Old Games you remember playing but can't remember the name of.

[Roman78]

Hello all, i am new to Escapist. Here's the game i played, but can't remember the name of: It was a turn-based strategy game. I also know that it contained some words about "settlers" or "civilization"(i don't remember exactly). I don't know if it was realy old. That's all i remember about it. I hope someone can help.

Sorry for bad english.

May be Sid Meier's Civilizations

No, sorry, The game i played was waaaay different from Sid Meier's Civilizations.
But anyway, thanks for help.

There are lot's of those kind of games, like: Caesar, Age of Empires, Settlers and more. I would say we need a little more information.

 

[buckn5]

Can someone please help me remember what the name of the game is? I have been trying to remember the name of it for the longest time.

 

[GHensler]

Okay, here's the game I'm trying to remember:

- Late 80's/Early 90's arcade game

- Thing I remember best is the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" splash screen

- Probably a side-scrolling beat-em-up, like Streets of Rage, but not 100% sure

- Player(s) are some sort of cops in the first level, fighting criminals. After an accident (getting shot?), players have big bulky exoskeleton/mech suits for the following levels. I was young and bad at it, so I didn't get to the exoskeleton levels that often.

- It was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen as a 6 year old, and it sucked up all my quarters at the Pack Out Diner in Battle Mountain, Nevada for the longest time

 

[bogdan_gem]

Hey guys, I am struggling to remember the name of the following game:
(as far as I remember):
- it's a 1st-person open world game
- you start on a beach
- you can have quests either for gangsters or for government(or military)
- you can drive cars, boats, you can swim and dive
- while diving you can find pearls which you can sell later
- you can catch fish
- you can upgrade your skills such as inventory or underwater breathing
- it's a "Far Cry" style game
- maybe its release date is around 2010-2011
Please give me at least some suggestions

That sounds like either Boiling Point: Road to Hell or White Gold: War in Paradise.

PlaneForger, you are so right!!! White Gold: War in Paradise is the game I'm looking for.
Cheers man

 

[cien2]

hi people, i'd like to id an old pc game that i played when i was a kid.

- adventure point and click game
- old pc game, i might have played it on xt286 pc
- floppies installation if im not mistaken, 5.25" highly likely
- main character is a woman of non-caucasian origin, either an african-american woman or spanish(?)
- storyline a bit sketchy, but i believe it's about the girl (us, the player) stumbled upon a murder and had to go parking lot etc and go elsewhere, but in the end it culminates in an ending eerily similar to Michael Douglas' The Game, as in there was never a murder, it was all a playful game
- i remembered it being a short game for an adventure but i liked it very much
- i don't remember the character is ever shown in the game, except maybe in cutscene, i believe the adventure game uses fixed POV, what on screen is what the character see, instead of character inside an environment ala monkey king.
- probably 256-color game
- the name could be a single word, phantasm, fantasm, fantasia(?) the name eludes me but i remembered when i was a kid, the title was quite "exotic" for a pc game, and that drew me to try it

any help would be appreciated, i really want to re-play this game if possible.

 

[Tesral]

Can someone please help me remember what the name of the game is? I have been trying to remember the name of it for the longest time.

It might be Dungeons and Dragons: Shadows over Mystara. It definitely has branching paths, 4 players, upgradable weapons and a black dragon boss. As for the other features, i can't remember.

 

[Planeforger]

- the name could be a single word, phantasm, fantasm, fantasia(?) the name eludes me but i remembered when i was a kid, the title was quite "exotic" for a pc game, and that drew me to try it

With that title, you might be thinking of Phantasmagoria...but that game was definitely not on floppy disks!

 

[xmrmoox]

Ok, I need help identifying this game: I played it on the PC in the early-mid 90's. It was a multiplayer car racing game which I believe you could play over a modem with someone else. It's theme was that of Deathrace 2000 (like the old movie), but that was not the name of the game, though I feel like it's close to something like that (and not death rally either). You could customize the weapons on your car, and I think some of the car itself. - I remember while driving you could drop little mines behind you to blow up the other players. The NPCs were also themed like characters from a Deathrace 2000 world. I remember that basically you would need to take out all of the other players to win maybe as you race around the track. Any help would be MUCH appreciated, I've been trying to figure this out for like 2 years now - haha.. =)

Was it, by any chance, Hi-Octane?

I know that's a terrible screenshot lol.

I don't think so, it had a darker tone to it =(

 

[niewiederkrieg]

Oh man, this is the kind of thread I was looking for.

Ok, I played this game a long time ago (probably pre 2000s) on PC when I was a kid, What I can remember is that it was some sort of adventure game, probably with prerendered graphics but a 3D character, where the protagonist wears a yellow outfit (kind of Beatrix Kiddo's) and visits different time periods defeating a boss in each of them. I kind of remember you start in some sort of stone age and advance until you reach space. On the way you get different weapons and grab this big blue microchips. I remember that, when you tried to examine something unexaminable, it had this 2-3 second animation where he/she opened its arms and shake its head, very annoying when trying to get everything. The only boss I remember clearly was this dark armor suit (probably empty), which I remember I stole its sword by doing the examination move in front of him before he attacked me.

That's pretty much all I remember from that game.

i believe you're looking for a game called 'time commando'.

 

[Xavior]

I've been hunting a game for awhile now. Well, actually, three, but I'll only pester you with one.

It was a PC game on I believe Windows 98, but it could've been 95
I think it was some kind of RTS, or something, it had a top down 3rd person view of your character and the world (which was bare at the start of the game, just grass) , who was very small
I remember it came with a poster with a bunch of weird mythical creatures on it.
The most defining thing I can see is I do remember what the cover art looked like.
It had 3 characters, a lady in the middle, something with I think a war ax of other club on the side, and the one I remember the most was this weird insect looking creature, like a bee, and it was holding a bottle. What kind of bottle I don't know, looked like a typical beer bottle.

I might be wrong about a few of those details on the cover, but I know there was an insect creature on it. That much I remember.

 

[HELPMEFINDTHISGAME]

OK I used to rent this game from my local library as a kid. It was sort of along the lines of putt putt or freddy fish, but more realistic.
It was a puzzle/adventure game where the main characters were a group of kids, in a town where a dragon thing came, and the goal of the game was to stop him.
I remember clearly on each puzzle you had to collect these different colored bugs there was also something to do with goo being everywhere.
The puzzles I remember

one was a spider in a swamp and you had to solve the puzzle to get the bugs from her

A waterfall that had bugs you had to order in the right way to reach the top



This was one of my favorite games of all time and its very frustrating to not remember it.
Please Help!!!

 

[Samuel Light]

Hi.
Looking for a game from 90's perhaps end of 80's but no sure.
Remember it was arcade game I played as a kid in one of the amusements parks.
Tried to google it but nothing comes up, It's like mortal kombat style game on the ring, but you fight as warriors and wizards, there are some bonuses and super powers, dragons, magic balls, maybe wizard was changing in to dragon? Don't remember anything else.

Would appreciate any help with the title.

 

[crescentmoon7]

Hello everyone,

I am looking for a Playstation 1 game, most likely RPG and/or Adventure. I'm guessing late 90s to early 2000s.
Throughout the game you had a birds eye view (a top-down game like Pokemon, Legend of Zelda) The time setting was most definitely medieval (no guns etc.) You played as a white Barbarian, I remember you could throw stones to make way and clear your path, and also pick other characters eg. a magician etc. The game very closely resembles Herc's Adventures. The game had like a gloomy atmosphere it wasn't sunny most of the time. You kept mashing buttons to slash enemies in your path I remember starting at shore? and you moved on to a jungle. I know it's pretty vague but any help would be appreciated.

 

[s3dtm]

hy,

I was wondering if anybody know the game where you have just one screen picture and is for more players than 2.
on the screen are the trees and the ground where deer is walking, when you kill deer you get a steak and you have to pick it up,you also have a sword, bow and some hot stones ( this hot stones you throw on the ground and anybody who touched them is dead also if you hit someone with a arrow or sword he dies.
you can climb on trees and trying to kill opponent, the point of this game i think is to be the last one standing. I think that there is up to 6 players.

if anybody could help me find this game or what is called i would be very grateful.

 

[cien2]

- the name could be a single word, phantasm, fantasm, fantasia(?) the name eludes me but i remembered when i was a kid, the title was quite "exotic" for a pc game, and that drew me to try it

With that title, you might be thinking of Phantasmagoria...but that game was definitely not on floppy disks!

yeah, it wasnt phantasmagoria. i've been trying hard to remember it's name or the company who made it.

 

[dl_wraith]

I remember an old warhammer 40k turnbased video game

Probably Space Crusade. One of Gremlin Graphics finest. Failing that there was a terrible version of the Space Hulk boardgame from the PS1 era (as I recall).

 

[Detroit]

Hey guys, my friend's looking for a game on the SNES where you had to catch fruit and vegetables with a net.
You had to catch them before they were touched by a mould/fungus. If the fruits and vegetables were touched by the mould/fungus you could get rid of it by putbeach ating it in a cage. The game had a time limit and there were different maps, like a kitchen and a beach.

Thanks in advance.

 

[OldGamingPlayer]

Hello all, i am new to Escapist. Here's the game i played, but can't remember the name of: It was a turn-based strategy game. I also know that it contained some words about "settlers" or "civilization"(i don't remember exactly). I don't know if it was realy old. That's all i remember about it. I hope someone can help.

Sorry for bad english.

May be Sid Meier's Civilizations

No, sorry, The game i played was waaaay different from Sid Meier's Civilizations.
But anyway, thanks for help.

There are lot's of those kind of games, like: Caesar, Age of Empires, Settlers and more. I would say we need a little more information.

Well, I didn't say that it is just a strategy game. It is a TURN-BASED strategy game. Here's an example: Space Empires IV.
The game i don't remember the name of is quite different: You start from ancient times and you advance to contemporary age and so forth.

 

[focusd]

Okay, so. First time posting here, so let's start this off with a game that has been bugging me for awhile. It's a classic point-and-click adventure game on the PC from the late 90s-early 2000s. I've only played a single level that was included in the demo, and you're on a plane going on some sort of vacation. You start in some cargo-looking area of the plane with a gorilla in a giant cage. I remember one key specific scene where you crumble up a piece of paper and throw it at the gorilla to provoke it for some reason or another. The last bit I remember is at the end of the demo, you manage to jump out of the plane and go through some dialogue while skydiving, and you have the option of pulling the cord for the parachute or ignoring it while the main character screams "PULL THE DAMN CORD!" before eventually ending up on some random, remote island.


I believe the name of the game has to do with the name of the main character, but I'm not for sure.

 

[Jester Sneizer]

I remember playing this game in arcade.

-the playable classes are knight, archer, (a woman and a wizard.. not sure with these two).
-the camera angle is like whats on "Sonic 3D" but changes sometimes to side. (3rd person view aka Musashi)
-dungeon crawler/platformer type of game.
-i remember fighting skeletons on 1st stage (J-turn like path, and i fight a witch at the end, not sure though)
-after that mini boss^ , i fight a dragon at the castle walls (the dragon will stay on right or left side and breath fire then tries to catch you to the other side)
-the next stage is a snowy mountain, there are 2 paths. (1st path will take you to fight another dragon, the 2nd path is a long way where you will fight a one-eyed green monster like a tree trunk with tentacles and shoots acid upwards and tries to ram you)
-i also remember a lava stage and another dragon boss.
-i remember a knight boss in a room with mirrors (i think this boss is hard, it teleports behind you then attacks you)

please post a picture or link with your answer. thank you xD