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

[SpiderLily]

Okay, I'm starting to get mad with myself so might as well ask the genius internet. I loved this one game - it's the 'get it on a CD with a magazine' kind.

It was match shapes, a like teris but with you moving shapes around to 'fill out' bigger shape on the screen so it would dissapear. I remember the little shapes came on wodden platforms and when you finished the level you would get platforms with money instead if you had empty place. If you ran out of place for new shapes you lost.

You had tool to change/destroy the shapes which you got by using a shape the tool was hid inside of?

It's similiar to Arctic Quest by Alawar/BigFishGames, but with sqares (I think?) and sharp red/blue/green colors, and forest/magic/crystal shards?/etc.

 

[Expendable Indigo]

I remember this game I played on Windows 98, but I cant remember the name of the game. My memory of the game is extremely vague so bare with the lack of description. The only things I remember was that you played this dude on a 2-D platform and I think it was maybe an adventure/puzzle game too. I also remember a certain level(or maybe it was the whole game. Hey, I did say there wouldnt be a lot of description ) that had these ice tiles that you slid on, kinda like an Ice Block puzzle without the blocks. Thats about it. Now, I do remember the game wasnt played on a disk or CD that I remember. I believe that it was already downloaded or installed to the hard drive and I could just access it from the desktop. Ive been trying to remember this game for about 5 years now! Im sure if I heard the title Id remember what it was. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I don't know if you're still looking at this at all, but it seems like you never got your answer. It's Chip's Challenge.

 

[Expendable Indigo]

K so I've been trying to find this for years and I found this thread and I doubt it'll help but here goes.

It's an old game for windows 95 or 98 or something. It worked without a disk and it came on a used computer so it might have been downloaded from the internet, but we didn't have internet. It was a Christmas themed platformer and you played as a snowman and shot snowballs at enemies. The first level was random snowiness with snowman bad guys. Another level was inside a pyramid or something and there was a yellow snowman I don't think you could kill. Another level was in a city at night and you'd ride elevators to the tops of buildings. Another level was on a jungle island. halp

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Please help!!!
If you think you are king of finding the names of games that no one remembers then please find this one.
I know exactly what game Gablum is talking about but unfortunately cannot offer anymore helpful information on the game.
Someone please help us out this has been bothering me for years and have no clue what the name is.

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I don't know if I responded to this post correctly but this is in response to Gablum on page 82 about a super old snomwman game for pc from the early 90s.

I know exactly what game you are talking about. The only additional thing that I can remember is that the last level has a beach or island background and when you beat the game the snowman starts moving diagonally around the screen bouncing off the walls and changing color.

If anyone knows the name of this game or has any other info please help!!!

I am trying to remember a game i would play in the mid 90's.
I remember it was on my Windows 95 machine, so I am assuming DOS. I want to say the name was "Frosty's Vacation" or something

Anyway, you played as a snowman, and in each level you were in a city, or on a beach trying to get your Hat scarf, mittens etc.

There was a yellow snowman that was your villain, you hit the space bar to throw snowballs at him, but if he ran into you, you would melt and die.

Any updates on this? (I have been looking for this forever too) Please help if possible! Someone suggested "The Lost Snowman", but that's a 2013 amateur game for GameMaker.

Update: Added one more quote to this post that's relevant. The name "Frosty's Vacation" yields nothing.

 

[The_Downfall]

So when I was young I played this game mid 2000s that started off with you picking between 2 races of humans , one where you were just a plain ol' human being and the other being a human that was made of lava or something like that. Now being a young kid I picked just the plain human and you start off this in village in the outskirts of a huge town , and you had to fight giant rats and a rusty sword and shield , and it was just awful , but as you explored into the city you could buy better gear from the smiths , but you could also buy much better gear from other players as well ( who made the prices just near unaffordable of course ) and you could go around this human country fighting creatures such a giant bees to huge gargoyles and scorpions , and you could also go to this sort of demon plane where you would fight demons called mavericks if I recall , but you could also run into the opposite race of lava humans who didn't like you and they would sometimes attack you mid battle with a demon and it was just terrible if you weren't equipped for it. Now I remember there is a job system in the game , one being a alchemist where you would harvest plants and have to buy flask in order to make potions , there was a healer job but was almost impossible to become because of how ludicrously expensive it was to be taught it , and if you did manage to get it , you would easily make your money back by just charging people a hefty amount to heal their fractured skull or leg ( which occurred if you were to die in battle , you would suffer some sort of injury that would pose a problem such as not allowing you to equip a weapon or piece of armor ) , and there was a sort of beast master job that pretty much made you go and catch a tiger and you basically became He-Man with battle cat and it was awesome. Of course you had to also have a ton of money to learn that as well. You could farm for money by killing giant rats or you could spend real cash and get ahead ( games were grooming me to become a money spending addict later on in life )

Anyway this game has been bugging my mind for the past year or so and would love to be reminded of the name , don't care if its still online or not , just want the name for ol' times sake.

 

[hibariChan]

I have been trying to find this game for so long. I remember playing it back in my primary school days so its probably before 2009/2010? It's a first person game, not a shooter game and i was playing it on the computer.

Its a game about a murder i think. It starts off in like outside a mansion and I believe there are other people with the player. At first we walk towards this mansion and i remember when you enter the mansion, there is this giant staircase that leads upwards. You could look through keyholes of the people staying in the rooms upstairs. I remember that there was a kitchen as well and if i am not wrong, after playing for awhile, the mansion suddenly turns dark because the lights are off.

Please help!! ><" i've been looking for this game since forever!

 

[rabiddoughnuts]

I am reposting partially for visibility, but also because I found 1 of the 2 games I was looking for, the other I remembered more details about, and I am looking for one more game.

First one I am pretty sure was on a sega console though I am not sure which one and it might have been on ps1, this would have been late 90s maybe early 2000, but definitely before xbox came out, it was an RPG and you were a young male hero out to save a princess at the start, but then it kind of evolves into saving the kingdom after you save her, i believe the characters almost looked like super early final fantasy sprites when traveling like kinda short squat little things, and there were lots of major scenery changes as you went to like magical realms and different areas of the kingdom, there were lots of little unique items and weird powers you could get to help navigate puzzles and combat, and one as silly as it was, was a ring that would turn you into a beaver type animal.


Second one I played on either GBC or GBA, it was during early pokemon days, no later than ruby and saphire i believe, it was also an rpg, it had 2d looking graphics, but while it was kinda a top down look, they presented it as more of an angle, so the starting town had like 4 or 5 "layers" that you could navigate through the streets, some of the houses and by the piers. It started out as like 4 kids in school, there was a secret passage in the side of the school on the left i believe, with like a potion. Then after class the kids meet in a cave by the pier and have a club. Something happens with like your parents I believe, or had in the past, and then you and maybe one or all of the other kids leave on the adventure, and you go between towns, and fight monsters, etc. Lastly, if it helps, i remember it having one of those see through purple cartridges, though I could be wrong.

 

[rabiddoughnuts]

There was a game I used to play on PS1, I thought it might be a multi-disc game but I've looked through lists of multi-disc games and can't find it. There were a lot of sci-fi elements, I think it employed a 3rd person perspective. It was a very long game, maybe 40+ levels, and it had a dungeon crawling vibe to it. I remember part of it was in a factory-like setting, part of it was in a prison, the rest I can't recall. I remember that it had lots of weapons, like every 5 minutes I encountered a new gun. The very last thing I remember about it was walking into a new room and there was a door on the other side that opened up, and a dinosaur came out of it and I had to fight it.

One memorable thing from the game that's probably not helpful, was that there was a rocket launcher that tended to glitch the game when fired, and what I vaguely remember to be an icy tunnel-like area.

Anything more specific? sounds like maybe alone in the dark.

 

[Strunter]

Hey there guys can you lend me a hand here?

There is that game which I loved playing which consisted of you being a person in a black suit with your right hand being a machine gun. The enemies were robots I believe and there were food boxes which heal you but they run away from you when you get close to them.
There was also a part of a level where you are in a fake happy environment drawn to a cardboard box which you can push down. You can also throw dummies which looks like you that gets the attention of the enemies. The robots sometimes danced in front of you as a way to annoy you.

I will be grateful for any help!

 

[Pixelhunter]

Hey there guys can you lend me a hand here?

There is that game which I loved playing which consisted of you being a person in a black suit with your right hand being a machine gun. The enemies were robots I believe and there were food boxes which heal you but they run away from you when you get close to them.
There was also a part of a level where you are in a fake happy environment drawn to a cardboard box which you can push down. You can also throw dummies which looks like you that gets the attention of the enemies. The robots sometimes danced in front of you as a way to annoy you.


I will be grateful for any help!

This might be "MDK" (1997).

 

[Pixelhunter]

Hello everyone!

I used to play this pc game, where it was a space shoot'em up.
You would be in a big space location. You could pick up abilities as you fought creatures. After some time (or after killing enough enemies) a worm hole would appear, and you would need to reach it. One of the abilities included some kind of a flail that you can use with the momentum of your space ship.

Please do help me on this!

Still no help? I understand; no one wants to help me, anyway.

Wow, still no help.

Come on now. This thread works in the following way: some people check it now and then to see if there's something they can either answer right away or something that they could possibly find out. Sometimes it turns out they can't. And they do it just to help out a fellow game enthusiast, not because that's their job. They're the same as you, how many people have you helped with their questions?

So if you don't get a satisfactory reply (I see someone already tried, but got it wrong), it doesn't mean you're being discriminated against, it means that the people who look into this thread to see if they can help anyone find something don't know the answer to your question, and don't really know where to look or what exactly to look for. Sometimes it helps to post a more detailed description of the game you are looking for, and obviously the platform and the time frame are very useful. The one thing that doesn't help is to get rude with anyone who might want to help you.

Hope you find this helpful.

The reason I'm like this is that I'm never able to find whatever I'm looking for.
Also, if I knew it any further, MAYBE I would know it already. But sadly, I played this game when I was around 7-8 or so.

Well, we don't personally know you. Heh, how are we supposed to know when you were seven-ish years old?
Anyways, as you know these dates better, why not start by going through this extensive list of possible candidates.
Obiously you'll want to check out either Windows or DOS games if you're looking for a PC game.
Still, if the game happened to be some freeware/indie game it will be a bit harder to track it down.

I don't know if the game is called "Scrolling" since you can go in every direction, not just one direction.

Also, I remember that the game had several power ups you can pick up to use as a weapon for your spaceship, with one being a flail that you can use with the momentum of your ship. I remember that there are worm-like enemies that you can kill later in the game. And the game is not 3D, it's 2D with bird-eye view of the spaceship.

Hmm, I'm not sure how that site defines scrolling. Apparently they include "multi-directional" (or "arena") shmups as well, but I don't see "Zone 66" in that list, so I can't be certain. Still I'd start by clicking through the names in the possible time frame.

When you say PC, does it mean PC in the sense of x86-architecture? Somehow I get the feeling I might have seen that flail in an Amiga game, but I might mix things up.

 

[DevilBoy]

So, I kind of hit my last hope here of finding this game, but here I go...

All I remember is that when I was like 5 I got a CD with 40 or 50 computer games that came with a magazine in portuguese, among them was the one Im looking for...

I remember it like this, you were a frog/toad and you have to find a way out of some kind of lab or sewers, but there were traps, you can de-activate those with lever but if you fail, the frog/toad gets electrocuted.


Some other games on the CD were:
>Some Dragon Ball game
>labrat
>Charlie the duck
>Citi mining(pic related)
>Some kind of brick break
>a Sonic game

I've looked everywhere, DOS libraries, blog, youtube, and the internet in general...

 

[xana1234]

New here, I've been trying to find the name of an old game I played when I was a kid. Im positive it was for sega, but could of been for SNES. Only vague details I remember is that it was sorta like zelda in the way of attacking monsters and moving around on maps. But you had this animal or sprite that followed you where you drew different powers from. Anyone remember such a game? Thanks!!!

 

[Epicskunk]

Hello everyone!

I used to play this pc game, where it was a space shoot'em up.
You would be in a big space location. You could pick up abilities as you fought creatures. After some time (or after killing enough enemies) a worm hole would appear, and you would need to reach it. One of the abilities included some kind of a flail that you can use with the momentum of your space ship.

Please do help me on this!

Still no help? I understand; no one wants to help me, anyway.

Wow, still no help.

Come on now. This thread works in the following way: some people check it now and then to see if there's something they can either answer right away or something that they could possibly find out. Sometimes it turns out they can't. And they do it just to help out a fellow game enthusiast, not because that's their job. They're the same as you, how many people have you helped with their questions?

So if you don't get a satisfactory reply (I see someone already tried, but got it wrong), it doesn't mean you're being discriminated against, it means that the people who look into this thread to see if they can help anyone find something don't know the answer to your question, and don't really know where to look or what exactly to look for. Sometimes it helps to post a more detailed description of the game you are looking for, and obviously the platform and the time frame are very useful. The one thing that doesn't help is to get rude with anyone who might want to help you.

Hope you find this helpful.

The reason I'm like this is that I'm never able to find whatever I'm looking for.
Also, if I knew it any further, MAYBE I would know it already. But sadly, I played this game when I was around 7-8 or so.

Well, we don't personally know you. Heh, how are we supposed to know when you were seven-ish years old?
Anyways, as you know these dates better, why not start by going through this extensive list of possible candidates.
Obiously you'll want to check out either Windows or DOS games if you're looking for a PC game.
Still, if the game happened to be some freeware/indie game it will be a bit harder to track it down.

I don't know if the game is called "Scrolling" since you can go in every direction, not just one direction.

Also, I remember that the game had several power ups you can pick up to use as a weapon for your spaceship, with one being a flail that you can use with the momentum of your ship. I remember that there are worm-like enemies that you can kill later in the game. And the game is not 3D, it's 2D with bird-eye view of the spaceship.

Hmm, I'm not sure how that site defines scrolling. Apparently they include "multi-directional" (or "arena") shmups as well, but I don't see "Zone 66" in that list, so I can't be certain. Still I'd start by clicking through the names in the possible time frame.

When you say PC, does it mean PC in the sense of x86-architecture? Somehow I get the feeling I might have seen that flail in an Amiga game, but I might mix things up.

It is literally a PC game. I know this because I used to play it on Windows XP. However, it came with a CD that had alot of demos and one big full game. HOWEVER, it is from the magazine company called LEVEL. So, I literally have no idea.

 

[Rastrik]

Hi there! Just found this thread so I HAVE to throw this game out there. It's been bugging me forever!

Only saw it played once when I was over a friend's house. Pretty sure it was for the NES, but I could be wrong.

It was a side-scrolling platformer with a choice of characters, somewhat similar to Mario 2 (Doku-Doku Panic or whatever).

Each character had a different balance of speed, jump height, and health, from what I recall. They may have had other abilities, but I don't remember. For sure I can remember 3 characters. A little boy, a little girl, and a blob. The blob was super slow, couldn't jump, but had a ton of health.

I want to say I remember my friend called it "The Wacky Wizard of Oz" or something. But we were little and he could have been making that up, since a search for that yielded nothing helpful for me.

I did some additional digging on my own, and read about a game called "Legacy of the Wizard". Which rang some bells for me Big Time. I'm still not 100% convinced that it was the one though.

It definitely could have been what caused my terrible misheard title. And the character select screen has a white blob in it that could be the blob I'm thinking about. It looks like it's supposed to be a sleeping dog or something. And a description I read talks about the family pet Pochi, who's a monster, and so is immune to the other monsters. Immunity to certain things is definitely a better description of its abilities than what I wrote above.

Any depictions I've found of this character have been a little pink dragon guy, though. Not the white blob I remember.

 

[Pixelhunter]

Hello everyone!

I used to play this pc game, where it was a space shoot'em up.
You would be in a big space location. You could pick up abilities as you fought creatures. After some time (or after killing enough enemies) a worm hole would appear, and you would need to reach it. One of the abilities included some kind of a flail that you can use with the momentum of your space ship.

Please do help me on this!

Still no help? I understand; no one wants to help me, anyway.

Wow, still no help.

Come on now. This thread works in the following way: some people check it now and then to see if there's something they can either answer right away or something that they could possibly find out. Sometimes it turns out they can't. And they do it just to help out a fellow game enthusiast, not because that's their job. They're the same as you, how many people have you helped with their questions?

So if you don't get a satisfactory reply (I see someone already tried, but got it wrong), it doesn't mean you're being discriminated against, it means that the people who look into this thread to see if they can help anyone find something don't know the answer to your question, and don't really know where to look or what exactly to look for. Sometimes it helps to post a more detailed description of the game you are looking for, and obviously the platform and the time frame are very useful. The one thing that doesn't help is to get rude with anyone who might want to help you.

Hope you find this helpful.

The reason I'm like this is that I'm never able to find whatever I'm looking for.
Also, if I knew it any further, MAYBE I would know it already. But sadly, I played this game when I was around 7-8 or so.

Well, we don't personally know you. Heh, how are we supposed to know when you were seven-ish years old?
Anyways, as you know these dates better, why not start by going through this extensive list of possible candidates.
Obiously you'll want to check out either Windows or DOS games if you're looking for a PC game.
Still, if the game happened to be some freeware/indie game it will be a bit harder to track it down.

I don't know if the game is called "Scrolling" since you can go in every direction, not just one direction.

Also, I remember that the game had several power ups you can pick up to use as a weapon for your spaceship, with one being a flail that you can use with the momentum of your ship. I remember that there are worm-like enemies that you can kill later in the game. And the game is not 3D, it's 2D with bird-eye view of the spaceship.

Hmm, I'm not sure how that site defines scrolling. Apparently they include "multi-directional" (or "arena") shmups as well, but I don't see "Zone 66" in that list, so I can't be certain. Still I'd start by clicking through the names in the possible time frame.

When you say PC, does it mean PC in the sense of x86-architecture? Somehow I get the feeling I might have seen that flail in an Amiga game, but I might mix things up.

It is literally a PC game. I know this because I used to play it on Windows XP. However, it came with a CD that had alot of demos and one big full game. HOWEVER, it is from the magazine company called LEVEL. So, I literally have no idea.

Okay, PC, Windows XP, Level Magazine (Turkish Level?). We're actually getting somewhere. :-D
Have a look at this page, maybe one of these CDs rings a bell.

 

[YuYuHei]

Hi guys!

I need your help to find at wich game those characters belongs :

http://imageshack.com/a/img923/3829/vyipFS.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img923/4479/VjMECF.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img922/5116/lr7A0b.png

I remember was a fighting arcade game in 2d.

Thanks a lot

 

[Midwoka]

Hi guys!

I need your help to find at wich game those characters belongs :

http://imageshack.com/a/img923/3829/vyipFS.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img923/4479/VjMECF.png
http://imageshack.com/a/img922/5116/lr7A0b.png

I remember was a fighting arcade game in 2d.

Thanks a lot

Seems to be called Waku Waku 7 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DefAwU3GcEI]. =)

 

[Ogoid]

New here, I've been trying to find the name of an old game I played when I was a kid. Im positive it was for sega, but could of been for SNES. Only vague details I remember is that it was sorta like zelda in the way of attacking monsters and moving around on maps. But you had this animal or sprite that followed you where you drew different powers from. Anyone remember such a game? Thanks!!!

Pretty sure you're thinking of Crusader of Centy (a.k.a. Soleil) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq7fDSYeM84] for the Genesis.

 

[Expendable Indigo]

There was this game I don't remember to much of it but it's a game where you can choose like your character and like the packastan character. It's like an overhead of a level but it's just a battle and whenever you win, you get items/gold then go to different places, get an army, buy crap, and you took over the counties and shit. It was a bad ass game on the computer. I just don't remember it at all

What do you mean by "packastan character?" It would be helpful if you could give more details.

 

[Expendable Indigo]

There was a game I used to play on PS1, I thought it might be a multi-disc game but I've looked through lists of multi-disc games and can't find it. There were a lot of sci-fi elements, I think it employed a 3rd person perspective. It was a very long game, maybe 40+ levels, and it had a dungeon crawling vibe to it. I remember part of it was in a factory-like setting, part of it was in a prison, the rest I can't recall. I remember that it had lots of weapons, like every 5 minutes I encountered a new gun. The very last thing I remember about it was walking into a new room and there was a door on the other side that opened up, and a dinosaur came out of it and I had to fight it.

One memorable thing from the game that's probably not helpful, was that there was a rocket launcher that tended to glitch the game when fired, and what I vaguely remember to be an icy tunnel-like area.

I assume it's not Too Human?