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

2012-03-05 10:32:21 am

Heavy Metal Powered

Quote from Khaos4wood:

All I can remember about this game is the opening area, it was a first person game and you started out in a graveyard and the first enemies you fought were little oozes or slimes. I think it was on the Genesis, but it may have been PS1 and I would have played it like 13-15 years ago when I was little. I asked my dad about it and he said he thought that you played as a skeleton, but I don't remember that part so I'm not sure. Any help would be great, it would be awesome to play this again Smiley

Sounds a little like MediEvil.
http://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/medievil

feasel

2012-03-05 12:30:00 pm

difficult and stupidly random

I'm trying to remember a game from the early 90's. I played it on Mac (don't know if there was a PC version). The gameplay was rogue-like, but it was a graphical game, not text-based.
It had a top-down view and the graphics were tile-based, in that you and the monsters moved 1 square at a time. The graphics were not very sophisticated (and the tile-size was fairly small -- maybe 10x10 pixels?). The game had many floors (i want to say several dozen?) connected by staircases. I think each floor was bigger than what would fit on the screen, so the screen scrolled as you explored the map (i think). Only the parts of the map you had visited were visible; so you had to actually visit all the rooms/corridors in order to see what's in them.
I can't remember the story, but it was either you being a scientist trying to escape from a lab full of mutated monsters or you being a prisoner trying to escape from a prison full of mutated monsters. It was set in the modern day (or perhaps near future) so the weapons and items and you would find were knives and guns and such. The first weapons you came across were a broken bottle and a rock.

I'm trying to remember a game from the early 90's.  I played it on Mac (don't know if there was a PC version).  The gameplay was rogue-like, but it was a graphical game, not text-based.
It had a top-down view and the graphics were tile-based, in that you and the monsters moved 1 square at a time.  The graphics were not very sophisticated (and the tile-size was fairly small -- maybe 10x10 pixels?).  The game had many floors (i want to say several dozen?) connected by staircases.  I think each floor was bigger than what would fit on the screen, so the screen scrolled as you explored the map (i think).  Only the parts of the map you had visited were visible; so you had to actually visit all the rooms/corridors in order to see what's in them.
I can't remember the story, but it was either you being a scientist trying to escape from a lab full of mutated monsters or you being a prisoner trying to escape from a prison full of mutated monsters.  It was set in the modern day (or perhaps near future) so the weapons and items and you would find were knives and guns and such.  The first weapons you came across were a broken bottle and a rock.

Exo

2012-03-05 12:53:34 pm

Sandbagging

@feasel: Was it mission thunderbolt?

feasel

2012-03-05 01:44:54 pm

difficult and stupidly random

Quote from Exo:

@feasel: Was it mission thunderbolt?

Oh my god yes.
Thank you; you are awesome.

(Wow I had forgotten how good the fighting/dying sound effects were.)

Exo

2012-03-05 01:46:18 pm

Sandbagging

Yeh those are..something haha.
I hope to see some mission thunderbolt on your stream in the near future ;P

Equinox

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2012-03-05 09:42:33 pm

Obsessicus Parrotus

I am trying to remember the exact name of an old Donkey Kong game for the original black and white gameboy. I can't remember if it came in a yellow cartridge or a grey one. Must have come out late 90s? I know its vague but I am looking for the specific name of it, it couldn't have just been 'Donkey Kong'. Both the playable characters as well as the playable animals were in it(forgive me I don't know their names). It had a snowman boss in I think named Black Ice or something?

doicm

2012-03-05 09:46:12 pm

Quote from Dumpsterknight:

I am trying to remember the exact name of an old Donkey Kong game for the original black and white gameboy. I can't remember if it came in a yellow cartridge or a grey one. Must have come out late 90s? I know its vague but I am looking for the specific name of it, it couldn't have just been 'Donkey Kong'. Both the playable characters as well as the playable animals were in it(forgive me I don't know their names). It had a snowman boss in I think named Black Ice or something?

I know of Donkey Kong Land that had a yellow cartridge with the animals and both Donkey and Diddy Kong. However, I'm not sure of the snowman boss.

After further research, Donkey Kong Land III had "Black Ice" in it. Does that help?

Equinox

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2012-03-05 09:47:49 pm

Obsessicus Parrotus

It does help a bit, thanks, I am trying to write down every single game I have ever completed...its interesting to see how many I have. Tongue

Maybe wikipedia can help me pinpoint it now, it was too vague to do that before. I don't think I ever got the hidden area at the end though, missed an OK coin somewhere.

After some investigation "Donkey Kong Land III" is in fact it thank you so much.

Yagamoth

2012-04-05 09:24:02 am

INTJ

So... From time to time I remember one specific game from my childhood I played only for a very short amount of time, but I couldn't find anything about it so far. Maybe someone here knows? ^^

- It's a very basic DOS game
- The view is from the top (think of FF 1 perspective)
- It's tile based (1 arrow press moved 1 tile)
- You transition from room to room, no scrolling, but you could choose different directions explore and come back (think of Lolo 2)
- It's sort of a Metroidvania style, where you at some point collected an item which lets you move red-ish squares which would normally have killed you
- It's NOT with ASCII-Symbols
- There are red-ish "squares" which at the beginning would kill you if you step on them, but also monsters can be lured into them. I 'think' these squares vanish once a monster dies in them

Maybe? ^^..

Tiberius

2012-04-05 10:51:03 am

Make it so.

My housemate has a game he'd like to remember so I offered to stick it on here for him...

It's a 2d platformer, he thinks it's Playstation although might be something else of that era.
You play a young boy, transitions from screen to screen rather than scrolling.
Enemies are shadows, at the start you can only dodge them but later you get a weapon, some kind of laser type thing?
No health bar or anything, one touch of an enemy is death.

He says that's all he can remember, hope you guys can help.

moooh

2012-04-05 11:18:26 am

Exoray

Quote from Tiberius:

My housemate has a game he'd like to remember so I offered to stick it on here for him...

It's a 2d platformer, he thinks it's Playstation although might be something else of that era.
You play a young boy, transitions from screen to screen rather than scrolling.
Enemies are shadows, at the start you can only dodge them but later you get a weapon, some kind of laser type thing?
No health bar or anything, one touch of an enemy is death.

He says that's all he can remember, hope you guys can help.

This sounds just like Heart of Darkness

Tiberius

2012-04-05 11:51:37 am

Make it so.

Quote from moooh:

This sounds just like Heart of Darkness

Got it in one, he's all excited now. Cheers moooh!

Renokye

2012-04-05 11:47:54 pm

Touhou anyone? :D

I can't for the life of me remember the name of an old learning game for the Mac. I used to play it to death when I was a kid. I remember going back and forth through different rooms of a castle and finding a friendly talking spider that would ask questions like "How would you spell this word when I sound it out for you?" or something to that effect. Yes, there was voice acting. I think the guy that was trying to teach you and teach the spider was a wizard. You had to go around to every room in the castle to find everything in order to figure out where a mother dragon's egg is. After you find it, it appears in a mirror and then the game ends.
Any ideas?

Tompa

2012-04-19 04:06:01 am

A while ago I was searching for a PC puzzle game (page 18). I have now found the game! It is called Street Shuffle and can be downloaded from here: http://www.download-central.ws/Win16/Games/S/Street-Shuffle/

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2012-05-03 05:58:52 am

There was this game I played as a child on my dads computer (windows 95 I'm pretty sure). You were some kind of cave man or at least looked like one and you were supposed to solve puzzles in order to get to your raft and then get to the next levels by going further down the stream. Unfortunately I can't really provide more details other than it being an overhead view and with basic obstacles such as rocks and planks on a beach. You could move certain items I think but it mostly involved pressing buttons in order to get to the other side of the stream.

It's been bugging me for years :p.

S.

2012-05-03 04:26:18 pm

Looking for a top down view racegame.

You drove a toycar on a table. Ramps, obstacles etc were created using everyday objects. (For example, a ruler was used to create a ramp)

bangerra

2012-05-03 04:38:26 pm

Quote from S.Eagle:

Looking for a top down view racegame.

You drove a toycar on a table. Ramps, obstacles etc were created using everyday objects. (For example, a ruler was used to create a ramp)

Micro Machines (available on every single console you can imagine)

Sillysatan

2012-05-03 11:15:20 pm

Quote from Tompa:

I'm looking for an old PC-game from the 90s that my brothers and I played a long time ago.
It was a puzzle taxi game. At the beginning of every level, someone shouted "Taxi!", a nice little tune starts and the taxi sets off. What you have to do is to fix the road so that the taxi can finish to the exit.
While it's driving, you lose gas so you have to finish the level before it runs out. After every level you can buy more gas as well as upgrades for your car, such as better tires.

The first level looks something like this:

You have to move around the bricks so the taxi can reach the exit. In some levels, you put the road pieces on the squares yourself.

I believe it was a freeware/shareware game we got from "PC hemma" a Swedish computer magazine. The game itself wasn't Swedish though. The gas was measured in gallons for example and the text was in English. So it was most likely released somewhere else as well.

Help! Cheesy

I don't know if you're still looking for the game, but is it Taxi Run?
http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/175/Taxi_Run.html

[quote="Tompa"]I'm looking for an old PC-game from the 90s that my brothers and I played a long time ago. 
It was a puzzle taxi game. At the beginning of every level, someone shouted "Taxi!", a nice little tune starts and the taxi sets off. What you have to do is to fix the road so that the taxi can finish to the exit.
While it's driving, you lose gas so you have to finish the level before it runs out. After every level you can buy more gas as well as upgrades for your car, such as better tires.

The first level looks something like this:

You have to move around the bricks so the taxi can reach the exit. In some levels, you put the road pieces on the squares yourself.

I believe it was a freeware/shareware game we got from "PC hemma" a Swedish computer magazine. The game itself wasn't Swedish though. The gas was measured in gallons for example and the text was in English. So it was most likely released somewhere else as well.

Help! :D[/quote]

I don't know if you're still looking for the game, but is it Taxi Run?
http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/175/Taxi_Run.html

Tompa

2012-05-03 11:28:55 pm

Silly: Look four posts above you ;).

DarkBluesZX

2012-05-04 07:24:41 pm

Sounds like Maverick talk to me.

Hey Does anyone remember that game for the PS1 Where i was A fighting game But You played as samurai's. the graphics were terrible but Were managable. The fighting style was like soul caliber except eveyone had a sword. But know one had special powers

feasel

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2012-05-04 09:04:17 pm

difficult and stupidly random

Could it be Bushido Blade? Might also be Soul Blade or Battle Arena Toshinden, tho i think that's less likely.

Equinox

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2012-05-05 01:55:24 am

Obsessicus Parrotus

Anyone remember a game for the PS1 where you control a ship with various weapons. Its kind of cartoony and its a 2D scroller in a 3D environment(floating around in shallow water mostly. Tbh it felt kind of like I was playing a sparx level in spyro year of the dragon, same exact setup, the rest of the game is very cloudy. I remember some foggy areas and it was an overhead view, you could see much of the surrounding area. I don't remember the name of it for the life of me or who made it.

Warepire

2012-05-05 12:56:33 pm

Heavy Metal Powered

Quote from Dumpsterknight:

Anyone remember a game for the PS1 where you control a ship with various weapons. Its kind of cartoony and its a 2D scroller in a 3D environment(floating around in shallow water mostly. Tbh it felt kind of like I was playing a sparx level in spyro year of the dragon, same exact setup, the rest of the game is very cloudy. I remember some foggy areas and it was an overhead view, you could see much of the surrounding area. I don't remember the name of it for the life of me or who made it.

Sounds to me like Overboard! or Shipwreckers! (Same game, released under 2 titles)

Maybe these screenshots can jog your memory: http://www.mobygames.com/game/shipwreckers/screenshots

Equinox

2012-05-06 07:48:36 am

Obsessicus Parrotus

Hahaha you're right! Made by Pygnosis right? Same people who produced Rascal which unfortunately makes me wonder if it was any good or not. Wink

Thanks!

TheVoid

2012-05-06 08:18:38 am

I remember playing that game Shipwreckers!, good times. So thanks from me as well for reminding Smiley