Ganondorfo
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Pitch Black Flint said:
Wizard and warriors?
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Wizard and warriors?
- PC Game
- Adventure Point and Click (Very SHADOWGATE style though)
- Based on a boy ending up in weird worlds
- Usually was shareware
- Had multiple entries in the series
- One game starts you off in an alley, then later you go through fields and things.
Please help
Flint:
Legacy of the Wizard?
- Adventure Point and Click (Very SHADOWGATE style though)
- Based on a boy ending up in weird worlds
- Usually was shareware
- Had multiple entries in the series
- One game starts you off in an alley, then later you go through fields and things.
Please help
Flint:
Legacy of the Wizard?
Pitch Black Flint
Member
Ganondorfo said:
Not even close. I remember that one. This one had more of a simplified look to it. And a highly fantasized setting. If I had to compare it to one other game, I would say Kid Icarus. But that doesn't even begin to describe it.
Maxrpg said:
Still not it, sorry. Colors were brighter, and I don't remember all that status info on-screen either.
EDIT: One other thing, I think a big reason I still don't remember the title was because the typeface on the boxart was very elaborate and hard to read for me back then.
Darkmakaimura
Member
There was a NES game I couldn't figure out and don't remember the name to. It was a platformer where you began as a family in an overworld but most of the game took place underground. There were these portraits of girls that, if I remember correctly, unlocked certain areas. I couldn't figure out how to get into certain areas. If I remember, you got to choose from different characters in this family or groups of friends, one of which was a pet. It was a platformer that included ladders and again, almost all of the action took place underground. I think it had a one-screen overworld and there was a big tree.
Must have played this thing 20 years ago..
it's a arcade SHMUP. Top down, vertical scrolling, and you're a guy on a cloud. There were upgrades you could pick up, probably gradius style, and one of them caused more guys on clouds to help you out. We'd play with two players where one was solely in charge of hitting that upgrade button ASAP, hehe.
It also probably featured a giant toad that you went into and a lava level. But memories may have been severely warped by the years
it's a arcade SHMUP. Top down, vertical scrolling, and you're a guy on a cloud. There were upgrades you could pick up, probably gradius style, and one of them caused more guys on clouds to help you out. We'd play with two players where one was solely in charge of hitting that upgrade button ASAP, hehe.
It also probably featured a giant toad that you went into and a lava level. But memories may have been severely warped by the years
Only one I can think of is a SNES game that was like Megaman, but with emphasis on gun power-ups and shit, and it was 2 players. I loved that game. Can't for the life of me remember the name of it, but I rented it from Blockbuster for so long my mother's rental fee was like 80 some dollars. I'm not sure we ever paid that.
See if anyone can track this one down.
Back in first grade we had an old Macintosh. One of games we had on it was (the best I can remember it) something with 3 monkeys and some fruit.
Here was the premise.
There are 3 different sizes of monkeys, a large one, a medium one and a small one. The fruit was up in 3 different trees at 3 different heights. The goal was to position the 3 monkeys so you could get all three pieces of fruit. The monkeys had to be positioned by size (large-medium-small) and you couldn't put the medium or large monkey on the small one or the small one on the bottom.
Anyone have a clue.
Back in first grade we had an old Macintosh. One of games we had on it was (the best I can remember it) something with 3 monkeys and some fruit.
Here was the premise.
There are 3 different sizes of monkeys, a large one, a medium one and a small one. The fruit was up in 3 different trees at 3 different heights. The goal was to position the 3 monkeys so you could get all three pieces of fruit. The monkeys had to be positioned by size (large-medium-small) and you couldn't put the medium or large monkey on the small one or the small one on the bottom.
Anyone have a clue.
I remember this SNES game where you fought different robot/mechs 1 on 1 as a robot/mech of your choice.
-side scrolling arenas on multiple platforms
-split screen two player 1on1
-one of the mech/robots was large/mechwarriorish with legs
-another was a rolling ball with a stupid gun on top.
-you could get out of your mech in mid fight and run around as a silly little human.. with a small gun:lol
I remember enjoying the game quite a bit!
-side scrolling arenas on multiple platforms
-split screen two player 1on1
-one of the mech/robots was large/mechwarriorish with legs
-another was a rolling ball with a stupid gun on top.
-you could get out of your mech in mid fight and run around as a silly little human.. with a small gun:lol
I remember enjoying the game quite a bit!
eso76
Member
coamithra said:Must have played this thing 20 years ago..
it's a arcade SHMUP. Top down, vertical scrolling, and you're a guy on a cloud. There were upgrades you could pick up, probably gradius style, and one of them caused more guys on clouds to help you out. We'd play with two players where one was solely in charge of hitting that upgrade button ASAP, hehe.
It also probably featured a giant toad that you went into and a lava level. But memories may have been severely warped by the years
if it's the one i'm thinking of, you did start on a cloud but the game had on foot levels too.
name escapes me right now
It's pretty much all I can remember I'm afraid, which has made the search so insanely difficult. I seem to remember something about animals being combined, but maybe that function was just Pokemon and I'm confusing it.BooJoh said:
I even thought Slime's were in it, but that wouldn't make any sense either, as I don't think any DQs were release in the UK till fairly recently.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
The one game that I've never been able to recall:
- NES title, released in the US
- Isometric/three-quarter perspective
- Was a shooter
- Your character had a jetpack and a gun that could be upgraded/switched to different modes (single shots, beams, ripples, etc)
- Color scheme involved a lot of green, white and black
- NES title, released in the US
- Isometric/three-quarter perspective
- Was a shooter
- Your character had a jetpack and a gun that could be upgraded/switched to different modes (single shots, beams, ripples, etc)
- Color scheme involved a lot of green, white and black
Maxrpg said:- PC Game
- Adventure Point and Click (Very SHADOWGATE style though)
- Based on a boy ending up in weird worlds
- Usually was shareware
- Had multiple entries in the series
- One game starts you off in an alley, then later you go through fields and things.
Please help
Dare to Dream?
Ok this may be a difficult one but if there is any answer to my question i am sure Gaf is the only place;
I played this game many years ago on one of those bootleg NES consoles (which wasn't mine)
I say many years ago probably more than 10-12 and back then games on those bootleg consoles were direct ports of NES games instead of the new ones with hacked sprites..
Ok here it goes;
It was a 2d platform game with a boy who had an eye on his forhead.. if u hold down attack button he can throw an arrow from his eye and sometimes that arrow can stuck on walls so u can jump on it to reach higher places.
There was a level which was the first one on a some sort of japanese town i guess(modern)
He had yellow costume i think like a monk. Game was quite good and had solid controls and great graphics.
CAN U NAME IT FOR ME PLS! For a Nes game it was great. IT played like Megaman, it also had some qeapon upgrades when u colect some stuff... all i remember is those arrows that he throws. PLS DO IT GAF PLS FIND THIS GAME! ITS LIKE A CHILD I LOST AT BIRTH! PLS!
I played this game many years ago on one of those bootleg NES consoles (which wasn't mine)
I say many years ago probably more than 10-12 and back then games on those bootleg consoles were direct ports of NES games instead of the new ones with hacked sprites..
Ok here it goes;
It was a 2d platform game with a boy who had an eye on his forhead.. if u hold down attack button he can throw an arrow from his eye and sometimes that arrow can stuck on walls so u can jump on it to reach higher places.
There was a level which was the first one on a some sort of japanese town i guess(modern)
He had yellow costume i think like a monk. Game was quite good and had solid controls and great graphics.
CAN U NAME IT FOR ME PLS! For a Nes game it was great. IT played like Megaman, it also had some qeapon upgrades when u colect some stuff... all i remember is those arrows that he throws. PLS DO IT GAF PLS FIND THIS GAME! ITS LIKE A CHILD I LOST AT BIRTH! PLS!
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
womp said:
Nope, wasn't Skyhawk. You controlled a person, not a ship of any sort and it was in space or another planet.
Eccocid said:
Mitsume ga Tooru. You'll see the aforementioned arrow jumping around four minutes into the video.
BishopLamont
Banned
Someone help me with find an old Apple Mac game that involved a granny (think it was in the title too, not 100% sure), and you had to solve things. What did you have to solve? I completely forgot!
The system was called Action Max. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_Max) I remember the commercial made it look like when you pressed the trigger on the light gun onscreen your jet would fire a missile at the enemy plane in response, but it was all pre-recorded video.
The Battle of Olympus? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_of_Olympus)
Whimsical Phil
Ninja School will help you
two games.
side scrolling game. c64. i was playing eidolon and the like about the same time. the name began i think with a "u". was something like ukuan or some weird name with u.
you started on the surface of the earth and went down into tunnels. cant even remember what the purpose was but it was sort of free roam maybe like doctor who but less focussed.
ive been trying to remember what it was forever.
second one was a birds eye view action rpg on the c64, early days before bards tale or the like id say.
you went into a dungeon and faced vampire bats at the start. was pretty deep for its time. you got different weapons and had some stats. there was a bards taleesque enemy/character window with portraits of the enemy. was a single dungeon type game in real time. didnt have an overworld or party. probably was out round 1987 or there abouts.
side scrolling game. c64. i was playing eidolon and the like about the same time. the name began i think with a "u". was something like ukuan or some weird name with u.
you started on the surface of the earth and went down into tunnels. cant even remember what the purpose was but it was sort of free roam maybe like doctor who but less focussed.
ive been trying to remember what it was forever.
second one was a birds eye view action rpg on the c64, early days before bards tale or the like id say.
you went into a dungeon and faced vampire bats at the start. was pretty deep for its time. you got different weapons and had some stats. there was a bards taleesque enemy/character window with portraits of the enemy. was a single dungeon type game in real time. didnt have an overworld or party. probably was out round 1987 or there abouts.
Tony Rocky Horror
Member
This game's name had been escaping me for over 10 years at least: Math Rescue
I used to play an old PC game that had something to do with hospitals. All I can recall of it is being inside a body, I can atleast image walking around inside a stomach.
Another had dinosaurs in it, I just remember walking around in the different time periods.
Really vague, but this has been killing me. I don't even know if the games were any good, but I don't care, dammit!
Another had dinosaurs in it, I just remember walking around in the different time periods.
Really vague, but this has been killing me. I don't even know if the games were any good, but I don't care, dammit!
That sounds alot like the old Genesis game, Fighting Masters. Maybe it was distributed by Data East outside of the states, but the game itself was made by Treco. Your character, a blonde-haired guy, had to fight in a tournament against the champion from every known alien species in the galaxy, for the right to preserve your race against extinction, before the sun goes supernova and destroys everything... or something like that. :lolParallax said:
It was a horrific street fighter clone, with wonky controls, terrible graphics (even for the time) and possibly the worst techno midi soundtrack ever. But for some bizarre reason, I developed an affinity for the putrid thing. My favorite character was the robot champion from the machine world, which had a special attack that looked suspiciously like break dancing.
NES game, one of the first ones if I recall correctly. Platformer type of game where you are this guy with a moustache and red hat and you go around to save a girl or something. You used to eat mushrooms and things to get more powerful. The enemies were like little mushrooms as well and turtles and shit.
I remember you could set off fireworks at the end of each stage somehow...
I remember you could set off fireworks at the end of each stage somehow...
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
RobertM said:
Hey, that's it! Well done. Have some cake!
CronosBlade
Member
GreekWolf said:
Haha I owned that and sadly felt the same way about the game. It sucked, but I loved it so much as a kid. My favorite thing was that if you did your throws into the walls correctly you could get 4-5 hits instead of the 1 hit from the throw. I liked the boxer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkv3Drlo8mk - Ignore the talking, you'll get a good feel for how the gamw played lol.
I actually have one.
It was for the Commodore 64. It was an army tank game. It was setup like a sideways chess board basically. Both sides had 2 full rows of tanks. The left sided tanks were red and the right sided were green i believe.
You only controlled one at a time and the object was to kill all the other tanks. And I think there were different mazes to get to the other side to attack. I can't really remember that part. I just know i LOVED it and have never been able to find it ported.
It was for the Commodore 64. It was an army tank game. It was setup like a sideways chess board basically. Both sides had 2 full rows of tanks. The left sided tanks were red and the right sided were green i believe.
You only controlled one at a time and the object was to kill all the other tanks. And I think there were different mazes to get to the other side to attack. I can't really remember that part. I just know i LOVED it and have never been able to find it ported.
It sounds like you're describing the first Dragon Quest Monsters/Dragon Warrior Monsters. I dunno the UK release date, but it was a black cart GBC game that could be played on the B&W GB. It had breeding, monsters from the DQ series, and dungeons were randomly generated.stuburns said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ofoh_D3msLc
There was also a sequel which had two versions. DWM2: Cobi's Journey and DWM2: Tara's Adventure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C84WaqpxXbQ
Count Dookkake
Member
A text-based game for the Atari ST about a female troll.
PS1 RPG
I believe the first town was a port town (second might've been at the base of a mountain?)
Attacks would require you to perform moves by pressing different directions and buttons (kind of like a fighting game)
If you got a combination right then it would save that combo so you'd know how to do it later
As you gained levels you would gain more slots to do longer moves
I believe the first town was a port town (second might've been at the base of a mountain?)
Attacks would require you to perform moves by pressing different directions and buttons (kind of like a fighting game)
If you got a combination right then it would save that combo so you'd know how to do it later
As you gained levels you would gain more slots to do longer moves
Basketball game for PC which featured powerups. You could execute some powerful moves like a flaming slamdunk (think Torch from Fantastic Four). It didn't have much realism in it: You could play as a bovine standing on the back legs. As I recall it was all about doing crazy slam dunks.
I have almost no solid memory of a platform for this, but it was on some variation of a computer during the 90's. The point of the game was to take pictures of certain types of dinosaurs for some sort of alien. You'd be placed in a static jungle type environment and if you waited a bit you might see one come from the left or right side. I think the lower part of the screen had arrows to switch to a different environment. It was so simple, but I loved it. :lol
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