The "Can't remember the name of this game" Thread v3.0

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I'm trying to remember a 2d sidescroller game. I played it around 1997 or 1998. I played it on a computer that had either Windows 98 or 95 on it.  
 
The game started with you driving up to a mansion/house in a red truck/car and you came out and had a shotgun and a cap, possibly red as well. The main character looked like a stereotypical hunter dude.
 
The rest I remember was that you had to jump over the a big gate and around a tree. Once over the gate you could go inside the mansion. Then you started shooting mummies or zombies and went around the room until you found a key that took you to another room, etc. 
 
The game seemed 16bit, anyone have any idea what game it was?

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" Been trying to find this game for a while now.   Its a hacking game. I remember getting it for free in the CD that came with a copy of a gaming magazine I bought. I'm not sure when this was exactly. Early 2000s, like 03ish. It was definitely a small indie game. Might have even been freeware. The gameplay was entirely text based. The interface looked like a graphically spruced up version of DOS. The main color scheme was blue (I think blue might have been in the name but I haven't found anything trying to search for that). The very first thing you had to do was type help to get a list of commands and then you typed email to log in and get your first assignment. I remember the tutorial mission involved getting information that had to do with marine biology. I think it might have been hacking into university computers or something. "

I am looking for a 2D sidescroller for Sega Megadrive. It had a co-op mode and boss fights. Also I think it had a horse riding/train sequence. 
For a long time I remembered/though it was Gunstar Heroes but it is not.

I only played this game as a demo and it crashed after 10 seconds so I can't give you much info on it.  

1. I played it on either Windows 3.1 or 95 but it might have run through DOS.
2. The game was a side scrolling platform game.
3. The story from what I could grasp was that a normal boy had been teleported to this alien world. It was a very colourful game and the 1st level started with a futuristic city in the background. Can't remember the enemies at all but I think he had some kind of blaster but I might be mixing that up with another game.
4. Music was midi like Simon the Sorcerer and I remember this because when it crashed it got stuck on one note.

Here is something a little different from the normal 'what is this game'.
 
This game was an older PC game, perhaps DOS or a early version of Windows. Anyway it was just a game where you make faces with simple shapes with simple colours. While I don't remember much of the gameplay what I do remember is the music which featured many of the 'classical' masterpieces such a Canon in D and Ode to Joy. But where this gets interesting is one melody from one of the pieces which has been stuck in the recess of my brain for almost 15 years and from memory I have transcribed it and produced it here.
 
Now if anyone can name the game or even this piece of music I will be very grateful.

"How awesome is this music XD "

Hi, so glad I found this site!
 
Here's my question: around 1990-1995 I played a DOS game that I can't find anywhere! I don't remember the name, but it was about a rescue mission near Saturn's moons (Titan comes to mind). It was in first person perspective, but most of the graphics were pre-rendered movies. I remember the first level leading you through a maze of circular shaped tunnels. About 10 meters in front of you it would go completely black, so whenever you moved forward you had no idea what you would encounter. Sometimes crawly things (trilobite-like) would come at you via floor, wall or ceiling, other times there could be this gigantic squid-like alien creature that you had to dissect by shooting it in the right places. I remember finding it very scary as it was very claustrophobic and way too difficult.
Other things I remember was this woman (maybe it was your avatar, maybe the person you needed to rescue), she had a tight blue suit with short dark hair, she also had pretty huge breasts. There also was a guy in a grey suit, but I believe this dude had a visor as well (yellow glass(?)). Now that I'm trying to recall more about it, I actually think you were that guy and you had to save the girl. I vaguely remember a cutscene where you find her, but she has been taken over by an alien or something (I remember her eyes becoming a solid color).
I also believe the intro was about the woman before she disappeared, done in classic logbook style.
 
That's really all I can remember about it, thanks in advance if you know the answer!

• PC point and click adventure game
• Early-mid 90s (I think I was running Windows 95 at the time)
  
• The first area was set in a zoo
• You played as a monkey
  
• I remember a banana in my inventory...
  
• I think the graphics were too much for my system to handle and whenever I tried playing it everything seemed garbled and static-y
• Not sure what else I can say...uh, it wasn't Monkey Island.
  

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Well, since I thought my last question was impossible, I think I might re-post something from the original CRTNOTG thread, in the hopes the maybe someone might have a clue:
 
"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."

I remember playing a game on the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis which was a top-down scrolling shooter where you would control an army guy and had to shoot your way through a load of other guys. Every so often you would find a tent which you could go into to recruit another army guy to your team and he would have a different weapon (Eg one had a flamethrower, one had a gun which spread out bullets, one had a machine gun, etc). Then when you die you would swap to one of the other guys. Every so often you would have to fight a boss like a tank or a jet or a helicopter. I remember there being a level in a swamp, and one level where you had to shoot through a load of barbed wire fences. I also remember it being pretty brutal on lives but I guess back in the day that was standard for almost all games. I played the game at least 12 years ago so I guess it was released before that, don't know if that helps? It was a pretty generic top-down shooter but I was obsessed with it when I was a kid so any help finding it would be great. 
 
Anybody?

Am I allowed to answer my own question? It was Mercs :P

Okay, got another game I can't remember the name of. This time it's gonna be a lot more vague though.
 
As far as I can remember this game is a clear R-Type clone and I used to play in on the Amiga (pre 1990). I clearly remember the normal shooting stuff that comes from the right side of the screen, but there were also super-speed parts where just had to steer up and down, and collect as many power-ups/money as possible. Sometimes there were forks in your path where you had to quickly choose which one to take.
 
This one is kinda tricky because I can imagine lots of R-Type clones (maybe even R-Type as well) having super-speed parts because the whole side shooter genre lends itself pretty good to this type of feature. However, I do feel that if I see some screenshots or a gameplay video, I'll immediately recognize it.

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" @melcene: 
Sounds like Jungle Hunt or one of the clones that were put out first to the arcades then every console existing at the time. I recall that one arcade game having a few different reskinned versions with the almost same gameplay & slight differences (Colonial explorer or Tarzan ripoff). Hope this helps. 
 
http://www.giantbomb.com/jungle-hunt/61-11421/      
 
  

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 @ghetodank: lol Well thats what I'm here for! 
I kinda recall maybe playing that game when I was younger but not playing much of it.  Just the box art is familiar.

Yeh it was first game i ever played on a pc.trying to find a free download now,cant wait to play it again.thanks