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Post by KeeperBvK on May 22, 2011 16:23:53 GMT -5
for the second one: Daruma Dojo maybe? Might be completely off or maybe just a copycat, but it's the only one like that I can think of. As for Bejeweled: I'm still not sure if it really predated the Flash version of Zookeeper. Is there any official word on that? Anything to prove it? Did any of that help?
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Post by Atma on May 24, 2011 8:32:02 GMT -5
Okay guys, here's another one.
SNES game that was a tank battle/capture the flag game with wireframe-y graphics, lots of greens and purples I think, had terrible deep digitized voices saying things like "Level Complete" and whatnot. I remember renting this one a lot as a kid but the name escapes me. Might have started with the letter V?
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Post by annoyedgrunt on May 24, 2011 16:50:46 GMT -5
With Kurt's adventure game book being released it reminded me of one for the PC that I remember being pretty bad. It was from the early-mid 90's, was played from a first person perspective, may have been a FMV game and was heavily inspired by Blade Runner. The interface was like Phantasmagoria in that you had an inventory and a cursor, but no different actions to use. I remember it being brutally tough because it never gave you much of a chance to think. IIRC, the game starts with your character waking up in the hospital (probably with amnesia) and you have about 4 seconds to get your bearings and jump out the window before guys barge in and kill you.
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Post by muteKi on May 24, 2011 21:20:41 GMT -5
Okay guys, here's another one. SNES game that was a tank battle/capture the flag game with wireframe-y graphics, lots of greens and purples I think, had terrible deep digitized voices saying things like "Level Complete" and whatnot. I remember renting this one a lot as a kid but the name escapes me. Might have started with the letter V? Perhaps it's Battlezone? If not that, possibly Spectre?
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Post by Atma on May 24, 2011 21:41:29 GMT -5
It's Spectre! Yayyy another mystery solved!
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Post by derboo on May 24, 2011 22:07:28 GMT -5
for the second one: Daruma Dojo maybe? Might be completely off or maybe just a copycat, but it's the only one like that I can think of. As for Bejeweled: I'm still not sure if it really predated the Flash version of Zookeeper. Is there any official word on that? Anything to prove it? Did any of that help? I'm still looking for an arcade game like Daruma Dojo I'm almost sure I played in MAME once (aside from the Korean knockoff that's the reason for me to look into it) to determine which came first. After researching closer into the other one, it might be based off Panel de Pon, after all.
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Post by Snarboo on May 24, 2011 23:59:39 GMT -5
With Kurt's adventure game book being released it reminded me of one for the PC that I remember being pretty bad. It was from the early-mid 90's, was played from a first person perspective, may have been a FMV game and was heavily inspired by Blade Runner. The interface was like Phantasmagoria in that you had an inventory and a cursor, but no different actions to use. I remember it being brutally tough because it never gave you much of a chance to think. IIRC, the game starts with your character waking up in the hospital (probably with amnesia) and you have about 4 seconds to get your bearings and jump out the window before guys barge in and kill you. That almost sounds like Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, but that was third person and seems to be more of a traditional adventure game with FMV cutscenes.
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Post by Bobinator on May 25, 2011 8:45:02 GMT -5
With Kurt's adventure game book being released it reminded me of one for the PC that I remember being pretty bad. It was from the early-mid 90's, was played from a first person perspective, may have been a FMV game and was heavily inspired by Blade Runner. The interface was like Phantasmagoria in that you had an inventory and a cursor, but no different actions to use. I remember it being brutally tough because it never gave you much of a chance to think. IIRC, the game starts with your character waking up in the hospital (probably with amnesia) and you have about 4 seconds to get your bearings and jump out the window before guys barge in and kill you. That almost sounds like Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, but that was third person and seems to be more of a traditional adventure game with FMV cutscenes. Angel Devoid? Never played it, don't know much about it, I just know it's some kind of FMV-based cyberpunk game.
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Post by Super Orbus on May 26, 2011 15:18:34 GMT -5
I remember last year, or maybe the year before about a square enix DS game, where it was kind of an action/strategy title where you proceed up a massive tower with a big 3D dragon Dunno its name but it might be the Sequel to the SNES RPG Bahumut Lagoon. Its a Japanese only game though. You're thinking of Blood of Bahamut. It's not necessarily a sequel to Bahamut Lagoon, though it obviously does have the Bahamut name as well as some common staff. It was also not received all that well in Japan, which is probably why it was never localized.
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2011 15:23:29 GMT -5
That almost sounds like Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller, but that was third person and seems to be more of a traditional adventure game with FMV cutscenes. Angel Devoid? Never played it, don't know much about it, I just know it's some kind of FMV-based cyberpunk game. Sounds *exactly* like Angel Devoid. Very tough game. I could never get past the part with the time bomb.
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Post by annoyedgrunt on May 26, 2011 16:33:03 GMT -5
Yes! It was Angel Devoid. I always tried to legitimately play through adventure games but that was one where I just used a walkthrough after a certain point.
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Jun 8, 2011 3:56:11 GMT -5
Anyone know this mysterious PC game a friend once described? It was around 1993, and I had a NES and a friend had a computer (not sure which kind, MAC, IBM, PC88, I have no idea!). While we talked about NES games, he described an amazing sounding computer game. It's set in the Antarctic, with you being stranded there after your ship goes aground and sinks. The game starts where you can apparently control the ship for a while and depending on how well you control it until it sinks, you start with different starting gear. Do well and the rest of the game is apparently a bit easier. After this you're tasked with escaping from the Antarctic, or getting rescued, or... Actually I don't recall. My most vivid memory is how depending on how well you crash your ship, you start of differently (gear and position, I think). Beyond that I don't recall if he said it was a platformer, point and click, first person simulation, or what. But there can't be that many Arctic themed games from or before 1993, right? Well, I spent time Googling but found nothing, bar an odd looking platformer which doesn't seem to involve controlling a ship at the start. I mean, it could be Arctic Adventure, but his description made me think it was more like a survivalist adventure type thing - maybe even a text adventure with text inputs for controlling the ship? Any ideas?
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Post by derboo on Jun 8, 2011 5:00:37 GMT -5
Dunno about the starting premise (as I haven't actually played the game I'm about to name), but this reminded me of Mike Singleton's Midwinter.
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Jun 8, 2011 5:44:15 GMT -5
Good guess! I had thought this myself for a while and the date fits. But according to an EDGE Making Of your starting position was apparently based on where you clicked the mouse when first starting the game - people thought it was random, but you could actually control it. I thought that was an ingenious design idea when I first read it.
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Post by ldorado on Jun 8, 2011 6:56:27 GMT -5
Sounds a LOT like Animaniacs Gigantic Adventure. Still have the disc, though it doesn't work anymore. My dad says it's because I put a magnet near the disc, though I still think it was something else. I never did beat it, so I'd like to get it again if it's freeware.
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