The "Can't remember the name of this game" Thread

Enhasa

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Enhasa: 2008-12-03 06:53:33 pm

2008-12-03 05:54:59 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

I think you're talking about Spectre VR. I LOVED that game. Smiley

(yeah people like Kibumbi who think I only play console RPGs or something, or someone like Nate who must think I'm anti-Mac or something, I'm such an old-school computer gamer I played Mac games too, lol)

Edit: Essentia volunteered to manage this thread.

Essentia

2008-12-03 08:05:58 pm

Everything's better with Magitek

I just updated the first post. It looks like there's still one game that hasn't been identified.

Right now I've linked to all the queries and answers, but I'm open to suggestions as to how to manage this thread. I also changed the name of the thread so that hopefully it makes more sense.

DK64_MASTER

2008-12-03 10:22:07 pm

Game on my packard bell computer back in 1990...

You fly a plane left or right and drop bombs to destroy buildings.

Crude diagram below

Carcinogen

2008-12-03 10:27:04 pm

Packard Bell is fucking old sk00l, mang

Enhasa

2008-12-03 11:08:46 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

I doubt this is it since that description is so generic and could be just about anything, haha. Also you said plane while this has a chopper obviously. But it's certainly old enough. There was a game called Chopper 2, and I can't believe it but it has a wikipedia entry. Check it out and see if that's it.

The game is pretty bad but I remember one thing. There was a typo where it said "destory" and for some reason as a kid I just thought that was hilarious.

ninetigerr

2008-12-03 11:23:09 pm

Quote from Enhasa:

I think you're talking about Spectre VR. I LOVED that game. Smiley

(yeah people like Kibumbi who think I only play console RPGs or something, or someone like Nate who must think I'm anti-Mac or something, I'm such an old-school computer gamer I played Mac games too, lol)

Haha that's it! (goes onto YouTube to watch gameplay)

DK64_MASTER

2008-12-04 12:13:19 am

Quote from Enhasa:

I doubt this is it since that description is so generic and could be just about anything, haha. Also you said plane while this has a chopper obviously. But it's certainly old enough. There was a game called Chopper 2, and I can't believe it but it has a wikipedia entry. Check it out and see if that's it.

The game is pretty bad but I remember one thing. There was a typo where it said "destory" and for some reason as a kid I just thought that was hilarious.

I don't think that was it... I believe my diagram is pretty accurate (believe it or not). Also, it may not have been 1990, it could be plus or minus a few years. I remember playing breakout (arkanoid), aldo (donkey kong clone), egaroids (asteroids), on the machine too, and those games are late 80s games.

More about the game... It was very difficult for me, you could only go one direction, and had 1 chance to bomb everything. I would often crash into a ceiling/wall and not land a single it.

Actually, I wouldn't really mind if this game was not found, it was just nagging me a bit.

[quote="Enhasa"]
I doubt this is it since that description is so generic and could be just about anything, haha. Also you said plane while this has a chopper obviously. But it's certainly old enough. There was a game called Chopper 2, and I can't believe it but it has a [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopper_2]wikipedia entry[/url]. Check it out and see if that's it.

The game is pretty bad but I remember one thing. There was a typo where it said "destory" and for some reason as a kid I just thought that was hilarious.
[/quote]

I don't think that was it...  I believe my diagram is pretty accurate (believe it or not).  Also, it may not have been 1990, it could be plus or minus a few years.  I remember playing breakout (arkanoid), aldo (donkey kong clone), egaroids (asteroids),  on the machine too, and those games are late 80s games.

More about the game... It was very difficult for me, you could only go one direction, and had 1 chance to bomb everything.  I would often crash into a ceiling/wall and not land a single it.

Actually, I wouldn't really mind if this game was not found, it was just nagging me a bit.

DK64_MASTER

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DK64_MASTER: 2008-12-04 12:27:52 am

2008-12-04 12:22:26 am

Shit, googling for aldo gave me "ben and david ibach" who have (had) a company called abandonware...

http://www.xtcabandonware.com/game.php?letter=&sstring=&type=Flight&sort=rating&offset=0&id=233

This looks dramatically close to what I was looking for. It's not quite that, but it's damn close!

It's also a chopper game...

Also this one:
http://www.xtcabandonware.com/game.php?letter=&sstring=&type=Flight&sort=rating&offset=0&id=907

I'm just going to look on this list...
http://www.xtcabandonware.com/game.php?letter=&sstring=&type=Flight&sort=rating&sorder2=1&sorder=ASC&id=

I think I found it:

It's either Sopwith or Sopwith 2
http://www.xtcabandonware.com/game.php?letter=&sstring=&type=Flight&sort=rating&offset=0&id=858
http://www.xtcabandonware.com/game.php?letter=&sstring=&type=Flight&sort=rating&offset=0&id=859

Valican

2008-12-04 01:56:07 pm

I r run gudder!

There was a game I used to play on my old apple II where you were a detective and your character was the "@" symbol. You would go around into different rooms and type stuff like "examine floor" "examine bed" and you would find clues, and after a certain amount of time... the killer would stalk you and eventually trap you in a room where you would lose the game.

Anyone have any clue?

Molotov

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Molotov: 2008-12-04 04:53:44 pm

2008-12-04 02:57:48 pm

I already tried my luck at TAS Videos for this sort of thing, but I might as well try it here as well. Relevant links here and here, just to be sure. Since I found the first game I was looking for, I'll just paste the information about game two from one of the above posts:

- SNES/Genesis (not sure which).
- "Beat 'em up."
- Two playable characters?
- One of the characters was a woman in a rather skimpy white bikini (guess which one I played).
- The first level (?) was some sort of factory, with blueish metal pipes to walk on and a red background.

I wish I could remember more about it, but that's all I have about the game itself. Even the person who put it up on some site ages back didn't know what it was, so that says something. Come to think of it, I can only assume it was in Japanese for that very reason.

Here's hoping attempt two produces an answer. Smiley

[Edit]: I think I found it. The game is called "Gourmet Sentai Bara Yarou," and the screenshot on GameFAQs looks A LOT like what I remember. I'm going to test it out now, to see if I'm right.

[Edit 2]: That is definitely the game I was looking for. I answered my own question, so huzzah! It seems to be a Final Fight clone, for anybody who is curious. It also had three characters and the metal pipes weren't blue, so go go faulty memory. I'll put up a screenshot of the scene I was trying to describe later.

[Edit 3]: Screenshot.

I already tried my luck at TAS Videos for this sort of thing, but I might as well try it here as well. Relevant links [url=http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=169662#169662]here[/url] and [url=http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=169697#169697]here[/url], just to be sure. Since I found the first game I was looking for, I'll just paste the information about game two from one of the above posts:

- SNES/Genesis (not sure which).
- "Beat 'em up."
- Two playable characters?
- One of the characters was a woman in a rather skimpy white bikini (guess which one I played).
- The first level (?) was some sort of factory, with blueish metal pipes to walk on and a red background.

I wish I could remember more about it, but that's all I have about the game itself. Even the person who put it up on some site ages back didn't know what it was, so that says something. Come to think of it, I can only assume it was in Japanese for that very reason.

Here's hoping attempt two produces an answer. :)

[Edit]: I think I found it. The game is called "Gourmet Sentai Bara Yarou," and the [url=http://ui15.gamefaqs.com/2030/gfs_8822_2_1.jpg]screenshot[/url] on GameFAQs looks A LOT like what I remember. I'm going to test it out now, to see if I'm right.

[Edit 2]: That is definitely the game I was looking for. I answered my own question, so huzzah! It seems to be a Final Fight clone, for anybody who is curious. It also had three characters and the metal pipes weren't blue, so go go faulty memory. I'll put up a screenshot of the scene I was trying to describe later.

[Edit 3]: [url=http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v603/DarkKnightSparda/Temporary/gourmet.jpg]Screenshot.[/url]

reg

2008-12-04 04:23:11 pm

Ok, this one's been bothering me for awhile.

It's an old PC game I used to play in elementary school. It was a point and click adventure, with a Greek mythology setting, lots of green hills and dirt paths. You went around solving puzzles with items, I'm pretty sure they were all displayed in the bottom right hand of the screen like the Lucasarts adventure games. I also think at one point you had to push a cow (maybe the Cretan Bull?) into a lake. Some of the puzzles were prety challenging (I had the whole gifted program working on it at times, huddled around the 12in comp screen). I dont think we ever figured out what to do in Hades.

Any ideas?

bimanc

2008-12-05 12:17:14 am

Lay waste to everything...but I still love SDA!

reg:
Maybe this:
http://www.mythweb.com/teachers/learning/wrath/index.html

Enhasa

2008-12-05 12:38:07 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Valican: Was it text based or graphical? Well at any rate it kinda sounds like Mystery House. (I remember the game, but I had to look up the name for this one since it's so generic, although it was very influential and there's a lot of info.)

Breakdown

2008-12-05 02:03:11 am

Haters gonna hate

Alright, I got one. Game I rented once a long time ago.

SNES (I'm pretty sure, might have been Genesis) dungeon crawler style game with an overhead view. You're a lone hero, I think with a sword moving up (or maybe down) floor by floor. The only real identifiable feature I remember was how if you turned in a direction the dungeon moved around you as opposed to your character sprite turning (very jerky looking). Only up, down, left, and right movement, no diagonals.

Enhasa

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Enhasa: 2008-12-05 02:28:04 am

2008-12-05 02:16:45 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Brandish

I HATE this game, FWIW. Also there's a Japan-only sequel on SFC, as well as an "expert" version (like Ys 5 expert) for more masochism.

PS I was playing through some Magical Pop'n again because of this thread, and this game could be better in ways, but it is still soooo good. It's a travesty there isn't a TAS yet. Also played Do-re-mi Fantasy through again. I don't know why everyone loves Do-re-mi so much. (Ok, I do know why. It's because people see art in presentation instead of gameplay.) I like Magical Pop'n roughly a billionty times more than Do-re-mi.

Valican

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Valican: 2008-12-05 02:16:28 pm

2008-12-05 02:02:34 pm

I r run gudder!

Quote from Enhasa:

Valican: Was it text based or graphical? Well at any rate it kinda sounds like Mystery House. (I remember the game, but I had to look up the name for this one since it's so generic, although it was very influential and there's a lot of info.)

It was text based I believe. Everything was very basic but it was insanely fun because no two games were ever the same. Very different from the games at the time and was a challenge everytime you played it.

Its not mystery house. I will try and make a graphic and post it. It was on a 5.25 floppy disk. It might have been for the original macintosh now that I think of it... it was no color, just beeps for sounds, and you used the arrow keys to move your "@" symbol and used command line codes to examine things.

*EDIT* Here is a drawing of what the screen looked like. I only filled in one room with random things like the bed, table, lamp, etc...

Lag.Com

2008-12-05 02:32:34 pm

sda loyalist

Uh, there are many games in this genre called 'roguelikes', if you run down a list on wikipedia or something you'll probably find i t.

Valican

2008-12-05 08:12:05 pm

I r run gudder!

Nah, nothing that I could find that related to a "mystery solver" type game in that roguelike category.

Enhasa

2008-12-06 01:44:28 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Valican: I'm sticking with this one because I know I used to play a game just like this.

Well anyway I think the answer is Sleuth. Some more info is here. If it's not this game, then it's a ripoff, lol.

I'm surprised our hit rate so far is so good in this thread. We'll be down to just rooster's, and even that game I feel like I've seen it before (even if that's not true). Usually it seems that in these types of threads the success rate is something like 25-50%.

Valican

2008-12-06 06:04:45 pm

I r run gudder!

Quote from Enhasa:

Valican: I'm sticking with this one because I know I used to play a game just like this.

Well anyway I think the answer is Sleuth. Some more info is here. If it's not this game, then it's a ripoff, lol.

I'm surprised our hit rate so far is so good in this thread. We'll be down to just rooster's, and even that game I feel like I've seen it before (even if that's not true). Usually it seems that in these types of threads the success rate is something like 25-50%.

AHA!! Thats it! Now to find a download of that game! lol

Guest

2008-12-08 09:21:26 pm

I've been stumped for a while now. I vaguely remember playing a game who's protagonist was a robot/cyborg? You start outside of a snowy area, at the foot of some sort of castle with a somewhat circus theme. The thing that really stood out was that you could extend your legs infinitely upward, for minutes you literally keep climbing into the sky by just extending your legs. Any ideas?

X

mikwuyma

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mikwuyma: 2008-12-09 09:44:05 am

2008-12-09 09:32:02 am

destroy them with lazers

Inspector Gadget and the Circus of Fear?

Youtube video:

Guest

2008-12-09 11:48:25 am

Nope that's not it, I can see how you would think that after my crappy description though. I forgot to mention that I think its on the SNES. Its a 2d platformer like Super Mario Bros.

Also don't read to much into the word 'circus'. The castle just seemed to have some odd flags/paper strings flowing off of it, but it was predominately a blue brick castle.

moooh

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moooh: 2008-12-09 12:55:23 pm

2008-12-09 12:43:56 pm

Exoray

Quote from Guest:

I've been stumped for a while now. I vaguely remember playing a game who's protagonist was a robot/cyborg? You start outside of a snowy area, at the foot of some sort of castle with a somewhat circus theme. The thing that really stood out was that you could extend your legs infinitely upward, for minutes you literally keep climbing into the sky by just extending your legs. Any ideas?

You are looking for James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Pond_2

The protagonist is actually a fish with body armor!
Used to play that game on genesis but it seems it was available for SNES as well.
The castle is actually Santa's Toy Factory. Lot's of toys, so I can see where you got the clown from Smiley

Guest

2008-12-10 11:49:57 am

Heh, yup that must be it. Thanks Moooh, there was no way I could have guessed what this game was called without a screen shot behind it.