There's no such thread in the catalog and I'm in need of help. Post your childhood half-remembered games that you have forgotten the title of, see if anybody else has the answer. I'll post mine shortly.
>>12575818Here's the reason I started the thread. When I was a kid, maybe 8-10, I played a shareware game bundled on a demo disc (probably CD gamer or equivalent, in Sweden if that matters). It was one of those shareware indie games made by probably a single dev, primitive and pixelly even for the time (which would be around '99. It was a 2d platformer with a lot of gore effects, set against dark backgrounds if I recall correctly. You jumped a lot, and fought enemies in either melee-range or with some sort of short ranged gun, can't remember. I have some memoru that the title contained the word "Paradox", but I've searched many variants of that and came up with nothing. Anyone know what I'm talking about? It was probably a little known game, could have maybe been from Finland since they had a thriving indie scene at the time.
>>12575845I wanna be the guy?
>>12575845That could be a tough find, but have you tried checking if those magazines have been scanned and their CDs dumped? I know the ones I used to have have been, but it's a different country.
>>12575818U.R.B.A.N.: The Cyborg Project?
>>12575818Anons, help me out with a clip I saw on a late-90s review show on TV. It was an isometric PC game that might have been Crusader or something that looked similar. I only remember a scene where there's a big bug strapped to a table and someone's whipping or torturing it for some reason. I have no further context to share. Also wtf was that scene even about?
>>12575818I think I played an NES game that had some fire breathing fat bald guy. He looks like one of those strong men at a circus. You could climb a latter to grab items that have specific letters on a square.
>>12576640Karnov
>>12576647Thank you! I've been trying to figure out the name of that game for decades.
>>12576639Alien Earth? Sanitarium?
>>12575818DOS CGA "learn French" edutainmet software with an interface resembling early SCUMM UI but with no third person character to guide around meaning it effectively functioned in first person. As far as I remember you clicked on things and interface displayed things in French, possibly switchable to English? I only remember an airport and like a bedroom. There was no purpose to the "game", you just moved around these places and checked out what all the things in the area were called in French.
>>12576723*EGA
>>12576723Also a CD-ROM multimedia title where you explore a lighthouse? (Not Lighthouse the Dark Being, it wasn't a game, possibly vaguely educational) Also another multimedia CD-ROM thing that pertained to some modern art / sculpture gallery, from what I remember the layout was like a black background with photos of sculptures and shit you could click for info etc
>>12576639Bad Mojo?
>>12575818Possibly not retro, but I distinctly remember a JRPG-type game where a woman says "My beauty...it is my sin." I only remember this because it was playing on a display at Walmart.I also played a demo onetime of a PS1 game at a target. All I remember is that the game had a dancing man and cat and they looked uncanny. Early 3D graphics. I couldn't figure out how to do anything. Maybe it was the menu for a demo disc, but if it was, it was really high-concept.
Does anyone remember the name of that PS1/PC game where you play as a patient in a twisted mental asylum and have to complete various puzzle rooms to escape? It was from a sidescrolling 2.5D perspective and used prerendered graphics like Oddworld. It had very "sterile" looking graphics and the main character was covered in bandages from head to toe. It kind of reminded me of Harvester or the original Prince of Persia, or maybe that Flash version of Portal. You had to climb up and down throughout the facility and I believe that there were guards who you had to hide from. I don't believe there was any combat. I remember seeing it in some YouTube video a long, long time ago and was always curious about what it was.
Trying to remember an old MMO. I found it on one of those directory sites in the 00s. 2d, top down birds eye perspective. Pixel art. I DO NOT think it was Tibia, because I remember it having animal taming and/or construction building as skills. It wasn't Runescape or Ultima Online. More indie than either of those, and I don't think it had the weird perspective of Tibia or UO. I believe the graphics were kind of more primitive, like unmoving sprites, but also more detailed (and mismatched) than Dransik, but maybe that's just memory brain.
>>12576767>Possibly not retro, but I distinctly remember a JRPG-type game where a woman says "My beauty...it is my sin." I only remember this because it was playing on a display at Walmart.It's a music game, not a JRPG, but that sounds like it might be Gregorio III from Gitaroo Man on PS2/PSP, who is not a woman, but a fruity man.>Beauty is a sin! OH GAAAAAWDhttps://youtu.be/AplnmCKbSnM?t=102
>>12576654Similar graphic style. I'll have to check some videos and look for that particular scene.>>12576754Definitely not since it was a walk around in an isometric overworld type game like the other two suggested above.Also, gross game. Why tf would anyone even make a game like this?
>>12576826Definitely not it. This was a hot femme fatale anime chick saying the phrase in a mournful manner.
>>12576723How did the kid on the right master the business photo smile at the age of literally two? I have to imagine he's made it far in life by now.
Platform nes game. You can transforn into animals with items. E.g. yellow item turns you in a scorpion.
>>12576770Second one here >>12576654
>>12576890Lack of autism>>12577162Ninja Crusaders?
>>12576295No, it was more pixelly and not as difficult.>>12576420Yeah, I guess I might have to do that one of these days
>>12576632Not that one either, the player character was quite small on the screen. URBAN is fun though, played that as well.
>>12576639I'm quite sure the torture dungeons in Dungeon keeper 1 and 2 have tables where bugs (one of your minions) can be whipped
Gamecube fighting game that I played with my baby sitter. I recall there being just a regular dog as a character
There was a motorcycle game on the PS2 my cousin had, I genuinely don't remember anything about it except that when you went out of bounds on the map it would launch you like a canon and you would ragdoll a thousand feet into the air back in bounds. We would pass the controller back and forth doing that for hours, it was more entertaining than actually playing the game.
>>12577306Only thing I can think of that sounds right is Bloody Roar, the characters can all transform into animals.
>>12577357MX Unleashed in Free Play mode does this when you go too far. Not to be confused with MX vs ATV Unleashed which was a different game.
>>12575818I asked about this a while ago and no one could figure it out. I was recommended and looked up a ton of games and none of them were it, but it was an NES side-scrolling shoot 'em up, you flew a spaceship and blasted enemies. The game was separated into different sections. You'd fly through a hatch at the end of one section and start the next. That's it. That's all I remember at this point. I wonder if I'm conflating memories with Metroid and some other game, but I don't think I even had Metroid back then.
>>12577409Sounds like Abadox, lil g
Oh boy the older I get the harder it is to try and remember so I apologise for what is essentially a fever dream with little to go on.It was a PC game circa Win 98/XP that my mum bought for me. I don't remember getting very far in it at all, but it was snowy (which really captivated me), and I reckon it was a point-and-click adventure game. I remember different colour orbs and maybe a dragon(?) but these are vague and I may be conflating two memories. There is also the chance that it is an edu-tainment title. I dunno, it was at least 20 years ago.I kinda have very little else to go off of I am sorry. Does anyone have any leads for me to follow up on?
>>12577462I don't think it was a Christmas game, and I'm somewhat adamant that it is not Treasure! Mathstorm.
>>12577447Added to my list, but nope. Goddammit, I wonder if the whole thing was just a fever dream... I had a serious case of chickenpox around that time.
>>12576723reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWm3xTSXXAcbut it doesn't really match
This thread made me remember One Must Fall. It was a DOS Boy COPE to superior arcade graphics and honestly, better game play on SNES games.
>>12576651He got a fuckin' fighting game if I remember right
>>12577409So a hatch like a door in Metroid? The scrolling was left to right and not vertical? Would this have been an especially early NES game, like Metroid was?
>>12577493indeedy he did
>>12575845>>12577287Meat Puppet or Abuse, maybe?
>>12577501>hatch like a door in MetroidI think so, but it's been so freaking long that I might be mistaken. You'd get to the end of the hallway, the path got a little thinner, you'd fly through and you'd appear in the next area.>left to rightThat's correct.>early NES gameI'm not sure when it was first released. I only managed to snag a NES with a fuckton of games from my cousin in the mid 90s. SNES and Genesis, too. I briefly considered that the game I was thinking of was on one of those consoles, but my little baby brain couldn't handle that many buttons at that point.>>12577493Fighter's History. Good shit if you're into Street Fighter.
>>12577357I did this in the Motorcross madness demo on the PC, released in '98. Maybe it was on the PS2 as well?>>12577712Thanks, but none of those. Meat puppet looks pretty cool though, haven't seen that one before. The game I'm thinking of looked a little bit similar to the indie game Butcher that released a few years ago (2016), but much more amateurish and no mouse-aiming. The player character was pretty small like in that game, and it was pixelly.
>>12578270Gemocide (1998), Hollow (1998), Zombie (1998), Project Paradise (1997), Damage: The Sadistic Butchering of Humanity (1996), Alien Rampage (1996), Liero (1998), MoleZ (1999?
>>12578332Thanks but it's none of those. I couldn't find anything regarding Hollow and Zombie though. Project Paradise looked cool. The game I'm thinking of had a view from the side, a sidescroller.
two games: a helicopter and a tank simulator, both which I played both around 1990 on DOS. and both had very crude, early 3D graphics.I remember next to nothing about the helicopter game. it was definitely NOT one of the popular attack chopper sims of the time like Apache or Gunship. It might have even been a civilian helicopter where you just had to fly from point A to B, but I really can't recall much else.The only specific thing that completely stuck with me about the tank game was a unique defensive weapon or feature: you could shoot or drop something that created a long, dark wall of smoke. It would fill out the entire width of the screen and just stay there for several minutes.
>>12577357That could be any game in the following series, based on Rainbow Studios' engine:>ATV Offroad Fury series>MX vs ATV series (including the pre-ATV MX Unleashed)Or on the off chance you're misremembering and it was on PC:>Motocross Madness seriesPic related is MX vs ATV Unleashed, but the launch effect is about the same in all of them.
>>12577462>>12577471One of the Super Solvers games maybe? They were the same company as Treasure! Mathstorm but had a dude in a coat with a big collar
I'm looking for a game where you fly a helicopter and you shoot something but I don't remember if it was helicopters or ground targets or both.It's side view, kind of looks like this but less plastic looking. Might've been full 2d, not this fake 3d.Might be freeware. It was for PC and played it in early 00s.
When I was little I played this game on my dad's Amiga. It was like a top down shooter. I remember you couldn't see much of the map at once and it would scroll with you as you ran around. The background/floor was I think a flat light gray. I don't remember there being any real floor textures. Around the map there were like boxes or pillars you could hide behind and different weapon power ups. You couldn't always see where the ai enemies were but their bullets would fly in from off screen. My favorite gun had rubber ball bullets that would bounce off the walls. This was probably around 1995.
>>12578473I think I've found it after posting. Tiger's Bane is something I've definitely played, but it somehow looks different than I remembered. Either there were two heli games I remember or this game just looked better in my head back then.
>>12578479Was it maybe Alien Breed, Cytron, D/Generatio?
>>12578479?
>>12578461Haha I played one of those games I guess, in demo form, back in 1999 or so. I cared nothing for whatever you were actually supposed to do in the game, but ramping around insanely and flying into the air was quite fun for one or two sessions
>>12578473Glory Days for GBA and Glory Days 2 for DS match your description, but you say it's on PC so nevermind
Just wanted to say someone is probably trying to remember G-NOME
Betrayal at Krondor
>>12578520Holy shit Anon, that's it. I couldn't remember what the characters looked like or the hud. I just had faint memories of it, but seeing that screenshot brought it all back. It was one of the first games I ever played. Thank you.
>>12577236That's the one! Thank you so much!!
>>12575818theres an old game that i only have a vague glimpse memory of. it was either on sega genesis or pc, it could not be on anything else. probably pre-1996, DEFINITELY pre-2000. it was kind of like "collapse", in that it was a bunch of colored blocks. the bigger the cluster of same color, the more points you get. i think the board started out full, and you just try to remove everything (unlike collapse, where it grows from the bottom up). if i remember right, it was just colored boxes, but the boxes were actually wooden crates or storage containers. like, they had a texture to them. i think i remember the framing of the screen to be red iron construction scaffolding, and i want to say snow on the ground, with like warehouses in the background. heres a shitty mockup in pic related.again, we only owned a sega genesis and a pc. we did have a snes, but we ONLY had rpg games and mario world, and eventually we had an n64, but only had like 4 games. sega we had sega channel and before that rented a variety of stuff, so it could have been anything. for our pc, it was a dark green acer (if that matters), and i know we had "after dark" screensavers and games, but i dont think it was one of those. it might have had jazz jackrabbit and maybe tyrian on it. i dont recall any other games that werent stock microsoft games. but my memory wants to say it was on the genesis.
>>12579310Sounds like one of the many many versions of SameGame.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlqLeGbijLYhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SameGameBut that does little to help you find which specific one it is. I don't know the Genesis library well, but I googled "samegame sega genesis" and only got references to Columns and to a few of what appeared to be homebrew projects.This is certainly the type of game you'd encounter on an old PC...
>>12579348yes, its something like that.
