The "Can't remember the name of this game" Thread

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There was a game I remember playing at my grandparents house once that I can't remember the name of. 
 
It was a 2D sidescroller for the PC. 
 
This was in the mid to late nineties. 
 
It was horror themed. 
 
Pretty sure some of the first enemies were hands like thing from the Adam's Family. 
 
You had a slingshot that you could shoot and the stone would bounce around the screen. 
 
You started in a outdoor level which might have been a graveyard.

Hurm. The stone thing makes me think of the ricocheting powerup from Castlevania. Other than that, I can't really help you. Sorry.  
 
I do have one I need a hand with.  
 
When I was a kid (I'm thinking 1995, maybe, is when we bought it. Maybe a couple years later.), we had an arcade cabinet that had no title on the marquee at the top, just some picture of guys in the army.  
 
In this game, you drove a jeep. Co-op was possible, adding another jeep to the screen. You had two buttons: One for machine gun, and one for explosives, which started out as a blue grenade. It was a vertical scroller, with you driving upwards (what I call "Gunsmoke-style"). On the way, there were several military bases. You could use your explosives to blow up certain buildings in the base, and you would see that the buildings housed guys. If you stopped your jeep next to the building, the guys would file into your car. Shortly after these military bases, there would be a helipad, where you would park and let the guys get off. As you let them off, you would be upgrading your explosives. First to missiles, then to missiles that exploded in a horizontal line, then to missiles that exploded in an "X" pattern.  
 
You could put in as many credits as you wanted (obviously, because we owned the machine). But, in the final military base, you were not allowed to continue if you lost all your lives in co-op. In single player, there was never an option to continue. If you lost, it would show a map that displays how far you got, and then end. If you were playing co-op and your partner was still alive, you could use another credit to get 3 more lives. But, again, you could not do this in the final military base. 

" There was a game I remember playing at my grandparents house once that I can't remember the name of.   It was a 2D sidescroller for the PC.   This was in the mid to late nineties.   It was horror themed.   Pretty sure some of the first enemies were hands like thing from the Adam's Family.   You had a slingshot that you could shoot and the stone would bounce around the screen.   You started in a outdoor level which might have been a graveyard. "

I'm thinking of an N64 game, and I have no idea what the exact year was. I remember the art on the cartridge was some different-coloured lizards and the name had something to do with chameleons or a play-on-words involving lizards. I can't actually remember very much of the actual gameplay, but colour was a main theme so it might have been some sort of puzzle-platformer involving colourful chameleons. This is a pretty bad description for what I'm sure is a game no one has heard of, but I'd really like to remember the name. 

" I'm thinking of an N64 game, and I have no idea what the exact year was. I remember the art on the cartridge was some different-coloured lizards and the name had something to do with chameleons or a play-on-words involving lizards. I can't actually remember very much of the actual gameplay, but colour was a main theme so it might have been some sort of puzzle-platformer involving colourful chameleons. This is a pretty bad description for what I'm sure is a game no one has heard of, but I'd really like to remember the name.  "

" @supermike6: I think you might be thinking of Chameleon Twist. "

I read that and instantly thought Chameleon Twist. 
 

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I was going to post about this game I could only remember as "Ooze Planet", but then after some searching on the site, I found Todd's Adventures in Slime World. 
 
This website's database is fantastic for sleuthing games.

" @Kiemoe said:

" @supermike6: I think you might be thinking of Chameleon Twist. "

@ESREVER said: 

I read that and instantly thought Chameleon Twist. 
 

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I don't know. I distinctly remember multiple chameleons. The description for that game says there is only one. Also, I remember the name being a lot stupider than that. "

Er, I had one of these questions posted somewhere, too. If you find it I'll give you a dollar.

" Er, I had one of these questions posted somewhere, too. If you find it I'll give you a dollar. "

" @FunExplosions:  Can't you rewrite it? Remember to reply to me if you do. "

" @ESREVER: Thanks anyway. I was intending to come back and describe it. Just needed to brush off this headache first. "

 Okay, 
 

• It's an (early?) Playstation 1 game.

• You play as a space/moon rover of some sort. You have guns, I think. You start the game off on some kind of ridiculously long 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!" 
 
 
And thanks in advance to the person who played this piece of crap game, and is willing to bestow upon me its name. I'll be on here editing some stuff all night, so if you think you've thought of it, just reply to this original comment. I'm not getting my hopes up, though. Thanks :)
 
 
Edit: Now that I think of it, I may have played it on my Computer, not my Playstation. But that doesn't mean it didn't come out on Playstation. It sure had that look...    

Oh gawd, Six unanswered requests so far? I'll get on it tomorrow.  
Also, I'm pretty sure SuperMike's request was Chameleon Twist. There weren't too many chameleon games for the n64 to my knowledge.

" @X19:  It was on the PC around 1995-97  You played as a futuristic spaceship in a 3D world on a planets surface somewhere in space.  The first cutscene was of your ship being raised on a platform from underground to the surface, I remember flashing red siren lights on the sides of the platform.  You were then in game and had to take off from a runway and take out futuristic mini cities like their radar towers etc.  Thats all I can remember. "

All right, here we go. I remember playing a game on pc around 1995-96. It was a on-rail shooter using the mouse to shoot. It was in full motion video and I remember that the mouse cursor would change depending on what gun you were using. As far as I can remember it was maybe a bit futuristic but still realistic (think Robocop) and I'm pretty sure you could get real weapons (M-16, Chainguns, etc). I think you were playing some kind of cops who had to stop (aka kill lol) a bunch of street gangs. I think it was on 2 or more cd-roms back then.

@wrathofconn:  Bummer. Well, do you think you'd remember the name if you saw it? I was thinking that you might be able to go to Mobygames and do a search for Windows racing games from 2004, 2005 and so on until you saw something familiar. Also, was this a fairly big release? Is it something that most people would have heard of like 1NSANE?

So there's this one game I remember playing back in the late 90s - a PC game that was basically a golf game, except your gold balls were explosive and you had to shoot objects in the background like cows and shit and watch them explode as you racked up points. Anyone remember that one?

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It was a side scrolling platformer kendo game for the NES. 
 
In single player you fought monsters in the world. 
 
In multiplayer two players faced off in a kendo ring. You used the arrow buttons to do different attacks (high, low etc.) 
 
I'm not sure if it was ever released in NA. I played it on one of those NES carts that had a bunch of games on it.

Just posting to say that I think this should be stickied. I'm sure most people either have a game they can't name or have the ability to help someone find the name of a game.

The Famicom game has two modes. The single player mode depicts Musashi in the middle of his training. He must run through several obstacle courses collecting swords and other items along the way. At the same time, his pet Akita will be running the course behind him. Musashi must not fall too far behind his dog. After completing three courses, Musashi will be entered into a Kendo tournament. He must defeat five competitors to win the tournament. The swords that Musashi collects during the obstacle courses provide him with access to special strike moves if he has collected enough. If you succeed in winning, the game will continue from the beginning at a higher level of difficulty. After winning the championship a second time, the game is over.

The second mode is a two player vs. mode. Each player selects from a roster of competitors, and selects them secretly by pressing different inputs on the control pad. Once five selections have been made, the selections are revealed. Each player then squares off in a Kendo match with each of their selections. The winner is the player with three or more victories.