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[Dissolve]

Two arcade games I played back in the nineties:

First is a 2-D game where large bubbles bounced around the screen, and you controlled a character at the base of the screen with only the ability to shoot upwards, splitting the bubbles into two. I know I played a flash remake, but I forgot the name of the original.

Second is a light-gun game (think Time Crisis) where you played at a cop, but there were sensors around where you stood so that you could move IRL to control your character on screen (i.e. moving in and out of cover). I was blown away by how advanced it seemed.

 

[Bob Hoss]

Mine is KINDA a game, but its really an educational program for kids.

Its got a bear and a skunk as the main characters. the bear was tan in colour, and was wearing a teal(ish) vest and nothing else, and the skunk is the sidekick wearing red(ish) pants. The skunk had serious rage issues, and would go hulk on some occasions.

But it was a series of edu-games, and in this one, if you randomly clicked on something in the background, the bear taught you how to count on your knuckles in order to tell which months have 31 as opposed to 30 (or 28/9).

 

[kcjerith]

An old samurai movie I watched a decade ago, while tripping my balls off. I was watching this movie with a room full of my friends and several of us have been looking for this film for a long time. The movie was in color and looked like it was from the 70's or 80's (can't be a 100% sure though). What is distinct about this movie is that one of the main characters challenges some fellow samurai to cut off an arm. Many of them do. Other than that is was just an uber violent samurai flick.

 

[AbstractJuggler]

2 games for me.

Firstly, there was this 3D flying game for the PC. It wasn't a simulator of any sorts, but a racing game. The planes all had propellers on the end of the fuselage, and (if I recall correctly), you could customise different bits of the plane (very limited, of course), and there were quite a few levels to play through. A level I remember distinctly is one where there were pipes and scaffolding, and it was based on some sort of body of water - possibly a port? It had a pretty cartoon-like art style. I remember playing this game at some point during the late 90s/early 00s, so it was made sometime around/before then.

Secondly, I remember playing (at around the same time) a game where you were in a different world/plane/realm/etc., a large portion of it (or maybe I was just stuck in one place for ages) was spent in a huge room that had a big ball in it; it had red and yellow stripes and a blue top and bottom. I can remember gravity being a big part of the game. I'm pretty sure it was a game for kids, especially since I was a kid when I played it.

 

[Littlee300]

I vaguely remember this and may have facts wrong.

There was a xbox game with a blue indian-like protagonist and in the opening cut scene some bad guy(possibly the protaganist's brother) fights some people and takes something (from a tower?) You can use stuff like fire to melt ice. There was a city eventually in the game and... yeah. Also it was fantasy like.

 

[Apollo45]

I will thank anyone who can decipher this game I've played in the past but I completely forgot the name. Here is what I can remember-

It's a SNES game and pretty much made in Japan.

It's a top down spaceship shooter type of game.

There are two characters in the spaceship, one is the male pilot and the other is some kind of a skimpy like girl with green or blue hair. I think she is like the energy source or wield some form of energy (she looks like a sorceress). Both characters by the way are anime looking.

One of the weapons is like you summon green jellybean like followers who move with you and also shoot stuff aswell. I think you can give them a set position and also they get smaller if they get hit alot.

The first level was above some kind of a forest or jungle and I think the boss was a machine of some kind with robotic like arms or structure on the side of the screen.

Later on the level you're in outer space and the boss is a huge base fill with guns. The base reveals itself to be a giant face when the ship pulls back to the distance.

The game over screen is the two character mention before but in chibi style (super deform) setting up a fire with their wreak ship destroy in the background.

The game itself sounds like Strike Gunner S.T.G., but that didn't have the anime feel as far as I remember... I'll see if I can't find a list of similar games for you, but maybe that'll point you in the right direction.

 

[XZ2005_A]

Mine is on the PC its an RPG. It was bundled with planescape torment, and while I infinitely love planescape torment...this game was so much better. Although to be fair to get past the first battle you had to put at least 3 point in Constitution or be killed in 2 hits.

It was fully 3d but unique it had a good story...magic awesome inventory. Strange spells...but played like a fully 3d diablo with an adventure game twist and puzzles.

It had the word soul in it.

Soulbringer, possibly?

 

[chuketek]

Two arcade games I played back in the nineties:

First is a 2-D game where large bubbles bounced around the screen, and you controlled a character at the base of the screen with only the ability to shoot upwards, splitting the bubbles into two. I know I played a flash remake, but I forgot the name of the original.

Ah ha! that right there is Super Pang, loved that game. There's a couple of free to play browser versions of it now if I recall.

That reminds me, there was a game in the arcade next to that one which I never saw again. It was a racing game in the same vein as Outrun, except more sci-fi-ey.
I can't remember many details, but the car had a forward facing gun and every so often a space ship or something would come and drop a large gun or engine or something into the car.

 

[chocolatekake]

In my childhood there was a Zelda Esque adventure game on the ps2. It took place in Ancient Egypt. There was a mechanic that let you collect monsters as trophies using scarab beetles.

That wouldn't be Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, would it? That's all I can really think of.


And, though the only other mysteries I knew the answer to have been solved, I'll give my own:

It was a PC edutainment game from the 90's. You were a kid, in a mansion or lab. I think you were going after a crazy scientist. And I think you had a friendly scientist on your side who talked to you over video. And you basically solved math puzzles to progress through the mansion or laboratory. Spelling might have been involved too, but I don't know for sure.

 

[Chubbadubs]

I vaguely remember this and may have facts wrong.

There was a xbox game with a blue indian-like protagonist and in the opening cut scene some bad guy(possibly the protaganist's brother) fights some people and takes something (from a tower?) You can use stuff like fire to melt ice. There was a city eventually in the game and... yeah. Also it was fantasy like.

That would be Azurik: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azurik:_Rise_of_Perathia

For my own: It's a Rom-com(Don't judge me!)that I saw on the movie network about 3 or 4 years ago. I think the main character had a British accent, but I could be wrong. The first 10 - 15 mins or so of the movie showed the main character making a huge ass of himself. He went to a friend's party in an apartment and tripped down their stairs on the way in the room(it was just a couple of steps). I remember the movie having a one-word title, and I THOUGHT it started with "un" but my research into comedies that came out from 2006+ revealed nothing of the sort. It seemed like it would be easy to find since it came out so recently but I have had no luck so far. The first half of the movie was hilarious before it went all cheesy so I was hoping to find it again and give it another view.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I will thank anyone who can decipher this game I've played in the past but I completely forgot the name. Here is what I can remember-

It's a SNES game and pretty much made in Japan.

It's a top down spaceship shooter type of game.

There are two characters in the spaceship, one is the male pilot and the other is some kind of a skimpy like girl with green or blue hair. I think she is like the energy source or wield some form of energy (she looks like a sorceress). Both characters by the way are anime looking.

One of the weapons is like you summon green jellybean like followers who move with you and also shoot stuff aswell. I think you can give them a set position and also they get smaller if they get hit alot.

The first level was above some kind of a forest or jungle and I think the boss was a machine of some kind with robotic like arms or structure on the side of the screen.

Later on the level you're in outer space and the boss is a huge base fill with guns. The base reveals itself to be a giant face when the ship pulls back to the distance.

The game over screen is the two character mention before but in chibi style (super deform) setting up a fire with their wreak ship destroy in the background.

The game itself sounds like Strike Gunner S.T.G., but that didn't have the anime feel as far as I remember... I'll see if I can't find a list of similar games for you, but maybe that'll point you in the right direction.

Sorry I've check and it wasn't that one. The anime characters only ever appear in the intro and the game over screen.
The spaceship itself didn't really look like an airplane (something like R-Type and I not sure if it had wings on not). I appreciate if you able to compile that list of top down shooter on the SNES (To help you to narrow it down I think the game was made before 1994 although I'm not 100% sure).

 

[Dragunai]

I got an interesting one!
When I was like 11 (am 24 nao) there was a game out on the Playstation one. Its name (obviously) eludes me but the vague clues I can provide consist of:

You fought by animating dolls that came to life and did special moves. One of them iirc was a small doctor who would steal enemy life and convert it to mana for you .

Hmmm... Was this game by any chance a strategy rpg?

You are correct sir!

 

[F'Angus]

I remember an old game demo I had when I wad a small kid. It was a platformer that took place in a techy setting where arms could come down with a canister on the end, and when that canister a robot popped out. There would be neat stuff like spikes where the robots could be impaled and use like bridges. It had a little green guy (looked like the ones from toy story but with one eye) messing with a lever for a loading screen.

If you wanted to know, the demo was stolen during a robbery of my house while the family wasn't home. Who the fuck steals game demos? Seriously? I was too young to remember the name though. If someone could identify this game and point me to it I would be grateful. It was for console, PSX era I believe. It could be PS2 as well.

Sounds a lot like Wild9 to me. You had a plasma thing you could pick crates and guys up with.

 

[Doitpow]

Two arcade games I played back in the nineties:

First is a 2-D game where large bubbles bounced around the screen, and you controlled a character at the base of the screen with only the ability to shoot upwards, splitting the bubbles into two. I know I played a flash remake, but I forgot the name of the original.

Second is a light-gun game (think Time Crisis) where you played at a cop, but there were sensors around where you stood so that you could move IRL to control your character on screen (i.e. moving in and out of cover). I was blown away by how advanced it seemed.

The first is Pang!

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I think you'er thinking of a clone of this game too.

The second, I've played as well, in an arcade in france . I think it may be called Enforcer or something.

 

[JasonBurnout16]

If you can find this game your a total legend.

It was an old game on the PS1.
At the start you were in a forest.
You collected monsters or at least had to fight them.
It's a game when you walk around, you can't see the monsters but they still jump out to fight you.
I THINK you played as a young boy, but I can't remember.

 

[Doitpow]

2 games for me.

Firstly, there was this 3D flying game for the PC. It wasn't a simulator of any sorts, but a racing game. The planes all had propellers on the end of the fuselage, and (if I recall correctly), you could customise different bits of the plane (very limited, of course), and there were quite a few levels to play through. A level I remember distinctly is one where there were pipes and scaffolding, and it was based on some sort of body of water - possibly a port? It had a pretty cartoon-like art style. I remember playing this game at some point during the late 90s/early 00s, so it was made sometime around/before then.

Could this possibly be "Plane Crazy!"? I loved that damn game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_Crazy_%28video_game%29

 

[dark-mortality]

Okey. It is a videogame, and it's for PC. I'm not sure when It came out, but I remember playing it 10 years ago.

I remember you were in a spaceship (Or something like that), fighting against other spaceships and tanks, it had a bird-perspective I.E. You look down at yourself and others. The Background was full of Nature... The graphics was actually pretty good and rounded...

I know, it's pretty vague, but that's mostly all I can remember...

OH ANOTHER VIDEOGAME! Also for PC, played 10 years ago. You are in a plane, fighting against other planes, and sometimes tanks. There were bosses there, I remember one boss was a BIG plane that blew out of some stone structure after destroying some flying slopes of rock that flew around it, and another was a building, that when destroyed, turned into a robot. There was A LOT of corridors and secret airlocks that you could travel through. It was in a first-person perspective, it had nature-ish landscape, and the graphics were a bit poor, but I thought they were good at the time. It also had different weapons, and now I remember a boss INSIDE one of the airlocks. It was a crystal or something I think...

Second one less vague than the first, but still... I sould really appreciate it if someone found them