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I once played a 2D RPG which I got stuck in at a point, because I filled all save slots right before getting to a blocking battle, for which I ended up not having enough weapons[1] and then just falling 1 or 2 hits short of managing to pass it.
I have been meaning to retry it from the start (it was a freeware, I think) but I can’t recall the rather peculiar name of it. I has been ~ 20 years.
I had recently bought a weapon I then got another one of, just before the battle (as a gift for the battle), but was useless, because only 1 of the player characters could equip that ↩︎
AIV Network$ (A4 Networks) - I searched for years, the name didn’t make it easy to find.
A boy and his blob. They made a modern sequel which lost a main gameplay component— puzzling out the puns for the various abilities, or at least making a hand written lookup chart. Just telling you that a punch jellybean makes a hole isn’t quite the same.
What was that one where you were a stationary turret shooting at UFOs flying in? At some point the turret upgrades to a helicopter. I remember playing that on win 98 or something.
Yes! This is it lol
For me it was a golf game but it was probably ASCII only, played on a green monitor, sometime in the late 70s. I loved that game. Either that or my memory is playing tricks with me.
Is it Focal Golf?
Would look something like this, but… green, of course.
You could also check out this post on Atari Archive, this video by them too, and this collection of software you could search through using Ctrl + F and then “Golf”. There’s a lot of possible matches there.
There doesn’t really seem to be a lot of actual playable options or even recordings of a lot of them, though.
Awesome thanks. I don’t think it’s Focal. It was a computer my friend’s dad brought home from work and I don’t think it was on tape.
There’s a non-zero chance it was a game someone he worked with just made. My dad used to work with a guy that would program playable text based games during his down time (this was in the 90s), he ultimately went on to work at an actual game company from what I remember.
We had a fighting game on NES. Japanese game, and we didn’t even speak English (okay, maybe a few words), let alone Japanese.
There was literally nothing to quote in my search, apart from just using descriptions. It was frustrating, because otherwise it was one of the best NES games I have played.
Years later I somehow ran into it. It was something like Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu.
Technōs had a whole line of sports games in this ‘super deformed’ style and with outlandish mechanics, as offshoots of the ‘Kunio-kun’ series. The games I know are lots of unadulterated fun.
‘Nintendo World Cup’ — soccer
Nekketsu Street Basket: Ganbare Dunk Heroes — street basketball
Heard of these, haven’t played yet:
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‘Super Spike V’Ball’
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‘Downtown Nekketsu Koushinkyoku: Soreyuke Daiundoukai’ / ‘Downtown Nekketsu March: Super-Awesome Field Day!’ — obstacle course running and fighting
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‘Ike Ike! Nekketsu Hockey-bu: Subette Koronde Dairantou’ / Go-Go! Nekketsu Hockey Club
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‘Crash n’ the Boys: Street Challenge’ — track and field, iirc
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‘Kunio Kun no Nekketsu Soccer League’ / Goal 3 — seems to be a sequel to ‘Nintendo World Cup’
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Downtown Nekketsu Baseball Monogatari: Yakyū de Shōbu da! Kunio-kun (on SNES)
Shodai Nekketsu kouha Kunio-kun?
I had a hack of that game for the english version very funny game
Sorry if it is not the one but try it if you can
Nah, I just looked up mine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekketsu_Fighting_Legend
But that one looks fun, too.
I keep trying to find this old educational game that was creepy. I don’t remember much else about it and it is frustrating to know I’ll likely never figure this out. I don’t even remember what kind of educational content it was like math or reading or what.
Granny’s Garden?
https://archive.org/details/Grannys_Garden_v2.0_1987_Stchel_Software
It’s not Baldi’s Basics, is it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JumpStart_Adventures_4th_Grade%3A_Haunted_Island?wprov=sfla1
This one and the 3rd grade one with the robot were so good.
lol it’s funny because as I typed this, I was thinking someone would think that was it. I loved the Jumpstart games and especially the 3rd grade one. But that’s not it, unfortunately. I’m grateful I remember it, but I played it so much I can’t forget.
For Op: is it this?
The SNES version was superior to the PC one. There were a few weird changes to how you could command the hive that worked better in the SNES one.
The large scale colony land ownership system was just crazy, though. Each time would devolve into full 300 to zero for colonies and it was tough to grind control back one way or another.
Underrated.
Fucking loved this game, played the crap out of it.
I’m still looking for a mobile game where I played as a necromancer in a castle fighting off the stickman armies of king Otto through spells and by flicking them into the air. It culminated with the necromancer standing upon a pile of corpses topped by the king himself. I really liked that game but it honestly could be lost media.
Doesn’t quite check those boxes, but it definitely sounds like a game that was based on Defend Your Castle, from back in the days of Flash games.
I think you are right, that mechanic is very similar
Could it be Stickwars?
Holy shit it is thank you wth
Not compatable with my phone 😔😔😔 emulator time
Plok.
I could never forget about plok, I still hear the music pop up on youtube every now and then
For me it was Ignition, a top-down racing game where you could play as a police car, a school bus, an ambulance, a yellow car or a blue beetle car.
There was also another racing game I don’t remember the name of and likely never will, because it was a game that came on a blue floppy disk and actually was a 3D racing game, and all I remember is that it was a demo for a game that had you doing street races and it wasn’t open-world, it was with proper tracks and it was a level at sunset in a city, with no traffic. As far as I can tell, it shouldn’t really have been possible to have a fully 3D game on a floppy disk, but I guess since the game was just a demo, it could be squeezed down.
Syndicate, by bullfrog
That was my favorite game as a kid. Too bad the only remake is a stupid FPS.
‘Satellite Reign’ is the spiritual successor, released in 2015 and started by the producer and lead programmer for ‘Syndicate Wars’.
I played it for couple of hours and it seems pretty good. Thank you again.
Yeah the remake totally misunderstood what the game was about.
I loved that game. Only for to play for a few weeks in Germany back in 1995.
Ran into it again years later somewhere and finally made it much further through the missions. Great game.
I never beat the final mission.
They got frakin’ hard! Especially the mechanics of the trains and when the baddies started shooting further. Tracking where the action was got tough when you had to split the team.
Yeah I had figure I out a strategy using the persuedatron, where it would get stronger the more people you persueded. If you started with civilians and got a bunch, you could then do security guards, then the police, then other syndicate agents. I still think this is the only way to beat that final level, but there are nothing but agents on that level.
R.I.P. Bullfrog…
The Dungeon Keeper games will forever be among my top 10.
For me it was Madalin Stunt Cars 2.
Played that shit all the time in the computer lab with my friends.
A very simple space sim that was just sitting in a folder that was either part of windows or one of my installed games, presumably an Easter egg for those just perusing the files. Maybe late nineties?
Like, the simplest starfield and cockpit and you just used the mouse to shoot lasers at stuff.
All of the sound files (only maybe a dozen sound effects at most) were in .wav format so I used the crappy mic I had at the time and recorded new sounds just with my mouth. Had a blast playing my “modded” version.
Haven’t figured out what it was/what “real” software it came with.
Sounds like an old Excel easter egg
Took me two decades to find the game [Dominus]. Nothing worse than having the name of something on the tip of your tongue for that long. Used to play this game a lot when I was young, it’s not very good but it was a core memory. I cried a bit when I figured it out.
