Was gonna post this on /vr/ but it can apply to games from any era, so I think it's better here
Describe a forgotten game as best you can, and others will try to figure out what it is for you.
---- I've been posting this fucking game for half a decade and have made no progress, hoping somebody out there remembers this garbage:
- Late 90s / early 2000s - browser-based multiplayer game (at least, I THINK it was multiplayer) - may have had "shadow", "realm" or "dark" in the title - Top down or isometric 2D - very ugly graphics... like pre-runescape, it looked like a very early java or flash game - divided into stages - the first stage had you descending into a graveyard/crypt, fighting skeletons as you go. at the bottom floor is a dragon which required multiple people to kill it - the second stage was much more open, a snowy forest with unicorns in it. I never beat this stage.
isometric rpg, starts out in a desert-type area. it's not post apocalyptic, I think i remember some of the early mobs being ghosts or something. Don't remember what platform it was on.
Luke Wright
these can be good threads. Some user once reminded me of the name of Space Station Silicon Valley through one.
Asher Reed
Well, there's this game I played back in 07, which I can't remember the title. It was a game where you played as a character with a bandana on and your first mission was to rescue a Sovet scientist named Sokolov, who is secretly developing some sort of advanced nuclear equipped tank. Unfortunately, your main character gets heavily injured by a woman named "The Boss", who had defected to the Soviet Union. Anyone have perhaps played this game or know about it?
Caleb Evans
>Old 2D platformer >90's >On PC >You play As a clown
Levi Lewis
Nope, pretty close in terms of graphical fidelity though
Henry Flores
I remember playing this game a while back, had a bunch of comic book heroes fighting street fighter characters, was two player, had some health bars, music played,,, anyone have any idea?
Aiden Wood
Mech/vehicle game.
Played in 1st person, i think. ghost recon style.
Big flying dropship base thing that flys off at the start of the level.
RTS like unit spawns, come out of bases, mainly tanks and smaller things but you don't control them.
Bases protected by turrets that fuck your shit up.
Only played the demo, which was some time in the mid-late 90's.
The map had Blocky spires, and metallic, felt like you were on core prime from TA.
Caleb Torres
MAHVEL BAYBEE!
Angel James
Marvel vs. Capcom?
Anthony Nguyen
Arcade game. Late 80s early 90s possibly. It was basically a wrestling game but with mythical monsters. I remember there was a hydra who's special was grabbing your legs and arms with its mouths then drawing and quartering you.
It was an RPG for GBC, at the beginning a wizard or something attacks your village.
That's all I remember.
Isaac Martinez
Some FPS, you played as a dude in a floating city, there was a girl, something about flying train cars and time travel or something, you also have magic powers and fought robots or something. I think Ken Levine directed it but idk. Anyone??
Isaac Young
2 PC games I played years ago
You're a penguin and you're sliding down a mountain. There were snowy and icy parts.
Another one was some game where you had to shoot chickens. They'd appear really close to the screen at times and would sometimes be in hard to see spots. It was in some other language, I think German
Caleb Kelly
>3d platformer >animal as main character >early 2000s >xbox exclusive? >can reverse time and fast forward it
Bentley Parker
Blinx
Nicholas Morales
An arcade of a fatass eating and avoiding getting heart attack,
Grayson Powell
Urban Assault
Henry Adams
Nope. It wasn't As 3D
Henry Walker
>Early or mid 90s >On the Genesis/Mega drive >Top down game where you either control a man or a vehicle to shoot things (I don't remember which one) >Lots of fucking barrels I was a stupid kid back then and I never finished it
Lincoln Martin
>Released early 90's >Can never fucking escape
The image speaks for itself, need I say more
Elijah Perry
2D shooter freeware on PC Control canon that can shoot above and below Canon moves up and down iirc. Blobs/circle come from above and below Circles split when taken enough damage until too small, then die Neon aesthetic. A lot of green. Played about 10 years ago.
Xavier Taylor
The Moorhuhn games are German.
Brody Nguyen
>came out in 05-07 >you play as a character named Leon >mission is to save the president's daughter >president's daughter is named Ashley >enemies consist of villagers controlled by someone of the name "Saddler" >3 main levels >the village, castle and island >you buy your stuff from an enigmatic man, Merchant >enemies wield weapons like pitchforks, chainsaws, wolverine claws, etc.
That's all I remember from it, but it was a pretty fun experience. Anyone know about this game at all?
Ian Green
King of the Monsters?
Levi Bell
>Moorhuhn Ayy, that's the one. Thanks user
Lincoln Bell
>played it around the mid-late 90's >top down perspective and everything is kind of like a 3D platformer >its an rpg i think, you can collect items and talk to people >i remember running around and picking up a 4 leaf clover at one point >i recall my girlfriend or wife gets kidnapped by a guy in an elephant costume or he might have just been an elephant man (the game was wacky like that) >i remember being really scared at that point and had to get my older bro to do it for me >the whole game was really hard
Eli Butler
>90's pc, probably DOS >sidescroller platform >you controlled a wizard kid >you can shoot stuff with your magic wand and part of the level is destroyable
Ryder Hughes
My neighbor had a video game that the pad had colored buttons. I don't know if it was a bootleg NES like my turbo game and microgenius, but it was inferior to a SNES (or maybe it was a Megadrive). I have memories of a couple of games he had, but I don't know any name
Game 1: Regular platformer First stage have a light blue sky and dark green platforms Second stage has black sky and light green platforms You enter some doors. I don't think you can kill enemies. Maybe the challenge was colecting keys to get to the other stages.
Second game: Space shooter with a really minimalistic design Dracula showed up in the intro for whatever reason and made me shit bricks.
Now, some NES games I had on my turbogame, on a cartdrige of 90 games or something like that
beat-em up First stage you are a regular guy and the boss of the stage is an old man who keeps flying Third stage you're inside some fortress or whatever, and your character get muscular out of nowhere.
Game where you fly over some fields, and I think there is something about Korea Similar game that you get a lot of power ups as you go.
Fuck that, I will download every NES game that existed and test one by one. But help me out with the first two games, since I don't know what console it was.
Colton Stewart
Side scroll platformer The MC has a talking stick companion You can insert the stick into holes in walls to make platforms Final boss is a scary looking alien but when you defeat him he looks very cute and pitiful under the helmet
Camden Fisher
No one described this game, but I'm posting it because it was one that took me a long time to remember and maybe it'll jog another user's memory about this forgotten RTS.
Michael Torres
Hocus Pocus?
Liam Wright
Nah not it.
Colton Wood
An early GBA game and it had a sorta Bomberman look to it, i remember it not being Bomberman
Camden White
-Arcade driving game -it didn't have a seat -the cabinet had a yellow color scheme -it wasn't a racing game -you drove a car in a Tron-like landscape -you had to go through a series of driving tests, you were graded for each one -one of the tests had you drive the car with a giant glass of water on top of it
Samuel Young
Thanks for the try user but that's not it. It was a lot more childish looking
Isaiah Long
I'm looking for a survival (cRPG?) title from the 90s. Isometric view. Inventory management with various consumables and items to combine to create weapons. It took place in a (haunted?) mansion. Dark visuals. You were fighting supernatural beings (vampires/werewolves/zombies) and could get infected. You then had to bandage the wounds or, should the infection spread, amputate the limb to surive and contine your playthrough this way. Melee weapons dealt a lot of damage but were risky because you would get hit in return. I don't remember much else because it was rather unforgiving and I never made it very far. Not sure if it's a DOS game but it had mouse support.
Caleb Johnson
I actually just found it.
It was called Mutant Fighter. Data East game.
Isaiah Morris
I also remember it being a platformer/puzzle ish game
Daniel Green
There was this kinda point and click, I think, in the early 3D graphics area where you control a robotic spider and it would make cute sounds depending if it was able to comply with your orders or not. I remember, at least the demo area, had A LOT of purple. I think there were traps where the spider could get exploded to bits.
Blake Sanchez
God this ones so hard to even think about it was so long ago - early 2000's - ps2 (Maybe multi plat, not sure) - felt like a Final Fantasy vibe - Monsters in a forest area possibly in a starting zone - The forest was kind of bright, had colors, wasn't dark or gloomy - character fought with swords - magic involved somehow - felt like zoned areas you could enter? This has been bothering me for years, I literally cannot think of anything more from the game and I seriously wish I knew what it was
Hunter Perry
I remember this 3D RTS game that came out around the same time as AoE III (~2005). It was a sequel in a rather popular RTS series as far as I remember. I remember watching an advertising video where the dev showcased one of the late game abilities where you could create a black hole on the map/terrain.
It wasn't starcraft 2 or anything. I think even the game's name was structured as "X of Y", like Age of Empires or Rise of Nations, but that doesn't seem to be it.
Aiden Kelly
It was also on PC and I think it was 1998-2002
Grayson Hall
Nvm found it, it's called Tang Tang. Apparently its so obscure that theres only a four sentence page on Wikipedia for it youtu.be/OvK-JISBvag
William Walker
Fun fact I dumped a shitton of prototypes of that game from climax's archive liquidation sale
There was a planned ps1 version that never saw the light of day. And honestly, even after playing it a little I'm glad that didn't happen. That game was NOT meant for a console by any means. Doable but not in a good way
Feel free to google it "climax release thread" on assemblergames
Xavier Lopez
It was a PS2 RPG (probably JRPG). I recall two different environments. One was a volcano with platforms to traverse, and the other was a mossy tower that you had to climb. I also feel like there were two groups to choose from, like in SA2.
Ryder Mitchell
PC Game from Windows 95 era I think, Sidescroller, platformer, sprite art. You could bounce a ball and get on top of things using it. First level was outside some apartments or some building under construction.
Liam Garcia
Skifree
Colton Martin
Arcade game, used twin joysticks. You controlled these hover tank vehicles and it had (From what I remember) vector graphics. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Virtual-on.
Xavier Mitchell
Nevermind, found it. It's a fun game from what I remember.
Ayden Foster
Not much to go on here:
Medieval themed game, mid-90s.
Sure it was first person, may have been set in Camelot or been something to do with King Arthur. I have no clear recollection of the game play just that the level I played was in a castle, there may have been a market or a feast of some description.
I can vaguely recall cross helms and lute music? And a massive fire - this may have been a plot point.
Xavier Williams
It was definetly a 90s game. I played it on PC, not sure if it was released anywhere else. It took place in medieval times. From what I remember, most of the action took place in first person, like an old FPS with enemy sprites, but instead of shooting, you were swordfighting other knights. I think that was just one part of the game though - I remember there being some sort of strategy or RPG sections.
Parker Jackson
Summoner / 2?
Leo Parker
>SSSV My nigga
Evan Wood
Resident Evil 4?
Am I being wound up?
Justin Gray
90s Asian RTS on PC 2D graphics You send peasants in buildings to train them into soldiers
Eli Torres
The black hole power reminds me of the implosion power from Age of Mythology, but it's probably not that.
Do you remember what the style was? Medieval or sci-fi?
Tyler Taylor
What the fuck - are you me?
Leo Phillips
I remember a game but cant find pictures of ot.
It was on a cd with 1000 games on it, all indie shit back i the days. It was called "CLIFF THE VIOLENT SPACE MONKEY" there may have been a single f on clif
Logan Jones
Populous?
Easton Walker
Definitely not.
Levi Harris
Maybe
Is this you?
Austin Hernandez
>AoE style RTS set in china >could upgrade troops by putting them on horses >inside of cities were on seperate maps iirc
Mason Morales
Oh man, I know exactly the game. Can't remember the name either. Shit was awesome. Played a demo disc of it religiously.
Matthew Turner
Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon?
Zachary Gutierrez
>Three Kingdoms: Fate of the Dragon yup!
Kayden Young
Literally nobody ever answers this one:
It's a GBA game that uses a password save system, the protagonists are two kids, one dressed as a witch, the other as a devil, they get late at a halloween kids' party where an ogre steals all the kids' souls. It's basically a platformer where you constantly change between the two characters that have completely different abilities and have to collect the bottles where the souls are captured.
Anthony Carter
Had a demo of a game that was basically slot car racing back in the mid 2000s. The track went through a living room.
Alexander Perez
Can you give any more info than this?
Luis Howard
I believe this game was turn based and had sprite or sprite-like graphics.
When one character dies during a battle both sides stop to watch as someone drags him off somewhere. At some point a soldier tries to take advantage of the pause and shoot but one of his commanders/allies shoot him so that the character can pass in peace.
Kayden Murphy
Empire Earth 3?
Matthew King
Castleween? There was a PS2 and a GBA version apparently.
>On NES >kung fu game >I think the first level was climing up a mountain and along the way you could find a weapon in a cave. >the level had a time limit >right after this level was a boss that was a bee or looked like a bee >second level is walking to the right until stopped by a river. >I think either the case or the title screen had a dragon on it, but I may be wrong.
I really want to know what this game was. I remember the music very vividly, but not much else I didn't list.
Josiah Russell
There was this game where the bad guys or something make the protagonist wear a creepy living mask in a public execution before kicking him in a dungeon filled with lots of shit. I remember that in the first level you had to kill an undead dragon as the first boss.
Alexander Bailey
Anyone remember a game where there was a circular area you battled on that was destructive, had napalm and what not, and the entire area was destructible, kinda like worms(similar to the way weapons work too, but they had a slider at the buttom i think and a radial dial for angle) but in a more kinda odd top down 3d graphics?. Pretty sure it was a shareware war game kinda that was gonna be a main game a sequal to something maybe. This was back between year 1998-2002 or so i think.
Aaron Garcia
Yeah that's it! I didn't even know there was a ps2 version, gotta emulate it now.
Gavin Scott
Have fun user
Dominic Adams
Alright boys Its this virtual dinosaur themed board game where you have to mix and match pieces of the dinosaurs in order to take shortcuts.
Jose Moore
It was on the c64, had an isometric view. You were a detective at a function in a hotel when a murder happened. You interview the guests and a few more people get murdered, including you if you're unlucky.
Oh shit I just found it myself. I fucking hated this game, but kept coming back.
Thomas Hall
It was some old ass game that I played back in the 90s I think. It was all about being a gangster/mobster
You walked around this city (topdown/side view) and could fight other gangs or the cops. Combat was turn based. Could basically move or shoot I think. You could also recruit other gangsters to fight with you.
I remember it having bank robberies where you had to listen to the beeps coming from your tower so you knew which numbers to pick, and this one minigame where you shoved a bunch of shit onto a train traffic in hopes of stopping the train so you could steal shit.
Alexander Robinson
Grandia 2?
Juan Lee
Sounds exactly as Realm of the mad god
Brandon Wood
-2000+ -windows XP -platformer -you played as a blue dragon kind of thing with no arms who could launch eggs (or gold) from his mouth -you had to get higher inside a castle -might have been freeware or a flash game
Hudson Gonzalez
The only RTS's I kn ow of that blackholes are Universe at War and Starcraft 2
Josiah Hill
Did it have a safehouse and cars you could drive around or booby trap?
Nicholas Rogers
PLEASE HELP
Youre a Penguin who throws snowballs, you can switch bodies with animals you kill
It was either 64 or PS1
Hudson Cook
Super oldfag here. 2 games for the amiga 2000 or amiga 500, I had both and don't remember which I played on.
Game A: The game had a top down view and you controlled a little octagon tank. I think there we different octagon tanks to choose from. It had a dark brown earth/silver metal gfx style, similar to gods. In some stages there was a sort of warping background image or maybe warping lava effect. The graphics were near 16bit snes quality, I think...
Game B: a side scrolling shmup. Same gfx style. The first or second level was underwater was mostly brown earth with maybe some green underwater plants. At the end of the level was some metal platforms above and blow, with an entrance. I remember being able to buy upgrades here. Upgrades were pretty cool I think. help me out
PS1 game RPG I don't think the combat was turn based All I can remember about the character is that he had a funky sword and a hat and he could change into the monsters he killed.
