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

[ccceyhun]

Hi people.

There is this game that I have been literally looking for more than a decade! Lost the cd and game was gone for good.
There is a member who mentioned it 2 years ago in that topic.

Late '90s-early 2000's pirate game very similar to the Sid Meyer's Pirates! games. It was for the PC and I'm fairly sure I got it free from a Cheerios box but possibly from something else, but it was definitely a free game I got as a CD from something. I have been looking for these PC pirate games for a long time and haven't found it yet. Gameplay consisted of captaining various ships in first person (you controlled the ship not the captain), you never saw your crew really though. You could go to certain locations and buy and sell goods. You could also have cannon battles in third-person with other ships and board them and have sword fights. HOWEVER, it wasn't any of the version of Pirates! that I can tell from the screenshots of those games. Thanks for your consideration.

P.S. The most defining part of gameplay I can think of to set it apart from the Sid Meyer's games is that when you were traveling your ship, it was almost as if you were standing on the ship staring at the front of the ship in first-person, and the ship would bounce a little on the water. You would get a whistle sound with suggestions on what to do written towards the top as you traveled as well.

It is just as he/she said except for the era. It probably belongs to mid 90's. Also there was a VERY creepy grip reaper that has a moving worm in his eye in a cemetery when you are killed. Game had a bit more quality than old "pirates!" games. No 8-bit sound or music. Nicely vocalized and animated. Even the merchands, bartenders or other characters you encounter are animated in 2D. Crew sing from time to time while sailing. My CD was nearly all red and it had transperant pirate skull and labelled "PIRATES!" on it. But unfortunately there is no "PIRATES!" game like so in any part of the internet because I THOROUGHLY searched for it. I saw many people looking for that game. But there is not even a trace of that game.

It was a brilliant game and recommend everyone here if you havent played it yet.

 

[Ninashtia]

I have been trying to remember the name of this game for years, I'm hoping someone can help me out. It was a PC game, either for Windows 95 or 98, more than likely 98. It was a game about music and the main character was a Penguin who guided you through many little games that all involved learning the melody to a song or the words (to something like There Saints go Marching In and other sort of well known folk songs). It all took place in his apartment. The one part that really sticks out to me is one game where you essentially made your own techno song. You had many different backing beats to choose from varying in tempo etc, then could pick from many samples of instruments and what not, and a few vocal samples, one of which was "I know you gunna dig dis". And then loop it over and over.

This has been driving me mad for a long while now, especially since I heard the "I know you gunna dig dis" sample in a song on my satellite radio not that long ago. If anyone has any suggestions that would be amazing!!

That game was Lenny's music toons!

 

[Moralesbadui]

Please help!!!! I could not find in previous posts!!!

I played this game in the early to mid 90s on PC. It is a logic game where you had triangles with 3 numbers corresponding to each side (shown inside the triangle). The triangles had to be arranged in such a way that each number/side had to match the same number adjacent while arranging the triangles in pairs to make perfect squares. There were 3 rows and 3 columns of squares where you had to accommodate the 18 triangles. I could be wrong about the quantities but the point should still be the same regardless. The game was set up in to a divided screen where in the right hand side you started with all of the triangles(arranged in the same 3x3 manner but not matching numbers). In the left hand side you had the empty slots so that you would clic a triangle and select the empty slot to move it. The triAngles were grey and the numbers were bleu.

 

[Jason Ong]

Please help... unknown game title

i remembered playing a game around mid 90s. either a samurai or a ninja. its a role playing game. you startout off with no abilities and you have to collect yin yang symbols and learn how to jump upwards using sticks. i specifically remember a level where you jump onto a giant pipe organ.

Please help

 

[Altimos]

I'm not sure if you'll be able to help me... but maybe... just maybe somebody has played it and can remember it.

It's a top down game, and the graphics weren't all that impressive. The background is black, and the graphics are all line based. You're a boat shooting at things, and dodging other shots and land. The cool thing about this game is the constant techno music playing as you battle enemy forces.

I remember playing it during my night shift while on duty back in 2001 when I was still in the Corps, and yes... I was playing a game while I was on duty... but seriously, there was nothing to do at 1 in the morning but play games...

Altimos

 

[Altimos]

I'm not sure if you'll be able to help me... but maybe... just maybe somebody has played it and can remember it.

It's a top down game, and the graphics weren't all that impressive. The background is black, and the graphics are all line based. You're a boat shooting at things, and dodging other shots and land. The cool thing about this game is the constant techno music playing as you battle enemy forces.

I remember playing it during my night shift while on duty back in 2001 when I was still in the Corps, and yes... I was playing a game while I was on duty... but seriously, there was nothing to do at 1 in the morning but play games...

Altimos

To give you an idea of what it kind of looked like as graphics style, it was like Asteroids (the one launched in 1979), except that it was scrolling vertically, and the techno music. It wasn't black and white either, it was colored lines.

Altimos

 

[Antoine Jones]

There was an old PC game I cant remember all I remember it it was in the 90s, was in third person not top down (so it its the game called "Lion") you played as a Lion and you had the option to mark/spray (to mark your territory) and you could kill gazelle and what not. I thought the name was Savage but I cant find that anywhere

 

[jibclimmer]

So there's this old web-based shockwave flash game from the 90s that I remember that I thought was called Space Pirate or Space Pirates that I remember. I don't remember too much about the mechanics, other than that it was very hard. There was fuel and you could travel to destinations but sometimes you would be intercepted by pirates or the space police or something. I think you had crew, and maybe the ship was customizable? I know a big part of the game was buying and selling merchandise to make a profit.
Anyone else remember this game, or know what it was actually called?

 

[diablo rules]

There was an old PC game I cant remember all I remember it it was in the 90s, was in third person not top down (so it its the game called "Lion") you played as a Lion and you had the option to mark/spray (to mark your territory) and you could kill gazelle and what not. I thought the name was Savage but I cant find that anywhere

Savage: The Ultimate Quest for Survival (1996)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mUqBX8F7GQ

 

[jibclimmer]

Another game I would like to remember is an ancient PC adventure game. Definitely DOS era. You typed in commands but there was a graphical representation of the world. You played a kid who was looking for his cat. To end the game you could jump off a cliff and wake up to find it was all a dream.

Also looking for a Windows 95 era racing game that had a remote control car racing feel, with winding and looping and splitting narrow tracks. It had a futuristic aesthetic and a game show storyline where you got to pick things from behind three doors when you won. The game show aspect had the full motion video popular at the time in it.

Another game I'm looking for is a hybrid RTS/first person vehicle sim. You primarily controlled a mothership that collected resources from control points and had turrets. Your mothership generated X number of minion cars/helicopters/jets etc on your orders to go fight the enemy. At any time you could jump to any minion and control it directly to take down the enemy mothership. Some enemies looked like WW I vehicles while others looked like aliens or futuristic.

Another game is one was a first person shooter where the story was that all war in the future is waged by remote piloted drones. The game was 3D kind of like Descent but it had a great multiplayer mode. I feel like the name was one word and it started with a G but I might be wrong.

Finally one more game was kind of a Diablo clone but with a slightly more cartoony or silly aesthetic. You started out as a farm boy or something. The game was pretty silly. I just remember that killing an armored guard got me almost instantly killed and that they used different color-skinned beasts to indicate stronger ones. I feel like it had a one word title. It was for PC- windows 95 era.I don't think it was an a-list title. It was fun though. I think they touted that it was easily user-moddable. Design your own playable modules kind of thing.

Okay that's all the games teasing my subconscious at the moment.

On another note though, has there ever been a half-decent PC game that simulated commanding a capital ship in space combat?

 

[jibclimmer]

I remember playing this game when I was younger. It was about about a boy who wakes up on a spaceship and you have to do stuff to get back home. I don't remember much, but I believe the boy is wearing green pajamas and there were places like a fast food restaurant, a stage etc. I believe you had to find things aswell.

Still haven't remembered this game. So bumping this.

I believe the game came out around 2005-ish and it had cartoon-y art style.

Well it sounds like one of the Commander Keen games (classics) but they are like 10+ years older than 2005.

 

[jibclimmer]

Okay this drives me crazy for a long time now.
The game I'm remembering was a car related SNES game. Unlike most of the car games back then, it wasn't driving races on tracks, it was more like a stock car pit fighting thing.
You could choose between like 10-15 different characters, all with their specifications (concerning weapons, health and stuff). I'm not quite sure what the goal was, but I think you had to bump enemy cars off the edge of the "map". Or destroy them somehow.

The characters were mostly not-human, if I remember correctly, but I know I found them hilariously funny back then when I was like 8yo. So maybe they had funny quotes or appearance, I don't really know...
I checked all the lists of car related SNES games I could find, without results. A friend of mine told me you could obtain a trophy in one of the SSB games, that would resemble a character of said game, but I couldn't find anything.

As I said, I checked a lot of lists, so I know it's not Battle Cars. And all the other car games I found where racing simulations, whereas my game isn't a simulation at all.
So maybe someone remembers it, since it's obviously quite unknown. Please, I want to know the name of that game. Maybe it's not even funny anymore, but I just need clarity.

Bump.
And I remember another game. It was kinda like Heroes of Might and Magic (an early one, like 2 or 3), but I swear it's none of them. Does someone know another game series similar to HOMM?

It wasn't Rock n Roll Racing?

No, definitely not. I'm 100% sure you weren't driving a track, it was more like roaming freely in a specific area. And the characters stuck out of the cars like in Super Mario Kart, so that you could see them.

Whacky Wheels or Skunny Cart?

 

[jibclimmer]

Ok I thought of one more. Played this once on a candy-colored old-school iMac running OS 7 or something.

Point and Click adventure game with full motion video characters. I only played one scene: you were frankenstein's Monster just come to life and Frankenstein was there making sure you didn't do anything or escape. He talked to you a bunch and would kill you with an injection if you annoyed him or sow thing. Not sure if it was actually Frankenstein or a rip-off with a different name. Frankenstein was either played by Tim Curry or a guy that my kind has twisted into being Tim Curry and just a similar vibe.

 

[Arenegeth]

I was going to repost my game two from before but in the meantime I remembered something easier, I thought it be easy to find my self but I kept hitting Jumping Flash.

It is an early PS1 game where you fight robots (I think it was one on one only) in first person (might had a third person option as well but not sure) while being a robot yourself. I think it had a two-player split screen mode but I?m not 100% sure.

You could customize the robots with different weapons and drill hands and stuff like that, some could fly some could jump really high depending on customization. By the way I played the PAL version not sure if the game got released in the US, design wise it looked Japanese.

It is not Jumping Flash (though they are some similarities)..

Re-posting this, in case any more people see it and know which game it is. As I said before is an early PS1 game, I must have played it in 97' but it looked like it was released in 95', 96'. I'll try to research it again myself later, but if anybody can tell me which game it is in the meantime, it will be much appreciated.

 

[diablo rules]

So there's this old web-based shockwave flash game from the 90s that I remember that I thought was called Space Pirate or Space Pirates that I remember. I don't remember too much about the mechanics, other than that it was very hard. There was fuel and you could travel to destinations but sometimes you would be intercepted by pirates or the space police or something. I think you had crew, and maybe the ship was customizable? I know a big part of the game was buying and selling merchandise to make a profit.
Anyone else remember this game, or know what it was actually called?

There are various games with the same characteristics...Starflight (1986) for instance it fits perfectly:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtJXoOoqjX8


but it could be others like Starflight 2, Star Control, Alien Legacy, etc. They are PC games and some of them can be in other platforms like SNES or SEGA Genesis, etc. but I don't know if there was a flash version too. Have you tried Starflight?

 

[ArcaneGod]

During hurricane Katrina me and my family went up north and stayed in a cabin together. My older cousins were playing a game I can't seem to remember well enough to find, but I do remember your character was a slave and was working for this evil character. There were also these bird things your character took care of and then the bad guy killed them or something, but one survived and you fed it an item that made it turn into this weird fire thing. I think it was a ps2 game. Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance.

I think that might be Arc the Lad Twilight of Spirits, I think this scene. http://youtu.be/KkOy-9nGolc?t=4m29s

Yes! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!! Been trying to find this for years...

 

[sha1992]

Hi,
its a pretty longshot.. but there was a pc game around the mid 2000's where you play some kind of police detective, the game's opening scene was a case of a dead girl in a bathtub full of blood, during the investigation the detective follow writings on the wall in the victim's house.. and i remember something about a crow that fits in somehow.. maybe in a trailer or something.
ill really appreciate any ideas about the game's name.
thnx

 

[Bodin]

Hey guys,

I don't know if this game has been asked for bevore (I have to admit 454 pages of posts... didn't read them all )

I am looking for an older game - might have been in the late 90s. You play like an Astronout. It beginns on Earth you can go through the spacestation an collect items (bird-view or third person - not sure).
Then you borde your ship with your crew and fly into space. You crash with your ship on a strange alien planet. When you and your Crew wake up you are being looked after by some alien-woman (kind of like jar jar Binks?). On the planet you vitnes the assasination of (i think) the leader of the aliens. You start looking for the assasin. You have to solve Riddles, adventures and battels. Stil collecting weapons and usefull items. It's a rather green planet with walls bild of plants.

Thats about what I remember of the game. Spend the last 1 1/2 hours googling for it... (and the last days thinking of it )

I would be happy if someone could help me!

 

[Gatlank]

I was going to repost my game two from before but in the meantime I remembered something easier, I thought it be easy to find my self but I kept hitting Jumping Flash.

It is an early PS1 game where you fight robots (I think it was one on one only) in first person (might had a third person option as well but not sure) while being a robot yourself. I think it had a two-player split screen mode but I?m not 100% sure.

You could customize the robots with different weapons and drill hands and stuff like that, some could fly some could jump really high depending on customization. By the way I played the PAL version not sure if the game got released in the US, design wise it looked Japanese.

It is not Jumping Flash (though they are some similarities)..

Re-posting this, in case any more people see it and know which game it is. As I said before is an early PS1 game, I must have played it in 97' but it looked like it was released in 95', 96'. I'll try to research it again myself later, but if anybody can tell me which game it is in the meantime, it will be much appreciated.

Asking for a robot game on the PS1 is like asking to search for a needle in a haystack (not counting with the only released in Japan games).
If you can give more info on gameplay style or type of game it will help since nearly half had customizable robots.
For now these are the ones i can remember Armored Core, Iron Soldier 3 and Front Mission 3.

 

[ccceyhun]

Hi people.

There is this game that I have been literally looking for more than a decade! Lost the cd and game was gone for good.
There is a member who mentioned it 2 years ago in that topic.

Late '90s-early 2000's pirate game very similar to the Sid Meyer's Pirates! games. It was for the PC and I'm fairly sure I got it free from a Cheerios box but possibly from something else, but it was definitely a free game I got as a CD from something. I have been looking for these PC pirate games for a long time and haven't found it yet. Gameplay consisted of captaining various ships in first person (you controlled the ship not the captain), you never saw your crew really though. You could go to certain locations and buy and sell goods. You could also have cannon battles in third-person with other ships and board them and have sword fights. HOWEVER, it wasn't any of the version of Pirates! that I can tell from the screenshots of those games. Thanks for your consideration.

P.S. The most defining part of gameplay I can think of to set it apart from the Sid Meyer's games is that when you were traveling your ship, it was almost as if you were standing on the ship staring at the front of the ship in first-person, and the ship would bounce a little on the water. You would get a whistle sound with suggestions on what to do written towards the top as you traveled as well.

It is just as he/she said except for the era. It probably belongs to mid 90's. Also there was a VERY creepy grip reaper that has a moving worm in his eye in a cemetery when you are killed. Game had a bit more quality than old "pirates!" games. No 8-bit sound or music. Nicely vocalized and animated. Even the merchands, bartenders or other characters you encounter are animated in 2D. Crew sing from time to time while sailing. My CD was nearly all red and it had transperant pirate skull and labelled "PIRATES!" on it. But unfortunately there is no "PIRATES!" game like so in any part of the internet because I THOROUGHLY searched for it. I saw many people looking for that game. But there is not even a trace of that game.

It was a brilliant game and recommend everyone here if you havent played it yet.

Game is found: Pirates: Captain's Quest (1995) (Discovery Channel)