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JJ

#201 June 28, 2007, 06:10:06 pm

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I just re-remembered that I made a request for a PC game about one year ago, but that was before this topic existed. (Here's my original topic: http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?topic=47855.msg777503#msg777503)

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Quote from: JJ on June 20, 2006, 03:14:19 pm

I just recently thought about a 2D puzzle game I played on my very old PC like 6-7 years ago. I can't remember what it's called, so that's why I'm asking you guys for help.

If I remember correctly, you were controlling very small wizard-type figures on different levels that all fit on the same screen (so there was no scrolling in the game). You controlled your character with the keyboard, and you were able to climb ladders, move blocks, collect different colored keys for matching locks and I think you were able to kill yourself off by falling down on spikes or such. I also remember that there was a multiplayer function so you could at least have been 2 players playing at the same time.

I think that the game was shareware/freeware and I have no clue but something tells me that the name started with the letter 'L'. Lu... Lue... Li... Lo... I don't remember. But the other day when I remembered this game, I was like: wow, I gotta find that game again, because it was pretty awesome (or at least I thought so back then.)

Quote from: Drule on June 22, 2006, 06:53:57 am

Man I know which game you're talking about. It's this tiny puzzle-platfromer featuring one blue and one red wizard, pushing blocks, climbing ladders and whatnot. I don't know if this'll help, but I remember that different difficulty levels had different worlds. I think 'Easy' was the castle world while 'Normal' or 'Hard' was the village world or something. It was a great game, so I'll be looking out for it as well! I think I initially got it from some demo CD.

One year later, the mystery still is not solved. If anyone knows which game I am talking about, please let me know!

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Drule

#202 June 28, 2007, 06:30:55 pm

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I still want the game as well. :(

Last Edit: June 28, 2007, 06:36:07 pm by Drule

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Chubby Skelly

#203 June 29, 2007, 01:26:45 am

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I've got one! (Probably nobody will know what I'm talking about)

This was an old DOS PC game. It had flat-shaded 3D graphics (as in, no textures). You were in a spaceship and flying around planets, looking for these openings in the surface that let you go into tunnels inside and.. do something. I remember also that you regained energy by flying into these little powerlines that spanned some planets. Oh, and the game came with a novella, which was pretty crazy. I'm pretty sure the planets had a checkerboard appearance to them when you were flying over them.

That's all I can remember, other than indescribable stuff like sound effects made by my PC speaker and the fact that I had no idea what the hell I was doing in that game most of the time.

Edit: It was Starglider 2. I have no fucking idea how I remembered this.

Last Edit: June 29, 2007, 01:34:59 am by Doozer

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Professor Onion

#204 August 03, 2007, 01:32:20 pm

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Quote from: The Notorious M.O.G on May 28, 2007, 11:24:25 pm

What about this Sega Genesis game, where the main character was a girl, and she had striped stockings, and it was a side scroller. I remember that the first level had enemies on motorcycles charging at you or something.

Except for the striped stockings, that sounds an awful lot like El Viento.

http://www.gamefabrique.com/images/shots/el-viento-5.png

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Feldschlacht IV

#205 August 04, 2007, 11:54:06 pm

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Holy shit, that's it!

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Woman

#206 August 05, 2007, 09:02:31 am

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I've been trying to remember this old Genesis game I used to play on SegaChannel. It was sort of like Advance Wars, (top-view turn-based strategy) but it was more realistic; I think it had combat in the name. I have no idea what the hell it is.

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Grunthor

#207 August 05, 2007, 08:20:59 pm

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Do you remember what kind of units it had in the game?

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Woman

#208 August 14, 2007, 06:30:23 am

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Quote from: Grunthor on August 05, 2007, 08:20:59 pm

Do you remember what kind of units it had in the game?

There were foot soldiers and some boasts I think, that's about it.

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Ralph

#209 August 17, 2007, 10:07:02 am

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There's another Sega Genesis strategy game other than Megalomania\Tyrants: Battle Through Time?

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varybarry

#210 August 17, 2007, 01:36:48 pm

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This one is probably going to be simple for you guys, but I'm almost positive there were a few GIJoe games released. I have the first one. Can you give me the names of the rest?

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Dale Gobbler

#211 August 17, 2007, 07:04:38 pm

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Women it wasn't Shining Force I/II was it?

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Woman

#212 August 17, 2007, 07:28:06 pm

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Quote from: Aztec on August 17, 2007, 07:04:38 pm

Women it wasn't Shining Force I/II was it?

Nah it wasn't an RPG, like I said it was a bit like Advance Wars, enough so that when I played AW for the first time I thought HEY THIS SEEMS PRETTY FAMILIAR WAS THERE ONE FOR THE GENESIS????

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Dale Gobbler

#213 August 17, 2007, 07:39:33 pm

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http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=5:24~1~T1E

World War II Japanese? It's the only other one i can think of, and I'm pretty sure it was only released in Japan :/

Could the game have been for SNES?

Last Edit: August 17, 2007, 07:52:31 pm by Aztec

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Revenant

#214 August 17, 2007, 09:41:40 pm

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Well, there is this game that looks somewhat like Advance Wars:

http://hg101.classicgaming.gamespy.com/generalchaos/generalchaos.htm

But it may not be the one you are looking for as it does not seem turn-based.

Last Edit: August 17, 2007, 09:44:19 pm by Revenant

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Novalia Spirit

#215 August 17, 2007, 11:55:22 pm

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Woman, if you go through this list, I'm sure you'll find your game.

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Faust

#216 August 26, 2007, 12:55:42 pm

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Whoa, great topic idea!

Here is my request:

Once when I was like 11 my father decided to go to Blockbuster without me (I think he had a date or something) to rent some movies and a videogame for me for the weekend. He came back with a game I hadn't heard of (or since!) which looked lame as hell, but actually turned out to be a pretty cool game.

It was a SNES game set in space with you piloting some sort of spaceship. I remember a map grid of space too, which was huge, and a lot of the gameplay involved looking at the map to find other spaceships. The main game view was really fake 3D, set just behind the spaceship. Also there was speaking and missions and shit. I had it for like two days, but played it solidly, yet oddly cannot remember jack shit about it except for these details.

Man, reading this shit back this sounds way too vague. This probably sounds like millions of games. I can't even remember what the title sounded remotely like, but I imagine there was an X in it. Lame.

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Ralph

#217 August 26, 2007, 01:08:22 pm

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It sounds like Starfox. A little.

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DS

#218 August 26, 2007, 01:09:52 pm

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I'd say Star Fox but I don't think it had any huge map grid of space. I don't recall any other SNES space shooter with fake 3D though.

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EDIT: Ralph more like........ ffffffarfh................

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Faust

#219 August 26, 2007, 03:59:55 pm

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I'm not a retard; it wasn't starfox ;_;, but thanks anyway guys.

Fake 3D as in you can go up down, left right and forward/backwards. Shit didn't look like really 3D though, just sprites that generated when you were closing in on them.

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Marcus

#220 August 26, 2007, 04:56:10 pm

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I don't know what it is and I consider myself the king of space/futuristic games. The only ones I can think of are:

Wingcommander... although the game was in a first person cockpit view and you never saw the map and the gamescreen at the same time).

There was a Star Trek game that had a map grid but I'm pretty sure that too was in a cockpit view.

Axelay had faux 3D but it was a straight up SHMUP with no missions or voice acting.

EDIT: Nevermind, you're most likely talking about Vortex. I understand where you got the 'x' in the title (vort-EX) and the 'X' in the title screen was capitalized making the title 'VorteX.' It was a pretty good game. It was actually in development BEFORE Star Fox but delays pushed it back 6 months making it (technically) the first SNES game to use the FX chip.

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