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Old fantasy computer game with horseback riding and goblin duel. Videogame
I have faint memories of watching a rather involved demo of a video game in a computer store years ago. At least 25 years ago, so 1994 or earlier. I suspect it was an Amiga computer as well, given how sharp the graphics looked.
Main character I believe was a generic blond princely sort, rather than a barbarian hero. The first (demo) level was a 2D horseback riding stage. I think the main character could reach down to grab items while riding, though this did seem hard considering the lack of time to react to anything coming.
The second stage was at night, and had a 2D duel against one short looking goblinoid. (Yellow? Gold? Some non-human skin colour.) There was another goblinoid on the right that shot slow moving projectiles at you, either high or low, that you had to dodge along with fighting the first goblin.
I think the stage transition cutscene after that had the hero parting the grass to look at an empty road, and I think the scrolling text said your horse was stolen during the fight. Next cutscene was a large Evil Castle.
Edited by TriggerLoaded
Classic FPS game Videogame
I don't know much about it. Other than it was on PC, and the death animation involved the camera tumbling to the ground following by blood flowing on the floor from its perspective.
Magician Flash Game Videogame
(Edit: Found it on my own! It's called The Pretender for others who were wondering.) There was a game I played as a child I want to find now but it doesn't seem to exist? It was a flash game, or something similar. puzzle game. I played it on Friv (children's game site) but that might not be its original source. It starts with a cut scene. A magician is preforming for a large audience and is going to do this big magic trick, but makes his whole audience disappear as well as his assistant. She wore red I think. I don't remember too much about the cut scenes, but there were a lot. the game had a level interface. there were 10-20? levels in a set. you had to complete a certain amount before moving on to the next. some levels had cutscenes in them and they were marked. in the actual game play, you walk around a 2-d platforming section, single screen. there were ladders, pits, platforms etc. the main gimmick of the game was there were little stations/platforms marked with various element symbols. if you walked over them, then your player turned into that element. there was a rock monster, water spirit, fire spirit, wind spirit, and the feather turned you back to normal. each one had different abilities and handicaps; rock monster can break boulders in the way, but sinks into water. in each level was typically 2-6 ghosts. those are the people the magician made vanish at the beginning. you have to touch them and make them go back to the door in each level. once you have a certain amount of people in the door, you can also leave the level. there was 3 games in this series all containing the same plot. I never finished it, now I cant remember the name, so cant find it. if you have any idea what it might be, let me know. (sorry for any spelling mistakes)
Edited by TheGoodUsernamesAreTaken
Game from TF query Videogame
I made a TF query regarding using clones as an excuse for how a game can have a multiplayer component,note and I want to know if there are any games out there that actually use something like this. And not just "main character is a clone", I mean "main character's entire squad are clones of some other significant character".
Edited by Gofastmike
Hansel and Gretel with rabbits Videogame
I remember that when I was a kid we had this cd-rom that had some minigames (I mostly remember a colouring book) and maybe an animated short based on Hansel and Gretel. There might have been a platform game on there too. Another thing I remember about it is that Hansel and Gretel were both rabbits, with Hansel being blue and Gretel pink.
Like I said, I played this when I was a child, so it would have been late-90s/early-2000s. I also remembered being scared of the animations, but then again I used to be afraid of everything. The disc was in Dutch, but it might have been translated. If anyone else remembers this/knows a title I'd love to know it.
Educational game about digestion, purple-haired lady? Videogame
It's an online game with 2-d animated graphics meant to teach kids about the digestive system. First you select some food, then this woman with purple hair eats it and she's referred to as "you". After she swallows it, a message "Do you want your stomach to churn?" pops up. If you hit "no", the message, "Oh no, you feel sick!" pops up and she's seen throwing up but if you hit "yes", she digests it it normally, but it says "now you need to go to the toilet" and she's seen reading the newspaper while pooping on the toilet. Yeah, it was a pretty gross game.
Old educational computer game? Videogame
I'm trying to remember a certain educational computer game I had when I was young. I think the player drove in a truck to different locations to help people out? One person I think was a chef, and the people had mischievous or near-evil pets, like a cat and a crow, and the pets would call each other to alert that you were coming to cause problems with your work? Does this sound familiar to anyone?
(PC) Demon has to possess people and kill everyone Videogame
This game isn't that old, I remember playing it in 2012-14ish. It's about this demon that escapes from hell through a portal and immediately starts killing anyone in the scene. It was like a click game where they put you in a scene and you are supposed to figure out how to kill whoever was in there by pressing stuff, at one point it was a crazy cat lady, another time a priest. I know it sounds weird but it was funny and gross to 13 y.o me so it would be great if someone helped me find it!
Community Flash game builder Videogame
There was this game/service i used to frequent, but for the life of me i cant remember what it was called. I remember that it was 2-d games, i dont know for sure if there were any games/levels made by the creators, but i do remember that there were different ways of making objects react to the world around them, and that there were a number of different playable characters in the editor. I also remember one of the really popular levels was one where you played as one of the female characters running thru a mirrored landscape, and you had to jump over obstacles in the reflected world, and another popular level was a sort of town exploration thing. This would have been around 2010-2012, and i think i first found it on Jayisgames, but i couldnt find it there.
Edited by gert10
recruit anyone Videogame
up for a challenge? id like to find a VERY OLD game. it MAY have come on a 1000+games CD for windows 95, im not sure.
it was an 8 bit RPG for the computer i remember the game making a big deal out of being able to recruit any NPC in the game into your party and you could, but it wasnt necessary. just grinding a bit got you through the game. do some quests or get famous enough and NP Cs just join your group if you type in join when talking to them, no questions asked. even little kids could be recruited and armed to help you fight evil.
i remember very little of the story, save for one distinct part. at one point you go into some evil wizards lair filled with skeletons, and by looking through bookshelves you can find the journal of a prisoner that reveals the necromancer flays the flesh off people and controls their skeletons to use as guards, and feeds the meat to the other prisoners. i remember the line "they have no idea what they're eating" forcing them all into humanitarians.
oh yeah, main character looks like a knight in armor regardless of what you have equipped. unique sprite.
so any ideas? id like to see it again for nostalgia's sake.
Strategy game in a Jidai Geki setting Videogame
I remember there were four clans you could play as: - The Dragon Clan which were the good guys, their units included spearmen, sumos with cannons, geisha healers and samurai - The Serpent Clan were evil counterparts of the Dragons and had bandit themed units and ronin - The Dark Tree clan who used dark magic - The Wolf Clan who were former slaves Another thing i remember is you could create higher tier units by sending them to other base unit training buildings.
Edited by Muppet
solve your own murder Videogame
i can remember damn near everything but the name, here goes.
i remember its a flash game i found on newgrounds, you play as an odd looking ghost trying to figure out how you died ect. this involves helping a ghost get her eyes out of a well and putting them back in her head, trying to pass on to heaven but failing as a white flash knocks you back. and defending your girlfriend from the man who killed you with the help of a dead woman who hates his guts because he killed her too.
i remember the ghosts take on appearances based on how they died. water girl drowned, fire girl burned to death.
i also remember a ghost who gives you advice bragging about how he could go all the way to the mall, a place you can never go. since how far you can travel from the site of your death depends on how much power you can amass.
No Title Videogame
It's a console game with two parts in it - strategic, turn based part, where you move around units on the map, and action part, where the game suddenly becomes a fighting and units begin beating the crap out of each other. There were monstrous fighters there, and it's at least six years olds.
No, it's not Soul Calibur III Chronicles of the Sword mode.
PS1 tactical combat game with weird "beasts"? Videogame
I recall a friend owning this. I think it had one of the setups where you move units across a board, and if two intersect you get a real-time battle controlling your unit against the opponents.
Racing game with in-universe ads Videogame
A PC racing game with in universe ads. Ones a pizza company that lasers a hole in your apartment to deliver the pizza? One of the follow up ads was a glass repair company that fixed the hole the Pizza drone makes.
PS1 strategy game Videogame
It's been a good couple years since I last played this game, so I don't remember much about it and what I do remember might be inaccurate, apologies in advance.
Anyway, the game in question had a Pokémon angle to it where there were several dozen mons you comprised the playable forces; the mons came from eggs shaped like uncut crystals and you had a number of elixirs that you could pour onto the eggs to make them hatch. The egg would develop into a specific creature depending on the elixir used.
The only gameplay areas I remember are a small cave, a basic battle arena, and an overworld map where you could go to the aforementioned two places and the lab where you hatched mons.
PC game featuring character with floating limbs Videogame
There was this computer game I played a long time ago that’s main character had floating limbs like Rayman. It would start with him floating in space near a planet. You could guide him to land on different parts of the planet which would lead to different levels. I remember the levels had a lot of variety and included side-scrolling, first-person perspectives, operating computer panels and more. I couldn’t find an entry like it on the floating limbs page. Does anyone here know what the game is called?
Thanks.
Text Based MMO/MUD Videogame
It was a text-based fantasy rpg. While there were a choice of races you could choose from, first time players only had access to human. You would wake up naked in the woods outside the town. A lot of the dialogue was very humorous and put jabs at some nerd culture. You could leave the town to "look for trouble" to find some monster to fight. The combat, you could choose a part of the monster to attack, and it'll alert you which part would be best to defend against the next attack.
There were a few currencies, but I think cigarettes were the main ones used.
The game was free to play, but there was some special items given to those who spend the money. The gimmick was that these items gave boosts to everyone on the server, not just the person who made the purchase (to make it less "pay to win")
It was entirely browser based.
A sci fi topdown game about a multiverse? Videogame
It's an action/roguelike/RPG on pixel art that looks like Hyper Light Drifter but it's plot is about various worlds fusing and the gameplay its like Diablo, the protagnists are a bunch of aliens or something like that, thats all i remember, the game is pretty new so. Does someone knows the name or heard of the game?
PS2 licensed(?) Game Videogame
I remember that I used to have a collection of demos on a PS 2 game disc. There was a Harry Potter one and a few others that I forget, and a lot were just trailers and not even full demos. This one in particular was centered around a guy who was escaping from a volcano, you have to platform across rock masses in the lava and I remember there being a cave after a little bit with some crystals or something in it, but I always fell before I made it there.
In short: PS 2 game, looks like it's from a Disney movie, Platformer, Volcano level
Video game on a website - alliterative, possibly called "Tiki Terror" or something similar Videogame
My friend is looking for a video game. The game was hosted on a website for children with school, math, etc. related games (for educational purposes). The game's protagonist was in Hawaii in a maze finding a treasure. The treasure was gold and had a grimacing face. He would be attacked by tikis that blew fire at him and evil coconuts with facial features. The game's protagonist was a short old man with a safari outfit on. You couldn't see his face except for a large mustache. There was fast-paced, badass drum music playing in the background.
Two games Videogame
Two games that I remember part of, but which are different genres.
- The first is a first person fantasy game, one of the difficulty levels is warlord, and it let you choose the gender of the character who you played as. One of the enemies could teleport and throw fire, folding in on itself when it teleported, and I think it clutched a book. There was a ring that you could find which let the character survive underwater, and the intro to at least the demo let you punch grave markers.
- The second game is a third person game where you control a large hovering tank - so large soldiers look like ants next to it - and could could summon structures with it, and I think also some other units to fight, including the relatively small troopers, so it hybridised third person tank warfare with strategy game design.
Old fantasy computer game with horseback riding and goblin duel. Videogame
I have faint memories of watching a rather involved demo of a video game in a computer store years ago. At least 25 years ago, so 1994 or earlier. I suspect it was an Amiga computer as well, given how sharp the graphics looked.
Main character I believe was a generic blond princely sort, rather than a barbarian hero. The first (demo) level was a 2D horseback riding stage. I think the main character could reach down to grab items while riding, though this did seem hard considering the lack of time to react to anything coming.
The second stage was at night, and had a 2D duel against one short looking goblinoid. (Yellow? Gold? Some non-human skin colour.) There was another goblinoid on the right that shot slow moving projectiles at you, either high or low, that you had to dodge along with fighting the first goblin.
I think the stage transition cutscene after that had the hero parting the grass to look at an empty road, and I think the scrolling text said your horse was stolen during the fight. Next cutscene was a large Evil Castle.
Edited by TriggerLoaded