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[Narag]

I just suddenly thought of this one while laying in bed (not sure why).

Played this on my uncle's genesis a lot when I was about 7 or 8, which would put this at around 1991 or 1992 (maybe... could be a little older).

As stated:

-Genesis
-Sci-Fi
-You would travel to different planets and explore them in an isometric or overhead view (can't really remember)
-Pretty sure you were in a vehicle of some kind


Can't remember much else about it, including gameplay. For a while I thought it was Buck Rogers (as I also played that on his Genesis a lot), but upon further thought that was more an RPG.

Any ideas? I know it's not a lot of info to run on.

Final Zone or Battletech?

Here's one that will surely stump your brains.

Details:

It was a old Windows first-person dungeon crawler with multiple windows for spells, gear, equipment, items, and a text-based log detailing what was happening. It had a map as well, top down style. The graphics were okay, but the character customization was top notch.

Any ideas?

It's a bit older but Ultima Underworld?

OK, I don't think I'll ever figure this one out. It's a C64 game from like '88 and I used to believe it was called "Election" or something along those lines, but after searching the web for hours, this can't be true.

It involved a number of sprites with huge, super-deformed heads (not sure if they even had bodies) moving around on a city-ish playfield, some of which were wearing sunglasses and you controlling one of them. Sometimes, the others would become aggressive and you'd fight them by ramming into them which would make sounds that resembled explosions in early shooters. I think I remember the cityscape looking kind of like Onett from Earthbound.

That's all I've got. Somehow I have the feeling I'll never remember what this one was called.

You might be right in the title. Found this on a site gaf doesn't play nice with.

It's under a listing called Election for C64. whoops beaten

Bringing this quesion back, its definetly not Mega Turrican. And maybe it wasn really egypian themed, I just kind of remember it that way. Think kind of like stargate egyptian if that makes sense. The main character was in a blue suit with gold armor pieces and black hair. The wrist mounted laser could be used to shoot or as a grappling beam, if you crouched and shot down there was this really detailed animation for swinging down under the platform and then lowering yourself on the beam. I remember the wrist laser and the detailed animations being the main gimmicks of the game.

Zone Warrior?

 

[mclem]

Ok,

Mine was an old text adventure game played on an Atari 1040STe....

Dont have much to go on, but it started out with a crashed ship and you could go north/south/etc. There was a mountain to the east if I remember that you couldnt get around, and you could examine your crashed ship for stuff. I think you were able to grab water and something else. I remember once getting far away from the ship, and it was some alien world that had big lakes and stuff.

I know thats really vague but without graphics I can really only remember some of the story.

Planetfall? Although I think that's more a base setting than an exterior environment

Starcross, at a pinch?

Maybe one of the Topologika Doom adventures: Countdown to Doom, Return to Doom, Last Days of Doom. No relation to the later Doom!

Finally, it strikes me that it could be Return To Eden, of the Silicon Dreams trilogy.

 

[mclem]

I just suddenly thought of this one while laying in bed (not sure why).

Played this on my uncle's genesis a lot when I was about 7 or 8, which would put this at around 1991 or 1992 (maybe... could be a little older).

As stated:

-Genesis
-Sci-Fi
-You would travel to different planets and explore them in an isometric or overhead view (can't really remember)
-Pretty sure you were in a vehicle of some kind

Could be Starflight, perhaps? I belive there was a Genesis iteration of that.

 

[Fallout-NL]

Brutal?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhf1q4PVOfI

No, that's not it...


The pace was slower and there were swords involved. Also the animals I remember most are a monkey and an elephant.

 

[XeroSauce]

Wasn't Jill of the Jungle, was it?

Holy crap yes. Great find, I loved that game.

 

[duckroll]

No, that's not it...


The pace was slower and there were swords involved. Also the animals I remember most are a monkey and an elephant.

Just to be absolutely sure, it's not Fighting Masters right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjMT6Jy16QQ

 

[Fallout-NL]

Just to be absolutely sure, it's not Fighting Masters right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjMT6Jy16QQ

Hehe, no. While it's definitely an elephant, the elephant in my game looked less malevolent.

But keep 'em coming man, I appreciate the persistence!

 

[ZacharyDCCLXXVII]

I've been trying to find a game for the past three months. I don't remember the name, but it was a top-down shooter.

I remember there being a three-player maximum, and it was about soldiers/mercenaries killing monsters/aliens of a sort. I'm pretty sure it was a DOS game, and I could swear the game had only six letters in the title.

I also think you bought weapons during breaks in-between stages/levels.

 

[djtiesto]

I've been trying to find a game for the past three months. I don't remember the name, but it was a top-down shooter.

I remember there being a three-player maximum, and it was about soldiers/mercenaries killing monsters/aliens of a sort. I'm pretty sure it was a DOS game, and I could swear the game had only six letters in the title.

I also think you bought weapons during breaks in-between stages/levels.

Could it be Soldier of Fortune/The Chaos Engine?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos_Engine

 

[kevinski]

Does anyone here remember the name of a game for NES that involves hiding in alleys and (possibly) evading spotlights? I seem to recall this being at the very beginning of the game.

 

[Lumpy Onion]

Does anyone here remember the name of a game for NES that involves hiding in alleys and (possibly) evading spotlights? I seem to recall this being at the very beginning of the game.

It was called Rescue: the Embassy Mission.

 

[Goody]

PC game from around 95 or 96 or so. Futuristic racing game and I think there was some combat involved.

Your crafts didn't hover over the track as much as they kind of were attached to a line that floated in mid air.

On of the crafts was black and looked kind of like a bat and was driven/flown by a scientist looking guy.

 

[kevinski]

It was called Rescue: the Embassy Mission.

Thanks!

 

[Charoncaori]

An older friend of mine told me about this game a few years ago, so sorry if I screw it up. It'd be from the 80s or early 90s, I guess.

Some wizard makes a spell or potion to split himself into good and evil, but he realizes it was a bad idea and he sends you into some tower to get a rod or something to vanquish the evil half (or put him back together or something). If you got the rod and then laboriously climbed back down the tower to the good wizard, he'd be all "thanks sucker", take the rod, kill his evil half and then you'd game over.

Am I confusing two different games?

On an unrelated note, has anyone played the Alice in Wonderland game for the CD-i? That thing freaked me the hell out as a kid, but it seems like no one remembers it exists anymore. Probably for good reason.

 

[eso76]

I just remembered reading the preview of a Spectrum game once; isometric view, black and white (like "ultimate play the game" titles, or Batman etc) featuring an Indiana Jones-like main character. If i remember correctly, you controlled a group of 3 or 4 people, but i am not too sure about that. Never had the chance to play it.


Another one of which i read a preview but never had the chance to see (not even in screenshots).
Was for either C64, Msx or Spectrum.
All i have are bits of the description i read like 25 years ago; i just remember it was a futuristic adventure-action game, probably the most notable feature is the game would 'detect' if you were nervous or panicking by the way you used the controller (which either raised your character's pulse ratio in the game or applied more lag to controls, or both - can't remember). I remember reading the final level had you walking on a ledge spiraling down to the final boss.
Maybe it had 'warrior' in the title, then again maybe not.
Probably a crap game, but the description was fascinating.

 

[FateBreaker]

i know no one is going to get this but here goes.

side-scroller action game. had a gold knight going across a castle courtyard--i think at night--with pretty stiff movement. It was on the NES...there was a green dragon thing on the cover and I think the gold knight.

:\ Anyone?

It's one of the first games I've ever played. Possibly my earliest memory of video games.

 

[angelfly]

i know no one is going to get this but here goes.

side-scroller action game. had a gold knight going across a castle courtyard--i think at night--with pretty stiff movement. It was on the NES...there was a green dragon thing on the cover and I think the gold knight.

:\ Anyone?

It's one of the first games I've ever played. Possibly my earliest memory of video games.

Castle of Dragon?

 

[mclem]

I just remembered reading the preview of a Spectrum game once; isometric view, black and white (like "ultimate play the game" titles, or Batman etc) featuring an Indiana Jones-like main character. If i remember correctly, you controlled a group of 3 or 4 people, but i am not too sure about that. Never had the chance to play it.

Where Time Stood Still?

 

[Paracelsus]

The only game I played but I don't remember was for the Amiga. All I remember is that there was this submarine shooting missiles at a giant octopus in a tunnel or something. You had very few moments to nail the octopus down, then it would come at you and squeeze the submarine until the explosion.

 

[eso76]

Where Time Stood Still?

oh yes, that must be it ! thanks !

 

[FateBreaker]

Castle of Dragon?

ohshit! yes. thank you

 

[Baconbitz]

I've been trying to figure the name of this game out for a while

Details:
-Space shooter
-genesis
-local co-op
-Possibly had one life only?
-shump (left to right)

 

[Ozzykamikaze]

I've been trying to figure the name of this game out for a while

Details:
-Space shooter
-genesis
-local co-op
-Possibly had one life only?
-shump (left to right)

Forgotten Worlds?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xdJmrF2HSY

 

[DeadTrees]

I've been trying to figure the name of this game out for a while

Details:
-Space shooter
-genesis
-local co-op
-Possibly had one life only?
-shump (left to right)

Could be Aero Blasters or Forgotten Worlds.

 

[matm666]

Any one knows this game:

Is a vertical shump
first boss i think is a Zeppelin
Another boss is a black jet those in a triangle shape

Played it on Arcade
cant remember more of it.

 

[someguyinahat]

Any one knows this game:

Is a vertical shump
first boss i think is a Zeppelin
Another boss is a black jet those in a triangle shape

Played it on Arcade
cant remember more of it.

Could it be Time Pilot? I know for sure the first boss is a blimp in that.

 

[Fallout-NL]

Alright, I've got one I can't remember the name of:


It was a fighting game I played on the PC somewhere in the very early nineties. The characters you fought with were animals. I can remember a monkey and an elephant, they were dressed though and walked sort of upright. There was a cartoonish style to them. They also used swords. The elephant made a weird sort of trumpeting sound. It was rather difficult to progress in. Also, the backgrounds looked rather striking.

And this I'm not sure about, perhaps there was more to it than only the fighting, maybe a little platforming as well... like dodging or jumping over things that came at you one a moving beltway of some kind.

Anyone else played this?

I remembered another detail: I think at one point one of the backgrounds or levels was an oil refinery of sorts, set against a setting sun.

I still can't be sure whether it was a pure fighter or not. I think there was some small amount of movement involved as well. Otherwise I'd just go to mobygames and look at all the PC fighters for 89/90/91.

(played it on a 286 btw)

 

[dock]

There was a Commodore 64 game which had some sort of password protection when the game started. If you failed the game would exit out to an intentionally bad game! The bad game was something to do with clouds, and I think you played a fat, ugly and poorly drawn character.

Does anyone have any idea which game I'm talking about?

 

[Mista Koo]

I remember a PC sidescroller I played mid '90s (probably released 80s/early '90s). IIRC it had a futuristic setting and the player character had a gun. The thing I remember the most is that the character had a head like this:

Orange, with long tube ears or whatever pointing upwards. He looked human otherwise (I think he wore space suit).

The Jazz Jackrabbit thread reminded me of it. I'm not sure why but I think it had a similar HUD (panel on the bottom of the screen full of info).

 

[mt1200]

Gaf help!.

Some exclusive PS3 game developed by an Euro developer, with this music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awJzg-vmYRQ

No one has figured this out yet.

 

[Ashodin]

It's a bit older but Ultima Underworld?

Definitely not it. It was a Windows 95 game to be sure, I remember it coming on a pack of games on floppy disk. Or it was a CD. But it was in a pack of games.

And it had multiple windows it would open up to keep track of the stats/gear/etc.

EDIT: Found it! It was Mordor: Depths of Dejenol

yessss

 

[mclem]

I remember a PC sidescroller I played mid '90s (probably released 80s/early '90s). IIRC it had a futuristic setting and the player character had a gun. The thing I remember the most is that the character had a head like this:

Orange, with long tube ears or whatever pointing upwards. He looked human otherwise (I think he wore space suit).

The Jazz Jackrabbit thread reminded me of it. I'm not sure why but I think it had a similar HUD (panel on the bottom of the screen full of info).

It wasn't released on PC, but the only association I can make with this picture is B.O.B., which seems to fit all other criteria.

 

[matm666]

Could it be Time Pilot? I know for sure the first boss is a blimp in that.

No that isnt the game, looks a little bit more modern is big zeppelin

 

[magicalsoundshower]

archnemesis and Narag: Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have no idea why this game isn't on Lemon64.

 

[Mista Koo]

It wasn't released on PC, but the only association I can make with this picture is B.O.B., which seems to fit all other criteria.

Nope, unfortunately it isn't.
The character in the game I'm talking about is more anthropomorphized, he looks like a human with an orange deformed head. Also I remember the settings being more bright and industrial/futuristic.

 

[RurouniZel]

I remember a game my cousin used to play when I was a kid. He was like, an astronaut or something. He would kill enemies, it was super hard. And there were these parts where the screen would shake and then he'd lose after a while. The music was kinda creepy then too, freaked me out when I was that young. >> Don't know the name.

 

[Beardz]

Ok let's see, I can't remember the name of this shitty beat'em up game, you play some kind of... Japanese guys? (one red, one blue) you ride clouds and you throw your enemies towards the screen. :|

 

[RoryDropkick]

Ok let's see, I can't remember the name of this shitty beat'em up game, you play some kind of... Japanese guys? (one red, one blue) you ride clouds and you throw your enemies towards the screen. :|

Hachoo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTTnHcQb_CE

 

[Benjamin_MFF]

Here is one I am having trouble remembering. It is a pc game from the mid 90's. There is an area where your spaceship enters a stage, you shoot different enemies in the stage. When you have cleared all the enemies, a door to the next level opens and you carefully have to fly in it. When you do there is an inhale sound made upon your success, then the next level starts. Any ideas on this one?

 

[Beardz]

Hachoo?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTTnHcQb_CE

Exactly!

Holly shit, the game looks shitty as hell!

 

[PdotMichael]

maybe not exactly on-topic but I guess better here as a new theard.

First, I though this is Europa Sensen but it looks differently.

 

[Alex Connolly]

maybe not exactly on-topic but I guess better here as a new theard.

First, I though this is Europa Sensen but it looks differently.

Looks like an early Daisenryaku.

 

[mclem]

I remember a game my cousin used to play when I was a kid. He was like, an astronaut or something. He would kill enemies, it was super hard. And there were these parts where the screen would shake and then he'd lose after a while. The music was kinda creepy then too, freaked me out when I was that young. >> Don't know the name.

That's not really enough distinctive information to work with; can you give us any more? A platform would be a good start, or a year.

 

[CaseyTappy]

I've been trying to figure the name of this game out for a while


-shump (left to right)

Any one knows this game:

Is a vertical shump

Is there a new Meme I am not aware of ?

 

[PdotMichael]

Looks like an early Daisenryaku.

yeah, I found it.

But it looks more like the "Sega Ages 2500" remake for PS2 than the Mega Drive version.

 

[PooBone]

It was called Rescue: the Embassy Mission.

One of my favorite NES games ever. Even today that first level stands up well.

 

[Baconbitz]

Could be Aero Blasters or Forgotten Worlds.

Forgotten Worlds?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xdJmrF2HSY

No but my Brother added that you controlled a space ship. So, its not a jet.

 

[Deified Data]

I was about to post Alundra, but then I remembered the name.

 

[A Black Falcon]

I've been trying to figure the name of this game out for a while

Details:
-Space shooter
-genesis
-local co-op
-Possibly had one life only?
-shump (left to right)

Bio Hazard Battle? Perhaps not, you don't really have space ships in that game either, they're more giant insect ships or something like that... it is a 2p simultaneous shmup on the Genesis though. Along with Forgotten Worlds and Aero Blasters though they're the only 2p simultaneous hori shmups I can think of on the Genesis...

There are also some two player simultaneous vertical scrolling shmups on the Genesis, but you say horizontal. Vertical scrolling Genesis shmups with two player simultaneous include Mega SWIV (Europe only release), Vapor Trail, and Battle Squadron.

 

[FrontalMonk]

I just suddenly thought of this one while laying in bed (not sure why).

Played this on my uncle's genesis a lot when I was about 7 or 8, which would put this at around 1991 or 1992 (maybe... could be a little older).

As stated:

-Genesis
-Sci-Fi
-You would travel to different planets and explore them in an isometric or overhead view (can't really remember)
-Pretty sure you were in a vehicle of some kind


Can't remember much else about it, including gameplay. For a while I thought it was Buck Rogers (as I also played that on his Genesis a lot), but upon further thought that was more an RPG.

Any ideas? I know it's not a lot of info to run on.

Starflight, perhaps? Basically the best Star Trek style game at the time. I'll rummage up some screens when I'm not at work.