old computer games i forgot their name

[Ravens_cry]

Well, while we're swapping stories, I got one I've been wondering about since the mid nineties.

Sprite based FPS. Bright colors. You kill people. And the sprites were bad and blocky.

Figured out the other three mystery games from my childhood no sweat.

But that one, I dunno.

Kens Labyrinth?

[nosignal]

sounds familiar.. did most of the walls have a wood texture? Did you eat what looked like turkey and wine to restore health?

I've got one. It's a point and click adventure game, with low end graphics. The goal is to infiltrate an Addams family-esque mansion, iirc. The first thing you had to do was pick up and smash a pumpkin, to get the key to the house.

Might it be Hugo's House of Horrors? But it's not point and click.

edit: I've only just noticed that the question had already been answered much earlier. Serves me right for posting while sick.

[jamroar]

I've got one: The whole game is black, and objects are just coloured geometric outlines. You play a tank, and you destroy other tanks. The normal enemy tank is a red flat triangular prism. Some tougher ones are tall, orange triangular prisms. I think I only had a demo or something, cuz it was really short.

Was it Battlezone or Stellar 7?

[The Succubus]

Sounds like Battlezone.

[Ravens_cry]

Might it be Hugo's House of Horrors? But it's not point and click.

Be that as it may, it was certainly an adventure game and it did have amateur low end graphics, and you DID smash a pumpkin to get a key to get into a "spooky" looking house. I think we have a winner.

[Serpentine]

Aha! No, but you lead me to it.

[Archonic Energy]

The very first game computer I played of any sort was on my Amstrad CPC

did you play N.O.M.A.D ?
Or Colony?

[Starfols]

Kens Labyrinth?

And your adventure game, my first thought was the legendary Maniac Mansion.

I then realized that was a stupid thought and I was being dumb. I managed to play the NES version of Maniac Mansion for a minute or two once, and there were no pumpkins in sight. Then I thought a little harder, remembering a bad game cover art thread and a LP I read a while back. The game in question was Hugo's House of Horrors. It wasn't terribly good.

Yes and yes! I've been looking for those games for a long time. Thanks much!

Edit: I believe there are one or DOS shooters that are very similar to kens labyrinth, in visuals and content. Any ideas?

[chiasaur11]

Kens Labyrinth?

Nope.

Nothing so far. But the graphics level looks about right.

[nosignal]

Quite a few candidates, according to this.

All this nostalgia had me look up this FMV adventure game called The Vampire Diaries. I remember playing it to a point where I kept getting killed no matter what I did, and I was too afraid to go on. Apparently it's based on some books that also now has a TV show.

Also William Shatner's Tekwar, which I only ever played a demo of. Good times.

[Trazoi]

Sprite based FPS. Bright colors. You kill people. And the sprites were bad and blocky.

Given the era, that doesn't narrow it down.

Throwing out some more obscure names: Rise of the Triad? CyClones? CyberMage: Darklight Awakening (that's a bit after the Wolf3D era, though)?

[chiasaur11]

Given the era, that doesn't narrow it down.

Throwing out some more obscure names: Rise of the Triad? CyClones? CyberMage: Darklight Awakening (that's a bit after the Wolf3D era, though)?

I know, sorry for the low level of detail.

And it's none of those. We're talking Doom level blocky sprites. All of those? Too smooth.

And you mainly shot people. Don't remember seeing any robots or suchlike.

[Starfols]

I've got one. It was another text-entry adventure game, with a combat component as well (which I never got to work). It was a fantasy-ish setting, and the goal was rescuing a girl who was trapped in a tree by monks, or something like that.

The first scene involved you sleeping under a machine that counted sand, and after a time, dumping water on you. Then you looked around your impressively sized house, then outside into a field in between the coast and a forest.

[The Succubus]

>. North

You go north. You are on top of a high hill, with a good view of the surrounding lands. There is an odd stone nearby.

>. Examine stone

The stone has markings on it. They look like the elvish for "G3". 5 Black Riders enter.

>. Run like hell

I do not understand the phrase "Run like hell". A Black Rider stabs you with an evil looking knife. You are so screwed.

[Cespenar]

>. Run like hell

I do not understand the phrase "Run like hell". A Black Rider stabs you with an evil looking knife. You are so screwed.

Heh. I love (and hate) text adventures.

[Brewdude]

Isn't Rise of the Triad the source of

"Who wants some Wang?"
and "Man with four balls cannot walk!"

It was contemporary with the original Duke Nuke'm as I recall

[Adumbration]

I've got one too - it was 3D sci-fi realtime strategy game, where your base was a floating fortress, and you could take control of your ships in 1st person for scouting and such like. It came as a demo on an advertising disc, but it was pretty awesome. The atmosphere was pretty dark.

[jamroar]

Isn't Rise of the Triad the source of

"Who wants some Wang?"
and "Man with four balls cannot walk!"

It was contemporary with the original Duke Nuke'm as I recall

No, that sounds like Shadow Warrior, which came after Duke3D.

Rise of the Triad was the one that cane before Duke3D from Apogee, and used digitized actor sprites.

[Yora]

I've got one too - it was 3D sci-fi realtime strategy game, where your base was a floating fortress, and you could take control of your ships in 1st person for scouting and such like. It came as a demo on an advertising disc, but it was pretty awesome. The atmosphere was pretty dark.

Urban Assault?

I have one as well: It was an RPG in the very late 90's or early 2000's. The plot is, that the sun is gone and the world gets dark and cold, and you have to make it come back, or something like that.
I remember liking the previews, but the ratings were quite bad, so I never bought it. But I wonder what it was called?

[Tengu_temp]

Dark Earth?

[Caustic Soda]

My question isn't about a PC game as such, but I suppose it is still tangentially relevant.

When I was 6-8 or so, the kindergarden I went used to have an old television/console on which we could play games. I am unsure whether it was a NES or something else. In any case the game was a platform RPG-ish thing with sprites. I *think* it was in 16 colors, but it may have been more. There were three different areas, city, caves and castle. In these areas you would be attacked by the inhabitants, who were thieves, monsters, and ladies with handbags respectively. There were three types of classes you could switch between, thief, mage and knight. If you were the appropriate class, mage for caves etc., then the local residents would not attack you. The three classes had subcategories, of which I only really remember the mages. One could shoot fireballs, one could levitate, and one could walk through a lavafall. I can't remember if there was any text to go along with it, and in any case I couldn't read English at the time. There were some cutscenes which showed a guy with a crown, with another guy with a crown shackled to a pillar in his throne room. We called the guy on the throne the 'evil king', and looking back he was probably an evil usurper or something. In any case, the game had you fight him, and some kind of Black Knight, at the finale, IIRC.

I remember the game relatively well, but I have absolutely no idea what it was called, or even what console it was on. I think I would recognize it if I saw it, though.

[Yora]

Dark Earth?

No, it was some pretty standard fantasy setting, I think.

[jamroar]

No, it was some pretty standard fantasy setting, I think.

Thunderscape?

I remember the game relatively well, but I have absolutely no idea what it was called, or even what console it was on. I think I would recognize it if I saw it, though.

Wizards and Warriors III, for the NES.

[factotum]

No, it was some pretty standard fantasy setting, I think.

My guess would be Arx Fatalis--Arkane Studios game, released 2002.

[IthilanorStPete]

I remember playing this in-browser game a while back...sometime in the 90s, probably between 1996 and 2000. It was a financial game, I think for kids...but somewhat complicated - making some investments, choosing which of two jobs to do...
It was set on Mars, I believe - IIRC, you were an alien or something that had emigrated. It wasn't a Flash or Java game or anything, just a series of interconnected webpages. This ring any bells with anyone?

[Dmatix]

I got two of 'em.


The shooter game I didn't see much of, because it was rated M. I just remember she spent a lot of time running down these dark, curving red hallways. Every now and then there was what looked like a dead body hanging from the ceiling, which she would randomly shoot.

Kinda sounds like the original Blood.

[ReluctantReaper]

Ok So this was probably around 98 or so i dont really remember when but my cousin played it and it was a game in space where you had to make a civilization and there were computer enemies and it had some diplomacy..maybe. I know that you had a lot of different planets and I think there were different races and I recall a green alien for some reason..can anyone help me?

[The Glyphstone]

No, it was some pretty standard fantasy setting, I think.

Was it Stratosphere? No subsidary ships to take control of, but everything else fits.

[chiasaur11]

Ok So this was probably around 98 or so i dont really remember when but my cousin played it and it was a game in space where you had to make a civilization and there were computer enemies and it had some diplomacy..maybe. I know that you had a lot of different planets and I think there were different races and I recall a green alien for some reason..can anyone help me?

Master of Orion?

Star Control II?

[Starfols]

In addition to my other one, I thought of another game.

It's a space exploration game, where you fly around and do diplomacy and shooting and all that. You play in a T shaped fighter-plane looking ship, and the pilot looks vaguely like M Night Shyamalan. The first person you meet is a klingon-lobster type guy, and I think one of the dialogue options is insulting his mother.