Games you can't remember the title of.

[avanhaitsma]

Arghh... This is driving me nuts that I can't find this game.


Background: It was an arcade game in the early 90's. The controls were one fighter plane style joystick and not much else
* Perspective: Third person - 3D
* Art style: Not Sure
* Environment: its was futuristic with a variety of locations. I remember flying through downtown area, and through a factory (had to avoid the pillars)
* Gameplay: The vehicle was a car/hover craft type. I vaguely remember being able to drive on the road but also being able to fly. There were natural obsticles to avoid and enemies to shoot. At the end of every level, there would be a warning buzzer and a computer voice would say that there was a boss coming. At the completion of the level, you could choose to go left or right and that would determine the difficulty. I vaguely remember a pyramid that shows the progress. Any ideas?

[Jorpho]

I'd like to say BHunter or Crime Cities, but those aren't early 90's. Perhaps Delta V?

[Jar'O'Jam]

Arghh... This is driving me nuts that I can't find this game.


Background: It was an arcade game in the early 90's. The controls were one fighter plane style joystick and not much else
* Perspective: Third person - 3D
* Art style: Not Sure
* Environment: its was futuristic with a variety of locations. I remember flying through downtown area, and through a factory (had to avoid the pillars)
* Gameplay: The vehicle was a car/hover craft type. I vaguely remember being able to drive on the road but also being able to fly. There were natural obsticles to avoid and enemies to shoot. At the end of every level, there would be a warning buzzer and a computer voice would say that there was a boss coming. At the completion of the level, you could choose to go left or right and that would determine the difficulty. I vaguely remember a pyramid that shows the progress. Any ideas?

Could this be the same thing:

* Background: I played it on the PC. Everything took place in the "sky." I think you drove around it a hover car. There where long pathways with places you could drive off onto lower paths, and city like areas where I would promptly get killed. I don't really remember what did the killing though, it might have been turrets or other vehicles crashing into me. There were pyramids with flat tops in the "city" that I could survive on by driving in circles. Trying to get back out of the city would usually get me killed.
* Year: late 90s or early 00s
* Perspective: 3D
* Art style: I seem to remember it being fairly dark, but that might have just been a black background.
* Genre: Single player driving.

That one hasn't been found, though. In any case, discussion following that post may be useful to you.

[Mot]

Is this the one? I got it from here originally, but the link in that post no longer works.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the game above Bioshock 2?

[Goldstein]

That's The Sims 4. They really rushed it out.

[New User]

Is this the one? I got it from here originally, but the link in that post no longer works.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the game above Bioshock 2?

That's VVVVVV.

[SecondTalon]

* Background: Grabbed a demo of it on my PC about five years ago. Anime Pirate Game, set in the boat, with sailing and cannons a-blastin'
* Year: I want to say 2005. Not sure how much it predated it, but we're probably looking at a 1-2 year window around 2004 (so.. 2002-2006)
* Perspective: 3D 3rd Person, you controlled the ship.
* Art style: Vaguely Eastern Anime-ish feel to the whole thing. I recall anime looking sprites for the Captain's portraits.
* Environment: Sea, small islands.
* Mood: Cartoony, with some AAANNGGSSSTTT as in classic RPG style your hometown got trashed shortly after the tutorial.
* Genre: Not exactly 100% sure. Real Time Ship to Ship 1800s Naval Combat, except I do recall some of the cannon upgrades were... silly. Vaguely steampunk in that it was set sometime in 1780 which was also 20X6.
* Gameplay: The game itself was - you controlled a ship that you piloted around smallish levels. The object, generally speaking, was to kill your opponents while not getting sunk. I do recall that the camera and directional movement was controlled by the keyboard, and the cannons and firing thereof was controlled by the mouse. It was level based, with trips to a shop-like thing between levels (or maybe in levels) or maybe your enemies just dropped better cannons. I do recall getting better firepower as the game progressed. The plotline, from what I could tell by the demo, was pretty straightforward JRPG on a Boat - you can probably tell me the plot just by the phrase "Evil Empire"

...

That's right! Your small, idilic town was sackded by the Evil Empire FOR NO RAISIN!!!, and you decided to head out for revenge, facing progressively stronger and stronger opposition until, presumably, a showdown with the Big Bad. I never bought the full thing, so I have no idea.

I'd like to give the demo another whirl and maybe actually pony up for the game. Sadly, my google-fu for Pirate Anime Game gets either Johnny Depp, Sid Meier's stuff, or One Piece.

*edit* can't believe I forgot to mention the platform. Gah. Fixed now.

[a_fuzzyduck]

* Background: Grabbed a demo of it about five years ago. Anime Pirate Game, set in the boat, with sailing and cannons a-blastin'
* Year: I want to say 2005. Not sure how much it predated it, but we're probably looking at a 1-2 year window around 2004 (so.. 2002-2006)
* Perspective: 3D 3rd Person, you controlled the ship.
* Art style: Vaguely Eastern Anime-ish feel to the whole thing. I recall anime looking sprites for the Captain's portraits.
* Environment: Sea, small islands.
* Mood: Cartoony, with some AAANNGGSSSTTT as in classic RPG style your hometown got trashed shortly after the tutorial.
* Genre: Not exactly 100% sure. Real Time Ship to Ship 1800s Naval Combat, except I do recall some of the cannon upgrades were... silly. Vaguely steampunk in that it was set sometime in 1780 which was also 20X6.
* Gameplay: The game itself was - you controlled a ship that you piloted around smallish levels. The object, generally speaking, was to kill your opponents while not getting sunk. I do recall that the camera and directional movement was controlled by the keyboard, and the cannons and firing thereof was controlled by the mouse. It was level based, with trips to a shop-like thing between levels (or maybe in levels) or maybe your enemies just dropped better cannons. I do recall getting better firepower as the game progressed. The plotline, from what I could tell by the demo, was pretty straightforward JRPG on a Boat - you can probably tell me the plot just by the phrase "Evil Empire"

...

That's right! Your small, idilic town was sackded by the Evil Empire FOR NO RAISIN!!!, and you decided to head out for revenge, facing progressively stronger and stronger opposition until, presumably, a showdown with the Big Bad. I never bought the full thing, so I have no idea.

I'd like to give the demo another whirl and maybe actually pony up for the game. Sadly, my google-fu for Pirate Anime Game gets either Johnny Depp, Sid Meier's stuff, or One Piece.

sounds vaguely like Age of Booty, but I don't think it's that

[Felstaff]

Pirates? Anime? Never played it, but I'm sure they made vidjagames of One Piece. (A cursory Googlethump has revealed that yes, yes there was many games made, all in the timespan you noted). (edit: just noticed you already counted out One Piece)

The only sea-farin' yo-ho-ho-in' piratical shiver-me-timbers warfarin' cannon-firin' swashbucklin' adventure I played was Tortuga Bay. It was kind of cartoony, I guess, but definitely not anime. It also wasn't particularly great.

[SecondTalon]

sounds vaguely like Age of Booty, but I don't think it's that

Afraid not. The graphics, from what I recall, are similar-ish.... but then, there's only so many ways to display a boat on the ocean.

After reading how Age of Booty is played, though, it's not it at all. The game I'm thinking of allowed for essentially free movement - no hexes to be found. If I would describe the game engine, it would be to take a typical 3rd person game, restrict movement to just one flat plane (the water) yet introduce obstacles like islands and the like, then let the player move around mostly freely, with some restrictions based on what direction the ship was pointing - no instant spin arounds, for example. I do recall circling places and occasionally smacking into islands because I couldn't turn tight enough.

I *think* wind may have played a factor as well, but I cannot recall.

[Echoes]

Hi guys. I would really appreciate if anyone here can help me finding the one game I've been looking for in a period of 5 years. I have googled everything, but still I am unable to find the title. It came as a demo in one pc-magazine. I think it is from 1999, but I am not 100% certain. I know it is in the period 1997-2000 though.

The game could be defined as a bomberman clone, but the characters does not have legs (they are like coloured balls) moving around putting bombs to eliminate each other. It is possible to play either tournament or single player. In the single player mode you play against brown furry monsters. In the tournament mode, every player starts with his/her "ball" in one of the four corners of the board. The perspective is : top-down. There are a lot of bricks that can be blown up and you are able to find useful tools.

Each player starts with the ability to place one bomb, and are able to collect items that allows you to place timed bombs (which you chose when to go off), several bombs at a time, longer exploding radius, turn yourself into a brown monster and probably some other things. The demo I played was not really colourful, more of a grey shade thing.

If anyone knows the title of this game, it would really mean a lot to me.

[Naurgul]

Hi guys. I would really appreciate if anyone here can help me finding the one game I've been looking for in a period of 5 years. I have googled everything, but still I am unable to find the title. It came as a demo in one pc-magazine. I think it is from 1999, but I am not 100% certain. I know it is in the period 1997-2000 though.

The game could be defined as a bomberman clone, but the characters does not have legs (they are like coloured balls) moving around putting bombs to eliminate each other. It is possible to play either tournament or single player. In the single player mode you play against brown furry monsters. In the tournament mode, every player starts with his/her "ball" in one of the four corners of the board. The perspective is : top-down. There are a lot of bricks that can be blown up and you are able to find useful tools.

Each player starts with the ability to place one bomb, and are able to collect items that allows you to place timed bombs (which you chose when to go off), several bombs at a time, longer exploding radius, turn yourself into a brown monster and probably some other things. The demo I played was not really colourful, more of a grey shade thing.

If anyone knows the title of this game, it would really mean a lot to me.

This is probably not it, but your description reminded me of Gruntz.

[hackerx]

Arghh... This is driving me nuts that I can't find this game.


Background: It was an arcade game in the early 90's. The controls were one fighter plane style joystick and not much else
* Perspective: Third person - 3D
* Art style: Not Sure
* Environment: its was futuristic with a variety of locations. I remember flying through downtown area, and through a factory (had to avoid the pillars)
* Gameplay: The vehicle was a car/hover craft type. I vaguely remember being able to drive on the road but also being able to fly. There were natural obsticles to avoid and enemies to shoot. At the end of every level, there would be a warning buzzer and a computer voice would say that there was a boss coming. At the completion of the level, you could choose to go left or right and that would determine the difficulty. I vaguely remember a pyramid that shows the progress. Any ideas?

Night Striker.
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8871
There was a very cool deluxe sit down version but it is very hard to find good pictures of it.
http://www.arcaderecycler.com/aaron_nightstriker.htm

[New User]

* Background: Arcade. I thought the title was something like Quarantine or Outbreak but that might be a red herring. Played this in the nickel arcade but it was in the free section.
* Year: Early 90s. I definitely played it in either 91 or 92 (or 93).
* Perspective: Isometric.
* Art style: Sprite-based.
* Environment: Levels I played were in a lab I think. The characters wore jumpsuits (one red, one blue I think), and had laser pistols. Not sure what the enemies were—mutants? I remember there was one level where you had to pilot little bubble-car/escape pods down maze corridors. Died a lot!
* Mood: Sort of goofy/cartoony, along the lines of Space Quest for example.
* Genre: 2-player, action shoot em up. It was definitely not more than two players because I remember having to wait my turn while two friends played.
* Gameplay: Fast-paced action. Might have had a trackball? I think just one button for shooting.

OK how about this one: Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters. It's even got the bubble cars.

[avanhaitsma]

NIGHT STRIKER!!

That's it! Thanks HackerX!

[Shaelrion]

Background: I remember playing this game back in the early 90's at a friend of the family's house. It was a PC game and was set in some theater owned by some crazy dude, and you played as some girl.
Perspective: It was first person and a point and click.
Art style: It was pretty realistic artwork, from what I can recall.
Mood: It was very eerie, haunting, dark, and I remember you had to escape from the crazy dude in the theater.
Gameplay: You moved very slow, since it was point and click, so escaping from situations and hiding behind dressing room clothes hangers were difficult. I remember that if you were caught by the guy who chases you, you were forced to go on stage or something like that, and I recall it being a very bad thing.

I only remember bits and pieces of the entire game, so I apologize if this isn't enough initial info.

[New User]

Background: I remember playing this game back in the early 90's at a friend of the family's house. It was a PC game and was set in some theater owned by some crazy dude, and you played as some girl.
Perspective: It was first person and a point and click.
Art style: It was pretty realistic artwork, from what I can recall.
Mood: It was very eerie, haunting, dark, and I remember you had to escape from the crazy dude in the theater.
Gameplay: You moved very slow, since it was point and click, so escaping from situations and hiding behind dressing room clothes hangers were difficult. I remember that if you were caught by the guy who chases you, you were forced to go on stage or something like that, and I recall it being a very bad thing.

I only remember bits and pieces of the entire game, so I apologize if this isn't enough initial info.

Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid Of The Dark? The Tale Of Orpheo's Curse is the best match I could get. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5INA5v-UAQ. It looks deliciously corny, just like the TV show.

[Shaelrion]

Background: I remember playing this game back in the early 90's at a friend of the family's house. It was a PC game and was set in some theater owned by some crazy dude, and you played as some girl.
Perspective: It was first person and a point and click.
Art style: It was pretty realistic artwork, from what I can recall.
Mood: It was very eerie, haunting, dark, and I remember you had to escape from the crazy dude in the theater.
Gameplay: You moved very slow, since it was point and click, so escaping from situations and hiding behind dressing room clothes hangers were difficult. I remember that if you were caught by the guy who chases you, you were forced to go on stage or something like that, and I recall it being a very bad thing.

I only remember bits and pieces of the entire game, so I apologize if this isn't enough initial info.

Nickelodeon's Are You Afraid Of The Dark? The Tale Of Orpheo's Curse is the best match I could get. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5INA5v-UAQ. It looks deliciously corny, just like the TV show.

Yes! That's the one I was looking for! Thank you so much! I'm surprised I didn't remember the name of the game, since I loved Are You Afraid Of The Dark? as a kid.

[Azrael001]

Background: My brother bought a discount fantasy RPG for PC I thought that it was so bad it's good, but your milage may vary. I think it typically scored 2 or 3 out of 10 in reviews.
Year: ~4 years ago.
Perspective: 1^st and 3^rd person depending on preference.
Art Style: Western RPG Standard Medieval (Generic) (Elves were asian)
Environment: Boreal forest, Western, Standard Medieval
Mood: Grim?
Gameplay: The gameplay wasn't bad, aside from periodic game breaking bugs. It was a mostly open world in 3D. The bugs that weren't game breaking however were much more interesting. There was this purple ghost thing that was a bit of a pushover when I fought it, but my brother failed to even scratch it's health bar. Nearly dead he ran. Being an ephemeral ghost however, there was no where he could run that the thing couldn't follow and it always knew where he was. It never stopped chasing him. At night in town random encounters with rats or bats or huge gangs of theives were common, luckily the building geometry allowed one to climb the air in some places, giving you a vantage from which to rain down arrows on anything that couldn't fly.

That's all I can currently think of. The name is right on the tip of my toungue...

[nazgul92]

There was this game i played sumtime in 2003-2004 My elder bro introduced me to it.

It was kindof a cartoony fantasy game with a story line i hav forgotten....
Where u played high up in the clouds.
And Had to build paths in the sky, and u built weapons in the sky,

It was an RTS. U had only 1 resource to use. Had no multiplayer.
Was pretty tough for a 7 year old.
Had 3d graphics
and a top-down perpective a bit like Age Of Empires 2............
U cudnt move ur units.
They were sort of like guard towers. some firing in a given radius, others in a given st line.
Although there was one unit/building which sent out airplanes or suthng similar for attacking beyonf range.
Another thing i remember is that the resources were pretty lacking. I had to restart several levels just coz i cufnt make more units....
I kno The description is very sketchy and vague.
Bt thats all i remember....
Can Anyone Plz Help me??
This Is really messing up my head
Help Plz

[Jorpho]

Stratosphere. Or maybe Netstorm.

You see, the answer is always Stratosphere, except when it isn't.

[zombie_monkey]

Sounds like Netstorm to me. I haven't played Stratosphere but Wikipedia says it's a "vehicular" combat game and the OP said you couldn't move your units. In general the descritption sounds like Netstorm to me.

[nazgul92]

Sounds like Netstorm to me. I haven't played Stratosphere but Wikipedia says it's a "vehicular" combat game and the OP said you couldn't move your units. In general the descritption sounds like Netstorm to me.

Thats it!!!!!
Thnx a lot man.

[Azrael001]

Found it, the game was Dungeon Lords.

[Woopate]

Alright. This was a PS2 game, kinda 3d anime game with giant fighting robots. Except you were a tiny normal sized man using a remote control to drive the giant robot and you were always in the perspective of the normal man as he controlled the giant robot.

[novax6]

Alright. This was a PS2 game, kinda 3d anime game with giant fighting robots. Except you were a tiny normal sized man using a remote control to drive the giant robot and you were always in the perspective of the normal man as he controlled the giant robot.

R.A.D: Robot Alchemic Drive
Never played it, was supposed to be pretty decent if I remember right though.

[brandonheato]

Hi, this is my first post here, would really appreciate it if anyone could help me recall the name of an old game i played.

Background: Medieval style turn based PC strategy/simulation game in which you play the ruler of a nation.
* Perspective: 2D
* Art style: Vague impression that it was kinda japanese anime-styled, but i could be wrong
* Environment: medieval styled setting
* Gameplay:
Micromanagement of generals under you
- asking them to train certain skills
- assigning them to tasks or missions (eg farming, among others)
- dispatching them to other nations to fight wars
Other than that, you could set taxes, trade, intimidate/ally with other nations etcetc. Think romance of the three kingdoms in a western medieval setting, with more personal focus on your generals and slightly more micromanagement of smaller scale tasks.

For some forgotten reason i always remembered this game as "eye of the beholder" but searches only turned up another game (an old D&D game) so i guess i must be wrong. I always remembered this game to be by koei but searches prove the opposite to be true. Would be EXTREMELY grateful if someone could help me out here.

[Woopate]

Alright. This was a PS2 game, kinda 3d anime game with giant fighting robots. Except you were a tiny normal sized man using a remote control to drive the giant robot and you were always in the perspective of the normal man as he controlled the giant robot.

R.A.D: Robot Alchemic Drive
Never played it, was supposed to be pretty decent if I remember right though.

That's the one. I rented it once, was pretty decent. I thought the remote control idea was neat. If I recall correctly, the pressure sensitive buttons were actually useful in this game. Like in Psy-Ops.

[CogDissident]

Hi, this is my first post here, would really appreciate it if anyone could help me recall the name of an old game i played.

Background: Medieval style turn based PC strategy/simulation game in which you play the ruler of a nation.
* Perspective: 2D
* Art style: Vague impression that it was kinda japanese anime-styled, but i could be wrong
* Environment: medieval styled setting
* Gameplay:
Micromanagement of generals under you
- asking them to train certain skills
- assigning them to tasks or missions (eg farming, among others)
- dispatching them to other nations to fight wars
Other than that, you could set taxes, trade, intimidate/ally with other nations etcetc. Think romance of the three kingdoms in a western medieval setting, with more personal focus on your generals and slightly more micromanagement of smaller scale tasks.

For some forgotten reason i always remembered this game as "eye of the beholder" but searches only turned up another game (an old D&D game) so i guess i must be wrong. I always remembered this game to be by koei but searches prove the opposite to be true. Would be EXTREMELY grateful if someone could help me out here.

Possibly Castles 1 or 2. Both of those are similar to what you describe. Especailly the part where you assign different generals to train different skills, and set their active task to "farming" and so on.

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/castles_castles_2

[Jorpho]

It sure ain't Castles 2, so I guess that leaves only one possibility.

[angelfire]

Background: I remember playing this game when i was 14-15 (2001 i think)
Perspective: you had a choice between a giant gorilla or godzilla or something like that
it was a flash game from what i recall

Gameplay: aim of the game was to destroy the city by punching buildings etc, bonus points for destroying incoming aircraft/tanks, multiple levels


i remember having lots of fun then, hopefully its still hosted on some website, need the name though,
any help is greatly appreciated

[Felstaff]

Rampage. Or, at least, a flash-version of it.

Original:

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[Jorpho]

Naughty Felstaff! No hotlinking from Mobygames!

The definitive Flash version used to be available at RealArcade, but it seems RealArcade is kaput! The various arcade versions should be easily emulated if you want to go that route.

[angelfire]

cool, thanks for the fast replies ;p

[Converge]

This was probably late 90's Early 2000's. PC game. It was an RTS and I swear to god it had something to do with Mars, but then again maybe not. I really remember the one race you could use had these little grubs that could burrow in the ground and become mines, I think that's all I did in the game. ANd also when you completed certain parts of the game you received these very strong artifact type weapons. Thanks for any help!

[Felstaff]

Dark Colony

Set on Mars, had sloms (on the alien side) that you could deploy as mines, which burrowed into the ground. It wasn't as good as 7th Legion (which was better than C&C, I thought) but it did have the cool day/night thing (which was a first, I think!) where humans could see better in the daytime and aliens better at night.

[Jar'O'Jam]

Can't remember the name of this game!!!?
I only had the demo but it still included a level from the full game. It had a landscape like that of Red Faction (rocky, sandy) but I know that's not it. It was multiplayer and it was red vs blue. You had little buggys or humvee-like vehicles to drive, or you could go by foot. As I recall, your base looked like that of a western saloon and it had a forcefield around it so the other team couldn't get in. There was something to captre in the middle of the map, like a yellow fortress or something. There was a cave system running through the whole map. I think when you quit the demo it showed a picture of like a futuristic space/snow battle but not sure.

That's all I can recall, but I would love it if I could get this game back.
Many thanks!

Additional Details

It's kinda oldish (2005 at latest) and for the pc.

How about Mobile Forces ?

[Converge]

Thank you god, the holy mother and all that is Felstaff.

[Felstaff]

My pleasure. We always aim to please,

[induhvidual]

* Background: I played this game at a friends house back when I was 3-4 years old. More accurately, I watched his older brothers play it on their computer (along with Police Quest and Paperboy). A few people I've talked to vaguely remember the game, but nothing more than I'm able to.
* Year: I played it in 95, give or take a year. Doubt it was terribly new then
* Perspective: 2D. View mostly top down, I believe. Very purple
* Art style: Pretty simple, pixely graphics. Again. I'm pretty sure it was purple.
* Environment: If I remember right, it starts out with your character on top of a sky scraper, office building and you move through that. I don't remember what sort of monsters are being fought, but you do have a laser. It's used for hitting switches to open/close different doors and paths as well as the monsters.
* Genre: Puzzle, mainly.
* Gameplay: Main character, armed with laser going through this building, shooting your laser to hit/reflect off different surfaces to open pathways.

Unfortunately that's all I really remember about it..