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Randil wrote:
There's a game I've been looking for lately, one that I played a lot when I was younger. I think the game came out a little after the first Diablo game, and was a game very similar to Diablo (the same kind of overview, and similar interface), but it was sci-fi oriented, with firearms instead of medieval weapons. You would walk around, shooting aliens, picking up better weapons, and going further into the game. Does this say anything to anyone?
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FODA wrote:
Randil wrote:
There's a game I've been looking for lately, one that I played a lot when I was younger. I think the game came out a little after the first Diablo game, and was a game very similar to Diablo (the same kind of overview, and similar interface), but it was sci-fi oriented, with firearms instead of medieval weapons. You would walk around, shooting aliens, picking up better weapons, and going further into the game. Does this say anything to anyone?
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I'm starting to feel like a pain here (sorry), but it's neither of them either. I seem to remember that the game was a lot darker, and that you controlled one character in the same way as in the Diablo games, and that you killed monsters (or aliens, something like that) with firearms.
I'm starting to feel like a pain here (sorry), but it's neither of them either. I seem to remember that the game was a lot darker, and that you controlled one character in the same way as in the Diablo games, and that you killed monsters (or aliens, something like that) with firearms.
Was it turn-based or real-time? (IIRC the X-Com games are turn-based.)
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Warp wrote:
Randil wrote:
I'm starting to feel like a pain here (sorry), but it's neither of them either. I seem to remember that the game was a lot darker, and that you controlled one character in the same way as in the Diablo games, and that you killed monsters (or aliens, something like that) with firearms.
Was it turn-based or real-time? (IIRC the X-Com games are turn-based.)
Hmm this thread reminds me of a game I played once with a friend's gameboy. It was either gameboy or gameboy colour but I think it was just gameboy. My memory about it is pretty vague. It was a vertically orientated non scrolling puzzle game, where you were a guy who had to push blocks over ledges and climb ladders to make platforms ect. It was sort of like lode runner, but it was more about pushing blocks. I don't think there were any enemies. I can't remember exactly the object of the game, but I think it was to get a key to a door, or just get to a door. I also remember that you could rewind your movements by pressing B. I don't think it was an incredibly popular game.
I think that's one of the games I've been looking for a long time now too. It's a regular Game Boy game and you play as some sort of demi-humans, if we're looking for the same thing. I had it on a 100 in one cartridge I acquired in Greece and never knew its original name.
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Wanted! Flash game. It's one drawn out boss fight against a shadowy thing on top of a tower. For each "level" the boss switches forms and tactics. Played a couple of years ago.
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A slightly bizarre question here. When I was much younger, I used to be left in a creche on occasion, with many other children. There were some games consoles there, although nobody was really old enough to understand them. Now, I'm pretty certain that one of the games there was Super Mario All-Stars, but once when I came to the console, someone had left running what was obviously a Mario game. They were at the start of an underground level, which started with a pit too wide for anyone there to jump across, making it a little hard to continue from that point... (It also definitely wasn't the US version of Mario 2.) Could someone familiar with the series tell me which of the bundled Mario games it was? (There's a small possibility that the people in charge might have swapped in a different Mario game, too, so if it's not from Super Mario All-Stars, that doesn't completely shoot down the possibility.)
A slightly bizarre question here. When I was much younger, I used to be left in a creche on occasion, with many other children. There were some games consoles there, although nobody was really old enough to understand them. Now, I'm pretty certain that one of the games there was Super Mario All-Stars, but once when I came to the console, someone had left running what was obviously a Mario game. They were at the start of an underground level, which started with a pit too wide for anyone there to jump across, making it a little hard to continue from that point... (It also definitely wasn't the US version of Mario 2.) Could someone familiar with the series tell me which of the bundled Mario games it was? (There's a small possibility that the people in charge might have swapped in a different Mario game, too, so if it's not from Super Mario All-Stars, that doesn't completely shoot down the possibility.)
Sounds like 4-2 of Super Mario Bros. I hated that jump.
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Could also be something like World 1-2 of Lost Levels (VGMaps). It starts with a pretty large jump, especially if you don't know how to run.
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There's a game I've been looking for lately, one that I played a lot when I was younger. I think the game came out a little after the first Diablo game, and was a game very similar to Diablo (the same kind of overview, and similar interface), but it was sci-fi oriented, with firearms instead of medieval weapons. You would walk around, shooting aliens, picking up better weapons, and going further into the game. Does this say anything to anyone?
This is kinda vague, but it sounds a little like Take No Prisoners, or at least one of the many Alien Breed games. Do you remember anything else about the game?
Hmm, after looking at some pictures, it's neither Take no Prisoners nor an Alien Breed game... The game was in 2D, with not so good graphics (the game is very old). The graphics were quite close to those of the first Diablo game. The game was pretty dark. I seem to remember that you were in some sort of building, killing aliens or at least some kind of monsters. You had some kind of base or so outside the building, where you could stock up on new stuff, and get healed and such.
A slightly bizarre question here. When I was much younger, I used to be left in a creche on occasion, with many other children. There were some games consoles there, although nobody was really old enough to understand them. Now, I'm pretty certain that one of the games there was Super Mario All-Stars, but once when I came to the console, someone had left running what was obviously a Mario game. They were at the start of an underground level, which started with a pit too wide for anyone there to jump across, making it a little hard to continue from that point... (It also definitely wasn't the US version of Mario 2.) Could someone familiar with the series tell me which of the bundled Mario games it was? (There's a small possibility that the people in charge might have swapped in a different Mario game, too, so if it's not from Super Mario All-Stars, that doesn't completely shoot down the possibility.)
Sounds like 4-2 of Super Mario Bros. I hated that jump.
Looking at the level (from the TAS), I don't think so. That level doesn't start with a very wide jump at all, but rather a sequence of small pits, and doesn't seem to have a very wide jump later on either. (I checked 4-2 of SMB2J as well, in case you'd said the wrong number by mistake, but it doesn't seem to be that one either, as it's aboveground.)
They were at the start of an underground level, which started with a pit too wide for anyone there to jump across, making it a little hard to continue from that point... (It also definitely wasn't the US version of Mario 2.)
This could still be SMB2j. In Super Mario All-Stars - The Lost Levels (which is basically SMB2j) there were some additional worlds (world 9 to D). You could check 1134M to see, if I'm correct, but chances are not too bad...
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How certain are you that it was on NES? I'll add a few guesses:
Shadow of the Ninja
Strider
Stanley: The Search for Doctor Livingston
Any other details you can recall? No matter how slight, you never know when something small will be enough to remind someone of a specific game.
There was a game I played maybe fifteen years ago with a friend that was very simple and generic, so I don't expect anyone to know it. Nevertheless, it was a total blast to play and I remember a lot of details about it.
It was for PC and it had vector-esque graphics (not sure if they were "true" vector graphics, but that was the distinct style). You played as a red triangle/trapezoid shaped ship with a turret (line) in front. The game was played from an overhead view and there were simple obstacles (large gray squares) in the battlefield (the background was black). You had to stay within the battlefield while enemy ships attacked you. I believe you needed to destroy all the enemy ships to advance to the next level. With each level (or perhaps every two or three levels), they would introduce new enemies with new colors, new movements, new weapons, and new strategies. I think the early levels had you just fight other generic tanks that looked similar to you, while later levels pitted you against something like pink "spider robots" with homing missiles (probably not that exactly, but something along those lines).
What made the game so much fun is that you started it with some number of points (ten?) that you could distribute among different attributes: speed, agility, and firepower, I think. Being little kids, my friend and I would generally devote a lot of points to firepower, but we learned one day that giving most of the points to speed was a lot more fun and successful. We'd scramble around the battlefield, barely outrunning the enemy bots, turning just barely enough to dodge their attacks. Of course, the levels took much longer to win that way, as we'd only get in a shot or two by painstakingly circling back around on our pursuers. I think (but I'm not sure) that you were offered one additional upgrade point between levels.
Ring any bells? I think it's a long shot.
Sounds vaguely like Spectre VR. That was usually played from a first-person perspective but it had a top-down view. You fought tankbots, ran over green squares to reload ammo and health, and picked up flags.
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How certain are you that it was on NES? I'll add a few guesses:
Shadow of the Ninja
Strider
Stanley: The Search for Doctor Livingston
Any other details you can recall? No matter how slight, you never know when something small will be enough to remind someone of a specific game.
I guess I've found that game. Ironically, it was the fisrt game added to my "excluded list". Guess which one? It's back then Bionic Commando (a.k.a. Hitler no Fukkatsu: Top Secret), if my memory serves, with altered graphics (as if borrowed from Megaman games) and probably hacked levels as well! I didn't realize that until I was toying with FCEUX's palette and got inspired. Thank you all the same.
<klmz> it reminds me of that people used to keep quoting adelikat's IRC statements in the old good days
<adelikat> no doubt
<adelikat> klmz, they still do
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So there was one NES game that I used to own but never played because I was bad at it, and now I actually would like to remember what it was since I haven't played it in a long long time.
I think you were some sort of kid ninja, the graphics were sort of cartoony, and there was one stage called Guerrilla Warfare, or something with the word Guerrilla in it (and I remember this because I didn't understand that word). There was some looping going on in the stages too I think.
Also, I think I played a Bugs Bunny game on the NES where there was some sort of world map / level select type screen. I thought this was Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle, but after watching the recent TAS it must not be what I'm thinking of.
