Support NeoGAF

[Wibblewozzer]

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

It was a mech game of sorts. In the game people would have virtual mech battles that they connected to by going up to each other and duking it out in their minds. Since it was connected to your brain you could die if things went bad enough. Even the cops fought criminals using this method... it was interesting. When you looked at people in battles they would be facing each other with a sort of bubble above them showing the fight.

The battles took place in 3 dimensional, multi level, battle grounds if I recall correctly and there was a bit of customization for your suit/mech thing. I believe it was on the GameCube.

I remember renting this a LOONG time ago. It was pretty rad so if anyone knows it... that'd be great. Thanks

I imagine this is Custom Robo. Never played but the beginning of this video seems to match up with the visuals you describe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hecmgb1FJE8

 

[KillySG10]

I don't have them here, but I'll try! I stress, this is drawn on pc, from memory of a memory. Here we go...

The curtains were red, and the t-shirt was also in a warm color, I believe. Everything seemed like it was on a stage, kind of dark, red curtains. There was a whole family scattered around the box art, I believe, but this is the closest I can come for now.

This is really bugging me now, cause it seems familiar xP
But i havent been able to find what it is yet, are there any other distinguishing features you remember? Anything like a word in the title, the amount of discs, name of the developer/publisher, anything else on the box, were there screenshots on the back that you can remember?

 

[-Ryn]

I imagine this is Custom Robo. Never played but the beginning of this video seems to match up with the visuals you describe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hecmgb1FJE8

Holy shit that's it!

Thanks a million dude

For some reason I remembered it looking more like FF7's Chibi aesthetic lol
Will have to find this on Amazon or something.

 

[Vital Tundra]

Alright. This game has been on my mind for a while. I think it's a Super Nintendo game but not to sure. From what I recall you play as a boy with a top hat, and you can throw the top hat like a boomerang. Other details I can remember is that there is a room you can't get past because the carpet is possessed or something and waves up and down. I think there were harpy like enemies. Last thing I can remember is the perspective being like ALttP and sometimes a bit more like a side scroller.

 

[Kyolux]

Do you remember something about the graphics, dominating colors etc? Also, do you remember something about those triggered events, what happened when you pressed the keys?

Maybe some green and brown, it was a nature setting. I think, there was at least a tree. It was pretty colorful, triggered events were things like an animal moving and interacting with the background? It's really vague, all I remember is seeing that game at my dad's friend's and one other place.

I'm not too hopeful to find out anything about this, being so vague and a seemingly obscure software.

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Alright. This game has been on my mind for a while. I think it's a Super Nintendo game but not to sure. From what I recall you play as a boy with a top hat, and you can throw the top hat like a boomerang. Other details I can remember is that there is a room you can't get past because the carpet is possessed or something and waves up and down. I think there were harpy like enemies. Last thing I can remember is the perspective being like ALttP and sometimes a bit more like a side scroller.

Twisted Tales of Spike Mcfang?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CQkswRQtJk

 

[Josephl64]

Probably going to be impossible since I remember so little, but...

I remember going to a friend's house as a kid and he played a game on his pc(could have been emulated or used just the monitor), and I think it was a JRPG? All I remember is that we played the beginning and there is a pterodactyl which I believe was friendly?

...yeah, horrible memory, but it bugs me that I don't know what it was to this day.

 

[Chrozi]

There is a game a friend had on the Commodore 64, I think it had a ancient Egyptian theme, roaming through corridors and these dark evil being things would pop up, I remember the sides of the screen being very detailed and the sound was creepy.

 

[ichtyander]

Nope to both. It's possible that my mind mixed up different games and I remember them wrongly, I for sure played Sammy Lightfoot and it does remind me of the other game, but I'm pretty sure that it was not a game with fixed screens.
Thanks though!

Man I went through the screenshots of pretty much all platformers on Gamebase 64 and didn't manage to find that game. It really bugs me because the spinning toupee sounds so familiar. As for the text adventure, there are just so many of them and I'm not really that familiar with the genre, unfortunately.

Probably going to be impossible since I remember so little, but...

I remember going to a friend's house as a kid and he played a game on his pc(could have been emulated or used just the monitor), and I think it was a JRPG? All I remember is that we played the beginning and there is a pterodactyl which I believe was friendly?

...yeah, horrible memory, but it bugs me that I don't know what it was to this day.

Some more info maybe, roughly what year, 2D/3D, point of view, something peculiar about the graphics etc?

Oh wait, it hit me just as I was typing, is it maybe Twinsen's Odyssey?

There is a game a friend had on the Commodore 64, I think it had a ancient Egyptian theme, roaming through corridors and these dark evil being things would pop up, I remember the sides of the screen being very detailed and the sound was creepy.

Sounds like Scarabeus.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Here's an obscure one. It's for the Atari ST. It was 3D-ish, at least first-person. The ground was gray, and there was a blue sky, and you shot fireballs at things. The title screen music was awesome.

 

[Teppic]

Probably going to be impossible since I remember so little, but...

I remember going to a friend's house as a kid and he played a game on his pc(could have been emulated or used just the monitor), and I think it was a JRPG? All I remember is that we played the beginning and there is a pterodactyl which I believe was friendly?

...yeah, horrible memory, but it bugs me that I don't know what it was to this day.

Lost Eden?

 

[ichtyander]

Here's an obscure one. It's for the Atari ST. It was 3D-ish, at least first-person. The ground was gray, and there was a blue sky, and you shot fireballs at things. The title screen music was awesome.

Could be Backlash.

 

[eso76]

Man I went through the screenshots of pretty much all platformers on Gamebase 64 and didn't manage to find that game. It really bugs me because the spinning toupee sounds so familiar.


.

Did the same, for the same reason.
I remember the spinning wig, but no screenshot I saw clicked.
Now it's bugging me :/

 

[jimboton]

Here's an obscure one. It's for the Atari ST. It was 3D-ish, at least first-person. The ground was gray, and there was a blue sky, and you shot fireballs at things. The title screen music was awesome.

Armour-geddon?

 

[Circinus]

There was a 3D platforming-action game I liked playing on PC when I was a kid (when I was 4 or 5 years old or something I think, so it's probably a game that came out in ~1999 or 1998 (possibly earlier)). I don't remember much of it, but I know there was a level on a train and one level in a more lush, organic, jungle-ish environment.

And it had eggs as collectibles iirc.

I'm not sure, but I think the enemies in the jungle-ish level were insects.

I remember that the graphics were awesome.


It's possible that it was just a demo. It's also possible it's a game from a cereal box.

Edit: it's a 3D platforming game, and I think it was published by Infogrames

 

[Palehorse]

Here's one. It is an 3D RTS style game. You are a team of scientists coming up from a bunker after an apocalypse.

You can recruit people, you put them in vehicles to drive or fly. You can have jeeps, helis, tanks, APCs, trucks. Your ppl have inventories and skills that you can choose as they lvl up.

Each mission is a carryon from the last, with your resources carrying over from the last one.

It had some awful cheesy VA but it was a solid game...just can't remember the name.

Edit: I dove back into the web....Soldiers of Anarchy!!

 

[Josephl64]

Some more info maybe, roughly what year, 2D/3D, point of view, something peculiar about the graphics etc?

Oh wait, it hit me just as I was typing, is it maybe Twinsen's Odyssey?



Sounds like Scarabeus.

Lost Eden?

neither of those. Remembered a bit more, I don't think it was voiced, i believe i saw it more than a decade ago, it wasnt in first person, it had a jrpg aesthetic of sorts but can't recall more than that. no polygons i think it was just spritework

really sketchy but it might have come from an egg you recover?

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Could be Backlash.

That's it, thanks

 

[Blueingreen]

Calling all N64 enthusiasts, there was this weird, brutal 3D fighter I played on the system back in the day. I remember playing as a red devil iron knight, on some larva arena, something like that, any ideas ?

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Calling all N64 enthusiasts, there was this weird, brutal 3D fighter I played on the system back in the day. I remember playing as a red devil iron knight, on some larva arena, something like that, any ideas ?

Mace: The Dark Age?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U_xeBBmxos

Edit: lol I am guessing you mean "lava" and not "larva". That sounds interesting tho.

 

[Fuz]

Man I went through the screenshots of pretty much all platformers on Gamebase 64 and didn't manage to find that game. It really bugs me because the spinning toupee sounds so familiar. As for the text adventure, there are just so many of them and I'm not really that familiar with the genre, unfortunately.

I think that there is a very real possibility that my brain is mixing various games together. But I'm absolutely sure about the spinning toupee on death. It's probably Sammy Lightfoot mixed with something else.
And about that adventure... I browsed the Lemon64 text/graphics adventures list and there isn't. But that list lacks other adventures that I remember well, so it's not complete.
Thanks for trying though, apreciate it

 

[mclem]

And about that adventure... I browsed the Lemon64 text/graphics adventures list and there isn't. But that list lacks other adventures that I remember well, so it's not complete

For text adventures specifically, you might want to poke through IFDB instead. Although one thing you might find tricky is the fact that many text adventures are implemented on virtual machines, so they're listed as running on the VM in question, not the actual computer.

 

[ichtyander]

There was a platforming-action game I liked playing on PC when I was a kid (when I was 4 or 5 years old or something I think, so it's probably a game that came out in ~1999 or 1998 (possibly earlier)). I don't remember much of it, but I know there was a level on a train and one level in a more lush, organic, jungle-ish environment.

And it had eggs as collectibles iirc.

I'm not sure, but I think the enemies in the jungle-ish level were insects.

I remember that the graphics were awesome.


It's possible that it was just a demo. It's also possible it's a game from a cereal box.

Two platformers that I remember having jungle and train levels are Megaman X4 and Spirou.

 

[Blueingreen]

Mace: The Dark Age?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U_xeBBmxos

Edit: lol I am guessing you mean "lava" and not "larva". That sounds interesting tho.

YES thanks this is it, talk about nostalgia, I wonder how well it holds up these days ?

 

[WeWereGiants]

I'd really appreciate if someone could help out with this one.

It is an old point and click adventure game, it could have been a DOS game I'm not too sure, where you would travel from planet to planet solving puzzles and collecting items to advance on other planets. From memory it had voice acting and the planets might have been the ones in our solar system... But I'm not 100% I know it's a long shot but hopefully someone can help me out.

 

[Shambles]

This topic has gotten me thinking about a PC game I played in the late 90's. It was an Eve Online type game where you'd have a ship and fly around the galaxy trying to locate and control planets and resources. I think most of the game was spend in an overview mode where you'd be looking at a star map to figure out where to go. You could upgrade your ship as well as claim parts of the galaxy. I think it had a lot of 4X type elements but wasn't exactly a 4X game.

 

[mclem]

I'd really appreciate if someone could help out with this one.

It is an old point and click adventure game, it could have been a DOS game I'm not too sure, where you would travel from planet to planet solving puzzles and collecting items to advance on other planets. From memory it had voice acting and the planets might have been the ones in our solar system... But I'm not 100% I know it's a long shot but hopefully someone can help me out.

There's quite a few that could potentially fit the bill. Possibly a member of the Space Quest family, possibly Magic School Bus Explores The Solar System (!). Zak McCracken takes place in a few different environments including some in space. Star Trek: The Final Unity also has space travel; also in the Star Trek field, there's 25th Anniversary and Judgement Rites which are in more episodic styles (usually one planet per episode, the travel being between them)

This topic has gotten me thinking about a PC game I played in the late 90's. It was an Eve Online type game where you'd have a ship and fly around the galaxy trying to locate and control planets and resources. I think most of the game was spend in an overview mode where you'd be looking at a star map to figure out where to go. You could upgrade your ship as well as claim parts of the galaxy. I think it had a lot of 4X type elements but wasn't exactly a 4X game.

Most likely answer, I think, would be Master of Orion.

 

[Paul_uk]

I had a game on the Amiga back in the day. I don't know if it was a cheap PD game or if it was a proper full retail one.

Anyway all i can remember is you were on a planet and it was split into boxes or hexagons... thats about all i can remember! i think there were icons in the box to say what was happening in it like farming or somthing but i could be totally wrong, bet no-one can figure it out because i cannot seem to find it on Hall Of Light shame really, it bugs me.

 

[Shambles]

Most likely answer, I think, would be Master of Orion.

Looking through the games of that time there are so many that look similar. At this point I don't think I'd be able to recognize it and be confidant even if I did see it.

 

[Wibblewozzer]

I had a game on the Amiga back in the day. I don't know if it was a cheap PD game or if it was a proper full retail one.

Anyway all i can remember is you were on a planet and it was split into boxes or hexagons... thats about all i can remember! i think there were icons in the box to say what was happening in it like farming or somthing but i could be totally wrong, bet no-one can figure it out because i cannot seem to find it on Hall Of Light shame really, it bugs me.

Doesn't sound like a perfect match but perhaps it's Utopia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia:_The_Creation_of_a_Nation

 

[Qwark]

This is a long shot, but you guys are smart so I'll give it a try. I played it on Windows 95 around1997 or so on a friend's computer. It came in a compilation pack with maybe 20-30 other games, the only other game I remember was the original Mario Brothers.

It was a top down adventure game, which played very similar to the game Adventure. Probably 8 or 16 bit. I think the main character is a knight, and a large part of the game is in a castle/kingdom. At one point you go in a submarine and have to complete an underwater maze.

That's really about all I can remember, I would love to know what game I played.

 

[balgajo]

Somehow my Windows 98 came with a game(don't remember if it was a demo or full) in a medieval seting. I remember MC having a sword, the world was 3D, had a castle at the start, and some crossbow(even though i'm not so sure). I also think it had a first person view.

 

[PureJade]

I'v been looking for a game that was released on the NES. Where you are a robot that has to get a key and unlock a door in the lvl.

more blue and black with white bricks. The key is visible at all times, maybe a timer for you to get to the door. much smaller map, main character is a white robot.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dead leads
RoboWarrior

 

[Hakkesshu]

I'm looking for either a PS1 or PS2 horror game, or specifically a cutscene from one. It's one of those infamous really terrible, but funny cutscenes that tend to get posted as an example of how bad writing, acting and animation could be in those days.

It's about a girl living in like a boarding school or something, and a boy climbs into her room through the window. They have this really spirited argument with some of the most hilarious, hyperactive animation I've ever seen, where no one stops moving for even a second and the girl is like making her bed and they fall over and she excitedly crawls toward him while he recoils in terror. Also the voice acting is truly atrocious, maybe like fake British accents.

I had thought it was one of the Clock Tower games, but I can't for the life of me find this specific cutscene.

 

[Paul_uk]

Doesn't sound like a perfect match but perhaps it's Utopia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia:_The_Creation_of_a_Nation

Thank you for trying but nope, im sure it was top down view of like a jpeg image, to be honest it probably was a PD game (a local shop used to sell loads) which are hard to find info on.

 

[mclem]

I had a game on the Amiga back in the day. I don't know if it was a cheap PD game or if it was a proper full retail one.

Anyway all i can remember is you were on a planet and it was split into boxes or hexagons... thats about all i can remember! i think there were icons in the box to say what was happening in it like farming or somthing but i could be totally wrong, bet no-one can figure it out because i cannot seem to find it on Hall Of Light shame really, it bugs me.

Could it be Subtrade?

It's a M.U.L.E. clone, but it too had a sequel, Pioneers

Could it be one of those two?

 

[AlteredForms]

I remember a small PC game I used to play where the main character was a red astronaut and had a jetpack. It was a side scrolled.

Another side scrolling game was a shooter. You control a robot soldier with a metal face. You go from dark room to dark room shooting monsters.

 

[Paul_uk]

Could it be Subtrade?

It's a M.U.L.E. clone, but it too had a sequel, Pioneers

Could it be one of those two?

Ahhhhh its a clone of that definatly just not that one, awsome thank you so much, time to go googling thank you again you made my day

EDIT - Holy moley you absolute star! Pioneers is the game im sure of it, now to track down a copy. I cannot thank you enough, i mean how obscure is that game... im kinda speachless and emotional right now lol thank you so much.

 

[TheVoidDragon]

There are 2 games that i played the demos of about 15 years ago ago that I'm trying to remember. I can remember very little about them though.

One of them was an isometric-ish RTS-type game which i think was mainly controlled with the mouse. It involved controlling some sort of giant humanoid robot in a type of wasteland setting, and it had missiles and lasers and things like that. From what i remember the graphics probably weren't 3D.

The other game i can remember even less about as i don't think i actually played it and only saw a picture of it, it was a cartoony space setting with an orange alien in a silver outfit on a spaceship. The picture i remember looked like it could have been early CGI.

I know that's not a lot of information, but does anyone have any ideas what either of them could be?

 

[Overside]

There are 2 games that i played the demos of about 15 years ago ago that I'm trying to remember. I can remember very little about them though.

One of them was an isometric-ish RTS-type game which i think was mainly controlled with the mouse. It involved controlling some sort of giant humanoid robot in a type of wasteland setting, and it had missiles and lasers and things like that. From what i remember the graphics probably weren't 3D.

The other game i can remember even less about as i don't think i actually played it and only saw a picture of it, it was a cartoony space setting with an orange alien in a silver outfit on a spaceship. The picture i remember looked like it could have been early CGI.

I know that's not a lot of information, but does anyone have any ideas what either of them could be?

The first one sounds like it could be one of the first 2 fallouts.

 

[Tanerian]

1. Sega Saturn Game - I believe it's a point and click first person game, in space.. on some weird ship. I remember you being able to choose which doors/directions to go, but it was all done point and click, click a door you go through it, but you don't control the actual movement. Many doors would lead to death. Some of the station I recall being covered in some kind of.. living.. thing? Maybe some alien stuff? Eventually I think the entire place is covered in the stuff. I just remember enjoying finding different ways to die.


2. Sega Saturn - Some kind of RPG, but not turn based. 3D graphics and I believe it was first person, though perhaps you could switch between it and 3rd? Definitely fantasy setting and there were vampires I know as some of the earlier enemies. Or perhaps just a vampire mansion with other enemies?I know loot was randomly generated to some degree, as a big memory I have of it was restarting the game and heading to some castle I got a wicked sword in, only to have the creature not drop the sword that time.

3. PC game, 3D graphics - My mom played this game when I was a kid. There was a flying Dolphin that would sing, and you could feed it flowers. There was a button you could use that made a weird noise that scared the shit out of the Dolphin thing and it'd fly away. There were other areas you could interact with the flying Dolphin, one was a forest, and another was like a river where some other flying Dolphin would come and swim sometime (They swam too). I don't recall any fighting elements of any type. There were just buttons that made noise to the creature, and a button to feed it flowers.

 

[Lumpy Onion]

1. Sega Saturn Game - I believe it's a point and click first person game, in space.. on some weird ship. I remember you being able to choose which doors/directions to go, but it was all done point and click, click a door you go through it, but you don't control the actual movement. Many doors would lead to death. Some of the station I recall being covered in some kind of.. living.. thing? Maybe some alien stuff? Eventually I think the entire place is covered in the stuff. I just remember enjoying finding different ways to die.


2. Sega Saturn - Some kind of RPG, but not turn based. 3D graphics and I believe it was first person, though perhaps you could switch between it and 3rd? Definitely fantasy setting and there were vampires I know as some of the earlier enemies. Or perhaps just a vampire mansion with other enemies?I know loot was randomly generated to some degree, as a big memory I have of it was restarting the game and heading to some castle I got a wicked sword in, only to have the creature not drop the sword that time.

3. PC game, 3D graphics - My mom played this game when I was a kid. There was a flying Dolphin that would sing, and you could feed it flowers. There was a button you could use that made a weird noise that scared the shit out of the Dolphin thing and it'd fly away. There were other areas you could interact with the flying Dolphin, one was a forest, and another was like a river where some other flying Dolphin would come and swim sometime (They swam too). I don't recall any fighting elements of any type. There were just buttons that made noise to the creature, and a button to feed it flowers.

Game 2 sure sounds like Virtual Hydlyde. You mention the randomization and vampire.

Virtual Hydlyde (Vampire's Mansion) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXYLK2P4Dtk

 

[Niahak]

One of them was an isometric-ish RTS-type game which i think was mainly controlled with the mouse. It involved controlling some sort of giant humanoid robot in a type of wasteland setting, and it had missiles and lasers and things like that. From what i remember the graphics probably weren't 3D.

Could this be Mech Commander? I remember some of the stages being bleak-ish. RTS with a small group, so if you only played early stages you would've had only one or two units.

 

[soully]

Okay, I've got one that's genuinely bugged me for years, I'm pretty sure nobody will get it based on the patchy memories I have of it, but...
It was an arcade machine that had 2 maybe 3 games to choose from, one was a 1-2 player cartoony looking contra style platformer. You'd go around shooting things and collecting gems- It may have had some sort of hookshot type weapon (may be misremembering this part). The second game was an r-type style shooter, possibly set in the same game-world as the platformer.
I would have played this around 1995. Anyone?

 

[DeadTrees]

Okay, I've got one that's genuinely bugged me for years, I'm pretty sure nobody will get it based on the patchy memories I have of it, but...
It was an arcade machine that had 2 maybe 3 games to choose from, one was a 1-2 player cartoony looking contra style platformer. You'd go around shooting things and collecting gems- It may have had some sort of hookshot type weapon (may be misremembering this part). The second game was an r-type style shooter, possibly set in the same game-world as the platformer.
I would have played this around 1995. Anyone?

Pretty sure those are Cyber-Lip and Last Resort.

 

[TheVoidDragon]

Could this be Mech Commander? I remember some of the stages being bleak-ish. RTS with a small group, so if you only played early stages you would've had only one or two units.

That's definitely it, I recognize some of those mechs and the icons. Thanks

 

[Morrigan Stark]

2. Sega Saturn - Some kind of RPG, but not turn based. 3D graphics and I believe it was first person, though perhaps you could switch between it and 3rd? Definitely fantasy setting and there were vampires I know as some of the earlier enemies. Or perhaps just a vampire mansion with other enemies?I know loot was randomly generated to some degree, as a big memory I have of it was restarting the game and heading to some castle I got a wicked sword in, only to have the creature not drop the sword that time.

I wonder if you aren't conflating two games here? First-person + fantasy + vampire mansion early on remind me of Shining the Holy Ark, but it's definitely turn-based and loot wasn't random.

 

[mclem]

Okay, I've got one that's genuinely bugged me for years, I'm pretty sure nobody will get it based on the patchy memories I have of it, but...
It was an arcade machine that had 2 maybe 3 games to choose from, one was a 1-2 player cartoony looking contra style platformer. You'd go around shooting things and collecting gems- It may have had some sort of hookshot type weapon (may be misremembering this part). The second game was an r-type style shooter, possibly set in the same game-world as the platformer.
I would have played this around 1995. Anyone?

Could it be Three Wonders? Or rather, the Midnight Wanderers and Chariot components of it, at least.

 

[Fou-Lu]

1. It was a JRPG, I believe it was for SNES. The game started with some previous party of heroes fighting a last boss fight.

2. Also a JRPG and probably for SNES or PSX, but I have very little memory of it outside of the game starting with naming every party member.

 

[Chaz Ashley]

1. It was a JRPG, I believe it was for SNES. The game started with some previous party of heroes fighting a last boss fight.

Sounds like Lufia.