Games you can't remember the title of.

[Dason]

* Background : You're on a boat, trying to kill the other people on the boat.
Year: 2000-2005 I think
* Perspective: First person maybe, I've never played it
* Art style: fairly realistic, I think I remember Titanic-y looking things
* Environment: It's on a boat
* Mood: gloomy I think.
* Genre: steath
* Gameplay: Murder in the dark on a boat

Sorry I don't have much info, all I really remember from reviews is the gameplay aspect.

The Ship?

[Menacing Spike]

* Gameplay: Murder in the dark on a boat

Boatmurdered?
Sorry.

fsk

[llamanaru]

Dason, that's it. Thank you!

Spike... I think you meant boatmurdered...With a "t"...

[rigwarl]

* Background : You are a wizard in the MTG (Magic: The Gathering) world.
Year: my best guess, probably around 1995-2000
* Perspective: Third person, similar to Age of Empires except you only have 1 character
* Art style: As realistic as possible but its an old game
* Environment: Each one of the 5 colors had their own environment, there were dungeons too
* Mood: Adventurous
* Genre: Card game with RPG elements
* Gameplay: You wander around and duel other people. When you win you get one of their cards, and vice versa.

[llamanaru]

Is it Magic: The Gathering - Battlegrounds? For some reason linking to wikipedia isn't working for me.

That should do it. I think. -ST

[AvatarIII]

* Background: On PC, Point and Click adventure, Set on Mars for the most part (possibly Sierra?)
* Year: Early 90's, I expect it was pre-CD era,
* Perspective: 2D
* Art style: as realistic looking as they could get at the time, some dialogue sequences were recorded as very low quality live action video clips.
* Environment: On Mars, in the Future, kind of like Total Recall
* Mood: pretty dark, kind of Detective "Noir"
* Genre: Point and Click Adventure, Sci Fi, Detective
* Gameplay: Point and click, puzzle solving, there may have been basic combat, I definately remember having a gun,

[Felstaff]

Detective? Noir? Mars? Sounds like a Tex Murphy game to me!

Martian Memorandum?

[AvatarIII]

Detective? Noir? Mars? Sounds like a Tex Murphy game to me!

Martian Memorandum?

that's it, the name rings massive bells, so it's probably it, just waiting for the vid to buffer so i can confirm, thanks Felstaff!

edit: now the video has loaded beyind the really long title sequence, i can confirm that is definately it! now i just need to see if i can actually get hold of it again.

[Jorpho]

That would be on GOG.com, along with all the other Tex Murphy games.

[rigwarl]

* Background : You are a wizard in the MTG (Magic: The Gathering) world.
Year: my best guess, probably around 1995-2000
* Perspective: Third person, similar to Age of Empires except you only have 1 character
* Art style: As realistic as possible but its an old game
* Environment: Each one of the 5 colors had their own environment, there were dungeons too
* Mood: Adventurous
* Genre: Card game with RPG elements
* Gameplay: You wander around and duel other people. When you win you get one of their cards, and vice versa.

It's not battlegrounds, sorry I should have specified it is a PC game, and dueling other NPC's consists of actually playing the card game. There is a final boss who has an really awful 5 color deck but to make up for it he starts with 120 life or something like that.The card set used is pretty old (4th Edition or older). I'm fairly certain that the game is older than the Xbox as well.

EDIT: Thanks llamanaru and ST for the using wikipedia idea, the game I was looking for is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering_(MicroProse)

[Thirty-one]

* Year: Played it in the early nineties, would guess it was made in the late eighties.
* Perspective: 2D, side view.
* Art style: "Realistic", whatever that means for that time.
* Environment: First level was sort of desert-y, with some (dark green?) tents. You ran about with a knife, to start with, could hide in the tents, I think, and looked for guns and grenades.
* Mood: Mood was like any other Rambo-ish game, probably.
* Genre: Single player, action, I would say.
* Gameplay: You ran around in your army-like clothes, looking for weapons so you could take out anything that looked to be alive. People would hide in windows up in buildings, behind oil drums and probably other stuff too. They were to be killed. As far as I can remember, you could shoot straight ahead, up to both sides and straight up. Not sure if you could crouch or go prone.

Oh, I believe you were helicoptered in for every mission, if that helps.


Sorry if this one's been done a few times already.

[Felstaff]

Could be one of about 40 games, from Metal Slug to Operation Wolf (I know, that's an FPS on rails) to Bionic Commando to Rambo III to Army Moves to GunStar to ...

...Which platform was it on?

[Thirty-one]

Could be one of about 40 games, from Metal Slug to Operation Wolf (I know, that's an FPS on rails) to Bionic Commando to Rambo III to Army Moves to GunStar to ...

...Which platform was it on?

Oh, I somehow left out that, I played it on an Amiga. And I know it's not much to go on, and that it's a generic descripton of a generic game.

Nothing like Operation Wolf, not all that similar to Metal slug either, it was much slower, you had "real" weapons and your shots didn't cover the angles between "Straight ahead", +/- 45 degrees and up.

[Felstaff]

Rush'n Attack. (for NES. The Amiga version had much better graphics)

My neighbour pirated it for us, but it never worked (like 75% of copied floppies we got), so I only played it round theirs. It was called 'Green Beret' over here. I like that title better.

[Thirty-one]

I actually watched a video for Rush'n Attack yesterday, which is what reminded me of this game It isn't this one though, though I played this too. Still too fast. It wasn't so much running as brisk walking, if I recall correctly.

As a sidenote, I did horribly at Rush'n Attack. Never got the timing right with the people catching up.

[Felstaff]

Probably why; I'm getting it mixed up with another game, too. I played it on a friend's Amstrad, rather than my Amiga. Now I'm going through an Amiga database trying to find out what game I'm thinking of. It might be the same one.

Edit: man, the only other warfare-based sidescroller that looks similar I can think of is Predator. You get dropped off by Ze Choppuh at the start, but you don't have a knife, there's definitely the standard machine gun + grenades combo.

Edit 2: I got it! (My game at least) - 'twas Fire Force!



I'mma try and find this and play it when I get home. Tee hee. I remember my mum came in just at a moment where you can sneak up behind a soldier and slit his throat and said "I don't think you should be playing these types of game, Timothy"

[samthetrue]

Hello all...


So I'm looking for a caveman game. I personally can't remember much, other then wandering around searching for water. You could craft flint into hatchets and spears.

In my searches, I found someone else looking for the game, and they described it quite accurately, as follows:

I'm looking for a game I played 10-15 years ago, on either Windows 95 or 98. It came on one of those "500 games on one disk" things you used to get for 10 bucks at Wal-Mart.

Basically you were a Caveman that got sent away from the tribe with some Jerky, A water skin, and some flint or something. You made Hatchets and Spears (Although the game called the spear aseigi or something.) and more or less wandered around fighting tigers and looking for water.

I remember it because it costed like 10 bucks and I couldn't get my parents to spring for the registration so I could play the whole thing. Pretty sure it's gonna be impossible to find, and come to think of it, it might have been Windows 3.1 I'd still like to find it again though if anyone can remember it.

I honestly don't remember it that well. It was for the PC, and I only had the trial version. I want to find it again because I never got the satisfaction of doing well at it, and it has bugged me for years.

Does anyone know this game?

[SecondTalon]

I know it's not your description that you quoted, but.. 10-15 years ago relative to what? Windows 95 was 15 years ago, so if the game was on 3.1, that'd make it closer to 15-20 years ago. Even if we put it on 95 with the variance around that, it's still 17-13 years ago.

I only ask because.. it's somewhat important, as there was a transition in there that we need to know if it matters - ie DOS games were basically dead by 98.

All that said - first or third person?

[Thirty-one]

Probably why; I'm getting it mixed up with another game, too. I played it on a friend's Amstrad, rather than my Amiga. Now I'm going through an Amiga database trying to find out what game I'm thinking of. It might be the same one.

Edit: man, the only other warfare-based sidescroller that looks similar I can think of is Predator. You get dropped off by Ze Choppuh at the start, but you don't have a knife, there's definitely the standard machine gun + grenades combo.

Edit 2: I got it! (My game at least) - 'twas Fire Force!



I'mma try and find this and play it when I get home. Tee hee. I remember my mum came in just at a moment where you can sneak up behind a soldier and slit his throat and said "I don't think you should be playing these types of game, Timothy"

Awesome work!
Step 2, finding an emulator. Thanks for your help

[samthetrue]

To clarify my earlier response:

It was a first person viewpoint for the main map and travel.

I played it around 2002 on a win 2000, but I was savvy enough to use DOSBOX back then so who knows...

After about twelve hours of searching, I came up with a possible name for my own query... Caveman 1.3 by Rockland Software Productions

I can't actually tell if this is the same game. It has a similar appearance. Unfortunately this game was only available from the creator's website, which has since been replaced by a place holder website. I can't find any place to download it to confirm that it is that game, but it seems to fit...

http://caveman.downloadaces.com/

Any suggestions on how to confirm this is it? I'd bet that it is... but until I can confirm it who knows...

[Jorpho]

Permit me to rock your world:
http://liveweb.waybackmachine.org/http: ... daces.com/

You can't always get files that way, mind you, but you're in luck!
http://replay.waybackmachine.org/201104 ... man/cm.exe

[isauteikisa]

Arcade cabinet. Two... levers, I guess? One colored red, one colored blue, with horizontal motion? It was a collection of minigame events leading up to some final game. I can't for the life of me remember what the hell that thing was called. Very cartoonish, if I remember correctly. This probably would have come out 8-10 years ago.

[Jorpho]

Hmm, gotta be one of Konami's "Champ" games. Gachaga Champ, maybe?
http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=582&gid=906#906

[lengthmustbe]

First post for me too. Found this thread through Google : "top down" tank missile jungle game "level editor"
Excellent thread, mostly because of the "game description template" I guess.

Background: I played this game in DOS. I think it was pre-win95. The thing I remember is that it was launched by typing "game" at the dos prompt. I think it was bundled with another gamed called "Trolls", but I'm not sure. Basically you were plaing some tank or hovercraft, moving in only 4 directions, avoiding roaming worms, and soemtimes grabbing missiles to shoot green walls (gray walls were not shootable)
Year: Early to mid 90s
Perspective: 2D top down view
Art style: graphics were good (in my memory...), 2D sprites, very gray and metalic.
Environment: Worms were scary. When resting, they looked like just a circle (top down view), but as soon as they could move in any one direction, they started following the left-hand or right-hand wall. I think there were keys, or color cards to open doors. Missiles could shoot worms, and jungle walls, but you had to grab one missile, and then fire it. I think missiles were directional, I mean, if you came across a north-firing missile, you could only fire north.
Mood: can't tell anything
Genre: I'd say half-arcade, half-puzzle
Gameplay: action, keyboard, full-tile movement

Thanks in advance !

[Menacing Spike]

I'm fairly certain it's S.C.OUT, by Kalisto. Awesome game, by the way.

[lengthmustbe]

Ooooh thanks, and congrats !!
S C OUT, Star Clean Out ! Quite good indeed for 1992

[Bufo_periglenes]

There are two, and I fear I can give good descriptions of neither. (I hope. )

Mystery game the first:
* Background: It was on an old (pre-iMac) Macintosh desktop computer.
* Year: I played it in the mid 1990s.
* Perspective: 2-dimensional, sort of tile-based.
* Art style: Very simple, but typical, I think, computer graphics for the time period.
* Environment: A grid of nodes with abstract obstacles.
* Mood: Not really any mood of which to speak.
* Genre: Strategy, I suppose, or puzzle-based.
* Gameplay: (As best I can recall.) You controlled a stick which swung between nodes (these could be different colors). The idea was to get from one part of a grid of these nodes to another, and the grid could contain obstacles (bad squares, electrical fields, things like that--I think.) Keyboard and/or mouse controls (computer game). Single-player. I seem to remember levels of increasing difficulty.

Mystery game the second:
* Background: On the internet, in a flash or javascript window. The way the little character one controlled moved sticks out to me: he jumped around in a more dynamically interesting way than one usually gets in flash games.
* Year: If I remember my summer camps correctly, it was in 2005.
* Perspective: 2-dimensional; one controlled a stick figure.
* Art style: Simple lines, some color. The evil eye (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_eye) may have made an appearance, or maybe not. (I distantly, vaguely, and therefore unreliably associate it with this little game.)
* Environment: You had to get past obstacles to a goal. There were two-dimensional rocks you could jump onto and off of, or swing yourself around.
* Mood: I don't remember much about the mood; there may not have been much to remember.
* Genre: Single player; strategy/adventure/time-wasting flash thing on internet.
* Gameplay: There were levels, and I think the arrow keys and some other keys were used to move. The stick figure man could jump, like I've said, but his motion was fluid and he was able to grab onto things and swing, again, unsually fluidly for a game like this.

Pictures!

A drawing which may help.

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Tangenitally related, is there a similar thread to this one for blogs of which one has forgotten the name?

[TaintedDeity]

The second one could be any of the Fancy Pants adventure games or N

I'm not sure when they were released, but they may be right.

[Bufo_periglenes]

The second one could be any of the Fancy Pants adventure games or N

I'm not sure when they were released, but they may be right.

TaintedDeity: Yes! The game was N. Thank you thank you thank you.

[TaintedDeity]

I think that's the first one of these I've guessed!
I knew those hours playing flash games would pay off at some point!

[Jorpho]

Don't forget to check out N+ for consoles.

There are two, and I fear I can give good descriptions of neither. (I hope. )

Mystery game the first:
* Background: It was on an old (pre-iMac) Macintosh desktop computer.
* Year: I played it in the mid 1990s.
* Perspective: 2-dimensional, sort of tile-based.
* Art style: Very simple, but typical, I think, computer graphics for the time period.
* Environment: A grid of nodes with abstract obstacles.
* Mood: Not really any mood of which to speak.
* Genre: Strategy, I suppose, or puzzle-based.
* Gameplay: (As best I can recall.) You controlled a stick which swung between nodes (these could be different colors). The idea was to get from one part of a grid of these nodes to another, and the grid could contain obstacles (bad squares, electrical fields, things like that--I think.) Keyboard and/or mouse controls (computer game). Single-player. I seem to remember levels of increasing difficulty.

Clockwerx/Spin Doctor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwerx

This is the second time recently that I've encountered someone asking about this game. I wonder if it's worth taking a look see? It has Pajitnov's face on the box.

[Bufo_periglenes]

I think that's the first one of these I've guessed!
I knew those hours playing flash games would pay off at some point!

Haha. Good work.

[Bufo_periglenes]

Don't forget to check out N+ for consoles.

There are two, and I fear I can give good descriptions of neither. (I hope. )

Mystery game the first:
* Background: It was on an old (pre-iMac) Macintosh desktop computer.
* Year: I played it in the mid 1990s.
* Perspective: 2-dimensional, sort of tile-based.
* Art style: Very simple, but typical, I think, computer graphics for the time period.
* Environment: A grid of nodes with abstract obstacles.
* Mood: Not really any mood of which to speak.
* Genre: Strategy, I suppose, or puzzle-based.
* Gameplay: (As best I can recall.) You controlled a stick which swung between nodes (these could be different colors). The idea was to get from one part of a grid of these nodes to another, and the grid could contain obstacles (bad squares, electrical fields, things like that--I think.) Keyboard and/or mouse controls (computer game). Single-player. I seem to remember levels of increasing difficulty.

Clockwerx/Spin Doctor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clockwerx

This is the second time recently that I've encountered someone asking about this game. I wonder if it's worth taking a look see? It has Pajitnov's face on the box.

Thank you! Some of my earliest computer-related memories involve playing this game. (The earliest memory involves a spreadsheet; goodness knows what I was doing with it.) Thanks for the background information; I had no idea it was done by the guy who developed Tetris.

P.S., Jorpho: I think I recently read The Machine Stops after seeing the link in your signature. It's a nifty story, so thanks for that too.

[Jorpho]

Thanks for the background information; I had no idea it was done by the guy who developed Tetris.

Well, it has Pajitnov's face on the box, but I'm thinking that was probably just a marketing gimmick, especially since his name doesn't seem to be in the credits listing on Mobygames.

P.S., Jorpho: I think I recently read The Machine Stops after seeing the link in your signature. It's a nifty story, so thanks for that too.

Glad you like it. I think everyone should give it a try; that's why I keep it in my sig.

[CatLover]

Hi, I'm looking for a game I would love to try and get but I can't remember the name of it!

I played it either in 1999, 2000, or 2001, when I was either 9, 10, or 11 respectively (though I'm sure it was more 2000/2001.) I played it on either a Windows ME or 2000 (though I think ME).

It was from a first person view and was a math game where you had to solve equations to get keys (and maybe other things) so you could advance through the mansion (possibly tower). The math problems included long division, and the numbers were red and in a little box on the right hand side next to the equation. You had to fill in the equation by dragging these numbers (and maybe equation symbols too) over to the question. If the number/symbol didn't fit where you put it, it would float back to the box you got it from.

I remember either a witch or a ghost sitting in a rocking chair in the shed, and on the ground floor of this mansion/tower, there was a ghost guarding the main staircase, which had a padlock and a chain across it. I also remember a corridor with doors and to get in to a door I think you had to solve a math problem. The graphics were good; it looked all real, the staircase actually looked real, not like in Treasure Mountain.

Hope someone knows what I'm talking about, it's been driving me mad for a while now

[Sasha]

* Background: ???
* Year: Early to late 1990s
* Perspective: first-person
* Art style: Quake-like
* Environment: ???
* Mood: ???
* Genre: FPS.
* Gameplay: Probably standard FPS gameplay. The strongest memory I have of the game is a single enemy: a bull terrier-looking dog with a cannon for a head.

[Alasseo]

* Background : Was a freeware bit. I seem to remember it was a game made by an otherwise not-gaming company.
* Year : I found it 1999-2002, I think.
* Perspective: Top-down
* Art style: Very simple, the enemies were the old apple icons (the rainbow striped ones)
* Environment: Er.. space?
* Mood: humor
* Genre: vertically scrolling shoot 'em up
* Gameplay: It's exactly like any other vertically scrolling shoot 'em up, except minus the background art (it was just black) and the enemies were the old apple icons. There were upgrades and bosses and so forth, but the point was cheap humor at Apple's expense.

[Mishrak]

* Background: I played the crap out of this puzzle game when I was 12-13 on my dad's old Macintosh. It was one of the first "legitimate" computers I had access to, and I played this game along with a vector tank shoot 'em game and Sim City 2000.
* Year: 1997-1998ish
* Perspective: third person
* Art style: stick figure
* Environment: A bit of a sci-fi themed obstacle course.
* Mood: N/A
* Genre: Puzzle
* Gameplay: Basically the demo would let you access some pre-made levels, in which you'd tell the stick man to move in a direction. When he hit a barrier (like a wall) he would stop and then you could move him again. If he hit something like spikes or he fell too far, he would die into a little pile with a scream or a crunch. There were gravity things that would suck him up or down, there were springboards and blocks that would fall. There was all sorts of stuff like that, I can't remember it all. Once you paid for it, you could unlock a ton more stages and actually design your own stages. I used to play it on my dad's old Mac in the late 90's.

[nmp303]

• Background: Some years ago my parents bought a CD with some 510 games on it. These were mostly (if not all) demos and shareware. One of these was a tetris game that, unlike regular tetris, produced shapes consisting of blocks of different colours. The objective was to place a certain number of blocks (called "drops" by the game) in a row. Each level had different winning criteria, specifying the number of horizontal, vertical and diagonal rows of drops to line up and how many should be lined up for them to disappear. Certain achievements (I don't remember what) rewarded the player with credits that could be used for special moves, such as removing a row or flipping over the playing area. These credits were visually represented by drops stacked on both sides of the playing area. The shareware version contained ten levels, each with their own name. The ninth level (I think) was called "The Tempest". Another level name that I recall was "Skyscraper". If memory serves me correctly, the shapes that fell were all straight lines and could only be placed vertically.
• System: Windows 98 or XP.
• Year: Somewhere between 1995 and 2005, probably closer to 1995 than 2005.
• Perspective: 2D
• Art style: Sort of shiny (in fact, Bejeweled reminds me of it, although it was not nearly as flashy as Bejeweled). The drops always looked like buttons to me. They were square with varying amounts of rounding on the corners, so that some looked more like circles than squares. I think the level of corner rounding was based on the game level. The background of the game contained some scenic images. If I remember correctly, the playing area disappeared when the game was paused, causing the entire scenic image to be visible.
• Environment: N/A
• Mood: N/A
• Genre: Tetris.
• Gameplay: Tetris-style.

[Felstaff]

The Tetris game I played where the squares "looked like buttons" was Tetris Elements:



But that had different modes, rather than level names. Also, the names revolved around elements, so there wasn't a skyscraper mode, I don't think. (There was, however, a Tempest mode)

There's a list of Tetris clones here.