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ffejeromdiks said:
Long shot, as I don't have any concrete details as I never actually played the game, just saw the trailer It was a PS1 era game, I'm pretty sure it was featured on one of those old demo disks that had a few playable demos + trailers, but the trailer featured...
+ Almost exclusively took place in dark tunnels (sewers?)
+ Robots/mechs of some kind?
+ Dark oppressive atmosphere that only mid 90's early CG could produce.
+ PSX game, saw the trailer on demo disk.

Remembering what the hell that game even was has been an itch that's plagued me for years, so any hints would be greatly appreciated.
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Since it was on early demo discs could it be Spider? The demo starts in pipes/sewers from what I can recall of it. Here's video of the demo: https://youtu.be/OSDIlcFYrdM?t=30

And the spider is cybernetic, which does fit a little with your robot/mech thoughts.
 
God, I feel like this one will be hard to get an answer too.

I remember playing what I feel like was a caveman platformer game on NES or SNES or Genesis at a cousins house. I can't for the life of me remember the console. All I feel like I remember is that the graphics were "hyper realistic," like Donkey Kong Country or something. It's possible they were just more detailed and not simple sprites too. I also remember the level I played at the time stumping me since I think it had a mountain you were climbing vertically with sloped ramps that I don't feel like you could reach. I feel like I remember cavemen attacking which is why I think it was a caveman like game. I think the colors were a lot of brown and blue as if it was a SNES/Genesis with a darker color palette. There might of been rolling rocks too.

I looked at a few prehistoric games like the Flintstones variety as I was certain it was a flintstones game, but none of the 4? connected with me. It might actually be the second one on NES somehow since it has the same ideals of what I'm thinking. Rolling rocks, kind of maybe slopes, and a weird ledge grab mechanic that I might of missed like an idiot back then. I still don't think it's that game for sure though. I'm not even sure if it was the first level of the game or not. I know it wasn't stuff like Prehistoric Man or Joe and Mac I'm pretty sure. I don't think it was Chuck Rock either.
 
SDCowboy said:
A need help remembering a really old DOS PC game. It was a cartoony zombie game, in a mansion, and you went up the floors killing zombies. And remember being able to throw a knife at them. Pretty simple game but it's driving me nuts trying to remember the name.
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This might possibly be Yo! Joe!:

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ridley182 said:
Ok, got one:

-Arcade shmup I played during the early to mid 90s
-First stage is set in space. Might've flown over a larger ship or space base at one point, but I'm not sure
-I also don't remember if I got to select a stage, or if it just starts you there
-Gameplay was 1942 style (i.e. vertical)
-I don't remember much about the enemies, but some of them looked like Tie Fighters and they'd have shields on the sides to protect themselves. These shields might've changed positions, but I'm not so sure
-The graphics were pretty crude compared to the other games around it. Probably 8-bit.

Super vague, I know, but that's all I remember. I was pretty young at the time and my memories of it are extremely hazy (I only got one quarter to play it), so I'm not really expecting success with it. I still want to give it a shot, though.
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Zero hour?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rriFsuqI_0
 
Skrams said:
God, I feel like this one will be hard to get an answer too.

I remember playing what I feel like was a caveman platformer game on NES or SNES or Genesis at a cousins house. I can't for the life of me remember the console. All I feel like I remember is that the graphics were "hyper realistic," like Donkey Kong Country or something. It's possible they were just more detailed and not simple sprites too. I also remember the level I played at the time stumping me since I think it had a mountain you were climbing vertically with sloped ramps that I don't feel like you could reach. I feel like I remember cavemen attacking which is why I think it was a caveman like game. I think the colors were a lot of brown and blue as if it was a SNES/Genesis with a darker color palette. There might of been rolling rocks too.

I looked at a few prehistoric games like the Flintstones variety as I was certain it was a flintstones game, but none of the 4? connected with me. It might actually be the second one on NES somehow since it has the same ideals of what I'm thinking. Rolling rocks, kind of maybe slopes, and a weird ledge grab mechanic that I might of missed like an idiot back then. I still don't think it's that game for sure though. I'm not even sure if it was the first level of the game or not. I know it wasn't stuff like Prehistoric Man or Joe and Mac I'm pretty sure. I don't think it was Chuck Rock either.
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Oof, the SNES game based on the movie looks rough:

Flintstones_SNES_ScreenShot3.gif


I wonder who the genius was who thought that kids wanted to see a digitized John Goodman instead of a proper Fred Flintstone like in the cartoons.
 
Skrams said:
God, I feel like this one will be hard to get an answer too.

I remember playing what I feel like was a caveman platformer game on NES or SNES or Genesis at a cousins house. I can't for the life of me remember the console. All I feel like I remember is that the graphics were "hyper realistic," like Donkey Kong Country or something. It's possible they were just more detailed and not simple sprites too. I also remember the level I played at the time stumping me since I think it had a mountain you were climbing vertically with sloped ramps that I don't feel like you could reach. I feel like I remember cavemen attacking which is why I think it was a caveman like game. I think the colors were a lot of brown and blue as if it was a SNES/Genesis with a darker color palette. There might of been rolling rocks too.

I looked at a few prehistoric games like the Flintstones variety as I was certain it was a flintstones game, but none of the 4? connected with me. It might actually be the second one on NES somehow since it has the same ideals of what I'm thinking. Rolling rocks, kind of maybe slopes, and a weird ledge grab mechanic that I might of missed like an idiot back then. I still don't think it's that game for sure though. I'm not even sure if it was the first level of the game or not. I know it wasn't stuff like Prehistoric Man or Joe and Mac I'm pretty sure. I don't think it was Chuck Rock either.
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Chuck Rock maybe..?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CYEBe3eA5k

Edit.. didn´t see your last line... sorry lol

But how about:

Congo´s caper..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZwbPssMlsw

Prehistorik man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYSiur70nXA
 
retroman said:
Oof, the SNES game based on the movie looks rough:

Flintstones_SNES_ScreenShot3.gif


I wonder who the genius was who thought that kids wanted to see a digitized John Goodman instead of a proper Fred Flintstone like in the cartoons.
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Well of fucking course. I googled List of Flintstones Video Games, but got a smaller list instead of the full one on wikipedia. This looks definitely like what I remember. First level was rolling rocks, cavemen, the ledge grabbing which I couldn't understand for the life of me at the time, and jesus, that face.
 
I played a DOS Shareware game whose name was something like endless cave or night or something. You woke up with amnesia in a dark cave and could only see your character and the tile he was in, and nothing else. You could move around and there was no scrolling, you just went to another screen.

I never knew if you could even turn on a light or something, and I want to play it.
 
All right this one might be a tough one

It was a fighting game where you could fight as cute animals. You could get a powerup from radioactive shit to turn into a buff version?

It was on PC and I remember playing it a good 15+ years ago, maybe more.
 
Let's see if anyone knows what this is:

I think it was a PS2 game I played at a local YMCA and also a friends house. It was some kind of 2 player dirt bike driving game and what I remember most about it was biking around in a forest like area surrounded by large dirt walls that form a circle around the area.

If you bike over the walls and drive for about another 20 seconds, you would suddenly fly back over to the area like you'd been hit by an invisible truck.

It was the funniest thing in the world to me for the longest time and I really want to try and figure out what it was called.
 
MillionStabs said:
Let's see if anyone knows what this is:

I think it was a PS2 game I played at a local YMCA and also a friends house. It was some kind of 2 player dirt bike driving game and what I remember most about it was biking around in a forest like area surrounded by large dirt walls that form a circle around the area.

If you bike over the walls and drive for about another 20 seconds, you would suddenly fly back over to the area like you'd been hit by an invisible truck.

It was the funniest thing in the world to me for the longest time and I really want to try and figure out what it was called.
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Not PS2, but it sounds like Motorcross Madness 1 or 2.
 
retroman said:
Can you remember any more details? What kind of genre was the game? Were the graphics cartoony or 'realistic'? What did the main character look like?
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Graphics were cartoony. Sorry I don't remember much of other than being top down, you play with the area being high in the sky and there were trap panels.
 
Ok, this has been bugging me for YEARS.

My dad and I once got this PC game in the late 90's. Looking back it was kind of a first person pitfall except you were in a kind of Mayan temple and getting chased by guys in Tiki masks? I remember it controlling sluggishly and always dying at the first enemy, but I would love to track this game down and see what I think of it now.

little things i remember:
a mostly gold, brown, yellowish palette

floating jewels as collectibles?

main character looked lame
 
Small Mailman said:
Ok, this has been bugging me for YEARS.

My dad and I once got this PC game in the late 90's. Looking back it was kind of a first person pitfall except you were in a kind of Mayan temple and getting chased by guys in Tiki masks? I remember it controlling sluggishly and always dying at the first enemy, but I would love to track this game down and see what I think of it now.

little things i remember:
a mostly gold, brown, yellowish palette

floating jewels as collectibles?

main character looked lame
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Montezuma's Return

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montezuma's_Return!
 
A game I played on Amiga. I say played cause I never had any idea how to the play the fucking thing i was just in love with with the intro sequence.

It was something about some alien bugs invading earth, and the resulting nuclear winter and you had a space ship that looked something like Star Bug from Red Dwarf.

What I remember most is that the music was chilling.
 
Tizoc said:
Graphics were cartoony. Sorry I don't remember much of other than being top down, you play with the area being high in the sky and there were trap panels.
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Sorry, it's not much to go on. Here's a list of Genesis top-down games you might look into.

- Ball Jacks (Action)
- Bass Masters Classic Pro Edition (Sports)
- Bass Masters Classics (Sports)
- Battle Squadron (Shmup)
- Caliber Fifty (Shmup)
- Combat Cars (Racing)
- Crack Down (Action)
- Crue Ball (Ball & Paddle)
- Dangerous Seed (Shmup)
- Darwin 4081 (Shmup)
- Devilish (Ball & Paddle)
- Dino Land (Ball & Paddle)
- Divine Sealing (Shmup)
- Double Clutch (Racing)
- Dragon's Fury (Ball & Paddle)
- Dragon's Revenge (Ball & Paddle)
- Dune (Strategy)
- The Earth Defend (Shmup)
- Elemental Master (Shmup)
- Fire Shark (Shmup)
- Frogger (Action)
- Gain Ground (Strategy)
- Gauntlet 4 (Action)
- Granada (Action)
- GRIND Stormer (Shmup)
- Herzog Zwei (Strategy)
- King Salmon (Sports)
- King's Bounty (Strategy)
- M.U.S.H.A (Shmup)
- Mega Bomberman
- Mega SWIV (Shmup)
- Mercs (Shmup)
- Metal Fangs (Racing)
- Micro Machines (Racing)
- Micro Machines: Turbo Tournament '96 (Racing)
- Micro Machines 2 (Racing)
- Micro Machines Military (Racing)
- Ms. Pac-Man (Action)
- Pengo (Action)
- Phelios (Shmup)
- Powerball (Sports)
- Psycho Pinball (Ball & Paddle)
- Raiden Trad (Shmup)
- Rampart (Strategy)
- Red Zone (Action)
- Sensible Soccer (Sports)
- Sokoban (Puzzle)
- Slap Fight (Shmup)
- Soldiers of Fortune (Shmup)
- Sonic Spinball (Ball & Paddle)
- Speedball 2 (Sports)
- Super Kick-Off (Sports)
- Super Smash TV (Action)
- Task Force Harrier EX (Shmup)
- Truxton (Shmup)
- Twin Hawk (Shmup)
- Twinkle Tale (Shmup)
- Undead Line (Shmup)
- Vapor Trail (Shmup)
- World Cup Italia '90 (Sports)
- Xenon 2 (Shmup)
 
ffejeromdiks said:
Long shot, as I don't have any concrete details as I never actually played the game, just saw the trailer It was a PS1 era game, I'm pretty sure it was featured on one of those old demo disks that had a few playable demos + trailers, but the trailer featured...
+ Almost exclusively took place in dark tunnels (sewers?)
+ Robots/mechs of some kind?
+ Dark oppressive atmosphere that only mid 90's early CG could produce.
+ PSX game, saw the trailer on demo disk.

Remembering what the hell that game even was has been an itch that's plagued me for years, so any hints would be greatly appreciated.
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Kileak?

Armored Core?
 
Hmm, I never thought I would need help but I can't find this game so far online.

I'm almost sure it was on the C64, but it could have been the Amiga (or even Sega Master System, lol). It side scrolled in all directions I believe, but was not top-down. It's colorful, and open ended in the direction to go I think. I don't remember if you always controlled a futuristic tank like machine, but maybe you were on foot as well (maybe as a kid?).

I recall getting enhancements like a machine drill that allowed exploration in otherwise inaccessible sections. I faintly recall pleasant music and I actually beat it despite not remembering much about it.
 
joeblow said:
Hmm, I never thought I would need help but I can't find this game so far online.

I'm almost sure it was on the C64, but it could have been the Amiga (or even Sega Master System, lol). It side scrolled in all directions I believe, but was not top-down. It's colorful, and open ended in the direction to go I think. I don't remember if you always controlled a futuristic tank like machine, but maybe you were on foot as well (maybe as a kid?).

I recall getting enhancements like a machine drill that allowed exploration in otherwise inaccessible sections. I faintly recall pleasant music and I actually beat it despite not remembering much about it.
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Any chance it could be Zillion on the SMS?
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I don't recall anything on the C64 matching that description...
 
No, that's not it. The futuristic blaster tank-like vehicle is the main feature, and the camera is zoomed out more. Also, if it helps the game scrolls in all directions, not just left/right. I think vehicle enhancement allowed you to go through lava terrain, and I recall a home base of sorts.

I think the vehicle looks similar to the Master Blaster tank, but that is definitely not the game (I never had a Nintendo system).
 
Just thought about one of the first games I bought for the 360.
It was a monster fighting game mixed with chess.
So you moved your monsters around on like a kind of chess board, and when you moved next to another monster you fought like mortal kombat type fighting game.

Really annoying me thinking of the name haha
 
vegeta101 said:
Just thought about one of the first games I bought for the 360.
It was a monster fighting game mixed with chess.
So you moved your monsters around on like a kind of chess board, and when you moved next to another monster you fought like mortal kombat type fighting game.

Really annoying me thinking of the name haha
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Battle vs Chess seems the most likely culprit; one of the battle modes was a side-view QTE thing, IIRC.
 
joeblow said:
No, that's not it. The futuristic blaster tank-like vehicle is the main feature, and the camera is zoomed out more. Also, if it helps the game scrolls in all directions, not just left/right. I think vehicle enhancement allowed you to go through lava terrain, and I recall a home base of sorts.

I think the vehicle looks similar to the Master Blaster tank, but that is definitely not the game (I never had a Nintendo system).
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joeblow said:
Hmm, I never thought I would need help but I can't find this game so far online.

I'm almost sure it was on the C64, but it could have been the Amiga (or even Sega Master System, lol). It side scrolled in all directions I believe, but was not top-down. It's colorful, and open ended in the direction to go I think. I don't remember if you always controlled a futuristic tank like machine, but maybe you were on foot as well (maybe as a kid?).

I recall getting enhancements like a machine drill that allowed exploration in otherwise inaccessible sections. I faintly recall pleasant music and I actually beat it despite not remembering much about it.
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Have you checked Blaster Master 2 for Megadrive?
 
Those visuals are too advanced, the camera is zoomed in too close, and I don't recall it shooting in all directions like that. That's why I feel it is on the C64 or Sega Master System.

EDIT: Poking about, I am wondering if it isn't Mainframe on the C64. Some of the elements are there (except you construct a watercraft tank instead of a ground tank), but it still doesn't seem like it is exactly it.
 
mclem said:
Battle vs Chess seems the most likely culprit; one of the battle modes was a side-view QTE thing, IIRC.
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No that isn't it. That game looks similar but isn't it.
I don't know if I'm remembering it properly but you moved on a battlefield not an actual chess board.
You moved on hexagons I think, and controlled monsters like dragons and werewolfs.
 
vegeta101 said:
Just thought about one of the first games I bought for the 360.
It was a monster fighting game mixed with chess.
So you moved your monsters around on like a kind of chess board, and when you moved next to another monster you fought like mortal kombat type fighting game.

Really annoying me thinking of the name haha
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That sounds like Wrath Unleashed, but that's an original xbox game.
 
Ok, it was on the Gameboy. A friend of mine brought it over all the time.

You had all these animals you could play as (or maybe only pinguins?) En you had to roll balls towards each other for points? Whatever it was, it rolled. I believe the court was filled with tiles that had numbers on them.

Perspective wise you were behind your character.

Can't think of much else I'm afraid, but it was really fun!

Any idea?
 
Iriscomeback said:
Ok, it was on the Gameboy. A friend of mine brought it over all the time.

You had all these animals you could play as (or maybe only pinguins?) En you had to roll balls towards each other for points? Whatever it was, it rolled. I believe the court was filled with tiles that had numbers on them.

Perspective wise you were behind your character.

Can't think of much else I'm afraid, but it was really fun!

Any idea?
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Penguin Wars/Penguin-Kun Wars?
 
Hi can anyone help with this. It was a ps1 game I rented from the video store (lol). In it you are a sort of dead looking guy in a hat and you travel through different realms or something. sorry that's all I remember lol.

edit
He also had a samurai sword I think
 
I posted this on reddit /r/tipofmyjoystick to no avail, maybe someone here can help out?

[Console-N64/PS1/PS2 or Gamecube][early 2000s]Help my girlfriend find the name of a game featuring a "robotic" dog

**Platform(s):** Console, PS2/Gamecube gen but may be N64/PS1 generation (It was played when the Gamecube/PS2 were out but it may have been played on a previous gen console)

**Genre:** Not entirely sure, likely platformer or adventure-action

**Estimated year of release:** Very early 2000s, possibly late 1990s

**Graphics/art style:** "Not cartoony" was the only description I was given, as well as sort of a grey/darker overtone of the game

**Notable Characters:** The main character is a human (or humanoid at least) but the character in question is a robotic dog.. I am not sure if you could play as the dog. I will clarify with my girlfriend tonight more on this.

**Notable Gameplay mechanics:** There was a cave you could swim in, and the dog may have had jets or a jet pack.

**Other Notes:**

My girlfriend has enlisted me to help find the name of a game she played, around the time frame of the PS2/Gamecube. She believes that it was a game for the PS2 but isn't 100% positive - it could have been on any of the systems during that time.

The description given to me is that the main character is a human (or at least very humanoid like), and there is a robotic or cybernetic dog companion you have. I don't have any sort of description to what the dog looked like though.

She also mentioned at some point you were swimming in a cave, and that the dog may have had jets or something like that? It may not be completely spot on - but if anyone has any ideas what this might be it would be really appreciated!!

Thanks in advance everyone


Games that it's not (I already asked if any of these were it and showed a picture):

  • Space Station Silicon Valley (N64)
  • Okami
  • Dog's Life
  • Update: It's not Jet Force Gemini
  • Update: It's not MDK 2
  • Update: It's not Secret of evermore for snes (she told me the game has 3D graphics)
  • Update: It's not a Jimmy Neutron game
  • Update: It's not Megaman / Megamans dog

Update 2: "The dog was all silver or chrome like"

Update 3: The dog was a quadruped and we aren't 100% sure but she thinks that you could play as him, she's not 100% on that though

Update 4: Still not solved - latest I got from her is that she thinks you may have been able to play as him but she isn't 100% positive (pretty much re-iterating Update 3 to me)
 
Great looking game.

I remember a kid running on a beach? I think the kid looked like the kid in Ico.

Artstyle similar to Wind Waker.

Might not even be out yet.
 
An apple IIgs text to speech "game" that featured talking animals (a cat and dog duo). Users were able to write the lines of dialogue and execute the speech command for each animal to say their lines.

Any ideas?
 
MarkMclovin said:
Yeah thats it.

And now I'm reading it could be a fake trailer or something?

Shit :(
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The twitter and facebook for the game are still very active. Tequlia Works recently signed on with Gamestops Game Trust program (The same as Insomnic for Song Of The Deep) so I would imagine that the game has been developing along and maybe has a publisher now. Hopefully a new trailer at E3 I guess?
 
What's the name of that game that looked like concept art in motion? 3D, I think it had an eagle fly across a landscape in the trailer. It looked a bit like Journey, had no release date that I can remember and hasn't come out. I'm wondering what happened to that game / what's the latest on it.


Edit: And no, it's not that Ubisoft VR game.
 
There was this old kids PC game, like late 90s I played. All I remember is that it was a classroom and you clicked around on stuff to go into minigames and there was music. It may have came prepackaged on some IBM computer.

Have had no luck Googling it..,..pretty vague what I remember lol
 
kanuuna said:
What's the name of that game that looked like concept art in motion? 3D, I think it had an eagle fly across a landscape in the trailer. It looked a bit like Journey, had no release date that I can remember and hasn't come out. I'm wondering what happened to that game / what's the latest on it.


Edit: And no, it's not that Ubisoft VR game.
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WiLD?
 
kanuuna said:
What's the name of that game that looked like concept art in motion? 3D, I think it had an eagle fly across a landscape in the trailer. It looked a bit like Journey, had no release date that I can remember and hasn't come out. I'm wondering what happened to that game / what's the latest on it.


Edit: And no, it's not that Ubisoft VR game.
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