Games you can't remember the title of.

[Goldstein]

i know you had to use a exact combination of words if you used ones slightly different it would not work

These fora are much the same.

[Felstaff]

If it's anything like Don't Bank On It, then it's most likely a fan-made, public-domain STAC adventure; i.e. there were billions of these. You have to help us narrow them down. Was the disc included in a magazine? Was it a store-bought game? Was it set in a fantasy universe? Or just a regular day where you wake up in your own house, then BLAM. Adventure.

Some STAC-coded games I came across that start off in a house:

• 'EE's Lost His Marbles
• The Adventures of Snatch & Crunch
• The Everyday
• The Village

[andrewcrawford]

i think i tried ee lost his marbles but ill give those a try and post back,

we think it was bought at a local shop that basically copied the game i will need to try checking, i am pretty sure it was fantasy adventure, i am fairly sure the story had something to do with amnesia or the person waking up not sure where they where

its not ee lost his marbles but its on the right track

adventures of snatch and crunch seems a contender not found a rom to test with yet but all screen dumps i have seen suggest it could be it but i need to see more to be sure, just downloaded it, its not the one

unfortnally i cant find somewhere that has teh village or the everyday hosted for download not easy to google search as when you do the village it finds stuff from sites nothing to do with atari

Please use the Edit button to append new thoughts. Do not make new posts unless there has been a reply. - ST

[stewb]

Hey all,

I am looking for help to hopeful maybe get the name of the game i played when i was younger about 10ish so about 1990-1997, i have tried in past to find it but with no luck.

Ok here are th details i remeber

1. It was on atari st
2. it was a text based game with i think limit graphics on some screen not all
3. it was Americanised ie the things you have to type where american version of words like i would say tap but it would want faucet

now the game details i remember

4. i think you started in your bedroom could be kitchen or livingroom
5. you would go west i think to i think livingroom or bedroom
6. you would then go north and be in hallway with a door to the north and the bathroom to the west
7 the door could be only opened with the command open sesame
8. in the bathroom you had to find i think a umbrella then tune on the faucet (taps) to get a object
9 after you go back to the hallway and go out the door your outside
to the north is a curtain and you had to use a certain command to get past the ghost i think the ghost was one of the few screens you got a image on
10 details are now sketch i think to the east there was some sort of sewer and it was dark and you could easily gt lost in it

I think my dear older brother has gotten a lil mixed up here. You started in the livingroom, in one direction was a chimney which you could go inside of. You merely got a message stating you couldn't even see your hands in front of your face. The fireplace for the chimney i remember having a decanter of wine on it, which was used for something (Edit: Got kinda mixed up, wasn't for the fish). Back in the livingroom and through a door led you to the top of a set of stairs which had a painting (possibly a mirror), looking at it got you a question which was roughly like "What did the big chimney say to the little chimney?" Which was a reference to a book (we had to goto the local library to find the answer). This would reward you with a torch (Erm yeah it makes as much sense to me as you as to why a painting/mirror could ask you a question and reward you with a torch).

Edit: The thing that tried to attack (Yeah definately not a fish, it was early in the morning and i was rushing to get out the door to work) was at the bottom of the stairs next to the painting. The actual fishbowl was outside the door that led to the painting (After talking to my brother it could be this door my brother is refering to as the one that needed you to use "Open Sesame" as a command (The game had plenty of easter egg style references like this). Oh there was also a room halfway down the stairs with an important object.

Now about that faucet, something finally rung a bell in my head, you had to find the umbrella, then get in the bath and open the umbrella up. With it open you could turn the tap (Faucet) of the hot water which would then gush out at you, with the umbrella protecting you you didn't get scolded I have no idea what you got from it, or even if this was part of the same game but if my brother remember it, then i'll fill in the info, maybe someone will remember that.

Erm.. yeah that ghost might actually be the one asking the question in the painting (As in it haunts the painting style of thing), i don't remember any images in the game though, it was all text as far as i can remember.

I'll stop by tomorrow with anything i remember.

[andrewcrawford]

Sorry not been able to post anything else had personal problems to deal with.

ok im pretty sure it is a stac game, i think we might have found it on a atari st magazine of some sort and it was limited or only gave you some of the game like say the 10th to 20th room, and i think we then bought the full version from a local shop like we did dnt bank on it

after what my brother posted about the what did the big chimney say to the little chimney it trigger a memory and i am pretty sure it is something to do with the ghost that i think was issrulative image but my brother says it was not can not be sure on this myself not sure why i remember there being a picture unless it was as my brother said it said about a picture and you spoke to the picture, i would also assume it is frowned upon for someone to say a site that give roms to download? if so it cool if not if someone can point me to a few other that the ones i know then ill try find those other games mentioned above. also it without a doubt the main game the full version starts in a house and has about 4-6 rooms you can explore before going outside. the first room i am pretty sure has a window and it tell you about a garden outside

the only thing i know for sure is the bathroom and hall with the open sesame door are link ie west of hall is the bathroom and it had that annoying faucet that had to be open ina precious order ie open the umbrella then turn the faucet, maybe my brother can remember if we could type it as one come ie enter bath, open umbrella, turn faucet or if we had to say them invidualy

oh mod note something is wrong with my profile it will not let me set a signature so people who read this can be aware i have serve dsylexica and my english is poor ie spelling and grammar and spell checker does not always work. it says i have 0 characters left i can type for signature even though there nothing typed

[SecondTalon]

i would also assume it is frowned upon for someone to say a site that give roms to download?

Very frowned upon.

The rule (#6 in Gaming Rules) basically works like this. We're all adults (except for the ones of us that are teenagers) and we're aware piracy exists. And with that, we've now said all that we're going to say on the subject.

[andrewcrawford]

Im goign to list all games i have tried some i jsut tried because there listed as text adventure,it will also help me know if i ahve tried it

The Adventures of Snatch & Crunch
The Village
more to follow once i verify

[kukouri]

My first post, I'm sure this game is buried somewhere in this topic, but my quick browsing didn't see it.

Very old game from Windows 3.1 days, you designed ships, was kind of like MOO, planets had cowboy hats, simple combat system. I can't remember the name of this game for the life of me.

[Markus__1]

My first post, I'm sure this game is buried somewhere in this topic, but my quick browsing didn't see it.

Very old game from Windows 3.1 days, you designed ships, was kind of like MOO, planets had cowboy hats, simple combat system. I can't remember the name of this game for the life of me.

Spaceward Ho!

[eev]

* Background: I remember playing it as a kid, somewhere late '90s, possibly early '00. The character you play as wasn't human, they were some kind of orange animal thing that looks sort of similar to rayman possibly? That shade of orange, at least. It was sort of like sonic the hedgehog in gameplay, slightly. You ran around (not super fast, though) various places collecting things, I think. You could go above or below ground. I am pretty certain one level was situated in a carnival/amusement park.
* System: It was on the SNES
* Year: Yeah, I played it between 1997-2002 possibly? It wouldntve been after 2002, but I have no clue when the game was made. It is SNES, so in that timeline.
* Perspective: It was a 2D sidescroller.
* Art style: It was pixelley, with bright colours.
* Environment: "Happy" kind of environments, I guess. The only one I can recall is one in an amusement park, and when you went through the level there were parts that were underground. I think you were collecting something, but I don't know.
* Mood: It was a pretty happy game, aimed towards younger kids. I don't recall anything bad happening, but I cannot remember a great deal about it, so it isn't ruled out.
* Genre: Adventure, from what I can remember.
* Gameplay: You kind of just ran around. You could jump, and there might have been an attack button, not certain. I am not 100% if there was some kind of interact button. Yeah, dunno.

This all feels super vague, so I apologise for that. If you want more detail, I can try and scrounge my brain, but this is all that is really coming towards me as notable at the moment. Also, sorry if this has been posted before and I didn't catch it. D:

[Felstaff]

some kind of orange animal thing

Bubsy the Bobcat in: Close Encounters of the Furred Kind.



Arguably the most pun-based sidescroller for the SNES

[Jorpho]

If I may say so, the template is really a bit on the clunky side. But then, I don't think I could propose a better one.

* Background: A game from elementary school.
* System: Apple IIe
* Year: Late 80's early 90's.
* Perspective: 2D overhead
* Art style: Extremely basic

This was an educational game that literally consisted of nothing more than wandering through a maze. You were allowed to take one navigational aid with you. Taking muddy boots would mean you would leave a set of footprints as you moved from room to room, while taking a ball of yarn would depict your character as a ball of yarn. Taking a map or a piece of chalk would show your character in its true form: a mouse. Different skill levels were available; one of them would award you the title of "Knight of Cheddar" when you completed the maze.

I believe the game was on the same disk as another one involving bees. You would be shown a couple of different patterns of bees, and then be instructed to input a set of symbols. You would then see how the bees react to that set of symbols. The idea was of course to find the set of symbols that would cause the bees to react according to the pattern you were originally shown.

[emceng]

I am starting to think Felstaff could tell you the name of a game even if it was never made.

[Lostdreams]

Think Quick!

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[Felstaff]

Seems other people are also searching for this game, Jorpho, unless you are J'orfeaux... !

If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say it's similar to the tasks in Fun School, and the only mouse-based maze games I found was Rodent Rat Race and Mouskattack.

[Lostdreams]

I completely glossed over the mouse part.

More than a few people might be interested in this site

I can't access it to check from where I am but Mad Rat and Mouse Attack seem plausible.

Edit: Additionally Bee Crunch & Revengeful Rabbit & Tomb of Doom were sold as a compilation disk, I'm not sure if that helps any either.

[Jorpho]

I've heard of Virtual Apple before. I find it utterly infuriating that there is no easy to find description of how the keymappings for the joystick:keyboard control.

Seems other people are also searching for this game, Jorpho, unless you are J'orfeaux... !

Oh yes, the first one is me; the second one is not.

If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say it's similar to the tasks in Fun School, and the only mouse-based maze games I found was Rodent Rat Race and Mouskattack.

This thread is now one of two hits for <"rodent rat race" apple> .

To clarify: only one room of the maze, with its exits, was visible at a time. It was a rather slow-paced game in that regard, completely unlike Pac-Man and such.

[eev]

some kind of orange animal thing

Bubsy the Bobcat in: Close Encounters of the Furred Kind.



Arguably the most pun-based sidescroller for the SNES

aaaaah! Thanks so much! Man, that guy was crazy. Cheers, I have been trying to think of this game for quite a few years! c:

[Panda Claws]

I played this demo on a windows PC a while back. (Probably windows 98 at the time.)

In the demo you played a dragon and you could use your fire breath to kill small animals if I remember correctly.

The world was quite open I think and seemed to be mostly greeen (grass.)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[SirZahn]

Ok, I really need help with this one, I have looked for a year and just spent 2h looking over posts.

* Background:PC
* Year:Late 90's-2000's
* Perspective: First person
* Art style:3D
* Mood:Light
* Genre:RPG or Fantasy
* Gameplay: You start the game on some docks in a town, a god is talking to you and tells you that he gave you life... You need to keep your self fed with bread,cookies,meat and hydrated with water skins,barrels of beer, and bottles of alcohol, when you buy them you can go to other people and sell them for more if you know where to go. You can also buy wood and iron to sell for more money. The first place you need to go is a swamp to kill chupakabra to get there tails, they also give you eyes. You buy spell scrolls to learn spells. you also buy alchemic items like coal,water and small iron, and find plants that regrow to make things. The main character always reminded me of Xena if that helps. Please help me.

[Sockmonkey]

Haven't thought about this one in years but it had some neat levels.

Background: PS.
Year: Played it in the late 90s.
Perspective: 2-2.5 D depending on the level.
Art style. 3D.
Mood: I think it tried to be a little dark but was a bit bland about it.
Genera: Sci-fi adventure.
Gameplay: You're a spider! Some science dude outfits a spider with cybernetic gadgets so he can controll it wirelessly. Bad guys want his tech. Something happens, bad guys attack/he has an accident, I forget which, but now his mind is trapped in the lil cyborg spider body. You have to get back to your real body by fighting past other bugs and some other crap I can't remember. The main boss is some kind of brain-in-a-jar thing that you kill by tricking it into striking at you so it hits a power socket and fries itself instead. You can get power-ups like tiny missle launchers, razor boomerangs etc.

[Jorpho]

Haven't thought about this one in years but it had some neat levels.

Background: PS.
Year: Played it in the late 90s.
Perspective: 2-2.5 D depending on the level.
Art style. 3D.
Mood: I think it tried to be a little dark but was a bit bland about it.
Genera: Sci-fi adventure.
Gameplay: You're a spider! Some science dude outfits a spider with cybernetic gadgets so he can controll it wirelessly. Bad guys want his tech. Something happens, bad guys attack/he has an accident, I forget which, but now his mind is trapped in the lil cyborg spider body. You have to get back to your real body by fighting past other bugs and some other crap I can't remember. The main boss is some kind of brain-in-a-jar thing that you kill by tricking it into striking at you so it hits a power socket and fries itself instead. You can get power-ups like tiny missle launchers, razor boomerangs etc.

I want to say Galapagos: Mendel's Escape, but that's probably not right.

[Felstaff]

You're a spider!

Which is exactly what the game is called!

[Sockmonkey]

You're a spider!

Which is exactly what the game is called!

Crap, it was so simple and obvious I didn't think that could be it. Thanks man.

[Loochey]

Nostalgia has taken over me;

Okay there's this PC game I used to play as a kid. Now this would've been in the late 90's or the beginning of the 21st century.
The game was a 2D platform arcade involving a boy running away from/fighting monsters. I recall the environments being rocky, prehaps a canyon, containing giant dino bones and whatnot. There were lots of traps and if you failed the boy suffered a rather gory fate, you could be impaled, chased down and chewed up, fall down a giant gap etc.

That's how I remember it anyway, my mind might be tainted!

Any tips? :]

[Felstaff]

Was the art style cartoony, or serious, or dark, or what? It would help by using the template, or comparing the visual style with a similar game. There are loads of side-scrollers where the protagonist is a child/childlike - Premiere, Lester the Unlikely, TinTin, Spirou...

[Jorpho]

I'm going to toss out Heart of Darkness. In fact, reviewing video footage just now, I'm certain that must be it.

[Loochey]

I'm going to toss out Heart of Darkness. In fact, reviewing video footage just now, I'm certain that must be it.

Absolutely correct! Thanks alot

[beats]

Reading about The Oregon Trail game has got me thinking about what games I got to play at school. And there was one, years ago, that I remember quite fondly (no idea why, I sucked at it and so did everyone else in the class.) Fondly, and not-very-muchly. So:

Spoiler:

* Background: It would have been at a NSW public school in the early 90s. Probably 1992. Given that, it was probably on a Macintosh or some kind, but that's a guess not a memory. It was a survival sort of game, you controlled a number of people - I remember three? - who were stuck in a valley (or something.) and had to survive. There was a river down the centre of the screen, and trees that could be cut down for wood. I think it was possible to build a bridge across the river. On the other side of the river were some bushes with berries. We got there once and ate the berries and got sick and died. Go us. I think we were meant to try to build a raft, too, 'cause eventually the river flooded or something? The main thing I remember is that it had controls not entirely unlike a roguelike. Lots of commands, each given by pressing a different single letter. 'f' would be forage for berries or something like that.
* Year: Early 90s, probably 1992 was when I played it
* Perspective: I only remember a single screen, with very low level graphics. Probably only 4 or 16 colours, kind of thing? There was a blue (cyan, whatever) river down the middle of that single screen.
* Art style: Yeah, what I said in perspective is about all I remember. I guess I would compare it to early Sierra AGI games or Hugo's House of Horror in terms of art style, although gameplay wise it was not like those at all.
* Environment: There was a river and some trees and some bushes with berries. There may have been crocodiles or something else about that could kill you. Or maybe not.
* Mood: Bleak.
* Genre: Survival? The same genre as survival kids (which I played to death years ago because it reminded me of this game I played at school.)
* Gameplay: You pressed letters to tell your little people what to do. I think it was day based, so you would press 'c' to get the little dude to cut down trees for a day. And I think it was a time management kind of thing - you had to have the raft built before the river flooded. Or so I assume, we never managed it and just always died.

Um, when I say I used to play it at school, I wouldn't be surprised if we only played it one lunchtime and were never allowed to play it again (god only knows why.) Seventeen years of confounded desire to replay it later, here I am.

Wow this is the exact game I am searching for!! I played it in WA when I was 10 years old in 1991. Did you ever find out the name of it??

OK, I have a pretty obscure one.

Spoiler:

It was a turn-based space strategy game I played when I worked at a call centre in 2004. I have no idea what it was called, but I remember it being the 2nd or 3rd game in a series, although my memory is hazy on that. Either way, it was a Windows game, in 2D, not 3D, by some obscure game company.

From what I remember, the purpose of the game was to ship cargo between planets to earn money to upgrade your ship. As the game progressed, the player character got older, but when you had gotten to the point where the player dies of natural causes and the game ends, you could take some kind of drug that extended the character's life for a few more years. The only other thing that I can remember is that one of the goals was to return to "Sol", i.e. our solar system, but the game was totally open ended.

It wasn't particularly good, but I'd love to know what it was I was playing, because it really got me through some tough days in that crappy job!

EDIT: Modified to match style of OP

* Background: Played at a call centre in 2004. Windows PC game (not browser based). What sticks in my mind is being able to extend the life of the player character.
* Year: Played in 2004, but I have no ideas on the age of the game.
* Perspective: 2D view, with planets, etc. in an enclosed frame and player stats on the right of the screen (I think?).
* Art style: Sprites
* Environment: Entirely viewed within a seperate window view. Battles took place in their own window, and I think the graphics were entirely static.
* Mood: Typical cargo/space freighter fare
* Genre: Space strategy
* Gameplay: Turn-based. Gameplay involved earning money for ship upgrades through transporting cargo or perhaps through destroying other ships.

Hey is this game Star Control 2??

[SecondTalon]

Beats, bear in mind that - double posting aside, the latest reply was to a post from 2009. Now, I'm not saying that it's precisely wrong to reply to such posts, just that unless you know 100% with zero doubt whatsoever, it's.. best to let it slide.

I say that because Star Control 2 had, at no point, anything at all remotely approaching a game mechanic wherein your captain aged and possibly died with an option to take life extending drugs. The Ur-Quan would wipe out the galaxy before that could even start to happen.

[Reassuring Curve]

Okay, this one is very vague.

* Background: 10 years ago, shareware CDROM
* System: Pre OsX Mac.
* Year: 10ish years ago?
* Perspective: At least part of it was top down, like a god game.
* Art style: Cyberpunk? I'm not sure.
* Environment: A city, with several blocks and colorful zones of influence.
* Mood: Very dark, but I vaguely remember arming an army of midgets with laser swords.
* Genre: Strategy
* Gameplay: You were the head of a gang and had to expand your influence. You could hire mooks, to do research, or battle, or some other things I don't remember.

[SecondTalon]

Syndicate? Released in 1993, but it sounds similar, and was re-released with it's expansion pack as Syndicate Plus. Worth a look, at least.

[Reassuring Curve]

That's not it. The view was directly above the city, from further away, and the game looked much darker.

[Damxer]

I just heard a long-forgotten music theme from a game I played more than 5 years ago in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAqlA9EJ4ME
listen from around 1:40 to 2:03 and you will recognise it!

about the game:
System: PC, windows XP altough it looked older than that; it was a demo
Year: between 1995-2005
Perspective: 3d: 3rd person perspective you look down upon a small maze with 1 or 2 balls in it -> you control the ball
Art: the background was infinitely far away, like a sky-shell around the scene: the only 3d object was the maze with the balls in it
Environment: very basic 3d maze, no environment at all
Mood: basic puzzle game
Genre: Puzzle
Gameplay: : there are 1 or 2 balls in the game; one of them is textured like a beach ball; you need to reach a certain 'spot' in the maze and you win; it is possible to get stuck
the entire gameplay is based on the idea that you move in 4 directions, and you move until a wall is reached! you cant stop with controls; only when you hit a wall, you stop the ball. in that way, the floor resembles ice.

Please, does anyone have a clue which game im talking about?

[Felstaff]

Well, you just reminded me of my favourite PlayStation game that I've long forgotten: Kula World. Love that game! Even though it's not the one you're talking about. Much superior to its successor, Super Monkey Ball.


However, there are a few 3D Maze games for Windows, several I've heard of, one or two I've played, and they are as follows:

Ballance (2004):


3DMaze (1995):


3D Marble Flip (2002):


However, none of these maze games are 'Wall Sliders', i.e. have that Frictionless Ice quality you mentioned; where you move in one direction and cannot stop until you hit a wall (à la ice levels on Chip's Challenge). The majority of those kind of "slide/wallslide maze" games are generally amateur efforts, and number in the thousands! However, 3D Marble Flip has several 'ice-floor' levels.

[Damxer]

3d marble flip is very close graphics-wise to what I mean. I now also remember that you had 1 beachball and 1 box; beachball extinguishing fires and you can use the box to keep the beachball from sliding too far! Aim of the game maybe was extinguishing all fires? Hope this helps some more, Thanks for suggested games...

[akincraft]

Hmmm, I have one for you. Been searching for this a long time and the rest of the internet has given me no hope.

* Background: The demo of this game came with a relative's new gateway computer in either 1999 or 2000. Basically, you piloted a spacecraft of some kind, but it was on the surface of a planet instead of in space. A hovercraft perhaps.
* System: PC, Windows 2000
* Year: 1999-2001
* Perspective: Top down, slightly angled.
* Art style: Much like C&C, Tiberian storm.
* Environment: Hard to remember. Possibly post apocalyptic or otherworldly.
* Mood: Dark
* Genre: A vehicle based shooter.
* Gameplay: You had a small ship that looked much like the NOD banshee from C&C Tiberian Sun, controlled with either the arrow keys or wasd and you used the mouse to aim. You fight aliens that are much like floating worms. In fact, the protagonist referred to them only as "bugs" meaning that they were either just aliens or possibly were insectoids of some type. When killing them you might have earned money to buy health and new systems for your ship such as engines, warp drives, missile launchers, etc. The only thing I really have to go on is the starter ship's resemblance to the C&C Banshee: http://is-media.e-studios.eu/assets/screenshots/nod_banshee-mk2_ingame002.jpg

[Dason]

Hmmm, I have one for you. Been searching for this a long time and the rest of the internet has given me no hope.

* Background: The demo of this game came with a relative's new gateway computer in either 1999 or 2000. Basically, you piloted a spacecraft of some kind, but it was on the surface of a planet instead of in space. A hovercraft perhaps.
* System: PC, Windows 2000
* Year: 1999-2001
* Perspective: Top down, slightly angled.
* Art style: Much like C&C, Tiberian storm.
* Environment: Hard to remember. Possibly post apocalyptic or otherworldly.
* Mood: Dark
* Genre: A vehicle based shooter.
* Gameplay: You had a small ship that looked much like the NOD banshee from C&C Tiberian Sun, controlled with either the arrow keys or wasd and you used the mouse to aim. You fight aliens that are much like floating worms. In fact, the protagonist referred to them only as "bugs" meaning that they were either just aliens or possibly were insectoids of some type. When killing them you might have earned money to buy health and new systems for your ship such as engines, warp drives, missile launchers, etc. The only thing I really have to go on is the starter ship's resemblance to the C&C Banshee: http://is-media.e-studios.eu/assets/scr ... ame002.jpg

I think I know what you're talking about. Was it Dark Orbit by WildTangent Games? I had that demo on one of my old computers too. It was really fun. Unfortunately it sounds like the internet is saying that it was discontinued but turned into an MMO and apparently it's really hard to find a copy that you can actually get to play. I can't even find a good screenshot from the game.

[akincraft]

I think I know what you're talking about. Was it Dark Orbit by WildTangent Games? I had that demo on one of my old computers too. It was really fun. Unfortunately it sounds like the internet is saying that it was discontinued but turned into an MMO and apparently it's really hard to find a copy that you can actually get to play. I can't even find a good screenshot from the game.

I had a feeling Dark Orbit looked too familiar. I've skipped over it many times and never realized that it was an mmo remake of the original game. I appreciate your help, hopefully I'll be able to find an original copy somewhere.

[lucrezaborgia]

copy and pasted for ease. sorry if I'm stealing your format...

* Background: Martian mice have peed in the water supply and affected men's reproductive capabilities
* System: PC, Win 3.1 or earlier
* Year: 1991
* Art style: similar to the original Oregon Trail
* Mood: comedy
* Genre: shooter of some type
* Gameplay: you use the penis at the bottom of the screen and use sperm to shoot at falling bibles, birth control pills, and boobies. Falling condoms make you invincible.