Games you remember, names you don't

Neto · Dec 5, 2017

Jraphics Horse said:
Maybe Run Saber?

Dude, you broke my brain.

Now, by the video, I'm sure I played Run Saber when I was a kid (although I had completely forgotten about it). But I'm not sure it is the game I was talking about.
Maybe it was. Maybe it wasn't. I'm a lost cause now, since I think I'm mixing whatever is in my memory with Doom Troopers (the space marine theme and the jungle level)...
Anyway, thanks a lot for reminding my about Run Saber! I'm gonna contact my childhood friend about it to see if that's the game or not.

Vexii · Dec 8, 2017

A friend of mine vividly remembers a game that they've since concluded doesn't exist, but I'd like to try to find it for them if it does.

The way she describes it is being a huge room full of toys. The room is evocative of a "wholesale club" with a general warm, yellow colour scheme to the environment. (wood?)

The toys in the room are sort of spread out across the entire area on different levels, separated by cubes (building blocks?) that led to different areas in the game.

One of the toys most prominent to her was a windup doll with a clockwork key on its back? She doesn't know if that was the player character or an NPC of sorts.

You might have been able to fly, or movement around the room could have been fairly fast.

She feels it was definitely a SEGA Saturn game, but feels like looking through the list of games it wasn't any of those ones. Maybe Genesis?

She also says she loved Nights into Dreams but doesn't know if it was a similar time period.

I don't know if that's enough to go on, but hopefully the idea is niche and specific enough to get some idea from? I seem to remember a game on PC that was vaguely aesthetically similar but might have been more of a horror game? Thinking of the box it had an evil looking clown on it, and was probably made by Sold Out Software...

Any ideas at all?

Chocobo115 · Dec 8, 2017

Vexii said:
A friend of mine vividly remembers a game that they've since concluded doesn't exist, but I'd like to try to find it for them if it does.

The way she describes it is being a huge room full of toys. The room is evocative of a "wholesale club" with a general warm, yellow colour scheme to the environment. (wood?)

The toys in the room are sort of spread out across the entire area on different levels, separated by cubes (building blocks?) that led to different areas in the game.

One of the toys most prominent to her was a windup doll with a clockwork key on its back? She doesn't know if that was the player character or an NPC of sorts.

You might have been able to fly, or movement around the room could have been fairly fast.

She feels it was definitely a SEGA Saturn game, but feels like looking through the list of games it wasn't any of those ones. Maybe Genesis?

She also says she loved Nights into Dreams but doesn't know if it was a similar time period.

I don't know if that's enough to go on, but hopefully the idea is niche and specific enough to get some idea from? I seem to remember a game on PC that was vaguely aesthetically similar but might have been more of a horror game? Thinking of the box it had an evil looking clown on it, and was probably made by Sold Out Software...

Any ideas at all?

Clockwork Knight 1 or 2

EDIT : Fixed typo, sorry

2Blackcats · Dec 8, 2017

Vexii said:
A friend of mine vividly remembers a game that they've since concluded doesn't exist, but I'd like to try to find it for them if it does.

The way she describes it is being a huge room full of toys. The room is evocative of a "wholesale club" with a general warm, yellow colour scheme to the environment. (wood?)

The toys in the room are sort of spread out across the entire area on different levels, separated by cubes (building blocks?) that led to different areas in the game.

One of the toys most prominent to her was a windup doll with a clockwork key on its back? She doesn't know if that was the player character or an NPC of sorts.

You might have been able to fly, or movement around the room could have been fairly fast.

She feels it was definitely a SEGA Saturn game, but feels like looking through the list of games it wasn't any of those ones. Maybe Genesis?

She also says she loved Nights into Dreams but doesn't know if it was a similar time period.

I don't know if that's enough to go on, but hopefully the idea is niche and specific enough to get some idea from? I seem to remember a game on PC that was vaguely aesthetically similar but might have been more of a horror game? Thinking of the box it had an evil looking clown on it, and was probably made by Sold Out Software...

Any ideas at all?

Toy Commander I reckon.

Edit: Dreamcast

Fr1zzank · Dec 8, 2017

Been scratching my head about this game for years, and I'm hoping you wonderful people can put this mystery to bed for me.

It was a PC point-and-click adventure game from (I think) the mid-90s. I believe it may have been a demo on a shareware collection (one of those sets of 10 CDs with a bunch of random software. I remember an FPS named Bodycount, Magic Carpet 3D demo, and encyclopedia and spreadsheet software being on these kinds of CDs too.).

Art was bright and colourful--not sprites or pixelated--and I feel like the main character looked somewhat like Randi from Secret of Mana with either red hair, or a red headband, or maybe a full red outfit.

The best hint I can give is that one of the first puzzles (or maybe it was the entirety of the demo) involved some pigmen sitting around a campfire and if you got too close they'd kill you, game over. A screen or two over to the right was a tree with a bee hive full of bees that would kill you if you got too close, game over. But somehow, you would trap the bees in a jar, throw the jar of bees at the pigmen, and they would scatter, allowing you to proceed to a rope bridge, I think. That's all I remember of the gameplay.

I think maybe the character was named Adobe, which means it's impossible to search for nowadays. My brother thinks it was Wupong, or something.

Please solve this decades old mystery for me!

Daitokuji · Dec 8, 2017

It was a shareware RPG from the 90s, when you were in towns and dungeons it had a 3d perspective like Wizardry but when you were in the overworld it had an over the top perspective like Ultima or Dragon Quest. I've looked for it for a while but never been able to find the name of it. I don't think it was too famous.

Aphotic · Dec 9, 2017

Fr1zzank said:
Been scratching my head about this game for years, and I'm hoping you wonderful people can put this mystery to bed for me.

It was a PC point-and-click adventure game from (I think) the mid-90s. I believe it may have been a demo on a shareware collection (one of those sets of 10 CDs with a bunch of random software. I remember an FPS named Bodycount, Magic Carpet 3D demo, and encyclopedia and spreadsheet software being on these kinds of CDs too.).

Art was bright and colourful--not sprites or pixelated--and I feel like the main character looked somewhat like Randi from Secret of Mana with either red hair, or a red headband, or maybe a full red outfit.

The best hint I can give is that one of the first puzzles (or maybe it was the entirety of the demo) involved some pigmen sitting around a campfire and if you got too close they'd kill you, game over. A screen or two over to the right was a tree with a bee hive full of bees that would kill you if you got too close, game over. But somehow, you would trap the bees in a jar, throw the jar of bees at the pigmen, and they would scatter, allowing you to proceed to a rope bridge, I think. That's all I remember of the gameplay.

I think maybe the character was named Adobe, which means it's impossible to search for nowadays. My brother thinks it was Wupong, or something.

Please solve this decades old mystery for me!

Maybe Discworld?

2Blackcats · Dec 9, 2017

Fr1zzank said:
Been scratching my head about this game for years, and I'm hoping you wonderful people can put this mystery to bed for me.

It was a PC point-and-click adventure game from (I think) the mid-90s. I believe it may have been a demo on a shareware collection (one of those sets of 10 CDs with a bunch of random software. I remember an FPS named Bodycount, Magic Carpet 3D demo, and encyclopedia and spreadsheet software being on these kinds of CDs too.).

Art was bright and colourful--not sprites or pixelated--and I feel like the main character looked somewhat like Randi from Secret of Mana with either red hair, or a red headband, or maybe a full red outfit.

The best hint I can give is that one of the first puzzles (or maybe it was the entirety of the demo) involved some pigmen sitting around a campfire and if you got too close they'd kill you, game over. A screen or two over to the right was a tree with a bee hive full of bees that would kill you if you got too close, game over. But somehow, you would trap the bees in a jar, throw the jar of bees at the pigmen, and they would scatter, allowing you to proceed to a rope bridge, I think. That's all I remember of the gameplay.

I think maybe the character was named Adobe, which means it's impossible to search for nowadays. My brother thinks it was Wupong, or something.

Please solve this decades old mystery for me!

Sounds like one if the Hugo games to me.

Chocobo115 · Dec 9, 2017

Fr1zzank said:
Been scratching my head about this game for years, and I'm hoping you wonderful people can put this mystery to bed for me.

It was a PC point-and-click adventure game from (I think) the mid-90s. I believe it may have been a demo on a shareware collection (one of those sets of 10 CDs with a bunch of random software. I remember an FPS named Bodycount, Magic Carpet 3D demo, and encyclopedia and spreadsheet software being on these kinds of CDs too.).

Art was bright and colourful--not sprites or pixelated--and I feel like the main character looked somewhat like Randi from Secret of Mana with either red hair, or a red headband, or maybe a full red outfit.

The best hint I can give is that one of the first puzzles (or maybe it was the entirety of the demo) involved some pigmen sitting around a campfire and if you got too close they'd kill you, game over. A screen or two over to the right was a tree with a bee hive full of bees that would kill you if you got too close, game over. But somehow, you would trap the bees in a jar, throw the jar of bees at the pigmen, and they would scatter, allowing you to proceed to a rope bridge, I think. That's all I remember of the gameplay.

I think maybe the character was named Adobe, which means it's impossible to search for nowadays. My brother thinks it was Wupong, or something.

Please solve this decades old mystery for me!

What throws me off is the graphics. Was it in 3D? Full Motion?
You say not sprites or pixelated. So I should rule out anything like King's Quest/Monkey Island?

I've gone through pretty much every single 90s point and click that I could think of but couldn't find the puzzle you're decribing.

Ithink at least that I can narrow it down to around 93-95 since both the other games came out '94.

Chrizzy_81 · Dec 9, 2017

Fr1zzank said:
Been scratching my head about this game for years, and I'm hoping you wonderful people can put this mystery to bed for me.

It was a PC point-and-click adventure game from (I think) the mid-90s. I believe it may have been a demo on a shareware collection (one of those sets of 10 CDs with a bunch of random software. I remember an FPS named Bodycount, Magic Carpet 3D demo, and encyclopedia and spreadsheet software being on these kinds of CDs too.).

Art was bright and colourful--not sprites or pixelated--and I feel like the main character looked somewhat like Randi from Secret of Mana with either red hair, or a red headband, or maybe a full red outfit.

The best hint I can give is that one of the first puzzles (or maybe it was the entirety of the demo) involved some pigmen sitting around a campfire and if you got too close they'd kill you, game over. A screen or two over to the right was a tree with a bee hive full of bees that would kill you if you got too close, game over. But somehow, you would trap the bees in a jar, throw the jar of bees at the pigmen, and they would scatter, allowing you to proceed to a rope bridge, I think. That's all I remember of the gameplay.

I think maybe the character was named Adobe, which means it's impossible to search for nowadays. My brother thinks it was Wupong, or something.

Please solve this decades old mystery for me!

Curse of the enchantia maybe?

Deleted member 426 · Dec 9, 2017

I think this is quite a recent game, I've never played it but wanted to.

It's got real life video interviews with I think a woman. Possibly a prisoner, possibly in a psychiatric ward. Sound familiar? I might have literally all the details wrong. I feel like it might be an investigation game with evidence including these vhs tapes.

Jucksalbe · Dec 9, 2017

Jack Orion said:
I think this is quite a recent game, I've never played it but wanted to.

It's got real life video interviews with I think a woman. Possibly a prisoner, possibly in a psychiatric ward. Sound familiar? I might have literally all the details wrong. I feel like it might be an investigation game with evidence including these vhs tapes.

Probably Her Story.

Wibblewozzer · Dec 9, 2017

Jucksalbe said:
Probably Her Story.

That has to be it, but if you check it out and like it you should also look into The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker. Very similar in concept. They continue to update it so it plays better (and offer easier ways to get through it) but I enjoyed what I played before they put in many of the updates. I'm assuming it's been made better since then.

But Her Story should be the priority.

ctcatsby · Dec 9, 2017

Alright.

Dreamcast game. Multiplayer coop. 3D isometric/top-down type thing. Beat-em-up sort of deal, but with super powers. My brother and I played it once in a Gamestop and never saw it again, but we loved it.

2Blackcats · Dec 9, 2017

ctcatsby said:
Alright.

Dreamcast game. Multiplayer coop. 3D isometric/top-down type thing. Beat-em-up sort of deal, but with super powers. My brother and I played it once in a Gamestop and never saw it again, but we loved it.

Cannon Spike?

wubbyz · Dec 9, 2017

Okay this is going to be super vague but you flew a fighter plane bottom to top scroll shooting other planes. You picked up power ups such as B or P. I think it was on sega genesis. My dad loved this game I can never find the exact one.

Fawz · Dec 9, 2017

There was an old PS1 3D fighting game where you were basically in a cube and fought 1v1 against your opponent in a 3D space. It was dark dystopia type setting with characters having access to elemental based powers. I think the main character was ire or Ice and the rival was the opposite.

It wasn't very popular as I've had a lot of issues finding it since, but it was localized in English and available here in Canada.

Morrigan · Dec 9, 2017

wubbyz said:
Okay this is going to be super vague but you flew a fighter plane bottom to top scroll shooting other planes. You picked up power ups such as B or P. I think it was on sega genesis. My dad loved this game I can never find the exact one.

After Burner II?

Jucksalbe · Dec 9, 2017

Fawz said:
There was an old PS1 3D fighting game where you were basically in a cube and fought 1v1 against your opponent in a 3D space.

Psychic Force?

2Blackcats · Dec 9, 2017

wubbyz said:
Okay this is going to be super vague but you flew a fighter plane bottom to top scroll shooting other planes. You picked up power ups such as B or P. I think it was on sega genesis. My dad loved this game I can never find the exact one.

No more info?

Twin Hawk?

MegaSackman · Dec 9, 2017

Fawz said:
There was an old PS1 3D fighting game where you were basically in a cube and fought 1v1 against your opponent in a 3D space. It was dark dystopia type setting with characters having access to elemental based powers. I think the main character was ire or Ice and the rival was the opposite.

It wasn't very popular as I've had a lot of issues finding it since, but it was localized in English and available here in Canada.

Psychic Force maybe?

ctcatsby · Dec 9, 2017

2Blackcats said:
Cannon Spike?

yeah that looks right!

2Blackcats · Dec 9, 2017

ctcatsby said:
yeah that looks right!

Sweet.

Fawz · Dec 9, 2017

Jucksalbe said:
Psychic Force?

MegaSackman said:
Psychic Force maybe?

Yeah that's it! Thanks a lot for the help :)

Deleted member 15948 · Dec 9, 2017

Action RPG, released no later than 2005-2006, on PS2. The first level had hordes of spiky spider-insect enemies that swayed back and forth all in time, so it looked like a crazy bug dance troupe until you engaged them. A later level had a boss fight done entirely from a bridge horizontal in front of the boss. It's been driving me nuts for a while now that I can't remember this thing.

wubbyz · Dec 10, 2017

2Blackcats said:
No more info?

Twin Hawk?

It may have been this game! Seems slightly different but youve given me a good lead.

Deleted member 426 · Dec 10, 2017

Jucksalbe said:
Probably Her Story.

Wibblewozzer said:
That has to be it, but if you check it out and like it you should also look into The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker. Very similar in concept. They continue to update it so it plays better (and offer easier ways to get through it) but I enjoyed what I played before they put in many of the updates. I'm assuming it's been made better since then.

But Her Story should be the priority.

Yeah! Thanks guys.

Nintendo · Dec 10, 2017

Okay, I can't describe this very well but there was that PS1 game. It's a third person game where you play as an alien and you shoot stuff and do some platforming. The game looked hideous even back then. I remember hating it but it was the only game I had for a while and I had to play it a lot.

EDIT: I think it was an orange alien with big black eyes. I used to call the setting a hospital but I don't know if it was a hospital actually.

Arcus Felis · Dec 10, 2017

Not quite sure anyone will be able to help me but...

I'm looking for an old game. I'm not sure if it was a NES or a Megadrive one (I'm thinking NES). The only memories I have of this game are selecting a character from a rather large panel, gameplay being from a top-down perspective (like the first Zelda), the first level being full of... green squares (I think?), with a key to obtain to open a door and move on the next level (not sure), with an hidden passage on the left wall leading to a much harder room which, in my memories, looked like I glitched the game.
I also think that after a set amount of time, the player loses?

Really, I have been unable to pinpoint what this game was. I'm not even sure if it was good or not. Frankly, I'm beginning to think that this game comes from a dream, but it has been on my mind for some time.

Dec · Dec 10, 2017

A vehicle game where the cars deformed. I think it was isometric but I'm not sure. Would have been late 90s I believe.

I remember the end of game/mission screen had the car you drove rotating in a little box in the middle of the screen and you could see it was all smushed up.

DeNiZen · Dec 10, 2017

I remember going to the arcade as a kid in the 90's and seeing this hockey game that always peeked my interest, but I never had a quarter to play it! It was 5 v 5 and all the players looked like they got the hell beat out of them. I really appreciated the detail in the players and how they moved and acted differently from one another. So my broke ass would just watch the demo loop with the coin drop at center screen taunting me.

SweetSark · Dec 10, 2017

I already asked in other Forums for this game I am searching, but I think here I will at last find an answer.

So the game is about a Evil Skeleton wearing purple clothes trying to kill Heroes who attacking him.
It is Top-View in the style of games like Mageslayer, but it take place inside an Arena with a fix camera, trying to kill as many Heroes as possible.
Another characteristic the game have which stuck in my memory is before you die after many hit, The Skeleton start bleeding [I don't know why], giving time for one last kill(s) before he explode while laughing.
Also I played in on Windows.

eso76 · Dec 10, 2017

Nintendo said:
Okay, I can't describe this very well but there was that PS1 game. It's a third person game where you play as an alien and you shoot stuff and do some platforming. The game looked hideous even back then. I remember hating it but it was the only game I had for a while and I had to play it a lot.

EDIT: I think it was an orange alien with big black eyes. I used to call the setting a hospital but I don't know if it was a hospital actually.

You mean this:

I remember it scored a 4/10 on the magazine I used to write for :)

Edit: also, this is my first post on resetera!

eso76 · Dec 10, 2017

DeNiZen said:
I remember going to the arcade as a kid in the 90's and seeing this hockey game that always peeked my interest, but I never had a quarter to play it! It was 5 v 5 and all the players looked like they got the hell beat out of them. I really appreciated the detail in the players and how they moved and acted differently from one another. So my broke ass would just watch the demo loop with the coin drop at center screen taunting me.

Bolded makes it sound like Hit the Ice but it wasn't 5v5.
Most arcade hockey games were in fact 2vs2 or 3vs3; Konami's Blades of Steel is the only one I remember being 5vs5.

Nintendo · Dec 10, 2017

eso76 said:
You mean this:

I remember it scored a 4/10 on the magazine I used to write for :)

Edit: also, this is my first post on resetera!

Holy shit! Lol That is it!! Thank you! Glad that it wasn't just me who thought the game was bad lol. Though, I spent dozens of hours on it :(

Also, welcome to ResetEra!

Niahak · Dec 11, 2017

Arcus Felis said:
Not quite sure anyone will be able to help me but...

I'm looking for an old game. I'm not sure if it was a NES or a Megadrive one (I'm thinking NES). The only memories I have of this game are selecting a character from a rather large panel, gameplay being from a top-down perspective (like the first Zelda), the first level being full of... green squares (I think?), with a key to obtain to open a door and move on the next level (not sure), with an hidden passage on the left wall leading to a much harder room which, in my memories, looked like I glitched the game.
I also think that after a set amount of time, the player loses?

Really, I have been unable to pinpoint what this game was. I'm not even sure if it was good or not. Frankly, I'm beginning to think that this game comes from a dream, but it has been on my mind for some time.

It's not actually top-down, but from all the other bits of your description sound sort of like Legacy of the Wizard. You pick your character from a family portrait, there are lots of green squares and hidden passages, keys are an element, and some sections do look sort of... abstract. Hopefully even if it's not it, it sparks some other memories of how things look different.

Fonst · Dec 11, 2017

Dec said:
A vehicle game where the cars deformed. I think it was isometric but I'm not sure. Would have been late 90s I believe.

I remember the end of game/mission screen had the car you drove rotating in a little box in the middle of the screen and you could see it was all smushed up.

Stunt Race FX?

Though it doesn't look like cars rotate.

Arcus Felis · Dec 11, 2017

Niahak said:
It's not actually top-down, but from all the other bits of your description sound sort of like Legacy of the Wizard. You pick your character from a family portrait, there are lots of green squares and hidden passages, keys are an element, and some sections do look sort of... abstract. Hopefully even if it's not it, it sparks some other memories of how things look different.

Nope, that's not the one. Thank you however for trying to help, I really appreciate it :-)

BordyDogue · Dec 11, 2017

I got another one, my memory about these seem to never end

Online racing game where everyone drives F1 cars. There were "normal" tracks but also a lot of user-submitted tracks, but most of them were just blocks where you had to drive around and hopefully not fall off the map. Usually the only aesthetic in those maps were just a grassland skybox. I played it on PC

Jucksalbe · Dec 11, 2017

BordyDogue said:
I got another one, my memory about these seem to never end

Online racing game where everyone drives F1 cars. There were "normal" tracks but also a lot of user-submitted tracks, but most of them were just blocks where you had to drive around and hopefully not fall off the map. Usually the only aesthetic in those maps were just a grassland skybox. I played it on PC

It kinda sounds like a Trackmania game.

BordyDogue · Dec 11, 2017

Jucksalbe said:
It kinda sounds like a Trackmania game.

Just checked out that series and TrackMania Nations seems to be the one, thank you

Ichtyander · Dec 12, 2017

Daitokuji said:
It was a shareware RPG from the 90s, when you were in towns and dungeons it had a 3d perspective like Wizardry but when you were in the overworld it had an over the top perspective like Ultima or Dragon Quest. I've looked for it for a while but never been able to find the name of it. I don't think it was too famous.

I thought it might've been one of the Yendorian Tales games, but actually only the first game is top down while the other two are first person, so it's probably not that.

norog said:
Action RPG, released no later than 2005-2006, on PS2. The first level had hordes of spiky spider-insect enemies that swayed back and forth all in time, so it looked like a crazy bug dance troupe until you engaged them. A later level had a boss fight done entirely from a bridge horizontal in front of the boss. It's been driving me nuts for a while now that I can't remember this thing.

First thing that came to mind was Chaos Legion, not sure if it fully fits the description though. If not, do you remember anything more, the camera perspective, was it more of a character action game (like Chaos Legion) with some slight RPG elements or did it have more of an RPG structure (stats heavy, overworld and towns etc.)?

Arcus Felis said:
Not quite sure anyone will be able to help me but...

I'm looking for an old game. I'm not sure if it was a NES or a Megadrive one (I'm thinking NES). The only memories I have of this game are selecting a character from a rather large panel, gameplay being from a top-down perspective (like the first Zelda), the first level being full of... green squares (I think?), with a key to obtain to open a door and move on the next level (not sure), with an hidden passage on the left wall leading to a much harder room which, in my memories, looked like I glitched the game.
I also think that after a set amount of time, the player loses?

Really, I have been unable to pinpoint what this game was. I'm not even sure if it was good or not. Frankly, I'm beginning to think that this game comes from a dream, but it has been on my mind for some time.

Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum has top down segments with green blocks and a depleting oxygen timer.

Dec said:
A vehicle game where the cars deformed. I think it was isometric but I'm not sure. Would have been late 90s I believe.

I remember the end of game/mission screen had the car you drove rotating in a little box in the middle of the screen and you could see it was all smushed up.

Which system was it on? Also, assuming the damage model on the cars that the game was 3D? It's not isometric but maybe try Demolition Racer: No Exit.

SweetSark said:
I already asked in other Forums for this game I am searching, but I think here I will at last find an answer.

So the game is about a Evil Skeleton wearing purple clothes trying to kill Heroes who attacking him.
It is Top-View in the style of games like Mageslayer, but it take place inside an Arena with a fix camera, trying to kill as many Heroes as possible.
Another characteristic the game have which stuck in my memory is before you die after many hit, The Skeleton start bleeding [I don't know why], giving time for one last kill(s) before he explode while laughing.
Also I played in on Windows.

Having a hard time finding this one. Do you have a rough timeframe, like you played it around 95-98, or no later than 98 etc? That directly top down perspective like Mageslayer, Machine Hunter or the early GTA games, it can't naturally show a lot of detail on the characters so was there maybe some other game art (main menu, game over etc.) that clearly showed the skeleton guy, maybe he was a zombie, a ghoul etc? Also, what was the art style like, pixel art, higher res, maybe pre-rendered sprites or fully 3D? Something about the color scheme (apart from the skeleton wearing purple clothes), was it more colorful or dull, what colors was the arena, the enemy heroes etc?

raterpillar · Dec 12, 2017

wubbyz said:
Okay this is going to be super vague but you flew a fighter plane bottom to top scroll shooting other planes. You picked up power ups such as B or P. I think it was on sega genesis. My dad loved this game I can never find the exact one.

FireShark?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNDpQQn-jag

SweetSark · Dec 12, 2017

Ichtyander said:
Having a hard time finding this one. Do you have a rough timeframe, like you played it around 95-98, or no later than 98 etc? That directly top down perspective like Mageslayer, Machine Hunter or the early GTA games, it can't naturally show a lot of detail on the characters so was there maybe some other game art (main menu, game over etc.) that clearly showed the skeleton guy, maybe he was a zombie, a ghoul etc? Also, what was the art style like, pixel art, higher res, maybe pre-rendered sprites or fully 3D? Something about the color scheme (apart from the skeleton wearing purple clothes), was it more colorful or dull, what colors was the arena, the enemy heroes etc?

If I had to guess, I think I played it in Windows 95. Very old game.
It had very simple pixel art as you expect for an old game as I said.

A 2D Pixel Art game with a Fixed, Not Moving, Top-View Camera Arena Game.

Ichtyander · Dec 12, 2017

SweetSark said:
If I had to guess, I think I played it in Windows 95. Very old game.
It had very simple pixel art as you expect for an old game as I said.

A 2D Pixel Art game with a Fixed, Not Moving, Top-View Camera Arena Game.

Did you maybe shoot with something, throw magic, fireballs etc. or used a melee weapon like fists, a sword, an axe etc?

SweetSark · Dec 12, 2017

Ichtyander said:
Did you maybe shoot with something, throw magic, fireballs etc. or used a melee weapon like fists, a sword, an axe etc?

Ah, yes. I think the skeleton was extending his sword and had some simple swinging movements to kill his enemies. Nothing else as far I remember.

Fernando Ferreira · Dec 12, 2017

Well, let me try this out.

I'm 26 now and I was about 12-13 when I played it. It was a point and click adventure demo where my character parked his car, entered into a a building and managed to snuck an apartament key. Inside the apartment I had to find a safe that was behind some curtains in a bedroom. As I opened the safe, the demo ended. It had 3D graphics. I barely understood english back then so that's all I can remember.

As an avid point and click genre fan, I've been looking for it quite a while.

Thanks.

Fernando Ferreira · Dec 12, 2017

Daitokuji said:
It was a shareware RPG from the 90s, when you were in towns and dungeons it had a 3d perspective like Wizardry but when you were in the overworld it had an over the top perspective like Ultima or Dragon Quest. I've looked for it for a while but never been able to find the name of it. I don't think it was too famous.

Check Worlds of Ultima: The Savage Empire or Ultima: Worlds of Adventure 2

Edit: Better suggestion.

noomi · Dec 12, 2017

Old PC game from the early-mid 90's.

It was a Western/Cowboy type first person shooter, I don't think you could actually walk around but the game moved you forward whenever you killed all the baddies.

Also the graphics were "real-life" meaning not character models, but actual pictures of people that would have a cheesy 3 frame animation or something.

Tunahead · Dec 12, 2017

noomi said:
Old PC game from the early-mid 90's.

It was a Western/Cowboy type first person shooter, I don't think you could actually walk around but the game moved you forward whenever you killed all the baddies.

Also the graphics were "real-life" meaning not character models, but actual pictures of people that would have a cheesy 3 frame animation or something.

Mad Dog McCree?

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