wastewater
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Winner. Late reply but yeah this is it, thanks man this has been bugging me for years!
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Winner. Late reply but yeah this is it, thanks man this has been bugging me for years!
AmethystEnd
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Hey guys, so I'm compiling my posts that describe this game I can't remember and I've used virtual piano to record the melody of the music I remember from one of the levels. Hopefully one of you can help me out. Here's the level music: https://soundcloud.com/amethystend/unknown-game. The actual song in game was at a faster tempo, but virtual piano isn't exactly the easiest thing to play a song with.
My previous posts describing the game:
It's not DoReMi Fantasy and it's not Little Nemo as someone else suggested. I checked both of those out after this thread and those weren't it.
My previous posts describing the game:
It's not DoReMi Fantasy and it's not Little Nemo as someone else suggested. I checked both of those out after this thread and those weren't it.
Could be Breath of Fire?
The story music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4hAgiu9usY
The frog boss battle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-3zB5v1ZGM
Guess 2: Violinist of Hameln
Music sounds very similar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfC1EqOgcg4
AmethystEnd
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It wasn't an RPG. It was a sidescrolling platformer. And Violinist of Hamelin came out after I had already moved to America so that can't be it.
Thank you for trying though.
Thank you for trying though.
Was the game American, European or Japanese release?
Ah, sorry.
I recommend going through the 9 short pages here and see if anything jogs your memory, there are screenshots for a lot of the games so you might recognise something or even just the box art.
http://snesguide.com/genres/platform/
AmethystEnd
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It was Japanese for sure, but it didn't have any complicated menus or anything because my 3-4 year old self could start the game up and play it with zero knowledge of Japanese.
I went through every page and didn't see anything like it. Hmm. Maybe I gotta give up. I suppose it's possible I got the platform wrong since I also owned an NES, but I swear the graphics on the game looked closer to SNES than anything the NES could do.
Don't give up hope, it might not be today or this week, or this month, but eventually it will be found =] Knowing its Japenese helps narrow it down a lot, but most people here will be unfamiliar with Japanese games of that era xD
I'll take one last stab in the dark before I go to sleep, maybe one of the Wagyanrando games?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usj01NqEpPs&t=316
AmethystEnd
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Thanks for the encouragement. That's not it either but that is a similar art style. Also I'm pretty sure the character you control in the game I remember is human, so that should help a bit too.
Platform: Japanese PC Engine.
Release date: I'm not exactly sure but no later then 90 I think.
The game was some type of fantasy dungeon delving roguelike/rpg. I cant remember if it was turn based or not. I remember that you could be different classes. It was just your character and no one else. There were stats and I'm pretty sure an inventory system. The whole game was in japanese so it was a challenge trying to figure out what it was that you were supposed to be doing. it had an overhead view, and from what I remember all took place underground (as far as I know) in a dungeon.
Another game I played around the same time on the japanese version PC Engine was what is known here in the US as Dragon Spirit. Dragon Spirit isn't related to the game I'm talking about but I played it during the same timeframe.
Release date: I'm not exactly sure but no later then 90 I think.
The game was some type of fantasy dungeon delving roguelike/rpg. I cant remember if it was turn based or not. I remember that you could be different classes. It was just your character and no one else. There were stats and I'm pretty sure an inventory system. The whole game was in japanese so it was a challenge trying to figure out what it was that you were supposed to be doing. it had an overhead view, and from what I remember all took place underground (as far as I know) in a dungeon.
Another game I played around the same time on the japanese version PC Engine was what is known here in the US as Dragon Spirit. Dragon Spirit isn't related to the game I'm talking about but I played it during the same timeframe.
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IrishNinja
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okay so mine is a coin-op we had at my summer camp, where you'd play this car - i wanna say a VW beetle - and you'd drive along but also use the stick to guide this hand that'd extend from said car, picking up fruit & stuff for points, while avoiding (i wanna say?) bad stuff like a cactus that'd flare up your hand. i thought it was bump n' jump but just looked that one up, no dice.
it wasn't really good, its just what we played one summer when you didn't have dibs on castlevania (they somehow had a machine with just part 1 in it, but someone killed it like a few weeks later. pretty sure i held back the tears)
it wasn't really good, its just what we played one summer when you didn't have dibs on castlevania (they somehow had a machine with just part 1 in it, but someone killed it like a few weeks later. pretty sure i held back the tears)
scakko84
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There was that game i played on my Amiga 500, it was a side-scrolling platform similar to Ghost'n'Ghouls. the very first game screen was also a G'n'Gish scrolling map of the various sections from the first level to the very top. It had a very very dark-fantasy setting.
I've searched amiga-lemon game section for a lot of time but found nothing.
I've searched amiga-lemon game section for a lot of time but found nothing.
Risky Woods sprang immediately to mind. Elf, too, but I don't think that had a map.
Most likely Hocus Pocus. It's on GoG
One small side possibility if it's not that is that Clyde's Adventure was also a sidescroller with a character who didn't look much like a magician but he *did* have a wand. This was more of a puzzle game, though.
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ichtyander
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I guess there are a lot of multi game arcade machines out there so finding this particular one you played might be a bit tough. Probably also depends on which year you played it on and where was the bowling alley located (maybe you can find it by searching something like "multi game arcade machine 1995 name of bowling alley or city". I don't know much about these types of arcade cabinets, hopefully someone can help you out more.
It's probably Munch Mobile.
scakko84
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Nope, Risky Woods quite remembers the setting but the game was darker and the character was on-screen smaller than that.
As far as I can tell, Tecmo/Tehkan don't have any light gun games so it probably wasn't a real cabinet. Some hacked together multi game unit or one of those 350 in 1 things you can buy now a days.
Another possibility is that it wasn't Bomb Jack, but mighty bomb jack. There was a Vs. version of Might Bomb Jack made (in Japan anyway) so maybe you played an imported Vs. machine? I think those maxed out at 2 games though (each with it's own screen).
Alisia Dragoon, most likely.
I need your help GAF.
I'm looking for an educational PC game I used to play in elementary school (1996-1998 maybe). It was a game with blue round monster with red nose. You could customized them. There was a level with a bridge and another one where you had to make a pizza for a monster.
Anyone?
I'm looking for an educational PC game I used to play in elementary school (1996-1998 maybe). It was a game with blue round monster with red nose. You could customized them. There was a level with a bridge and another one where you had to make a pizza for a monster.
Anyone?
One of the various Zoombinis games.
Specifically, Logical Journey. That's the one with the pizza trolls.
One of the various Zoombinis games.
Thanks! You are quite effective
I LOVED this game so much back in the days. We were all fighting to play the game during the computer class, because there was only 1 disk available for that game!
Mildudon
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And months later, I finally stumble on the right combination of words in google. Magic & Mayhem is the answer!
Man, this game looks pretty bad in retrospect, haha.
IrishNinja
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I just looked through every Data East game in wikipedia and none of them are on bikes. Is it a console or arcade game?
Here is a list of bicycle games that might help, but nothing in there fits the bill from that time period except for maybe Alex Kidd BMX
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cycling_video_games
There was a football/soccer game, I guess on consoles at around the end of the SNES era if I'm correct (could also be arcade, not sure if sprites or polygonal players but definitely 'chunky') where you played a single player in the football team. It was sort of 3D as you walked around third person and saw the playing field as your character would. 2 player multiplayer was also possible.
One of these? http://snesguide.com/genres/soccer/
Nope (so I guess after SNES time, but could've simply stayed in the arcades too), it was really different, you were actually just one character and had to pass to others and run to the front to score. You always saw your character from behind iirc, so the field would swivel around as you moved.
Hmm I don't think that's it, but it does look similar, or perhaps that paired with the blocky 3D of virtua striker. I believe the name also reflected that you were the star player. Something like elite striker, super kicker, or something similarly banal, but I'm not sure.
Another distinct thing was that you could play it two player splitscreen, and it would split the screen vertically down the middle. Which was crappy because you could hardly see anything now, but you could pass to the other player character.
edit: I dunno, maybe it was Hat Trick Hero / Football Champ and I remember it wrong.
Another distinct thing was that you could play it two player splitscreen, and it would split the screen vertically down the middle. Which was crappy because you could hardly see anything now, but you could pass to the other player character.
edit: I dunno, maybe it was Hat Trick Hero / Football Champ and I remember it wrong.
Karakato_001
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It's been plaguing me for ages but, I recall playing a Horizontal shmup on the NES where your ship can transform into a mech when you touch the ground. Had alot of fun with it, may track it down whenever I get the name right.
Tony Meola's Sidekicks Soccer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDvxVPMX8co
Edit: guess not
We should probably start including where we live in our descriptions to help weed out games that weren't released in every market.It was a point 'n click adventure. Possibly in first person, but not entirely sure. I remember the mouse pointer being some sort of cube that you could rotate to change your action. It was set in some medieval fantasy world I think. Probably came out somewhere early '90s, on DOS I think. It's all I remember outside some vague scenes in my head. Haven't been able to find it yet.
Does this ring a bell to anyone?
Does this ring a bell to anyone?
Emperor Bohe
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oh man, I just remembered an NES game that was a horizontal schmup.. you start off as a standard flyer but then you can pick up parts to eventually become a robot. you can also switch between a top layer of a level and a bottom one. anyone remember this game?
edit: WOOOOOOW it was literally solved like 2 posts up hahaahha. my bad guys, I should've read the thread. it was Magmax.
edit: WOOOOOOW it was literally solved like 2 posts up hahaahha. my bad guys, I should've read the thread. it was Magmax.
ReDelicious
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There was this F1 game on a PS1 demo disc my cousin had that we would play all the time. If you would drive backwards and hit other cars head on it would pretty frequently make you go flying 100+ feet in the air lol. There's so many F1 games that I've never been able to pinpoint the exact one it was.
Ok Glad I found this thread was going to make one.
Anyway here goes, I don't remember much about the game, all I know is it was on PS1, I think it was third person and you could combine your swords to sometimes create stronger ones.
For the life of me I remember having so much fun playing it but was bummed out that I had to return it.
Anyway here goes, I don't remember much about the game, all I know is it was on PS1, I think it was third person and you could combine your swords to sometimes create stronger ones.
For the life of me I remember having so much fun playing it but was bummed out that I had to return it.
Torneko: The Last Hope?
Melding Shop - Since you can walk completely around town after beating the Toro Ruins, you now have access to the Melding Shop, here you can combine swords or shields to make them more powerful.
Combining weapons seems fairly common in JRPG's, I came across a couple of PS2 games with the feature (Rogue Galaxy and Dark Cloud)
Here's something for you GAF.
At the PS2's launch I remember playing a game- I think it was on a demo disk? Anyway it was of a girl character that you move around fixed camera areas with prerendered backgrounds, it had a very tribal design about it. It looked like you were traversing a large tangle of branches and trees.
There was also a PC game where you have an isometric view of a cartoony hero character who moves around shooting monsters that turn into goo. It was very colourful and had a few voice samples.
At the PS2's launch I remember playing a game- I think it was on a demo disk? Anyway it was of a girl character that you move around fixed camera areas with prerendered backgrounds, it had a very tribal design about it. It looked like you were traversing a large tangle of branches and trees.
There was also a PC game where you have an isometric view of a cartoony hero character who moves around shooting monsters that turn into goo. It was very colourful and had a few voice samples.
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