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

moooh

2009-09-14 12:47:17 am

Exoray

Quote from Enterim:

Did a Sam and Max game begin that way? I don't remember.

Nope, none did.

n00byn4t3r

2009-09-27 06:33:42 pm

There are 2, i both remember them only vaguely.

#1: Some shooter where you are in the forest with your team (your team mates do nothing except for standing still) and you had to do something, and if your pressed some kinda button on your keyboard (F or Y or something) the world changed, the environment changed your teamates disappeared you got a different weapon etc....
It was probably windows 98, but I'm not sure because i never had this game myself an uncle of mine had it.

#2: A side scrolling shooter where you where some sort of ship with very power full cannon's and you had to complete levels i don't remember if there was any bosses or not.
You could upgrade your ship after every level with the "money" you got from killing.
It was a DOS game.

Shuda51

2009-09-27 06:56:33 pm

The Running Failure

I know i had one on the n64 where you played as some green haired girl. It was some sort of platforming thing...Also, your girl could pick up things and bash them against the ground.

There was another one where you had to destroy buildings so that this red truck or something wouldn't get hurt. I remember it had a level where you had to make a landing strip for a space ship, and you could actually watch the ship on it's approach.

mikwuyma

2009-09-27 06:59:23 pm

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Shuda51: The first game is Mischief Makers.

The second game sounds kind of like Blast Corps, but I'm not sure. You can try watching one of the runs on SDA.

VorpalEdge

2009-09-27 07:48:54 pm

welcome to the machine

Mike's correct. The first is probably Mischief Makers (best game on the n64), and the second is, beyond a shadow of a doubt, Blast Corps.

Enhasa

Edit history:

Enhasa: 2009-09-28 02:06:16 am

2009-09-28 01:49:22 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Hey guys, I think the first game is Mischief Makers and the second game is Blast Corps!! Just maybe!!!

Also noob: I think you can do better than that if you try harder. Smiley

Edit: I'm gonna say Stargunner for no real reason for the 2nd one though.

n00byn4t3r

2009-09-29 08:41:44 am

Quote from Enhasa:

Edit: I'm gonna say Stargunner for no real reason for the 2nd one though.

Thats probably it, thanks!!!

Captain_Blue

2009-09-29 08:47:45 am

Una~

Noob: I'm going to take an extremely wild guess and say Tyrian for your second game. It had a shop system and was an old game, possibly could've been on DOS.

There was this one PS1 game I played...character could throw his sword and you'd get powers from monsters by doing it. I know one of the powers was telekinetic bullets.

ZenicReverie

2009-09-29 11:54:55 am

Waiting hurts my soul...

Quote from Captain_Blue:

There was this one PS1 game I played...character could throw his sword and you'd get powers from monsters by doing it. I know one of the powers was telekinetic bullets.

Brave Fencer Musashi

Enhasa

2009-09-29 02:56:32 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Captain Blue: Tyrian is topdown, not sidescrolling. Stargunner is Apogee so it's pretty famous. To be honest, in retrospect, side-scrolling shooter with shop for DOS isn't all that bad of a description. Most stuff like Raptor, Tyrian, Xenon were vertically scrolling.

noob could still be clearer with the first one though. By shooter you mean FPS? And what is "do something"? Also try to describe the world-changing better. I'm sorry though, I'm way more useless for Windows games than DOS and console.

I'm thinking of taking this thread over since it hasn't been updated in forever. I know Essentia would say ok, she is exceedingly nice after all. Of course, that probably means too nice to ask for someone else to take it over too...

Also, it might as well get a sticky I guess.

FinalDragoon

2009-09-30 09:48:41 am

There was this PC spaceship shooter, mid 90's release, I think it used FMV cutscenes. Anyway, the first level was more or less a tutorial inside a simulator, and after completing it a human looking alien comes down and requests you join them in space. Why? Well it's because you are their prince and you have been missing for several years. I could never get beyond the 3rd or 4th level because it got ridiculously hard.

Any help in remembering this title would be great.

ColonelFatso

2009-09-30 05:39:14 pm

That almost sounds like a Wing Commander game to me except for the human-looking alien (Kilrathi != human-looking lol). Maybe Privateer?

flicky

2009-09-30 07:03:34 pm

$15 per rant/allegory

Quote from ChaoticSlinky:

I have a question for identifying a game... I have no idea why but a random flashback appeared in my head recently of a game that I can ONLY remember the opening cinematic of. I don't remember who the characters were, but you're outside of a pizza place and I suppose the good guy gets kidnapped and there is a 'Closed until further notice' sign placed on the storefront. The bad guy escapes through an elevator in the phone booth and you follow him... That's where my memory ends. My friend said he had a vague memory of a game like that but also remembered nothing. Can anyone here remember and help me out?

I'm sure it's not, but that reminds me of the Lego Island openings.

Pendrokar

2009-10-05 06:54:48 am

I wanted to post a photo where I play one RTS game(my father photographed me while I wasn't looking), where it is partly visible on the monitor. But I can't find that photo. I was 10-12 years old at that time so there are only a few things I remember about it or not sure if they were there.

PC - RTS (kinda Sci-Fi. AFAIK wasn't based on Earth.)
Date: 1995<->2000

3D rendered units.(similar to Netstorm.)
Side bar on the left and one on top.
Dune 2 style. So nothing too unique.

AFAIK money counted upwards and downwards like in Dune 2. Money bar was somewhere on the top left corner of the screen.
There was water but no water units. Or I just wasn't that far in the campaign.

That is all I remember from the photo. All else I can say is which games IT WEREN'T:
C&C's; Dark Colony; Dark Reign; Dominion; KKND; Netstorm; Starcraft;

I'll post the photo when I find and scan it!

Shuda51

2009-10-05 02:42:37 pm

The Running Failure

For some reason, I'm thinking Total Annihilation....but I'm not sure. Please upload the photo, that really would help when you find it.

Enhasa

2009-10-06 01:02:13 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Throwing out there (or you could just go to wikipedia like I did, lol):

Star Command
Earth 2140
Enemy Nations
Metal Fatigue
The Tone Rebellion
Total Annihilation (you would probably know if it was this game though)

I screened out most of them. I had no idea this many of these games existed. Same with the Star Control type of games.

Pendrokar

2009-10-06 06:50:39 am

Damn im play Spring and Supreme Commander, and forgot to add TA to the list.

But no none of those(played Metal Fatigue => it also isn't Warzone 2100!). Although that Tone Rebellion does have some of the flavor that the game I'm looking for. Also Star Command is made in 1988.

Have to search harder for that photo. Grin

neskamikaze

2009-10-06 07:46:38 am

Quote from Flicky:

Quote from ChaoticSlinky:

I have a question for identifying a game... I have no idea why but a random flashback appeared in my head recently of a game that I can ONLY remember the opening cinematic of. I don't remember who the characters were, but you're outside of a pizza place and I suppose the good guy gets kidnapped and there is a 'Closed until further notice' sign placed on the storefront. The bad guy escapes through an elevator in the phone booth and you follow him... That's where my memory ends. My friend said he had a vague memory of a game like that but also remembered nothing. Can anyone here remember and help me out?

I'm sure it's not, but that reminds me of the Lego Island openings.

No, on Lego Island the bad guy escapes because he tricks your character (can't remember what his name was, maybe Pepper?) into bringing him a pizza which he uses to bust himself out of jail somehow.

Pendrokar

2009-10-06 03:19:56 pm

Yuuhuu I found the photo. Not the game though, even after going through strategy games in gamespot and underdogs(95->00). Gonna scan it tomorrow!

I was wrong about a top bar though. There is only a side bar. Map is in a circular frame. Still hard to see because I have a lightbulb attached to the top of the case. You'll see...

Captain_Blue

2009-10-06 03:53:12 pm

Una~

There was this NES game I played...had the same isometric view as Paperboy, but you were rollerblading. There were cracks and holes in the streets, and if I remember correctly, the cartridge art was two yellow rollerskates with a pink background. I know for sure the rollerblades were on the cartridge sticker, though.

ColonelFatso

2009-10-06 04:12:27 pm

Quote from Pendrokar:

Yuuhuu I found the photo. Not the game though, even after going through strategy games in gamespot and underdogs(95->00). Gonna scan it tomorrow!

I was wrong about a top bar though. There is only a side bar. Map is in a circular frame. Still hard to see because I have a lightbulb attached to the top of the case. You'll see...

Are you SURE the main gameplay was Dune 2-esque or did you just infer it from the photo?

bmn

2009-10-06 06:35:06 pm

There was a PC game I remember as a shareware version in a magazine CD around '93 or so. It was a platformer set in areas like a graveyard, underground etc, where you played as a kid with (I'm not sure about this bit) a slingshot as a weapon. It was quite a cartoony game, things like picking up stuff like fruit floating in the air etc.

Enhasa

2009-10-06 09:18:15 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Pendrokar: Not the original Star Command, some sequel or something

Captain Blue: Rollerblade Racer

bmn: Commander Keen series, stupendously popular. Check PC board, we have runs for most of the games and they're good watches because they're only a couple minutes long each. BTW if I had to guess on a particular game, it would be 4, that one's really popular in particular.

Pendrokar

2009-10-07 01:33:16 am

Even though my eldest brother could not determine the game from the photo. My other brother could. It was Gene Wars(1996)!

Thanks for the help anyways!

moooh

2009-10-07 05:04:54 am

Exoray

Quote from bmn:

There was a PC game I remember as a shareware version in a magazine CD around '93 or so. It was a platformer set in areas like a graveyard, underground etc, where you played as a kid with (I'm not sure about this bit) a slingshot as a weapon. It was quite a cartoony game, things like picking up stuff like fruit floating in the air etc.

Quote from Enhasa:

bmn: Commander Keen series, stupendously popular. Check PC board, we have runs for most of the games and they're good watches because they're only a couple minutes long each. BTW if I had to guess on a particular game, it would be 4, that one's really popular in particular.

It doesn't sound entirely like Commander Keen as there are only a few things the description has in common with the game.

Things speaking for:
Shareware game
Floating fruit/food
Kid in cartoonish world

Things against:
There's no slingshot in any of the Keen games, he uses a Raygun (although bmn wasn't sure about this, there's still quite a big difference between the weapon types).
From what I can remember, there's no graveyard in any of the keen games.
Very few areas are set in places that could be deemed "underground". He would probably remember some other scenery if it was Keen.

I don't have any suggestions for another game atm.

[quote="bmn"]
There was a PC game I remember as a shareware version in a magazine CD around '93 or so. It was a platformer set in areas like a graveyard, underground etc, where you played as a kid with (I'm not sure about this bit) a slingshot as a weapon. It was quite a cartoony game, things like picking up stuff like fruit floating in the air etc.
[/quote]

[quote="Enhasa"]
bmn: Commander Keen series, stupendously popular. Check PC board, we have runs for most of the games and they're good watches because they're only a couple minutes long each. BTW if I had to guess on a particular game, it would be 4, that one's really popular in particular.
[/quote]

It doesn't sound entirely like Commander Keen as there are only a few things the description has in common with the game.

[b]Things speaking for:[/b]
Shareware game
Floating fruit/food
Kid in cartoonish world

[b]Things against:[/b]
There's no slingshot in any of the Keen games, he uses a Raygun (although bmn wasn't sure about this, there's still quite a big difference between the weapon types).
From what I can remember, there's no graveyard in any of the keen games.
Very few areas are set in places that could be deemed "underground". He would probably remember some other scenery if it was Keen.

I don't have any suggestions for another game atm.