Games you can't remember the title of.

[novax6]

* Background: Role-playing game on the PC. You're some sort of hero on a quest. You have the possibility of having magic as well as melee prowess. The thing I remember the most, was a female hero/wizardess who was basically telling you what to do at key points in the game. I wanna say she had white hair. The main thing I definitely remember is when I turned a corner once, expecting an enemy and attacking it by reflex, only to find her standing there, pissed as hell that I attacked her. She started kicking my ass and I had to reload. I also remember some sort of...demon dog or something that either had to do with the name or that they were a staple enemy. Another key thing is I believe the games was part of a series, as another part came out after this one.
* Year: Middle 90s or so. Played it on my cousin's computer.
* Perspective: I guess its 2D first person? You didnt see anything but your hands, if i recall correctly. However as far as some of the NPCs went, they were casted by real people, which is why that girl with the white hair is another memory that sticks out.
* Art style: To be honest, I'm not entirely sure. Like I said the main people were live-action via real people, and then the bad guys were I believe cell-shaded or sprite-ish. Its been a long time.
* Environment: This is very vague. The encounter I remember was in a snow/mountain setting. I unfortunately dont remember much else.
* Mood: Dark-ish. World needs saving and its falling on your shoulders.
* Genre: RPG.
* Gameplay: Again I dont remember much. I know it was live-action, or at least pseudo-live action.

I apologize that I'm being vague, but if some classic rpg master comes along and finds/remembers the title of this game for me, I would be grateful.

Sounds like one of the Might and Magic games, probably 6 or 7. It could also be Lands of Lore 1 or 2, but my bet is on might and magic.

[LeiLei]

Background: PS1, I played it at home my sisters, I don't know where I put the cd (I still have most of my ps1 cds nicely stored, 'cept of a few others such as this one)

It was composed of weird (?) fighting styles of the characters, my fave one would be is this girl who uses a giant bubblegum/jawbreaker o_O (it's a giant...orb) and based on her storyline, she has a crush on the janitor (another useable character)

Year: around 2000-ish
Perspective: 3d, side-scroll?
Art style: Cell-shaded, I remember the graphics similar to Bust A Groove (a dance game)
Environment: I think the backgrounds were mostly composed of common bgs such as streets, amusement parks, school?
Mood: Bright colors, very bright XD
Genre: Versus game / fighting game
Gameplay: As mentioned, it's a fighting game, so the controls were like the typical button combos or something

* BEFORE I FORGET! One thing that I really enjoyed with this game, is the "super" mode (like when you execute a super move in Street Fighter, the characters get a close up and the game goes into slow mode before you do a really high damage and all that fancy stuff @_@ sorry I don't really know how to describe that part) anyways, in this game, instead of THAT, it goes to...DANCE MODE! A music plays and the interface changes to a visual representation of your controller buttons, and you have to press em with the right timing (with each button pressed your character attacks your enemy too) O_O

Thanks

[JayDee]

Was it Slap Happy Rhythm Busters by any chance?

[Jar'O'Jam]

* Background: Role-playing game on the PC. You're some sort of hero on a quest. You have the possibility of having magic as well as melee prowess. The thing I remember the most, was a female hero/wizardess who was basically telling you what to do at key points in the game. I wanna say she had white hair. The main thing I definitely remember is when I turned a corner once, expecting an enemy and attacking it by reflex, only to find her standing there, pissed as hell that I attacked her. She started kicking my ass and I had to reload. I also remember some sort of...demon dog or something that either had to do with the name or that they were a staple enemy. Another key thing is I believe the games was part of a series, as another part came out after this one.

Sounds like one of the Might and Magic games, probably 6 or 7. It could also be Lands of Lore 1 or 2, but my bet is on might and magic.

Also check for Eye of the Beholder and Wizardry

[Perpy]

So, I'm trying to find a pretty old game that I used to play on my computer. It's about ten years old, perhaps a few years more, and ran on Windows 98. The problem is that I can't remember the name, and only a few of the stages.

You play as a little girl. I think the goal of the game is to beat an evil queen, who turns you into a troll girl. You start in (I think) some sort of cave, with lots of other troll people.

There's also a scene where you are in a desert. Here, there's a mole who lost his glasses, and you have to retrieve them. One does so by tricking the rabbit who stole the glasses.

In another scene, you find a tree house with three kids in them.

That's all I can remember, but I hope that it's enough.

[JayDee]

You play as a little girl. I think the goal of the game is to beat an evil queen, who turns you into a troll girl. You start in (I think) some sort of cave, with lots of other troll people.

Kings Quest VII: The Princeless Bride?

I need to play that game one day. I tried once, and was just (irrational) disturbed by the fact that it used the same game-engine as Phantasmagoria.

[LeiLei]

Was it Slap Happy Rhythm Busters by any chance?

That's the one!!! Thanks so much

[novax6]

You play as a little girl. I think the goal of the game is to beat an evil queen, who turns you into a troll girl. You start in (I think) some sort of cave, with lots of other troll people.

Kings Quest VII: The Princeless Bride?

I need to play that game one day. I tried once, and was just (irrational) disturbed by the fact that it used the same game-engine as Phantasmagoria.

That's the first game that came to my mind too. It wasn't very good compared to the other Kings Quest games sadly.

[']['heRaven]

Alright, I don't think I have quite enough information to fill out the outline, but I've got a game that I haven't been able to figure out for at least 5 years. It's based in Japan, and you play as a blue, spikey-haired kid that wears an orange suit similar to Goku's, I think. I remember that one of the very first things you have to do it climb a mountain, and the mountain had a really long and funky name. Also, a bit after the first big mission, you take a harmonica-like instrument and play it in front of some broken windmill, and a big robot comes for you to climb in and you fight another enemy robot. Weird game, but I remember loving it. Platform was N64, and I probably rented it from BlockBuster around 2000. Any ideas?

Ah, yes, and it was 3D. Gameplay a lot like Zelda, actually, but not so many items.

[rheakith]

That sounds a whole lot like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystical_Ninja_Starring_Goemon

[Crusnik]

Sounds like one of the Might and Magic games, probably 6 or 7. It could also be Lands of Lore 1 or 2, but my bet is on might and magic.

After looking at this screen shot I found, I believe it may be Lands of Lore 2, although I would have to find and download it to be 100% sure.

Thank you for your help though!

[Dason]

You play as a little girl. I think the goal of the game is to beat an evil queen, who turns you into a troll girl. You start in (I think) some sort of cave, with lots of other troll people.

Kings Quest VII: The Princeless Bride?

I need to play that game one day. I tried once, and was just (irrational) disturbed by the fact that it used the same game-engine as Phantasmagoria.

That's the first game that came to my mind too. It wasn't very good compared to the other Kings Quest games sadly.

I'm thinking it's definitely Kings Quest VII. Although the first act you start in the desert and the second act is when you're in the cave with the trolls. Every other act you switch characters between Valanice and Rosella.

But I agree with the others. I don't think it was as good as the other games. My personal favorite is King's Quest VI. That one stars Rosella as well.

[jlhaygood]

*Background - I played this on a demo disc when I was maybe 12, so around 1999? I remember it came bundled with G-NOME, which is a 7th Level game. I remember the opening cinematic being really epic. I THINK (the very beginning is fuzzy) it kinda pans around earth from orbit, then some nukes go off, and it pans around to this ship-thing, (THIS part I'm sure of) wherein a naked, bald white guy is basically jacked-in to the core of the ship ala the Matrix (ship chairs, not pods, but with a ring around, head-to-toe, & a really sparse version of Professor Xavier's hoverchair), but more intricate (lots of ducting) & really bright whites and metal-tones. He's got a jet-pilot-type mask over his lower face, and the implication is that you play as the guy, controlling the war below. One eye is covered with a metal patch & you see some, idk, war-type images flicking across dude's other eye. Then it zooms into his eye and the retina turns into earth and it spins and the opposite side is the logo with the company name spinning around it big as day, but I don't remember the name of the company either, just that it wasn't a small company because I recognized the name & it was not 7th level. I played this around the same time as Tomb Raider 2 & 3. Pretty sure dude has one arm covered-in, possibly comprised-of, intricate prosthetics.

*Year - between the late 90's and early 2000's

*Perspective - 3rd person, 3D

*Art Style - apocalyptic, war-torn urban earth with futuristic military vehicles (mainly tanks and copter-type things). blue-schemed HUD-type display. twilight at game start.

*Environment - (see above) You start near what looks like a dry river bed or natural embankment, and what's left of a city with some mid-size high-rises is behind just behind you to the right.

*Mood - kind of claustrophobic despite the openness of the terrain.

*Genre - possibly a real-time strategy-type shooter?

*Gameplay - you command a unit, but can send vehicles to do one thing while you take another to do something specific, or jump from vehicle to vehicle (not as a person, just jump into command). again, there are tanks and copters to start with, but i assume other vehicles are around. you're leading a squad of these vehicles around this urban landscape on some sort of seek-and-destroy, but i was never any good at it. there are missiles involved, with white-blue trails.

[4=5]

That one game where you try to find the center of two diminutional shapes with your mouse, and the game gives your accuracy at the end. I can't remember the name or where it is on the internet.
http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/

[Jar'O'Jam]

*Background - I played this on a demo disc when I was maybe 12, so around 1999? I remember it came bundled with G-NOME, which is a 7th Level game. I remember the opening cinematic being really epic. I THINK (the very beginning is fuzzy) it kinda pans around earth from orbit, then some nukes go off, and it pans around to this ship-thing, (THIS part I'm sure of) wherein a naked, bald white guy is basically jacked-in to the core of the ship ala the Matrix (ship chairs, not pods, but with a ring around, head-to-toe, & a really sparse version of Professor Xavier's hoverchair), but more intricate (lots of ducting) & really bright whites and metal-tones. He's got a jet-pilot-type mask over his lower face, and the implication is that you play as the guy, controlling the war below. One eye is covered with a metal patch & you see some, idk, war-type images flicking across dude's other eye. Then it zooms into his eye and the retina turns into earth and it spins and the opposite side is the logo with the company name spinning around it big as day, but I don't remember the name of the company either, just that it wasn't a small company because I recognized the name & it was not 7th level. I played this around the same time as Tomb Raider 2 & 3. Pretty sure dude has one arm covered-in, possibly comprised-of, intricate prosthetics.

*Year - between the late 90's and early 2000's

*Perspective - 3rd person, 3D

*Art Style - apocalyptic, war-torn urban earth with futuristic military vehicles (mainly tanks and copter-type things). blue-schemed HUD-type display. twilight at game start.

*Environment - (see above) You start near what looks like a dry river bed or natural embankment, and what's left of a city with some mid-size high-rises is behind just behind you to the right.

*Mood - kind of claustrophobic despite the openness of the terrain.

*Genre - possibly a real-time strategy-type shooter?

*Gameplay - you command a unit, but can send vehicles to do one thing while you take another to do something specific, or jump from vehicle to vehicle (not as a person, just jump into command). again, there are tanks and copters to start with, but i assume other vehicles are around. you're leading a squad of these vehicles around this urban landscape on some sort of seek-and-destroy, but i was never any good at it. there are missiles involved, with white-blue trails.

Could it be Battlezone, or it's sequel, Battlezone II ?

[zombie_monkey]

Judging from the description of the atmosphere and setting, it sounds a bit more like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Assault

[jlhaygood]

holy crappit, that's it! It's Urban Assault, and WOW the intro was almost nothing like I remembered it...*skips merrily off to play* hehehehe

[TheManInTheHat]

Hi, I'm trying to find a game, I think the name was 'Elevator Spy'. You were an 'Inspector Gadget' type spy that used elevators to change floors to hide and gather. I played it in arcades back in the late 1980's...it's graphics were just like Donkey Kong and Mario Bros, back in the day...Thank you

[SecondTalon]

Most likely Elevator Action.

[vonKarma]

* Background: n64. i think i probably sold it to get a gamecube, but i didnt sell the games i really liked. maybe it wasnt actually as fun as my memory...
* Year: sometime before gamecube... mid to late 90's i guess
* Perspective: 3rd person, 3d
* Art style: very polygony. although i suppose thats very typical for the time period
* Environment: all i remember is fighting outside. and, when you got into a battle, lines appeared on the ground to mark the battle area, which you couldnt leave. you had a staff, i believe you fight with magic
* Mood: i think mostly bright-colored outside adventuring
* Genre: single player, adventure
* Gameplay: i think used c-buttons to use magic spells. not sure about that, though

also, i remember the storyline being something about your dad. someone killed your dad, you have to find your dad, something along those lines.

thanks in advance!

[Dason]

Possibly Quest 64?

maybe it wasnt actually as fun as my memory...

*Probably*

[vonKarma]

Possibly Quest 64?

maybe it wasnt actually as fun as my memory...

*Probably*

yes thats it!
thanks! i might have to get some sort of emulator now...

[logixoul]

Hi guys,
I asked about a game at the tvtropes forum but no one knew about it. Nice to see this thread here, let's hope you guys are nerdier
Around maybe 2002 I used to play this great puzzle/platformer 2D game.
You play a green blobby ball in a sort of fullscreen dungeon (looking from the side), and you have to get across the level to the exit. To do that, you can jump off walls, slide down walls, hang from ceilings (I think)... avoiding the deadly spikes. The level geometry, such as vertical walls, just hangs in the air. Each level fits in a single screen.
I played it on Windows 98 then. Pretty sure it was freeware or so.

Things that are NOT my game but have a similar look:
* http://www.happypenguin.org/images/4.jpg
* Squish
* Gish (which has a much bigger and more freeform blob)

[SecondTalon]

I recall the game you are speaking of, but I cannot recall a name. I'll dig around and see what I can find.

[Siber]

Some recent aimless 3d modeling on my own part has produced a ship that rather tickles an old memory, but it is one I can't place well enough to satisfy myself. Maybe you all can help me.

I played it on an ancient IBM thinkpad in the mid to late 90s, using dos. I recall sitting in the back of a car on long dark road trips, punching in space.exe and playing this little unregistered sharware demo to death.

It was a space adventure of sorts, quite heavily borrowing from star trek in ship design and concept. You commanded from the bridge of your ship, looking out a view screen. Combat was a very stand-offish afar, an exchange of beams and torpedoes. You picked your destinations from a list or map, and then watched stars move past in a view screen, or a target object appear and grow larger over time. There may have been a synthy voice announcing new sensor contacts and the like. Graphics were very simple, perhaps early polygonal graphics, solid colors. As I say, the ships were very Trek inspired, my memory tells me.
Ring any bells?

The model that triggered the memory can be seen here

[Jar'O'Jam]

Some recent aimless 3d modeling on my own part has produced a ship that rather tickles an old memory, but it is one I can't place well enough to satisfy myself. Maybe you all can help me.

I played it on an ancient IBM thinkpad in the mid to late 90s, using dos. I recall sitting in the back of a car on long dark road trips, punching in space.exe and playing this little unregistered sharware demo to death.

It was a space adventure of sorts, quite heavily borrowing from star trek in ship design and concept. You commanded from the bridge of your ship, looking out a view screen. Combat was a very stand-offish afar, an exchange of beams and torpedoes. You picked your destinations from a list or map, and then watched stars move past in a view screen, or a target object appear and grow larger over time. There may have been a synthy voice announcing new sensor contacts and the like. Graphics were very simple, perhaps early polygonal graphics, solid colors. As I say, the ships were very Trek inspired, my memory tells me.
Ring any bells?

The model that triggered the memory can be seen here

Have you tried checking this page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sp ... ator_games ?

[Siber]

I have, nothing rang any bells.

[dopeghoti]

Thanks for the help with Iron Seed earlier; now I have another one!

• Background: Apple //GS game from the early 1990s. A sort of (early-era) Ultima knock-off. You had one character rather than a party, though. I remember specifically that it was for the GS, and no other Apple //, because it required ProDOS-16. I first got it thanks to an ad or a review from Nibble magazine.
• Year: It almost must have been early '90s, but it could perhaps have been late '80s if my memory is failing me.
• Perspective: 2D, Tile-based, top down a-la early Ultima games
• Art style: Sprite/pixel art. Not exceptional graphics for the Apple // line. I remember the sound almost definitely didn't take advantage of the GS's sound hardware, or if it did, it did a bad job at it.
• Environment: Typical swords & sorcery fare. I recall later in the game going to another world or dimension or somesuch, populated by demons, the undead, and the like.
• Mood: Somewhat dark, as I recall.
• Genre: RPG
• Gameplay: Turn-based. You had to somehow increase your stats, but I don't recall if the increases were bought or unlocked through XP. I do remember that you had to load up your 'ammo' for your offensive and healing spells. There were also "hidden" spells or abilities that overwrote part of the interface (so they were well hidden) when you had them.

I remember enjoying this, and it'd be great to play again!

[DMGnome]

* Background:Free PC download
* Year: Played this sometime within the last couple of years
* Art style: Primarily text. I think the color scheme was black and dark blue, but I'm not sure.
* Environment: You were a computer hacker. Gameplay revolved around taking assignments from people (generally destroy a file for someone, or give them a copy.)
* Genre: Singleplayer, I think.
* Gameplay: Simulation. When hacking into a computer, you had to work quickly or you would be tracked. To delay the person from finding you, you could route your connection through several other computers.

[JayDee]

Sounds a lot like Uplink.

[Jar'O'Jam]

Sounds a lot like Uplink.

Yeah, it sound like Uplink, though the game wasn't free ( although there might be a demo ).

[DMGnome]

Yep, pretty sure it was the Uplink demo. thanks!

[monkeyrunsoffcliff]

* Background: Old old game i had on a mac 15 or so years ago of a red skier avoiding obstacles down a slope. i am sure it's not Skifree
* Year: early 90's or before.
* Perspective: top down, scrolling down a hill
* Art style: old pixely sprites
* Environment: white snow everywhere, trees, logs, rocks and clumps of snow
* Genre: scrolling, possibly had a counter with the time it takes to finish the slope

[dopeghoti]

Sounds like Skifree or Ski Or Die.

[SecondTalon]

So.. when the person says it's not X and that it was on a Mac, suggesting X or a game that was never on the Mac is... probably not going to be helpful.

[dopeghoti]

Which is why I didn't stop looking at Skifree, and lodged loose the memory of Ski Or Die as well. Just trying to help, here.

[vookaloop]

There are a few games that I've been looking for once in a while for years.

Spoiler:

* Background: Atari 2600. I always thought this game was called Strider, but I can't find it. It had like a space invaders kind of layout except there were spidery looking things and bugs and stuff. And progress was some how indicated by better and better fruits.
* Year: 1988 or so, but it was probably a little older.
* Perspective: 2D overhead
* Art style: Atari
* Genre: I think it was a shooter but not sure

Spoiler:

Background: Atari 2600. Another atari game, this one was one of those side scrolling shooter games where you have to dodge mountains and stuff. It had a bad-ass sound track when you got invincibility. The key feature was you shot just by pushing the joystick in the direction you wanted to shoot (up/down/left/right only)
* Year: 1988 or so, but it was probably a little older.
* Perspective: 2D side-scroller
* Art style: Atari
* Genre: Shooter

Spoiler:

Background: PC 3.5" diskette, ran on a 286. 256 colors. file name was ssa.exe or something. You were a school kid or something that had to go to ancient egypt and you'd have little puzzles to solve. There were random enemies like snakes. There were multiple screens with transitions between them. There was one puzzle where you had to arrange triangular blue mirrors and shoot a laser at them to hit a switch.
* Year: 1992?
* Perspective: 2D side scroller
* Art style: Cartoony
* Genre: Puzzle/Adventure

[mousedoc]

* Background: arcade machine in mid 1980s
* Year: Mid 1980's
* Perspective: 2D Vertical airplane shooter (like 1942, 1943, 194x but not)
* Art style: 2D sprites. WWII setting but more cartoonish i.e. One of the 4 airplane choices shot giant canonballs
* Environment: WWII setting. 2 player max simultaneous
* Mood: ??
* Genre: vertical airplane shooter with 2 player co-op
* Gameplay: You could choose from 4 planes, each had a different kind of attack. I think they were WWII era planes. the game is not 1943 but there was a plane like the P38 lightning. 2 players could play together

thats all I can remember. Thanks in advance.

[Shivahn]

Ok. So. I remember a game. I've searched for it off and on for many, many years. Many years. So I can't remember a whole lot about it, but I'll fill this out the best I can. It's probably been half a lifetime since I played it, so there's a chance half of this info is wrong, but... well, here we go.

* Background: It was a game for Mac, I believe. I'm hoping there was a Windows version.
* Year: I played it sometime in the nineties. Earlyish I think. I was born in late '87, and it was after we got the internet, I think, so... I want to say 93-98, but really it could be anywhere in the nineties.
* Perspective: It was an overhead view of a board with square plots. Kind of like a chess board.
* Art style: I remember that the pieces were colored by player. I think there was red and blue and yellow and some fourth one.
* Environment: It was just that chess board. I seem to recall there being a story in the readme, or maybe in the actual game, that humanity had outgrown war, and now disputes were settled by very smart people playing this chess game against each other using unicellular organisms. I want to say that humans had mastered space travel and there were alien players in these games, but I'm not sure. In any case, this was all incidental stuff, and not necessary for the game as a whole.
* Mood: It wasn't particularly anything. The organisms were very brightly colored, I think, but the game was played on a black board and was kind of dark in a visual sense. I think.
* Genre: It was a turn-based strategy game. Like chess, with different pieces that did different things.
* Gameplay: All right. It was a turn-based strategy, as said. Each player started with their unicellular guys in one corner of the board, I think. The freeware version was limited to two players, I believe, and you could purchase the game to play with four, though I could be misremembering all of this. Anyway, there were four organism types, that I remember. Each one had a certain number of hit points, and did things in a certain way. There were this big squarish organisms that had lots of health but could not attack. When they moved, however, they could push other organisms out of the way, and even off of holes in the board. There were organisms that had to get close to attack, and attacked one enemy very strongly. There was a type that was weaker, but would hit everyone within range. Then there was a very, very weak type, that attacked by getting close and hitting one enemy. However, if this type hit, it would bring the organism attacked under your control. I remember the strong, non-attacking type very clearly, as well as the type that converted the enemy. I doubt any details are wrong with those, though my memory of the others is shaky. You got one of the converting guys in the beginning, and I think three or four of the big guys.

I want to say it was called "Amoeba arena" or something, but I search for that now and can't find it, so I'm probably wrong. Did anyone play this game?

[AJMcSpiffy]

Alright, here goes nothing

* Background: I remember playing this game with my uncle on his computer when I was younger. It was a single player game, he was just helping me through it (I was too young to figure it all out).

* Year: I played it in the late 90's, but I definitely think it was an older game than that, probably mid to early 90's.

* Perspective: It was a 3D, top view RPG (the only similar style camera I can think of off the top of my head is the way Diablo did it)

* Art style: It was sprite based, I can't remember any cutscenes though.

* Environment: The game started with you in an arena/Colosseum on some non-Earth planet. You had to fight for your freedom by winning multiple battles. The next realm I can remember is going through a sewer system. I don't think I got any farther than that.

* Mood: It was a pretty dark game. Many moral choices that would heavily affect the future gameplay.

* Genre: Single player RPG

* Gameplay: I believe it was turn based, a kind of "I move this many spaces then attack" then the enemies did the same thing. There was a party system, and a very D&D style system of attacks and armor class. What I mean by that is for example, weapon damage was written out in a "2d+1" style.

So yeah, an old Fantasy RPG starting in an arena, proceeding to a sewer then possible a desert village. It's been bugging me for ages. It was a fun game, and I really want to try it again.