Games you reminisce playing... - ..but can't recall the name of, sometimes.

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Just remembered another PS2 game that I played the shit out of. It was another 3rd-person type deal, and it was about some greek guys defending against these roman(?) fuckers, since the first mission was basically defending some city (Athens, I believe) from their attack. I think the first boss fight was against this Roman general guy (took place on a battlefield) and he later on gets resurrected as a necromancer and is the penultimate(?) boss fight. There was also an arena mode where you and a squad of allies beat up wave after wave of the main enemy types faced in the game - roman fuckers, the undead, bounty hunter gladiator types and an All-Star Arena where the enemy types alternated with every wave. Oh yeah, and you could toggle a lot of shit in this mode, meaning you could turn off allies and just go fight alone.
(And no, it wasn't God of War.)

Shadow of Rome

 

[He Who Knows Games]

Just remembered another PS2 game that I played the shit out of. It was another 3rd-person type deal, and it was about some greek guys defending against these roman(?) fuckers, since the first mission was basically defending some city (Athens, I believe)

Spartan:Total Warrior may fit the bill. There is a necromancer in it, as well as the arena mode you spoke of. It was made by Creative Assembly, the total war guys (if the game's name didn't make it obvious), it's basically the result of "oops we said we'd make total war on a console". Still an enjoyable game with heavy, powerful combat.

It wasn't this D.R.A.G.O.N. Force game, but this one actually looks pretty good.

Unfortunately I'm at a loss. Digging as deep as I could, even spending a couple hours sifting through mobygames and the archive.org DOS collection (And my own personal collection beyond that!), I wasn't able to turn up any solid results, sorry! DOS was such a unique thing, and since most games were just BASIC or C, and those two languages were really at the forefront of home learning, you very well may have played someone's soul and passion about environmentalism poured into a floppy diskette. But, I do have one more guess, though I'm not confident in it:
Jagged Alliance (1): There's a pretty big emphasis on trees in this game, early on. There's even a tree counter. No direct planting though. Mechanically it seems to check the boxes, otherwise.

 

[Absolute Brainlet]

Spartan:Total Warrior may fit the bill. There is a necromancer in it, as well as the arena mode you spoke of. It was made by Creative Assembly, the total war guys (if the game's name didn't make it obvious), it's basically the result of "oops we said we'd make total war on a console". Still an enjoyable game with heavy, powerful combat.

That's the one, thanks, lad.

 

[Posthumorous]

Sounds like Creepy Castle on Mac.

Holy fuck that was quick. You certainly live up to your username.

Indeed. Let me see if the test of my shitty desciptions can give him a thunkery of a time.

So, how 'bout it, @He Who Knows Games? Think you can find out what these games are? Challenge issued.

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I totally did not steal this from somewhere else, but I figured I would try to introduce to this little cancer nest of the internet as well as promote discussion and detective work. But yeah, this topic is pretty much for those games you remember playing as a kid, but for the life of you cannot remember the name of. Anyway, I'll get this party started.

Games that continue to successfully remain in the fog of nostalgic amnesia:

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- This one is a old DOS/MacOS game. The game has some flying car in the future in a dark alleyway. And I believe all were on demo discs at the time I played them.

- What I remember about this one is where you played as a robotic tank that was olive in color, with steel color claw arms, and tank tracks for legs. The character had an angled, slanted front, and it was an arena fighting game.

No, that's not it. Still looks like a fucking awesome game. The graphics for the game I saw were also much better than this game. They had 3D cutscenes too, if I recall correctly. I think the game you're answering about was on a demo disks for Macintosh Power PC demo discs in folio software suite books from the early to mid 90s. I remember playing it because my older brother had a PowerPC 6000 series or 5000 series and had a software suite book for it.

 

[The Last Stand]

I remember this Spongebob GBA game around 2005. The movie and DS came out but it was a GBA title. One game mechanic I remember was Spongebob using Patrick to break barricades.

 

[He Who Knows Games]

Think you can find out what these games are? Challenge issued.

Well, the first one I've got a good idea of it being Zone Raiders . Could also be one of the carmageddon games but if it wasn't quarantine it probably wasn't them either, so Zone Raiders seems most likely. It was on both DOS and macOS, to boot.
Second one I'm not entirely sure. mech arena battlers is a pretty broad genre. Going on the assumption it's not one of the mechwarrior games, and that it's on computer, it leaves you mostly with hovertank type games. Off the top of my head, the other more fitting series would be Armored Core, which offer tank legs as a customization option for your AC. Do you happen to remember the platform you played it on? Or have I misread your post horribly and they're both one game?

I remember this Spongebob GBA game around 2005. The movie and DS came out but it was a GBA title. One game mechanic I remember was Spongebob using Patrick to break barricades.

You're thinking of the GBA port of the movie game , I think. It's the only one where the characters aren't separated via level select or just NPCs that do things throughout the level.

 

[Posthumorous]

Well, the first one I've got a good idea of it being Zone Raiders . Could also be one of the carmageddon games but if it wasn't quarantine it probably wasn't them either, so Zone Raiders seems most likely. It was on both DOS and macOS, to boot.
Second one I'm not entirely sure. mech arena battlers is a pretty broad genre. Going on the assumption it's not one of the mechwarrior games, and that it's on computer, it leaves you mostly with hovertank type games. Off the top of my head, the other more fitting series would be Armored Core, which offer tank legs as a customization option for your AC. Do you happen to remember the platform you played it on? Or have I misread your post horribly and they're both one game?

The first game is not Zone Raiders, which looks like a cool game, by the way. The graphics of the game I mentioned have very similar graphics to Zone Raiders, and had a very dark city environment, maybe almost Cyberpunk. I remember the car either landing or taking off, that car being very sleek and futuristic. I believe the game was on a demo desk that came with a software suite for PowerPC Macs.

The second game is not Amored Core at all, or Mechwarrior. The tank character did not transform or anything, just had steel colored tank treads for legs, olive green body with a slanted face, with the eyes being similar to those of slits on a tank. The arms were also steel colored, with three pincer like hands that were quite thick. The attack I recall this character having was more of a bash attack, and when I used this character, I recall fighting a female creature similar to a Zerg species character. I believe this game was on PS1/PSX.

And, while I still remember and have you here, I have one more game if you don't mind. I remember playing a FPS game from the 90s that had me in an environment that looked like it was at a CIA, FBI, or maybe just some executive building. I recall the character carrying a Beretta 92FS, perhaps a 9mm variant or the .40 cal version. I can see that the walls and floor were made of Marble, with some sort of water display in the walls of pillars, like a waterfall. I think the guy had a brown leather jacket on, but I'm not sure. I don't remember the platform, but I am pretty sure it was on MacOS or PC.

 

[He Who Knows Games]

The graphics of the game I mentioned have very similar graphics to Zone Raiders, and had a very dark city environment, maybe almost Cyberpunk. I remember the car either landing or taking off, that car being very sleek and futuristic. I believe the game was on a demo desk that came with a software suite for PowerPC Macs.

The second game is not Amored Core at all, or Mechwarrior. The tank character did not transform or anything, just had steel colored tank treads for legs, olive green body with a slanted face, with the eyes being similar to those of slits on a tank. The arms were also steel colored, with three pincer like hands that were quite thick. The attack I recall this character having was more of a bash attack, and when I used this character, I recall fighting a female creature similar to a Zerg species character. I believe this game was on PS1/PSX.

I remember playing a FPS game from the 90s that had me in an environment that looked like it was at a CIA, FBI, or maybe just some executive building. I recall the character carrying a Beretta 92FS, perhaps a 9mm variant or the .40 cal version. I can see that the walls and floor were made of Marble, with some sort of water display in the walls of pillars, like a waterfall. I think the guy had a brown leather jacket on

Game 2: Unholy War (The Unholy War) on PS1. the bot is Jaegar, I'm thinkin'.

Game 3:Prime Target on macOS is about as close as I'm getting with a cursory search, but it looks to fit the bill.
I'm gonna have to take a bit more time to look for the first game.

 

[Posthumorous]

Game 2: Unholy War (The Unholy War) on PS1. the bot is Jaegar, I'm thinkin'.

Game 3:Prime Target on macOS is about as close as I'm getting with a cursory search, but it looks to fit the bill.
I'm gonna have to take a bit more time to look for the first game.

Holy shit, man! Thank you! You are a fucking boss. You are two for three, and you've restored my memories in these games I have been seeking for years! Thank you very much. How do you do it?

 

[He Who Knows Games]

Holy shit, man! Thank you! You are a fucking boss. You are two for three, and you've restored my memories in these games I have been seeking for years! Thank you very much. How do you do it?

MegaRace perhaps, though I can't find conclusive proof of a mac port existing. could also be Descent, which came on "THE DISC 2". Oh bungie.
It's quite difficult to find games based on their intro since a lot can be quite similar, so if you can remember anything else about the game itself, if it moved on the Z axis, story elements, anything like that.

As for how I find games, I know a lot of games, there's not really much more to it than that + searching with the info I know. I've spent far too much time playing games, studying games, preserving games. If something sounds familiar, I check to make sure it isn't the game in particular, then I head to MobyGames which has an enormous library of games that you can search through very effectively, checking for obvious combinations of feature sets. "VGA graphics+sound blaster+fps+8bit" which would be down from 800~ games to like 15. Contextual hints from there, look up a video on youtube for visual confirmation. I like to help people. This is a way I can help, so I do.

 

[Posthumorous]

MegaRace perhaps, though I can't find conclusive proof of a mac port existing. could also be Descent, which came on "THE DISC 2". Oh bungie.
It's quite difficult to find games based on their intro since a lot can be quite similar, so if you can remember anything else about the game itself, if it moved on the Z axis, story elements, anything like that.

It's close to MegaRace in looks, and thinking more on it, this sleek looking car landed at night near an alleyway next to some tall buildings. I think the door opens and you either get out or get in. But I don't remember it being a racing game.

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

Unfortunately I'm at a loss. Digging as deep as I could, even spending a couple hours sifting through mobygames and the archive.org DOS collection (And my own personal collection beyond that!), I wasn't able to turn up any solid results, sorry! DOS was such a unique thing, and since most games were just BASIC or C, and those two languages were really at the forefront of home learning, you very well may have played someone's soul and passion about environmentalism poured into a floppy diskette. But, I do have one more guess, though I'm not confident in it:
Jagged Alliance (1): There's a pretty big emphasis on trees in this game, early on. There's even a tree counter. No direct planting though. Mechanically it seems to check the boxes, otherwise.

Nah, Jagged Alliance and its sequels are some of my favorite games. I'd recognize those anywhere.

I appreciate the time you put into looking.

 

[Posthumorous]

My memory is incredibly fuzzy on the subject, but I recall some turn-based game on DOS where it was you as some squad of environmentalists or park rangers or something versus a bunch of dudes trying to pave over everything. You had to undo their progress by planting grass and trees around their tarmac.

Most other games I can recall relatively easily, but that one has escaped me for a while. Not even DOSNotalgic on Twitter knew what the fuck I was talking about.

Do you have a round about idea of when the game was released, or even what the graphics looked like?

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

Do you have a round about idea of when the game was released, or even what the graphics looked like?

I would have played it in the mid 90's, so it would have been out during that time.

I remember the colors not being too vibrant (probably VGA) but they were crisp for being a DOS game. It was a lot of greens and grays.

 

[Posthumorous]

I would have played it in the mid 90's, so it would have been out during that time.

I remember the colors not being too vibrant (probably VGA) but they were crisp for being a DOS game. It was a lot of greens and grays.

Hm. Do you recall a developer/publisher logo or name?

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

Hm. Do you recall a developer/publisher logo or name?

Nah, my memories of the game are hazy at best. I can really only remember the graphics and the concept of grass vs pavement.

 

[Posthumorous]

Nah, my memories of the game are hazy at best. I can really only remember the graphics and the concept of grass vs pavement.

I tried looking as and even had no such luck like @He Who Knows Games. I tried a little bit of searching as well, and I found nothing. Sorry, man. While I do hope you find the name of the game, I too have heard of homemade and homebrew games that people made in their garage, house, or basement that only made very few copies.

You said your grandpa found it somewhere? If I may ask, is he still around so you could ask him about it?

 

[Monsieur Guillotine]

I tried looking as and even had no such luck like @He Who Knows Games. I tried a little bit of searching as well, and I found nothing. Sorry, man. While I do hope you find the name of the game, I too have heard of homemade and homebrew games that people made in their garage, house, or basement that only made very few copies.

You said your grandpa found it somewhere? If I may ask, is he still around so you could ask him about it?

Thanks for giving it a look. My grandpa has since passed, but even if he hadn't, he didn't really examine the game diskettes he picked up at the flea market, so he'd have no knowledge of it either.

 

[Jmz_33]

Paper Mario for the N64
It will always have a special place in my childhood. Out of all the games on the n64, Paper Mario aged the best.

 

[Spoonomancer]

trying to figure out a game I wanted to try again since 2007-2009 but outright cannot even remember the name, but I do remember some details of it like:
GAMEPLAY:
-you just explored maps for what looked like stages for other games
-you can choose any character in the game, but I do distinctly remember a yellow robotic gorilla, as well as a pink "princess" robot gorilla counterpart
MAPS (the ones I remember, and may help a small bit):
-a snow cabin, with the back end of it having a maze, and what looked like Cool Cool Mountain from Mario 64's painting
-a shed, alongside a pool that had a hidden entrance to some facility type place that leads further down to some unfinished location, should be noted that it kind of looks like a Perfect Dark stage
-a bunch of square pillars raised above lava, alongside platforms later on leading to the above-mentioned pink robot gorilla
-a castle that's floating in the air, the only way to get up is some sort of waterfalls it seems, but the game had some easily accessible noclip
MISC. THINGS:
-I remember a very obscure video on Youtube introducing me to this game
-some of the ingame settings had humor, the sound volume had a sarcastic "turns the sound down, duh!" or something similar.
-it had round edges, so the chances that it's Minecraft are slim to none, but it does have similar models to older games like Quake and Unreal.