The Giantbomb Community "Can't remember the name of this game" Table Of Knowledge Table
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X19 Message & Updates | Hey Giantbomb I created this thread because I wanted to give the community a place to go if they couldn't remember a name of a game. I will be updating the page as often as I can but please be aware that I don't have time to go through every single comment. So please could you check out the 'Tips & Advice' section and this thread should run like clockwork.
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Table Information | The Table is here as a record of answered and not answered questions. If you want to see a question either click on the spoiler or just click on the users name in the 'Asked By' section.If you want to see pending answers then click on the link in the 'Answered By' section. I'm sorry this site only has the facility to link to the page the question is on and not the exact location so you might have to scroll down to find it. If one of the links is wrong or doesn't work please message me thanks. |
Tips & Advice | When asking:- ***Press the REPLY button to ask a question*** Warning: If the question isn't sent to X19 it may not end up on the table below.
- Try and be as descriptive as you can as this will help your chances of getting the answer.
- When you get the correct name start a new comment. Either Reply to X19 or press H2 (top left of your format bar) and then write "Question Complete"so when I scan the thread I can easily see it. If you give me no information I can't update the table and this may result in users still answering your question when you have already got the answer.
- QUOTE the correct users comment which should include the game name. If multiple users get the question right QUOTE the very first person to answer correctly
- Don't forget to say thank you :)
- If you manage to answer your own question Reply to X19 with the game name and it will be marked as 'Resolved'
A few tips I found to help you describe the game
- A guess of what year the game could have come out on (it's not useful to say "when I was a kid" if we don't know how old you are)
- A guess of what platform the game is on (even if you don't remember what console, at least say it wasn't on PC, and guess the generation)
- What genre the game is in (again, even if you don't know exactly, you can probably rule some out or be broad like "action")
- If you or others or general public thought the game was any good, how good/bad/colorful were the graphics, music, etc
- Who the intended audience of the game is (kids, casual gamers, movie franchise fans, etc)
When answering: - If there is a pending link on the table next to the game you want to answer, click on it to make sure another user hasn't given that suggestion already.
- To help limit confusion, please remember to press REPLY when answering a users question.
- If you have the giantbomb link for the game you think it might be, add that too so the community can have a look at these rare gems and maybe help fill the unloved pages out.
- If you want to add pictures, videos or websites of the game you think it is go ahead.
- The first person to get the correct answer in THIS thread will have their name put into the table, 100 points added to their leaderboard score and most importantly enjoy the satisfaction of knowing they helped a fellow Giantbomber in their time of need.
A few tips I found to help you find a game
- Giantbomb Browse Section (Very top of the page)
- Be inspired by Jeff Gerstmann http://www.giantbomb.com/how-to-build-a-bomb-ep09/17-19/
- MobyGames http://www.mobygames.com/home
- List of Video Games http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_video_games
- Search for game playthroughs such as http://www.youtube.com/user/cubex55#p/p
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Leaderboard & Question of the Moment | Updated and edited by ESREVER Follow this link to go to the Leaderboard & Question of the Moment page. |
SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content. @Kiemoe said:
"Now, I guess I'll describe my old old game. Okay, I remember playing a demo disc I somehow got on my dad's computer at work when I was little, and I can't remember much of what was on it, besides Wacky Wheels. There might have been Jazz Jackrabbit and Hocus Pocus on it, or those could have been different demos, I just don't know. The game that I am trying to remember, though, was a 2d sprite-based fighting game. I think the logo for the developer was a bunch of weapons stuck into the ground, that seems to ring a bell. I believe all the characters had weapons, and there was a fighter that reminds me a lot of E. Honda looking back on it. There is just not a lot that I can think of for this one (I think characters could jump off the sides of the screen?) but it bugs me to this day. "
FunExplosions | Not Answered
| Okay,
- It's an (early?) PlayStation 1 or PC game.
- You play as a space/moon/Mars rover of some sort. You have guns, I think.
- You start the game off on some kind of ridiculously monotonous tutorial. Basically, from what I played, your goal is to go from point A to point B, while killing other rovers that... if I remember correctly... are trying to harvest minerals?
- The largest distinction, and the reason I'm searching for it, is because of the completely out-of-place indie-rock soundtrack it had. It was done by the Liars, and the music was from their first album.
Anyways, I don't really wanna play the game or anything... but I HAVE to know what the name of it was. Oh, you gotta click those links for "BONUS MUSIC!" Thanks in advance.
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n00d13z | Pending | @n00d13z said:
" @X19: It was a game on the PC, around 1998 -2000 I'm pretty sure. You played as a hunter of dinosaurs. When you killed the dinosaur you wanted, a UFO looking thing would fly over it and use what looks like a magnet at a scrap yard that you use to pick up cars, and take it to your trophy room. In the trophy room there was a pyramid in the middle of the room, and your dino's were placed around the outside walls. "
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arab_prince
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| @arab_prince said: " @X19: Please help, if possible. The game I am looking for was a game on the internet, not a paid video game. It was on www.coffeebreakarcade.com. In the "Cool" section.The last time I played it was approximately 7 years ago. The game was a platformer. You played as a Ninja on a Skateboard that was trying to save his buddy, who was captured by aliens. That is all I remember from the game. I've been dying to play it again for years. I know its not a conventional video game, but if you have any help it would be EXTREMELY appreciated! " |
X19 | Errordotocx
| Fury3
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wrathofconn
| Resolved
| N.I.C.E.2 |
Megasoum
| Resolved
| Hardline
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Zero_
| Ignor
| Links Extreme
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Brenderous
| ESREVER | Musashi no Ken - Tadaima Shugyou Chuu |
CaptainObvious
| Ignor
| The Neverhood
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Choi
| Ignor*
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eqaddictedfool
| Not Answered | @eqaddictedfool said: " While I dont know the game one of my friends has been on a tireing search for a game from his youth. It was an NES title and the only bits of information he could seem to come up with was it was an RPG in the graphic style of maybe a final fantasy or dragon quest. There was a waterfall and someone to ask you a series of questions. Based on these questions you were awarded stats. We recently tried playing all the dragon quests we could find but had no such luck. " |
yakov456
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| Death Duel
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SathingtonWaltz
| Pending | @SathingtonWaltz said: " I need some help. I remember this one computer game that we got to play back in elementary school. It was an educational video game, and it had some sort of tropical, tiki, island setting. The object was to guide these little lemming like guys somewhere. I remember one of the levels had to stone heads and you had to do some sort of game to pass through them or something. Another level had two bridges over a deep chasm and you had to do something to get your little creature guys safely across the bridges. Really vague memories I know... " |
Potter9156
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| Urban Chaos |
Synthballs
| Ignor | Tanktics |
BeachThunder | Not Answered
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@X19:I was reminded of something when looking at the Minecraft calculator thread. Something I tried finding the name of a few months ago, but to no avail. Anyway There was a game that I found perhaps 5 or 6 years ago, it was a freeware PC game, I don't know how old the game actually was though. It was a puzzle game that involved tiny pixel robots. There were small blocks with numbers on them that were altered whenever a robot interacted with them, these blocks needed to match up with the numbers shown below them. The tiles in the game would have maybe been 8 pixels high (?), everything was fairly small. I don't think you even directly controlled the robots themselves, but instead I think you had to adjust the level design so that the robots could change the blocks to display the correct numbers. It was a 2D sideview game and the background was black. I remember there being conveyor belt tiles. The game would have fitted into the category of a Programming Game, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't any of those games listed in that Wikipedia article. The game had a level editor and I remember someone making a huge calculator in it and other amazingly complex things. |
Ignor + | Not Answered
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@X19: All right, so there's a game which may have come out mid-to-late 90s. It's kinda like Monkey Ball. Basically, you're some dude inside a sphere and have to navigate through an alley (or a street, I don't remember) while avoiding pits. There may have been AI opponents. Or not. It was in 3D, 3rd-person perspective and I only played the demo. Thanks! |
Nikral
| Shirogane* | Imperium Galactica |
Legend | Nikral* | |
Ha lberdierv2 | Legend | Brave Fencer Musashi |
PlasmaBeam44 | Ignor | The Steel Empire |
Enigma777 | Pop | Battle City |
thoseposers | Not Answered |
I remember some old pc game that was on windows 95. It was a point and click and since i was so young i couldn't get through a single puzzle. The only room i was in was this dark greenish room that had maybe a constellation puzzle and another screen that had a floor covered in green acid. and for some strange reason i remember someone calling it Tomb Raider o.O |
Darklight | Ignor | Dr. Chaos |
LackingSaint | Pending |
There was a series of educational games where I think you played as a Frog, and I think they were each based on subjects (IE English, Math, Science). I know one was set in a castle, one was a treehouse or something like that. Very distant memory. Oh, and another one which I think was part of the same series; you're going from place to place as the frog, such as Atlantis and Machu Pichu. You're collecting artifacts of some sort (possibly to help ghosts?) and every time you collect one you have to play a game of scrabble against the villain I think. |
Aronman789 | Zithe | Mort the Chicken |
X19 | Ignor | Lifeforce/Codename Tenka
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Smedles | Not Answered |
1. Late 90's to early 2000's. 2. PC 3. Vehicle Shooter (I'm positive there were tanks, but I think there were planes as well, but i'm not sure). Turret gameplay as well. 4. Sci-Fi. The enemies were aliens and it took place on distant worlds with lots of hills. 5. Gameplay consisted of fighting enemies and defending bases/structures. 6. Green and black theme. It was on the disk, the box, the menus, everywhere. The game itself might have been green and black as well. |
FunExplosions | Not Answered | It's a 3d isometric viewed cartoonish strategy-esque game. You use your small team of blue guys and try to build a quick base to destroy the other team's base. I think the enemy team was green. Not sure if colors were automatically chosen, but yeah that's not important. The demo was 2 player. I think it was on one of the discs back when they PSU demo disc menu was a bunch of selectable big-screen TVs on top of skyscrapers. VERY ROUGHLY between 1999-2003 Any help would be greatly appreciated. I always wanted to try the full game. |
Kjellm87 | Ignor | Journey to Silius |
marrec | Resolved | Castle of the Winds |
Hawker | Not Answered | @X19: Alright, here's a tough one (I think) I remember playing it in the 90s, I was young, I think it was a DOS computer, or something equally archaic, so yeah, reeeeeeal old the game consisted of entirely black and white simplistic graphics basically, the game consisted of 2 houses on the same screen, one was player 1s house, the other house belonged to player 2 You each took it in turns to destroy the other person's house through the use of various things such as weather etc, I'm sure I remember making it rain on the other person's house before and it started deteriorating it was a fun game, I'd really like a chance to play it again, for old time's sake so yeah, 2 houses, black and white graphics, oooold (80s-early 90s) and you too kit in turns fighting each other with weather |
CookieMonster | Not Answered | " Its a game I've been trying to remember the name of for aaages. It was for the Sega Mega Drive, and I think it was a side-scrolling platformer, based on that mythical/medieval style of shit (possibly). The closest game I can relate to it is that second Legend of Zelda game that was a side scroller. Sorry if my description is crap, but it was a very long time ago. If anybody even has the faintest idea what I am on about, its a miracle. " |
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