BouncyFrag
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On the first Macintosh:
Ancient Art of War
Asteroids
Ancient Art of War
Asteroids
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Old computer games you're pretty sure no one but you ever played.
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Gaf I need your help. When I was a kid, I had a game, but I can't remember what it was called. The wonderful, fantastical factory or something. You had a Willy Wonka style host, and he was in a giant tent/circus, perhaps? And you'd go to different sections and do things. I was about 6 at the time (10 years ago almost) on out first PC with 100MB of hard drive space.
I've already seen that Crayola game, brings back memories. I also had a Batman cartoon creator.
Also, there was another which came loaded with Lucas fonts, I think? Some really skinny guy with scraggy hair. I can't remember much else from that, either.
I've searched MobyGames and everything
I've already seen that Crayola game, brings back memories. I also had a Batman cartoon creator.
Also, there was another which came loaded with Lucas fonts, I think? Some really skinny guy with scraggy hair. I can't remember much else from that, either.
I've searched MobyGames and everything
Thank you. I played this game on a school computer but I couldn't think of how to describe it.Word Rescue
Dink Smallwood (only played a demo)
Beaten!
Do you mean Microsoft's Hover? Came free with Windows 95 IIRC.
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The Realm - one of the early MMORPGs, amazingly people still play it
Beaten!
Hell yea, I remember the Cyberia games. Amazing graphics at the time.
Do you mean Microsoft's Hover? Came free with Windows 95 IIRC.
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The Realm - one of the early MMORPGs, amazingly people still play it
Wishbone and the Amazing Odyssey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5STxHdqcw
A-tier point and click adventure game. <3 Eurylochus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc5STxHdqcw
A-tier point and click adventure game. <3 Eurylochus
Bloodstone: An Epic Dwarven Tale
So obscure I can only find one picture of the box...
Still love this game so much. It's an open ended, top-down party based RPG with a ton of freedom and a pretty cool magic system. Unlike a lot of old ass RPGs from this time most of its interface is pretty easy to navigate with a mouse, so you don't have to remember a lot of hotkeys to do things (which is a problem I had trying to go back to old Ultima games).
I'm going to go play this again right now.
So obscure I can only find one picture of the box...
Still love this game so much. It's an open ended, top-down party based RPG with a ton of freedom and a pretty cool magic system. Unlike a lot of old ass RPGs from this time most of its interface is pretty easy to navigate with a mouse, so you don't have to remember a lot of hotkeys to do things (which is a problem I had trying to go back to old Ultima games).
I'm going to go play this again right now.
trudderham
Member
Sensory Overload for the Mac, a FPS from the 90s. I had little else to play at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKaQcJgeS0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKaQcJgeS0
Happy-Bunny
Banned
Solar Winds by Epic
undu
Member
I remember a game with a track with exactly the same layout, but different art, Speed Demons
http://www.gameswin.org/gameen.php?id=1714
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kl6ggggZTM
Man, I loved the game, shame these kinf of racing games aren't popular anymore.
shacklesmcgee
Member
Never did like Math Rescue though for some reason...
There is an excellent Atari 8-bit version of it which is worth playing if you only remember the PC one
http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-alley-cat_212.html
My entry to the thread is another classic 8-bit atari game that I got on a number of disks and no instructions so stumbled through it without any clue on what i was doing but it had been sold to me as 'like Elite'
Omnitrends Universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe_(1983_video_game)
http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-universe_5617.html
Oh and this game, but I'm pretty sure some people on gaf know this one
So many hours on this one just roaming around to try and make sense out of it.
woodruff was amazing. think it was pretty famous at its time
dont know if you can call these two games at all
midnight winter /edit: midwinter!
and this one
Bugdom.
This was quite literally my SHIT in elementary school.
Who needs Oregon Trail? I dropped that after playing it a bit as a class. Bugdom was only installed on the Mac computers in the after-school activity trailer
Lol sorry man that was my childhood as well. I just found it on my mac one day and played it, was hooked.
Also
HamsterPackage
Member
I played a game on my old 486 (if I remember correctly). Your a detective and the game was mostly FMV but you could slowly move around the world. There were items to find just like a point and click adventure. Pretty sure it was a murder mystery, and I remember something about talking to a homeless man in a alley. Vague I know but I can't remember much else. Help GAF!!
Brerlappin
Member
So obscure you even got the name wrong...thats Midwinterwoodruff was amazing. think it was pretty famous at its time
dont know if you can call these two games at all
midnight winter
MarkMclovin
Member
and this one
Pretty sure I rubbed a few out to that in the days of even looking at a bus would get you going!
I have a game that I doubt nobody has played but I can't remember what it was called. If you can guess it from this crappy description, then you get 20 points :
Game UI looked very similar to populous, isometric with a world map, hills, huts, farms etc but not as good. Played quite similar to populous actually.
Local multiplayer which was turn based. You could farm, attack and defend other players.
PC only as far as I know.
Probably around in the early to mid 90's
I loved that one, perfectly times child baiting games.
There was this old educational computer game back in elementary school. I can't for the life of me remember its name though.
It started off in a jungle of some sort. iirc the map was gridlike and the player moved certain amounts of spaces. Near the beginning the player has to find a machete to try to clear some deep foliage, and there was a treehouse you had to go to at one point. Near the end you're looking for something and are traveling on a river by boat to get to it, but since it was educational you had to travel by using angle degrees and lines to make turns.
I know it's completely vague but that's honesty all I can remember. I was hoping someone might have remembered playing it.
One I do remember is Matchbox Emergency Patrol. Cheesy but fun.
My man. Would always build the tower restaurant, then after people went inside I'd make a moat around it to keep them trapped lol.
It started off in a jungle of some sort. iirc the map was gridlike and the player moved certain amounts of spaces. Near the beginning the player has to find a machete to try to clear some deep foliage, and there was a treehouse you had to go to at one point. Near the end you're looking for something and are traveling on a river by boat to get to it, but since it was educational you had to travel by using angle degrees and lines to make turns.
I know it's completely vague but that's honesty all I can remember. I was hoping someone might have remembered playing it.
One I do remember is Matchbox Emergency Patrol. Cheesy but fun.
My man. Would always build the tower restaurant, then after people went inside I'd make a moat around it to keep them trapped lol.
Nikodemos
Member
Gatdam. This is like Nostalgia Museum for me. I played a ton of the games posted here (albeit only in shareware version in some cases).
Let me add some of my own:
War, Inc.
A strategy/stocktrading game. The combat part was thoroughly mediocre, due to crappy controls, but the stockmarket part was pretty interesting (you could even acquire corporations, and they gave you various bonuses). Also, it had a nifty mix-n-match mode for combat vehicle design.
Arctic Baron (Transarctica in some countries).
A train combat simulator/adventure/strategy. Made by Silmarils (this kinda tells everything). Sadly, the combat portion was pretty bad, particularly near the end when your train had several dozen wagons, but there were ways around it.
Soldiers of Anarchy.
A post-apocalyptic strategy/tactics hybrid. Really large mission maps. Still have it on an old PC.
I could keep going like this for some while...
Let me add some of my own:
War, Inc.
A strategy/stocktrading game. The combat part was thoroughly mediocre, due to crappy controls, but the stockmarket part was pretty interesting (you could even acquire corporations, and they gave you various bonuses). Also, it had a nifty mix-n-match mode for combat vehicle design.
Arctic Baron (Transarctica in some countries).
A train combat simulator/adventure/strategy. Made by Silmarils (this kinda tells everything). Sadly, the combat portion was pretty bad, particularly near the end when your train had several dozen wagons, but there were ways around it.
Soldiers of Anarchy.
A post-apocalyptic strategy/tactics hybrid. Really large mission maps. Still have it on an old PC.
I could keep going like this for some while...
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Robocop 3D. It was basically no where on the internet until I wrote a wiki page for it on giant bomb.
It always was weird to me that a licenced game like that would get so little attention. I need other people to share my trauma as a kid of trying forever to beat that damn ninja in fist to fist combat with tank controls and the worst camera angle ever, and never winning.
Someday I'll probably be able to return to that game and finish what i started decades ago, but even now the trauma hasn't faded enough yet.
It always was weird to me that a licenced game like that would get so little attention. I need other people to share my trauma as a kid of trying forever to beat that damn ninja in fist to fist combat with tank controls and the worst camera angle ever, and never winning.
Someday I'll probably be able to return to that game and finish what i started decades ago, but even now the trauma hasn't faded enough yet.
Okay, i've got one i'm pretty sure no one played, but sadly i can't remember the title. If any of you finds it, you're basically the god of videogame knowledge.
Context : It was on Atari 520ST during the 80's. I bought a special cable that allowed me to synchronise my computer with my minitel (the ancestor of internet basically).
With that setup, i was able to download content at the lighting speed of 9600bps. That way, i got a text editor, a paint software and a few games. Among them, there was a game i put dozens of hours of gaming in.
The game : It was a sidescroller platforming shooter. Two players could play as a goat and a camel in randomly generated levels. The goat could ride the camel and iirc you could pick up a large selection of weapons on the battlefield.
It was pretty much a big mess were all you had to do was jump and spam the fire button.
So yeah, i'm pretty sure no one except me ever played that.
edit : i can't believe a simple google search with "atari goat riding camel" gave it away, here it is
Revenge of the Mutant Camels
Context : It was on Atari 520ST during the 80's. I bought a special cable that allowed me to synchronise my computer with my minitel (the ancestor of internet basically).
With that setup, i was able to download content at the lighting speed of 9600bps. That way, i got a text editor, a paint software and a few games. Among them, there was a game i put dozens of hours of gaming in.
The game : It was a sidescroller platforming shooter. Two players could play as a goat and a camel in randomly generated levels. The goat could ride the camel and iirc you could pick up a large selection of weapons on the battlefield.
It was pretty much a big mess were all you had to do was jump and spam the fire button.
So yeah, i'm pretty sure no one except me ever played that.
edit : i can't believe a simple google search with "atari goat riding camel" gave it away, here it is
Revenge of the Mutant Camels
Imp the Dimp
Member
Kid
I'm 100% certain nobody ever played this other than me
Also, Captain Quazar:
Game was pretty awesome too.
I'm 100% certain nobody ever played this other than me
Also, Captain Quazar:
Game was pretty awesome too.
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Played the crap out of this game but nobody I know has ever played it or heard of it. Please someone on GAF must of played this and can share my nostalgia?!
Oh and Flying Tiger. Awesome game!
Oh and Flying Tiger. Awesome game!
Screaming Meat
Unconfirmed Member
woodruff was amazing. think it was pretty famous at its time
dont know if you can call these two games at all
midnight winter
and this one
That was Midwinter in UK. Great game. Midwinter 2 was even better!
Okay, i've got one i'm pretty sure no one played, but sadly i can't remember the title. If any of you finds it, you're basically the god of videogame knowledge.
Context : It was on Atari 520ST during the 80's. I bought a special cable that allowed me to synchronise my computer with my minitel (the ancestor of internet basically).
With that setup, i was able to download content at the lighting speed of 9600bps. That way, i got a text editor, a paint software and a few games. Among them, there was a game i put dozens of hours of gaming in.
The game : It was a sidescroller platforming shooter. Two players could play as a goat and a camel in randomly generated levels. The goat could ride the camel and iirc you could pick up a large selection of weapons on the battlefield.
It was pretty much a big mess were all you had to do was jump and spam the fire button.
So yeah, i'm pretty sure no one except me ever played that.
edit : i can't believe a simple google search with "atari goat riding camel" gave it away, here it is
Revenge of the Mutant Camels
Played that on the Amiga. Had no idea what was going on XD
Erin S Kittens
Member
Matterhorn Screamer for Apple II. One of the other classrooms had it in elementary school, and I got to play it a few times.
ClintAbuse
Banned
Spiderman Cartoon Maker
I think it came with a Packard Bell computer so maybe a lot of people had it if they were popular. Also WinTrek.
I think it came with a Packard Bell computer so maybe a lot of people had it if they were popular. Also WinTrek.
So obscure you even got the name wrong...thats Midwinter
oh yeah. you re absolutely right.
i googled it correctly but wrote the wrong thing in here.
good morning. lol
did you know what that game was about?
metalshade
Member
Powerslide
You are not alone my friend, I loved that game! I still have it, and play it occasionally, still the best feeling racing game I have ever played.
Daffy Duck
Member
Cloud Master on the Master System.
And also:
Me and my cousin had hours of fun on that black jack table when we were younger.
We just used to waste our money as well to get the awesome game over sequence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeqbHEbH1qw
And also:
Me and my cousin had hours of fun on that black jack table when we were younger.
We just used to waste our money as well to get the awesome game over sequence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeqbHEbH1qw
Spiderman Cartoon Maker
I think it came with a Packard Bell computer so maybe a lot of people had it if they were popular. Also WinTrek.
DUDE THE AMOUNT OF MESSED UP CARTOONS I MADE ON THIS.....
DAYMNNNNNNNNN SON. #memories!
Does anyone remember Sammy's Science House or Bailey's Book House? Please say you do! Is it possible to play it now?
I also had a game about some guy called Max and his friends, I remember a level where a bunch of people lived in a giant shoe, but not a lot more...
There was also like this educational game about a purple witch in a castle, with this spider mini game where you'd be doing mathematics on a spider web, walking along it to the right answer etc. PLEASE say someone knows what I'm talking about! We're talking mid 90s ish for all of these I think.
Oh my god that was the shit!!!
I also had a game about some guy called Max and his friends, I remember a level where a bunch of people lived in a giant shoe, but not a lot more...
There was also like this educational game about a purple witch in a castle, with this spider mini game where you'd be doing mathematics on a spider web, walking along it to the right answer etc. PLEASE say someone knows what I'm talking about! We're talking mid 90s ish for all of these I think.
Oh my god that was the shit!!!
nintendork666
Member
So here's a game so obscure that I literally had to quickly webcam a pick of my copy just to post it in this thread.
In Big G All Star Game, you played baseball as General Mills cereal characters against licensed MLV teams. I remember this being awesome and sunk quite some time into it. I've no idea how it holds up today and can't find any footage/screenshots online. Needless to say, I'm holding onto my copy "just in case". One day, I'll finally have my chance to boot this bad boy up again.
Another obscure PC game I used to play a lot is Ace Venture: The Case of the Serial Shaver.
From what I recall, it was barely a game. More like a choose your own adventure point n' click. I used to just watch it like a cartoon, mostly. I also remember another title by this Multipath Adventures company... something about an evil twin or something. It was really creepy.
In Big G All Star Game, you played baseball as General Mills cereal characters against licensed MLV teams. I remember this being awesome and sunk quite some time into it. I've no idea how it holds up today and can't find any footage/screenshots online. Needless to say, I'm holding onto my copy "just in case". One day, I'll finally have my chance to boot this bad boy up again.
Another obscure PC game I used to play a lot is Ace Venture: The Case of the Serial Shaver.
From what I recall, it was barely a game. More like a choose your own adventure point n' click. I used to just watch it like a cartoon, mostly. I also remember another title by this Multipath Adventures company... something about an evil twin or something. It was really creepy.
Brerlappin
Member
If i remember rightly, it was an open world game, where there was some sort of revolution going on on the island and you had to do....something.. :lol.
I was terrible at it, had no idea what i was doing.
Im sure some of you played this...but it was still damn obscure. Millennium 2.2
I was so proud of myself back then as i figured out, and completed the game without any kind of manual or instructions lol
Pegasus Actual
Member
A lot of good stuff here that I remember playing
But also a lot of good stuff that I missed
But also a lot of good stuff that I missed
dispensergoinup
Gold Member
Seeing these posts and old games images are putting nostalgic tears in my eyes.
It's why I love gaf.
OT: Red Storm Rising, 688 Attack Sub, The Bard's Tale (I cheated when it would corrupt the save file on the floppies and got crazy OP monks and other classes).
Also, most of the MicroPROSE games and my favorite space pirating, alien shit talking game Lightspeed!
It's why I love gaf.
OT: Red Storm Rising, 688 Attack Sub, The Bard's Tale (I cheated when it would corrupt the save file on the floppies and got crazy OP monks and other classes).
Also, most of the MicroPROSE games and my favorite space pirating, alien shit talking game Lightspeed!
HiredN00bs
Member
I just recently recalled, while watching VGCW on Tuesday night, that I used to play text-based wrestling games downloaded from Q-Link (dial-up service for the Commodore 64). As a child, I thought these games were fucking rad. It would go something like:
Now that I think about it, it's pretty similar to a Pokémon battle, lol.
Code:
Choose your wrestler:
[your choice]
vs.
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
What do you do:
1) Punch
2) Headbutt
3) Irish whip
4) Grapple
5) Dropkick
2
You go for the Headbutt...
It missed!Now that I think about it, it's pretty similar to a Pokémon battle, lol.
If i remember rightly, it was an open world game, where there was some sort of revolution going on on the island and you had to do....something.. :lol.
I was terrible at it, had no idea what i was doing.
Im sure some of you played this...but it was still damn obscure. Millennium 2.2
I was so proud of myself back then as i figured out, and completed the game without any kind of manual or instructions lol
millenium 2.2 was fantastic.
How about Warhead on the Amiga?
or Return Fire?
