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[–] Marinatorres@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I remember the sound effects and one level… but not the name. Classic.

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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I once played a first-person point-and-click adventure game featuring a player character who is a cyborg. I don't remember much about the game, but I do recall quite explicitly that it had a Hard Rock Cafe in the game. Haven't had any luck finding it.

[–] brownsugga@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The legend of Kyrandia or something

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I can't remember the name now, but I recently found a game In have been looking the name of for years. It's something like Pharo's. Curse or something along those lines, but I'd have to check Flashpoint Archive for the name because they have the online demo.

The concept was just that each level had a different board layout and you had to move 3 pieces of some sort of symbol or artifact or whatever to be adjacent ( possibly in a certain order horizontally ) but balls spawn if you move witjo clearing them by matching 3 or using a powerup. You could move them to any empty space so long as the path was clear.

Can't find a copy of the actual game itself from a reputable website right now, but I know it exists.

For me it was Starush on Amiga. Still a great soundtrack.

[–] AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

For me it was Madalin Stunt Cars 2.

Played that shit all the time in the computer lab with my friends.

[–] JoshuaBrusque@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago
[–] shatterling@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I did this just yesterday, trying to find an ASCII Dracula game. Played it on a friend's PC-like in the late 80s. I remember you controlled all the characters but could lose Mina and others during the game depending on your choices.

Remember going to the asylum to chat to Renfield to find clues to where Dracula was hiding

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[–] Serious_Me@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I have two games.

The first one I found out was called Nanosaur and even has a free download. I played like 20 minutes of this in grade school one day and never got a chance to play it again during my childhood.

The other is insanely obscure, because I'm pretty sure I know the name of it but cannot find any trace of it. It's a fantasy themed RPG maker XP game I'm fairly certain is called "The Under" Where it starts as a training mission but your team discovers strange things going on and reality re-writing itself. It uses a real-time turn based combat (similar to final fantasy) and...

spoilerEveryone in the party except the kobold dies at the very end.
I'm also fairly certain the person making it started working on a sequel that had a small demo I played. A quick google search brought up another RPG maker game called The Under, but this isn't the game I'm talking about.

[–] polle@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I still dont know the name of a c64 game i played a lot as a kid. You had to move some kind of flying submarine through a maze and if you touch the wall you die. The first few screens you had to fly downwards.

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[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Mine was probably on a demo disc around 2000s. It was like a battle on some destroyed city, had futuristic tanks, aircrafts and anti-air. The tanks had WW1-style tracks, like they were huge and squeaky and the size of the whole side. The anti-air had Σ-symbols (faction maybe) and shot blue lasers. The closest I have come to is G-Police, but that’s not it. It was on Win98 most likely.

[–] ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Night Shift. A DOS game where you keep a factory cranking out toys and it gradually ramps up the difficulty by de-automating the machines that manage colour, materials, etc.

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[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I just remembered Jet Slalom because of this.

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The Guardian Legend

[–] Dvixen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's me and this robot-like C64 game. You did levels and took over robots so you could take over stronger robots.

I do remember Seven Cities of Gold, but only because the game crashed so often I saw the loading screen more than the game itself

[–] SavinDWhales@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I played that. Paradroid, right?

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[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

There’s a game on the school computers in the late 90s where you choose between 3 numbers for how far you move, you are racing to the bottom of the screen, and some shortcut squares let you drop down.

[–] Prancingpotato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I got two im thinking of : One I am sure I can recover but hey, let's shoot for some engagement here, it was a sort of worms like but with pigs, were you could promote units to archetypes The second one I couldn't find on my searches, it was a PS1 game (I think) in which you constructed your Mecha for battle royale rounds, and you could buy parts or change chassis. I remember an arena on a sort of battleship or structure in the sea, but I was unable to retrieve the name of this game.

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[–] Haaveilija@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

At some point at some friend's place I played a slightly GTA-ish game but it was all 3D stick figures and just running from the police and shooting thr stick men with guns.

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[–] Haaveilija@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I used to have this symbian game that had a small dragon as the main character and accidentally deleted it from the phone it was on. Never found it again :(

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

One of my earlier memories was playing a strange game I haven't been able to find again. All I remember is: you control a car (I think it has flower decals on it?) and can drive through a desert/canyon area. You can also press a key which makes a rotor come out of the top of the car, allowing you to fly it like a helicopter.

I have no idea what the gameplay was beyond that, but I'd love to find it again.

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