PGD Games Rememberance Thread - 'Oh, gee, what was that game called again?'

there's a game i used to play when i was younger, but i cant remember the name.

it was an educational game like ozzie's world, which i think came out in 1995 & i used to play both of them in the late 90s ish.

there was a boy, a girl and a dragon (i think) & there were caves & you had to unscramble words, complete mazes & stuff. & then at the very end of the game you had to make the roller coaster go all the way round & make it stop at a certain point. i remember that not many people could do it at the time.

i think the title has something to do with 'time' but im not sure ..

ive been wanting to know for ages now & it's really bugging me.

anyone think they know it atall, maybe heard of it, or used to play it themselves ??!

thankyou :):)

xox

Okay, I just got a serious nostalgia attack about a game, I hadn't even remembered in years. So, anyway the game was an adventure on the PC, I also think it was an indie title. It came out some time in the turn of the century I think. You played this guy wearing slippers and a bathrobe through the entire game. It started out in a stormy night, when the guy was in his room sleeping. He's woken up by thunder so he decides to go to the fridge for a snack. Then something happens and he's teleported in this futuristic city which had a kind of 1984 thing going on, though the game itself was very light-hearted.

That's all I can remember and if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

NES

Action Adventure??

Cartoony

First level you start off above ground and theres like a Treehouse or something and then you have to go underground and its like paths carved in the dirt. Thats all I remember and the characters are like squished/flattened a bit (unlike double dragons for example). I know its vague but 2000 expired M$ points to the winner.

Okay, I just got a serious nostalgia attack about a game, I hadn't even remembered in years. So, anyway the game was an adventure on the PC, I also think it was an indie title. It came out some time in the turn of the century I think. You played this guy wearing slippers and a bathrobe through the entire game. It started out in a stormy night, when the guy was in his room sleeping. He's woken up by thunder so he decides to go to the fridge for a snack. Then something happens and he's teleported in this futuristic city which had a kind of 1984 thing going on, though the game itself was very light-hearted.

That's all I can remember and if anyone can help me it would be greatly appreciated.

ihateds2

Out of Order

You're welcome

[QUOTE="F1Lengend"]

NES

Action Adventure??

Cartoony

First level you start off above ground and theres like a Treehouse or something and then you have to go underground and its like paths carved in the dirt. Thats all I remember and the characters are like squished/flattened a bit (unlike double dragons for example). I know its vague but 2000 expired M$ points to the winner.

dvader654

Little Nemo? It starts in a tree/forest like area and leads into this underground dirt place where you become a mole and dig through it. Little squishy people as well.

Quite possibly. The screens are very close...I think its it!!! my description must have been godly :P

Quite possibly. The screens are very close...I think its it!!! my description must have been godly :P

F1Lengend

Hm. More likely dvader's unholy book of gaming knowledge.

This game I use to play on the arcade. I think you started off has a boy and you had to jump up levels in a building. There were phone booths where you would change into a girl. It was a 2d platform game. The last time I played it was 20 years ago. HarlockJC

Rodland?

[QUOTE="F1Lengend"]

NES

Action Adventure??

Cartoony

First level you start off above ground and theres like a Treehouse or something and then you have to go underground and its like paths carved in the dirt. Thats all I remember and the characters are like squished/flattened a bit (unlike double dragons for example). I know its vague but 2000 expired M$ points to the winner.

dvader654

Little Nemo? It starts in a tree/forest like area and leads into this underground dirt place where you become a mole and dig through it. Little squishy people as well.

One of the best NES games ever IMO. Hard as hell but oh so worth it.

[QUOTE="HarlockJC"]This game I use to play on the arcade. I think you started off has a boy and you had to jump up levels in a building. There were phone booths where you would change into a girl. It was a 2d platform game. The last time I played it was 20 years ago. Black_Knight_00

Rodland?

No that does seem to be getting closer. The main key part was finding the phone booths to turn from a boy to a girl.

okay, it was a SNES games, so it was from the 90's. It had a fantasy-like atmosphere, if I remember correctly. The camera was like the old school RPG camera, a la zelda, FF. The key gameplay element I remember was this ball that looked like a fireball, and to kill enemies, you had to hit them with it.

Any ideas?

Out of Order

You're welcome

Black_Knight_00

Wow, thanks, man, and even a link. Much appreciated.

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"]

Out of Order

You're welcome

ihateds2

Wow, thanks, man, and even a link. Much appreciated.

No problem, enjoy that great game ;)

This is a tough one guys. It's not a game from the past and it probably has already been cancelled but here it goes. Years ago, I read in a PS magazine that there's going to be a PS3 game that will try to be a Devil May Cry killer. They showed some guy in a trenchcoat with two pistols and I THINK the name of the game began with 'Knights' and I THINK the hero's name is Abaddon. Someone please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!gunswordfist

Knights of the Old Abandon III: The Trenchcoat Lords

This is a tough one guys. It's not a game from the past and it probably has already been cancelled but here it goes. Years ago, I read in a PS magazine that there's going to be a PS3 game that will try to be a Devil May Cry killer. They showed some guy in a trenchcoat with two pistols and I THINK the name of the game began with 'Knights' and I THINK the hero's name is Abaddon. Someone please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!gunswordfist

[QUOTE="gunswordfist"]This is a tough one guys. It's not a game from the past and it probably has already been cancelled but here it goes. Years ago, I read in a PS magazine that there's going to be a PS3 game that will try to be a Devil May Cry killer. They showed some guy in a trenchcoat with two pistols and I THINK the name of the game began with 'Knights' and I THINK the hero's name is Abaddon. Someone please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!blazinpuertoroc

Dude, my guess made more sense :P

I just want to poke my head in and say that I'm stoked about how this thread has turned out so far. It's not going to be as big as the recommendation thread, but I figured that it'd be a nice addition to the forum with the kind of people we are around here, so keep up the good work, folks! I'll be sure to try and get some investigating done myself soon.Skylock00

I like this thread too. Just a little, humble request (*rolls d20 for charm*): don't lock the other threads of people asking for game names. Please... Pretty please...

[QUOTE="Skylock00"]I just want to poke my head in and say that I'm stoked about how this thread has turned out so far. It's not going to be as big as the recommendation thread, but I figured that it'd be a nice addition to the forum with the kind of people we are around here, so keep up the good work, folks! I'll be sure to try and get some investigating done myself soon.Black_Knight_00

I like this thread too. Just a little, humble request (*rolls d20 for charm*): don't lock the other threads of people asking for game names. Please... Pretty please...

On a side note, you don't roll for charm, you roll for diplomacy. ;)

Sorry, but the treatment of this thread is to act like the main games recommendation thread, to act as a primary thread for all requests of this nature, as a way to help keep our board cleaner. I most likely will lock those threads, but direct people to this one if someone else hasn't done so already.

On a side note, you don't roll for charm, you roll for diplomacy. ;)

Skylock00

Awww :( Who's going to tell this to the hungry thousands out there?

About roll: depends on the game (I was actually going to roll for persuasion, but charm sounded cuter)

Charm.............

I have one that's been bothering me for a while, hopefully someone can help me out.

OK. It was on the Genesis and came out in the mid nineties I believe. It was a side scroller where you piloted a cookie shaped space ship inside underground caverns picking up prisoners. You had a limited amount of fuel and were constantly fighting the pull of gravity. It also was INSANELY hard. I've been looking to pick this up for a while but can't remember it's name.

Anyone?

I have one that's been bothering me for a while, hopefully someone can help me out.

OK. It was on the Genesis and came out in the mid nineties I believe. It was a side scroller where you piloted a cookie shaped space ship inside underground caverns picking up prisoners. You had a limited amount of fuel and were constantly fighting the pull of gravity. It also was INSANELY hard. I've been looking to pick this up for a while but can't remember it's name.

Anyone?

Rekunta

Sub-Terrania

[QUOTE="Rekunta"]

I have one that's been bothering me for a while, hopefully someone can help me out.

OK. It was on the Genesis and came out in the mid nineties I believe. It was a side scroller where you piloted a cookie shaped space ship inside underground caverns picking up prisoners. You had a limited amount of fuel and were constantly fighting the pull of gravity. It also was INSANELY hard. I've been looking to pick this up for a while but can't remember it's name.

Anyone?

Black_Knight_00

Sub-Terrania

THANK YOU! You're awesome, I've been looking for this one for a while. That video brings back hair pulling memories. Ah, the good old days.

THANK YOU! You're awesome, I've been looking for this one for a while. That video brings back hair pulling memories. Ah, the good old days.

Rekunta

Welcome ;)

Score +1 for me :lol:

There was this PS2 game that I got to play for like 5 minutes in a store once. You were an astronaut on a space station, or in a space shuttle, and everything had fallen apart. There wasn't much color in the game, my memory is that it was almost black and white. The bit that I played was in a first person view, and I believe I had a space helmet on. I didn't have the money to buy it then, but it seemed to have a very supernatural vibe to it. I've wanted to find this game ever since. I have a feeling it bombed and is very rare, but the little I played was so intriguing.rragnaar

Echo Night: Beyond.

Alright, so it's a PC game I played back in middle school. I can't remember much of it other than you build a civilization (no, it's not civilization). You plant crops like barly, make wine, build temples for the Gods...I can't at all remember what it's called.

Help please!

Alright, so it's a PC game I played back in middle school. I can't remember much of it other than you build a civilization (no, it's not civilization). You plant crops like barly, make wine, build temples for the Gods...I can't at all remember what it's called.

Help please!

discolullaby

Black and White? Populous?

I can tell I'll be using this thread quite a bit.

Anyway, my first inquiry is a little unusual, as this is for an upcoming game that I saw a brief glimpse of on some random website covering E3. All I remember is that it appeared to be a third-person shooter where you could control the terrain somehow, e.g. cause a large hill to jut up from the ground below an enemy's feet as a form of attack, and then take cover behind it. The footage I saw took place in a kind of snowy environment.

Any idea?

EDIT: May as well include a few more for efficiency sake.

2. There's this old NES game I remember playing at a friend's house once in the mid-to-late 80's. It was kind of a shoot-em-up except I think it was supposed to take place inside someone's body, and among the enemies who attacked your ship were these weird, colorful, twitching shapes that in retrospect could have been bacteria or something.

3. Another game I played at a different friend's house, but around the same period in the late 80's or very early 90's. What I mainly remember is that it was on a system other than the NES, and I was blown away by the graphics at the time, which may have been 16-bit (Sega Genesis then, most likely?). Anyway, it was a game where you played this human in a purple suit with an over-sized head whose primary attack was kicking things. I remember his death animation being very Mario-esque, in that he'd look toward the "camera" with his limbs spread out, rise a little bit and then fall of screen. At one point I kicked some fire and it was the same death-pose except his face went red from the heat. Also, at one point your character could walk and do up-side-down jumps on the ceiling.

Alright, that's all for now.

[QUOTE="rragnaar"]There was this PS2 game that I got to play for like 5 minutes in a store once. You were an astronaut on a space station, or in a space shuttle, and everything had fallen apart. There wasn't much color in the game, my memory is that it was almost black and white. The bit that I played was in a first person view, and I believe I had a space helmet on. I didn't have the money to buy it then, but it seemed to have a very supernatural vibe to it. I've wanted to find this game ever since. I have a feeling it bombed and is very rare, but the little I played was so intriguing.BladesOfAthena

Echo Night: Beyond.

Thank you so much! I'm looking at the critical reception it recieved, and it doesn't look so good, but the little I played was just so atmospheric. Arg. I might try and find it for cheap just to see for myself.

[QUOTE="rragnaar"]There was this PS2 game that I got to play for like 5 minutes in a store once. You were an astronaut on a space station, or in a space shuttle, and everything had fallen apart. There wasn't much color in the game, my memory is that it was almost black and white. The bit that I played was in a first person view, and I believe I had a space helmet on. I didn't have the money to buy it then, but it seemed to have a very supernatural vibe to it. I've wanted to find this game ever since. I have a feeling it bombed and is very rare, but the little I played was so intriguing.BladesOfAthena

Echo Night: Beyond.

Dammit! That was going to be my guess.

From what I've heard, it is indeed atmospheric. And the gameplay might be decent too.

[QUOTE="BladesOfAthena"]

[QUOTE="rragnaar"]There was this PS2 game that I got to play for like 5 minutes in a store once. You were an astronaut on a space station, or in a space shuttle, and everything had fallen apart. There wasn't much color in the game, my memory is that it was almost black and white. The bit that I played was in a first person view, and I believe I had a space helmet on. I didn't have the money to buy it then, but it seemed to have a very supernatural vibe to it. I've wanted to find this game ever since. I have a feeling it bombed and is very rare, but the little I played was so intriguing.rragnaar

Echo Night: Beyond.

Thank you so much! I'm looking at the critical reception it recieved, and it doesn't look so good, but the little I played was just so atmospheric. Arg. I might try and find it for cheap just to see for myself.

Sounds like you might want to check out Martian Gothic on the PS1 if you haven't played it before as well. Great atmosphere.

I'm looking for a computer game probably from the 90's it starts out with a message that comes on the screan - Its a dark and stormy night... You go through rooms in a house trying to find clues and the murder weapon. I think the killer hides in one room and if you go in the room where the killer is the game is over.fairy_dust333

Any of the Clock Tower games?

2. There's this old NES game I remember playing at a friend's house once in the mid-to-late 80's. It was kind of a shoot-em-up except I think it was supposed to take place inside someone's body, and among the enemies who attacked your ship were these weird, colorful, twitching shapes that in retrospect could have been bacteria or something.

creepy_mike

Abadox?

i cant find the name of this certain game,

the game starts off with a hamster or gerbil being sent into space and then it disrupts the space time continuum or something like that.

It was a Real time strategy game and I'm almost certain it's main focus was on multi-player.

any sugestions would help,

thanks

I can tell I'll be using this thread quite a bit.

Anyway, my first inquiry is a little unusual, as this is for an upcoming game that I saw a brief glimpse of on some random website covering E3. All I remember is that it appeared to be a third-person shooter where you could control the terrain somehow, e.g. cause a large hill to jut up from the ground below an enemy's feet as a form of attack, and then take cover behind it. The footage I saw took place in a kind of snowy environment.

Any idea?

EDIT: May as well include a few more for efficiency sake.

2. There's this old NES game I remember playing at a friend's house once in the mid-to-late 80's. It was kind of a shoot-em-up except I think it was supposed to take place inside someone's body, and among the enemies who attacked your ship were these weird, colorful, twitching shapes that in retrospect could have been bacteria or something.

3. Another game I played at a different friend's house, but around the same period in the late 80's or very early 90's. What I mainly remember is that it was on a system other than the NES, and I was blown away by the graphics at the time, which may have been 16-bit (Sega Genesis then, most likely?). Anyway, it was a game where you played this human in a purple suit with an over-sized head whose primary attack was kicking things. I remember his death animation being very Mario-esque, in that he'd look toward the "camera" with his limbs spread out, rise a little bit and then fall of screen. At one point I kicked some fire and it was the same death-pose except his face went red from the heat. Also, at one point your character could walk and do up-side-down jumps on the ceiling.

Alright, that's all for now.

creepy_mike

1. I'd guess what you're thinking of is fracture?

2. Gradius? I'm not to sure when that cam out though.

Sorry, I have no idea about the third.

[QUOTE="Black_Knight_00"]

Abadox?

dvader654

Its like fake Lifeforce.

Anyway, rag that game does indeed look cool, I want to check it out.

The reviews are pretty bad, like in the 5-6 out of 10 range. I was a little bummed to see that.

[QUOTE="rragnaar"][QUOTE="BladesOfAthena"]

[QUOTE="rragnaar"]There was this PS2 game that I got to play for like 5 minutes in a store once. You were an astronaut on a space station, or in a space shuttle, and everything had fallen apart. There wasn't much color in the game, my memory is that it was almost black and white. The bit that I played was in a first person view, and I believe I had a space helmet on. I didn't have the money to buy it then, but it seemed to have a very supernatural vibe to it. I've wanted to find this game ever since. I have a feeling it bombed and is very rare, but the little I played was so intriguing.inoperativeRS

Echo Night: Beyond.

Thank you so much! I'm looking at the critical reception it recieved, and it doesn't look so good, but the little I played was just so atmospheric. Arg. I might try and find it for cheap just to see for myself.

Sounds like you might want to check out Martian Gothic on the PS1 if you haven't played it before as well. Great atmosphere.

I'll have to look into it. It sounds interesting. I need more PS1 games anyway. I'd be surprised if I have 10 PS1 games total.

Thank you so much! I'm looking at the critical reception it recieved, and it doesn't look so good, but the little I played was just so atmospheric. Arg. I might try and find it for cheap just to see for myself.

rragnaar

Glad that I could help.:)

I hope you will enjoy it as much as you did the first time.

[QUOTE="creepy_mike"]

I can tell I'll be using this thread quite a bit.

Anyway, my first inquiry is a little unusual, as this is for an upcoming game that I saw a brief glimpse of on some random website covering E3. All I remember is that it appeared to be a third-person shooter where you could control the terrain somehow, e.g. cause a large hill to jut up from the ground below an enemy's feet as a form of attack, and then take cover behind it. The footage I saw took place in a kind of snowy environment.

Any idea?

EDIT: May as well include a few more for efficiency sake.

2. There's this old NES game I remember playing at a friend's house once in the mid-to-late 80's. It was kind of a shoot-em-up except I think it was supposed to take place inside someone's body, and among the enemies who attacked your ship were these weird, colorful, twitching shapes that in retrospect could have been bacteria or something.

3. Another game I played at a different friend's house, but around the same period in the late 80's or very early 90's. What I mainly remember is that it was on a system other than the NES, and I was blown away by the graphics at the time, which may have been 16-bit (Sega Genesis then, most likely?). Anyway, it was a game where you played this human in a purple suit with an over-sized head whose primary attack was kicking things. I remember his death animation being very Mario-esque, in that he'd look toward the "camera" with his limbs spread out, rise a little bit and then fall of screen. At one point I kicked some fire and it was the same death-pose except his face went red from the heat. Also, at one point your character could walk and do up-side-down jumps on the ceiling.

Alright, that's all for now.

Rekunta

1. I'd guess what you're thinking of is fracture?

2. Gradius? I'm not to sure when that cam out though.

Sorry, I have no idea about the third.

1. Ah, so it is! Thanks!

2. Nah, it was like Gradius, but on a microscopic level inside someone's (grossly inaccurate) internal anatomy.

3. Heh. I don't blame you.

Thanks again!

[QUOTE="fairy_dust333"]I'm looking for a computer game probably from the 90's it starts out with a message that comes on the screan - Its a dark and stormy night... You go through rooms in a house trying to find clues and the murder weapon. I think the killer hides in one room and if you go in the room where the killer is the game is over.Black_Knight_00

Any of the Clock Tower games?

2. There's this old NES game I remember playing at a friend's house once in the mid-to-late 80's. It was kind of a shoot-em-up except I think it was supposed to take place inside someone's body, and among the enemies who attacked your ship were these weird, colorful, twitching shapes that in retrospect could have been bacteria or something.

creepy_mike

Abadox?

Yes! Yes, that's it! A thousand thanks!

Man, this game's a lot creepier than I remember.

Yes! Yes, that's it! A thousand thanks!

Man, this game's a lot creepier than I remember.

creepy_mike

Which one? Abadox or Clock Tower?

[QUOTE="creepy_mike"]

Yes! Yes, that's it! A thousand thanks!

Man, this game's a lot creepier than I remember.

Black_Knight_00

Which one? Abadox or Clock Tower?

Abadox. I have know idea how this game didn't give me nightmares at the tender age of 5-6.