived in a house that was dark. Inside of the house, you could talk to his mother and his sister (?), I think. Also, his grandfather or father had either gone missing or was lying in a bed inside of the house. When you would leave the house, you would go down a flight of wooden (?) steps that would take you to a little town. In this town, you could go into a church, that also had a basement. There was also a little bread stand/store.
I think this game had something to do with shadows and/or a supernatural force, such as ghosts. I remember you would have to fight off ghosts, I think.
I don't believe this was a very popular game, but I could be wrong. If you have any idea, please let me know. This is bothering me so bad.


Added: I also think the characters had bigger eyes, but I'm not entirely positive. The game was also kind of dark in color, if I remember correctly. Also, when you would talk to people, just text bubbles would come up and the characters would make noises, but not form words, if that makes sense.

That would be Okage: Shadow King for PS2.

OMG, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

 

[jdg]

Before I begin, I want to say that the game I'm about to describe is NOT 40 Winks or NIGHTS into Dreams.

Okay, I believe this game was on PS1, maybe PS2 but I believe the former. It basically revolved around 2 kids (I think, I remember a boy and a boy that you could control?) and they would like, be trapped in different dream worlds or alternate between the real world and a dream world, or something along those lines. I remember the dream worlds being fairly macabre and dark, and if I'm not mistaken I remember it being a birds-eye-view style 3rd person game, likely a platformer of some sort, kind of Legend of Zelda/Pokemon-esque in how you'd control your character and how the design of the environments looked. I think you'd have to go around collecting things and possibly fighting different monsters? I especially remember it being pretty difficult, at least it was for me, I never did get through the game!

Probably the first Alundra game for PS1. Here are some screenshots.

Thanks for trying, but nope, that's actually not it either. Like I said some of the details are hazy but it wasn't anything fantasy-like. It had a modern setting, I kind of remember the child characters being in a regular bedroom and home. Anyone else have any ideas?

Not sure about the first part of your description, and it might be a long shot, but the rest makes me think of Evil Twin: Cyprien's Chronicles. It's a 3d platformer on the Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, and Windows. I think it was only released in Europe.

 

[jdg]

Hey guys,
I've been looking for this game for quite some time now and I suspect it might be a really obscure one? Really hope you guys can help me find it!

Unfortunately my memories of it are quite fuzzy, but here it goes: What I do know is that it's a rpg/adventure/puzzle like game that I played somewhere between 1996 - 2000 on a windows 95 PC. But it's possible that the game itself is even a couple of years older.

It was a 2d isometric (maybe top down?) game with a fixed camera angle and position, where you had to walk your character to the edge of the screen to load the next world tile. Third person perspective. Not really sure if it was point and click or keyboard controlled.

I think the main character was some young guy and you start in a simple small medieval looking town with a couple of houses. The area around the town has some woody areas and green grass I think. Possibly a snowy area on the north side and shoreline/water to the south. The world was fairly small however.

I do remember the world being a bit weird and gritty (I think you run into human corpses, looking really gruesome and bloody). Not your standard fantasy world, but I think there definitely were some supernatural elements. In any case, the game world was not a very happy place. Can't remember if there was magic or not.

I think you had to complete tasks for people to progress to new areas. In one of the earlier missions some guy in/near the starting town asks you to kill some enemy critters that have invested his farm or garden or something. I can?t remember exactly what kind of critters but I think they were a giant version of a small real-life animal. I vaguely remember them looking quite disgusting, so probably some kind of giant insect or maybe rodent or something.

Can't really remember other enemies though or how you would fight them but I think in the beginning you just have your fists to beat enemies with.

Also I think there was a well or something in the town that was also a part of a quest.
A little later on I remember having to reach some place in a clearing, blocked off with what seems to be a couple of rows of impenetrable trees. I believe the way in was from the top right side of that world tile.

Hope this makes any sense to someone...

Finally I found it!!! It was Dink Smallwood.

 

[Felstaff]

Hi everyone! I'm new here and looking for a Shockwave game.

Characteristics:

- I am quite sure that it is a Shockwave game.

- Can be 2 play and we can choose a fat or thin cartoon character as avatar to take adventure. (I remember the appearance of the fat one is just like Spongebob's friend Patrick Star. )

- The game is about the main character who has to explore the new area so that the map can reveal the places and show you where is the exit to the next level.

- First, the map at the right hand corner is completely black, however, when you explore the new area, the map will reveal the places which you have been to and then will gradually show the exit to next level.

- If you play 2-player mode, you and your partner will walk in different areas to explore the map. Once you meet your partner at the same place in the map, you can hi-five with the partner and your HP will automatically recover.

Sorry for my bad English and I will be very grateful for any help with this

They made a Shockwave version of Toejam & Earl?

 

[Nibbles1123]

This is a pc game windows 7.It is a game in 2d with different levels of the "hut" and you could see all of them there was an outside too and you take care of a family of things that look like gremlins you can advance there technology so you can put food in a basket and bring it to outside ground you can breed them also to get more. the mane colors where browns , black ,the sky was not very light. I'm trying to go off of 2 mental pics so sorry if this is very confusing.

 

[rageking101]

90's PC game that was like a turn based puzzle/board game where you controlled a team of red or blue (depending on team) spheres/balls/marbles of different sizes. the spheres were different sizes and depending how big they were you could move a certain amount of spaces. if you moved to the same space as an enemy sphere and you were bigger you would absorb the enemy which killed it and made you even bigger. if the enemy sphere was the same size, you and the enemy sphere would shatter/break, killing both of you. from memory the objective was to get a full grown sphere to the top right space on the board (the enemy had to get one to the bottom left). i think from time to time there were "special" pieces on the board that would allow you to teleport or spawn a new sphere for your team.
does anyone remember this game? I remember playing it when i was very young

 

[book128]

Its a kids game I think and you play as like a guardian of little gremlins/sprite things. You build schools and houses etc. There is also a big crystal like thing I cant remember what it does. You also build them farms and they eat a lot of something that is similar to cabbage. They are trying to leave a island and go back home in the end they leave using a hot air balloon? It circles between day and night and they breed etc. You also got powers like thunder, lighting, rain etc as you progressed
Does anyone know what it is?
I remember playing it when I was little and I want to have a look at it again

 

[Abdulaziz AlNaser]

hey everyone

I played a game around 2006, where you play as Japanese week dude and you must build traps in your house to kill samurais that are trying to kill you.
You can upgrade the house and the traps, even hire body guards.

Thanks.

 

[Jonas Haas]

Hey everyone,

I am looking for a 90s RTS game - You are in command of a bunch of mainly green fantasy creatures, which start small but which can level up in specific buildings (I think buildings had a specific number of creatures which could be in them at the same time and you could see them). The upgrades create different classes like range and close combat fighter. IIRC one could also hire mercenaries. I think one needed to cut down trees for resources and some of the trees where hiding animals which then attacked the worker.
The units I commanded made high pitched noises as voices.

Well this explanation made more sense in my head then when writing it out, but maybe somebody can still help me.

 

[BigBoy214]

Hello

I was looking for this game for the longest time but still can't find it. It's a game made by CAPCOM and was probably made around 1995-2007ish. At first you get free levels to play but after you complete them all you have to pay for the rest of the levels which are more advanced. The character is round and chubby (kind of looks like Kirby or Pacman) I'm pretty sure he was colored Yellow or pink unless I am mistaken. Basically in the levels you would hop around the map to collect these Jewels or Diamonds that stack on your head, avoiding monsters in the level who look devilish and you can press SHIFT which shoots an ORB that kills them or knocks them out depending on which monster it is since some since some aren't killable. If the monster touches you, you drop all the Diamonds/Jewels that are stacked on your head and you have to restart the level. Once you stack all the Jewels/Diamonds on your head you return to where you spawned in the level and once you go there you Rise up while spinning and complete the level, then it sends you to the next one.

 

[Cherysh Shadoan]

i remember this neopet like game where you were a virtual pet and you could walk around like in pixie hollow but you got to pick your like what you were, i had a wand and you had to go to school to learn more and it was just...i dont even remember it all that well but it was like 2012 or around there, i want to have my sister play it but i cant remember the name. i remember there were different areas and this one place was a mine and you needed to earn/find/craft pickaxes...and there was a tree that talked and it.. xD im trying to remember..you had a garden outside your house and you could plant things that you bought or found. and you would go on quests to get new abilities...it was like the best game ever when i was playing it...damn cant remember much though...

 

[Meximagician]

This is a pc game windows 7.It is a game in 2d with different levels of the "hut" and you could see all of them there was an outside too and you take care of a family of things that look like gremlins you can advance there technology so you can put food in a basket and bring it to outside ground you can breed them also to get more. the mane colors where browns , black ,the sky was not very light. I'm trying to go off of 2 mental pics so sorry if this is very confusing.

Its a kids game I think and you play as like a guardian of little gremlins/sprite things. You build schools and houses etc. There is also a big crystal like thing I cant remember what it does. You also build them farms and they eat a lot of something that is similar to cabbage. They are trying to leave a island and go back home in the end they leave using a hot air balloon? It circles between day and night and they breed etc.
Does anyone know what it is?
I remember playing it when I was little and I want to have a look at it again

You both might be talking about one of the games from the Creatures series. If not, here's a list of life simulation games, there's only a page and a half of them, so it shouldn't be too hard to look through.

 

[Eduardo Rodrigues]

Hi everyone, i've been looking for a game for about 4 or 5 hours now.
I can't tell much detail since i only played the game for a short while, since my PC couldn't handle it pretty well.

I only remember part of the first level (i think).
We play as a girl that apparently is in a coma. We start the game playing in her dreams?

In the start, she is seeing herself on the bed. we can move around in the room and see stuff like the life support machine.
Sometimes we hear people talking outside. But the room is in a mountain. The room is only the inside furniture and the back wall.

One other part i remember is a tunnel where, if i remember correctly, you can't touch dark spots. Since you have powers, you need to use them to light the street post to iluminate the way.

The start menu is very bright and with tones of blue.

I've been reading the launched games list in wikipedia from 2006 to 2012 and i'm getting really frustrated. Does anyone know what game i'm talking about?

 

[book128]

This is a pc game windows 7.It is a game in 2d with different levels of the "hut" and you could see all of them there was an outside too and you take care of a family of things that look like gremlins you can advance there technology so you can put food in a basket and bring it to outside ground you can breed them also to get more. the mane colors where browns , black ,the sky was not very light. I'm trying to go off of 2 mental pics so sorry if this is very confusing.

Its a kids game I think and you play as like a guardian of little gremlins/sprite things. You build schools and houses etc. There is also a big crystal like thing I cant remember what it does. You also build them farms and they eat a lot of something that is similar to cabbage. They are trying to leave a island and go back home in the end they leave using a hot air balloon? It circles between day and night and they breed etc.
Does anyone know what it is?
I remember playing it when I was little and I want to have a look at it again

You both might be talking about one of the games from the Creatures series. If not, here's a list of life simulation games, there's only a page and a half of them, so it shouldn't be too hard to look through.

Nope mine isn't any of these 😂

 

[EnergeticMooMoo]

Hello everyone,
I've come to this thread in desperation (not really), to try and see if anyone knows what games am I talking about.
Ok, so, both games I played on windows XP in the early 2000s. The first one was a spaceship type game, where you flew spaceships around. I can't remember very well, but the most distinct memory of the game, is that you started in some sort of spaceship dock, in the middle of space. There were a bunch of automatic doors that you could go through. I'm sorry for the bad explanation, but my memory isn't great. The second game is a third-person game where you played as some sort of green alien-goblin type thing. I can't even remember the point of the game, only that the goblin-alien would often make strange alien sounds. It was quite a free-roam type game, and there were zones that you could enter or leave, so the whole world didn't have to be loaded at once. There was a forest and a beach from memory, and there was something being kept in a cage in the forest for sale, perhaps a slave, I can't remember. Like a said earlier, I apologise for my explanation, but if any of you know what I am talking about, for either of these games, please tell me.

 

[rightmexx]

I remember playing a RPG game when I was little , I think it was a demo Cd from a pcmagazine and it was about : a human characater (i believe) which was walking around a city on island , enters different homes meets animal characters finds clues , travels with a boat to another island where he finds a cave ... there s all i remember .

He enters a library or bookcase and there s an elephant character who is walking around the bookshelf .
I think it s pretty old 1999 or 2000 i believe so
I was little and didn t understand English.

Thank you.

Could be one of the Little Big Adventure games.

OMG !!!! That's the one !!! sorry for late reply ...wow brings back memories .. i was just watching the gameplay on youtube
Thanks a lot Coldie !

 

[Ultraplex]

Hello, I've been searching for 2 games so long, every time I am bored, or when I am sick of playing online games or not working I wonder, how can I find those games and I know my mom threw away those CD-s long time ago..
It was the time about 2003/4 +

1. First one is similar to Crimsonland except that player, had powers and abilities, not guns. I think primary auto-attack was wand and blue stuff coming out of it as I remember, and then after the levels are passing you have talents and stuff to upgrade. I remember that it has ability like this "http://i47.tinypic.com/1o5edk.jpg" just looks like that and burns enemy to the ground.
Ehm a little help is that, mother and I used to play gamehouse games back than.. so might have the influence of search. I researched all the things around ofc 'similar games to crimsonland 100 games like that didn't work out for me..

2. Second one is also MAYBE one of Gamehouse games it's also the same time as the game up above. It's a arcade, racing game, top down view, with a lot of cars to buy, a lot of weapons to upgrade and is a top view as well. Game is like, you race with few laps, shoot down enemies, earn money and upgrade cars and weapons on your cars it had good graphics tho

Thanks in advance Ultra out.

 

[SmokedXD]

Ok so here goes. Dont rember alot about the game. It was similar to FFT in the style of game. with the board and movieing your characters around turn based. Except of squares I think they are octogons. I belive it was for playstation. The only main part I can remember about it is that one of the characters you could get was a raptor like dinasaur thing that you could breed/spawn and make more of while battling. I also want to say it was more monster type characters and not human. Im not sure if there was a campain or main stroy to it. I only remember playing a skrimage type of game.

Well doing a little more searching and still no luck. I am not 100% sure it was for playstation but I do know it was a console game. And doing a little backwards counting going to say some time in the 1990-1997 time frame. But that might be wrong too. I also want to say that those little guys are call the hive something similar to that. I know this is a very limited description. But for now its all I got.

 

[yugo375]

Hello!

There's a game I was offered when I was little but never could play as my family had a mac and it was a pc game.
I looked a lot a the cover though, it depicted an aerial battle game, with lots of different flying ships/vehicle like a flying carpet, a (flying) barrel, and different kinds of airships. I believe there was some sort of races/clans to pick from where you would start from a little ship and upgrade your way to a big one.
I got it around 2003 but I don't know if it was recently released or not.
Sorry I can't be more specific and if I make grammar mistakes.

Thanks for the help!

 

[thedkm]

Hey everyone,

I am looking for a 90s RTS game - You are in command of a bunch of mainly green fantasy creatures, which start small but which can level up in specific buildings (I think buildings had a specific number of creatures which could be in them at the same time and you could see them). The upgrades create different classes like range and close combat fighter. IIRC one could also hire mercenaries. I think one needed to cut down trees for resources and some of the trees where hiding animals which then attacked the worker.
The units I commanded made high pitched noises as voices.

Well this explanation made more sense in my head then when writing it out, but maybe somebody can still help me.

Hey Jonas,

I am sure that it is "Warwind" check this: https://youtu.be/5hKQLG0rjrM?t=90